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Rutgers Debate Union hosts 1st annual high school tournament thomas lohan contributing writer

More than 60 high school students from around the state gathered for the Rutgers University Debate Union’s (RUDU) first ever debate tournament on Sunday to discuss topics ranging from pop culture and ethics to current events.

The purpose of the debate tournament, held in Scott Hall on the College Avenue campus, was to provide high school students with an educational and informative experience.

The debate tournament was organized by RUDU in collaboration with the High School Public Debate Program, a new parliamentary debate league in the New England-New Jersey district.

“The aim of holding such tournaments is to allow high-schoolers, especially from low-income areas, The Rutgers University Debate Union hosted its first high school tournament. University students mentored their younger counterparts before they competed in a mock debate near the end of the day. JEFFREY GOMEZ / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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U. athletics see full graduation rate for 4 teams in department Nicholas Simon staff writer

This year, four Rutgers athletic organizations were recognized for outstanding performances off the pitch and inside the classroom.

The women’s soccer, lacrosse, field hockey and gymnastics teams each received perfect Graduation Success Rate (GSR) scores,

according to an annual report by the NCAA. This is the 12th year in a row the gymnastics team achieved a per fect score and the third year the women’s soccer team has done the same, according to CBS spor ts.

Eriel Santagado, a member of the gymnastics team and a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore,

said she was not surprised by her team’s success.

“I don’t think the idea of not graduating from school has really crossed anybody’s mind,” Santagado said.

“None of us see it as a viable option.”

Santagado said her team’s high score can be attributed to the discipline they learned from See department on Page 4

Students from around the nation created a Google Chrome extension to filter fake news on social media platforms like Facebook. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CASEY AMBROSIO

Students talk use of ‘fake news’ filter app Angelisa Cunniff contributing writer

The prevalence of fake news on social media made headlines following the 2016 election, with some companies, like Google and Facebook, beginning to clamp down on its spread.

In response, four students from Purdue University, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign developed “FiB: Stop living a lie” at HackPrinceton, an annual student hack-a-thon held at Princeton University, according to Business Insider.

The extension enables users to check if an article, image or link is verified using JavaScript, said Sakib Jalal, the president of the Rutgers Alliance of Computer Scientists and a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

“They built an artificial intelligence within 36 hours that verifies dif ferent posts on Facebook as you scroll through your newsfeed, and it verifies images through image recognition,” Jalal said.

“It verifies posts through keyword extraction.”

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The women’s soccer, lacrosse, field hockey and gymnastics teams saw a perfect Graduation Success Rate in 2016, meaning every senior on each team graduated. This is the 12th year in a row that the gymnastics team has accomplished this feat. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR / MAY 2016

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Researcher makes strides in fighting drug-resistant bacteria

Rutgers School of Dental Health researcher Daniel Kadouri is studying predatory bacteria and how they interact with drug-resistant bacteria, like those that cause MRSA. Predatory bacteria may be able to eat their disease-causing counterparts, helping cure infected persons. GRAPHIC BY MICHAEL MAKMUR

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The discoverer of penicillin, Alan Fleming, warned the public in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech that bacteria has Two different bacteria may the potential to evolve resissoon be used to fight drug-resistance to antibiotics. tant pathogens, helping treat in“The research into new therfections that are currently difficult apeutics, new antimicrobials and to manage. new antibiotics is almost zero,” Daniel Kadouri, researcher Kadouri said. with the Rutgers School of Dental The reasoning is that penicilMedicine, is studying the clinical lin is expensive to bring a new application of predatory bacteria drug to the market and pharmathat could potentially fight their ceutical compadr ug-r esistant nies do not see counterparts. a return on inKadouri col“There’s a huge increase in bacteria that become resistant to therapeutics. For the last 100 years, we’ve been vestment fundlaborated with ing antibiotics.

Nancy Connell, practicing medicine with the ability to treat infection with antibiotics. Before the discovery of antibiotics, Kadouri is a professor in infection was the number one killer.” unsure wheththe Rutgers er it will be efNew Jersey daniel kadouri fective over a Medical School, Rutgers School of Dental Health Researcher long period of to research time or on an Bdellovibrio bacteria that become resistant to without proper dosage or dura- infection that is already well bacteriovorus and Micavibrio pathogen out there.” he said.

These include bacteria found therapeutics,” he said. “For the tion. The use of antibiotics to pro- established. The study of predaeruginosavorus, both of which might be able to attack certain in wounds, lung infections, burns last hundred years, we’ve been mote growth of livestock rather ator y bacteria shows a great and food borne pathogens like practicing medicine with the abil- than treat infection is contributing reduction of the burden of drug disease-causing bacteria. resistant pathogen in the lungs, Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus E.Coli and Salmonella. Many of ity to treat infection with antibiot- to drug resistance.

Microorganisms compete he said. is considered one of the fastest the pathogens that causes these ics. Before the discovery of antiBut this is an important first moving organisms, which only diseases are now drug-resistant, biotics, infection was the number with other microorganisms for resources and space, according to step to demonstrating that predattacks gram-negative bacteria meaning traditional medicines are one killer.” atory bacteria is non-toxic and Predatory bacteria can be Nature Review: Microbiology. like E. Coli, he said.These bacte- ineffective in treating them.

Penicillin was the first com- efficient in a controlled study, he Predatory bacteria can attack used to keep food and drinking ria treats drug-resistant ones as a drug-resistant pathogens because water clean as well, he said. They mercialized antibiotic discov- said. Kadouri is still currently food source.

The mechanism of penetration the pathway of resistance to anti- are not limited to simply medical ered in 1928 and distributed in studying resistance to the pred1945. It was considered a drug atory bacteria, but does not see utilized by these predatory bacte- biotics varies from the pathway of applications.

The management of infections that would create a future with- any resistance to what he says is ria is still theorized, Kadouri said. predation, he said.

