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Students develop programming skills with 10th annual HackRU minna kim contributing writer

Diahlo Grant, a 27-year-old Franklin resident, was shot and killed by police in April. The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office said he fired at the officers before the shooting. THE DAILY TARGUM / JULY 2016

Prosecutor’s office justifies Diahlo Grant’s shooting noa halff associate news editor

Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office announced Monday that two officers who fatally shot Franklin resident Diahlo Grant in April will not be charged.

An investigation, which followed the April 9 shooting, found Grant had fired at the officers prior to his death, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

Grant was shot and killed on April 9 by Franklin Township police officers after being chased and exchanging gunfire with the law enforcement members, The Daily Targum previously reported. In August, hundreds gathered in New Brunswick to march and protest the fatal shooting.

In the police report, the officer said he had reasonable belief that his life was in danger and the level of force demonstrated was needed to protect him and the other officer present.

Grant had outstanding warrants for his arrest, was armed with a handgun and fired the handgun at the officer, the prosecutor’s office said.

The day of the shooting, police recognized Grant as a suspect for a previous shooting in Franklin and approached him. Police said Grant then fled the scene on foot and attempted to enter a private residence, which activated a motion sensor light.

The officers chased Grant down toward the border of Franklin and New Brunswick and told him to get on the ground when Grant pointed a revolver and fired one shot at the officers, the prosecutor’s office said.

One officer returned fire and struck Grant multiple times. Grant was brought to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and died two hours later.

In one corner of the room, stacks of blue cups tower over a crowd. In another, a crowd of students collect green Android plushies and YouTube stickers. Between them, there are rows of eager programmers and computers working

together to develop a program.

The College Avenue Student Center was home to HackRU and its 500 participants over the weekend.

It was the 10th semiannual hackathon hosted at Rutgers, organized in partnership with Undergraduate Student Alliance of Computer Scientists (USACS) and Major League Hacking.

The 24-hour event commenced with an opening ceremony and ended on Sunday with project demonstrations and prize distribution.

Akshay Malavade, a School of Engineering first-year student, only recently began programming, and experienced HackRU for the first See skills on Page 4

Students practiced their programming skills and listened to professionals with technology firms over the marathon hacking event last weekend. More than 500 students participated in the 10th semiannual iteration of HackRU. JEFFREY GOMEZ

How Clinton, Trump’s climate plans compare jacob turchi contributing writer

Rising oceans might flood coastal areas in New Jersey and New York. While constructing protective barriers might help some areas, locations built on sand will suffer greatly from the damage future storms can cause. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR / APRIL 2013

Rutgers professor finds rising oceans might threaten coastal N.J., N.Y. Matthew Powell contributing writer

Damaging floods from hurricanes could become a more common issue in the future for residents of New York and New Jersey, according to researchers.

Storm surges produced by hurricanes are likely to pose an increased threat to the East Coast in the future, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences based on both computer model projections and historical data.

An increase in ocean levels and temperatures, as well as rising atmospheric temperatures, can be blamed for this increased threat, said David Robinson, a New Jersey State Climatologist See oceans on Page 4

The next President of the United States will have to face the growing concern over climate change.

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump have both proposed plans about energy and climate change.

Clinton has focused on the issue of global warming as both Secretary of State and as Senator of New York. She has pushed for investments in solar and wind energy and proposed a $60 billion plan for transitioning the United States into clean energy.

Clinton hopes to have more than half a billion solar panels installed across the nation by the end of her first term and generate enough renewable energy to power every home in America within the decade, according to her website.

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Trump is more focused on accomplishing his plan of American Energy Independence, which focuses on the productivity of coal mines and oil companies and finding new job opportunities in places with large oil supplies, such as North Dakota.

In his 100-Day Plan, Trump vows to cut regulations implemented by the Obama Administration under the Climate Action Plan, renew the Keystone Pipeline and cancel the United States’ involvement with the Paris agreement.

Trump has faced criticism during his campaign for denying the existence of global warming.

He tweeted in 2012, “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”

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Campus Calendar TUESDAY 10/23 The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology” presents “Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology: Fall 2016 Colloquium Series” from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Wright Rieman Laboratories on Busch campus. The event is free and open to the public.

The TA Project presents “Teaching Non-Majors” from 12 to 1:30 p.m. at the College Avenue Student Center on the College Avenue campus. The event is free and open to the public.

The Department of American Studies presents “Liberal Arts: Major to Career” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Rutgers Academic Building on the College Avenue

campus. The event is free and open to the public.

The Office of Continuing Education presents “Winter Session Info Table!” from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Busch Student Center on Busch campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Mason Gross School of the Arts presents “Art in a State of Mobility” from 5 to 7 p.m. at Civic Square in Downtown New Brunswick. The event is free and open to the public.

Rutgers Athletics presents “Rutgers Men’s Soccer” from 7 to 9 p.m. at Yurcak Field on Busch campus. The event is free for Rutgers students.

WEDNESDAY 10/26 The Center for Teaching Advancement and Assessment Research and the TA Project presents “Basic RefWorks 3.0” from 9:45 to 11:15 a.m. at the Center for Teaching Advancement and Assessment Research on the College Avenue campus. The event is free and open to the public.

University Career Services presents “Choosing a Major and Career” from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Gateway Transit Village on the College Avenue campus. The event is free and open to the public.

The Department of Neurology presents “Neurology Grand Rounds” from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at the Clinical Academic Building

on the College Avenue campus.

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The Department of Neurology and the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School present “Neurology Grand Rounds” from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at the Clinical Academic Building on the College Avenue campus. The event is free and open to the public.

The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy presents “Towards the Healthy City: Urban Planning in the 21st Centur y” from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Civic Square in Downtown New Brunswick. The event is free and open to the public.

THURSDAY 10/27 The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research presents “Precision Medicine: Better Outcomes and Healthier Individuals” from 12 to 1:30 p.m. at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research in Downtown New Brunswick.

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Rutgers opens food pantry to help students in need

The Off-Campus Living and Community Partnerships, located at 39 Union St. in New Brunswick, launched a new private food pantry over the summer in order to help Rutgers students experiencing food insecurity. MARIELLE SUMERGIDO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Stephen Weiss Contributing Writer

With the launch of Rutgers’ new private food pantr y this past summer, undergraduate and graduate students with financial issues now have access to free non-perishable foods and toiletries without having to rely on New Brunswick’s 20 public food pantries.

The pantry, which is one of five at New Jersey colleges, is located and operated out of the Off-Campus Living and Community Partnership building, located at 39 Union St. Roughly 30 students have taken advantage of the pantry so far.

Kerri Willson, director of Off-Campus Living and Community Partnerships and director of Student Involvement, said food insecurity is more common than it may seem.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines food insecurity as “a limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.”

Beginning in January, Willson said a survey will be sent out via email to Rutgers students to gauge how many students need access to the pantry. The email will also serve as a way to get the word out about the pantry.

The City University of New York (CUNY) held a similar study in April 2011, and found that 39.2 percent of CUNY students reported they had experienced food insecurity in the past year.

