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Students describe homesickness as first-years at U. SANJANA CHANDRASEKHARAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Last month, Hansa Naimpally, a Rutgers Business School first-year student, could not have been more excited to start her time as a Rutgers student. “I was anxious, but also really excited because it’s a new era,” she said. “I felt like I was an actual adult for the first time.” But that soon faded as she began to feel pangs of homesickness during classes and while with friends. Beginning the semester, thousands of students left hometowns, and for most of them, it is their first time in a university atmosphere, far from the comfort of family and friends. Many of them find it hard to cope with the enormous amount of change they have experienced. Homesickness is a kind of “distress and functional impairment” that is caused by an actual or anticipated separation from home and attachment objects, Chris Thurber and Edward Walton said in a research paper, “Homesickness and Adjustment in University Students.” SEE HOMESICKNESS ON PAGE 4
The Institute of Food, Nutrition, and Health will unveil a 40 by 33-foot living wall in October 2015, dubbed an EcoWall. The wall is the product of EcoWalls, a business founded by Rutgers alumni Michael Coraggio and Ryan Burrows. EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR
EcoWall ‘crops’ up in October at Rutgers KESHAV PANDYA CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health will open in October with a new flair and astounding feature — the state’s largest living interior wall.
Measuring as high as 40 feet tall and wide as 33 feet, the living wall is created by EcoWalls, a business founded by two Rutgers alumni, Michael Coraggio and Ryan Burrows. “The architect for the building ... worked with EcoWalls directly
in the design of the living wall. Natoli Construction provided the infrastructure for the living wall but EcoWalls was responsible for the design, manufacturing and installation for the living wall,” said Roger Grillo, the IFNH director in Administration and Finance.
As the installation began in June, the living wall is now composed of 75 to 100 flora pieces and includes 6,500 various plants. The living wall is situated near the staircase and has a unique hydroponic SEE ECOWALL ON PAGE 6
RUSA nixes bill to create sexual assault committee KATIE PARK NEWS EDITOR
Pope Francis, the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church, visits the United States for the first time in his life on Sept. 22. He started his six-day, three-city visit in Washington, D.C. and ended it in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. REUTERS
Catholic Student Association visits Philadelphia to witness Pope’s visit ORLA FRANCESCA LAVERY CONTRIBUTING WRITER
It’s not ever y day the Pope is a mere bus ride away from Rutgers University. On Sept. 27, the Catholic Student Association took a trip to
Philadelphia to attend mass with Pope Francis. Attendees, which included both members and non-members of the Catholic Student Association at Rutgers, began their trip during the early hours of Sunday morning. They set off to Philadelphia at 8 a.m.
to make their way through a city on a temporary transport lockdown. The U.S. Papal Visit has dominated American media over the last couple of weeks, and the highly-anticipated tour finally arrived SEE POPE ON PAGE 4
There are less than 1,000 student-athletes at Rutgers but thousands of sexual assault survivors, Allie Williams announced from a podium at a Rutgers University Student Assembly meeting on Sept. 24. For an hour, Williams, a student assembly member and a School of Arts and Sciences junior, took another run at creating a committee to address campus sexual assault after previous incarnations of the bill fell flat at previous meetings. But at the end of the evening after amendments and motions were tossed back and forth, Williams stepped away from the front of the room visibly deflated as the bill failed to acquire support from two-thirds of the assembly’s voting members. Prior to the final vote, Williams, who headed a student assembly campus sexual assault task force last year, scanned the faces of more than 30 attendees at the meeting as she proposed creating an ad hoc, or temporary, campus sexual assault committee, which would be effective for up to one year. She said the ad hoc committee was a step down from her original
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proposal, which sought to establish a standing, or permanent, committee. Christina McGinnis, one of the bill’s supporters and a School of Arts and Sciences senior, motioned to amend the bill back to a standing committee from an ad hoc committee, which was amended back down to ad hoc almost immediately by Vishal Patel, student assembly treasurer and a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “All the other committees, if you think about them — (cover broader topics) … (and) this committee is such a specific issue,” Patel said during a short speech justifying his reasons for not supporting the bill. “And even long-term, this committee can be merged into another committee, so I don’t see this committee standing on its own.” The bill proposing the creation of the ad-hoc committee listed a series of goals, starting with advocacy of survivors and distribution of sexual assault prevention literature, and ended with student assembly involvement in “anything pertaining to sexual assault.” “Sexual assault brutally violates SEE BILL ON PAGE 4
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U. research studies new eating disorder, body image BUSHRA HASAN
“They do not need to ‘obsess’ about health eating to be healthy,” she said. Markey’s work is especially In a world immersed in a sea of impossible beauty standards, Rut- relevant to University students at a gers—Camden professor Char- time in which undergraduates are lotte Markey tackles the causes of still developing their self-image, various eating disorders through both internally and externally. “As you grow, you’re presher research. Markey’s research focuses on sured to think about (eating habeating behaviors, weight man- its),” Lyla Kaul said, a Rutgers agement and body image, with Business School first-year student. a focus on Kaul is maladaptive planning to approaches switch her to weight “It’s easy (to be vegan) at major to management. home, but eating in the nutrition in Her investidining hall is hard the School gations are unique in sometimes — to figure out of Biological and Enthat she is a what’s vegan and what’s vironmental developmennot.” Sciences aftal psycholter watching ogist, while LYLA KAUL several doca majority of Rutgers Business School First-Year Student umentaries research on exposing eating disorthe corrupders come tion of the from a clinifood industr y. cian’s viewpoint. “It’s easy (to be vegan) at “Only a minority, greater than 1 percent it appears, (of body image home, but eating in the dining publications) can be found in devel- hall is hard sometimes — to figopmental psychology journals and ure out what’s vegan and what’s even fewer are longitudinal studies not,” Kaul said. “Sometimes in peer reviewed journals,” Markey they denote what’s vegan, but said in her paper, “Invited Commen- sometimes they don’t, so it’s tary: Why Body Image is Important kind of confusing.” Markey has also studied how in Adolescent Development”. One eating disorder that is not “identity development” relates clinically recognized but is on the to one’s body image. She cites “academic competence, poprise is orthorexia. “(Orthorexia is) an abnormal ularity and social acceptance, and distressing over-concern with romantic appeal and physical healthy eating, often to the point appearance” in her Invited Comthat an individual will limit their mentar y study. Her research elaborates on a diet in such a way that they risk trend seen in other psychiatric studmalnutrition,” Markey said. She hopes that patients with ort- ies. In Wiener and Dulcan’s “Texthorexia will work with dietitians and book of Child and Adolescent Psychipsychologists to change the way atry,” eating disorders are strongly linked with body image: “Many girls they view their food consumption. CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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Rutgers-Camden professor Charlotte Markey focuses on eating behaviors, weight management and body image, with a focus on maladaptive approaches to weight management. Her latest focus is on orthorexia, an abnormal and distressing over-concern with healthy eating, often to the point that an individual will limit their diet in such a way that they risk malnutrition. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR
still adopt traditional roles that reflect their low self-image and self-doubt, diminishing their creative and intellectual potential and their chances for professional success.” Professional success is of interest here, considering Markey’s original intent of all this research. “I’ve had an interest in body image and eating behaviors since my childhood, when I was a student at San Francisco Ballet School,” she said. As depicted in Academy Award-winning “Black Swan,” the life of a ballerina is filled with self-doubt
and a hyper-vigilance to self-image, as actress Natalie Portman descends into madness, confusing her reality with her apparitions. Body image is not exclusive to one gender. Markey wrote that “both adolescent girls and boys talk with their friends about their appearances and changing their appearances (e.g., dieting, muscle building) and peers’ feedback is associated with adolescents’ behavioral attempts to alter their bodies.” School of Engineering freshman Dustin Cheung said he has
been “trying to eat cleaner” since he arrived at the University and “started going to the gym.” While most of his friends attend the gym with him, he said he feels comfortable with his current eating habits. Despite all the possible outcomes of influences to body image, Markey believes that further “developmental research addressing the potentially positive ways that youths influence each other’s body image and encourage healthy eating and physical activity patterns is needed.”