“They can attack essentially, using antibiotics is the most im- out infectious diseases, accord- “brute force” by the drug resisOne theory proposes that tant bacteria. the predatory bacteria use brute what is known as biofilm which is portant factor contributing to ing to the CDC. Contributing Writer

force to penetrate its prey. The other theory puts forward the idea that predatory bacteria use proteolytic enzymes, which digest or breakdown protein that melt the outside membrane of drug-resistant bacteria, Kadouri said.

The second bacteria Kadouri is studying, Micavibrio aeruginosavorus, will attach or leech to its prey and eat them, he said.

“They attack almost every clinically relevant, gram-negative

a basic bacteria that attaches to a surface,” Kadouri said.

Biofilms — such as plaque on teeth or infected wounds — cannot be penetrated by antimicrobial soaps or medicines, but the predatory bacteria can do so effectively, he said. The predatory bacteria are not toxic to animals, are not pathogenic and the immune system does not view them as a threat.

“There’s a huge increase in

antibiotic resistance according to the CDC. The overuse of antibiotics puts selective pressure on bacteria to build resistance, Kadouri said.

The predator y bacteria would be applied to areas that would have drug resistant bacteria either topically or systemically, he said.

According to the CDC, 50 percent of antibiotics are prescribed when they are not necessary and

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online, though there may be difficulties verifying some controversial said Paris Downing, a School Though Google has made efforts to not promote news, of Arts and Sciences sophomore. fake news, Facebook has not yet done so “There were a lot of crazy stories out there as I scrolled through social media in the past few “They say, ‘Oh I don’t have time months, like Hillary (Clinton) and continued from front to check my stuff, I’m just an or- (Donald) Trump being a part of a After keyword and image rec- dinary citizen, I’m busy’ and they prostitute ring,” Downing said.

Many students and millennials ognition mechanisms verify the can get away with that because authenticity of Twitter screenshots that’s reasonable, right?’” he said. voted based on information they saw Fake news played a significant on social media or television, said and Facebook posts, a checkbox allows users to quickly see if the ar- role in the most recent election School of Environmental and Biological Sciencticle, image or es sophomore text is accurate, Madison Back.

Jalal said.

“It verifies images through image recognition. It In order to Sixty perverifies posts through keyword extraction.” make sure she cent of adults is viewing accufind their sakib jalal rate information, news on soSchool of Arts and Sciences Junior Back said she cial media, varies the sourcwith a fifth of es from which the countr y using it as their primar y source cycle, according to the New York she gets her information. With the of information. Many media out- Times. Facebook denied that Chrome extension unavailable yet lets use this to their advantage, fake news played a role in the to the public, readers must monitor their own news consumption. election results.

Jalal said.

“I kept up with all news sourcThe Chrome extension is ingeIndividuals are also guilty of posting or relaying inaccurate in- nious and could be of much help in es because I don’t trust just one,” solving the problem of fake news she said. formation, Jalal said.

department

CRIME Dec. 6 ORANGE — Authorities found the body of an unidentified woman Monday morning inside an abandoned city home in Orange county. Police discovered the woman’s body inside a home on Highland Avenue at about 10:35 a.m. after a repor t of an unresponsive person. The cause of death is currently being evaluated by the Regional Medical Examiner’s Of ficer and will be released after the autopsy.

Dec. 6 HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP — A teenager who was pulled over for allegedly speeding is facing other charges after police said he kicked an officer in the groin during the arrest.

On Nov. 26 at around 10 p.m., Officer James Klesney stopped the car for driving 70 mph in a 40 mph. While he was talking to the teen, Klesney smelled

marijuana and proceeded to arrest the 17-year-old. Officer Joseph McNeil was called to the scene, but as he was tr ying to handcuff the teen, he resisted and kicked McNeil in the groin.

The teen was charged with multiple offenses including obstructing the administration of law, aggravated assault on a police and possession of marijuana.

Dec. 6 NEWARK — Authorities are asking the Newark community for help in locating 26-yearold Arnold Locke, who allegedly shot two women during a dispute. Police believe Locke shot at two woman during an argument that escalated into domestic violence at about 9:28 p.m.

Saturday. The two women were not injured and immediately ran for help after the altercation. Officials say an investigation into the incident is ongoing.

“On average, I communicate with at least 60 students a week,” she said. “There are times when Accomplishment marks 12th year gymnastics has you can walk by my office and see four or five students just sitting, seen perfect graduation rate standing and talking with me.”

Managing school and athletics can be difficult, said Tori Prager, in the classroom but that they’re continued from front a member of the women’s socsucceeding,” Levine said. “We cer team and Rutgers Business gymnastics. The spor t requires endeavor to do everything in our School senior. the constant repetition and per- power to make this possible.”

“At times, it’s incredibly stressLevine said he believes edfection of routines. Practicing ful, chaotic and hectic,” Prager gymnastics develops a mental- ucation is the most important said. “On a daily basis, you’re ity that is conducive towards thing the women on his team devoting four academic sucor five hours cess, she said. out of the day to The attitude your team.” of the coaching Despite its staff also played “The expectation is not that our athletes are just getting by in the classroom but that they’re succeeding.” demanding naa role in the ture, a rigorous team’s academic athletic schedule achievements, louis levine should be seen Santagado said.

Gymnastics Team Head Coach as something “Our coaches positive, Prager expect a certain said. It forces instandard of acadividuals to mandemic excellence age their time from us,” she The office offers student ath- effectively and to stay organized. said. “They encourage us to give can gain from their time spent Academic advisors also offer The student athlete expeat Rutgers. schoolwork everything we’ve got.” support for student athletes, Na- letes multiple forms of help, such as academic advising, tutoring rience at Rutgers also acts as The woman’s gymnastics varoli said.

Louis Levine, the head coach of the gymnastics team, said he coaching staff pride themselves “Our advisors ensure that we’re and study hall requirements, ac- preparation for the business world, Prager said. and his staff constantly stress on emphasizing the importance of always on top of our schedules,” cording to the office’s website.

