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TECH TUESDAY
The first “Rutgers Tech Meetup” of the year saw more than 125 programmers, developers and students, some who presented original apps such as Delphi, a voice recognition platform.
Future Scholars program draws national attention
By Shawn Smith Correspondent
A former Rutgers undergraduate faces up to 28 years in a state prison and a fine of up to $335,000 for possession and distribution of 230 child pornographic videos. Hongyu Wang, 21, of Piscataway, was indicted by a state grand jury yesterday, on charges that he distributed child pornography on the Internet while a student at the University, said Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman in a statement. Wang faces a five-count indictment, including one second-degree count of distributing child pornography, one second-degree count of offering child pornography, one fourth-degree count of possession of child pornography, one fourth-degree count of attempted tampering with evidence and one third-degree count of attempted hindering apprehension, according to the statement. In December 2011, the New Jersey State Police Digital Technology Investigation Unit and the New Jersey Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force were investigating individuals who were using peer-to-peer file sharing software to distribute child pornography on the Internet. They downloaded a file that was later traced back to a computer at Rutgers, and further investigation revealed the computer belonged to Wang. Wang agreed to speak with a detective at his apartment, which he shared with his parents, in January 2012. “However, once at the apartment, Wang allegedly shoved his mother in front of the detective and ran towards his bedroom. The detective stopped Wang before he reached his computer, and it was later discovered he had powerful magnets in his shoes that he allegedly intended to use to destroy all of the data on the hard drive of his computer,” according to the statement. After obtaining a search warrant, a forensic examination of the computer revealed that Wang was allegedly sharing 230 child pornographic videos. Rutgers expelled Wang after his arrest. The indictment was handed up to Superior Court Judge Mary C. Jacobson in Mercer County. The case is assigned to Middlesex County, where Wang will be ordered to appear in court at a later date to be arraigned on the charges, according to the statement. The State Police and New Jersey ICAC were assisted in the investigation by the Rutgers University Police Department. The indictment is only an accusation, and Wang is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Aramis Gutierrez, director of the Rutgers Future Scholars program, said the program started in 2007 to help increase enrollment and graduation rates in New Brunswick, Piscataway, Newark and Camden. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION YESHA CHOKSHI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
By Julian Chokkattu News Editor
Questions like “can I afford to go to college?” or “which college should I attend?” are typically not overwhelming the minds of seventh graders. Six years ago, Rutgers reached out to middle schools in its home cities to increase graduation rates and solidify their student’s college careers.
The Rutgers Future Scholars program began in 2007 as a response to the lack of students enrolling at Rutgers from Camden, Newark and New Brunswick, said Aramis Gutierrez, director of Rutgers Future Scholars. “What we needed was not only building an awareness to what Rutgers can offer, but to prepare them accordingly,” Gutierrez said. “By
collaborating with school districts, not only would they apply to Rutgers but be prepared to be successful here as well.” Participants are offered full tuition support if accepted into any of the Rutgers campuses. Of the 183 students selected for the program, 170 were actively engaged in the program, and 13 moved out of their respective dis-
tricts, making them “inactive.” As of today, Gutierrez said 165 students in the program graduated high school and 5 are still pending graduation. Of the 165 who have graduated high school, 163 now attend either a two-year or four-year institution. Gutierrez said 99 students earned See PROGRAM on Page 6
Site helps organizations connect, create calendars By Erin Petenko Staff Writer
Henry’s Diner on Livingston campus opened last week, offering breakfast, lunch and dinner menus for students. SABRINA SZTEINBAUM
Henry’s Diner offers Jersey experience, with fewer hours By Sabrina Szteinbaum Correspondent
Students who wish to have pancakes before bed can now do so at the newest dining establishment on the Livingston campus. Henry’s Diner opened last week, and is offering a full à la carte breakfast, lunch and dinner menu to the students and faculty of Rutgers who crave the Jersey diner experience.
Restaurant Manager Sebastian Nieto said with the redevelopment of Livingston campus, Rutgers wanted to build an establishment that represents New Jersey. “One of the things that the University wanted to have was something that represents Jersey, and diners are a big part of the Jersey lifestyle,” he said. “You bring students in and you want See Diner on Page 5
Scarlet Pulse debuted last week as an option for students looking to connect through events around campus, ranging from knitting to watching football. Rutgers students Bjørn Svendsen and Chalmers Brown helped create the website, scarletpulse. com, which allows students to sign up for cer tain interests and receive notifications about events related to their hobbies. “What we’re looking to do is connect people past friendships,” said Svendson, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior. “For instance, if I was interested in biking, I could create an event to bike to Princeton, … [and] it will share that event with ever y Rutgers student who’s interested in bicycling.” Svendsen said the idea stemmed from his own experience with arranging friendly gatherings. “There was a lot of times when I would have interests, say, play
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basketball at the park. I have 10 friends who are interested in basketball, but it’s really hard to find 10 people who can play basketball at 9 o’clock.” He thinks students should have the option of posting an event on Scarlet Pulse to invite friends to a game. Over time, they decided to expand their idea to all organizations and activities. Currently, students can only log into the site with their Facebook account said Brown, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior. From there, they can access information and see events their friends are attending. When the user RSVPs to an event, Svendsen said, the action automatically generates a feed of events he or she intends to attend. The team is working on automatic email notifications to remind students. Students can also invite friends to events and allow them to comment on the details, Brown said. See SITE on Page 4
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CAMPUS CALENDAR Tuesday, Sept. 17
The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, the School of Arts and Sciences and the Mason Gross School of the Arts present Douglass Community Day at 4 p.m. at Passion Puddle on Douglass campus. The event is free and open to all. The Rutgers Institute of Industrial Engineers hosts L’Oreal Networking and Information Night. Come by and listen to representatives of L’Oreal’s Operations management and recruitment staff talk about amazing opportunities in fields like Manufacturing, Research and Innovation, Operations, Supply Chain and much more. The Rutgers Association of Phillippine Students Dance Troupe tryouts take place from 9:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. in the Rutgers Student Center. The audition costs $3.
Wednesday, Sept. 18
The Rutgers University Programming Association presents a comedy show at 8:30 p.m. in the Livingston Student Center. The event is free and will feature local comedians Brindu, Kevin Norris and Stephen Hilliger.
Thursday, Sept. 19
The Zeta Beta Tau fraternity hosts ZBTape from 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. on the steps of Brower Commons. Donate $1 for a strip of duct tape to help tape one of the brothers to a wall. All proceeds benefit Dance Marathon. The Rutgers Business Governing Association hosts the Soft Skills Conference from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the Livingston Student Center. There will be free food and the event is open to all students.
Friday, Sept. 20
The Rutgers Film Co-op, the New Jersey Media Arts Center and the Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies present screenings of the New Jersey Film Festival selections “Allegory of the Mind” and “Life with Alex” at 7 p.m. at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus. Admission is $10 for the general public and $9 for students and senior citizens. 16 Handels hosts its grand opening celebration from 12:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. on the Livingston Campus. The event will include a prize wheel, a raffle, discounted froyo and a DJ.
