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Updated Rutgers buses will have Wi-Fi, better tracking services
ICE raid targets undocumented immigrants hiding in Highland Park
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three undocumented christian indonesians are seeking sanctuary in the reformed church of High-land park after president donald J. trump’s crackdown on the depor-tation of illegal immigrants.
one of these men has not stepped outside the church walls in four months, according to nJ ad-vance media
rev. seth-kaper dale welcomed the men into his church after they left indonesia, claiming religious persecution in their country.
Harry pangemanan was de-tained by u.s. immigration and customs enforcement (ice) and almost deported in 2009, when the reformed church of america helped him get an extended stay. since then, the 47-year-old be-came a construction worker and has helped rebuild more than 209 homes that were af fected by Hur-ricane sandy. He recently won the 2018 dr. martin luther king Jr. Humanitarian award from the Highland park Human relations
commission for his community service and leadership.
on thursday, ice attempted to detain him while he was tak-ing his daughter to school. He called his pastor, who opened the church doors for him. He now sleeps in a sunday school class-room on a mattress.
agents refrain from arresting undocumented immigrants in “sensitive” places like churches, schools and hospitals, which have been a safe haven for hundreds of illegal residents in the past years, according to ice policy.
on Friday, federal u.s. district Judge esther salas issued an order freezing the deportations of another two christian indo-nesians who were arrested in newark while dropping their daughters of f at school. she ar-gued that their summary depor-tation procedure infringed on due process.
“these community members, our neighbors, are entitled to ar-gue their case with the protections of due process, especially when the stakes are life-and-death,” said
amol sinha, executive director of the american civil liberties union of new Jersey, in an nJ ad-vance media article.
in the past years, christian in-donesians have faced discrimina-tion and persecution by radical islamic groups in the country. 41 percent of religious persecution in indonesia is violent, according to open doors.
arthur Jemmy is a 17-year-old refugee in the church who has not stepped outside since october 2017. He recounted a time when he attended a church service with his family in indonesia. a radical group then entered and decapitat-ed the priest before burning down the entire church, according to the article.
He said that he trusted trump who said that he would only target undocumented residents with crim-inal records.
“but he’s broken his promise,” Jemmy said. “i know i overstayed, but i keep working. this country comes from taxes you pay — i pay taxes, i learned english ... i do noth-ing criminal,” he said.
Members from the Reformed Church of Highland Park rally in solidarity against immigration policies that separate children from their families. FacEbook
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students will soon have access to free wi-Fi across all rutgers buses.
after over a decade of updating bus times through nextbus, the department of transportation ser-vices (dots) is switching over to transloc — a different public tran-sit tracking system — in a move to update its services.
onboard internet access, a track-ing system that displays bus loca-tion and a tool that measures the number of students loaded on a bus are just a few new features that John karakoglou, assistant direc-tor of dots, is looking forward to.
“the time was right now to also put the wi-Fi on the buses, to give that extra convenience for the kids to be able to use their devices while they’re going between college av-enue and busch and maybe give them a couple of minutes to listen to a song,” he said.
instead of using ruwireless, riders can connect to a bus specific wi-Fi network — accessible to all new brunswick residents and rut-gers students. dots hopes to have beta testing underway by the end of the semester with a full roll out of internet services sometime during the fall.
dots first employed nextbus services during 2006 and first en-countered issues with the system earlier this semester. the system was unable to track buses through the rutgers app for roughly 48 hours, an issue that affected over 50 universities and transit sys-tems across the country, the tar-gum reported.
karakoglou said transloc will give dots more information and data that they can use to gauge when and where people travel throughout the day. transitioning into a new system is part of the way they hope to lighten their everyday workload and build a better com-muting experience for students.
whenever signs posted in front of bus stops lose power, dots is tasked with a campus-wide game of pick up sticks — finding and fixing upwards of 30 signs, he said. a system that provides dots with better location ser-vices gives it a better idea of how to coordinate bus services between 12 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. — their peak ride times.
“people don’t want to wait, the bus drivers are going to have to make the call at some point and say stop,” he said. “even though there’s a bus 10 feet behind it, the people want to be on that first bus.
let’s say scott Hall or the sac, there might be 300-400 people waiting to go to livingston, the bus only holds 67 … it might give us the option to run a couple buses together or to maybe bypass the scott Hall bus stop with one bus to go directly to the sac.”
unlike nextbus, transloc al-lows riders to find exactly where
their bus is and helps dispel wor-ries that dots is not running its buses during inclement weather or school closings, molenaar said.
these updates play a small part of the university’s 2030 plan to update university transit hubs, housing, student centers, athletic facilities and includes implement-ing roundabouts into areas with a
heavy influx of traffic, according to the master plan.
“rutgers 2030 envisions devel-opment at rutgers over a 15-year time frame, 2015 to 2030, and is comprehensive in its scope; taking into account buildings, the natural and constructed landscape, trans-portation, and infrastructure,” ac-cording to the plan.
As part of the University’s 2030 plan, Rutgers buses will now have on-board Wi-Fi, better location services and a feature that allows the Department of Transportation Services to regulate how many students load a bus. tHE DaiLY targUM / FEbrUarY 2017
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Tuesday 2/6 The Center for Counseling, Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program and Psychiatric Services presents “Mindfulness Meditation” from noon to 1 p.m. at the Busch Student Center on Busch campus. This event is free and open to the public.
The Zimmerli Art Museum presents “Art After Hours: First Tuesdays” from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus. This event is free and open to the public.
wedNesday 2/7 The Center for Teaching Advancement & Assessment Research and the TA Project present “Creating Excel Spreadsheets for Grading” from 9:45 to 11:15 a.m. at the Center for Teaching Advancement & Assessment Research on the College Avenue campus. This event is free and open to the public.
The Department of Human Ecology presents “Immigration and Diversity in Higher Education: Students’ Journeys
and Successes” from 12:30 to 2 p.m. at Blake Hall on Cook campus. This event is free and open to the public.
The Center for Counseling, Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program and Psychiatric Services presents “Mindfulness Meditation” from noon to 1 p.m. at the Rutgers Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus. This event is free and open to the public.
The Department of Nutritional Sciences presents “Quantitative metabolic flux analysis with stable isotope tracer and mass spectrometry” from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Food Science and Nutritional Sciences Building East on Cook campus. This event is free and open to the public.
