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U. begins research at gun violence center
Jai Patel, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said he has been an advocate for the prevention of gun violence since his senior year of high school, when he and his friends hid in the back of a clothing store during a shooting in Newport, New Jersey. THE JERSEY JOURNAL / RUTGERS.EDU
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New Jersey’s Center on Gun Vi-olence Research has been allotted $2 million in state funds. Part of the money will go toward eight new re-search projects across Rutgers.
The center, which opened last spring, is 1 of 2 centers in the coun-try dedicated to preventing gun vi-olence. Since its inauguration, the center has been laying the ground-work for successful partnerships and outreach.
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on faculty and student affiliates, meeting with stakeholders in the community and across all levels of government and developing our research and programming agen-da,” said Paul Boxer, director of re-search at the center.
Jai Patel, a School of Arts and Sci-ences sophomore, has been advo-cating for gun violence prevention since his senior year of high school, when he and his friends hid in the back of a clothing store during a shooting at Newport Centre in Jer-sey City, New Jersey.
New Jersey’s Center on Gun Violence Research is one of the
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Kelvin Droegemeier, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said he will be meeting with research universities to share new guidelines with faculty on how to collaborate with international colleagues. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
BRENDAN BRIGHTMANNEWS EDITOR
White House officials will be visiting the campuses of research universities across the country to discuss the potential theft of intel-lectual property and national secu-rity secrets from countries like Chi-na, according to an article by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Members of the White House Of-fice of Science and Technology Pol-icy will be meeting with universities in the next few months to discuss the identity theft issue, which they have been pressuring universities to take more action on, according to
a letter sent by the office’s director, Kelvin Droegemeier, on Tuesday.
It was not known if Rutgers Uni-versity would be one of the insti-tutions visited, and there was no official list of schools that will be visited released with the govern-ment’s announcement.
The government’s letter warned about some nations’ “increasingly sophisticated efforts to exploit, influ-ence and undermine our research activities,” according to the article.
Droegemeier said he would visit colleges to speak to faculty mem-bers, according to the article.
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Two crime incidents were report-ed off-campus early morning on Sat-urday, between the hours of 2 and 3 a.m., Chief of the Rutgers University Police Department (RUPD) Ken-neth Cop stated in a University-wide email yesterday.
The first incident occurred on Wy-ckoff Street, in the area of Bartlett Street, to a victim who was not affiliat-ed with the University. The victim re-ported that following a verbal alterca-tion with a group of male perpetrators.
The second incident occurred on Easton Avenue between Prosper
Street and Bristol Street, with the victim reporting that she was ap-proached by 4 to 5 male perpetrators who shoved her and removed an item of value prior to fleeing the area. The victim sustained a minor injury and refused further medical atten-tion on scene, the email stated.
The descriptions of the perpe-trators were limited at the time of the email.
The RUPD provides escorts to students, faculty and staff upon re-quest. The escorts provide our com-munity with personalized service to their vehicles, campus residence or the University’s mass transit sys-tem, according to the email.
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Students create new app for classroom contactsDANIEL HANCORRESPONDENT
When Vedant Mehta and Ravi Patel, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore and School of Arts and Sciences junior, respectively, were competing at HackRU — the Rutgers Hackathon — in Spring 2018, they had one goal in mind: getting help on their calculus homework.
The two were looking to create a medium for students to communicate with one another about Rutgers-specific classes. By the end of the event, they had made a prototype for a group chat application that would gain backing from a professional venture capital firm and inspire them to pursue the project full-time.
“The validation really came when we demoed it to professors and students and they said they’d love to see it and see where it goes,” Mehta, the app’s founder, said. “It was encouragement for us to pursue building the app.”
Initially called Study Buddy, their new app, Finals Club, is a group chat app akin to Slack and GroupMe. Exclusively for Rutgers students, it automatically adds users to classes they are a part of, creating accessible group chats for students to discuss classwork and assignments. The app gained 160 users in its first two days of launching, Mehta said.
To promote anonymity, students will be able to change their usernames to whatever they want. The app also guarantees
The Rutgers’ students new app, Finals Club, is a group chat service exclusively for the University’s students which will automatically add users to classes they are a part of. There is currently no planned oversight of the chat’s messages. BEN CHELNITSKY
no oversight from the University. Although professors currently have access to the app, they are expected to be purged in a later version, Mehta said.
“There’s applications like Sakai Chat and Canvas, but the problem with those is that when students are chatting there’s an unintended censorship that gets caught,” Mehta said. “So if I’m talking online (on Canvas) I’m more hesitant to talk about certain things since my professor is around.”
Although the lack of oversight and anonymity could be susceptible to academic dishonesty, Patel and Mehta said they do not see it as a problem for the app.
“We’re not promoting cheating, but we’re not going to control what people say,” Patel, the app’s co-founder, said. “We want an open area where people can talk and hopefully students abide by University guidelines.”
Like many technology startups, Finals Club was made in Mehta’s garage. Mehta said he and Patel worked for hours on the app’s features and design, which eventually led to funding from the New Jersey Health Foundation, a subsidiary of the venture capital firm Foundation Venture Capital Group, LLC. Money is used for operating costs and employees, whom are currently Patel, Mehta and one other student.
