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Tashni-Ann Dubroy is not the type of woman to back down from a challenge. The Rutgers MBA graduate lived up to the challenge at 18, when she immigrated to the United States from Jamaica, applied to a medley of colleges and was denied any scholarships and admission. She lived up to the challenge when she instead applied, and then attended community college in New York City, and then transferred into Shaw University on scholarship in Raleigh, North Carolina. Years later, she would walk on the same campus grounds, except instead of being a student, she was president. Since that time, Dubroy continued to walk up to various challenges. She attained her doctorate in chemistry, a field that, statistically, continues to report low numbers of women of color in the fields of science, technology, education and mathematics, especially in top-ranking institutions. There were just eight tenured African American female professors among the top 100 chemistry departments in the United States in 2007, according to a study conducted by Marcy Towns, a professor in the Department of Chemistry
at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. The numbers fell even more for Native Americans in the same data set — there was just one tenured Native American female professor. “For every science discipline, the numbers of underrepresented women in each racial group compared with the total number of faculty is well below 1 percent and simultaneously much less than the percentage in the general population,” according to the study. More recent numbers published in the National Science Foundation Survey of Doctorate Recipients in 2012 found that women of color constituted 2.3 percent of tenure or tenure-track faculty. Broad data aside, Dubroy knows how women show up — or more accurately, fail to show up — in STEM fields. She recalled seeing an overwhelming majority of men compared to women as she prepared to receive her doctoral degree in chemistry from North Carolina State University in 2007. “I didn’t have any women PhDs who I could look up to as role models,” she said. “I had to depend on all white, male role models. It’s not a bad thing, but it’s something that is a reality.” SEE PRESIDENT ON PAGE 4
The Rutgers Council of AAUP-AFT Chapters (American Association of University Professors—American Federation of Teachers) congregated at Busch Campus Center on Monday to protest the lack of contracts and respect from the University. RUOXUAN YANG
Protest fights for part-time lecturers SOPHIE NIETO MUNOZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER
As Rutgers reaches its 250th anniversary of being a revolutionary higher-education institution, many say the biggest revolution would be paying part-time lecturers. The Rutgers Council of AAUP-AFT Chapters (American
Association of University Professors- American Federation of Teachers) congregated at Busch Campus Center on Monday to protest the lack of contracts, benefits and respect from the University. Graduate students, teacher assistants and full-time employees came out to help part-time lecturers negotiate a contract.
“Right now we’re in negotiation with management for a contract for adjunct faculty, and what we’re drawing out is support and goals at the bargaining table,” said Patrick Nowlan, executive director of the Rutgers AAUP-AFT. SEE PROTEST ON PAGE 4
Student ‘draws’ business with printmaking Etsy shop
Roberta Day, a Mason Gross School of Arts senior, spent her past four years at Rutgers learning the art of printmaking. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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Without the funds to open a retail store, Rober ta Day turned to a resource that is easily accessible to all money-strapped college kids: the online marketplace Etsy.
Day, a Mason Gross School of Ar ts senior, spent her past four years at Rutgers learning the ar t of printmaking. She turned to Etsy last May to set up her own store and in less than 24 hours began selling handmade tote bags, shir ts and
one-of-a-kind Starburst wrapper hand-bound books. “Etsy is great because it promotes small businesses,” she said. “It allows people who can’t have their own stores to still be known and for the public to see their work.”
Day described the process of creating one of her hand-made tote bags sold for $15. First, she buys yards of the fabric and cuts the fabric to the correct size. After this, Day draws the bag’s design and silk screens the design onto the tote. Finally,
she sews the straps and fashions the straps onto the bag. She creates a batch of 25 shir ts or totes at a time. In total, a batch of tote bags takes about 15 to 20 hours to bring to life, not including the time she dedicates to packaging and delivering the product to customers. And even after the tote bags and shir ts are made, Day’s job is still not over. In order to reach an audience, she promotes her store on social media and hands out business cards. In the short-term, Day hopes to expand her Etsy store while keeping all of the items affordable. “I know a lot of items on Etsy are overpriced, but I wanted mine to be af fordable to the average person,” she said. Through her experience selling her crafts, Day learned that running a business takes time and dedication, but she said Etsy is a star ting point for many college students. This was also true for a 19-yearold student at the University of Virginia. LeiLei Secor, a sophomore at UVA, has raked in more than $100,000 selling her jewelr y on Etsy for the past three years
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Campus Calendar TUESDAY 9/29 The Rutgers Office of Continuing Professional Education presents, “NJ Compost Operator Certification Course” from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Hort Farm No. 1 located at 130 Log Cabin Road on Cook campus. The event is free and open to the public. The Rutgers Office of Continuing Professional Education presents, “Writing Skills for Utility and Operations Personnel” from 8:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. at the Former Agricultural Museum of New Jersey located at 103 College Farm Road on Cook campus. The event is free and open to the public. The TA Project presents, “Teaching Your Own Class for the First Time” from 12 to 1:30 p.m. at the College Avenue Student Center on the College Avenue campus. The event is free and open to the public. WEDNESDAY 9/30 The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy presents, “Can Economic Analysis Afford to Ignore Gender and Race Stratification?” from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Civic Square Building located at 33 Livingston Ave. in Downtown New Brunswick. The event is free and open to the public. The Office of the Chancellor presents, “Meet the Rutgers University-New Brunswick Chancellor” from 12 to 1:30 p.m. in the College Avenue Student Center Atrium Conference Room on the College Avenue campus. The event is free and open to the public. Center for Teaching Advancement and Assessment Research and the TA Project present, “Getting Started with RefWorks & Flow” from 9:45 to 11:15 a.m. at Center for Teaching Advancement and Assessment Research located at 116 College Ave. on the College Avenue campus. The event is free and open to the public. The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences presents, “Plants in Impact Glasses” from 12 to 1 p.m. at Wright Rieman Laboratories on Busch campus. The event is free and open to the public. THURSDAY 10/1 The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy presents, “The High Cost of Free Parking” from 5 to 7:30 p.m. in the Civic Square Building located at 33 Livingston Ave. in Downtown New Brunswick. The event is free and open to the public. The Rutgers Office of Continuing Professional Education presents, “NJ Recycling: Practice and Theory” from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Hort Farm No. 2 located at 20 Indyk-Engel Way on Cook campus. The event is free and open to the public.
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Study analyzes ways, sources millennials obtain news JULIAN JIMENEZ
he said. “(This is a) reason why I think social media has had a huge impact recently.” Kosko is currently studying There is a distinct dif ference among generations and where spor ts journalism and said he constantly stays up to speed they consume the news. Newspapers, television and on spor ts news with Twitter radio are all considered tradi- and ESPN. But Kosko follows othtional media outlets. Social media outlets such as Facebook, er news sources as well. He Twitter, Instagram and online believes people should be newspapers all fall under the informed of all types of news in order to be aware surrounddigital media outlet umbrella. A recent Pew Research ing issues. Ciarra Zotorski, a School of study found that Facebook, a digital media outlet, was a main Ar ts and Sciences senior, also source of news information for said she receives her news today’s college students. The through social media outlets study found that 61 percent of like Twitter. “We live in millennials a society that get their polit“People need to is dominated ical news from by technolFacebook. prioritize what they ogy. Social The study consider important media allows was based on news.” news to be an online surmore easily vey conductaccessible ed between STEVE MILLER throughout March 19 and Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies in the day,” she April 29, 2014. the Department of Journalism and Media About 2,901 Studies in the School of Communication and said. Although members of Information she does not the Pew Rewatch or read search Center’s American Trends Panel, a the hard news on a regular nationally representative pan- basis, she keeps up with celebel of randomly selected U.S. rity and fashion news regularly. But Zotorski said it is wor th adults, took the sur vey. Nicholas Kosko, a School of the time to keep up with Ar ts and Sciences sophomore, world’s news. “I definitely think it’s impor tbelieves social media plays an integral role in how both cur- ant to stay in touch with what is rent and younger students con- going on around the world we live in because ever y (news issume news. “Right now, people seem to sue) can have an impact on our get their news via the Internet,” lives,” she said. CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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A recent Pew Research study found that Facebook, a digital media outlet, was a main source of news information for today’s college students. The study found that 61 percent of millennials get their political news from Facebook. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR She said it is impor tant to not just read about local issues, but across the globe as well. Despite the generational difference, she feels younger people may consume just as much news as the older crowd. Younger people are consuming news in more technological ways than that of traditional outlets, but she said the quality of the news younger generations consume is questionable. “ ... Younger people turn to BuzzFeed and Twitter, rather than the television or radio,” she said. “The question is then,
whether they are receiving the same quality of news or not.” Steve Miller, coordinator of Undergraduate Studies for the Journalism and Media Studies major, prefers more traditional media outlets. “I tend to go to more (of) a traditional (way for) news sources,” Miller said. “I grew up with a top-down authoritative (system) telling me the news.” Students today have a liberal system of how they set up their news feeds, Miller said. As an undergraduate, Miller said he
did not have as many news outlets to choose from. Miller said digital media news outlets continually run into credibility issues, of which students should be aware. With so many news outlets available, it has become dif ficult to trust which news source is credible. Overall, Miller vows to enhance the media literacy of his students. For him, it is all about discussion. “What people consider news changed,” he says. “People need to prioritize what they consider impor tant news.”
