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U. Women’s League brings new layer of campus sisterhood ADESUWA IGBINOVIA CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Unknown to many members of the Rutgers community, there is an age-old organization that gives back to the school and local community in Middlesex County. The various techniques used to help range from funding scholarships for outstanding third-year students, to providing a diverse sisterhood for its members. Created at a time when most women were stay-at-home mothers, the Women’s League of Rutgers University is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1932 by Nathalie Clothier, the wife of then University President Robert Clothier. The League was a way to get the wives of faculty and administration more involved with the University, as well as with each other. “The organization was formed ... because she felt that there was a gap between the Rutgers faculty and the family, and so she wanted to get women more in contact with each other,” said Janet Potenza, first vice president of the League. “They had various activities they did as a group. For example, the war came and the women were involved in helping the injured soldiers and things like that.” Although the organization was originally created to get wives of SEE SISTERHOOD ON PAGE 5
Marilyn Ali, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, resident assistant, former doo-wop singer, former EE bus driver and current Uber driver, is 65 years old with no plans of slowing down anytime soon. DAN COREY / COPY EDITOR
Student goes from doo-wop star to dutiful pupil DAN COREY COPY EDITOR
After living a life of fame and adventure reminiscent of the fictional characters Forrest Gump and Odysseus, Marilyn Ali is about to make her encore performance as a Rutgers student next semester before the curtain falls on her undergraduate career’s closing night. At age 65, the School of Arts and Sciences senior, Old Gibbons resident assistant, former doo-wop singer and former EE bus route driver is set to receive her bachelor’s degree
this May as a communication major and theater arts minor, and plans to attend graduate school for social work after graduation. The second of nine children born to a single mother in the Bronx, Ali lived a zigzagged life after leaving what is now the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics. One thing led to another, she took online classes with the University of Phoenix and she wound up attending Rutgers soon after. “The only thing that I felt was missing was interaction,” she said. “I still wasn’t getting fulfilled with all
that you hear about when you come to a university or college — the happenings that go on, the excitement with learning and the (sense of) growth from meeting new people.” Ali’s decision to attend the University as a non-traditional student found her sitting in class next to and collaborating on group projects with fellow students that she once drove through downtown New Brunswick on the EE bus route. As a student, Ali has never felt any kind of intimidation from traditional students during her undergraduate career, nor has she
experienced any discrimination for being older than students studying on the “more conventional” path, she said. “This is the honest-to-God’s truth, no one — none of the traditional students — have ever made me feel like I was too old,” she said. “As a matter of fact, I get just the opposite because — I don’t want to be bodacious — but I’m very useful.” Unlike most college students, particularly traditional ones, Ali’s main concern with receiving an SEE STAR ON PAGE 4
Rutgers offers bounty of opportunity for commuter students JULIAN JIMENEZ STAFF WRITER
Rutgers has a strong commuter student presence, and students and staff agree that the numerous means of transportation — both public and private — make Rutgers one of the most commuter-friendly schools in the tri-state area. JULIAN PEREZ
Rutgers is going the distance in accommodating both commuters and residential students with their college experiences. Rutgers University—New Brunswick is located between New York City and Philadelphia, two major cities. With school housing and public transportation access, it makes sense that the University’s students are made up of both commuters and non-commuters. Ciarra Zatorski, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, is a commuter. She thinks that because the school offers a vast amount of parking space, students are more than able to commute. “With Rutgers’ expansion and increase in parking lots, the school definitely allows easier access for students to choose between being commuters and living on campus,” she said. Because the school has access to New Jersey Transit, it is another reason why students are able to commute to school, Zatorski said. Zatorski does not live far from the
school, and thought it would make more sense to commute given what she thinks is a short travel time. “With the University being only 25 to 30 minutes away from me, it’s not a difficult commute,” she said. But commuting does vary from student to student. It made sense for her to commute based on her proximity from the campus, she said. For others, such as incoming first-years, it might be a good idea to live on campus. “I would suggest living on campus for at least the first year to get acquainted with the University, as well as to make friends,” she said. “Get involved in clubs or other things that interest you in order to feel like a part of the Rutgers community.” Jack E. Molenaar, director of the Department of Transportation Services at Rutgers University, also agrees with the school’s commutable access. “Everything is commutable if you have the time,” Molenaar said. “It’s probably the most commutable school in the country.”
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Rutgers—Newark opens luxury renovated residence hall NIKHILESH DE STAFF WRITER
Residents at Rutgers—Newark now have a new home they can look for ward to living in. On Tuesday, Nov. 17, the school opened a new residence hall at 15 Washington St. said Angelita Bonilla, associate dean for Student Affairs. The building was renovated over the last several years. “The law school had moved out to the new building and (administrators) were trying to think (about) what could be done to it,” she said. “(It was converted because) the University decided that would be the best use for the spaces it (provided).” The new hall was formally known as the S.I. Newhouse Center for Law and Justice but is now referred as 15 Washington, she said. It held the Rutgers School of Law—Newark until 2000, when the building’s state of disrepair forced a move. “It needed a lot of repair (because) the old building was opened in 1930,” she said. According to Rutgers—Newark’s website, the law school had been housed at 15 Washington St. since 1978. Originally the building was to be acquired by Marriott
International, Inc. after it was emptied, according to the Star Ledger. These plans changed due to the terror attacks in 2001. Bonilla said administrators decided to convert the former academic building into a residential space, because it would be able to raise more revenue than if a new department had moved in. At capacity, 330 residents can live in the building, she said. These include both graduate and undergraduate students living in single and double-rooms. This creates more spaces for graduate students, according to Rutgers—Newark’s website. Other facilities include study spaces, lounges open to all students, a gymnasium equipped for a cardio workout, a great
Rutgers—Newark opened a renovated residence hall at 15 Washington St., which had work done on it during the last few years. RUTGERS—NEWARK Brunswick offers students who live on-campus. “There’s (also) residential meeting rooms open to resi-
Like other residence halls at the University, 15 Washington St. will also have typical amenities, she said. The Housing
“I’m happy to see it come back to life. We’ve been talking about this for a long time.” NANCY CANTOR Chancellor of Rutgers—Newark
hall and a “yoga” room, Bonilla said. It also features a package-locker system similar to the post office boxes Rutgers—New
dents only,” she said. “In the non-residential space there are (other meeting) rooms (like the) lounges.”
