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Students advocate for admittance of refugees BUSHRA HASAN STAFF WRITER
Hostility toward refugees increases distance between cultures and worlds rather than forging powerful positive relationships between the two, said Rachel Greco, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. On Nov. 16, Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) publicly opposed the United States’ acceptance of refugees from Syria. Christie added he does not think even orphans under the age of five should be admitted to the United States because he finds them as a threat to “the safety and security of the American people,” according to an NJ.com article. His stance on the humanitarian issue is unpopular with some Rutgers students. “If he’s afraid of letting in ISIS members, he won’t find them in the women and children tr ying to sur vive,” said Mona Abouzid, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.
Of 750,000 refugees the United States has taken in the last 15 years, only three have been arrested for terrorist ideation, and zero have carried out an act of terror, said Kyle Bright, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student. “There are valid safety concerns over the admittance of refugees, and obviously we’re in a heightened state of fear after the acts of terror in Paris and the countless other atrocities that have been attributed to ISIS,” Greco said. “To not be somewhat afraid is to be blindly optimistic or willfully ignorant. However, I believe that in times like these, basic humanity must prevail over our fear.” Bright added that the United States has an 18 to 24 month vetting process where refugees confront many government agencies. A Politifact article from earlier this month explained Syrian refugees specifically must have their SEE REFUGEES ON PAGE 4
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Head football coach Kyle Flood and Athletic Director Julie Hermann were released from their contracts on Sunday, an announcement that came by way of University President Robert L. Barchi less than 24 hours after the Rutgers football team lost 46-41 to Maryland, ensuring a bowl-less season.
Head football coach, athletic director have employee contracts terminated KEVIN XAVIER ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
The two pillars of the Rutgers football program for the 2015 season have fallen. Head coach Kyle Flood and Athletic Director Julie Hermann were relieved of their duties Sunday, according to a statement released by University President Robert L. Barchi. The announcement came less than 24 hours after the Scarlet Knights blew a 21-point lead to Maryland, ensuring a 4-8, bowl-less holiday season. Now Barchi has hired Patrick Hobbs, a former Dean of Seton Hall University’s School of Law.
Hobbs’s legal background was weighed as a move to help restore some credibility and authority to the Rutgers Athletics Department, according to sources with knowledge of the Rutgers Board of Governors’ discussions of the hiring process. “This afternoon I spoke with Head Football Coach Kyle Flood and met with Director of Athletics Julie Hermann and informed them that I was exercising the University’s right to terminate their contracts without cause,” Barchi wrote in a statement, saying the decision to remove Flood and Hermann was effective immediately. Barchi acted swiftly and decisively, but this was not a rushed decision.
The University’s president had his mind made up for a week, he said. “When I made the decision last week that we needed a change in leadership, I set out to find an interim Director of Athletics who could stabilize the Department,” Barchi wrote. “On a strong referral, I met with Patrick Hobbs. In my meetings and conversations with Pat, and also Board Members Greg Brown and Ken Schmidt, it was clear to all of us that Pat had the attributes required for our next Director of Athletics.” The permanent job was offered to Hobbs on Friday, welcoming the SEE CONTRACTS ON PAGE 6
Rutgers students studying abroad in Paris weigh in following attacks JEFF GIBBONS CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Ravi Naik, a 23-year-old Rutgers alumnus, was struck by a van carrying at least 13 people on Nov. 28. FACEBOOK
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Three people, including Rutgers alumnus Ravi Naik, were killed in a fatal vehicle accident on Saturday, Nov. 28. More than a dozen others were injured.
Naik, 23, was struck by a van carrying at least 13 people on Saturday night. Two of the passengers were pronounced dead at the scene. Their names are being withheld until the next of kin can SEE ALUMNUS ON PAGE 6
PARIS – It was never a situation she expected to find herself in last semester when she decided to study abroad in Paris. “There were people running down the streets screaming,” Anna Wang, a School of Arts and Sciences junior said. “Immediately, my coworker and I ran toward our emergency hiding spot ... I cannot explain the adrenaline, shock and fear we all felt for that half hour.” Luckily, it was just a false alarm. Unlike two nights prior, there was no actual danger this time. But for five other Rutgers students studying in Paris this semester, any situation involving safety must be taken seriously as they witness the city react to France’s worst terrorist attack in recent history.
“You really feel the effects of the attacks when you walk around the streets, talk to people or catch a glimpse of any news media outlet,” Wang said. “I’ve visited several of the locations where the shootings happened, and there are so many flowers, candles and people gathered around, paying their respects.” The attacks in Paris came as a shock to the world. Innocent people were brutally killed in popular areas of the city that are typically regarded as safe. Many are now unsure of how to feel about the events in terms of the city’s safety. “I definitely find that Parisians are more saddened, (while) Americans back home are more frightened,” Wang said. “I know a lot of the students in my program, myself included, became more worried when our friends and family back
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home kept making a big deal about our safety.” Catherine Healey, a unit administrator in Paris for the Center for Global Education, understands Wang’s sentiments. She has worked with the five Rutgers study abroad students since their arrival in Paris this August, and has continued to do so with greater attention during the past few weeks. “I think the hardest thing for Rutgers students is managing the anxiety that they might be feeling on the ground themselves, and comforting parents who are thousands of miles away and watching television, which often shows the worst possible images of the reality on the ground,” said Healey. As a resident of Paris for over 30 years, Healey is knowledgeable SEE ATTACKS ON PAGE 5
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Rutgers students rally to recognize victims of trans violence AVALON ZOPPO ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
As a child, Vanessa González-Siegel had issues with mirrors. Unable to recognize her own reflection, she thought a stranger was following her around. It was not until her second year at Rutgers that she understood why. González, like the 700,000 known transgender adults in the United States, has encountered her own share of violence and discrimination. And to commemorate the transgender individuals who lost their lives to violence this year, González led the annual Trans Vigil and Queersgiving Dinner on Nov. 24. The event was hosted by LLEGO, a Rutgers LGBTQ advocacy group, and consisted of a candle-lit vigil outside of the Center for Latino Arts and Culture on the College Avenue campus. About 40 members of LLEGO stood in a quiet circle, lighting candles for the 21 known transgender people who were murdered and 18 who died by suicide this year. This year, the number of transgender deaths due to violence was at an all-time high. Every 29 hours, González said another trans person is murdered.
González attributed this historic statistic to increased visibility of the trans community in recent years. “The number of murders hasn’t actually gone up. The number of (murders) being reported has gone up,” said González, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. High-profile figures, such as reality star Caitlyn Jenner and television actress Laverne Cox, have made transgender individuals more visible to the public. But celebrities such as Jenner do not accurately represent the marginalized transgender people hit hardest by transphobic violence, González said. “We have to keep in mind that she is a very wealthy person who has lived a very privileged life,” she said. “While we love and celebrate them, we can also critique them.” To begin the vigil, the first candle was lit in memory of Eyricka Morgan, a transgender Rutgers student who was murdered near Douglass campus two years ago. “It was that year that our former president, Shawn Bedassi, enacted the Trans Vigil, along side the Queersgiving Dinner,” said Da’shon Holder, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. In 2013, Morgan was fatally stabbed in her home on Baldwin Street, according to The Huffington
Post. González said the police and the media mis-gendered Morgan in reports and articles. “That is a very common occurrence with trans people of color,” González said. “And what does that tell you? It tells you who matters and who doesn’t.” González’s personal journey into trans activism began with Morgan’s murder. González met Morgan twice and naturally gravitated toward her. “I was seeing part of myself in her. I wanted to meet up with her and talk to her and see if that could help me, and then I got the news that she was murdered,” González said. Morgan’s murder scared González into delaying her transition. “I thought, ‘What am I transitioning into? This reality of violence would be my life. Let me not transition and be safe,’” González said. “Unfortunately, for my mental health, that was not the answer.” In December of 2013, González admitted to herself that she was transgender. Three months later, she publicly came out as one of the first openly transgender students enrolled in the Douglass Residential College. Almost immediately, she was interviewed by multiple media outlets, including the North Jersey Record and Campus Pride.
But the memory of Morgan inspired González to share her story. “I thought about Eyricka again, and how she was an activist in HIV prevention and health. I wanted to carry out her legacy and not let her name die,” González said. “I had no one there to help me in the beginning of my journey and I wanted people to know that they can come to me.” And a friend to turn to is important at Rutgers, where González said there is still work to be done to make transgender students safe on campus. While Rutgers is progressive, González said students are still being housed in residence halls that are not aligned with their gender identity, which she describes as an “act of violence.” “Walking into your dorm room to your roommate, probably having never met a trans person and not knowing what transgender is, can only be a violent encounter,” González said. “Very rarely will that person be like ‘Oh you’re transgender? Cool, what are your pronouns?’ That is not the reality.” The University’s solution, she said, is housing transgender individuals in “random” single rooms on Cook campus. “It’s very isolating and it is saying, ‘You’re the problem,’ not that the culture is the problem,”
González said. “It’s saying ‘You are disrupting this normalcy, so let’s remove you to maintain normalcy.’” Last year, the school began its preferred-name policy, which allows students to use preferred names instead of legal names on Sakai, class rosters and Rutgers Electronic Student Grading System. But campus administration needs put more emphasis on the policy, she said. “There was one professor who said ‘Well I reserve the discretion to call you by your legal name,” González said. “She continually called me by my legal name for the rest of the semester.” González closed the vigil by giving students a moment to reflect on how they can make a difference for the transgender community at Rutgers. The question she posed to the circle: “What are you doing?” After the final candle was lit in the name of “strength,” students had a moment of silence and then blew out their candles to commemorate the lives of the names that were read. “We will survive, we will overcome, we will conquer and we will live,” González said. “While this is a day of bereavement, there are also a lot of trans people who are doing very well for themselves, who are very happy, who are thriving and surviving.”
