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Keith Ross, director of the Native American Welcome Center, restarted the Cultural Association this past January, after it was terminated in 2006. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR
Rutgers restarts Native American Cultural, Welcome Center BRITTANY GIBSON CONTRIBUTING WRITER
There are minorities, and then there are “minorities,” said Kathalina Alonso, a School of Arts and Sciences senior and president of the Native American Cultural Cen-
ter, and Native American students fill that space. Specific struggles and needs of this racial group can be easy to forget about since there is little to no mass media or news coverage about it, she said. With few students coming to
Rutgers with a comprehensive understanding of Native American life today, the Native American Cultural Center’s main goals are to educate and involve students in the history and modern struggles of these transitioning civilizations. The club’s main priority this year is to contin-
ue to increase the transparency of what happens beyond reservation borders with an abundance of guest speakers and powwow trips. Guest speakers are recruited by Keith Ross, the director of the Native American Welcome Center, who speaks about what the Native
American Cultural Center can do for all students at the University. Ross restarted the Cultural Association this past Januar y, after it was terminated in 2006. He already lined up Autumn Wind SEE CENTER ON PAGE 5
Students engage in community service for annual event SOPHIE NIETO MUNOZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER
This weekend, while thousands of University students tuned into the Rutgers versus Penn State football game — arguably the most hyped athletic event of the fall semester — other students spent their day serving the New Brunswick community in multiple settings, from picking up litter to cooking meals for families. On Saturday, Sept. 19, students throughout the University joined forces to volunteer at different community organizations throughout the state. Scarlet Day of Service is the largest service event of the year at Rutgers, planned by Rutgers University Programming Association (RUPA) and Rutgers Student Affairs. “We aim to build a stronger relationship between Rutgers and the local communities in New Jersey, and encourage students to become engaged members of their community,” said School of Arts and Sciences junior Keerthana Hirudayakanth and Community Service Committee director of RUPA. More than 1,000 students participated in the event by cleaning up communities, revitalizing outdoor SEE SERVICE ON PAGE 4
Rutgers President Robert L. Barchi and Douglass Residential College Dean Jacquelyn Litt were present to break ground for the new Global Village Center, a part of the Douglass Residential College, funded in part by alumni and other major donors, on Friday, Sept. 18. NIKHILESH DE
U. breaks ground for Douglass Global Village Center NIKHILESH DE CORRESPONDENT
The new Global Village Center, a part of the Douglass Residential College, will be constructed on-budget and on-time, said University President Robert L. Barchi at the groundbreaking ceremony on Friday. The center, funded in part by alumni and other major donors,
indicates a new step in educating women at the University on issues around the world, said Jacquelyn Litt, dean of Douglass Residential College and Douglass Campus. “In this building we will create the educational synergies that emerge when we bring hundreds of Douglass students together,” she said. There are about 2,400 students in DRC, she said, which is a great deal
more than the roughly 430 women who were part of the program just a few years ago. They make up 15 percent of the total undergraduate woman population at Rutgers— New Brunswick. More than 700 students enrolled in the program this year alone, she said. The program should continue to increase in size over the next few years.
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“The growth is tremendous,” she said. “I expect that more students will enroll but it depends on how much we can afford. It really is a small college within Rutgers.” Barchi said programs like the DRC were crucial to student success. There are more than 67,000 enrolled students at the University, SEE GROUND ON PAGE 4
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Campus Calendar MONDAY 9/21 The Department of Genetics and the Human Genetics Institute of New Jersey present, “Department of Genetics Seminar” from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at the Life Sciences Building on Busch campus. The event is free and open to the public. The Center for Global Education hosts, “Fall Study Abroad Fair” from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the College Avenue Student Center on the College Avenue campus. The event is free and open to the public. The Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences presents, “Atmospheric Deposition Impacts on the Ocean” at 3:45 p.m. at the Marine Sciences Building on Cook campus. The event is free and open to the public. The Division of Student Affairs hosts, “Rutgers University—New Brunswick Homecoming Kickoff Bonfire” at 8 p.m. on Yurcak Field on Busch campus. The event is free and open to the public. TUESDAY 9/22 The Rutgers Office of Continuing Professional Education presents, “Water Loss Management” from 8:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. at Hort Farm No. 2’s Ralph Geiger Turfgrass Education Center on Cook campus. The event is free and open to the public. The Ecology and Evolution Graduate Program presents, “Public Perceptions of Genetically Modified Foods and Mandator y Labeling” from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Marine Sciences Building on Cook campus. The event is free and open to the public. The Confucius Institute at Rutgers University presents, “China and the Rise of the West: A Military Historical Perspective” from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus. The event is free and open to the public. The Catholic Students Association hosts, “Spirit Night” from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Livingston Student Center on Livingston campus. The event is free and open to the public. WEDNESDAY 9/23 The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences presents, “Lunar magma ocean crystallization: an experimental approach” from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at Wright Rieman Laboratories on Busch campus. The event is free and open to the public. The Department of Nutritional Sciences presents, “Endocrine Control of Glucose Homeostasis by the Liver” from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Food Science Building on Cook campus. The event is free and open to the public.
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Alumnus creates medical ‘Lab-on-a-Chip’ technology NIKHILESH DE CORRESPONDENT
Blood tests are rarely fun, and for individuals suffering from a disease, the discomfort may be compounded. But a new technology, called “Lab-on-a-Chip,” aims to make the process more bearable. “Lab-on-a-Chip” is a field of research with promising applications, said Mehdi Ghodbane, a Rutgers alumnus. Ghodbane was lead researcher on a team at Rutgers that created one such chip to test for diseases. Normal assays, or tests, performed in a laboratory require large amounts of blood or other bodily fluids, while also costing large amounts of money, he said. These tests are used in a wide range of applications, from research to checking for diseases in blood. A lab-on-a-chip minimizes this procedure, requiring both less blood and less money, Ghodbane said. “A test tube holds (a lot) of liquid. Instead we do it with a micro-channel, which is smaller than the width of a human hair,” he said. “You use less samples, it reduces the cost.” These are the main advantages of labs-on-chips, he said. Some chips are also portable or usable in areas with no power or other clinical facilities, such as in developing nations. But Ghodbane’s chip does require a clinic to operate. While the tests themselves are done with the same reduced cost and
volume, the other equipment found in a lab is still needed. “We use amino acids to measure any proteins to diagnose various diseases,” he said. “The drawbacks are it’s very expensive … and the amount of sample volume to perform the analysis (is considerable).” This sort of research is performed all across the University in the various labs and clinics, he said. The apparently large amount of blood used for a test is important, said Joshua Roshal, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. Blood tests are usually performed for multiple indicators, and each one needs to be tested independently of the others, Roshal said. “Each vial of blood is discarded after it has been tested for a certain blood marker,” he said. “Thus, in order to test for multiple markers, you need multiple (vials) of blood.” If a test needs to be performed again, extra blood may be taken as a precaution, said Neil Patel, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. For an ordinary patient, it would seem like a lot of blood, Patel said. His chip requires “a tenth of the volume” and another fraction of the cost, Ghodbane said. The chip is able to test six different amino acids at the same time, a further advantage. Ghodbane’s chips specifically can be used to test for certain pathogens, including Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the bug that causes Lyme Disease.
The applications for this technology are considerable, he said. Certain tests cannot be performed on animal models due to the amount of blood or other fluid required. At the same time, Ghodbane believes it would be unethical or difficult to test potential cures or treatments on humans for diseases such as Parkinson’s, or issues like spinal cord injuries. Drawing enough fluid from a lab rat for testing might normally result in killing the rat accidentally. This no longer needs to be an issue, since the chips only use a “pinprick” of blood, he said. The technology has a few hurdles left to overcome, Ghodbane said. Trying to create the micro-channels and ensuring that they work properly is the main obstacle in creating new chips. “We have these really small channels and somehow you have to get things into and out of there,” he said. “You have to manipulate the fluids into and out of there (but) these interfaces have not yet been perfected.” Once these channels can be created simply, the chip technology should advance rapidly. “That’s where most progress will be made in this field, because once that’s done the barriers to this are coming down,” he said. The other aspect to maximizing the use of this chip is in mass production. While the chip used in the published paper was created with a replica molding
“Lab-on-a-Chip” was developed by Mehdi Ghodbane, a Rutgers alumnus. Normal assays, or tests, performed in a laboratory require large amounts of blood or other bodily fluids. A lab-ona-chip minimizes this procedure by requiring less blood. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR
meth od — a cheaper way to produce individual units — commercial use would probably use injection molding. “Injection molding is cheap per unit, but it’s expensive to make molds so in research we don’t do it that way,” he said. “We do it the other way where we can change our design.” Injection molding, if used with the right equipment, can become an automated process and allow any user to create the chip instead of only highly-trained individuals, he said.
Mass production in developing nations might not be feasible yet. The advanced technology required in the chips may preclude certain users from creating them, he said. As improvements continue, reducing the advanced par ts might be something that is looked into. Still, Ghodbane said the cost benefits are clear. “The technology has the potential to decrease the amount of cost used by ever y hospital in the world,” he said.