METRO CALENDAR Tuesday, Sept. 17
Victoria’s Secret sponsors PINK Spirit Week from Monday, Sept. 16 to Saturday, Sept. 21. The event, which will take place all over the New Brunswick Campus, will include scavenger hunts and a tailgate for the football game against Arkansas.
Thursday, Sept. 26
The Rutgers University Programming Association presents “Beats on the Banks” at the New Jersey State Theatre at 15 Livingston Ave. in New Brunswick, featuring hip-hop artists Joey Bada$$, A$AP Ferg and Ab-Soul. Tickets cost between $5 and $25. For more information, go to statetheatrenj.org
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International relations club to defend rank at Columbia University By Megan Morreale
This conference will be crisis-related, Kehoe said. Delegates sit around a table and The members of Rutgers Uni- are given a situation related to versity Association of Interna- international relations. The comtional Relations solve the prob- mittee has to work through the lems of the world — or at least, problem together. “You are assigned a role and they pretend to. In ever y meet, each RUAIR you assume that role to gain a member represents a certain better understanding of the probcountr y and fields ever y crisis lem through the committee,” thrown at them, said Phil Kehoe, Kehoe said. “There is a lot of diplomacy and backdoor deals. president of the RUAIR. RUAIR is an international rela- Some people get underhanded, tions organization on campus that but you gain a lot of real-world attends conferences competing diplomacy and argumentative experience.” in either a mock Kehoe said United Nations most conferassembly, or in “You really enjoy the ences, especialan improvised ly ones focused role-play situaglobal reach this tion decided at university offers. I’m in on U.N. assemblies, stay relethe conference, love with this club.” vant to current said Kehoe, a issues using School Of EnviNathali Arias real-world situronmental And Director of Communications for ations. Biological SciRutgers University Assembly of Nathali ences junior. International Relations Arias, the di“The conferrector of comences are ver y munications for competitive,” Kehoe said. “You have to be a RUAIR, said her first time wingood speaker and a good writer. ning the gavel at the 2012 Mount Diplomacy and argumentative Holyoke College conference was extremely rewarding. The gavel is skills are ver y important.” RUAIR will attend confer- an award given to delegates who ences at Columbia University, display the best negotiations skills Yale University, the University and creativity in solving the issues. “The level of intensity was inof Pennsylvania and Georgetown University this semester, said Atif sane,” said Arias, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “Everyone Ahmad, the RUAIR treasurer. Kehoe said the organization’s was having to work together and first conference of the year is the situation kept changing. After at Columbia in New York City, each change they threw at us, it where the group plans to defend was very stressful. Being awarded the gavel, it’s a treasure.” their title as 16th in the nation. Staff Writer
STAYIN’ COOL Students high-five Sparky the Fire Dog
yesterday by the Cook Campus Center for Fire Safety Week, hosted by Emergency Services. YESHA CHOKSHI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Rutgers University Assembly of International Relations plans to compete in large UN assemblies and small crisis committees. They will defend their title as 16th in the nation at their first conference at Columbia University. COURTESY OF ATIF AHMAD RUAIR takes about 10 to 20 students to each conference as a learning experience. Beforehand, new members are put through training to make sure they are prepared, Kehoe said. “We help develop the skills of the newer members before the conferences at our general meetings and separate training sessions,” said Ahmad, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. “We work on their public speaking skills, communication, writing and argumentative skills.” Delegates are expected to
do research to prepare themselves for the conferences, Kehoe said. While the exact topics of the conference may not be known, delegates are expected to be well-versed in the international arena to better their chances at the conference. “It is really a community experience,” Ahmad said. “We win awards at ever y conference, and build our skills together.” The organization holds weekly meetings in Murray Hall, room 211 on Tuesdays, where they talk about international
relations, arguing for different positions about current issues, Ahmad said. Unity makes the club special, Arias said. “You can come to this school, and maybe most of your friends aren’t interested in politics,” she said. “So you come here and meet a diverse group of people, travel, learn to work for an embassy, and create a family. You really enjoy the global reach this university offers. I’m in love with this club.”
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SITE Survey of 40 students finds campus bulletin boards as ineffective method of communication continued from front
Svendsen said the team mainly hopes to cater to the needs of organizations at the University. “On the one side, we want to provide a good ser vice to students, but on the other side, we want to benefit the organizations by providing a central location all students are looking to see, ‘hey I’m not doing anything on Friday, what’s going on that I can attend?’” he said. The team plans to charge organizations annually for premium features, including a $100 fee providing them with event posting and analytics and $150 for automatic event generation. Brown said most organizations may not use the website full-time, but the accumulation of posts will lead to a constant stream of content. “If you think of ever y single par ty that happens at Rutgers for a specific day, that itself, were posted on Scarlet Pulse, it would be filled with social gatherings,” he said. Referring to par ties, Svendsen said the content of the site is user-driven, so the team cannot prevent any specific types of posts. Currently, the site’s administrators moderate posts to discourage illegal activity, but cannot fully regulate events. The team plans to eventually expand the website
to other schools, said Nick Sedlazek, the web designer for the project. “It was really impor tant not to draw attention to Rutgers itself, but create a dif ferent color palette, so when it gets branched of f with other schools, it’s not based solely on Rutgers,” said Sedlazek, a Savannah College of Ar ts and Design senior. For now, the site leaders are studying student habits and attracting a fan base. Svendsen said they per formed a sur vey of 40 students and found that campus bulletin boards are the worst way to communicate with potential attendees. “It’s 2013, we’re past that time and we need to find a different way,” he said. Matt Har tman, treasurer of the Rutgers Dungeons and Dragons club, said his organization could use the site to find new members, instead of relying on the Involvement Fair, a one-time event. Club rosters and meeting information tend to be outdated, and though his club has enough members, Har tman, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior, said there is no possible harm in posting to the site. “A website like this is only as good as the number of people who use it,” he said.
Bjørn Svendsen, left, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, and Chalmers Brown, right, School of Arts and Sciences senior, created Scarlet Pulse for students to connect. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY YESHA CHOKSHI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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Diner Nieto says a 125-seat diner cannot handle volume of students with meal swipes continued from front
to give them something that is a reminder of what they get at home.” Nieto said students, faculty and staff love the diner. Through monitoring social media, he found 95 percent of his diner’s reviews are positive. Although pleasing ever yone is impossible, Nieto said one of the biggest challenges in running a restaurant is ensuring customer satisfaction. “You shoot for perfection, and you know that we don’t cook like everybody’s mom,” he said. Henry’s is furnished with stainless steel surfaces, and Nieto said when the décor is complete, the namesake of the diner, Henry Rutgers, will have a large presence within its walls. “When this is done, there’s going to be a timeline of Henry Rutgers’ life when you come in. … All of the dividers between the booths are historical pictures of Rutgers,” he said. Hiring and training waiters was another big challenge Nieto said the restaurant faced. The entire front-of-the-house workforce is made up of students, and for many of them this is their first job. “A lot of them, they come to us and they say ‘it’s my first job, I’m willing to learn, and I want to do it,’” he said. “It requires extra training because … They need to learn the standards and they need to learn how it’s done.”