“You learn how to enjoy being Student athletes often take adthe importance of academics for education, he said. she said. “They also hold us ac“Unlike some other sports, countable for any bad grades we vantage of the assistance offered part of something bigger than their athletes.

“The expectation is not that there’s no such thing as profes- may have gotten and offer tips on to them by their advisors and tu- yourself,” she said. “It’s a once in a lifetime experience.” tors, Rosenberg said. our athletes are just getting by sional gymnastics,” he said. “These navigating our majors.” girls are here first and foremost to be students and to learn.”

Alana Navaroli, a member of the women’s lacrosse team and a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said professors try to accommodate student athletes.

“All of my professors are very understanding whenever I have to miss a class because of an athletic obligation,” Navaroli said. “On the whole, I think most professors really respect the commitment we have for our sports.”

Gilah Rosenberg, an athletic academic advisor for the Office of Academic Support Services for Student-Athletes (ASSSA), said she and her colleagues do their best to be available to student athletes.

“Our goal is to build a relationship with student athletes so they feel comfortable coming to talk to us about anything,” Rosenberg said. “We help student athletes in all aspects of their academics … we’re also here to offer them advice on any other facet of their life.”

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tournament Debate Union members hosted high school students at Rutgers for event continued from front access to forensics-speech and debate, which has been empirically shown to improve educational attainment and civic engagement,” said Pasha Temkin, the president of RUDU and School of Arts and Sciences junior.

RUDU is specifically looking to expose high school students to parliamentary debate and recruit potential students for the Rutgers team, Temkin said.

Rutgers offered their space to host the tournament, said Steve Fitzpatrick, the president of the High School Public Debate and the program coach at Hackley High School.

“We recognized that there was a need and interest for high school parliamentary debate to engage

five tournaments over the course of the year,” Fitzpatrick said.

Fitzpatrick — who has been an educator for more than 20 years — said the debate teaches students public speaking, argument formation and research skills.

“I think it’s so important that any university, that is actually committing itself to be a

said. “That’s what we do here.

We get students from all over the tri-state area and we engage them in the global issues that are going to define their world.”

After the tournament, Falk said he hopes high school students will walk away with more confidence in their speaking abilities.

He hopes students will sharpen

“We get students from all over the tri-state area and we engage them in the global issues that are going to define their world” kurt falk School of Arts and Sciences Senior

high school students in the act of debate and the art of debate, so we founded the league in the spring with the idea of running

community institution should go act locally, while training its students to think globally,” Tournament Director Kurt Falk

their critical eyes to the issues that surround them.

“If that happens, this tournament would be a success. It’s

competitive, but it’s not about the awards at the end of the day, it’s about the educational opportunity they get from it,” Falk said.

The debate tournament helps RUDU members give back to the community, Falk said.

In the past, RUDU hosted tournaments open to other college debate teams. The club has also organized several smaller-scale tournaments at local high school locations.

The high school debate league is still relatively new, Falk said, so it is important that the group is able to run the tournament and help develop their skills.

Having Rutgers University as a keystone of the high school debate league landscape is going to help grow debate in New Jersey astronomically, Falk said.

“We are looking forward to hosting more high school tournaments in the future,” Temkin said.

COOL KIDS Students participated in the annual Big Chill charity fundraiser on Saturday, Dec. 3 around the College Avenue campus. Members ran for five kilometers and donated toys to various local charities which support children. CASEY AMBROSIO

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Freud’s ideas can be implemented today

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ith the rising tensions A SOPHISTICATED brought by an THO(UGH)T incoming Trump presidency and the United States’ RAE LANDINGIN imminent impact on the rest of the world due to the hyper-connectivity of globalization, it is not a surprise that scholars are looking at many ways to fully understand what the hell is and is about to happen in the world we live in today.

Many folks in academia look into critical race theory and postcolonial criticisms, among many other lenses of critiques. While referencing Sigmund Freud may seem passé and tends to overvalue sex and sexuality, his psychoanalytic work provides a fascinating perspective on today’s society. In his book Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud looks into the friction between civilization and the individual, such as how civilization creates restrictions on human instincts to maintain order and community. He argues that the nature of civilization contributes to human discontentment towards society.

He introduces his conception of Eros, which is originally the sensual love that civilization modulates into an aim-inhibited love for family, friendships, and even enemy. Such as the Christian command of “Love thy neighbor and enemy”. Therefore, he concludes that this command is based on the attempt to counter man’s aggressive instincts, which he describes as “the derivative and main representative of the death instinct which we have found alongside of Eros and which shares world-dominion with it.”

Sharing a space in civilization, Eros and the death instincts (popularly known as the death drive), contributes to the precocity of civilization. In the book, he comments that “The present cultural state of America would give us a good opportunity for studying the damage to civilization which is thus to be feared”. Published in 1930, Freud had an idea about the United States that colored my thinking about the present state of the United States. Freud’s description of how civilization tames human instincts in order to maintain social order is still present in today’s American society. He says that “Present-day civilization makes it plain that it will only permit sexual relationships on the basis of a solitary, indissoluble bond between one man and one woman, and that it does not like sexuality as a source of pleasure in its own right and is only prepared to tolerate it because there is so far no substitute for it as a means of propagating the human race.”

What he describes are the dominant order for hetero-normative monogamy, sexual repression, and the bio-political reasoning for sex, as a means of maintaining this type of civilization we live in, still holds strong political influence in the United States. It was only a year ago when Marriage Equality was made legal in all 50 states. Nonetheless, it’s a way of normalizing a potentially subversive community via the institution of marriage. Thus, creating a homo-normative norm or ideal with the queer community. And, Reproductive Justice remains a place of political contention in American governing of women’s bodies.