Department is still waiting on the remainder of the equipment and furniture ordered for the building.
It is located a few blocks from the center of Rutgers—Newark, she said, and is “right next” to the campus’ business school. Chancellor Nancy Cantor will move into the penthouse in the building next year, according to The Star Ledger. These living quar ters were par t of her contract when she first joined the University. The new hall helps students at Rutgers—Newark, Bonilla said. “It is a great project that was done for the community,” she said. “I’m happy to see it come back to life. We’ve been talking about this for a long time.”
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Ali is set to receive her bachelor’s degree this May as a communication major and theater arts minor, and plans to attend graduate school for social work after graduation. DAN COREY / COPY EDITOR
STAR In late 1980s, Ali tried out for new group called ‘The Teenagers,’ was offshoot of older group CONTINUED FROM FRONT
undergraduate education was getting her family situated in New Jersey after they lived in New York for years, she said. Being a non-traditional student has its advantages, Ali said. Coming into school after having many years’ worth of life experience allows non-traditional students to have more talking points, giving them a greater likelihood to earn full participation credit. “I don’t look at myself as separated from (traditional students), I consider myself to be a student,” Ali said. “While no one has actually treated me badly — this is all on me — but sometimes I think I should step back a little bit sometimes.” But not stepping back was exactly what propelled Ali into venues
across the world after working intermittently as a bank teller and a customer service representative. “I’m too much of a performer, you know I’m all over the stage,” she said. “I’m a mover, I dance, I interact with my audience and that kind of thing. It’s two different worlds ... I (feel like) I exited at the appropriate time.” In the late 1980s, Ali tried out for a new group called The Teenagers, an offshoot of Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers, whose single, “Why Do Fools Fall in Love,” helped to popularize doo-wop music when it took the United States by storm in the 1950s. While she was backstage at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall with The Teenagers five years later, Delores “Dee Dee”
Kenniebrew — the only original member of Phil Spector’s “Wall of Sound” group The Crystals (“Da Doo Ron Ron”) — asked her if she would want to travel with the group in Europe. In addition to Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, Carnegie Hall and Harlem’s Apollo Theater, this tour allowed Ali to include a performance for Queen Elizabeth II under her belt. “Being with the ladies wearing the sequin dresses and the gowns — it was just fabulous,” she said. “Seeing Radio City as a child ... and (then) performing in there like four or five times — even though I knew I wasn’t an original, I felt like a star. I felt like I belonged there.” Ali returned home from the road in 1997 and began producing albums for Tower Records, which is now defunct. Her own LP, “I Kan’t Hold On,” featured five songs she had written and 10 overall. The album consisted primarily of ballads, and the single, “Never Give Up” was played on a major New York radio station, she said.
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That album, along with a sec- six-year span she spent as a fosond contemporary gospel album ter parent, she said. Ali took care of eight boys in 2009, are now frequently played by Ali’s fellow resident assistants who lived in her house for different time periods when she at Rutgers, she said. “They said to me, ‘That kinda was a foster parent from 2004 music — that’s soulful,’ and that to 2010, and the most she had made me feel so good because I at one time was a set of three knew that they were being hon- brothers, she said. The aspiring social worker est,” she said. “What I’ve come to realize in life is that no matter how wants to study the field’s clinical talented you are, you have your component so she can reduce gifts and talents, but God puts problems or eliminate them all togifts and talents in other people gether instead of addressing tragthat you need to take you to the edies and psychological issues after they become problematic, next level.” When she was a first-year stu- Ali said. “I think that I have a way of dent, before switching her major to communication, Ali was en- speaking or communicating to rolled in Mason Gross School people and getting through,” of the Arts as a vocalist and was she said. “I’ve had these boys trained in classical music and op- who have done some things, and they’ve actually felt comera by her professors, she said. “While I appreciate classical (mu- fortable with revealing these sic) and opera, I (don’t have) a pas- things to me. They knew it sion for me to turn into something wasn’t going to anywhere else that could be lucrative for me,” she but with me.” In addition to singing in New said. “Rhythm and blues, pop, jazz, gospel — I grew up with that. That’s Brunswick’s Abundant Life Family Church choir and finmy roots, that’s what’s in me.” But more recently, Ali stole ishing the schoolwork she still the spotlight when a video of needs to complete in order to her singing opera in the Neil- earn her degree, Ali works partson Dining Hall on Douglass time as a substitute teacher in campus circulated on Facebook the North Plainfield School District and as an Uber driver on and Twitter. For Ali, the only difference be- some weekends. Ali’s stor y has inspired other tween large crowds like the ones at Madison Square Garden and non-traditional students to purthe more intimate settings like sue a college degree, one being Neilson Dining Hall is that she a current EE bus driver who was paid “ver y handsomely” for shared her plans to attend college while taking a five-minute arena performances, she said. break outside “There realof the College ly is no differAvenue Stuence because Center. singing is a “I’m at age 65, but I don’t dent While Ali is part of me, it’s feel like that’s near the aware of how like blood that runs through end of my life — I’m just she has lived her life unconmy body,” she beginning.” ventionally and said. “If I’m not takes pride in performing, in MARILYN ALI the efforts she some capacity School of Arts and Sciences Senior has made to at all, it’s like reach this point I’m dying. It in her life, she stays with me. I never lets her can’t not sing — age excuse her from reaching her I have to perform.” While much of Ali’s life was goals and appreciating those who encompassed by musical and help her on the way. “It’s the love that I get. They ar tistic expression, she has reached a point in her life make me feel like I still got it,” where she wants to live for she said. “I’m at age 65, but I don’t other people. Her interest in feel like that’s near the end of my social work has its roots in the life — I’m just beginning.”
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Students pose with their awards, distributed by the Women’s League of Rutgers University. COURTESY OF WOMEN’S LEAGUE OF RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
SISTERHOOD League has awarded about $280,000 to outstanding students, McDonnell says CONTINUED FROM FRONT
faculty more involved with each other, over time it broadened not only its membership, but its mission. It now also seeks to recognize and honor student academic excellence and commitment to public service, according to their Facebook page. The League began its system of awards in 1983, which funds scholarships for third-year stu-
dents. Since then, the organization has held annual ceremonies to award 10 to 12 outstanding third-year students with $1,000
private contributions from the members, as well as friends of the organization. Student awardees come from different fields of study. The brochure used at the 32nd annual awards reception, held Nov. 15, shows that of the 10 awardees, six came from the School of Arts and Sciences, two from the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and the
criteria necessar y to become an awardee. “The deans of the different schools are the ones who select the students, and the criteria is that there should be financial need. The students should have done community service and should have a high grade point average. When I tell you that these students are phenomenal, it’s absolutely amazing,” she said.