Page 5 Nieto said the challenge of training an entirely novice staff is something that he is not afraid to do. Chef Barry Squier said hiring the right staff is the biggest challenge, and while some candidates may interview well, they do not necessarily perform well. He said so far, he has been pleasantly pleased with the 70 students who were hired. Squier has opened a dozen restaurants and worked as the executive chef for Wegmans as well as Rutgers Dining Services. He said the first week is always the hardest to orchestrate, but after that it gets calmer each day. “Patience and teamwork. Teamwork is number one,” he said. “Everyone’s got to be on the same page. Communication, teamwork and patience are the three things that are the most important.” His past experience working for Rutgers has helped Squier, because he knows the staff and knows Rutgers’ policies, but he said the diner is more of a restaurant than a cafeteria. As far as food, Nieto said burgers are always popular. All-day breakfast is another staple of the average diner experience, and Henry’s is no exception. “From five to nine, we get a big dinner crowd, and then the people who come in after nine — you start seeing a lot more waffles, pancakes. It comes full circle, people like to have breakfast before they go to bed,” he said. Squier described the menu as a standard diner fare that is kicked up a bit. “We have breakfast all day. We have paninis and all types of different sandwiches and crepes and things
like that,” he said. “At night, we do the whole array of steaks and chops and veal and chicken and seafood.” Henry’s menu resembles a newspaper and was designed by Targum Productions. “There was a lot of work put into not only the food design of the menu but [also] the visual design of the menu,” Nieto said. Although the diner welcomes Rutgers students and takes RU Express, it does not accept meal swipes. Nieto said since there are only 125 seats, the diner could not handle the amount of students it would attract if they accepted meal swipes. “If you accept the meal swipes, it would be a dining hall à la carte, and you would be rushed in and rushed out, and you wouldn’t get the same quality food,” he said. Before its opening, rumors spread that Henry’s would be open 24/7. Nieto said while the diner may adjust its hours for special occasions like midnight breakfast, it would not be cost effective to keep it open all night. “You have to staff it, and it wouldn’t be financially sound to do that,” he said. Chloe Sanducci, a waitress at the diner, said the diner’s running well, but conditions are hectic. “We’re getting a lot of customers which is awesome. It’s a really great experience. Everybody’s really liking the food, they’re liking the atmosphere,” said Sanducci, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. Jonathan Gulo, a School of Engineering senior, said the diner fits in well with the Livingston campus redevelopment. “You have the movies here, this diner — it’s like the perfect date place,” he said.
Henry’s Diner opened last week and offers the Jersey diner experience, except for the hours. SABRINA SZTEINBAUM
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PROGRAM Israel says students received 1 to 1.5 credits per workshop or class continued from front
admission and are enrolled at the University. Those 99 students also have a tuition-free education. “It is an increase,” Gutierrez said. “The number of students who are graduating from those school districts [was] 65 percent. Ours is 97 percent graduated high school this past June, and 96 percent are attending a secondar y institution, which is higher than the state graduation rate.” According to the Rutgers Future Scholars Program Update of September 2013, the program has certain criteria for students to enroll or be selected: The students have to be in the seventh grade, demonstrate academic promise, meet financial-need guidelines, be first-generation college going and must be recommended by a teacher or a school administrator. Brandon Diaz-Abreu’s mathematics teacher in seventh grade recommended him to the program. After filling out an application, Diaz-Abreu, a graduate from New Brunswick Health Sciences Technology High School, was accepted. He said each summer, Rutgers Future Scholars would create a program for the grade level of students accepted. “One year we go to a summer camp and do activities, but the last two years, one we did an internship for two weeks and another year we did some classes here at Rutgers,” said Diaz-Abreu, a School of Arts and Sciences firstyear student. Diaz-Abreu is planning to major in computer science and applying it to video game programming. He said the biggest benefit of the program is the tuition-free education after earning admission. “I think it’s a really excellent idea,” he said. “So many people in the communities I grew up in don’t have access to the resources to get an education like this, and it’s a wonderful opportunity to come to college based on your academic skills and talents.” He said the programs were challenging in the beginning, but he felt confident in his abilities toward the last few programs before he graduated. “I think the most difficult time during the program was the summer where we did the internship,” he said. “Instead of being surrounded by friends in the program, you’re left to do things by yourself in a completely different environment, even though the place you’re at has a partnership with the program,
it’s challenging to be on your own and do real work.” The only flaw Diaz-Abreu found was that the program would sometimes require meetings during the school year, which he said were helpful but at inconvenient times. Yzette Israel, a graduate from Piscataway High School, said she was performing well in most of her classes in seventh grade when she was accepted into the program. “There were workshops, where we were offered college credits, 1 to 1.5 [per class],” said Israel, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student. “They had different classes like computer technologies, science, math, we did an environment sort of thing, an internship junior year, and senior year we had actual lectures and expository writing.” Israel said she came in with some credits already completed. She is majoring in biology and is planning to go into nursing with an interest of taking it into the militar y. “It has given us an extra support system, everyone shares the same story, if it wasn’t for Future Scholars, I wouldn’t know where I would be in college,” Israel said. “It gives us the hope that we can do it, it strengthened us and made us strong, into a family.” Israel said one of the strongest points of the program was the staff. “No matter what happens … this staff was always there to direct you and mentor you and they would call and say ‘lets see what you’re doing.’ … It showed that they cared,” she said. “I don’t regret anything.” Gutierrez said the program was identified as a leading model in the countr y. As a result, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, a grant foundation, provided the money for Rutgers Future Scholars to share information about the program in a three-day conference. “This fall on the New Brunswick campus, we’ll be hosting this national conference on college access. … We’ll also be highlighting the work we’ve been doing for interested participants, there is sort of a track that specifically highlights the Future Scholars program but also some other programs.” The Rutgers Future Scholars program is funded primarily through corporations, foundations as well through private support. The University funds administrative costs in terms of staffing, Gutierrez said. “Per capita per student is just around $1,700 a student, so on average that’s what we’re spending on our students, which is about, $1.7 or $1.8 million, but the majority of those costs are provided by [companies such as] Ernst & Young, AT&T and Merck.”
