The Daily Targum 2016-11-14

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Students hold protest against Donald Trump nikhilesh de, bushra hasan and Sanjana Chandrasekharan staff writers

More than 100 students marched down College Avenue and George Street to show their support for minorities and students in the LGBT community after Republican Donald J. Trump was elected as the next United States President last Tuesday. JASON YE

Chanting “We reject the president-elect,” “No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here” and “Not my president,” Rutgers students marched up and down College Avenue and George Street Friday afternoon.

Roughly 120 students convened at Voorhees Mall on the College Avenue campus to show support for minorities and members of the LGBTQ community after the election of Republican nominee Donald J. Trump.

Mason Gross School of the Arts first-year student Tamir Bejar said he attended and observed the rally to show support for students who might feel intimidated by the results of the election.

“The message is we do not accept the hate and fear-mongering, the hateful rhetoric he’s been using,” Bejar said. “Hopefully he can change and does a good job because if he doesn’t that screws us over.”

Anti-immigrant and anti-minority sentiment in the country existed long before Trump has, Bejar said, but the Republican’s campaign has brought it into the limelight.

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Greek life raises more than $300,000 for local hospital nikhilesh de news editor

Nine greek organizations broke a record Saturday night when they raised more than $300,000 over the course of two weeks during events for the 26th annual Derby Days, a charitable program run by the Sigma Chi fraternity.

The fundraiser benefits the Children’s Specialized Hospital in New Brunswick, said Joseph Hefley, a former Derby Days director for Sigma Chi. The School of Arts and Sciences senior estimates that nearly $1.5 million has been raised in the past five or six years alone.

“It started out as a relatively small thing, but around eight years ago,

we finally got to right under the $100,000 mark and that’s when social media started coming out, the sororities’ presence on campus got stronger,” he said. “Six years ago, (we raised) $135,000 … this year it’s right under $300,000.”

Participants spend most of the semester preparing for the week, he said. At the beginning of the semester, members of Sigma Chi were drafted to work with each of the eight different sororities also taking part.

During the two weeks, students competed in various activities including a Family Feud-style game, field activities, a date auction and See hospital on Page 5

The public-speaking group Toastmasters International worked with the School of Engineering co-ed fraternity to host “Tell Tall Tales,” a contest where participants told a panel of judges creative fictional stories. CASEY AMBROSIO

Engineering fraternity hosts public speaking contest with Toastmasters stephen weiss contributing writer

Sigma Chi partnered with eight sororities to raise more than $300,000 for the Children’s Specialized Hospital in New Brunswick with their Derby Days charity fundraiser. NIKHILESH DE / NEWS EDITOR

Engineers are not always the uncreative, technically minded group that people perceive them to be.

Last Wednesday, Toastmasters International collaborated with the only co-educational engineering fraternity at Rutgers, Theta Tau, to sponsor a fictional story contest at the Busch Student Center.

“Tell Tall Tales” is a storytelling competition held biannually where

students are encouraged to use imagination and creativity in telling a fictional story to an audience. Participants practice their public speaking skills by competing in front of a panel of judges.

Mainly School of Engineering students participate in the competition, but anyone is welcome to participate, including those from other universities.

Public speaking is a crucial skill to learn in college, said Rajvi Shah, president of Toastmasters. Be-

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ing able to project in public helps during classes, as well as in other aspects of a student’s life.

“Whether you use it in interviews, whether you are talking to anyone or building relationships in a professional setting, I think it is extremely important,” Shah said.

Toastmasters exposes students to different types of speech, including tall tales, evaluating others’ speeches or practicing See contest on Page 4

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Researcher discovers new method for storing radiation

Ahutosh Goel, an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, along with his research team, discovered a new method for storing radioactive materials more cheaply and easily than current containment methods. NEWS.RUTGERS.EDU

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A Rutgers professor and his research team are working to develop a simpler and cheaper way to contain radioactive waste.

Last fall, Ashutosh Goel, an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and his research team, discovered they could create the ceramic material needed to immobilize radioactive iodine in a low-temperature lab setting, rather than a highly controlled environment.

The U.S. Department of Energy funded the project and research commenced in October 2014. The project’s objective was to address the problem of radioactive iodine in low-activity waste at the Hanford Site, Goel said.

The Hanford Site is a decommissioned nuclear complex in the southwestern portion of Washington. It was opened at the same time that the Manhattan Project commenced in 1942.

Before the facility’s deactivation at the end of the Cold War, the Hanford Site produced more than 56 million tons of high-level radioactive waste, according to USA Today News. Almost all of this waste is still present.

The Hanford Site is one of four large swaths of land in the United States where high-level radioactive waste is stored. There are other complexes located in Idaho, New York and South Carolina, according to the U.S Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.

These four sites store nearly 100 million gallons of high-level radioactive waste and cover approximately 1,500 square miles of U.S. territory, according to reports by the U.S Department of Energy and the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.

Last fall, Goel and his team discovered a new way to create a ceramic powder that is used to immobilize radioactive iodine.

The powder will decrease the amount of radioactive waste in these facilities, Goel said.

Goel said his team’s discover y is unique because it consisted of using relatively simple scientific techniques to achieve the final product.

“This particular ceramic has always been synthesized at about 700 to 800 degrees Celsius by means of very complex, expensive machinery,” he said. “My team and I found that we could create the same ceramic at ambient room temperature without using costly equipment.”

The new procedure depends on careful proportioning, Goel said.

“It’s really as simple as mixing the proper concentrations of the right materials together,” he said, “If you do this carefully, and in the correct order, eventually you get the same end result as the people using the fancy machinery.”

Charles Cao, a graduate student on Goel’s team, said the discovery is important because its implementation is highly feasible in large-scale industrial settings.

“Our procedure is cheaper and more energy efficient than methods used by almost everybody else today,” he said. “The benefits of our system become even more pronounced when you start to consider scaling up and using our techniques on a larger platform.”

Ultimately, Goel and Cao’s research seeks to answer the broader question of what countries with nuclear waste should do with the it.

Exposure to radiation can negatively alter environments as well cause genetic defects and cancer in humans and animals, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Lisa Klein, a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, said the problem of nuclear waste management difficult to deal with because there are no obvious solutions.

“We’re continuously presented with better and better ways of dealing with nuclear waste because of technological improvements,” she said, “Unfortunately, thus far, we haven’t found a solution that is seen as being a permanent, and this has resulted in us continuously kicking our problems down the road.”

Many radioactive isotopes that are byproducts of nuclear waste, have half-lives that millions of years. An isotope’s half-life is the time necessary for its radioactivity to decrease by half.

For example, iodine-129, the radioactive material Goel and Cao’s experiments sought to immobilize, has a half-life of about 15.7 million years, according to a

report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Klein said it is imperative to see nuclear waste management as a universal problem.

