Scarlet Magazine Winter 2015

RESURGENCE

PEEKZ ART SHOPTHIS STUDENT’S BUSINESS ISMORE THAN PRETTY THINGS

BINGE WATCHING BOB’S BURGERS

ACTOR LARRY MURPHY JR. WEIGHS IN ON THE TREND

NEWEST AMERICANSDOCUMENTING THE DIVERSITY IN THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY NEWARK REVIVES THE HAHNE BUILDING

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FASHION FORWARD RESURGENCE

PEEKZ ART SHOP

PART OF THE TEAM

NEWEST AMERICANS

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See where Rutgers–Newark students are getting their fashion inspiration.

Read about Rutgers–Newark’s revival of the historic Hahne Building on Broad St.

Student Patricia Reynols brings positivity and healing with crystals and jewlery.

Meet the man who coached a team made up of only freshman.

Rutgers-Newark and various collaborators docoument the American experience.

Rutgers–Newark aquires 3D printers.

Winter break is the best time to catch up on shows. Bob’s Burgers voice actor Larry Murphy Jr. weighs in.

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LETTER FROM THE EDITORHello Reader,During this time of year, the concept “new year, new me” starts to creep into our thoughts and social media feeds. We at Scarlet Magazine, are no different. I’d like to welcome you to our first digital edition, where we bring Scarlet Magazine to you.

Each new year brings change. Although the year 2015 has begun, you can always start afresh whenever you choose. So halfway through the year, you might be considering ditching your new diet or your interest in that new hobby just died down. But you don’t have to wait until 2016 to pick it up again.

When graduation rolls around, everything will be different for you. As Newark progresses, parts of our campus will be unrecognizable to us. Whether it’s the completion of the Hahne building project or a new business that opened up, the old stomping grounds will hardly seem anything but. Let’s celebrate these changes and fondly remember the memories we have here.

Cheers,

Kristine Villanueva Editor-in-Chief

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CREDITSKristine Villanueva Lee CaplanErin Jerome Maxine Macias Kenneth MontoyaScott NisleyHelena Ruiz Allyza “Lai” Umali

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EDITORS Evan Le BlancMaxine MaciasAllyza “Lai” Umali

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CREDITSGRAPHIC DESIGN PHOTOGRAPHERSCREATIVE DIRECTOR

ART DIRECTOR

Karen May Cunanan

Roshni Asawla

Bryan ChoiTiffany HaleBarrington McGregorJennifer JacobRyan Saavedra

Allyza “Lai” Umali

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By Darien Morla

I almost dose off while I sit typing.“I should take my pills now, and then a nap.”Then, from the down stair’s door, I heard some knocking. I hear heavy footsteps now, tap-tap-tap.

Reach for my pills but the bottle is bare.“I haven’t had a problem in years so I’m guessing there’s no real need to beware,But these people should put the music low.”

“The neighbors of course”, as I thought out loud.I yelled out, “Damn those loud Puerto Ricans!” Those words weren’t mine, but who’s so proud?

“To answer your question; it’s me, your beacon.”

The words echoed in my head, none escapedI was so startled, I slipped off the chair. The tap-tap-tap stopped short, one tap erased.The taps stopped, my heart raced, and mind was bare.

“Nothing to say old chum, not too sure?”My voice cracked, “leave my house, you unwanted fiend” Tapping became a knock, ‘knock-knock’, on the door.

“Whoever you are, may your soul be cleaned”

“Couldn’t agree more since one soul we share.”“Wait, you can hear my thoughts, but for what sin?”“I’m the thoughts your medicine keeps in a lair.A deadly game we play and a game I aim to win!”

AN AFTERNOON OF TYPING


The knocks, ever so loud, came in three bursts‘Knock-knock-knock’, and with it came a whisper“Pay attention you sniveling fool, cursedIs what you are, but not with a blister!”

“You waste a mortal soul in seclusionA soul I killed to have in my possession.”

“What have I done to deserve such illusions?”“I make the rules now- there is no protection!”

With knocking came silence, then a loud crash.“Release me, a black veil I do wear, fool!”He was interrupted with a *CRACK*BOOM**BASH*A man, tap-tapping, ran from the blood-red pool

You see, the neighbors are always heckledby a loud racist who lives in this room. The calm man was like a Dr. Jekyll.And the medicine was Mr. Hyde’s tomb.