With the growing incline of violent racial hostility among many other aggression towards marginalized communities, Freud’s critique of civilization’s composition of Eros and the death drive such as, “The advantage which is comparatively small cultural group offers of allowing this instinct an outlet in the form of hostility against intruders is not to be despised” gives insight that argues against the justification that people who voted for Trump were just angry at the establishment and the state of the American economy.

This exposes how this aggression, is funneled towards the queer community, immigrants and people of color, who are coded as intruders and illegal aliens. He analogically describes the death drive as a result of a band of brothers wanting to both kill and love their father, but instead funnels that inwards and outwards.

I believe that in a patriarchal society, this father concept is put across as an unreachable and unstoppable God, limiting people from seeing God as a socio-historically construction of man. What happens is that people are given no choice but to punish themselves in a system that functions on the dichotomy of love and the death drive.

Freud’s analysis of human existence isn’t perfect. It lacks the comprehensive understanding of patriarchal capitalism and the influence of puritanism that remains today in the form of cultural norms and law. His phallic fixation may have obscured him from thinking that the human love of aggression could be an obsession with control and power rooted in patriarchal thinking. By using Rome as the jumping point of Western Civilization, he describes and analyzes the psyche of this type of civilization well, but lacks the knowledge of decolonial thinking rooted within marginalized communities that may provide solutions to the propagated affliction of Western Civilization. One thing is for sure, the system that we currently live in is not sustainable and is driving itself to death. The question is, do we go down with it? And if not, are we capable of digging ourselves out of these trenches made by civilization and cultivating a loving and sustainable global community?

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Maybe Kodak Black shouldn’t be back Response to rapper’s release from prison raises important questions

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witter was animated as news of 19-year-old unconscious woman — was released from jail after rapper Kodak Black’s release from jail hit the only serving half of his already-short six-month senweb. A wave of “#FreeKodak” tweets were tence. The internet was enraged, and rightfully so. trending and people were excited to have the rapper People took to Twitter, and for weeks they voiced back in the studio and recording more songs. But their outrage at the release of someone who had what was rather alarming was that not many people, committed such a horrendous crime. So the queseven during the time of his first arrest, were talking tion remains — where is that outrage now?

There are obvious differences between these two about why he was in jail in the first place. In fact, it seemed as though no one really knew what Black cases. Turner had raped an unconscious woman, who wrote a heart-wrenchingly honest letter about was originally convicted of.

Kodak Black, born Dieuson Octave, was originally in the violation she faced. Black’s victim was unnamed prison on charges of armed robbery and false imprison- and unknown. Turner’s release from jail was on acment of a child. The judge in charge of his case was plan- count of the judicial system whereas Black’s release ning to release Black and place him on house arrest, but was due to his bond being paid. But the matter of cona warrant against Black was discovered. The warrant cern here is not the failing of the judicial system, but the reaction of the public that followed both crimes. was for drug paraphernalia — and sexual misconduct.

Although the To properly asgravity of these sess the crimes cases may seem Black committed, “His charges, which are punishable by up to 30 far from similar, it is important to years in prison, could still potentially land him the sexual, physunderstand the in jail because he was released on bond.” ical and basic exact charge. Behuman rights of fore the discova woman were ery of his sexual misconduct, Black was facing charges for “false im- shattered in both crimes. So why was the internet so prisonment.” False imprisonment is defined as the angry at Turner’s release but so happy with Black’s?

A lot of this has to do with Black’s upbringing “unlawful restraint of a person against their will by someone without legal authority or justification.” In and classic “started from the bottom” narrative that essence, Black had allegedly kidnapped someone, shows someone marginalized by society coming into except it doesn’t qualify legally as “kidnapping.” This a place of power, while Turner was viewed as a privileged kid who went to Stanford. It makes a differis still disturbing.

Sexual battery, on the other hand, is often consid- ence to your audience when you grew up in violence ered a lesser charge than rape or sexual assault. How- and commit a crime as opposed to being a “daddy’s ever, in Black’s case, this includes the penetration of boy” and committing a crime. But the internet and the victim. His crimes included him biting the victim its millions of users failed to look past this. Because and attacking her orally. His charges, which are pun- Kodak Black is a famous rapper, and because he is ishable by up to 30 years in prison, could still potential- a comedic figure to younger ages, the gravity of his ly land him in jail because he was released on bond. crime is admissible to the public. But this is wrong.

Black is out of jail (for now) after being charged with Standing up to injustices should be a priority no matsexual battery of a woman, and the internet cheered. ter who the person is that commits them. And if you Let’s go back to the Stanford rape case, where were upset about Brock Turner, as you should have Brock Turner — who sexually assaulted an been, you should have been upset about this too.

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Being Muslim does not interfere with my feminism MY V IS FOR VICTORY SYEDA KHAULA SAAD

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s this is the last column I will write this semester, I wanted to address an issue very close to home. Many times, when I identify myself as an advocate for women’s rights and feminism, a lot of people tend to find this in contradiction with my affiliation with the Islamic faith. For a lot of people, “feminist” and “Muslim” are two terms that just do not seem to fit right with each other. Why is this?

This belief that champions of Islam cannot be champions of a pro-female voice has a lot to do with narratives of oppression being written from the biased perspective of those on the outside. It’s the typical story of Western ideals, especially in America: We look at other people on the outside and love to point fingers, tell them what they’re doing incorrectly and how they should be saved. But as someone who is both on the outside looking in and the inside looking out, I must say that a lot of us have gotten it all wrong.

Just as people do with everything they read, people tend to look at the information presented to them and pay more attention to the details and explanations that mostly coincide with their own version of reality. So

when American people take a look at the Quran, the holy book of Islam, they often look to find excerpts and phrases that fit their description of a religion that promotes the submission and oppression of women.

I’m going to put this out there right now: In Islam, men and women do not have equal rights. But their rights are balanced.

What does this mean?

This means that in Islam, men and women are granted different rights in certain aspects of life, but in the give-and-take of the scripture, they are given a balance of power. So whichever rights seem to be

point out their faults without attempting to understand why they were created. Men who chose to take another wife could not do so without the full consent and comfort of the first wife. And these other wives were not taken for pleasure or greed. A man was only allowed to marry more than once if he had the means for providing for his wives.

