PERSPECTIVES The Daily Targum takes a look at the top stories of the Fall 2014 semester.
Hundreds rally for deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner VAISHALI GAUBA NEWS EDITOR
Rutgers students and members of the New Brunswick community have been actively engaged in two demonstrations, staged a diein and blocked Route 18, Route 27 and parts of College Avenue to protest recent grand jury decisions not to indict officers involved in the deaths of Michael Brown and Erin Garner. The first protest on Nov. 25 attracted more than 450 protestors, who walked from the Douglass Student Center to the steps of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus to rally against the grand jury decision on Darren Wilson, the officer in the highly publicized Ferguson case who shot unarmed teenager Michael Brown on Aug. 9. The People’s Coalition Against Police Brutality, a coalition of students and New Brunswick residents dedicated to ending police brutality, organized both protests.
Its members decided to march rather than simply stand in protest because they hoped the act of marching through the community would raise consciousness, said Ezra Sholom, a student organizer, in a previous article from The Daily Targum. With a megaphone in his hand, Sholom reminded onlookers at Rutgers of the scale of the protests that broke out across the country after the announcement of the verdict. New York City shut down three bridges and Los Angeles closed a main highway system for miles, he said. “If the country continues to stand together, we can put an end to this racist system,” he said in the article. After nationwide protests, Officer Wilson officially resigned from the Ferguson Police Department, citing his decision as one to “allow the community to heal,” according to npr.org. SEE DEATHS ON PAGE 2
A protestor at the Dec. 5 march carries a banner on Route 18 to demonstrate his opposition against police brutality, an issue that sparked nationwide fury after the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner in two separate cases in Ferguson and New York, respectively. TRENT JOAQUIN
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Caitlyn Kovacs dies from alcohol poisoning SABRINA SZTEINBAUM ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
MEMORY MASS Students perform in memory of victims of drug overdose at the Overdose Vigil on Oct. 21 on the steps of Brower Commons. DEVON JUDGE
U. community grieves death of two, injury of one during fall semester LIN LAN CORRESPONDENT
Darsh Patel, a Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences senior from Edison, New Jersey, was killed in a bear attack on Sept. 21 while hiking with four friends in the Apshawa Preserve in West Milford Township. His friends called the police, who discovered Patel’s body at around 5:54 p.m., according to nj.com. The black bear in question was found and euthanized, said West Milford Police Chief Timothy Storbeck, according to the article. The reason for why the bear attacked remains unknown. On Oct. 4, Timothy McDonnell, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore from Holmdel, New Jersey, fell into a coma after being struck by a vehicle on Easton Avenue. The driver was Michael Schenck,
30, from Somerset, who was heading eastbound on Easton Avenue when his car hit McDonnell near Olde Queens Tavern, according to a press release from the New Brunswick Police Department. After 25 days in critical care at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, McDonnell awakened and was transferred to the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange, The Asbury Park Press reported. McDonnell is still unable to talk and could only move his left foot and hand as he began speech and physical rehabilitation, according to the article. “It’s hard to watch your son struggle like he struggles, and he doesn’t know you or anybody. … After those first few days, we didn’t think he was going to live, so everything from here on is a plus,” Tim McDonnell, his father, said in the article.
The last tragedy occurred on the morning of Oct. 21, when the body of Paul Kim, a 20-year-old School of Arts and Sciences junior from Fairview, New Jersey, was found washed up in the Hudson River in New York City, according to nj.com. His bicycle had been spotted on the George Washington Bridge, and people alerted authorities, according to the article. The cause of death remains unknown. A source in the article said it appeared to be a suicide. Friends described Kim as “genuine” and “funny,” according to a previous article in The Daily Targum. His older brother, Christopher Kim, honored the memory of his brother on Twitter. “To my little brother, my best friend, Paul J. Kim,” he tweeted on Oct. 22. “[I love you], man. Rest in Paradise [with] grandma.”
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Caitlyn Kovacs, a 19-year-old School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore with dreams of opening an animal daycare business, died on Sept. 21 after a “small gathering” at the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity house. Kovacs died of “acute ethanol toxicity,” otherwise known as alcohol poisoning, according to a press release from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office. Kovacs’ friends transported her to the hospital around 3 a.m., where she was reportedly “in distress,” ac-
cording to The Daily Targum. The police were called to investigate her death at 3:28 a.m. after being alerted by hospital staff. Kovacs’ friends and family held a memorial for her on Oct. 11 in the Busch Student Center, where hundreds of people packed into a room to commemorate Kovacs’ life. Kovacs, a “bubbly” animal science major, was also a sushi lover and friend you could count on, said best friend and School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Tammy Mehman. “She was a friend that I knew cared about me, I could put all my trust in her, I knew I could count on her always,” Mehman said.
DEATHS Jersey City, Newark, Paterson set to equip police officers with wearable body cameras in 2015 CONTINUED FROM FRONT
The second protest on Dec. 5 saw a smaller crowd of nearly 250. However, the march extended to boundaries outside Rutgers after the Staten Island grand jury’s decision to not indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer who killed the unarmed Garner in July. Nadirah Simmons, a School of Arts and Sciences junior and key organizer, said the University should value its black population for reasons other than diversity. “We want Rutgers to feel that black lives matter,” she said. “We want to feel like we are not here to make your university diverse but to value our history.” In response to growing mistrust between police officers and residents, Jersey City, Newark and Paterson — the three largest
cities in New Jersey — are now making efforts to equip officers with wearable body cameras to record police interactions. The plan is on track to become operational in 2015. While it would definitely apply to Newark’s general municipal police department, it is unclear whether it would also apply to the Rutgers University Police Department at Rutgers-Newark. Rutgers spokesperson E.J. Miranda said there is no mandate so far on RUPD officers to don police cameras, but RUPD is ahead of, or on par, with 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.”
