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Students share experiences, advice for first year in college ERIN PETENKO ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Ayush Joshi lives on Busch campus, but his favorite pastime is to walk between all five campuses.

He regularly treks from Scott Hall to Passion Puddle, where he will relax for 30 minutes before moving on. Others frequently ask him why doesn’t just take the bus. He tells them that it would ruin the point of the trip.

“Everything is a surprise at the moment,” said Joshi, an international student from Madhya Pradesh, India. “I travel a lot because I want to explore.”

Joshi is a member of the Class of 2018 — the class that is approaching the end of its first semester at Rutgers. Discussions with several first-year students revealed a range of experiences and causes for happiness and anxiety.

Hailing from a small village, Joshi struggled to gain acceptance into Rutgers. After a sponsor promised to fund his college education, he spent a year in Mumbai taking computer science courses to get ahead and take the SEE EXPERIENCES ON PAGE 5

Members of the Rutgers and New Brunswick community stage a protest against police butality as they rally on George Street on Dec. 5. to protest the grand jury verdicts for Eric Garner and Michael Brown. TRENT JOAQUIN

Hundreds protest for Brown, Garner jury decision AVALON ZOPPO, ALEXANDRA R. MEIER, KATIE PARK AND VAISHALI GAUBA STAFF WRITERS

Approximately 250 students and community protesters flocked to the Douglass Student Center Friday to protest the Staten Island grand jury decision to not indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo for causing the death of unarmed black man Eric Garner.

The march, which began at the DSC, moved across New Brunswick, from Route 18, Route 27, George

Street, the New Brunswick Police Station, Easton Avenue and ending on College Avenue.

Despite heavy rain, organizers staged a “die-in” in front of the New Brunswick Police Station to protest the latest verdict in a string of cases involving police brutality. A “die-in” is a protesting strategy in which participants simulate being dead. Protestors also blocked traffic on Route 18 and Easton Avenue, among other streets, causing major congestion throughout New Brunswick and its surrounding municipalities.

Beginning at the DSC, chant sheets and signs were distributed to students.

Participants joined together to chant, “I Can’t Breathe,” “NYPD-KKK, how many kids did you kill today?” and “Whose Streets? Our Streets.”

Organizers of the march stood in front of the crowd to deliver opening remarks and speak to the importance of the protest.

The cancellation of the New Brunswick holiday tree lighting ceremony and the closing of the College Avenue Student Center bus stop were a result of the protest.

According to an email statement issued by Mayor Jim Cahill to nj.com, the cancellation would “better enable the police department to assist the exercise of First Amendment rights of the protesters ... and to ensure the safety of those in and about the area.”

Malcolm Steele, a School of Arts and Sciences junior and a key organizer, said he did not view the city’s decision as a way for the police to work with protestors, but rather as a way for officers to “contain” protestors.

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Chancellor meets Obama for summit on education VAISHALI GAUBA NEWS EDITOR

A protester shouts at the National Guard standing on duty outside the Ferguson Police Department after the grand jury verdict in the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, on Nov. 26. REUTERS

Professors weigh in on Ferguson decision SABRINA SZTEINBAUM ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

As a human being, Aram Sinnreich likes other human beings. He deplores violence, especially by institutions against individuals.

Sinnreich, an assistant professor in the Rutgers School of Communication and Information, along with other Rutgers professors, reacted to the grand jury decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson.

Wilson, a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer, shot unarmed 18-year-old

Michael Brown on Aug. 9, according to The New York Times. On Nov. 24, the St. Louis County prosecutor announced the grand jury decision not to indict Wilson, setting off protests around the country.

“Generally speaking, I think it’s abundantly clear that we have a problem with institutionalized racism in this country, and it costs a great many lives and ruins a great many more,” Sinnreich said.

Aside from racism, another problem in the Michael Brown case rests in the conflict of interest that exists

when prosecutors bring police officers before a grand jury, said Douglas Greenberg, distinguished professor in the Department of History at Rutgers.

Prosecutors and police officers work closely, Greenberg said. The problem does not lie within the jurors themselves, but with the prosecutor’s relationship with the police, which makes it impossible for the jurors to represent the people’s view of what constitutes as crime.

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Nancy Cantor was the face of Rutgers-Newark and Rutgers-New Brunswick at the second White House College Opportunity Day of Action held last Thursday at the White House.

Cantor, the chancellor of Rutgers-Newark met with President Obama, Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and more than 300 educational leaders to discuss the Obama administration’s goals to expand college access to lower-income students.

University President Robert Barchi was also scheduled to attend the summit, but was unable to do so since he was ill, said Courtney McAnuff, vice president for Enrollment Management at Rutgers-New Brunswick.

All participating colleges, universities, non-profit organizations and foundations committed to promoting completion, creating K-16 partnerships around college readiness, investing in high school counselors as a part of the First Lady’s Reach Higher initiative, and increasing the number of college graduates in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, according to an article in philanthrophynewsdigest.org.

Universities around the nation were asked to submit information about programs that focus on educational access and were subsequently invited to the summit, Cantor said.

One of the key programs she represented at the summit and is actively involved with was the Newark City of Learning Collaborative that aims to increase the percentage of Newark residents with higher education.

“I’m very [nationally] involved in this work,” Cantor said. “It was an excellent day. The president, vice president and the first lady have focused on mobilizing college and universities [for education].”

Another program that gained recognition at the White House is the Rutgers Future Scholars Program, a program tailored to increase college-readiness and access for low-income, first-generation college students, McAnuff said.

Started in 2008, the program selects 200 seventh graders to join a “pre-college preparatory pipeline” and provides them services like mentoring, tutoring, academic preparation, among others.

The program also urges its participants to apply to college and

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U. midwife wins humanism in healthcare award at 77 MARIELLE SUMERGIDO ONLINE EDITOR

Elaine Diegmann appreciates simple pleasures an average 77-year-old woman would enjoy, such as collecting antique dolls, gardening and watching ocean waves meet the shore.

However, she still sees no end to her expansive midwifer y career — or at least avoids the thought of retirement.

Diegmann, director of the Nurse Midwifer y Program at Rutgers, has recently earned the Lester Z. Lieberman Humanism in Healthcare Award, which is given to individuals for “treating patients and their families with exceptional kindness, compassion, and respect,” according to the School of Nursing website.

“This is a ver y special award because it rewards me for what I love doing best and that’s being with mothers and babies and families during the birth process,” Diegmann said.

For more than 50 years, Diegmann has cared for women and their infants since graduating from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. After graduating in 1959, she attended the College of Medicine and Dentistr y of New Jersey, according to a Rutgers Today article.

“I have the distinction, as far as I know — no one has challenged me on this — as being the oldest practicing midwife in the United States still attending births,” Diegmann said Before she received her nursing degree, Diegmann set out to become a physician. Claiming she was “tired” of being encouraged to conform to common gender roles at the time, she changed her major to nursing “There was a lot of controversy about women [becoming physicians],” she said. “I kind of got tired of being told that I really shouldn’t be taking the place of a man, and so I changed my major to nursing.”

During her first clinical rotation, she saw her first bir th and knew that she wanted to work in labor and deliver y, Diegmann said.

She said the high point of her career was when she delivered her own grandsons.

“They’re now 11 and 9 [years old], and that was really a highlight of my life — to receive them,” she said. “My eyes the first to see, and my arms the first to hold.”

Throughout her time as a nurse midwife, Diegmann said she witnessed the “medicalization” of birth in the United States. She said this process involves technology and inter vention, which have replaced simply watching a woman progress through labor.

As a result, Diegmann said “medicalization” created the impression that pregnancy is a disease rather than a normal, physiologic process.

Diegmann said procedures, such as vaginal exams, rupturing of membranes and caesarean sections, were not performed routinely when she first became a nurse. She said the C-section

rate, which was 3 percent when she first started, has grown to 50 percent in some hospitals.

“We interfere much more with births than other nations, and yet we stand like 40th or 43rd in industrialized nations in infant and maternal morbidity and mortality,” Diegmann said.

“We’re not doing any better because we interfere so much.”

Midwife-led deliveries have better outcomes for mothers and infants because they are reluctant to inter vene with the birthing process unless absolutely necessar y, Diegmann said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization and the National Institute of Health, among others, identified six characteristics of normal physiologic birth processes that should be supported by caregivers, she said.

According to a statement published by the American College of Nurse-Midwives, the Midwives Alliance of North America and the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives, normal childbirths include spontaneous onset and progression of labor.