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On Nov. 16, Gov. Chris Christie (R-N.J.) publicly opposed the United States’ acceptance of refugees from Syria. On the Rutgers campus, students are speaking out against Christie’s stance. REUTERS
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Much of this ignorance is aroused simply by Western culture, according to Arun KundBright says United States’ ulterior motives obscure nani, a professor in Department of Media, Culture, and Commusituations such as refugee crisis nication at New York University. In his book, “The Muslims are Coming!,” he said Islamic culCONTINUED FROM FRONT personally attacked by politi- ture is unable to adapt to modercians’ reaction to Syria because nity and the roots of terrorism documents cross-referenced and of her Arab origin. She cited are not directed from Islam, but examined in an additional round French political activist Jean- were developed in the twentieth of screening, taking a year mini- Paul Sartre saying that “when century by a variety of backward mum, before an individual even the rich make war, it is the poor ideologies based on communism that die.” and fascism. reaches the country. “This isn’t directly related to Kundnani said these mentaliYet politicians such as Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.) and Gov. the topic, but the quote supports ties are problematic because they Greg Abbott (R-Texas) con- how I feel about the fact that pol- ignore the geopolitical circumstances that tinue to prowould cause test Presisuch radicaldent Barack Obama’s lax “If he’s afraid of letting in ISIS members, he won’t find ism to occur. B r i g h t policies on them in the women and children trying to survive.” agrees that Syrian resetthe U.S.’s ultlement and MONA ABOUZID terior motives claim they School of Arts and Sciences Junior obscure situawill deny entions such as tr y to any and the refugee all refugees, crisis. He said according to iticians, specifically, a lot of rich the U.S. uses Syria as a proxy ThinkProgress.org. While their rhetoric indi- people in Western countries, war for its own interests. “But when that leads to decates one protocol, the law have the audacity to not only not do anything to help Syrians, stabilization and problems, it’s states other wise. “The supremacy of the national but also fight their livelihood in wrong to then say, ‘Oh no, we power in the general field of for- countries after escaping war,” don’t actually want to help the people adversely affected,’” eign affairs, including power over Issa said. “After the Paris attacks, it Bright said. immigration, naturalization and Elbery and School of Arts and deportation, is made clear by the showed how reactionary AmerConstitution,” ThinkProgress.org icans really are. Rather than Sciences first-year student, Yousaid in reference to the case of protecting those in desperate suf Abdelfatah, both said that the need, we accuse them of crimes U.S. was built on the backs of refHines v. Davidowitz. Essentially, states cannot super- they did not commit,” said Sa- ugees, and to deny them entry is sede decisions established by the maa Elbery, a School of Arts and to be hypocritical. Sciences senior. “(The hate and “If we allow fear to deviate us national government. School of Arts and Sciences ignorance) will continue for a from our ideals, then we allow the terrorists to win,” Abdelfatah said. senior May Issa said she feels while, unfortunately.”
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CRIME NOV. 30 LINDEN — An 87-yearold woman was scammed out of $14,000 in pre-paid credit cards after receiving a call from someone using the guise “David Kelly” from the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office. The woman was told she needed to send money to help her son who had been arrested. This was part of a series of telephone scams that often targeted the elderly. NOV. 30 CLIFTON — Stephanie Colon, 30, was arrested for allegedly being the getaway driver for a robbery of Capital One Bank. Francesco Carisi, 32, was the alleged robber. Colon was taken to Passaic County Jail instead of paying bail set at $15,000. It is suspected that Carisi passed a note to the teller demanding money and then Colon drove the them away.
Following the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and injured 89, Rutgers students studying abroad in Paris are taking in the saddened mood around the city, while family and friends waiting for their children and friends to return are frightened for their safety. REUTERS
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“I didn’t once think about leaving (early), nor has anyone else that I know. France has stepped up their security and Hurley says attacks made her realize how thankI feel safe in my neighborhood ful she is that she, her friends are safe again,” Hurley said. “Terrorism can happen anywhere, and it should not cause you to stop CONTINUED FROM FRONT doing the things that you want Emily Hurley, a School of Arts to do.” and Sciences senior, is conscious Wang feels confident that Parabout the city, and has played an of the reverberating anxiety that is is once again a safe place. As important role in providing stu- can result after a dramatic event a student studying abroad for a dents with information and reas- like a terrorist attack. full year, she suring them of is looking fortheir safety. ward to all of “Part of my “Immediately, my coworker and I ran toward our emergency hiding spot ... I the memories job is keepcannot explain the adrenaline, shock and fear we all felt for that half hour.” she will make ing students in the months in touch with ANNA WANG to come. each other School of Arts and Sciences Junior “My exand with me, perience in and to give Paris, along students an “My mom kept messaging me at any of these places, so I have with all of the experiences of idea of what’s going on to the best of my knowledge,” Healey after the events asking me about learned to appreciate each and ev- the other students in the program, is something truly amazsaid. “The U.S. Department of my mental state,” Hurley said. ery day that I’m given.” Despite the city’s tragic events, ing,” Wang said. “We shouldn’t State puts out warnings, and the “She just wanted to make sure I Rutgers Center for Global Edu- was okay, so it was definitely im- Hurley is determined to enjoy the let these events stop us from cation follows these warnings portant to let people at home know remaining weeks of her semester gaining the most from our time abroad.” in Paris. that I was fine after everything.” carefully.” Because of the attacks, she has gained a greater regard for life. Her neighborhood is not too far from where some of the events unfolded. Luckily, she had been at home that night, but she was initially fearful of the chance that her friends may have been affected, she said. “(The attacks) made me realize how thankful I am that I was safe, and that my friends were as well,” she said. “I easily could have been
NOV. 30 MADISON — A 71-year-oldman had a heart attack while exiting his car. Madison public safety said that the police, fire and ambulance units all were able to save the man with “a total team effort.” The EMS unit was able to restart his heart and he was brought to at Morristown Medical Center. NOV. 30 BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — Raymond Blinn, 74, was in a car accident with Joseph Fannell, 22, who was fatally injured on Route 206, and the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office has decided to not prosecute Blinn. The Fannell family has filed a civil suit as they were unhappy with the decision that Blinn would not be trailed with vehicular homicide. Police said Blinn failed to stop at a red light, which caused the accident. NOV. 30 JERSEY CITY — Twentyfour-year-old city Board of Education employee John Spencer was charged with lunging at a woman with a knife, threatening to kill a man and threatening a police officer. Spencer has worked for the Board of Education for the past two years and has no prior arrests. He was held on $10,000 bail with a 10 percent cash option.
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Rutgers student lunges for chance at Olympic gold AVALON ZOPPO
“Those travelling expenses can easily be $10,000 to $12,000,” she said. “When you bring a coach with you, then you also have to During her first two years at Robpay for their expenses.” ert Wood Johnson Medical School, Thus far, Thompson has travKamali Thompson commuted to elled to 14 different countries for New York City from New Brunscompetitions, including Russia, wick to practice the sport of fencChina and Italy. ing. Thompson would catch a quick Her last competition was in nap or study her notes on the train Paris three weeks ago, where before heading to fencing practice. Thompson said But those gruthe Chinese and eling commutes “In other countries, (Olympic trainers) are like French fencing are now turning teams joined inter national, professionally paid athletes. They live the U.S. team as Thompson is together and train together every day.” during a weekhoping to bring long training her fencing skills KAMALI THOMPSON camp prior to overseas to the Rutgers Business School Graduate and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School the competition. 2016 Olympics Third-year Student “You really get in Rio de Janeiro. to know other Thompson, a Rutgers Business School grad- week. I learned about competing countries,” she said. One key difference Thompson uate and Robert Wood Johnson nationally and internationally.” Now, Thompson has started a noticed between the U.S. and Medical School third-year student, began fencing in middle RallyMe fundraising page in order countries she has visited is their school after initially getting in- to make her way to the 2016 Olym- complete dedication to their sport. “In other countries, (Olympic pics. She has a goal of $30,000, volved with dancing. trainers) are like professionally “I was in eighth grade, at the and has raised $10,000 thus far. The road to the Olympics is paid athletes. They live together Teaneck High School open-house, and I happened to be walking by expensive, she said, due to the ex- and train together every day,” she said. “ But in the U.S., we have a demonstration that the fencing tensive traveling involved. With eight international compe- side jobs or are in school.” team was doing with my mothThompson, as a Robert Wood er,” Thompson said. “My mother titions and three national competipulled me in the gym and encour- tions, a bulk of the money she raises Johnson Medical School stuwill go toward plane tickets and hotel dent, is pursuing multiple comaged me to look into (fencing).” After fencing for her high rooms. The rest of the expenses goes mitments in addition to her Olympic aspirations. school team for two years, toward equipment and visa fees. ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Thompson joined the Peter Westbrook Foundation, a non-profit youth fencing club for inner-city youth based in New York City. Joining the Peter Westbrook Foundation exposed Thompson to the more serious side of fencing. “Once I saw this club, I saw how serious fencing is. I saw people practicing everyday with coaches and going to classes three times a
Kamali Thompson, not pictured, is a Rutgers Business School alumna and a Robert Wood Johnson Medical School third-year student, is making her way to the 2016 Olympics for fencing. WIKIMEDIA
But she said the skills she developed through fencing are useful in medical school. “One of the biggest things in fencing is risk taking,” she said. “... I think it is very similar in terms of academic group projects and in medical school ... I can handle pressure really well school, and I definitely got that from fencing.” A typical day for Thompson involves practice drills from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. with her teammates, a 30-minute lesson with her coach afterwards and a group class from 5:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
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Other victims of crash include employees at Basking Ridge’s Ling Ling Riverwalk restaurant
Permanent job was offered to Hobbs on Friday, Barchi says in email
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be notified, according to a press release by the New Jersey State Police (NJSP). While initial reports by the NJSP counted 19 people, the actual number of victims is 17, according to the initial release by the NJSP. These include three fatalities and 12 injured parties. Five injured victims, including Naik, were transported to Morristown Memorial Center. Two victims suffered “serious injuries,” but were not in mortal danger. Naik was pronounced dead at the hospital. Another seven were taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital for non-lethal injuries, according to the release. Of the remaining three people involved, two were transported to Overlook Medical Center in Summit, New Jersey, and the last did not seek medical attention, according to the NJSP. The incident began when Troy Chase, 43, had to pull over to the shoulder on Interstate 287 North to fix the cattle trailer attached to his truck. His vehicle was hit by Naik’s car, and the alumnus exited his vehicle after also pulling over, according to Reuters.