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“The class is ver y hands-on,” Cordero said. The workshop emphasizes that Etsy is beneficial to college With workshop, instructor teaches 14 people how students who want to sell their to create own Etsy brand crafts to a large audience without incurring a debt. Etsy takes a percentage of the seller’s sales, CONTINUED FROM FRONT shop,” said Jasmine Cordero, but Cordero said it is less than if managing director of the Cen- the seller had to cover their own and uses the money she makes ter for Urban Entrepreneurship overhead costs and expenses. and Economic Development. In a sea of online marketplace to pay of f college loans. The free workshop is open to platforms such as eBay and AmTaking note of the rise of Etsy, Rutgers began offering an all students and to the communi- azon, Etsy sets itself apar t from workshop this fall semester for ty and is led by the Rutgers Busi- the competition by acting as people interested in learning ness School’s Center for Urban a marketplace specifically for handmade crafts. the ins and outs “(Etsy) is difof e-commerce. In ferent from eBay cities throughout because you actuthe countr y, Etsy “(Etsy) allows people who can’t have their own ally have a store,” offers a Craft Entrepreneurship stores to still be known and for the public to see Cordero said. “With Etsy, it’s for educational protheir work.” people who have a gram for low-inreal craft. Etsy is come individuals. ROBERTA DAY its own platform This year, the Mason Gross School of Arts Senior and you can make program parta unique brand nered with Rutwith it.” gers Business The workshop School in Newark. “(The Etsy program) par t- Entrepreneurship and Econom- interests Day, who said she would ners with local communities to ic Development. An instructor sign up if she lived in Newark. “(The program) would help provide workshops to low and teaches a group of about 14 peomoderate income individuals ple how to create their own Etsy me a lot,” she said. “I could who have a craft and want to brand, give their store an iden- learn from a dif ferent perspecthink about selling their craft tity, reach potential customers tive (about) how to grow my own Etsy store.” globally by opening up an Etsy and develop a business culture.
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Tashni-Ann Dubroy is the president of Shaw University and the co-founder of the Brilliant & Beautiful Foundation, a non-profit organization that drives to support the aspirations of girls who dream of pursuing careers in science. COURTESY OF TASHNI-ANN DUBROY
PRESIDENT Dubroy is active on Twitter, tweets daily about Shaw University, higher education But Dubroy’s main career is at Shaw, the oldest black universiBut being one of the few wom- ty in the South. She is active on en in a male-dominated field nev- Twitter and tweets daily about Shaw, higher education and feer inhibited Dubroy. For a few years, she worked male empowerment. She occaas a chemist, analyst and manag- sionally tweets at other universier at BASF, the largest chemical ty presidents, such as Walter M. Kimbrough of Louisiana’s Dillard producer in the world. She left BASF when she had to University, @HipHopPrez. Just as Dubroy habitually decide between pursuing a career in corporate chemistry and pur- tweets — she said she was the first suing opportunities in entrepre- president at Shaw to use social neurship — and her passion for media — more university presidents are takbusiness won. ing to using soWhen she cial media, and was at the they are seeing business table at BASF, she “I had to depend on all the effects. “It makes me was over her white, male role models. approachable,” head, she said. It’s not a bad thing, but Clif Smart, She had no president of it’s something that is a business exMissouri State perience, but reality.” U n i v e r s i t y, she wanted to told the Educontribute to TASHNI-ANN DUBROY ventures Advithe discussion. President of Shaw University, Co-Founder So she took of Brilliant & Beautiful Foundation, Rutgers sory Service for Higher Edthe first step to MBA Graduate ucation Leaddeveloping a ers. “I am no sense of busilonger just the ness savvy, old bald guy and eventually enrolled in the Rutgers MBA sitting in the admin building.” Dubroy said social media program, where she chose to comes naturally to her, as she is study marketing. Today, Dubroy is the co-found- part of the millennial generation, er of the Brilliant & Beautiful or the generation of individuals Foundation, a non-profit organi- born between 1982 and 2002, zation that drives to support the according to Neil Howe and Wilaspirations of girls who dream of liam Strauss, the two individuals who established time demarcapursuing careers in science. “I have reaped significant re- tions in their generational theory. turns on my investment on my She said she was also the youngest president hired at Shaw five Rutgers MBA,” she said. Next to the Brilliant & Beau- years ago, when she was 34. “I want to remain genuine to tiful Foundation, Dubroy operates two beauty enterprises, (my students) so they realize both of which largely focus that I am a president but also a on utilizing new technologies caregiver and professor,” Dubroy and Dubroy’s astute chemical said. “By relating to them, it helps knowledge to work with the hair with retention. It certainly helps to have them engaged.” of women of color. CONTINUED FROM FRONT
reflect their talents or abilities,” she said. Many part-time lecturers are still with the University because of the Part-time lecturers teach more than third of courseconomy and their love of teaching, es, earn about $4,800 per course Politano said. “Many of us want to use this as a stepping stone or ladder to a CONTINUED FROM FRONT “... So we’re asking not that they career path, but there is not (a) get the full University paid bene- career path, and we’d like one,” The AAUP-AFT works to up- fits, but we’re asking that they get she said. hold, promote and defend val- some prorated portion of that,” She also said that educators ues essential to the protection Nowlan said. are the core function of the UniChapman said that the proposal versity and that Rutgers needs of quality public higher education, according to their website. states that part time lecturers are to prioritize paying them as opThey also plan to enhance the asking to be paid proportional to the posed to what is better for the quality of work life by negotiat- work they do. University financially. “Whatever fraction they are of a ing terms and conditions of em“The University has said it full time employee, they should get values football, and has built ployees represented. David Chapman, secretar y that level of pay because they’re do- a lot of new buildings, and of the AAUP-AFT and Mason ing all that work, and they should be yet, the people who stand in Gross School of the Ar ts ad- recognized for the value that they front of the classroom are not junct professor, said they are bring here,” Nowlan said. paid well,” she said. “Why is Teresa Politano an adjunct pro- that? Rutgers University was fighting for respect and recognition from the University, but fessor in the Department of Jour- not founded to play football or also health benefits, salar y and nalism and Media Studies in the founded as a corporation, but job security. founded to edu“We need to cate. This is the have our needs core function of “The administration has their priorities a little taken care of as the University, backwards, and needs to make education the fore- and Rutgers well, just like anyone else needs to value front of the University again.” who has a job,” its educators.” Chapman said. Politano said JOHN CASTELLA “It’s hard for there have AAUP-AFP Vice President part-time lecturbeen many ers to piece tochanges within gether a living.” higher educaAdjunct professors and part School of Communication and In- tion, and she said she needs time lecturers are looking to be formation, said she was looking for to remain nimble and able to treated like “regular employees,” recognition that the contingent fac- easily adapt. The experience of ulty is an integrated and valued part higher education has become Nowlan said. “When they teach, they want of the University. ver y commercial, but Politano The number of part-timers at the believes what happens in the to be viewed as the equivalent of (a) full time employee University has increased dramati- classroom is the most impor tthat just works part time,” he cally, she said. ant aspect of college. “... We are the face of the Unisaid. “They want the security John Castella, vice president that comes with regular em- versity, we’re the people who of the AAUP-AFT and adjunct ployment as opposed to be stand in front of the classroom,” professor at the School of Manturned over semester after se- she said. “We’re looking for a agement and Labor Relations, mester, not knowing if they’re contract that puts us on par with said the administration needs to going to have a job in the other faculty members.” realize where the priorities are Part-time lecturers teach for higher education. coming spring.” He said it is also unfair to stu- more than a third of classes of“The administration has their dents because they do not know fered at Rutgers, but earn only priorities a little backwards who will be regularly teaching the about $4,800 per course taught, and needs to make education according to Politano. course every semester. the forefront of the University “This is not a professional sal- again,” Castella said. “It’s about The AAUP-AFT has a proposal that says the University has an obli- ar y. It does not reflect the skills time the administration sees gation to provide some level of sup- we have, most of these employ- that we are united and they’re ees have PhDs, and this doesn’t going to have a problem.” port for health benefits.