“Education and teaching are changing with the advancements in technology,” said George Heinrich, vice chair and CEO of
HealthStartNJ, an affiliate of the New Jersey Health Foundation. “Supporting Finals Club will hopefully lead to an even more supportive, interactive and collaborative environment for
students to learn. We’re excited to see what they can do for Rutgers.”
Mehta and Patel hope to expand the app to other universities in the future. They are considering partnerships with colleges and are
looking for other ways to monetize the app, including the possibility of digital advertisements. For now, though, they are looking to improve the user experience as much as they can.
Vedant Mehta (above) and Ravi Patel (below), a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore and School of Arts and Sciences junior, respectively, wanted to create a new app for students. FACEBOOK
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CENTERSpecific timelines vary for each project, but Rutgers hopes to release results this year
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reasons Patel said he decided to attend Rutgers for college. He is now working closely with the cen-ter to improve outreach.
“Research takes a while, but there’s a great relationship be-tween the governor’s office and the research center. A lot of time has been spent on developing that. For a lot of the doctors, this is not their sole job. So it takes time. Without disclosing too much, we’re proba-bly going to see new developments on the horizon very soon, before the end of the year. That’s all I can say right now,” Patel said.
The first eight projects chosen for funding represent the inter-disciplinary nature of the center: looking at, understanding and preventing gun violence in inno-vative ways, Boxer said. The top-ics range from how school build-ings can prevent gun violence to how to keep police officers safe.
“We reviewed proposals in-house as well as with input from established scholars working on gun violence issues outside of Rut-gers University, and selected the best and most relevant proposals for funding. We chose projects based on their alignment with our missions, their innovation and their projected capacity to attract federal and private funding be-yond the pilot phases,” Boxer said.
Patel, who specializes in rapid response rallies, said that research takes more time but is just as im-portant as rallying and protesting.
“Statistics are great and grass-roots marching is great, but one without the other? Nothing would get done. Research shows some-thing that you can’t argue. You can’t argue with numbers and you can’t argue with facts. A lot of people who don’t react to the protests in the way that we want them to will have no chance but to react accordingly when research comes out showing that they’re wrong,” Patel said.
While specific timelines vary depending on each project, the center hopes to share findings from the research over the course of this academic year.
“I like these projects.They’re hitting all aspects of the issue. Studying how the Cambodian genocide sheds light on white supremacy is an issue not a lot of people want to touch on. White supremacy is definitely an issue, not an illness. We’re the only country that arms hate, especially because we give people who have these hateful thoughts easy ac-cess to weaponry that can cause mass casualties,” Patel said.
Patel referred to Rutgers—Newark’s Distinguished Profes-sor of Anthropology Alexander Hinton’s project, which uses his experience at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia, as a way to understand white supremacist ex-tremism in the United States.
“He is extending his very high-profile work on genocide around the world to examining the potential for domestic terrorism
here in the United States — some of the overlap in causal factors. Pro-fessor Hinton has made a compel-ling case that guns and particularly the stockpiling of guns by poten-tially violent groups are part of the broader context in thinking about domestic terror, even here in New Jersey, and is exploring this in his funded research,” Boxer said.
New Jersey leads the country in gun sense laws, but still needs to focus on research and advoca-cy, Patel said.
“Even though we have strong gun laws in New Jersey, there’s still gun violence mainly because there are guns smuggled in from other states like Virginia, Penn-sylvania and Ohio. It’s time to put more pressure on communi-ty involvement and neighboring states who refuse to get with the program,” Patel said.
New Jersey’s Center on Gun Violence Research is working directly with local communities and all three Rutgers locations
by linking faculty and developing studies that will have clear impli-cations for communities all over the state, Boxer said.
“You can pass as many pro-grams as you want, but it’s more of a community outreach issue. You have to look at the community in these neighbor-hoods that we ostracize as ‘bad neighborhoods.’ They’re clos-est to the problem, but they’re also closest to the solution,” Patel said.
New Jersey’s Center on Gun Violence Research, which is located in the Rutgers School of Public Health in Piscataway, opened last spring. The New Jersey State House is the place where the state legislature votes on its gun laws. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
Members from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy are planning to meet up with universities in the future to discuss the foreign intellectual theft issue. This is an issue they have been pressing for a while. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
UNIVERSITIESMore than 50 institutions have researchers under current investigations
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“The faculty would benefit by being part of that conversa-tion,” he said. “That’s really the target audience.”
Drogemeier said he would also like to make sure researchers are aware of the rules regarding the topic of intellectual property and what they mean, according to the article. Universities have
had to balance both the govern-ment’s warnings about spying and fears that faculty are being targeted or stereotyped due to their ethnicity.
Faculty who collaborate with colleagues in other countries like China have been scrutinized by the government lately. Govern-ment-sponsored talent programs that recruit students from China have been looked into as well, ac-cording to the article.
Investigations into faculty be-havior with foreign researchers
have resulted in letters written by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to Emory Univer-sity and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center highlighting the behavior of one of their scientists that the agen-cy found suspicious, according to the article.
The NIH announced that it was investigating more than 50 institutions for behaviors it found questionable, according to the article.
Yet some researchers have been wrongly accused of spying, which happened at Temple Uni-versity in 2015, according to the article. The Temple University researchers were charged with sharing information with China before having the same charges dropped later.