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POPE Pope Francis is first of Jesuit denomination, works differently from predecessor Benedict XVI Benedict was very traditional, Gilmore said. She recalled how, even at a young age, she recthis weekend. “I’ve found the general ognized that Benedict was not response (to the Pope’s visit) relatable and his views on the to be positive,” said Gib Dela- Catholic Church were hard to cruz, a Rutgers Business identify with. But some devout Catholics School graduate. But Delacruz believes it is im- were in tears at the mass with portant is that U.S. residents and Pope Benedict, she said. To these people across the globe imple- Catholics, and particularly to oldment the Pope’s ethos in their ev- er generations of Catholics, Benedict’s message was relevant. eryday lives. Francis is the first Pope of the Francesca Gilmore, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, Jesuit denomination and differed spoke admirably of Francis’s re- substantially in his approach from formed and humbled approach his predecessor, Benedict XVI. As a Jesuit, he is distinctively liberal to his Papacy. “He has already spoken about by comparison to his predecessor issues regarding contraception, and is keen for his message to same-sex marriage and climate reach Catholics and non-Cathochange, issues which the Catho- lics alike, according to Slate.com. During his address to the lic Church has rarely addressed U.S. Congress on Sept. 24, openly before,” Gilmore said. During his tour of the U.S., the Pope asked for the prayers the Pope chose to be driven in a of politicians. “For any who do not believe or simple black fiat. In Rome, he has been known to reside in hostels cannot pray, I ask you please to send good with the wishes my homeless Pope and oth“He has already spoken about way,” Francis er Jesuit issues regarding contraception, said in his priests over his same-sex marriage and climate speech, acto residenchange, issues which the Catho- cording jesuits.org. cy at the lic Church has rarely addressed DelaVa t i c a n , openly before.” cruz said according he didn’t to ABC FRANCESCA GILMORE think the News. School of Arts and Sciences Junior Pope was T h e necessariPope’s ly “reformhumble approach and his particular ing the church,” but that he is concern for the poor have been opening up the church to a wider paramount to his appeal to a audience and is fulfilling his role by “opening people’s eyes.” wider community. The Catholic Student AssociaGilmore recalls her experience of seeing Pope Benedict as a child. tion highlighted the event on its She recalled not being “overly im- Facebook page and emphasized that all students from religious pressed” at such a young age. “I was quite young when I visit- and non-religious backgrounds ed the Vatican to see Pope Bene- were welcome to attend. As an Australian Catholic, dict,” Gilmore said. Pope Benedict was reputed for Gilmore identified with the many his more conservative approach Americans, both Catholics and and revived some of the Catholic non-Catholics, that hold Pope Church’s more traditional values Francis in high regard. “I feel Americans were incrediand wanted to revive the use of Latin in Catholic mass. Benedict bly excited about the Pope’s tour. was also the first Pope to resign He is very popular here and so voluntarily since Pope Celestine has a great deal of influence over our day-to-day lives” she said. V in 1294. CONTINUED FROM FRONT
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Homesickness is a kind of “distress and functional impairment” that is caused by an actual or anticipated separation from home and attachment objects, Chris Thurber and Edward Walton said in a research paper, “Homesickness and Adjustment in University Students.” PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY RAMYA CHITIBOMMA / DESIGN EDITOR
HOMESICKNESS Seshadri says she shies away from talking to RAs because they are not confidential resources CONTINUED FROM FRONT
Students who are homesick have several resources they can use to distract themselves or learn to feel more comfortable in their new environments. Clubs, social events and schoolwork help, but if students want to talk about their issues, they can always access resident assistants. Aparna Seshadri, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, appreciates the presence of RAs, but is not sure if she would ever approach them. “I think that it’s helpful to have resources that are so easily accessible to us, but resident assistants are also not confidential resources, which is what makes it harder for me, personally, to
feel comfortable speaking with them,” she said. RAs are university employees before they are student’s friends, Seshadri said. If students seek to use other resources, Rutgers Counseling, Alcohol & Other Drug Assistance Program and Psychiatric Services are available five days a week. Students may set up appointments with CAPS to discuss what may be bothering them. CAPS is a confidential resource where students can seek guidance from professionals located on campus. Aria Fairman, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, was particularly happy about the availability of CAPS. “I’m happy I can access CAPS because it provides students with the
BILL Twenty percent of undergraduate women report at least one instance of unwanted sexual contact CONTINUED FROM FRONT
someone’s basic human rights and is a prominent issue on campuses, including Rutgers University,” Williams read from the bill. She pointed out Rutgers’ involvement in the national campus sexual assault dialogue, citing the University’s partnership with the White House to pilot a survey in 2014, its participation in the #iSpeak climate survey and its latest involvement with the campus-wide program, “Not Anymore: The Revolution Starts Here: End Sexual Violence Now.” Still, sexual assault makes its mark on students. Twenty-four percent of women reported experiencing sexual violence before coming to Rutgers, Williams said, quoting from the #iSpeak survey, which was taken by 12,343 students, or 29.5 percent of invited participants, according to the survey’s online assessment. Students who did not identify as heterosexual were two to three times more likely to experience sexual violence before coming to college and after becoming college students, according to #iSpeak survey results, she said. And nationally, 3 percent of American men, or one in 33, reported being a victim of sexual assault or attempted sexual assault in their lifetimes, accord-
ing to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. Further, undergraduate women are most at risk for sexual assault, Williams said, with 20 percent of undergraduate women reporting at least one instance of unwanted sexual contact. Yet, less than 8 percent of undergraduate women survivors reported their incidents to campus resources, according to #iSpeak numbers. Although Williams and a handful of meeting attendees stood staunchly in support of the bill, other assembly members expressed their doubt,
“But I’m not done, and this isn’t over. I’m going to try again.” ALLIE WILLIAMS Rutgers University Student Assembly and a School of Arts and Sciences Junior
calling into question the assembly’s ability to combat sexual assault and the purpose of a campus sexual assault committee by calling it a public relations move. “People have a misconception about ad hoc committees,” said Nivedh Rajesh, the student assembly’s chair of University Affairs and one of the bill’s critics. “They kind of think of them in a negative
opportunity to talk to professionals when much help is needed and there’s nowhere else to go,” she said. Parker Geralds, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, felt differently. “Personally, I wouldn’t talk to anyone at CAPS, because I like to deal with things on my own, but I guess it’s good that people that want to make use of it can,” he said. “I’m always here as an RA to support students. If it’s ever really extreme, the go-to should be CAPS. Go talk to a therapist and get therapy,” James Duffy, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior and RA at Lippincott Hall on Douglass Campus, said. Although he understands how students enduring homesickness can feel, he thinks they should still live on campus to get more comfortable in their new environment. “I was homesick a lot as a freshman, and when I was in that position, my response was to go home almost every weekend. As an RA you want to encourage students to stay and get involved in the community,” he said.
light, they think they’re kind of like, ‘Okay, it’s temporary, focusing on very specific issues ... ’ and it’s true, we are focusing on a very specific issue, but that doesn’t mean it’s because of the fact that we don’t care about it.” But McGinnis hotly refuted Rajesh’s opposition to the creation of a standing committee, telling him that sexual assault was not a “one mission” issue. “Sexual assault is such a serious issue,” she said. “It’s not going to be like, ‘Okay, this is what we’re going to do to combat sexual assault ... We’ve got to have a committee dedicated to ending sexual assault here in (the student assembly). Because if we don’t have that, if we don’t enact that now, when is it going to get enacted?” Neither McGinnis or Williams yet have the answer to that question. While 14 voting members stood in support of the bill, eight members voted no and nine members abstained from voting. An unconfirmed number of members were absent during Thursday’s meeting, and the tallied numbers did not meet the two-thirds requirement for passing a bill. In contrast to the conflict ensnaring the campus sexual assault committee bill, Williams recalled the creation of the athletics standing committee last year, which she said took less than half an hour to pass, with minimal debate. “I’m incredibly disappointed, both in the people who voted no and in the people who abstained,” Williams said. “But I’m not done, and this isn’t over. I’m going to try again.”
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U. faculty council flames football program with report KATIE PARK NEWS EDITOR
Following the recent slew of incidents seizing the Rutgers football team, the New Brunswick Faculty Council released a report and resolution on ethical and academic problems in the football program on Sept. 25, which deemed the sanctions, a threegame suspension and a $50,000 fine, placed against football head coach Kyle Flood for contacting a player’s professor as too lax. The New Brunswick Faculty Council, a group of Rutgers professors headed by Mark Killingsworth, a professor in the Department of Economics, sent the three-page document to news media via email shortly following a meeting held in Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus that was closed to the public and press. The council maintained that Flood’s impermissible contact with a part-time lecturer about changing cornerback Nadir Barnwell’s grade in his “Dance Appreciation” class “well beyond a violation” of the University’s “no-contact policy.” The council’s resolution also raised eyebrows about the “grammatical and minor editorial suggestions” Flood had for the extra paper the part-time lecturer allowed Barnwell, because the type of assistance Flood offered Barnwell could be interpreted as “an extra benefit to the athlete” and thus be considered a violation of NCAA policy. “Given that the faculty member in question is a part-time lecturer (PTL) with no job security, Coach Flood’s pressuring her to change the student’s grade was much more serious ethically than if he had tried to pressure a tenured faculty member to change a student’s grade,” according to the report. “The power imbalance and the fact that Coach Flood repeatedly pressured the PTL via a series of e-mails and in person
and that he did not stop the student from ‘badgering’ her raise the transgression to the level of intimidation of a highly vulnerable member of the University community.” The report mentioned that Flood visited the same part-time lecturer’s class during the Fall 2014 semester to acquaint himself with the instructor once a number of his players registered for “Dance Appreciation.” “This practice seems inappropriate, would surely be intimidating to some instructors, and may be a violation of the no contact policy,” according to the report. The New Brunswick Faculty Council’s resolution largely mirrored a resolution passed on Sept. 10 by the New Jersey chapter of the American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers urging Rutgers to pursue the allegations brought against Flood. Six days later, on Sept. 16, Rutgers President Robert L. Barchi sent a University-wide email containing the details about the investigation and the sanctions leveraged against Flood. The AAUP-AFT, which focuses largely on income parity, particularly for part-time lecturer positions, criticized the power imbalance present between large earners like Flood and small earners like part-time lecturers in their resolution. The more recent resolution from the New Brunswick Faculty Council pulled from Barchi’s report verbatim, citing the part-time lecturer’s admittance to investigators that “she felt unable to resist the implied pressure” from Flood and “felt uncomfortable” not complying with Flood’s request to administer an additional assignment to boost Barnwell’s grade. The part-time lecturer did not change Barnwell’s grade in his class, according to the council’s report, but the faculty members represented in the document found Flood’s claim that he
MUDDY MADNESS Students slough through the mud for RU Muddy, a race held by Rutgers Recreation on Sept. 25 that started at 3 p.m. at Postal Road on the Livingston campus. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
The New Brunswick Faculty Council, a group of Rutgers professors headed by Mark Killingsworth, a professor in the Department of Economics, sent the three-page document to news media via email shortly following a meeting held in Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus that was closed to the public and press. MICHELLE KLEJMONT / MANAGING EDITOR / SEPTEMBER 2015 was unaware that his contact with the part-time lecturer to “(strain) credulity.” “Even if one were to accept his statement that he did not initially know about the no contact policy, he must have known that he was doing something improper given the lengths to which he went to conceal his actions, including using his personal e-mail account to contact the PTL and meeting her off campus dressed so that he would not be recognized as the Rutgers Head Football Coach,” according to the report. “Moreover, he continued with his plan
to meet the PTL in person even after he was advised by a member of the Academic Support Services for Student Athletes (ASSSA) staff that any contact with a faculty member about a student’s grade is impermissible.” The council, who was unsettled by the findings of the email investigation, also called itself “disturbed” by the charges brought against other players on the team since August 2015. Five players were suspended for their involvement in either robbery, house invasion and assault, and wide receiver Leonte
Carroo was suspended for a curfew violation and for the physical assault of a woman affiliated with Rutgers Athletics. “The New Brunswick Faculty Council calls on the Rutgers administration to act forcefully and expeditiously to address and resolve all the concerns raised in this (New Brunswick Faculty Council) report in order to halt and reverse the decline in the ethical and academic standards in our football program and the continuing damage to the University’s reputation,” according to the report.