The Rutgers Geology Museum presents “Egypt Late Night at the Rutgers Geology Museum” from 4 to 8 p.m. at Geology Hall on the College Avenue campus. This event is free and open to the public.
On Feb. 3, The Daily Targum posted an article, “Dutta recounts death of Rutgers student” online regarding the death of Jungsoo Park. The incorrect image was used. We apologize for this mistake. The incorrect image has been taken down.
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NJ residents report satisfaction with state’s healthcareAbner bonillA
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A majority of New Jersey res-idents feel positive about their healthcare coverage according to a recent “Health Matters” poll.
Conducted in partnership be-tween the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute and the Rutgers Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling, feedback taken from more than 1,200 live callers in Novem-ber showed that the majority of residents feel positive about their healthcare coverage but would like to see less expensive monthly pre-mium costs, according to the report.
“With all the debate over healthcare reform and the Afford-able Care Act, we thought it was a good time to assess New Jersey-ans’ opinions on their healthcare plans,” said Ashley Koning, di-rector of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling.
Residents feel most satisfied with the doctors, hospitals and prescription drugs available through their healthcare plans, followed by the range of covered benefits and out-of-pocket costs — such as co-pays and deduct-ibles, according to the report.
Out of approximately 7 mil-lion adults living in New Jersey, 92 percent are covered by some form of health insurance. Approx-imately 560,000 residents — or 8 percent — are uninsured, accord-ing to the report.
Out of all the respondents, the poll shows that the most common insurance plan comes through a person’s employer, as more than half of residents are covered by one’s own or a spouses’ employer.
It found that the next most common plan is through Medi-care, with about 20 percent of respondents receiving coverage this way. The 10 percent of people who purchased a plan from an in-surance company or marketplace came next, followed by coverage through Medicaid at 8 percent.
Compared to other plans, the poll showed that residents who purchase insurance themselves are consistently critical of aspects of their plan and the amount they pay through out-of-pocket expenses.
Changes in federal policy caused Horizon Blue Cross Blue
Shield of New Jersey — the state’s largest insurer in the individual market — to announce premi-ums would increase between 16 percent to 28 percent this year, according to its website.
“The poll confirmed what we’re hearing on the ground — affordability and the value of avail-able plans r e m a i n major is-sues among r e s i d e n t s purchasing in certain m a r k e t s , ” said Linda Schwimmer, p r e s i d e n t and CEO of the New Jersey Health Care Qual-ity Institute. “The ACA was effec-tive in increasing coverage, but there’s more to be done to make that coverage affordable. This is especially true for small business-es and individuals above 400 per-cent of the federal poverty level who are purchasing insurance on
their own and not receiving subsi-dies. They are feeling the brunt of a health care system’s costs that are ever increasing.”
The individual market covers about 240,000 New Jersey resi-dents and it consists of those who are not eligible for Medicare or Medicaid.
AmeriHealth New Jersey — another big individual market in-surer — said there would be an av-erage rate increase of 17.1 percent “based on many uncertainties in the individual market,” according to an Asbury Park Press article.
Despite the rising costs in the individual market, Gov. Phil
Murphy (D-N.J.) has expressed the desire to tackle the health-care issue in New Jersey when he signed an executive order in Janu-ary to encourage more Affordable Care Act signups, according to a release from The Official Website for The State of New Jersey.
From the governor’s transition team, there are specific h e a l t h c a r e priorities that the Murphy administra-tion should focus on, according to the Report of the Health-care Transi-
tion Advisory Committee. The transition report criti-
cized the federal government’s actions of defunding cost-shar-ing subsidies, a cut in outreach and marketing funds and a short-ened open enrollment period as a way to weaken the Affordable Care Act.
“The federal tax legislation’s repeal of the ACA’s individual mandate will likely affect the in-dividual marketplace and its abili-ty to provide affordable coverage options, with premiums expected to rise in 2019 by 10 percent or more,” according to the transi-tion report.
To combat this, the transition report shows that the Murphy administration should consider actions like increasing Afford-able Care Act enrollment through a state-led consumer outreach campaign, or work with the state legislature to see if there is poten-tial for “incentives” or “shared re-sponsibility,” to encourage more people and small businesses to opt into health coverage.
The recent “Health Matters” poll is the fifth in the New Jersey “Health Matters Poll” series and is a collaboration between the two institutes to measure how New Jersey residents feel about cur-rent healthcare issues.
“Anything that we produce we hope it goes out into the public
“The poll confirmed what we’re hearing on the ground — affordability and the value of available plans remain major
issues among residents purchasing in certain markets.”
Linda SchwimmerPresident and CeO of the New Jersey Health Care Quality institute
In a public poll of more than 1,200 New Jersey callers, a majority reported that they have positive feelings toward services covered under the state’s healthcare, but would like to see a decrease in monthly premium rates. PEXELS.COM
A transition report drafted by Gov. Phil Murphy’s (D-N.J.) office criticizes current New Jersey co-pay policies and recommends that Murphy focus on increasing enrollment to the Affordable Care Act as a way to make healthcare more accessible. PEXELS.COM
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Ryan StieSiAssociAte News editor
On Wednesday, Rutgers students received an important reminder that it is not too late to vaccinate against the flu, in light of the the most seri-ous influenza season in years.
This year’s influenza rates are on pace to surpass the 2014-2015 season when an estimated 34 million Americans contracted the flu. Getting vaccinated and staying hydrated can help prevent premature sickness. CDC.GOV
New Jersey Principal Dep-uty Commissioner of Health Jackie Cornell came to the Eric B. Chandler Health Center in New Brunswick to get a flu shot and remind residents that they should do the same, according to a press release from the New Jer-sey Department of Health.
The deputy commissioner spoke with patients and staff of the health center, discussing the importance of getting vaccinated and preven-tative measures people can take to deter the spread of the virus. Cor-nell joined Sandra Hill, executive director and CEO of the health cen-ter, in spreading the message.
Receiving an annual flu shot is the most effective way to prevent the flu, according to the Rutgers Student Medical Services website.
“Getting vaccinated is especially important for people who are at high risk for infection, such as stu-
dents (who live and study in crowd-ed areas), health care workers, those who smoke, those over 50 and children under 2 years of age and those with weakened immune systems,” according to the site.
The flu virus has been notably pervasive this year. The New York Times reported that this season is on pace to equal or surpass the 2014-2015 season in which an esti-mated 34 million Americans got the flu — more than 700,000 were hos-pitalized and more than 50,000 died.