Yes! Finally, the mortal is dead. DEAD!Those pests upstairs are good for something!The dismantled, detached, and all the dread,But the promised happiness it did not bring!

This body cannot do like its old master.A single hand is what I command now.All the planning to come to disasterI’m cursed to do only what a left hand can allow

*tap-tap-tap*

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VINTAGE IS RUTGERS–

NEWARK’SMODERN

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Throughout time, the fashion world had many trends, some of which have come back in a new way. Much like the way history repeats itself, the students at Rutgers-Newark get their fashion inspiration anywehre from previous decades or even previous centuries.

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RUTGERS–NEWARK’S VINTAGE TO MODERN

CHIC TIME–LINEBy: Rutgers–Newark students as told to Swayzeen Medina

[Age 21, from Jersey City]

I’m very inspired by Rachel Anne McAdams, the girl from The Notebook. I love thrift shopping and finding 50’s inspired attire. I love finding very modern 50’s attire. I absolutely love it – the modesty of the 50’s, the black liner, and red lip. Women were not focused on sex appeal, but focused on themselves. That’s why the 50’s was powerful for them.

JOSELINA CASTILLO


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[Age 19, from Florence]

I like things that incorporate certain aspects of fashion throughout all time. One of the French kings, Louis XVI, wore clothes and high platform shoes to accentuate his calves. I like that aspect; the calves look really great with tight jeans at the bottom. Skinny jeans are definitely back, but what people love to do now is draping. They like having something extra-extra-large so their silhouette seems smaller. Some of the girls on campus wear extra-extra-large jackets. But it looks so good on them because they make sure that their leggings show their calves too.

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FATEN SUMREIN[Age 21, from Union County]

I love oversized sweaters and a pop of color with something very plain. It inspired me to make those outfits fashionable by adding jewelry or accessories. One of my friends from high school would always dress in her mom’s clothes but she made it modern. It’s very vintage, like you would see the 80’s essence; and she would kind of mix it with a high waist jean or like a certain type of shoe. More up to date would be like a hipster. 80

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[From Jersey City]

I thrift a lot, anything with vintage is coming back. Like the sweaters, like the jeans your mom used to wear - the high waist, and the low rise, all of that comes back and trends. Even though it is from the 90’s you can still collaborate it into today’s fashion style. I’ll do overalls with a sweater or I’ll do tom-boy. I’ll do the boyfriend jeans. I always start with my shoes first and I work my way up.

DESTINY DERISO


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I see tons of different fashions around campus. Girls usually bring it out and guys are laid

back. Guys are pulling out the beanies, the snap backs, it’s

getting better on campus. But fashion is very expensive. The

scarf around the head look is coming back. The Aliyah’s

and TLC’s inspire.

KELSEY BENOIT

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GABRIEL THOMASChris Brown dresses really nice and I like the way Will Smith dressed while he was on Fresh Prince in the 90’s Martin wore some crazy stuff in his show. The main looks I see the girls with the big sweaters and the tight pants. I’ve seen these girls on campus who actually looked like TLC. They look like they came right out the TLC video, like how TLC wore the flannel shirts around their waste. Remember when you were younger you used to tie your jacket around your waist, cause you didn’t want to hold it? Now everyone’s doing it.

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By: Kristine Villanueva

Rutgers-Newark is making the most of an abandoned space.

Decorated with a fading mural of Newark jazz musicians, most students have seen the decaying Hahne building from Elbow Room on Hallsy St. Located on 609 Broad St., the building was constructed in 1901 and was once the Hahne & Co flagship store. It has since become a part of the national and state registers of historic places. Through Rutgers-Newark’s project Express Newark, the building will become a mixed use facility that will house learning space for the arts.

“Higher education promotes arts and sciences,” said Arcelio Aponte, Vice Provost of the Chancellor in Rutgers in Newark. “It’s a part of our academic core, a part of civic life that’s essential.”

THE ARTS, CULTURE, AND MEDIA DEPARTMENT GETS AN UPGRADE

Plans for renovations include a general use lecture hall that will seat 225 to 250 students, along with various types of painting, photography, and video studios and a gallery that will be open to the public. The gallery will also have an artist residency program that allows artists a place to work.

“The arts are the ideal vehicle for storytelling,” said Peter Englot, Sen¬ior Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs and Chief of Staff to Chancellor Nancy Cantor.