This may seem completely ridiculous to certain people, but what is absolutely necessary to the understanding of the religion is that Islam was founded in 610. Women did not gain the right to vote in America, the “world’s freest nation” up until the last

“What people fail to point out is how much importance Islam gives to women.” allocated to men more in, say, marriage, are made up to women in terms of parenthood.

This is not because either of the sexes is considered superior or inferior to the other, it is simply because in Islam, it is believed that there are different needs for different people. And in the modern-day chronicle of feminism, this is often looked down upon.

Yes, in Islam, men and women are separated during prayer and men pray in front of women. And yes, in Islam, men are allowed to have more than one wife and the same rule does not apply to women. But people look to these rules and immediately

century. Just as people have adapted to the new revelations of society, people within the religion have adapted too, but in accordance with Islam.

What people fail to point out is how much importance Islam gives to women. Take Khadija bint Khuwaylid, for example. Khadija, the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)’s first wife, was an esteemed, successful business woman. And she is known to be the mother of Islam, the first person, man or woman alike, to accept that her husband was the last prophet. And to really put things in perspective: She was the one who asked him to

marry her. And this is all happening during the 600s. Women don’t even do that now.

A lot of things can seem wrong or scary when you don’t understand them. This is why people are so quick to condemn the hijab, or Muslim veil. They don’t fully understand it. A lot of women in America who claim to be feminists look down on the hijab for “oppressing” Muslim women. This always upsets me because I think: Doesn’t dictating what a woman can or can’t wear count as oppressing her? In Islam, the hijab plays into preserving a woman’s modesty, because women are cherished in Islam.

But people don’t consider this. Rather, a lot of people who criticize the hijab do so because of the idea of women having to be modest where men aren’t required to. But in Islam, there are regulations to what a man can and can’t wear as well. This goes back to the idea of balance.

In a time and place where narratives of Islamophobia are circulated even in the highest office of power, the Muslims who are marginalized are tasked with a decision: Hide or stand up. I choose to stand up and say that not only am I a feminist, but I am a Muslim first and foremost — and more importantly, I am both and proud.

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Tech Tuesday

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Complex processes come together in central heating systems

Central heating systems are a staple of most New Jersey residences, but a large number of systems are designed to work together to ensure they work properly.

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Harshel Patel

tipping the glass bulb over. Mercury in the bulb then moves to the opposite end of the bulb, which allows a current to pass As the fall season ends and winthrough two wires. ter begins, temperatures are dropWith a current passing through ping, leading people to activate those wires, the boiler is activattheir central heating. Heating and ed and begins to heat the house. cooling account for more than half When the thermometer is suffiof the energy usage in the average ciently heated, the metals will exU.S. home, according to the U.S. pand and tip the bulb back over, Department of Energy. stopping the current from passing Central heating distributes heat through the wires and turning off around a house from a central the boiler, according to the site. source. This happens by heating This process water and then is used frequentmoving the waly throughout ter around the the winter seahouse through a Heat transfer works between objects through three general processes, conduction, radiation and convection. son, and a lot of series of pipes, energy is used according to the powering the HeatSmart. boiler and heatThe heat can ing the water. As be distributed either by connecting the pipes to the heat from a heated stove but is used to take heat energy from above that level, according to the such, space heating is the largest radiators in every room or by run- is not directly touching the stove, the gas to the water, according to University of Virginia Depart- energy expense for U.S. households. It accounts for 45 percent ment of Physics. the site. ning the pipes under the floors, according to the site.

Simple thermostats are com- of energy bills, according to the The heat exchanger is a piece Convection is the process beaccording to the site.

Radiators typically require high hind hot air heating objects that of metal that warms up the pipe posed of a metal thermometer U.S. Department of Energy.

Many heat sources can be used temperatures in order to function, it comes into contact with. With carrying cold water, bringing up wrapped around a glass bulb filled which can only come from a com- things like radiators, the air gets to about 140 degrees Fahrenheit, with mercury. The thermome- to power boilers, including natural ter is comprised of two different gas, electricity, fuel oil, kerosene bustible boiler. Floor heating re- heated and through convection according to the site.

Water pumped through the pipe metals stuck tightly together and and propane. In the U.S., more quires much less energy and can that air heats objects in the homes have begun to use elecbe powered by any heat source, room as it circulates, according is carried to a large loop of piping rolled up, according to the site.

When the thermometer is tricity, shifting away from natural that goes around the house. It to the site. according to the site.

To heat the water that gets run passes through these pipes con- cooled, one metal contracts fast- gas, according to the U.S. Energy Heat transfer works between objects through three general through the house, a central heat tinuously, heating the radiators er than the other and tightens, Information Administration. digital editor

processes: conduction, radiation and convection, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

Conduction is the process by which heat travels through solid materials. An example of this is when a room becomes warmer because of heat from outside moving in through the walls, according to the site.

Radiation is when heat comes from both visible and non-visible light, such as sunlight. This can be observed when a person feels

source is required. This is usually a boiler, or a furnace, according to the explainthatstuff.com.

Boilers are essentially large stoves that heat the water running through them with gas supplied from another source. Typically this is natural gas, according to the site.

When boilers are started, a valve opens and releases the gas into a sealed chamber using a series of jets. The gas is then ignited to warm a heat exchanger, which

or floors and eventually returns to the boiler.

After going through the house a few times, the water cools down because it loses its energy to the house. As a result, the boiler starts up again to reheat the water so it can heat the house further, according to the site.