In the latest Respiratory Virus Surveillance Report, the New Jer-sey Department of Health stated that for the week ending on Jan. 27, all regions of the state had high levels of influenza activity.
The weekly update reported that so far there have been a to-tal of 7,332 confirmed flu cases
statewide. Bergen County report-ed the most with 972 cases, while Middlesex county reported 338 total cases of flu.
Rutgers Student Medical Ser-vices reported that more than 20 percent of students at the University said they have missed assignments and received lower grades due to the flu and flu-like symptoms.
Some steps to prevent the flu include getting vaccinated, staying home if sick, washing hands, stay-ing hydrated, covering up when sneezing or coughing and cleaning frequently used items, according to the medical services website.
Common symptoms include a fever greater than 100 degrees fahrenheit, body aches, chills and other signs similar to a cold. Rec-ommendations on the site include seeking medical attention if the fever persists for more than two to three days, if symptoms persist
for more than 10 days, if breath-ing is difficult and if swallowing fluids is difficult.
Last month The Daily Targum reported that the H3N2 virus is the most prominent cause of in-fluenza cases this year — and is a strain of Influenza A that tends to cause more serious illness.
Services like Rutgers Student Medical Services and the Eric B. Chandler Health Center are avail-able to students and people who want to get their flu shot.
“Our purpose is to improve the health of our community,” accord-ing to the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School website. “We have developed partnerships with our customers, who are our patients, our payers, our staff and our community. The diversity of our customers de-fine the terms of our partnership.”
“Our purpose is to improve the health of our community.”
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Rutgers encourages students to vaccinate amid high flu rates CRIME
jeRsey City In a traffic stop at the Holland Tunnel, police re-covered a handgun from a car on Saturday afternoon. Police approached a Nissan Altima with three people in the vehicle, all of whom were not wearing seat belts. During the search, a loaded pistol and drugs were found. Police charged 27-year-old Angelo Ortega with posses-sion of the gun and drug offens-es and the two other passengers were issued summons for not wearing a seat belt.
essex County An unidentified man was found dead in a car in Bloomfield on Saturday after being shot. Township police found the man unresponsive in a vehicle at 7 p.m. The man was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:12 p.m.
salem County Jeremy A. San-tiago, 26, has been indicted on charges including first-degree murder after allegedly stabbing his mother to death. Santia-go stabbed his mother in their home on Nov.5 and then stabbed a man in the chest when he tried
to stop the assault. Authorities believe Santiago was high on PCP when he killed his mother. He remains detained at the Ann Klein Forensic Center.
jeRsey City Johnny Nunez, 41, barricaded himself inside a home Saturday when police at-tempted to arrest him after he was accused of stealing $80,000 worth of merchandise from a local mall. Nunez told police he had a gun and was holding peo-ple hostage. After 90 minutes of negotiations, he surrendered and no hostages were found.
Camden County Brandon Mos-by, a 27-year-old Camden man, was sentenced to 58 years in prison after murdering a man who tried to intervene in a do-mestic dispute. When Mosby was beating his ex-girlfriend, John Carey stepped in to de-fend the woman and her child. Mosby then shot Carey, and killed him. The Superior Court in Camden declared that Mosby will have to serve at least 46 1/2 years of his 58-year term before he will be eligible for parole.
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Former Scarlet Knights dawn new colors at Super Bowl RobeRt Sanchez
Staff Writer
Rutgers was well represented at Super Bowl 52 on Sunday as Devin McCourty, Duron Har-mon and Kenny Britt of the New England Patriots all once donned the scarlet and white. Although the Patriots lost in a thrilling match, 41-33, the once Scarlet Knights did make an im-pact on the field.
McCourty led all defensive backs with six tackles while Har-mon added three tackles and had a crucial interception near the goal line with approximately 5 minutes left in the second quarter. Britt did not see game action.
Leading up to the big game, McCourty, the 27th overall pick by the Patriots in the 2010 NFL Draft, totaled 80 tackles, one sack, one fumble recovery and one interception in the regular sea-son. He added nine more tackles during the postseason.
Harmon, a third-round pick in 2013, combined for 17 tackles and four interceptions in both the reg-ular season and the postseason as a safety.
Britt, who was taken 30th overall by the Tennessee Titans in 2009, drew in 2 touchdowns and averaged 12.8 yards per catch on 20 receptions for a to-tal of 256 yards in 12 games with the Cleveland Browns and Pa-triots this year. The 29-year-old, who was once a deep threat, was
SPLASH Smallpools make big waves at Friday night’s Spring Kickoff Concert held by the Rutgers University Programming Association (RUPA). BRIANNA BORNSTEIN
inactive for the entire Patriots postseason run.
During their time on the Banks, McCourty, Harmon and Britt all left their marks on the field. Mc-Courty totaled 149 tackles and one sack while adding six inter-
ceptions and two touchdowns in his four years at Rutgers.
Harmon netted 83 tackles with six interceptions and 1 touchdown during his four-year career in Pis-cataway, with one of those years coming alongside McCourty.
Harmon’s teammate all throughout his Rutgers years, Britt, caught 17 touchdowns with a total of 3,043 yards while rush-ing for 75 yards and 1 touchdown before getting drafted into the NFL.
Despite the loss, McCourty and Harmon are still two-time Super Bowl champions, winning in 2015 against the Seattle Seahawks and in 2017 against the Atlanta Fal-cons. This leaves Britt still looking for his first championship ring.
Devin McCourty of the New England Patriots led all defensive backs with six tackles last night. During his time at Rutgers he totaled 149 tackles, one sack, six interceptions and two touchdowns. FLICKR
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Romney in Senate would balance GOP
L ast Thursday, former Massachusetts governor and one-time GOP nominee for president, Mitt Romney tweeted that he was “Looking forward to making an announcement on February
15th about the Utah Senate race.” All signs point to him announcing his candidacy for the Senate seat that will be vacant with the retirement of Orrin Hatch. So I will take this time to explain why Sen. Romney would be good for America and for the Republican Party.
