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Anti-bullying legislation supports family after student deathRyAN sTIEsI
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morris school district will pay $625,000 to the family of lennon baldwin, a 15-year-old who died by suicide in 2012 after being bullied at morristown High school.
attorneys for the family an-nounced the settlement with the school district on Friday, according to the associated press (ap).
the basis for the lawsuit re-lied on anti-bullying legislation passed in the state after tyler clementi, a rutgers first-year student, died by suicide in 2010, according to the ap. His death happened after his roommate used a webcam to spy on clemen-ti during a romantic encounter he had with another man.
“if one school, one board of education or one educator rec-ognizes that the problems of violence and bullying are real, and that rules and regulations re-garding these acts must be more than just words on a page, and
that definitive action to protect a student must be taken quickly — then we, and lennon, will have made a dif ference,” according to a statement from the family.
baldwin died by suicide after three students at morristown High school robbed and terrorized him, according to prosecutors.
a few weeks before his death baldwin had been assaulted by a student at school. the student then pressured baldwin to tell school officials it was a prank, but the student was still suspended.
a student, then 19-year-old mi-chael conway, and the other juve-nile student confronted baldwin in a parking lot three days later and robbed him of cash, allegedly in retaliation for the first student’s suspension, prosecutors said.
the three teens were charged with offenses including robbery and making terroristic threats, and conway plead guilty to lying to au-thorities, according to ap.
the lawsuit filed in 2014 alleged that the school was negligent and
failed to follow its own anti-bullying policies, said attorneys Frederick gerson and Jeffrey youngman.
in 2010 the new Jersey as-sembly and senate passed the “anti-bullying bill of rights,” the legislation that made the baldwin family’s lawsuit possible.
the legislation requires things like training for public school em-ployees on how to spot bullying, a mandate that all districts form school safety teams and making school superintendents report bullying incidents to the state board of education, according to nJ advance media.
it also states that administra-tors who fail to investigate re-ports are subject to being disci-plined and students who bully are subject to being suspended or expelled.
“the bill, in the works for al-most a year (at the time), gained publicity and momentum after the suicide of rutgers freshman tyler clementi,” according to nJ advance media.
Rutgers engineers print 4D gel with futuristic qualitiesCHRIsToPHER RobERTsoN
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engineers at rutgers university have discovered a way to 4d print a smart gel that could potentially prove invaluable to the future of science and medicine.
led by Howon lee, an assistant professor at rutgers’ school of engineering, the manufactured material — or hydrogel — is highly reactive to heat and its shape and size is dependent on the surrounding temperature. the gel is initially 3d, but be-cause it possesses the ability to change in shape and size, it is classified as 4d.
the process in which a chess piece made of the hydrogel mate-rial responds to the change in tem-perature can be seen in a video on the rutgers today site.
as the temperature around the object increases beyond 32 degrees celsius, the hydrogel shrinks, according to rutgers to-day. conversely, as the tempera-ture decreases, the chess piece grows in size. this reaction is due in part to the hydrogel material re-leasing and absorbing water vapor in response to temperature.
“the highlight of this project is that we are able to quickly print temperature-sensitive hydrogel of 3d complex shape in micron scale,” said Zhaocheng lu, a doc-toral student at rutgers in the school of graduate studies who is also working on the experiment.
it has high fabrication speed, because the whole layer feature can be printed with one projec-tion of a digital mask, lu said. and because of the material’s water-absorbent and tempera-ture-sensitive nature, its poten-tial to function within the human body is very plausible.
“possible applications include soft robotic microdevices, targeted drug delivery and tissue scaffolds mimicking active bodily functions — all of which are exciting to us,” lee said about potential uses in the future, according to tech briefs.
it could also create a new area of “soft robotics” and enable new applications in flexible sensors and actuators, biomedical devic-es and platforms or scaffolds for cells to grow, lee said.
though an accomplishment, lee said further development is still needed for it to become applicable in modern science. He explained that with full control of size and shape, people could create motion, program different functions or even make it work similarly to a robot.
“to better use this tempera-ture-responsive shape-changing properties we should measure the mechanical properties of this printed hydrogel and dynamic the-ories can be applied on it,” lu said.
the idea for the 4d printing method arose from curiosity about what 3d printing would look like with an added dimension.
lee said he was working on micron-scale 3d printing with
different kinds of photo-curable polymers. He decided he wanted to add another dimension, and chose a temperature-sensitive and pho-to-curable hydrogel.
“we were already working with 3d printing and wanted to find a way to add another dimension to it in order to give it different prop-erties,” lee said. “this project defi-nitely has the potential to be used in the future for science, especially for administering drugs and medicine within the human body.”
the material is commonly found within everyday products such as Jell-o, contact lenses and diapers, according to tech briefs.
the machine uses a broad-spec-trum light source to cure photo-polymers by projecting 2d images using a digital micromirror device known as microstereolithography, according to dreams (design, re-search, and education for additive manufacturing systems).
the process is a “lithography-based additive manufacturing technique
that is fast, inexpensive and flexible in material selection,” according to the team’s report on the project.