Moreover, the statement also cited biological conditions that promote effective labor, vaginal birth of the infant and placenta, physiologic blood loss, skin-toskin contact and early initiation of breastfeeding as characteristics of normal childbirth.

“We can transplant hearts and lungs and kidneys, but so far, we haven’t been able to transplant a perineum or a uterus,” Diegmann said. “We have to make sure that they’re functioning for the lifetime of the woman.”

Diegmann is renowned for her clinical expertise in soft tissue repair of episiotomies, which are surgical incisions made into the perineum, the area between the rectal and vaginal opening, to widen the opening for the infant’s head. She said tears heal more comfortably when they occur spontaneously rather than being artificially cut.

She also said artificial incisions could predispose the laboring woman to fourth degree episiotomies, in which the incision extends down into the rectum, especially if it is done improperly. The care provider must disperse the head of the baby laterally, not downward, Diegmann said.

“You’ll find in hospitals in which midwives practice [that] there’s a whole difference in practice among the physicians and the residents,” Diegmann said. “Our episiotomy rate at Newark Beth Israel [Medical Center] is only about 6 percent, which is ver y, ver y low.”

L ynn McFarlane, director of Marketing and Communications for the Rutgers School of Nursing, said Diegmann has been instrumental in helping hospitals understand the need for midwife practices and letting women know their alternatives for childbearing support during birth. “[Diegmann] has a passion for mothers and babies,” McFarlane said. “She’s active in supporting women who want natural

Elaine Diegmann, director of the Nurse Midwifery Program at Rutgers, dedicated more than 50 years to the care of women and infants. At 77-years-old, Diegmann received the Lester Z. Lieberman Humanism in Healthcare Award. COURTESY OF SONIA SMALL childbirths even after caesarean sections, and she’s worked with hospitals throughout our area in helping them to become baby-friendly.”

An average week as director of the Nurse Midwifer y Program

includes inter viewing, admitting, advising and teaching students as well as attending faculty meetings, Diegmann said.

She also attends conferences and meetings nationwide that lecture and advocate for mid-

wifer y practices, but her passion still lies in the deliver y room.

“For me, ever y birth, ever y mother, ever y couple — they’re different,” she said. “They’re just exciting, and I just love to receive a baby in my arms.”

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DECISION Boulware says there is no reason black narrative today should be same as someone’s in 1700s CONTINUED FROM FRONT

Fawzan Lari, a School of Arts and Sciences junior and organizer, said the decision shows college students are given a privilege to protest. “[The police] let us protest,” he said. “They followed us and made sure we didn’t get hit by some cars, and they only threatened to arrest us when we stayed in traffic for more than 15 minutes.”

The protest was organized by the same groups that led a march for Michael Brown on Nov. 25, including the People’s Coalition against Police Brutality, the Rutgers chapter of NAACP, Black Men’s Collective, Black Student Union, Douglass Black Student Congress and United Black Council.

Police officers from the New Brunswick Police Department who were guarding the crowd declined to comment on the situation.

Ezra Sholom, one of the key organizers for the protest, said the die-in intended to “humanize the dead,” giving a voice to those who no longer have a voice.

Sholom, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said even though the police officials at the protest threatened to arrest members of the crowd a few times, it did not deter any of the protestors.

“We were not afraid of the arrest,” he said. “The police did not scare us or force us to move. We moved because we felt we could be more effective in more places.”

Sholom said the situation surrounding the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York, as well as the verdict of no indictment in both cases, were in tandem with horri-

fying stories he had heard from his friends. He said he felt the need to spearhead a movement.

Kaila Boulware, a School of Arts and Sciences senior and another main organizer, said she attended the protests because she thought the case of Eric Garner was blatant homicide. She said the justice system should not condone an officer choking a man to death for selling cigarettes.

“There is no reason that my narrative today should be the same as someone enslaved in the 1700s,” Boulware said.

“I feel empowered when I see people from different races getting together and standing up for a cause.”

JASMINE DENNIS Co-director of the Rutgers Climate Institute

Lari, a member of the Black Student Union, said the goal of the demonstrations was to hurt the “system” in the same way that the system has hurt the public. “… It’s an inconvenience right now that Eric Garner is 6 feet under the ground. It is an inconvenience that Mike Brown is 6 feet under the ground,” he said. “It is an inconvenience that I [literally] don’t know if I’ll be next.”

In the wake of the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, Jersey City, Newark and Patterson, the three largest cities in New Jersey, have proposed a plan to equip their officers with wearable police cameras.

The three cities’ police departments plan to order 2,000 cameras, the largest bulk order of technology for law enforcement personnel, according to nj.com.

The supply of cameras will be divided among the three departments, depending on the size of each city’s police department.

Rutgers spokesperson E.J. Miranda said although there is no mandate for RUPD officers to don police cameras, RUPD is ahead of, or on parwith, most police departments in the state.

“We have cameras in our patrol vehicles and our officers wear body mics to record audio when they leave their vehicles,” he said in an email. “If the Attorney General issues a directive regarding body cameras, we will comply.”

The black population at Rutgers needs to be valued for reasons other than just diversifying the student body, said Nadirah Simmons, a School of Arts and Sciences junior and key organizer.

“We want Rutgers to feel that black lives matter,” she said. “We want them to support us on campus … we want to feel like we are not here to make your University diverse, but to value our history.”

Jasmine Dennis, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student and protestor, said she felt empowered by the protest.

“I feel empowered when I see people from different races getting together and standing up for a cause,” she said.

Lari said the goal is to get more people involved with the protest and urge students to go on strike to stop paying tuition and funding the University that he believes is oppressing the students and hopefully bring an end to police brutality.

A previous version of this story appeared online on Dec. 5.

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PROFESSORS Greenberg says special prosecutor should be appointed for cases involving police officers CONTINUED FROM FRONT

“It ought to be a democratic institution,” he said.

With respect to the prosecution of police, Greenberg said the grand jury has historically served as more of a tool to prosecutors than as a “barrier of malicious prosecution.”

Lisa Miller, associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers, stated that the grand jury is really the “prosecutor’s domain,” as the prosecutor chooses how to frame the case to the 12 jurors.

A potential solution would be for a special prosecutor to be appointed for cases involving accusations against a police officer, Greenberg said. Special prosecutors have been famously appointed in the past, such as during the Watergate scandal in the 1970s. “[The] deeper problem is constructing a society and culture in which these things don’t happen,” Greenberg said, adding that Michael Brown and Eric Garner are still dead, whether there is a special prosecutor or not.

“It’s not about how white folks and black folks get along — it’s about how white police officers treat African Americans and other people of color,” he said.

Miller also highlighted that the 12 jurors do not decide whether the defendant is innocent, but instead on whether there is probable cause a crime was committed and if the person being charged was involved in that crime.

Aside from having the power to present the case in a certain light, the indictment is also the prosecutor’s domain because the defense attorney and defendant cannot be there unless the prosecutor calls upon them to testify.

“It’s not very difficult for a prosecutor to get a grand jury to indict when there is at least some evidence,” Miller said. “The deck is stacked so heavily in favor of the prosecutor in grand juries that it really allows prosecutors to indict without much difficulty.”

In the Ferguson case, much stock was put into the fact that Brown was threatening Wilson’s life in some way.

Miller believes America should be cautious about assuming any racial bias on the part of the jurors because no one can assume what the prosecutor tells them or how the facts were presented.

Sinnreich does most of his research on the subject of power and resistance and the relationships between individuals and institutions. He focuses on the broader terrain of human rights in an institutional context.

“It scares the hell out of me to think about the dangers [my son] confronts in America,” he said on a personal level.

The day after the grand jury decision, Sinnreich allowed his class discuss the case, a discussion he called “educational and cathartic.”

Sinnreich has black students in his class who were “justifiably angry” and felt victimized by the failure of the system to indict Wilson. Other students felt that the rule of the law has prevailed and Americans need to support the grand jury’s decision.

Even though Sinnreich’s students were deeply invested in their own opinions, he stressed that they were intelligent and respectful of one another.

Sinnreich was not the only professor who saw Ferguson as an opportunity for educational discussion.

Jennifer Mittelstadt, an associate professor in the Department of History, has been following the “TeachingFerguson” hashtag on Twitter. The social media site has become a place for high school teachers and scholars to share materials to use Ferguson as a teachable moment.