“People have don’t seem to realize that nuclear waste isn’t a scientific problem,” Klein said. “It’s a societal problem, and it’s capable of impacting everybody if it isn’t addressed soon enough.”

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protest Students showed solidarity with minorities, LGBT students at rally continued from front School of Arts and Sciences junior Luca Giovannetti said he is worried about Vice President-elect Michael Pence’s past support for gay conversion therapy.

“Personally, I’m a gay man, so this election ... is ver y concerning to me. The idea of conversion therapy for the LGBT community is something that’s ver y daunting,” he said.

“I fear that we’ll go backwards just like many other groups in the countr y.”

Glenn Bouthillette, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior, said he voted for Trump because of his campaign promises. He said he was looking past what the president-elect said to what actions he had committed to.

“I understand about all the immigrants. I care about the immigrants, but we must make sure that we do an honest and trustworthy vetting so that immigrants can come in and not anyone who commits crimes,” he said. “We need some sense of security to keep people safe.”

A large number of Trump’s voters chose him because of his promise to bring back jobs, said Anthony Delconte II, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore.

“The reason that people voted for him is a lot of them are workers, a lot of them lost their jobs,” Delconte said. “It’s not about the race thing, I think people want to put it there but be reasonable. People want to understand why they voted for Trump, well that’s why.”

Delconte was formerly employed by a construction company for years.

He has seen many blue-collar jobs shipped overseas, he said.

While Trump might not be able to bring them back, he at least promised to try.

“He’s the only one. These companies that are shipping jobs out, he was the only one to say he’d stop them,” he said. “He might not do it, but if he does that, he’ll

“It’s not about the race thing, I think people want to put it there but be reasonable.”

ANTHONY DELCONTE II School of Arts and Sciences Sophomore

protect American jobs … he’s the only candidate who said that.

That’s what I want him to do.”

Bouthillette said he supported Trump’s stance on immigrants because of the recent terrorist attacks in Orlando, Paris and Brussels.

Americans need a sense of security, he said. The only immigrants he considers “illegal” are those who commit crimes.

Omar Mateen, the 30-year-old man who shot and killed 49 people in the Pulse nightclub, was born in New York. In the Paris attack, committed by nine people,

seven were of French or Belgian origin. And earlier this year, of the five men who killed 32 people in a suicide bombing at a Brussels airport and train station, four were Belgian nationals and one was a Swedish citizen.

Valerie Gomez, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said Trump does not respect immigrants. Her family immigrated to America through the immigration system, but that system itself needs improving.

“As a first-generation here at Rutgers I know my parents fought for my future, so I can’t respect a president who doesn’t recognize that fight,” she said. “I want a president who values each of us.”

The rally was also meant to speak against hate crimes that have been committed in Trump’s name, Bejar said.

Reports of potential hate crimes have spiked since the businessman’s election, according to BBC News.

“We do not accept any of that,” Bejar said. “I just do not support the bigotry that’s going on.”

Bouthillette said these crimes are being committed by Democrats.

Many of the claims stating that Trump is a racist are baseless, he said.

While Bejar said he does not believe every Trump supporter is bigoted, he does want them to understand they have cast their vote in support of someone who is.

“Unintentionally or not, you’ve made it okay for someone to be a bigot. We’re against that,” he said. “We’re not saying you specifically are bigoted, that you specifically are racist or misogynistic, but that you are standing with someone who allows it, that’s all I want them to know.

Hopefully (Trump) addresses the bigotry and hate and tries to put an end to it.”

contest Students told fictional stories to audience, panel of judges at ‘Tell Tall Tales’ participated in and that he would return again.

Hannah Miller, a School of Arts presentations, said Aisvar ya Chandrasekar, a member of both and Sciences senior, was a “Tell Tall Tales” first-timer and deToast Masters and Theta Tau. Public speaking is especial- scribed the experience as a posily important for engineers, the tive one.

“I am a theater major and a lot School of Engineering junior said.

“Although this competition is of people here are engineering open to everyone, it is very engi- majors, so I would have never met neering-centric because it is done them otherwise,” Miller said.

Miller said one of her friends in on Busch, (where) it is close to Theta Tau told engineers and her she should done by an try out the conengineering test because of fraternity,” she her experience said. with theater.

Engineers “We all have stories to “Seeing othare not always tell. They can be funny, er people here technical, she performing is they can be fake or said.

Many very enlighthave a creative anything you want.” ening for me side that the because there general public nicholas bilas is a commudoes not see.

School of Engineering Junior nity outside These events of the theater are important world that is because peopar ticipating ple often close in this and their minds that is really and “Tell Tall Tales” is an effective way to re- great,” she said.

The competition is usually held lease and open up, Nicholas Bilas, a School of Engineering junior in The Cove at the Busch Campus and one of the winners of Wednes- Center, but Toastmasters was unable to schedule it there this time day’s contest said.

“We all have stories to tell. because it was booked for the They can be funny, they can be whole month.

Shah said the change of locafake or anything you want and I think people need to light- tion had a stark effect on the foren up a bit and have a couple mality of the event.

“It actually makes a huge laughs,” he said. “It is fun to add that fictional element. I like difference,” she said. “You saw telling stories and I like imagin- people interjecting while people were speaking, which is not ing things.”

Bilas said this was the sec- usually how these things run ond “Tell Tall Tales” he has for us.” continued from front

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A cappella group hosts regional competition at Rutgers Geoffrey Schiller contributing writer

The award-winning Rutgers Asian A cappella Group (RAAG) organized and hosted a showcase Saturday night in Scott Hall on the College Avenue campus.

The event, “Shaam-e-Rang,” translates to an “Evening of Colors,” from Urdu to English. It brought together Rutgers teams, including RU RAAG and Nuttin’ But V.O.C.A.L.S., as well as five groups from around the country.

Family, friends and members of the Rutgers community convened in Scott Hall around 7 p.m., and Parth Shintre, a RAAG member and a School of Arts and Sciences junior, addressed the crowd.

The event is one the group would love to continue, said Sanjana Mehta, RAAG president and business manager. She said she hopes to eventually host a competition on a larger stage.

“The show sold out in the end,” the Rutgers Business School junior said. “The turnout was amazing.

We didn’t expect so many people.”

Mehta said the whole RAAG team has been working tirelessly, at four to five hours every Friday since April to get “Shaam-e-Rang”

off the ground.

Part of the event’s proceeds went to SAMHAJ NAMI, a New Jersey advocacy group that seeks to promote mental health awareness in the South Asian community, Mehta said.

NAMI — the National Alliance on Mental Illness — is the umbrella group that SAMHAJ falls under. The group is particularly dedicated to de-stigmatizing mental illness and offering support — including bilingual support — to families involved and affected by mental illnesses.