Out of 183 students who participated in Rutgers Future Scholars, 99 were accepted and enrolled into Rutgers. COURTESY OF ARAMIS GUTIERREZ
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Tech Tuesday
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More than 125 programmers, developers and students attended the Rutgers Tech Meetup Friday at the Busch Campus Center’s Cove. The event, hosted by Rutgers Mobile App Development Club and the Undergraduate Student Alliance of Computer Scientists, featured apps created by students and alumni. TYLER GOLD
‘Tech Meetup’ attracts crowd of developers, programmers By Tyler Gold Contributing Writer
It turns out that computer scientists aren’t a superstitious bunch. Despite the unlucky date, — Friday the 13th — more than 125 programmers, developers and students interested in the bustling Rutgers tech scene attended the fall semester’s first Rutgers University Tech Meetup in The Cove in the Busch Campus Center. Organized by Rutgers Mobile App Development club and the Undergraduate Student Alliance of Computer Scientists, the Tech Meetup featured several new apps, all of which were built and designed by Rutgers students and alumni. These apps were almost entirely homebrewed during students’ free time, and the apps presented ranged from a system to remind users to stop being lazy and build a program to the popular Phonesmash, a game played by throwing a phone as high in the air as possible.
Top Three Apps of the Night
Delphi is a voice-recognition platform inspired by the iPhone’s Siri. Kaushal Parikh, a School of Arts and Sciences junior who also runs the University’s HackRU, designed the app. Delphi is able to respond to voice requests and plugs directly into three pop-
ular websites: Yelp, Hipmunk and xkcd. Saying “Delphi, random xkcd please” successfully returned a random comic from the popular series. More impressively, “Delphi, book me a flight from Seattle to Cincinnati for today” brought up a Hipmunk search for flights between the two cities. Another app presented was Pokerama, an application developed by five Rutgers students — Yair Aviner, Wayne Chang, Will Langford, Kenny Bambridge and The Daily Targum’s own Nis Frome — at this year’s Penn Apps hackathon. Pokerama is a unique take on poker. There’s no need for physical cards, so long as you make sure to bring your smartphone. A tablet, optimally placed in the center of a table, acts as a deck and shows the game’s flop, turn and river. Players log in wirelessly and are dealt their hand on their phones. Pokerama offers a full poker experience — betting, folding, doubling down all work exactly as one would expect. Vaibhav Verma, a graduate student, was one of the last to present an app. That didn’t mean it wasn’t a useful one. His app, named Scheduler, is a simple and readable way to see if a class at Rutgers is open or full. It plugs directly into Verma’s Schedule Sniper, a tool that sends an alert by text message or email when a closed class opens.
Scheduler can return easy-toread information on a class based off multiple types of searches: typing in CS 112, 198:112 or even just “Data Structures” will return all sections, times and locations for the class.
The Keynotes and Speeches
The meet-up also featured two keynote speakers, Mike Swift and Pete Sullivan, both of whom are Rutgers alumni now involved in the tech startup world. George Matthews, a Microsoft employee, also spoke about what it’s like to work at a large company in the technology field. Swift, one of the developers behind Hacker League, a system to organize hackathons, or marathon group computer programming sessions, spoke about how important community is to the programming world. During his keynote presentation, Swift made a point to get one message across above anything else: “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” When developing a program, he said people are the best resource you have. Pete Sullivan, a developer currently working on JackPocket, an app that lets users buy lottery tickets directly from their mobile phone, gave some advice to developers worried about failure in his keynote speech. He said programmers shouldn’t waste too
much time on the design of their projects. “Your product is going to change a million times,” he said. Sullivan went on to talk about how difficult it can be to deliver a pitch to potential investors as well as get a product into the hands of the right people. “Storytelling is where it’s at,” he said. “The story is what reels them in.” He encouraged those at the meetup to keep at it even when the going gets tough. Matthews acted as a foil to Swift and Sullivan, who are involved in smaller operations than the tech behemoth Microsoft. Matthews said working at a large company like Microsoft guarantees many people will use your product, eliminating the worry associated with working at a smaller startup. His best advice for computer science work, though, was short and sweet. “Be quick, but don’t hurry,” he said.
How It All Happened
Frome and Billy Lynch, who organized the event, were clearly proud of the large turnout and the presence that Microsoft had on Friday night. Lynch, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, was excited to have Matthews at the event. “We really pushed for someone that was not just a recruiter, but someone with real technical
experience that students would be excited about,” he said. Frome said RuMAD has a good relationship with Microsoft for a while now, having co-organized several events with them in the past. “[When Microsoft] realized the tech community here at Rutgers was not only vibrant, but growing, they wanted to get even more integrated,” he said. “They introduced us to George, so we thought it would be a great opportunity for him to speak at one of our best events of the semester — the Rutgers Tech Meetup.” Lynch said spreading the word about the event to students was a combined effort between the student organizations that ran the event. “I’m not surprised that we had such a great turn-out, because we have an awesome student CS and tech community here at Rutgers between the various student organizations,” he said. Lynch said he also made sure to advertise the event at the locations computer science students are known to hang out, like the Hill Center’s Cave, a popular watering hole for Rutgers computer science students. Tyler Gold is a contributing tech writer for the Daily Targum and an intern at The Verge. You can follow him on Twitter @tylergold.
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The issue of what constitutes being American is here do you go when you want to witness the countr y’s most per va- clearly in focus here — highlighted in Davuluri’s sive racists crawl out of the wood- contrast to one of her biggest competitors, Miss Kansas, who is a blonde, blue-eyed white Army work? Twitter, apparently. The outcome of Sunday night’s Miss America member who loves hunting. And we know so bePageant sent shockwaves through the twittersphere cause of Twitter’s ability to give such voices a platafter Nina Davuluri, a New York native, became the form of clear visibility. Many tweets hid behind the #AmericaForAmerifirst Indian-American to win the title in the competition’s history. Her father immigrated to the United cans hashtag, which has become a rallying point of States from India 30 years ago, and Davuluri’s public racism on a variety of topics — and the name itself retention of her Eastern culture was a momentous embodies a very narrow ideal of what “America” and occasion both for the Indian community as well as “Americans” really are. We found ourselves at a similar crossroads only a other minorities across our country. Unfortunately, to many people, her refusal to surren- few months ago, when 11-year-old Mexican-American Sebastien de la Cruz sang the national anthem der her cultural identity didn’t seem very “American.” Hotheads immediately took to Twitter to voice at the NBA Finals. You guessed it: Twitter was not happy. their outrage over the decision. They tweeted racTweets blasted Cruz’s ist remarks about Davugig as a disgrace to luri, saying she looks like “All brown people — Indians and America, calling him a “terrorist” and is a part “illegal” and bashing of Al-Qaeda, dismissing Arabs included — are grouped his matador suit. Cruz her as “foreign” and intogether into one category and had to deal with an accurately calling her an overwhelming wave of “Arab” — as if that’s an stripped of their unique identities.” negative and ignorant insult. The overwhelming remarks directed at him Twitter response reflected online. Like Davuluri, not only the prevalent racist attitude that is still so apparent in America today, Twitter became a soapbox for racists to openly voice but also the common “othering” that has become a their personal and deeply flawed sentiments. The rise of social networks like Twitter has not routine of our society. All brown people — Indians and Arabs included — are grouped together into one only created a new bullet for those in the spotlight category and stripped of their unique identities and to dodge, but has also become a forum to showdirectly tied to faulty foreign policy abroad. Because case national attitudes on a wider scale. Clearly, Davuluri is brown, she is immediately linked to people aren’t afraid to be politically incorrect — in Al-Qaeda, a group commonly tied to Afghanistan — a ver y, ver y wrong way — when they’re sitting bewhich is neither Indian nor Arab — and her win be- hind computer screens. It only shows us that the comes offensive because, according to some Twitter façade of greater national tolerance still requires users, it’s come a mere days after the anniversary of a lot of progress before it can actually start to become reality. 9/11. How did we end up there? The Daily Targum’s editorials represent the views of the majority of the 145th editorial board. Columns, cartoons and letters do not necessarily reflect the views of the Targum Publishing Company or its staff.