The government’s letter said it would establish guidelines on disclosure requirements for re-searchers who receive federal funds, develop best practices for academic institutions and highlight ways to identify risky research practices, according to the article.
“Regardless of where you come from, if you’re involved in research we expect you to fol-low the rules of research. First of all, we need to make sure you’re aware of them,” Droege-meier said.
“The faculty would benefit by being part of
that conversation.”
KELVIN DROEGEMEIERDirector White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy
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Israel’s Netanyahu must pay at ballots
and the Northern Dead Sea in a last-ditch ef fort to be reelected for a fifth term. In doing so, he vowed to isolate Jericho in this plan, promising that he would not annex “a single Palestinian.”
The irony has not been lost on those familiar with Israel’s colo-nial policies. As Palestinian-American writer and political analyst Yousef Munayyer said on Twitter, “Maximum Palestinian geogra-phy with minimum Palestinian demography has been the single most consistent Zionist principle over time.”
Not only that, but also the proposed isolation of Jericho has been called an attempt to create a new Gaza, surrounding the Palestin-ians of Jericho with more Israeli military control and completely cutting them off from access to other Palestinian territories.
If it were to become anything like Gaza, it would also mean be-ing completely cut of f from basic necessities like clean water and an Israel-imposed ban on any construction materials. Palestinians in Gaza have still not been allowed to rebuild the homes that Isra-el mercilessly bombed to the ground in the summer of 2014. They live in an open-air prison that Netanyahu and his voting base wish to replicate.
The proposed isolation of Jericho has also been compared by many to the apartheid South African policy of creating Bantu-stans. In the 1950s, the Bantu Authorities Act established “home-lands” that forcibly relocated Black South Africans into designat-ed and isolated “states,” so that 87% of the land could be reserved for white inhabitants.
When apartheid came to an end in 1994, the Bantustans were dismantled and freedom of movement within the South Africa be-came a reality. The parallels between apartheid South Africa and apartheid Israel are clear, and the fact that Netanyahu fuels it to gain voters is a global concern that cannot go unnoticed.
We must speak out against Israel’s imperialism as it continues to violate international law by increasingly annexing more Pal-estinian land and suf focating more Palestinians. Palestinians de-serve dignity and freedom as do all human beings, and applying pressure to our government and institutions is an important way to advocate for their humanity.
It is important to remember that the U.S. is complicit in this vi-olence. We provide Israel with $3.8 billion in military aid annually with our tax dollars. That is why Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) has reintroduced a bill that would prohibit the use of U.S. military funding by Israel to detain Palestinian children with H.R. 2407.
But it should not stop there. Israeli aggression and colonial-ism dehumanizes, displaces and kills Palestinians of all ages and walks of life. We in the U.S. could play a vital role in ending it.
Students for Justice in Palestine is a recognized student organiza-tion at Rutgers University—New Brunswick.
SePtember 18, 2019
UNIVERSAL UCLICK
Bus system in need of serious reform
T his Monday there were two bus fires, de-laying tens of — if not upward of — hun-dreds of students from reaching their des-
tinations on time (as well as the obvious safety issue presented).
Bus travel is as intrinsic a part of a Rutgers edu-cation as the school itself. The school is divided into five separate campuses, concentrated in four differ-ent regions of the greater New Brunswick area.
As a result, massive amounts of students — approximately 184,900 — use the buses daily to attend classes, clubs and other gatherings on dis-tant campuses.
Considering the yearly usage numbers teeter near the 6 million mark, any slight dysfunction in pace, timing and productivity of these buses could throw the entire University into subtle chaos. This Monday, students got a taste of such dysfunction in a fiery way.
Not all of the bus system’s problems manifest themselves in such extravagant ways. Complaints about the buses are nothing new.
Traf fic has been an issue for years, especial-ly on the College Avenue campus. Buses often wait for cars, pedestrians and bikes to exert their right of way before turning, which can take up-ward of a few minutes and further delay traf fic — and students.
Compounding the traf fic issue are the breaks that drivers often take. It is certainly understand-able that drivers need breaks from their shifts, which are often long, and with the time-sensitive schedule they face, stressful. With that estab-lished, the way the breaks are handled is sloppy at best.
Drivers consistently take their breaks at two ma-jor stops: the College Avenue Student Center and the Busch Student Center. The fact that drivers typ-ically take their breaks at these stops — a fault of the bus administrators — causes the same routes to be delayed every time, instead of diversifying the rest stops to smooth out traffic.
Delayed arrivals are not the sole issue that untime-ly breaks cause. Many drivers leave their respective buses to smoke, eat or walk around when their break arrives. This is understandable, but what results is an empty bus full of students clueless as to when they may leave.
A proposed solution, perhaps, would be for drivers to stand outside or near their bus, and somehow indi-cate to passersby when they will depart.
Students also feel marginalized by the bus sys-tem. Major routes, such as to the College Avenue
campus or Cook campus, entail a large amount of buses. This is a sensible policy. Those routes re-ceive incredible amounts of traffic each day, due to the high population of students and classes on their respective campuses.
More buses should be assigned to obscure routes, such as the Livingston campus to Cook campus route, to aid the students who use them more frequently.