Englot said that there will be an open photography studio that will encourage residents of Newark to tell their stories.

“Newark needs to express itself,” Englot said.


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“I think having a presence down there [in the Hahne Building] will give the art and design curriculum more of a presence on campus.”

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According to Ned Drew, Graphic Design professor at Rutgers - Newark, the Arts, Culture and Media department wants to create a space that is accessible to everyone. The department is creating a coalition of educators from the surrounding community, including Lisa Conrad and Samer Fouad of the Newark Print Shop.

Some classes that will be taught in the future include printmaking, 3D printing, and student run graphic design studios.

“Expanding the arts in Newark is fantastic,” said Alyson Whitehead, senior Graphic Design student. “I think it’s great because now we have limited work space.”According to Dana Damiani, Unit Computing Manager at Bradley Hall, there will be a committee to look at the fourth floor of the building in the next few months. The journalism department, which is also situated on the fourth floor of Bradley Hall, will move to the Hahne building when renovations are through, but there is no word of the ACM department moving as of late.

Damiani thinks the design of the building should incorporate large spaceconsideration for the growth of student populations.

“Physically being in two spaces may be difficult at times but it gives us a chance to be outside of the Ivory Tower, outside of Bradley,” said Drew. “I think having a presence down there [in the Hahne Building] will give the art and design curriculum more of a presence on campus.”

Aponte said the project hopes to leverage the rich art history in the city of Newark as well as engage the Newark community by balancing retail, educational and residential activity. There will also be 200 market rate residential units available on upper floors and a Whole Foods opening in the location.

In partnership with the Hanini Group, LLC and L+M Development, the project board of governors will spend 25 million dollars subsidized through tax credits to fix the 60,000 square feet of space.

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By: Maxine Macias

PEEKZ ART SHOP: MORE THAN JEWELRY


PEEKZ ART SHOP: MORE THAN JEWELRY

Patricia Reynolds has turned her passion into profit. The Rutgers-Newark student has her own business called Peekz Art Shop. What started off as a table at a flea market and at art shows has since evolved into an Etsy shop online.

Reynolds opened up the shop in 2011 to support something she loved. As a creator, she felt that it was important for her to still be artistic but be able to fund the art supplies she needed for her classes. Reynolds also created the shop as tribute to a close friend that had passed away, who she says was very into fashion.

“My goal is to just make people happy and to have that uplifting spirit,” Reynolds says.Reynolds is also a crystals and gems intuitive who incorporates her interest in meditation and healing into jewelry. She says the different chakras help different people to be sound mentally, physically, and spiritually. Her design process consists of her channeling a chakra, or center of spiritual power in the human body, to heal, using her books and research to figure out which crystals and gemstones to use for the chakra.

Reynolds’ interest in healing and meditation came from an art history course. As a former attendee of the School of Visual Arts in New York City, she she said didn’t take many cultural courses until transferring to Rutgers-Newark.

“What got me really into it was the natural world. How these people and this culture, the Asian culture was very much into the natural world and their imagery is really serene.” Reynolds said.

Reynolds thinks that while trying to fulfill responsibilities, people tend to be absent in the present moment.

“When you’re looking at work from the Far East, you can tell that person is there in that present moment because they’re reflecting on what they see.”

As a person working two jobs and running a business, she stresses reflection to avoid a passive life. When she’s not creating artwork or jewelry, she partakes in meditation. She does crystal healings as well as Reiki, a Japanese healing ritual where one person passes their energies onto the other person.

When she’s not creating or meditation, she often spends her weekends travelling with her boyfriend.

“I like to constantly explore because the more you take from the world, the more you could put out.”Eventually Reynolds wants to transform Peekz Art Shop into a space for artists with a storefront of handmade goods created by artists. She aspires to be an art director of her own gallery and wants to help fellow artists because she says it’s not always easy for artists to gain exposure.

Photos from http://peekzartshop.com/

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Rutgers-Newark’s Newest Americans project illustrates the cultural experience of immigrant groups or young immigrants in America.

As a collaborative effort from students, faculty, and world-renowned photo and video journalists, the project researches and documents immigrant communities and their stories.

“This campus revolves around a crystal ball… therefore [this] is a perfect project,” said Professor Tim Raphael, Executive Director of the Newest Americans project and Director for the Center for Migration and the Global City.