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GROUND New facilities in Global Village Center will have both residential, common areas, Litt says play in a global world and improving global society?” All members of the college are and the majority of them go to school in New Brunswick. Split- welcome at the new center when ting them into smaller groups it is built, she said. DRC students makes it easier for students to ac- in living-learning communities exist for different parts of Rutgers climate to college life. “In order to make (Rutgers) such as the School of Engineering more accessible to students, we on Busch campus, the Honors have to break it down into units College on the College Avenue that are safe,” Barchi said. “Oth- campus and the School of Envier wise it is so over whelming ronmental and Biological Scienc(and) it is difficult for most stu- es on Cook campus. A new National Science Foundents to engage. The Douglass Residential College is, as it has dation-funded computer science living-learning been for a long community will time, a model soon begin as that we look to well. replicate.” “This opens up new The new cenThe DRC is vistas for education, ter is important a one-of-a-kind because we haven’t had due to what it organization will provide for in that it is the this physical space.” the Douglass only women’s Residential center for globJACQUELYN LITT College, she al education Dean of Douglass Residential College and said. While in the nation, Douglass Campus members can Litt said. Othconvene in stuer institutions dent centers or might have programs for women or for glob- classrooms, there are no locations al education, but none combine it specific to the DRC that can be used for events or classes. the way Rutgers does. New facilities in the GlobIt is also the only female college in a large research insti- al Village Center will include tution, Chancellor Richard L. both residential and common areas, she said. The top half Edwards said. “It is unique because of its of the two-stor y building will long histor y of providing oppor- be home to students in “global tunities for women studying in village houses” within the colother countries, providing those lege. These include the Spanopportunities through leader- ish House, an active par t of the ship,” Edwards said. “Rutgers DRC. “On the bottom floor we’ll is looked at as the prime leader for how we’re dealing with have our conferences, our global telecommunications, women’s issues.” The various academic associ- our education classes,” Litt ations the University is a part of said. “We’ll also have areas for look to Rutgers for help with any students to hang out and talk efforts they make to increase or work on projects.” Other facilities will include a their diversity the way the Univerlarge kitchen and a conference sity has, he said. DRC students have now ex- room for speakers and meetings. The center will act as a home panded to many different degree programs in the University. In- base for the DRC, she said. The tegrating different majors with Jameson residence halls already global education is a key goal, act as a “mothership” for the students, but this solidifies their Litt said. “What’s the connection be- space. All students are welcome tween science living-learning at the center, she said. “This opens up new vistas for communities and global education?” she said. “Bring those to- education, because we haven’t gether, so what role does science had this physical space,” she said. CONTINUED FROM FRONT
On Saturday, Sept. 19, students throughout the University participated in Scarlet Day of Service, the largest service event of the year at Rutgers, planned by Rutgers University Programming Association (RUPA) and Rutgers Students Affairs. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ
SERVICE Hirudayakanth says there were 50 groups registered for Scarlet Day of Service 2015 CONTINUED FROM FRONT
spaces, cleaning up indoor spaces, working with youth and senior citizens, preparing meals for families and serving at a food pantry. One of the goals of this year was to reach more community partners in different parts of the state, Hirudayakanth said. “We are so excited to serve a bigger community this year and engage more students in Scarlet Day of Service,” Hirudayakanth said. “It is amazing how many students are interested in communi-
ty service at Rutgers, and we are looking forward to a great event.” School of Arts and Sciences senior Kerri Johnsen said she had been participating in the event since she was a first-year student. “I have participated and been involved with the event for the past three years,” said Johnsen. “Giving back to the community you live in is extremely important in building a bond and pride in the place you call home. She said she is also excited for more volunteers than previous years.
“It’s great to see the event become more and more publicized as well as more recognized by Rutgers Students,” Johnsen said. Hirudayakanth said there were 50 groups registered for Scarlet Day of Service. “We have 27 sites in New Brunswick and the surrounding areas, including sites by the shore that were affected by Hurricane Sandy,” she said. Overall, the mission of Scarlet Day of Service is to have students give back to where they live and make meaningful connections within the community, Hirudayakanth said. “Even if it is a student’s first time doing community service or they have done it in the past, we hope students will learn something new from this experience and be inspired to continue to make a difference,” she said.
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CENTER Torres wants to establish Rutgers as Native American-friendly education institution Alonso said she encourages the University to strive toward creatScott, commission chair repre- ing something bigger and to assenting the Ramapough Lenape semble an entire Native American Indian Nation, Chief Vincent Curriculum as part of the Depart“Eagle Spirit” Mann of the Ra- ment of American Studies. “This is a shame because Rutmapough Lenape Nation and Rev. John Nor wood, the Nanti- gers is so diverse ... why wouldn’t coke Lenni-Lenape Travel Coun- it include that?” she asked. Alonso said she would like to cilman, along with many more distinguished primar y sources see teachers and medical professionals logging training hours as part of 12 speaker series. Ross emphasized the finan- in reser vations, where she said cial relief and scholarship op- people need the resources. Monica Torres, a School of Arts portunities for Native American and Sciences students who junior and Dewish to conpartment of tinue their Education Roneducation if “I don’t want to write they choose to their narrative. I just want ald E. McNair scholar, said her identify with to highlight theirs … and research focusbeing Native share it with the es on the needs American. of Native AmerThe Native University.” ican Students in American CulHigher Educatural Center MONICA TORRES tion Institutes, will also have School of Arts and Sciences Junior specifically an active attenRutgers—New dance this year Brunswick. at powwows. Torres, who is also a researchThe first is Sunday, Sept. 20 in er for the Cultural Association, North Ridge. A powwow is a family-geared would like to focus on the admissymposium full of guest speakers, sions and retention rates of Native activities and a window into the American students. Torres would like to create lives of modern Native American families. The Native American bonds with Native American Cultural Center plans to host a and future Rutgers students in University powwow in the com- high schools around the state so ing years that are open to Native they know that Rutgers is a NaAmerican families across New tive-friendly institution and that they will be comfortable and Jersey and all Rutgers students. In addition to powwows and supported at the University. “I don’t want to write their narguest speakers, the Cultural Association and Welcome Center also rative,” Torres said. “I just want plans to impact University academ- to highlight theirs ... and share it ic and admissions administrations. with the University.” CONTINUED FROM FRONT
CRIME SEPT. 20 NEWARK — Two shootings and a car crash left three people dead. The first shooting occurred around 9 p.m. on Saturday in a parking lot in the 400 block of Central Avenue, involving Hassan Chatmon, 28, of East Orange, who was taken to University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The second fatal shooting was around 2 a.m. in the 200 block of Irvine Turner Boulevard. Ernest Matthews, 25, of Newark was the victim of that shooting. No suspects have been arrested and a motive is not yet clear in both homicides, officials said. A taxi cab driver also died on Sunday morning. The driver sustained fatal injuries when he hit another vehicle around 3:55 a.m. in the 500 block of Broad Street. The name of the driver was not released. All three incidents are under investigation.
SEPT. 20 WOODBURY — Fatima Aviles of Philidelphia was convicted of burglary and theft from two South Jersey Verizon stores. The 27-year-old was found guilty in June of stealing more than $35,000 in cellphones from stores in Glassboro and Washington Township in July and August 2013. Aviles was sentenced Friday to three years in prison. SEPT. 19 CAPE MAY COUNTY — Phillip F. Cimini is accused of sexually abusing four juveniles. The 34-year-old is charged with two counts each of child endangerment and aggravated sexual. He was also later charged of criminal sexual contact and child endangerment in addition to prior charges. Cimini is being held in lieu of $900,000 cash bail at the Cape May County Correctional Center.
CLOTHESLINE CARING The Clothesline Project, an initiative by the Office of Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance, originated in Cape Cod, Massachussetts in 1990 to bear witness to violence against women. The project grew to include sexual abuse, child abuse and stalking, among other offenses. On Sept. 17, students strung T-shirts between trees on Voorhees Mall on the College Avenue campus. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ
September 21, 2015
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New dean set for University College Community
Dona Schneider was appointed Acting Dean of the University College Community (UCC), which helps non-traditional students, on Aug. 1. COURTESY OF DONA SCHNEIDER
CONNOR MCCARTHY CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Rutgers—New Br unswick campus was home to more than 2,507 students who identified as adult or non-traditional in Fall 2013, and the University College Community (UCC) was created to suppor t these students, according to its website.
Dona Schneider, who herself experienced life as a non-traditional student, was appointed Acting Dean of the University College Community on Aug. 1. Schneider is sensitive to the needs of non-traditional students seeking to balance their academic goals with their responsibilities, work and family life. “I’m very sympathetic to the problems of transfer students be-
cause I was one myself.” Schneider said. “I hated my dorm, the school I was in didn’t feel right for me. So I left. And I didn’t return to school until I was 28.” The UCC does not award degrees like other schools at Rutgers, as it is a community, rather than a full-fledged school. Instead, it provides services to students to assist them in achieving their degrees, such as academic advising.