“i got my master degree un-der professor lee’s advisement and both he and professor dae-hoon Han (a graduate student in the school of engineering and co-author on the smart gel proj-ect) helped with my research,” lu said about his role. “this is the first project in our group, and i’m really proud of what we have accomplished.”
Rutgers scientists have developed a process that prints 4D gel, which molds its shape and size based on heat exposure. The Rutgers Today website features a video where chess pieces made of the hydrogel respond to changes in temperatures of more than 32 degrees Celsius. rUtgErS.EDU
The family of Lennon Baldwin, a student from Morristown High School who died by suicide in 2012, will receive $625,000 from the school district in light of anti-bullying legislation. googLE MapS
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Tuesday 2/27 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.
Rutgers Athletics presents “Baseball vs. Wagner” at 3 p.m. at Bainton Field on Livingston campus. This event is free and open to the public.
Chancellor’s Professorship in the Arts and Humanities presents “Democracy, Free Speech, and Fake News” from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus. This event is free and open to the public.
The Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences presents “Metabolic evolution and the self-organization of the biosphere” from 10:45 a.m. to noon at the Marine Sciences Building on Cook campus.
This event is free and open to the public.
The Office of Summer & Winter Sessions presents “Summer Session Info Table!” from 2 to 4 p.m. at Douglass Student Center on Douglass campus. This event is free and open to the public.
The Catholic Student Association presents “CSA Undergrad Spirit Night” from 8 to 9:30 p.m. at the Catholic Center on the College Avenue campus. This event is free and open to the public.
wedNesday 2/28 Robert Wood Johnson Medical School presents “Neuromuscular Rehabilitation” from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at the Clinical Academic Building on the College Avenue campus. This event is free and open to the public.
The Eagleton Institute of Politics presents “A Conversation with David Frum” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Douglass Student Center on Douglass campus. This event is free but requires registration.
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Women in state legislature increase, push female friendly policies ElizabEth KilpatricK
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Female representation in the 2018 state legislature is at an all-time high.
According to the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), 25.3 percent of state leg-islatures in the United States are women. This number has grown slightly since 2017 when the num-ber was at 25 percent.
A steady increase of female representation in state legisla-tures has been a reoccurring trend since the 1970s. According to a graph composed by CAWP, the number of women has gone
up 16.2 percent between 1977 and today.
A total of 1,871 women cur-rently serve in state legislatures. Most of those women are Demo-crats, taking the lead with 1,140 representatives, 704 of the re-maining women are Republican and the rest are involved with smaller parties.
Women of color make up 24.1 percent of the women who serve in the state legislatures. New Jersey’s very own Nia Gill represents this demo-graphic as a Black senator. She
was elected into the Senate in 2002. Gill was Senate presi-dent pro tempore from 2010-2017, according to New Jersey Legislature.
The diversity of women in pol-itics has been beneficial, accord-ing to an article written by The Washington Post in 2013.
“… Congress, while still lagging behind the nation as whole in diversity, reflects na-tional demographic changes that hold significant implications for American politics,” according to the article.
According to an article on political parity done by CAWP, women and men prioritize dif-
ferent legislative decisions. A 1988 foundational study found that women were more likely to draft bills dealing with women’s, children and family issues. The article also stated that female state legislators have better con-nections with women’s organiza-tions than men do.
Overall, the data shows that having more women, especially minority women, in state leg-islature increases government adherence regarding concerns and interests of women across the country.
“… Congress, while still lagging behind the nation as whole in diversity, reflects national demographic changes that hold significant
implications for American politics.”
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“The earliest memory I have of doing art is drawing to learn English. My first language is Burmese and when my mom was teaching my English she would say a word in Burmese, write it out in English and then draw a picture of what it was. I would repeat it, rewrite the word and then draw the picture. Art has stuck with me since.” BENJAMIN DE BRASI
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Rutgers students join national walkout, support strict gun control
Anthony VentrigliAContributing Writer
On March 14, a national school walkout to protest gun violence is scheduled as a response to the lack of gun control legislation — a heat-ed subject since the recent Florida school shooting.
“ S t u d e n t s should care about this walkout be-cause it is directly tied to their safety. Students around the country will be walking out to demand their safety while they learn. It is up to us, the future leaders of this coun-try, to begins securing our safety at school today so that our children won’t have to live with the fear we do on a daily basis. (sic),” said Nicolas Malaniak, treasurer for the Rutgers chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
The purpose of the walkout is to bring attention to the issue of student safety on all school cam-puses. The walkout is designed to force leaders in Congress to re-spond to the incident in Parkland, Florida, with permanent legisla-ture that limits gun violence.
The Brady Campaign chapter at Rutgers fights to stop gun violence through activities like fundraising, teaching, rallying, petitioning and lobbying for legislation. All work done on behalf of the Rutgers chap-ter of the campaign is on a volunteer basis. Those who participate do so because they feel passionately
about the issue of gun safety. The group will be participating in the walkout and urging other students to join in the coming weeks.