Newest Americans is a 3-year pilot project pitch, which receives great support from Chancellor of Rutgers-Newark Nancy Cantor.

“Sounds terrific, let’s do it,” she wrote.

In Raphael’s initial pitch to Cantor, he sent her a two-page spread with details on the project. Her short reply to the email was a thrilling moment for Raphael.

Having been part of many institutions, Raphael saw Cantor’s response as a great commitment to public higher education and the student body.

Newest Americans will initially be funded by Rutgers-Newark, but as the program progresses and even exceeds the 3-year initial pitch, funding will eventually come from other sources.

A CRYSTAL BALL TO THE FUTURE.By: Carlos ZambranoPhotographer: Mahirah Syed

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The project is comprised of various subjects that will define what being American means.

Current subjects include Samantha Boardman’s Krueger-Scott oral history collection, which documents the struggles of being an African-American immigrant during the second Great Migration north to Newark from the rural south.

The collection contains over 200 audio cassette recordings of interviews with more than 100 residents of Newark, who lived or migrated to the city between 1910 and 1970. These migrants were given a 14 page questionnaire and were interviewed from 1995 to 2000 They were asked questions about their lives in the south.

The series of interviews were headed by the Krueger-Scott Cultural Center, an organization that is no longer in operation.

The Krueger-Scott series digitized cassettes about the oral history of prominent Newark figures like Sharpe James, as well as lay people.

“It’s a Newark specific archive,” said Boardman. “It’s very valuable [because it helps] to understand how the city has changed physically.”

“Students were engaging in ways not found on other campuses.”


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Boardman’s oral history collection materialized after she was made aware of a prototype oral history database about the migration of Asians, Portugueses, and Latinos, a collaboration between Professor Raphael and colleague Rob Snyder, associate professor in the journalism department and the graduate program in American Studies.

The project also includes a Carnegie Hall Arabic Waslah performance by Rutgers-Newark professor and lute player Mohamed Alsiadi and composer of the Free Syrian Symphony Malek Jandali.

Raphael said a key point of the project was to tell a story about changes in immigration from all parts of the world to show what it means to be American.

“...these tell a story about changes in immigration from all parts of the world to show what it means to be American.”


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Raphael said during his first semester teaching at Rutgers-Newark his class had 17 non-Americans who hailed from Bosnia, Serbian, and Croatia.

“Students were engaging in ways not found on other campuses,” said Raphael.

These students came from a part of the world that was once a united country that eventually found itself in political turmoil and dissenting opinions that led to its break up, but found themselves working together.

Raphael’s experience is an example of new Americanism.

He believes that at Rutgers-Newark, “everyone is a source of new Americanism.”

This month, the creative team of Newest Americans will meet for their third strategic planning to continue the advancement of the program.


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THE FUTURE OF PRINTING AT RUTGERS-NEWARKBy: Evan Le Blanc

Rutgers-Newark will be taking big strides in 2015 as the universities art program is embarking on the idea of incorporating a 3-D design course for its senior fine arts and graphic design majors next spring. Although all of the details of the class haven’t been formulated yet, the news of the offering for next semester has made quite a buzz around R-N’s Bradley Hall, and the students who take a majority of their classes there. Dana Damiani Bradley Hall’s Technology and Lab Manager is enthusiastic about the incoming technology, and isn’t shy about expressing her excitement that the school is moving in the right direction.


THE FUTURE OF PRINTING AT RUTGERS-NEWARK

“We are really excited to move this onto campus, I still can’t wrap my head around it,” Damiani said. “We’re going to have the only one on campus and it’ll be really exciting to see what’s going to happen five years from now.” The printer which will be housed in 413, a small room on the fourth floor, is just the first step of many Rutgers is taking in revamping up the arts program. According to fine arts Professor Keary Rosen, who will also be teaching the course, RN will have the only 3-D printer amongst all campuses and universities in the greater-Newark area. The printer, which is made by a company called MakerBot, uses design programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Creative Cloud to transform 3-d prints to real life molds. According to the MakerBot website, the Replicator is a fifth generation desktop model that has the ability to create professional-quality, high-resolution prototypes and complex renderings. Paper-thin layers are produced smooth to the touch, and don’t require sanding, finishing, or post production. The MakerBot printer will enable students to create simple drafts as fast as 45-minutes. But for more complex fine resolutions, 3-d models may take up to even 15 hours.