The lack of programs for transfer and non-traditional students is a problem that the UCC aims to remedy. Students are encouraged to attend a student orientation geared for transfer and adult student populations offered by the Office of Student Affairs, according to the UCC website. “Freshmen have programs in place to help them adjust, like New Student Orientation. Transfer students didn’t have programs like that. They can slip through the cracks,” Schneider said. “Transfer students can sometimes feel kind of like orphans.” The UCC aims to help transfer students and non-traditional students adjust, Schneider said. The UCC only offers its services to transfer students and non-traditional students. The term “non-traditional” is used to identify students who have personal and professional demands on their lives that make it challenging to meet their academic goals. Veterans, students with children and students that work fulltime are all considered non-traditional students. The UCC has a new veteran student organization open to current veteran service members, family members and friends of service members or anyone who wants to support our veterans and troops on the New Brunswick campus, according to the UCC website. Rutgers University Services, Education, and Resources for Veteran Students (RU S.E.R.V.S) is an organization within the UCC. This student-run organization was created for veterans by veterans, according to the RU S.E.R.V.S page on the UCC website. UCC advocates for non-traditional students inside the larger University community by recommending policies and programs to meet specific needs of non-traditional students. “Many transfer students can only take classes at certain times
because they have jobs or children. Because of that, some students could be unable to take required classes, for example,” Schneider said. The UCC combats this issue by offering support services at times that are convenient for non-traditional students, Schneider said. The UCC also endorses the School of Management and Labor Relations and the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. The School of Management and Labor Relations offer degrees with a flexible combination of online, daytime, weekend, evening and off-campus courses, according to the UCC website. Similarly, the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy alleviated the hardships of non-traditional students by offering a degree in public health for transfer students. “Our goal is to (help students) avoid the ‘RU Screw.’ We want to make things better,” Schneider said. Schneider serves as Principal Investigator for the HIV Community Prevention, Support and Development Initiative, said Vice Chancellor Ben Sifuentes in a press statement. This is a grant-funded initiative that trains and provides technical assistance to organizations across the state that aim to prevent HIV and support those that have it. Schneider is particularly pleased to be named Acting Dean of the University College Community, as she will be responsible for working with students, faculty and other administrators to carr y out this important work, Sifuentes said in the statement. “Professor Schneider is a committed educator and enthusiastic leader, who has an outstanding record in research and teaching in epidemiology and public policy,” Sifuentes said.
Science
September 21, 2015
University expert explains science behind hangovers
U. students develop ‘Find my Health’ app HARSHEL PATEL
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
A hangover is the result of having consumed typically larger quantities of alcohol and is actually the consequence of the alcohol being removed from your body and your body’s response to having to adjust itself Robert Pandina, director of the Center of Alcohol Studies. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR
nights,” it said. “Such studies clearly demonstrated that tolerance to alcohol’s sedative and sleep-stage ef fects develops within three nights”. The body can build up a tolerance against these ef fects. Waiting for a hangover to pass is the most ef fective way to be cured, Pandina said. Aspirin or other conventional products, along with other treatments, may help alleviate some of the symptoms, such as headaches. Some students believe greasy food will help relieve a hangover. “No, that’s not good at all. It’s cer tainly not the way to
“A lot of it I think is knowing how much you can tolerate.” TEJUS PRADEEP School of Arts and Sciences Senior
help dealing with a hangover,” Pandina said. ”If students think about eating when they drink, that may actually help reduce the likelihood that you have a hangover.” Eating while drinking forces the body to absorb alcohol more slowly, helping it process the sugar better. He said that over-the-counter anti-hangover products are inef fective. “To my knowledge there is no evidence scientifically that any of these products actually work to do anything for your hangover,” he said. Tejus Pradeep, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior, said
students still put faith in recipes or other hangover cures. “I’ve seen friends eat specific (items),” he said. “They (have) special little recipes of things that they swear work against hangovers.” These items range from eating almonds and walnuts to drinking spor ts drinks like Gatorade or Powerade. People also make sure to drink water, he said. Although electrolyte-rich drinks like Gatorade may help reduce the dehydration, other remedies should not provide much of a cure, Pandina said. Any relief felt may simply be the placebo ef fect taking place. Students may believe that such remedies are helping them and so they feel better. The obvious way to avoid a hangover is to simply not drink large quantities of alcohol, Pandina said. The majority of students choose not to employ this option when drinking. “With friends sometimes, it just happens,” Reydman said. “We drink a lot but ever yone reminds each other to drink a lot of water so there’s no problem there.” Pradeep said he would recommend moderation and knowing limits. Having friends watch over each other while drinking would also help them stay within limits. Drinking intelligently could not hur t, he said. “The best thing you can do for your body ... is just maintain good hydration after wards and cer tainly eating may help deal with some of the aftermath of symptoms having to do with a hangover,” Pandina said. “That is not a ‘cure’ … but there’s no magic food that will help you with a hangover.”
SIMPLE SCIENCE HOT AND COLD: WHAT CREATES PSYCHOPATHS? NIKHILESH DE CORRESPONDENT
If you’ve ever seen Saw, you saw a deranged maniac forcing innocent bystanders to endure excruciating pain or be left to die. You might call the mastermind behind those movies a psychopath. Psychopaths have difficulty becoming emotionally involved
“PennApps is usually a big suppor ter of health hacks,” Jogani said. “They’re interestA group of cur rent and for- ed in people who make an app mer college students designed or make some hardware rean application that may make lated hack that has to do with it easier to find the nearest health. They’re really big on hospital available for immedi- that, so it fur ther encouraged us to pursue this idea.” ate care. Prior to the hackathon, the The group, composed of cur rent Rutgers students Vi- group had no physical interral Jogani and Dean Rexines, action with one another. Deboth School of Engineering spite being in the same class students, as well as Rutgers and major, Rexines and Jogani alumnus Jay Ravaliya and cur- never met, and neither of them rent University of Michigan had met Ravaliya nor Maaieh, student Haitham Maaieh, de- Jogani said. Despite this, the group was signed an iPhone application to tackle a common issue with able to come together and produce an application that they emergency care. The application, “Find hope will soon be available to My Health,” was created at a the public, Rexines said. “We didn’t fully know each hackathon called PennApps, hosted by the University of other initially,” he said. “We Pennsylvania. A hackathon is just had an idea, we had simian event where teams spend lar skills and just one weekend a weekend creating solutions to come up with something. to real-world problems using We were happy with how it software or hardware, accord- came out, and we are planning on moving for ward with it.” ing to the PennApps website. Over time, the group hopes The PennApps hackathon, held in the Wells Fargo Center the application allows people in Philadelphia, hosted a vari- to find quick treatment and ety of people from around the allow hospitals avoid being world. Two thousand hackers overcrowded. They also hope were selected to attend, rep- to add a feature allowing users resenting 127 universities and to note how long they waited colleges and 11 countries, as at a hospital in order to build well as employers like Google, a more accurate data set, Rexines said. Facebook, H a c k and Uber, athons, deRavaliya said. “Go out to a hackathon signed to The apand see what it’s all about. bring the plication is You might learn hacker comdesigned to something new.” munity tonotify people gether, are in non-life things that threatening JAY RAVALINA should be acemergencies Rutgers Alumnus cepted and how long it promoted by would take to see a healthcare professional, Rutgers, Jogani said. Bringing together enthusiastic students Ravaliya said. “The question should not who have personal projects be ‘How long will it take to get and tr y to apply their knowlto the hospital?’” he said. “The edge for a practical purpose is question should not solely an impor tant experience. “It would be great if Rutbe how long the wait time is, but ‘From where you are, how gers could follow the same long will it take to see a doc- interests as these companies tor? What’s the most optimal and tr y to promote events like hackathons,” Jogani said. hospital you could get to?’” One of the main functions “Hopefully we can find entreof the application is to search preneurs in the future who for the nearest hospital based can say ‘Because of Rutgers, I on criteria such as waiting was able to make a bigger diftime inside the hospital, travel ference in the world.’” These events allow people time to the hospital including traf fic, and user reviews, Jog- from all backgrounds to come together and use their knowlani said. The other function is to di- edge in a meaningful way, rerectly contact emergency ser- gardless of their level of expevices through 911, as well as rience, Rexines said. Even newcomers to the notifying three primar y contacts of your location via text field can get involved in hackathons, since the commessage, he said. The idea for such an ap- munity is welcoming to those plication came from a trip who take interest in it, Ravto Florida, where some hos- aliya said. “No matter what you’re a pitals had billboards telling potential patients to text a par t of, you can benefit from number in order to determine going to a hackathon,” he the wait time for the hospital, said. “My advice to anyone interested in technology that Ravaliya said. Seeing these billboards in- uses an iPhone or Android despired him to find data sets vice is this: Go out to a hackwith the relevant information, athon and see what it’s all and later propose the concept about. You might lear n something new.” to the team, he said. STAFF WRITER
MADHURI BHAPATHIRAJU A night of drinking out is a common source of entertainment for many college students, but the next morning usually brings on the unpleasant experience of a hangover. Rober t Pandina, director of the Center of Alcohol Studies, said there are many misconceptions about what a hangover is, and subsequently, there are misconceptions about how people suf fering from them can cure themselves. “A hangover is basically a withdrawal syndrome,” he said. “It’s the result of having consumed typically larger quantities of alcohol and is actually the consequence of the alcohol being removed from your body and your body’s response to having to adjust itself.” A lot of students simply believe that a hangover is a severe case of dehydration. Pandina said this is a misconception, though alcohol does cause the human body to dehydrate. Drinking water should help rehydrate, but may not provide too much relief, he said. Other symptoms occur along with dehydration during a hangover. Yan Reydman, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior, said a hangover is caused by dehydration but has many symptoms. “I have trouble opening my eyes, I’m ver y groggy, it’s like I haven’t slept all night and there’s throbbing in my temples,” he said. I’ve also heard from my friends you can get a severe headache.” According to an ar ticle by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the drug has an impact on sleep, aler tness the next day, and “cer tain psychological processes” that occur during sleep. Dif ferent stages of sleep are af fected in dif ferent ways, according to the ar ticle. “Several studies have assessed the ef fects of alcohol administration over several
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with people. These individuals tend to have antisocial personality disorder, which is more than just not wanting to share toys as a child. People with APD are literally unable to empathize with others. When someone is injured, a neurotypical human will “feel” their pain and want to comfort them. Someone with APD would not actually be able to do this. Psychopathy goes beyond this, resulting in individuals who are self-assured and quick-witted,
but who may also have no impulse control. They also likely want more excitement in their lives at the risk of defying authorities. Researchers have found differences in certain parts of the brain that control emotions when the brains of those with APD and neurotypical humans are compared. The idea that psychopaths enjoy causing pain has not been conclusively confirmed or rejected, though there may be a correlation with criminal behavior.
