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Rutgers hosts ‘morning after’ midterm election DAVID NOVIS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

For the Eagleton Institute of Politics, “the morning after” does not mean having to don sunglasses and down Advil — it is a means to discuss national elections.

The Eagleton Institute hosted “The Morning After: Grading the Midterm Elections” yesterday morning at the Wood Lawn mansion on Douglass Campus.

A longstanding tradition at the Eagleton hosted every June and

November, the event is cited by the Eagleton as “looking beyond the final tallies and giving perspective to the decisions rendered by New Jersey’s electorate,” according to their website.

Yesterday, Cory Booker (D-N.J.) won re-election as New Jersey Senator to the United States, although Republicans seized control of the Senate overall.

John Weingart, associate director for the Eagleton Institute, said SEE ELECTION ON PAGE 4

The Graduate Record Examination, or GRE, is a three-hour, 45-minute-long examination that costs test takers $195 for registration. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DENNIS ZURAW / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR

U. students share experiences of taking GRE, LSAT, MCAT exams KATIE PARK CORRESPONDENT

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Shreedevi Arunkumar showed up last Friday to take the GRE but was turned away at the door.

Arunkumar, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, brought her driver’s license as her form of identification to take the exam. But because she is not a green card holder, she was told she needed

to bring her passport to enter the testing room.

“I was panicking,” she said.

The GRE proctors told her she had 45 minutes to get her passport and come back in time for the exam at 1 p.m. Fortunately, her father was able to dash home, retrieve her passport and bring it back to the testing center just in the nick of time.

Arunkumar was stressed by the rough star t and had some trouble with the first few sec-

tions on the exam. But as more time passed, she eased into the exam and ultimately walked away that day feeling confident about her per formance.

Arunkumar is one of several thousand students across the United States that have registered to take the GRE, LSAT or MCAT this year.

The GRE, or the Graduate Record Examinations, has year-round SEE EXAMS ON PAGE 5

Last night Cory Booker (D-N.J.) won re-election as US Senator for a full term of six years. DENNIS ZURAW / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR

NJ charter schools show lack in demographics AVALON ZOPPO STAFF WRITER

Students with learning disabilities or limited English proficiency and those who come from low- income households are underrepresented in New Jersey’s charter schools, according to a new study.

Conducted by Julia Sass Rubin, associate professor in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, and Ph.D. student Mark Weber, “New Jersey Charter Schools: A Data-Driven View,” found that these groups of students are more prevalent in the state’s public schools.

The study looked at demographics within seven communities, termed the “Big Seven,” including Camden, Hoboken, Jersey City, Newark, Paterson, Plainfield and Trenton. These cities were chosen because they have a higher concentration of charter schools

compared to the rest of the state, according to the study.

In Newark, 80 percent of district school students are on the National School Lunch Program, whereas only 70 percent of charter school students are enrolled in the program, according to the study. Free lunch was used as an indicator of deeper poverty in the study.

Similarly, Newark’s public schools enroll 9 percent Limited English Proficiency students, whereas the charter schools enroll a mere 1 percent, according to the study. Newark’s public schools also teach twice as many special education students, 18 percent, compared to charter schools’ 9 percent.

It is harder to educate a large population of high-poverty students, LEP students and learning-disabled students, Rubin said.

SEE DEMOGRAPHICS ON PAGE 5

Elaine Zundl, dean at Douglass Project for Rutgers Women in Math, Science and Engineering, explains feminist perspectives on Wikipedia yesterday at Mabel Smith Douglass Library. DEVON JUDGE

Students add feminist views to Wikipedia KELSEY WEIDMANN STAFF WRITER

Stephen Colbert once joked about how easily Wikipedia could be edited and how quickly those edits could become fact, said Elaine Zundl, dean at the Douglass Project for Rutgers Women in Math, Science and Engineering.

But despite Wikipedia’s reputation, many issues are fought via the game of edits and articles, including that of feminism.

Students gathered yesterday in the Mabel Smith Douglass Librar y to learn about adding

their feminist perspectives to Wikipedia ar ticles.

The Wikipedia editing event taught attendees about identifying feminism-related pages on Wikipedia that need improvement and how to fix them.

Zundl showed a clip from the Colbert Report about Wikipedia.

People who are serious about editing Wikipedia were upset about Colbert making fun of the website and encouraging others to change anything they want for fun, Zundl said.

Colbert’s humor draws attention to how often people consider Wikipedia an unreliable source, she said.

“Teachers always tell you not to use it, but the reality is that everybody uses it,” she said.

But Wikipedia needs to have standards because it is not just a forum for people to go to voice their opinions, Zundl said. The online encyclopedia is supposed to be dynamic and keep up with current events.

Wikipedia users must abide by five “pillars” or principles, one of which is that it must be written from a neutral point of view.

The second pillar can be controversial because not everyone recognizes SEE WIKIPEDIA ON PAGE 4

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Campus Calendar THURSDAY 11/6 Nat Adderley Jr. Group Performs at the Hyatt Hotel on Albany Street from 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. There is no cover charge.

SATURDAY 11/8 The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra performs at 8 p.m. at the New Jersey State Theatre on Livingston Avenue.

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The Center for African Student, the Writers House and others present a public reading and book launch by Somali writer Nuruddin Farah from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus.

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Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers presents “Passport to Art: Adventures in Light and Color” at 1 p.m. at 71 Hamilton St. on the College Avenue campus. There is a $5 to $10 fee.

FRIDAY 11/7 Rutgers Gardens holds its weekly farmers market from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 112 Ryders Lane on Cook campus.

Rutgers Energy Institute presents “The Physics of Politics” at 10:30 a.m. at the Marine Sciences Building on Cook campus. The seminar is free and open to the public.

The Chinese Cultural Arts Association presents “Rhythm of Dance” at 8 p.m. at the New Jersey State Theatre on Livingston Avenue. For tickets, call 609-235-6576.

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Professor, author introduces book about black feminism SABRINA SZTEINBAUM ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Brittney Cooper became a feminist after falling in love with studying 19th centur y black women.

Brittany Hall introduced Cooper, who spoke yesterday as a par t of the fifth annual Interpreting American Histor y lecture series in Van Dyck Hall on the College Avenue campus, as a “dynamic and thoughtprovoking” speaker.

Cooper, an assistant professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers, presented a piece from her book, “Race Women: Gender and the Making of a Black Public Intellectual Tradition, 1892-Present,” which she is currently revising. When initially pitching the book, Cooper said she wanted to write a “kind of intellectual histor y” of a specific group of black female thinkers.

“It’s recuperating important 19th-centur y black women intellectuals and arguing that we have overlooked their thought in contemporar y scholarship,” Cooper said.

These women had impor tant things to say about what racial freedom struggles were about, Cooper said, and that their thoughts and opinions are impor tant for how black feminist theor y is looked at and taught today.

Cooper wants to see these women taken for the serious theorists and civil rights activists they were, she said.

Hall, a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Rutgers, said Cooper’s work navigates the at-times contentious realms of history and theory, feminism and racial justice and explored questions of sexuality, feminism, race and gender politics.

Cooper is frequently featured as a commentator on shows like “The Melissa Harris-Perr y Show” and “All In with Chris Hayes,” Hall said.

When Cooper was an undergraduate student at Howard University, she did not learn the works of Mar y Church Terrell or Pauli Murray, two 19th-centur y women’s rights activists, among other impor tant black feminists.

Once she began graduate school at Emor y University in 2003, she was excited to delve into black feminist theor y. She began yesterday’s talk with a “bold contention.”