BED BLAST Phi Delta Theta fraternity pushes their bed down College Avenue for the Eighth Annual Homecoming Charity Bed Races, hosted by the Rutgers University Programming Association and held in front of the College Avenue Student Center on the College Avenue campus on Sept. 24. LUO ZHENGCHEN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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ECOWALL Plants are pre-grown, placed in special foam modules, three feet by three feet, Coraggio says CONTINUED FROM FRONT
CARDIO FOR A CAUSE The sisters of Chi Upsilon Sigma Latin sorority play a game of basketball for the third annual “Ballin’ Against Violence” charity tournament, held on Sept. 27 at the College Avenue Gymnasium. YANGENG LIN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
system providing water to the plants twice a day. “The plants are pre-grown in special foam modules designed for growing plants vertically. This makes the living wall a more sustainable solution,” Grillo said. The foam absorbs water and nutrients, providing a solid nutritional base for the plants, he said. The plants can expand their root system throughout the module and grow into mature plants. For Coraggio and Burrows, this was yet another testament to being able to “come back home” and a unique project that allows there to be a display of nature’s beauty within the building. Coraggio said being tied to the University as alumni makes the project more unique. “The fact that we could literally sit with the University and we had enough time to plan the planting design out so a lot of the plants you see in the living wall are ones that we grew in our greenhouse,” he said. The plants are pre-grown and then put in special foam modules, 3 feet by 3 feet, designed so the plants can grow vertically, according to Coraggio. The modules allow there to be replacement for the soil and water and nutrients to be locked up in the root system, like a “LEGO system.” Looking back at his students who he taught in 2007, Nicki Graf, the manager of the Rutgers Floriculture Greenhouse said he remembers the experiments that two creators of the living wall used to in her classes. “Their ver y first wall is in my greenhouse,” said Graf. “Mike worked for me as a student. They installed that in 2007. I thought it was great. It is still there. To see him graduate to this is ver y gratifying. He has got a great eye. It is magnificent.” While the EcoWall is aesthetically pleasing, it also helps
with the idea of keeping clean air within the building itself, Graf said. “The living wall provides a direct link to the campus re-enforcing the values of openness and transparency. And at the same time encouraging the free exchanges of ideas and collaborations,” Grillo said. Biophilia hypothesis, a theory that suggests there is an instinctive connection between human beings and other living systems, has been documented to promote well-being and health, Grillo said. Some people have even tied it to better productivity, increase learning and cognitive abilities and reduced stress levels. Coraggio said the possibility of having a living wall at the University came about ever since the Dean of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences became familiar with the idea. “Just like any technology, we believed it could be more refined and more efficient,” he said. “We wanted to make it as sustainable as possible to really minimize the amount of plant replacement and also the ease in installation. The modular concept was thought up so we could make it accessible for other companies to take it and install as well.” The material used for the irrigation system is simply put through the proper balance between the water and nutrients allowing the plants to remain upward and bring about the beautiful and aesthetically pleasing design of the wall, Corragio said. “(IFNH is) responsible for bringing together faculty, staff and students from across the University to work on large multi-disciplinary projects of major societal importance,” Grillo said. “With the overall mission to make New Jersey the ‘Healthy State’ and a model for the nation.”
CRIME SEPT. 27 ABERDEEN — Jennifer Loughlin bit a police officer and “refused to let go” Saturday night after resisting arrest, police said. Several officers responded at around 10 p.m. to a residence on Hawthorne Street after receiving a report of a fight. When the officers arrived, they found 10 to 15 people on the street, but no one was fighting. A female, later identified as Loughlin, “appeared to to be heavily intoxicated, uncooperative and disorderly,” Chief John Powers said. After she was told she was under arrest, the 25-year-old “physically resisted” efforts to place her in handcuffs. Loughlin was taken into custody with the assistance of the officers Jessica McDougall and Charles Trucillo, but then Laughlin bit McDougall on the arm and “refused to let go.” Laughlin’s bail was set at $15,000 with no 10 percent option. She was released after posting bail. McDougall was taken to Bayshore Community Hospital in Holmdel where she was treated for an injury to her arm caused by the bite.
SEPT. 26 PATERSON — Marcus Austin was arrested and charged with possession of heroin with the intent to distribute. Detectives seized about $4,000 worth of heroin after a traffic stop in the city. The arrest came as the sheriff’s narcotics investigators were working with Fair Lawn police in a joint program to combat drug sales on both sides of the Passaic river, along the Route 20 corridor. While surveying the area, detectives stopped the 31-year-old for driving without wearing a seatbelt. Austin tried to hide the heroin as police approached the car, but the detectives recovered 660 glassine envelopes of the drug and about $5,800 in suspected drug proceeds. SEPT. 26 BAYONNE — Reynaldo Perez has been charged with stealing over $4,000 worth of jewelry, sneakers and personal papers from a Kennedy Boulevard home in a burglary reported earlier this month. The 44-year-old man was arrested on the charges of burglary and theft. Perez has been released on a bail of $10,000 with a 10 percent option.
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Research promises nerve repair with use of 3-D printer PRITA SINHA CONTRIBUTING WRITER
A new breakthrough in medical research may soon combine 3-D printing with nerve damage to allow people to regain the use of their limbs by repairing that damage. An article by the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering on ScienceDaily.com said a combination of 3-D imaging and printing was used to create a silicone guide with biochemical cues to help nerve regeneration. The research team included collaborators from the University of Minnesota, Virginia Tech, University of Maryland, Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University. The study was conducted on rats and used a 3-D scanner that reversed the structure of a rat’s sciatic nerve, according to the article. The scan was then used to build a guide for a custom-built 3-D printer that included chemical signals to help in motor and sensory nerve regeneration. According to the Mayo Clinic, nerve regeneration is a complex and rare process, meaning that nerve damage is usually permanent. A rat that was walking-impaired was able to walk again within 10 to 12 weeks after the implantation of 3-D nerves.
The rat’s newfound mobility provides the proof of concept for creating structures to guide nerve regeneration, said Michael McAlpine, a professor with the University of Minnesota in the article. Previous studies have successfully printed regrowth for linear nerves, but this technology is the first of its kind for complex nerves
“It would be extremely helpful to people who have nerve damage to the point where they have no sensation in some part of their body.” KUMPAL PATEL School of Arts and Sciences Sophomore
including the regeneration of motor and sensory skills. The regeneration process will take several weeks, but the initial printing and scanning only takes about an hour. In a podcast for Daily Tech News, Dr. Kristen Sanford, radio host of This Week in Science, said healthy nerve scans from the same individual prior to injury are the most ideal in speeding up regeneration. “Researchers are hoping to cre-
Rutgers sees red with new, improved campus tomato
Thomas Orton, a professor in the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, created a different version of the original Rutgers Tomato from the 1930s. MARIELLE SUMERGIDO / EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
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If a tomato pageant existed, the new Rutgers tomato would be crowned Miss Universe. It is everything you want in a tomato — beautiful, durable and delicious. The tomato is a resurrection of the original Rutgers Tomato created in the 1930s. Created as a means to revive some Rutgers pride, the tomato also has some potentially greater implications in the age of environmental friendliness. Thomas Orton, a professor in the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, spearheaded the project. “We thought it would be sort of a fun idea to reinvent it particularly with the 250th anniversary of the institution coming up,” he said. The original Rutgers Tomato had
prestige and many sought-after qualities. Compared to other tomatoes at the time, it grew in a shorter amount of time and was more solidly colored. Once Orton became aware that the Campbell Soup Company had the original parent stock, he decided to develop a new and better tomato as a tribute. “We had added some additional selection criteria,” he said. “It’s a little bit firmer, more crack-resistant, more uniform in color and has a higher yield.” The creators of the original tomato did not give much thought to taste, remarking that it “’had a pleasing taste.’” Orton, on the other hand, made improving the flavor, such as its sweetness, tartness and acidity, central to his project. “We had taste tested all along
ate a library of healthy scans, so they can get a best fit for the person that you would be creating a new nerve for,” Sanford said. Sanford said the process is not too complex and involves only one procedure including the printing and implantation of the nerve structure. “It seems as though it is a fairly simple technique because instead of using multiple devices to create this three dimensional structure, they are using just one 3-D printer,” she said. A current technique to treat nerve injuries uses at least two, she said. The patient will first have a nerve extracted from another part of the body, which will cause nerve death in that region, she said. They will then have to go through a second procedure to implant the extracted nerve into the problem area. The newly designed 3-D printer uses a silicone guide to create the scaffold structure that will hold the connecting nerve fibers in place, she said. Since silicone is inert in the body, it will not cause any rejection issues and does not have to be removed, she said. Scientists would prefer a bio-absorbable material that can dissolve into the body so nerve fibers can hold on their own.
