The Daily Targum 2016-10-18

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Undocumented immigrants share experiences at Rutgers CAMILO MONTOYA-GALVEZ STAFF WRITER

At one point last year, ever ything seemed to go wrong for Carimer Andujar.

A battle with colon cancer had deteriorated the School of Engineering junior’s mother’s health and forced her from her job. Andujar found herself unable to pay for her school tuition along with her sister’s diabetes medication and began to accept the idea of dropping out.

In a last-ditch attempt, Andujar called the Office of Financial Aid. After describing her circumstances, she found that the office was unable to help her because they did not know what it meant to be an undocumented student.

“They didn’t even know what undocumented meant,” she said.

Unsure if there were any financial aid options for non-citizens or non-residents like Andujar, the office told her to seek help at the Center for Global Services, which advises international students.

The move seemed odd to her — she had lived in America for most of her life and was certainly not a foreign student—but Andujar said necessity prompted her to go.

The center told her that they could not help her, saying that their services were only for those with student visas.

After visiting several University offices and receiving similar responses, Andujar said she knew something needed to be done.

With help from the Center for Latino Arts and Culture, Andujar began laying out the blueprint for a group to help fellow undocumented students.

“I don’t want any other student having to go through what I went through. I don’t want any other student to feel like they’re completely lost during such a difficult time,” she said. “I want them to have a place to go. I want them to have a community to go to.”

Andujar arrived in the United States from the Dominican Republic when she was 4 years old and has been undocumented ever since, she said. She attributes her public disclosure of her legal status to her refusal to be daunted or ashamed by her situation.

Through the Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, created by President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration in SEE EXPERIENCES ON PAGE 4

More than 11 million undocumented immigrants live in the United States, with the majority of them having spent at least 10 years in the nation. Less than 15 percent have lived in America for less than five years. GRAPHIC BY HELEN PICARD

Bloustein Dean to step down after 22 years at U.

NJPIRG kicks off referendum push to receive funding

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SOPHIE NIETO-MUNOZ ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Rutgers members advocate for student interests across the Rutgers campuses at New Brunswick, Camden and Newark as part of the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group, an independent student group which is currently undergoing its referendum to remain on the student term bill.

NJPIRG appears as an $11.20 charge on each student’s semester term bill. For the referendum results to be valid, at least 25 percent plus one person must vote yes from each division of each school at Rutgers. The group is hoping for 25,000 students to participate in the voting process across the University.

In the fall of 2013, Rutgers students voted to fund NJPIRG, with a voter turnout of more than 40 percent and 89 percent of voters choosing to keep the charge.

Arielle Mizrahi, a School of Arts and Sciences senior and state board chair for NJPIRG, said students should vote yes because the organization is the largest student-run and student-funded non-profit group in the state.

“We represent student campaigns, we represent campaigns

The New Jersey Public Interest Research Group will need 25 percent of the student body plus one other student to vote “yes” in order to continue to receive funding. THE DAILY TARGUM / JANUARY 2016 students actually want,” she said.

“The only campaigns we run are the ones students actually vote on.”

She said it is important to vote because it is a democratic vote that allows students to make decisions.

“To say that you go to a school where you get to decide and you get to vote for a non-profit that represents your interests on your SEE FUNDING ON PAGE 5

After 22 years with Rutgers, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy Dean James Hughes will leave the University following the school’s 25th anniversar y.

All of the anniversary milestones taking place this year make it a good time to step down, said Hughes, who is the longest-standing dean at Rutgers.

The Bloustein school is celebrating its 25th anniversary, the 70th anniversary of the undergraduate planning major, the 50th anniversary of the graduate planning major and the 25th anniversary of National Transit Institute.

“My shelf life is running out, but one of the reasons is this is the 250th university of Rutgers University,” he said. “So, it’s a real celebratory year and a good point to step down and let someone else take on the leadership of the school.”

Hughes said he always considered his job to be the best job at the University.

A search committee chosen by Rutgers—New Brunswick Chancellor Richard L. Edwards, who was an associate dean for 17 years, will be responsible for picking a new dean,

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said Michael Greenberg, associate dean of faculty. The search will take most of an academic year.

Greenberg has been Hughes’s colleague and friend for 45 years.

“I personally feel Dean Hughes was a great dean and that’s because he encouraged among faculty and staff a real entrepreneurial spirit,” Greenberg said. “You cant replace over two decades of management and successfully managing an organization.”

Hughes has been an integral part of the school, Greenberg said, having spent several decades building relations with public servants in New Jersey and creating allies within the field of Planning and Public Policy.

Rutgers has received several grants from a variety of federal, state, local and private organizations because of Hughes’ entrepreneurial spirit and creativity he ran the school with.

“He’s very open minded and very flexible, and it would be my hope that we will get someone who will be similarly inclined for the future,” Greenberg said.

Hughes allowed the school’s faculty to modify its curriculum, as well as develop or upgrade majors, SEE DEAN ON PAGE 5

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Study finds women do not appear as media pundits

The Center for American Women in Politics is working with Gender Avenger and Women’s Media Center, two organizations which are trying to raise the profile of women in news media, to break down the gender distribution within political punditry. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR

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nowhere near 50/50 but to watch the shows and see the results month after month, you really get staff writers a sense of how underrepresented While women make up more women are in this medium,” she than 50 percent of the U.S. pop- said in an email.

She said the study would be ulation, they are greatly misrepresented in the media and po- important during any election litical perspective, according to year, but is especially signifiresearch conducted by the Center cant in a year where there is for American Women in Politics at a possibly of electing the first female president.

Rutgers (CAWP).

The study began in March and CAWP is working with Gender Avenger, a website that encour- will be going through Nov. 15. ages a community that ensures CAWP will then analyze the inforwomen are represented in public mation to determine the female dialogue, and Women’s Media impact on cable television.

CAWP’s reCenter, a search shows non-profit negative reprogressive sults in that women’s media orga“There is no excuse for women’s perspectives are nization, for not including women, not as actively a research but it’s happening ... They sought out as initiative that want women but they just male perspecprovides an analysis of the can’t find them. It doesn’t tives, according to Rutgers gender balhold up.”

Today. ance of popThe research ular morning debbie walsh is not filled with and nightly Director of the Center for American Women positive results, cable shows. in Politics according to the T h e y CAWP’s current launched research. an initiative More than called “Who Talks?” which provides a tally half of the guests invited on weekly of the gender balance on networks such as CNN and MSNBC have included the cable television.

“At this point, there is no ex- female perspective.

FOX News has far fewer womcuse for not including women, but it’s happening. We have heard this en on their shows, with 15 percent too many times. They want wom- of panelists being women on The en but they just can’t find them. It Kelly File, as well as 19 percent doesn’t hold up,” CAWP Director of panelists on Fox and Friends Debbie Walsh said in an interview being women.

CAWP releases the data each with Rutgers Today.

Chelsea Hill, research assis- month on Gender Avenger’s website.

Hill said she does not pay tant at CAWP, said she was not shocked by the results, but was much attention to the content of still upset over the lack of equality. what individuals say on a panel, “Going into the project ... I but takes note of how many womknew that the results would be en are included on panels, for how

long and how many segments they are included in.