“I think that the project of black feminist theorizing has become stagnant over the last 10 years or so,” Cooper said.

The turn of the 20th centur y is often seen as a battle between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, she said. People tend to be enamored by Du Bois, romanticizing him and focusing on his “wonderfulness.”

“It irritates me because ever y year we get a new book about Du Bois,” she said.

Cooper spoke about the National Association of Colored Women, which held its second biennial meeting in Chicago in 1899. The National Afro-Amer-

Brittney Cooper, associate professor of Women and Gender Studies, presents her work at the fifth annual “Interpreting American History Lecture Series” yesterday at Van Dyck Hall. RUOXUAN YANG ican Council met at the same time in the same city.

After both gatherings, Du Bois compared the two conventions, heaping praise upon the female convention-goers of the NACW, eroticizing them with praise for their attractiveness, skin and accents, Cooper said.

When speaking about the Council, Du Bois noted that the members were mostly males who had wider scopes and aims than the women of the NACW. The Council members were more representative of the “rank and file of American Negroes,” Cooper said, quoting Du Bois.

In Du Bois’ view, the Council, whose members spoke about issues like lynching and racial leadership, was more relevant to the black race as a whole, she said.

Du Bois attempted to reduce the significance of the NACW, but Fannie Barrier Williams, another 19th-centur y women’s and political rights activist, argued that the NACW was the first major national organization to bring local concerns to a national scale, Cooper said.

Williams, a Chicago elite who “rolled through high society,” was a principle speaker about the intersectionality of gender and labor, Cooper said. She used terms like “citizen woman,” “race public opinion” and “organized anxiety,” and spoke about the exploitation of black women’s bodies.

Cooper argues that the NACW is its own school of racial thought because it articulated a vision of racial identity.

She said Williams argued that the NACW helped black women recognize, study and assess their social condition.

The NACW needs to be viewed as a “key genesis,” Cooper said. Though it does not get the credit it deser ved, it set the tone for black organizations that came after ward, notably the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Maco Faniel, a graduate student at Rutgers, said he will be reading Cooper’s book.

“I’m interested in black feminist thought because I understand that I can’t do histor y, and I can’t do African American histor y or any type of work without including the contributions of African American women,” he said.

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“It’s very important for [stuTopics covered during the panel were Republican dents] to come out because it invictory, campaign styles, public discontent creases their political awareness and their motivation, I think, to vote next time around,” said RayCONTINUED FROM FRONT Rutgers students to senior citi- mond Delpino, a School of Arts zens, all of whom came out for and Sciences junior.

These panelists came together the event is based on the prem- the purpose of gaining insight on to lend their voices in an attempt ise that elections are obviously Tuesday’s elections.

As a result, the event has to analyze, explain and ultimately important, and that, therefore, many people who follow politics evolved over the course of its ten- decipher what exactly the results will want to talk to each other the ure at the Eagleton Institute. This could mean for the government morning after the election and go time around, professional-grade moving forward.

The expected topics were cameras, lighting and microover the results.

Weingart moderated a four-per- phones took up space within the covered during the panel, such as the Republican victor y, son panel, split evenly between main room. the campaign party represtyles and pubsentatives. lic discontent Speaking on the panel “I’m hoping to have a discussion that will help us all get that led to the and were Ross to a deeper understanding of what happened yesterday results what is next for Baker, distinand what the implications might be for the future.” the nation. guished proBut among fessor in the JOHN WEINGART the topics, the Depar tment Associate Director for Eagleton Institute of Politics sentiment that of Political the midterm Science, Gail elections are a Gordon, Republican fundraiser and attorney In order to allow access to major player in the bigger picat Florio Perrucci Steinhardt & those who were unable to attend ture of politics in the years to Faber, Julie Roginsky, Democratic the event, the panel was held come was felt the most strongly political consultant and Fox News as a live stream. Viewers of the at the event.

“I think people really have to contributor, and Jonathan Tam- live stream were even allowed ari, Washington correspondent at to Tweet in questions to be dis- understand that there’s more to the Philadelphia Inquirer. cussed by panelists during the American government than the Due to its popularity, the event question and answer portion of president,” Baker said.

The desire for more minorities has gained a reputation as a re- the event. liable source of perception. The “I’m hoping to have a discus- and young people to get out and event’s turnout made only stand- sion that will help us all get to a demonstrate their right to vote is ing room available with people deeper understanding of what believed to be crucial in determinechoing there needed to be ex- happened yesterday and what the ing the impact of not just their futra room. implications might be for the fu- tures, but the nation’s, Baker said.

“There’s a payoff there, but I All four of the first floor’s rooms ture,” Weingart said. were filled to maximum capacity With this, the hope to expand think people just don’t see it,” with an audience ranging from the diversity of those in atten- he said.

ELECTION

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WIKIPEDIA Less than 15 percent of Wikipedia contributors are women, according to The New York Times CONTINUED FROM FRONT

that he or she is biased to at least some degree, Zundl said.

Actually, bias is usually very subtle, not blatantly obvious, said Laura Stiltz, director of Research Programs and Advising for Undergraduate Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at the Douglass Project.

“Most of the people that edit Wikipedia think their position is neutral and they are just adhering to the standards, but the reality is, everyone has some bias,” Zundl said.

Each edit has the potential to be disputed as well, she said.

“You could change something and six months later come back and it could be different,” Zundl said.

Anyone can change what others have written, but if an experienced editor changes something, he or she has to give his or her reason in the “talk” tab, Zundl said. The talk tab is on every Wikipedia page, and it contains an evaluation on that specific article.

The tab has an explanation of how accurate the article is and the specific grade it received, which is evaluated based on the content in general and the sources the information came from, Zundl said.

On Wikipedia’s “Feminism” page, the sidebar lists specific articles that need to be addressed, either because they are inaccurate or they lack content, Zundl said.

Some of the articles in need of editing are “Domestic Violence,” “Femininity,” “Feminism in the United States” and “Women’s Suffrage.”

Less than 15 percent of Wikipedia contributors are women, according to an article in The New York Times.

The rest are men in their twenties and thirties, who might not be knowledgeable about these topics, Zundl said.

Zundl encouraged the students to add to the articles using the information they learned in their class because some students at the event were taking “Knowledge and Power.”

Editing does not always mean taking out and adding information, Zundl said. It is also looking at an article, realizing it is inaccurate and flagging it for others to fix.

Mathew Abhati, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, has now realized feminism is not what he thought it was.

“I have learned that you can be a feminist without being a man-hater,” Abhati said.

In the future, Abhati would like to do some research and possibly edit articles.

Wikipedia, along with the rest of history, has traditionally been written by and from the perspective of the “winner,” Stiltz said.

“Wikipedia is our opportunity to make sure our voices are heard,” Stiltz said.

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EXAMS

DEMOGRAPHICS

Only 0.1 percent scored perfect 180 out of 144,000 LSAT testers, according to data from 2006 to 2009

Charter schools have been pointed out as taking an unfair amount of state aid

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continuous testing depending on seat availability. It is offered in seven areas in New Jersey: Clark, Ewing, Fair Lawn, Hamilton, Princeton, Laurel Spring and West Orange.

The three-hour and 45-minute test is comprised of six sections: One Analytical Writing section, two Verbal Reasoning sections, two Quantitative Reasoning sections, one unscored section and one research section.

The testing fee is $195, but a fee reduction program is available for high-need students. Test-takers will be charged an additional fee if they register after the deadline, change the testing center or do standby testing.