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Rutgers discusses usage of gender-neutral pronouns SAMANTHA KARAS
prefers, and it will be reflected on class rosters. Rago-Craft noted how a FAQ As the movement toward gen- document about the “Rights of der equality gains momentum Gender Nonconforming and/or during a year where individuals Transgender Student, Faculty, like Caitlyn Jenner are bringing Staff & Visitors” was sent to all gender identity to the forefront, students, staff and key faculty more universities are using gen- members last year. The FAQ sheet includes the der-free pronouns. Several schools have joined in definitions of gender nonconthe movement. Har vard Univer- forming, gender variant and sity is allowing students to indi- transgender, pronouns and precate which pronouns they use ferred names, Rutgers policy’s during registration, while Ameri- enumerating gender identity can University has a guide on its and gender expression, and diwebsite explaining how to use verse gender expressions and pronouns like “ey,” according to facility usage. In regard to pronouns, the The Huffington Post. sheet states a “It is actually trans student not currently who was aspossible for signed male at anyone to in“When professors call bir th, but idendicate any prostudents by preferred tifies as a womnouns on the Rutgers sysnames it makes them an, may prefer identified tem,” said Zanefeel comfortable, and I being by pronouns ta Rago-Craft, think everyone needs she, her or hers director at the versus prothat.” Center for Sonouns he, him cial Justice or his. JENNIFER FERNANDEZ Education and Some individSchool of Arts and Sciences Senior LGBT Commuuals prefer modnities. “Instead, ifications to biusing somenar y gendered one’s correct pronouns, acpronouns, and not making assumptions based cording to the FAQ sheet. Genon a person’s name and appear- der-inclusive pronouns, such as ance, is an interpersonal com- they, them or their, are more mitment from ever y member of inclusive of those who identify outside of the gender binar y, or the community.” University Registrar Ken- those who do not identify strictly neth Iuso said he knows they as men or women. Nandini Patel, a School of Arts do not address students by Mr., Mrs. or Ms. during the and Sciences senior, said she believes these efforts are posiregistration process. Iuso said Rutgers does allow tive, but the University could do students to specify their pre- much more. “I think educating (Rutgers) ferred first name, which could be gender-neutral if the student students more about the issue STAFF WRITER
CRIME SEPT. 28 NEW BRUNSWICK — A report of possible gunshots on Monday morning in an area behind New Brunswick High School prompted a lockdown of the school. The lockdown was later modified to a shelter-inplace, so that classes could continue. At 9:25 a.m., the police lifted the shelter-in-place and normal activities resumed. Police determined that there was no threat to the school. SEPT. 28 TRENTON — William Clayborne was charged with lewdness, endangering the welfare of a child, resisting arrest and obstruction. The 42-yearold man exposed himself to a woman and her two children. When the woman tried to walk away, Clayborne grabbed the stroller — with a 2-month-old baby seated inside — and tried to flee. Two unknown men in the area came to the woman’s aid and fended off Clayborne, who suffered several head wounds. Clayborne struggled with officers who arrived a short time later, and he was taken to Capital Health Regional Medical Center in Trenton where he was treated for his injuries.
SEPT. 28 FRANKLIN — Dylan Nguyen has been sentenced to five years in prison on gun and theft charges that include him selling his then-roommate’s car without her knowledge and making about $13,000 in fraudulent charges on her counts. The 32-year-old was sentenced by Somerset County Superior Cour t Judge Julie M. Marino and must ser ve a minimum of 42 months after he’s eligible for parole. SEPT. 28 LINDEN — Mahwish Chaudr y of Piscataway faces charges of scamming a 76-yearold Linden man out of $9,000 in a scheme that authorities say may be targeted toward Indian-Americans. The 31-year-old was arrested Sept. 25 for the scheme in which she told the victim he was in danger of losing his home. Last May, Chaudr y called the man and told him she was employed by a financial company and that his home was in foreclosure. Chaudr y then told him she could help him by driving him to the local bank where he could make withdrawals to give to her in order to save his home.
Harvard University is allowing students to indicate which pronouns they use during registration, while American University has a guide on its website explaining how to use pronouns like “ey,” according to the Huffington Post. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR (would help). I know a lot of students still think that being gender-neutral is ‘dumb,’” Patel said. “They just don’t understand why someone would do it, and so I think it’s important that they can discuss that in an environment where they can be heard and educated about it.” Jennifer Fernandez, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior, said she thinks people in general have to become more conscious about how others want to be identified. “When professors call students by preferred names it makes them feel comfortable,
and I think ever yone needs that,” Fernandez said. Patel also said she thinks the school gravitating toward implementing policies and using gender-neutral pronouns helps makes these students feel more comfortable at their school. “Gender-neutral pronouns are just cleaner when you’re emailing a professor or someone whose gender you don’t know,” Patel said. “Instead of having to decide between Mr./Ms./Mrs., you can just use a gender-neutral one and not offend anybody.” Fernandez noted how some added efforts by the school
could include being more open about the topic because she personally did not even know Rutgers had a FAQ sheet for students and faculty. “I think what Rutgers can actually do is limited because those who don’t want to learn just won’t participate in awareness programs,” Fernandez said. Fernandez said it is equally important for students and faculty to become more aware on how they can make all student body feel more welcome and comfortable at a place where they have to spend most, if not all, their time in.
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Apple reports record sales of iPhone 6s, 6s Plus Apple said on Monday it had sold more than 13 million iPhone 6s and 6s Pluses during their first weekend of availability in 12 markets, setting a record for its marquee product. Although sales surpassed analysts’ expectations of 12 million to 13 million units, shares of Apple fell more than 1 percent. This suggested investors remained skeptical that Apple can improve on the demand for the previous iPhone, which propelled the company to its most profitable quar ter ever, said IDC analyst John Jackson. “Topping what the iPhone 6 achieved looks like a tall order, even for Apple, with its histor y of outdoing itself,” he said. The iPhone 6 had set the previous record of 10 million unit sales in its first weekend, but the figures did not include
China, where regulator y problems delayed the gadget’s debut last year. Analysts had said Apple was vir tually assured to set a first-weekend record for iPhone sales with the inclusion of China, which many expect will soon be the company’s largest market. But several analysts said the 6s figures, which also included the United States, Australia and the UK, suggested Apple was on pace to lift iPhone sales slightly from last year. Analyst Shannon Cross of Cross Research said she was impressed by Apple’s ability to drum up consumer interest in a device with relatively modest improvements over the iPhone 6, whose new, larger screens touched off a sales frenzy. “It’s indicative of the strength of Apple that you have at least as
many people wanting the iPhone 6s,” she said. The sales figures gave a glimpse of Apple’s performance in China, whose economic downturn has been a source of great angst for investors. FBR Capital Markets analyst Daniel Ives estimated that Apple sold more than 2 million iPhones in China over the weekend. “Demand out of China looks white-hot,” he said. The weekend also marked the debut of Apple’s upgrade program, which allows users to receive a new iPhone each year for monthly installments star ting at $32, regardless of their carrier. Many customers over the weekend appeared to be par ticipating in the program, Cross said, although the plan may prove more popular among the earliest buyers of the new iPhones. BGC Partners analyst Colin Gillis said the program could help boost sales as consumers begin to put off replacing their smartphones. Apple is also benefiting from a weak field. New phones from chief rival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd have received a lukewarm reception, and other manufacturers seem to be stuck playing catch-up, Jackson said. Apple said the new iPhones would be available in more than 40 additional countries starting
An iPhone 6 Plus is pictured as the Apple iPhone 6s and 6s Plus go on sale at an Apple Store in Los Angeles, California Sep. 25. REUTERS
Oct. 9, reaching more than 130 by year-end. The new phones have improved cameras and a display technology called 3D Touch, which responds based on how hard users press their screens. Apple relies heavily on sales
of the iPhone, which generated nearly two-thirds of its revenue in the latest quarter. The company’s shares were down 1.5 percent at $112.97 in morning trading. —Reuters
Trump plan cuts corporate taxes Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Monday unveiled sweeping proposals to simplify the tax code, slash the corporate tax rate and impose a one-time levy on the overseas earnings of U.S. companies. In a news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan, he announced a plan promising populist measures, but at the same time handing a huge tax break to corporate America. Trump said he would cut the top tax rate for all businesses to 15 percent from the present 35 percent if he became president at the November 2016 election. “We have an amazing (tax) code. It will be simple, it will be easy, it will be fair,” he said of his plan, promising “major tax relief for middle income and most other Americans.” Months after unexpectedly taking the lead in opinion polls for the Republican nomination, the real estate mogul has seen his lead narrow in recent days. He said taxes and the economy were “my wheelhouse,” meaning an area of expertise. Although himself a billionaire entrepreneur, Trump is more willing than other Republicans to use anti-corporate rhetoric. But his tax plan also has a pro-business edge to it. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the conser vative
American Action Forum think tank said it was unclear what the tax plan’s overall aim was. “I don’t know what this is about,” said Holtz-Eakin, a former economic adviser to President George W. Bush. “It’s full of inconsistencies.” Tax experts questioned Trump’s assertion that the proposals would not add to the nation’s debt and deficit. “With the detail we have
“I don’t know what this is about ... It’s full of inconsistencies.” DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN President of the Conservative American Action Forum
here, it’s ver y difficult to see how his plan will close enough loopholes and tax preferences to offset his proposed tax cuts,” said Maya MacGuineas, head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt advocacy group.