While he was standing on the shoulder, the van bounced off a guardrail to strike both him and the truck, according to Reuters. The Class of 2015 graduate joined R/GA, an advertising company, after earning a bachelor’s degree in statistics and economics, according to The Star Ledger. He focused on his relationships, said Dharmin Desai, a childhood friend, to the Star Ledger. These included both familial relations and his friendships. During New Year’s parties he would perform comedic skits, and put effort into keeping in touch with his friends, Desai said. At the time of his death, Naik was residing with his family, and had “structured his career” to be able to help his parents, Desai said. The other victims of the crash included employees at Ling Ling Riverwalk, a restaurant in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. They will remain closed until Thursday, Dec. 3, according to their website. Employees at the restaurant are mostly immigrants beloved by the community, said Toni-Ann Ludica, a nearby Gymboree employee, to Eyewitness News.
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former Dean Emeritus at the Seton Hall School of Law as the new Athletic Director, Barchi said. Hobbs has a spotless record entering the position after beginning his administrative career as an Associate Dean of Finance at Seton Hall in 1995, before becoming dean of the department in 1999, according to his biography on the school’s website. The University’s new athletic director said on a conference call with select reporters that this was a “tremendous opportunity.” “I’m really excited by this,” Hobbs said on the call. “I see nothing but opportunity here.” Barchi, along with Hobbs, Brown and Schmidt, are going to be running point on the search for the Knights’ next head football coach. The short list shows three coaches, with former Rutgers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Greg Schiano as a universal top pick. Schiano led the Knights out of the dark ages during his 11-year tenure on the Banks (2001-2011), going 68-67, with six bowl appearances and a 5-1 record to show for those bowl games. But the reports of the school giving the 2006 Home Depot Coach of the Year a 36-hour deadline to make a decision have been refuted by four alumni with knowledge of the hiring process. Two sources within the donor community told The Daily Targum that the offensive line coach for No. 2 Alabama, Mario Cristobal, is the leading candidate to succeed Flood. The sources have requested anonymity due to the University’s
request not to discuss the process publicly. Cristobal was reportedly offered the job three years ago in 2012 after serving as offensive line and tight ends coach under Schiano, but ultimately turned it down. He worked as head coach at Florida International before becoming the offensive line coach on Nick Saban’s staff at Alabama. Cristobal was named 2015 Recruiter of the Year by Rivals.com
“When I made the decision last week that we needed a change in leadership, I set out to find an interim Director of Athletics who could stabilize the Department.” ROBERT BARCHI Rutgers University President
after leading the charge in the No. 2 recruiting class for 2015, which included five-star safety Minkah Fitzpatrick, a St. Peter’s Prep (New Jersey) product. As a four-year letter-winner at Miami (1989-92), the 47-year-old won two National Championships during the Hurricanes’ glory days. Cristobal’s connections to South Florida would be coveted by Rutgers on the recruiting trail, but it also has him rumored to be a candidate for the Miami’s head coaching position left vacant after Al Golden was fired on Oct. 25. A Colts Neck, New Jersey, native, Golden is another one who
Juggling fencing and college has never been too difficult for Thompson, who said the commute to her practices in New York City was the most time-consuming part. And even if Thompson does not make the 2016 Olympic fencing team, she said she will still aim to earn a spot on the 2020 team. “A lot of people say fencing is like a marathon, not a race,” she said. “The longer you do, the more experience you get and the better you get. I think there is a lot of room for me to grow, so I want to definitely try to make the 2020 team too.”
has been mentioned as a candidate for the Knights’ next head coach. His ties to New Jersey and Florida are attractive when considering the impact on recruiting, but Golden’s dismissal after beginning the year 4-3 has largely made him less attractive as a candidate. All signs point to Schiano or Cristobal to be the next man at the helm in Piscataway, but Schiano would be the first choice for Brown, according to a source with knowledge of the board member’s relationship with the Knights’ former head coach. For Flood, the ousting came unexpected. One day after coaching Rutgers to a 46-41 loss to Maryland on Senior Day, he took a recruiting trip to Long Island via helicopter Sunday morning before being alerted of his firing in a telephone call with Barchi Sunday afternoon. “I haven’t spoken to anybody in the University,” Flood said at his postgame press conference Saturday. “Nobody has given me any indication that I wouldn’t be the football coach.” A day later, after concluding his fourth season as head coach, he was fired. Flood finished 27-24 overall as the face of Rutgers football. He had made three-straight bowl games before this season, but the arrests and subsequent dismissal of seven players, his three-game suspension for contacting a faculty member regarding a player’s grade and the Knights losing six of their final seven games proved too large a load to bear. “I want to thank the entire Rutgers community for the opportunity to be a part of their F.A.M.I.L.Y. for the last 11 seasons,” Flood said in a statement on Twitter. “I wish the Rutgers team, community and alumni nothing but success in the future … I have no doubt the best is yet to come.”
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Rutgers takes steps to protect Webreg during registration NIKHILESH DE STAFF WRITER
“R” keys at the same time. In both, they should type “cmd” and hit the enter key. Mac users should open “Terminal” from the “Utilities” folder, which is located in “Applications,” to reach their version of the command prompt. To actually ping a website, users can type “ping” and follow with the Uniform Resource Locator (URL). This is the part that people type into Google Chrome or Internet Explorer to get to a website. Beyond using this method to check if Rutgers’ servers are online or not, users can check whether other websites are responding or not. This is especially helpful if a user is not sure whether they can access a website or not. It can also help to make sure a computer is connected to the Internet in the first place. Normally, webreg.rutgers.edu and similar websites resolve Rutgers hostnames. Hostnames are unique identifiers for computers and ser vers, according to Microsoft. A single computer can also have multiple hostnames. In other words, pinging Rutgers-hosted servers should show that the University is actually doing the hosting. When Domain Name System (DNS) Services were disrupted on Nov. 18, internet access and
Last fall, hundreds of first-year students anxiously waited to sign up for classes through the web registration system for the first time. That night, Rutgers was hit by the first of many distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. A timeline of the attacks was listed in a previous article by The Daily Targum. When the first occurred during pre-registration in November 2014 it was not considered anything more than an isolated incident, even though it forced the University to change the registration dates,. Subsequent attacks caused further inconvenience to students, and their aftereffects are still being felt now, according to another article by the Targum. Over the summer, the Office of Information Technology hired FishNet Security and Level 3 Network Security Services to supplement Incapsula Inc. in protecting University servers, according to the Targum. Country-blocks were put in place as well, to prevent attacks from specific nations from hitPing tests can be used to identify the domain hostname for a server, like the Central Authenticating Rutgers. Traffic from China, tion Service address. While pinging CAS should resolve a .rutgers.edu domain, it instead resolved Vietnam and Brazil had been seen a .incapdns.net domain when internet services went out on Nov. 18. NIKHILESH DE during previous attacks. While the University did see an She said it would be helpful if redirecting traffic through their thinks the software is inadequate attack earlier this year, Rutgers’ OIT updated students more often servers. In the event of another to the challenges posed. networks were not taken down “The University should share than just when services go down, DDoS attack, University servers during the registration period. more information about how its similar to how they announced should not be hit. Part of this the upcoming comes from the Central AuthenOffice of InforService “I know Rutgers has our personal data ... I want to know if Rutgers is spending more than the bare minimum tication mation Technol(CAS) migration for some cheap software.” ogy (OIT) hiring to a new infradifferent compastructure. nies to protect OIT anANN STRZELCZYK Rutgers, includnounced in an School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Senior ing Incapsula. email last week The company that access to protects several CAS would be Rutgers sites, including the Web access to some Rutgers servers While announcements have services are being protected,” limited on Dec. 27 between 7:00 Registration System (WebReg), were lost. The outage was caused explained the steps the Office of said Jennifer Chen, a School of am and 1:00 pm. This would be by “service provider error,” ac- Information Technology have tak- Arts and Sciences sophomore. according to a ping test. because the office is changing Ping tests measure how fast a cording to the Net People mail- en to mitigate the problems, not Like many other students, she the hardware behind CAS to imcomputer’s connection to a web- ing list. many students understand the was unable to register for classes prove it. Pinging cas.rutgers.edu and steps taken. site or application is, according to The OIT “should definitely” or use any internet services last speedtest.net. Shorter times indi- webreg.rutgers.edu during this make announcements like that Ann Strzelczyk, a School of fall, she said. cate faster connections, measured outage showed those sites re- Environmental and Biological Sci“I’m sure (Rutgers) is doing one when applicable, Chen said. solved their hostnames to Incap- ences senior, said she heard there their best to protect us from more These announcements help keep in milliseconds. People who use Windows sula addresses, rather than Rut- was a piece of software designed attacks but … they did spend a lot the student body informed machines can launch their own gers addresses. Normally ping to prevent against DDoS attacks, of money on (companies to protect “I know Rutgers has our perping tests through the command tests time out, or show no results, but is not sure what it is or how servers) this summer,” she said. sonal data,” Strzelczyk said. “I prompt. To launch the command during an outage. “… we still lost internet. I’m not want to know if Rutgers is spendit works. This means the company is prompt, they can either click Based on statements from the sure exactly what (OIT is) doing ing more than the bare minimum “start,” or tap the Windows and protecting Rutgers servers by alleged attacker, she said she but … I’m sure it’s going to help.” for some cheap software.”
