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Rutgers endows chair for icon Gloria Steinem LIN LAN CORRESPONDENT

The New York Times, a newspaper with the second-largest circulation in the United States, also has the largest gap in gender representation. Out of the 3,556 bylines it printed last year, 30 percent belonged to women, according to the Women’s Media Center.

Journals, newspapers and blogs pride themselves on being public watchdogs who keep powerful institutions in check, but feminist icon Gloria Steinem has spent her career attempting to hold the media accountable for their actions.

In honor of Steinem’s lifelong dedication to pushing feminist values through her journalism and activist work, Rutgers announced its support yesterday for the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair, a position that will fund teaching and research for an individual who exemplifies Steinem’s values of equal representation in the media.

The creation of the chair involved multidisciplinary collaboration among the School of Communication and Information, the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Institute for Women’s Leadership.

The chair will be selected from a diverse array of fields in communication, media and women’s and gender studies. He or she will teach at least one undergraduate course per semester.

The position is not restricted to female faculty, according to an article in The New York Times.

Steinem, a celebrated figure and feminist spokesperson, began her career when she co-founded Ms. Magazine, a publication intended to push feminist issues into the mainstream media in the 1970s.

Steinem exemplifies someone who holds the media accountable for representing all people, especially SEE CHAIR ON PAGE 4

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U. urges students to take sexual assault survey JILLIAN PASTOR STAFF WRITER

White House’s United States Department of Justice recently asked Rutgers’ Center on Violence Against Women and Children to issue a climate survey regarding cases of sexual assaults that occur on college campuses.

The Department of Justice task force has put together a survey that aims to show how common campus assault is, and how students perceive sexual violence.

The survey is part of the iSPEAK Project on campus.

Sarah McMahon, the acting co-director of VAWC, is currently leading the survey.

“We named it iSPEAK because it gives students a voice that they may not have had before,” said McMahon, an assistant professor in the School of Social Work.

VAWC is a part of the Rutgers School of Social Work. Unlike any other office in the country, the

At Records Hall on the College Avenue campus, students wait in line at the Office of Student Accounting looking to talk to the Office of Financial Aid. Time and again, the employees tell students to leave the building and go around the corner to another entrance.

Luis Fernandez, academic affairs chair for the Rutgers University Student Assembly, sees this as a sign of the confusion and bureaucracy behind the Rutgers tuition system. Fernandez hails from New Brunswick and is the son of a single mother from Puerto Rico.

“It’s a question of balancing the school being so big and making it inti-

mate for students,” he said.

The question can be important to students who need to rely on lowering tuition through aid and loans, especially when sticker prices mean different things at different institutions.

According to The College Board, the sticker price for the average fourSEE PRICE ON PAGE 6

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Healthy dining options are available at Rutgers dining halls. The Rutgers University Healthy Dining Team offers students advice on nutritious food options. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / SEPTEMBER 2013

Team gives advice on responsible eating JILLIAN PASTOR STAFF WRITER

The White House task force reports an estimated one in five women are sexually assaulted in college.

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY MICHELLE KLEJMONT / PHOTO EDITOR

Eating healthy is difficult in college. With endless buffets of food and double swipe take-out options, students sometimes lose sight of a healthy diet.

The Rutgers University Healthy Dining Team, a combined program between Rutgers University Dining Services and the Department of Nutritional Sciences, aims to combat the tendency to slump into the

vortex of ramen and soda. RUHDT educates students about healthy eating and living on campus.

The team is composed of eight members. Besides newsletters, booths and events, the team also participates in research through surveys at the booths.

Jesse Tannehill, a member of the RUHDT, said the annual research is geared toward the college-aged population.

Tannehill, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences

senior, said many of RUHDT’s findings have been selected for presentation and publication.

“My favorite part is working with other [RUHDT] members to help inform students with what’s going on in the nutrition world,” he said. “We work hard to educate fellow students and help them make healthy dining choices.”

Through weekly newsletters, RUHDT informs students about

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“Targum” is an Aramaic term for “interpretation.”

The name for the University’s daily paper came to be after one of its founding members heard the term during a lecture by then-Rutgers President William H. Campbell. On Jan. 29, 1869, more than 140 years ago, the Targum, then a monthly publication, began to chronicle Rutgers history and has become a fixture in University tradition. The Targum began publishing daily in 1956 and gained independence from the University in 1980.

The photo caption for Thursday’s article, “Architect weaves Rutgers’ history into U. buildings,” should have labeled the pictured building as the Waksman Institute of Microbiology.

CAMPUSCALENDAR TUESDAY 9/30

Town Drunk Comedy presents “Haha’s and Tata’s” at 8 p.m. at the Stress Factory Comedy Club in New Brunswick. Tickets are $10 with a two menu item minimum purchase.

WEDNESDAY 10/1

University Career Ser vices of fers a “How to Find an Internship” workshop from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. at 100 Somerset St. on the College Avenue campus.

THURSDAY 10/2

Akiko Quartet performs at Mekeda restaurant from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. at 338 George St. There is a $5 music charge.

FRIDAY 10/3

Rutgers Gardens holds its weekly farmers market from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 112 Ryders Lane on Cook campus.

SATURDAY 10/4

George Lopez performs at the New Jersey State Theatre at 8 p.m. at 15 Livingston Ave. in New Brunswick. Tickets range from $36 to $76.

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Activist discusses ways of financing natural disasters

A car splashes the waters of Toms River during Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. Natural disasters like Sandy make insurance a necessity in order to avoid debt in the aftermath of a disaster. FILE PHOTO / OCTOBER 2012

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Disaster costs are increasing globally, and the federal government is spending much more on them than they used to, said Carolyn Kousky, a fellow from Resources for the Future.

Kousky discussed the challenges of financing natural disasters yesterday at the Marine Sciences Building on Cook campus.

Insuring natural disasters is difficult because so many of the factors involved are unpredictable, such as the weather and how much damage will occur, she said. Financing these disasters is challenging because it often requires government involvement in some way.

People do not really understand risk management and are biased, Kousky said. They have a hard time processing the information even if plenty is available. For example, only a small number of people that live on a fault line actually buy ear thquake insurance.

One of the things Kousky said could help more people obtain insurance is making it available to communities rather than individuals to make the community more resilient and lessen the severity of the impact.

Local governments actually have enormous flexibility when it comes to using funds from the state government, Kousky said.

They have the disadvantage of having to begin their action programs from scratch and hire their own staff, she said. But local communities tend to know their own hazards better and could therefore figure out where the money is most needed.

Another issue is that not ever yone is able to afford insurance, she said.

Certain things are easier to insure than others. Automobile insurance is much easier to in-

sure than floods, which is easier to insure than nuclear war.

“There may not be a price at which disaster insurance can be profitably offered and homeowners are willing [or] able to pay,” Kousky said.

Insuring disaster events is different than insuring individuals, she said. Disaster events affect many people at once.