FINANCIERS TARGETED
Trump said he would eliminate the “carried interest” loophole that lets private equity and hedge fund managers pay a
lower tax rate than most other people. Hillar y Clinton, front-runner to be the Democratic nominee for president, has also targeted that loophole. Trump said some of the countr y’s “leading scholars, economists and tax experts” helped draw up his plan, but a campaign spokeswoman would not give the names of his tax aides. Trump vowed to eliminate the so-called death tax, formally known as the estate tax, and to simplify voters’ tax returns by reducing the number of tax brackets for individuals to four from seven. He said people earning less than $25,000 a year and married couples under $50,000 a year would pay no income tax. That appeared to strike a populist note, but many voters at those income levels already do not pay federal income taxes. The Tax Policy Center think tank, estimated in 2013 that 43 percent of Americans, many of them elderly and poor, would pay no federal income tax that year. Trump said he would solve a longstanding problem with offshore profits that U.S. companies park abroad, estimated by experts to be worth at least $2.3 trillion, by imposing a one-off 10 percent tax. —Reuters
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Bad RUWireless? Why it’s happening, what you should know KATIE PARK NEWS EDITOR
WHAT’S GOING ON WITH MY INTERNET?
Less than a month into the fall semester, upperclassmen replayed the spring semester of 2015, and first-year students were understandably baffled by the sudden Internet disconnect that rendered crucial academic services temporarily unusable on Sept. 28. For the fourth time in less than a year, Rutgers’ servers were saturated with external requests from bots, causing services like RUWireless and Sakai to respond extremely slowly or stop responding altogether.
IT’S CALLED A DDOS
The formal name for this type of mishap is called a Distributed Denial of Service attack, or a DDoS. You can picture the idea behind a DDoS attack by thinking about the battle scene in Mulan, when Shan Yu’s men came charging in a terrifying horde down the mountain toward Mulan and Shang’s much smaller troop. That’s the concept of a DDoS — a flood of communication requests bombard the Rutgers network per minute, effectively making it very difficult for the server to do its intended job. But the Mulan analogy ends there. Mulan thwarted Shan Yu, and Rutgers, so far, has been unable to defend itself, although nj.com reported in late August that the University invested $3 million into beefing up the mainframe this summer, which successively strapped every student with a 2.4 percent tuition increase to cover the cost. Student reaction to the tuition increase was indignant from the beginning. But this most recent DDoS — and there were two repor ted incidents — stewed fur ther discontent for more students. University spokesperson E.J. Miranda said in an email on Sept. 28 one attack lasted about 45 minutes, starting around 2 a.m. Later on the same day, Don Smith, vice president of the Office of Information Technology and Chief Intelligence Officer, said the attack persisted from around 10 a.m. until mid-afternoon. It is unconfirmed if Miranda and Smith referred to the same attack. Riccardo Mui, a School of Engineering sophomore, is one of many disgruntled students. He started a petition on change.org on Sept. 28, titled the “Rutgers CyberDefence Budget Return,” which asks Rutgers to fully or partially refund students the amount of the 2.4 percent tuition increase because the Universi-
This most recent DDoS attack is the fourth since mid-November 2014. A DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service, attack occurs when a flood of communication requests bombard a network per minute, making the server’s intended job very difficult. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR
ty’s upgrade “once again failed against similar attacks.”
INCIDENT 1
The first attack occurred during first-year student spring class registration and was reported on by The Daily Targum mid-November 2014. It attracted little interest from students and news media, but it snagged the attention of the perpetrator, who only goes by the handle name @ ogexfocus on Twitter.
INCIDENT 2
The perpetrator sent The Daily Targum two emails from a throwaway email account on March 4, 2015, stating his intentions to derail more University services. “A while back you had an article that talked about the DDoS attacks on Rutgers,” the email read. “I’m the one who attacked the network ... This might make quite an interesting story ... I will be attacking the network once again at 8:15PM EST. You will see sakai.rutgers.edu offline.” The emails, which were relayed to the Office of Information Technology the same day, launched an investigation. Around that time, Don Smith, vice president of the Office of Information Technology and Chief Intelligence Officer, asked The Daily Targum to postpone reporting about the second attack and the emails until his office could
consult with police. Eventually, based on the specific details provided by the alleged perpetrator in the emails and the occurrence of a DDoS attack on Sakai around the same time frame indicated in the emails, Smith said he was inclined to believe the messages were “credible.”
INCIDENT 3
About two months later, the perpetrator struck again around final exams in late April and early May, causing instructors to adjust, and then readjust, deadline after deadline. Internet access was spotty for a week, and hundreds of students expressed their outrage with the situation on social media during the time.
INCIDENT 4
This most recent incident, which happened yesterday, caused dismay among students, who posted vitriolic messages about the Office of Information Technology, the perpetrator and the lack of Internet via social media platforms Facebook and Twitter. “You should know that this DDoS attack, like all DDoS attacks, was a matter of outside volume that overwhelmed the bandwidth of the network,” Smith said in an email sent out the evening of Sept. 28. “This was not a situation where any data was compromised.” Smith’s assertion about data security responded to the
“You should know that this DDoS attack, like all DDoS attacks, was a matter of outside volume that overwhelmed the bandwidth of the network. This was not a situation where any data was compromised.” DON SMITH Vice President of the Office of Information Technology and Chief Intelligence Officer
Skepticism about whether the network would be restored in time for finals rose, and Rutgers-Newark announced formal plans for revising final exams in the case that the school year ended and students were still unable to finish their courses.
concerns Mui raised in the petition on change.org, which said that the upgrade should not only protect the identities of individuals affiliated with the University, but also “preser ve the data ser vice (students) rightfully pay for.”
GOING FORWARD
“We have made significant and substantial network hardware upgrades, are utilizing DDoS mitigation services, have made Web server improvements and have changed Internet Service Providers to ones that provide additional levels of DDoS threat deterrent capacity,” Smith wrote in the email. Smith said in the email that the Office of Information Technology is working with state and federal law enforcement officials. Last semester, at the height of the incidents, Smith said Rutgers was working with the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI. People who launch or conspire to launch DDoS attacks are subject to civil and criminal liability, said Frank Reda, director of the Office of Information Technology. Punishment may include fines or imprisonment under state and federal laws. In 2010, Brian Thomas Metterbrink, a 20-year-old Nebraska resident, was fined $20,000 and sentenced to one year in prison for participating in a DDoS attack against Church of Scientology websites. The attack was part of a broader campaign led by “hacktivist” group, Anonymous. A 2011 Federal Bureau of Investigations press release stated a DDoS facilitator or participant can face up to 10 years in prison.