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or the foreseeable future, Floodgate has go. Will that money be turned into scholarships for the come to an end. In a detailed email sent on greater student body? Or will it but reallocated back Sept. 16, President Barchi thoroughly ex- to the athletics program? The truth remains unknown. Flood knowingly sent an email inquiring about the plained an email situation involving Rutgers head football coach Kyle Flood. Boiling the happenings failing grade that former player Nadir Barnwell redown to a microcosm, Flood emailed and met with ceived in Dance Appreciation — a class that showing a faculty member regarding a player’s grade — up to would at least get you a passing grade, if not an A. one that that made him academically ineligible to Sending the email was inexcusable. Flood knew he was play football. In doing so, Flood violated “well-es- in the wrong the entire time. He tried to cover the situtablished University policies,” and would be pun- ation up by sending the email from his private account, and meeting with the faculty member off-campus, but ished accordingly. The sentence he received is similar to the one for- clearly failed. Flood put himself, and really the rest of his mer Men’s Basketball coach Mike Rice received in team, on the line for Barnwell, a player who took himDecember 2012. In the email, it was announced that self out of the running likely before Flood intervened Flood would be suspended for the next three Saturday on his behalf. And now what? The rest of the team and games, and will pay a fine of $50,000. The only differ- program members are left fielding hate and backlash ence here is that Rice was suspended without pay, and from not only national news media but from their peers. Everything boils down to two things: the players and Flood was suspended with pay. The punishment is incontestably odd, further exemplifying the fact that top the game. What goes on off the field is important, but Rutgers officials may in fact value Big Ten football over in no way should those circumstances dominate the narrative surrounding the team. everything else. Flood’s susFor every Rutgers football player pension is infinitely better than that made a mistake, there are 20 a slap on the wrist. He gets to “What damage will a more that have been doing the coach the team during the week, $50,000 fine really do to right thing since day one. Flood Monday through Friday, yet has to sit out on game day — but financially impact Flood?” has a responsibility to his players. It’s his job to make sure that he only for three weeks. does everything in his power to Flood’s presence on Saturday ensure that every player gets on games would be akin to cramming last minute for a test. You spend five days during field every Saturday and gives the game their all. But the week preparing yourself: Making flash cards, re- what happens when you take another chance on someviewing notes and taking practice quizzes. So by the one who probably didn’t deserve a second chance? The entire situation casts an incandescent light on time the test rolls around on Saturday afternoon, you pretty much know everything you’re going to know. Of what is wrong with the University in the first place. Encourse the parallel is not a direct correlation, as football tering the Big Ten Conference was a good long-term players get timeout and halftime coaching alongside a move for academics, athletics and the overall appeal of litany of pep talks. But the fact remains —if you don’t the University. But the events of the past year including get it by Saturday, there’s probably no point in trying to professor salary negotiations and Floodgate, it’s clear that the university values the game over the academic cram in any more information. Similarly, out of the million-dollar salary that Flood wellbeing of the University. It has been said over and makes, what damage will a $50,000 fine really do to fi- over again but Rutgers administrators are delaying the nancially impact Flood? While he does have a wife and inevitable in choosing not to fire Flood, again chooskids to take care of, Flood is New Jersey’s highest paid ing sports over everything else. Yet as the adage goes, state employee, meaning the fine could, and should, things have to get ugly before they can become beauhave been much more. Barchi’s email also doesn’t tiful, so hopefully the end of Floodgate is the end of a clarify where money collected from the fine is going to beautiful beginning. The Daily Targum’s editorials represent the views of the majority of the 147th editorial board. Columns, cartoons and letters do not necessarily reflect the views of the Targum Publishing Company or its staff.
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Ahmed’s story is indicative of deep-seeded discrimination QUESTIONING THE COLONIAL COLLEGE JANNA ALADDIN
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ast week, Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old boy from Texas, was handcuf fed and detained for building a digital clock. Upon showing his teacher his latest invention, the teacher repor ted the clock as a bomb to the police. Although Ahmed maintained it was just a clock, he was met with hostility and mistrust. Shor tly after a picture of Ahmed in handcuf fs and a NASA t-shir t hit the Internet, the hashtag #StandwithAhmed was trending. In fact, it circulated so quickly and widely that President Obama of fered his suppor t for Ahmed’s invention. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google and professors from Harvard and MIT of fered their suppor t for Ahmed, urging him to move for ward in his career as an engineer and innovator. It would seem that the stor y ended on a happy note — the charges were dropped, Ahmed will be transferring schools and his future is, undoubtedly, a bright one. But the stor y doesn’t star t or end with Ahmed and his clock, his is just one narrative in a histor y of sur veillance and demonization. This story is an absurd one for countless reasons. When did we start criminalizing students for showing intelligence and creativity? When did innovation lead to interrogation?
When did schools cease to represent learning and support? I believe the answers lie in Ahmed’s name. Bearing a Muslim name is enough to turn an impressive clock into a bomb. The politics of Ahmed’s name are intertwined in a long-standing history of Islamophobia, racism and bias. In fact, it is almost ironic that President Obama tweeted, “Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great.” The United States’s drone program claims the lives of many innocent
ophobic sentiments include bogus terrorism reports, FBI surveillance, and counterterrorism programs as part of the national security apparatus all seeking to marginalize Muslim-Americans as the “them.” If you have the patience to watch any Republican candidate speak you will often hear questions like, “What are we going to do about those Muslims?” These questions are almost always entertained. Violence against Muslims and anyone thought of to be Muslim is still on the rise. Just last week, Inderjit Singh Mukker, a Sikh man was beaten vio-
“Islamophobia needs to be addressed. The reaction to Ahmed’s story has been wonderful, but without an understanding of why it occurred, it’ll happen again. Islamophobia should be acknowledged.” civilians including children and teenagers who probably share Ahmed’s enthusiasm for the sciences. This tweet is a prime example of American exceptionalism that ignores the realities of the situation. In this case, the realities include the very reason as to why Ahmed was detained and handcuffed in the first place. Bush’s War on Terror echoed sentiments of Islamophobia through military intervention and war abroad as well as through policing and jailing domestically. The war was inevitably characterized as “us vs. them,” but “them” included almost all Muslim, Arab and brown U.S. citizens. Policies of Islam-
lently, was called “Bin Laden” and told, “Go back to your own country.” President Obama’s own policies have contributed to a nationwide mistrust of Muslims despite how he ended the War on Terror in 2013. His policies include extending the dubious Patriot Act and the continued surveillance of Muslim-American communities. It is also hard to ignore all the children from Iraq to Pakistan to Afghanistan who have been subjected to America’s Islamophobia problem without receiving any attention from the White House or tweets assuring them that America supports their scientific ventures.The War on Terror has claimed the
lives of many children the age of Ahmed, and it has also made going to school impossible for many innocent civilians who look for the same opportunities of expression and creativity that Ahmad sought with his clock. America’s Islamophobia problem found its way to the banks of the Old Raritan. One such incident occurred when the NYPD went out of its jurisdiction to launch a surveillance program on Muslim students at Rutgers. Agents were inserted into Muslim spaces, such as Muslim Student Association meetings, assuming every Muslim student was worthy of suspicion. Islamophobia needs to be addressed. The reaction to Ahmed’s story has been wonderful, but without an understanding of why it occurred, it’ll happen again. Islamophobia should be acknowledged, and there needs to be a collective movement to go past judgment and suspicion. Politicians should not be able to claim Muslims are a problem to be dealt with, with little to no repercussion. I recommend starting with the University. Question when professors assign a reading such as “Clash of Civilizations” by Samuel Huntington, a piece dedicated to enforcing the “us vs. them” mentality. Question the surveillance of your fellow peers. Only then will we be able to create a space open to all, without the fear that a remarkable innovation can lead to one’s arbitrary detention. Janna Aladdin is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in public health and Middle Eastern studies with minors in history and women’s gender studies. Her column, “Questioning the Colonial College,” runs on alternate Mondays.