“This walkout is probably the easiest chance any student will get to participate in an advoca-cy event. Most are planned long
ahead, involve travel and are to coordinate with. This walkout is an easier, impromptu event that anyone can decide to partake in while it happening,” said Lauren Kaminskas, president of the Rut-gers chapter of the campaign.
RUPD will review any safety implications for the participants as
well as for other members of the community who are not protesting, said Paul Fischer, captain of the Rutgers University Police Depart-ment. This may involve commu-nicating with organizers to assess needs and foresee any impact on the community such as traffic
congestion in the case of a march through the streets. The depart-ment is also prepared to coordinate with local and state partners, de-pending on the size of the march.
“The safety of Rutgers students, faculty and staff is our mission and in order to accomplish that mission the Rutgers Police Department operates
Patrol and Detective Bureau units in each of its three Divisions: Cam-den, New Brunswick and Newark,” Fischer said.
In addition, Rutgers Public Safety, employs additional secu-rity such as student community service officers. The department
maintains a state-of-the-ar t 9-1-1 Dispatch and Communi-cations Center which acts as the communication hub for around the clock, 24/7 security service,
365 days a year. The RUPD maintains resources
related to active shooter situations on its website which includes vid-eos, information about emergen-cy text notifications, community education and guidelines for re-ducing risk in the event of an ac-tive shooter.
On March 14, students across the country will take part in a national walkout supporting stricter gun control legislation following a shooting that occurred at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida earlier this month. FLICKR
SponSored: once app takes fear out of online datingonCe
A new European dating app has announced its launch into the U.S. market. Once, the “slow-dating” app, boasts quality over quantity by incorporating an algorithm that matches its users with one match a day.
Once’s main focus is to eliminate all of the fears that people usually have with other common dating apps like catfishing, ghosting, us-
ing fake photos, pre-date stalking and dealing with stranger danger by implementing a rating system — similar to Uber or Trip Advisor ratings. This way, women can feel especially safe using Once.
Clementine Lalande, co-CEO of Once, said that this rating algo-rithm stems from bad experiences women have had in the past while using online dating services.
“I am appalled at some of the experiences my girlfriends
have endured whilst looking for a partner online,” Lalande said. “Everything from unsolic-ited genital pictures through to outright sexual harassment. In 2018, it is time for women to feel protected and safe.”
She said that the launch of Once in the U.S. comes at a time when society’s perception of women and their safety is being rightly challenged in light of the #MeToo movement.
Once works by providing us-ers with one special match per day based upon an A.I.-based algorithm that determines what its users are looking for.
“Our revolutionary new rat-ings feature gives women the ability to rate men after their dates, which is appealing to se-rious daters,” said Jean Meyer, CEO of Once.
The app is specifically de-signed for singles who are
looking for a serious relation-ship, rather than catering to those who might abuse the app for catfishing or bottom fish-ing, he said.
He said that by holding people accountable for who they are and how they behave through a rat-ing system, Once makes it easier for users to find a quality match.
“At Once, we’re focused on happily ever after, not instant gratification,” Meyer said.
“Students should care about this walkout because it is directly tied to their safety. Students around the country will be walking out to demand their safety while they learn ... ”
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New hashtag brings to light hidden issues
ed by Muslims at least once in their lifetimes and is considered to be a mandatory religious duty if the person is healthy, financially stable and has access to resources to make the trip. Hajj takes place over five days in the holy city of Mecca located in Saudi Arabia and approximately 2.4 million made the trip in 2017. The purpose this pilgrimage serves is to create a sense of unity, purify the soul, pursue enlightenment and dis-cover the divine presence. Thus, it is alarming to learn that people are violated while partaking in this religious journey. The abuse was recently publicized by Mona Eltahawy, an American author and columnist, when she tweeted the sexual harassments she underwent on her trip to Mecca.
The tweet said, “I have shared my experience of being sexually as-saulted during (Hajj) in 1982 when I was 15 in the hope that it will help fellow Muslim women break silence and taboo around their experience of sexual harassment/abuse during (Hajj)/Umra or in sacred spaces. Let’s use #MosqueMeToo.”
Eltahawy set #MosqueMeToo — inspired by the recent #MeToo move-ment — in motion to raise awareness of the mistreatment of women at Mec-ca. It became a platform that made it easier for many other women to speak upon. In the East, among other regions, the topic of sexual harassment is taboo and that is why so few come forward to talk about their experience.
Eltahawy recently opened up to The Washington Post about her experi-ence while performing the Hajj, which is one of the largest human gather-ings that takes place internationally. Since there is an abundance of people in a confined space, people are often bumped into or shoved around. But there is a difference between a slight push and a computed grope. There is a difference between a jostle and a placed pinch. There is a difference between a hustle and a calculated fondle. There is the clear distinction be-tween praying at a religious site and having a malicious alternative motive. This is sickening to examine as the pilgrims that visit Mecca are here in the name of Islam. They are here with no other intent other than pursuing religious fulfillment, and yet they are being sexually attacked in the place they believed to be safest in the world. Eltahawy was sexually harassed by a policeman when she was performing a prayer and felt ashamed of what
had happened even though none of it was her fault. Speaking from person-al experience, it is not easy to come forward and directly address such a violation when you are brought up in a society that victim shames and si-lences the whole topic of sexual assault. The women that perform Hajj are covered head to toe and yet are groped, proving that assault is not based on the victim’s attire but instead has entirely to do with the predator assault-ing them. Being abused in their most religious location, Muslim women cannot easily speak out as they worry about who would believe them. This ideology makes it easier for predators to continue breaking the sanctity of this sacred site, further perpetuating sexual harassment.