“We are able to help students first hand to stay in school.” EVELYN SEDEHI President of the Women’s League of Rutgers University
each, and so far has handed out a total of about $280,000, said treasurer Jean McDonnell. McDonnell said that the award money is raised through
remaining two students from the School of Engineering and the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy. Evelyn Sedehi, president of the League, spoke of the
Aside from handing out awards, the organization also conducts two fundraising events every year, and holds an event every month. The events are
funded through small program charges to the attendees. Some of the past events conducted this fall have included a garage sale, the third-year scholarships awards program and a trip to the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Hindu temple in Robbinsville. The League also prides itself on the diversity of its members. The organization diversifies not only in culture, but also in age, as members range from current Rutgers students to women in their 80s. “Anyone can join the Women’s League,” Sedehi said. “If you’re a friend of the University, if you’re a graduate, if you’re a professor, an administrator or even a student. Any woman can join.” Public Relations Director Sylvia Hove clarified that the students who win awards can be male or female, but the members of the organization can only be female. McDonnell said that being in the league is advantageous because it provides networking opportunities as the women in the organization come from diverse areas, such as marketing and medical fields. The organization also serves as an incentive for some students to stay in school, she said. “We are able to help students first hand to stay in school,” Sedehi said. “One of our previous scholarship recipients had told us that the reason they continued is because when they got this kind of scholarship, it really encouraged them to continue their education. It really helps young students to stay in school and reach their dreams, and also when you see them you know they are the young folks who are going to be the leaders of this community in the future.”
OPPORTUNITY Molenaar says U. Department of Transportation sells about 13,000 parking passes per year CONTINUED FROM FRONT
Molenaar believes the school’s geographical location, as opposed to a school in the Midwest where students typically live in school-provided housing, is a big reason why students have the access to commute. “(Rutgers) isn’t in the middle of the country,” he said. “There is a large population living in nearby towns.” His department uses their statistics and numbers from their commuting parking passes sales to determine a general sense of how many students commute. “We sell about 13,000 commuter parking passes a year,” he said. “It’s a big number.” Since there are students living outside of the University’s housing, but within the school’s proximity, it is difficult to determine exactly how many commuting students attend Rutgers, he said. “If a student lives behind the College Avenue Student Center, you’re considered a commuter,” he said. Students do not make it easy to determine exact commuting
student percentages because students do not change their housing address when they should, he said. “They’d rather not change it, and have their important mail sent back home,” Molenaar said. The University began selling parking permits in an effort to reduce traffic, he said. “It’s hard to look for street parking,” he said. “(We) want students to take the bus instead.” But commuting students often do not get the chance to experience what it is like living on campus, and those who do think other wise. “You’re definitely more in tune with what’s happening off and on campus,” Dylan Stone, a School of Arts and Sciences senior who lives on campus, said. “Rutgers gives us ever ything we want and more.” Stone used to lived in an urbanized area in Houston, Texas, and has taken notice of the change of environment here at Rutgers. He believes commuting students are missing out on the college experience.
Rutgers sells about 13,000 commuter parking passes a year, and between the time that students arrive and leave from school, thousands of students board campus buses. JULIAN PEREZ “It’s easier to go out and hangout with friends,” he said. “You can go to a local place to grab a bite and a drink, if you’re old enough.” He also stresses that students living on-campus have easier access to libraries and computer labs, which can help with assignments and exams. If students have the opportunity to live on campus, they should, he said.
“Everyone is different, (but) if you have a lot of school pride and you like to be involved, I would recommend it,” he said. “A college town is much more fun than a city college.” If a student is interested in athletics, then it would be even more of a benefit for them to live on-campus, he said. “In a city, everyone is kind of doing their own thing and not
really paying attention to the college teams,” Stone said. Rutgers and the Department of Transportation services continue to work to accommodate both types of students. “We put in bicycle lockers to encourage their use for commuters,” Molenaar said. “The Off-Campus Student Association also has been great for commuters.”
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In loving memory of Ezra Schwartz CHARLIE SPIEGEL
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ext year and for the next four years to come, there will be an empty seat here at Rutgers. This past Thursday, Ezra Schwartz was shot down by a Palestinian gunman when he was sitting in traffic. An 18-year-old boy from Sharon, Massachusetts, Ezra planned to attend the Rutgers Business School next fall, but was spending a gap year in Israel at the Ashreinu Yeshiva in Beit Shemesh, a city North of Jerusalem. In Hebrew, Beit Shemesh means the House of the Sun, and just like the sun, Ezra brought light to everyone that knew him. From Jewish youth groups like USY (United Synagogue Youth) to summer programs like Camp Yavneh, he made a difference in the lives of everyone he met. In fact, there are many people at our very University who knew him personally. After talking to several people on campus, first-year Reuben Dreiblatt, who went to Camp Yavneh as well, was able to sum it up most concisely: “It’s one thing to empathize with a community after a tragedy, but when you can see the face of one of the victims, when you can TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
“An Israeli and a Palestinian were killed as well, stressing the all too critical reality that intersectional violence solves nothing other than justifying warmongers in their aggression.” remember the sound of his voice and understand it will only ever be a memory for the rest of your life? It’s a whole different story.” The memory of Ezra Schwartz is a highlight reel of what humanity has to offer. Even when he was returning from visiting the grave sights of Israelis who had been murdered in previous terrorist attacks, on his way to deliver snacks to soldiers in the Israeli military, when he happened to be sitting in traffic at the wrong place and time. It was at the junction near Alon Shvut, about 10 minutes south of Jerusalem, that a Palestinian terrorist drove through, firing indiscriminately with an automatic rifle in the West Bank. An Israeli and a Palestinian were killed as well, stressing the all too critical reality that intersectional violence solves nothing other than justifying warmongers in their aggression. Ezra’s friends and community described him as being a great and true friend whose positivity and kindness made him an amazing human being. Ezra’s funeral was held this past Sunday in Massachusetts, with thousands of people from all over the world watching through live stream. One could only imagine the great things that such a caring young student would have added to this University. Let his memory be a blessing, or as it said in Hebrew, Baruch Dayan Ha’Emet. Charlie Spiegel is a Rutgers Business School first-year student majoring in business management. 147TH EDITORIAL BOARD