Loyalty, brotherhood proves vital in face of public scrutiny I HATE WRITING JULIAN PINNIX-ODRICK
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rowing up, my father taught me many life lessons. As a young man, a parent’s lectures may tend to go in one ear and out the other, more often than not. But the interesting thing I found about lessons that our parents try to teach us is that they have a sort of boomerang effect. A boomerang effect in the sense that messages communicated at one particular moment in time may not resonate in our consciousness until much later on. We may not necessarily understand a concept as well as we think we do when we hear it for the first time, but as we go on in life, the same concept presents itself in a way that hits home for us. In my life particularly, the concept of putting family first is a lesson that I thought I understood when it was first expressed to me. It wasn’t until just recently that this resonated me in a different way. The idea of putting family first isn’t as simple as supporting everything your family does. I mean, what if I don’t agree with what a family member does or stands for, why should I support them? After all, they are they’re own people and I’ve developed my own morals, so why should I sacrifice my name for the well-being of someone who seemingly has the same options as I do? The answer is simple. In order to accomplish things that will be remembered for a lifetime, we must sacrifice ourselves for a bigger cause. We must sacrifice comfort for
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achievement. Within any kind of family, the goal may be an emotionally, spiritually and financially prosperous life. Depending on the reasons we are affiliated with other people within a group, goals will differ. Who am I? My name is Julian Pinnix-Odrick, and I am a senior here at the University. I am currently pursuing a major in communication and minor in labor studies. I plan on graduating this spring (shoutout to the Class of 2016). I don’t know if video
an athlete. Not that I am ashamed of being a football player, but I just feel as though not many people understand what being a football player means to us. My football team is my family. Not my family in the sense of some misplaced need for acceptance and belonging, but through trial by fire. Being a good Division I football player is not easy and being a good Division I football team is even harder. On the journey to becoming better players and creating
“The sport and how we respond to it is simply a microcosm of life. How I respond to adversity within my sport is a reflection of how I will respond to adversity is life. How I defend my brother on the field is a reflection of how I will defend my brother off of the field.” games count as a hobby, or if I play them enough to consider them as my hobbies, but that’s what I do in my spare time. Like most college students I enjoy chilling with friends and going out on weekends. I am also on the football team here at the University. This is something about me that many people find interesting for an array of reasons. In fact, once I meet someone for the first time and it comes up that I play football, it usually dominates the rest of the conversation and the next few conversations I have with that person. Because of my 6-foot-5, 270-pound frame, it is quite difficult to be seen as anything else but
a better team, we put ourselves through situations that push our bodies and minds to their limits. We put our pride aside and our hearts on the line. We trust in our teammates to bring us up when we are down and push us further just when we thought we couldn’t go anymore. We reiterate that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, but the weakest link doesn’t have to stay that way. We do not give up on that link, we strive to make it stronger. I myself have been that weak link at times during my career here and so has everyone else on the team at one point or another. That is the beauty of what this game
does. No one is exempt from failure or defeat, but everyone has the choice to get back up. This support system is what turns us into family. The sport of football is just the tip of the iceberg compared to the love that is built between my brothers and me. What we do is more than just your Saturday entertainment. The sport and how we respond to it is simply a microcosm of life. How I respond to adversity within my sport is a reflection of how I will respond to adversity is life. How I defend my brother on the field is a reflection of how I will defend my brother off of the field. Needless to say our team has been under attack by everyone from news stations to our very own student body. I cannot speak for anything that may have caused this frenzy, but I can speak for how we will respond. We will not tuck our tails and hide from pressure. The bond that we have is not fabricated and cannot be broken by anybody but those within the family. It isn’t until now that I truly understand what it is to put family first and defend those that I have bled for. The boomerang has finally come back around and struck me in the head. I am not ashamed of my family and who we are. I gladly put that block “R” on my chest, because I know that we stand for way more than what is portrayed, and we don’t have anything to prove to anyone but ourselves. Julian Pinnix-Odrick is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in communication with a minor in labor studies. His column, “I Hate Writing,” runs on alternate Mondays.
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- Monica Torres, a School of Arts and Sciences junior and U.S. Department of Education Ronald E. McNair Scholar on Native American Cultural Center. See story on FRONT.
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Nittany Lions trample Knights on ground Rutgers’ once-potent rush for 330 yards, five sacks on national stage attack manages only 43 yards in Big Ten opener
CONTINUED FROM BACK Hackenberg posted another pedestrian performance to what has been a slow season out of the gates in 2015, going 10-of-19 for 141 yards and an interception. But it was the running back duo of Akeel Lynch and Saquon Barkley that gashed Rutgers all night long. “I don’t think (Penn State) threw the ball at all,” said senior defensive tackle Darius Hamilton, who made his season debut after a lower body injury kept him sidelined since the summer. “… The problem wasn’t getting to (Hackenberg), it was, like I said, we just got out-toughed today.” The Knights (1-2, 0-1) couldn’t seem to get anything going anywhere in the Big Ten’s conference opener. With 103,323 watching — the third-largest crowd Rutgers has ever played in front of — the Knights folded. Down 21-0 in the fourth quarter, interim head coach Norries Wilson elected to kick a short field goal from 34 yards out following a delay of game penalty rather than try to cut into the three-score deficit by getting into the end zone. While he mentioned that the idea of going for the end zone on fourth down crossed his mind, Wilson stood by his decision to kick it instead. “Well, I decided to kick it. It was … fourth-and-10 from the 11,” Wilson said, referring to the field position prior to the five-yard penalty. “We had just run what we thought was one of our very good choices in that distance, so we just looked to kick the field goal.” Chris Laviano didn’t receive much help from a nonexistent rushing attack that managed an abysmal 43 yards on 32 carries and an offensive line that allowed five sacks, but the sophomore quarterback didn’t do much more to help his own cause. The Glen Head, New York, native posted a final mark of 27-for-42 with 251 yards and two picks. His two interceptions highlighted an evening where the Knights’ signal-caller appeared to lack the velocity necessary to hit his receivers in stride. “I’ve gotta get the ball out faster,” Laviano said. “I thought those guys did a good job up front handling their front. I think we gotta start out faster than we did.” In the meantime, Penn State (21, 1-0) took advantage of Rutgers’ woes. A running game that posted a walloping 330 yards on 41 attempts powered the Lions on offense. It’s unclear which runs embodied the Knights’ lack of ability to stop the up-tempo ground game worse — Lynch’s 75-yard touchdown rumble
after Laviano’s second pick at the 1:04 mark before the end of the first half or Barkley’s 16-yard scamper into the end zone with 4:21 remaining in the ballgame. Barkley, a true freshman, built of his explosive performance from last week with a career-high 195 yards and two scores on 21 carries. His running mate, Lynch, ripped off 120 yards and a touchdown on just 10 touches. “I’ve got to address the team when I get back,” Hamilton said. “A lot of people aren’t gonna want to hear it. But when you’ve got conditions like tonight … that’s mano-y-mano football. Those are things that you live for as a defense and we didn’t show up tonight.” On the flipside for Rutgers, Josh Hicks averaged seven yards per carry to lead the charge. But the sophomore tailback wasn’t fed enough over the course of the contest with just seven touches for 49 yards. Paul James, meanwhile, went backwards. After leading the Knights with 10 carries, he managed to post only seven yards on the ground. But the senior tailback said he didn’t feel as if the distribution at the position — sophomore Robert Martin had five carries for 20 yards — altered the game plan’s rhythm. “I feel like it’s a great thing that we rotate the backs,” the senior captain said. “It keeps fresh legs out there and it keeps the defense running.” For Rutgers, the good news starts and ends with the fact that it returns back to Piscataway for homecoming against a winless, reeling football program in Kansas (0-2). So this isn’t rock bottom. But taking a peak past the light matchup at High Point Solutions Stadium, a Big Ten gauntlet featuring the likes of No. 4 Michigan State, No. 1 Ohio State and No. 24 Wisconsin lingers in the distance — and it’s a lot closer than it may feel with the Spartans coming to town Oct. 10. The Knights can’t do much more than continue to follow their suspended coach’s mantra of going 1-0 while he’s allowed to be around the team’s midweek game preparations. But if this result was any preview, Rutgers fans might need to buckle up for the potential turbulence ahead. “We had a great message out here today. We really wanted to come out here and get some things accomplished,” Hamilton said. “Some days the dog bites you, some days you bite the dog.” For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow @GarrettStepien and @TargumSports on Twitter.