“It’s one thing to watch casually and make assumptions and another thing to literally count each expert,” she said. “There’s no legitimate reason that there are

fewer female experts commenting on the presidential election.”

She urges the public to demand equality.

Gender Avenger has been heavily involved in efforts to bring attention to gender

representation in culture, Gina Glantz, co-founder of Gender Avenger, said in an inter view with Rutgers Today. She created the idea for the group after watching a 2012 media forum which featured all white men.

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EXPERIENCES 11.1 million undocumented immigrants lived in United States in 2014 Immigration has been a contentious issue for the past years, 2012, Andujar was able to apply for with Democrats and Republia work permit and a driver’s license, cans disagreeing about what but was not granted any legal status. to do with the undocumented To be eligible for DACA, in- immigrants residing in the Unitdividuals must have been in the ed States — which the Pew ReUnited States and under the age search Center estimates to be of 31 on June 15, 2012, when the around 11.1 million.

Before he was sworn into ofprogram was announced. They must have arrived before they fice in 2009, Obama promised to were 16 and have lived in the push for comprehensive immiUnited States continuously for at gration reform with a pathway least five years. They also must to citizenship.

This was not accomplished in be in school, have a high school diploma or have been honorably his first term, but came close in 2013, when a bipartisan immidischarged from the military.

Those with felonies, criminal gration overhaul bill passed in misdemeanors or three or more the Senate but was not considless serious misdemeanors do not ered by a Republican-controlled qualify, according to the Depart- House of Representatives.

The presiment of Homedent took exland Security. ecutive action The New Jerin 2012 to cresey Dream Act, “I don’t want any other ate DACA and signed into law student to feel like they’re then again in

by Gov. Chris completely lost during 2014 to expand Christie in Januthe existing ary 2014, allows such a difficult time.” program and Andujar and othto create a new er undocumentCARIMER ANDUJAR one, the Deed students School of Engineering Junior ferred Action to qualify for for Parents of in-state tuition Americans and at Rutgers and Lawful Permaother schools in the state, but does not make them nent Residents, or DAPA. The second program — which eligible for state or federal aid.

Andujar has financed her edu- was struck down by a 4-4 tie in the cation through her and her moth- Supreme Court in June — would er’s income and a couple of schol- have shielded around five million undocumented immigrants from arships, she said.

When she reveals her status to deportation and allowed them to fellow students, she said they are work legally in the country.

Many Republicans hailed the deoften surprised because she does not match their conceived image cision, or lack thereof, believing that of an undocumented immigrant. Obama has overstepped his presIn the end, she said, her day-to- idential authority and considering day experiences are very similar the program a form of “amnesty,” according to the New York Times. to that of her classmates.

In addressing the immigration “We are dehumanized a lot of the time. People don’t acknowl- reform that she has long awaited, edge the fact we have homes Andujar would urge lawmakers to here. That we have family make one consideration.

“They should just acknowledge here,” she said. “Yes, I’m undocumented but first and fore- the fact that most children came most, I’m your peer— I’m just here at a young age. America is all like you. I have to face the ‘RU that they know,” she said. “They are American.”

Screw’ too.”

Students debate Trump’s refusal to release personal tax returns

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Some students believe that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump should release his tax returns to the public, but others say they are irrelevant to his holding the highest office in the land. REUTERS

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more than the average person,” she said.

Today’s CEOs like Trump make more than 300 times more Former President Richard than the average American, acNixon, who was impeached and cording to research done by the resigned from office in 1974, did Economic Policy Institute. not release his tax returns to the Focusing on whether Trump public when running for presipays taxes is a distraction in the dent. Republican nominee Donald election, said Opal Via, a School Trump is the first candidate since of Ar ts and Sciences junior Nixon to do the same. and Rutgers College RepublicAt the beginning of October, the ans member.

New York Times received an anon“The same can be said about ymous letter containing three pagHilar y’s email es of Trump’s scandal which tax returns happened to from 1995. The be erased, exletter showed capital losses of “Trump understands the system, and I think we need cused and dishe more than $900 someone in office who understands the system from a regarded,” said. “These million.

The different perspective.” are personTimes speculatal problems ed that Trump BRENDAN HENRICI of the candimay have Rutgers Business School Sophomore dates in which avoided paying had trickled income taxes down into for the past two media to perdecades. suade voters.”

While stuThe opinions of students in redents should question Trump said Trump should release his gard to political candidates are not paying his taxes, it should tax returns.

“He should not be hiding things often skewed by the mainstream not deter their vote, said Brendan Henrici, a Rutgers Business from the public or endorsing loop- media as well as their environholes in taxes,” she said. “The fact ment, Via said.

School sophomore.

“The average student knows Whether Trump pays his in- that Trump is alluding to the fact come taxes or not, Henrici said that he does not pay some of his a fair share of information about he still pays all the money that is taxes is only encouraging bad be- the election,” she said. “However, havior and reducing the amount I feel that the information which required by law.

“I look at it in two elements. of people that are going to want to they are hearing about the candidates is biased.”

One, he paid all of the taxes that pay their taxes.”

Via said because Rutgers is Billionaires such as Trump he had to pay. Two, it’s a product should take responsibility for pay- a fairly liberal school, student of his profession,” he said.

Large scale real estate de- ing more in taxes than the aver- are influenced by the views of the majority. velopers like Trump have the age earner, she said. “(This) can be a problem if they “If you are a billionaire, you ability to claim significant tax write-offs as a result of business have a significant, steady income do not listen to their opposing or you have losses like Donald candidate’s plans and blindly give losses, he said.

Trump’s alleged lack of paid in- Trump, but you are still making their votes to whom the majority come tax is not negative, he said, an incredibly larger percentage, agrees with,” she said.

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but rather is a quality needed for our next president.

“Trump understands the system, and I think we need someone in office who understands the system from a different perspective,” Henrici said.

And this reasoning is common.

In 2015, three in four Americans were dissatisfied with the way the U.S. was being governed, according to a CNN/ORC survey.

Still, Cooper Strenz, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore,

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DEAN Hughes quadrupled number of undergraduate students, Greenberg says person can really take on whatever their priorities will be,” he said.

One of the greatest achievehe said. The Bloustein School also expanded significantly after ments Hughes said he has witnessed during his time as dean is Hughes took over as dean.

“During his tenure the school’s bringing the school to the point substantially expanded the num- where it has become public policy central for New ber of students Jersey and the especially at “You can’t replace over region. the undergradThe Bloustuate level,” he two decades of ein school said. “We have management and ranks sixth more than successfully managing in the nation quadr upled an organization.” among pubthe number of lic planning undergraduMICHAEL GREENBERG schools and ate majors in a Associate Dean of Faculty second within relatively short the northeast period of time.” region, beating During his remaining time as dean, Hughes universities such as Cornell, Cosaid he wants to ensure the school lumbia and Harvard, Hughes said.

Hughes’s last day will be June is as financially stable as is possible.