Willson said Rutgers Against Hunger (RAH) and the Sigma Pi fraternity played key roles in starting the pantry and keeping it afloat.

“One of the staff members who was instrumental in starting RAH was retiring, and it had always been a want of hers to

create a food pantry on campus for students, and so the board of governors threw some support behind it and we here at student affairs had the ability to actualize the pantry,” Willson said.

Sigma Pi took on the pantry as a national philanthropy project last year, Willson said, and they are planning on returning this year to help out more. “(Sigma Pi) went to Home Depot with us, purchased the shelves, assembled them, picked up our first donation from RAH and stocked the shelves for us,” she said.

The pantry acquires food through donations from organizations like RAH and Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers, who have donated more than 900 pounds of food, Willson said. New students were asked to bring canned food items to first-year orientation, which in total amounted to more than 2,000 pounds last summer.

Amoli Kulkarni, an intern with the Rutgers’ Give Where You Live program, is working with her colleagues to perfect the food pantry system and reach everyone in the community who needs aid.

“I saw a lot of food insecurity when I was volunteering at food pantries in New Brunswick so when the idea came up that there is food insecurity on campus and that we need a food pantry on campus I knew I wanted to be a part of it,” Kulkarni said.

Kulkarni researches other schools that have implemented the client-choice model and works to raise awareness of the food pantry by hosting food drives.

The client-choice food pantry model allows pantry-goers the opportunity to select the foods they want, based on their preferences and needs, as opposed to the non-client-choice model where they are given a bag of predetermined items.

Most people who come into the pantr y are referred by a

dean, but Amoli said they are shifting the process so any student has unlimited access to the pantr y.

Krista Klein, assistant dean of Student Affairs for the Honors College, created her own way to aid the pantr y with the help of students.

Klein is organizing the Honors College’s First Fridays program, which urges students to donate one or more food items to the pantry on the first Friday of every month.

By engaging students in a reflection on food insecurity and encouraging pantry donations,

Klein said she hopes to move this important issue to the forefront of their minds.

“Our partnership with the Rutgers Student Food Pantry introduces Honors College students to the issue of food insecurity, which hits very close to home for a number of college students,” she said.

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Rising ocean levels may worsen effects from storms like Hurricane Sandy continued from front and professor in the Rutgers Depar tment of Geography.

“If you’re talking about storms of any sort that might bring about flooding similar or worse than (Superstorm) Sandy, then I think it is fair to say that we can expect more surge events like this in the decades ahead,” Robinson said.

“This is in part due to rising sea level that, as time goes on, will increase the likelihood of flooding even from events that weren’t as impactful in decades past.”

Coastal flooding from both tropical and non-tropical systems have always threatened the New York City area. Historically, there have been a number of flooding events.

With sea levels rising and the threat of large storms in the future, this will remain an issue throughout this century, Robinson said.

Superstorm Sandy’s strike is a good example of what is called a “focusing event” for New York and New Jersey, since it opened up a discussion of the danger of flooding and hurricanes to residents of the Northeast region, said Rutgers Energy Institute Associate Director Robert Kopp.

“We certainly have seen a lot more people worrying about sea level rise and thinking about coastal flood risks after Sandy than we did before,” said Kopp, who is also a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

While the threat of storms and rising water levels will influence infrastructure development along the coast, this effect will differ by area, Kopp said. In highly populated locations like

lower Manhattan, structural defenses such as sea walls should be expected to be installed.

Beach communities in areas such as Long Beach Island in southern New Jersey have fewer options since they are merely a small strip of sand with little defense, he said.

“Areas that are at or near sea level will probably have to change the way their spaces are used to accommodate more frequent flooding,” Kopp said. “In New Jersey, we have to think very seriously about what the shape of the coastline looks like and look at what parts of the coastline are defensible, and make sense to invest in beyond the next couple of decades.”

Areas of the shoreline in New York and New Jersey likely will not look the same in several years, he added.

“Not enough is being done fast enough or at all,” Robinson said.

He said the beach replenishment projects are only putting “temporary band aids” on coastal erosion, including rebuilding sand dunes.

“We need to be doing more,” said Rebecca Rucinski, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “All of these temporary fixes are just that, they’re only temporary. The storms are just going to keep coming and people’s houses are going to keep getting washed away. It’s a vicious cycle.”

In response to global warming and rising sea levels, citizens should participate in combative efforts and increase their understanding of global issues, Robinson said. “(We should) accept that some adaptation will be necessary and advocate for this being done as soon as possible,” Robinson said.

Nessi. This program is a mockup of the API used internally in the company, which is a platform Representatives from Capital One, Google gave on which students can practice. away free items to participants Their award is a $250 Amazon gift card for each team member of the winning project.

“We embrace the emerging helped new hackers with their continued from front projects. Speakers provided in- members of the tech community sight into their careers and the and we’re here to mentor future time this year.

In Malavade’s classes, the Ja- industr y during talks through- technologists. We are here for recruiting purposes as well,” said vaScript language was never ap- out the weekend.

Kaitlin Poskaitis, a Rutgers Timothy Austen, front-end softplied to real-life scenarios.

“So it never felt real,” Malavade alumna and site reliability en- ware engineer at Capital One. Sponsors and their represensaid. “It’s so interesting to see so gineer with Google, took par t many people actually applying in HackRU while she was a stu- tatives accept resumes of hackdent. She was back on campus athon participants for employcoding to every-day uses.”

Because attendees are not to provide help with technol- ment consideration.

Sehaj Singh, a Class of 2016 required to be a computer sci- ogy, especially with Google’s ence major or have any prior iCloud application program in- alumnus, has taken advantage of sponsor desks like this one, signknowledge with technology, ter face (API).

An API is a development tool ing up for newsletters and getting HackRU attracts a wide variety of par ticipants, from business that lets programmers under- in touch with recruiters.

“When you apply online, for to mechanical engineering ma- stand the basic framework of a jors, to high school students company’s program, and can be instance, it’s not a direct route to getting in and alumnae. touch and very David Fu, a “Participants used to be mostly undergrads, but in opaque.

You Rutgers Class recent years, more high school students began see them evof 2015 alumery semester, nus, returns showing interest.” fall and spring, regularly to so they reccampus to david fu ognize you,” mentor new Rutgers Class of 2015 Alumnus Singh said. generations of As an orhackers.

He was a part of USACS through- used to ensure two different piec- ganizer of the event, Joyce Van out his undergraduate years and es of software are able to commu- Drost, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said she cannot parhelped run HackRU for four con- nicate with each other.

Because many current employ- ticipate in the coding. secutive years.

She plays a big role check“Participants used to be mostly ees are Rutgers alumni, she said undergrads, but in recent years, Google has sent representatives ing participants in, distributing snacks, organizing workshop more high school students began for years.

“We try to network with the events and organizing break activshowing interest,” Fu said. “Sponsors, mentors are also here. Come students here, as they are some ities like cup-stacking challenge here with an idea, form a team of the brightest and best minds. and trivia, she said.

“We want to give more people and you learn as you go. There We want to meet them and are always workshops for people tell them about our company,” the oppor tunity to be exposed to computer programming.

Poskaitis said. new to technology.”