An article on ScienceDaily.com said a combination of three-dimensional (3D) imaging and printing was used to create a silicone guide with biochemical cues to help nerve regeneration. SUBHASHISH PANIGRAHI
Kumpal Patel, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said it would help people regain the use of body parts they cannot even feel right now. “It would be extremely helpful to people who have nerve damage to the point where they have no sensation in some part of their body,” she said. Throughout the field of biomedical science, nerve regrowth and regeneration of motor and sensory skills are known to be difficult due to the complexity of nerve anatomy. “Nerves are connected in remarkable ways that allow us to transmit chemical and electrical in-
the way to make sure that what we bridization, which is when two difwere doing was heading in the right ferent species are cross-pollinated direction as far as flavor because a to breed a new one. Open-pollinabig concern of our’s is consumers of tion is when plants are pollinated fresh produce and gardeners too,” naturally, and this method is then used to refine the F1 hybrid and he said. The majority of taste tests were keep propagating it. Some question whether this a done informally, consisting of Orton pulling people off the streets to get case of genetic modification, which is a practice that is controversial to their opinion on the tomato’s flavor. “It’s quite valuable to ask some some consumers. Tom Brady, a Rutgers Business people in the street what they think because they’re the ones who are ul- School first-year student, believes this tomato does count as a “genetitimately tasting them,” he said. Orton plans to release the cally-modified organism.” “Oftentimes GMO has a very seeds this coming January in 2016. The Rutgers program is aimed negative connotation associated with primarily at small growers and home it even though for hundreds of years we’ve been genetically modifying orgardeners. This seems like especially good ganisms to some extent whether it’s through artifinews to propocial selection or nents of the local splicing genes food movement. together,” he Alexandra “It’s a little bit firmer, said. Matthews, a more crack-resistant, Orton, on School of Envithe other hand, ronmental and more uniform in color this tomato Biological Sciand has a higher yield.” said is not a GMO ences first-year because it was student, said not made in a she supports THOMAS ORTON local farming Professor in the Department of Plant Biology lab. The tomato was made solebecause it builds and Pathology ly through hythe community bridization and and is good for open-pollination. the local econo“To me, my. many people are Orton hopes this tomato supports local farming, missing the point of the debate,” Ormakes farming more profitable and ton said. “For any tool, you can use maintains a healthy agriculture econ- it for good and bad things, and there happened to be some people who omy in New Jersey. This tomato is only the first of used it irresponsibly. But other than many new tomatoes that Orton is that, it’s just a tool.” Orton would not be developing. “I also have a program aimed at opposed to using genetic larger growers which is more for the modification in the future, alF1 hybrids that combine high yield though for this project he only conventional and plant performance with better used breeding methods. flavor,” he said. So tomāto, tomäto. Either way, An F1 hybrid plant is one that was first developed through hy- this tomato checks out.
formation from the brain or the spinal cord to other parts of the body, such as the bottom of the human foot,” she said. The human body processes internal and external stimuli through its nerves, she said. The next step for the team of researchers will be to successfully perform these procedures on humans rather than rats. The National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund and the Grand Challenges Program at Princeton University provided funding for the study.
SIMPLE SCIENCE OMG, GMO
Eating is usually fun. Or at the least, it is a requirement for sur vival. Growing food has been a challenge for farmers for millennia. To ensure they could produce as much as possible, they would selectively breed the crops with the most fruit, the most vibrant vegetables and cull any weak or disease-prone plantas. They would also breed plants for desired traits, which is how seedless fruits came about. Alternate methods are used, such as grafting rather than planting. More recently, researchers have been modifying crops to become resistant to diseases and insects on their own. Before, crops would be sprayed with insect repellants, including dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), which has been linked to increased mortality rates in animals and causes Alzheimer’s disease and dementia in humans. These crops are modified at the genetic level (GMOs), which aim to reduce the need for insecticides and create more food at the same time. While many scientists argue that GMOs are safe to consume, no global consensus exists on the safety of these foods. The Journal of Animal Science recently concluded a study analyzing animals fed GMOs over three decades, and determined no differences existed in the animals’ health. The Food and Drug Administration also requires modified foods to fulfill a stringent set of requirements before they can be sold, which match the guidelines for non-modified foods.
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American health care based on profit Drug price increase to $750 shows medical industry exploitation
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hen medical care became a for-profit in- the costs of prescription drugs and access to medical dustry, everyday people were sentenced to assistance on a daily basis? Shkreli isn’t the first pharmalifelong suffering at the hands of those sole- ceutical CEO to increase prices. The entire ordeal sheds ly concerned with making money. Daraprim is a drug light on how easily medicine and the cost of medical procommonly used to treat toxoplasmosis, a parasitic infec- cedures can be manipulated. Health care is a basic right that should be afforded to tion. But it can also be used to treat some patients with compromised immune systems suffering from diseases all, but oftentimes having health care does not exempt like AIDS and certain types of cancers. When pharma- you from paying exorbitant prices for drugs that would ceutical company GlaxoSmithKline owned Daraprim, sustain your livelihood. Wealthy people seem to be only it sold for $1 per tablet. CorePharma then acquired the ones who can properly afford to stay healthy in this drug, and the price rose to $13.50 per tablet. Now that shameful medical climate. Common people let their sickthe Turing Pharmaceuticals owns the drug, it costs $750 nesses get to unbearable limits before they are able to even consider seeking treatment. A trip to the doctor or a tablet — a 5,000 percent increase. Daraprim was approved by the FDA 62 years ago, hospital means a lost shift at work, and a lost shift at work making it difficult to reasonably explain why a prescrip- means no money to pay for that trip to the doctor. But the tion medication that has existed for so long — at such low longer an individual waits to get help, the less likely they prices — was suddenly increased by hundreds of dollars are able to work effectively, and the more costly their impending treatments will beovernight. Martin Shkreli, come. The cycle is vicious and founder and CEO of Turing unyielding. Pharmaceuticals, bought the “The entire ordeal sheds light American health care is in drug with the intention of raison how easily medicine and the such a sad state that little can ing the price to a high enough cost of medical procedures can be done to rectify the system point so his company would be manipulated.” until top players choose hube able to generate profit. As manity over a paycheck. People a start-up pharmaceutical comdie regularly because they can’t pany championed by a former hedge fund manager, the idea that Turing would be able access simple drugs like blood pressure medication, to turn a profit in its infancy is lofty and will do patients asthma inhalers and insulin to treat diabetes. President Obama’s attempts at providing universal health care has more harm than good. However, Shkreli also asserts the price of Daraprim been enacted to reverse some of the damage done, yet was raised as a means of funding research that would there are still companies, lawmakers and individuals dolead to the creation of a safer, more effective drug. He ing all they can to circumvent these measures. We live in a society where being sick for months is also claimed that with the 5,000 percent increase he imposed on Daraprim, he would be dramatically increasing more bearable than paying thousands of dollars for medpatient access to the drug. Shkreli seems to care more ical care. People are afraid to call ambulances or make about sustaining his company as opposed to helping pa- trips to the emergency room because they simply do not tients suffering from toxoplasmosis, as he stated $750 have the money. It makes no sense that dollars and cents per tablet is a “more appropriate price for Daraprim.” are valued over a person’s health and medical well-beAs a result of public reaction, the CEO vowed to cut the ing. For-profit medical agencies, as well as the nation’s price of the drug, but has not said when or by how much. widening wealth gap, are equally contributing to AmeriWhile Shkreli was caught and guilt-tripped into recon- ca’s grotesque medical crisis. Ousting the visible scams ciling his grievous mistake, what about all of the pharma- is a start, but uncovering hidden extortion is where the ceutical companies and CEOs who get away with hiking solution lies. The Daily Targum’s editorials represent the views of the majority of the 147th editorial board. Columns, cartoons and letters do not necessarily reflect the views of the Targum Publishing Company or its staff.