“When there is a flood and my house is flooded, all my neighbors are flooded too,” she said. “When I get into a car accident, not all my neighbors have accidents too.”

A challenge for companies during disasters is that when large amounts of people are in need, they all suffer debt at the same time, Kousky said.

Most insurance claims are in expected places, such as on the coasts, but some are clumped in the middle of the countr y in high-risk places like flood areas.

On the household level, people after those types of disasters are not getting as much help as they need. Many people have filled out applications for funds only to be told that they are unqualified, Kousky said.

The amount of money households receive is actually fairly limited because insurance solely exists to make the house livable, nothing more, Kousky said. “[Insurance] is not to make your roof look nice … like it [was] before the event,” Kousky said.

Also, it is hard to know for sure how much such new programs will cost, so spending often varies once it is operating and things are altered, Kousky said.

The United States actually has a different insurance policy than other countries, because they offer private insurance, she said. In other countries they offer only public insurance.

Anning Wang, a graduate student in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, learns about natural disasters

and saving the environment in class, but not about the economics behind it.

It was interesting for her to hear about how much the government is involved with these issues.

Ruikang He, also a graduate student in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, also learned a lot about how the U.S. gov-

ernment responds to disasters, compared to the Chinese government’s response.

In China, the insurance is public and the government is much more controlling, he said.

The Depar tment of Oceanography holds seminars like this ever y week, and it is interesting to hear the speakers’ var ying perspectives and about nonac-

ademic oceanography careers, said Lauren Weisel, a thirdyear master’s student at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.

It is really important to see the connection between policy and the science behind it.

How disasters are financed is essential for people to know, Weisel said.

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SURVEY The sexual assault survey will be available online from Oct. 27 through Nov. 5.

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organization conducts a great deal of research on the topic of sexual violence.

Kate Stepleton, coordinator of the iSPEAK project at VAWC, said Rutgers has a long tradition of being an exemplary research facility, especially regarding sexual violence.

“It was only appropriate that Rutgers should be chosen to spearhead the survey,” said Stepleton, a doctoral student at Rutgers.

The survey hopes to gain a better understanding of sexual assault on campus. Stepleton said VAWC hopes to understand the attitudes of students toward gender and sexual violence and students’ readiness to intervene in cases of sexual violence.

VAWC also examines why students do and do not use the resources available on campus.

The survey will also allow Rutgers to understand how many attacks actually occur on campus.

Laura Luciano, assistant director at the Office for Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance, said survivors of sexual violence often do not speak out.

“We know about survivors who come into our office and those who go to the police,” she said.

“The survey hopes to illuminate a more accurate number of those who have been assaulted.”

McMahon explained that one in five women are sexually assaulted,

and she doesn’t think the survey will yield any different results.

“I am proud to say that the sur vey has gained ver y positive suppor t from the Rutgers-New Brunswick administration,” she said. “The sur vey is expected to positively af fect campus assault response.”

Rutgers is the only school to take part in the Campus Climate Survey.

“VAWC is a well-known and respected sexual violence program,” Luciano said. “It’s the only one like it. I think that’s

“I am proud to say that the survey has gained very positive support from the Rutgers-New Brunswick administration.”

SARAH MCMAHON Acting Co-Director of Center of Violence Against Women and Children

why Rutgers was chosen to participate in the sur vey.”

Too often in the media, universities are negatively highlighted for their poor response to sexual assault and violence, she said.

“Where some schools are missing appropriate response programs to issues of sexual vio-

lence, some schools are actually doing a good job,” Luciano said.

She said people only hear about universities that have treated sexual assault survivors poorly.

“Oftentimes, survivors are forced into speaking out when a great injustice has been given to them after their attack,” she said.

“Those are the stories you are hearing about, not the schools [that] are actually doing a good job,” she said.

In fact, Rutgers has a very effective response program to sexual assault and violence.

VAWC is a one-of-a-kind office that conducts a lot of research on the subject of sexual violence.

VPVA has reached national recognition, Stepleton said.

“They really are a legend in the field of campus sexual assault,” she said.

Rutgers has effective responses and resources, Luciano said, and it is time for schools that care about their students and are doing a good job to be recognized.

McMahon hopes to make some changes to the survey from the Department of Justice task force to make it more accessible to students and yield a better understanding of campus assault.

The survey will illustrate how students perceive assault and will produce accurate results regarding how many assaults do actually take place on campus.

It will be available online from Oct. 27 through Nov. 5.

“I urge a lot of people to take it so Rutgers can gain more insight to appropriately make changes to the way our university responds to these violent attacks,” McMahon said.

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marginalized groups, said Alison Bernstein, director of the Institute for Women’s Leadership.

Bernstein said one of the main benefits of the chair is having someone on the faculty at Rutgers who exemplifies the leadership of women and people of color in making media more inclusive.

“When I was growing up, you had a few stations and everybody watched them,” Bernstein said.

“Now, there are so many different platforms for getting messages across, so it’s more democratic in that sense.”

On the other hand, an elite leadership comprised primarily of white men still decide what content is portrayed in the media.

Today’s platforms combine new media, which refers to digital forums allowing for personal curating, such as Facebook and Twitter, and legacy media, including print, radio and blogging, Bernstein said.

Jack Bratich, chair for the Department of Journalism and Media Studies in SC&I, said given that more than half of the 500 majors in the department are women, a need exists to set up mentorships, internships and ways for them to talk to women role models in the field.

“It’s not just about women in media, but also addressing feminism in the media, which has made a resurgence in recent years,” he said.

Celebrities such as Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Emma Watson have openly associated themselves with feminism — last week, Watson spoke in front of the United Nations promoting the term.

Claire McInerney, dean of SC&I, said one tangible action people could take is being more courageous about expressing their opinions.

The faculty at SC&I have conducted extensive research in the past, which has found that people are particularly hesitant to post controversial or political statements on social media platforms when they perceive a potentially negative reception from their followers, McInerney said.

The issue of women in the media has become so prominent in recent years that SC&I is planning to launch a new academic minor in Gender and Media, which it hopes to make available to students by next semester.

“We can all be citizen journalists now,” she said.

SC&I and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies have collaborated with the IWL before, first in hosting a lecture with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media and again when co-sponsoring Steinem’s visit to the Rutgers campus last year.

“We often talk about interdisciplinary efforts, and it’s gratifying to see this come together,” McInerney said. “That’s the feminist way.”

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general nutrition information as well as facts about the many fad diets that go in and out of fashion.

Bridget Skinner, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said she is also a captain and an employee at Neilson Dining Hall.

“I think the newsletters that we have at the dining hall are ver y impor tant for people to read,” she said.

But Skinner said not enough people read them.

“It’s impor tant to star t eating healthy now instead of later,” she said. “Those newsletters are ver y informational.”

RUHDT newsletters are available at all of the dining halls weekly.