This marks the first year Capi- At today’s event, travel reimRows of sponsor desks were set up with representatives tal One Financial Corporation was bursement could not work for students coming from far, but from companies including Cap- present at HackRU. They sponsored a prize for for next spring, we will tr y to ital One and Google. These professionals handed out free users of their API, which they get busses for travelers,” Van items to participants, as well as provide to the hackathon, called Drost said.

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plans Clinton hopes to launch creation of 1/2 million solar cells, according to her website continued from front He also called it a hoax in 2015 during a speech about President Barack Obama and Clinton.

Trump has also been criticized for wanting the U.S. to leave the Paris agreement, an agreement between 190 different countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

Anthony Broccoli, a professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, said it was important that the United States should stay in the agreement.

“The Paris Agreement is the first step to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. It is an important starting point for addressing the climate change problem.

Leaving this agreement would likely allow the problem to become more serious,” Broccoli said.

Trump’s website said Clinton’s energy plans would harm America economically.

Jennifer Holdsworth, the New Jersey state director at Hillary for America, has said that Clinton’s environmental plan will not ruin the economy, but improve it.

“We absolutely can create jobs out of green energy. There is always a metamorphosis of jobs when you’re talking about any industry, even in manufacturing,” Holdsworth said.

“Same thing goes for the environment and green jobs, there has to be a metamorphosis going forward

CRIME Oct. 24 TRENTON — Stephanie Joshua, 33, allegedly set her 53-year-old roommate’s car on fire after an ongoing argument. Police had been on the scene and informed both of them on how to file complaints, but then authorities had to return after the car fire. The car was owned by a 34-year-old woman but was primarily driven by the 53-year-old man.

The man told authorities that he saw Joshua around the scene when the fire started but did not see her start the fire. Joshua was arrested later when she returned to the scene.

Oct. 24 MAHWAH — Joshua Craig Rowling, 18, was arrested on Friday after attempting to commit a murder in Mahwah, New Jersey. Rowling advertised his services online and was contacted for a job in exchange for a firearm, authorities said. Upon meeting the person, Rowling was arrested by an undercover officer and charged with conspiracy to commit murder for hire, and weapons possession. Rowling is being held in Bergen County jail on a $1 million bail.

Oct. 24 TRENTON –– Breion Turner, 26, was charged with human trafficking, kidnapping and endangering a child after attempting to prostitute a runaway girl. The girl had previously run away and when returned home her mother confronted her after seeing an explicit video of her, said Assistant Prosecutor Heather Hadley. Turner held the girl captive for four days, giving her a cough syrup-like liquid to keep her groggy and forced her to preform sex acts with several of his friends. After being charged, Turner remains jailed on a $300,000 bail.

of what those jobs are going to be, new training for new employees and new training for old employees who have to be brought along for this metamorphosis.”

“The Paris agreement is the first step to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.” tony broccoli Professor in the Department of Envrionmental Sciences

Climate change is an issue that many young people are

concerned about, according to Gallup polls. Last year, 70 percent of young Americans reported believing global warming exists and is having an impact.

Earlier this year Gallup reported 64 percent of Americans worry about climate change a “great deal.”

Students at Rutgers have expressed their feelings about global warming and also urged people to acknowledge that it is happening. Clubs at Rutgers like the Students for Environmental Awareness (SEA) are active in raising awareness to these issues.

Shannon Mclntyre, School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said she believes it is a pressing issue that shouldn’t go ignored.

“It’s a severely underrated topic in today’s society as well as in this political cycle,” Shannon said. “I just hope to see a change in the nation’s perception, not only for our sake but future generations as well.”

Global temperatures have risen by approximately 1.53 degrees Fahrenheit on average over the last several decades. Nearly 200 hundred countries signed an accord to try to reverse that trend.

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Genuine vulnerability fosters social solidarity

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month ago, during an intimate converA SOPHISTICATED sation with a friend THO(UGH)T who I have not seen for a couple of months and who RAE LANDINGIN I was not particularly close to, asked me, “Can I touch your hair?”

I don’t remember ever being asked this question before in my life and most certainly, I’ve never had this request proposed in the most respectful and empathic manner. At that moment, seeing this beautiful black woman wearing her natural hair asking for my consent to touch my messy jet black hair made me think, is this what solidarity looks and feels like?

As a result of the Philippines’ colonial past and multi-ethnic mixing, my Filipino mother’s silky-smooth brown hair, almond-shaped eyes, light skin and small-frame embodied beauty that is a combination of Spanish, Chinese and indigenous Filipino ancestry.

Even though I am my mother’s daughter, I look nothing like her. I have my father’s slinty eyes, coarse skin, big head, large-frame and hair that goes in so many directions. In many ways, I felt and saw myself darker than my mother, both in skin color and in an internalized selfhate that reflected this global internalization of anti-blackness. Being this mutt of a being, I was not Asian or white enough.

I grew up with my mother and relatives describing my hair with amusement as “kang-kang,” a word they made up and has no correlation to the actual translation to the Tagalog meaning of this word. However, it was a word that was used to describe my messy hair and it was often interchanged with describing my hair as “kinky.”

Years after the move to the United States at age 9, when I slowly became more conscious of issues of American society, I realized that kinky hair is more reflective of black women’s relationship with hair.

In many ways I experienced what it feels like to be constantly “taming” my hair.

My negative relationship with my hair began in my childhood.

For any excuse of an occasion, my aunties would iron my hair. And when we realized the damage of constantly ironing one’s hair, many of the women in my life moved to more permanent solutions, such as rebonding to keratin treatments. I didn’t really have a choice, but consented to my mother’s suggestions to treat my hair. Instead of making me feel beautiful, I had to go through these hoops to make myself fit a standard that I would never be able to reach.

But in a blessing in disguise in what seemed at the time, for a 17-yearold high school student, the most visible attack of my existence, I was diagnosed with alopecia areata, which is an autoimmune disease that causes a person’s immune system to mistakenly attack their hair follicles, resulting in patches of hair loss. For half a year, I was receiving monthly injections on my head and inconclusive autopsy reports.

At the same time, I was masking my condition with wigs and hats.

Eventually, I got fed up with this whole situation and I shaved my head.

Miraculously, my hair started growing back.

Four years later my hair grew back, after years of slowly learning to love my body.

My friend’s words rang heavily in my soul because something that I was taught to hate is being challenged. She was interested in my hair in a positive way. I was letting someone’s different opinion of me further my path towards accepting my worth.

Having the courage to be “you,” does not equate to feeling connected with society. And when one feels that they’re not connected to society, then one feels disconnected to this world, to nature and to the things beyond our social organizations.

Developing this reservoir of strength and pride in oneself is crucial, but it’s only half of the story. To truly feel connected and to feel worth of love it starts by fostering loving connections, and perhaps that means challenging certain personal relationships, communities and ourselves. By reaching beyond ourselves we embrace people for being visible and vulnerable.

When we practice empathy by listening to people’s story. We develop an understanding that there are many people who are visibly laboring under oppression and marginalization. Asking how are you, not as a courtesy, but to sit down and mindfully hear one’s story is radical. This is how we start solidarity.