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Outrage inspires students to launch ‘Where RU Barchi’ club DAN COREY STAFF WRITER
Several student groups created the “Where RU Barchi” campaign as part of the student organization Students for Shared Governance earlier this semester in response to an email from Rutgers President Robert L. Barchi saying he would not meet with them, according to an October article published in The Daily Targum. Student organizations established the club in order to demand greater communication with the Rutgers president. Sivan Rosenthal, a member of Rutgers United Students Against Sweatshops, said she founded WRUB to improve student relations with Barchi. Rosenthal, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said WRUB called for the president to provide regular office hours to talk with students. “The coalition is, in part ... ensuring students still have a voice in what’s happening in the changes that are being made [at Rutgers], especially since Barchi is the one making them,” Rosenthal said.
In addition to RUSAS, Women Organizing Against Harassment and the Rutgers chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws both joined the WRUB coalition in order to voice their respective agendas to Barchi. According to another article from the Targum, Kaila Boulware, a member of WOAH, said while she understands Barchi has several responsibilities, he should still make time to meet with University students. Boulware, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said Barchi’s top priority should be the needs of the students, not desires of donors. “I understand Rutgers is in the Big Ten, we’re getting a lot of media attention,” she said. “[Barchi’s] going on this tour and getting funding and that’s well and good, but his main priority should be the concerns of the students.” Three days after “Student groups launch ‘Where RU Barchi’ club” was published in the Targum, RUSAS members stormed into the Old Queens building on the College Avenue campus. Wielding a letter and copies of The Daily Targum, RUSAS re-
quested to meet with Barchi to convince him to employ companies with ethical business practices to produce Rutgers apparel. Following their entry at Old Queens, the administrative building went into lockdown, and the Rutgers University Police Department arrived at Old Queens shortly after, according to the article. While the cause of the lockdown and police presence remains unknown, Rosenthal said she was doubtful that RUSAS’ presence was not connected to the incident. “I think because of a lot of the sit-in [protests] that were happening last year, they expected us to run up the stairs ... but we weren’t running — we just walked inside,” she said. “So there wasn’t an immediate threat of us threatening a sit-in or aggressive action.” Since the incident at Old Queens, Barchi and Richard L. Edwards, chancellor of Rutgers-New Brunswick, made conscious efforts to meet with student groups. Such meetings included, but are not limited to, the Rutgers University Student Assembly, staff from WRSU-FM and The Daily Targum’s editorial board.
A protestor speaks into a megaphone at the Douglass Student Center on Oct. 23 to demand greater communication between students and Rutgers President Robert L. Barchi. AVALON ZOPPO / OCTOBER 2014
President Barchi talks finances, crime, public image with Targum AVALON ZOPPO STAFF WRITER
Rutgers President Rober t L. Barchi, along with Rutgers–New Brunswick Chancellor Richard Edwards, sat down with The Daily Targum in November to discuss ever ything from faculty salaries and athletics to crime and Barchi’s public image.
ALCOHOL POLICY
After the death of Rutgers student Caitlyn Kovacs, the Rutgers alcohol policy was called into question. Barchi explained the alcohol policy is more complex than it may seem on the surface, and described his experience re-creating the alcohol policy at the University of Pennsylvania. “The problem is that you can’t legislate everyone’s personal behavior,” he said. “There will always be people with individual situations and behavior that run counter to what you’re trying to accomplish.”
CRIME
The recent crime “wave” on campus is a misconception, Barchi said. Crime on campus has declined 30 to 50 percent since last spring, but there is a perception that it has increased because off-campus crime reports are now being emailed to students, Barchi said. But there is a slight crime increase in New Brunswick, which has been met with an increase in police patrolling and lighting on streets. “We’ve put additional police on the College Avenue area,” he said. “We’ve started additional patrols that involve [Rutgers University Police Department] and a New Brunswick police person between midnight and six in the morning in that precinct to get more presence.” Barchi said having crime alerts sent to phones is meant to
make students more conscious of their surroundings for their personal safety. “It’s to make people aware of the fact that walking around two blocks off campus at 3 a.m. is not a smart thing to do in an urban environment,” he said. Edwards explained how the University is working to ensure the safety of off-campus students by looking at ways Ohio State University deals with the situation. Rutgers, like many other universities, has no way of knowing the addresses of off-campus students, he said. “At the beginning of the year, [Ohio State] provides door alarms to students living in this off-campus housing, as well as window alarms,” he said.
IMAGE AND ACCESSIBILITY
Throughout the semester, Barchi has been accused of being inaccessible to students. But he emphasized that in order to properly evaluate the administration’s relationship with the University community, critics must understand that Rutgers is changing, growing in size and complexity. Each of the campuses now has a chancellor. The chancellor has the responsibility for the academic programs, the students, the faculty and the budgets for those campuses, Barchi said. “My job is much more the Mr. Outside, taking care of … all the kinds of things from [Information Technology] systems to administrative systems to [Human Resources], facilities and finance to
… external relations, government relations, fixing the fundraising.”