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Hyper-liberal views stifle learning Quest for political correctness threatens meaningful dialogue
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The onset of overly liberal college campuses and uring a town hall on education, President Obama called out the liberals on college students is inherently linked to the quest for being pocampuses across the nation. Toward the end litically correct. Saying that the welfare system should of his remarks, Obama said, “I don’t agree that you, be reigned in was once a point of view, where as now it when you become students at colleges, have to be can be considered a racially insensitive and problematic coddled and protected from different points of view,” slur. But there is a difference between being offensive and trying to explain how you feel. Yet because students and he makes a good argument. Colleges in America have typically been known for are determined to find offense in every statement their creating an abundance of liberal spaces. Throughout peers, professors and politicians make, those with diftheir time in some of the nation’s oldest and greatest fering viewpoints become afraid to speak up. Obama also mentioned how classroom materials institutions, many students begin to learn about the injustices being carried out by governments, multi- are also falling victim to hyper-liberal colleges and national corporations and other major actors on the college students. When professors are forced to pick world stage. However, because college students are and choose what material to require their students to typically the most politically active group of people read, they now have to screen for how politically corin the nation, the conversations that take place here rect a work may sound. In that sense, books, articles tend to be left-leaning, and when students and pro- and journals should all be read taking context into acfessors become so heavily invested in their political, count and acknowledging the time period the work was written in. So while reading social and economic points books with “N” words littered of view, they tend to comthe pages or misogypletely ignore the oppos“There is a difference between across nistic plots, don’t cry injustice. ing side. The rhetoric then being offensive and trying to Instead, take the time to find becomes exclusively laden out when the piece was written, with liberal-leaning proclaexplain how you feel.” what the national and global mations, while conservative climates were like during that and even moderate comments and points of view are shut down and shamed time, why it wasn’t offensive then and why it is now. Listening to or reading opposing viewpoints should into anonymity. At a school like Rutgers, where nearly 50 percent encourage conversations and arguments. Find out of the student body is comprised of racial minorities, why someone doesn’t agree with you, then take the discourse should be encouraged. It’s impossible for time to listen to what they have to say and similarly every student to have the same opinion on the myr- express the way you’re feeling. If in the end, both peoiad of issues that pertain to each and every one of ple are unyielding and only agree with the points they us. But when one viewpoint becomes the resound- brought to the table, at least the effort was made. There is absolutely nothing wrong with having libering answer to everyone’s question, some people stop asking all together. Finding a student with conserva- al views, or striving to be politically correct. But college tive views shouldn’t be such an anomaly. Of course is about learning and expanding horizons. Just as many they exist, but how many of students will willingly liberal students aren’t afraid to share their points of view, raise his or her hand amongst a sea of democratic conservative students shouldn’t be either. When people liberals sitting in Hickman 101? Very few. As demo- are so concerned with being politically correct that they cratic or liberal students become more confident in become hesitant to express their thoughts and ideas for exposing their views, republicans or conservatives fear of being persecuted, there’s clearly a problem. So are essentially forced to retreat into themselves and next time a debate or discussion sparks up, listen to or refrain from raising their hands to keep from sway- even ask about differing sentiments. Everyone is entitled to have an opinion ... right? ing the consensus. 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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Supporting socialism, religion is not contradictory THE CHAMPAGNE SOCIALIST JOSÉ SANCHEZ
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conomic and social exclusion is a complete denial of human fraternity and a grave offense against human rights and the environment.” Was that Karl Marx or Pope Francis? If you guessed the latter, you’d be correct. That was a quote from the Pope’s speech to the U.N. General Assembly last week. And if you haven’t been reading the news, Pope Francis’s speeches and encyclicals are chock full of morally charged anti-capitalism. The pontiff has declared that, “Jesus affirms that you cannot serve two masters, God and wealth,” and that, “poverty is at the very heart of the Gospel ... if we remove poverty from the Gospel no one would be able to understand anything about the message of Jesus.” I haven’t read such valorization of the earth’s wretched since my Trotskyist days. As the first Latin American and “Third World” pope in history, Francis has relentlessly criticized our reigning system of global, unfettered capitalism or the “dung of the devil” as he calls it. His encyclical Laudato si’ said, “(w) e know that technology based on the use of highly polluting fossil fuels — especially coal, but also oil and, to a lesser degree, gas — needs to be progressively replaced without delay ... ” Frankie’s talking like he’s Bill McKibben! And he’s made enemies from all sorts of corners because of it. Celebrity U.S. conservative shockjock and professional bigot Rush
Limbaugh has bloviated about Francis’ brand of “pure Marxism.” Meanwhile, G.O.P. presidential candidate Jeb Bush has dismissed the pope’s environmentalism and concern for anthropogenic climate change, saying that Francis is not a scientist. Never mind that the pope was a trained chemist (and nightclub bouncer) before he joined the Catholic Church decades ago. Yet, let’s be honest my left-wing fellow travelers, Limbaugh and other conservatives, are onto something when they denounce Pope Francis as some sort of socialist Trojan horse. Though woefully lacking in a
attachment to “modernity,” leftists have turned their nose up at belief. This is also a serious tactical error seeing how the masses they so love are, well, believers. From the slums of any global South megalopolis like Mumbai, Cairo, São Paulo to the ghettos, reservations and prisons here in the U.S., most of world’s poor and oppressed are religious. If God finds bad company in the graduate school seminars and Bob Avakian-esque cults that far too many North Atlantic lefties hide away in, He’s on the lips of thousands of farmworkers out in California today or the proletarians and slaves of yesteryear.
“If God finds bad company in the graduate school seminars and Bob Avakian-esque cults ... He’s on the lips of thousands of farmworkers out in California today or the proletarians and slaves of yesteryear.” commitment to gender and sexual equality, Francis has shifted the Church’s emphasis on those issues, if not doctrine. On questions of class, incarceration, immigration and interfaith pluralism however, he is a clear ally to the Left and we should come to meet him and his adherents on issues important to us. Moreover though, we need to find some religion. For too long, left-wingers of faith like myself have felt alienated from a mostly secular, if not stridently anti-clerical Left. Indeed, under officially atheist states like those of the former Soviet Union and other Communist countries, we’ve been harassed, persecuted and even murdered. Conceited and with a curious
And who could forget the legacies of religiously inspired U.S. radicals like the abolitionist movement with Frederick Douglass, the Grimké sisters and William Lloyd Garrison? My personal favorite however, is a white man named John Brown who performed a botched 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry. His Pennsylvania barn being a stop on the Underground Railroad, he once declared in front of an Ohio church, “Here, before God and in the presence of these witnesses, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery.” With a statement like that, who needs Richard Dawkins’s or Christopher Hitchens’s brand of “liberation”?
After the U.S. civil war in industrializing Chicago, Andrew Cameron, a Scottish immigrant, helped found the National Labor Union, progenitor of the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor. For many U.S. radicals like Cameron, Christianity offered a radical antidote for the trails and pain of industrial capitalism, believing that, “The Gospel of Christ sustains us in our every demand.” Pentecostal preachers would get white and black sharecroppers into a spiritual frenzy before meetings of the radical Southern Tenant Farmers Union, foreshadowing the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 60s. And then there’s Dorothy Day, a Jazz Age, Greenwich Village bohemian and “harlot” who had an abortion and an illegitimate child once. She was founder and editor of The Catholic Worker and constantly got in trouble with New York archdiocese’s head Cardinal Spellman, a man that called the Vietnam War a “war for civilization.” Despite her radicalism, Pope Francis spoke her name along with fellow pacifist Thomas Merton, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln. By honoring and being a part of this history, by marrying their politics with the very grain of Creation, leftists need to recognize that being a socialist and a person of faith is no contradiction. For indeed, what could be more subversive than declaring that some Palestinian refugee, born in a manger, surrounded by feces and animals, is the Son of God? José Sanchez is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in history with a minor in political science. His column, “The Champagne Socialist,” runs on alternate Tuesdays.