Bus-driving is obviously not the most rewarding or appreciated job in the world, but students sometimes find themselves or their belongings clamped inside a bus door. While said students should be more vigi-lant of their surroundings, a cursory glance from the bus driver would take little effort and prevent poten-tially substantial injury.
Sanitation also presents itself as an issue on the buses, particularly after this year’s meningitis B outbreak. Students are often crammed together on the buses. This itself can exacerbate the spread of contagious diseases and viruses, especially as we approach flu season. Standing students also have to hold onto metal bars and plastic handles to keep themselves from falling — not always successfully — as the Busch campus buses traverse their clas-sic turn off of Route 18, or the Livingston campus buses as they merge onto Route 18.
After this mandatory clasping happens, the bus fills up with entirely dif ferent sets of people. No known cleaning happens between any stops.
While it would not mitigate the issue completely, hand-sanitizing stations set up at both doors of the bus would go a long way in keeping illnesses at bay. It would be convenient for students to disinfect their hands prior to entering and exiting the bus, stifling the spread of germs.
Other bus systems do not have these issues, showing it is not universal among campuses with large student bodies. Pennsylvania State Univer-sity, also being a large university, has a shuttle system. For convenience purposes, the schedule is definitive and online. Rutgers has no similar schedule on its website. The Pennsylvania State University shuttle service comes around every 15 minutes. Some Rutgers buses can take upward of 45 minutes to arrive.
While some of these issues may take intensive work and planning to solve, others, such as the san-itation issue, are easy and cheap to implement. Stu-dents can complain to their peers at will, but until genuine action is taken and pressure is placed on the University to fix these issues, nothing will change, and the buses will remain an insufferable experience.
On Sept. 10, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Net-anyahu vowed to annex a
huge part of the Palestinian West Bank known as the Jordan Valley
YAN LEYZEROVYCH
STUDENTS FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE
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Vital student service comes up short on all levels
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Even though we have strong gun laws in New Jersey, there’s still gun violence
mainly because there are guns smuggled in from other states like Virginia,
Pennsylvania and Ohio. It’s time to put more pressure on community
involvement and neighboring states who refuse to get with the program ...
Jai Patel, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. See story on FRONT.
September 18, 2019 OpiniOnS page 7
explained that, even without a decrease in crime rates, citizens felt as though their neighborhood was more secure than it had been without foot patrols.
But in a nation filled with increasing media attention surrounding police bru-tality and abuses of power, is this trust still possible? Is this how the theory should be interpreted?
At the time of the publication, New York City had been ridden with violent crime, prostitution, graffiti and public drug deals. By 1990, after supposedly uti-lizing broken windows-theory policing, the prostitutes were gone, joints were dealt privately and the buildings were clean of graffiti.
But was this just due to increased foot patrols? For more liberal activists, bro-ken windows represented the “vision of successful city neighborhoods as fragile ecosystems held together by invisible communal bonds,” as stated in Timothy Noah’s analysis of the change in the the-ory overtime. But were these communal bonds reinforced by increased patrolling and numerous arrests for seemingly mi-nor violations?
A 2005 paper published by the Uni-versity of Chicago highlighted that mar-ijuana arrests per year jumped from 10 to 644, with 52% of these being of Black citizens. Those more conservative re-garding crime may have viewed this as a positive, as it removed illegal drugs
from the streets. But this was merely a redirection of policing, not necessarily a more effective strategy for countering violent crime.
The implementation of effective bro-ken-windows social control calls for re-quires a revisitation to the initial claims of the theory itself. The theory has gar-nered support for foot patrols, commu-nity policing and “zero-tolerance” laws, supposedly due to the bipartisan support of the theory.
The issue, though, is that is not what the theory truly encourages. Regardless of how it was advertised back in the 1980s, we live in a different country with different needs. This does not mean that the theory is necessarily false. The application of the research was simply misguided.
The framework for the argument is as follows: “At the community level, disor-der and crime are usually inextricably linked, in a kind of developmental se-quence. Social psychologists and police officers tend to agree that if a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken. This is as true in nice neighbor-hoods as in rundown ones.”
The inference drawn from this evidence, then, is that windows could not be broken. Police patrols were therefore concluded to be a deterring factor, forcing people to leave windows unbroken. But what if the window is already broken? Or what if a
window was broken accidentally, but the community was unable to fix it?
Though the original article did specify that this was as true in “nice” neighbor-hoods as it was in less fortunate areas, the crucial factor that was left unexamined was the social and economic development in an area. That is what will truly encourage the communal sentiment desired.
A window breaking and being left bro-ken is an issue of control and develop-ment, no matter the income level of the neighborhood. If a window is broken in a wealthy neighborhood and left broken, it is likely that a continuance of that pattern will drive out residents with high incomes, as they do not want to live in a neighbor-hood that appears underdeveloped.
The communal bonds mentioned by advocates of the theory are not main-tained by locking up the community. Instead of increasing funding for foot patrols, that funding should be provid-ed to infrastructure development and social programs. Bettering the lives of residents, instead of locking them up, will provide an incentive to maintain the neighborhood, rather than instilling a deterrent to petty crime.
The windows simply need to be repaired.
Jess Graham is a School of Arts and Sci-ences senior majoring in political science. Her column, “Considerations of Crime,” runs on alternate Wednesdays.