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Effects of racism aren’t all about names Changing building names is not enough to forgive racist atrocities
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he confluence of several events, Rutgers’ 250th from slaveholding families. Henry Rutgers was a anniversary and nationwide protests for im- slave owner as well as founding president, Jacob Rutproving the environment of college campuses sen Hardenbergh and first tutor, Frederick Theodore for minority students, encourages the analysis of our Frelinghuysen. It is now commonly understood that own school’s history. Activists on campus have been older and more prestigious universities thrived as a adamant in reevaluating the way the University’s 250 direct result from the exploitation of lives and labor. While the effort of university students to highyears is presented, advocating for a holistic and inclusive delivery of the school’s narrative that does not hide light the complicity of their institutions in systems shameful historical events. At the same time, univer- of oppression is commendable, changing names of sities throughout the U.S. exist in states of discontent buildings does not do much to mitigate current isdue to the inhospitable atmosphere for students of col- sues. The people who these buildings were named or, now rallying to demand just conditions within their after are individuals who had virtues and faults, and institutions. From this collection of issues arises an im- slave holding was a product of their time. For examportant question: How can we reconcile an ignoble past ple, Woodrow Wilson was an accomplished individual who made impressive changes to his respective with the contours of the present? Students from a number of universities have pro- institution by developing innovations in the curriculum and raising admissions stanposed solutions to deal with the dards, yet he is unarguably racist. markedly abhorrent history of institutions of higher education that is in“Henry Rutgers was a His racist ideology ought to be timately tied to the legacy of slavery, slave owner as well as acknowledged and his character should be presented in its entireand among them is the movement to founding president, ty, but renaming what is named rename certain buildings on college Jacob Hardenbergh.” after him glosses over the horrifcampuses that are named after slave ic past by making it less visible. owners. In Georgetown UniversiWhile there are no current efty, students argue that the school must recognize the ways it was built on slavery, and forts to change the names of Frelinghuysen residence foster discussions regarding the climate for students hall, Livingston campus or Rutgers University, this of color. This year they have successfully lobbied to strategy would be misguided, and energy would be change the names of two buildings after a series of misplaced. There is a multitude of prominent indiprotests and sit-ins. Princeton University has its own viduals who were active and complicit in a variety of campaign, led by an organization called the Black atrocious acts, and it would be impossible to change Justice League, that demands the university “publicly all that was named after them. The discussion of acknowledge the racist legacy of Woodrow Wilson” modifying building names should be directed into and take steps to change the name of the public pol- other endeavors, such as community outreach in disicy school and residential college named after him. advantaged areas or addressing issues of inequality The same issues apparently taint Rutgers Univer- and discrimination within the University itself. It is far sity, being that it is the eighth oldest college in the more effective to create monuments and statues for U.S. as well as a colonial college. New Jersey was marginalized people, such as Native Americans whose one of the three largest slaveholding states outside land the University was built on and black people who of the South, along with Connecticut and New York, built the University with their work. Naming the new so it is no surprise that the founding fathers and the buildings after people of color would be nicely juxtacharter trustees of what was known as Queens Col- posed with buildings of the overwhelmingly white lege were slave owners. Students and graduates of males of the past, so you can easily trace what was the school were likely to be slave owners or come valued before and what is valued and not ignored now. The Daily Targum’s editorials represent the views of the majority of the 147th editorial board. Columns, cartoons and letters do not necessarily reflect the views of the Targum Publishing Company or its staff.
November 24, 2015
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Celebration of Christmas has subversive, radical subtext THE CHAMPAGNE SOCIALIST JOSE SANCHEZ
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was scrolling through my Tumblr the other day, yet I can’t remember which day exactly because I’m on Tumblr nearly every day, to be honest. Right after Halloween, I was noticing all these memes making fun of the holiday rhythms of U.S. popular culture. It seems like we reach a holiday high at Halloween, and then we fall back into a lull of sorts until the Christmas season, only punctuated by engorging ourselves on Thanksgiving. Now, let me be clear. Thanksgiving has its place, sure. All the holidays do. It’s a good thing to stop our busy, stressful lives under the tyranny of capitalism and to just have fun for fun’s sake. Holidays are a collective “screw it.” Eat that whole quart of mashed potatoes, dress like a version of a vampire from that one movie, dye your eyebrows green. But to me, Christmas is a much more serious and contemplative holiday than all of the other holidays in our mainstream, Christian-dominated U.S. culture. Speaking as a young socialist, Christmas is surely the most politically subversive of all of our holidays. The story of Christmas is all about God emptying Himself. The divestment of Himself of His own power to become a crying,
helpless, vulnerable newborn baby, born in a manger to two refugees fleeing from Herod’s murderous tyranny, surrounded only by hay and animals. Here was born the “Son of God.” Christmas makes a mockery of all of the other Sons and Daughters of (Insert Deity Here) that existed in fact and legend at the time. There was Horus, Mithras, Dionysus, Krishna and many others. Most relevant of all was Caesar Augustus, emperor of Rome, the ruler of one of the world’s most powerful empires who was believed to be semi-divine. Yet Christians get a baby. Christmas totally subverts the logic of what we tend to imagine power to look like.