Unregulated caffeine intake leads to unhealthy side effects COMMENTARY ELYSE M. CROTTY
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s teens and college students nationwide get into the thick of the school year, they are getting accustomed to their packed schedules filled with class meetings, work shifts and extracurricular activities. But that’s why coffee and energy drinks were created, right? Wrong. From the research that I have seen, almost 3 out of 4 of students consume caffeine in some form everyday. Why is this number so high, you ask? Energy drink and coffee product companies often focus their marketing efforts of one of their largest consumer demographics: teens and college students. What is the caffeine content in your favorite coffee or energy drink? I bet most people, including myself, do not the answer to this question. Students everywhere need to become educated consumers in a world that offers different ways achieve a caffeine fix. The youth of today are constantly being market-
ed to, most times without even realizing it. Many of the top companies with the highest advertising costs are centered on sugary energy drinks. In contrast, we see very little advertisements centered on water. Reading the caffeine and sugar content on packaged drinks is a good way for consumers to start to become more aware of the contents they are putting into their bodies. In addition to the somewhat shady marketing tactics of many of the top coffee and energy drink companies, the youth also
for cardiac arrest to occur. Knowing these potential effects, it is then up to students to make the right choice when it comes to their beverage choice. Almost everyday a new energy drink is splashed across the headlines for being recalled, dangerous and harmful to the human body. And unfortunately, most energy drinks are not recalled until someone has been severely injured or severely sick in a hospital. The worst energy drink stories involve sudden cardiac deaths. But all of the stories you hear and see on the news
“Students everywhere need to become educated consumers in a world that offers different ways achieve a caffeine fix.” needs to be aware of the potential harmful health effects that can occur by consuming too much caffeine as well as take responsibility for their drink choices. These effects include increased heart rate, anxiety, heart palpitations, dehydration, headaches, insomnia, blood pressure and the potential
have one thing in common besides being scary: They are real stories that involve real people. There are also other ways, besides caffeine, to be productive throughout the day. Chewing a piece of gum, enjoying your favorite whole grain snack, turning
the brightness of the lights in the room up, breaking a sweat with your favorite exercise and belting out your favorite new song are just some of the natural, caffeine-free ways to increase your energy level when you feel yourself losing steam and getting tired. So are we never allowed to drink a cup of coffee again? How will college students function day to day and pull the occasional all-nighter? It is not about “banning” energy drinks or coffee, but more about practicing moderation. Becoming aware of unethical marketing practices, working to pass new laws to change the way companies are allowed to market energy drinks to youth consumers and, lastly, becoming educated on the effects of caffeine on health are all ways to tackle the increased caffeinated beverage use in schools nationwide. Elyse M. Crotty is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in communications with minors in digital communication, information and media and health and society.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Celebrations of Yom Kippur, Eid test years of religious violence Unfortunately, in the last century the narrative of Jewish-Muslim relations has been marred by episodes of violence and hate. Ignored by many, however, is that both religions derive from the same source: Abrahamic monotheism. Therefore Judaism and Islam are not related just functionally — as are all faiths — but share a mutual history,
hence the two religions need not to be seen as adversaries but more like siblings, the spiritual children of Ishmael (Muslims) and Isaac (Jews). On Sept. 23, in a rare sign of inter-religious cohesion, both Muslims and Jews spent the day in intense introspection, becoming cognizant of previous wrong-doings and purifying future intentions, for it was the day of atonement for both religious groups. Yom Kippur for the Jewish community and Yawm al-’Arafah for the Islamic community falling on the same day is most surely a special occasion worthy of note, since Muslims follow a lunar
calendar causing alignments like this a once in a millennia occurrence. For Jews the day consists of fasting, refraining from food and drink, along with a variety of observances, but the major focus is on repenting for one’s sins. Similarly for Muslims, particularly those not on Hajj, fasting and the recitation of certain prayers are the means of repenting for sins. These acts are the expiation of sins, cleansing oneself for the coming year for Jews and the year prior and post for Muslims. For Jews, Yom Kippur signifies the reception of the ten commandments by Moses, whereas Yawm al-’Arafah for Muslims
signifies the day prior to Abraham’s binding of his son. Both events are recognized by Jews and Muslims, and they have an overlaying transcendental message of sacrificing one’s own desire for the greater good. If Jews and Muslims were to reflect these values, the unfortunate narrative of the previous century could be replaced with the familial affection both truly have for each other — hence, true atonement. Shabbir A. Abbas is a graduate student in the Department of Religious Studies, studying religion and conflict.
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Today’s Birthday (09/29/15). Consider big ideas this year. Expect intellectual, spiritual and mystical insights. True your actions to your principles. Pour passion and talent into your work, especially after 3/8. Social connection and communications allow expansion. Take charge for desired results, especially after 3/23. Choose your path. 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 9 -- The next two days can get quite profitable. Think outside the box. Track your finances, with money coming today and tomorrow. Take advantage of new opportunities. Prioritize action over talk. Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- You’re more confident today and tomorrow. Put on your power suit. Check your course, then full speed ahead. Focus on personal passion. Get physical for peace and satisfaction. As you gain strength, you also gain options. Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Clarify your direction. Conclude arrangements today and tomorrow. Draw upon hidden resources to pursue a dream. Others admire your courage. Take action to make it come true. Take a higher perspective. Slow down and consider options. Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Develop a strategy with teammates through tomorrow. It’s a good time for parties, meetings and conferences. Network, collaborate and play together. Friends pull through. Share resources and talents, with gratitude. Celebrate and expand community efforts. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Take on more responsibility over the next few days. There could be a test. Think big. A rise in status is possible. A lucky break is available, if you can act on the opportunity. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Studies and adventures thrive today and tomorrow. Consider a vacation. Travel for a good cause. Take a class or seminar, especially regarding growing family finances. After the Harvest Moon eclipse yesterday, you’re in a potentially profitable phase.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Pare down to practical financial priorities. Use what you’ve learned to cut costs. You’re more patient with money management over the next few days. Advance your agenda through careful budgeting and scheduling. Anticipate surprises. Set long-term goals. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Negotiations resume. You don’t have to do everything. Let somebody else direct the show for a few days. Accept a promise. Learn from each other. Work together today and tomorrow. Physical magnetism is part of the fun. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -Today is a 7 -- Concentrate on a new assignment today and tomorrow. Focus on providing meticulous service. Make sure your team has what they need. Walk and talk. Alternate between physical exercise and quiet reverie. Replace something volatile with something secure. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -Today is a 7 -- To raise your game, get a good coach. Discover secrets and tricks of the trade. The more you learn, the easier it gets. Practice what you love today and tomorrow. Someone finds that attractive. Relax and play. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is an 8 -- Family comes first today and tomorrow. Get into a domestic cycle. Clean, renovate and repair your infrastructure. Set up systems to conserve resources. Beautify your surroundings. Add color and composition to your design. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 9 -- Intuition reveals the correct choice. You’re especially clever with words today and tomorrow. Catch up on reading and research. Apply what you’re learning. Act on what you hear. A revelation provides an opportunity. Study developments.
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FRESHMAN Miami transfer Kiy Hester steps up, starts at strong safety for injured Davon Jacobs CONTINUED FROM BACK
Stadium, one coming on the opening series of the game and the second on the first play of a Hester knew better. “It’s just a long road,” he said. Jayhawks (0-3) drive in the “Having to sit out your freshman third quar ter. Ten plays later, Kansas running year and you went from four years starting varsity to having to sit back Ke’aun Kinner ran it into the back and just watch and just learn.” end zone from one yard out to cut The Miami transfer’s obser- the Knights’ lead to 27-14. “Kiy was down on himself — vation time paid dividends. In the Scarlet Knights’ (2-2, 0-1) you know he wasn’t perfect,” homecoming win over Kansas said Rutgers interim head coach Sept. 26, the first-time starter Norries Wilson. “He missed a couple tackles and he missed a showed out. couple op“ C o a c h por tunities (Joe) Rossi “Now I feel like I can just to pick the said, ‘Be preoff, but pared, anybody step right in and just play ball it was his can start, we’re first time out going to dictate fast without thinking and it by practice about the defense because there after he had film,’” Hester dropped one said. “So I was I actually know it.” interception just out there and they playing hard KIY HESTER went onto to like I usually do Redshirt-Freshman Strong Safety score, I just in practice.” pulled him Playing in place of injured strong safety aside and asked him if he was — and former teammate at De- still having fun.” Wilson commended HesPaul Catholic High School (New Jersey) — junior Davon Jacobs, ter’s attitude and said the safeHester handled the starting role ty’s smiling face is a welcomed as if it were his own, making sight. And regardless of the opnine total tackles with six solos portunities the young defensive back missed in his first start, and a tackle for loss. “My junior year, he was a Wilson said he was happy that freshman,” Jacobs said of their Hester stepped up when his big days at DePaul. “He lives like brother went down. “He’s always got a smile five minutes away from me, so on his face, which is fantashe’s like my little brother.” Hester also earned two pass tic,” WIlson said. “He’s not a breakups in his debut, but that mopey, droopy player. He smiles, he’s upbeat and I hadn’t stat can be deceiving. The rookie let two intercep- heard him complain about tions slip through his fingers not having an opportunity. When at High Point Solutions he got his opportunity, I think
After a wild journey, Kiy Hester found his way back home for his first-career start last Saturday against Kansas. The redshirt-freshman safety had nine tackles. RUOXUAN YANG / SEPTEMBER 2015 he went out and took advantage of it.” Hester paid homage to his one-year hiatus after high school, saying the time off was time he spent studying in order to sharpen his skill set for when he hustled back onto the field, this time for Rutgers fans. “I feel that year definitely helped me mature,” the 215-pound safety said. “Now I feel like I can just step right in and just play fast without
thinking about the defense because I actually know it.” Wilson, who will turn head coaching duties back over to Kyle Flood when his suspension concludes after the Michigan State game on Oct. 10, believes that the player who hesitates is lost. And the first African American head coach in the history of the Ivy League saw no hesitation from his freshman defensive back against Kansas.