Arunkumar, who plans to pursue a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences, studied for more than a month for five to six days per week using two practice books from The Princeton Review and the Educational Testing Service.

The advice she would offer to students interested in taking the GRE would be to study regularly, since cramming is ineffective for this exam.

Additionally, she advised students to know their study habits and get the proper resources.

For students that can discipline themselves, a GRE course is unnecessary. But for students that have the tendency to procrastinate, one of the many GRE courses available might be what it takes to score highly.

She also said she regretted taking the exam in October, when she had to juggle a full course load, a job and GRE preparation. In retrospect, she would have taken the GRE during the summer, when she had more leisure time.

But most importantly, she said, was to triple-check the type of identification the GRE required before heading out the door on test day.

LSAT

Marina Riley, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, took the LSAT toward the end of September.

The LSAT, or the Law School Admission Test, is a rigorous fourhour exam that estimates how well the tester would perform in law school. The testing fee is $170, which includes one free score report. Additional fees will accrue if the test-taker registers after the deadline or changes the date or center of the test.

Like the GRE, fee waivers are available for high-need students.

The four-hour exam, which is administered four times every year in June, September or October, December and February, consists of five sections: Reading Comprehension, Logical Reasoning or “Arguments,” Analytical Reasoning or “Logic Games,” a writing section and an experimental section.

The exam scale ranges from 120 points to 180 points, with only 0.1 percent scoring a perfect 180 out of 144,000 testers, according to data published from 2006 to 2009 by the Law School Admission Council.

Riley scored a 165, placing her in the 91st percentile of all test takers.

“I’m happy with it,” she said.

She took the exam for the first time at the beginning of the semester, after she had recently finished

a Kaplan LSAT prep course in Philadelphia during August.

The price of the course was steep, valued at $1,400 — discounted from the original $1,800 — but Riley said it was worth it.

She attended two classes a week, four hours a day, for five weeks.

She took three LSAT practice exams — a diagnostic, midpoint and final. She scored a 158 on her diagnostic, and then managed to bring it up seven points on the day of her actual exam.

“My best section was Logical Reasoning, and I did better than I usually do in practice,” she said. “[But] my Logic Games was extremely low.”

Now that she has her score back, she is gearing up to apply to law school. She has Rutgers, Drexel, Temple and Wagner on her list, schools that are close to her home.

Riley advised students interested in taking the LSAT to look into taking prep classes and trying plenty of practice tests once familiar with the content and structure of the exam.

“Do whatever you can to feel confident for that first test,” she said.

MCAT

Kinnari Modi, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, took the MCAT in July.

The MCAT, or the Medical College Admissions Test, is a four-hour, 30-minute exam, that includes Physical Science, Biological Science and Verbal Reasoning sections. Starting April 2015, it will also assess critical thinking and analytical skills in sociology and psychology, according to a previous article in The Daily Targum.

The testing fee is $275, including registration and the distribution of scores. Like the GRE and LSAT, auxiliary fees include late registration and changes of the test date and center, and fee assistance is available for high-need students.

Modi, who has had dreams of becoming a surgeon, studied for three to four months before signing up for the MCAT. She scheduled to take her test in Pennsylvania, an hour-long drive from her home in New Jersey.

“I didn’t want to take the chance of traffic in the morning ... so I went the day before and stayed in the hotel, [from] where the [testing center] is a 10 minute drive,” she said.

She said the exam itself “wasn’t bad,” although she was not fond of taking the exam on a computer.

She had to read paragraphs on the computer, and although the computer offered a highlighting function, she said she wanted to write annotations in the margins like she did with a paper test.

“Computer tests just always intimidate me because we’re used to taking hand-written tests in college,” she said.

Modi received her results, and said she didn’t do as well as she hoped, so she is planning to retake the exam at another date.

The advice she would give to students considering taking the MCAT would be to start preparing early — read everything in class and get the appropriate resources to start exam preparation.

She also emphasized the importance of practice tests.

“Try taking as many practice tests as possible, because that’s the key,” she said.

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“If charter schools are not taking a percentage [of these students] like they should, then ever yone else’s job becomes that much tougher,” she said.

Although the report did not include causes for the disparity, Rubin hypothesized three possible reasons: fewer students from these groups are applying, fewer students from these groups are being admitted or more students from these groups are leaving charter schools.

Rubin said a strong relationship exists between family income and students’ test results because standardized tests are “for the most par t a measure of pover ty.”

One possible reason fewer low-income students are enrolled in charter schools could be because charter schools need students to perform well on standardized tests in order to avoid being shut down by the state, Rubin said.

The lower rates of economically disadvantaged, LEP and special education students in charter schools result in higher concentrations of those students in public schools, Rubin said.

Not only does this increase segregation, but it also impacts the quality of education that districts can provide and the financial resources available to pay for that education, according to the study.

School districts get additional state aid based on the number of students who are at an economic disadvantage,

are English language learners and have a learning disability, Weber said. They then must distribute that money equally throughout the district.

The main issue is that charter schools in New Jersey are not educating their fair share of “at risk” students, who are more costly to educate. As a result, charter schools have been pointed out as taking an unfair amount of state aid.

“When you have charter schools come in and take a set amount of money with no regard to whether they are educating

“Charter schools are a Band-Aid to a very severe situation — the overwhelming amount of poverty in this country.”

STEPHANIE RIVERA Graduate Student

as many at risk children, it ends up being a big problem for the public schools,” Weber said.

Current efforts by policymakers to revise the outdated Charter School Program Act of 1995 drove Rubin to delve into figuring out the demographics of these schools.

The report outlines four solutions for the New Jersey Department of Education and the New Jersey Legislature: implementing a weighted lotter y, creating a penalty for charter schools

that do not match 90 percent of their host district’s composition, replacing students who leave with students from similar demographics and creating a uniform application deadline and waiting list transparency.

“We wanted to put the data out there to drive the policy discussion in a more informed way versus ideologically,” Rubin said. “The demographic issue has a big impact on both public schools and charter schools.”

The discussion does not end with policy makers, she said.

Students who have committed to pursuing a teaching career in college have an obligation to understand the facts surrounding charter schools and to participate in the debate, Weber said.

Stephanie Rivera, a graduate student, is an example of someone who is well versed in issues facing the modern education system. She is a student ambassador for Rutgers Future Scholars and the president of Future Teachers Association at Rutgers.

“If [charter schools] are only cherr y-picking the best students out of the district, I don’t think it is doing the community any ser vice,” she said.

Rivera, who student teaches at New Brunswick Middle School, believes that the state should be putting more money into the public schools.

Many of Rivera’s students have non-English speaking parents, and since the charter schools do not offer applications in their language, she said applying is a more difficult process for those students.

“Charter schools are a BandAid to a ver y severe situation — the over whelming amount of poverty in this countr y,” she said. “We shouldn’t be looking at charter schools as a solution.

We should be looking at how to solve poverty in our countr y.”

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Obama responds to Republican majority in Congress

U.S. President Barack Obama answers questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., yesterday. REUTERS

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama acknowledged yesterday that “Republicans had a good night” with sweeping election victories in Congress and said he got a message from voters that it was his responsibility to break a Washington gridlock.

Republicans seized control of the U.S. Senate in Tuesday’s election and captured their biggest majority in the House of Representatives in more than 60 years.

The party also won more than half of the 36 governors’ races.

“As president, I have a unique responsibility to try and make this town work,” the president, a Democrat, said at a White House news conference. “So, to everyone who voted, I want you to know that I hear you.”