favors from above. Christmas denies this. It says that if you want to know anything about God, you first look for it in the face of a newborn, crying out for love, vulnerable, totally helpless and innocent. Detractors from my argument may indeed look at kitschy songs, clay-animation movies of Rudolph the Reindeer, or jolly Old St. Nick and imagine just where exactly I get off. The marriage of the sacred and the profane is millennia-old in the Christian tradition. Indeed, Christmas was originally a mixture of pagan revelry and Christian piety. As Rutgers professor T.J. Jackson Lears noted in a New Republic essay on the holiday, early
“The story of Christmas is all about God emptying Himself. The divestment of Himself of His own power to become a crying, helpless, vulnerable newborn baby, born in a manger to two refugees fleeing from Herod’s murderous tyranny, surrounded only by hay and animals. Here was born the ‘Son of God.’” We imagine that might makes right, that something as simple as a person’s bluster and billions could make America great again. We imagine God in this way as well. We imagine that God is some old man in the sky, a being amongst other beings, just more powerful, who flings punishments and
U.S. colonists fervently celebrated Christmas, although white elites would be a bit shaken at the sight of slaves and poor whites actually enjoying themselves for the day. The Russian scholar Mikhail Bakhtin once analyzed the pageantry and ritual of Carnival in medieval Europe, seeing that the
prodigality of such cultural events contained a politically subversive kernel. This is the “screw it” that I described earlier that is the common thread running through any other holiday. Buy that video game, and shout those carols from the rooftops. Censorious Calvinists may disagree, but screw it and just treat yourself! The jaded consumers that accompany every Dec. 25 aren’t new: They’re the most recent seekers of enchantment in a world supposedly drowned in commercialized disenchantment. The search for “the meaning of Christmas” may continue so long as people continually fail to see divinity in matter itself. The dualism they subconsciously hold is heretical. If God holds all things in being, why feel so cynical every time you get a gift? American Christmas is a massive, bawdy, entirely kitschy and carnivalesque marriage of the sacred and the profane. And I love it. For those scoffing at the profane side of Christmas, I urge you not to feel disenchanted. For those who decry Christmas as capitalism gone wrong, I maintain that Christmas is the calendar’s most politically radical holiday. Come the midnight marking Thanksgiving’s end, I’ll have the Sufjan Stevens Christmas album on blast for the rest of December. José Sanchez is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in history with a minor in political science. His column, “The Champagne Socialist,” runs on alternate Tuesdays.
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THANKSGIVING
Yik Yak shows us how thankful Rutgers is DANIELLE GONZALEZ FEATURES EDITOR
The Daily Targum is thankful for having had the honor of collaborating with Yik Yak this November in order to find out what Rutgers students are really thankful for this season. While we expected more satirical or crude responses from members of the Rut’, we were pleasantly surprised by the wholesome and thoughtful answers from our student body. Ranging from Ivy League-tier pride to being a grease truck mecca, students shared their various reasons for being thankful they attend Rutgers University.
Grab a drink, grab your grandma and play a festive drinking game this Thanksgiving. EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR
Turkey Trouble: Your holiday drinking game JANINE PUHAK STAFF WRITER
Gathering around one table to give thanks, your family is finally all together at last. After fierce cross-interrogation about your classes, GPA, social circle, love life and career plans for the next 50 years, there’s left nothing for a Rutgers kid to do but pop a bottle and embrace the evening. To get you through the holiday alive, we’ve hatched a creative new drinking game that’s sure to take the edge off and keep the good times flowing well after dessert has been served.
THE GAME: TURKEY TROUBLE CHALLENGE, 2015 EDITION RULES OF PLAY: Round up your coolest, favorite relatives (of legal drinking age, of course). Ensure everyone has a beverage in hand, preferably seasonal, definitely filled to the brim. Kick back and watch the inevitable unfold — remember, your only job is to enjoy the festivities.
2) Someone brags about their liquid-only diet, “which is starting tomorrow.” 3) Someone gushes about your older cousin’s recent engagement, and then asks when you’re hitting the altar. 4) Someone sneaks off to watch football. 5) Someone unbuttons their pants. 6) Someone gets caught taking a selfie. 7) Someone calls you the wrong name. 8) Someone decides you’re going Black Friday shopping with them. 9) Someone runs out to the store to unnecessarily buy more food. 10) Someone asks you what Rutgers parties are really like. 11) Two people disagree about the playing of Christmas music.
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12) Two people disagree about the 2016 presidential hopefuls.
1) Someone fails to understand your major after you provide a gorgeous ten minute definition/ sales pitch.
13) Two people disagree about the ethics of playing pranks on the cousin who already fell asleep on the couch.
It’s that time of year again, and everyone has plenty of reasons to be thankful. Students yakked the various reasons they’re thankful for attending Rutgers University. COURTESY OF YIK YAK
November 24, 2015
Pearls Before Swine
DIVERSIONS Stephan Pastis
Horoscopes
Page 9 Nancy Black
Today’s Birthday (11/24/15). With Saturn in your sign this year, discipline applied to personal goals reaps extraordinary results. Your career status is on the rise. Home projects bloom over spring, prompting social changes. Professional opportunities after autumn could impact your home and family time. Aim for balance. Play for passion. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
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Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7 — Keep digging and find the clue. Work smarter; not harder. Postpone financial discussion. You may not agree with someone in authority. A deception gets revealed. Talk to a trusted friend. Share your feelings and be heard. Take a philosophical view. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 9 — Complete an emotionally charged project. Bring in common sense and practical experience. A partner points out a fallacy. Discover trickery. Invest in home security. Get assistance from a bureaucrat. Seek help from an unusual source. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 7 — Travel plans fall into place. Take care of business. Friends help you make an important connection. Let an authority figure know what’s really going on. If you break a rule, own up to it. Do what you say. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is an 8 — Apply discipline to your studies, research and communications. Inhibit daydreaming for now. Take care of business first. Pass on an unrealistic offer. It’s not a good time for gambling or risky choices. Stick to basics, and relax afterwards. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is an 8 — Expand your horizons. Work together to realize a shared dream. Talking relieves confusion. Get help with the heavy lifting. Let your conscience be your guide. Do what seems right, even if nobody else knows. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 9 — Group effort pays off, big time. What comes around goes around. A friend provides just what you need. Develop a practical game plan. Try something new and different. Design the costume to suit your role. Perform a graceful exit.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is an 8 — Defer gratification for now. Don’t argue with the rules. Focus on the job at hand. Figure out how to do it as you go along. The funding is undetermined. Love finds a way. Emotion wins over logic. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is an 8 — Advance your career through a distant connection. Grab a time-sensitive opportunity. Get deals in writing. Slow down around corners and blind curves. Watch out for spills or mishaps. Work from home and get comfortable. Keep your promises. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 9 — Delve into unexplored regions. Learn new tricks. Work for what you want. Write down a dream. Find out what others need. Find ways to economize. Hold on to what you’ve achieved. A loved one believes in you. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is an 8 — Dream up an exotic plan. There’s business involved, but it’s not just about the money. Collaborate for mutual benefit. Take things slowly, as mistakes are expensive now. Monitor financial transactions. Live frugally and simply. Get outside and explore. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 7 — Inspiration flowers. A professional opportunity entices you to make plans for the future. Invest in your career. Generate stability and forward momentum. A communications breakdown could thwart intentions. Take it easy and relax. Spread your wings tomorrow. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is an 8 — Resist mediocrity. Vivid dreams fill your journal. Doubts and fears tempt toward complacency, but you have something to say. Learn from someone who inspires you. Practice your game, and build skills. Let your subconscious mind solve the problem.