Sophomore quarterback Chris Laviano drops back to pass during the Knights’ 28-3 loss to the Nittany Lions on Saturday night. MICHELLE KLEJMONT / MANAGING EDITOR
CONTINUED FROM BACK punt, that broke the backs of the boys from the Banks. “They drove the ball on us the first couple times to get those first two touchdowns that they got in the second quarter,” Wilson said. “And we couldn’t put anything together consistently to keep a drive going outside the one that we had in the first quarter.” To put it into perspective, the stats for both teams outside of the second quarter fell dramatically in the Knights’ favor. Rutgers racked up 249 yards of offense in quarters one, three and four combined. But in the second, they managed a mere 45. Meanwhile, Penn State gashed the Rutgers defense up the middle with the run, chewing up 211 total yards of turf in the second period as 103,323 fans striping Beaver Stadium in blue and white cheered the home team on. “I just think, as a defense, we didn’t execute well enough,” said senior linebacker Quentin Gause. “We just gotta come out next week and do that better.” Gause did his best to fill the gaps in the tattered defense, racking up eight total tackles with five solos and one for a loss. “It’s frustrating,” Gause said. “All you can do is go back … and get ready for the next game. That’s all you can do. I just think it was some detail breakdowns.” Junior Julian Pinnix-Odrick, who has started the first three games for Rutgers at defensive tackle in place of injured Darius Hamilton, called himself out after the 28-3 defeat. “I’m gonna do what I can, personally, to make sure I’m a tougher football player than I was tonight,” Pinnix-Odrick said. “And I’m going to do what I can to try to be as much of a leader as guys need me to be to get better from this.” What may be worse than the 25-point defeat — the Knights schedule only gets tougher from here. After a soft landing with homecoming next week against Kansas, Rutgers takes on the nation’s titans in conference foes No. 4 Michigan State (Oct. 10) and defending national champion and unanimous No. 1 Ohio State (Oct. 24). But don’t expect “JPO” to make excuses for the Knights as long as he stays in the starting lineup. In his eyes, the off-field distractions surrounding the team had no bearing on this result. “There’s no way to sugarcoat it, there’s no way to sugarcoat it,” he said. “As much as we’d like to think something distracted us — there was no distractions, it was us. We got outplayed.” *** After imposing their will on opposing defenses with the run in the first two games, the Scarlet Knights’ stable of backs came up limp in Happy Valley Saturday night. In a complete role reversal, Penn State’s tandem of sophomore Akeel Lynch and true freshman Saquon Barkley decimated the Rutgers defense with backbreaking run after backbreaking run. And what’s worse, on many of those runs, nary a Knight made contact with the Nittany Lions’ ball-carrier. PSU gauged the interior of the Rutgers defense, biting off huge
Junior defensive tackle Julian Pinnix-Odrick wraps up Nittany Lions running back Akeel Lynch near the line-of-scrimmage. MICHELLE KLEJMONT / MANAGING EDITOR
chunks of yardage as easily as the fans in Nittanyville knocked back solo cups full of beer. “When you don’t perform, or you perform poorly — I personally performed poorly — you just gotta keep it trucking and that’s part of being a man,” Pinnix-Odrick said. “You have to know when you’ve made mistakes, you have to know when you’ve lost and you gotta keep it pushing.” The Knights were the ones getting pushed, while the Lions ripped Rutgers for 330 rushing yards with Lynch (120 yards) and Barkley (195 yards) busting through to the secondary on a regular basis. Junior safety Davon Jacobs tallied six solo tackles, five of which saved likely touchdowns when Lynch or Barkley broke off big runs. On the other side of the ball, the Knights’ strength became their weakness as their three-headed monster in the backfield — senior Paul James and sophomores Robert Martin and Josh Hicks — looked more like a wounded lapdog. And interim head coach Norries Wilson noticed. “I think that, on offense, we gotta be able to live by one of our first tenets,” Wilson said. “We gotta be able to run the football and we gotta be able to block the guy and move the person against his will. We gotta run the ball better.” Rutgers managed only 43 rushing yards for the game after averaging 244.5 yards on the ground coming into the Big Ten opener. The lack of run production could be attributed to the loss of a stalwart on the interior of the Knights’ offensive line. James, a fifth-year senior who’s battled injuries throughout his career on the Banks, may have had his worst performance to date — 10 carries for 7 yards. “We just kinda struggled,” James said. “We weren’t really executing the game plan. It took us awhile to get going. It felt like there were a lot of guys in the box.” His intuition was accurate. The Nittany Lions lined up as many as nine, but mostly eight defenders in the box to negate the Knights’ running threats. “We did make adjustments,” James said. “We talked about it (at halftime) and we came out, tried to change up some things and it started to open up a little more. But it was too late.” *** The biggest surprise of last night’s 28-3 drubbing at Beaver Stadium was not the way the Nittany Lions ran roughshod over the Rutgers defense, nor was it that Penn State’s prized quarterback prospect Christian Hackenberg had another underwhelming performance. A little more than an hour before the Knights and Lions
were set to clash helmets in Happy Valley, Rutgers fifthyear senior captain and defensive tackle Darius Hamilton was upgraded from “out” to “probable” on the Knights’ injur y repor t. Hamilton had missed the team’s first two contests with a lower body injur y — one that some thought might be so debilitating that the talk of a redshirt season for the West Paterson, New Jersey, native began to make the rounds on the rumor mill. Hamilton estimated he was only out there for 15 plays, but his presence on the field is paramount for a team missing its best of fensive weapon in wide receiver Leonte Carroo and its head coach in Kyle Flood as both were suspended. “I tell you I was excited for Darius to get back out to play,” Wilson said. “He had been chomping at the bit to come out and play. I left it to coach Panagos and coach Flood. They talked about how many plays he would have in the rotation. So I’m sure (defensive line) coach (Jim) Panagos kept him to that.” After his first game in 2015, Hamilton was noticeable haggard. “I’m hurting a little bit, but I’ll be alright,” Hamilton said postgame. “I haven’t been out there in awhile, so I got some kinks and things like that but I’ll be alright.” Hamilton’s lack of mobility prevented him from staying on the field for significant stretches, leaving it to Pinnix-Odrick and sophomore nose tackle Sebastian Joseph. “It’s always good to have him out there,” Pinnix-Odrick said of Hamilton, his teammate and roommate. “You have fun while you can have it, obviously this wasn’t a fun evening for us. We gotta do our best to make sure next Saturday will be.” Despite the disparaging result, Hamilton was happy to be on the field with his team, saying there’s nothing he wouldn’t do for his teammates or Rutgers community. “They had a better team today. They played better,” Pinnix-Odrick said. “We can tr y to give it to scheme and all these other things — they played better and the film will show it. When somebody lines up and punches you in tåhe mouth … and that’s what happened. They straight up ran the ball and we didn’t stop them. And I personally need to do a better job. It’s unacceptable.” For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow @KevinPXavier an @TargumSports on Twitter.