Romney’s extensive experience in both the public and private sec-tor will make him an immediate powerhouse addition to the Senate. Before entering politics, Romney ran a successful venture capitalist firm specialising in providing funding to new or expanding businesses. His firm funded major companies, such as Domino’s Pizza and Staples. This kind of real world business skill will be an asset to the U.S. Senate. More than being a businessman, he has experience managing an ex-tremely large and unwieldy organization. Romney saved the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic games from a bribery scandal and financial ruin. If you do not think that is an accomplishment just ask Athens and Rio how the Olympics treated them. He did this all, mind you, for free, sim-ply out of a sense of duty to his country because that is who Romney is — a man who puts his country first. Romney then proved a Republican can win and govern in deep blue states. As Massachusetts governor, Romney brought down the states budget deficit and signed into law a statewide healthcare law which would be dubbed “Romneycare.” This is certainly problematic for conservatives but if we allowed states to experiment with healthcare laws and find what was best for each state like our founders intended the nation to solve difficult problems then the U.S. healthcare system would be in better shape than the Afford-able Care Act has left it. All these accomplishments would be more than enough to prove Romney capable of being an incredible addition to the upper house but what has happened after the 2012 election shows why America and the GOP need Romney in the senate.
In the years following Romney’s 2012 election defeat, Romney has shown his character and has been proven right time and time again. The first and most glaring issue where Mitt has been proven right is
an issue that sorely needs his help — Russia. In 2012, Romney appro-priately called Russia America’s “greatest geopolitical foe.” To which former President Barack Obama said, “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back.” Romney showed his thoughtfulness and keen understanding of the world while Obama showed why his for-eign policy was an absolute failure. In the next four years, Putin would invade Ukraine, support the war criminal President Bashar al-Assad and would interfere with the 2016 election. Romney was proven right again this time about Iraq. Romney called Obama’s withdrawal from Iraq an “astonishing failure,” and by 2015, ISIS had taken a sizable part of Iraq including the key city of Mosul. Once again Romney showed a better understanding of foreign policy than Obama. Moving away from the 2012 election, Romney also showed great character in the 2016 election. Mitt Romney gave a speech chastising President Donald J. Trump, listing his shortcomings as a person and as a candidate. Rarely in America’s two-party system has such a prominent member of a party attacked so forcefully his own party’s frontrunner for nomination. Rom-ney could have been forgiven for staying out of politics and retiring to spend time with his enormous family, but Romney opened himself up to attack from a wide portion of his party simply because he thought it was the right thing to do. Agree with him or not, it shows integrity for one to speak up for nothing else besides love of country.
Lastly, Romney in the Senate will be good for the Republican Party because he will balance out Trump’s populism. The GOP has long been divided between a populist wing past seen in the Tea Party but now led by Trump and a moderate business friendly “establishment.” Romney is poised to become a leader of the establishment, and I believe this is for the best. If one faction of the party dominates the other, the party risks losing the dominated faction of voters. Trump, while command-ing a key block of working-class voters risks driving away suburban, well-educated voters who have in the past voted Republican. If Romney is seen as a legitimate leader of the party by those voters, Republicans may well keep voters that Trump drives away. This is good for the Re-publican party as it keeps the largest possible voting coalition. So, if you are reading this, Gov. Romney, I urge you: Run! Run! Run!
Robert Suriano is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in history. His column, “A RINO’s View,” runs on alternate Mondays.
The Daily Targum’s editorials represent the views of the majority of the 150h editorial board. Columns, cartoons and letters do not necessarily reflect the views of the Targum Publishing Company or its staff.
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“Romney is poised to become a leader of the establishment, and I believe this is for
the best.”
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JUULing has become new smoking
I n 1965, more than 42 percent of people smoked cigarettes. In 2014, with ample available in-formation about cigarette smoking’s link to
cancer, that number has decreased to less than 17 percent. Emerging on a large scale in 2003, e-cig-arettes and vaporizers have presumably helped some smokers wean off of their addiction to cig-arettes by providing, to our current knowledge, a much less harmful alternative.
This alternative to smoking is no doubt a good thing in certain circumstances — as is anything that helps decrease the world’s total number of smokers. But in these products’ wake has arisen a new trend among young people. Relatively recent-ly, a specific kind of discrete vapor-izer, the JUUL, has become in-creasingly popu-lar, exceeding the popularity of the regular “vape” or e-cigarette, at least in high schools and on college campus-es. JUULs come with what are called “pods,” which are removable and are the piece of the device which contains nicotine. Pods come in flavors like mango, creme brulee and fruit medley and each one holds the equivalent amount of nicotine as one pack of cigarettes.
The fact that these devices are so popular with young people today, having the potential to be an industry worth $27 billion by 2022, should come as no surprise. Despite the high levels of nicotine in the product — which ensure its popularity by mak-ing people addicted — these devices are amazing-ly discrete. High schoolers and college students who previously would have never used nicotine are now able to abuse it more easily than ever. These products look like USBs and are extreme-ly concealable. Unless you are looking for it, they also give off no blatant smell like cigarettes do — a major plus if you are in high school and are trying to get a buzz without your parents finding out. The vapor that comes out of them is much less dense than cigarette smoke and disappears much more
rapidly, making JUULing in class easy to get away with. Not to mention the device’s kid-friendly fla-vors and fun light fixture. All of these things make JUULs even more abusable than cigarettes.
JUULs are obviously not more harmful than cig-arettes, so it is reasonable to find some solace in being able to say, “at least they are not smoking.” But we must delve a bit deeper on the topic, be-cause there is evidence that suggests e-cigarettes and vaporizers also deliver toxic chemicals to the body, such as formaldehyde, nitrosamines and lead. Granted, one drag of a cigarette is likely more harmful than that of a JUUL or vaporizer. In occa-sional instances, the chemicals in JUULs and va-
porizers are probably not likely to cause a person harm. But re-member what we have established — these devices are signifi-cantly more abusable than cigarettes. Smok-ers are not able to take a drag of their ciga-rette every 5 minutes at work or in class,
but a JUUL allows them to do that. After a while, the consumption of those small amounts of form-aldehyde, lead or other chemicals snowballs into a large amount.
College students, for the most part, are adults and should be able to make their own mature decisions about their life. If they want to vape or JUUL, they should be able to do so. But it seems obvious that these addicting products are blatantly marketed toward young people, and are beginning to pervade youth culture. Addiction to these prod-ucts should be called what it is — a compulsive, drug-seeking tendency.
Nicotine is a drug, and it is not easy to quit. While many students and young people may look at vaping or JUULing as a fad that they will grow out of, this is likely not the case. Like alcoholism, addiction to these devices is real and permanent. So it may be helpful for us, as a community and a society, to at least take a step back and think twice as our gen-eration plunges deeper into the existing culture of addictive and drug-dependent habits.