Tannehill said the best way to educate individuals on healthy eating is through fun outlets that get people listening.

“We run the Iron Chef competition on campus,” he said. “We also have live cooking shows.”

RUHDT also has a program, the “Healthy Meal,” where students plan and prepare a meal that will be ser ved throughout the dining hall.

Monthly, RUHDT also hosts booths at each dining hall to educate students on nutrition.

Peggy Policastro, nutrition specialist at RUHDT, said she has been working with the group for more than 10 years.

She explained the stresses of the college environment can have lasting ef fects on the body.

Policastro cannot testify to all college students eating an unhealthy diet, but just thinks it impor tant for students to be educated on nutrition so they can make good choices regarding their bodies.

RUHDT’s monthly informative booths are set up as themes with an interactive activity to update students on a nutritional issue. Prizes are then given away to reinforce the facts that were learned.

“This week, we have a ‘Swap Out Sugar’ booth,” she said. “A food that is typically high in sugar is shown and a student has to roll a dice. With that number, they have to guess if there is more or less sugar in that food. Substitutions with less sugar are presented to the student. Our prizes are sugar-free mints.”

RUHDT also helps students with allergies to eat healthy.

They instruct students on how to eat gluten-free, vegetarian, peanut-free and lactose-free.

They also provide impor tant tips on how to eat healthy when getting take-out from the dining halls.

According to RUHDT’s website, if the take-out line is filled with starchy, fried foods, students can request a salad for lunch and dinner. They are advised to only eat half of the pasta ser ving on pasta night and to order a veggie burger instead of a ground beef one. Drinking water or seltzer water is advised instead of sugar y drinks.

“Informing students and educating them about healthy nutrition is impor tant. They should know how to treat their bodies healthy,” Policastro said.

CLASSICAL CONCERT The salon-style concert sponsored by Mason Gross School of the Arts at the Nicholas Music Center features music that musician Sara Levy played in her home. The setting reflects the original milieu. DEVON JUDGE

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PRICE The cost of attendance at Rutgers has increased 3.3 percent between 2012-13, 2013-14 Above $75,000 per year, the net price tends to be close to the year public institution for tuition, sticker price of the University, acfees room and board was $18,170 cording to the documents.

Fernandez believes Rutgers for 2012 to 2013.

But the net price for tuition, fees, could look for external sources room and board for the 2012 to 2013 of funding, such as private donaschool year was $12,400, meaning tions, as well as pressuring the that most students pay a much low- state for more funding.

According to the documents, er price than expected in tuition.

Net price is the average yearly $288 million of student funding price actually charged to first- comes from the federal governtime, full-time undergraduate ments, $104.8 million from the students receiving student aid state government, $102.8 million at an institution of higher edu- from Rutgers and $41.4 million cation after deducting such aid, from private sources.

Of that funding, 50.3 percent according to the National Center was in the form of loans, 46.2 for Education Statistics.

Rutgers had a net price of percent in the form of grants and $16,040 for that year, one of high- scholarships and 3.5 percent in the form of est among pubemployment. lic institutions Meanwhile, in New Jersey, according to “I got a lot of aid in that. tuition increasdocuments from Whereas my friends who es are continaffecting Nancy Winterare a little more wealthy ually net price and bauer, the vice are stuck in the middle.” total price. Acpresident of cording to The University BudLUIS FERNANDEZ S t a r - L e d g e r, geting.

Only Academic Affairs Chair for the Rutgers the total cost Rowan UniverUniversity Student Assembly for the 2014 sity, with a net to 2015 school price of $19,164, year was 1.9 and The College of New Jersey, with a net price of percent higher than the 2013 to $18,464, are higher, according to 2014 school year.

The cost of attendance inthe center’s statistics.

But there is good news for stu- creased 3.3 percent between dents who are comparing colleges 2012 to 2013 and 2013 2014, acfor the best price: Rutgers is fifth cording to the article.

Members of the New Jersey out of the 13 Big Ten institutions in highest net price. The highest Assembly have introduced a bill net price is Northwestern Univer- that would keep prices for each sity, followed by Penn State, ac- class at the same level year to year, according to an article in cording to the center’s statistics.

The average increase in net The Asbury Park Press. Future price from the 2010 to 2011 aca- rate increases would only affect demic session to the 2011 to 2012 incoming first-year students.

Rutgers spokesperson E.J. Miacademic session was 14.4 percent, whereas Rutgers’ net price randa spoke against such a meaincreased only 7.8 percent, ac- sure in the article.

“Rutgers supports the goal of cording to the U.S. Department of Education College Affordabil- affordability, but we, like every other institution, have very seriity and Transparency Center.

The biggest issue for finan- ous concerns about the unintendcial aid funding may not be for ed consequences of the legisladisadvantaged students, but tion in that it may … increase the cost of tuition for incoming freshmiddle-class ones.

Fernandez is an Equal Oppor- men by equalizing costs over tunity Fund recipient and consid- four-and-a-half years,” he said in ers himself lucky to be receiving the article.

Michael Klein, head of the New aid for his status.

“I got a lot of aid in that,” he Jersey Association of State Colsaid. “Whereas my friends who leges and Universities, said in the are a little more wealthy are article the state has not increased appropriations to reflect the highstuck in the middle.”

He said the combination of low- er cost of operating a university.

Appropriations have been cut er class and upper class was essen20 percent over the past 10 years, tial to creating Rutgers’ diversity.

Comparing Rutgers to Princ- he said in the article.

Fernandez agreed with the eton University, the only other American Association of Univer- idea of a tuition freeze for cursities institution in the state, re- rent students, and yet acknowlveals one example of the effect edged the difficulties of keeping of concentrating attention on the costs low.

“I’ve seen both sides of the arlower class.

Princeton’s average net price gument, and I see that we do have is $21,231, much higher than to balance the budget,” he said.

Rutgers’ $16,040. But Princeton “There’s fault on both sides.”

The solution should be in distudents whose families make less than $75,000 per year pay an alogue and coming up with creaverage net price of $6,000, and ative solutions, he said. Penn students whose families make State, for example, trains stubetween $75,000 and $110,000 dents who are studying finance to help other students navigate pay an average of $16,976.

Rutgers’ net price breakdown loans, grants and accounting.

The University of Maryland ranges more, according to documents from Winterbauer. Stu- managed to freeze tuition for sevdents whose families make less eral years, and Purdue Universithan $48,000 pay an average ty partnered with Amazon to cut of about $12,500, whereas stu- textbook costs, he said.

“It comes down to students and dents whose families make between $48,000 and $75,000 pay administrators working together to reach that goal,” he said. about $20,400.

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R.I.P. Facebook: network’s glory days are history

Since Facebook went public in 2012, it has been ground for controversies. Facebook altered the news feeds of 700,000 users to gauge their emotions. The Messenger app, too, has faced criticism for being separate from the main app. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DEVON JUDGE

TYLER GOLD STAFF WRITER

I used to love Facebook.