FINANCIAL STATE OF RUTGERS
Rutgers’ finances are in a ver y tight place for a number of reasons. “One is that we’re picking up a lot of bills that, frankly, probably shouldn’t be ours ... with the integration and things like that,” Barchi said, referring to Rutgers recent merger with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. The second reason, Barchi said, is that Rutgers has an endowment of $800 million, which is one of the lowest in the Association of American Universities. The third is that Rutgers does not glean much in the way of
philanthropy. The University had a record of a $160 million a year total this year, which Barchi described as “not very big.” Barchi said the University could improve in fundraising, getting research grants as a source of revenue and connecting with alumni around the country. The concept of public-private partnerships would also benefit Rutgers, he said. Barchi has been traveling the country meeting with alumni, as well as spending time with AAU colleagues to discuss issues in higher education. “[There are] so many things that I’d like for us to do,” Barchi said. “Academic program-wise, scholarship-wise, you name it. ... But there’s no golden pot of coins somewhere. [There] just isn’t.”
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Faculty protest for salary increase, fairer contracts
The Rutgers chapter of the American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers protests the University on Oct. 10 to unfreeze their salaries and offer fairer contracts. NATASHA TRIPATHI / OCTOBER 2014
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Rutgers staff and faculty demanded to have their voices heard this year during protests for higher salaries and better treatment. Faculty and staff protested at a Senate meeting in September with complaints about a slow contract negotiation process and Rutgers’ compensation policies, according to an article in The Daily Targum. University President Robert L. Barchi objected to claims that Rutgers treats its faculty poorly. He reminded the crowd that Rutgers professors’ salaries are in the “upper tier” of the American Association of Universities. In light of the criticism that the University has a bloated administration, Barchi said Rutgers was in the bottom 10 percent in terms of the ratio between administrators and students. “We have really good people in those jobs, because if they miss a ball, there will be no one to back them up,” he said. David Hughes, a professor in the Department of Anthropology, suggested the funding for professors’ salaries should come from the University’s spending on athletics. Lucye Millerand, president of the Union of Rutgers Administrators, said many union members have had a salary freeze for the past two years. In October, members of the American Association of Univer-
sity Professors-American Federation of Teachers stood in the Douglass Student Center to protest for fair contracts, according to article in The Daily Targum. About 40 AAUP-AFT members chanted, “Rutgers is for education, we are not a corporation” and “What do we want? Contracts! When do we want them? Now!” Sherry Wolf, the lead organizer of AAUP-AFT, said corporate interests are trying to turn a public university into a “Wal-Mart of education.” “We’re not a knowledge factory,” she said. “We are a university.” The protesters held picket signs saying #ReclaimingRutgers, a message about taking the University back from corporate interests, Wolf said. The goal of the protest was to develop a new negotiated contract by November because some professors have not seen salary increases in years, Wolf said. Mark West, a professor in the Department of Psychology, said the University invests a lot of money in areas like football and construction. He said the Board of Governors does not show appreciation for the faculty, on which they deeply depend. Underpaid and disregarded faculty negatively affects students, he said. If the University faculty does not receive decent pay, offices and time to think, students get cheated out of what they are paying, Wolf said.
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Cory Booker triumphs in Senatorial election DAN COREY STAFF WRITER
Tribal fighters take part in an intensive security deployment against Islamic State militants in the town of Amriyat al-Falluja in Anbar province Nov. 5. REUTERS
Islamic State wages terror across globe ERIN PETENKO ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
While domestic issues have occupied mainstream media in recent months, international conflicts have also received attention due to ongoing battles in the Middle East with the Islamic State. The group, which began as an offshoot of established terrorist group al-Qaeda, currently controls swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq. It has become a central target for the United States, as the nation supports its former enemy state Iraq and Syria, a country in the middle of a civil war. In August, President Barack Obama authorized airstrikes on IS, attacking the group in September, according to CNN.
IS has retaliated, killing five Western hostages since the beginning of the conflict, according to CNN. Several victims have been American journalists, including James Foley and Steven Sotloff. It is known for targeting religious minorities in Iraq. In May and June, Iraqi Kurds fought IS for control of their territory, Kurdistan. According to an article in The Daily Targum, Hamid-al-Bayati, a permanent representative of Iraq to the United Nations and a former Deputy Foreign Minister to the Republic of Iraq, spoke about the Iraqi turmoil on Nov. 18 at Rutgers. “The media focuses on the negative side of the picture ... [I want them to] say what is good, say
what is bad,” Al-Bayati said in the article. “[But they just] want to sell the news.” He said IS is a hot-button issue and that the terrorist group was particularly extreme. “I teach my students how to think as leaders,” Al-Bayati said. “If we don’t unite as human [beings] … then there will be another generation of terrorism.” IS has used websites and social media to promote their cause. They have posted hostage execution videos on YouTube, according to CNN.com. It also frequently uses social media outlets such as Twitter to recruit and inform the world of its dogmas, according to The Daily Beast.