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Ezra Schwartz’s life, memory is blessing One less student will have the privilege of walking through the doors of the beautiful new Rutgers Business School next fall. Ezra Schwartz was brutally murdered by a Palestinian terrorist on Nov. 19. He and his friends were handing out food to Israeli Defense Force soldiers in the Gush Etzion area of Israel. They were also visiting the memorial garden of Naftali Frenkel, Gilad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach, the three Israeli boys kidnapped and killed last summer. A boy whose 18th birthday had just passed, two acts of kindness on a Thursday morning, and in return, he was brutally murdered. Innocent blood has spilled on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which can’t be discussed without mention of the recent attacks in Beirut, Paris, Mali, Nigeria and New Orleans. I can’t help but wonder what my role is in all of this: a college student, a Jewish American, a journalist. In pondering my role in the seemingly ceaseless terrorism around the globe, I worried I was becoming desensitized to the unthinkable. I would fall asleep on the couch to CNN in the background, listening to the faint voice of an anchor announcing how many were killed in the most recent shooting. And I wasn’t jolted awake, startled by the news. I drifted to sleep to the lullaby of tragedy, as I think so many of us have done. Ezra was at Yeshivat Ashreinu, where I can only imagine he spent his days absorbed in the depths of Torah, goofing off with friends and traveling the beautiful land he probably felt was his second home. Since his death, photos and videos of Ezra’s happiest moments have begun to surface. One shows him reciting lines verbatim from “Harry Potter.” Another shows him leading a group of young boys in song and dance at Camp Yavneh, where he won an award for being one of the “most spirited and inspiring” staff members. Ezra would have graced the Rutgers community with that award-winning spirit. Like so many other Rutgers freshmen before him, he probably would have had the infamous nerve-wracking class registration experience, when WebReg goes down a minute before 10 p.m. He would have wondered whether to add a minor, what summer internships to apply for and if he wanted to test his physical limitations at Rutgers University Dance Marathon. In Judaism, when someone passes, we say “zichrono livracha,” or, “May his memory be a blessing.” By spending my Sunday afternoon scrolling through Ezra Schwartz’s Facebook page, reading every last word of the many posts from friends and family, by spending almost three hours in tears as I watched his funeral, by making everyone I come into contact with listen to his story, I am creating a blessing where there is devastating sadness. We must not allow ourselves to become desensitized. Educate yourself on Ezra, Anita Datar, Geoffrey Dieudonne, Zhou Tianxiang, Wang Xuanshang, Chang Xuehui, Lucie Dietrich, Julien Galisson and Haidar Moustafa. Imagine where they came from. Imagine the reality that their families are living as you read this. We are only limited by how much we know. For the sake of the future of the world, start learning. Sabrina Szteinbaum is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in journalism and media studies with a minor in digital communication, information and media. She is a former Associate News Editor of The Daily Targum. Read the full story online at www.dailytargum.com. 147TH EDITORIAL BOARD
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U. athletics department cleans house Termination of Kyle Flood, Julie Hermann marks change in tide
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eing part of the Big Ten means living up to her job and receiving accusations from volleyball big expectations, but two prominent lead- players for abusive coaching tactics. Then, while ers of Rutgers Athletics could not live up here at Rutgers, she elicited criticisms by mishanto that standard, or even half of it. After the lan- dling a commencement speech by former football guor of Thanksgiving weekend, University Presi- player Eric LeGrand and telling a journalism class dent Robert L. Barchi swiftly ousted head football that she hoped the Star-Ledger newspaper would coach Kyle Flood and Athletic Director Julie Her- go out of business. The purposeful or inadvertent actions of the two mann in a sudden decision that took the University community by surprise. A cloud of negative pub- figures catapulted Rutgers into national view, but licity shrouded the University’s athletic reputation for all the wrong reasons. Rutgers Athletics needin the past years, notably stemming from Flood ed to get it together and pull itself out of murky waand Hermann’s domain of responsibility, and this ters, since the individual controversies it has come treacherous cloud composed of controversies and to be associated with detracted from the actual scandals that overshadowed the bulk of the Scarlet practice of athletics. Instead of exerting all of the Knights’ (as well as all of Rutgers’) accomplish- energy of the department to win games, its attention is divvied up by the desperate attempt to dements in the public eye. stabilize glaring controversies. It seemed inevitable that Terminating the contracts of Flood and Hermann were gothe now-former football coach ing to be fired, but most were “It was a surprise that and athletic director was a saunaware that it was going to ocHermann lasted as long gacious ablution to a tainted decur when it did. Flood has been as 2.5 years in her role partment, and instating Patrick with the Rutgers community for Hobbs, Dean Emeritus of Seton more than a decade. Although as athletic director” Hall University Law School, is he made a Bowl Game in each a strategic choice that could of his first three seasons with signal an auspicious future for the Knights and had an 8-5 record in the University’s first season in the Big Ten, Rutgers Athletics. These are steps in the right dithere exists a litany of issues that outweigh those rection. Hobbs has an extensive legal and ethics achievements. Aside from the regression of the background, having served on various state legal football team’s record to an overall 4-8 this season, and ethics boards and commissions, and the delibFlood was suspended for three games and fined erate effort to put a person with remarkable legal $50,000 for pressuring a faculty member to change experience at the head of a program that is notoria football player’s grade. And under his oversight ous for becoming entrenched in legal quandaries as head coach, several football players were arrest- could lead to reduced controversies with minimized magnitude. ed for their role in a home invasion. Despite the problems Rutgers has come to be On the other hand, it was a surprise that Hermann lasted as long as 2.5 years in her role as defined by, it is still a relatively new program in athletic director. From the moment she took her the Big Ten, and there is time to build. Starting position at the University, she brought along ex- anew begins with removing all that weighed it tra baggage: Hermann’s tenure was rife with scan- down and adding to what builds it up. Hobbs has a dals from her past at the University of Tennessee, clean track record and holds the right knowledge where she was head coach of the volleyball team, of values and ethics, and we hope that the next losing a lawsuit for discouraging an assistant from head football coach that is chosen reflects those getting pregnant because it would interfere with same ideals. 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.
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Trump continues to gain supporters despite radicalism SONAM SAYS SONAM SHETH
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ince he bulldozed into the Republican primary race back in June, Donald Trump has defied every political norm and tradition. The man who was initially written off as a billionaire vanity candidate has held the top spot in Republican polls by a veritably wide margin for almost five months. It’s an unprecedented lead that’s even more remarkable because he’s a non-established candidate with virtually no political experience. These factors, which have historically hurt other candidates, may in fact be doing the opposite for Trump by giving him a boost in the polls. It’s no secret that Republican voters — and some Democrats as well — have reported being increasingly dissatisfied by the circus that is the United States Congress. Its tendency to waste time on political games that serve the interests of the wealthy has finally hit a nerve with voters on both ends of the spectrum, but more so with Republicans. Indeed, their interests are now swaying more toward candidates who are from outside the current political establishment. The issues that Trump’s campaign are built on — immigration, international trade
and national security — are also hot topics for next year’s election. And while his tired lines detailing that “he’s a winner,” without giving any legitimate details about how he plans to achieve his grand visions seem ridiculous and xenophobic to the more informed citizen, those same visions have certainly fired up his particular voting base. And that’s the crux of it. The paradox of Donald Trump’s presidential run is best summed up by recognizing that comments and policy stances that are typically
implemented a similar policy, in which all Jews were forced to wear yellow badges identifying themselves, essentially aiding in their persecution and eventual genocide. Supporters of Trump are always quick to note that he isn’t anywhere close to, or even in the same realm as Hitler was. But what they don’t seem to notice is that this is how it starts. Hitler didn’t come into power and immediately order the execution of more than 11 million innocent people. He slowly cultivated a culture of hate
“Supporters of Trump are always quick to note that he isn’t anywhere close to, or even in the same realm as Hitler was. But what they don’t seem to notice is that this is how it starts. Hitler didn’t come into power and immediately order the execution of more than 11 million innocent people.” seen as campaign-crushing gaffes, have in fact elevated him to his front-runner status — or at the very least, they certainly haven’t hurt him much. He’s offended virtually every demographic that isn’t in the wealthy, white male category: Mexicans, African-Americans, Jews, Muslims, women, the disabled, the poor and many others have all been slammed by the Donald at one point or another. In light of the recent Paris terrorist attacks, he’s taken it so far as to hint at a national database to register all Muslims. Sound familiar? Adolf Hitler
toward anyone who didn’t fit his narrow perception of “German.” Much in the same way, Donald Trump has slowly but surely stoked the xenophobic, racist fears of the vast majority of his voting base. Immigrants steal jobs and murder people. Muslims are terrorists. Obama is a socialist bent on destroying our “great nation.” China is going to come in and destroy our economy. At every corner and around every bend, Trump uses racially charged rhetoric to stir up the irrational and completely unfounded fears of his supporters.