Ferguson is in no way unique, but instead an example of racial segregation and inequality that occurs in cities like Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York and Cleveland, Mittelstadt said.

The past 15 years has seen countless stories of unarmed black people being injured or fatally shot by police.

“The story of Ferguson, when you look deep in it, is a story that tells us a lot about inequality in the United States,” she said.

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EXPERIENCES Cullinane plans to take 18 credits next semester, wants to get most out of college education CONTINUED FROM FRONT

necessar y entrance exams.

“I did not have a good score on my [first] SAT,” he said. “My sponsor said I would not get in, that I was too rebellious. But I tried one more time, and I got a good enough score.”

He said the most exciting part about the atmosphere at Rutgers was the diversity, especially meeting people from different cultures and countries.

That love of diversity is reflected in his class schedule — Joshi, a computer science major, took physics and creative writing classes in addition to his major classes.

He found a love for writing, and now journals and writes poetry on his own.

Outside of class, he also became involved with the Rotaract Club, an offshoot of Rotary International. The club traveled to the United Nations headquarters in November for Rotary Day, to advocate for community service and causes like poverty.

“It was amazing to see that people are suffering and that we can help them by raising funds and giving them what they need,” he said.

Brendan Cullinane, another first-year student in the School of Arts and Sciences, had a similarly intense experience with getting involved. He joined the Rutgers Glee Club, an all-male chorus that has existed at Rutgers for the last 142 years.

After trying out during his second week, he heard nothing from the organization for a few days, only to receive a call asking him to stay

in his room for the night.

“It’s called ‘dormstorming’ — 30 people ran into my room and started singing, just to welcome me into the Glee Club,” he said.

Cullinane said the workload he anticipated for this semester was better than he expected, albeit difficult at times. He was also surprised by how welcoming and open the professors were to talking with students.

Next semester, he plans to take 18 credits, including organic chemistry, which some have told him is the toughest course at Rutgers.

“I want to get the most out of my college experience, education-wise,” he said.

Victoria Yoffe, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said she found college courses more challenging than their high school counterparts due to their conceptual focus.

Originally a biology major, the pre-med student is considering switching to psychology, her favorite course so far.

She spends her free time going to events hosted by organizations such as the Rutgers University Programming Association and the Chabad House.

“I find out [about events] through my friends and through social media, so I’m never [just] sitting at home,” she said.

“Rutgers is so much bigger, so it’s easier to meet different types of people,” said Tristan Mekarzel, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student. He came to the University from a high school with a graduating class of 100 students.

The sheer size of Rutgers’ campuses initially made basic activities

SUMMIT Obama announced $10 million fund to help promote college completion CONTINUED FROM FRONT

provides them with a four-year free education, according to a document provided by Elena Ragusa, Research project manager in the office of enrollment management.

Ragusa, a part-time lecturer in the Department of Psychology, said RFS is a commendable model for improving college access and programming for low-income students and called the program as an “impetus” for the University’s participation in the summit.

As of October 2014, the program is serving 1,000 scholars between eighth and twelfth grades and 300 are currently enrolled in college, according to another document provided by Ragusa. The program has achieved a 95 percent high school retention rate and a 98 percent high school graduation rate for active scholars.

McAnuff said of the 183 who started the program last fall, 163 are in college. Scholars have also been accepted to other four-year institutions including Harvard, Cornell, UPenn and New York University.

“Rutgers has a University-wide commitment to his program … and we were able to highlight that at the White House through the RFS program,” she said.

McAnuff said universities like University of Michigan, Stony Brook University have expressed an interest in modeling their programs about educational access based upon the RFS program, and the summit helped in getting the program recognized nationally.

To enforce programs like these, President Obama announced a $10 million fund to help promote college completion as well as a $30 million AmeriCorps program that will improve college access for students from lower economic backgrounds. Currently only 9 percent of those born in the lowest family income quartile attain a bachelor’s degree by age 25, compared to 54 percent in the top quartile, according to a Rutgers press release.

Going forward, Cantor said it would be a wise choice for educators at Rutgers to read through the large book with best education practices that was presented at the summit.

She said national platforms like these help promote programs from institutions all over the country and provide a blueprint for education in the United States.

“I think it is very important to be a part of [a] national movement like this, and we all should absolutely do this,” Cantor said.

Tristan Mekarzel, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, feels comfortable at Rutgers now, although he initially felt overwhelmed by the size of the University. RUOXUAN YANG like getting around campus difficult for Mekarzel. He called Busch campus an “ever-changing labyrinth” and was frustrated with the bus system, since he cannot download the Rutgers App or NextBus on his Windows phone.

In the beginning, he admittedly felt isolated at Rutgers, finding comfort in his high school friends.

Today, he feels much more comfortable with his college experience and has since moved on from his past.

He enjoys his residence hall, the Lynton Towers on Livingston campus, because of the welcoming social environment. His floor is made up of

first-year and international students, a “good group” of students that he eats with and spends time with often.

When asked what advice he would give to his pre-Rutgers self, he said he would rather not try to instill wisdom.

“No matter how much you tell people something, they’re still going to make mistakes,” he said.

“That’s why I don’t regret any of my decisions [this semester].”

Joshi advised incoming firstyear students to trust themselves — if they believe, they have a power that works for them to get what they want.

He believes his experiences are proof of that. In high school, he met a teacher he made an instant connection with, a woman he calls his “soul sister.” After going six years without seeing her, the pair reconnected last week.

He has other soul brothers and sisters around the United States, he said.

“My friend said he was jealous of me because he felt suffocated having to stay at Rutgers, since he doesn’t have family around,” he said. “When I have people around me, I don’t miss my family at home.”

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Researchers discover impact of protein on schizophrenia NIKHILESH DE STAFF WRITER

A recent breakthrough may soon allow researchers to treat schizophrenia before symptoms even appear.

Bonnie Firestein, a professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, helped discover an effect of nitric oxide synthase 1 adaptor protein that might lead to schizophrenia through research funded by the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.

“Too much of this protein is what happens in people with schizophrenia, or at least a subset of them,” she said. “[This is] due to what we call an associated allele, which means that there is a change in the DNA [so that more mRNA is made].

This change in the DNA was found by Linda Brzustowicz, a professor in the Depar tment of Genetics, Firestein said.

Other research teams confirmed the results through various ethnic groups.

NOS1AP affects how a brain develops, said Kristina Hernandez, a student in the Graduate School of New Brunswick, in an email. It helps determine the shape of neurons.

The gene encodes a protein that affects how something called a N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor works, Firestein said.

The NMDA receptor binds a neurotransmitter known as glutamate, which plays a role in how a person learns and remembers.

Excess amounts of this protein specifically cause issues with how the cortex is made, she said. During

A team of Rutgers researchers from Bonnie Firestein’s lab assisted last semester in the discovery of a protein to detect the symptoms of schizophrenia in order to treat the polygenic disorder. COURTESY OF BONNIE FIRESTEIN brain development, cells migrate out and become neurons. This process repeats, with each successive wave of cells migrating further out.

“What happens in the case when you have too much NOS1AP is that the cells get stuck, they don’t go out as far,” she said. “You have incorrect wiring and you also have incorrect layering.”

NOS1AP also affects the shape of neurons, said Damien Carrel, a post-doctoral fellow at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, in an email. It can limit how much

a neuron’s “branches” develop, which would have an effect on their ability to communicate.

Having excessive NOS1AP in the brain did not mean a person would definitely get schizophrenia, which is a polygenic disorder, she said. A symptomatic person needs to have multiple altered genes, and may also be affected by environmental factors.

Rather, having higher levels of NOS1AP only increases how susceptible a person might be to the disorder, she said. Furthermore,

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not all patients with this disorder have the associated allele.

“The cause could be genetic,” said Carrel, a Rutgers alumnus.

“It was found that some people have small modifications in the gene coding NOS1AP that seem to increase their risk [of developing] the disease.”

It is thought that the modifications could cause over-expression of NOS1AP, he said. This theory has yet to be proven.

The region of the brain thought to be involved with schizophrenia is called the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, Firestein said. Control levels of the protein were studied in samples of the region.

“Our studies used post-mortem brain tissue, and since there is degradation of the tissue, we don’t know how much NOS1AP there is in that region of the brain,” she said.

Her team also used a model to study the effects shortly after birth, she said. They now believe

that NOS1AP may have an impact during embryonic development.

NOS1AP was discovered through its interactions with neuronal nitric oxide synthase, Carrel said. This protein is responsible for information transmission in the nervous system.