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Papal Visit highlights influence of liberation theology REASON IN REVOLT RACHEL LANDIGIN
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t’s important to understand Pope Francis’s role as the head of the Catholic Church: Pope Francis is not the Catholic Church and vice versa. He teaches and spreads doctrine on faith and morals, directs Catholics throughout the global network of dioceses and promotes leadership in Vatican City. If President Obama has a stubborn GOP-lead Congress, Pope Francis has one of the oldest and wealthiest religious institutions in the world, with its age-old beliefs and hierarchal structure. As his progressive teachings reverberate among global masses, including non-believers, is Pope Francis the 21st-century game changer on the status of Christianity? As secularism grows in the global North, indicative of the Church’s diminishing influence, the center of the Church’s political gravity moves toward Latin America. As the first Pope from the developing world, Pope Francis brings influences of liberation theology, a Christian movement born from Catholic churches in Latin America as a response to the socioeconomic injustices from corporate neoliberalism and government authoritarianism. The movement focuses on advocating for the poor and encouraging social, political and economic change. As a community-based theological movement, liberation theology undermines clerical authority and has been met with resistance from Catholic
leadership. Due to the growth of Christianity in post-colonial states, which covers most of Latin America and some Asian countries, the commonality of issues on the intersection of poverty and climate issues forces the Church to reevaluate itself. Are the Pope’s messages to the world just a political and marketing strategy to salvage humanity’s growing secularism? Is it a response to the rise and power of charismatic evangelical Christian congregations? Most likely both. However, the actions of Catholic radicals within the Church is an honest redemptive movement, forcing the Church
uous responses, disregarding how these issues also intersect with issues they claim to champion. Due to the flexibility of Christian doctrine, which proves to be as flexible as the U.S. Constitution’s elastic clause, Christian congregations and leaders’ interpretation of the Bible can be negotiated. While certain ideologies will stand long and exclusionary, if the structure itself does not face reform, how can the Church be an advocate against poverty? As long as Vatican City serves as the central government of the Catholic Church, liberation theology can only influ-
“The Catholic Church is a tool — not a revolutionary body against the capitalist, patriarchal system — but for the many people around the world who live in poverty, and for the ones with the lack of agency to choose their religion, Christianity can be a tool for mobilization.” to center liberation theology that looks more like a reactionary act. Nicknamed as “Climate Justice Pope” around the world and at times described as “Anti-Capitalist Pope,” Pope Francis is not a revolutionary activist. From a progressive standpoint, how can the Pope preach about structural inequality when the structure and politics within the Church is deeply classist, sexist and patriarchal? When it comes to their opinions on key social justice issues like samesex marriage and reproductive rights, the politics are either ignored or given ambig-
ence the Church to an extent. If we frame the beginnings of Christianity with the early Christians, who advocated for gender and economic justice, we would have to go back to Jesus. He was a humble religious leader and philosopher, who aided and empowered the poor, hung out with society’s outcasts, healed the sick and preached against violence. These are actions that reflect early Christians who advocated for gender and economic justice. If that is the direction the Church wants to go back to, it will take tremendous sacrifices of power and wealth.
The Catholic Church is a tool — not a revolutionary body against the capitalist, patriarchal system — but for the many people around the world who live in poverty, and for the ones with the lack of agency to choose their religion, Christianity can be a tool for mobilization. For non-theists who argue against theology, it’s important to reflect on the relationship of religion and secularism as they relate to class structures. Not everyone has a purely secular and scientific education. Not everyone has the agency to be part of a privileged secular society. As one of the largest, strongest and oldest religions in the world, a reform is more than a possibility, and must be encouraged. The support of the most influential Catholic leader opens gates for the acceptance of Catholic radicals. For Christians to fight against immorality and violence, and to join with people who they can share a common ground for liberation for the common good, makes the Catholic Church a growing ally, rather than the vicious bully that it has been for centuries. We’ll just have to wait until people from different faiths meet on common ground, where we can start to work together toward liberation. Whether or not the Catholic Church is down for the revolution is what remains unknown. Rachel Landingin is a School of Arts and Sciencs junior majoring in journalism and media studies with minors in art history and digital, media and information technology. Her column, “Reason in Revolt,” runs on alternate Mondays.
Marriage equality should not be overlooked in Australia OPEN SEASON CHRIS RONEY
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ony Abbott made promise last month that with a reelection for Australia’s Liberal Party would come the chance to put marriage equality up to a national referendum. Most voters took it as an empty one. But by thwarting a free vote in Parliament, Abbott was grasping at straws amidst discord within his own party — discord so loud, in fact, that the party was able to move straight to impeachment under Australia’s parliamentary system. Today, Abbott has been ousted in favor of former communications minister Malcolm Turnbell, who has since sworn in as Australia’s 29th Prime Minister. But what does that spell for the Australian civil rights front, and can major policy reform for gay marriage be expected of a new Liberal Party leader? Surprisingly, the answer is a resounding “yes.” On Aug. 11, conservative coalition lawmakers, alongside their smaller coalition partner, the Nationals, voted to disallow members a free vote on the issue of marriage equality. Subsequently, if the issue was to then wind up on the floor of the House, the Liberal
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Party had secured a potential victory by strong-arming its members. The Labor Party, the Liberal Party’s prime opposition, was quick to cast aspersions to the decision, and rightfully so. Sen. Penny Wong told ABC that Mr. Abbott’s views on same-sex marriage, much like that of his party, were antiquated at best. “We saw that Tony Abbott is a man who will fight tooth and nail to be yesterday’s man,” she told state radio. According to last month’s polls, support for the governing coalition had slipped to a five-month low,
Liberals on state radio. Abbott made clear that it would never have occurred to Australians before to contemplate marriage as not between a man and woman. But that simply isn’t true. Labor Party leader Bill Shorten, who put a landmark same-sex marriage bill forward in June, boldly predicted that when it comes time to the next election, a vote for Abbott would be a vote against marriage equality. Shorten said, “The choice in this country is you either have Mr. Abbott, or you have marriage equality. But you can’t have both.”
“But by thwarting a free vote in Parliament, Abbott was grasping at straws amidst discord within his own party.” with Labor leading the trail by 8 percentage points, 54 percent to 46 percent. Abbott’s proposal to allow the public a vote on gay marriage continued to be arraigned as an empty promise in the name of relevancy until his in-party succession. It was estimated earlier this year that three-quarters of Australians are in favor of legal recognition for same-sex marriages. “It has been our clear policy for more than a decade that marriage was between a man and a woman,” Abbott said in defense of the
The Coalition preemptively made that choice in handing the ministry over to Malcolm Turnbull, without a public vote before general elections. Abbott’s authority was crumbling in and out-of party, and an impending vote in disfavor of equality was too great a threat to ignore. What threatened the party most of all, though, was allowing in-party coercion to dissuade lawmakers from aligning their votes with the party. Select Liberal members, including senior ministers Chris Pyne and Australia’s would-
be Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, were avidly in favor of a free vote. The would-be PM wrote in a blog post last month that if “conscience” voting were to occur, his vote would be for same-sex marriage. Don’t hail him as a champion of civil rights just yet. Turnbell also went on record saying, “It would be better if same-sex marriage were not a contentious issue at the next election.” But does it matter why marriage equality comes to pass as long as it does and it does so expediently? In essence, this is a conservative lawmaker calling for a “strong, credible policy framework” to cut greenhouse gas emissions. This is a prime minister who has been called a “male champion of change” for promoting greater gender diversity, and one who has made an important enemy out of Tony Abbott for speaking out against Coalition politics. Australia could do much worse in the final stretch of the term. Let’s just hope Turnbell stands as strongly for gay marriage while in office and that Liberal lawmakers use the voice a free vote will grant to vote on behalf of equality. Chris Roney is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in journalism and media studies and American studies. His column, “Open Season,” runs on alternate Mondays. He is a former Copy Editor of The Daily Targum.
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DIVERSIONS Nancy Black
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Today’s Birthday (09/28/15). Slow down and think things over this year. Consider history before making decisions and plans. Let go of strategies that don’t work, especially in partnerships. Communication and social networking opens profitable career doors after 3/8. Assume new leadership after 3/23. Love is your lodestar. 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 -- Keep movements slow and gentle to minimize accidents. Mental alertness is key. Get professional advice to handle a breakdown. Surprising news with a group project prompts action. Begin a new personal phase. What do you want? Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 6 -- New possibilities stretch old boundaries. Guard against excessive spending. Begin a new phase in planning and visualization. Work it out together. Public obligations interfere with private time. Make time to assimilate loss. Your team helps. Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Encourage another’s creativity. Provide great service while still serving yourself. Figure out a workable compromise. It’s a big mistake to think you’re the smartest. Heed a professional advisor. Use your network. Begin a new social phase. Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Last night’s Harvest Moon (lunar eclipse) reveals new professional opportunities over the next six months. Embrace your creative inspiration. Take advantage of recent changes. Keep your accounts balanced. Apply elbow grease. Go for distance, not speed. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- New adventures beckon under last night’s Harvest Moon (eclipse in Aries). Shift your educational path. Explore options and possibilities. Don’t discuss future plans yet. Let them gel. Go for your heart’s desire, and ignore naysayers. Pursue a dream. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- A turning point in family finances arises, for a new six-month phase after last night’s Harvest Moon eclipse. Adapt to changes at home. Align on decisions together or risk domestic tranquility. Find the silver lining.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- A creative collaboration blossoms after this Full Harvest Moon (eclipse in Aries). Resolve breakdowns by letting go of stuck positions. Gossip may spice the copy, but it gets messy. Try on another’s view. Get terms in writing. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Make work changes over the next six months, after last night’s Harvest Moon (eclipse in Aries). Re-evaluate what you have and want. Seek new levels of excellence. Be spontaneous, but not reckless. A creative spark ignites. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Shift to a new romantic phase over the next six months. Last night’s Harvest Moon eclipse reveals a new passionate phase. Grow what you love. Clean up messes. Practice your arts. Follow your heart. Be unreasonable. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 6 -- Make repairs. A domestic turning point arises, for a new six-month phase following last night’s Harvest Moon eclipse in Aries. Replace what you left behind. Figure out what everyone wants. Family takes priority. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- Speak out. Begin a new phase in communications with this Harvest Moon eclipse in Aries. Upgrade your technology. Take on new leadership. Timing matters... know when to play your cards. Avoid arguments. Get assistance with a project. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 9 -- Keep your objective in mind. A new six-month financial phase, after last night’s Harvest Moon eclipse, offers profitable opportunities wrapped in change. Take a leap of faith. Don’t talk back; be respectful. Clean up messes.