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November 24, 2015
WEEK After notching 4 goals for second time in 2015, Rutgers hopes to contain Virginia CONTINUED FROM BACK
Sophomore goalkeeper Casey Murphy pitched another they keep each other accountshutout in the victor y, finishable. Coaches keep good teams ing with seven saves. The Big accountable, but players keep Ten Goalkeeper of the Year is a great teams accountable, and big component of how Rutgers that’s what they’ve done since likes to play, but she credits her day one.” teammates for helping her with After they felt like they didn’t the shutouts. play their best in their first round “Just the experience of Bri victory over Fairleigh Dickinson, (Reed) and (senior defender) Erthe Knights responded with two ica Skroski, I think they work so of their most impressive victories well together,” she said. “They of the season in the second and help guide the newer players on third rounds. the outside, They deand I just feel feated a tough so much more Hofstra team “The whole season confident hav2-0 behind an we’ve tried to keep ing them in own goal from front of me. It the visitors bethe focus on makes me a fore senior deus, and not better player fender Brianne and the team Reed added a who we’re playing.” a better team, score to put and I’m just the contest out CASSIE INACIO really happy of reach. Senior Forward with the backIt was then line and how a quick turnhe hold each other accountable.” around in the Sweet 16 match on Most significant for the Sunday, in which Rutgers throtKnights is that they are now tled UConn, which had been blending their stout defense ranked all season, beating the with some firepower on offense, No. 18 Huskies for the second a recipe for success during time this year, and this time by a tournament time. 4-0 score. They felt they put together one It was just the second time of their stronger performances the Knights scored four goals of the season against Connectiin a game, but it added to their cut, hoping to now take the lesshutout record with clean sheet sons from that game into their number 18 on the season.
ROOKIE Knights make near-seamless transition with pair of rookies along offensive line CONTINUED FROM BACK Muller’s move to center snapped a streak of 35 consecutive starts at right guard and Heeman pointed to the 6-foot-6, 310-pounder and senior left tackle Keith Lumpkin (36 consecutive starts) as the reason he was ready to step up. “I think Zack Heeman probably had the best quote on that,” Flood said at his weekly press conference on Monday. “Somebody asked him about did those guys help. He says, ‘When you’re in the middle of Keith Lumpkin and Chris Muller and all the starts they’ve had, they pull you along and make sure you’re going in the right direction.’” Sophomore running back Robert Martin also came close to topping the century mark, but fell just a yard short with 99 yards on 12 carries. Sophomore quarterback Chris Laviano had entered the game attempting to shake the cobwebs from a four-game losing streak that had him sacked 15 times over that stretch. But Laviano was kept upright. The Black Knights hurried him multiple times, but never sacked him. As a result, Lumpkin and Muller could not be prouder of the young pups. “This last game watching Zack Heeman go in there, I felt like a happy big brother because I’ve
been working with him for the last few years so that obviously he can take over the left tackle spot next year,” Lumpkin said. “It was a great feeling to see him next to me playing.” Muller was a little critical of himself after making his first start of the season at center, but admitted he was wir y on some snaps. But all in all, the line got it done. It protected the quarterback which Rutgers had struggled to accomplish for over a month and the running game got going again. “I thought I played okay,” Muller said. “I thought I got a little complacent. I could’ve finished a little bit better. Besides that, I felt very calm.” Sixth-year senior fullback Sam Bergen admitted the line looked a little different in front of him than he is normally accustomed to seeing from his 3-point stance behind Laviano. As an extension of the offensive line, Bergen deserves some credit as well for pancaking Army defenders on a couple occasions. That includes one block to spring James on his longest run of the day — a 54-yarder down the near sideline where he toyed with defenders he was unable to outrun, electing to unleash a few vicious stif f arms instead. Bergen thought Heeman and Applefield were effective in
Despite entering hostile territory for Friday’s Elite Eight matchup at No. 1 Virginia, senior forward Cassie Inacio said Rutgers keeps the focus on itself. EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR / NOVEMBER 2015 matchup with the Virginia, who just defeated No. 11 USC to advance to the Elite Eight. The Knights faced off with the Cavaliers in the second round of last year’s NCAA Tournament, holding a scoreless tie at halftime before Virginia pulled away with a 3-0 explosion to knock Rutgers out. “It felt really good on the field and we felt like we were moving the ball well,” said senior forward Cassie Inacio, who scored one of the four goals in the game. “We were able to finish on our opportunities and our backline and
defensive players were strong. It felt good to get some momentum.” Rutgers knows that the tournament gets harder with each round, but the Knights aren’t a group that gets intimidated by their opponent. They navigated a challenging regular season schedule and beat numerous ranked teams throughout the season by being attentive to their own goals and habits, planning to take that same mindset down to Charlottesville for the Elite Eight. With a spot in the 2015 NCAA Women’s College Cup on the line,
Rutgers hopes to maintain their singular focus which has bred success during its historic season. “The whole season we’ve tried to keep the focus on us, and not who we’re playing,” Inacio said. “We want to focus on us and our habits and working hard, and whoever we play, it doesn’t matter because we are going to give it our best effort and play the way we know how to play.”
executing their assignments, which gave the Knights the opportunity to get the victory. “(Heeman and Applefield) did a great job,” Bergen said. “They went out there and they played hard and did their job. They put us in position to win the game and that’s exactly what happened.” Both Miller and Nelson were listed as questionable with
upper body injuries on the injury report released by the team on Monday, which could mean Heeman and Applefield will be called upon yet again. But if last week was any indication, neither Muller nor Lumpkin expect any drop-off in game two. Lumpkin likened the relationship between he, Heeman and Applefield to a big brother, little brother dynamic.
But Muller saw it more like a father and his sons. “It’s like a father with their sons, just passing their driving test and it’s the real deal now,” Muller said. “There’s no more training wheels. I was happy to see them both succeed in both played extremely well.”