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September 21, 2015 MEN’S GOLF
VOLLEYBALL
RU treks north for invitational EVAN BRUNO STAFF WRITER
The Rutgers men’s golf team returns to action today at the Hartford Hawk Invitational in South Kent, Connecticut. The Scarlet Knights are currently on a hot streak after their most recent performance at the Rutgers Invitational on Sept. 11 and 12 where the team played sound golf and finished in second place, scoring a six over par, 838 on their home course. The Knights’ task for their next competition will be to continue the upward trend and stay on the right track. Rutgers had five golfers earn top 20 finishes at the RU Invitational. Although he played with the Knights’ B-Team, senior Louis Bodine was among the top 20 finishers, picking up a spot in seventh place with a scorecard of 212. The Flemington, New Jersey, native also had a hole in one during the competition. Despite playing as well as he did at the Rutgers Golf Course, Bodine was unable to qualify for the Harford Hawk Invitational and will not be in Monday’s lineup for Rutgers. “He’s not (in the lineup) and we just finished up practice,” said head coach Rob Shutte. “He’s on the outside looking in, you know. He’s in the mix, for sure. You know, it’s tough, he didn’t qualify. He didn’t play well enough to be in our lineup for that tournament (Rutgers Invitational) and then didn’t play well enough to kind of qualify here so that was a tough call. I think he played okay in our tournament, you know, it is our home tournament. … We had a lot of guys play well.” As a coach and mentor, it’s always difficult to have to tell one of your players that they didn’t make the cut. For Shutte, it’s even harder because many of his golfers played so well over the course of this young season. “Yeah, it’s always tough because unlike other sports, it’s all
or nothing,” he said. “You know in other sports, you might be able to (go to) a game and play a few minutes and contribute. It’s tough for us but it’s all or nothing so either you’re going to the tournament or you’re not. So, it becomes a lot more harsher that way. … It’s really hard, especially if you care a lot about the guys for sure.” Shutte said it will become less challenging to put together his lineup as the year progresses. “As we get further into the season, it might get a little bit easier, because we have body of work as well as recent trends, you know,” he said. “… I think what’s also hard is there’s always a couple of check boxes. There’s
“Yeah, it’s always tough because unlike other sports, it’s all or nothing.” ROB SHUTTE Head Coach
two guys that are most deserving for that final spot and very often you have a couple check boxes in somebody’s category for a couple aspects of their life and their game and there’s always a couple check boxes in somebody else’s categor y. Trying to weigh that all is always hard.” Rutgers will compete in tournaments for the next three weeks, which will take away from practice time and also hinder the team’s chances of vying for those five precious spots in the lineup. “It’s going to be less time to compete. There’s going to have to be a lot more just kind of macro decisions about, you know, program direction and who deser ves those spots,” Shutte said. The team’s lineup is eerily similar to the one Shutte employed at
the Rutgers Invitational nine days ago. Senior Jonathan Chang, junior Ryan Rose and sophomores Jack Panagos, Toks Pedro and Matt Holutta will play in Connecticut today. The only change is junior Chase Wheatley will not be in the tournament. Former American Athletic Conference foes UConn and Temple will be competing in the Hartford Hawk Invitational as well as former Big East rival, Villanova. The University of Hartford, a Big Sky Conference member, will play host to the event. Entering the season, Shutte said he wanted to see Panagos step into more of a leadership role. “Well, I mean leaders, I don’t think leaders need to do anything special other than just doing what they do because they’re natural leaders,” Shutte said. “Jack (Panagos) is a dominant personality, so that’s why he is where he is. ... He could be a leader whether he’s our best player or our worst player, but hopefully he can play good golf for him and as a result it will probably be easier for him to be a good leader.” At the Rutgers Invitational, Panagos shot a 221 and finished in a tie for 28th place. The Hillsborough, New Jersey, native said his coach’s comments carry a lot of weight to him. “It means a lot,” Panagos said. “I think the biggest thing is leading by example and stuff like that — just making sure you do ever ything that you need to do in order to get better and things like that. Freshman (year), like when I first got here, I didn’t mess up, but there was some little things that I wasn’t too sharp on. But I thought I really grew as a person … I just gotta keep on doing those things in order to keep it going and shoot lower scores.” For updates on the Rutgers men’s golf team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
Sophomore Jack Panagos is one of five Knights to earn a spot in the Rutgers starting lineup at the Hartford Hawk Invitational today. LUO ZHENGCHEN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / SEPTEMBER 2015
Junior right side Cole Trimble highlighted Rutgers’ victory over Howard with eight kills to round out a .556 hitting percentage. EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR
Rutgers drops final two matches of weekend JOSEPH BRAUNER CONTRIBUTING WRITER
After starting strong with a dominant win over Howard, the Rutgers volleyball team dropped its final two games of the weekend. Starting with a bitter loss to in-state rival Princeton, the Scarlet Knights (3-9) capped off the Rutgers Invitational with a deflating four-set defeat to Duquesne University. “I thought that our energy level and our excitement was kind of flat,” said CJ Werneke. The head coach was critical of his team following a 25-16 loss in the final set against Duquesne. The defeat was particularly disappointing for Rutgers showed the heart and determination to win after a 28-26 victory in set two tied up the game. But the Knights who willed their way to victory after being on the wrong end of many match points could not be found for the rest of the game. Rutgers was also plagued with the loss of senior setter Anna Sudbury, who sustained an injury the night before against the Princeton Tigers (5-4). Werneke did not provide details on the injury of his setter. “I don’t know when Anna is gonna come back,” is all that he would say regarding the Tomahawk, Wisconsin, native’s injury. Werneke mentioned that he would know more on Monday after she is examined by medical personnel. After a disappointing end to their weekend, it would be easy to forget the great showing the Knights had on Friday afternoon against Howard. Rutgers came out firing against the Bison. Junior right side Lauren Cloyd paced the Knights in the early going, leading Rutgers with 14 kills over the match. After trading the first two sets, the Knights got hot in the third, as the duo of Sudbury and junior right side Cole Trimble devastated the Bison defense. Trimble went on to finish set three with a staggering eight kills, boasting a .556 hitting percentage. “I was just really connecting with Anna, and I saw what was open,” Trimble said. “They weren’t blocking me on line which is my favorite shot, so I just continued going with it.” But Rutgers could not keep the good times rolling.
Just hours after their commanding win against Howard, the Knights found themselves down, 8-1, in the first match against Princeton and were unable to come back. Despite a stronger set two where Rutgers started with a 4-1 run, the Knights could not hold off the Tigers, going quietly in just three matches. “Princeton was a really big blocking team and we couldn’t really find a way around the block,” Trimble said following the loss. She also noted that the team was shaken up after losing Anna Sudbury during the game. “It was very diverse because we changed setters in the middle of the match,” she said. Prior to Friday night’s loss, Rutgers had won two out of its last three meetings against Princeton. With the conclusion of non-conference play the Knights now look ahead to next Friday night when they take on Northwestern, followed up with a matchup against Illinois the next day. Rutgers cannot afford to be flat at any point from here on out, as the schedule only gets tougher with exclusively Big Ten competition the rest of the way. In search of a spark to ignite the team, the Knights should be looking towards a back-court featuring freshman defensive specialist Bree Coffey. The 5-foot-5, Cary-Grove High School product is never silent on the court. She is often found jumping up and down after each point yelling words of encouragement. In just her first season on the Banks, the infectious energy Coffey brings could be vital to the team’s success now and down the road. With middle blocker Tiaja McKnight still sidelined, Coffey is the team’s only active freshman. When asked about Cof fey, senior defensive specialist Ronnie Komisarek reiterated the obvious. “She is definitely our energizer bunny. When the team is flat, she’s always the one jumping up and down screaming, which really helps us because our team’s kinda quiet.” For updates on the Rutgers volleyball team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
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September 21, 2015 MEN’S SOCCER RUTGERS 4, NO. 22 INDIANA 1
Rutgers ends scoring drought, upsets No. 22 Indiana BRIAN FONSECA ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
The ketchup was spilled all over the field in Bloomington. The Rutgers men’s soccer team ended its scoring woes with an emphatic 4-1 win against No. 22 Indiana Sunday afternoon at Jerry Yeagley Field at Bill Armstrong Stadium. A late surge from the Hoosiers (3-3-1, 0-2-0) threatened to push the game into extra-time, but a dominant first half from the Scarlet Knights (3-2-1, 1-1-0) was enough to secure their first Big Ten Conference win of the season and their first win against a ranked opponent since defeating seventh-ranked Louisville in Nov. 2013. Indiana pulled back a goal with 13 minutes remaining in the contest while also controlling possession and looking more dangerous than Rutgers. The Hoosiers held all the momentum and appeared to be mounting a colossal comeback in front of 1,842 fans in attendance. But in a swift counter attack, Jason Wright found an open Erik Sa and the junior midfielder buried his shot past Colin Webb to put a nail in the coffin and guarantee a 4-1 win over a team the Knights have been unable to defeat in their last seven attempts. Scoring four goals and earning a win against a ranked conference opponent after going through a frustrating goal-scoring drought would please most coaches. Head coach Dan Donigan is no exception. “Honestly, I was very pleased with it,” Donigan said of his team’s
performance. “I thought the way we’ve been playing in the last couple of games, I feel we’ve just been a little unlucky. Just inches away or a touch away from getting the goals and fortunately for us, we kind of exploded today. I thought we had some really good execution in the final third of the field. I thought our guys really played really well as a group, collectively, for 90 minutes against a very good team on the road in conference.” Donigan reiterated the difference in Sunday’s matinee that allowed his team to finally break through. “Again, we’ve been playing good soccer,” he said. “But today it all came together and we were fortunate to get that pay off in the final third with those goals.” The majority of Rutgers’ goals were scored in the opening 45 minutes. Freshman forward Sheldon McKoy opened the scoring in the 19th minute of his first career start. The St. Catherine, Jamaica, native earned a start after impressing his head coach with his most recent performance and he continued to impress after being trusted with a spot in the starting 11. “I thought he did a great job against Monmouth and we know what he’s capable of doing,” Donigan said. “He gave us some size in the air against an Indiana team I thought would pose problems for us in the air. It was really just to counter what I felt Indiana was posing to us and it worked out well, I thought. Sheldon, again, had a good performance, a great game and we’re happy for him now that
he’s transitioned into the game and did well.” McKoy was nervous as he entered the pitch with the starters for the first time, but the nerves settled and he took advantage of the opportunity. “I was a bit scared at first because I’m not used to the atmosphere and stuff like that, but I just went out there and did my best,” McKoy said. Fellow Jamaican forward Jason Wright doubled the Knights’ lead five minutes later when he received the ball from Erik Sa at midfield, beat the last defender using his speed, rounded Indiana goalkeeper Colin Webb and scored his third goal of the season to conclude a lighting fast counter-attack for the visitors. After admitting to being in a bad spell as of late following his last performance against Monmouth, the sophomore from Kingston, Jamaica, felt relieved to get his name back on the scoresheet and believes the key to the win was taking advantage of the chances created. “It’s a great feeling (to score) … We made the most of our chances,” Wright said. Rounding out a half where the Knights dominated in attack and outshot their hosts was Miles Hackett. The junior forward scored his third goal of the season to tie Wright atop the scoring list for Rutgers this season and give his team a 3-0 lead heading into the locker room. The hosts entered the second period to reverse the damage of the first half immediately, with Tanner Thompson seeing his shot go wide of Greczek’s post just 30 seconds following the second half kickoff.