“I want the new dean coming in 30, 2017. After he leaves, Hughes having no problems, so it’s basi- will be speaking around the region cally getting the school in as good and working on a book contract of shape as it can be so the next with Rutgers University Press.

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James Hughes, the Dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, will step down from his position next year after more than 22 years running the school. The school will celebrate its 25th birthday this year. RUTGERS.EDU

FUNDING NJPIRG at Rutgers hopes 25,000 students will vote this year, Mizrahi says CONTINUED FROM FRONT own campus is a pretty incredible thing,” she said.

Mizrahi said this makes NJPIRG different from other groups on campus, because everything goes back to what students are interested in.

Most recently, NJPIRG worked with Rutgers Libraries to provide open-source textbooks for students. University President Robert Barchi gave the libraries a $12,000 grant to make “sure students can actually afford their education,” she said.

The way the organization’s funding works, as well as how it works with paid organizers, separates NJPIRG from other groups on campus, she said.

“Some of our money does go of f-campus, we have money that goes towards advocates and researchers that work on behalf of student interests,” she said.

While the Rutgers chapter works hard to represent students on a local scale, Mizrahi said NJPIRG also ensures representation on a national scale with other student PIRG chapters.

Some funding goes to ad-

“I’d love to go down to D.C. and lobby to make sure that my interests and student interests are being represented, but we’re full-time students, so we hire folks that can actually be on the ground and work for us,” she said.

Another portion of funding goes toward researchers and scientists who help to draft the reports NJPIRG releases. Earlier this month, NJPIRG released a hunger report which found that nearly half of all students reported food insecurity.

“We represent student campaigns, we represent campaigns students actually want.”

ARIELLE MIZRAHI School of Arts and Sciences Senior

vocates in Washington, D.C., such as Ethan Senack, the federal Higher Education Advocate for U.S. PIRG, who works on behalf of students for college af fordability and textbook campaigns, and ensures higher education policy is on the agenda of elected of ficials.

“We also have a textbook report that releases a bunch of outstanding numbers that Rutgers students are spending an average of more than $1,200 on textbooks a year,” she said.

Less than 20 percent of the budget goes to costs for renting space or clipboards.

“More of the money is going into the campaigns and more into people representing us and our training programs,” Mizrahi said.

NJPIRG plans to continue working closely with Rutgers libraries on the textbooks campaign and ensuring the open resource textbook program is implemented.

The organization is working on getting more professors to sign onto the program so those professors can implement the program in their classes, which in turn will save students money, Mizrahi said.

“Students who want to join can write up campaign proposals and we go from there. Campaigns in the future are whatever students vote in and whatever students want,” she said.

There are more than 60 polling locations available to vote across all four campuses in New Brunswick, as well as Camden and Newark. Polls open at 8 a.m. every day, and will be open three to six weeks depending on voter turnout. All students in all colleges, graduate schools or programs across each campus are eligible to vote, except students graduating this fall.

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CRIME OCT. 17 TRENTON — Sierra Carter, 29, was accused of tr ying to run down her boyfriend in her car in Delaware. She was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon for unlawful purpose charges. Carter’s boyfriend said the couple was fighting and then Car ter got into her car. The boyfriend stood in front of the car in an attempt to stop her from driving away and then jumped up on the hood. After an investigation, a warrant was issued for Car ter’s arrest.

OCT. 17 FLEMINGTON — Christopher Pennetta, 52, and Catherine Pennetta, 57, both of Pittstown, were arrested for theft and tax evasion. The couple submitted misleading social security benefit information and did not pay income taxes in 2014 and 2015. Their arrests came after an eightmonth investigation.

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n the morning of Homecoming, the A ‘POPPED’ CULTURE freedom on the College Avenue campus was tangible. You could MICHAEL ANDERSON feel it along the off-campus houses as students blasted pre-game music into the early New Brunswick morning. You could feel it as those same fully inebriated students cheered along the main and side streets. You could feel it as students smiled as the New Brunswick Police Department peacefully shut down “dages.” Within their freedom was a keen sense of fearlessness. The disturbing of the peace, the litter along New Brunswick streets, the public intoxication, all occurred with little to no fear of any real consequences. As I pushed my bike along the sidewalk, I couldn’t help but wonder how the atmosphere and the stakes would be different if the majority of these students were black or Latino? And as I watched a Latina New Brunswick mother pick up the Friday-night trash from her lawn with her child in her other arm while Rutgers students in red stormed by, I couldn’t help but think of President Barack Obama and this year’s presidential election.

Most black people in America understand there is a pungent double-standard when it comes to their freedom to publicly (and privately) fall short of expectations. Many black people grow up hearing that our racial status demands that we work twice as hard.

But by transitive property, this also communicates that white people have to work half as hard. This creates a culture of black anxiety in the face of white mediocrity. This year’s presidential election has done plenty to reinforce this fact. All one has to do is place a 2008 Obama in the shoes of any of the two current leading candidates to see the seething incongruity of the criticism received. While Obama had to jump through several hoops in response to inaccurate accusations before and during his presidency, the horrendous offenses of both Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton are being brushed to the side with an alacrity that would never have been granted to Obama purely due to his race. There is no doubt that had Obama entered the 2008 election with a reputation anywhere close to that of either of the candidates, he would never have been considered “fit for office.”

Being black in America is to understand the true feeling on an uneven playing field. Our slip-ups and imperfections are not given the same patience, and are not readily excused. We are rarely afforded the benefit of the doubt. Poor decisions when we are young are not dismissed on terms of “youthful exuberance” or “it was all in good fun.”

The age-old idea of multiple failures before success or making mistakes along the way are not privileges that tend to hold true for minorities.

These messages are ingrained when Bill Cosby gets a show taken off the air but Donald Trump is still a viable candidate for the President of the United States.

That is why I was not surprised to find little to none of the black population at Rutgers partaking in Saturday morning’s “festivities” (another word afforded to primarily white individuals). This observation is not only limited to this Homecoming, but all football weekends I’ve experienced during my time at Rutgers. Black students displaying their “pride” publicly are few and far in-between. They understand that their “harmless festivities” are seen as “classless riots” and cannot share in the same public freedom I describe at the beginning of the article.

It keeps coming back — black people feel they have to work with extra zeal because in the long run, it is assumed that the judgement they receive will have an extra spoonful of discrimination. This explains the perfectionist mindset of many black students. It explains why black students have a unique anxiety about maintaining the highest GPA possible. As Arthur Chu says in a 2015 Salon article, “Getting by on ‘intangibles,’ on ‘being yourself,’ on being vulnerable and revealing your failures — that’s for people who aren’t cultural outsiders.” He says white people tend to be “able to do what they do because whiteness is a roomier identity, an identity where you can screw up and fall on your face and be a fool without letting your people down.”

This feeling of not being allowed room for error is toxic. This selfimposed and externally-confirmed restraint felt by black people and other minorities compromises one’s humanity. Human beings, not just students, should feel that they can grow and learn from their mistakes, especially during college. They should not be afraid to show gaps in their knowledge, or flaws in their personality. To not be able to do these things is to not be human. The advice of “taking a healthy career risk” tends to fall on deaf ears when it comes to black people because they know that if they take the leap and fall, society will not be as understanding as they would be to their white counterparts.