The group provides workshops for social ser vice agencies and schools to learn more about the growing South Asian community in New Jersey, with the goal of helping them to provide better care.

Shreya Sethi, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said she loved both Penn State’s and the University of Maryland’s performances, although RU RAAG’s closing performance was her favorite of the night.

A handful of times during the night, the venue suffered some mild technical difficulties which caused some of the mics to cut out abruptly, usually only once or twice

hospital Sigma Chi has been running event for 26 years, raised more than $300,000 Saturday night continued from front a Lip Sync Battle. The last dance competition ended the activities for the charity.

“It’s supposed to be fun, you go out there, have a good time, compete against each other,” he said.

“At the end of the day everyone (raises money for the hospital).”

The teams that raise the most funds or win different activities win prizes, Hefley said.

These prizes recognize the work each team puts into the fundraiser, he said. Many of the sororities have been preparing

for an entire year, while the fraternity brothers began working with their teams at the beginning of the semester.

The event organizers at Sigma Chi begin planning for the next year’s activities immediately after the previous year’s are completed, Hefley said.

“This is a year-long effort, our brothers take it really seriously,” Hefley said. “Right after I got done last year I worked with (the current director), and after tonight we’ll celebrate this weekend, but then the next guy starts Monday.”

CRIME Nov. 14 TRENTON — A man had his leg amputated after he was struck by a train arriving at the Trenton Transit Center at around 12:45 p.m. Saturday night. A spokeswoman for the transit police said the man was trespassing on the tracks when he was struck by the train along the Northeast Corridor. The man is currently recovering from his injuries at a nearby hospital. Authorities are unsure of his condition before the accident.

Nov. 14 HAZLET — Kathryn Lands, 29 of Middletown, was arrested by police on Monday after she attempted to rob a Burger King at gunpoint. Authorities said Lands entered a Burger King restaurant in Hazlet, demanding money and threatening the cashier with a handgun. Police charged Lands with second-degree robbery and possession of a controlled dangerous substance.

Nov. 14 JERSEY CITY — Gunfire erupted outside a popular Jersey City restaurant, White Mana Diner, at around 6:45 a.m. Sunday morning. Authorities said the shooting occurred in the parking lot of a diner on Tonnelle and Manhattan avenues. No one was injured in the shooting but a car was struck by a stray bullet. The shooting remains under investigation and no arrests have been made.

Nov. 14 HAMILTON TWP. — A single-vehicle crash resulted in one dead and four injured after the car turned on Ocean Heights Avenue, overturned and struck a tree. Police said there were five adult occupants in the car at the time of the crash. One was pronounced dead at the scene by police and the other four were taken to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center. Authorities are currently withholding the names of the occupants.

The Rutgers Asian A cappella Group hosted a “an Evening of Colors” Saturday night in Scott Hall.

A cappella groups from different universities along the East Coast performed, with some of the night’s proceeds going to a mental health advocacy group. JEFFREY GOMEZ / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER per performance, said Siddarth Siddabathula, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student.

He called it incredible that all the groups continued to play

through technical difficulties.

No team chose to pause or restart mid-song.

The technical difficulties did not stop Siddabathula from enjoy-

ing the performance. He is excited to come back, he said.

“They must trust each other a lot to keep going after audio cuts like that,” he said.

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Trump victory not result of ‘whitelash’

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n an unexpected turn of events, Donald CONSERVATIVE Trump is the new presHOT CORNER ident-elect of the United States. Going into Election Day, it seemed all but certain DANIEL MACLANE that Hillary Clinton would be victorious considering that the polls in many of the swing states were in her favor. Many of the polling models also had her somewhere between 70 percent and even as high as 98 chance of winning. But despite the odds, Donald Trump came out the victor and will be the 45th President of the United States come Jan. 20.

Many commentators are drawing the conclusion that President-elect Trump won by exploiting the “whitelash” of the American electorate. Most notably, Van Jones, commentator at CNN, has made the case, claiming that Trump’s victory is the result of a “whitelash against a changing country” and also “against a black president.” Van Jones’s contention is not supported by the facts. The voter demographics indicate that Trump energized a group of voters who have felt alienated by the establishment of both major parties.

Secretary Clinton also failed to energize the voter base that staunchly supported President Obama.

Trump actually won a lower percentage of the white vote than Mitt Romney, 58 percent to 59 percent respectively. Even with all of the talk about alienating minorities, Trump actually improved the GOP’s standing with many minority groups, according to the exit polls. Romney only won 6 percent of the African-American vote and Trump garnered 8 percent. With Latinos, Romney came away with 27 percent and Trump won 29 percent.

This election was not the “whitelash” Van Jones wrongly claims it to be. It was the result of a populist message that resonated with many working class Americans, specifically among uneducated white voters. This group of voters felt alienated by the establishments of both parties, which also helped fuel the candidacy of Bernie Sanders.

Donald Trump with his anti-trade and anti-globalism rhetoric swung many counties in the Rust Belt states, counties that voted for President Obama both in 2008 and 2012, to cast a ballot for the GOP candidate. Of the 676 counties that voted for Obama twice, Trump was able to flip 209 of them. White, uneducated voters also helped drive Trump to victory.

Sixty-seven percent of white voters without a college degree voted for Trump compared to just 28 percent for Clinton. This indicates a major change from 2012 as Romney won 61 percent over Obama’s 36 percent.

Although President-elect Trump was able to energize this alienated group of voters, Hillary Clinton’s dishonesty should not be understated when explaining the results of this election. Secretary Clinton, being under investigation by the FBI for her emails, was so disliked that she failed to turnout the same amount of voters as President Obama. Secretary Clinton garnered near 5 million less votes than President Obama in 2012 and 10 million less than 2008. It is absolutely remarkable that the Democrats have managed to lose 10 million voters in just 8 years. Voter turnout was also way down in many of the swing states among minorities. Early ballots in Florida among African-Americans dropped from 25 percent in 2012 to just 16 percent in 2016. There was also an 8.7 percent drop of early ballot AfricanAmerican voters in North Carolina. African-Americans in these states tend to vote Democrat and these states proved crucial for Donald Trump’s victory.

This election came down to the incompetency and corruption of Hillary Clinton. According to an NBC poll (taken in August), only 11 percent of Americans described the former First Lady as trustworthy.

This is what happens when you set up a private email server to send and receive classified government information and delete 33,000 emails after the FBI has served you with a subpoena. Also, having a charitable foundation suspected of running a pay-to-play scheme does not help when trying to garner votes. The Democrats had an honest candidate named Bernie Sanders, with whom I disagree with on most issues, who probably would have won white voters without a college degree, effectively crippling Trump’s base. Instead, they chose the corrupt former Senator who was fired from the Watergate investigation for being, according to Jerry Zeifman (a lifelong Democrat who supervised Hillary during that investigation) “an unethical, dishonest lawyer.” Her corruption essentially handed the presidency to Trump considering Trump did not even break the number of popular votes that Mitt Romney received in 2012.