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Broken windows policing failure, adjustments needed
A rguably a household name, the “broken windows” theory was originally published in The
Atlantic by James Wilson and George Kelling in 1982. In the mid-1970s, New Jersey started an initiative, providing money to departments to remove police officers from their patrol car, instead pro-moting walking beats.
This initiative was met with criticism from both police chiefs and police officers. Police chiefs argued that “it reduced the mobility of the police, who thus had diffi-culty responding to calls for service, and it weakened headquarters control over po-lice officers,” highlighting that car patrols allowed for near-constant monitoring of po-lice actions.
Headquarters’ ability to monitor its of-ficers was extremely crucial due to the tarnished reputation of police nation-wide. Police officers also responded negatively to the proposition of increased walking beats, as foot patrols had previously been used as punishment due to the work being “harder.”
Foot patrols, though, allowed police offi-cers to communicate better with the public, helping to build a stronger sense of trust be-tween the department and the local commu-nity. And that is exactly the intended result of walking beats. In the 1982 article, it was
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Primary of podcasts: Alternative media's influence in 2020 raceSAMIR PATKI
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Last Thursday, 10 Democrat-ic hopefuls took to the stage and made their cases to win the party’s nomination. But were their efforts actually constructive to Americans in deciding the best candidate?
The candidates attacked Presi-dent Donald J. Trump. Some tried to attack Joe Biden. Biden praised former President Barack Obama. They argued about healthcare for a bit. And in the wake of recent mass shootings, gun control was called for yet again.
Most of the candidates gave systematically rehearsed answers to dance around questions, and occasionally called out each other about their past. The field of can-didates doesn't seem to be getting any narrower.
Meanwhile, the internet has been democratizing media and opening new avenues for infor-mation to flow for years. Most of the candidates have attempted to capitalize on this fact by appearing on podcasts.
Popular examples include Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), Andrew Yang and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) all having their own ap-pearances on the Joe Rogan Expe-rience (JRE), or Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) with ap-pearances on The Breakfast Club.
These podcasts have the ability to reach different demographics of viewers than network TV and
the platform offers the chance for lengthy, uninterrupted discus-sions as opposed to the shorter responses on the debate stage.
For example, the JRE is cur-rently the fourth most-download-ed podcast on Apple and its epi-sodes frequently receive millions of views. The show is popular for its wide diversity of topics and per-spectives. Guests from all political backgrounds appear on the show such as Yang, Gabbard, Sanders, Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro, to name a few. Even the contro-versial conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has appeared on the show.
The most popular JRE episode with Elon Musk currently sits at 25 million views, and everyone re-members Musk tentatively smok-ing marijuana on air. The result was the Tesla stock plummeting by 10%, according to Deutsche Welle.
This illustrates that podcasts have widespread influence over the world economically, politically and socially. If this incident on this platform can cause such a stir in the world, a politician can use this same platform to benefit their campaign.
These independent podcasts have the potential to change the world, and they are currently challenging more traditional out-lets that have been in power for decades. A lot of this can be at-tributed to the informal style of podcasts versus the formal nature of network debates.
Discussing politics in formal debates has been the norm for
Andrew Yang's presidential campaign kicked off on the podcast Joe Rogan Experience (JRE). As trust in mainstream media wanes, podcasts are on the rise. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
decades, but that doesn't mean there aren’t problems with this platform. Networks have a major influence in shaping factors like a candidate’s speaking time, topics addressed and the wording of questions.
In addition, the candidates are forced to cut down the length of their responses, so trite promises and ad hominem attacks take pre-cedence over real discussion in an effort to appease the crowd.
A concrete example of a net-work influencing a debate oc-curred back in June of this year
when during a Democratic de-bate, Yang claimed that his mic was shut off by the network un-less he was explicitly called upon to answer a question. Therefore, his speaking time was unfairly lim-ited by the network. This further illustrates the point that major me-dia networks have a huge hand in influencing which candidates ap-pear appealing to audiences.
Less formal platforms like podcasts allow candidates to have enough time to fully flesh out problems, plans and policies.
There is also something much more genuine about a regular discussion because responses are not as scripted. It's easier to see what a candidate is really about and assess their intelligence from a long discussion because they cannot easily deflect questions. They’re in the hot seat.
But podcasts still have their weaknesses. One argument against podcasts is that they bring in less viewers than traditional de-bates. Also, since they are more in-formal, many hosts are not as well-versed in the topics discussed, and there are no other candidates around to challenge the ideas spo-ken and present alternatives.
Of course, the question of au-thenticity inevitably arises with media and it’s a question that re-mains unanswered. With a seem-ingly infinite flow of information today, sources exist to justify so many viewpoints.
It's difficult to ascertain which outlets or organizations are trust-worthy. The problem of trust is a large component of many pop-ulist campaigns that have swept around the world recently, in-cluding in our own country with Trump’s administration.
The most effective format for the future of political discussions and news may be uncertain right now, but what's certain is that it will profoundly affect the nation, espe-cially with the 2020 presidential election rapidly approaching and furthermore the world at large.
Hidden Grounds pours into community with latte coursesLAUREN MUSNICONTRIBUTING WRITER
Hidden Grounds Coffee, a cafe company with locations in New Brunswick, Jersey City and Hobo-ken, is offering latte art classes
for members of the communities it serves.