“You can’t be apprehensive. Anything you do apprehensively, you’re going to screw it up,” Wilson said. “Just take an assignment and just go. And that’s what (Hester) did and he had fun. I was impressed with the way he played his first time out. Should he be called on again to go back out there and play, it won’t be new to him.” For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow @KevinPXavier and @TargumSports on Twitter.
YURCAK Knights eye return to previous form after disappointing 3-1 loss to Michigan State CONTINUED FROM BACK
Junior goalkeeper David Greczek looks to earn his second clean sheet of the season tonight. The 0-0 draw to Monmouth is still his only one so far. EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR / SEPTEMBER 2015
fought hard ... we just gotta keep it going in the next few games. (We) can’t let it get us down. (We) just gotta keep practicing hard, put in effort and we’ll be good.” Junior goalkeeper David Greczek, who moved into a tie for fourth place all-time in saves for Rutgers’ after making five stops against the Spartans, felt like the final result was fair and the Knights have to go back to the drawing board in training. “Yeah, it was fair,” Greczek said. “Like I said, (the) first five minutes killed us and we tried to bounce back. But, I mean, there was some fight but we just have to get back to practice on Sunday and fight.” Rutgers will have a great opportunity to bounce back against Loyola. The Greyhounds (1-5-1, 0-1-0) come to the Banks limping from a difficult start to the season. Loyola has failed to score in all but two contests — a consolation goal in a 5-1 loss to Duke and the only goal in its only win over UMBC, 1-0. The Greyhounds have been outshot in every match they’ve played, painting a picture of a team that tends to sit back and spend little time in their opponents’ final third. The first matchup between the two sides since 1994 will be an opportunity for Loyola to win its first
game against the Knights, who have dominated the matchup. After a 0-0 deadlock in the first ever game between the teams, Rutgers won the following two matches by the same score of 3-1. With a team that it has historically dominated coming to town, the Knights will have a great opportunity to get back to playing as well as they did in the couple of games before their meeting with Michigan State. While much of the talk is about what is and isn’t being done on the field, Donigan spots a side of preparation many people don’t think about. “A lot of it is just psychological preparation, to be honest with you,” Donigan said. “... They still, for the most part this season, have performed and played pretty well. Even tonight, there were good portions of the game where I thought we played really well. We just have to hang our hats on that and feed off of that.” With the strong displays his team has shown prior to its loss to the Spartans, Donigan has little worries headed into Tuesday night. “I’m pretty confident that this team will bounce back for (tonight) against Loyola,” he said. For updates on the Rutgers men’s soccer team, follow @briannnnf and @TargumSports on Twitter.
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September 29, 2015 FIELD HOCKEY JUNIOR SHEVAUN HAYES MAINTAINS .644 SAVE PERCENTAGE AVERAGE
Australian goalkeeper holds strong in RU defensive squad KAYLEE POFAHL CORRESPONDENT
Residing between an attacking player barreling down the field and the goal is a team’s final line of defense — the goalkeeper. Being called upon in the most critical moments of the game, the Rutgers field hockey team’s Shevaun Hayes ser ved as her team’s anchor on the field since arriving on the Banks in 2013. After earning a start in all 19 games last season, the junior goalkeeper has spearheaded the Scarlet Knights’ defensive unit through all nine games this season. With 38 saves on the season, she bolsters a .644 average save percentage, according to bigten.org. The Melbourne, Australia, native is a long way from home — 22 hours total — but remained a solid force on Rutgers’ back end. On top of two shutouts this season so far, Hayes tied her single-game high with 13 saves against Northwestern last Friday. Defending against the Wildcats’ offense poses a daunting task. As a team, Northwestern leads the Big Ten in points, goals, corners and goals per game, while ranking second in shots. The conference leader in shots and shots per game also calls Evanston, Illinois, home, as well as the Big Ten’s runner-up in points and goals. Despite suffering a 5-1 loss at the hands of the Wildcats,
head coach Meredith Civico was proud of the performance her keeper put up amidst the constant, hectic pressure from a relentless Northwestern offense. “(Hayes) had a really solid game against Northwestern. You know, 13 saves is a lot of saves to make and she was under a lot of pressure and I thought she performed well,” Civico said. “We’ve got to be solid in front of her. We can’t allow teams to come in and get second and third shots and that’s what happened.”
“Actually, (my mind) goes completely clear... It’s mostly just keeping it simple and focusing on the ball.” SHEVAUN HAYES Junior Goalkeeper
Also coming off of a ver y physical, turbulent 2-0 loss against No. 18 Michigan on Sunday, Hayes remained composed through several one-on-one offensive breakaways and held the Wolverines scoreless through the tumultuous moments. Being the last force standing between an attacking player and the goal is a heavy weight to bear. But Hayes handles the responsibility with an unwavering poise. “Actually, (my mind) goes completely clear,” the
goalkeeper said. “I just think the simplest things like, you know, stay with her, count back the time. I make sure I take my time with her so my defense comes back and helps. … But basically, it’s a clear slate. It’s mostly just keeping it simple and focusing on the ball — that’s the main thing.” As the Knights’ netminder, Hayes has an acutely clear view of her teammates and their positioning on the field. During games, her communication with field players proves to be invaluable in ensuring that each position and area is adequately covered through a fluent balance. This crucial standpoint comes with the duty to set a calm, composed tone that permeates through the defensive, midfield and offensive lines. Such a stance holds the power to dictate the team mentality and energy throughout match play. “With the mentality of communicating to my players, I have to be strong, I have to be composed,” Hayes said. “I start in front and then work myself back with the players keeping on top of it so that they know what they’re doing, they have confidence in me, they have confidence in themselves and the position on their ball.” Not only does Hayes have a unique perspective on the field, but off the field as well. She comes the longest way from home out of the team’s six international players. The 14-hour time difference augments a tough obstacle to
Head coach Meredith Civico thought junior goalkeeper Shevaun Hayes has handled the relentless offensive pressure with poise. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / SEPTEMBER 2015
maintain communication ties with family. With 3 p.m. Friday games in New Jersey equating to 5 a.m. on Saturday mornings in Australia, the live stats game tracker is nevertheless on and active in the Hayes household when this Knight takes the cage. With many sacrifices and responsibilities tailored to her decision to leave her home country and come to Rutgers, the factors
behind Hayes’s choice surpassed the offer she received on paper. “Ever yone was just so nice and it was just a good atmosphere,” she said on her initial visit with the team. “It was just a feeling I had.” For updates on the Rutgers field hockey team, follow @ Kaylee_Pofahl and @TargumSports on Twitter.