New Jersey voters re-elected Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) to represent the state for an additional six years at the Nov. 4. mid-term election. According to an article published in The Daily Targum, Booker defeated Republican candidate Jeff Bell after accumulating 56.01 percent of the vote. His second Senate victory, Booker’s re-election, solidified his congressional status after initially winning a special election after the death of Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ). David Redlawsk, director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling at Rutgers, said this year’s Senate race was less intense than previous races because Bell was not a “big name Republican.” Before Election Day, Redlawsk told The Daily Targum he expected Booker to win, but not by a considerable margin as many expected, he said. Denise Wills, a resident of Pennsauken, New Jersey, said she expected Booker to be re-elected. While attending Booker’s victory party with her daughter, Wills said she believes the former Newark mayor will effectively represent New Jersey residents in Washington. “Cory’s a hard worker, so he’s going to keep on fighting and fighting and fighting for the little guy who doesn’t have a voice in
Washington, and he won’t stop,” she said. After strolling out on stage at the Best Western Plus Robert Treat Hotel Ballroom, Booker thanked his family members, as well as New Jersey residents who allowed him to keep his title as senator. In his victory speech, Booker showed his gratitude for various friends and mentors who have helped him over the years. “My parents never let me forget that I was a product of a great community,” he said. “We have to get back to these ideals that we’re better together.” Booker said he intends to translate this philosophy into his work in Washington, which he said is currently afflicted with partisan gridlock. In his first full term as senator, Booker hopes to fight for the real concerns of New Jerseyans – particularly, economic infrastructure, job creation and job growth, he said. According to a Nov. 2 article published in The Daily Targum, multiple Rutgers students said they support the recently re-elected senator. Wills said she likes Booker’s ambitious plans, but jokingly said it can be viewed as a type of weakness. “I think one of Cor y’s weaknesses is recognizing he can’t help ever ybody,” she said. “He can’t do ever ything.”
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Rutgers network faces online attack during registration period TYLER GOLD STAFF WRITER
Rutgers University Police Department has increased its presence in and around Rutgers in light of recent crimes on and off-campus. DENNIS ZURAW / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
Police presence increases on campus amid crime SABRINA SZTEINBAUM ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
A heightened police presence on College Avenue and the surrounding streets is one way the Rutgers University Police Department responded to crime this semester, including a string of off-campus burglaries, according to a November article in The Daily Targum. Lt. Brian Emmett of the RUPD said the increased police presence is intended to assist the public, strengthen community contacts and deter criminal activity. To supplement the Neighborhood Police Team officers patrolling off-campus areas, uniformed and plainclothes officers
have also been dispatched to patrol the streets. In early November, the Office of Student Affairs issued a Community Alert flyer that was distributed to students walking on campus and meant to increase awareness about recent crimes and reassure the Rutgers community that RUPD is responding to them. Emmett offered general tips for Rutgers students on staying safe and aware. “Members of the Rutgers community can reduce their chances of becoming a crime victim by walking in groups at night, remaining alert and aware of their surroundings and immediately reporting suspicious activity to law enforcement,” he said.
A Distributed Denial of Service attack was unleashed on the Rutgers computer network on Nov. 19 around 10 p.m., the night when firstyear students were waiting to register for spring classes, according to Frank Reda, director of the Office of Information Technology. Reda and the OIT determined that about 40,000 bots — web software that simulates a real person online — flooded the Rutgers network. The bots simulated the exact situation the Rutgers network would have undergone, where there are significantly more users on the network than usual.
The bots originated mostly from Eastern Europe and China, which is more or less par for the course with a DDoS attack. Bots are usually based in countries that have less strict regulation on spam-tactics than the U.S., where suspicious Internet traffic is more tightly monitored. The additional traffic can slow down or even entirely cripple a network, which buckles under a heavier than usual load, Reda said. Downtime can last for minutes or hours depending on the severity of the attack, the size of the network and the reaction speed of security teams like OIT. IT staff was already on call, anticipating the traditional rush of traffic while Rutgers students tried to register for classes.
The attack came at a time when the IT staff was undoubtedly expecting heavier-than-usual traffic, but a serious DDoS attack of this nature was presumably far more traffic than IT staff anticipated. There are multiple types of DDoS attacks, but Reda said the attack on Rutgers saw the network saturated with external communications requests, a common tactic for overloading networks. Reda said the Rutgers infrastructure was not harmed by the attack, and the event did not cause any financial damage to the University or its IT systems. The incident has been reported to law enforcement officials, who are following up with an investigation.
U. reacts to new library ID policy KELSEY WEIDMANN STAFF WRITER
When the library changed their policy last month, requiring RUIDs to be shown after 10 p.m., it was not a smooth transition. According to The Daily Targum, the policy, which was implemented in every library on campus to prevent overcrowding at night, has faced waves of both gratitude and protest. Library incident reports show that community members are not more likely to be implicated than Rutgers affiliates, said Melissa Just, associate University librarian for research and instructional services. “We’re finding our buildings are full to capacity,” Just said.
“We wanted to set aside time to ensure affiliates have room to study.” A petition on change.org started in March by School of Arts and Sciences senior Mollie Khan obtained over 400 signatures and could have helped the policy be put into place. “[There were] a few incidents [that] occurred where I felt unsafe at the library. I witnessed a non-student touching himself and heard others asking students for money on various occasions,” Khan said. Some students have come up and extended their thanks for the policy, said Harry Glazer, communications director for Rutgers Libraries.
But not everyone agreed with Khan. Student protestors challenged the decision by refusing to show their IDs and had to be escorted out by the police. The major concern was the right of the homeless to utilize library space, especially during these coming winter months. New Brunswick does not have enough resources available to accommodate the homeless, said Andy Bittle, a member of Students for Shared Governance. “It’s a very classist policy,” Bittle said. “The majority of people who attend Rutgers have resources available to them ... and some people don’t have access to those resources.”