The president, whose unpopularity made him unwelcome to many fellow Democrats running for office, plans to meet congressional leaders from both parties at the White House on Friday to take stock of the new political landscape.

Yesterday, he spoke with Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, who is poised to become the Senate‘s new majority leader, and with House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner.

“I told them both that I look forward to finishing up this Congress‘ business and then working together for the next two years to advance America’s business,” Obama said.

At a news conference earlier, McConnell said he believed Obama was interested in moving forward on trade agreements and tax reform, two issues at a Washington standstill in the face of political differences.

“This gridlock and dysfunction can be ended. It can be ended by having a Senate that actually works,” McConnell said.

Despite the Republican gains, the election was not necessarily an endorsement of Republican policies. Initiatives championed by Democrats to raise the minimum wage and legalize possession of small amounts of marijuana succeeded in a handful of states where they were on the ballot.

With the bulk of election results in, the dollar surged to a seven-year high against the yen and the Dow and S&P 500 finished at record closing highs, reflecting optimism about pro-energy and other business policies.

When the new Congress convenes in January, Republicans will be armed with their biggest majority in the House since Democratic president Harry Truman’s first term in the late 1940s.

The Republican takeover will force Obama to scale back his ambitions to either executive actions that do not require legislative approval, or items that might gain bipartisan support, such as trade agreements and tax reform.

It also will test his ability to compromise with newly empowered political opponents who have been resisting his legislative agenda since he was first elected in 2008. Americans elected him to a second and final four-year term in 2012.

One of the first tests could be a bill to approve the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline from Canada, a project about which Obama has voiced reservations. Republican Senator John Hoeven said in an interview yesterday that he has enough votes to pass a bill early in 2015 that would approve TransCanada’s long-languishing $8 billion pipeline project.

“It’s really a good chance to see if the president’s willing to work with us,” Hoeven said.

Energy markets hope Republican control of the Senate will lead to reform of crude and natural gas expor t laws and motivate the Obama administration to include those energy expor ts in new, or broader, trade agreements.

Partisan battles could erupt over immigration reform, with Obama poised to issue executive actions by year’s end to defer deportations of some undocumented immigrants.

A one-term senator before he became president, Obama has often been faulted for not developing closer relations with lawmakers, particularly with McConnell, who won a tough re-election battle against Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes.

McConnell will replace Democrat Harry Reid as Senate majority leader. Reid has been one of Obama’s top political allies and helped steer the president’s signature healthcare law through the Senate in 2010.

In Tuesday’s thrashing, Republicans won in places where Democrats were favored, pulled out victories where the going was tough and swept a number of governors’ races in states where Democrats were favored, including Obama’s home state Illinois.

Republicans needed six seats to win control of the 100-member Senate. As it happened, Republican candidates picked up seven Democratic seats: Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Montana, North Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia.

Democrats had dominated Republicans in the Senate, 53-45 with two independents, going into the elections but Republicans will now outnumber them 52-45 with two independents. Louisiana‘s U.S. Senate race will be decided in a Dec. 6 runoff.

In the House, Republicans had held a 233-199 advantage before Tuesday’s vote. NBC News projected they would hold at least 244 seats and as many as 249 seats once all the votes were counted.

— Reuters

November 6, 2014

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Rutgers alumna colors streets with nature-inspired art MURTUZA HUSSAIN STAFF WRITER

The streets of New Brunswick are filled with worn-down houses, small businesses and ancient apartment buildings.

But on the intersection of Plum Street and Somerset Street, a mural distinguishes itself from the typical scener y.

The disfigured-looking birds, tugging on leaves like a scene out of the mind of Hitchcock, provoke one’s thoughts and leaves an unsettling feeling.

Marissa Paternoster, an artist, singer and active musician in New Brunswick’s art and music scene, started the mural at the public parking lot at Plum Street the first week of June and finished it in just three weekends.

Don Giovanni Records sponsored the mural with help from coLAB Arts, a non-profit organization that provides opportunities for artists in New Brunswick to showcase their work.

Paternoster had total liberty to paint whatever she pleased as long as she got her sketch approved by New Brunswick offi-

cials, she said. She explained that the approval process took months but knew it was well worth the freedom to do what she wanted.

Paternoster’s style of art is very distinct and recognizable. She dabbles into darker power, disconsolate content and disfigured representation of everyday life with a twist of horror. Fans who follow her art can clearly tell her style from anyone else’s.

She derives a lot of her inspiration from her mother, an art teacher. Paternoster said that as a child, her mother always inspired her to create, draw and experiment.

Paternoster knew her entire life she wanted to go to art school.

From her arrival at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers in 2005, Paternoster incorporated her style into a lot of her work. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts in in 2008. She said she derived much of her style from the works of Robert Crumb and Jackson Pollack.

Paternoster is also a fulltime musician in the band Screaming Females, signed by Don Giovanni Records. She said

she holds the band close to her hear t. She is ver y optimistic about fulfilling her life-long dream with her band.

Screaming Females are currently on tour and will be releasing their sixth album in the spring.

Many New Brunswick residents and acquaintances ques-

tioned Paternoster’s decision for the subject of the mural. She stated the theme of her piece was more important to her than each individual aspect. She wanted to stay true to her style but also keep it appropriate.

“I wanted to paint something that would resonate with people,

and I believe nature is so beautiful,” Paternoster said. “Birds and the leaves have such a beautiful connection to the world, and people can really relate to it.”

For more stories on arts and entertainment, food and lifestyle check out targuminsidebeat.com.

A mural, located between Plum Street and Somerset Street, was painted by Marissa Paternoster, who wanted to create a piece that showcased nature and allowed all types of people to relate to it. GRAPHIC BY MURTUZA HUSSAIN / STAFF DESIGNER

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Our broken two-party political system Midterm election results follow continuous pattern of partisanship

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emocrats lost out in the midterm elections are so many who make a conscious decision not to Tuesday night, and the Republican Party vote or simply aren’t interested. There’s little faith in now holds the largest congressional majority our political system at the moment, and not without since World War II. There are now 100 women in Con- good reason. Party politics define the system, and it’s gress for the first time in history and more diverse not working.

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Politics don’t need to be defined by specific soto find a way to work together instead of constantly cial and cultural issues like making everything a partithey usually are. Democrats san issue? appeal more to our generaThe seesawing between “The polarization between both tion simply because of their majority parties in Congress parties on every issue is so liberal stances on domestic is almost comical. With topics like gay marriage, Democrats in the majority, intense that we never seem to abortion and the legalization we saw the least-productive be able to come to the middle of marijuana, while RepubliCongress in American hisground we need.” cans are usually on the other tory with terrible approval end of the spectrum. While ratings. Everyone — not just midterm elections have smug Republicans, but also disillusioned Democrats — voted for the alternative, been dominating the mainstream media, many peoand now we have a Republican majority. And for those ple were also following the legalization of marijuana who didn’t want to vote for the alternative, they sim- for recreational use in Oregon and Alaska this week.

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Now, with a Republican majority in the legislature local level. Democrats rely heavily on young people, students and minority groups for votes, while the and a Democrat in the White House, the only way for Republican demographic includes older voters who our government to get things done is if Obama figmore reliably show up to the polls, especially during ures out a way to work with Republicans — but after midterm elections. But getting people to vote isn’t just all these years of partisan politics, clearly bipartisanabout accessibility and awareness anymore. There ship isn’t as easy to achieve as it might seem.

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On being the only black kid in class: diversity matters THREE LAYERS DEEP YVANNA SAINT-FORT

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eing the only black kid in class is one of those things in that once you notice it, you can’t un-notice it.