Van Jones is entirely incorrect in blaming this election on “whitelash.”

He provided no statistical backing and just tried to attribute Trump’s rhetoric to energizing a group of white voters. The statistics indicate that Trump’s populist message resonated in the Rust Belt and the lack of voter turnout heavily favored him. He even won less white voters than Mitt Romney. Even Michael Moore has acknowledged that it was not the “whitelash” but the alienated middle class that fueled this victory. Maybe instead of perpetuating false narratives, Van Jones should stick to what he knows best, getting arrested at violent riots just as he did in 1992 and 1999.

Daniel MacLane is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in political science. His column, “Conservative Hot Corner,” runs on alternate Mondays.

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The same can be said about Trump’s dealings with he 2016 presidential election was surprising in many ways. However, for most people undocumented immigrants. One of Trump’s most fathe most shocking factor came after Presi- mous slogans during his campaign trail was “Build a dent-elect Donald Trump secured the presidency. wall,” which was followed by his promise that Mexico Trump’s supporters and his opposition alike are would pay for it. His supporters adopted the motto scratching their heads at some of the decisions the immediately and celebrated Trump’s authority and future president is making already. Trump, who immediate action against the proclaimed “drugs,” established his campaign upon concrete platforms, “crimes” and “rapists” that he asserted Mexico was seems to be considering swaying slightly in some of pushing into the United States. But recently, these views have changed. Trump now states that a onehis stances.

One of Donald Trump’s biggest promises on his time payment from Mexico of $5 billion for a wall (or campaign trail was the “full repeal of Obamacare.” fence as he now suggests) that will cost $24 billion He spoke of its tremendous strain on the economy would suffice. He has also stated that rather than deand how he would be repealing and replacing it port all undocumented immigrants, he plans to deport entirely. But in an interview with The Wall Street the 2-3 million undocumented immigrants that he Journal, Trump has stated that rather than repeal says are involved in criminal activity. The remainder of the Affordable Care Act completely, he wants to the 11 million undocumented immigrants, he states, will be left to later deliberation, amend it instead. In fact, he considering that some of these plans to keep two provisions from the health care law: in“... Trump is reconsidering his were “terrific people” with no criminal records. surers cannot deny patients political stances on issues that outstanding Slowly but surely, Trump is rehealthcare because of their he was once definite in.” considering his political stances existing conditions and also on issues that he was once defiparents can continue to pronite in. Whether these shifts are vide healthcare coverage to their children for an extended period of time. Al- subtle (such as his refusal to comment on the “Muslim though these provisions have been argued to be ban” that was removed and reinstated to his website) or necessary because of the otherwise loss of health- rather conspicuous (such as his holding of an LGBTQ care coverage for 20 million people, Trump’s shift flag at one of his rallies after stating countless times that from a rigid position to a more accommodating one he believes in same-sex marriage being a states’ issue), Trump is proving to be more fluid above anything else. was unanticipated.

Even though he has not been inaugurated yet, The same man who decorated his campaign speeches with enthusiastic shouts of “Lock her up!” Trump’s presidency is coming with an air of uncer— in reference to former Democratic nominee Hil- tainty, leaving people questioning whether he even lary Clinton — is now asserting that her investigation has a firm set of beliefs that are his own or if he has isn’t something he has “given a lot of thought (to).” simply shifted his viewpoints to appeal to his voters.

This originally criminalizing rhetoric toward Clinton This also speaks volumes about much of the Amerfueled ardent support from Trump’s followers and is ican people. The figure of Donald Trump as Presnow another “promise” that has been pushed to the ident, which has been a cause of outrage and fear, background and replaced with Trump’s confusing may not be the main issue of concern. Rather, those assertion that “we owe her a major debt of gratitude who do not support his views should relocate their for her service to our country.” It is understandable fears to the political stances of his Republican-domithat the future leader of the free world should be nant Congress as well as the intolerance of some of civilized to his opponent in his acceptance speech, his avid supporters, whose idealities are more concrete than Trump’s own. however the shift in discourse is drastic.

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Self-harm, violent rhetoric is sweeping U.S. after election TAX AND TURMOIL NICHOLAS DEMAREST

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he events that took place this week following the election of Donald Trump are more than unsettling for any reasonable person to swallow. Americans with access to social media let loose in an all-out attack on their political rivals in a variety of fashions.

The most outraged supporters of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton have been taking to the pavement and into the streets of major cities and highways across the nation. This has been their attempt to draw attention to their fear and personal disdain for President-elect Donald Trump. On the other side of the political spectrum, Trumps supporters on the far right have been documented in some cities increasing their use and display of racial slurs along with hate speech.

Twitter has become an outlet for hate, violent treats and vulgarity for supporters of the candidates from both sides. The President-elect has received a tremendous amount of death threats from liberals, while alt-right supporters are eagerly attacking Hispanic and Muslim-Americans awaiting their hopeful deportation as a result of Trump facilitated policy. I’d like to state that I, personally, would have been equally as unsatisfied with the

democratic nominee taking the Presidency, and against popular belief, I think similar protests and threats would be taking place, but with the emphasis being on different issues.

On a more personal note, about a month ago one of the most kind-spirited people I’ve ever met and — a girl I walked in my high school graduation with, Amanda Lundeen — took her life for reasons left unknown. This past week another alumni from Hillcrest Lutheran Academy, who I will keep anonymous, inflicted significant self-harm that could have resulted in their death. These

place, observing the harsh realities that are unfolding before me in America, without any pragmatic strategy to calm the water or comfort the hopeless.

My reasoning for bringing self-harm into this column about the divisiveness in our country is because of two major reasons that connect well for me: First and foremost, I want to speak out to any person that believes that there is no way out because of the election.

Depression is real and the last reason for anyone taking his or her life should be a political regime or elected official. There are people in

“I cannot make it any clearer that my major concern in writing this is to get anyone who feels unsafe to voice it, seek help and spread awareness.” are two people I knew for a large period of their lives, and were in supportive communities that have the resources to help them, but unfortunately never spoke out about the concerns they were overwhelmed with so they never received adequate help.

A lot of the concerns that arose were brought to light by those who are not happy with our President-elect including people of color, undocumented immigrants and the LBGTQ community. These factions of society are feeling hopeless, uncared for and feel as though their voices and opinions do not matter. This leaves me in this weird

this country that legitimately feel unsafe and unprotected by the current leadership in our country. I am not saying I agree that people are actually unsafe, but I am stating it is a fact that depression in an ugly, hungry beast that has reached its Thanksgiving dinner in our country after this election.