Vaporizable nicotine is disproportionately popular among youth
“The fact that these devices are so popular with young people today, having the
potential to be an industry worth $27 billion by 2022, should come as no surprise.”
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People must stop feminization of mental health issues
M ental health has always had an ex-treme stigma attached to it. But, this stigma is even more extreme
for men. According to studies, men are less likely to seek mental help than women are. One study done in the 90s showed that two-thirds of mental health patients were wom-en. This trend goes way back — another study done in the mid 1800s supported this, showing that approximately 11,000 patients in a certain hospital were women out of the total 18,000.
Some believe that men are naturally less likely to develop mental disorders than women due to certain pressures that wom-en face which men do not face. But, it is also true that men are more likely to be discour-aged from admitting that they have any sort of mental problem. While mental health has been a taboo topic in many cultures for many centuries, it is especially taboo for men to admit that they have any sort of weakness. Mental health has long been as-sociated with weakness and weakness has long been associated with feminine traits. The connotations that a mental health diag-nosis brings simply do not match up with the stereotypical traits that define the socie-tal norms for masculinity.
Because of the expectations that men are held to and because of the associa-tion of weakness with femininity, men are generally less inclined to admit that they have any emotional problems. This is an issue that needs to be resolved. Renee Fabian said, “Men who are raped have a 65 percent chance of developing PTSD. Men are more likely than women to devel-op schizophrenia. And yes, men receive diagnoses of depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, PTSD, BPD, substance abuse issues and eating disorders as well. For
men, many of these diagnoses clash with the idea of masculinity — there can be no signs of weakness. So when men should be empowered to reach out for help, they may be called a ‘p****’ or told to ‘toughen up.’ The notion that men should not seek help and should be self-reliant is ridicu-lous. This is not the way anyone would deal with a physical illness.
While this may not seem like a feminist issue to some, it certainly is. We need to stop associating weakness with femininity. Having emotions, dealing with them and healing yourself is perfectly natural. Hav-
ing self-care issues does not make anyone less of a “man,” it makes them human. We need to stop the degradation of supposedly feminine traits.
Another approach to this trend is that women are diagnosed with mental-health issues more frequently than men are. Be-cause women tend to be seen as crazy, un-healthy or turbulent when they stray away from their structured feminine expecta-tions, it is easy to wrongly diagnose women with disorders. “This issue isn’t new. It can be traced back as far as 1900 BC Egypt, and
the use of ‘hysteria’ to sum up any woman’s health issue that deviates from expected gender roles continued well into the 1950s. The pejorative term typically was assigned by doctors who didn’t take women serious-ly,” Fabian said. When women portray any typically masculine traits, such as signs of aggression, they are dismissed as being mentally unstable. On the other hand, the expectation of women to be constantly overly emotional beings skews diagnoses. An anxiety disorder may be overlooked in a woman due to the idea that women are gen-erally moody, dramatic or temperamental.
Gender roles permeate every aspect of life, mental health being just one of them. Men are unfairly expected to be self-reliant, refusing to let anyone know that they too have emotional troubles, in fear that they will be feminized. We need to stop using terms that degrade feminine traits to describe “weak” men. Associating femininity with weakness, hysteria or dramatism is dangerous. As Christina Vanvuren said, “First, we, as a culture, must stop using language and stereotypes that presents females as hys-terical, emotional beings who are social-ized toward co-dependency. We need to dismantle the stereotype that men are supposed to be strong and shouldn’t need to ask for help, as well as the no-tion that they don’t show their emotions (but, somehow tend toward anger more than women).”
For the sake of treatment and the sometimes fatal repercussions that result from wrong treatment, we need to stop the feminization of mental health. Ad-mitting depression or anxiety disorders does not make you weak, rather it makes you courageous for admitting to this in today’s society.
Priyanka Bansal is a Rutgers Business School sophomore double majoring in busi-ness and journalism and media studies. Her column, “Call for Change,” runs on alternate Mondays.
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This February celebrates Black History Month, dedicat-ed to showcasing, exploring and exalting the beauty within Black culture. This month is a vital cel-ebration of achievements by Afri-can Americans and a time for rec-ognizing their central role in the world. Although Black lives over-came historical and cultural bat-tles throughout history, it should not be the only thing to celebrate. Their clothing, skin, hair, music and traditions are something that should be celebrated no matter what month it is. Whether you are looking to learn more about Black culture or if you are just interested in buying a few new things, check out these black-owned businesses and brands worth supporting.
ashE hair co. Hair is an essential part of
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a School of Arts and Sciences first-year. “There have been so many Black Americans that have greatly influenced Ameri-can culture and the best way to showcase their achievements is through Black History Month.” Up-and-coming hair care brand Ashe Hair Co. is just one of the many Black-owned hair care brands that Walker helped pave the way for. The word “Ashe” comes from the Yoruba lan-guage of West Africa, meaning
power, command and authori-ty. The mission of this store is to make the best quality hair and beauty enhancements that will make the person wearing it feel strong and confident. This store features wigs, fron-tals, beauty supplies and more. It can be hard to find hair with textures that blend well with the highest quality, but this store is versatile and takes nat-ural and organic products to en-hance your style.