The activity of a boiler is controlled by a thermostat that activates the boiler when the temperature falls below a certain level and deactivates it when it rises

DIVERSIONS

December 6, 2016

Mark Tatulli Horoscopes

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Page 9 Eugenia Last

Happy Birthday: Take your time and do things right the first time. Don’t be influenced by emotional manipulation or bullies who try to pressure you into following a path that doesn’t suit you. Show discipline and a tenacity to stick to your plans and do what’s best for you. Enact change on your terms and you will reach your goals. Your numbers are 4, 18, 23, 28, 33, 41, 47.

Over The Hedge

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Speak the truth and keep your emotions tucked away. Don’t share your beliefs or personal information with those looking for a way to make you feel bad. Stay focused in your thoughts and moderate in your actions. 3 stars TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Identify the individuals and organizations that you believe you can assist.

Don’t give up when you have so much to offer. Speak your mind and help those less fortunate than you.

Romance is encouraged. 4 stars

Non Sequitur

Wiley

Pearls Before Swine

Stephan Pastis

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Consider the big picture, but refrain from signing up for more than you can handle. Physical activity will help you get in shape and give you the energy and enthusiasm to follow your dreams. 3 stars SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Interact, engage in meetings and discuss plans to improve your surroundings. Refuse to let the actions of others deter you from doing what’s best for you. Romance is highlighted. 5 stars

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Be careful who you trust or what you believe. If someone is pressuring you to take on more responsibility, keep an open mind but make sure you don’t overlook your own personal projects. 2 stars

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Look at your options and consider any consequences before you make a move. Don’t be fooled by what others say or do. Gather facts and take action based on your own findings.

Ulterior motives and emotional manipulation will be apparent. 2 stars

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Reach out and share your story. Speaking with emotion and examining what you’ve learned from past experience will help others as well as give your reputation a boost. Proper health care and good nutrition is encouraged. 5 stars

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Draw on your emotions and use your insight and intuition to help figure out what your next move should be. Let past experience guide you now and you won’t waste time on people or situations that aren’t worth your while. 4 stars

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Step up your strategy a notch and show everyone what you are capable of doing.

Commit to your plan and strive to reach your goals. Success is based on what you do, not what you say you will do. 3 stars

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Take action, make things happen and secure your position. A firm and established plan will help you reach your goal. Integrate whatever change is necessary and you will have no regrets. Push hard and excel. 3 stars

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Problems at home or within important partnerships can be expected if you give in to pressure or demands made by others. Use your intelligence and make your position perfectly clear.

Keep the peace using diplomacy, but stick to your guns. 3 stars

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Emotions will develop due to unexpected situations. Expect to be put on the spot by someone looking for a handout. Use your intelligence along with diplomacy to make suggestions that will discourage others from leaning on you. 3 stars

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Universal Crossword ACROSS

64 Legendary Torme

1 Activity center, to an airline

65 “Out of the question!”

4 Rambo rescuees

66 Places to relax and luxuriate

8 Opposite of blessing

67 Sneakily clever

13 Asian sash

DOWN

14 Rough-surfaced file

1 What drivers hit on purpose

15 Not as hard to accomplish

2 Dangerous WWII sub

16 It may be involved in a

3 Baggins in “The Hobbit”

calligrapher’s hanging?

4 In a way fraught with trouble

19 Male moguls

5 Big and clumsy ones

20 Cold cut emporium

6 Denver-to-Telluride dir.

21 Hectic parts of hospitals, briefly

7 Member of a suit you play with

22 Bar item

8 Features of proper nouns

23 The zoo is full of them

9 Place celebrating red, white

25 Big butte

and blue

27 Month known for rain

10 Ready to get picked

31 Electrify or stun

11 Prophet

34 M, on a form

12 Bungles

36 Water channel

15 Letter-shaped extensions

37 Provide a slight hint, to

17 Rise ominously

47 Voluminous type of bag

18 Rural pasture

48 “___ objections?”

40 Bounces out of an apartment

23 Island of southern Indonesia

49 What make suits three-pieces

41 Cameron of films

24 Made cotton or cotton candy

51 Itsy-bitsy smashable things

42 Pantry creature

26 ___ serif (font option)

52 Meaner than mean

43 Major Indian city

28 Largest Latvian city

53 How angry people

44 Two-person lift

29 Desktop symbol

46 Eight musical intervals, collectively

30 It’s just not right

54 Available to receive customers

50 Educate

31 Accumulated years

55 Nevada hotspot

54 Email address ending, for some

32 Take as a bride

56 Eat like a rat

57 Rating that brings a smile

33 Wickedness

58 A Polynesian island, if doubled

58 Simple, informal restaurant

35 Conclusion

60 Organization for lawyers

59 Calligrapher’s favorite part of

36 Hunk of concrete

61 Partner for “skip” and “jump”

a calligrapher?

a soccer match?

Yesterday’s Solution

contest things?

38 Lingering sound effect

62 Provide kindness that kills

39 Good toy for March

63 In need of mending

45 Catch one’s breath and then some

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LOSS Rutgers twice forced overtime with last second shot, could not hold on in defeat continued from back to bring the Knights back within 5 points. Sophomore guard KK Sanders followed that up with a three-pointer as the shot clock expired with just over a minute remaining to make it a one possession game at 58-56.

Junior wing Kandiss Barber then took over the game for the Knights.

She hit a layup to tie the game up at 58. After Precious Hall rattled in a jumper with three seconds left in the game, Barber collected a pass at halfcourt, drove with her right hand and lofted a floater that sunk through the basket as the buzzer sounded.

“I looked up at the clock and was hoping (sophomore guard) Aliyah (Jeune) would pass it to me,” Barber said. “I knew the defense was letting up cause they didn’t expect anything with three seconds left. So I got to the basket as fast as I could, and I made it.”

In overtime, the Dukes built up a 75-70 lead with 40 seconds left. Aliyah Jeune hit a 3-pointer to bring the Knights within 2 points.

Rutgers needed to foul to stop the clock and sent Duke guard Logan Reynolds to the line. She missed the first free throw, which kept it a one-possession game. Junior guard Shrita Parker got the

ball and drilled a three that went in with only 0.1 second on the clock, sending the game to a second overtime.