“It’s a different way of thinking about time, the technology has not yet gotten to a point where you press start and in a couple of seconds you have a very complex object.”

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“It’s a different way of thinking about time, the technology has not yet gotten to a point where you press start and in a couple of seconds you have a very complex object,” Rosen said.

“The printer that we are using is an additive printer, it’s an additive printing process, so it lays down one very thin layer after another. You have to think about it in the way you would think about cooking or baking. You go through the process of whatever you’re going to make, putting ingredients into a bowl, putting it into an oven, and then you just kind of wait. “ The class, which will be 400-level, will be open to seniors with a prerequisite of Introduction to Sculptures. According to Rosen, introduction to 3-D printing will encapsulate using programs to create forms in virtual space. Although printing projects will take longer than normal compared to other classes, Rosen will make certain to incorporate assignments throughout the semester.

“I want a fine arts student to be able to go the conceptual route or make something that’s purely formal.”


“I’m going to give them a lot of freedom to create whatever they want once they have an understanding of how programs work. That’s the biggest obstacle I found in teaching 3-d modeling.” Rosen said.

“I want a fine arts student to be able to go the conceptual route or make some thing that’s purely formal.” In addition to the 3-d printing, Rosen states that he will also familiarize students in the process of 3-d scanning throughout the course. According to MakerBot, 3-d scanning is the process of collecting data on real world objects, which then can be used to construct replica three-dimensional models.

“I’m going to introduce a 3-d scanning aspect into the course. I have a 3-d scanner and it scans objects in space and so those

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scans can be incorporated into whatever form somebody wants to work with.” Rosen said. The end result of having a 3-d printing course according to Rosen is to capitalize on the technology that he hopes to share with more than the students at Rutgers. The idea of a 3-d printing lab for Rutgers is not far off, Rosen is optimistic it will be a place where schools in the area can collaborate and be trained in the both art forms.

“People have made large statements like this idea of being able to make something on your own terms, and your own way is as significant as the Guttenberg Press. It’s going to usher in a new industrial revolution this new technology.” Rosen said.

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BINGE WATCHING IS THE NEW BLACKBy: Allyza “Lai” Umali

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“Netflix has everything an avid couch potato could ever dream of. “

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It’s winter break and this is your time to do whatever you want and sleep whenever you want. But what better way to spend winter break by getting comfortable at home and catching up on all your favorite shows?

Well, Netflix is no stranger to our agenda as it certainly entertains us daily but takes the best of our days during our breaks. From old school flicks to the last season of your favorite shows, Netflix has everything an avid couch potato could ever dream of.

Sure, technology has come such a long way. We used to wait for the next time an episode will air on our TV screens or have our parents record our favorite shows on VHS. Then the DVR came and slowly made everything convenient as our cable boxes recorded scheduled television shows while we weren’t home or our parents were hogging the remote to watch the game.

Then we grew up and our schedules were packed doing grown up things leaving no time for television. But, Netflix came. Then Hulu, then Amazon, then iTunes, and all the other streaming sites. They became our cable during our free time.

Netflix culture is the best way to call it. Sitting around, binge-watching for countless of hours, losing track of time. It’s a guilty pleasure, but more of a pleasure considering its convenience.

According to the New Yorker’s 2013 piece Come Binge With Me, “Netflix found that seventy-nine per cent of respondents agreed with a prompt suggesting that binge watching made a show more enjoyable. That seems right: watching a show straight through can increase its dramatic density, making it easier to spot connections and motifs across the seasons. It helps keep thorny plots straight and characters in their proper order—and leaves the viewer alert to the intricacy of a good show. It saves time in the long run: fewer ads, no hours lost to Web recaps. People who haven’t seen a show that all their friends are suddenly talking about can catch up quickly and join the conversation.“

Now that we can settle the fact binge-watching is not only beneficial for our entertainment but also our social lives, here are some shows you might want to check out during the break and talk about with your circle of friends!

House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, It’s Always Sunny in Phila-delphia, Portlandia, Breaking Bad, Scandal, Arrested Development, New Girl, How I Met Your Mother, 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation, Bob’s Burgers, Archer, The Walking Dead, Dr. Who, Once Upon A Time, American Horror Story, Saved by the Bell, Freaks and Geeks.

In addition, some of the shows we listed are still ongoing on cable. So it’s just about right you can start catching up if you haven’t yet!