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HOME Knights rack up 312 yards on 58 carries, hold Jayhawks to 64 yards on 29 carries CONTINUED FROM BACK Norries Wilson. “Kansas did some things that got us off-schedule. But we shot ourselves in the foot with a couple penalties, turnovers but a quality opponent. They made big plays on us. The defense stood up a few times and got them stopped.” Rutgers (2-2, 0-1) made use of the trademark ingredients to its recipe for winning football games with the revival of the running game boosted by sophomore tailbacks Josh Hicks and Robert Martin. Add the scarlet and white “throwback” uniforms worn from 2007-11 and Piscataway began to feel nostalgic of its ground-andpound roots. After the Knights struggled mightily with 43 yards on 32 carries at Penn State, they turned the tables against the Jayhawks for 312 rush yards on 58 carries. Hicks, who found the end zone twice for his second multi-touchdown effort of the young season, ran for 113 yards and two touchdowns on 21 touches. When he was asked how those totals felt, Hicks repeated the number rhetorically and grinned. “Three-hundred twelve rush yards?” Hicks said. “I would say today was a good day — today was an awesome day for us. None of this couldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for the O-Line doing good jobs, making holes and making sure that we have space that we can run through.” Despite his second fumble of the season when he coughed up
the ball in the third quarter, Hicks added to his strong case for more touches out of the backfield. With the help of Martin’s 102 yards on 17 attempts, Hicks created separation for Rutgers. The two sophomores fed off each other, with Hick’s one-yard dive at the 2:39 putting the Knights up, 20-7, right before the end of the first half. Then, in the third quarter, offensive coordinator Ben McDaniels kept running it right down Kansas’ throat. Hicks found the end zone again, capping a 12-play, 84-yard drive with 11 runs on Rutgers’ first possession of the second half with a four-yard scamper past the goal line to extend the lead to 20. That put the Knights up, 27-7, with 9:24 to go in the third quarter. “Me and (Martin), we’re like best friends,” Hicks said. “He’d give ... a real good run, I would have a real good run. It’s competing. He wants to be the best and I want to be the best, and it’s just like an uphill battle.” The Jayhawks, on the other hand, couldn’t get anything going. Entering the contest with 239.5 yards per game on the ground, Kansas posed a legitimate threat to a defense that got steamrolled seven days ago. But Steve Longa and the Knights had other plans. The junior weak side linebacker anchored a swarming run defense that held the Jayhawks to 64 yards on 29 carries. Ke’aun Kinner, who entered Saturday with consecutive 100yard clips on the ground, finished with two touchdowns on a two-yard
SOPHOMORE Chris Laviano completes 18-of-25 passes for 201 yards, improves to 1-2 as starter CONTINUED FROM BACK third-and-six from the Jayhawks’ (0-3) nine-yard line, likely costing the Knights precious points. “He made a bad decision, and I told him he made a bad decision when he threw the pick in the end zone,” said interim head coach Norries Wilson. “I asked him if it was a good decision or a bad decision, and he said it was a bad decision. I asked him, ‘Can he give us better decisions?’ And he said, ‘Yes.’” The play came at the 11:17 mark of the second quarter with the home team up 7-0. Wilson had just called a timeout to make sure the offense was on the same page before the third down play would commence, less than 10 yards from pay dirt. Laviano took the snap from junior center Derrick Nelson and soon discovered the rush bearing down on him at the top of his drop. The Rutgers quarterback slid left and went into a back pedal, before releasing the ball off his back foot while falling away from his target. Kansas defensive back Greg Allen picked the errant throw off in the end zone and the Knights’ streak of 10 consecutive conversions in the red zone was retired. “I have to live to fight another down,” Laviano said of his fifth
pick in four games. “I go game-bygame. I figure out after playing, after evaluating the film, what I did wrong and what I did well.” Wilson thought Laviano improved as the game went on, after the interception quelled a quality drive. “From then on, he strung together a bunch of good decisions,” the assistant head coach and running backs coach said. “And we are happy about that.” But from Laviano, who will likely remain the conference leader in completion percentage, the pressure of the defense bearing down on him in the pocket is no excuse for poor decision making. “When I get pressure like that, I have to throw it away or be smar t with the football — or smar ter than I have been playing,” Laviano said. “But I’ll fix that, (I’ll) watch the film and work on it hard for the next two weeks.” *** Senior Kaiwan Lewis hadn’t really stuck out on the stat sheet heading into Rutgers’ homecoming matchup with Kansas Saturday at High Point Solutions Stadium. Yes, his 17 tackles through three games put Lewis top-40 in the conference, but the South Carolina graduate transfer hadn’t really made an impact to that point for the Scarlet Knights.
plunge with 6:07 remaining in the second quarter and a one-yard dive at the 2:05 mark in the third quarter. He was the only Jayhawk to get Kansas on the board. But at the end of the day, even he was limited. The junior tailback mustered 1.5 yards per carry after 23 yards on 15 attempts. Longa, who was his usual self with 11 tackles, set the tone for a tenacious front seven. “The coaching staff did a good job of trying to work, trying to simulate what (Kansas) did (at practice earlier in the week),” he said. “… It forces us to go as fast as we can. We made mistakes, but the tempo was good. That’s why we was able to come out here and play like we did.” Longa attributed his tie for the game-high in tackles — he now leads Rutgers with 37 on the season — to clear vision on the read option. “Just trust my reads,” Longa said. “Been doing this (game preparation) since Sunday, watching film a lot, a lot of film and trusting my reads … just go where you’re supposed to go. Let everyone else do their job and do your job. I was just trying to do my job and doing my job made me get these 11 tackles.” With the running game back to normal on both sides of the ball, all that was left for improvement was Chris Laviano. The sophomore quarterback bounced back against the Jayhawks behind a balanced rushing attack, going 18-of-25 for 201 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions. Laviano’s legs did some of the work as well, scrambling eight times for 49 yards. He got the Knights on the board early with a 14-yard fade to the corner of the end zone for junior wide out Carlton Agudosi to go up, 7-0,
It was understandable, given the fact that Rutgers’ starting middle linebacker had only been with the team for 48 days after NCAA rules required the grad transfer to remain off the field until training camp began — but that all changed against the Jayhawks on homecoming. After Laviano abruptly ended a red zone opportunity by throwing an interception that Kansas caught in its own end zone for a touchback, two plays later, Lewis leaped at the chance to change the narrative of his first and only season for the Knights. On a second-and-eight for the Jayhawks at their own 22-yard line, Rutgers’ MIKE snuffed out a seam route over the middle, making the third interception of his college career and his first pick since arriving in Piscataway on Aug. 8. “It was good just to make a play after something bad goes on, to make a play and help the team out,” Lewis said. “It’s good just to know I made a play to help my teammates.” The Pleasantville, New Jersey, native’s performance was impressive for the day. Lewis had five tackles to go with the pick, including four solos, two quarterback hurries and a tackle for loss. Rutgers’ leading tackler, Steve Longa (37), who tallied 11 total tackles with 10 solos Saturday, talked about the contribution Lewis has brought to the defense. He said that the man who lines up next to him has been per forming from his first day on campus.
Junior weak side linebacker Steve Longa scans the field. He tied for a game-high 11 tackles as Rutgers shutdown Kansas, 27-14. LUO ZHENGCHEN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
before the end of the first quarter with 1:49 remaining. Then, after his first interception intended for sophomore tight end Charles Scarff was picked off by Greg Allen in the back of the end zone at the 11:06 mark in the second quarter, middle linebacker Kaiwan Lewis snagged Deondre Ford’s pass over the middle to give the Knights a second chance. And Laviano made the most of it. The Glen Head, New York, native took advantage of the short field, connecting with sophomore tight end Matt Flanagan from seven yards out on a rollout to his right just three plays later. Senior placekicker Kyle Federico’s extra point failed on a botched snap and hold to put Rutgers up, 13-0, with 9:24 remaining in the first half. Wilson set his quarterback straight after Laviano heaved the ball off his back foot and rolling to his right when Scarff was in blanket coverage. After Wilson called the sophomore’s effort “up-and-down,” Laviano said the interim head coach reiterated the need to stay focused despite the poor decision.
“(Wilson) just said, ‘Stay in the game. I know you can make smart decisions, just make them,’” Laviano said. “And I started playing better.” With next Saturday off, Rutgers gets all the time in the world to prepare for its annual Blackout Game when No. 2 Michigan State comes to town Oct. 10. As the Big Ten gauntlet commences, the Knights will be fighting an uphill battle every weekend. But with Saturday’s win stopping the bleeding, things are looking better than they have in recent memory for Rutgers. “To a point, yes. Must-win because I didn’t want to go into a bye week on a three-game losing streak and everybody getting in their head,” Wilson said. “We wanted to win the football game to make us feel good going into a bye week and know that we can go out and beat a quality opponent and get ourselves ready for the next opponent.”