In his book, “The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance,” theorist and activist Franco Berardi furthered my understanding of solidarity that, “Like love, solidarity is not about altruism: it is about the pleasure of sharing the breath and space of the other. Love is the ability to enjoy myself thanks to your presence, to your eyes. This is solidarity”.

Rae Landingin is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in journalism and media studies with minors in art history and digital, communication, information and media. Her column, “A Sophisticated Tho(ugh)t,” runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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t’s election season, but it’s not just nationwide homelessness and creating an initiative to save the or statewide — there’s an election happening on bees. If you care about any of these issues, perhaps you might want to vote during NJPIRG’s referendum.

Rutgers’ campuses.

And if you don’t care about big money in politics, Right now the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group (NJPIRG) is conducting a campus-wide ref- consumer protection, textbook costs, homelessness erendum, asking students to vote on whether they or the bee population, that’s completely fine and want the organization’s $11.20 charge to remain on fair. NJPIRG is an advocacy group, and generally, people don’t want to put money into organizations the term bill every semester.

Well, what’s $11.20 to a student? That amount of they don’t agree with.

However, beyond advocacy, NJPIRG is preparing money could probably buy a Chipotle burrito bowl or two (not one) fat sandwiches every semester. It a group of student leaders. In the same way that the could buy eyeliner from the drugstore or a small Targum prepares students for a professional career book from Barnes and Noble. It could buy a one- in journalism or how the Rutgers University Stuway rail ticket to Newark Penn Station or three tall dent Assembly (RUSA) grooms the next generation Starbucks drinks. Clearly, there’s an abundance of of politicians, NJPIRG trains the new set of comoptions (or duties like rent or bills) to put $11.20 to- munity organizers, policy analysts, lawyers, etc. Its wards, so why consider voting “yes” on the NJPIRG presence on campus engages the student body with today’s most pressing issues referendum and supporting and helps students gain exthis organization? perience they can translate For those who don’t know, into future careers. Overall, NJPIRG is a nonprofit, non“NJPIRG is preparing a group its operations benefit stupartisan public interest orgaof student leaders.” dents and the Rutgers comnization founded in 1972, and munity. Even if you disagree its Rutgers chapter operates with some of NJPIRG’s areas in New Brunswick. PIRG is “an independent, state-based, citizen-funded organi- of advocacy, it is a channel for fellow students to zation that advocates for the public interest and is a harness and apply their skill sets.

Money is also a decisive factor. For some, $11.20 is member of U.S. PIRG, the federation of state Public Interests Groups,” according to the organization’s nothing but a speck in the trust fund, and they won’t website. Its goal is to serve the public interest, and even realize it’s gone. But for others, $11.20 goes a it actively focuses on improving student life and the long way, and they’re not willing to give it up. The good thing about the NJPIRG referendum is that students general citizenry.

PIRG has four main priorities: Stopping the over- can vote “yes” to keep the automatic charge on the use of antibiotics, halting the flow of big money into term bill so NJPIRG can still continue its programs, politics, protecting consumers from illegal practices but they can always ask for an individual refund.

Nevertheless, at the end of the day students are and investing in 21st century transportation. Some local initiatives Rutgers students have taken part still annoyed by miscellaneous costs they incur of, and the campaigns seen on the ground include in their term bill, especially when it funds organiregistering voters on campus, starting research ini- zations they might not have a direct relationship tiatives on skyrocketing textbook costs, launching a with — that’s the typical rationale of voting “no” campaign to bring open-source textbooks to Rut- or not voting at all. But just because you’re not gers, trying to convince KFC to stop abusing its use part of it doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t exist at all. of antibiotics on chickens, providing food and water NJPIRG is doing great work that should continue to the homeless during their campaign to address for years to come.

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Breast cancer organizations look for profits instead of cures MY V IS FOR VICTORY SYEDA KHAULA SAAD

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s Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes to an end and all of the bright-pink banners slowly come down, it seems as if the fervent support for the cause passes as quickly and quietly as the page on the calendar. But was is ever really there to start with?

Breast Cancer Awareness Month may seem noble in its title and intention, however, the media and the companies that campaign for the cause have combined to exploit the vicious disease that will eventually kill more than 40,000 women and 400 men in 2016, and turn it into a merchandisable brand. Frilly ribbons, publically-covered events and pretty shades of pink have become the face of the disease that will affect 1 in 8 women in the United States. You may proudly sport your “I heart boobies” bracelet and wear pink t-shirts at sporting events, but what are you really doing for the cause?

The truth is: next to nothing.

One of the biggest brand names of breast cancer awareness is Susan G. Komen.

Komen’s company, dedicated to “investing in breakthrough research to prevent and cure breast cancer,” and is known worldwide for its organized walks and pink apparel. But

this substantially-funded organization is one of the most hypocritical of all of the “pink washing” facades. The company joined with Baker Hughes, a fracking company, to create and sell pink drill bits in order to raise money and awareness for breast cancer. This business move proved that the one who needed the breast cancer awareness and knowledge was Komen itself. Fracking, a term used to describe the process of drilling for oil using water and releasing gasses, creates harmful pollution that has been linked to cancer. How can an organization whose entire philosophy

to actual research to finding a cure. A majority of its revenue is put towards education, or awareness. For an organization so adamant on finding a cure, it seems as though spreading word of itself is a main priority.

Susan G. Komen is not the only foundation dedicated to serving people with breast cancer and falling through with their promises. In 2013, CNN conducted an extensive investigation into four different cancer charities and found shocking results. Of the profits of all of these “charities,” with one being the Breast Cancer Society, only 3

“Susan G. Komen is not the only foundation dedicated to serving people with breast cancer and falling through with their promises.” is based upon uniting to find a cure for cancer, become a conglomerate with a company that uses methods that were proven to cause it?

This was not Komen’s only offense. In 2011, the company had also released a perfume line that contained toxins that were used to kill rodents. In 2012, Komen cut funding to Planned Parenthood, which was responsible for conducting almost 500,000 breast exams and also provided referrals for those who were in need of mammograms.

The list goes on and on. Susan G. Komen is the largest name in breast cancer foundations and yet only 17 percent of its profits go

percent was spent on aiding cancer patients.

The other 97 percent was found to be spent on fundraisers, but also personal spending for CEOs and their families. If you ever donated to the Breast Cancer Society thinking that your money would be aiding the lives of those who suffer from breast cancer, it would be quite alarming to learn that the only thing you were funding was the college tuition for members of the society’s family.

It is true that breast cancer foundations are not always fraudulent and a lot of the work that even the highly commercialized organizations do is beneficial to the

overall cause of breast cancer. However, the underlying problem with the “pink washing” of companies is that the focus is in the wrong place. Awareness is a significant thing to spread, and education is extremely important, but what some of these big-name breast cancer foundations fail to do is bring awareness to the right things. They merchandise pink, smiles and walkathons but they fail to teach you the realities of breast cancer. Think of how many times you’ve either donated to breast cancer research or even participated in a “walk to find the cure.” What did you actually learn about breast cancer or the people who have to face it in their everyday lives? Besides being force fed that “early detection saves lives” (which was proven to not even be true), what did you really become “aware” of? It is great to celebrate those who are survivors of breast cancer and showcase their battle but what of those who are still fighting that battle every day?