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Happy Birthday: The changes you make should be for a reason, not to show off or outdo someone. The best motive is to do something be-cause it will make you a better person. Share your joy, knowledge and laughter with those you love. Turn this into a heartfelt year and a time you will look back on with fond memories. Your numbers are 3, 16, 22, 28, 37, 42, 46.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your spontaneity will help you jump from one situation to another without giv-ing much thought to consequences. You’ll accomplish a lot if you stay on track and let your intelligence and insight lead the way. Love and ro-mance are highlighted. 3 stars
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A steady pace will get you where you want to go. Don’t take detours or let anyone sidetrack you. Follow the path you know will bring you the rewards you are looking for. Take advantage of opportunities and forge ahead. 3 stars
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Take what belongs to you and keep mov-ing forward. Use your skills, talents and charm to help you get what you want. High energy and innovative ideas will help you gain acceptance and support. Personal improvements will boost your confidence. 5 stars
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t act impulsively. It’s best to listen carefully and figure out a way to uti-lize your skills in order to come up with a workable plan. A responsible attitude and patience will help you come out on top. 2 stars
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Partnerships, communication and sorting through any differences you have with others will bring you closer to resolving unfin-ished business. Personal improvements can be made as long as you are moder-ate and money-conscious. A romantic gesture will be well-received. 4 stars
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Mix practicality, precision and innovative ideas, and you will come up with a winning combination that will help you excel. Make personal improve-ments that will boost your confidence and make what you have to present more appealing. 3 stars
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Take a step forward and begin the process of getting what you want. Laziness or in-dulgent tendencies will not bring you closer to what you want to achieve. Don’t wait for others to do things for you -- take action now. 3 stars
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Se-crets will be kept. Be careful what you divulge and how you handle others. Take a disciplined approach to whatever you want to pursue and stick with it until you accomplish your goals. 3 stars
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Being involved will help you gain knowledge and experience. Partici-pate in activities that will encourage you to take on new responsibilities. You’ll meet interesting people while helping others. Romance will im-prove your personal life. 4 stars
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Get ready to face your problems head-on. Prepare to recap what’s happened in the past to avoid making similar mistakes in the fu-ture. Don’t let the changes made by others prompt you to be a fol-lower. 2 stars
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Look at the big picture and make your plans according to what you know you can accomplish. Time spent with the people you are most famil-iar with will encourage good times, love and happiness. Personal gains look promising. 5 stars
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Take care of unfinished matters that per-tain to ex-partners or joint affairs that are still hanging over your head. The change may be difficult, but once complete, you will feel en-ergized and able to move forward. 3 stars
Horoscopes Eugenia Last
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Pearls Before Swine Stephan Pastis
Non Sequitur Wiley
Lio Mark Tatulli
Over The Hedge T. Lewis and M. Fry
Yesterday’s
Solution
ACROSS
1 Not purebreds
6 Powderlike residue
9 Have a dispute
14 Everglades creature
15 Experimental room?
16 Repairs socks
17 Like someone slugged?
18 Not amateur
19 Give the heave-ho
20 Nursery rhyme fair-goer
23 It is inn stock
24 Bonus for waiting
25 Type of rocket
27 Consider again
32 Billboard chart toppers
33 Like an oft-told joke
34 Shipbuilders’ woods
36 Tear passageways
39 Memo’s “now”
41 Sloppy floor covering?
43 Hamlet or village kin
44 Revise an atlas
46 Pamper, as a child
48 Type of party
49 To father
51 School year section
53 Bar variety
56 Sheep say what?
57 One kettlebell lift
58 Lists of dishes
64 More than enough
66 Contracted
67 Mr. Brown of song
68 Four-lapper on a track
69 It can give you the slip
70 Omit in pronunciation
71 Editor’s leave-ins
72 ___ Perignon
73 Mary Moore’s middle
DOWN
1 Untidy situation
2 Hybrid citrus fruit
3 Quick haircut
4 Is enticing
5 Doer of do’s
6 European mountains
7 Dress of India
8 Mushroom cloud maker
9 It’s behind the uvula
10 “The Big Bang Theory” character
11 “Wow!”
12 Leo or Fester, on TV
13 Dean of “Pitch Perfect”
21 Prop swords
22 Utterance from the awed
26 “Five card” follower
27 Call of the wild
28 “Or ___!” (veiled threat)
29 Throat’s up-and-downer
30 Easy marks
31 Omits
35 Gin-flavoring fruit
37 Logging victim
38 Swap easy punches
40 More than discomfort
42 Get low dance
45 Factfinders, essentially
47 Flier kin
50 “The Book of ___” (2010)
52 How to reach base
53 Some metric measures
54 Hold back for later
55 Quite cold
59 Crazy, down south
60 Flower part
61 Husk kin
62 Took a bike
63 Rubbernecker
65 Pig tail?
Yesterday’s Solution
Universal Crossword
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Sanders scores 31 points for Knights, but comeback falls short
loss
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Rutgers wins at No. 17 Wildcats, change lineup, then fall to No. 14 Fighting Illini
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our dual with Illinois,” Goodale said, according to Rutgers Wrestling on Twitter. “We’ll continue to monitor him mov-ing forward.”
After a 3-1 win for DelVecchio over Dylan Duncan made it 6-3, Michael Van Brill couldn’t keep the momentum going, falling 10-4 to the Illini’s Mike Carr.
For the 149 weight-class, a spot normally locked down by No. 12 fifth-year senior Eleazar DeLu-ca, freshman Nick Santos took the reigns. Santos almost squeaked by with the win, but was ultimately edged out 3-2 by Eric Barone.
John Van Brill followed that up with an 8-6 loss of his own to an unranked Kyle Langen-derfer to make things 15-3, advan-tage Illinois.
Of the many disappointments on the day, most notably was the absence of Lewis at 165. Lewis was scheduled to wrestle No. 2 Isaiah Martinez, but instead was replaced by sophomore Brett Donner, who went on to lose by technical fall.
“We’re kind of hurting, and once we realized Nick wasn’t going to wrestle, we decided to rest these guys,” Goodale said to
NJ Advance Media. “We just felt that’s in the best interest going forward to the postseason, to get these guys back to healthy.”
Although a 6-2 win for redshirt freshman Joseph Grello at 174 inched Rutgers closer at 20-6, the win proved futile as the damage had already been done.
And like Lewis, his classmate Gravina would not wrestle in his highly-anticipated matchup against No. 6 Emery Parker ei-ther. In place of Gravina was soph-
omore Willie Scott who wrestled well but lost a close one, 4-3.
F i f t h -year senior 197 -pounder Anthony Mess-ner and senior heavyweight Razohnn Gross finished things off with wins for the Knights,
but it was too late, as the Illini came away with the 23-12 win.
Rutgers will now get ready to host No. 18 Minnesota (5-6, 2-4) at the Rutgers Athletic Center (RAC) on Friday at 7 p.m. — the team’s final home match of the season.
“We’re looking forward to re-turning home, healing and pre-paring for our dual with Minneso-ta on Friday,” Goodale said.
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Freshman guard Geo Baker added 16 points and two assists for Rutgers in its near-comeback win attempt against No. 3 Purdue. CASEY AMBROSIO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / FEBRUARY 2018
of Sanders’s 31 points came in the second half, leaving Purdue’s head coach Matt Painter with plenty to say about his opponents’ shooting Saturday.
“They made tough shots,” Painter said. “Corey Sanders, Geo Baker, those guys had a really good game. They made a lot of tough one-on-one plays. ... They made a lot of them tonight, and you have to give them credit.”