“That’s not anything that’s surprising,” Longa said of Lewis’ coming out party. “Coming in, Kaiwan picked up play pretty fast. That’s why he’s able to be out there with us now. Showing up week one, week two, week three — he’s just getting better every week. He’s a great competitor. When we go out there we try to compete, and it’s fun having him out there right next to me.” After his best day on the Banks ended, Lewis reflected on the difference between his feeling this week, a 27-14 win, and last week,
after leaving Happy Valley with a 28-3 loss to Penn State. “It was more of an emptiness last week,” Lewis said. “I was probably worried about a lot more things that I wish I could of done, and now it’s kinda like I can move on and focus on this bye week. Right now, that’s the feeling. I’m happy we won.”
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Sophomore quarterback Chris Laviano hangs in the pocker and fires a pass in Saturday’s 27-14 bounce back win over Kansas. RUOXUAN YANG
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September 28, 2015 FIELD HOCKEY
VOLLEYBALL
RU registers winless weekend KAYLEE POFAHL CORRESPONDENT
Calling the most elite conference in the nation home comes with big responsibilities. In opening up the home schedule of Big Ten play against No. 16 Northwestern and No. 18 Michigan, the Rutgers field hockey team went 0-2 this weekend with a conference win still hanging in the balance. The Scarlet Knights (5-4, 0-2) took a 5-1 loss to Northwestern (8-4, 1-2) on Friday before getting shutout by Michigan (7-3, 2-1), 2-0, Sunday. Though its only losses of the season have come at the hands of ranked opponents, Rutgers is now 5-4 on the season overall. The opposition in these Big Ten rivals was menacing. Rutgers struggled to rise to the occasion. “Going into Big Ten play is just much more physical, much more aggressive, a lot more pressure on us by the opponents,” said head coach Meredith Civico. “I thought this weekend we didn’t play well under the pressure. We really couldn’t get our game going.” Civico stressed the importance of preparation in taking on such formidable competition. “As we go into Big Ten play, I mean, you have doubleheader weekends and you’re playing top teams in the country,” Civico said. “You’ve got to be physically, mentally, emotionally ready for those games.” Against the Wildcats, senior forward Nicole Imbriaco scored the Knights’ lone goal of the game with senior captain Ali Stever on the assist. Northwestern offense took charge of the game, totaling 24 shots compared to Rutgers’ 12 and 13-4 edge in penalty corners. The Wildcats got themselves into a good position early on, scoring their first two goals of the contest within 15 seconds of one
another. At halftime, the Knights faced a 3-0 deficit, which was furthered by an unassisted goal scored less than two minutes into the game’s second stretch. Imbriaco found the back of the cage to escape a shutout for Rutgers but Northwestern answered with a fifth goal with less than three minutes left on the clock. In Friday’s game, junior goalkeeper Shevaun Hayes tied her single-game high with 13 saves, which matched her previous record set against Old Dominion in 2013. Defending 18 total shots on goal, the Melbourne, Australia, native handled being in the hot seat as best she could, while admitting it was a demanding
“I don’t know what (Sunday) was, but we just have to look at it and make sure it doesn’t happen again.” SHEVAUN HAYES Junior Goalkeeper
game for the Knights’ final line of defense. “Friday was a bit stressful,” Hayes said. “I feel like we just didn’t play our game — that was the main thing we got from it. Just all around the whole team didn’t play like we normally do.” After Sunday’s match up against Michigan, Hayes expressed feeling that the team was not able to find its rhythm throughout this weekend. “And today — I don’t know what just happened. The mentality was a bit off today. Something was missing,” Hayes said. “There was just something not right about today’s game. Something wasn’t there. I don’t know what today was but we just have to look
at it and make sure it doesn’t happen again.” Despite this off-balance on the field, the Knights battled fiercely against Michigan. After an unassisted goal left Rutgers trailing, 1-0, at halftime, the Wolverines scored just two minutes into the second half to secure a two-goal lead that they would maintain for the remainder of the game. While the Knights struggled to execute offensively, they held a 5-3 advantage in corners and an 8-7 lead in shots. Though it was a battle on the field, Rutgers ended up on the wrong side of the scoreboard. “I think both games were a really, really good fight,” said junior forward Rachel Yaney. “It really gave us a good experience against really hard teams and we learned a lot from them … we just couldn’t finish.” After back-to-back losses at home, the Knights are looking to identify areas of weakness and implement changes before their next match up. With many of its Big Ten foes also maintaining a national ranking, it will be crucial for Rutgers to take the experiences gained this weekend and convert them into positive outcomes moving for ward. It all starts with every player on the field uniting as one team. “We are not a team that relies on individuals,” Civico said. “We are a team that relies on ever y member on the team making a positive contribution, you know, on the field, off the field. That’s I think what we really have to look at and take away from this game. As a team collectively we didn’t feel like we put our best out there today.” For updates on the Rutgers field hockey team, follow @ Kaylee_Pofahl and @TargumSports on Twitter.
Junior goalkeeper Shevaun Hayes tied her single-game high in saves with 13 on Friday against the No. 16 Wildcats, but it wasn’t enough for Rutgers in two losses over the weekend. RUOXUAN YANG
Despite failing to earn their first Big Ten win, senior defensive specialist Ali Schroeter and her team are confident it will come. EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR / SEPTEMBER 2015
Conference struggles continue for Rutgers JOSEPH BRAUNER STAFF WRITER
The Rutgers volleyball team opened up its Big Ten Conference campaign with losses to Northwestern (10-3, 2-0) and No. 9 Illinois (11-2, 2-0). The Scarlet Knights dropped to an overall record of 3-11 and start 0-2 in the Big Ten for the second year in a row. The two losses were not complete failures, as Rutgers looked strong in the early going at home against both the Wildcats on Friday night and the Fighting Illini on Saturday night. The Knights came fired-up for both of their home matchups, which was something they seemed to be lacking last weekend in the Rutgers Invitational. Head coach CJ Werneke, who was critical of his team’s effort last weekend, was impressed with the team’s demeanor this time around. “I thought we were turning the corner on Friday,” Werneke said. “We played with a high level of communication and a high level of energy and effort. I was really pleased to see that.” Looking strong in the first set, the Knights went on a 10-3 run to erase a five-point Northwestern lead. But Rutgers could not hold on and went on to lose set one narrowly by a score of 25-23. After the early letdown, the Knights were never able to find themselves again and continued to lose the next two sets by progressively worse margins. Perhaps the most disappointing part of not being able to even pick up a set win over the weekend was that Rutgers seemed to have been reenergized by the return of sophomore outside hitter Meme Fletcher. Individually, Fletcher got off to a slow start against Northwestern in her first game back from injury, but said she still felt good about her return to the court. “I was a little overexcited, you know, and I was just using that, playing off my emotions a little bit too much,” Fletcher said. “I need to go back to my skills.” The Blue Valley West High School (Kansas) product did just that. After finishing against Northwestern with an abysmal three kills and four digs, she returned to her usual form on
Saturday night against Illinois, registering a double-double with 11 kills and 11 digs. Although their efforts against Northwestern and Illinois did not return the results the Knights had hoped for, the team felt it was a vast improvement from their losses to the Wildcats and Illinois a year ago. “This year, we came out less afraid, that’s for sure,” Fletcher said. “In the beginning of Northwestern, we were actually very confident and I felt even in this match (against Illinois) we came out so much more confident than last year.” Rutgers’ mental improvement was also reiterated by senior defensive specialist Ali Schroeter. “It may have been the same result, but it definitely feels different as far as the way we played as a team and just the strides we’ve made,” Schroeter said following the loss on Saturday night. Going for ward, the team now looks to build off the momentum gained from a weekend, which was its first real test of the season. The Knights now hit the road to travel to Indiana as they tr y to stop a four-game losing streak against Purdue and Indiana. To make matters worse, they may have to do it without the help of junior right side Lauren Cloyd, who was injured on Friday night against Northwestern. Cloyd’s availability for the road trip is unknown at this time and will not be disclosed until she can be evaluated by team medical staff. Cloyd, who made the switch to middle blocker because of injuries to junior Mikaela Matthews and freshman Tiaja McKnight, now joins them on the sidelines as the most recent Knight to be injured playing the middle blocker position. In spite of the recent losses on the court and injuries to key starters, Rutgers seems to be kept upbeat and positive by its senior leaders. “I’m really feeling good about this season,” Schroeter said following Saturday’s loss. “I think we’re going to get our first (Big Ten) win.” For updates on the Rutgers volleyball team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
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September 28, 2015 WOMEN’S SOCCER NORTHWESTERN 1, NO. 11 RUTGERS 0 (OT)
Road trip ends with second straight loss at Northwestern MIKE O’SULLIVAN CORRESPONDENT
The No. 11 Rutgers women’s soccer team finished its threegame conference road trip with a loss against Northwestern (9-1-2, 3-0-1), falling to the Wildcats in overtime, 1-0. It was the first overtime game of the season for the Scarlet Knights (8-2-0, 1-2-0) and they were unable to break through against a tough Northwestern defense which did not allow many scoring chances. The Knights were involved in a very tight defensive battle right away in this contest, as both sides were fighting for possession of the ball and looking to get a feel for the other side. Rutgers only had three shots on goal in the first half, just edging the Wildcats, who had two shots. The defensive battle continued throughout the second half, with the Knights only recording one shot while Northwestern became more aggressive and took six shots. Much like has been the case for most of the season, Rutgers relied on its defense to keep it in a good position in the game and were feeling confident despite not scoring a goal. After the first 90 minutes of regulation, head coach Mike
O’Neill gathered his team and told them to keep up the defensive intensity but to also look for teammates downfield with a chance to score. But there was not much of an opportunity to score in overtime. Northwestern’s Nandi Mehta shot from the top of the box in the 92nd minute went past sophomore goalkeeper Casey Murphy
for the goal, giving the Wildcats a 1-0 overtime win. Mehta was assisted by Rachel Zampa on the play, with the pair connecting for the decisive goal that sent the Knights to their second consecutive defeat. Murphy recorded four saves in the game, while Lauren Clem had three saves for Nor thwestern.