When Eltahawy spoke up about her experiences, she was met with massive support as well as equally massive backlash. Many women were relieved to learn they were not the only ones to have undergone mistreatment on their holy journeys since no one had previously publicly addressed their own experience. Others told Eltahawy that she should not be sharing such information as it “makes Muslims look bad.” Mus-lim women, much like Eltahawy, have to deal with a lot of factors when speaking up. On one end of the spectrum, opening up about assaults that occurred within their own community propagates xenophobia by Islamo-phobes who will use any negative information as an excuse to paint Islam in a nefarious light, and on the other end are those within the community that will do whatever it takes to defend Islam and its followers even if it means ignoring such cases of abuse. No religion advocates violence and assault, and it is imperative to recognize that sexual assault, even within a religious community, is not due to the faith. Eltahawy said, “I will never ally with Islamophobes and racists. But in the choice between ‘communi-ty’ and Muslim women, I will always choose my sisters.” Forget tainting a community or a religion, at the end of the day it is about the Muslim wom-en being hurt. Their mistreatment is a violation of basic human rights and must continue to be addressed and met with full support.
Harleen Singh is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in cell biology and neuroscience. Her column, “Got Rights?”, runs on alternate Tuesdays.
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“The women that perform Hajj are covered head to toe and yet are groped, proving that assault is not based on the victim’s attire but instead has entirely to do with the predator.”
EDITORIAL
Campus parking is unimportant worry
I n recent years, there has been a decreasing amount of parking on the College Avenue cam-pus, partially resulting from certain improve-
ments and additions to campus buildings, such as the construction of Rutgers Hillel and the Sojourn-er Truth Apartments. Additionally, the creation of bus lanes on College Avenue pursuant to Rutgers’ Transportation Master Plan eliminated the option for meter parking on the street. These things re-sulted in displacement of parking spaces and has made it increasingly more difficult for students to park their cars conveniently near their place of res-idence, which has become a common and under-standable complaint among students at Rutgers—New Brunswick.
Some campus-es, especially the College Avenue campus as previ-ously shown, are extremely difficult to find reasonable parking on, which forces students to purchase parking passes for a cam-pus separate from the one they live on and entails them taking a bus every time they need to use their cars — which to some defeats the purpose of buying a parking pass for potentially hundreds of dollars to begin with.
Likely one of the main reasons that students want to use their cars to get around on campus is the fact that Rutgers’ bus system can be so frustrating. In fact, students seem to complain significantly more about the bus system than they do about the lack of parking. But what they fail to realize is that their complaints and arguments for why there should be more available and feasible parking is self-under-mining in that if these same students who want to drive to class simply did not, there would be sig-nificantly less traffic in New Brunswick. It’s simple, less cars on the road entails less traffic. So by asking
for more ways to easily use your car because the bus system is suboptimal, you are only making the bus issues worse.
What the University needs to do, then, is to more effectively incentivize students to use the bus-es properly and to utilize the bike-share system. “Using buses properly,” means not taking the bus for one stop — from the College Avenue Student Center to Scott Hall. This congests the buses, and congestion on the buses is one of the main reasons they are so unbearable. If those one-stop culprits would simply walk or utilize the bike-share system, the buses may be more bearable for those who need to use them. Incentivization may work as a simple reward, like small cash prizes or certain
academic privileges like priority registra-tion for one of their classes (to allow them to take a class on the same campus that they live on) — these are obviously just pri-ma facie suggestions. Additionally though, the stigma around
riding one’s bike must be eliminated. Bikes are ex-tremely practical and can conceivably help reduce traffic and bus congestion significantly.
All in all, inconvenience does not seem to be a strong argument for more parking. First of all, there are many inconveniences in life, and students should maybe learn to cope with them. Second of all, time, resources and energy are likely better spent focused on a different issue — like the growth and expansion of our University’s academic programs. And third of all, parking is not a be-all end-all in terms of maintaining a positive student experience. One of the University’s goals is to retain students by offering them said positive student experiences, but this can be done in better ways — like the pre-viously mentioned continued growth and expansion of our academic programs.
Inconvenience is not strong enough argument
“What the University needs to do, then, is to more effectively incentivize students to use
the buses properly and to utilize the bike-share system.”
T he Hajj is the fifth and final pillar of Islam and takes place on the 12th
month of the Islamic calendar. It is an annual pilgrimage complet-
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Offsetting SNAP cuts with ‘harvest boxes’ will hurt health
I n all the tragedy that seems to occur in America these days, a keen eye for scan-ning the news and punditry can often find
a story that seems just downright absurd, con-tinuing to validate my idea that reality is now legitimately stranger than fiction. Under Presi-dent Donald J. Trump, our misguided what-if’s that have fueled American entrepreneurial spir-it are becoming a farcical substitute for policy making. With the growth of home food deliv-ery programs like AmazonFresh, Blue Apron and HelloFresh in recent years, I understand the temptation of the availability heuristic that would guide our president to want to endorse this perceived innovation, but I want to dive into a few reasons as to why the Trump administra-tion’s idea to cut back funding on the Supple-mental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and replace it with a home delivery service is not a good idea for the health of Americans.