A recent post on Twitter made me realize that breast cancer is neither frilly ribbons nor pink t-shirts, it’s a disease that is affecting men and women every day. It’s time we took all of the awareness we’ve gained and focused it on actually finding a cure.

Syeda Khaula Saad is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in English and journalism and media studies with a minor in French. Her column, “My V is for Victory” runs on alternate Tuesdays.

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Tech Tuesday

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October 25, 2016

So, what was up with last week’s Internet blackout? nikhilesh de

and webcams, among other machines. Unlike traditional personal computers, these tools may not have any sort of security beyond a factory password.

As a result, it is relatively easy to break into them. At least one manufacturer is already recalling webcams with poor security features as a result of the attack.

Around 500,000 devices might be infected by the Mirai malware, according to Level 3 Communications. Level 3 is one of the security firms Rutgers hired to help mitigate DDoS attacks* last year.

There might be as many as 15 billion devices connected to the internet that are part of the IoT, while only a few might have cybersecurity features installed.

This state of affairs might require government intervention to change.

news editor

Internet users were unable to access some of the world’s busiest websites, including Twitter, reddit, Github, Spotify, the New York Times, several Amazon Web Services clients and many others last Friday after a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that interrupted service to Dyn Inc., a managed DNS service provider.

Dyn was attacked three times on Friday— twice in the morning and again in the early afternoon.

While the first two had a massive impact on the East coast (and other parts of the world), the third did not impact users as much.

Before I explain what exactly all that means, we need to understand the terminology that will be used.

Domain Name System

Why wasn’t I impacted?

Domain Name Systems (DNS) are protocols that act as a map for computers trying to find websites. When people might type in a URL like www.dailytargum.com, their computer needs to find the website’s IP address. DNS servers provide that address.

In other words, a Rutgers student might know they have to go to the Busch Student Center. While that is its name, in order to actually find it they will need to know its address is 604 Bartholomew Rd in Piscataway, New Jersey. The DNS provider is what translates “Busch Student Center” to “604 Bartholomew” online.

Distributed Denial of Service

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a specific type of cyberattack that disrupts service to their targets by essentially overloading them with information. Under normal use, a server might send a request for communication to another, which the receiver would respond to.

Under a DDoS, the receiver is hit by millions upon millions of requests, which overwhelms it, preventing it from responding to normal requests. Rutgers has been impacted by several DDoS attacks over the last two years.

Internet of Things

The Internet of Things refers to networked everyday objects that people might have in their homes or cars. Any “smart” device might count, ranging from toasters and fridges to nanny cams and DVR devices.

Every object in the IoT has to be able to connect to the internet to transmit data, and an increasingly large number of objects have this ability.

Botnet

Dyn was taken down through the use of the Mirai botnet. Botnets are a series of hijacked devices which are used to disrupt service through a DDoS. Malicious software called a bot is used to slave the victimized machine to do its own bidding.

Hundreds of thousands computers might be taken over in this

Several websites migrated to different, unaffected DNS providers, which allowed users to access websites like Twitter as normal.

Because of this, users were able to access those websites.

Providers like OpenDNS aided users in avoiding the internet blackout by providing a new “middleman” to help them find the websites they were looking for.

Dyn was able to resolve a large number of their services as well, restoring internet access to most users within a few hours.

Why does this matter?

The Distributed Denial of Service attack against Dyn Inc. disrupted internet access to various parts of the United States. While it began on the East Coast, it impacted a much larger area of the world later in the day. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS / DOWN DETECTOR manner, and while only personal computers used to be part of botnets, thanks to the IoT, other devices can now be used.

The Mirai botnet is a specific group of hijacked devices, using an open-source piece of malware named Mirai. This code was released to the general Internet

When Rutgers was hit by DDoS attacks over the last few years, students were unable to access University systems because the receivers — University systems — were flooded with requests.

On Friday morning, when a large chunk of the internet

on commandeered Internet of Things devices.

Hacktivist group New World Hackers claimed responsibility for the attack on Sunday, though their involvement has not been confirmed by any law enforcement agency yet.

New World Hackers also

“Under a DDoS, the receiver is hit by millions upon millions of requests, which overwhelms it, preventing it from responding to normal requests. Rutgers has been impacted by several DDoS attacks over the last two years.”

earlier in October, but was used in the past against specific websites.

So how’s all this stuff connected?

For the sake of simplicity, we will say that there are three components needed to pull up a webpage in your web browser.

The web browser is the sender — when you type a URL in, it requests a page. The receiver is the server that has the page.

In order for the sender to talk to the receiver, it must ask the DNS provider for directions.

The DNS provider is effectively a middleman for digital requests.

went out, it was because Dyn, the middleman in the above scenario, was rendered nonfunctional by a massive DDoS. The receivers were still operational, but the senders could not find them.

This outage impacted users not only on the Eastern seaboard, but in several other nations, including the United Kingdom, France and Germany, among other European nations.

This wasn’t the largest DDoS attack ever seen, but it was pretty big. The largest recent DDoS attacks all share a commonality though: they all depended

formally “retired” on Sunday through a Twitter announcement.

Okay, the internet had issues. So what?

Friday saw one of the largest disruptions due to a DDoS attack to date, and because it was carried out through open-source malware, which hijacked devices from the IoT, it can happen again.

As stated above, the Internet of Things refers to everyday devices that are connected to the internet, which are not necessarily traditional personal computers.

The Mirai botnet was composed of DVR devices, routers

Dyn Chief Strategy Officer Kyle York said the number, type, duration, scale and complexity of cyberattacks are all increasing.

Internet firm Akamai reported that in the second quarter of 2016 alone, DDoS attacks had increased by 129 percent compared to the second quarter of 2015.

DDoS attacks cost victim companies money. The more powerful the attack, the greater the cost could be. On average, every minute of downtime costs the victim company roughly $22,000. These costs come from companies being unable to operate online.

In some instances, intraoffice work comes to a standstill. When Rutgers suffered from DDoS attacks, students, staff and faculty alike could not access University servers or systems, preventing them from completing tasks.

Companies also lose money when customers or clients are unable to access their websites.

Some companies can lose even more to an attack — cybersecurity firm Incapsula estimated that companies might lose half a million dollars from a single attack, though they estimated an average of $40,000 lost per hour of downtime.

Beyond the immediate financial costs, Incapsula said DDoS attacks might result in customers losing trust or virus infection, both of which may negatively impact the company.

Some attacks might be damaging enough to require hardware replacement, which further costs the company money.

DIVERSIONS

October 25, 2016

Mark Tatulli Horoscopes

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Happy Birthday: Strengthen your resolve in what you are doing and how you do it this year. Learn as you go and don’t rule out the unusual. Creative thinking will help you orchestrate what you want to see happen and give you the strength to follow through with your plans. Experience will be your ticket to success. Your numbers are 2, 8, 15, 22, 28, 36, 44.