Additionally, it holds white people at a lower standard, which is equally damaging to their humanity as well. Young black people should not feel that life is all or nothing.

Michael Anderson is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in journalism and media studies with minors in Africana studies and digital communication, information and media. His column, “A ‘Popped’ Culture,” runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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Prison labor system exploits its inmates Strikes against working conditions doesn’t attract attention

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merican history is darkly intertwined with all. Inmates involuntarily work for private companies exploitative labor. It would be naïve to blindly such as Whole Foods, preparing artisan cheese and succumb to the popular notion that involun- raising tilapia, McDonalds, creating cutlery, containers tary servitude ended on Dec. 6, 1965, through the and uniforms and Wal-Mart, harvesting produce in the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Con- heat without sunscreen, food or water. In addition to stitution. The gross present-day reality is that slave working for private companies, prisoners cook, clean labor persists. Involuntary servitude is just now made and work on maintenance and construction in their invisible, separate from the rest of society and unbe- own prison. Inmates are forced into deplorable prison knownst to ordinary people, but this form of exploita- conditions while working for essentially nothing.

The prison strike was organized to coincide with tion operates at a massive scale and brushes upon people’s life in subtle ways, from taxes citizens pay the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, that are used to prop up these oppressive systems but in recent weeks, the protests have wound down. to purchasing products produced by indentured ser- People outside the prison networks heard little about such protests, rendering it ineffective. The vants. Slave labor is pernicious and pervasive.

Section 1 of the 13th Amendment concisely ar- prison population participating in this strike made ticulates the law of the land: “Neither slavery nor themselves vulnerable to the prison-establishment’s involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for retaliation through isolated confinement, loss of privileges or the loss of their crime whereof the lives. Recent crackdowns party shall have been duly con“This strike is said to be one of the largest, on the striking workers include tactical teams victed, shall exist if not the largest, prison strikes the U.S. storming the yard, handwithin the United has experienced.” cuffing people and firing States, or any place tear gas canisters, and subject to their also being left out in the jurisdiction.” The operative word in this sentence is “except,” because rain for up to six hours. The purpose of a prison is to that’s when the sentence shifts and introduces a stip- rehabilitate and compensate for a committed crime, ulation for when slave labor is acceptable — when not to throw people into a debased system of abuse.

For the inmates, relaying their conditions and the “slave” is a criminal.

Since Sept. 9 in at least 29 prisons and as many plight beyond the walls of the prison comes with baras 50, inmates staged nationwide labor strikes, hun- riers. Stories about the prison strikes failed to obtain ger strikes and other varieties of protest in 12 states adequate attention from mainstream media outlets, against working conditions within the prison system. and other news outlets that fortunately covered the This strike is said to be one of the largest, if not the events had to work with the bits of information they largest, prison strikes the U.S. has experienced. were able to acquire. However, the effort of inmates Inmates are protesting a wide range of issues from to convey their experience under daily misconduct harsh parole systems and three-strike laws to over- within the prison system should not be in vain.

Prisons — which are traditionally public institucrowding and medical neglect. However, the overarching complaint that unified workers is the exploita- tions — should not be privatized to have a profit-motivated bottom line. The current system strips peotion of inmate labor.

Prison labor is a whopping $2 billion a year industry ple of dignity, and makes money off of it. Immediate that employs 900,000 inmates, paying them a few pa- reform of this deeply flawed system is necessary to thetic cents per hour. Those who are lucky get up to preserve the integrity of this country and for applica$2.00 an hour, and the unluckiest ones get nothing at tion of justice.

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RUSA, administration fail to address ‘locker room’ talk FARENHEIT 250 MERYEM UZUMCU

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lthough Republican nominee Donald Trump’s comments have instigated a national reaction, it is hard to say whether it was focused more on lewdness versus the presidential nominee’s threat to women’s bodily autonomy.

With Republican leaders pulling their endorsements in the name of their mothers, daughters, sisters and aunts, the conversation seems more focused on attacking male kinship extensions rather than on the assault on women’s agency. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s response to Trump’s remarks on the debate stage were not reassuring. Instead of opening up a broader discourse on a need to address sexual violence, she used the opportunity to bring down Trump’s credibility by pointing out past discriminatory rhetoric he spewed against minorities. Her missed opportunity also highlighted Clinton’s failure to address that within the minority populations Trump has denigrated, the racist and sexist rhetoric affects women in an intersectional way.

In rehashing Trump’s commentary, a conversation around sexual assault needs to directly address ensuring women’s safety at the University. Just last year, the Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA)

failed to create a sexual assault committee.

Only with a discursive pushback did RUSA address its blunder, which was especially disturbing since the White House had designated Rutgers University as a leader in the campaign against sexual assault on college campuses through the #iSpeak survey pilot program. It is critical to further the discourse on sexual assault particularly because women on college campuses disproportionately experience sexual violence. One out of four women are sexually assaulted during their college experiences. Experiences of sexual

rather than the deeper causes. For example, when the University cut the intra-campus bus budget, it resulted in more crowded buses. With more crowdedness, there was also an increase in incidents of women reporting being groped or grabbed on buses. I point to this example as a way a university budgeting policy has gendered implications, which requires representation at least at the student body level. University President Robert Barchi readily takes the White House designated sexual assault initiative seriously in his rhetoric,

“The incidents are not isolated, they are systematic and exist across a continuum of issues.” violence do not exist in a vacuum dismissed as mere “locker room talk.” The incidents are not isolated, they are systematic and exist across a continuum of issues.

Having a conversation within student body policy making then becomes especially important to address not only issues of representation in RUSA, but of the makeup of separate entities that confront “gender issues.” Rather, I challenge our representative body to make such concerns a priority in the form of gendered consideration on a variety policy question. Designating a single committee on a structural concern that affects 1 in 4 women is highly misrepresentative and focuses on the effect

but does little to intersectionally address policy proposals with consideration to gendered violence. Responding to structural issues with a committee, a popular Rutgers administrative solution to many problems —from the legacy of slavery at Rutgers to stolen indigenous land—does not confront the cultural and institutional reproductions of violence. The burden, however, does not lie on one set of shoulders. When it comes to slashing the budget, or making hiring decisions within departments, administrative leaders and chairs must consider the effects through a variety of lenses. Ignoring gendered implications in policy, meanwhile touting diversity initiatives and rape

prevention measures only proves to make the hypocrisy that much more blatant.

Addressing sexual violence does not end at a leaked tape of a national figure empowering violent speech, it begins within our own communities’ roundtables. We need to decide what kind of conversation we want at Rutgers University around sexual assault, particularly when women, making up 50 percent of the student body, are directly affected. Holding elected student body leaders, administrators and departmental heads accountable requires a willingness to openly discuss how power and policy operate at multiple levels. Though Trump may dismiss the gravity of his words, his language has already set a precedent of what is acceptable for men in power to openly exercise.