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Junior Chris Muller snapped a streak of 35 straight starts at right guard when he slid over to play center at the Army game last Saturday. MICHELLE KLEJMONT / MANAGING EDITOR / NOVEMBER 2015
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November 24, 2015 KNIGHT NOTEBOOK DARIUS HAMILTON WILL RETURN FOR FIFTH YEAR IN 2016
Senior defensive tackle declares return to Rutgers GARRETT STEPIEN SPORTS EDITOR
Darius Hamilton won’t take the field with the class he came in with when the Rutgers football team faces Maryland on Senior Day Saturday at noon, but the senior defensive tackle will be back on the field at High Point Solutions Stadium in 2016. Hamilton, who was ruled out for the season with a lower body injury on Sept. 26, one week after making his season debut and lone appearance in a game at Penn State on Sept. 19, left no doubt in his intentions to return to the Scarlet Knights when the time is up on 2015. “I look forward to coming back, playing with this team, playing with these coaches and having a great year,” he said. The senior captain has the opportunity to test his talents at the next level in the NFL Draft or bolt to another school and play immediately as a graduate transfer, but Hamilton assured that his heart wasn’t in leaving just yet. Hamilton even noted that although Kyle Flood’s job could be in question at the end of the head coach’s fourth year at the helm, he doesn’t believe it would alter his mindset. “No hesitation, man. No hesitation. This is where I want to be,” Hamilton said. “... I love my teammates. I love being able to have my family come down and watch the games and stuff like that, so I’m really excited for my last season.” As someone who stepped in and played right away for Rutgers on special teams as a true freshman before locking down the defensive line at the three-point technique, Hamilton has played in 39 games,
recording 10.5 sacks and 24.5 tackles for loss in the trenches. While he acknowledged that he still has to assess the logistics that come with the fifth year of eligibility when he sits down with the coaching staff at the end of the season, Hamilton said he plans on graduating in the spring before staying at the University to pursue his master’s degree next year. Although the injury has kept him off the field, it hasn’t kept him from progressing in his return. Hamilton, who measured up at 6-foot-4 and weighed in at 265 pounds entering the season, said he has bulked up further to 280 pounds since he was ruled out for the season. The two-time team captain said he refuses to let the injury become a limitation, alluding to the time he has spent mentoring the Knights’ defensive line on top of the extra itch he has gained to spend more time in the weight room. “I lift probably too much now,” he said. “I lift about twice a day, and then we’re rehabbing and things like that. If I go home and I don’t have anything else to do, I just go to the local gym and workout again. That’s pretty much all I do between that and working out and working with some of the younger guys here, helping them get ready, helping them for the roles that they’ve stepped into. But besides that, man, I’m just — like I said, man — just looking forward to next season.” *** Flood’s “1-0” mantra is well-documented, but now it becomes the only option. With one game remaining on its regular season slate, Rutgers (4-7, 1-6) has no scheduled
Saturdays to look ahead to. The Knights host Maryland (2-9, 0-7) when they return to High Point Solutions Stadium for Senior Day on Saturday for a noon kickoff on the Big Ten Network. Even though the Terrapins have been entrenched in turmoil amid a seven-game losing streak that saw Randy Edsall fired in his fifth year as head coach to leave the keys to the program in the hands of interim head coach Mike Locksley, Flood isn’t taking anything for granted against what he called “a really talented opponent.” After snapping a four-game skid for their first win since Oct. 17 with a 31-21 victory on the road at Army, Rutgers’ bowl hopes faintly dwindle. The Knights can sneak into a bowl game with a 5-7 overall mark due to the record number of bowl games (80) lining up 40 teams, but the hurdles remain. Despite its high Academic Progress Rate (APR), Rutgers remains in a waitand-see limbo even if it picks up its fifth win of the season against the Terps. But either outcome hasn’t altered Flood’s approach. Rutgers has a tradition of carrying its seniors off after their final practice — and each team he has overseen as head coach has done that entering a bowl game — but Flood said the circumstances will remain how they have been over the course of the regular season. “We don’t ever carry the seniors off during the regular season,” he said. “It’ll be a normal game week working to be 1-0.” *** One week after a season-high 24 players landed on the injury report, Rutgers remains beaten up
Senior defensive tackle Darius Hamilton affirmed his plans of returning for a fifth year after being ruled out for the season. MICHELLE KLEJMONT / MANAGING EDITOR / OCTOBER 2015
with the same number headlining Monday’s latest list. With junior free safety Anthony Cioffi off the injury report and reinstated from his one-game suspension that dropped the Knights to seven freshmen and one sophomore in a depleted secondary entering Army, sophomore Josh Hicks returned to the two-deep depth chart listed as the co-starter at running back. “It’s the plan as of now, but we’re still working through some of the injury report,” Flood said, referring to Hicks returning to the tailback rotation. “I know I put one (injury report) out today, but that’s far from final ... We’ll get an update later (Monday). We are working through the game plan and see who is available, and then have to mistake some decisions by the time we start meetings (Tuesday) morning.” Another notable move came along the offensive line, where sophomore left guard Dorian Miller and junior center Derrick Nelson missed last Saturday’s game with their respective upper body injuries.
Listed as questionable with the same upper body injuries for the second straight week, Miller enters the week listed as the co-starter at left guard with redshirt freshman Zach Heeman and Nelson as the co-starter at center with junior right guard Chris Muller. The 6-foot-6, 310-pound Muller made his first start of the season sliding over a slot to the middle, but he reassured that he felt comfortable in his first extended action of the season snapping the ball to sophomore quarterback Chris Laviano. “I felt very comfortable,” Muller said. “Luckily, I’ve been practicing center for a while and, under the tutelage of (offensive line) Coach (Mitch) Browning, Coach Flood, Coach (offensive coordinator Ben) McDaniels, they were able to fit me right in and I knew the game plan, I knew all the calls. So I was extremely confident and well-poised.” For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow @GarrettStepien and @TargumSports on Twitter.