Three isoforms, or different shapes of the same protein, were studied by Firestein’s team, she said. Two isoforms were focused on.

Reversing the effects of NOS1AP on neurons is the next step in the research, Hernandez said. The goal is to treat patients while the brain is still developing to reduce the symptoms caused by schizophrenia.

“We know […] that the expression of NOS1AP is largely reduced in the brains of patients treated with antipsychotics,” Carrel said. “It would be interesting to develop a method to decrease NOS1AP levels and see if this can reduce the symptoms associated with schizophrenia.”

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Science association names University professors as fellows MICHAEL MAKMUR CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has named two Rutgers professors as fellows, joining six other professors from the School of Arts and Sciences to receive the merit.

Robert Bartynski, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, leads the Bartynski Group, whose work focuses mainly on the electronic structure of nanoscale systems. Andrew Baker, an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, focuses on the use of radio telescopes to understand galaxy evolution in the universe.

Bartynski was cited for his work in studying electronic states on surfaces and interfaces. His development of the Auger Photo-electron Coincidence Spectroscopy and Inverse Photoemission tools were also mentioned, according to a Rutgers news release.

Baker was mentioned for his contributions to scholarship in radio astronomy, according to the news release. In particular, he was cited for his innovations in instrumentation and his leadership in mentoring students and collaborating with associates worldwide.

“The type of activities in my lab involve trying to determine the properties of electrons at the surfaces of materials as opposed to how electrons behave deeper into the bulk of materials,” Bartynski said. “Ultimately, [we are] taking a direction toward poten-

tial applications and practical uses of the phenomena.”

Atoms at a surface behave very differently compared to the atoms within the bulk of a material, he said. Similar atoms surround atoms within a material, but atoms on the surface either have a vacuum above or interact with the above environment.

Using APECS, Bartynski and his team ran experiments with alternating layers of copper and cobalt, he said. These experiments showed these thin layers did not behave together as a larger crystal when some electrons in the outer layer of the copper did not penetrate the cobalt.

This discovery helped with the development of magnetic hard drives, he said.

“We did not develop this technology,” he said. “But we had our little bit of a contribution in terms of understanding that allowed [us] to push forward in an engineering sense towards practical applications.”

Bartynski said he has recently begun focusing on the photovoltaic applications of organic dye molecules for solar cells.

The dye lies on top of semiconductor surfaces and absorbs light, he said. Different molecules enable the semiconductor to absorb different wavelengths of light more efficiently. Actively switching dye molecules on a single semiconductor allow the collection of energy from different parts of the solar spectrum.

“What we’re trying to do now, in collaboration with a chemist up at Rutgers-Newark, is to design mol-

ecules that allow us to beforehand make the adjustment between the energy levels of the molecules, as opposed to having to choose different molecules to get the alignment we want,” he said.

This will allow “tunability” for solar cells, he said. By changing certain chemical groups in the dye, solar cells will be able to collect energy from a variety of wavelengths rather than using multiple different dyes as has been done previously.

Baker said he collaborated with researchers at the University of Maryland and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory to create an instrument called the Zpectrometer. This device allows astronomers to obtain information from a wide range of radio frequencies within a single observation.

“You can imagine the radio wavelength spectrum as being like the dial of a radio in your car, you can only listen to one station at a time,” Baker said. “If you’re a radio astronomer, you’d like to listen to as many possible stations at the same time.”

The unique design of the Zpectrometer makes this possible without requiring the astronomer to “retune” the radio telescope, he said.

The Zpectrometer has allowed Baker to detect carbon monoxide emissions from very dusty galaxies without needing prior knowledge of which frequency to tune to, he said. By being able to efficiently detect carbon monoxide, he is able to determine the distance to that galaxy.

These dusty galaxies are important but also rare, he said.

Andrew Baker, an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, was named as a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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“They are important in the overall picture of galaxy evolution because we think they are the progenitors of the most massive galaxies in the universe,” he said.

Baker has more recently changed his focus toward researching hydrogen gas within more normal galaxies, he said. Using the MeerKAT array of radio telescopes in South Africa, he can study emissions from neutral hydrogen atoms in galaxies up to nine billion light-years away.

Having a scientific education to help make sociological or political

decisions in daily life is important, Bartynski said.

“Physics is one of those fields where, sure there are a lot of intricate details, but what we do is try to teach people how to be critical, rational thinkers,” he said. “That’s a skill that is going to be valuable regardless of what you do professionally or personally.”

According to the press release, the two professors will be officially inducted as fellows during the 2014 AAAS Annual Meeting in San Jose, California, in February 2015.

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Administration should show solidarity Rutgers’ diversity means nothing without support for community

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utgers students have remained vocal through- of response makes it seem as though they have turned out the past few weeks of heated racial tension a blind eye to an issue that is erupting across the nastemming from grand jury decisions. Organiz- tion. As an institution, Rutgers uses its vast diversity as ing quickly, students protested on at least three separate a selling point. The number of students from a myriad occasions, while two of the protests have been large, of minority backgrounds and various socioeconomic organized movements incorporating hundreds of mem- classes is constantly referenced in order to attract more bers of the Rutgers community at a time. The most re- applicants. There are also a number of University procent protest took place this past Friday in response to grams that support the academic growth of minority the Eric Garner grand jury decision not to indict the students, but if the University does not address social officer that caused his death using an illegal chokehold. issues pertaining to such a large group of students, then Students began gathering at the Douglass Student Cen- what can be said of the importance Rutgers really places ter and then marched onto Route 18 during rush hour on diversity?

Both the Rutgers University Police Department and traffic, where they remained for roughly an hour. While standing on the highway, a number of student protestors the New Brunswick Police Department have also failed participated in a die-in, laying down in solidarity with to release statements regarding protests. Although the victims of police brutality, as a human chain of students level of professionalism displayed by NBPD during Friday’s protest was comformed around them. mendable, their silence During the protest, volumes. Claims students began using “Although the level of professionalism speaks have been made that #RU4BlackLives to exdisplayed by NBPD during Friday’s protesting in New Brunspress their sentiments protest was commendable, their wick does nothing and online. Many of those afthat student should go filiated with the University silence speaks volumes.” major cities in order to have made clear their dishave their voices heard. dain for institutionalized But two years ago, New racism and police brutality, as well as their disapproval for the two grand juries that Brunswick Police officers were involved in the fatal failed to indict officers involved with the deaths of un- shooting of an unarmed black man, showing that police armed black men. This hashtag addresses student senti- brutality is a local issue. In September of 2011, Barry ment over the recent issues, but what can be said for the “Gene” Deloatch was shot after being approached by administration? While today marks the first official busi- New Brunswick police. Students brought the issue to ness day since students shut down Route 18, University the police by ending their protest with a die-in at the President Robert L. Barchi and the administration have New Brunswick Police Department, an action that meryet to release a statement addressing student protests its a response.

Faculty members and professors have come forward and the cause at large.

In the past, the Rutgers administration has heard stu- to stand in solidarity with student protestors and their dent voices and acted accordingly. When students pro- actions have not gone unnoticed. But Barchi and the adtested apartheid in South Africa, the administration re- ministration have so far not even released a statement sponded by divesting from a handful of companies with of solidarity with the protestors, students and others afholdings in the country. While those actions stemmed fected by the injustices that have been made clear in our directly from protesting administration and staging a own judicial system. We hope to see more support from sit-in at a meeting of the Rutgers Board of Governors the administration for, at the very least, the students at and the Board of Trustees, this is not an issue that stu- this University who they so proudly present as the faces dents should have highlight to administration. The lack of Rutgers’ diversity.

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Administration must address labor contracts COMMENTARY RUTGERS GRADUATE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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n Nov. 10, a group of Rutgers-New Brunswick doctoral students went for a scheduled meeting with Peter March, the newly appointed executive dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, intending to discuss the SAS’s executive decision to cut the number of teaching and graduate assistant lines assigned to departments for the 2014-2015 academic year. The meeting was to be between Dean March, SAS Executive Vice Dean James Masschaele, Dean of Humanities James Swenson, Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences Rosanne Altshuler and three doctoral graduates — all of them international students and women.

The meeting never took place.

As union members employed by Rutgers, we brought a union representative, Sherr y Wolf, to act as a silent obser ver to this meeting. Dean March refused to speak with us with a union representative present. March also stated that he was willing to see “graduate students who want to share their concerns,” but he could not discuss any issues regarding our status as university employees.