I don’t remember the first time I realized I was the only black person in my classes, but it became an issue my sophomore year of high school. In my English class, one of the assigned texts was “A Raisin in the Sun”

by Lorraine Hansberry. The book was written as a play, and during class, each student took turns reading character lines to make it feel more like an actual play. The book is set in Chicago during the 1950s, a racially charged period on the brink of the civil rights movement. Characters in the play use the “n” word, and my teacher felt it was important to say the actual word out loud, as opposed to substituting it for the politically correct moniker. Her decision was for literary purposes, and I agreed with that. Use of the actual word would help to contextualize the story and show its derogatory history, a complete departure from the modern-day, colloquial use of the term.

But what I didn’t agree with was when she looked to me before making her decision. I was questioned, in front of the

whole class. I was the only black student in a room of 20-something people, and she asked me whether I wanted the class to use the actual “n” word. I knew she meant well. But in that moment, it felt like I was being told, “Look, since you’re black, and this word gets associated with you, let us know if it’s okay to use it or not.” I was put on the spot and at the risk of becoming the residential, culturally oversensitive black girl I said it was fine. Having all the eyes in the room trained on me was much worse

Every black student has a different experience when they’re alone in a classroom.

For some it might not be a big deal, others might switch out of the class completely and still others may remain but with a grain of salt, which is what I did. Being the only black person in class made me value diversity that much more. I realized then that part of living in white society means I might as well get used to being the only black person in the room. But that’s nearly impossible, at least for me.

“At Rutgers, there are thousands of people that represent both cultural and racial diversity. Walking around campus, you’re surrounded by people from all races, which is exactly what I was looking for. But classrooms aren’t too much different from what I’ve been greeted with in the past.” than the stolen glances I was used to when the subject of slavery or the Civil Rights Movement came up. In those situations, I could write off the looks as ignorance, thinking just because my skin is brown and my hair is nappy doesn’t mean that I know every microcosm of information related to those social movements. But I couldn’t be surprised as to why people thought that was the case. The otherization I felt at that moment was intense — I knew it, and the rest of the class knew it.

After high school, I went to school in Boston for a year in search of diversity.

At first, it felt great — I was taking classes with people from Beijing and Ghana, I lived with students from Switzerland and was friends with girls from Dubai and Ethiopia. Then one day, I looked around and realized that in four of my five classes, I was the only black person. I tried to act like it was not a big deal, but it really is one of those things — once you notice it, you can’t un-notice it. Cultural diversi-

ty is not nearly the same thing as racial diversity. Just because people are of different backgrounds does not mean they look like me or anyone else. I made the decision to transfer to Rutgers, picking up my search for diversity once more, with race at the forefront.

At Rutgers, there are thousands of people who represent both cultural and racial diversity. Walking around campus, you’re surrounded by people from all races, which is exactly what I was looking for.

But classrooms aren’t too much different from what I’ve been greeted with in the past. While lecture courses may have a couple hundred people on the roster, only half of them show up, and even then it’s still possible to count all the black people on two hands. In smaller classes, it’s the same deal, except you only need one hand to count the black people. Either way, in my classes at Rutgers, no one gets called out as the black kid in class because that’s usually not the case. Being the only black kid in class is a strange feeling, one I will never accept, but at Rutgers there is comfort in numbers, regardless of how many.

Yvanna Saint-Fort is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in journalism and media studies and political science. Her column, “Three Layers Deep,” runs on alternate Thursdays. Follow her on Twitter @yvannathecritic.

Knights’ decision to start Nova proves detrimental STUMPER’S SPORTS JAMES STUMPER

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ast Saturday, the Rutgers Scarlet Knights lost their third consecutive game and dropped their homecoming game for the third straight season as the Wisconsin Badgers trounced Rutgers 37-0.

Perhaps the worst part of the afternoon — worse than the final score, worse than the combination of cold and rainy weather and worse than the fact that for the third consecutive week the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week was a Rutgers opponent — was the decision made prior to the game to start senior quarterback Gary Nova.

Coming off a knee and ankle injury against Nebraska, it was clear all week that Nova was not at 100 percent, as he started the week on crutches. He missed the second half of the game in Lincoln and was listed as “questionable” all week on the injury report leading up to the game against Wisconsin. Coach Flood and Rutgers’ staff said Nova was a game-time decision, and when game time arrived, the decision came down to play him, and it was the wrong one.

Obviously, hindsight is 20/20, but it’s clear after the romping at the hands of

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Wisconsin that Nova was not on top of his game, and who could blame him? He suffered an absolute beating in the first half of the game in Lincoln against the Huskers back on Oct. 25. He also didn’t get his normal amount of first-team reps in practice leading up to the Wisconsin matchup because it was unknown whether his health would allow him to go.

attack in the country, which averaged 338.4 yards per game coming in. Running backs Melvin Gordon and Cory Clement put on an absolute clinic, running for 128 and 131 yards, respectively.

By no means am I suggesting that Rutgers’ staff should not have played Nova because the game was impossible to win.

Anyone could beat anyone on any given

“Coming off a knee and ankle injury against Nebraska, it was clear all week that Nova was not at 100 percent, as he started the week on crutches. He missed the second half of the game in Lincoln and was listed as ‘questionable’ all week on the injury report leading up to the game against Wisconsin.”

While it was commendable that Nova even wanted to try and tough it out on homecoming — his final one as a Scarlet Knight — it would have been a better decision to start redshirt freshman Chris Laviano under center.

It’s impossible to see into the future, but coming into the game against the Badgers the way they had been playing, it was difficult to foresee a scenario in which Rutgers escaped the game against Wisconsin with a win, no matter who was playing quarterback. Rutgers’ run defense was on a major downward trend, and they were matched up against the nation’s third-best rushing

day. However, a game against a superior opponent in horrible weather with a bye week on the horizon was the perfect opportunity to let Gary Nova rest up and get healthy for the final three games of the season, as they needed one victory to clinch bowl eligibility.

The way things panned out against Wisconsin, Nova ended up playing a full half and then some and was unable to get anything going. Then, when Laviano finally replaced Nova, the backup quarterback looked out of sync, and the offense continued to sputter as the cold rain fell in Piscataway.

Laviano entered the game halfway through the third quarter, but at that point the game was already well out of hand. Laviano was unable to get anything going, even with a full week of practice prepping as the starter. He went 2-12 and racked up just 17 passing yards in a quarter and a half of action. However, expecting Laviano to come in a blowout and do anything at that stage is unfair. The better move would have been to give Laviano the entire game from start to finish, so they could get a look at how he handles a full 60 minutes against a quality conference opponent. Had they done that, they may have a better idea of what to expect out of Laviano going forward. Unfortunately, all Rutgers really knows about him at this point is that in garbage time with his team down 30, he couldn’t get anything going for an already-stagnant offense.

The game against Wisconsin was a great opportunity to give Nova some rest to let him get healthy and to evaluate Chris Laviano for a full game against a solid opponent. Hopefully, for Rutgers and its fans, the upcoming bye week is enough opportunity for Nova to fully heal and the Scarlet Knights can grab at least one more victory before the end of the regular season to clinch bowl eligibility.

James Stumper is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in journalism and media studies and history. His column, “Stumper’s Sports,” runs on alternate Thursdays.

QUOTE OF THE DAY I wanted to paint something that would resonate with people, and I believe nature is so beautiful. Birds and the leaves have such a beautiful connection to the world, and people can really relate to it.