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Liberty not defined by limitless gun rights ily or a job. A gun has no hear t, body or mind. People do. STRAIGHT UP After the shameful vote in the Senate AND DOWN back in April, which saw legislators fail MIKE DENIS to restrict assault weapons and magazines, I thought our leaders failed us. But what’s worse is that not only have our leaders failed us — we’ve failed ourselves. We cannot get over our love afdidn’t want to write this column fair with guns, and it’s cost the jobs of this week. I didn’t think we could two legislators who did the right thing. possibly still be debating this subThe travesty in Colorado exposed the ject. But if you’re an incensed lover of failures of our democratic system. The gun rights, then this was the week for special interests won, and a cowardly you. Voters in Colorado recalled Demoelectorate lost. cratic State Sens. John Morse and Angela Gun rights advoGiron over their efforts cates tout the 2nd to curb violence from asAmendment. In this sault weapons. Two oth“Those who want no restrictions on guns care more about instance, I don’t er state senators were their guns than they do about people. The care more about a give a damn about targeted but not recalled. our rights. I give The victorious gun rights material object; the symbol of both awesome power and a damn about our advocates are no doubt destruction than the lives of those children in Newtown ... lives. I used to be cheering the notion that of those gunliberty won and the ConA gun doesn’t have feelings and it doesn’t have a family, or a job. one rights suppor ters, stitution was enforced. but now I’ve had The National Rifle A gun has no heart, body or mind. People do.” enough. You can Association proudly reeven call me a hypleased a statement readocrite if you want. I ing: “The people of Colodon’t care. I’m tired rado Springs sent a clear message to the Senate leader that his gun or a shotgun. I’m saying that we of seeing and reading about massacres primar y job was to defend their rights need to refocus our priorities. Gun because some maniac with an assault riand freedoms and that he is ultimately rights advocates are right when they fle decided he wanted to go shoot someaccountable to them — his constituents, say the government will never be able thing. I don’t want to live in the Wild and not to the dollars or social engineer- to stop shootings by restricting guns. West, where I have to carr y an assault The goal is not to completely stop gun weapon just to defend myself from a ing agendas of anti-gun billionaires.” But those who suppor t no limits on violence or save ever y person’s life — madman’s killing spree. Call me cynical, but I think gun reguns have a mistaken notion of liber ty. that is impossible. The goal should be They believe to own a gun is something to save as many lives in the long run strictions are dead in this countr y. This latest defeat shows that we cannot give sacred, and passing legislation curbing as possible. I hate to say it, but those who want up selfish interests for the public good. some of the rights is a threat to their full liber ty as citizens. Background checks no restrictions on guns care more about Let it be known: In the United States, we lead to a federal registr y that invades their guns than they do about people. care more about guns than lives. the individual’s right to privacy. Limit- They care about the symbol of awesome Mike Denis is a School of Arts and Sciences ing the number of bullets a magazine power and destruction more than the can hold is somehow a violation of the lives of those children in Newtown or sophomore majoring in political science with 2nd Amendment, which doesn’t even those people in Colorado. A gun doesn’t a minor in history. His column, “Straight Up mention magazines. I doubt the Found- have feelings, and it doesn’t have a fam- and Down,” runs on alternate Tuesdays. ing Fathers even had the slightest idea of what a magazine would be when they wrote the Constitution. But you know whose real liber ty was taken away in the gun rights argument? The people who died at that movie theater in Colorado. The people who died at the Sikh temple in Wisconsin. The people in a shopping mall in Oregon. The kids who were killed at a high school in Chardon, Ohio. Those children in Newtown. The mistaken belief in an outdated and irrelevant amendment over took our real priorities. I’m not saying you can’t own a hand-
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Dorm socials least of our problems Tuesday’s commentary, “Mandatory social events are well-intentioned but suck,” really knows how to solve the extensive and complex problems facing Rutgers and other universities in the United States: Eliminate residence hall social programs. Thank goodness such complex and challenging problems have such simple solutions. I would have thought that complex issues stemming from how public universities are funded, structured and integrated into our society would require a more complex solution, but boy, that commentary nailed it. It’s not the huge budget shortfalls, the complexities of higher education, the growing and changing relationships with private industry and with the public. It’s mandatory pizza time in the dorms. That’s the problem. It’s amazing nobody noticed before that decorative name-tags on dorm-room doors preclude our success as a university and as a nation. I applaud the writer for her insightful, deep, well-researched essay on this topic. Next week, when she finds out that adddrop is more complicated than she thought, maybe she will discover that this is also the source of all the problems in American higher education and tell us all about that, along with a hilarious, fictitious and marginally racist example of how things are done in pre-school in Japan — or Germany? Or Mexico? But for now, let’s rest easy under the assumption that dorm social programs are the real problem. We should eliminate this minor inconvenience for students and strike a major blow for higher education nationwide. With the peace of mind this brings, I can finally get back to memorizing digits of pi. Kellen Myers is a teaching assistant in the department of mathematics.