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Students bring attention to sexual assault issues
Students carry blue mattresses as they walk down College Avenue on Oct. 29 for the Help Rutgers Carry The Weight campaign. DAPHNE ALVA / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / OCTOBER 2014
KELSEY WEIDMANN STAFF WRITER
Rutgers students and administration both worked this semester to bring attention to sexual assault issues with the iSPEAK survey and the “Carry the Weight” campaign. According to an article in The Daily Targum, the survey, which was released in late October, hoped to discern the frequency of campus assault, assess student’s perceptiveness and gain a better understanding of the issue on campus. The United States Department of Justice task force assembled the climate survey and asked Rutgers’ Center on Violence Against Women and Children to issue it. It was held through the iSPEAK Project on campus. Sarah McMahon, assistant professor in the School of Social Work and acting co-director of VAWC, said the organization named the survey iSPEAK because it gives students a voice they may not have had before. Kate Stepleton, coordinator of the iSPEAK project at VAWC, said the program wished to understand the attitudes of students toward gender and sexual violence and students’ readiness to intervene in cases of sexual violence. On Oct. 29, students and faculty marched down College Avenue holding 24 bare blue mattresses for the “Help Rutgers Carry the Weight” campaign.
Brady Root, prevention education coordinator at the Office for Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance, said in the article that the march represents those who are unable to speak out. According to the article, the campaign educated students through statistics like “one in five women will be sexually assaulted while at college” and “58 percent of rapes occur while the victim is incapacitated at college parties.” The first half of the march was quiet, but on the trip back, students chanted, “No more silence, no more violence.” Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz inspired the demonstration when, for her thesis project, she carried her mattress around ever y day in protest of the fact that her alleged rapist was not found guilty of assaulting her. The march was a great way to visually demonstrate a victim’s struggle, said Laura Christiansen, program coordinator at Rutgers Student Life. The march at Rutgers is important because the White House recognized the University as a school that is exemplary in their victim assistance programs, said Eshani Dixit, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “We need to make sure that the campus climate here among the students matches the efforts our administration is making to combat sexual assault,” Dixit said.
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Top: Protestors demonstrate their anger with the Ferguson and Staten Island verdicts. Bottom: The crowd stages a die-in outside the New Brunswick Police Department on Dec. 5. DENNIS ZURAW / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
Members of Sigma Lambda Gamma sorority compete on their “Orange is the New Black-” themed bed at the seventh annual “Homecoming Charity Bed Races” on Oct. 30 outside the College Avenue Student Center. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) celebrates his victory with supporters at the Best Western Robert Treat Hotel in Newark after the mid-term election Nov. 4. DENNIS ZURAW / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
Top: Fans rush the field at High Point Solutions Stadium after the Rutgers football team beat Michigan on Oct. 4 for the Knights’ first Big Ten win of the season. Bottom: Senior quarterback Gary Nova scrambles for a first down in Rutgers’ win Oct. 4 against Michigan. More than 53,000 fans attended the game that marked Rutgers’ first Big Ten victory.
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December 9, 2014 MEN’S GOLF
Junior Jonathan Chang was one of the Knights’ top performers this fall season, pacing the team in several tournaments. FILE PHOTO / SEPTEMBER 2012
Rutgers endures rocky season, tourney results ALEX NAZZARO CONTRIBUTING WRITER
During the fall season, the Rutgers men’s golf team gave thirdyear head coach Rob Shutte a reason to be optimistic entering the spring season. But the Scarlet Knights’ inconsistent play from tournament to tournament also gives Shutte some reason to be uncertain. Rutgers began its season placing 10th on Sept. 7 at the Wolverine Intercollegiate in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Junior Jonathan Chang paced the Knights in the 11-team event, finishing 12th (214) in the 66-player field. Meanwhile, junior Louis Bodine’s contribution lifted Rutgers, as he shot an impressive 69 in the final round to help the Knights avoid a last-place finish. After leading through 36 holes, Rutgers finished one stroke behind Wofford College for second place Sept. 20 in the annual Rutgers Invitational. Senior Jacob Stockl paced the Knights, finishing six-under and second overall (207) in the 95-player field. Stockl’s performance earned him Big Ten Co-Golfer of the Week honors and left Rutgers optimistic entering Sept. 28 and the Badger Invitational. But the Knights returned back to form and matched their perfor-
mance level at the Wolverine Intercollegiate — Rutgers placed 11th in the 13-team field. Chang paced the Knights, shooting 6-over par and tied for 17th in the 78-player field. Freshman Toks Pedro’s stayed consistent each round (77-76-76), finishing tied for 40th with a 229 total. At the 12-team Maryland Invitational from Oct. 13-14, Rutgers tied for sixth place with a 902. Despite inclement weather, Pedro prevailed, improving on his last performance and finishing in 24th place. Tying for ninth, Chang fell to the event’s co-medalists. Kyle Hart of George Mason and Jonathon Dilanni of Elon beat Chang by six strokes. His consistency, though, helped Rutgers finish its season on a high note Oct. 19 at the Lehigh Invitational. The Knights placed second in the 12-team tournament. Chang showed his reliability by tying for fifth in the 66-player field. Teammates Michael Howe and Stockl finished tied for eighth and 11th, respectively. Although Rutgers’ up-anddown play during the season raises doubt for the team’s future, the consistent play of Chang, a senior leader in Stockl and the prospect of Pedro turning into a star are all reasons Shutte can stay optimistic for the spring.