Dominant media can no longer characterize sexual assault as a self-induced phenomena behind closed doors or dimmed parties when it is openly on the table. It is up to students to organize and use this opportunity to address the concerns rather than delegate to dismissive student bodies and rhetoric chalked up administrative leaders.

Meanwhile, leaders can join students in this conversation or continue to spew their own kind of rhetoric, one that is condescendingly dismissive and full of feel-good fluff.

Meryem Uzumcu is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in planning and public policy, Middle Eastern studies and women’s and gender studies. Her column, “Fahrenheit 250,” runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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Tech Tuesday

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Companies use sound waves to discover potential oil wells

Oil companies, like the one trying to build a pipeline in North Dakota, use a variety of technologies to discover oil, including mechanical sniffers to detect certain hydrocarbons. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

harshel patel digital editor

Protests against a new oil pipeline in North Dakota have garnered much attention in recent days, with hundreds of people making their way to the junction of the Cannonball and Missouri Rivers.

These protests stem from the planned construction of a 1,172mile pipeline running through Nor th Dakota, near a Sioux reser vation and cross under the Missouri River. Some fear it will pollute drinking water, while others say it will bring oil to refineries more easily.

Oil is formed over millions of years. Dead organisms fell to the bottom of the seas and were eventually covered by mud, according to the website for the British Broadcasting Company (BBC).

Throughout time, the mud becomes rock and becomes hotter from other rocks in the area. This combination of heat and pressure on the dead organisms eventually turns the matter into a liquid called “crude oil,” according to the site.

This crude oil is covered by a layer of rock and cannot pass through it, meaning it cannot leak

out into the water. Crude oil is what oil companies take out and refine for later use, according to the site.

Initially, people searching for oil would guess what rocks it might be under and simply began to dig down, hoping for the best. The wells made in this process were called “wildcat wells,” according to the website for the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association (NMOGA).

Now, geologists use a variety of methods to find oil. Observing rocks to find the optimal conditions

Machines called “sniffers” detect the presence of hydrocarbons, leading geologists directly to the oil, according to the site.

Most commonly, seismology is used. Through this, geologists send sound waves to the rock and measure the wave returned to them, according to the site.

The rate at which sound waves pass through solids, liquids and gasses is very different. Geologists can determine what substance is under a rock by measuring the sound wave that is reflected back to them, according

Shock waves can be produced through the use of a compressed-air gun, which shoots air into the water, or thumper trucks, which slam plates against the ground. Explosives can also be used, detonated underground or thrown into the water, according to howstuffworks.com.

Once the oil-extraction site is selected, scientists determine the boundaries of the site and check for any potential environmental impacts. Then, before land can be drilled, oil companies obtain permission and leases to ensure

“Geologists use a variety of methods to find oil.”

for oil formation enables them to narrow down potential oil locations. This can be aided through the use of satellite imaging, according to howstuffworks.com.

Additional tools can also be used, such as magnetometers or sensitive gravity meters. Magnetometers measure changes in the Earth’s magnetic field, which can be attributed to oil flow. Gravity meters measure changes in the Earth’s gravitational field to do the same, according to the site.

to the NMOGA website.

Geologists cast out extremely sensitive microphones and create some sort of shockwave at the rock surface. The microphones record the sound waves reflected back from the many layers of rock, according to the site.

Sound waves travel fastest through solids and slowest through gasses, so measuring how quickly the sound wave was reflected would identify the object underneath the rock, according to the site.

control of the land, according to the site.

After all of these procedures, the company begins to prepare the land for drilling. It is leveled, access roads are built, water sources are identified and a pit is dug to dispose of anything dug up during the drilling process, according to the site.

Finally, a pit called a “cellar” is dug around the area where the drill will go, giving ample space for any additional accessories and workers. The main hole is made

in the middle of the cellar with a small truck, and when it is completed the main rig is brought in, according to the site.

Rigs built on the water are built on barges with the help of a helicopter, as there is no foundation for the rig, according to the site.

To actually drill into the ground, a drill bit and drill pipe are placed into the hole, boring into the ground. Mud and rock are circulated out of the drill bit and new pipes are added as the hole gets deeper, until the desired depth is reached, according to the site.

The pipes are cemented into place and drilling resumes until oil is reached.

Explosives are sent down the hole to make pores for oil to pass through. Then, more tubes and a structure called a “Christmas tree” are sent down to control the oil flow pressure, according to the site.

The rig is then removed and a pump is added to suck the oil out of the ground, according to the site.

Crude oil is taken and transported through the use of pipelines or tankers to refineries, where it can be purified for consumption in a variety of forms, according to the website for the World Petroleum Council.

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DIVERSIONS

October 18, 2016

Mark Tatulli Horoscopes

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Page 9 Eugenia Last

Happy Birthday: Stay calm and offer positive suggestions. This is not the year to make rash decisions or to let others push you in a direction that doesn’t suit your needs. Look for the best solutions and refuse to make assumptions regardless of what others do. Be inventive when it comes to money matters, and you’ll experience financial gains. Your numbers are 4, 15, 23, 27, 32, 35, 49.

Over The Hedge

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Non Sequitur

Wiley

Pearls Before Swine

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Pick up the pace and make a point to get into the swing of things. Your ability to get things done on time will be impressive. A romantic relationship can be addressed, and future plans can be made. 4 stars

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Expand on the ideas you have been mulling over in your head, but don’t share them or put them into play just yet.

Put more emphasis on investing in your knowledge and physical appearance. Romance is highlighted. 3 stars

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Let your common sense prevail. A piein-the-sky idea will not pan out. Opt to do your own thing instead of getting involved in a joint venture. Test your physical abilities by taking on an energetic challenge. 3 stars

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Live and learn. The changes you bring about at home will carry over into the way your friends and family treat you. Get involved in something that will test your competitive skills, but keep modesty in mind. 3 stars

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Emotional matters will surface and are best addressed swiftly before you make matters worse. Don’t make assumptions when you should be asking questions and resolving issues carefully. Romance is encouraged. 3 stars

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’ve got more going for you than you realize. Step up and share your plans and you’ll find out quickly who is ready to pitch in and help.

Surround yourself with good people and you’ll get good results. Romance is highlighted. 3 stars

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Keep an open mind when it comes to business, but don’t let anyone persuade you to get involved in something that isn’t well thought out. Questions will put you in a better position to decide what’s best for you. 3 stars

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Live life in the moment. Learn from the experiences you have with others. Teach those less knowledgeable than you, but be willing to listen to those who know more. Sharing will make the difference between success and failure. 3 stars

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Personal matters must not be allowed to ruin your productivity or chances of advancement. Look for a clever way to make your point, and try to avoid anyone who might hold you back. Forge ahead without trepidation. 2 stars VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Put your ideas and plans on the table and discuss what you intend to do. Showing courage along with a smart presentation will get others on board. Don’t let constructive criticism discourage you. Take it into account and move forward. 5 stars

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Look over any personal papers that might need updating. Invest in your skills, education and your physical wellbeing. The gains you make due to savvy life changes will pay off. Romance is encouraged. 5 stars PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): An emotional blunder will be costly if you aren’t honest about the way you feel and what you want. Step outside the situation and you will see more clearly what needs to be done. Protect your health, wealth and your integrity. 2 stars

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Universal Crossword ACROSS

69 Bit of severe weather

1 Keg spigot

70 Some freshwater ducks

4 Window parts

71 “Just as I predicted!”