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Knights face tall task in hostile territory on road trip JOE BRAUNER STAFF WRITER
It was a disappointing send-of f for the six seniors on the Rutgers volleyball team when the Scarlet Knights lost their ninth straight game last Wednesday night to Michigan State, dropping to an overall record of 4-26 overall and 1-17 in Big Ten play. With the weight of the season weighing down on the team, Rutgers moves on to what measures up to be a brutal battle with then-No. 10 Wisconsin (22-6, 14-4). The Knights take on the Badgers on the road for the first time this season. In their first matchup with Wisconsin in the College Avenue Gymnasium, they struggled mightily falling to the Big Ten powerhouse in just three sets. The Badgers are currently tied with Penn State for third place in the Big Ten standings. “They’re a ver y good team, and they run a really fast offense, and they’re ver y disciplined,” said head coach CJ Werneke. According to the eighth-year head coach, the Badgers will not
Although Rutgers has struggled in its second season in the Big Ten, senior defensive specialist Ali Schroeter said the Knights look to steal an upset. ACHINT RAINCE / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / NOVEMBER 2015 be a team that will just give a game away. “They make you beat them,” Werneke said. “They aren’t going to make a lot of errors and they’re not going to give a lot of points away.” Wisconsin has struggled against the conference’s elite teams all season, but picked on the weak ones. Blemishes on Wisconsin’s schedule include five-set losses on the road at Ohio State and at
home against Minnesota. Most forgettable for the Badgers was a three-set loss at Penn State. Although some teams have found a way around the perennial contender Wisconsin is — the Badgers have made 17 NCAA Tournament appearances in the past 25 years — it remains to be seen whether or not the Knights can also pull off the upset. To overcome the odds and obtain another Big Ten win that
Rutgers has been chasing ever since its first taste of conference victor y against Mar yland, they will also need to overcome the intimidating size the Badgers bring. Like many other nationally contending volleyball teams, Wisconsin has an athletic front row with enough players over 6-foot. The height presents similar matchup problems posed in the previous game against the Spartans last week.
“We know they’re going to be big just like Michigan State,” said senior outside hitter Megan Stephenson. “They’re going to have the home court advantage so we know that we’re going to need to come out with a lot more emotion and energy than we did this game.” Now the Knights must find the strength for another road trip in a season full of disappointments away from home. They have just one on-road victory against Colgate, the No. 199 team in the NCAA Women’s Volleyball Ratings Percentage Index (RPI). Despite what has been a long and difficult season littered with losses — much like Rutgers’ first season in the Big Ten — the team’s leaders refuse to throw in the towel before their final game of the year on Saturday at Ohio State. “We have a goal for these last … two matches and that’s to get an upset, to take games off of people and just to go all out really and just be the best we can be without holding anything back,” said senior defensive specialist Ali Schroeter. “I think going into Wisconsin, that’s our main focus — to get an upset.” For updates on the Rutgers volleyball team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “This is where I want to be ... I love my teammates. I love being able to have my family come down and watch the games and stuff like that, so I’m really excited for my last season.” — Senior defensive tackle Darius Hamilton on his decision to return to the Rutgers football team for a fifth year
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Rutgers awaits end of week for Virginia MIKE O’SULLIVAN CORRESPONDENT
Playing at your best at the most crucial time of the year — the postseason — is what coaches aim for in most sports. The preseason is used to begin preparations for the regular season slate. If there is success during that time, then the postseason becomes a possibility. The No. 9 Rutgers women’s soccer team followed that formula to a tee. The Scarlet Knights (18-3-2, 7-2-2) were certainly a strong team throughout the regular season, as evidenced by their success in the Big Ten Conference and unbeaten record on their home turf at Yurcak Field. But they have played their best soccer of the season through the first three games of the NCAA Tournament, giving them hope as they prepare to take on No. 1 Virginia in the quarter-finals set for Friday. “The culture that has been created here is one of honesty,” said head coach Mike O’Neill. “They come out ever y day and check themselves before ever y practice to raise their level, and that’s what they do. It’s a long season with a lot of games, but SEE WEEK ON PAGE 10
Brianne Reed has helped evolve Rutgers down the stretch of its historic 2015 season. On top of anchoring one of the top defensive units in the country on the backline, the senior defender and the Knights have revived on offense. EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR / NOVEMBER 2015
FOOTBALL REDSHIRT FRESHMEN ZACK HEEMAN, MARCUS APPLEFIELD PLUG HOLES IN KNIGHTS OFFENSIVE LINE
Rookie linemen rise to occasion for RU KEVIN XAVIER ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Keith Lumpkin made his 36th consecutive start at left tackle in the 31-21 win over Army. He said he feels like a big brother to redshirt freshman Zack Heeman. MICHELLE KLEJMONT / MANAGING EDITOR / NOVEMBER 2015
Whether he played the role of riverboat gambler in his drastic shuffling of the deck or he just played the hand he was dealt, head coach Kyle Flood pushed all the right buttons for the Rutgers football team last Saturday in the 31-21 win over Army at West Point. While Flood’s decision to flip sophomore running back Josh Hicks to the defensive side of the ball in place of suspended junior free safety Anthony Cioffi got all the publicity, the fourth-year head coach’s move to slide junior right guard Chris Muller to center and start two redshirt freshmen at the guard positions slipped under the radar. Hicks made six tackles, recovered a fumble and made a crucial
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sophomore goalkeeper, leads a defense on the Rutgers women’s soccer team that set the program record for shutouts in a season (18) after the Scarlet Knights’ 4-0 victory in the Sweet 16 against No. 18 UConn on Sunday.
interception to seal the victory for the Scarlet Knights (4-7, 1-6), but the rookies in the trenches were part of the reason Rutgers had a lead in the first place. It was, of course, a move of necessity after the offensive line had been riddled with injuries in the 2015 campaign. None were more frightening than the collision between Miller and Nelson at the tail end of the loss to Nebraska a week earlier on Nov. 14. But Zack Heeman and Marcus Applefield stepped in at left and right guard, respectively, and the Knights followed their blocks to the tune of 254 rushing yards and a season-high 116 yards on the ground for senior running back Paul James. SEE ROOKIE ON PAGE 10
KNIGHTS SCHEDULE
MEN’S BASKETBALL
VOLLEYBALL
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL FOOTBALL
vs. UMass/Clemson
at Wisconsin
vs. Tulane
vs. Maryland
Tomorrow, TBA, Las Vegas, Nev.
Tomorrow, 8 p.m., Madison, Wisc.
Thursday, 3:15 p.m., St. Thomas, USVI
Saturday, 12 p.m., High Point Solutions Stadium