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DIVERSIONS Nancy Black

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Today’s Birthday (11/06/14). Long-term creative goals are within reach this year, propelling your career. Discover something new about yourself, opening unconsidered options. Hone in on passions at work and watch your efforts flower. The game sparkles after 3/20, and romance peaks to a fever pitch. Tone it down after 4/4, as peaceful organization and introspection soothes. Find what you love. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries ( March 21-April 19) — Today is a 9 — The Full Moon brings a turning point in your finances and income. Friends offer good advice. A fantastic idea could work.

Set priorities. Pay bills before spending on frills. A celebratory dinner may be in order.

Taurus ( April 20-May 20) — Today is a 9 — Imagine yourself pushing a boundary, with the Full Moon as impetus. Venture farther than ever. Wear your power suit.

Finish an old job, and use the best parts from different options. Get persuaded by a stranger.

Gemini ( May 21-June 20) — Today is an 8 — Reach a personal turning point with this Full Moon.

A brilliant insight illuminates a new road with new options. Balance new work with old responsibilities. Prioritize plumbing. Accept assistance. Don’t pay more than you can afford.

Cancer ( June 21-July 22) — Today is a 9 — If you’re not getting paid, make sure you’re appreciated. It’s okay to invest in a future.

A new opportunity for fun with friends beckons with the Full Moon. Get stylish and go play with interesting people.

Leo ( July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 9 — Discover a delightful truth, and make an important connection. Put down roots. Results look better than expected. Streamline your routine. A Full Moon turning point dawns regarding your career priorities. A touch of mystery doesn’t hurt.

Virgo ( Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 9 — A new phase in your education, explorations and travels develops with the Full Moon. Get something you’ve always wanted, or find a way to get those tickets.

Register for an opportunity. Consider your long-term plans.

Libra ( Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 9 — A busy phase has you raking in the dough with this Full Moon.

Creativity blossoms, and collaboration flourishes. You and another are bonded by a shared dream. Keep your objective in mind. Clean up messes as they arise.

Scorpio ( Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 9 — A partnership takes a new direction under this Full Moon. Confide a dream, and be inspired by others. What would it take to realize? Plot a course in simple steps. Take turns, and delegate what you can.

Sagittarius ( Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 9 — The Taurus Full Moon inspires a new phase at work.

Balance intensity with peace. Ease into a bubble bath or hot shower.

Emotional release provides freedom.

Trust a hunch. Take time for ritual and symbolism. Keep the faith.

Capricorn ( Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 9 — Appreciate partners, and celebrate an accomplishment. Step into a new game with this Full Moon. Pursue what you’ve been practicing, and hone your talents. Get organized, and find quality supplies. Add music to inspire creativity.

Aquarius ( Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — Make your home cozier with this new Full Moon domestic phase. Delight senses with color, scent, flavor, mood and beauty. Include a water element.

Get dreamy. Invite someone you’d like to know better to play.

Pisces ( Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 9 — A new creative opportunity arises with this Taurus Full Moon. Write, sing out, and broadcast your message. Wax philosophical as you experiment with new concepts. Abundance is available. Talk about your dreams for the future.

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ISSUES Win from Maryland secured first-place finish atop Big Ten regular season CONTINUED FROM BACK

hit a nice shot, and it was a nice goal. And on the last one I early has become the norm for thought defensively we lacked … and you can’t do that against the Knights this year.

“It’s definitely concerning,” good players like Mar yland has said sophomore midfielder Erik and it’s going to make you pay Sa of conceding early in games. and they made us pay.”

The Corboz goal was one of “But we battled back pretty good in this game, and I think the biggest highlights from the that’s what we were pretty hap- contest, with the Knights’ former captain adding to Rutgers’ curpy about.”

That fight back came in the rent misery.

But the Big Ten Tournament 23rd minute when freshman forward Jason Wright wriggled implications were also an importthrough several defenders be- ant aspect. A win from the Terrafore slotting senior midfielder pins made them Big Ten regular Nathan Bruccoleri in on the season champions, giving them home field advantage in the conright hand side.

From there, senior midfielder ference tournament.

Although Rutgers failed to foil Nate Bruccoleri sent a low drivMar yland’s en cross to the title ambifeet of open ju“I thought we played tions, Sa felt nior midfielder that played a Rayon Gibbs, well. We had some large role in who held his lapses that led to their the Knights’ nerve to score enon the open goals ... but it looked like increased ergy. goal and level “I could the game for we wanted to play.” say it was the Knights. pretty emoBut like NATE BRUCCOLERI tional [playing it has hurt Sophomore Defensive Tackle against Corthem all seaboz],” Sa said. son, a mistake from the Knights in the midfield “To see him score that goal was sprung the Terrapins into a quick pretty tough … but just knowing it counter attack where midfield- was a big game for them, in terms er Dan Metzger found forward of winning the conference reguGeorge Campbell open on the lar season was a big motivation wing. Campbell then fired a shot for us, so that’s what we went in perfectly into the far corner past [thinking], and I think we played the outstretched arms of sopho- pretty hard.”

The result may not have gone more goalkeeper David Greczek.

Before the Knights could even their way, but the Knights’ playregister a second-half shot, the ers seemed upbeat following the Terrapins made it 3-1 when Shin- tough loss.

Bruccoleri was one of those sky once again played distributor — this time to forward David Ka- players and felt the effort shown belik, who rode off the shoulder was a positive way to finish his fiof Rutgers’ last defender for an nal game at Yurcak Field.

“I thought we played well,” open look on goal and easy finish.

“If you look at the first goal, Bruccoleri said. “We had some our guys tried to play the kid lapses that led to their goals … offside apparently, and that’s but it looked like we wanted to not in our tactical plan, so some- play and we were competitive.” body kept them on obviously …

For updates on the Rutso that’s one mental mistake or misjudgment,” Donigan said. gers men’s soccer team, follow “The second goal, the kid got @SeanStewartRU and @Targumslipped in on the far side and Sports on Twitter.

Senior midfielder Nate Bruccoleri dribbles the ball. Rutgers’ loss was the last home game of Bruccoleri’s collegiate career.

EDWIN GANO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Sophomore midfielder Alyssa Bull said the Knights have nothing to lose as they head to Michigan to face the two-seeded Wolverines in the Big Ten Tournament. EDWIN GANO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

TOURNEY RU faces No. 12 Wolverines who took down the Knights 2-1 earlier this season CONTINUED FROM BACK defender Sofia Walia playing unlike the last time the two sides met.

Throughout the season, she has become a game changer, and head coach Meredith Long feels it will give the team even more confidence with Sofia being at full force.

But Long thinks it is also important to set the tempo and perform well.

“We definitely perform well when we set the tempo and score early,” Long said. “Against Michigan, we have to be able to perform under pressure, make good decisions with the ball and value possession. If we do those things, we will get the outcome we want.”

Rutgers may be entering the game at the right time as the offense hit on all strides this past weekend. Yaney described the offense as peaking at the right moment, while Bull believes that if the attack keeps clicking, the Knights will have the edge.

“This weekend, we’ve really hit a turning point in our offensive line, and if we continue to score and

execute up front, I think we will be unstoppable,” Bull said.

In this tournament, it’s win or go home. So, it’s important for the Knights to click on all cylinders and aspects of their game, as well as be able to execute under pressure.

“I don’t necessarily think our team views themselves as the underdog anymore,” Long said. “I think we really see ourselves being on a completely even playing field with Michigan. Our players are going to put pressures on themselves, but this team has become more calm and composed. I’ve seen them mature.”