Junior goalkeeper Shevaun Hayes tied her single-game high with 13 saves against No. 14 Northwestern on Friday. The Melbourne, Australia, native had a solid game against the Big Ten leaders in points, goals, corners and goals per game, giving the Knights a chance to win despite a losing effort. RUOXUAN YANG / SEPTEMBER 2015
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September 29, 2015 FOOTBALL CHRIS LAVIANO RANKS 10TH IN NATION WITH 72 PERCENT COMPLETION PERCENTAGE
Knights settle in under newest offensive coordinator GARRETT STEPIEN SPORTS EDITOR
Despite becoming the Rutgers football team’s sixth offensive coordinator in as many years, Ben McDaniels calling the plays and designing the schemes at first seemed to be the best way to establish continuity. Following Ralph Friedgen’s resignation after one year on the job in the Scarlet Knights’ inaugural Big Ten season, now-suspended head coach Kyle Flood decided to fill the void by hiring from within — the offensive guru’s apprentice. But roughly one-third of the way through the 2015 season, Rutgers (2-2, 0-1) looks completely reinvented. While part of that comes from the departure of former fouryear starter Gar y Nova and entr y of sophomore quarterback Chris Laviano, the philosophy of McDaniels features a mix of old and new. The familiarity begins with a pair of young tailbacks in Josh Hicks and Robert Martin who have avoided the generic curse of a sophomore slump in the early going. In their second season on the Banks, Hicks and Martin totaled 623 yards on 103 carries for five touchdowns. “We love running the ball,” Hicks said. “We love hitting the holes, having the O-Line block for us.” Those numbers were most relevant as recent as last Saturday. The pair of “super sophs” injected life back in the Knights’ bloodstream on offense one week after the ground game stalled with a lackluster 1.34 yards per carr y in a sloppy 28-3 loss at Penn State. During Rutgers’ 27-14 rebound victor y on homecoming
Under first-year offensive coordinator Ben McDaniels, sophomore Chris Laviano has been on the mark, leading the Big Ten in completion percentage. RUOXUAN YANG / SEPTEMBER 2015 against Kansas this past Saturday, Hicks broke out for 113 yards and two touchdowns on 21 carries to lead the revival of the attack. Martin complemented his running mate by eclipsing the centur y mark as well with 102 yards on 17 touches. While the early success on the ground ser ves as a reminder of the blueprint to the strong finish to 2014 where the Knights closed their first season in a premier conference with three straight wins to an 8-5 season overall, the passing game’s efficiency has done enough to complement that. Despite the five interceptions countering his four touchdowns in the past three games, Laviano has mainly executed McDaniels’s blueprint. By no means has Laviano lit it up on the field, but that’s not what McDaniels’s offense calls
for. Back on the program’s Aug. 16 media day, the first-year offensive coordinator provided some insight on what to expect with his added wrinkle to the pro-style offense his predecessor, Freidgen, left behind. “We absolutely intend on playing in multiple tempos,” McDaniels said. “I think it benefits you and it challenges the defense to have to be ready for that. Not dissimilar to a lot of places, we’ll have multiple tempos that we’ll tr y and play at.” Those sentiments came well before the current engineer of his unit, Laviano, emerged as the starting quarterback. While fellow sophomore and LSU transfer Hayden Rettig’s line of 9-for-11 with 110 yards and a touchdown through the air in the first half of the Sept. 5 season opener against Norfolk State provides a small sample
size of how efficient a signal-caller can be in McDaniels’s playbook of high-percentage passes and physical runs, Laviano’s larger body of work likely gives more accuracy to that answer. Through his four appearances under center this fall, three of which have been starts, Laviano leads the Big Ten and ranks 10th in the nation in completion percentage at 72 percent. And while the numbers don’t pop out beyond that with a pedestrian 794 yards to go with six touchdowns and five picks, the game-manager blueprint was evident against the Jayhawks as Rutgers racked up 513 yards of total offense. That recipe, when it leads to a win, is one that Laviano appears quite fond of. “Coach McDaniels does a great job with play-calling,” Laviano said. “He just puts me in a
good position to get the ball to the highest percentage receiver on that particular play.” As Leonte Carroo awaits his status on his indefinite suspension, the Knights haven’t been able to experiment as much with stretching the field. Adapting, in a sense, without the senior wide receiver and immersing himself in McDaniels’s mindset, Laviano developed a solid relationship on the field in the passing game with his flanking tight ends. One safety blanket has been Matt Flanagan. The sophomore tight end has three touchdowns and 93 yards on 10 catches. Two of those scores came from Laviano on a seven-yard rollout against Kansas and a oneyard strike in the team’s 37-34 loss to Washington State on Sept. 12. Interim head coach Norries Wilson knows that Rutgers hasn’t gone heaving the ball all over the field with Laviano. But if the latest success in the combination of a heavy rushing attack and the efficient aerial attack is any hint of what the offense can still develop into, Wilson and the Knights are just fine with that. “Taking completions is a great thing,” Wilson said. “It’s not something that has been unscripted or unpracticed. If we have done it, we’re not tr ying to put our passing game in the phone booth because that’s gonna limit the things you can do in the run game. Don’t think that we aren’t prepared for (throwing the ball downfield), it just hasn’t happened right now. And as we continue to practice, those things will come about.” For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow @GarrettStepien and @TargumSpor ts on Twitter.
Josh Hicks and Robert Martin revived the ground game for Rutgers on Saturday in a 27-14 win over Kansas. The pair of sophomores both eclipsed the 100-yard mark, bringing their combined total to 623 rushing yards and five touchdowns on 103 carries to anchor a balanced offensive attack. RUOXUAN YANG / SEPTEMBER 2015
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “Kiy was down on himself — you know he wasnt perfect. ... But it was his first time out there and after he had dropped one interception and they went onto score, I just pulled him aside and asked him if he was still having fun.” — Rutgers interim head football coach Norries Wilson on redshirt-freshman Kiy Hester
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Rutgers looks to get back on track at Yurcak BRIAN FONSECA ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
The Rutgers men’s soccer team will host Loyola on Tuesday night, hoping to get back into the win column. The Scarlet Knights (3-31, 1-2-0) suffered a 3-1 loss to Michigan State in their last time out. Two early goals from the Spartans buried the Knights into a hole they could not get out of. Rutgers put up a fight and managed to pull back a goal early in the first half, but the effort was not enough. Head coach Dan Donigan anticipated a strong start from Michigan State, a team looking to recover from the 4-0 thrashing it suffered against No. 14 Notre Dame before heading to Piscataway, and believes his team was not ready for the ferocious few kickoff minutes from the visitors. “This is college soccer and these are young players and you gotta make sure that guys are mentally focused and physically ready to do what you gotta do when that whistle blows at the start of a match,” Donigan said, “especially against a team like a Michigan State that’s coming off a disappointing loss against Notre Dame at home.” Perhaps his next sentiments summed it up best. “It’s like a wounded animal. They could be very dangerous,” he continued. “Me, personally, I knew they were going to come out here and play a tough game tonight and we just weren’t ready for them in those first five minutes. It’s disappointing.” Disappointment was an evident feeling for Donigan’s troops, but they claim it will not allow this loss to take away their motivation to work hard. “Honestly, it was disappointing,” said sophomore forward Miles Hackett. “Thought we Sophomore forward Miles Hackett scored the only goal in the Knights’ most recent game, a 3-1 defeat at the hands of Michigan State. He was optimistic despite the loss, saying the team won’t let it bring them down. EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR / SEPTEMBER 2015
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FOOTBALL KIY HESTER REGISTERED NINE TOTAL TACKLES TO ANCHOR RUTGERS’S DEFENSE
Freshman shines at safety in first start KEVIN XAVIER
The 6-foot, 215-pounder showcased his ability immediately, proving a penchant for sneaking up on ball-carriers before striking with stifling force. At the Knights’ first spring practice, Hester drew gasps from onlookers when he tagged freshman tight end George Behr coming out of the backfield on a flat route, jarring the ball loose from Behr’s body. Later, during the second spring scrimmage at High Point Solutions Stadium on April 18, Hester folded junior wide receiver John Tsimis in half on a deep seam route up the middle of the field. It appeared to be a seamless transition for the hard-hitting former Hurricane. But
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He was the sixth-ranked safety in New Jersey coming out of high school, according to rivals.com. The recruiting website regarded the four-star to be the No. 21 prospect at the position in the country. But this highly-touted prospect from Plainfield hit a bump in the road after accepting a scholarship to play for Miami in 2014 — one that would stage his return home to the Garden State. In part due to homesickness, but mostly due to concern over his mother’s health, “Cobra” Kiy Hester transferred to Rutgers last winter and began his career on the Banks as an early enrollee in the spring.
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In his first-career start on Saturday against Kansas, redshirt-freshman strong safety Kiy Hester tallied nine tackles. LUO ZHENGCHEN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / SEPTEMBER 2015
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