The almost-comeback was part Sanders and freshman guard Geo Baker (who had 16 points) driving to the basket and part Freeman and junior center Shaquille Door-son picking up the scraps with putbacks. The Knights scored 12 of their 14 second-chance points in the second half, with Freeman and Doorson effectively keeping out Purdue’s tall frontcourt.
Rutgers as a whole got a lot of shots past the block-happy duo of Isaac Haas and Matt Haarms — measuring in at 7 feet 2 inches and 7 feet 3 inches, respectively — and in fact, the Knights had their own block party of sorts in the first half.
They kicked off Saturday’s contest with three rapid-fire blocks all in the same possession, including Freeman getting one in on Haas, who has 7 inches on the North Carolina-native.
Less blockable on Satur-day afternoon was surprising-ly 6-foot-4-inch guard Dakota Mathias. Mathias was deadly from 3, stymieing any and all momentum for Rutgers on the day with a 4-of-7 line from out-side. His 3-pointers seemed to come at the least opportune times for the Knights, when they were getting out on runs of their own, but Mathias never let up, doing most of his work in the second half.
Joining Mathias in thwarting Rutgers’ comeback attempt was Vincent Edwards, who helped out in all areas on the court, collecting 18 points, eight rebounds and seven assists on the day, adding on to that a few major baskets in the last few minutes to stretch out Pur-due’s lead.
On Saturday, the Knights learned that outrebounding and outshooting the opposition does not mean much when that team is Purdue. Despite Rut-gers having its best shooting performance since the win over Iowa and despite it bettering the Boilermakers on the boards by a 12-rebound margin, it still was not enough to knock off the third-best team in the country.
A lot of that comes down to Purdue’s 86-percent mark from the free-throw line, making 25 of
its 29 attempts, compared to the Knights only getting to the line 10 times on Saturday.
It will go down as the reason Rutgers lost to the Boilermak-ers, but there is merit in looking at the peripherals affecting this Knights side coming into the contest. Two of its most versatile players out injured and coming off of four consecutive losses
are the last things a team wants to worry about before facing a team like Purdue.
For all of Rutgers’ lack of con-sistency this season, it means the team knows its way back from the bottom of the mountain at least half the time.
“Everyone needed to step up their game,” said head coach Steve Pikiell. “We’re down to eight
scholarship guys, let’s go. And by the way, we’re playing the best team in the country. ... We had to really step it up, and I thought we did, and again came up short. But certainly not because the guys didn’t step up.”
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“We’re kind of hurting, and once we realized Nick
wasn’t going to wrestle, we decided to rest
these guys.”
scott goodaleWrestling Head Coach
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Knights secure their biggest win of year against No. 13 Wolverines at home
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Junior forward Caitlin Jenkins puts up 2 of her 4 points on the night for Rutgers. Jenkins was a big help for the Knights on the boards, grabbing 10 rebounds in the win. GARRETT STEFFE
country. Not only did it hold the Wolverines to their lowest point total in conference play, but it also held Katelynn Flaherty, the fifth-best scorer in the country (23.5 points per game), to 19 points — the Knights are just the fourth team this season to hold her to less than 20 points.
Rutgers was in command of the game from the very start, using defensive pressure to gain the upper hand early and set the tempo.
The Knights forced seven turnovers in the first quarter alone, and ended the quarter with a 15-7 lead. It was the fourth time this season that they held an opponent to less than 10 points in the first quarter, and the first since their December win over Siena.
Michigan responded with a 12-3 run in the first 5 minutes of the second quarter to take the lead, causing Stringer to call a timeout and tell her team to pick up the pace.
“For the first couple of minutes (of the second quarter) I was upset, because we needed to kick it up,” she said. “If anyone can play fast and under control, it’s us. We needed to put Michigan on their heels, and not have them put us on our heels.”
Rutgers re-emerged strong, taking control the rest of the way and ending the half with a 7-point lead. The final play of the half saw sophomore guard Ciani Cryor nail
a 3-pointer at the buzzer, sending the Knights into the locker room energized.
“It definitely gave us a lot of momentum going into the second half,” Cryor said. “We were already confident, but that gave us even more confidence.”
Rutgers continued to dominate the game after the break on both ends of the floor, forcing turnovers while having a lead as large as 11 at some points. The team only allowed the Wolverines to make it a one-possession game once, and had a 45-40 lead at the end of the quarter.
The fourth quarter was more of the same — consistent offense and defense that didn’t allow Michigan to turn the game into a nail-biter. The Knights briefly increased their lead back to double-digits again and coasted to victory.
Cryor led the way for with Rutgers with 16 points, matching her season high. Junior forward Stasha Carey added 12 points, while fellow junior forward Caitlin Jenkins collected 10 rebounds.
Following the big win, the Knights will go on the road against No. 18 Ohio State, hoping to make it two straight wins against ranked opponents.
“This was an outstanding game against an outstanding team,” Stringer said. “Hopefully it’s a sign of things to come.”
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men’S track and fieLd kniGHtS cLaim team titLe after 5 eVent WinS
Rutgers wins 4th consecutive Metroplitan Championship
Sophomore Tobi Tella captured a second consecutive triple jump title, while also claiming a runner-up finish in the long jump at the Metropolitan Championships. JEFFREY GOMEZ / APRIL 2017
aLex fabuGaiS-inabaStaff Writer
The Rutgers men’s track and field team won its fourth consec-utive Metropolitan Indoor Cham-pionships title on Friday evening. Looking in great form for the Big
Ten Championships at the end of the month, the Scarlet Knights capped off the competition with five event titles and five run-ner-up finishes.
After returning to the track just last weekend, junior Izaiah Brown took care of business in
his second competition of the in-door season by defending both his titles in the 200-meter and 400-meter from last year. Brown finished atop the podium with times of 21.50 and 47.69, respectively.
Rutgers dominated the 800-meter with three Knights
finishing in the top four spots. Sophomore Sean Martinek paced Rutgers by posting a time of 1:54.20 for first place. Following behind Martinek was classmate Jared Skalski and freshman Eric Barnes, who recorded respective times of 1:55.02 and 1:56.36.
In the 1000-meter, another three runners ran into the top eight. Freshman Billy Hill re-corded a time of 2:29.38 to fin-ish fifth, while sophomore Jason Schweizer followed just behind to finish sixth in a time of 2:29.47 and classmate Andrew Comito squeezed into eighth place with a time of 2:30.62.