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November 6, 2014 WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY

WOMEN’S SOCCER IOWA 1, NO. 23 RUTGERS 0

RU finds improvement as season progresses MIKE O’SULLIVAN

to their one-through-five splits getting faster with each race.

In the Big Ten Championships, A goal of most sports is to see Rutgers’ first five runners each gradual improvements over the finished within 45.1 seconds of course of the season, culminating each other — a big improvement with the best performances toward on their 75.8 seconds spread from earlier this year at the Monmouth the end of competition season.

While this type of goal is one Invitational.

Each runner has also seen their that can be attained, it is not always individual times improve over the the easy to come by.

Factors like injuries, lack of course of the season, which the team chemistry and underachiev- Knights feel is something to be ing during training can derail a sea- proud of.

“I think that our team has realson that once had much promise.

Fortunately for the Rutgers ly progressed from the start of the women’s cross country team, it has season in September until now,” managed to avoid these types of said freshman Megan Coakley. factors and continually improve as “We’ve really made it so far as a team, and we’re running well as its season has progressed.

The Scarlet Knights believe a pack and running together. It’s they are currently running at their been so much fun and I think we’re best level of the season, and it is ex- really progressing.”

While the Knights have been actly what they hoped for entering pleased with championship seeing their season.

“They’ve been peaking times consis“We’re absotently drop, lutely running beautifully. They are they are going our best right progressing as the season to need to connow,” said head tinue to see coach James has gone on. Each race, improvements Robinson. “The they’ve gotten faster.” to finish the overall goal is season well in to run our best JAMES ROBINSON their final two at the champiHead Coach championship onships, and races. we’ve done Their confithat. We look forward to ending the season dence is not lacking, though, and they continue to say that they will strong.”

The Knights have improved continue to focus on running their with each race, seeing their times own races rather than worry so drop substantially from the be- much about the other teams they ginning of the season, along with are competing against.

Junior Paige Senatore has been many runners setting personal the top runner for the Knights all best times.

“They’ve been peaking beau- season long and is confident the tifully,” Robinson said. “They are team will finish the year strongly beprogressing as the season has cause of their health and work ethic.

“I think we feel pretty confident gone on. Each race, they’ve gotten about the rest of the year,” Senfaster and faster.”

Robinson and assistant coach atore said. “In past years, we’ve Jan Merrill-Morin made continual burned out and worn down, but I improvement a point of emphasis do think overall our team is very at the beginning of the season, confident because we don’t have hoping to see their team post faster any injuries on the team, and we’re all in shape. … If we all stay strong times with each race.

The results that they have been in our practices and workouts, we’ll looking for have been there, thanks be OK.” STAFF WRITER

Senior forward Amy Pietrangelo and the Knights’ attack outshot Iowa, 16-9, but could not finish any of its opportunities, losing 1-0 to the Hawkeyes. SEAN MADDEN / FILE PHOTO / OCTOBER 2014

Knights fall early in tourney GARRETT STEPIEN CORRESPONDENT

The No. 23 Rutgers women’s soccer team got the ball rolling on its hottest stretch of the season earlier in the year on Sept. 28 with a 1-0 win at Iowa. The Scarlet Knights ripped off five wins in a row, catapulting them to new heights in their new conference.

But following the Knights’ second encounter with the Hawkeyes, this time in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Conference Tournament, there were no celebrations or winning streak to extend — only a continuous fall from the level they once reached over a month ago.

Appearing to have returned back to form after turning in one of its best all-around performances of the year in the regular season finale last Friday at Ohio State, fourth-seeded Rutgers dropped a 1-0 contest in its first Big Ten Conference Tournament game Wednesday morning against Iowa.

The fifth-seeded Hawkeyes (13-6-1) move on to face Northwestern, which sent shockwaves throughout the Big Ten with its 1-0 upset over top-seeded Penn State.

But for Rutgers (12-5-1), the recent slide continues in what was potentially the final game of what once had the potential to be the greatest season in the program’s rich history.

Head coach Mike O’Neill acknowledged the positives he saw from his players throughout the contest but reminded that the result of the match came down not being able to execute.

“I think in the first half, we did some good things. I just think we needed to be a bit cleaner in possession,” O’Neill said. “We needed to take care of the ball a little bit better. Sometimes, we did a good job of that as well, and we had some when we got into the final third. I thought we just had to have some more courage to do some things.”

Iowa wasted no time in asserting itself in its attempt to avenge a loss from earlier in the season against Rutgers.

In the 10th minute, a rapid sequence occurred beginning with a corner kick from the far side by

Iowa forward Bri Toelle. Iowa defender Melanie Pickert received the send in at the front of the net, attempting a shot on goal that Rutgers junior defender Brianne Reed blocked.

But the ball bounced around and landed out to Iowa defender Natalie Kr ygier, who beamed a shot into the back of the net to give the Hawkeyes a 1-0 advantage.

In Reed’s mind, the Knights were still where they wanted to be. They still had 80 minutes of regulation to conjure up a shutout throughout the rest of the way along with two goals to rally a comeback win.

“When [Iowa] scored that early, there’s no doubt in our minds that we’re going to come back,” Reed said. “We had 80 minutes to produce. We had good shots on goal. We had 16 shots on goal.

“We worked hard, we gave it our all, the effort was there. ... We struggled a little bit in the first half and just couldn’t connect.”

AMY PIETRANGELO Senior Forward

It’s just finding the back of the net was tough today.”

Aside from falling into the early hole, Rutgers garnered more than enough opportunities on the offensive side of the ball to find an equalizer. Throughout the entirety of the contest, the Knights outshot the Hawkeyes, 16-9.

But when it came to scoring, senior midfielder Amy Pietrangelo and the offense couldn’t seem to figure out a way to break through.

“Today was actually a tough game. We worked hard, we gave it our all and the effort was there,” Pietrangelo said. “I think we struggled a little bit in the first half and just couldn’t connect in the final third. … Obviously, the second half was a lot better, but we just couldn’t finish.”

Despite being shut out, Rutgers had its fair share of chances to get on the scoreboard.

In the 18th minute, senior forward Stef Scholz almost responded for the Knights, but her bid for an early equalizer from 15 yards out on the left side clanked off of the far post.

Frantically searching for an opportunity to create some magic down the stretch, junior defender Erica Skroski almost converted.

On a Rutgers set piece, Pietrangelo sent a pass forward to an open Skroski, but Iowa goalkeeper Hannah Clark made the stop.

Having lost three of their last four matches now, the Knights find themselves scrambling for answers to some pivotal questions: How can they establish the consistency that once propelled them to an 111-1 star t, and will they have an oppor tunity for redemption in the NCAA Tournament?

Awaiting a possible at-large bid as they did last year, players and staf f can only hope their resume carries the weight from their bright spots earlier in the season rather than their recent turmoil.

A stunned Pietrangelo reflected on the dreams she and her teammates held since the dog days of training under a baking August sun, grinding with aspirations of hoisting a Big Ten Championship trophy and sporting championship rings on their fingers at the end of the season.

With that vision evaporating and the hope of reaching the NCAA Tournament wavering, Pietrangelo said the only thing left to do is continue to work hard and hope the cards fall in their favor.

“As of right now, I think we’re all in a little bit of a shock. We came out confidently and [I] definitely didn’t think that was going to happen in my last game,” she said. “But we’ve got to stay positive because we’ve worked hard all year. Hopefully, what we did before this game was enough to get us a bid to the NCAA Tournament, so we’re going to stay hopeful for now.”