9 Musical exercise 14 Valuable rock

DOWN

15 Move very gradually

1 Island nation east of Fiji

16 Huge ship

2 Ann ___, Mich.

17 Major network

3 River to the Rio Grande

18 Crew member

4 City in Pennsylvania

19 Express audibly

5 Clothes presser

20 Totally prepared

6 Bawdy

23 Crime committed with

7 Lecherous gaze

bad lighting?

8 Bender

24 Pizza fractions, often

9 Gunk

28 Court figure, briefly

10 It’s tough to fight, it’s said

32 Honeybunch alternative

11 Picnic pest

33 Parenthesis, essentially

12 Director Spike

36 Mixtures or medleys

13 Human thing to do, it’s said

38 Akin to

21 Cuban couple

39 Apt end to a peaceful day

22 Word with “first” or “band”

50 Gun, as an engine

43 ___-bodied

25 Attempted

52 Pronouncement

44 Ogre’s lack

26 Boy Scout, at times

54 Some coins

45 Medicos, briefly

27 Oozes

55 Barnyard honker

46 One who has your

29 Certain Ivy Leaguer

56 Clear a blackboard

home covered?

30 Approaching, poetically

58 Down in the dumps

49 Device in the beauty salon

31 ___ and aahed

59 Isle of exile for Napoleon

51 Section of a lyric poem

33 Some culture mediums

60 Command to a dog

53 Cheese chunk

34 Automaton

61 Sounds of understanding

57 Treat for a babysitter

35 Amber, for one

62 Auction offering

61 Set straight, as tires

37 Name on a billboard

63 U.N. workers protection gp.

64 Comparatively sicker

40 Visibility helper

65 Kiwi’s extinct relative

41 ___ Lanka (Ceylon)

66 Like Swiss cheese

42 Shop VIPs

67 Like some sugar units

47 Item name derived from a person

68 Pothook shape

48 P on a frat house

Yesterday’s Solution

Yesterday’s Solution

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October 18, 2016

QUARTERBACK Knights have been outscored 174-14 in 4 Big Ten conference games this season continued from back ‘I think you have a lot of room for improvement, we thought you would’ve improved more in spring.’ And so he had a heck of a summer in his own personal improvement and that’s continued up until this point. He’s a kid that never wavered despite some of those other guys coming in and he’s kept working. This past week, he went out there and did some things that we hadn’t seen some guys do yet.”

Ash was adamant that the decision was made not because of anything Laviano did, but it was due to the energy Rescigno provided to the offense when he came on Saturday.

“Chris has done everything that he’s been asked to do,” Ash said. “He’s changed his attitude.

He’s changed his work ethic, his commitment level to the football team has been sky high. He’s provided tremendous leadership for the other members of the offense. ... He’ll continue to provide leadership for not only the offense but for the quarterback room and for Gio as he prepares to go starting the game on Saturday.”

Rescigno was the third different quarterback to relieve Laviano midway through a start in three weeks.

Before Rescigno came graduate transfer Zach Allen, who played the final three quarters of a 78-0 loss to No. 4 Michigan a week prior, and true freshman Tylin Oden, who played the final quarter and a half against No. 2 Ohio State in Columbus.

Ash said he hopes Rescigno can end the “revolving door” the quarterback position has become this season.

Whether he will stop the trend is yet to be seen, but as senior of fensive lineman Dorian Miller said, Rescigno doesn’t have to reach the level of Johnny Manziel or Cam Newton in his first star t — the fact that he provides something different is enough.

“Just play within himself.

Don’t try to be a superhero and

EDWIN GANO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / JANUARY 2016

RU finishes sixth in tune-up for Big Tens Jordan Farbowitz Staff Writer

Head coach Chris Ash announced Rescigno as the starter in the beginning of the week in order to allow the offense to adapt.

DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR / OCTOBER 2016

Highlanders represent 14th opportunity for Rutgers to earn its first win of season

best goalkeeper in the Atlantic Sun in terms of goals-against-average in Victor Pujades. Pujades has only allowed .93 goals per game and is third in the conference in save percentage at .755.

For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow @briannnnf and @TargumSports on Twitter.

Sophomore Conor Murphy led the Knights with a 20th place finish at the Princeton Invitational over the past weekend.

NJIT

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CROSS COUNTRY

don’t try to do things,” Miller said when asked what Rescigno has to do to be successful. “Don’t play outside of himself, that’s the main thing. Make the right plays, make the right reads, play within himself. … In life, if you get a new shirt or you get a new video game, it’s just something that’s new and different so I think he provided something a little different on (Saturday) … it was just momentum, just the classic case of momentum.”

NJIT is also in first place in its conference, and midfielder Mamadou Guirassy has scored the fourth most goals in the conference.

But like ever y other team Rutgers has faced this season, the Highlanders strength of schedule is significantly

Head coach Dan Donigan said he believes Rutgers will capture its first win in 13 tries Tuesday night against NJIT. EDWIN GANO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / OCTOBER 2016

weaker than the Knights. NJIT has only faced one ranked opponent this year in No. 12 FGCU and that game was in conference. Rutgers has faced three ranked opponents within its conference and an additional four outside of the Big Ten. Junior forward Jason Wright, who scored the Knights lone goal Friday night, believes his team must control the offense more efficiently and said it’s the only way it can win.

“I think we just have to go out there and play and be more ef ficient of fensively to ease some pressure of f our defense,” Wright said. “That’s the only way we can win, when we score, so I guess we gotta be more ef ficient and ef fective with our of fense.”

After the Highlanders visits Piscataway on Tuesday night, there will only be one more home game for the season. And with Rutgers being winless with one fourth of the season left, losses are more glaring.

But Donigan believes his team will break into the win column soon — very soon.

“I believe it’s gonna come Tuesday, but we’ll see Tuesday.”

Donigan said.

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

After finishing second at the Metropolitan Championship last week, the Rutgers men’s cross country team looked to take a step up in their final tune-up meet before one of the biggest meets of the year.

And while the results didn’t look good upon first glance, the team produced an all-around solid performance, with multiple runners recording their fastest times this season.

The Scarlet Knights finished sixth at the Princeton Invitational on Saturday in their last meet before the Big Ten Championship.

They improved on their performance at last year’s event, where they finished 11th. They also improved their average 5-mile time by 20 seconds.

“I thought we ran great at Princeton,” said head coach Mike Mulqueen. “Our improvement from last year to this year was very significant.”

Ivy League schools dominated the meet, as Columbia finished first and Yale and Penn rounded out the top three.

Sophomore Conor Murphy paced the squad on Saturday by finishing 20th with a time of 24:42.9, his fastest time so far this season.