Of the five runners that were entered in the 3000-meter, ju-nior Conor Murphy led the Knights to a fourth-place finish, while senior Trent Brinkofski followed behind to finish sixth. Placing second and third in the 5000-meter, freshman Patrick Walsh and senior Alex Liver-nois posted respective times of 15:03.06 and 15:06.80.
Almost 2 seconds ahead of the field, the 4x400-relay team of freshman Boaz Madeus, Brown, senior Jordan Jimerson and freshman Edwyn Pierre ran to an easy first place finish with a time of 3:17.38. Hill, Schweiz-er, Barnes and Skalski ran the
4x800 relay in a time of 7:51.39 for third.
Also placing third was Comito, junior Edward Zalek, freshman Alexander Pai and Walsh in the distance medley (10:18.60).
Back at full capacity was sophomore Tobi Tella, record-ing a 15.10-meter (49’ 6.5”) mark in the triple jump to reclaim his title from last year. Freshman Ja’Quan Mial captured the num-ber two spot with a jump of 13.94 meters (45’ 9”).
In the long jump, Tella add-ed a second-place finish with a 6.90-meter (22’ 7.75”) leap ahead of junior Jairus Paul’s third place and sophomore Patrick Warren’s fourth place.
Other runner-up finishes belonged to Madeus in the 500-meter (1:03.75) and sopho-more Perry Christie in the high jump (2.09 meters, 6’ 10.25”). Both Madeus and Christie post-ed personal bests in their partic-ular events.
Up next, Rutgers will split up and spread out Feb. 8-9 to com-pete at the Valentine’s Invitation-al in Maryland, SPIRE Institute Invitational in Ohio and Tyson Invitational in Arkansas.
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CHRIsTIAN TRAsOLINI, fifth-year senior attackman on the men’s lacrosse team, returned to action this weekend after missing all of last season with an injury. Trasolini led Rutgers to an 11-7 win over Robert Morris on Saturday with 3 goals.
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Junior guard Corey Sanders scored a season high 31 points. CASEY AMBROSIO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / FEBRUARY 2018
Sophomore guard Ciani Cryor brings the ball up the court for Rutgers in its shocking 63-56 victory. GARRETT STEFFE
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After suffering disheartening loss after disheartening loss, the rutgers women’s basketball team finally managed to put it all together for what is arguably its best win of the season so far.
the scarlet knights (18-7, 6-5) upset no. 13 Michigan (19-6, 8-4) 63-56 in front of a fired-up crowd at the rutgers Athletic center (rAc) yesterday. the win snapped a four-game losing streak — their longest of the season — and was the first time they beat a ranked team in almost three years.
“i guess we got tired of losing and decided to play for each other, and we did,” said head coach c. vivian stringer. “i’m really proud of the way we played today.”
During the losing streak, the main issue that players and coaches pointed out was a lack of focus in practice, leaving the team flustered during games. but something was different heading into this game.
Maybe it was the fact that this was the team’s first game at the rAc since their first home loss of the season. whatever it was, it was enough to light a fire under them and snap them out of their funk.
“it started in practice,” said fifth-year senior guard tyler scaife. “Our energy was a lot better when we were tuned in, and we knew we needed a big win. we don’t like losing in our house, and we take a lot of pride playing at home and in front of our fanbase.”
stringer added that they didn’t lose any skill during the losing streak, but rather they lost their way, and today was the day that they found themselves again.
As for the game itself, rutgers got the win primarily by playing lockdown defense against one of the best offenses in the
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Head coach Scott Goodale pulled out a number of his starters at No. 14 Illinois, after No. 1 sophomore 125-pounder Nick Suriano fell ill. JEFFREY GOMEZ / JANUARY 2018
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the weekend started out promising for the rutgers wrestling team, beating north-western handily in evanston, but things took a turn for the worse during the matchup against illinois in champaign.
On Friday, the no. 19 scarlet knights (6-6, 2-5) handed the no. 17 wildcats (8-4, 3-4) their first loss at home, winning by a score of 22-13.
“Anytime you get a win in the big ten on the road against a nationally-ranked program, it’s big,” said head coach scott goodale. “i thought we wrestled hard again. we backed up our Penn state effort with another really good effort and we won a lot of close matches, which is important.”
starting things off was no. 1 sophomore 125-pounder nick suriano against no. 10 se-bastian rivera — a rematch of the Midlands championships title match.
And like at the Midlands, suriano came away with the win, 4-1.
the rest of the night went as the team would expect, with rutgers securing five more individual wins from no. 20 fifth-year senior 133-pounder scott Delvecchio, red-shirt freshman 141-pounder Michael van brill, no. 17 junior 157-pounder John van brill and fifth-year seniors no. 11 165-pound-er richie Lewis and no. 12 184-pounder nicholas gravina.
but on sunday against the no. 14 Fight-ing illini (7-3, 6-2), things went south for the knights right from the get-go.
At the 125 weight class, suriano was forced to forfeit due to illness — suriano’s first loss of the season — giving illinois a quick 6-0 advantage.
“nick developed flu-like symptoms this weekend, forcing us to hold him out of
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On a college basketball saturday rife with upsets, the rutgers men’s basketball team walked into its matchup with no. 3 Purdue optimistic that it could play the part of Okla-homa state, st. John’s or Missouri.
evidently, it was not the scarlet knights’ (12-13, 2-10) job to curb the boilermakers’ (23-2, 12-0) 18-game winning streak, as rut-gers dropped its fifth game in a row in a heart-breaking 78-76 loss to Purdue at the rutgers Athletic center (rAc) saturday.
with sophomore forward eugene Omoruyi and senior guard Mike williams — two of the knights’ strongest defenders off the bench — out with injury, it was always going to be a steep climb for a team that had just lost by 31 points to then-last-place illinois.
“Our last two outings, we weren’t very proud of,” said junior guard corey sanders. “you don’t get (many opportunities) to play one of the best teams in the nation at your house sold out, so today everybody had a lit-tle extra chip on their shoulder.”
uphill battle aside, it was far from the worst game rutgers could have against one of the hottest teams in the country, especially on the offensive end, where the knights have notoriously struggled this season.
For much of the game the team went through sanders, who found success both in and out of the paint. sanders finished the night leading both squads with 31 points on 13-of-27 shooting.
it was chiefly sanders, along with fifth-year senior forward Deshawn Freeman and his remarkable defense, that allowed rutgers to crawl back into the game in the second half, putting the home side as close as 1 point within the visiting boilermakers. twenty-one
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