Let’s take the meme-famous show Bob’s Burgers, for example The popular animated show is currently on their fifth season, but you can get through the first three seasons on Netflix with its fourth season coming up sometimes soon.

“Netflix found that seventy-nine per cent of respondents agreed with a prompt suggesting that binge watching made a show more enjoyable.”

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With that said, we were lucky enough to sit down with Larry Murphy Jr., the voice of Teddy on Bob’s Burgers, to talk about his experience of watching television growing up, what’s new on this season’s Bob’s, and other shenanigans!

At Bleecher’s on a Friday afternoon, Larry Murphy Jr., pointed out the signature pressed sandwiches the joint entailed. Though it wasn’t a burger joint, he filled us in that the grilled cheese spot is the go-to place after a session in studio among the New York voice actors of the show.

SO, LARRY! WHAT DO YOU BINGE-WATCH?

Lot of dramas. I would watch Mad Men. My queue is loaded with kids stuff, unfortunately. But certainly Mad Men, Homeland, and The Wire. I think I even rewatched The Wire which is kind of crazy because I don’t know how many hours that is.

WE HAVE A CLASS ON THE WIRE. AND BEYONCE.

Wait. On The Wire?! Wow. You have a class on Beyonce?! That’s crazy! From what angle?! How is that possible?! I get it but I don’t get it! But it’s REALLY awesome!

GROWING UP, HOW DID YOU CATCH UP WITH YOUR TELEVISION SHOWS?

When I was a kid, I used to get up really early on Saturdaymornings. I would rise really early to watch this local television program called Captain Bob. And it was a guy who would draw and paint. And you would be at home drawing an animal along with someone who’s drawing an animal, like, “We’re going to make a circle. Now we’re going to draw a gorilla.” And that was probably on at 5:30 in the morning. I also watched this other show that no one at Comic Con, in a sea of 5,000 people, only one person laughed.

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“Lot of dramas. I would watch Mad Men. My queue is loaded with kids stuff, unfortunately. But certainly Mad Men, Homeland, and The Wire. I think I even rewatched The Wire which is kind of crazy because I don’t know how many hours that is.”

This French cartoon called Barbapapa. It’s real! It’s a family of blobby characters that I don’t even know if it was in English! From what I remember it left a big impression on me. BARBA-PA-PA!

Also, on Fridays and Saturday, all the kids would watch shows that were WAY too adult. Kids would be watching Fantasy Island, Dukes of Hazzard. I remember being very excited when I was 10. I would read the TV Guide (everyone got a TV guide at that time) and it would always have the fall preview and you’d be able to read a little blurb of every show that was coming.

WERE YOU MORE OF A VCR, DVR, KIND OF PERSON?

VHS! I would stuff that are live regularly. My dad bought a VCR really early. We had a VCR before anyone else had a VCR. I would ask that we would to tape Saturday Night Live and I would watch that the following day, EVERY week.

HOW CONVENIENT IS IT TO HAVE ALL THESE STREAMING SITES LIKE NETFLIX, HULU, AMAZON ALL AT THE PALM OF YOUR HAND?

I think it’s great! I had a pretty extensive DVD collection and I don’t know I bought a DVD again since… Amazon was Amazon. The last Wes Anderson movie… Budapest Hotel? Hotel Budapest? That was the last thing (DVD) I purchased.

WHAT’S YOUR TAKE ON BINGE WATCHING?

I DO IT. I’m not part of your “younger” generation but I do it! And I think it’s kind of great because I love to be able to consume a show where, if you’re watching that week to week, you would never get it. All the nuance would be lost of a show. Whereas when you see it episode to episode to episode, you can be in a world. TV is kind of escapeism but it’s all gotten so much better that... I don’t know.. I love it!

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So when I went in to do the second episode, the “Crawlspace” episode, I already worked with Jon Benjamin (Bob Belcher). With me having working with him in the past, I was very comfortable. So I would be completely be okay doing a back and forth where I would needle him. A lot of the shouting matches where, whenever we got in an argument on Bob’s Burgers, they’re real arguments where I’m trying to be rude and he’s responding. If I hadn’t had a relationship with Jon Benjamin, I wouldn’t have felt as comfortable to screw around so I think they saw an element of like, “Oh, this is a character we could reuse.”

IT SEEMS LIKE YOU AND H. JON BENJAMIN ARE BASICALLY BOB BELCHER AND TEDDY IN REAL LIFE.