Sophomore Dominick Munson joined Murphy in the top 30 by finishing in 25th. His time of 24:44.7 was his best so far this season.

“I was really excited about my performance, but I was really encouraged on how the team performed, especially since it’s the last meet before Big Ten,” Murphy said. “We put together a really good race. To average sub-25 as a team is really solid, and it definitely puts us in contention to move up in the Big Ten a couple spots.”

And the personal-best times did not stop there. Senior Nick Price finished in 38th, junior Trent Brinkofski finished in 45th and junior Alex Livernois finished in 60th. They all crossed the finish line with their fastest times so far this season.

Brinkofski attributed the lower placements to the better competition that the team faced this week, but was still satisfied with both his and the team’s performance.

“When we race at the Mets, there’s a select group of teams, but when we race at Princeton,

there’s a lot of different teams that we don’t face in local meets,” Brinkofski said. “There was better competition which caused me to finish a bit lower, but I ran faster than I had before. But I was happier with the team result because we had a team average of 24:55 and I was the fourth guy.

If I’m the fourth guy and I’m running 25 minutes flat, that means that we’re running really well as a team.”

Brinkofski also admitted that he runs better on hilly courses like last week’s Van Cortlandt Park, but it doesn’t take away from his good performance this week.

Now the team’s attention turns toward the Big Ten Championships in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, which is arguably the biggest meet of the season.

They have two weeks to prepare, and after the results that they have produced in the last few meets, the sky’s the limit for them in Minnesota. The Big Ten is one of the toughest conferences in cross-country, and Rutgers is putting the rest of the teams on notice with its consistency and its performances that are improving from week to week. At this point, the best the team can do is just keep training and building confidence.

“We know Big Ten’s going to be faster than any race we’ve seen this year, so running Princeton this week was a good tune-up because we ran faster than we’ve ever ran this year,” Brinkofski said. “Going out that fast and trying to maintain that pace is tough, but this was a great workout because this is what we’re going to feel like at Big Ten. Every team in the Big Ten is extremely good, so it’s good to see improvement, and we’re definitely stronger than we’ve ever been before.”

The team is currently ranked 12th out of 40 teams in their region, and competing against some of the best schools in the country should definitely give their ranking a boost.

“All of the teams in the region are taking notice that we are putting together pretty solid performances,” Munson said. “We’re definitely becoming a threat.”

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Rutgers clinches spot in Big Ten Tournament with win Kaylee Pofahl Correspondent

The Rutgers field hockey team has officially clinched a bid to the Big Ten Tournament with a dominant 3-1 victory over Ohio State on Sunday.

The weekend began with tears and ended with cheers for the Scarlet Knights (8-6, 2-4).

Rutgers went 1-1 through its conference doubleheader, dropping a 4-3 hear tbreaker against Michigan State on Friday before rebounding with its postseason clincher.

After failing to capture a Big Ten win last season, the Knights made a bold statement with their victory on Sunday.

“I think this weekend was our chance to prove our worth and that we are meant to be in the Big Ten and that we are here and we are ready,” said senior forward Sarah Regn, who tallied a goal in both games this weekend. “All the pieces just fell together (Sunday) ... It was just fun. I think today we played for each other … when it came down to it, everyone was busting their butts back for the girl next to them in that Rutgers jersey.”

In a weekend of matchups that would decide the trajectory of the season, it was essential that Rutgers resurged after its disappointing outcome on Friday.

The Knights had led the Spartans 3-1 in the second half but when Michigan State answered with 3 consecutive goals, Rutgers failed to respond despite a stag-

Senior forward Sarah Regn tallied a goal in each of Rutgers’ two games this season, including an insurance score in a 3-1 win over Ohio State. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR / OCTOBER 2016 gering 18 attack penalty corners and a 27-13 advantage in shots.

With Big Ten tournament hopes hanging in the balance, the Knights needed to regroup before taking on Ohio State.

“We came out and we had a short but sharp practice (Saturday morning) and that kind of got us tuned in for the big game and the day of travel,” said

senior defender Sofia Walia. “I think that was kind of the turning point of where our confidence and where our mentality was. Both teams were battling for a spot so I think knowing that, you go in with a certain head game that you’re not gonna allow pressure or the ner ves to get to you. I think we executed past that pressure.”

The beginning of the game at Buckeye Field was worrisome, with Ohio State getting on the board within the first three minutes of the contest.

Senior defender Devon Freshnock evened the score about 15 minutes later and Rutgers took a 2-1 lead after senior Kimberly Jevic scored off an assist from fellow senior Rachel Yaney.

An insurance goal by Regn with an assist from Walia early in the second half secured the win for the Knights and earned them a ticket to Maryland in the beginning of November.

Head coach Meredith Civico said the team’s mindset was the difference maker this weekend.

“I thought we showed a lot of maturity and composure ... We had to manage the game mentally for 70 minutes and that was the biggest adjustment,” Civico said.

“We were in a very similar situation I think as we were on Friday — just being up 2 goals and (Sunday) I thought we managed the game, we were really smart in that second half whereas on Friday we kind of had a little bit of a mental lapse that cost us a couple goals.”

Rutgers’ veterans led the offensive fire against Ohio State, with the senior Knights claiming all 3 goals on the day as well as those with assists.

This year’s squad has differentiated itself throughout the season but it will now have the opportunity to do what they didn’t get the chance to last year.

“I’m really pleased and I’m really proud of the team,” Civico said. “I think we’re playing amazing hockey— we’re playing the best hockey since I’ve been at Rutgers. I think if we can just get that mentality piece and be confident and be consistent with it, we can beat anybody.”

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WOMEN’S SOCCER OHIO STATE 0, RUTGERS 0

Rutgers stays put in Big Ten, draws with Ohio State Alex Gold Staff Writer

The Rutgers women’s soccer team traveled to the Buckeye State to play Ohio State last Sunday, where it fought into its sixth overtime match in their last seven games.

The two Big Ten conference rivals played a total of 110 minutes, including two extra periods, but neither could muster even one goal.

The final score ended 0-0 with the tie being Rutgers’ fifth draw on the season.

The Knights have also compiled nine wins and two losses on the year, including a 4-1-4 record in Big Ten play.

Meanwhile, the Buckeyes move to 9-5-3 in their 2016 campaign, including three victories, three draws and three losses in conference action.

Both teams were heavily pushing to receive more than one point for the match, as Rutgers is currently sitting at the fifth spot in the Big Ten standings and Ohio State is located in the ninth slot. The Knights attempted to leap into the top four, which would put them in a position to host a postseason tournament game, while the Buckeyes were hoping to join the top eight so they could qualify for the tournament.

Both teams were matched in aggression and failed to produce a single goal all match.

Throughout the match, despite the even score, Ohio State was superior, leading in almost all of the major team statistics.

The Buckeyes attempted 10 shots compared to Rutgers’ seven, including a four to two advantage in shots on goal. Ohio State also drew more fouls, garnering a total of 17 free kicks, while the Knights only notched seven. Additionally, the Buckeyes earned the lone corner kick of the game, demonstrating how they were the more aggressive side on Sunday afternoon.