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WOMEN’S GOLF
VOLLEYBALL RUTGERS WAS WINLESS THROUGHOUT BIG TEN PLAY
RU matches Williams’ expectations ALEX NAZZARO CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Rutgers women’s golf team’s fall campaign was nothing short of first-year head coach Kari Williams’ expectations. The Scarlet Knights resume stood out with three second-place finishes, impressive statistics and added confidence entering the spring season. Rutgers’ underclassmen play set the tone early. At the Bucknell Invitational from Sept. 6-7, freshman Emily Mills paced a consistent Rutgers attack that culminated in an impressive second-place finish at the 14-team event. Mills became the second Rutgers rookie in program history to win her initial event, as she finished first in the 80-player field with a 220 final scorecard. The presence of the Knights’ underclassmen’s dominance persisted from Sept. 26-28 at the Yale Intercollegiate. Sophomore Taylor Clark paced Rutgers throughout to tie for sixth individually (224) and power her team to a seventh-place finish, boasting a 920 final scorecard in the 17-team field. At the St. John’s Invitational on Oct. 6-7, Rutgers’ upperclassmen showed up. Their strong play, leadership and tenacity helped them to lead Rutgers to another second-place finish in the final round. Anchoring the Knights were juniors Gabrielle Sacheli and Racquel Zurick, who finished sixth (155) and tied for ninth (157), respectively. Clark added an extra boost, finishing in eighth place (156) in the 68-player field. A comfor table Knights squad entered the final round of the 17-team Rutgers Invitational on Oct. 11 with a commanding sixstroke lead. But the balanced attack of Sacheli (147) and Clark (152), who finished third and sixth, respectively, could not suppor t a cushioning lead in the final round. Rutgers fell to Long Island by one stroke in Williams’ inaugural Rutgers Invitational as head coach. The Knights concluded their season with a disappointing performance at the Fighting Camel Classic, placing sixth in the nineteam event. Mills continued her impressive freshman campaign, pacing Rutgers throughout the season and tying for 13th (229) in the 51-player event, while Clark finished strong, tying for 32nd (239). The Knights had a successful season, owing much of their success to superb underclassmen talent and prominent upperclassmen leadership.
Freshman outside hitter Meme Fletcher was arguably Rutgers’ most consistent offensive player this season, but had her campaign cut short after going down with a stress fracture in November. Fletcher finished with 194 kills this year. EDWIN GANO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Knights struggle in inaugural Big Ten campaign CONOR NORDLAND CORRESPONDENT
In its first year as a member of the Big Ten, the Rutgers volleyball team had its fair share of struggles adjusting to its new conference. After compiling a 7-26 record that featured no conference wins, the Scarlet Knights will be most remembered for their losses this season. A 20-match losing streak and only six victories in the 66 total sets played in conference is what the Knights will take with them into the off season. But Rutgers knows what it will take to improve and become more competitive now that it has gained valuable experience in arguably the top conference in the nation.
The Knights are determined to devote the time in the offseason necessary to improve their product on the court. This season, Rutgers ranked near the bottom of almost every statistical category in the Big Ten. Prior to conference play, the Knights featured a 7-6 record, and it seemed they would compete with their new Big Ten opponents from the beginning. But once Rutgers entered its conference schedule, it was given a dose of reality. The offense significantly struggled during conference play — the Knights were last in hitting percentage, opponent hitting percentage, assists per set and kills per set.
It is the most important area of the game Rutgers needs to improve on come next season. After Meme Fletcher went down with a stress fracture in November, other reserves had to step up. Fletcher, a true freshman outside hitter who was arguably the most consistent offensive player for the Knights this season, left a large void on the court. Backup outside hitters such as sophomore Micaela Anderson and junior Megan Stephenson filled in for Fletcher but could not match the production that the freshman set. But both players gained critical game experience that will prove valuable for next season.
Earning game experience is one area the Knights stressed entering this inaugural Big Ten season, and it is one area ever yone on the roster gained. Head coach C.J. Werneke stated throughout the season that his team was learning how to compete in their new conference. The entire season was approached as a learning experience for the players. After all the tough losses in conference play, the Knights will have to use what they learned this season to make strides in the next. Although the losses were accepted and used as motivation this season, expectations will be raised for the entire program next year.
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December 9, 2014 FIELD HOCKEY KNIGHTS EARNED SEVENTH SEED IN BIG TEN TOURNAMENT
RU completes season on high note, earning berth in tourney RYAN MORAN STAFF WRITER
Going into the 2014 season, the Rutgers field hockey team’s main goal was to compete in its inaugural season among the best in the Big Ten. Third-year head coach Meredith Long delivered on this goal, coaching her team up to the No. 7 seed of the tournament. Overall, the Scarlet Knights finished the season 9-10. The season all came down to the second-to-last game when they took on Indiana with a Big Ten tournament spot on the line. For both teams, it was a must-win. Arguably the Knights’ best player, Second Team All-Big Ten defender, Sofia Walia clinched a spot for Rutgers with a goal in the closing minutes. But the host of the tournament, Michigan, ultimately ended Rutgers’ season in the first round. Although the Knights finished under .500, it was not quite indicative of the year Rutgers had.
They lost four of those games, each by one goal, with two of them coming in overtime. Rutgers overcame two losing streaks and never lost faith in its ability to play as an effective team. The Knights had lost five straight games going into their Oct. 5 game against New Hampshire. The team knew it needed a win to carr y momentum going into the next weekend when it would face Ohio State. Rutgers ended up winning both games to put itself in a position to make the Big Ten Tournament. Soon after, the Knights went on another losing streak of three games, but when push came to shove, they won their next three and made the postseason. On the season, Rutgers’ ultimate downfall in many of its games was its lack of scoring. Averaging 1.79 goals per game, the team ranked last in the Big Ten. In order to improve on that, the Knights do have their lead-
Junior forward Katie Champion scored a team-high 10 goals this season for the Knights and will return trying to improve an attack that averaged just 1.79 goals per game. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ing scorer in junior for ward Katie Champion (10 goals) returning but will need to have other players step up. Sophomore goalkeeper Shevaun Hayes played every minute of every game, making 103 saves while yielding 2.31 goals a game.