I urge each and every person that reads this column to reach out to someone they think is negatively affected by the election and do everything in your power to show them their value, how they are loved and what life has to offer beyond what policy makers say. To the liberals protesting in

the streets, the last thing that will make the people you’re advocating for more comfortable is threatening violence against the President-elect. Constructive criticism by attending town halls, writing letters to your university newspaper editors and having conversations with those who think differently than you frequently is the path to comfort for all. I view this attack coming from each side of the aisle as America’s suicide.

We are feeding our own self-hatred, bringing out the devil’s advocate in our opponents when gloating on victories and in turn, creating an actual threat to each other’s safety.

I cannot make it any clearer that my major concern in writing this is to get anyone who feels unsafe to voice it, seek help and spread awareness. I also have major concerns for our social atmosphere and how I believe it is not one politician committing American suicide but the die-hard supporters of the major candidates. We are going into what is going to be one of the most closely watched and well-documented presidencies of all time. Feel comfort in knowing that there are Americans that want America to function, but do not care who runs it. I do not want America or Americans to hurt themselves because of ideology or because of false threats promised during an election.

Nicholas Demarest is a Rutgers Business School senior majoring in accounting.

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How humans domesticated plants, animals over ages harshel patel

to later get their hide and meat.

The first domesticated animals were goats and sheep, followed Plants and animals have been by chickens and later by larger domesticated for thousands of animals like horses, according to years, becoming an integral part of Natioal Geographic.

The domestication process for society over this time.

Through the process of domes- animals is much more difficult than tication, wild plants and animals it is for plants, as it relies heavily became adapted for human use. on the behavior and mannerisms They are raised for food, work, of the animal. Herbivorous animals medication and more, according to that graze, for instance, are simpler the website for the National Geo- to raise because they do not require a special diet. graphic Society.

Grazing animals only need to The first domesticated organisms were plants, grown by hu- feed on grass, while herbivores that eat grains mans about need to have 10,000 years those grains doago in ancient mesticated and Mesopotamia.

People would The domestication process grown for them. for animals is much more Grains are also take seeds and plant them in difficult than it is for plants, a valuable asset agriculture, fertile areas, as it relies heavily on the to so the animals har vesting on the crop that behavior and mannerisms feeding them must be grew weeks or of the animal. more valuable months later. than the grains Some of themselves. the first plants Animals domesticated in Mesopotamia include wheat, have been domesticated and bred barley and peas. Other regions of to portray certain traits, such as the world also began to grow rice disease resistance, docility and ability to survive in unique climates, and potatoes.

In addition to being used as according to National Geographic.

Domesticated cats, dogs and food, plants found use as fibers and ornaments. Cotton was cows can be found while domesgrown to make cloth, and various ticated zebras and tigers are not, flowers were grown to be used as as only a few of the many wild decoration, according to Nation- animals in the world can become domesticated animals. according al Geographic.

Animals were domesticated to livescience.com.

To be domesticated, an animal around the same time that plants were, and were able to be raised cannot be a picky eater. They have digital editor

Domesticated animals are vastly different from their wild counterparts. Humans picked specific animals to domesticate based on whether they showed physical and psychological traits that were needed to create docile creatures. ALEXANDRA DEMATOS / COPY EDITOR to be able to survive on food in and around human settlements, such as grass and meat scraps, according to the site.

Second, they have to be able to grow and mature faster than a human. If they take too long to develop, then there is no reason to waste time to raise them before they can be put to work, according to the site.

Next, they have to be able to breed while captive. Some animals need large areas to survive and

breed, and being in an enclosure might not be ideal for them. In addition, they have to be able to recognize a human as their group leader, according to the site.

Further, they cannot have a panic instinct that causes them to run away from danger. If they do, anything that startles them would have them run away and make them difficult to herd, according to the site.

Finally, they have to be submissive, so humans can actually get close enough to interact with them without being in danger.

For example, cows and sheep are very submissive while buffalo are dangerous and, therefore, rarely domesticated, according to the site.

Domesticated animals can bear little resemblance to their ancestors, as the traits selected for them might not be common in the wild ancestor. An example of this is dogs being very different from wolves, which they were domesticated from, according to the National Geographic Society website.

Another example of this includes chickens, which are typically small and lay very few eggs in the wild. Domesticated chickens, on the other hand, can weigh up to 17 pounds and lay more than 200 eggs every year, according to the site.

As a result of domestication, civilization was able to progress as people no longer had to struggle to hunt for animals and gather plants. Due to this, fewer people were needed to get food so others could learn more specialized skills, according to the site.

Having a stable, predictable source of food helped populations grow, so areas around domesticated plants and animals were the most sizeable. With larger populations and specialized workers, effort could be committed towards developing tools, according to the site.

The first tools revolved around agriculture. After building hand tools from stone, metal tools were developed to create plows for field animals.

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E-ZPass devices are radio-frequency identification transponders. They emit radio waves that an antenna attached to toll booths can read, which reduces the need for human operators or loose change.

The receiver at a toll booth broadcasts a signal to the transponder, which then “replies” with identifying information. This tells the booth’s computer to let the vehicle go through.

The transponder itself is connected to its owner’s E-ZPass account. The company charges the transponder’s owner the appropriate toll, which it then pays to the booth’s owner.

Because the receivers are designed to read any and all E-ZPass transponders, they can read multiple devices within a single vehicle.

In other words, if there are two devices in a car, both will be charged for passing through a booth Wrapping one in foil may prevent this from happening, if a person is transporting multiple tags.

The use of E-ZPass transponders may have lead to a noticeable decrease in the amount of pollution near toll booths. Since the system is automatic, cars spend less time idling in line while drivers pay human operators their tolls.

DIVERSIONS

November 14, 2016

Mark Tatulli Horoscopes

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Page 9 Eugenia Last

Happy Birthday: Take the high road and do what makes the most sense.

Your ability to get things done without a fuss this year will be a springboard for your next act. Don’t try to impress, just do what you do best and let the chips fall where they may. You can’t always please everyone, but if you follow your heart, you will succeed. Your numbers are 3, 13, 22, 25, 29, 33, 48.