Upon closer observation, it’s impossible to miss the fact that his entire campaign is built on evoking fear from his angry voters. His solutions to problems aren’t cohesive or detailed in the way that his competitors’ solutions are. We should force Mexico to build a wall “with a huge, beautiful door” to keep illegal immigrants out. How? Well, the how doesn’t matter, because obviously, “he’s a winner.” He’ll get it done somehow. Even his day-to-day viewpoints have no factual basis. He claims to have seen thousands of Muslims in Jersey City celebrating the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11. There’s been zero credible evidence to support this claim, but it must be true, because as Trump noted, “I have the world’s greatest memory.” Every claim, every stance and every contention is based on stoking fear and providing vague, incoherent solutions to nonexistent problems. Unfortunately, while that platform is ridiculous to any halfway intelligent voter with some semblance of a conscience, it’s certainly struck a chord with Trump’s base. In any case, if people want to hear about things that are scary and disastrous, all they really need to do is imagine the idea of a Donald Trump presidency. Sonam Sheth is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in economics and statistics. Her column, “Sonam Says,” runs on alternate Tuesdays.
Pervasiveness of gun violence cannot transcend right to live COMMENTARY MATTHEW MAN
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ost people who knew Jared Lee Loughner prior to Jan. 8, 2011, would have characterized him as a caring and ordinary young man. He worked at fast food restaurants and attended community college. His track record was not without incident, though. It was tainted with blemishes not atypical for a youth, namely things like possession of marijuana paraphernalia and vandalism. Then, on one direful January afternoon in Arizona, after staying up into the early hours of dawn perusing websites about famous assassins, he loaded his Glock 19 with a 33-round clip and headed for a Tucson supermarket where a congresswoman was holding a meet-andgreet with constituents. Shortly after, the congresswoman was shot at pointblank range above the eyebrows, six people were dead and 13 were wounded. Many were also gunned down at pointblank range. If you took away the last several months leading up to the shootings when he began to form radical thoughts and exhibit obscure behavior, would you not have considered Loughner to be an ideal candidate to responsibly own a gun? The same question can be posed about the killers in Colorado and Virginia Tech. One was a neuroscience doctoral candidate and the other an undergraduate English major. Both were presumably of above average intelligence and had attained some level of scholarly success. Neither were certified
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criminals who had spent their lives in and out of the penal system. Their public lives up to the point when they snapped had earned them the right to possess firearms by most people’s standards. But when they do snap, it is too late — their murderous weapons have been amassed and their delusions crystallized. Here lies the blatant problem with gun proponents arguing that the few insane people who commit these massacres ruin it for the rest of them. Is it so implausible
and another drinker. Neither of you had any intentions of getting into an altercation the moment you stepped out of your front door. Neither of you consider yourselves to be irrational or insane, but after several shots and drinks, no one is immune from the lack of inhibition and clouded judgment that alcohol renders. The difference between ending up with a recoverable broken nose and a fatal wound to the aorta is that concealed gun — that concealed gun that was brought in by a law-abiding,
“A gun is an object whose main purpose is to kill (beyond injuring). Every spring, every screw and every ounce of metal that come together to assemble a gun work in unison to injure or kill its target once the trigger is pulled.” that someone can be sane his whole life, demonstrate responsible ownership of a gun and then spiral awry mentally and emotionally beyond the brink of rationality, to a point when his ownership of a gun no longer becomes either responsible or safe for those around them? In Arizona, if you are over the age of 21, you can carry a concealed weapon without a permit. Imagine being in an Arizonan bar on a regular Friday night. I have been to Arizona bars and many of them have signs urging patrons to leave their firearms outside of the bar, but I assure you that it is not much of a deterrent to anyone who has a strong desire to bring one in. After several drinks, an argument ensues between you
normally mild-mannered man who, up to that moment of intoxicated rage, may have lead a pristine life. But none of his history matters once the gun is fired and a person is left dead. The mere possibility of such an irreversibly pernicious event should be taken seriously and they are not a figment of the paranoid imagination of those who do not own guns. Think of other instances that have the potential of a similar fate — a driver who was cut-off or a man wrongfully fired from his job of 20 years. A gun is an object whose main purpose is to kill (beyond injuring). Every spring, every screw and every ounce of metal that come together to assemble a gun work in unison to injure or kill its target once the
trigger is pulled. You cannot convincingly say the same for any other object, though gun proponents will often argue that any object can be used to kill if negotiated the right way. They will extrapolate this idea to claim that a lawnmower or a roll of toilet paper can be used as weapons whose potential to inflict mortal wounds can be made similar to that of guns. The weightlessness of such a claim is clear and I will refrain from engaging in this argument until I see either of these objects used in a drive-by in North Philadelphia. I am not naive to think that we should pass a law tomorrow that would ban all guns save those in the hands of law enforcement. Through hundreds of years of this country’s history, guns have woven their way into the fabric of American life. You can find them anywhere from a drug-deal, to a farm, to a suburban home. It sounds crude to say, but people run the risk of getting shot every time they wake up in the morning. But this does not and should not mean that we stigmatize any discussion of gun control. It has become disturbingly commonplace for politicians to duck this issue because it has become so sensitive for the powerful gun lobby. This sad trend needs to change. When we talk about gun rights, let’s not exclusively reserve these rights for people who desire more guns, but let’s consider the rights of all the other people who deserve the right to live in a society without so many deadly weapons scattered around them. Matthew Man is a Rutgers University Class of 2003 alumnus.
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The number of murders hasn’t actually gone up. The number of (murders) being reported has gone up. - Vanessa González-Siegel, a School of Arts and Sciences senior on LLEGO’s Trans Vigil and Queersgiving Dinner. See story on UNI.
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Suspect in Colorado clinic shooting faces murder charge The man accused of killing three people and wounding nine in a shooting rampage at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs was told he faces charges including first-degree murder during his first court appearance on Monday. Robert Lewis Dear, 57, appearing by video link from jail, spoke only to confirm that he understood and to tell the judge he had no questions. There was no discussion of the motives during the brief hearing, and formal charges will be filed at a court appearance scheduled for Dec. 9. Planned Parenthood has said reports that Dear told investigators “no more baby parts” after his arrest following Friday afternoon’s deadly siege showed he was acting on an anti-abortion agenda. Chief Judge Gil Martinez told Dear, who was in handcuffs and leg irons and strapped into a padded vest, apparently for his own safety, that if convicted, he faces a minimum sentence of life without parole or a maximum of death. District Attorney Dan May said prosecutors have 63 days after Dear’s arraignment to decide whether to bring a death penalty case. Documents in the investigation were ordered sealed by the court on Monday. “I personally will be part of the prosecution team,” May told reporters outside after the hearing.
For his appearance by closed-circuit camera from the jail where he is being held without bond, Dear was flanked by Dan King of the state’s public defender’s office. King defended the Colorado movie massacre gunman, James Holmes. A handful of victims sat in the front of the packed courtroom, watching Dear on a screen. They were ushered out of a different door than the journalists.
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The rampage blamed on the South Carolina native is believed to have been the first deadly attack on a U.S. abortion provider in six years. The Colorado Springs center has been the target of protests by anti-abortion activists. A police officer and two civilians died in the attack, which, according to newly emerging details, began just outside the building, adjacent to a shopping area on the northwest side of Colorado’s second-largest city. Ke’Arre Stewart, 29, an Iraq war veteran, was shot in front of the clinic after walking out to talk on his cell phone. Wounded, he ran back inside to warn others to take cover, his brother told NBC News. Stewart died of his wound. “I believe that’s his military instinct, you know,” NBC News quoted his brother, Leyonte Chandler, as saying. “Before his time ran out, I guess that was his
A police vehicle is seen parked outside the Planned Parenthood clinic a day after a gunman opened fire in Colorado Springs, Colorado November 28, 2015. REUTERS main priority ... to help and save other lives.” Planned Parenthood already was on heightened alert against threats of violence nationwide. Some affiliates said they would review their security measures further. Several U.S. media outlets, citing unnamed law enforcement sources, have said Dear used the phrase “no more baby parts” in statements he made to investigators after his surrender. Reuters could not independently confirm those reports.