Miss America proves we don’t live in post-racial society COMMENTARY RASHMEE KUMAR
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esterday morning, I woke up and grabbed my iPhone to check Facebook just like any other day. As I looked at my news feed, I noticed that 10 of my friends posted a link to a Buzzfeed post that had compiled several racist and Islamophobic tweets regarding Nina Davuluri, the first Indian-American winner of the Miss America beauty pageant, which happened Sunday in Atlantic City, N.J. As I scrolled down the page, I was increasingly angered with the blatantly racist and ignorant remarks people were making, referring to Davuluri as an Arab, “Miss 7-11,” “Miss al-Qaeda” and a terrorist. People were upset that a woman of Indian descent was crowned in an American beauty pageant (“This is America, not India”), and they were offended that the Miss America judges had the audacity to crown Davuluri mere days after the anniversar y of Sept. 11 — as if the two events are somehow related. I was so horrified that I went on my laptop to see even more racist tweets lamenting that a “damn dot-head” won, followed by an emoji of a red circle. And
the list goes on and on. It amazes me how Twitter has emerged as this social media platform where people feel like it is acceptable to let their racism loose in short, 140-character bursts. I’d prefer 1,000 tweets about what you had for breakfast, honestly. Now let me say that I’m not a huge fan of beauty pageants. All contestants conform to a certain Eurocentric beauty
color. Beauty pageants perpetuate these ridiculous standards that most women, especially women of color, cannot attain no matter how much they tweeze, bleach and paint their faces and bodies. I’ll admit I was surprised to even see that an Indian-American woman had won. I did not bother to follow the coverage, but my roommate had been telling me for a week about a classmate who
“People were making [racist and ignorant remarks], referring to Davuluri as Arab, ‘Miss 7-11,’ ‘Miss al-Qaeda’ and a terrorist. People were upset that a woman of Indian descent was crowned in an American beauty pageant.” standard — that is, they are tall and thin with long hair and soft-featured faces. They flounce around the stage in swimsuits and high heels and have to prove that they are not just conventionally attractive, but also conventionally talented and intelligent. And whoever is crowned is the new face of what it means to be a perfect woman in the United States, I suppose. There is no room for the many, many, many American women who do not fit these constraints — and Davuluri fits the mold, save for her skin
was obsessed with Miss Kansas, Theresa Vail, a blonde white woman who is in the Army National Guard, likes hunting and has tattoos. While Vail is tremendously accomplished and certainly a viable contender for Miss America, I was disappointed to see tweets that Vail should have won the pageant because she is a “real American woman.” And Davuluri, who was born and raised in Syracuse, N.Y., is not? It’s so unfathomable that in a nation that prides itself on being a historical refuge for immigrants and a
melting pot of diversity still discriminates against its own citizens on the basis of skin color. It’s unfortunate that we as Americans are not even on the same page about what it means to be an American and that, more often than not, being American means being white. I myself grew up feeling awkward about how to identify myself as “American.” Whenever my parents used that word, they were always referring to white people. I, for one, congratulate Davuluri for representing Indian-American women on such a visible scale. It truly is momentous to see a dark-skinned, South Indian-American woman embracing both of her identities to be crowned Miss America. This is not a retreat from Americanism, but a call for public support to expand our narrow definition of it. The backlash against Davuluri is absolutely deplorable and yet another reason (atop the countless racially inflamed incidents in the last year) we do not live in post-racial America — and it’ll be a long, uphill struggle to see the day that we do. Rashmee Kumar is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in journalism and media studies with minors in women’s and gender studies and South Asian studies. She is the former copy editor of The Daily Targum.
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Today’s Birthday (09/17/13). With power comes responsibility. Both are available this year, and they arise socially. Participate. Contribute time and energy generously to the ones you love for magnified returns. Build your nest egg with persistent savings. Share skills and knowledge. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7 — Clarify your direction with friends. An idealist needs to be held to facts. That path is a dead end. Your words inspire others to take action. Get a flash of scientific inspiration. Phone home. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 7 — Conversing with friends clears up a misunderstanding. Do the homework. Provide motivation. A book reveals brilliant insight. Play, but remember your budget. Glamour disguises a few flaws. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is an 8 — Career matters most now. Study recent developments. Get farther together than any of you would have alone. Edit later. Make a spiritual connection. Set lofty goals. It takes patience. Keep a secret and gain respect. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 7 — Your friends encourage you to try something interesting. Set long range goals, including fun and travel. Your savings are growing. Take only carefully calculated risks. Accept encouragement. You could just go. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is an 8 — Get into the competition. Count coins and pay bills. Figure the costs. Discuss shared finances. Listen carefully, even if you don’t fully understand. Write down what a wealthy elder told you. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 9 — It’s easier to delegate. Spend on supplies. Clear up confusion before proceeding. It’s a good time to get your message across. Ask probing questions. Try a new tactic. Divine intervention isn’t cheating.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 7 — Focus on your work. Keep track of your earnings. You’re determined to succeed. Realize a sweet dream. Steady action provides the results. Collect fringe benefits for later. Cultivate love. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 6 — Encourage creative thinking. You’re entering a cuddly phase. All isn’t yet revealed. Details still need to be worked out. It’s getting easier to advance now. Fulfill a fantasy. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — Add structure to your home. Dreams and visions make sense. Is it time to buy the tickets? Pay back a debt. Play with long-range plans. Dispel any illusions. Investigate the improbable. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 9 — Hold on to what you have for a while. You’re sharp as a tack. Count your blessings. Imagine a new venture. Negotiate a partnership deal. Elicit a promise. Discuss, don’t argue. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 9 — These days can be potentially quite prosperous. Keep the goal in mind. Also fix something at home to increase efficiency. Handle a household emergency. The more you learn, the farther you’ll go. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 6 — A startling revelation provokes. You’re getting more sensitive; this phase feels exceptionally powerful and confident. Wax poetic. Be the brains behind the operation. Consider consequences. Record your dreams today.
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Junior midfielder Sophie Wright dished out her first assist of the season Sunday, raising her team-leading point total to nine. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / SEPTEMBER 2013 / FILE PHOTO
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junior midfielder Sophie Wright found freshman forward Rachel Yaney in front of the net for her second goal of the year. Wright leads the team with nine points on the season. Less than a minute before, senior for ward Lisa Patrone dished the ball to sophomore for ward Katie Champion for her first goal of the season. Freshman back Sofia Walia scored on a penalty stroke 5:12
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OPPORTUNITY Dodd could see more reps with first-team offense as Flood decides if Nova is ready for game action continued from back
Eagles. Dodd overthrew receivers, had a miscommunication with senior center Dallas Hendrickson resulting in a false start and was sacked three times. While not all the mistakes were his fault, he knows his effort has to be better if he starts against the Razorbacks. Part of that starts with added reps this week in practice. Though Nova is listed as probable, head coach Kyle Flood said he was still uncer tain of Nova’s status and should have a clearer understanding of Nova’s availability after today’s practice. “Certainly by [today] we’re going to have to know so we can set the course of the week in terms of reps for the quarterbacks between Gar y and Chas, and [freshman] Mike Bimonte, as well,” Flood said. “So we have got to make sure that we are getting the right people ready. It’s a ver y short amount of time you have.” If Nova is still dealing with the effects of his concussion, Dodd will receive more firstteam reps. That means building chemistr y back with the first-team offense, a unit he has not worked with in game action before Saturday since Dec. 26, 2011 in the Pinstripe Bowl against Iowa State. Dodd said despite his lack of recent familiarity in a game setting, he still works with all of the Knights’ receivers. “I get a lot of reps with all the guys during practice, so I feel ver y comfortable with them and throughout this whole past sum-
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promising for the Knights (3-8), as they outhit Sacred Heart (5-4) .100 to .084, and also out-digged Delaware (6-4). Sophomore outside hitter Alex Lassa and junior setter Nicole Bayer also had strong performances, as both recorded double-doubles. In the matchup Saturday night, the Knights fell to Sacred Heart in a competitive five-set contest by set scores of 25-17, 22-25, 22-25, 25-15 and 15-13. Rutgers turned in a strong defensive effort, compiling 81 digs. Senior defensive specialist Tracy Wright and sophomore libero Ali Schroeter accumulated 16 and 27 digs, respectively, to lead the effort. Lassa missed out on a sweep of double-doubles, recording 19 kills and nine digs. In their morning matchup, the Knights fell to Furman (3-7) in four sets. The Paladins lost the first set, 25-19, but went on to win the rest of the sets, 25-16, 25-19 and 25-23. Bayer turned in a career game with 24 assists and 20 digs. Lassa also added 16 kills and 14 digs for good measure. But the Paladins’ consistent offense thwarted the Knights as Rutgers was out-hit, .193 to .148.