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November 6, 2014 KNIGHT NOTEBOOK NOVA TAKES SCHEDULED DAY OFF FROM PRACTICE

Rutgers evaluates issues with run defense during week off GREG JOHNSON SPORTS EDITOR

This isn’t the Big Ten the Rutgers football team’s defense thought it was signing up for.

Yes, there was plenty preseason doubt of how the Scarlet Knights would handle the step up in competition, enhanced caliber of athletes and hostile environments in their new conference.

But one area Rutgers thought it had an edge in was lining up against smash mouth Big Ten offenses, which have traditionally pounded the ball and embodied a run-first mindset. The Knights, meanwhile, are typically among the nation’s leaders in run stopping.

Two-thirds of the way through the season, little has gone according to plan.

In six Big Ten games, the Knights have allowed 227.2 rushing yards per game. The issue has only magnified each of the last three weeks, when Rutgers surrendered an average of 304.7 yards on the ground to Ohio State, Nebraska and Wisconsin.

“It’s just a matter of poor execution and a lack of attention to details,” said senior defensive end David Milewski. “We need to do a better job, starting with me and across the board, making sure that there are no mental breakdowns. And when we’re in position to make plays, to make sure that we’re doing the little things to make sure we secure those

plays. You can’t take bad angles, you can’t have missed tackles and things like that. We need to clean those kinds of things up.”

The issues, in part, are likely a combination of adjusting to the bulkiness of Big Ten offensive fronts as well as the spread offense concepts of stretching the field horizontally that are becoming the norm in college football.

The Knights are practicing in full pads during this week’s bye, given the pressing need to crack down on fundamentals. During a normal game week, there isn’t as

“You can’t take bad angles, you can’t have missed tackles. ... We need to clean those kinds of things up.”

DAVID MILEWSKI Sophomore Defensive End

much contact in order to focus on Saturday’s game plan.

And usually during a bye week, rest and recovery are of the essence. But these are not usual times for Rutgers.

“I’ve got to do much better with some of my steps when there’s a blitz,” said junior defensive end Djwany Mera, a twoyear starter. “It’s just the minor details, and we’re working on it

during this bye week and trying to get it straight. We have two weeks before we play Indiana, so we’re going to get better with the little details.”

Once a staple of the program, Rutgers’ run defense has dipped from 44th to 96th nationally since the Michigan game. It ranked fourth in the country last season.

Perhaps most troubling, the Knights surrendered 32 rushing plays of 10 yards or more over the last three weeks. Borderline Heisman Trophy candidates Ameer Abdullah and Melvin Gordon were the primary culprits.

Indiana’s Tevin Coleman, the nation’s third-leading rusher with 1,300 yards, is up next.

“When you look at the film, you do get frustrated at certain points because you know that we’re better than that,” Milewski said. “Ultimately, the silver lining is that we left so much out there on the field. We know there’s still so much more to improve on. It’s not like we put our best effort and they rushed for 300 yards on us. We played poorly, and that showed. … You know there’s so much more room for improvement, and when you do improve, you start seeing the benefits. It’s going to take time, but I think we have a group of guys that are committed to getting better.” *** Senior quarterback Gary Nova, who was upgraded to probable on this week’s injury report

Senior defensive end David Milewski and the Knights allowed 914 total rushing yards in the last three Big Ten games.

SHAWN SMITH

with a lower body injury, had a scheduled day off Wednesday after practicing Tuesday in an effort to get Rutgers’ starter closer to 100 percent.

Head coach Kyle Flood expects Nova back on the field Thursday.

The Knights will have Friday and Saturday off before returning to practice Sunday for the Indiana game week.

“I just think it’s in his best interest having gone yesterday [that] a day off would be good for him, and then he can go tomorrow and then he’ll have two days off,” Flood said. “Then we’ll come back on Sunday and get to work again.”

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— Sophomore midfielder Alyssa Bull on the Rutgers field hockey team’s offense entering the Big Ten Tournament

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MEN’S SOCCER NO. 17 MARYLAND 3, RUTGERS 2

Maryland midfielder Mael Corboz, a former Knight, slide tackles sophomore midfielder Erik Sa on Wednesday night at Yurcak Field. Corboz, who transferred last season from Rutgers, scored the Terrapins’ first goal in the fifth minute in Maryland’s 3-2 win. Sa said it was emotional playing against his ex-teammate. EDWIN GANO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Familiar issues resurface to doom Rutgers SEAN STEWART ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

It could not have started any worse for the Rutgers men’s soccer team.

The ending wasn’t much better, either.

While the Scarlet Knights did score a last-minute goal from junior defender Mitchell Taintor, it was No. 17 Maryland that celebrated a 3-2 win when the final whistle blew Wednesday night at Yurcak Field.

In a game with huge conference implications for the Terrapins (11-5-2, 5-2-1) and pride at stake for the Scarlet Knights (5-11-1, 1-6-1), it was Rutgers that once again fell short.

But despite the Knights losing their third-straight game and fourth straight to Big Ten opposition to end the regular season, head coach Dan Donigan praised his side for its effort.

“Actually, I told my guys, as weird as it may sound, I’m looking just for the guys

to play with a little hear t, a little pride, a little passion, and I thought they did that today to be honest,” he said. “Give credit to Mar yland, they got the goals, they deser ved the win, but I was ver y pleased with the way we fought.”

Though the effort was never in question, the same old mistakes put the Knights in an all too familiar hole to start the game.

Less than five minutes in, Mar yland for ward Alex Shinsky was played in be-

hind after a failed offside attempt from the Knights’ backline.

From there, Shinsky played a routine ball across goal to wide open midfielder Mael Corboz, who — like the ex-Knight did many times for Rutgers the previous two years — calmly scored the easy tap in.

Having conceded within the first five minutes for the third straight game, trailing SEE ISSUES ON PAGE 13

FIELD HOCKEY RUTGERS-NO.12 MICHIGAN, TODAY, 3 P.M. (BIG TEN TOURNAMENT)

RU draws top-caliber Michigan in tourney RYAN MORAN

game they’ve played, and of their losses in the Big Ten, three were by one goal.

With the win, Rutgers clinched the seventh seed in the tournament, meaning they will take on No. 2 seed and tournament host No. 12 Michigan (12-6, 6-2) today. The two met earlier this season in Ann Arbor, with the Wolverines prevailing 2-1 thanks to a second-half goal from for ward Eliza Stein.

STAFF WRITER

In its first-ever season in the Big Ten, the Rutgers field hockey team was able to earn a spot in the Big Ten Championships with a 2-1 win Saturday while dashing Indiana’s hopes of doing so in the process.

Although it’s been a bumpy first season, the Scarlet Knights (9-9, 2-6) have competed in each

The Knights are ready for the clash and have no doubts about their ability to get the win.

“We have nothing to lose at this point,” said sophomore midfielder Alyssa Bull. “We are going to prepare this week and give it all we have.

Everyone wants it so badly. We are just going to fight until the very end.”

The Big Ten Championships are at Michigan this season, meaning the Knights are essentially playing a road game in the Wolverines’ territory.

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SOFIA WALIA,

sophomore back, was named as a Second Team All-Big Ten selection for the Rutgers field hockey team. Walia tied for the team lead with six assists and was second with 20 points. She also had two game-winning goals this year.

Some may think this poses a disadvantage for Rutgers, but sophomore forward Rachel Yaney disagrees.

“It’s something we have experienced already,” she said. “We know what to expect in the atmosphere and the players they have.”

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vs. Michigan

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vs. Villanova/Seton Hall/Georgetown

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Today, 3 p.m., Ann Arbor, Mich.

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Saturday, New Brunswick, N.J.