The New Brunswick classes are held at both locations on Easton Av-enue and are instructed by Justin Jajalla, who has been an employee at the establishment for two years
Pouring latte art might seem like a skill that takes a lot of time to develop, but Hidden Grounds Coffee offers classes that give you a solid head start in the barista business. LAUREN MUNSI
and has managed its other location. “We develop these classes as a
way to not only give our customer base and the community some-thing fun to do, but to educate them with the products we are putting out. To give them a better understanding of what they are or-dering and a heightened sense of appreciation for what is happening behind the scenes,” Jajalla said.
The class teaches you how to make the perfect Instagram-wor-thy latte from start to finish, in-cluding the equipment needed and how to use them.
Every latte is composed of two very important ingredients: espresso and milk.
A shot of espresso serves as the base of the latte, where all the flavors and notes of the drink lie. Espresso beans are run through the grinder and then extracted through the espresso machine.
The coffee beans Hid-den Grounds Coffee uses are organized in rotation and sourced from different countries such as Guatemala, Peru and Ethiopia. Its espresso blend is currently composed of beans that are half from Papua New Guinea and half from Guatemala.
Upon extraction, it's essential that the espresso has two layers.
The first layer is the crema, which is the foamy top layer where the most intense flavors are located. The second layer is known as the body (or the heart), which reveals the color of the beans being used.
The milk in a latte is always steamed. This process not only brings out the sweetness in the
product, but also allows for the art to come to life with one single pour. To achieve that ideal pour, it should have a wet paint texture with micro-bubbles.
Distance, speed and tilting are crucial during the process of pour-ing and beginning the latte art itself.
When first pouring, the espres-so and milk are introduced to one another. It provides a nice base for the art that will be created. The flow of the milk should have a thin
stream and be a good distance away from the cup.
The second phase of the pour is where things start to get creative. There are many different shapes and designs that can be produced. The class touches base on the three basic shapes: the heart, ro-setta and tulip.
The finished product should have a silky texture with a very solid color and a sharp image.
Jajalla demonstrated the process and talked us through everything step-by-step. He then allowed stu-dents — on a volunteer basis — to try it out themselves, critiquing their strengths and offering where they may need some improvement.
Not only does Jajalla educate people on latte art, but he also ed-ucates them on the story behind the coffee Hidden Grounds Cof-fee serves and the science behind creating a latte.
The cafe tries to offer these courses at least twice a month. Not only does Hidden Grounds Coffee offer latte art classes, but also offers courses on how to open a business and homebrewing.
People who attend these classes range from students and residents from neighboring states to entre-preneurs who aspire to open their own coffee shop in the future.
“The class teaches you how to make the perfect Instagram-
worthy latte from start to finish, including
the equipment needed and how to use them.”
Happy Birthday: Change begins when you recognize there is a problem and you want to make improvements. The time is right to assess your situation and to lay out a plan that will satisfy your needs. A savings plan, move, vocational pursuit or personal adjustment geared toward being your best will encourage positive results. Be honest and take action. Your numbers are 4, 16, 20, 26, 35, 37, 48.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’ll be faced with pros and cons for a decision you need to make regarding partner-ships and professional moves. Being practical will be less stressful, but a chance to live your dream will entice you. Be open to suggestions. 3 stars
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Make decisions based on your intuition. Speak from the heart, and share your thoughts and plans with those who will be affected by the choices you make. The input you receive will help you do what’s best for ev-eryone. 3 stars
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Make today all about you, the youngsters in your life or your lover. Make your feelings known and what you want to do clear. An open and honest dis-cussion will ward off hurt feelings and allow others the opportunity to offer suggestions. 3 stars
CANCER (June 21-July 22): The changes you make should also ben-efit those who have the most signifi-cant impact on your life. Lending a helping hand, improving your living conditions or surroundings, or offer-ing solutions that will ease stress will make a difference. 4 stars
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Don’t make a change if it doesn’t feel right. Take your time, and consider what’s best for you. Personal improvements, educational pursuits or sorting out differences with someone you love should be on your agenda. Romance is favored. 2 stars
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Size up what’s going on in your life, and reach out to someone you feel can help you make positive adjustments. Simplifying your living arrange-ments or making physical changes that will improve your health and lifestyle are emphasized. 5 stars
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Don’t count on what someone tells you re-garding your health, cost of a home improvement project or a contract that’s being offered. Do your re-search, ask questions and go over ev-ery detail personally to avoid being shafted or misinformed. 3 stars
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Turn your dream into a reality. It’s up to you to take charge and make things hap-pen. With a little ingenuity and physi-cal input, you can achieve what you set out to do. Do your research, take care of details and be persistent. 3 stars