Under the fiscal year 2019 budget request released this month from the Trump admin-istration, an attempt to cut $21 billion a year off the deficit over 10 years would be imple-mented by an approximate 30-percent reduc-tion in funding to SNAP. To supplement the loss of funding, 80 percent of the 46 million Americans who are a part of the nutritional as-sistance program would receive, “shelf-stable
milk, ready to eat cereals, pasta, peanut butter, beans and canned fruit and vegetables,” but no fresh produce. The administration argues that this move is meant to “improve nutrition and target benefits to those who need them, while ensuring careful stewardship of taxpay-ers’ money.” To make matters even more ab-surd, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) spokesman Tim Murtaugh admitted that the budget does not even accommodate for all customers to receive the delivery func-tion of the proposed delivery service.
In 2017, the federal government spent approximately $70 billion on SNAP, which
amounted to less than 2 percent of the over-all $4 trillion federal budget, and comprised an average of $126 per month for each beneficiary, who often receive very low in-comes, are retired or have disabilities. With a family of three needing to earn less than $26,600 per year to qualify for SNAP, it is quite heartless in my opinion to believe that cutting their ability to purchase food of their choice would be a worthwhile endeavor. A 2014 study from Health Affairs showed that among low-income Californians, hospital
admissions for low blood sugar spiked at the end of the month, with no comparable admissions for high-income people, indi-cating that a $126 monthly budget may not even be adequate to meet nutritional needs.
There is a certain irony that members of the Right, that do not want government to interfere in their lives, have now come out in advocacy for a plan through which the gov-ernment decides what is best for the poor and the vulnerable. Stringent limitations on what can be purchased with the Electronic Bene-fit Transfer (EBT) cards that operationalize SNAP already exist, meaning that people are
already unable to purchase essential products like toilet paper, diapers, toothpaste and others on their limited monthly assistance. Trump’s proposed program pays no regard to any di-etary restrictions or allergies that any SNAP recipient may have, and it pays no regard to whether they have accessibility to the appli-ances necessary to prepare the food being dis-tributed. The limited list of items that would be included in Trump’s “harvest box” are a con-tinued tradition of the U.S. government’s ag-ricultural subsidies for so-called “junk foods”
that are cheaper and longer lasting than pro-duce products, despite the irony of the Unit-ed States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. public health institutions advocating for more well-balanced dietary consumption. Inadvertently, or maybe not so much, this program is bound to continue stigmatization of the poor for being unhealthy, while doing not really much of anything to expand their options and accessibility to healthy foods.
Rather than continue damaging the health of America through a Draconian war on the poor, the Trump administration ought to return to the populist rhetoric that brought it to power and advocate for a smarter food policy along the lines of “food sovereignty.” Through food sovereignty, policy is made that concerns the needs of people and in-volves them in the planning, production and distribution of food across agricultural sys-tems. Although initially conceptualized as a bottom-up movement, the endorsement of a people-centered food system from the Unit-ed States government could revolutionize public health. Putting market logic to reduce the deficit created by Trump’s tax cut before the needs of America’s most vulnerable is not feasible or smart, and America needs to find a new, healthier way to feed its people.
Jake Wasserman is an Edward J. Bloust-ein School of Planning and Public Policy se-nior majoring in public health with a minor in cognitive science. His column, “A Healthy Dose of Justice,” runs on alternate Tuesdays.
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‘Tell Them We Are Rising’ tells impactful history of HBCU’sJordan Levycorrespondent
As the eighth oldest “institute of higher learning” in the nation, Rutgers has been an institution throughout history. Founded in 1766, it took about 126 years for the school to grant a diploma to a Black man, with James Dickson Carr being the first in 1892. But, Black people didn’t wait all those years for the nation’s historical universities to admit them to get an education.
Founded in 1837 as the Institute of Colored Youth, Cheyney Uni-versity of Pennsylvania was the first Historically Black College/University (HBCU) in the coun-try. Mainly based in the south, HBCU’s were founded after the Civil War because Black citizens simply had nowhere else to go to learn.
While these universities faced various disadvantages economi-cally and socially, HBCU’s have built a strong history and tradi-tion. Some of the greatest thinkers and creators of our time are prod-ucts of HBCU’s, from Oprah to Spike Lee to Martin Luther King Jr. Now to celebrate this proud legacy, filmmaker Stanley Nelson Jr. and PBS have produced a doc-umentary called, “Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities.”