Before respectfully leaving the meeting, we asserted our right to be represented by the union and reminded the deans that most doctoral students work during their degrees as teachers or administrative assistants for the university.

We are therefore both Rutgers students and employees.

This refusal on the part of the Rutgers administration to talk with its doctoral students illustrates broader issues within the University — namely, a lack of transparency and shared governance, the de-

valuing of academic labor, disinvestment in the humanities and social sciences and the prioritization of corporate and managerial interests over academic ones.

Undergraduates, faculty, staff, graduate students and the American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers have been organizing around these issues, especially since Robert L. Barchi became president in 2012. More specifically in this case, the refusal to view doctoral students as University employees dismisses the labor that Ph.Ds do across the Rutgers campuses and allows the administration to

“We write this article to remind the campus and particularly the administration of the work that we do … and to demand that we finish this semester with a fair labor contract.” dismiss our calls for fair compensation, better benefits and appropriate support toward completion of our degrees.

Ever ywhere across each of the Rutgers campuses, doctoral students are teaching courses (as instructors, assistants or part-time lecturers), grading papers, conducting research for faculty, tutoring, working in campus offices and delaying their own research and dissertations to work multiple jobs while receiving wages that neither reflect the amount of labor we put in nor allow us to properly provide for ourselves and our families. We write this article to remind the campus and particularly the administration of the work that we do for and alongside other students, faculty and staff and to demand

that we finish this semester with a fair labor contract.

One of the things that can be discussed in the current contract negotiations between the administration and its employees is the number of teaching assistant/ graduate assistant budget lines available for doctoral students across the University. The Rutgers administration is cutting our lines to force us into taking fellowships without good benefits and weakened collective bargaining power, or into teaching as part-time lecturers where we are expected to teach at a fraction of a TA’s salar y with no health insurance.

Faculty at Rutgers — including doctoral students — haven’t seen raises in over three years, even to account for the rising cost of living and the skyrocketing costs of health insurance. Meanwhile, the upper administration and the football coach are getting astronomical raises. That’s why the Reclaim Rutgers coalition of unions is calling for a mass rally on Dec. 9 at noon at the Rutgers Student Center.

All Rutgers employees deser ve dignity and respect, and a fair contract is a way to ensure that. We, graduate student workers, will be at the rally on Dec. 9. We will also be “grading in” at Old Queens on Dec. 11 at 11 a.m. where we will do our work in public (grading, reading, writing) to demonstrate the labor we do and to remind the administration that we have strength in our union. We invite you all to participate in these events and join the collective struggle in higher education against the corporatized public university. We know Rutgers works because we do — they need to know it, too.

This commentary was written by the Rutgers Graduate Organizing Committee, a self-organized group of doctoral students working to improve their labor conditions.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Targum article in poor taste, disappointing I can’t say I’m shocked The Daily Targum ran a story about “sexiness,” not just on the front cover but above the fold, but I certainly am saddened. Rutgers University is a unique environment that has done a lot — more than most universities — to promote tolerance and celebrate diversity. But it feels like we’ve taken two solid steps back with the article titled, “U. alumnus named ‘Sexiest Teacher in America.’”

Really, Targum staff? You couldn’t think of anything more pressing or newsworthy than furthering the objectification of a teacher and reminding your readers that worth is determined by your “sexiness?” How upsetting to think that a group of intelligent, and hopefully well-meaning, students couldn’t think of anything more important to share with our student body. Surely, there is a lot going on both at the local university level and worldwide that deserves your, and subsequently our, attention (for example, the state of race relations as it relates to the Staten Island Supreme Court ruling yesterday, continued dealings with ISIS, the state of sexual assault both nationally and at a Rutgers level, etc.). As students who are trying to harness the knowledge and wisdom of those around us, we expect more — much more — from our school newspaper. Please bring us the news that matters, not filler stories embracing (and/or championing) archaic and sexist perspectives. Sexiness does not make a good teacher. Haven’t you learned this by now?

Shame on you for letting this hit the presses.

Caitlin Scuderi is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Political Science. Veronika Szabo is a Douglass Residential College first-year student majoring in anthropology. Divya Srivastava is a School of Engineering first-year student majoring in mechanical engineering.

SAS juniors: Apply for Cap and Skull Class of 2016 COMMENTARY CAMILLE UNGCO

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et involved” is one of the most universal pieces of advice a first-year student hears upon arriving on the banks of the old Raritan. Encouraged by peer mentors, academic advisors, and so on, students are called to “get involved” and invest their time and efforts into something, anything, along with the pursuit of a degree. Many of our peers strive for excellence in service and leadership not merely for the rewards of recognition, but also to challenge themselves and to contribute to a community or cause in which they passion-ately believe.

Ten dedicated undergraduate students from the Class of 1900 understood the importance that academic excellence, leadership, character, and loyalty played in creating a vibrant Rutgers community. One hundred and fifteen years ago, on Jan. 18, 1900, they created The Cap & Skull Society to honor these attributes.

Today, as Rutgers approaches its 250th anniversary, our university has not only maintained century old traditions like Cap & Skull, but has also contributed modern, unprecedented initiatives to exemplify its “Jersey roots” and “global reach.” We are the eighth oldest college in the country and we predate the United States. We are the birthplace of college football. Our Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, originally Puerto Rican Studies, is one of the

nation’s oldest academic departments of its kind. Our very own Selman Waksman, the namesake of the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, alumnus of Rutgers College, and Cap & Skull Class of 1915, coined the term antibiotics. We are the first and only campus to contribute to the national discussion on eradicating sexual assault at institutions of higher education through the iSpeak survey.

Perhaps the University’s inclination to “get involved” and serve our communities, local and beyond, is a Rutgers tradition itself.

Our institutional traditions, like Cap & Skull, distinguish Rutgers from contempo-

advocated for Civil Rights. His songs “Ol’ Man River” and “No More Auction Block for Me” are still played and studied today.

Charles Molnar, Class of 1956, invented the personal computer. Robert “Nasty” Nash, Class of 1916, was the first football player traded in the NFL and was the first captain of the New York Giants. Richard Hale, Class of 1944, was the founder and chairman of Halecrest and is the namesake of the Hale Center Football Complex on Busch Campus.

Anne Milgram, Class of 1992, graduated with degrees in English and political science. She was Attorney General of New Jersey from

“We salute our fellow students who choose every day to ‘get involved’ and invite you to learn more about our University’s oldest and only Senior honor society.” rary and competing universities. During their undergraduate careers, Cap & Skull members were athletes, founders of student organizations and initiatives, Greek leaders, political figures, civic advocates and scholars. They continued on in life to do worthy things as well.

Paul Robeson, Class of 1919 and Rutgers legend, was the third African American to attend Rutgers College. He earned 15 letters in four varsity sports, including football. He was a member of Phi Betta Kappa, and he was elected class valedictorian. Robeson earned a law degree from Columbia University, performed lead roles on stage and on film and

2007 to 2010. Randal Pinkett, Class of 1993, has established himself as a leading entrepreneur, speaker, author, scholar and community servant. These individuals not only thrived at our university and beyond in their own experiences, they also shared a common pride in Rutgers.

The Cap & Skull Honor Society is a Senior Class Society, the only surviving class or-ganization of its kind at Rutgers. Our mission still is to honor and encourage the campus wide pursuit of excellence in student leadership, while also now offering our 18 undergraduate members a seat at a unique roundtable of diverse peer leaders and skilled,

interested advisors. Cap & Skull graduates class after class of dedicated alumni united in their affinity for alma mater and mutually pledged to her lifelong support. Like all who have come before, alumni Skulls are expected to exemplify the best traits and character of leaders in their communities and chosen pursuits and to never relent in their support of dear old Rutgers, far and wide.

We salute our fellow students who choose every day to “get involved” and invite you to learn more about our university’s oldest and only Senior honor society, as well as, other longstanding Rutgers traditions, at www. capandskull.com. The application for membership for our Class of 2016 is currently open and will remain open until Jan. 16, 2015 at 11:59 p.m. Of the 32,280 undergraduates who attend Rutgers University­-New Brunswick, only 18 will be tapped for membership each year. If you are a third-year undergraduate student, who strives to promote the ideals of Rutgers then we invite you to apply for membership in Cap & Skull, The Senior Honor Society at Rutgers University.

Camille Ungco is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in English. She is a member of the Cap & Skull Class of 2015.