It was the Precious Hall show in the second extra period. She put the game away, scoring 9 straight points for the Dukes. Rutgers could not match that and the Dukes escaped with a victory.

“Kandiss was the only person size-wise that could handle her best, but she had four fouls,” Stringer said. “You should have people grabbing you and saying ‘please let me play her’. That’s what I’m used to. Some people asked for it and I gave it to them and after she dropped 6 or 8 points in a short period of time, that was (the game).”

One positive to draw away was the performances of Barber and sophomore center Desiree Keeling. The two combined for 43 points with 22 and 21, respectively, with Keeling also grabbing eight rebounds.

Both were career-highs for them and they were crucial in keeping Rutgers in the game as they continued to fight back from being down most of the game.

“We never give up. That’s important. No matter how hard you try, it’s bound to happen. Somebody’s gotta lose and unfortunately we took it,” Keeling said. “We’re

PUPIL Steve Pikiell served as assistant coach at Central Connecticut State from 1997-2001 continued from back Hartford — gave the Knights a game in the first half.

They entered the half tied with the Hawks, up two over the Dragons, five over the Purple Eagles and six over the Bears.

Rutgers has been outrebounded, outshot and frankly outplayed in the opening frame of

multiple games against low-major programs.

C.J. Gettys, a center who transferred to the Banks this summer after four years at mid-major UNC-Wilmington, is one of the few Knights with perspective from the other side. Having taken trips to Georgetown, Iowa and Iowa State in his time as a Seahawk, he knows what’s going

Senior center C.J. Gettys, who transferred from UNC-Wilmington, knows the mentality low-major teams have coming into the RAC. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR / DECEMBER 2016

gonna learn from it and move forward and continue to grow as a team and get better.”

While Keeling was optimistic that the team can get better as the season progresses, Stringer was not too happy with the way her group played.

“I’m speechless.

Totally speechless.

And sometimes things are better off not said,” she said. “We’re in front of our home fans and fortunate anyone would

want to come see this mess. So that’s how I feel about it. It’s not nice. It’s an honor that our fans come. They have a right to expect a certain level of play. I hope that the other people have a lot of fans and maybe we’ll pretend that they’re ours.”

For updates on the Rutgers women’s basketball team, follow @griffinwhitmer and @TargumSports on Twitter.

Junior guard Shrita Parker dribbles down the court in Rutgers’ 82-76 loss to James Madison in double-overtime Monday night.

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through the minds of the players on the other side of the court.

“Anytime you’re a low-major school like that and you go into a big conference school, of course you’re going to play. You don’t need any other motivation to play as hard as you can,” he said. “You have to go in (to their gyms) with a chip on your shoulder and play with a lot of energy. That’s your fighting chance.”

On the flip side, it can be argued Rutgers has allowed opponents to start fast with slugglish starts of its own. Coming off its first loss of the season to Miami, the Knights were slow to start against Morgan State, trailing through most of the first 12 minutes and finishing the first half down in rebounding margin, 23-22, despite being the top offensive rebounding team in the nation, according to KenPom. “I definitely felt a little sluggish,” Freeman said of the first half following the win over the Bears. “We gotta do better in the first half.”

Central Connecticut State (2-4), the 337th ranked team on KenPom, is the latest opponent coming into the RAC with its sights set on taking advantage of a slow start from Rutgers to upset its Big Ten opponent.

The Blue Devils are coached

by Donyell Marshall, who was rumored to be joining PIkiell’s staff at Rutgers as an assistant before he took the head coaching job in New Britain. Both played under Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun at UConn, with Marshall joining the Huskies as a freshman in the same year Pikiell began his coaching career as an assistant under Calhoun in Storrs.

After opening the season with a 15-point win over the same Hartford team that took the Knights down to the wire, CCSU has lost 3 of its last 4 games, including a

24-point beatdown at the hands of Seton Hall.

Returning to the RAC for the second straight season, the Blue Devils look to be in better shape than they were in a year ago when they suffered a 75-59 loss to fall to 0-8. Though they’ll be without Brandon Peel, who led them in points, rebounds, assists and steals in the game, they do return the player who had the most impact behind them.

Guard Austin Nehls, who tied Peel with a team-high 12 points against Rutgers last year, leads the Blue Devils in scoring with 14.2 points per game. Senior forward Tafari Whittingham, who did not play last year, leads them in rebounding with 6.3 boards per game and is the most often used player by Marshall, utilized in 24-28 percent of CCSU’s possessions according to KenPom. The tandem will be key for the Blue Devils pushing for one of the biggest upsets in program history.

With a number of power seven conference programs losing to low-major programs — Gettys mentioned Delaware State’s upset of Big East program St. Johns as an example — already this season, it wouldn’t even be the biggest of the year.

To avoid joining programs like the Johnnies, No. 9 Indiana and the alma mater of the game’s two head coaches, storming out of the gate should be high on the Knights’ agenda.

“If you look around the college basketball world … anybody can beat anybody anytime,” Gettys said. “You just have to respect your opponent because you never know what you’re going to get.”

For updates on the Rutgers men’s basketball team, follow @briannnnf and @TargumSports on Twitter.

IN BRIEF

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SU All-American running back Leonard Fournette plans to bypass his senior season and enter the upcoming NFL draft.

The junior running back announced his decision on Monday.

“I will be declaring for the 2017 NFL draft after our bowl game,” Fournette wrote in a note to fans on Twitter. “I make this announcement now so that there will not be speculation and distractions while we prepare. I want everyone to know that I will forever treasure my experience as a Tiger.”

Fournette is universally regarded as one of the top prospects in the 2017 draft. ESPN draft analyst Todd McShay ranks Fournette as the No. 1 overall prospect, while ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. has him second behind only Texas A&M defensive end Myles Garrett.