I first joined it when I was in the thick of high school, some time during 2008 or 2009.

I actually didn’t even create my account — a friend made it for me because even back then “ever yone” had a Facebook. It was only a matter of time until I was hooked.

It was exhilarating to connect to a huge network of people so easily. Being able to share a link or photo or pithy status update to hundreds of my friends and submit it for discussion was exciting.

Back then, it felt like Facebook was about friendship. We commented on posts and tagged each other without fearing a future boss seeing it. It was about connecting with each other, a place to hang out with your friends whenever you wanted to.

But all good things come to an end. That’s not to say Facebook is at its end — just that the golden days are over. My news feed now is a far cr y from what it was when I first joined it. Now it’s filled with sponsored posts and brands and “You Won’t Believe What Happens Next!”

The Facebook news feed has become a limbo, a hellhole of links that exists only for you to get bored and click on the next thing and get bored and click on the next thing.

Why? Facebook went public in 2012. That means that unlike the early days, now investors have expectations of income — and that means ads.

Algorithms, not the order content is posted, drives the news feed. These algorithms track your movements online to better target adver tisements.

Facebook has gone as far as altering user’s news feeds without their consent: Facebook altered the feeds of nearly 700,000 users in 2012 for a psychology experiment.

According to a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the experiment intended to discover how positivity and negativity travels through online social networks, eventually coming to the stoic conclusion that in-person interaction and nonverbal cues are not necessar y for emotions to spread.

While Facebook claims the experiment was scientific in nature, it could — and probably would — eventually put that science into practice.

When you sign up for Facebook, the terms and conditions lay out the deal: You get to use their platform, but you also have to follow their rules.

When you skip to the bottom of that intimidating contract and press “accept,” you sign away your vir tual soul.

You don’t pay for Facebook.

If you don’t pay for a product, are you the product?

What I find appalling, though, is despite all the changes Facebook has undergone, I can’t give it up. It’s still too damn useful. For me, it’s like 21st centur y white pages.

Facebook Messenger’s app has faced controversy for it being separated from the main app, but still wins over GroupMe, WhatsApp and even iMessage because almost ever yone is on it. Being able to meet someone and then search for their name is much easier than the inconvenient “let’s trade phone numbers” dance.

I rarely use Facebook now.

I do miss using it like I used to, but Twitter is better for following up-to-the-minute news and finding things wor th reading, and Snapchat and Facebook-owned Instagram are building new ways to keep up with friends.

Twitter could be the next to fall for Facebook’s pay structure. I’ve star ted to see advertisements in my timeline, and the Discover tab, which is bent on helping you find new content sandwiched between ads,

makes it pretty clear that Twitter is taking their November 2013 IPO seriously.

The new, invite-only social network Ello shows some promise. I love the idea of separating your feed into friends and noise, but it’s too early to say if it will catch on.

They proudly declare that they’re “ad-free,” but some repor ts claim their venture capital funding will push them in another direction.

Snapchat remains my favorite way to communicate with friends. It understands the way we communicate face-toface better than any other social network.

I enjoy the new Our Stor y feature, which allows Snapchat users attending large events create a curated chain of photos and videos. Ever y “stor y” I’ve watched has made me wish I were there to experience it.

Facebook is still around and

probably will be for a while, but it’s a different beast. New social networks have popped up since the good old days. This is only the beginning for social networks, though. Things change very quickly in this space — the future is full of exciting new possibilities.

Tyler Gold is a senior in the School of Communication and Information — follow him on Twitter @tylergold for tech updates.

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Hoke’s coaching is complete joke Student athletes’ safety must be utmost priority for coaches

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hen it comes to student athletes’ safety, the fact is, he probably did see what happened, and there’s really no room for debate. There even if he didn’t realize what happened until a litare a lot of things more important than tle later, he should have immediately called Morris football, and the safety of the players is probably at off the field and made sure he received the proper the top of that list. Several studies show that many medical attention.

Instead, they waited until Morris hurt himself athletes who play contact sports, such as those in the NFL, suffer long-term consequences of repeti- again later in the game to take him off the field, tive head trauma. While there’s more education and and are now continuing to try to cover up the awareness of the issue now than there was just a whole thing.

As a player, Morris obviously wasn’t willing to few years ago, there still doesn’t seem to be enough emphasis placed on safety — especially among stu- come off the field himself — but that’s not really his call to make. As a coach, Hoke is entirely responsident athletes.

Michigan head football coach Brady Hoke is in ble for the safety and wellbeing of his players. He the hot seat right now. At a game against Min- needs to have good judgment when it comes to dealnesota last week, quarterback Shane Morris took ing with potential injuries, especially when they’re a pretty bad hit on the field and seemed visibly head injuries. In fact, that should be one of the main responsibilities of a head shaken up. He got up, but coach. At Rutgers, the footappeared woozy and actually collapsed onto his “Coaches need to put their players ball team is lucky to have coach Kyle Flood in teammates. After a few above and before everything else, head charge. Players have gone seconds of struggling to and if that’s not their first priority on record about how carestand up straight, Morris ful and supportive Flood is insisted he was fine and then they’re not fit to be when it comes to injuries stayed in the game, only coaching at all.” and player safety in generto be carted off the field al. And that’s how it should later due to an “aggravatbe. Coaches need to put ed leg injur y.” The initial head injur y was completely ignored by both Hoke their players above and before everything else, and — who insisted that he didn’t see it happen — and if that’s not their first priority, then they’re not fit to the Michigan athletic department, which issued be coaching at all.

We’re all familiar with the Mike Rice scandal that a statement addressing the apparent leg injur y later in the game but completely passed over the got the former Rutgers basketball coach fired three years ago after videos were released of him verbally head injur y.

Many fans were already upset with Hoke for abusing his players. Rice was thrown out for the way Michigan’s disappointing season so far. Well, if they he treated his players, and the Athletic Director at were looking for a reason to get rid of him, this is the time, Tim Pernetti, resigned. Hoke’s complete definitely it. It should be completely unacceptable disregard for his players’ safety is just as bad. Hoke for a head coach to allow for the physically endan- has said again and again that he still thinks his team germent of his own players the way Hoke did with could win the Big Ten championship, and maybe he Morris. If he and the other coaches really didn’t was so desperate for a win against Minnesota that he see Morris fall the first time (which we don’t be- thought keeping Morris in play might help the team. lieve for a second), that doesn’t say much about his But not everything is about winning, and there’s no attentiveness and commitment to his players. But excuse for sacrificing your own players to get there.