Rutgers loses two of its three captains this season in seniors Sophie Wright and Jenn Staab. Both played integral roles on the team this season and started ever y single game. Whether she was playing as a defensive midfielder or as the central de-
fender in the back three, Staab brought defensive flexibility. Rutgers utilized Wright as an attacking midfielder who controlled the pace of games. Other than that, the Knights return every player and starter for another year to mesh and progress as a unit.
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December 9, 2014 WOMEN’S SOCCER RUTGERS POSTED 9-1 RECORD AT HOME
Knights leave mark, make history in first Big Ten season GARRETT STEPIEN CORRESPONDENT
The fate of the Rutgers women’s soccer team’s 2014 season was in jeopardy before it even had the chance to begin. After 14 years of running the program, then-head coach Glenn Crooks abruptly stepped down from his position on July 23 and passed the torch onto Mike O’Neill. While many on the outside wondered how the Scarlet Knights would fare without the second-winningest coach in program histor y, members of the team never had a single doubt. It was an unpredictable and historic season. In a new conference where it was predicted to finish in eighth place, Rutgers defied the odds. By their fifth game of the season, the Knights crept into the NSCAA Top 25 and shot up the poll to a ranking as high as No. 14 in the countr y. It featured wide-open competition that starting goalkeeper Casey Murphy seized, proceeding to break out with consecutive Big Ten Co-Defensive Player of the Week Honors and a selection to the All-Big Ten Freshman team in a season where she sported a .829 save percentage. Murphy headlined a defensive unit that climbed its way into the discussion as the best in the nation.
Freshman goalkeeper Casey Murphy seized the starting goalkeeper position prior to the year in August and served as a key piece to an elite Rutgers defense. EDWIN GANO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Accompanied by junior defenders Brianne Reed and Erica Skroski, both of who garnered All-Big Ten honors at the end of the season, Murphy and the Knights accounted for 11 shutouts. It included a pair of electric scorers: one a proven senior leader in forward Stef Scholz and the other a
rising star in sophomore midfielder Madison Tiernan. When the team needed it most, one or the other showed up, combining for seven game-winning goals. It had adversity. After an eightgame unbeaten streak that featured 1-0 triumphs over Michigan State, Michigan, on the road at
Iowa and in hostile territor y at then-No. 7 Penn State, the wheels came off for Rutgers. At 11-1-1, the Knights were tied for their best start in program histor y and on the verge of completing an undefeated season on their home field for the first time since 1987.
But on Senior Day, Northwestern stunned the sea of scarlet in attendance at Yurcak Field with a goal in the 98th minute of overtime, and the season began to spiral down. The Knights left their NCAA Tournament fate in jeopardy, dropping four of their last five matches to end the regular season and Big Ten Tournament. But just as the Knights had been in every tight match they survived, luck was on their side. O’Neill’s squad snuck into the NCAAs and fed off the energy of a win-or-gohome atmosphere, earning a No. 7 seed and downing No. 10 La Salle in the first round. The win set the stage for a showdown with an offense that led the nation in scoring with 3.48 goals per game, but Rutgers didn’t budge. For one half, the Knights scrapped and battled with No. 2 Virginia to a scoreless tie at halftime. But the Cavaliers finally broke through in the second half, scoring two goals in the span of 40 seconds and eventually seize the match, 3-0. Despite the heartache, O’Neill and his players held their heads high. No one expected them to get this far. Their Big Ten peers disrespected them before they even touched the field. But when the Knights looked back on their season from beginning to end, the successes, triumphs and histor y formed were exactly what they intended to do all along.
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December 9, 2014 MEN’S SOCCER
Freshman forward Jason Wright was one of the few positives for the Knights this year, scoring a team-high 10 goals. EDWIN GANO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Knights struggle with identity after key loss SEAN STEWART ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
With less than five minutes in regulation and the game tied 1-1 in the Big Ten Championship, midfielder Mael Corboz stared down his options as he prepared to take a free kick from 20 yards out. Like he had done many times for the Rutgers men’s soccer team, Corboz then sent a perfectly curled shot into the top left corner of the goal to secure his team the win. The only problem was that instead of donning the red and white stripes Rutgers fans have been accustomed to, he wore the gold and black of Maryland. The former Scarlet Knights star had transferred to the Terrapins during the offseason and in just one season, he was already pouring salt in the Knights’ wounds by guiding his new side to the top of the conference. It was that kind of inaugural season for Rutgers in the Big Ten, finishing a disappointing year at 6-12-1. Corboz’s success only made matters worse. Not only did he lead Mar yland in goals scored with a season-high 10, but he also scored two goals against his former team, which included the go-ahead goal to officially end the Knights’ season. The thought of Corboz leaving and having immediate success was cringe-worthy enough for many Rutgers fans but not as shuddering as the Knights’ play this season. Under fifth-year head coach Dan Donigan, Rutgers finished without a winning record for a third consecutive season, now
close to four years removed from the memorable Sweet 16 NCAA Tournament run. Corboz’s transfer and the loss of leading goal scorer Kene Eze to graduation were always going to be difficult fixes for the Knights — the duo combined for nearly 63 percent of the team’s goal production. But the additions of some incoming freshmen and returning a majority of its core star ters had Donigan and his players boasting about the team’s newfound depth. Unfortunately for the Knights, the rigorous conference schedule took its toll. Rutgers finished 1-6-1 in conference play and failed to win a conference game at home. The Knights also suffered some of their worst losses of the season against non-conference opposition. It started with a 3-1 drubbing by Hofstra at Yurcak Field in September and was shortly followed by 3-0 and 5-2 losses to in-state rivals Monmouth and Princeton, respectively. Not all is lost, though. The Knights, barring any transfers, are set to lose just one starter from this season in senior midfielder Nathan Bruccoleri. Returning its leading goal scorer in freshman for ward Jason Wright and having essentially the same group from last year, Rutgers could use the offseason to establish an identity that was sorely lacking without Eze and Corboz. For the Knights’ sake, they will need to. Other wise, another lengthy rebuilding period is cer tain with eight players set to graduate following the 2015 season.