mer and during camp,” he said. “I’ve gotten plenty of reps to feel comfortable with ever yone, so I feel good with the entire receiving core.” One of those wideouts is senior wideout Quron Pratt, who had his most productive offensive season when Dodd was Rutgers starter. Pratt is confident Dodd can control the offense if he is called into action. “It means a lot to him. I know Chas’ personality,” Pratt said. “He’s a competitive guy and he’s a winner. I know he’s going to get back in the swing of things once things get going. It’s going to be just like he was before. He’ll go out there and do what he has to do.” If Nova is healthy, Flood will play the quarterback who produced the Knights’ win against Arkansas last year in the programs’ last meeting. Nova threw 25-for-35 for 397 yards and five touchdowns against the Razorbacks. And though the reason Dodd could be called into action is because of injur y, he is still grateful for another chance. “Any time an opportunity presents itself, it’s an exciting one,” Dodd said. “Any guy at this position wants to be the guy and wants to play, so it’s definitely exciting to see what’s going to happen with it, but obviously you don’t want a guy to be hurt.” For more updates on the Rutgers football team, follow Bradly Derechailo on Twitter @Bradly_D. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @TargumSports.
To open the weekend, Rutgers played tournament host Delaware in another close competition. The Knights won its first two sets against the Blue Hens, but went on to lose the remaining sets and start off the weekend with disappointment. The Knights defense was impressive in the contest, as Schroeter, Wright and Lassa had 26, 16 and 18 digs, respectively. Lassa added 24 kills as well for her first of two double-doubles. Bayer came up with 24 assists in the losing effort. The Blue Hens out-hit the Knights, .170 to .129, in their impressive comeback. They dropped the first two sets, 25-19 and 25-20, before coming out of intermission and failed to drop another set winning 25-17, 25-19 and 15-9. Lassa made the all-tournament team for the third time this season. She continues to expand her role on the team and with five total double-doubles this season. “There is no doubt that Alex is having a great year. She is maturing as a player and teammate,” Werneke said. “Those things are showing off in her performance and production this season.” The Knights will look to reverse their losing trend, having fallen short in seven of their last eight contests. They travel to the Pittsburgh invitational this upcoming weekend. For updates on the Rutgers volleyball team, follow Tyler Karalewich on Twitter @TylerKaralewich. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @ TargumSports.
September 17, 2013
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MEN’S SOCCER KNIGHTS AVERAGE MORE THAN TWO GOALS PER GAME
Several keys open Offense gets off to hot start for RU James’ breakout By Greg Johnson Correspondent
By Josh Bakan Sports Editor
Rutgers head football coach Kyle Flood challenged him, and offensive coordinator Ron Prince helped him actualize his potential. Somewhere along the line, sophomore running back P.J. James went from a walk-on to the nation’s leading rusher. “We had a great conversation at the end of the season, and I challenged him with … coming back in the best shape of his life,” Flood said yesterday. James lists several factors that created his rise to 493 rushing yards in three games, but none stick out as a definitive explanation. The Glassboro (N.J.) High School product has worked hard, received opportunities and taken advantage of porous defenses. But for his 55-yard touchdown run Saturday against Eastern Michigan — the longest score of his career — he can thank Prince, his blockers and other Scarlet Knights running backs. Prince has incorporated a dipand-slip drill, which James said was rarely emphasized last year under former offensive coordinator Dave Brock. The drill involves running backs anticipating whether they should dip outside a block or slip inside. “When I got the ball and I came around the edge, I just see [the blocks] and it was perfect,” James said. “I dipped outside and then the same thing was happening, [sophomore wide receiver] Leonte [Carroo] came out for the block. So then I slipped back inside. It was exactly as we practiced it.” James’ style lies somewhere on a scale between junior running back Savon Huggins and former Knights running back Jawan Jamison. James leaned into the first block before dashing off it. His aggression was reminiscent of Huggins’, who pushes through crowds of defenders for more yards. Then James slanted off his line’s blocks toward the outside, where Carroo blocked one defender so James could continue toward the sideline. Jamison constantly shifted his routes and dodged defenders, winning footraces for longer runs. “I wish my moves were as good as Jawan’s were, but I at least try to implement [both their] moves in there like quick cuts, trying to get around people, trying to lower my
shoulder to get through tackles,” James said. “So I try to implement both of them into my game plan and try to use both of them.” He tried to improve his cuts and reads in the offseason, which has paid off so far. “It’s his work ethic,” said junior fullback Michael Burton. “He wants to be a great player. He believes in himself that he’s a great player. Where it starts is that he really does believe in himself, and with his work ethic and putting things together. That’s why he’s been so successful. That’s why he’s going to be so successful.”
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Jamal Merrell missed last game with a kidney issue, and he is listed as doubtful for Saturday against A+rkansas. “I don’t really want to discuss it, but it is a kidney situation and Jamal was with us yesterday in the meetings, but he is not at this point able to practice,” Flood said. “I do expect him back after the bye week [Oct. 5 against Southern Methodist].” Merrell recorded 11 tackles and an interception in two games. He finished third on the Knights last year with 83 tackles. Redshirt freshman Davon Jacobs started for Merrell, and sophomore Quentin Gause saw plenty of snaps at the position. “I expect them to be better than they were last week,” Flood said. “Now that they have more experience of being in a game, I think they need to improve this week if we are going to be able to contain an excellent Arkansas offense.”
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Rutgers Injury Report for Arkansas Player OL Brandon Arcidiacono FB Sam Bergen WR Jeff Gignac Bryant Gross-Armiento DE Max Issaka TE Taylor Marini WR Vance Matthews DL Julian Pinnix-Odrick RG Andre Civil LB Jamal Merrell WR Carlton Agudosi C Betim Buiari TE Paul Carrezola FS Jeremy Deering QB Gary Nova WR Andre Patton
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quarterback Brandon Allen to play Saturday. Allen only threw five passes Saturday against Southern Miss. because of a shoulder injury. He is listed probable against the Knights. Arkansas head coach Bret Bielema gained Flood’s trust on issues like this when they met spring 2012. “He was very kind to me, doesn’t strike me as a person who says things just to say them,” Flood said. “So coach Bielema has said he will play, so we’ll get ready for him to play.”