The reported comment was widely seen as an apparent reference to secretly recorded videos released months ago that showed anti-abortion groups have said Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of aborted fetal tissue. Planned Parenthood has said the videos were produced to distort the issue of fetal-tissue donations made by the group for scientific research. It says reimbursements the organization received to cover
the costs of those donations were neither unlawful nor unethical. Authorities have said they do not know what precipitated the attack and have declined to discuss publicly the suspect’s motives. U.S. Justice Department officials have joined the investigation, raising the possibility the federal government could bring a terrorism or civil rights case against Dear. —Reuters
Chicago officer, charged with murdering black teen, posts bond
Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke is seen in an undated picture released by the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office in Chicago, Illinois. REUTERS A white Chicago police officer, charged with murdering a black teenager, posted bond on Monday afternoon as protests continued over a patrol car’s dashboard camera video that showed the officer shooting the teen 16 times. Protesters including NAACP President Cornell William
Brooks were arrested on Monday, according to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Demonstrators have objected strongly to the 13-month delay in releasing the video and charging the officer for the 2014 shooting. Police officer Jason Van Dyke appeared in shackles at
Monday’s hearing, where Cook across the country, and have Dean, 21, a student at the nearby County Criminal Court Associate stoked a national debate on race University of Illinois at Chicago, was arrested and charged with Judge Donald Panarese, Jr. set relations and police tactics. Herbert said Van Dyke threatening to kill 16 white male bail at $1.5 million, of which 10 is prepared to defend him- students or staff in retaliation for percent had to be posted. The police union president self. “He is very scared about the shooting of McDonald, federsaid union members were help- the consequences that he’s al prosecutors said. Ten people were arrested ing Van Dyke’s family raise the facing. He’s concerned for his amount needed for Van Dyke to wife and his children. But he’s for disrupting traf fic on Monhandling it like a professional,” day, including Brooks and sevget out of jail. eral seminar y students as they Last week, Van Dyke was Herbert said. “When you see the video knelt to pray in the middle of denied bail because the judge wanted to see the video first. alone it does not seem like a jus- LaSalle Street outside City Hall. Prosecutors asked on Monday tifiable shooting,” Herbert said. The protest began with singing that the previous ruling stand, But he said that consulting with and marching around with empty caskets. but Van Dyke’s One particlawyer, Daniel ipant, NAACP Herbert, said “When you see the video alone it does not seem like College and his client posed Youth Director no flight risk. a justifiable shooting.” Stephen Green, Several days said he knew of protests in DANIEL HERBERT they would be the third-largest Jason Van Dyke’s Lawyer arrested and U.S. city have that they defollowed the recided “to break lease last Tuesthe man’s day of the video, which showed Van Dyke gun- Van Dyke and experts in the law to uphold moral law for ning down 17-year-old Laquan field, he decided the case was transformation in the city of Chicago.” McDonald in the middle of the “absolutely defensible. Green said up to 300 peoDean Angelo, president of street on Oct. 20, 2014, as McDonald was walking away from the local Fraternal Order of ple took part in the protest, and police who had confronted him. Police union, said he saw the more were planned. He said a Van Dyke, 37, was charged with video of the shooting, yet be- court date is pending with a poslieved Van Dyke took “action sible fine. first-degree murder. Chicago police confirmed High-profile killings of black that he believed at that time to that citations were issued and men at the hands of mainly white be justified.” The case prompted an online ever yone was released. law enforcement officials in U.S. cities over the past two years threat that closed the University —Reuters have prompted demonstrations of Chicago on Monday. Jabari
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Today’s Birthday (12/01/15). Your education and travels expand into next year, shifting toward group participation after August. Saturn in your sign favors self-discipline. What will you create? March eclipses bring new beginnings at home and with friends. September eclipses spark professional breakthroughs and another domestic shift. Nurture love. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
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Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 7 — Conditions are good for a family discussion. Find out what’s so and fears dissipate. Listen and learn. News travels fast. Follow through on what you said you’d do. Take notes and schedule actions. Charm them with love. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 7 — Make bold declarations, vows and promises. Go for what you want without knowing how to get there. Cheerfully state your desires. Listen and make corrections based on feedback. Family and friends share advice and support. Thank them. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is an 8 — Good news comes from far away. Apply it to what you’re studying. You can solve a puzzle. Support family harmony by upgrading or repairing home technology or infrastructure. Shop for the best value. Support your crew. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — Investigate all suggestions, even the bizarre or unusual ones, before making important decisions. Don’t believe everything you hear ... check it out first. Talk things over with friends, one of whom has useful expertise. Doors open in unlikely places. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — Invest in your own comfort and productivity. Track your earnings, and stash some. Add an artistic touch to your presentation. Poetry inspires. Find beautiful expressions in unusual views. Remember what’s really important. Gather with loved ones. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 9 — Put your talents to work. Develop some of these great ideas into plans. Look at predictable outcomes, and strategize to even the odds. Speak straight from your heart. Lightning fast talk goes over people’s heads. Keep it simple.
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YOUTH Knights hit free throws in crunch time, but early misses doomed them in end CONTINUED FROM BACK to score what ended up being the game-winning lay up. Although the mistake was fatal, his teammates recognize his mistake wasn’t the first one committed this season. “Coach said, ‘Don’t let them go baseline, close out the baseline,’” Sanders said. “Me and Jonathan, we’re freshmen, so we make mistakes. I made mistakes in the St. John’s game, not being aware of time and this time, it was Jon not being aware of closing out the baseline. It’s just little things we need to work on and we gotta grow.” While he only scored two in the second half, they were the most memorable points of the night. Out of the under-eight-minute media timeout, redshirt freshman guard Justin Goode, who had just entered the game, received an inbound near the 3-point line when he saw Laurent turn around and run at the basket. Goode threw up an alley-oop and his freshman teammate threw down an emphatic dunk. “It felt good,” Laurent said of his highlight-reel play. “Growing up, watching stuff on TV, it’s like when you’re actually there, it’s even better feeling than it actually is when you see it on TV. It just felt really amazing.” ***
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Laurent’s alley-oop was one of a number of plays that got the 3,817 fans in attendance on their feet, roaring Rutgers on as it appeared poised to end its now 3-game losing streak. The Knights began the second half on fire, making seven of their first nine attempts. Of the two misses, one was immediately put back in off the glass by Omari Grier. The graduate transfer combined with Sanders in Rutgers’ strong start to the second half. Grier’s six points complemented the freshman guard’s nine in the first 4:48 out of the interval. The Erial, New Jersey, native earned his first career start against the Demon Deacons. While it took until the second half to repay Jordan for his faith in him, the head coach was pleased with his decision to give Grier the nod. “I thought (Grier) performed admirably,” Jordan said. “He probably didn’t ring the bell with numbers, but he played very well. He made some drives, was composed, didn’t use useless dribbles. I’m just trying to get the most out of my players.” *** An issue for the Knights in a number of games so far this season, free throws came back once again to haunt them. Unlike previous games, however,
free throw woes in the first 20 minutes rather than down the stretch doomed Rutgers. The Knights hit their last eight shots from the charity strip, including a pair from senior center Greg Lewis that gave Rutgers a 68-67 lead with 41 ticks left on the clock. The issue lied in the 3-for-10 mark it had prior to the eight straight, including a 3-for-6 mark in the first
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half, leading to a final tally of 11-of-18 from the line. “That was very big because at the end of the game, that all builds up,” said sophomore forward D.J. Foreman. “Towards the end of the game, you look back, we make those free throws, we win by four, we win by five.” The explanation? According to Jordan, all roads lead to the youth of his team.
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COLLAPSE Rutgers blows 12-point lead in second half, misses last shot in final seconds “Look, it’s young players. I can repeat it over and over again. It’s Despite the struggles that con- young players,” Jordan said. “And jured up late in the second half, we have to learn ... and too bad you Rutgers managed to maintain con- have to lose to learn. But I’d like trol of the game-winning shot in the some lucky bounces and a good call to get a play at the end to finfinal minute. Trailing the Demon Deacons (5- ish the game out, but it’s just what 2) by one with 17.9 seconds remain- you have.” Sanders, who started and ing, freshman guard Corey Sanders stepped back for a deep jumper from played a team-high 32 minutes the right wing but his shot clanked despite suffering a turf toe injury off the back iron. The Knights main- last week against Clemson, took tained possession on the scramble note of his coach’s words after for the loose ball, though, with an the game. “We had a couple of close games inbound coming and 4.6 seconds that we were just not able to close left to walk off with the win. But the final play drawn up off out, so that’s one thing that we rethe timeout by head coach Eddie ally gotta work on, and Coach (JorJordan didn’t pan out. Sanders dan) always talks about we gotta inbounded the ball from the base- close out the game,” Sanders said. line on a play intended to find “Everyone goes on their runs, so senior guard Omari Grier in the we just gotta keep working on it corner before finding sophomore and let it transition from practice to the game.” guard Mike WilJordan, Sandliams streaking back to the top “We had a couple of close ers and the Knights of the key on a games that we were just young take their latflare as the secest lesson into ond option. not able to close out, so upcoming Williams, that’s one thing we really the remainder of who shot 1-foran underrated 10 from the field gotta work on.” non-conference on the night, slate that feafired an off-balCOREY SANDERS tures the likes anced look on a Freshman Guard of Seton Hall catch-and-shoot on Saturday, at wide right and to George Washington (Dec. 12) and put the final nail in Rutgers’ coffin. “I mean, Mike (Williams) had Monmouth (Dec. 20) in the next a good shot,” Sanders said. “He four games. While Rutgers doesn’t begin conmight’ve rushed it a little bit, but he had a good look at it and it just ference play until Dec. 30 against didn’t fall, which was really kind of Indiana, the Knights understand the story tonight. So we just living the consequences of their losses at the moment. to fight another day.” And when they’re this winnaSanders caught fire in the second half as the Knights jumped out ble, Foreman said the impact in to take a commanding shift of mo- the moment and down the road is mentum, opening the period a per- felt even harder. “It hurts a lot because our goal fect 4-for-4 with a 3-pointer mixed in through the first five minutes as was before the season was we wanRutgers took a 41-37 lead with 15:01 na clear all of our conference games before we go, so we can get moremaining in the ballgame. But after taking their largest mentum going into the Big Ten,” lead of the evening with a 12-point he said. “So it hurts. Each game we advantage with less than 10 min- lose, it hurts.” utes to play, the Knights couldn’t For updates on the Rutgers keep their feet down on the throats of the Demon Deacons. Wake For- men’s basketball team, follow est made Rutgers pay with a 23-11 @GarrettStepien and @TargumSports on Twitter. run to end the game.