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December 9, 2014 FOOTBALL CARROO EARNED SPOT ON ALL-BIG TEN FIRST TEAM
CROSS COUNTRY
RU enjoys better times on season MIKE O’SULLIVAN STAFF WRITER
The Rutgers men’s and women’s cross country teams entered the fall season hoping to run as a pack while dropping race times and remaining healthy over the course of the season. Starting with their first meet at the Fordham Fiasco, and throughout all their races in between and ending at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regionals, the Scarlet Knights had a season full of individual highlights and growth as a team. On the men’s side, the Knights and head coach Mike Mulqueen had the challenge of trying to get a young team accustomed to both the college race distance and schedule. Six freshmen ran for Rutgers for the first time during the cross country season, making it one of the younger teams from around the region that went through a learning curve. The team’s youth was on display in each race, as three freshmen finished first for the team on three separate occasions. Trent Brinkofski led the team at the Fordham Fiasco, Luke Wiley finished first for the Knights at the Big Ten Championships and Alexander Livernois was the firstplace runner for his team at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regionals. On a team lacking veterans, junior Jaimin Vekaria was a key runner for the Knights. He led them in four different races and helped ease his younger teammates’ transitions from high school into the Big Ten. The women’s team featured a more balanced mix in terms of veterans and newcomers and was able to make the most of its training regimen designed to have more success during races by head coach James Robinson and assistant coach Jan Merrill-Morin. The biggest standout on the team was junior Paige Senatore, who was named the Big Ten’s Cross Country Athlete of the Week on Oct. 14, along with a Mid-Atlantic Regional Honoree after her top25 finish in the Regional race. Senatore hopes to be able to earn a bid to the NCAA Championships next season, and Robinson believes she can do so if she stays her current path. Senior Brianna Deming finished her cross country career in strong fashion after returning from injuries that caused her to miss parts of the last two seasons. She was able to remain healthy throughout the season and drop her race times. Her leadership, along with fellow seniors Allison Payenski and Ashley Deckert, will be missed next season, but some of the slack will be picked up by a few of the freshmen who emerged as prime performers for the Knights, like Megan Coakley and Alexandra Juzwiak. As a team, it won the Metropolitan Championships with hopes to carry over similar success next season and continue to move up the ranks of the Big Ten. The men and women had exciting seasons and look to continue their growth entering the winter indoor track season.
Big Ten year ends with winning record, awards GREG JOHNSON SPORTS EDITOR
When the Rutgers football team looks back on its first season in the Big Ten in less than a month, it will have every reason to feel satisfied. Despite nearly all prognosticators, including ESPN and SB Nation, projecting the Scarlet Knights to
finish dead last in the Big Ten’s seven-team East Division, the Knights took fourth ahead of the likes of Penn State and Michigan. Few thought Rutgers could stay unblemished through a four-game nonconference tilt that included road contests at Washington State and Navy, but it did it.
Senior quarterback Gary Nova finished third in the Big Ten this season in pass efficiency and yards per game. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
And hardly anyone thought the Knights would reach a ceiling of six wins and qualify for their fourth straight bowl game. Yet Rutgers secured seven victories, and Sunday the Knights accepted an invitation to the Quick Lane Bowl on Dec. 26 in Detroit. The team now has a realistic opportunity to finish 8-5 in its inaugural Big Ten campaign against the ACC’s North Carolina (6-6). Still, win or lose, Rutgers has exceeded all expectations. Individually, several Knights earned impressive accolades. Senior quarterback Gary Nova earned Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week twice, which only three other players in the conference achieved, including Heisman Trophy candidates J.T. Barrett and Melvin Gordon. Nova also finished third in the Big Ten in pass efficiency and yards per game, third only to Barrett and Michigan State’s Connor Cook. Junior wide receiver Leonte Carroo earned a selection to the All-Big
Ten First Team voted on by media members. Carroo finished second in the conference in receiving yards and touchdowns. The Edison, New Jersey, native tied Rutgers’ single-season record with his 10th touchdown catch in Nov. 29’s regular season finale at Maryland. He is also just one score shy of the program’s all-time record of 20 held by Brandon Coleman. Senior left guard Kaleb Johnson, junior defensive tackle Darius Hamilton and redshirt freshman defensive end Kemoko Turay garnered honorable mention All-Big Ten accolades. Hamilton and Turay helped anchor Rutgers’ defensive line with a combined 12.5 sacks, while Johnson has started 49 straight games — two shy of Scott Vallone’s program record set in 2012. Ultimately, although Rutgers wasn’t competitive with the Big Ten’s elite, getting blown out by Ohio State, Michigan State, Wisconsin and Nebraska, a solid 7-5 season gives the program a solid foundation to build on.
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