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Greek life must be reined in or abolished for good THE CHAMPAGNE SOCIALIST JOSE SANCHEZ

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s a movement against sexual and gendered violence in America’s universities gets ever louder, the choice for students and university administrators becomes clearer day by day and week by week. Across the country, from campus to campus, bodies seem to be piling up alongside red solo cups outside of typically colonial-style buildings adorned with Hellenistic letters. The images, reputations and dignity of our schools’ most vulnerable, particularly women, are being violated. The courts grow ever thicker with litigations — litigations dealing with assault or even injuries and deaths related, perhaps above all, to alcohol. The choice for us all is that either the greek organizations on our nations’ campuses have to be abolished, or they must be reined in and treated like any other university-officiated club or organization. These “reins” will have to entail centralized oversight and accountability as well as regulations and strict standards of non-discriminatory practices. Most importantly, it would have to also uphold standards of consensual sex or any other activity, primarily for the sake of protecting the dignity of students, especially women and other marginalized groups on campus.

The recent death of Caitlyn Kovacs, a Rutgers sophomore majoring in animal science, must not be treated as an isolated and random incident. Instead we must see it as the inevitable and tragic conclusion of a culture and a set of institutions. Kovacs’ death occurred during or after an event at the

house of Delta Kappa Epsilon, or “Deke,” located on the College Avenue campus.

Deke’s history began more than 150 years ago at Yale in 1844 and their ranks have included five of our presidents (e.g. both Roosevelts, as well as both Bushes). However, in 2010, controversy attracted itself to a chapter of the fraternity back at its very own birthplace. Brothers and pledges were caught chanting violent things such as, “My name is Jack. I’m a necrophiliac. I f--dead women and fill them with my semen,” as well as, “No means yes, yes means anal.”

The very next year, at their very own Yale home, they were suspended for five years.

shouldn’t take an expert to know that alcohol mixed with the violent and woman-hating culture that fraternities foster and incubate will make for a toxic brew. As former Sigma Alpha Epsilon brother and author of “Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy,” Andrew Lohse is quoted on Time’s website, “There’s a clear correlation between fraternity culture and sexual assault on college campuses … It becomes internalized during initiation into the fraternity. When you talk about hazing, nobody is really consenting to it. The power dynamic of being coerced to do all these humiliating and sexualized or homoerotic things [during hazing] mir-

“The choice for us all is that either the greek organizations on our nations’ campuses have to be abolished, or they must be reined in and treated like any other university-officiated club or organization.”

And let’s not forget the Louisiana State chapter of Deke and their tradition of hanging inflammatory and thoroughly tasteless banners before big football games. As the Huffington Post has reported, among their targets have been Michael Sam, the first openly gay NFL draftee, when they hung a banner saying, “Michael isn’t the Only Sam Getting the D Tonight,” in preparation for a game against Sam Houston University earlier this month, or older ones such as last year’s “Getting Massacred Is Nothing New to Kent St” before playing Kent State University.

Yet, I must admit that it would be unfair of me to come up with politically-charged conclusions of my own before Kovacs’ autopsy is complete. Nevertheless, what is known to all of us about the incident so far is that alcohol consumption was involved. It

rors this power dynamic that many people would argue occurs when women walk into a fraternity.” And let’s remember that the women will have to walk in pairs, trios or even sextets depending on the “ratio” that a frat house desires. These women are given drinks and subsequently feel pressured to appease the lusts of their snapbacked, Sperried courtesans by drinking more, smiling more and laughing more at their subpar jokes and boring personalities. The consequences for not playing along include but are not limited to being outcast as a “bitch” or a “prude.” If they do happen to go all the way with their respective bro, whether coerced or out of their own volition, they’re branded as a “slut,” Hawthorne style.

I do not know if Kovacs suffered this.

Again, what is clear to me though is that the story told so far about her death is familiar

and part of pattern. Deaths and serious injuries at fraternities are frequent occurrences. Lohse’s own former fraternity had to suspend pledging nationally last spring after a slew of deaths. As Time writes, “From 2007 to 2011, 80 of S.A.E.’s 223 chapters had action taken against them by their respective colleges and universities for such incidents … ” The fullest extent of such incidents, including violence against women, is actually pretty staggering. Douglas E. Feinberg writes that, “The National Association of Insurance Commissioners ranked fraternities as the sixth worst insurance risk in this country, just behind hazardous waste disposal companies and asbestos contractors.” If universities can’t ban them — y’know, because of the whole “freedom of association” thing in the Constitution — at least inform your students of abusive and unsafe spaces. Hell, current research shows fraternity brothers are three times more likely to commit rape then their nongreek male counterparts. And also remember the sorority girls down the road from them are 74 percent more likely to be raped then other female students. If the Rutgers University Programming Association or the juggling club had these sorts of statistics on them, we’d be up in arms. Why not the fraternities? Is it sexism? Racism? Heteronormativity? Classism? Well, it’s definitely all of the above. We at Rutgers can strike a major assault on those institutionalized and structural systems of privilege and power by either reining in our fraternities and re-authorizing existing rules and regulations — or, we can abolish them entirely.

José Sanchez is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in history and political science. His column, “The Champagne Socialist,” runs on alternate Tuesdays.

Comparisons to same-sex marriage hold back progress COMMON SENSE CONSERVATIVE SERGIO ROJAS

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bout two weeks ago, The Bilerico Project, which claims to be “the web’s largest LGBTQ group blog,” published a post that may shock many and opens up a new can of worms in the samesex marriage debate. The post, “Bigger Love? Same-sex Marriage and the Poly Problem” advocates for recognizing the legitimacy of both polygamy and incestuous marriage on the same grounds as recognizing same-sex marriage — that marriage is a fundamental right. While one might expect opponents of same-sex marriage to equate it with the practices of polygamy and incest in order to detract from the cause, it seems quite unusual for advocates of same-sex marriage to do so.

The blog post argues that since recent federal court cases have found that marriage is a fundamental right, the state cannot infringe upon this right when it comes to groups of people wishing to marry close relatives any more than they can infringe upon that right when it comes to gay and lesbian couples.

As an advocate of same-sex marriage, I find the notion of including polygamy and incest as part of the movement toward equality unsettling and problematic, to say the least. I would like to believe that those who favor legalizing polygamy and incestuous marriages are a radical fringe of society in America, and that they will never get their way.

An October 2013 public opinion poll by the Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics found that 61 percent of registered voters agreed with a New Jersey State judge’s ruling that the state must legalize same-sex marriage in order to prevent discrimination. The poll also found that for the first time, a plurality of Republicans agreed with allowing samesex marriage. But where would the percentage stand among the voters of New Jersey if asked if they agreed with allowing polygamy or incest? Five percent? Three percent?

Among Republicans? Probably zero.

people who currently favor same-sex marriage, and would ensure that conservatives who currently oppose but have the potential to be swayed would never switch sides, and would probably push back harder than they have in the past.

The particulars of incest are too abhorrent to common decency to discuss in a newspaper for public consumption. All I can say is that incest is considered a taboo amongst all cultures and time periods and has no place in society. As for polygamy, the argument that consenting adults have a right to

“The culture wars seem to be winding down as an increasing number of people, including conservatives, realize that prohibiting same-sex marriage is discriminatory and contrary to American values.”