In a tough weekend for the team, O’Neill credited Northwestern for having a solid game plan that made it difficult for the Knights to get any momentum established offensively. “Northwestern was very good with their counterattacks and looking to get the ball to their players up top,” he said. “They were very well organized
Junior midfielder Madison Tiernan led Rutgers with three shots on goal, but could not find the back of the net in a 1-0 shutout loss at Northwestern. EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR / AUGUST 2015
and we tried getting the ball around the field, but weren’t able to do it enough.” Junior midfielder Madison Tiernan recorded a team-high three shots for Rutgers, trying her best to provide a spark for day in which the offense was sluggish. Senior for ward Cassie Inacio provided the other two shots for the Knights. The team finished with three corner kicks on the day. It was the first weekend of the season for Rutgers in which it faced two conference opponents on the road, with both of its games taking place in Illinois. The Knights knew they would be in for highly contested battles against Illinois and Northwestern. Now, they look to put the disappointment from their last two losses behind them as they get ready for three conference home games. “It was a very humbling trip for us,” O’Neill said. “Playing the 90 minutes and then falling short in overtime is tough. … Sometimes when you come on a trip like this, it forces you to step back and regroup and recognize what needs to be corrected. We learned a lot about what we need to do going forward on this trip.” For updates on the Rutgers women’s soccer team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
MEN’S SOCCER MICHIGAN STATE 3, RUTGERS 1
Sluggish start dooms Knights in conference contest BRIAN FONSECA ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Sometimes teams find themselves in holes that they can’t dig themselves out of. The Rutgers men’s soccer team found itself in that situation last Friday night. The Scarlet Knights (3-3-1, 1-1-0) conceded two goals in the opening seven minutes and were unable to dig themselves out of the early deficit, eventually suffering a 3-1 defeat to visiting Michigan State. The Spartans (4-3-1, 1-0-1) took advantage of the sluggish start from the Knights and never looked back. “Disappointed with the start. First five minutes, you can’t give up those opportunities,” said head coach Dan Donigan. “Give Michigan State credit, they capitalized on those chances. You’re down 2-0 against a good team. No matter if you’re at home or on the road, doesn’t really make a difference, so that was unfortunate.” Rutgers pulled a goal back seven minutes later through Miles Hackett. His tally put him atop the Knights list of goal-scorers this season (4), but the sophomore for ward would’ve traded it in for a win at the end of the night. “Clearly, yeah, obviously wins are more important than goals, for me at least,” he said. The consolation goal displayed the resilience shown by the Knights following their guests’ strong start, but they were unable to equalize during a period where they controlled the
match and created an abundance of goal-scoring opportunities. When Michigan State scored its third and final goal of the evening, Rutgers had no response. “I thought we played well the rest of the half and even portions of the second half and then we just ran out of gas, especially after they got that third goal, the insurance goal,” Donigan said. “That kind of killed the game.” While he does give his opponents credit for their ability to take advantage of his team’s mistakes, junior goalkeeper David Greczek was clearly not happy with the final score and feels that the opening few minutes were unacceptable. “Obviously, disappointment on the scoreboard,” the Fairfield, New Jersey, native said. “Unfortunately, (the) first five minutes killed us. We tried to bounce back, we got one goal back, got a little momentum but we just couldn’t put it in the back of the net and slowly dismantled. I give credit to Michigan State. They play fast out of the back and we just weren’t alert enough. It’s unacceptable. Guys aren’t tuned in at moments and that’s something we have to eliminate because like you saw today, it cost us two goals and it cost us the game.” The defeat comes after a series of promising on-field displays from the Knights, with their most recent performance being the 4-1 upset win over then-No. 22 Indiana. The match against the Spartans raises questions of inconsistency in the Rutgers squad. “Disappointed with our inconsistent performance,” Donigan
Sophomore forward Miles Hackett races upfield with the ball Friday night in Rutgers’ 3-1 loss to Michigan State at Yurcak Field. He scored the only goal for the Knights. EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR said. “I thought the last three games, we played really well. This game, I give Michigan State more credit than anything, but I thought they kinda took a lot of wind out of our sails and that was not a good response from our team so I’m a little bit concerned with that.” Despite his team appearing to be the better team for a good portion of the match, evidenced by its overwhelming edge in both shots (14-10) and corners (12-1), Donigan believes the final result was fair based on what was produced throughout the 90 minutes by both teams.
“I do (think the result is fair), to be honest with you,” Donigan said. “That’s the game of soccer. You go up, 2-0, the team that’s up tends to sit back and manage the game a bit. To some extent, I think that’s what Michigan State did. We got a goal that made it 2-1 but unfortunately, we didn’t get that tying goal before the half. I think that could’ve made the difference.” The sixth-year head coach will have some thinking to do in the next few days as his team prepares for its next match against Loyola on Tuesday
but he continues to have faith that his players will be able to bounce back. “For whatever reason, we just ran out of gas, so we have to look into that,” Donigan said. “Maybe we need to go a bit deeper with our personnel, but we’ll figure it out. Again, I’m confident with this team that we can go out and be able to perform again on Tuesday night.” For updates on the Rutgers men’s soccer team, follow @briannnnf and @TargumSpor ts on Twitter.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “Let everyone else do their job and do your job. I was just trying to do my job and doing my job made me get these 11 tackles.” — Junior weak side linebacker Steve Longa after the Rutgers football team’s 27-14 win over Kansas
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FOOTBALL RUTGERS 27, KANSAS 14
Robert Martin bursts through the hole created by junior offensive tackle JJ Denman, right, and junior tight end Nick Arcidiacono, left, Saturday afternoon in Rutgers’ 27-14 rebound win over Kansas on homecoming. Martin rushed for 102 yards on 17 carries to aid a Knights ground game that broke out for 312 yards on 58 touches. RUOXUAN YANG
HOME COOKING
Rutgers returns to win column with 27-14 triumph past Kansas, notches first homecoming victory since 2011 GARRETT STEPIEN
After the Nittany Lions pounced for 330 yards and four touchdowns on 41 carries last week in Happy Valley, the Rutgers defense was in for an even bigger test with an up-tempo Jayhawks attack known for spreading the ball out and mixing up its looks in the read option. But the Knights were more than ready for the ground game — on both sides of the ball.
SPORTS EDITOR
The key to the game was no secret. In the aftermath of last Saturday’s 28-3 mess of a loss at Penn State, the Rutgers football team knew what had to be done in order to put an end to the nightmare that the past few weeks have been for the program.
Behind a rejuvenated front seven on defense and a refreshed two-headed running backs attack on offense, Rutgers bounced back with a 27-14 homecoming win Saturday afternoon in front of 46,136 at High Point Solutions Stadium. It was the first homecoming win for the Knights since Oct. 15, 2011, when they beat Navy, 21-20.
Avoiding what would have been a disastrous fallout to one of the bottom feeders of the FBS in the Jayhawks (0-3) — largely considered the worst team in all of the power-five conferences — left Rutgers in a positive position heading into its Oct. 3 bye week. “It wasn’t pretty,” said interim head coach SEE HOME ON PAGE 13
KNIGHT NOTEBOOK CHRIS LAVIANO COMPLETES 72 PERCENT OF PASSES IN WINNING EFFORT
Sophomore earns first-career win at QB KEVIN XAVIER ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
On paper, Chris Laviano is one of the topfive starting quarterbacks in the Big Ten. The sophomore signal-caller earned his first-career victory Saturday, completing his
season’s average 72 percent of his passes in the Rutgers football team’s 27-14 homecoming win over an injury-riddled Kansas team. But in person, Laviano looked lost at times for the Scarlet Knights (2-2, 0-1). The sophomore did rely, heavily, on Rutgers’ potent rushing attack, which tallied
312 yards at an average of 5.4 yards per carry, but he wasn’t entirely passive in the passing game. The Glen Head, New York, native went 18of-25 through the air, for 201 yards and two touchdowns to bring his season’s total to six touchdowns in three starts.
EXTRA POINT
NFL SCORES
NY Jets Philadelphia
17 24
New England Jacksonville
51 17
Atlanta Dallas
39 28
Cincinnati Baltimore
28 24
Pittsburgh St. Louis
12 6
Indianapolis Tennessee
35 33
KAIWAN LEWIS,
graduate transfer middle linebacker, recorded his third-career interception — his first with the Rutgers football team — in the Scarlet Knights’ 2714 homecoming win over Kansas on Saturday.
But that’s just the box score. In the eye test, Laviano baffled the Knights’ faithful fan base, throwing a crucial, ill-advised interception — one of two on the afternoon — coming with Rutgers facing a SEE SOPHOMORE ON PAGE 13
KNIGHTS SCHEDULE
MEN’S SOCCER
FIELD HOCKEY
VOLLEYBALL
WOMEN’S SOCCER
vs. Loyola (Md.)
at Michigan State
at Purdue
vs. Michigan State
Tuesday, 7 p.m., Yurcak Field.
Friday, 3 p.m., East Lansing, Mich.
Friday, 7 p.m., Friday, 7 p.m., West Lafayette, Ind. Yurcak Field