Editor’s note: The letter to the editor that ran Friday, titled “SJP should address all injustices, not just one,” did not include the last four paragraphs, as they were mistakenly taken out during the editing process. The full version is available online at www.dailytargum.com.

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December 8, 2014 Stephan Pastis

Today’s Birthday (12/08/14). Step into the spotlight this year, with Saturn in your sign (after 12/23). New home beginnings occupy you after 3/20.

Community action takes priority after 4/4. Jupiter’s retrograde in Leo today encourages moderation and tranquility (until 4/8). Enjoy an entertaining phase of exploration and adventure, until 8/2015. Give love to projects of truth, justice and spirituality. Redefine freedom. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries ( March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7 — For the next few months during Jupiter’s retrograde, reaffirm your commitment to the game. Concentrate on the finer details of an enthusiasm. Practice your skills and learn new tricks. Settle into your cozy nest.

Social arrangements could change. Entertain esoteric possibilities, just for fun.

Taurus ( April 20-May 20) — Today is a 7 — Jupiter stations retrograde in Leo until 4/8/15, for domestic retrospection. Don’t dip into savings. Let your imagination flower with ideas for home improvement. Make charts, drawings and plans. It’s amazing what a coat of paint will do. Freshen your space.

Gemini ( May 21-June 20) — Today is a 9 — With Jupiter retrograde in Leo until 4/8/15, review and revise communications for greater effect.

Study, research and edit what you’ve written. Publish after Jupiter stations direct. Work closely with your partner, and get the benefit of another view.

Cancer ( June 21-July 22) — Today is a 7 — Send in those coupons and rebate requests. Make do with what you have. Save as much as you can.

Over the next few months with Jupiter retrograde (until 4/8/15), review and revise financial matters. Plug leaks. Invent new income ideas.

Leo ( July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 6 — Practice to achieve mastery over the next few months, with Jupiter retrograde in your sign (until 4/8/15).

Personal growth and discovery allows new capacities. Let go of old practices and habits that no longer serve. Prepare taxes early this year.

Virgo ( Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 7 — Begin a re-examination of your personal priorities. Take time while Jupiter’s retrograde (until 4/8/15) for peaceful contemplation and introspection. Spirituality and ritual comfort.

Embrace healthy lifestyle practices.

Tend your garden. Step in to carry the load when your partner falters.

Libra ( Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 7 — Refine your style over the next four months. Now that Jupiter’s retrograde (until 4/8/15), it’s easier to collect old debts. Get nostalgic with friends, and enjoy old photos and memories.

Strengthen bonds by reviewing shared highlights. Remember a dream.

Scorpio ( Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is an 8 — For about four months with Jupiter retrograde, refine your plans for fame and fortune. Revive an old dream. Quietly and secretly review your action plan, and prepare to launch after 4/8/15. You have what you need. Get your ducks in a row.

Sagittarius ( Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — Learn quickly. Figure a clever way to earn more. You’re pushed to grow. Review and refine the itinerary over the next four months with Jupiter retrograde. Reconsider your educational plans, especially long-term. Reserve tickets to launch an adventure after 4/8/15.

Capricorn ( Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is an 8 — Make sure you know what’s required. Don’t make assumptions. Confer with your team. For about four months with Jupiter retrograde, review and revise financial matters. Prepare taxes, and file after Jupiter goes direct 4/8/15).

Aquarius ( Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 9 — For about four months with Jupiter retrograde, invent new possibilities in a partnership. Review and revise your collaboration over the next four months. Make announcements after 4/8/15. Choose someone who believes you can win. It’s like having magical powers.

Pisces ( Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 7 — You’re especially brilliant at your work now. For about four months with Jupiter retrograde, old methods work best to advance your agenda. Secure your holdings and nurture work relationships. Excellent quality and service never go out of style.

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December 8, 2014

DETROIT Michigan State’s selection to Cotton Bowl erased doubts of Rutgers’ bowl chances CONTINUED FROM BACK

Senior forward Kadeem Jack loses possession of the ball Saturday at the Prudential Center. The Knights never led again after Jack’s baseline jumper with 16:15 left in the first half. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

CENTER Whitehead’s penetration off dribble overwhelms RU’s forwards in blowout loss CONTINUED FROM BACK turnovers in only 21 minutes.

That garnered him the Classic’s first-ever MVP award.

“It’s seen play now forever and I’ve seen him do it in practice. Nothing he does surprises me on a basketball court,” said Seton Hall head coach Kevin Willard. “He’s an extremely talented player, he’s an extremely smart basketball player. I think everybody sees how good his vision is.”

The Knights endured it in every way imaginable.

Jordan started with 6-foot-7 sophomore wing Junior Etou manning Whitehead at the 3-spot, but the freshman dispatched of Etou repeatedly on dribble penetration. Senior forwards Greg Lewis and Malick Kone fared no better.

In a telling sequence, Whitehead drained a 3-pointer before stealing the ball from freshman forward D.J.

REVENGE Wu, Pfaff take first place in three events during meet against Boston University CONTINUED FROM BACK very good team. Our focus all week in practice and throughout the meet and the week was swimming and diving to the best of our ability, and the score took care of itself off of that.”

The day started on the diving boards, where Rutgers’ three divers were dominant.

The trio of freshman Addy Walkowiak (257.50), sophomore Alyssa Black (254.15) and freshman Morgan Engal (250.10) finished first, second and third, respectively, in the 1-meter dive.

Walkowiak (308.10) and Black (254.20) took first and second in the 3-meter dive.

Spiniello felt that the great start on the boards got the swimmers pumped up and excited for the rest of the meet.

It showed.

In the 200-yard medley relay, the Knights grabbed the first two spots on their way to victory.

The team of junior Joanna Wu, senior Greta Leberfinger, junior Morgan Pfaff and junior Sara Coyne got a time of 1.45.68 for first place.

Foreman during Seton Hall’s fullcourt pressure, flipping it sideways to Khadeem Harrington for an emphatic dunk. That made it 30-14, Pirates, with 9:15 left in the first half.

At one point in the period, Seton Hall shot a sizzling 70 percent before closing the opening 20 minutes with 60-percent shooting.

“It’s easy baskets,” Willard said.

“When you’re pressing and you’re getting up and down and you’re forcing some turnovers — I think we had three steals and two 10-second violations in the first half with the press — it gives you a chance to get easy buckets.”

After three early lead changes, Rutgers became disoriented and never got back into the flow of things.

Senior forward Kadeem Jack sunk a baseline jumper to make it 8-7, Rutgers, with 16:15 left in the first half. But a Whitehead layup fueled an 8-0 Seton Hall run, and the Pirates never looked back.

Each time the Rutgers collapsed on Seton Hall in the paint, the Pirates made the Knights pay by kicking it out to the wings, with four scorers finishing in double figures.

“We just wanted to get into the paint and kick out,” Whitehead said.

“It’s going to be hard to stop us with our three-guard offense, so that’s basically what we wanted to do: just drive and find the open guy.”

Defensively, Seton Hall’s press exposed Rutgers’ lack of a legitimate ball-handler beyond senior guard Myles Mack with junior guard Bishop Daniels injured.

Mack sunk two three-pointers to spearhead an 8-0 run for the Knights out of halftime to cut the deficit to 47-33, but after a timeout, the Pirates responded with a 9-0 run of their own.

Rutgers was simply no match for Seton Hall, which is playing like an NCAA Tournament team and the best college program in New Jersey right now.

“We just sent a message,” said Seton Hall for ward Brandon Mobley. “From the star t of the game after the National Anthem, they didn’t want to come across the cour t and shake hands. Hey, that was fine with us. That’s what they wanted to do, but at the end of the day, we got the last laugh.”

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Senior Lindsey Gibson-Brokop, but they weren’t my season’s best. I freshman Larissa Nielson, freshman think overall we, as a team, did pretKarli Rymer and sophomore Meghan ty well.”

Although not as impressive as Wu Kiely earned a time of 1.48.34 for secand Pfaff, Coyne was able to secure ond place.

Wu and Pfaff were two swimmers two wins on the day in the 100-yard freestyle and 200 freestyle with times who really stood out for Rutgers.

Wu took first place in three of 53.06 and 1.54.12.

Oddly enough, while Rutgers took events on the day: the 100-yard backstroke (56.73), the 200-yard on Boston University (4-1), the men’s backstroke (2.01.82) and the 50-yard Yale and Boston teams were facing off.

Each event alternated between the freestyle (24.27). men and women.