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D.J. Foreman drives from the right wing at the RAC Monday night. The sophomore forward had seven points and two rebounds. EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR
Freshman guard Corey Sanders dribbles into the lane in the second half of Rutgers’ 69-68 loss to Wake Forest on Monday night. Sanders finished with a team-high 17 points. EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR
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December 1, 2015 WOMEN’S SOCCER NO. 9 RUTGERS 7, NO. 1 VIRGINIA 6 (PENALTY KICKS)
Knights defeat No. 1 Virginia to advance to College Cup MIKE O’SULLIVAN CORRESPONDENT
It seemed like the No. 9 Rutgers women’s soccer team was destined to suffer the same fate that has haunted them the last two seasons against No. 1 Virginia. After the Cavaliers (19-1-3, 9-1) knocked the Scarlet Knights (19-3-3, 7-2-2) out of the NCAA Tournament the past two seasons, they looked as if they were on the verge of a trifecta by controlling the possession for most of this year’s quarterfinal matchup. But the 2015 version of the Knights are a different group, and weren’t about to let Virginia end their season for a third straight year. Rutgers advanced to their first Women’s College Cup in school history by traveling to Charlottesville and defeating Virginia on the road in penalty kicks, 7-6, after both teams played to a draw in regulation and two overtime periods. It is the first time the women’s soccer program has ever reached the national semifinals, and the first team at Rutgers to do so since the 2007 women’s basketball team. “It’s a pretty special feeling, and we all recognize the significance of what this team has accomplished,” said head coach Mike O’Neill. “We want to make sure that we enjoy it, but at the same time, we still have things to get done to try to advance to the finals … The work ethic and commitment to the team shown by these players has been inspiring to watch all year long.” The top-seeded Cavaliers entered the game as the nation’s second-highest scoring team, averaging 3.32 goals per game, and were
in search of their third straight College Cup berth. But the Knights and their nation leading goals against average (0.33 per game) neutralized the high powered attack from Virginia, not allowing the country’s topranked team to capitalize on its scoring chances. Virginia outshot Rutgers, 12-6, and held an 8-2 advantage on corner kicks, but could not break through against the star-studded Rutgers backline of All-Big Ten First Teamers Erica Skroski and Brianne Reed. The match in regulation followed a similar script that has made Rutgers so successful during the season – elite defense that frustrates opponents, coupled with decisive scoring. “We have played Virginia three years in a row now and know that they have a strong offense, but just because they are a team with a good offensive line doesn’t mean that we are going to change how we play defense,” Reed said. “We’ve been doing the same things all year and it has all worked, so that’s exactly what we did against them this time.” The Rutgers midfielders came through for their team in a big way this game, as the defensive stands began once the ball crossed into Rutgers territory. A trio of veterans, Hayley Katkowski, Samantha Valliant and Jennifer Andresen, displayed crafty defending by intercepting passes and trying to create chances for their team. Katkowski logged the full 110 minutes in the game, and worked closely with freshman Kenie Wright to direct the defense and make sure that each player’s effort level remained high throughout the game.
Behind the midfield and backline and solidifying the defense was Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Year Casey Murphy, who starred throughout the game by making critical saves during regulation and overtime. The sophomore’s biggest impact may have come with a score in penalty kicks. After both teams played to a scoreless draw through regulation and both overtime periods, they went to penalty kicks to determine a winner. Virginia took the early advantage with scores through the first two rounds to give them a 2-0 lead, and things began to look bleak for Rutgers. But the Knights started to show the resiliency which has won them so many games through this historic season, and started to mount a comeback. Murphy came out of net to take a kick for Rutgers at the start of the third round and sent a shot past Virginia goalkeeper, Morgan Stearns, to move it to 2-1 in the shootout. Virginia then had a chance to win the game in the fifth round, but Makenzy Doniak’s shot hit the crossbar to keep Rutgers alive. Following Murphy’s goal, Rutgers reeled off seven straight scores as both teams traded goals back and forth. Rutgers prevailed in the ninth round when junior midfielder Tori Prager’s score proved to be the game-winner after Murphy made the final save against Tina Iordanou’s shot, giving the Knights a 7-6 win in penalty kicks and a trip to the semifinals. The team then rushed to meet Murphy outside the box to
Sophomore goalkeeper Casey Murphy not only helped to save the Knights season in penalty kicks, but she scored a goal as well. EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR / NOVEMBER 2015
celebrate their win, swarmed the talented goalkeeper and piled on each other in jubilation. It took a complete team effort for the Knights to earn the upset victory, but Murphy’s calmness in net during such a strenuous time gave her team the spark they needed to finish the game. “I didn’t really think about us losing and I just stayed really positive the whole time, even when we were down 2-0 in the shootout,” she said. “I think that helped us be successful in the end because we didn’t doubt ourselves and staying focused and in the zone during that time really helped us.” The Knights are enjoying the moment and are relishing in the chance to head to Cary, North Carolina, to compete in the
College Cup. They will face fellow Big Ten foe Penn State in their semifinal matchup, which will mark the third meeting between the teams this season after they have split the first two games. It seems fitting that the two teams will meet to determine who goes to the national championship game, but for now, the Knights plan to carry their positive vibes down to North Carolina. “I’ve played four years here and have gotten to experience everything that shows what college soccer is all about,” Reed said. “Getting to go to the College Cup is absolutely amazing.” For updates on the Rutgers women’s soccer team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
VOLLEYBALL OHIO STATE 3, RUTGERS 0
RU pushes Buckeyes to extra points but falls in 3-set defeat JOE BRAUNER STAFF WRITER
The season came to an end for the Rutgers volleyball team with a three-set loss to Ohio State on Saturday night. The Scarlet Knights (4-28, 1-19) came out strong against the Buckeyes, keeping the score close and eventually pushing a heavily favored Ohio State team into extra points in the first set. The Knights even found themselves on the right end of a setpoint in the first, when they held
a 24-23 lead with a chance to put the game away. The ball was in the hands of one of the team’s better servers, senior defensive specialist Ronnie Komisarek. But much like the rest of the season, the final three plays did not go as planned. Despite their best efforts, the Knights lost the next three points. The set loss turned out to be a disappointment and a missed opportunity that set the tone for the rest of the night. “We had a real opportunity to take game one and it just didn’t
Junior middle blocker Mikaela Matthews said the team knows what needs to be done to make improvements for next season. HAOLIN XIU / NOVEMBER 2015
go our way, but it was real good to see us put a complete set together,” said head coach CJ Werneke. “We really served tough, we blocked well and played great defense to keep it close, and we were winning those battles and I thought it gave our team a lot of energy with the points we could score in transition.” In the grand scheme of things, the strong play of the Knights in the first set turned out to matter very little. After their dicey set win in extra points, Ohio State never looked back and went on to dominate Rutgers in all aspects of the game, starting immediately with a second set blowout of the Knights. A fearsome kill from senior outside hitter Elizabeth Campbell set the Buckeyes off on a 12-point run that was the beginning of Ohio State’s 25-7 slaughter of Rutgers in the second set. Campbell, a transfer student from Duke, paced the Buckeyes with 14 kills on the night. “In that set, we really just fell apart,” said junior middle blocker Mikaela Matthews. “Our communication fell and our energy fell, it was really flat on the court. People weren’t really talking … we weren’t the same team.” Aside from the dismal second set, the Knights struggled
offensively throughout the entire game, once again posting a terrible team hitting percentage this time of just .043. “For the outsides, it was just really difficult for them to get kills, because Ohio State’s defense was pretty good, and they’re good at defending the outsides attack,” Cloyd said. “I just think that they really prepared well for us, and we just didn’t make any changes on our end.” For most of the game, Cloyd served as the Knights only real force on offense as her fellow front row attackers were quieted by the Buckeyes’ defense. Sophomore outside Meme Fletcher was held to a mere six kills on 29 attempts, and senior outside Megan Stephenson, usually a high-percentage hitter for Rutgers, was not effective either, with three kills on 15 attempts. While the Knights’ pin hitters struggled to make the most of the balls that they were given, Rutgers’ middle blockers made the most of their opportunities on offense — but simply weren’t set enough to be effective. Mikaela Matthews had a productive, but limited, night on offense, registering two kills on five attempts.