It was senior day in Columbus, which may have contributed to the determination the Ohio State players showed on the field. Seven Buckeyes were honored before the game, including star for ward Lindsay Agnew, who paces the team in points with 10 goals and five assists on the season.

She has a full 12 points more than her next closest teammate and has impressively found the back of the net on 25 percent of her 40 shots in 2016.

The dangerous striker scored three game winners this season, but she could not quite find that same success against Rutgers.

Agnew definitely came close, creating three separate

oppor tunities in the last 20 minutes of the game.

In the 71st minute, she made a run down the center of the field followed by a perfect pass to classmate Nichelle Prince, but the Knights goalkeeper Alana Jimenez came up huge with a diving save.

Jimenez foiled another Agnew try when the keeper closed off the forward’s angle at the goal on an 8-yard volley.

Agnew was forced to aim high and her shot caromed off the crossbar.

With less than five minutes left in the match, the two players met one last time in regulation when Agnew broke free at the top of the 18-yard box. She fired a shot toward the left post, beating Jimenez in the process, but the ball fell wide by mere inches.

In spite of the fact that the Buckeyes put together more quality chances on offense, Rutgers can be proud of how it represented itself on the defensive end.

Jimenez excelled in the seventh shutout of her career, rising to the occasion time and time again when faced with a threatening one-on-one battles against opposing players.

The back line also showed its prowess by coercing Ohio State into taking longer shots from tougher angles.

The defense led the Knights

to its ninth clean sheet of the season. This is a mark the team hopes to increase in its final two regular season matchups.

Rutgers will host Nebraska Saturday, Oct. 22nd and then

travel to Wisconsin to conclude the season on Oct. 26th.

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Senior goalkeeper Alana Jimenez recorded the seventh shutout of her career in the Rutgers’ 0-0 draw with Ohio State Sunday.

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“When it came down to it, everyone was busting their butts back for the girl next to them in that Rutgers jersey.”

— Senior foward Sarah Regn on Rutgers’ win over Ohio State

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FOOTBALL SOPHOMORE GIOVANNI RESCIGNO WILL START AGAINST MINNESOTA SATURDAY

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Sophomore Giovanni Rescigno will be the first quarterback not named Chris Laviano to start for Rutgers in 18 games. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR / OCTOBER 2016

For the first time in 18 games, the Rutgers football team will have a quarterback not named Chris Laviano behind senior center Derrick Nelson on its first offensive drive of a game.

Head coach Chris Ash announced sophomore quarterback Giovanni Rescigno is the Scarlet Knights’ starter “moving forward,” starting this Saturday against Minnesota (4-2, 1-2) in Minneapolis, in his press conference previewing the matchup Monday.

The change comes after Rutgers was outscored 174-14 in four losses to open its Big Ten schedule and ranks penultimate among 128 FBS teams in total offense with junior signal caller Laviano as the starter.

In the limited action Rescigno has seen — two snaps against Howard Sept. 10 and the entire second half against Illinois last Saturday — he’s provided a spark, going 10-for-18 and scoring the Knights’ first touchdown in 11 quarters against the Fighting Illini in a performance which ultimately earned him the nod.

“Saturday in the second half, it was different. It just felt different,” Ash said. “Didn’t necessarily mean that we went out and scored a bunch of points, but we moved the ball.

He made some exciting plays with his feet.

Threw the ball well at times. There was just a different energy on offense. There was different energy on the sideline, different energy in the stadium when Gio was in there, especially after he did some of the things he did, and once he got comfortable and got moving

a little bit. So we’re hoping that we can build on that.”

Ash said the decision was made Sunday in order to give Rescigno and the rest of the offense the opportunity to prepare for the Golden Gophers without any uncertainty surrounding the game.

The sophomore entered the Illinois game having impressed the coaching staff during the week after being demoted to the scout team to emulate the Illini’s mobile quarterback Chayce Crouch. Ash said Gio looked comfortable and didn’t hesitate for the first time he can remember, showing positive signs entering the game.

With the offense’s struggles continuing throughout the first half, Ash and offensive coordinator Drew Mehringer approached Rescigno about coming into the game, and despite only having two snaps of in-game experience, he was able to “rally off answers” to questions posed to him about the playbook.

Upon entering, he impressed with his ability to improvise when the pocket collapsed around him, with Mehringer pointing to a scramble he had on a 3rd-and-9 where he gained 10 yards and a first down with his feet.

His performance and the subsequent starting nod is a culmination of his unwavering effort and work in both the offseason and during the season despite his competition seemingly having an edge over him, according to Mehringer.

“Gio is an extremely conscientious kid, cares a lot about his performance,” Mehringer said. “Coming out of spring, I was like See QUARTERBACK on Page 10

MEN’S SOCCER RUTGERS-NJIT, TODAY, 7 P.M.

Winless Knights host in-state rival NJIT Bret Levinson

same conference — Atlantic Sun — as No. 12 Florida Gulf Coast, the team that shot out to an early 5-0 lead on Rutgers before allowing a Knights’ comeback and holding on for a 6-5 win.

But this game doesn’t have too much meaning besides boosting his team’s spirits, Donigan said. He is looking ahead to the bigger and more important tasks and believes his team must restore their health and get ready for a tough Penn State game on Friday.

“The game’s important from a moral standpoint, (but) other than that it really doesn’t mean anything.” Donigan said. “We gotta get healthy, we gotta get ready for Penn State in conference and we gotta kinda prepare for postseason tournament at this point. So you know, really those games from a result standpoint are only morale boosters.”

Very similar to the Knights this season, the Highlanders haven’t scored many goals, only averaging 1.08 per contest.

But in order for the Knights win the game, they must sneak a goal out against the second

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Coming off its most heartbreaking loss of the season, the Rutgers men’s soccer team looks to lick its wounds and go back to battle Tuesday.

Last Friday, the Scarlet Knights led Northwestern 1-0 with two minutes remaining, but what looked like a potential first win of the season turned into a sickening ending, as the Wildcats tied the game in the 88th minute and went on to win the game in overtime.

Tuesday night, a new opponent will visit the Banks and this time it is North Jersey rival NJIT. The Highlanders travel to Yurcack Field for the third year in a row, but unlike the first two, this match is not for a preseason exhibition.

The previous two seasons that the Knights hosted NJIT, they handled them in closely contested games, winning both 1-0.

The Highlanders harvest a 6-4-3 record and are the 10th team this season the Knights will play with a winning record. NJIT nests in the

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Junior striker Jason Wright said Rutgers has to be more efficient on offense in order to relieve pressure off its defense. EDWIN GANO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / OCTOBER 2016

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senior goalkeeper, is closing in on the all-time Rutgers rankings in saves. With 340 career saves, Greczek sits in second place.

With four games to go in the season, Greczek will look to make further ground and move into the top spot.

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vs. NJIT

at Michigan State

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at Penn State

Today, 7 p.m., Yurcak Field

Tommorrow, 6:00 p.m., East Lansing, Mich.

Friday, 3:00 p.m., Piscataway, N.J.

Friday, 7 p.m., State College, Pa.