As a sophomore, Fournette set an SEC record by rushing for 162.8 yards per game -- plus his 1,953 rushing yards last season rank second in conference history behind Alabama’s Derrick Henry (2,219).

However, he has struggled with nagging ankle issues this season since initially suffering a high-ankle sprain, low-ankle sprain and bone bruise in an August scrimmage. The injuries prevented him from playing in four games and limited his participation in several more.

Fournette still rushed for 843 yards and eight touchdowns in seven games, including a 284-yard effort against Ole Miss that briefly stood as LSU’s single-game rushing record before teammate Derrius Guice broke it with 285 yards in the regular-season finale against Texas A&M. Fournette sat out that game against the Aggies, and his status for bowl season remained up in the air, although LSU coach Ed Orgeron said Sunday night that he expected his star junior to play if healthy.

“He’s been at every meeting bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, wanting to go,” Orgeron said. “He’s always indicated to me that he wants to represent the LSU Tigers in the best way. I don’t see any other reason for anything to happen. Now if an injury prevents him, it prevents him. But I think if he’s well, he’s ready to go, he’s going to play.”

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he San Francisco Giants on Monday agreed to a four-year, $62 million contract with free-agent closer Mark Melancon, sources told ESPN’s Buster Olney.

The agreement is pending a physical, which the right-hander is currently going through for the Giants, the sources said.

Melancon’s deal breaks the record for most lucrative contract signed by a closer (Jonathan Papelbon at four-years, $50 million with the Philadelphia Phillies in 2011). But that record isn’t expected to last long.

Fellow closers Aroldis Chapman and Kenley Jansen are set to sign new contracts this offseason.

The news that the teams were near an agreement was first reported by Fox Sports.

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SPORTS

Quote of the Day

“I’m speechless. Totally speechless. And sometimes things are better off not said,”“We’re in front of our home fans and fortunate anyone would want to come see this mess.”

— Head women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL JAMES MADISON 82, RUTGERS 76 (2OT)

RU suffers crushing double OT loss Griffin Whitmer Staff Writer

In a game that had just about everything, the Rutgers women’s basketball team was on the wrong side of an epic battle, suffering a heartbreaking 82-76 double-overtime loss to James Madison.

The big story of the night was the record-breaking performance by Dukes guard Precious Hall. Her 46 points were both a James Madison program record and a Rutgers Athletic Center all-time high. She was 15for-29 from the field and 6-for-13 from three and had nine of her team’s final 11 points to seal the victory in the second overtime.

“I’ve never seen anything like it. She put on a heck of a performance. Forty-six points,” said head coach C. Vivian Stringer. “Do you think anybody could handle her? No. We just let her get the ball. We got the midgets out there and she shot over us.”

The Dukes went up 31-20 after the first half and hit a three right out of halftime. They went up 14 points and it seemed like they were running away with this one. But the Scarlet Knights showed tons of fight and went on a 17-1 run in the third quarter and re-took the lead at 37-35.

In the fourth quarter, James Madison seemed to regain control of the game and went up 58-50 under 2:30 left in the game.

Freshman guard Kate Hill, who has been ice cold from three this year, hit a deep one Junior wing Kandiss Barber hits a game-tying layup in the dying seconds of regulation to push Rutgers to overtime against James Madison Monday at the Rutgers Athletic Center. Barber had a career-high 22 points in the loss. JEFFREY GOMEZ / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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MEN’S BASKETBALL CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE-RUTGERS, TOMORROW, 7 P.M.

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Steve Pikiell coached CCSU head coach Donyell Marshall as a freshman when he was an assistant at UConn under Jim Calhoun. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / PHOTO EDITOR / NOVEMBER 2016

There’s no place like home — ­ a saying spread across the country around the holidays and one that the Rutgers men’s basketball team can relate to eight games into the season.

The Rutgers Athletics Center has been good to the Scarlet Knights (7-1). In six wins they’ve had at the RAC in as many games, they’ve outscored opponents by a combined margin of 82 points. Aside from a last-second win over Hartford, Rutgers has won every home game by double-digits, averaging a margin of victory of 13.6 points.

And while most of the success comes from a combination of opponents ranking in the bottom half of KenPom’s ratings — Drexel, ranked 251, was the highest rated team the Knights have faced — Rutgers shows flashes of improvement along with its increased depth and support the team has gotten from its fans has played a part as well.

“Great crowd tonight,” said head coach Steve Pikiell after the Knights latest win,

Denver Philadelphia

106 98

Washington Brooklyn

118 113

Cleveland Toronto

116 112

Oklahoma City Atlanta

102 99

Portland Chicago

112 110

Boston Houston

106 107

TARIQ COLE,

sophomore offensive tackle, was awarded Honorable Mention status by the Big Ten conference. Cole was joined by sophomore cornerback Blessuan Austin as the only Scarlet Knights to receive AllBig Ten recognition.

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a 72-58 victor y over Morgan State Saturday that saw the biggest home crowd of the season (5,) make the trip to the RAC. “We appreciate the students. They brought great energy.”

Showing appreciation for the support his team has garnered in his opening remarks postgame has become a tradition for first-year coach Pikiell. He called that meeting against the Hawks, which required a 20-5 run in the final five minutes to steal the 77-75 win, a “great college game.”

He said “the place was rocking” at the end of the game as the Knights crawled back and got the win, but the fact they had to claw back reveals they are falling behind early in games that they’re expected to dominate.

Division II Malloy was the only team they’ve dominated from start to finish, the game coming in its season opener.

From there, Rutgers has seen North Texas hold a halftime lead at the RAC. Others opponents — Niagara, Morgan State, Drexel,

MEN’S BASKETBALL

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

MEN’S BASKETBALL

WRESTLING

vs. Central Connecticut

at St. John’s

at Stony Brook

at Maryland

Tonight, 7 p.m., The RAC

Tomorrow, 7 p.m., Saturday, 7 p.m., Queens, N.Y. Stony Brook, N.Y.

Sunday, Noon, College Park, Md.