The Honors College held a screening of the film on Sunday
The first Historically Black College/University (HBCU) was founded in 1837 as a space for Black people to learn. Fast forward to 2018, and some of the greatest thinkers of our time are products of HBCU’s. FACEBOOK
night, showcasing the movie in its eastern wing. The film didn’t hold back, starting with how slavery created a forced cycle of igno-rance. State laws of many south-ern states dictated that slaves couldn’t be educated, and in the abolitionist North, city councils denied the possibility of schools for African Americans.
After the Civil War, the threat of education was met with extreme
retaliation, with educators being killed for educating former slaves. Even when schools succeeded, the film documented the struggles that the students faced. Booker T. Washington’s impact, both positive and negative, on black attitudes toward education were explored. And yet, many African Americans deemed Washington too docile and appealing to whites, including figures like W.E.B. Dubois.
In the 20th century, the found-ing presidents of these universi-ties — who were primarily white — came to grips with the ambi-tion of their new student bodies. Many presidents were incredibly strict, causing student strikes like the walkout at Fisk Universi-ty in 1924.
The concept of modern civil rights was too extreme for even the most liberal whites at the
time, so the genesis of the Civ-il Rights Movement was born and thrived on the campuses of HBCU’s. Sit-ins and civil disobe-dience were the brainchildren of HBCU students, and the bur-geoning black power movement was the product of the disruptive youth. Unrest at these campuses often ended in tragedy, like the murders at Southern University in 1972.
While crucially informative of the foundation of HBCU’s, the film had a few shortcomings, namely in skipping over the cul-tural impact HBCU’s had in the late 1980s through mid 1990s. On television, there was a sweep-ing invasion of HBCU culture on primetime programming.
HBCU attire was worn on shows like “Martin” and “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” and there was a whole program about HBCU life, the Bill Cos-by-produced “A Different World.” This type of represen-tation and public pride for the HBCU community led to a new awareness for the schools. To this day, vintage HBCU gear is coveted by many. To skip over this period in HBCU was a bit jarring and other viewers noted the same missing angle.
“I think there were some parts that were left out, but for the most part they covered everything from the Reconstruction period to now,” said Alexandra Matthews, a School of Biological and Environ-mental Sciences junior.
After the showing, the group discussed the film, expressing new views on Booker T. Wash-ington, HBCU’s and the way race impacted school experiences. The future of HBCU’s is in doubt due to lack of funding, and the group discussed concerns about them. Overall the event was an inviting and thoughtful viewing of a movie that shed new light on one of our nation’s strongholds.
“For someone who’s just learn-ing about HBCU’s, it’s definitely a great way to introduce them to the topic and inform them,” Mat-thews said.
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1 Not tricked by
5 Tree or syrup variety
10 Hard knocks
14 U-turn from sow
15 Edgar Poe’s middle
16 Lie adjacent to
17 Reason to visit the mall
18 Grassy plain
19 Italian money, once
20 Windows, e.g.
23 Momentous occasion
24 Spring-loaded places
25 On cloud nine
28 Percussion instrument
30 Simple boat
31 Any desiccant, e.g.
33 Rx overseers
36 Large muscular guy
40 Nevertheless, briefly
41 Book of many insets
42 Top shelf
43 Bibliog. space saver
44 Old name for ants
46 Twisted cotton thread
49 Man known for his morals
51 How things should go, ideally
57 Ooze
58 Musical opener
59 Yorkshire river
60 Do engine maintenance
61 Exorbitant, as prices
62 Cut reminder
63 Hurried
64 Controls a game show
65 Keyboard error
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2 One of the tides
3 Fairy story
4 Amusing musical production
5 Fountain offering
6 Daring poker bet
7 Be a farmer
8 “Auld ___ Syne”
9 Genesis name
10 Christmas tree option
11 Passing notices
12 Blend for an infant
13 Cherry leftovers
21 St. crosser
22 Word with “good to go”
25 Old start with “while”
26 Narrow board
27 Spherical hairdo
28 Insults
29 Hoops official
31 Pickle variety
32 Genetic letters
33 Arctic floater
34 Admonishment word
35 Stuns wonderfully
37 Latin father
38 Sch. org.
39 Thing on a corner
43 Wedded on the quick
44 Bars legally
45 Dairy sound
46 Doesn’t peter out
47 Become frozen
48 Part of a movie
49 Poker pay-ins
50 Protected wading bird
52 Diner’s necessity
53 U-turn from out of
54 “Peanuts” character
55 “... and make it quick!”
56 Galba’s predecessor
Yesterday’s Solution
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Rutgers sets focus to NCAA’s after hosting ECAC Championships in Piscataway
nationals
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Junior swimmer Vera Koprivova won both the 100 and 200-yard backstroke events during the ECAC Championships this past weekend. JEFFREY GOMEZ / JANUARY 2017
The most notable absence was senior diver Addison Wal-kowiak, who sat out this week in order to prepare for the NCAA Zone Championships next week. Walkowiak was one of the most valuable members of the team this season, and was certainly their best diver throughout the season.
Luckily for the Knights, the rest of the team stepped up in her absence. Jon Maccoll, head coach for swimming, had an interesting perspective on the importance of the ECAC for the team.
“The ECAC gave a lot of dif-ferent things to a lot of different people,” Maccoll said. “With us being a Big Ten team, this is not our big championship meet. So our main goal was for some of our swimmers to lower their times for the NCAA Championships.”