Although we are still far from having marriage equality in all 50 states, today in 2014 we are closer than ever before. The culture wars seem to be winding down as an increasing number of people, including conservatives, realize that prohibiting same-sex marriage is discriminatory and contrary to American values. I fear, however, that coupling polygamy and incest with same-sex marriage can do great harm to the movement, slowing down the momentum or even reversing its course. Radical views of allowing group marriage and marriage between brothers and sisters (Mothers and sons? Grandparents and grandchildren? The blog post does not make clear how far the legalization of incest would go) would confuse

make contracts (marriage at the end of the day is a contract) should apply for groups of people doesn’t hold much water. Marriage as a contract is meant to be between two consenting adults (regardless of sex or gender) in order to legalize a stable relationship, a family and a household. This right cannot be extended to include polygamy. Men who wish to have multiple wives or women who wish to have multiple husbands are simply not mature enough to be married. If one wants to have multiple partners, go ahead and do so — it’s called being single. If not satisfied with your current spouse, consider getting a divorce, it’s legal in all 50 states.

Wherever polygamy is practiced, negative societal effects have been observed. Mor-

mons have practiced monogamous marriage for 124 years, but a radical offshoot known as the Fundamentalist Church of Ladder-Day Saints currently practices polygamy. In this sect, girls as young as 13 are forced to marry older men, and these men with multiple wives have almost complete control over their family. In a time where gender norms are becoming increasingly lax, and men and women have an equal voice in their own families and households, the polygamist model is a step backwards, with one authoritative figure being the head of the family and multiple spouses being subservient. Recent studies of polygamist cultures (many countries in Africa and the Middle East allow polygamy) find increased rates of crime, violence, poverty and gender inequality and traumatic experiences for children.

The Supreme Court is expected to take up a same-sex marriage case this term, and thus marriage equality may hopefully be upon us within the next year. I urge the Court, all lower courts and allies of the marriage equality movement to disavow the legal logic put forth in the Bilerico blog post that marriage rights must be extended to include polygamy and incest. Following this logic would bring about great change to society that is not desirable, and advocating for these changes is only holding back the progress of the same-sex marriage movement.

Sergio Rojas is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in history and journalism and media studies. He is the chairman of Rutgers College Republicans. His column, “Common Sense Conservative,” runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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DIVERSIONS Nancy Black

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Murphy leads RU defense with .852 save percentage, 23 saves on season

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Casey Murphy has played during her quick transition to the collegiate level, credit is being given where it’s due. An integral part of the Knights’ defense, Murphy holds a .852 save percentage and 23 saves.

But the members of the supporting cast aiding Murphy around the net and helping generate offensive opportunities on the opposite end of the field deserve just as much credit.

Earlier in the season, Murphy praised her experienced teammates who made up the defensive unit around her for the way they limited shots and action close to the net.

“When we spread around, the girl behind us has our back no matter what. … We have complete faith in each other,” said junior backer Maggie Morash. “And it doesn’t matter who’s coming at us. If we have the four of us, we can take them on.”

With the defense being comprised of mostly juniors and seniors, the experience playing together for years has tightened the group and strengthened its ability to counter opposing offenses as a whole.

“We know our strengths and weaknesses really well, so no matter who we play next to, if they can’t make it to the ball, we have to defend the cover,” said junior backer Brianne Reed. “We just keep each other very balanced on the back line.”

O’Neill has been vocal about the depth of his team and made it known that the defense is an area abundant with backers he can trust to be inserted at any minute of any game.

In Rutgers’ 1-0 shutout win over Iowa, O’Neill said he went with six defenders on the backline throughout most of the game and has done so periodically throughout the season.

Part of what adds to the depth is the emphasis the Knights place on practice.

Senior Tori Leigh said players within the unit take advantage of the afternoons on the practice field to bring out the best in each other’s game.

“In practice, we better each other,” Leigh said. “We pride ourselves on how hard we work together. … We push ever yday to get better and better.”

To the defense, what’s more rewarding than a hard-fought win?

No goals on the scoreboard for the other team.

“That’s one of the biggest things we pride ourselves on. It’s how hard we work and how hard we deny crosses, deny shots, deny goals,” Leigh said. “There’s nothing more important to us than getting a shutout.”

While senior forwards Amy Pietrangelo and Stef Scholz power the Knights on the offensive end, sophomore backer Erin Smith weighed in with her perspective of the way she and the other defenders treat shutouts.

“We might not get a lot of repetition, but we have a lot of pride in getting shutouts because that’s just what we do,” Smith said. “Forwards get goals, and [defenders] get shutouts.”

running backs are listed as over 6-feet and ever y other back is more than 200 pounds) doesn’t stop Peoples from doing what he does well.

Senior quar terback Gar y Nova doesn’t see any limitations in Peoples despite him being a small back.

“I think Des, obviously being a smaller guy, is a little bit shiftier. He does a great job making guys miss,” Nova said. “But he can also get the tough yards.”

When you look at Peoples, you see the average American man’s height and about the average weight of an American man. But when you see Peoples play football, he is far from average and uses his size to his advantage.

But don’t call him a scat back.

“I just consider myself as a normal back. I’m pretty balanced. I can make people miss,

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and I can break tackles,” Peoples said. “The of fensive line’s size definitely helps. A lot of the times guys can’t even see me, and by the time they do, I’m already about to pass them. My size is a benefit to me.”

But head coach Kyle Flood sees the big picture and the benefit of having both Peoples and Goodwin splitting the carries evenly. Flood also has a plan for how to evenly distribute the carries.

“We did the substitution pattern by drive, and that’s kind of how it worked out. We didn’t deviate from that plan the entire game,” Flood said. “So they just went — I think Des took the first series, Justin took the second, Des took the third through the game — and that’s how the carries played out.”

But Flood liked enough of Peoples to give him the nod as the star ting running back, and it really paid of f for Rutgers.

Peoples carried the ball 21 times for 83 yards, touching the ball eight of the first nine of fensive plays against Tulane. For Peoples, it’s an honor to receive that sor t of vote of confidence.

“I feel like they trust me, and they trust me with the ball in my

Senior quarterback Gary Nova said that Peoples is a shifty back but is able to use more than speed to be successful at running back.

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hands, especially since coach Flood always says the ball is the program,” Peoples said. “So for him to give me the ball that many times in the first drive, it means a lot.”

Peoples has ultimately solidified himself as a co-star ter at the running back position and done an ef fective job.

But what makes him special is difficult for him to assess. He is a shifty back, according to Nova, and by People’s own admission, he can do anything a regular back can do because he is a regular back.

But Peoples is keeping a secret few know about, and don’t expect him to reveal it any time soon.

The obser vers of Rutgers football will just have to wait and see.