Pfaff also Spiniello felt the thrived, taking “I’m not focused on the Knights used this first place in to their advantage three events: 100times right now. They to get extra rest yard butterfly (57.46), 200-yard weren’t my season’s best. and strategize for the next event. butterfly (57.46) I think overall we, as a Leber finger and 200-yard IM pointed to the dif(2.05.38). team, did pretty well.” ficulty of the set“Morgan and up of the pool as Joanna are realGRETA LEBERFINGER another problem. ly growing into Senior The warm-up pool their roles on the was on a different team over the last three years, and they are extreme- floor, so the team was never on deck ly hard workers and dedicated to the completely as a team, but it was able to overcome that. program,” Spiniello said.

With a month-long break until RutRutgers secured the top three spots in the 100 breaststroke. Senior gers returns to action, Spiniello felt this Greta Leberfinger hit the wall first at win was very crucial.

“I’m hoping it gives us the momen1:04.02, followed by freshman Larissa Neilan at 1.06.53 and sophomore Ra- tum through next month because our chel Stoddard 1.09.27 in second and next competition isn’t for a month,” Spiniello said. “I’m hoping that winning third, respectively.

“I thought I did very well,” Leber- [Saturday] will help us to stay focused finger said. “I’m not focused on the for the next four weeks as we prepare times right now. They weren’t bad, for the second half of the season.”

Still, it ultimately wasn’t an overwhelming concern.

“We can’t control that. You can focus on it all you want, but that’s out of your control,” said senior quarterback Gary Nova. “We knew coach Flood and everybody else would do their best to get in whatever bowl and put us in the best position and just let them take care of it.”

Any doubts were put to rest early Sunday afternoon when it was announced that the Cotton Bowl selected Michigan State to play Baylor on New Year’s Day. Because the Spartans weren’t in the Orange Bowl after Mississippi State jumped them in the final college football playoff rankings, the Big Ten regained its Citrus Bowl slot, assuring all of the conference’s bowl-eligible teams would have a postseason home.

Head coach Kyle Flood was pleased with the final verdict, despite other 7-5 teams in Iowa and Maryland receiving invites to slightly more prestigious bowls played at Jacksonville and San Francisco.

Flood anticipates a first-class experience playing indoors at Ford Field, which seats 65,000 fans and is home to the NFL’s Detroit Lions, who partnered with the Big Ten for a new bowl this year.

“I really like the spot that we’re in,” Flood said. “I think we’re going to go to one of the great cities in this country, to a bowl game in its inaugural year that has really been crafted by the Detroit Lions, one of

the great organizations in the NFL, and we’ve got a great opponent.”

The last part was an even bigger question mark for Rutgers than earning a bowl slot.

Several last-minute prognostications also had the Knights playing in the Heart of Dallas Bowl, which pins a Big Ten team against a Conference USA foe now known to be Louisiana Tech.

North Carolina, on the other hand, hails from the ACC, one of the nation’s Power Five conferences. And with a 6-6 record, the Tar Heels present a winnable game for Rutgers.

A bowl victory is something the program hasn’t been able to cherish of late.

This will be Rutgers’ ninth bowl game in the last 10 years, a mark that only three other Big Ten programs have achieved. The Knights have won five of those games.

But each of the last two resulted in disappointing losses against Virginia Tech in the 2012 Russell Athletic Bowl and last year against Notre Dame in the Pinstripe Bowl.

A winning season in the Big Ten is already secured, but Rutgers wants more validation.

“It would mean a lot,” Nova said of winning a bowl game for the first time as a starting quarterback.

“First time in the Big Ten, to be 8-5 at the end of the season is a pretty good season.”

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December 8, 2014 WRESTLING KNIGHTS BEHIND FOUR BIG TEN SCHOOLS AT CLIFF KEEN LAS VEGAS INVITATIONAL

RU finishes 11th in invite behind pair of placewinners TYLER KARALEWICH ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

The Rutgers wrestling team had a few things in mind when it made the journey to Nevada this past weekend for the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational.

Among the first of those goals was to size up against the competition and see where the Scarlet Knights rank among some of the top programs in the country.

The next objective for head coach Scott Goodale in Las Vegas was to size up some of the Knights’ anticipated wrestlers and top grapplers versus competition that Rutgers hadn’t faced yet this season.

That included redshirt freshman 141-pounder Anthony Ashnault, sophomore 133-pounder Scott DelVecchio, junior 149-pounder Ken Theobold and junior 157-pounder Anthony Perrotti.

For the team aspect of the invitational, Rutgers finished in 11th place in the 39-team field, collecting 54 points and finishing three points out of the top-10, behind four Big Ten schools.

While Goodale was pleased with the finish against a field of some of the top teams in the nation, he acknowledged disappointment with some of the points left out there on the mat.

“We had a good tournament — we finished 11th and there are a lot of good schools there — and it’s one of the best tournaments in the countr y,” Goodale said. “We left a lot of points out there — there’s no doubt we could have scored more. But overall, it was good.

All of our losses were against some of the top-ranked guys.

It’s a really good experience moving for ward.”

From an individual aspect, most of the Knights’ grapplers wanted to be at the top of the podium at the

Head coach Scott Goodale led the Knights to an 11th-place finish at the Cliff Keen Invitational. Goodale said Rutgers left points on the mat but obtained a good barometer for where the Knights need to be to succeed at NCAAs. YANGENG LIN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER end of the competition and be the best in their weight class.

Ashnault said prior to the invitational that he was going to Las Vegas to win the tournament, but he fell short and finished fourth, losing to three-time national champion Logan Stieber of Ohio State and third-place finisher Nick Dardanes of Minnesota.

Perrotti shared similar aspirations of a top-finish tournament, but he finished third, winning the consolation bracket after being eliminated by Nebraska’s James Green in the championship slate.

Goodale realizes the top competition that Ashnault, Perrotti and the rest of the Rutgers’ wrestlers faced.

“Anthony Ashnault is wrestling the number one, pound-for-pound kid in this sport, a guy who is going for his fourth national title. That’s why we went out there — to see what Logan Stieber is all about,” Goodale said. “For Perrotti, the kid he lost to is the number two kid in the country.”

While some of the individuals fell short and the team landed in the top third, Goodale still thinks

Rutgers can do better at the important tournaments that take place later this year.

With the Knights building for postseason competition, specifically the Big Ten Tournament and NCAA Championships, this tournament plays largely in preparation for March with the ultimate goal of the season being to get as many Knights on the podium as possible.

“It’s really a good experience moving forward. Obviously, we left two hammers at home in Billy Smith and Andrew

Campolattano,” Goodale said. “I think we are headed in the right direction as far as the team tournament goes. We could be in the thick of something like that. We could be in the thick of it come March. For Ashnault and Perrotti, those are huge barometers of where they need to be in March. Once we get the full lineup in, I think we are going to be really good.”

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December 8, 2014 KNIGHT NOTEBOOK RUTGERS SHOOT 30.3 PERCENT FROM THE FIELD

Pirates expose Rutgers’ lack of scoring options in blowout SEAN STEWART ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

NEWARK, N.J. — Things were finally starting to go right for the Rutgers men’s basketball team.

After scoring 69 points in a win on the road last Monday against Clemson, the Scarlet Knights entered Saturday’s matchup against in-state rivals Seton Hall at the Prudential Center playing some of their best basketball of the year.

But following an 81-54 blowout loss to the Pirates, Rutgers was given a heavy dose of reality, with the same offensive woes against Virginia on Nov. 29 at the Barclays Center resurfacing.

The game couldn’t have started much better for the Knights offensively. Sophomore forward Junior Etou got things rolling with an early jumper and a pair of defensive rebounds, while two jump shots from senior forward Kadeem Jack gave Rutgers an early 8-7 lead.

That was the last lead the Knights had. As Seton Hall’s offense kept scoring at will, the Pirates began full-court pressing Rutgers’ players and double-teaming in corners to force turnovers to run on the fast break.

The plan worked, with the Knights making a number of errant passes and mishandling the ball, which allowed Seton Hall to score the game’s first 13 fastbreak points.

The key to Rutgers’ struggles came from the Pirates’ relentless pressure on senior guard Myles Mack, forcing him to pass the ball or make a difficult play.

“I think we really attacked defensively and put some pressure on people, and I think it was quite

amazing to see kind of how we got on those guards and wore them down,” said Seton Hall guard Jaren Sina, who was primarily in charge of marking Mack. “The biggest thing, especially with Mack, was just to wear him down and continue to give him pressure, and I think that’s something that really helped us.”