Rutgers claimed four gold medals at the event, three in the pool and one on the board. Junior Vera Koprivova won both the 100 and 200-yard back-stroke, sophomore Francesca Bertotto tapped in first for the 500-yard freestyle and junior Marin Bloise had the high-est score when diving of f the 3-meter boards.
Koprivova hopes that she will get the nod next week to compete at the NCAA Champi-onships, and she certainly im-proved her chances by bringing home two gold medals. Koprivo-va won the 100-yard backstroke on Saturday in 53.65 seconds and then went on to claim ECAC gold on Sunday in the 200-yard
backstroke in 1:54.88, nearly four seconds ahead of the next fastest time.
Bertotto captured gold on Friday, touching the wall first in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:46.10 in the finals, over six seconds ahead of the runner-up. Bertotto also awaits the national selections next week.
“The rest of the meet was real-ly meant as a test. We tried a dif-ferent practice regimen the past few weeks and we wanted to see how the girls responded and we were very happy with the results,” Maccoll said.
On the diving boards, Bloise took the gold on the 3-meter boards. The crown did not come easily though, as her final session was incredibly close between her, freshman teammate Lauren Boone and Marist’s Esabe Gervasio.
Bloise achieved a mark of 256.90 points, just ahead of Gervasio’s score of 256.30 and Boone’s 256.15.
“The selection process hasn’t started yet and that will begin next week, but we certainly feel good about the chances for some of our team,” Maccoll said. “I think that Vera (Koprivova), Francesca (Bertotto), and Sve-va (Schiazzano) all have a good chance of making it. We would be shocked if Addy didn’t make it for diving but we’ll see next week. Hopefully we have as many Scarlet Knights in Colum-bus as possible.”
For updates on the Rutgers swimming and diving team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
Knights to host Wagner on Tuesday for 1st home game of season
weekend
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softball moreHead state 6, rutGers 0
Rutgers goes 2-2 at Bailey Memorial Tournament
Junior pitcher Whitney Jones pitched a complete game and allowed only 1 run in the first game against Kennesaw State last weekend. JEFFREY GOMEZ / APRIL 2017
inning, scoring on a bases-loaded walk to take a 7-6 lead and ulti-mately win the game.
Even with the loss, the Knights showed great fight competing with the Big Ten favorite for all nine innings.
On Saturday, Rutgers faced off against St. Bonaventure, and frankly dominated throughout the whole game, ending with a 13-4 rout.
Freshman pitcher Harry Rut-kowski got the nod from head coach Joe Litterio, tossing five solid innings and giving up 3 runs (all earned) on seven hits. The southpaw walked two and struck out four leading up to his first col-legiate victory.
Offensively, the Knights put on quite a show, posting 13 runs on 17 hits. Every starter recorded a hit for Rutgers including five play-ers who recorded multiple hits.
True freshman outfielder Mike Nyisztor set the tone for the lineup, racking up three RBIs out of the leadoff spot, while redshirt freshman second baseman Dan DiGeorgio contin-ued his hot start to the season, going 2-2 with two RBIs and 2 runs scored. Sophomore short-stop Kevin Welsh had a big day of his own going 3-4 with an RBI and 2 runs scored.
Collectively, it was a break-out performance for this Rutgers
squad as the whole lineup showed how productive it can be.
Finally, the Knights closed the weekend in Port Charlotte with a matchup against Boston College. The final score of 11-6 does not depict how close things were for most of the game.
Left-handed freshman pitcher Eric Heatter made his first start of the year for Rutgers after be-ing named Big Ten Freshman of the Week this past week. Heatter went for six strong innings giving up just 3 runs (all earned) on 10 hits. He showed off his great con-trol by not walking a single batter, while striking out two.
Behind Heatter’s strong start, the Knights were staked with a 6-3 lead going into the seventh. The Eagles then tacked on a run on a passed ball in the top of the innings to make it a 6-4 ball game.
The score stood until the top of the ninth, which is when the wheels came off for Rutgers, allowing seven Eagles to cross home plate, giving Boston Col-lege the eventual win.
All in all, it was a promising weekend for the Knights despite the two disappointing losses. The team showed it can hang with some very good ball clubs and will take that with them for the re-mainder of the season.
The first opportunity for Rut-gers to build on this weekend will be in its next game against Wag-ner on Tuesday.
mattHew HoweStaff Writer
Over the weekend, the Rut-gers softball team went to Ken-nesaw, Georgia to compete in the Bailey Memorial Tournament at Kennesaw State to take on Ken-nesaw State, Florida A&M and Morehead State.
When it was all said and done, the Scarlet Knights came out of
the tournament 2-2, with two wins against the hosting Owls and loss-es to the Rattlers and Eagles.
In game one against Ken-nesaw State, junior pitcher Whit-ney Jones took to the circle for Rutgers and pitched a complete game gem that went into extra innings, allowing only 1 earned run. With the win, Jones im-proved her pitching record to 2-3 on the season.