Freshman middle blocker Tiaja McKnight saw an even smaller opportunity, but found a way to capitalize. McKnight found the floor for her only kill of the match off of one of the two attempts she took, bringing her season total to 20. With the graduation of senior middle blocker Eden Frazier, who struggled to score against Ohio State, the team looks to McKnight to play a bigger role on the offense next season. After another disappointing year, where the only bright spot came from a win against rival Maryland, the Knights must now endure another offseason focused on finding a way to become competitive in the conference. After the loss against Ohio State, Matthews, who will be a fifthyear senior next year, said that the team’s desire is to grow stronger as a team throughout the offseason. In what will be her third and final year in the Big Ten, Matthews seems to have gained valuable experience in the last two seasons. “We know what these teams want to do,” the veteran middle blocker said. “We know their style of play, and just want to be a lot better than we were this year.” For updates on the Rutgers volleyball team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
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December 1, 2015 WRESTLING NO. 13 RUTGERS 21, NO. 7 CORNELL 13
Rutgers earns monumental win over Cornell at MSG ERIC MULLIN STAFF WRITER
Last season, the Rutgers wrestling team found that competing in the Big Ten Conference was nothing like its previous conference experiences. In an effort to better prepare for the highest level of competition in collegiate wrestling, the Scarlet Knights loaded their out-of-conference schedule to begin this season with ranked programs occupying half of their first 10 scheduled matches. The Knights wrapped up their rigorous non-conference schedule on Sunday with two big wins in the Big Apple. No. 14 Rutgers (9-1) shut out George Mason, 470, and grinded out a 21-13 victory over No. 7 Cornell at the “Grapple at the Garden.” The Knights’ victory over the Big Red was its first since 1998, and also marked their fourth victory against a ranked opponent this season, a new team-high in the nine-year tenure of head coach Scott Goodale. “Just a lot of fight, a lot of grit, our team’s hungry right now,” Goodale said. “From top to bottom, we wrestled in all three positions. We got some huge toss-up bouts we won — Sean McCabe, Tyson Dippery, Hayden Hrymack. That all adds up to a really special dual meet. Then we limit their three national finalists to decisions ... no bonus points out of them, so that’s a total team effort.” Junior 125-pounder McCabe set the tone early for the Knights with an upset, come-from-behind win over No. 18 Dalton Macri. McCabe trailed 3-1, entering the third and final period of the match, but used two takedowns to secure a 6-5 victory, giving Rutgers an early 3-0 lead. After No. 4 Nahshon Garrett picked up a decision win for Cornell to tie the match, No. 3 sophomore Anthony Ashnault recorded his second pin fall of the day in the final period of his match to give the Knights three bonus points and a six-point lead. The Knights took two of the next three bouts, capped off by 6-2-decision victor y by No. 9 Anthony Perrotti over No. 10 Duke Pickett in the 165-pound weight class, to extend their lead to 15-6. Just when it appeared that Rutgers was going to easily cruise to its second upset victory of the season, the Big Red’s top-two grapplers got them right back into the match. A 6-2-decision victory from No. 2 Brian Realbuto over junior Phillip Bakuckas followed by a 13-5 major decision from No. 1 Gabe Dean over redshirt sophomore Nicholas Gravina shrunk the Knights’ lead to 15-13. The fate of the match between the two wrestling powerhouses hung in the balance of the 197-pound and heavyweight matches. After trailing by one after the first period, senior Hayden Hrymack outscored Owen Scott, 6-1, in the second to give him a fourpoint lead heading into the final period of the match. In what may have been the most intensified match of the day, Hrymack held on for a 9-7 decision win to give the Knights an 18-13 lead.
With a pin fall being the only way for Rutgers to surrender its lead, No. 7 senior Billy Smith cruised to an 8-1 decision victor y over Jeramy Sweany to seal and stamp Rutgers’ fourth victor y over a ranked opponent on the season. “It was definitely a great win, we all really wanted to beat Cornell,” Dipper y said. “We all came out and we brought it, we put the intensity on them and kept pushing pace, and we got the ‘W.’” The Knights went a perfect 10 for 10 in their first match of the day against George Mason. The Knights picked up bonus points in all but one match on their way to a commanding 47-0 victory over the Patriots. McCabe, Ashnualt and Gravina each recored victories by way of pin fall. Rutgers will open the Big Ten Conference competition in just under two weeks when they travel to Iowa City to take on No. 2 Iowa. The Knights lost to Iowa by a final score of 27-9 last season.
But riding high off a victory over a top 10 opponent Rutgers feeling confident as it enters conference play. “Beating Cornell is probably one of the biggest wins this program has had,” Perrotti said. “For
the past 15 years, I’ve never seen them out of the top five or out of the top 10, and they’re a powerhouse in college wrestling. Just seeing this program come full circle in the five years I’ve been here, it’s really amazing ... I’ve never had
more fun in wrestling than I’ve had this year so far, and there’s a really bright future here.” For updates on the Rutgers wrestling team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
Junior 125-pounder Sean McCobe earned a comeback win over Cornell’s No. 18 Dalton Macri. After trailing 3-1 earlier, McCabe used two takedowns to get a 6-5 win. THE DAILY TARGUM / NOVEMBER 2015
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MEN’S BASKETBALL WAKE FOREST 69, RUTGERS 68
Knights suffer similar collapse, 69-68 GARRETT STEPIEN SPORTS EDITOR
Haven’t we seen this one before? For the second time in two weeks, the Rutgers men’s basketball took a commanding double-digit lead over a beatable opponent. This time, the Scarlet Knights had the backing of a home crowd on their home floor at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. Appearing to be removed from their 6159 collapse at St. John’s on Nov. 19, Rutgers looked ready to bounce back with a strong second half. After opening the game still seeming jet-lagged from their two-game stint out in Las Vegas last week, the Knights took a commanding 58-46 advantage with 8:54 left to play. Then it all came apart — again. Plagued by poor free-throw shooting and an inability to keep its composure down the stretch, Rutgers unraveled again in a 69-68 crash at the hands of Wake Forest on Monday night in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. “We gotta learn how to close games out,” said sophomore forward D.J. Foreman, who had seven points and two rebounds. “We had the game with, like, nine minutes left in the game and we just gotta learn how to turn the corner and win. I believe that’s our main weakness right now. We need to learn how to turn that corner when we have the game and we gotta get a signature win.” With their third straight loss dating back to the pair of defeats suffered to Creighton and Clemson at the Men Who Speak Up Main Event, the Knights (3-4) fall below .500 for the first time in the early season. On the final play of the game, Mike Williams fades away on a catch-and-shoot inbounded from freshman guard Corey Sanders. His shot missed wide right, to conclude Rutgers’ blown lead in a 69-68 loss to Wake Forest. EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR
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KNIGHT NOTEBOOK FRESHMEN COREY SANDERS, JONATHAN LAURENT PLAYED KEY ROLE IN EITHER HALF
Youth helps, hurts Rutgers in latest loss BRIAN FONSECA
in that role doing what he wants me to do. It felt good to come off the bench in a groove.” Eddie Jordan was pleased with the way Laurent executed the plan. “Jonathan Laurent was pretty darn good tonight,” the third-year head coach said. Compared to his performance in the opening period, Laurent was a mere observer in the second half. He contributed just two points to go with a rebound and a steal in his 11 second-half minutes. On the defensive end, he exemplified the youth that Jordan used to explain the Knights’ second loss after leading by double digits in two weeks. With 18 seconds remaining in the contest and Rutgers leading by one, the Knights needed a defensive stop to seal a back-and-forth contest. Instructed to block the baseline, Laurent missed his assignment and allowed Cornelius Hudson
ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
In both halves of the Rutgers men’s basketball team’s 69-68 loss to Wake Forest on Monday night, the Scarlet Knights (3-4) were led by a freshman from Florida. But while the big story was Corey Sanders’ red hot start to the second half, he wouldn’t have been able to give the Knights the lead after nearly 17 minutes of action if it wasn’t for Jonathan Laurent’s performance in the first half. The forward from Orlando led Rutgers in the opening 20 minutes with eight points and six rebounds, playing a big part in why the Knights trailed by just four at the half despite the team collectively going 10-for-38 (26 percent) from the field. “Coach always wants me to come off the bench and be aggressive,” Laurent said. “Even when I was starting, he wanted me to come out and be aggressive so I’m just sitting
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Freshman forward Jonathan Laurent throws down an emphatic two-hand alley-oop in last night’s 69-68 loss against Wake Forest at the RAC. EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR
EXTRA POINT
NBA SCORES
Boston Miami
105 95
Houston Detroit
105 116
Oklahoma City Atlanta
100 106
San Antonio Chicago
89 92
Denver Milwaukee
74 92
Golden State Utah
106 103
PATRICK HOBBS,
athletic director, was hired Sunday to replace Julie Hermann. Hermann, AD for 2.5 years, was relieved of her duties on the same day Hobbs was hired. Hobbs previously served as Dean Emeritus of the Seton Hall University School of Law.
KNIGHTS SCHEDULE
SWIMMING
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
WOMEN’S SOCCER
MEN’S BASKETBALL
U.S Long Course Nationals
vs. Florida State
vs. Penn State
vs. Seton Hall
Thursday, TBA, Federal Way, Wash.
Thursday, 7 p.m., Tallahassee, Fla.
Friday, 5 p.m., Cary, N.C.
Saturday, 12 p.m., RAC