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Non Sequitur

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Get work responsibilities out of the way so that you can get on with the things you enjoy. A lesson regarding gratitude will be a turning point in the way you move forward. Your strength will come from well-considered actions. 3 stars TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Carefully observe the way people react to what you do and use that as your indicator for what to do next. Steady progress will help you inch your way to your destination. Make romance and personal gains your priority. 3 stars GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Don’t leave anything to chance. Dig deep and you’ll discover what is going on behind the scenes. Obtaining information and acting on your findings quickly will ensure that you bring about the changes required to protect your position. 3 stars CANCER (June 21-July 22): Someone you least expect will offer you help. Before you accept, question why and consider whether you have any means of moving forward on your own. Partnerships will be subject to change and could leave you in a vulnerable position. 4 stars

Pearls Before Swine

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Take a step back and take a moment to absorb what’s going on around you. Staying calm and keeping your emotions in check will help you avoid missing out on an opportunity that results from networking. Nurture important relationships. 2 stars VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A change at home will turn out better than expected. Follow your heart and pay attention to your intuition.

Someone’s motives may not be honorable. Focus on personal changes and gains, not contributing to someone else’s accomplishments. 5 stars

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Assess what you have accumulated and consider what you can discard. If something isn’t going your way, figure out ways to turn things around.

It’s up to you to make things happen, so stop waiting for changes to come to you. 3 stars SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Do whatever it takes to strengthen your relationships with the people who can affect your life personally or professionally. Listen and be willing to discuss ideas and plans openly. A joint effort will lead to positive results.

Romance is highlighted. 3 stars SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Stand still and breathe deep. It’s important to digest all the information being thrown your way before you make a decision that can alter the way people think of you. Take precautions and avoid being tempted by persuasive individuals. 3 stars CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Sign up for something that will encourage advancement. Self-improvement projects will turn out well as long as you don’t overspend in the process. A chance to discuss your feelings with someone you love will bring about positive changes. 5 stars AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Fire up the engines and turn up the volume. You have plenty to achieve if you stay focused on your goals and refuse to let emotional interference take over. Strive for discipline and fortitude, and you will find success. 2 stars PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Look for alternate ways to bring in extra cash.

A skill you have can be developed and used to your advantage. Romance is on the rise, and making plans with someone special will enhance your chances of improving your lifestyle. 4 stars

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reality Knights lost its 3 games to Michigan, MSU, Ohio State by combined score of 185-0 continued from back The hosts looked like the Spartans (3-7, 1-6) of years past, holding the Knights (2-8, 0-7) scoreless and tearing their defense to shreds on the ground and through the air in a 49-0 clobbering in front of 73,301 in East Lansing.

“That was a team that was 2-7 but did not see that on the field from the film we had watched in our preparation,” said head coach Chris Ash. “Got a lot of players that played a lot here and been a part of a lot success … You go down their roster of guys that are playing this year and played last year in the national semifinals, there’s a lot of players that played. For whatever reason, it hasn’t necessarily gone the way they wanted but they’re still a good football team.”

After holding Indiana to just 147 yards on the ground last week, Rutgers regressed to its mean as the second-worst rush defense in the Big Ten, giving up 277 yards and 3 touchdowns to nine different rushers.

Sophomore Madre London reached the endzone twice in the second half when the game was in the bag, but it was his classmate L.J. Scott who led the Spartans backfield on the day. He gathered 122 yards on 20 carries in two and a half quarters of action, including the final touchdown of a dominant 35-0 first half for Michigan State.

Scott also paced the Spartans’ offense on their first touchdown drive of the game, rushing for 46

of the 58 yards it took to reach the endzone, but it was Josiah Price who caught a 3-yard dart from quarterback Tyler O’Connor to open the scoring midway through the first quarter.

O’Connor and Price would connect again on another short touchdown in the redzone, but not before the Michigan State quarterback showed off his arm with a 50-yard touchdown completion to Trishton Jackson a drive earlier.

In contrast, Rutgers was held to 109 total rushing yards, with almost half coming in the fourth quarter from backup true freshman quarterback Tylin Oden when the game was well out of reach.

“We struggled to get anything going offensively up front with the run game, struggled to stop the run up front on defense and if you can’t control the line of scrimmage, you really have no chance to win a football games,” Ash said. “We got dominated from the start to the finish up front on both sides of the ball.”

By the time Oden came into the game, the Spartans were deep into their third and fourth unit, allowing him the space and time to gain 40 yards with his feet.

Starting quarterback Giovanni Rescigno didn’t have anywhere near as much luck. The Warren, Michigan, native known for his dual-threat abilities didn’t factor in a single rushing attempt in his homecoming and wasn’t much more efficient with his arm, throwing for just 40 yards on 6-for16 passing.

offense Knights gained multiple 1st downs on same drive just once in 7th straight loss continued from back relieved by true freshman Tylin Oden in the final minutes of the third quarter after going 6-of-16

through the air for 40 yards and two interceptions.

In what was their least effective offensive outing of the year against a non-ranked opponent,

Sophomore quarterback Giovanni Rescigno takes on a rushing Spartan defender after making a pass in Rutgers’ 49-0 loss.

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He threw an interception two plays and 18 seconds after the Spartans opened the scoring, handing them an early 14-0 lead.

“I just misread it — should’ve handed it off. The free safety came down and just jumped the route,” Rescigno said of the pick-six, the first of his two interceptions on the day. “We couldn’t really bounce back from the couple touchdown deficit, so we didn’t really bounce back well enough.”

While the final score may not be indicative of it, Michigan State was perhaps Rutgers’ best chance of winning a Big Ten game in Ash’s first season.

The loss brings them to 2-8 on the season with two games to

go — first a primetime game against rival No. 10 Penn State under the lights of High Point Solutions Stadium next Saturday night and then a trip to College Park to face fellow first-year head coach DJ Durkin and Maryland in their season finale.

A win would point the rebuilding program in the right direction, a positive ending on a difficult first season for Ash and his coaching staff. As he pointed out in his postgame press conference, the Knights have a solid base to build off of, with 9 of today’s 11 starters on defense and most of the special teams units returning next season.

But for those who will be moving on from the program,

either to the National Football League or to the next chapter in their lives, after graduation, these two games are their final chances to suit up for Rutgers.

To them, it’s do-or-die.

“Must wins, especially for me, and I think I speak for the rest of the seniors,” said fifth-year senior defensive tackle Darius Hamilton of the final two games of the season. “You wanna leave on a high note, a highest note as we possibly can, so I’m definitely attacking this week the same way. Time to get back to work, time to get a W.” For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow @briannnnf and @TargumSportson Twitter.

Spartan running back Madre London runs in 1 of his 2 touchdowns in the second half of Michigan State’s clobbering of Rutgers in East Lansing Saturday afternoon. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR

the Knights totaled just 149 yards and eight first downs, finishing 3-of-12 on third downs.

“You look at the stats, it wasn’t good. And we had hopes that (Gio) would be better and he wasn’t today,” said head football coach Chris Ash. “And it wasn’t just him. It starts up front and if we can’t run the football, we’re not gonna beat anybody by standing there in the pocket and throwing it all over the field and expecting it to beat someone. We gotta be able to run the ball and we gotta be able to protect the quarterback and again, we struggled to do that. That’s two weeks in a row we struggled to do that. We gotta get that fixed.”