Freshman midfielder Sheldon McKoy earned his first career start and scored his first career goal to propel the Knights to victory. EDWIN GANO / PHOTO EDITOR / AUGUST 2015
The Hoosiers piled on the pressure, sending up numbers in attack in an attempt to penetrate the Knights seemingly impermeable defense and mount an unlikely comeback. But whenever Indiana managed to threaten Greczek’s goal, the junior goalkeeper answered the call, making two saves to conserve his clean sheet until Femi HollingerJanzen opened the scoring for the home side. Greczek ultimately had the last laugh, though, as HollingerJanzen’s goal ended up being a consolation goal for the hosts. This win puts Rutgers back in the win column and shift some positive momentum into the locker room, but the Knights know this is just one step on a long, grueling journey.
“Yes, the morale is fantastic right now,” Donigan said. “The win comes at a very good time and point in the season for us so we’ll try to make the most of it going forward. The guys are excited about a win on the road against a good Indiana team.” But Donigan pointed out that the team can’t get too caught up in the upset. “But they also know it’s another game, it’s a win in conference. We lost three points against Wisconsin and we took these three points today,” he said. “We’re still on a mission, we still have a job to do and we still know we have a long way to go.” For updates on the Rutgers men’s soccer team, follow @briannnnf and @TargumSports on Twitter.
WOMEN’S SOCCER NO. 15 RUTGERS 1, MARYLAND 0
Valliant efforts keep Knights perfect in shutout victory MIKE O’SULLIVAN CORRESPONDENT
Even a return to the sight of its first defeat from last season could not phase the Rutgers women’s soccer team and its record-setting shutout streak. The No. 15 Scarlet Knights (8-0, 1-0) were victorious in their return to Ludwig Field at College Park, defeating Mar yland (5-4, 0-1) with another 1-0 shutout. Senior midfielder Samantha Valliant provided the only offense Rutgers needed with a shot toward the middle of the net that sparked the Knights to a 1-0 lead they did not relinquish. It was her second game-winning goal of the season. Junior Madison Tiernan assisted on the play, as the forward recorded her first point of the season by stealing the ball from the Mar yland defense and finding Colby Ciarrocca on the far side. The sophomore forward then tapped the ball to a charging Valliant. With Ciarrocca also getting an assist, she now has scored a point in five consecutive matches and leads the team with seven points on the season. It was a solid performance for the Knights. Right now, they just keep finding ways to win. “We executed the game plan really well,” said head coach
Mike O’Neill. “What I was most impressed with is just how the players stepped up. We had a few players who didn’t play as many minutes as they normally do, yet our depth showed and our players stepped up. We talk so much about being ’30 Strong’ and that was an indication of the result on Friday night.” Both teams played tight defense, as Rutgers only outshot the Terrapins by a 9-8 margin.
The Knights were also held without a corner kick for the first time this season, while Maryland had six on the night. But once again it was Rutgers who scored on the decisive shot. “We were really excited for our first Big Ten game of the season and wanted to change the result from last year’s match at Maryland,” Valliant said. “We wanted to come out with a lot of energy and get started with a
goal early in the game and fortunately we were able to do that.” With each shutout, 90 more minutes of scoreless action are added to the Knights’ running total, which now stands at 720 minutes. Owning the longest shutout streak in the country gives them motivation to keep it going as long as they possibly can, according to senior defender Brianne Reed.
Senior midfielder Samantha Valliant scored the only goal of Rutgers’ Big Ten Conference opener against Maryland in the second minute of the match. SHIRLEY YU / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / AUGUST 2015
“The motivation we have to go out and win each game is unreal and we all know what we have to do,” Reed said. “We’re going to keep trying to get as many shutouts as we can, but we also know that if we give up a goal that we can bounce back from that. The biggest difference this year is that everyone is defending all throughout the field and it helps us on the backline when everyone is focused on defense.” Sophomore goalkeeper Casey Murphy continues to impress in goal, coming away with her 18th career shutout on two saves. She is now fifth on the school’s all-time shutout list and her career goals-against average of 0.46 stands as the best mark in school history. Her emergence as an ascending player and reliable force in net ser ves the Knights well as they prepare for more Big Ten play. “With Casey in net and with the way we’ve been moving the ball and defending, we put ourselves in a good position to succeed in our game plan,” Reed said. “We are now also scoring earlier and often, which is exactly what we need.” For updates on the Rutgers women’s soccer team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “Some days the dog bites you, some days you bite the dog.” — Senior defensive tackle Darius Hamilton after the Rutgers football team’s 28-3 loss at Penn State
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
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FOOTBALL PENN STATE 28, RUTGERS 3
Josh Hicks shoots out to his left on a carry Saturday night at Beaver Stadium in the Knights’ 28-3 floundering to the Nittany Lions. The sophomore tailback led Rutgers in the running game with 49 yards on seven carries, but Penn State limited the overall attack to 43 yards on 32 carries as the offense for the Knights struggled. LISETT CLARK
UNHAPPY VALLEY
Dark times transition onto football field as Penn State runs Rutgers out of Beaver Stadium in front of 103,323 GARRETT STEPIEN
Amid the off-field controversies surrounding the three-game suspension and $50,000 fine of head coach Kyle Flood, couple with the arrest of senior captain and star wide receiver Leonte Carroo for simple assault under domestic violence, the Scarlet Knights were adamant on leaving all of that behind them in when they trekked out to Penn State.
SPORTS EDITOR
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — As heavy showers moved through Beaver Stadium in the second quarter on Saturday night, it felt as if the same dark cloud that has been following the Rutgers football team around for the past week lingered with the program out to central Pennsylvania.
But when it rains, it pours. After the Nittany Lions broke out for 21 points to follow a scoreless first quarter, they never looked back on their way to a 28-3 trouncing in a primetime matchup in front of a nationally televised audience on Big Ten Network. Against an offensive line that surrendered 10 sacks in its season opener at Temple, Rutgers’ front seven couldn’t
figure out how to apply the necessar y pressure on Penn State junior quarterback Christian Hackenberg. While he has been hyped by experts and analysts as a potential first round pick in the 2016 NFL Draft, the Lions’ signal-caller wasn’t what hurt the Knights. SEE VALLEY ON PAGE 13
KNIGHT NOTEBOOK RU RUN GAME HELD IN CHECK WHILE KNIGHTS YIELD 330 YARDS TO LIONS
Nittany Lions gauge Knights in 28-3 rout KEVIN XAVIER ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Three quarters of the matchup between the Rutgers football team and Penn State last night were hotly contested. But in college football, teams play four.
Rutgers (1-2, 0-1) was ripped for 21 points and 211 yards of of fense by the Nittany Lions (2-1, 1-0) in the second stanza. And despite some spirited drives for the Knights in the second half, the game’s outcome was decided in the second quar ter.
After an initially promising drive for Rutgers down 14-0, the Knights’ stalled at their own 37. After a Joey Roth punt, Penn State took over at its own 25. On the Lions’ next play from scrimmage, they put the game out of reach. “I didn’t catch a deficiency,” said Rutgers interim head coach Norries Wilson. “We happened to
EXTRA POINT
NFL SCORES
NY Giants Atlanta
20 24
New England Buffalo
40 32
Philadelphia Dallas
10 20
Baltimore Oakland
33 37
Pittsburgh San Francisco
43 18
Detroit Minnesota
16 26
SAMANTHA VALLIANT, senior
midfielder, scored the game-winning goal for the Rutgers women’s soccer team in Friday’s 1-0 win at Maryland to boost the No. 15 Knights to an 8-0 start.
have that big 80-yard, I think it was 80 yards — it might’ve been 70 and that changed the complexity somewhat more than it already had been.” It was a 75-yard run by senior tailback Akeel Lynch, right after Penn State received Roth’s SEE ROUT ON PAGE 13
KNIGHTS SCHEDULE
MEN’S GOLF
WOMEN’S SOCCER
FIELD HOCKEY
MEN’S SOCCER
Hartford Hawk Invitational
at Illinois
vs. Northwestern
vs. Michigan State
Today, All Day, South Kent, Conn.
Thursday, 8 p.m., Champaign, Ill.
Friday, 2:30 p.m., Piscataway, N.J.
Friday, 6 p.m., Yurcak Field