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The Rutgers men’s soccer team has won only half of its first six games, but reason for optimism may lie in the Scarlet Knights’ offensive unit. So far the Scarlet Knights have averaged more than two goals per game, outscoring opponents, 13-8. Last season, opponents outscored the Knights, 5-4, through the first six games and 19-18 for the season. The opposition also shut out Rutgers three times in those six games, whereas this year the Knights have yet to go scoreless, and only once have they not scored in the first half. With the defense a work in progress through the season’s first two weeks, putting as many balls into the back of the net as possible has been a priority. “We tell ourselves that we need to get more going for ward, more goals,” said senior forward Kene Eze. “So [Sunday] I think collectively as a group we just got into better spaces, and we all worked for each other and made ever ything easier for each other. Ever yone wanted to get for ward, and we had a lot of energy.” No sequence Sunday against South Carolina summed up Rutgers’ evolving communication and offensive talent more than Eze’s assisted header to sophomore defender Mitchell Taintor in the 68th minute to give the Knights a 3-0 lead. With sophomore midfielder Mael Corboz feeding the corner kick, it was Rutgers’ first double-assisted play of the season.
Sophomore midfielder Mael Corboz said Rutgers has worked to improve its defensive urgency to complement offensive success. THE DAILY TARGUM / OCTOBER 2012
“It’s beautiful. That’s what you train for,” said head coach Dan Donigan. “That’s what you hope for, and you don’t always get those instances. So when you get one like that — execution of a nice sequence — it’s that much more rewarding.” And when the Knights are clicking offensively, they become dominant. Rutgers has yet to lose a game in which it has scored at least twice. But when Rutgers has not pushed across a second goal, it has usually blown the lead. The Knights saw 1-0 leads evaporate into a loss or tie in the second half in each of those three instances. In the last two weeks, Donigan emphasized the importance of playing pressure defense for the entirety of games. That limits opponents’ time of possession and shot attempts, creating more opportunities to add insurance goals. “It’s something we’ve been working on ever since the Duke game [Aug. 30], and it’s slowly
gotten better,” Corboz said. “We still messed up last week [against Akron], but I think this week was a lot better. We were playing a higher line, being more aggressive, not dropping off into our own box.” That is Rutgers’ biggest key to finding more results going forward. It worked against South Carolina and Friday against Princeton, and the Knights expect more of the same entering conference play this weekend. Eze is on pace to surpass his career-high eight goals from a year ago. Corboz has already toppled his rookie mark of three. For Rutgers, it all comes down to defense. “We’re scoring goals,” Corboz said. “So if we could play defense like we did [Sunday], we’ll be fine.” For updates on the Rutgers men’s soccer, follow Greg Johnson on Twitter @GregJohnsonRU. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @TargumSports.
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Quote of the Day “I wish I had moves as good as Jawan’s were, but at least I try to implement both [their moves].” —Sophomore running back P.J. James on former Rutgers football running back Jawan Jamison and junior running back Savon Huggins
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FIELD HOCKEY
FOOTBALL SENIOR QUARTERBACK COULD START SATURDAY AGAINST ARKANSAS
RU falls to high-ranked Great Danes By Justin Lesko Contributing Writer
Senior quarterback Chas Dodd could start Saturday’s game against Arkansas if junior Gary Nova is unable to play. Dodd, who has started 15 carear games, threw 4-for-9 in the Knights’ 28-10 victory against Eastern Michigan TiAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Dodd embraces opportunity By Bradly Derechailo Associate Sports Editor
Senior quarterback Chas Dodd has been in this position before. When former signal caller Tom Savage sat out Oct. 8, 2010 against Connecticut, Dodd was called into action. He responded with an 18-for-29 effort against the Huskies and two touchdowns, in-
cluding a strike to then-freshman wide receiver Jeremy Deering to set up a game-winning field goal. The Rutgers football team won that contest, 27-24. Now with junior quarterback Gary Nova’s status in question after a concussion — he is listed probable for Saturday against Arkansas — Dodd believes he can handle it. “I’m comfortable,” Dodd said. “I’m ready to get going and I’m going to be prepared if my
number’s called and just ready to start game planning this week and get myself ready.” His most recent appearance was less than stellar, as Dodd appeared understandably rusty in the Scarlet Knights’ 28-10 victory Saturday against Eastern Michigan. Entering the game for the Knights’ second series, Dodd threw just 4-for-9 against the
The Rutgers field hockey team split its weekend matches for the third straight week and once again, its loss came against a ranked opponent. The Scarlet Knights lost, 4-0, to No. 13 Albany on Sunday in a game that was closer than the score indicates in its two-game Albany, N.Y. trip. Rutgers first beat Siena, 4-1, on Saturday. The Knights (3-3) lost to Albany, despite receiving more penalty corner opportunities, 6-4, and totaled 10 shots to Albany’s 14. The Great Danes (5-0) got eight shots on goal and finished four of them. “They got a penalty stroke and we gave up two probably preventable goals, but overall I’m happy with the team and how they played and went into the game,” said head coach Meredith Long. “We are a very young team and Albany is a very seasoned team.” Forward Paula Heuser found the back of the cage for the Great Danes following a corner from defenders Corrine McConville with 15 minutes left in the second half to seal the game. McConville scored the penalty stroke just five minutes before. Forwards Kelly Bonner and Echo Bretz each scored in the first half. Even though the Knights have been unable to beat a ranked opponent in three tries this season, Long does not doubt her team’s ability. “The result is obviously disappointing, but we go out there and there’s no doubt we can compete,” Long said. “On our best day we can beat these teams and I think that is a great mindset.” Previously, Rutgers dominated the Saints (04) and kept them to only one shot and one penalty corner while putting up 16 in each category. With about 19 minutes left in the game, See DANES on Page 13
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VOLLEYBALL SACRED HEART 3, RUTGERS 2
Lack of consistency plagues three close losses By Tyler Karalewich Contributing Writer
The Rutgers volleyball team had a tough time this past weekend at the Delaware Invitational. The Scarlet Knights failed to win in the tournament, as it played in competitive matches but lacked consistency to claim wins. The Knights fell Saturday to Sacred Heart,
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“We had to face some adversity with several players going down with injury going into the tournament and during the tournament,” said head coach CJ Werneke. “Despite being an injury-stricken team right now, I am happy with the way our team competed with some new faces out there. They gave us a chance to win.” The weekend’s statistics looked See CONSISTENCY on Page 14
QURON PRATT, senior
wide receiver, was named AAC Special Teams Player of the Week for his performance Saturday against Eastern Michigan. Pratt had two kickoff returns in the win, inclduing a 99-yard TD return.
Freshman forward Rachel Yaney scored her second-career goal against Siena. TIAN LI / FILE PHOTO / SEPTEMBER 2013
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3-2, Furman, 3-1, and Friday against Delaware, 3-2. The team also featured injury problems before the tournament started. Several key players went down during the invite, as well, forcing underclassmen to step up and perform. One of those players was freshman middle blocker Dulce Duran, who had 12 kills and four digs for the invitational.
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