“I haven’t even used any of my ‘moves moves’ yet, but right now, my spin is pretty good,” Peoples said. “There’s still more to come. … You guys will see.”

For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow @TylerKaralewich and @TargumSpor ts on Twitter.

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September 30, 2014 TENNIS KAYATI SUFFERS FROM EPILEPSY AS MEMBER OF TEAM

Junior overcomes disability to pursue playing career MARQUEL INGRAM CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Every once in a while, one finds beneath the surface of the sports world a story of a person excelling as an athlete despite a physical limitation.

For junior Lindsay Kayati, epilepsy is the physical limitation that poses a challenge for her as a member of the Rutgers tennis team.

Epilepsy entails that a person often sustains repeated seizures as a result of disturbed brain activity, which in turn causes a change in behavior.

Head coach Ben Bucca described the challenges of managing Kayati during practices, saying he has to always be certain his player takes her medicine to prevent epileptic episodes.

“She manages it, but it is a struggle [for her] at times,” Bucca said.

While it must be a challenge to manage the ef fects of the disease while playing tennis at a collegiate level, Kayati is now in her third season with the Scarlet Knights and doesn’t appear to be slowing down any time soon.

Instead of wilting, succumbing and limiting herself, Kayati

CHANGES Young impressed Donigan with his play, logging 120 minutes against MSU CONTINUED FROM BACK and played roles in the 0-0 draw.

Although the Knights didn’t win the game, they did earn a valuable road draw and their first shutout since Aug. 29 against UMKC. Although Walier only played in the first half, his four saves contributed to keeping the game scoreless against an 11-shot onslaught from the Spartans.

Greczek — whose streak of 27 consecutive starts ended — entered at halftime and played the entire second half and overtime periods to maintain the clean sheet with three saves of his own.

The Fairfield, New Jersey native had struggled in the Knights’

Junior Lindsay Kayati has epilepsy, a physical condition involving repeated seizures. Kayati takes medicine to prevent epileptic episodes while playing tennis. THE DAILY TARGUM / MARCH 2013 remains strong and has markedly improved her game since entering Rutgers as a freshman.

“She is a ver y strong competitor, able to play high-quality tennis,” Bucca said. “She

has an all-around game with no weaknesses. She hits the ball harder this year in terms of ser ves and forehands.”

Kayati finds there is a polarizing effect to having epilepsy, cit-

previous three games, according to Donigan, including against Indiana, where he made several shaky decisions, including one that led to a penalty kick.

Despite being benched to start the game, Greczek said he was not that surprised by the decision and that it will only benefit the team.

“I think it’s good because it makes you overthink things — you get to see certain aspects from a different point of view,” Greczek said of sitting in the first half. “And it just makes me hungrier because no one has a safe job, and it makes me want to work more and just opens up my eyes.”

While Greczek eventually saw the field against the Spartans, Bruccoleri never came into the game.

Young’s overall performance in the midfield was a big a reason for that. Young sat deep as a defensive midfielder and absorbed pressure, which allowed sophomore midfielder Erik Sa more freedom to push forward.

Though Donigan said Bruccoleri had been fantastic for the team for more than three years, he believes Young’s play is providing some good competition for a starting midfield spot.

“He brought some things to the table today and really proved his value and his worth, and he’s really kind of solidified himself in the middle of the park for us,” Donigan said. “Those two changes in particular kind of helped our team right now, and it changed the mentality and the mindset. Our guys fought like hell for 120 minutes, and we’re very proud of the effort. … It made a difference.”

Approaching the midway point of the season in a couple weeks, the Knights have yet to find the perfect formula with injuries and inconsistent performances contributing to that.

With no player’s position safe on the field, the competitive nature in practice is expected to amplify.

ing the positives and the negatives of the malady.

“The good and bad parts of epilepsy is that no one really knows I have epilepsy unless I tell or have a seizure, so that’s a good thing,”

said Kayati. “The bad part is that not everyone knows what to do if I have a seizure. I also don’t think people realize how much I struggle to do things that everyone else can do without any problems. For example, the medicine I take to prevent the seizures impairs my cognitive skills, so I have to study twice as much as a normal student.”

In addition to speaking about the benefits and detriments of living with epilepsy while attending college, Kayati also revealed how the medicine she takes each day affects her ability to lead a normal life.

“There are many days where the medicine makes me so sleepy,” she said. “It’s hard to get out of the bed and have a productive day, but I still need to do that.”

For Kayati, each day she is surrounded by many people who do not know the proper procedure for taking care of someone who has come down with a seizure.

But her teammates are always willing to help her in any way.

“They have learned what to do if I need help and they are always there when I need them,” Kayati said.

For updates on the Rutgers tennis team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.

Sophomore goalkeeper David Greczek’s streak of 27 consecutive starts was snapped Sunday against Michigan State.

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Greczek would not have it any other way.

“You always want to come in an environment where you’re competing because it only makes you better,” he said. “And when you have great matchup like Walier

and me, always just fighting and fighting, that just makes you a better player.”

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

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September 30, 2014 KNIGHT NOTEBOOK FLOOD LISTS HUNT AS CO-STARTER AT FREE SAFETY

Minnesota native gets chance to live dream, start first game GREG JOHNSON SPORTS EDITOR

Back in his childhood days growing up in Eagan, Minnesota, Andre Hunt cherished the times he watched his father play football for Wisconsin.

As he attended Badger games against the likes of Minnesota, Iowa, Ohio State and Michigan, Hunt dreamed of following in his father’s footsteps.

But now listed as a co-starter at free safety on the Rutgers football team’s depth chart for Michigan, the redshirt freshman walk-on might get a chance.

With sophomore Delon Stephenson questionable with a lower body injury and senior Johnathan Aiken suspended for the first half, there’s a real possibility Hunt could be starting his first game on the Big Ten stage he always dreamed of.

“It’s a dream come true,” Hunt said. “I always wanted to play against the biggest schools, and Michigan was definitely one of them. I’m very thankful to be a part of this game and just very excited. … You couldn’t have painted the picture any better.”

Hunt, who recorded three tackles and a critical late sack in his first-ever game on defense Sept.

20 against Navy after Stephenson’s injury, was again thrust into action Saturday against Tulane.

He entered late in the third quarter after Aiken was ejected for targeting quarterback Devin Powell on a tackle above the shoulders.

As part of a new NCAA rule, Aiken will also miss the first 30 minutes against the Wolverines.

He didn’t record any stats in the remainder of the Scarlet Knights’ blowout, but the experience helped calm the nerves of the soft-spoken Hunt.

Playing in front of 48,361 fans, Hunt got a chance to soak in High Point Solution Stadium’s atmosphere for the first time. He is hoping it prepared him for this Saturday’s Blackout game on a stage he relishes.