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Less arguing will leave more time to accomplish things. Focus on your re-sponsibilities and doing the best job possible. It’s how you perform that will help you gain respect and the confidence of those who can help you advance. 3 stars
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): As long as you don’t let your ego or someone’s emotional manipulation interfere with what you are trying to accomplish, you will reach your goal. A positive change at home will help you reset your priorities and ob-jectives. 5 stars
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Take care of business, and don’t worry about what others do. Be responsi-ble for your work, and refuse to get involved in someone else’s drama. Personal improvements are encour-aged and will boost your confidence. Romance is featured. 2 stars
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’ll be rewarded for something you do for others. Trust your judgment, not someone who is pressuring you to do something that you cannot afford or that isn’t in your best interest. Work alongside someone you love, and im-prove your relationship. 4 stars
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5 Caribou’s cousin
10 Sci-fi vehicles
14 Wild way to run
15 Composer Copland
16 “Nick at ___”
17 *Game show with a
loud “Strike” sound effect
19 Cut, or cut sound
20 Shade-tolerant bloomers
21 Program such as “The Allusionist”
23 Sticky secretion
24 Going around in circles
25 Establishes
28 Graf who won five U.S. Opens
31 Silly, to a Brit
34 Hits lightly
36 Wee hour
37 Game with Wild cards
38 *Meal where you hear the
loud sizzle of batter
40 Sch. whose students get a
discount at Monticello
41 Feed, as a fire
43 Duct ___
44 Come apart, as a rope
45 Take for ransom
47 Parkinson’s drug
49 Pet that’s illegal in California
51 Saying
55 Astronaut Gus
57 Array of resources
59 Cleaning cloths
60 Very loud, in music ... or a hint
to the starred answers’ initials
62 Arthur who won the
Open Era’s first U.S. Open
63 Shopping list components
64 Whoop ___
65 Damon of “The Martian”
66 Past or present
67 Interior designer Berkus
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2 Really impress
3 Some tomatoes
4 Way up a slope
5 Rudolph of “Bridesmaids”
6 Big lugs
7 Catan resource
8 Progresso products
9 Funds, as a scholarship
10 Turn out the light?
11 *March Madness round
with especially loud crowds
12 Redding of soul
13 Six mos. after March
18 Fallon predecessor
22 Simple song
24 Paving supply
26 One of Hank Aaron’s
record 2,297: Abbr.
27 More than 50%
29 Bean paired with pecorino
30 “Possibly”
31 When many parks close
32 The “A” of NSAID
33 *Unruly cafeteria event
with loud students
35 “Monk” force, briefly
38 Nightmare sources, perhaps
39 ___ Speedwagon
42 Israeli diet?
44 What an opening shot
often does
46 Make money
48 Say “No thanks”
50 Twitch chat symbol, informally
52 “Sweet Love” singer Baker
53 Spectrum
54 Avoid a big wedding
55 Metric mass measure
56 Tabula ___
57 24-hr. cash dispensers
58 Increase
61 “Star Wars” villain Kylo ___
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SPotlight KnightJørgen Wisth Lie
CHRIS TSAKONASCORRESPONDENT
The major theme of the 2019 Rutgers men’s soccer team's sea-son has been the rise of several freshmen into important roles, as the No. 24 Scarlet Knights pro-pelled themselves to their first 5-0 start in 26 years.
One of those early contribu-tors has been Norwegian true freshman midfielder Jørgen Wisth Lie, who has played every minute of every game this season. He’s made his mark on the box score, scoring decisive penalty kick goals against Temple (1-3) and Drexel (1-3-1) to earn the first two wins of the year.
Much like other internation-al Rutgers players, like true freshman goalkeeper Oren Asher, Lie spent much of his development in a professional
academy environment. Before coming to the Banks, he played with the youth academy Rosen-borg SK, one of Norway’s pow-erhouse teams.
He worked his way up to the un-der-19 team, where he played with Rosenborg in the UEFA Youth League against the top youth clubs in Europe. It was there that he faced future European stars ev-ery game, like Manchester Unit-ed's Marcus Rashford.
As if that wasn’t enough, he also had the experience of play-ing for his father, Rosenborg youth head coach Torbjørn Lie. His father boasts an impressive resume, having led Rosenborg to four national youth titles while in charge. Head coach Jim McElder-ry cited this background as a big part of why Jørgen Wisth Lie is able to contribute right away.
“He is a coach's son and has a very good soccer pedigree
playing at the highest levels of youth soccer in Norway,” McElderry said.
Lie’s background adds a unique and valuable skill set to the Knights. While he has 2 goals to his name, the main element of his play style has been the way he reads the game in the midfield.
Much of his impact comes from the mental side of the game. He’s always finding himself in the position to make a critical inter-ception or find the right pass and get the attack going.
"Jørgen is good technically, reads the game well and com-petes physically. He will be a great addition to our program," McElderry said.
His soccer IQ and defensive instincts have played a big part in Rutgers' early run. In their first five games, the Knights re-lied heavily on keeping a strong
defensive shape and disrupting the opposition through a heavy midfield press — both of which rely heavily on Jørgen Wisth Lie’s skill set to execute successfully.
With the season now almost a month underway, Jørgen Wisth Lie has cemented himself as a key player for Rutgers as it gears up for a rough Big Ten slate. The team's early success will be tested as the Knights face perennial powerhouses like Indiana (3-0-1) and Maryland (3-2) down the stretch.
If Rutgers is going to con-tinue its run of success against tougher opponents, it'll have to rely on seasoned play from un-seasoned players.
It looks like one of them might be a coach's son from Norway.
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“Jørgen is good technically, reads the game well and competes physically.”