Over The Hedge

T. Lewis and M. Fry

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Pump up your energy and believe in what you are capable of doing. Don’t be misled by a fast talker with ulterior motives. Trust your judgment and follow through with your plans. A romantic evening should be a priority. 3 stars TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You have more control than you realize.

You’ll get what you want if you ask.

Your insight will impress someone who has something to offer. Business trips and meetings look promising.

Don’t let personal issues interfere with your work. 5 stars

Non Sequitur

Wiley

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Emotional issues will unfold if you overreact. Spending is not going to solve problems and may actually contribute to your stress. Look at the big picture and consider ways to compromise or set new incentives. 2 stars CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t take on someone else’s responsibilities. You have far too much to lose if you don’t step up and concentrate on the things that will benefit you.

Charity begins at home and you deserve to do something that makes you happy. 4 stars

Pearls Before Swine

Stephan Pastis

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Making alterations to your living arrangements will cause inconveniences.

You will be happy with the results, but not so pleased with the process of completion. Look for activities you can do that will bring you closer to someone you love. 3 stars VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Emotions will escalate and are best directed into projects that make you feel good and help you prepare for whatever happens next. Take your time to mull things over before making a decision or move. 3 stars

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Problems at home can be rectified if you take a practical approach and offer incentives that will motivate everyone to get along with each other.

Stay calm and try not to overreact.

3 stars SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’ll gain support by offering practical solutions with a unique twist. Your insight into what’s going on at home and at work will put you in a key position to get what you want. Persuasive tactics will pay off. 4 stars SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Emotional matters will surface, making you reconsider your options.

Learn from past mistakes and do whatever is necessary to keep the peace. An emotional discussion will help solve a problem. 2 stars CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Keep pressing forward with determination and intensity. A financial opportunity looks promising, but joint ventures do not. Don’t let love dictate how you spend your money.

Invest in yourself and in products that will help you excel. 5 stars AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don’t let mixed emotions or someone using manipulation stop you from getting things done. Promote your skills and look for new ways to bring in extra cash. You can rely on your past experiences to help you make the right choice now. 3 stars PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your emotions will tip the scale if you let what others do interfere with your well-being. Use your intelligence to reach your goals and do your best to coordinate and concur with people who can help you advance.

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7 Laddie’s love

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13 Practically any high schooler

34 Time of “comfort and joy”

18 Creole vegetable

35 Digit that gets socked

19 Some smiths

38 Two types of boys

24 Flightless flock

42 Ballpark fig.

26 Be good at charades

50 It’s before and after “de la”

43 Equine shade

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45 What opposites do

30 Mongrel

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31 Pilsner alternative

55 Hone

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59 Two types of boys

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Yesterday’s Solution

Yesterday’s Solution

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October 25, 2016

SHUTOUT Win over Richmond sets up Knights with chance to capture signature 10th win continued from back Success in the postseason will rely on the team’s ability to make the necessary adjustments early and put together a full game of quality hockey.

“Our focus is playing the full 70 minutes and being consistent with that. … The leaderboard doesn’t really reflect how we play and what kind of team we are,” said senior goalkeeper Shevaun Hayes, who earned her first solo shutout of the season on Sunday.

“This team has definitely got a lot of heart, we want to win, we want to do well … We’re definitely capable as a team to do this, we just need to mentally push ourselves.”

In addition to honoring their seniors on the field, the team also paid tribute to their elite eight with a music video and individual gift baskets in the locker room prior to tip off.

In the stands, a lively crowd of over 300 fans, family members and loved ones supported the Knights as they outshot the Spiders 12-4 and held a 6-1 advantage in penalty corners.

Though it was their last home game on the Banks, the seniors remained happily poised knowing that their season is far from over.

“I actually wasn’t as upset as I thought I was gonna be because I think we, as eight seniors, have accomplished a lot and I think that we’ve made something here,” said senior defender Sophia Walia.

“This is what our goal was freshman year — creating a legacy and I think we’re not done yet which is why I don’t think it’s so upsetting — because I don’t think that the Big Ten’s is our last stop. I think we’re going further.”

The Knights represented by jersey numbers 25, 1, 3, 7, 17, 18, 26 and 40 leave their home turf at Rutgers better than they found it.

As Civico told her seniors, it’s not over yet, even as the eight of them walked off the field on a windy, sunny Sunday afternoon with one last tally mark in the home win column to begin the end of their careers.

“Without a doubt it’s emotional. I think this group is a special

COLUMBIA Lions pose steep challenge for Rutgers to secure 1st win of season on Senior Night continued from back “Being senior night has a lot of impact for us because we wanna play really well for the seniors,” said freshman defender Tim McQuaid. “We just wanna get some momentum going into the Big Ten Tournament. Star ting on Tuesday against Columbia will be a good way to give our seniors a win and then also give ourselves some momentum going into the postseason.”

The Lions will be the 12th team over the .500 mark that the Knights will be facing.

Columbia has earned key wins over Michigan, Monmouth and a 2-1 overtime win over Princeton, putting it squarely in third place in the Ivy League.

But like his players, head coach Dan Donigan is looking at the bigger picture.

Donigan said after Friday’s heartbreaking loss to Penn State that a win over Columbia would be “awesome,” but getting his players’ minds right and keeping his team healthy for the postseason is where his focus is right now.

“Look, we wanna win ever y time we step on the field,” Do-

group … They’ve helped take this program to the next level,” Civico said. “I think we’re on our way to becoming an elite program and I think that that’s really exciting.

These guys are definitely leaving

their mark and creating a legacy … I’m excited it’s not over.”

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

Head coach Meredith Civico said the current senior class helped take the Knights to the next level with all of their contributions.

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nigan said. “It’s not gonna affect much (more) than our psyche.

If you can get that win against a ver y good Columbia team, it’s a reward for us, (a) physiological boost. There are a lot of positives you can take from it, but if you lose the game, look, these guys have lost many games this year. Our main focus now is gonna be to tr y to stay as healthy as we can play, play as consistent as we can and if a win comes along, that’s great. If it doesn’t, our focus obviously is the next game.”

Take away the NJIT and the Princeton game, and this Rutgers squad has been competitive in all of the games it has played in since the end of September.

The team went from not scoring a goal in the first four games to scoring a goal in five out of their last six games, showing a

character trait that essential for competition — resilience.

A team that still hasn’t acquired its first win through 14 games this season seems to be playing at its best. And even though the win hasn’t come through solid play all year long, junior for ward Dante Perez said he believes his team’s mindset does not need to be altered, but could use some grit.

“At this point, I think the most important thing for us is just to go out there and have fun and work for each other,” Perez said.

“I don’t think our mindset needs to change because I think we’ve been playing pretty well lately. I think we just need to keep moving, just keep going, keep going.”

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

IN BRIEF

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ew York Jets quarterback Geno Smith tore the ACL in his right knee and is out for the season, coach Todd Bowles confirmed Monday.

As a result, Bowles said the Jets will return to Ryan Fitzpatrick as their starting quarterback.

Smith, making his first start since Dec. 28, 2014, was injured Sunday on a second-quarter sack

by Baltimore Ravens linebacker Matt Judon. Smith left the game and spent the second half on the sideline in street clothes.