“I love playing in night games,” Hunt said. “Just being out on the field — you’re surrounded by thousands of fans — and you’re playing a major college football game, and I think now that I kind of know what it’s like, it’s not going to be too hectic for me.”

The emotional hurdles, though, are only half the battle.

Whether it’s giving up watching television or playing video games in his free time after football in the morning and class in the afternoon, Hunt expects to have his hands full this week.

Looking to clean up his technique in Rutgers’ last line of defense after watching film of Tulane on Sunday night, he is eager for extra film sessions, notes and questions.

“Any down time I have when I don’t have any homework to do, I’m going to go through film, go through the notes I’m going to take just to make sure I am very comfortable and confident with what I’m go-

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ing to do,” Hunt said. “It’s going to be a pretty busy week.”

Fifth-year senior strong safety Lorenzo Waters couldn’t be more proud of how far the walkon has come.

“I’m definitely excited to have him out there,” Waters said. “I’ve seen how hard he works and how diligent he is in his preparation. Just to see where he’s come from, being a wide receiver [and] moving to safety to fill a void in the secondary

last year, to now having an opportunity to go out there and play against a Big Ten opponent. I’m really excited for him.” *** Head coach Kyle Flood listed a season-high 19 players on this week’s injury report.

Along with Stephenson, senior middle linebacker Kevin Snyder and sophomore cornerback Anthony Cioffi are also questionable to play against Michigan.

Backup redshirt freshman outside linebacker Steve Nash is out with an upper-body injury, which will test Rutgers’ depth against a Michigan run game averaging 5.2 yards per carry.

“Injuries are something every team in the country is dealing with right now, and we’re not immune,” Flood said. “So the next guy has got to get ready. When he’s on the field, he’s the starter, and he’s got to act like it.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I haven’t even used any of my ‘moves moves’ yet, but right now, my spin is pretty good.”

— Sophomore running back Desmon Peoples

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FOOTBALL PEOPLES CARRIED TEAM-HIGH 21 TIMES AGAINST TULANE FOR 83 YARDS

Defense plays pivotal role in success of RU GARRETT STEPIEN STAFF WRITER

Sophomore running back Desmon Peoples earned the start Saturday against Tulane and remains the co-starter at the position.

Peoples said he feels honored carrying the ball as much as he did against the Green Wave. MICHELLE KLEJMONT / PHOTO EDITOR

Back overcomes size prejudice TYLER KARALEWICH ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Sophomore running back Desmon Peoples is tired.

He’s not tired from carr ying the ball 21 times against Tulane on Saturday — he’s practiced enough and been featured enough in the offense not to be. He’s not really even tired after practicing the day after the game — that’s what the day off Monday is for.

Peoples is tired of hearing what he can or cannot do based on his size. He’s tired of hav-

ing to explain what he does well and how he does what he does.

But Peoples is not tired of feeling the need to prove himself as an every-down back — as a legitimate back despite his size and as a starting running back for the Rutgers football team.

After a start and the performance he had against the Green Wave, Peoples thinks he is on the right track to doing just that. With junior running back Paul James out for the year, the burden falls on his and sophomore Justin Goodwin’s shoulders.

“After my first start, I feel very much comfortable in our offense and running it,”

Peoples said. “I’ve definitely gone towards proving I can do it as a smaller back. I just need to keep building on that and just keep running hard.”

Although Peoples thinks he has started to prove himself, he understands why people question him. After all, when someone thinks of a running back, they don’t typically picture someone who is 5-foot-8 and weighs 175 pounds.

But being smaller than the prototypical running back size (four Scarlet Knights

Defense wins championships, as the old adage goes, but a good offense starts with a great defense.

As cliché as those two statements may be, they hold true to how far a team in any sport can go on its journey to the top.

And in NCAA Division 1 women’s soccer, these two statements correlate directly to the success of the Rutgers women’s soccer team.

Coming into the season, the Scarlet Knights returned seven players who logged valuable minutes on the back defensive line throughout last year’s 13-4-5 campaign.

Since they first stepped back onto the field in the season opener against Stony Brook, the defenders have yet to miss a beat.

For the second year in a row, Rutgers boasts a 7-1-1 overall record. In its first year among the some of the nation’s most elite women’s soccer programs, the team holds a respectable 3-1-1 mark in the Big Ten conference.

If you ask head coach Mike O’Neill, one of the key components to the Knights’ success has been the fortitude of the defense.

“They’re just playing really well. They’re good on their feet,” O’Neill said of the defense.

“They’re playing as one, and they’re practicing as one … I can’t say enough about them.”

In three of the past four games, Rutgers has held a clean sheet. In each of those shutouts, the team squeaked by opponents with 1-0 escapes.

Shutouts are statistically credited directly to the goalkeeper, and from the way freshman SEE SUCCESS ON PAGE 13

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MEN’S SOCCER TWO KNIGHTS MADE THEIR FIRST CAREER STARTS ON SUNDAY

Coach issues lineup changes during tie SEAN STEWART ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

When the Rutgers men’s soccer team took the field Sunday at No. 16 Michigan State, the Scarlet Knights started the game without two familiar faces.

Sophomore goalkeeper David Greczek and senior midfielder and captain Nathan Bruccoleri were both on the sidelines.

The pair had started each of the Knights’ first seven games, so against an experienced Spartans team that entered the matchup on a three-game winning streak, the move came as a bit of a shock.

But given the added depth to his team this year, head coach Dan Donigan elected to sit the pair to try to revamp his side that lost four of its last five games.

“We can’t just rely on guys. When guys start to get complacent and start to play mediocrely,

BY THE NUMBERS

How has the Rutgers football team fared this season in the red zone?

The Scarlet Knights have scored on 16 of their 18 trips to the red zone, which is an 89 percent conversion rate when reaching the 20-yard line.

By comparison, Rutgers scored 76.4 percent of the time when reaching the red zone all of last season.

we need to make changes, and that’s what we felt we needed to do.” Donigan said. “And it’s very risky, especially going on the road against a team like Michigan State, but we feel that at the end of the day it panned out for us, and we’re very happy and pleased with it.”

The move paid off. Sophomore goalkeeper Mitchell Walier and redshirt freshman Jack Young both earned their first career starts SEE CHANGES ON PAGE 14

EXTRA POINT

GARY NOVA,

senior quarterback, was named one of the Manning Award’s eight “Stars of the Week” yesterday for his performance Saturday against Tulane. Nova threw for 291 yards and four touchdowns.

Freshman keeper Casey Murphy plays a key role in success of Knights defense.

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KNIGHTS SCHEDULE

WOMEN’S SOCCER

FIELD HOCKEY

VOLLEYBALL

MEN’S SOCCER

vs. Indiana

vs. Michigan State

vs. Purdue

at Penn State

Thursday, Yurcak Field

Friday, 3 p.m.

Piscataway, N.J.

Friday, 7 p.m., College Ave. Gym

Saturday, 7 p.m.

State College, Pa.