JIM MCELDERRY Head Coach
RUTGERS LEADING GOAL SCORERS
Jackson Temple Jørgen Wisth Lie Pablo Avila Vincent Borden
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Top 5 Rutgers running backs of all timeRICKY MEHTA
STAFF WRITER
5. JAWAN JAMISON (2011-2012)Jamison represented what it meant to be
a Knight. A scrappy, hardworking individual who was very motivated. He played for Rut-gers for two years and dealt with a lot with off-the-field family issues and with injuries. He would go on to be drafted in the 2013 NFL Draft. Jamison played for the Washington Redskins and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Then, he went to play arena football for the Bismarck Bucks.
During his short career on the Banks, he showed a lot of great talent. Jamison redshirt-ed his first year in 2011 and rushed for 897 yards on 231 carries with 9 touchdowns. He was the MVP of the 2011 Pinstripe Bowl af-ter rushing for 131 yards on 27 carries with 2 touchdowns. As a redshirt sophomore in 2012, he rushed for 1,054 yards on 242 carries 4 touchdowns. Now, had Jamison played an-other season, he would have been higher on the list. He may have even been able to make his mark in the record books as well.
4. TERRELL WILLIS (1993-1995)Willis was one of the leading rushers in
Rutgers history. He had the explosive abil-ity of speed, balance and impressive moves. From 1993 to 1995 he exposed the opposing defenses with spin moves and stiff arms. He would rush for 3,114 yard on 588 carries and 20 touchdowns.
Willis gained national attention his fresh-man year when he had a record setting, 2,026 all-purpose yards. In 1994, Willis ran for 1,080 yards on 216 carries with 5 touchdowns and again earned first-team All-Big East honors. In 1995, he gained another 773 yards on 177 carries and 2 touchdowns.
On Nov. 12, 1994, Willis rushed for a school-record 232 yards on 35 carries and 2 touchdowns.
3. BRAIN LEONARD (2003-2006)Leonard had a remarkable career as a
Rutgers player. Leonard left a mark on the Knights’ record books as he finished his ca-reer ranked fourth all-time rushing yards with 2,775 yards, fourth all-time rushing touchdowns with 32 touchdowns, sixth all-time receiving yards with1,864 yards and first all-time receptions with 207 receptions.
In 2006, he was promoted as a Heisman Trophy candidate. Despite being acknowl-edged as a Heisman candidate, Leonard elect-ed to take on a diminished role as a blocker and allow Rice to become a star. He was also named starting fullback on the 2007 Senior Bowl North Squad, where he finished with 16 yards rushing and 13 yards receiving, third overall on the team in total yardage.
Leonard would go onto a pro career in the NFL. After running a 4.49 40-yard dash, he was selected by the St. Louis Rams in the second round of the 2007 NFL Draft. During his seven-year NFL career, Leonard played for the St. Louis Rams, the Cincinnati Ben-gals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and New Orle-ans Saints.
2. J.J. JENNINGS (1971-1973)Jennings is arguably one of the top run-
ning backs in Rutgers history. He was the team leader in rushing yards in 1972 and 1973. Jennings set nearly every rushing re-cord in the Knights' record books.
Jennings holds records for 19 career 100-yard games, seven consecutive 100-yard per-formances, 21 rushing touchdowns in a sin-gle season, record for most touchdowns in a game with 5 and is second in program history in career touchdowns with 34.
He held the record for career touch-downs until Rice beat him with 35 touch-downs in 2007.
He also is third on the list for all of the following accomplishments: most career rushing yards with 2,935 yards, career rushing attempts with 650, rushing yards in a season with 1,353 yards, rushing attempts in a season with 303 and points in a season with 128 points.
He would go onto continuing his career in 1974 by declaring for the NFL and World Football League (WFL) draft.
He was selected in the ninth round of the NFL draft to the Kansas City Chiefs and the 10th round of the WFL draft to the Mem-phis Southmen.
1. RAY RICE (2005-2007)Rice was a driving force for Rutgers’ of-
fense from 2005-2007. He played under Greg Schiano and dominated the opposing defens-es with his impressive abilities. Rice was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the sec-ond round of the 2008 NFL Draft.
He finished his NFL career being the Ra-ven’s second all-time leader in rushing yards in franchise. In the NFL he was selected to three pro bowls, the 2011 rushing touchdown leader, the scrimmage yards leader and was a Super Bowl Champion.
In Rice’s first year, the Knights had their first winning season in 13 years and played in only the second bowl in the football pro-gram’s 136-year history. In 2006, Rutgers won a school record that tied 11 games and regis-tered its highest ever season-ending national poll ranking, finishing at No. 12 in both the Associated Press and Coaches Polls.
As a true freshman, Rice finished the sea-son as the starting tailback for the Knights. Rice rushed for 1,120 yards and 5 touchdowns during his freshman campaign, including a 217-yard performance.
As a sophomore, Rice gained 1,794 rush-ing yards with 20 touchdowns. His rushing totals set Rutgers’ single-season rushing yardage record, shattering J. J. Jennings’ mark of 1,353 set in 1973. He set the rush-ing touchdown record in 2007 with 35 career rushing touchdowns.
Rice was named Big East Offensive Player of the Week a school record of three times in 2007. In that span, Rice rushed for more thaan 200 yards, 201 yards against North Carolina, 202 yards against South Florida and a ca-reer-high 225-yard game against Pittsburgh.
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