An MRI on Monday confirmed the ACL tear. Smith will visit Tuesday with orthopedist Dr. James Andrews to seek a second opinion, a source told ESPN. Smith probably has played his final game with the Jets.

He will be a free agent after the season.

Fitzpatrick was unhappy after being benched, and he expressed his feelings after rallying the Jets in Sunday’s 24-16 win over the Ravens. He said the coach, general manager and owner no longer believed in him.

“I know Fitz, and I know what he means,” Bowles said, according to ESPN.com. “I have no problem with him venting his frustrations.”

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espite the Browns’ season slipping away as they fell to 0-7 on Sunday, Cleveland is not ready to have a fire sale.

The Browns will not be dealing Pro Bowl offensive lineman Joe Thomas at the Nov. 1 trade deadline. Coach Hue Jackson made that notion plain and clear on Monday.

“We are not going to trade Joe Thomas,” Jackson said a day after the Browns fell to 0-7 on the season with a 31-17 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday according to ESPN.com. “Joe Thomas has a lot to do with what we’re trying to accomplish here in the future.”

Thomas has played every snap at left tackle for the Browns since he was the No. 3 pick in the 2007 draft.

A rebuilding team trying to stockpile draft choices could add more picks by dealing a player as talented as Thomas, but the Browns have made it clear they are not interested in a trade.

Jackson looked to put the exclamation point on that stance, emphasizing with dramatic pauses: “We. Are not. Going. To trade.

Joe. Thomas.”

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Junior forward Dante Perez is focused on securing the Knights’ first win of the season Tuesday to honor the team’s seniors.

EDWIN GANO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / OCTOBER 2016

fter missing the past three games due to a knee injur y, Cowboys wide receiver Dez Br yant is expected to play Sunday night when the Dallas returns to action against the Eagles, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

Bryant had hoped to play last week against the Green Bay Packers, but was held out in hopes of him being 100 percent. He suffered a tibial plateau fracture in his right leg on Sept. 25 against the Chicago Bears.

He was back in action at practice on Monday as the Cowboys returned from their bye week.

Bryant had told reporters before the Cowboys bye week that he expected to return for the game against the Eagles.

October 25, 2016

Page 11 WOMEN’S SOCCER,RUTGERS 0, NEBRASKA 0

Knights, Cornhuskers play to draw on Senior Night Alex Gold Staff Writer

On a night where the Rutgers women’s soccer team honored the nine members of its senior class, the Scarlet Knights played Nebraska to a scoreless draw.

Rutgers (9-2-6, 4-1-5) played its program record ninth overtime game of the season, failing to score throughout the 110 minutes of action Saturday.

This was the team’s seventh overtime match in its last eight contests, which has had a cumulative effect on the fatigue of the Knights.

Rutgers has played an additional 142:23 minutes of game action overall in the 2016 campaign.

But the dearth of goals was not due to a lack of effort from the Knights, as they generated many quality opportunities.

In the 25th minute, senior captain Madison Tiernan fired

Senior captain Madison Tiernan hit the woodwork on Senior Night on Saturday in a scoreless draw against Nebraska.

EDWIN GANO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / OCTOBER 2016

a shot that caromed of f the crossbar and was eventually collected by Nebraska goalkeeper Aubrei Corder.

The freshman had an excellent game in net, saving seven shots as Rutgers peppered a total of 17 throughout the night.

Tiernan racked up a sum of 10 shots herself, which was a game-high and pushed her season aggregate to 85 attempts on the year.

Nine minutes after the forward’s near-goal, freshman midfielder Taylor Aylmer gave the Knights another decent chance at a score.

After senior forward Jessica Puchalski launched a shot at the net, Corder made an impressive block but could not hold on and subsequently the ball was loose in the 18-yard box.

Aylmer took full advantage, drilling a shot toward the goal, but the crossbar got in the way once again.

Senior captain Tori Prager had one of Rutgers’ other significant opportunities at getting on the scoreboard when she found herself in the middle of the field just outside the box.

The midfielder created some room by beating a defender and then cranked a shot toward the net, but Corder came to Nebraska’s rescue, foiling the potential score.

“We fought really hard but the bounces just didn’t go our way,” Prager said. “It’s tough being so close so many times in a

match, but sometimes, you just get unlucky and the crossbar can be an enemy.”

Despite the tough obstacles the offense faced on the defensive side, the match was a huge success for the Knights, as they completed their second shutout in a row and ninth on the year.

Senior goalkeeper Alana Jimenez only had to make one save the entire night, but still picked up her eighth clean sheet of the season.

“It’s cliché to say, but defense wins championships and we have been getting the job done on that end of the field,” Tiernan said. “It would’ve been nice to get the result we wanted though, especially on Senior Night.”

Saturday was truly more than a typical game, as everyone involved experienced a special moment for the program.

In addition to flowers and an elaborate dinner, the Class of 2017 received individual gifts from the underclassmen on the team.

Families were also a part of the celebration, this time cheering from on the field instead of the stands.

Countless photos were taken at this pre-game celebration as well, raising the height of emotions at the event.

“It really hit me that I’m a senior and I had to take it all in,” Tiernan said. “It was great to have parents and siblings around to make the moment even sweeter.”

Fellow captain Prager echoed that sentiment, explaining that

for three years, Senior Night has been a big deal, but now that it’s her and her classmates’ time, the gravity of the ceremony really kicked in.

This senior class has deser ved all the praise and acclaim it received Saturday, as the group has helped take Rutgers to new heights.

In the 2015 season, the Knights made it all the way to the College Cup and the current crop of seniors contributed mightily to that success as juniors.

“The seniors have taken this program and have built the tradition, the standard and the expectation for players when they come here that we want to compete for championships,” said head coach Mike O’Neill. “Rutgers women’s soccer is a better program on and off the field because all those seniors came here.”

In order to get to a championship game, whether it be Big Ten or NCAA, Rutgers will need to get a good result in their final match on Wednesday.

The Knights travel to Wisconsin to play the Badgers at 8 p.m. on Wednesday.

“Although Senior Night acknowledges that it’s our final year for the seniors, we don’t want to be done yet,” Tiernan said. “We need to beat Wisconsin and make some noise in the conference tournament.”

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VOLLEYBALL MARYLAND 3, RUTGERS 0

Rutgers gets swept by Maryland, loses 18th straight Jon Spilletti Staff Writer

Maryland seemed to be in the same boat as Rutgers.

Both squads hovered around the bottom of the conference. Both were winless in the Big Ten. The match between the sides Saturday was one head coach CJ Werneke and company figured could turn things around for the Rutgers volleyball team.

But a win just wasn’t meant to be, and hasn’t been meant to be, for the Scarlet Knights, who were swept by the Terrapins at home.

The loss marked the 18thstraight for the Knights (4-19, 0-10) and the first win for Maryland (913, 1-9) in 10 matches, as well as its first Big Ten win of the season.

Holding a win over the Terrapins last season, Werneke described Saturday’s contest as “disappointing.”

The match started with neither team gaining favor.