In now two of their last three games, the Knights got of f to a slow star t on the of fensive side of the ball and compounded that rugged star t with a costly turnover.

On the second of three consecutive three-and-outs that Rutgers began the game with, a Rescigno pass in the flat intended for redshirt freshman Jawaun Harris was picked off by Demetrious Cox. After jumping the route, Cox returned it for a 30-yard touchdown giving the Spartans a 14-0 lead.

By the time the Knights were finally able to piece together a drive longer than three plays, they were already facing a steep 21-0 deficit.

“Things just didn’t go our way to start off,” Rescigno said. “We couldn’t really bounce back from the couple-touchdown deficit. So we didn’t really bounce back well enough. From here on out we

gotta learn from that and keep getting better.”

For the second time in as many games, Rutgers failed to establish any semblance of a running game as its front line failed to consistently win the battle of the line of scrimmage.

On the heels of a 2.7 yards per carry performance in their 3432 loss to Indiana last week, the Knights amassed 109 yards on 36 carries. Subtract Oden’s 40 yards across seven attempts and those overall rushing numbers look even more inept.

Junior running back Robert Martin made his return to the backfield for the first time since the bye, but only had his number called eight times to gain an efficient 32 yards.

Senior Justin Goodwin and junior Josh Hicks both unofficially out-snapped Martin and combined for 33 yards on 19 carries.

Even the dual-threat Rescigno recorded just one rush for a single yard.

For an offense’s success that has been mostly synonymous with the success of its running game, it comes as no surprise that the Knights not only failed to put points on the board, but to sustain drives consistently as well. Across its 13 drives, Rutgers went threeand-out five times and totaled more than one first down on the same drive just once.

“We gotta be a balanced offense, we gotta be able to run the football and we could not do that today,” Ash said. “That’s disappointing (because) it’s two weeks in a row.”

One of the few positives to come out of the Knights’ blowout loss was being able to get Oden a considerable amount of snaps.

As he’s done in his past appearances, the true freshman flashed his potential in the running game, dashing for 40 yards out of read-option sets.

But, while in a small sample size, Oden’s need to improve his accuracy as a passer was highlighted in both of his two attempts, which fell incomplete.

While Rescigno hasn’t been perfect, he’s not at the root of Rutgers’ recent struggles on offense and Ash reaffirmed the sophomore will continue to be the starting quarterback moving for ward.

If and when the Knights break out of their offensive rut over its final two games, it will be because of the play of its offensive line.

“Right now, we still feel Gio gives us the best chance to go out and play,” Ash said. “Tylin played some today. Tylin wasn’t a lot different than he was a couple of weeks ago. He struggles with a lot of the throw game stuff and you saw that today with some of the opportunities we gave him to throw. We gotta continue to bring him along but the whole things starts up front.

Right now, we’re going to expect a quarterback on our roster to go out and win games for us, it’s not gonna happen.”

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November 14, 2016

Page 11 MEN’S BASKETBALL RUTGERS 87, DREXEL 66

Knights dominate Drexel, improve to 2-0 in Pikiell era Brian Fonseca Sports Editor

The Rutgers men’s basketball team spent most of its conference schedule last season getting bullied by bigger, stronger teams down low.

Gutted by injuries and lacking both depth and height, the Scarlet Knights were forced to use shooting guards as power forwards and small forwards as undersized centers. The results weren’t pretty.

Sunday, the Knights had a chance to reverse the role against an undersized Drexel team in each team’s second game of the season.

Rutgers used last year’s poison as this year’s antidote i​n ​ its season opener against Molloy and it worked like a charm once again on Sunday against the Dragons, propelling the Knights to a comfortable 87-66 win to move to 2-0 on the season.

Drexel has just three players 6-foot-8 and taller, and it showed on the stat sheet. Rutgers dominated the visitors on the glass, outrebounding them 56-29 much to the satisfaction of first-year head coach Steve Pikiell.

“I like those,” he said when asked about the rebounding stats on the final box score. “Great numbers … we’ve been emphasizing that and we got some big guys and they kinda went at it.”

Among those big guys is 7-foot1 graduate transfer center C.J. Gettys, a name not many of the 4,026 fans in attendance knew coming into the RAC, but one they certainly remembered on their way out.

After a slow start from both teams saw the home team hold a slim 15-11 advantage at the under-12

Graduate transfer center C.J. Gettys gestures to the crowd at the RAC after leading Rutgers on a 7-3 run in the first half of its 87-66 win over Drexel Sunday afternoon. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR media timeout, Gettys took matters into his own hands. The Columbus, Ohio, native rallied off 7 straight points in the paint and on the free throw line on offense, throwing in 1 of his 2 blocks on the night on the other end.

By the time he hit the second bucket of his second home game for Rutgers, he was already getting the loudest applause of the season from the home crowd.

It may have helped that he played the role of ringleader, waving his hands up as he tracked back on defense.

“In a game like this, you just gotta get the crowd involved.

People are here for a reason, they

wanna see a good game, they want a good game, so why not get them involved?” Gettys said. “That gets us going as well, so don’t just look at it as me getting the crowd hype, but me getting my teammates hyped as well.”

Rutgers would take the crack Gettys gave it with his own personal run and blow the game open with a 13-0 run to end the first half, giving it a 41-26 halftime lead and plenty of breathing room to go along with it.

Nearly half the run was accounted for on the free throw line by fellow transfer Nigel Johnson.

Expected to be a starter alongside sophomore guard Corey Sanders entering this season after sitting

out last year due to NCAA transfer rules, the junior guard has instead turned into an impact player off the bench in the first two games this season.

Using his vantage point on the sidelines in the hectic opening minutes of the game, Johnson said he tried to slow the game down to reduce the turnovers and get to the line.

“I noticed when I went in, the other team was in foul trouble, so I used that to our advantage,” he said. “I just attacked more and I kept getting bumped and getting fouled, so I think that was good to get to the line and get some easy points.”

Johnson finished tied for the team’s top scorer on the night with forward Jonathan Laurent, each contributing 15 points.

The 6-foot-6 forward was one of the players chosen to fill a role of a position outside his comfort zone last season, playing significant minutes at center when he spent most of his playing career as a small forward.

“It’s a good feeling developing my outside game, which I didn’t have a chance to do last year because I was playing inside,” Laurent said. “It’s a new part (of my game) that you’re going to see.”

The Knights would coast through the second half, holding a double-digit lead that never dipped below 13 and peaked at 25 points with a minute remaining.

The win brings Pikiell to 2-0, the best start for a debuting head coach on the Banks since Bob Wenzel in 1988-89, and was filled with plenty of positives to pick from.