Trailing by 2 runs heading into the top of the seventh inning, the Knights managed to score 2 un-earned runs thanks to a passed ball by the Eagles catcher, and tied the game up heading into the bottom of the seventh.
After Jones shut the door in the bottom half of the seventh, ju-nior shortstop Jess Hughes scored the go-ahead run on a sacrifice fly by sophomore designated player
With a 3 p.m.-scheduled first pitch and a beautiful 60-degree forecast, it is sure to be quite a day as the Knights play their first home game of the season. The Se-ahawks will visit Rutgers coming
off a two-game sweep of Coppin State University this past week-end and will look to keep their win streak alive.
Meanwhile, the Knights will try to bounce back after the
defeating loss against Boston Col-lege on Sunday.
For updates on the Rutgers base-ball team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
Nicole Bowman. Junior outfielder Nicolette Anico and freshman in-fielder Erin Collins also had RBIs in the win.
In game two of the series, soph-omore pitcher Cambria Keefer earned the win in the circle for Rutgers, pitching a complete game shutout en route to a 7-0 victory. Keefer improved to 2-2 on the year while striking out four batters.
Senior first baseman Rebecca Hall stayed hot on the season, go-ing 2-4 at the plate with two RBIs and a triple. Sophomore third baseman Anyssa Iliopoulos was 2-3 at the plate with 2 runs scored, two RBIs, and a home run.
After sweeping the opening se-ries against the Owls, the Knights’ next game came against Florida A&M. Rutgers dropped the game 4-3 despite an incredible perfor-mance from Hall.
In the game, Hall was 4-4 with 2 runs scored and two RBIs. She tripled and hit a home run, her 25th career long ball. Freshman pitcher Taryn Collins earned the loss in the circle, pitching one and one thirds inning, allowing 2 earned runs and three hits. Col-lins is now 1-2.
In its fourth and final game of the tournament, Rutgers played Morehead State, which it lost to 6-0. Chelsea McManaway took to the circle for the Eagles, and tossed a complete game one-hit-ter. She also struck out eight Knights in the game. Rutgers’ lone hit came from Anico, who was 1-3 in the game.
Jones took the loss on her re-cord for the Knights, moving to 2-4. She struggled mightily in the game, not recording a single out. She gave up 2 earned runs on four hits before being yanked from the game. Rutgers pitchers gave up 3 home runs in the loss.
The Knights were supposed to close out the tournament with a fifth and final game on Sunday against Morehead State, but the game was canceled due to heavy rain.
Rutgers will travel to Hampton University on Friday to play in the Pirate Invitational. There the team will take on Hampton, Maryland Eastern Shore and North Dakota.
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See naTIonals on Page 10Sophomore swimmer Francesca Bertotto won the gold medal in the 500-yard freestyle at the ECAC Championships this past weekend, after touching the wall first with a 4:46.10 time. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / NOVEMBER 2017
Junior center fielder Jawuan Harris filled up the stat sheet over the weekend, scoring 2 runs with five hits, while also batting in another 4 runs off the bases for Rutgers. DIMITRI RODRIGUEZ / APRIL 2017
makEnZEY sHank,senior on the gymnastics team, was named the Big Ten event Specialist of the Week on Monday, after her performance in Rutgers’ win this past weekend. Shank tied the program record on the balance beam with a 9.925 in the Knights’ victory.
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the rutgers swimming and diving team stayed in Piscataway this past weekend as it hosted the ecAc championships at the rut-gers Aquatic center.
the u.s. naval Academy had an extreme-ly impressive performance at the champion-ships, coming in first place with 584.5 points, which is its third straight victory in the com-petition. the rest of the top five was rounded out by the university of Pennsylvania with 402 points, bucknell with a score of 309, Marist college with 304 and columbia with a mark of 284.
the scarlet knights finished ninth in a group of 24 squads with a final score of 198, in what was a solid performance for the team.
but this was not a meet rutgers intended to win. the knights used the meet as a way to gain experience in high-pressure settings and to lower the existing ncAA b standards in order to get more members of the team to compete at the ncAA championships.
rutgers did not race a single relay at the ecAc and did not have a full lineup in the individual events, with several key members of the team throughout the sea-son not performing.
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the rutgers baseball team finished off another inconsistent weekend early sunday afternoon as it dropped 2 out of 3 games in Port charlotte, Florida.
the weekend started with a thriller against indiana on Friday as the scarlet knights (2-4) fell to the no. 17 Hoosiers by a score of 7-6.
senior pitcher John O’reilly got the start for rutgers and fared a little better this time out going four and one-third innings and giv-ing up 5 runs (4 earned) on nine hits. He also walked two batters and struck out three.
After falling behind 5-2 after four innings, the knights began their comeback. After a 2-run single by junior center fielder Jawuan Harris in the top of the sixth, indiana’s lead was cut to 1 run.
Having scored an unearned run in the seventh, the Hoosiers found themselves up 2 runs going into the eighth. it was then in the eighth where rutgers’ junior catcher nick Matera doubled into the right center field gap to bring in 2 runners and tie the game.
but, the tie didn’t last long as indiana an-swered back immediately in the bottom of the
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