With Mack neutralized for most of the first half, the Knights’ lack of playmakers and depth outside of Jack was badly exposed.

The Pirates were difficult to guard because each of its five players on the court could score from nearly anywhere on the court, while Rutgers continually relied on Mack and Jack to provide the spark.

Etou, at times, has proven to be a valuable third scorer. But after a strong start, he really struggled to leave his mark on the game, scoring 8 points and going 0-3 from the 3-point line.

The Knights are 0-3 when Etou has not scored in double figures. *** Entering the “Garden State Hardwood Classic,” there was little doubt as to who has been the best team in New Jersey for the past decade.

But even though the Pirates have held the edge, the gap between them and the Knights was never large.

Eighteen of the last 20 matchups between the schools had been decided by six points or fewer or in overtime, and Seton Hall only held a 36-29 overall series lead.

Following the game, though, the Pirates left little doubt as to who the best team in New Jersey is.

With a promising freshman class led by McDonalds All-Amer-

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Knights grab road win, rebound from first loss GARRETT STEPIEN CORRESPONDENT

At halftime, the No. 18 Rutgers women’s basketball team found itself in a familiar position.

The Scarlet Knights were dominating. Despite being on the road in SEC countr y at a top-25 team in No. 25 Arkansas, Rutgers found itself up 12 points — the ver y same lead it held late in the second half of last Thursday’s double-overtime loss to No. 6 North Carolina.

But this time, head coach C. Vivian Stringer’s squad kept its foot down on the gas.

Backed by a stingy defensive outing and a balanced scoring distribution, the Knights steadily cruised to a 64-52 win Sunday over the Razorbacks.

Rutgers (7-1) rebounded from the heartache and disappointment of its first loss of the season by trampling all over Arkansas (6-2).

After surrendering 96 points to North Carolina, the Knights got back to basics with the same brand of defense that has been a catalyst for them in their early season. Stifling defense limited the Razorbacks to shoot a lowly 28 percent from the field.

Unlike past games where Rutgers forced opponents to play at its speed by forcing mistakes and cashing in on the other end in its transition game, Arkansas didn’t merit the same conditions.

Shooting 44 percent from the floor, four Knights hit double-figures in scoring. Junior wing Kahleah Copper led the team with 17 points, while junior guard Briyona Canty ser ved as the main facilitator on the court, dishing out eight of the team’s 17 assists.

While it wasn’t nearly as electric as her past performances, sophomore guard Tyler Scaife still managed to have a solid outing. The Little Rock native dropped 13 points in her Arkansas homecoming.

Meanwhile, Betnijah Laney continued to do it all for the Knights. The senior wing tallied her eighth-straight double-double with 12 points and 12 rebounds — she has yet to go a game without one.

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Freshman guard Mike Williams drives to the basket Saturday at the Prudential Center. Williams scored a career-high 15 points and recorded four steals in Rutgers’ loss. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ican guard Isaiah Whitehead, who scored a game-high 25 points in the rout, the gap between the two programs could continue to widen.

“The freshman group is the perfect freshmen,” said Pirates rookie forward Angel Delgado, who finished with a game-high 13 rebounds. “There’s a lot of schools that get a lot of [attention] like Duke, Kentucky, but I don’t even care about that. … We come in strong, and we’re going to make sure everyone respects us.”

The dominance was not only shown on the court between the players, but also in the fans in the arena.

Of the 8,710 fans in attendance, a vast majority

wore the Pirates’ royal blue colors, with the vacant color of red seats outnumbering the amount of fans representing the Knights’ scarlet.

“Our student section, to be honest with you, probably should get the [MVP] trophy,” Seton Hall head coach Kevin Willard said postgame. “Because our guys came out and saw we almost had 3,500 students. Our guys were pumped, so if anyone gets the MVP, it should be our student section.” *** For all the negatives, freshman guard Mike Williams has continued to impress in the starting lineup in place of injured junior guard Bishop Daniels.

Facing his former Bishop Laughlin (New York) High School teammate in Seton Hall guard Khadeem Carrington, Williams set career highs with 15 points and four steals, while scoring one of the Knights three 3-point field goals.

Williams also showed strong poise on the ball with none of the team’s 16 turnovers credited toward him, despite the relentless pressure put on Rutgers’ guards.

Williams currently ranks fourth on the team with 7.3 points per game.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “[Rutgers] didn’t want to come across the court and shake hands. Hey, that was fine with us. ...

But at the end of the day, we got the last laugh.”

— Seton Hall forward Brandon Mobley after the Pirates’ 81-54 win Saturday against the Knights

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FOOTBALL KNIGHTS WILL PLAY ACC FOE NORTH CAROLINA IN QUICK LANE BOWL

Rutgers accepts invite to bowl in Detroit GREG JOHNSON SPORTS EDITOR

Upon learning on Sunday that the Rutgers football team will be playing North Carolina in the Quick Lane Bowl, senior strong safety Lorenzo Waters’ first thought wasn’t a fond memory.

Back in 2011, the Tar Heels totaled 405 yards in a 24-22 win against the Scarlet Knights in Chapel Hill. As a true freshman playing special teams, Waters mostly stood on the sidelines and watched.

“I remember the defense didn’t play that well that game, and I remember a lot of missed tackles,” Waters said. “Now that we get a chance to go back and I actually get a chance to step on the field and contribute to the game, I’m definitely excited about that.”

That reality was uncertain throughout the week, as speculation swirled that one of the Big Ten’s 10 bowl-eligible teams could be snubbed this year with a potential shortage of slots.

Despite boasting a 7-5 record — better than Penn State and Illinois — Rutgers could have been the team that missed a bowl game, according to various reports.

But when bowl slots were officially filled Sunday, the Knights could breathe a sigh of relief after receiving an invitation to play their postseason on Dec. 26 in Detroit.

Rutgers’ team captains admitted Sunday night that they had been keeping up with the latest rumors over the last few days. There were nerves and worries that the Knights’ 25-point comeback win at Maryland on Nov. 29 might have been the end of the line.

Rutgers’ first season in the Big Ten will culminate on Dec. 26 in Detroit after the Knights accepted an invitation on Sunday to the Quick Lane Bowl against North Carolina. The game will be played at 4:30 p.m. ET on ESPN. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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SWIMMING & DIVING

MEN’S BASKETBALL SETON HALL 81, RUTGERS 54

Seton Hall embarrasses RU at Prudential Center GREG JOHNSON

“We came out with maybe four or five great possessions to start,” said Rutgers head coach Eddie Jordan. “They made shots because of their talent, one on one — and some of their offense — and they put pressure on us and we didn’t handle it. They got momentum, they rode it and we crumbled.”

Whitehead, a former five-star recruit and McDonald’s All-American, destroyed every defensive look Rutgers threw at him.

The true freshman seamlessly dribble penetrated and sunk an array of circus shots. He made slick spin moves and turnaround jumpers, also showing off range with four three-pointers.

In one of the more efficient performances in college basketball this season, Whitehead finished with 25 points on 60-percent shooting, five assists, four rebounds, three steals and no

SPORTS EDITOR

NEWARK, N.J. — Electricity pierced through the Prudential Center on Saturday afternoon, and the Rutgers men’s basketball team was shell-shocked.

Long before the Scarlet Knights and Seton Hall tipped off at noon, thousands of energized Pirates fans screamed and heckled Rutgers during the pregame shootaround.

Not long after the inaugural Garden State Hardwood Classic began, the Knights became so stunned that the long-time state rivalry’s next chapter was never a contest.

Behind 6-foot-4 guard Isaiah Whitehead’s 17 first-half points, Seton Hall (7-0) raced out to a 47-25 halftime lead and eventual 81-54 rout of Rutgers (4-4) in front of 8,710 raucous fans.

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Knights enact revenge in win over Terriers RYAN MORAN STAFF WRITER

Seton Hall guard Isaiah Whitehead goes up for a layup Saturday in Newark.

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The Rutgers swimming and diving team came away with a dominant victory Saturday against Boston University, winning by an 83-point margin, 191-108.

The Scarlet Knights (5-1) recorded 13 firstplace finishes out of 16 events in New Haven, Conn., in addition to eight second-place finishes and eight third-place results.

“I was thrilled with how we performed [Saturday] as a team as a whole,” said head coach Phil Spiniello. “This is a meet we lost to Boston University last year, and they are a

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