But there won’t be many nights in which Rutgers is the bigger, stronger, more talented team once its non-conference schedule closes and Big Ten play comes around.

That’s why even on a night where his team trailed for just 12 seconds and thoroughly outplayed its visitors, Pikiell wasn’t completely satisfied.

“Great team win,” Pikiell said, before the proverbial but. “Another step, (but) we got a long way to go. Too many turnovers, too many fouls in the first half, but we’ll continue to get better and continue moving this forward.”

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL CHATTANOOGA 66, RUTGERS 53

Rutgers falls to Chattanooga in season opener at RAC Griffin Whitmer Contributing Writer

The Rutgers women’s basketball team did not get off to the start it wanted.

The Scarlet Knights (0-1) fell to Chattanooga in their season opener at the Rutgers Athletic Center by a score of 66-53.

Junior guard Shrita Parker led the Knights with 10 points and added five assists and three rebounds. Khadaizha Sanders and Aliyah Jeune also added 8 points apiece.

Rutgers started strong, jumping out to a 10-7 advantage. Chattanooga found a groove soon thereafter and never looked back.

By the end of the first quarter, the Lady Mocs had a 19-16 lead and they would not relinquish it.

Head Coach C. Vivian Stringer was not happy with the overall performance, but was not completely discouraged with the team’s effort.

“We gotta get better,” the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame coach said. “We got a lot of work. But I’m encouraged based off of the scrimmages that we had this week”.

The Knights shot a respectable 40.4 percent from the floor, and the Lady Mocs were not

much better at 41.1 percent.

Chattanooga missed a lot of easy layups but then made up for it with endless drives to the basket resulting in points.

Junior guard Chelsey Shumpert led them with 18 points and was one of four players in double figures. Chattanooga was pests on the boards and was also given many open looks by a struggling Rutgers defense.

“There were some things that we did well,” Stringer said. “We have some other problems that are major breakdowns. I would be more disappointed defensively.”

Shrita Parker was the top returning scorer and was the only Rutgers player in double figures.

She spoke on the added responsibility she has with Tyler Sciafe out for the season.

“With Tyler being gone it takes away points,” Parker said. “I know that now I have to put points on the board. But as a team we’re going to try to play together. And everybody has parts so we don’t have that one person that has to score 30, 25 points a game.”

Parker was clearly the leader on the floor for the team and was playing with full energy the entire game. Even when the game was out of reach at the end, the

Knights were pressing and diving for loose balls.

Sophomore guard Khadaizha Sanders even knocked down two three-pointers late in the game, an area in which Stringer’s teams have struggled in the past. But that was all the three point shooting on display for Rutgers, as it was 0-for-8 on all other threepoint attempts.

Stringer addressed their struggles but also dismissed the notion that they were a poor three-point shooting team.

“It’s always been the achilles’ heel,” she said. “I could not believe it. I’m at a loss for words”.

She then turned and looked at guard Shrita Parker.

“You hit just about every three yesterday, just not today,” Stringer said.

“Yes ma’am” Parker replied.

Stringer showed disappointment and disbelief in their shooting woes. She noted that freshman guard Kate Hill was the purest shooter they had but just couldn’t get any up during the game.

Stringer noted that they wouldn’t try to stray away from three-pointers and they would try to take them if they were there.

It just didn’t seem as if they got enough open looks that they liked.

Junior transfer Kandiss Barber also had a strong game for the Knights, and was strong in all areas with 6 points, five rebounds, and four assists. As a newcomer, her experience with the team is limited and the group is clearly still developing chemistry.

“Coming as a newcomer i just felt were beginning to gel, we’re continuing to gel, and we’re continuing to progress,” Barber said.

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Junior guard Shrita Parker dribbles the ball in the second half of Rutgers’ 66-53 loss to Chattanooga Friday afternoon at the RAC. JEFFREY GOMEZ / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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“We struggled to get anything going offensively up front with the run game, struggled to stop the run up front on defense and if you can’t control the line of scrimmage, you really have no chance to win a football games.”

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FOOTBALL MICHIGAN STATE 49, RUTGERS 0

Josiah Price catches a 3-yard dart pass from Michigan State quarterback Tyler O’Connor, keeping one foot inbound the endzone to open the scoring for the Spartans in the first quarter of their 49-0 win over Rutgers Saturday. MSU held the Knights scoreless on the other end, handing them a third shutout loss of the year. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR

BACK TO REALITY

After 2 close losses, Rutgers suffers third emphatic shutout loss of season, remains winless in Big Ten play Brian Fonseca Sports Editor

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Far from anyone’s wildest expectations, Saturday’s matchup between the Rutgers football team and defending champions Michigan State was crucial in determining how the chips fell in the Big Ten East standings.

But it wasn’t the visiting Scarlet Knights who have outplayed expectations this season to rise up to the level of the Spartans, but rather the hosts who had an incredibly steep fall from the perch of the conference to its basement. The teams came in with an identical 2-7 overall record, both winless in conference play and looking to avoid finishing dead last in the Big Ten East — Rutgers for

the second straight year, the Spartans for the first time ever.

Both teams lost close games in conference they could’ve — and should’ve — won.

Something had to give.

Someone had to win this game and based on the last few weeks of play, in which the Knights lost by a combined 5 points to Minnesota and Indiana and seemed to be

coming closer to the desired complete game, picking Rutgers to win didn’t seem too crazy before the game.

But it was Michigan State that left Spartan Stadium with its first Big Ten win of the season — and boy, what a way to get it.

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KNIGHT NOTEBOOK RUTGERS HELD TO AT LEAST 7 POINTS FOR FIFTH TIME THIS SEASON

RU offense continues regression in shutout Eric Mullin

After posting 200-plus passing yards and leading his team to one-score losses in his each of his first two career starts, Rescigno returned to his home state on Saturday to play in his first game on Michigan soil since his senior year of high school at De La Salle three years ago.

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EAST LANSING, Mich. — It’s safe to assume that this wasn’t the kind of homecoming that Giovanni Rescigno had hoped for.

But the Warren, Michigan, native’s return home was ever ything short of welcoming, as performance and score-based reasons prevented him from simply playing it into the fourth quarter of the Rutgers football team’s (2-8, 0-7) ultimate 49-0 loss to Michigan State Saturday.

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ASHLI JEUNE,

redshirt sophomore guard, was ruled out for the 2016-17 season after suffering a torn ACL in her left knee in practice early last week. The Knights are already without senior guard Tyler Scaife, who led Rutgers in scoring last season.

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With a lopsided scoreboard favoring the Spartans (3-7, 1-6) and the Scarlet Knights in the midst of one of their more underwhelming offensive performances on the season, the sophomore starting quarterback was

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