A close scoreline into the first half of the set saw both sides delivering on the offensive end. An extended series of point-for-point volleyball summed up much of the first set, and it wasn’t until Maryland separated itself with a fourpoint lead that any squad looked poised to win.

Even with the lead, Rutgers showed resilience, contending on a few hard-fought rallies. But Maryland’s lead proved too steep

a mountain to climb, as the Terps continued their good play to a score of 25-20.

Freshman middle blocker Jasmine Stackhouse picked up the slack for an inactive senior teammate Mikaela Matthews, as she led the entire court in blocks with three.

“I still felt things could have been better,” Stackhouse said. “I don’t think it was necessarily as bad as it could be, but I definitely think I could have improved. Everybody has their days, so this might have just been one of my days.”

It was an imitation game to kick off the second set, as once again, the Knights and Maryland played evenly throughout the first few points.

This was a match many on both sides thought would be even, and both knew any slight lead would prove the difference, so there was a sense of urgency from the first whistle.

The Knights held a 12-10 lead in the middle of the first set, and the lead persisted. Rutgers was able to capitalize on Maryland’s mistakes and didn’t let its own get the better of them, which has been a problem since the beginning of the campaign.

The College Park crew soon fought back to a 19-15 lead, and the Knights found themselves in a familiar rut.

Rutgers has made a season out of not finishing sets, often allowing

its opponents to take leads in the late stages of sets.

And that is just what was in store for the second set, as Maryland established its lead and never looked back, taking a 25-19 win.

The Knights had struggled at the end, but the same cannot be said for their start.

The third frame saw Rutgers jump out to a 5-1 lead. Though the Terrapins were able to tie the score up at eight apiece, a few Terp errors enabled the Knights to leverage a slight lead halfway into the set.

Up 18-14, the Knights had their greatest lead yet. Maryland crawled back to tie it up at 18, and Rutgers’ late-game troubles looked to haunt them once again.

It was point-for-point up until the final whistle, as Maryland once again pulled ahead in the closing moments to win 26-24.

And though Werneke’s oneword account of the game may hold some truth, there was still some good that came out of Saturday night’s affair.

Senior outside hitter Micaela Anderson has seen quality playing time in the tail end of her college career, as she has fully recovered from a back injury that had her inactive at the beginning of the season.

“It’s an amazing feeling,” Anderson said. “It’s my senior year so I just wanted to be able to get back out on the court and help my team

the best I can. It’s really fun to be playing with the girls again.”

And though Anderson has certainly had a positive contribution, she and the rest of the Knights were still unable to nab a “W” off of a team that matched up the closest to Rutgers.

Even the optimist in Werneke — who always finds the good with the bad and does not get wrapped

up in wins and losses — could not come to terms with the result.

“I fully expected to still be playing or come out with a victory and that didn’t go our way, so I’m disappointed right now,” Werneke said.

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Freshman middle blocker Jasmine Stackhouse paced the team with three blocks, filling in for the inactive Mikaela Matthews.

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“Although Senior Night acknowledges that it’s our final year for the seniors, we don’t want to be done yet. We need to beat Wisconsin and make some noise in the conference tournament.”

— Senior forward Madison Tiernan

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

Knights host Columbia in Senior Night fight Bret Levinsion Staff Writer

Tuesday marks senior night for the Rutgers men’s soccer team, but a more important issue looms larger.

Through 14 games this season, the Scarlet Knights (0-12-2) have yet to win, and there are only two regular season games and one guaranteed Big Ten Tournament game remaining on the slate.

The Knights have seen their fair share of ranked opponents, top goalkeepers, tough road venues and in-state rivals. But the team visiting Yurcak Field on Tuesday night may have the best keeper that Rutgers has seen all season long.

Columbia junior Dylan Castanheira is top in the Ivy League in three categories, including goals-against-average (.56), save percentage (.824) and the least amount of goals allowed (3) this season.

The Knights will also face a daunting task as the Lions excel in a statistic that has been Rutgers’ kryptonite during the 2016 campaign.

This season, Columbia has scored seven goals in the first halves of their matches, a period Rutgers leads the Big Ten in goals conceded with 19.

But the Knights will come out of the gates on Tuesday night with a little more pep in their step. It’s senior night and Rutgers wants to send its seniors off with not only a win, but also with momentum heading into the Big Ten Tournament.

Freshman defender Tim McQuaid looks to honor the seniors during Senior Night with a strong performance against Columbia Tuesday. Eight seniors will be honored, and Rutgers is looking for its first win. EDWIN GANO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / OCTOBER 2016

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FIELD HOCKEY RUTGERS 2, RICHMOND 0

RU rebounds with shutout win over Spiders Kaylee PofAHl Contributing Writer

In its final home stand of the season, the Rutgers field hockey team split its fourth consecutive doubleheader weekend, rebounding with a 2-0 win over Richmond on Sunday after falling to No. 6 Penn State on Friday 4-1.

The Scarlet Knights (9-7, 2-5) put up a dominant first half against the Nittany Lions (13-2, 5-2) with a 1-0 lead, but a tying goal off the tricky left baseline early in the second proved to be the beginning of the end.

Penn State continued its offensive power and forward Aurelia Meijer scored three consecutive goals off attack penalty corners that Rutgers was unable to answer.

On Sunday, after honoring their eight veterans in a pregame Senior Day ceremony, the Knights shutout a scrappy Richmond (7-9, 5-2) team to end the weekend on a high note and leave Bauer Track / Field Hockey Complex with one final home victory to end the 2016 regular season.

“I think they were very happy to get the win (Sunday) but you could kinda tell in the huddle that they knew that we have better hockey to play, which is exciting — when they’re not satisfied,” said head coach Meredith Civico. “I think especially after Friday’s game, (the team) knew that they didn’t play two full halves. They played a really great first half and then kind of let down a little bit in that second half. We’ve got to be tough in the second half and I think it’s more of a mental piece for us than a hockey piece really — just staying focused throughout the 70 minutes.”

Rutgers has split 6 of its 7 doubleheader weekends this year by opening with losses and closing with wins. The only exception was when the team went 2-0 in the second weekend of September against Ohio and Cornell.

Though this trend shows the Knights’ ability to make adjustments and bounce back, teams only get one shot in the postseason and Rutgers is a single game away from the Big Ten tournament.

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Senior defender Sophia Walia was 1 of 8 Knights honored before the final regular season home game of their careers on the Banks Sunday. JEFFREY GOMEZ / OCTOBER 2016 knights schedule

EXTRA POINT

TYLIN ODEN,

freshman quarterback, completed the first pass of his young career in Rutgers’ 34-32 loss to Minnesota.

Oden connected with freshman running Trey Sneed, who made his first career reception, for a 2-yard gain.

MEN’S SOCCER

WOMEN’S SOCCER

VOLLEYBALL

FIELD HOCKEY

MEN’S SOCCER

vs. Columbia

at Wisconsin

at Minnesota

at Maryland

at Illinois

Today, 7 p.m., Yurcak Field

Tommorrow, 8 p.m., Madison, Wis.

Friday, 8 p.m., Minneapolis, Minn.

Saturday, 1 p.m., College Park, Md.

Saturday, 8 p.m., Peoria, Ill.