Yeah! Kind of ! In some way! Like, when Jon insults me as Teddy sometimes I think he’s insulting me as Larry as supposed to Teddy. And that might be the way he operates. When he says, “How dumb are you?” and I don’t know if that’ll ever make the episodes, but that would be how an exchange might end.

OF COURSE THERE’S THE ARCHER CROSSOVER EVERYONE WANTS TO SEE HAPPEN, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE HAPPEN?

THAT’S A GOOD QUESTION! What is out there that would be a good crossover with Bob’s? Hmmm… I don’t know about that one.

HOW DID TEDDY COME ABOUT?

I think for a full two years, the rest of the cast of Bob’s Burgers developed the show along with Loren (Bouchard). […] They literally recorded their first episode, then when they recorded their second episode and called me in to play the role of a contractor. They later would say the reason was because they’ve seen a video that I made of a character I did on stage called “Salupo.” And Salupo is basically a cab driver from Canarsie, Brooklyn and I would basically say to the audience, “Where’s my Canarsie crazies? Where’s my Canarsie crazies in the house?!” And no hands would go up because no one is from there then I would proceed to do jokes on Canarsie. ButI was like a character who was big, dumb, but also means well and really trying.


IF TEDDY COULD NAME A BURGER, WHAT WOULD HE NAME IT?

I cannot imagine him being very creative as far as punster. Maybe, “Have a Doppleburger? Or a Triple Burger?” Like, I can’t imagine him being able to come up with something like the writers of Bob’s Burgers could do on the regular like “Looks Could Kale” or anything like that. The writers spend time figuring out how to write a Burger of the Day for Bob’s Burgers and I can’t imagine that now, five seasons in, that they’re not like, “WHOA! What haven’t we done? Have we used cheddar?!”

SO IF TEDDY HAD A NETFLIX ACCOUNT, WHAT DO YOU THINK HE WOULD BE BINGE WATCHING?

In one episode he mentioned he was watching The Mentalist, which, when I read that in the script, I thought it was funny because the only person I know who watches The Mentalist was my mother. But I could imagine he would watch a lot of those shows where they re-do a house, or flip a house. Terrible programs like that I wouldn’t necessarily be interested. Like HGTV!

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE TEDDY ANTIC THAT HAS HAPPENED SO FAR?

There was a little improv that I did that they used again in a further episode which was, when offered a document just to say, “So sign anywhere? So just write anywhere? So write this where- what do I?”

The writers had also written, or it might’ve been Jon, who came up with this funny little hook where he tells me to leave the restaurant he says, “Scat!” And then someone came up with the idea that he literally scats. That Teddy literally says, “Skippityboppityboopiptyboppityboop!” which is SO outside the world in like a dumb in like anything that’s like, “Wow. They left that in there. They left a joke that is like a joke in there.” Like, no one is saying “Scat!” to someone and the person goes “Skippityboppityboopiptyboop!”

SO WHAT’S NEW FOR TEDDY ON THIS NEW SEASON OF BOB’S BURGERS? WHAT CAN WE LOOK OUT FOR?

For Teddy, he has at least one episode called “Friends with Burger-fits.” And it’s an episode where Bob gets very concerned about Teddy’s health and he tries to get him to exercise and workout and what they end up doing is going to a stuntman camp. And it’s essentially about their friendship and how much is Bob Teddy’s friend and how much is Teddy just a customer. Then at the end of the season, I think you’ll see an episode where they might introduce a love interest into Teddy’s world.

If you don’t have the time to check out this season of Bob’s, or just haven’t had any of the time within the last few months or year(s), make sure to look out for the episodes at a streaming site near you! And if you’re looking for something fun to do and want to go out for a good laugh, you can check out Larry Murphy Jr. at Myrtle Comedy in Brooklyn every Thursday night!

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PART F THE TEAM

By: Ulysses Achonye

This time last year the Rutgers-Newark women’s volleyball team had a record of 8-16 and were dead last in the NJAC unable to even win a conference game. This year, things are much brighter thanks to third-year head women’s volleyball coach Jason Madsen. This year the team has a winning percentage of just under 60 percent. Madsen is a coach with a true passion for the game but when he is off the court, he is just a regular guy who loves to catch some rays. Read below to find out more about the Plainfield native, and how he got his start coaching volleyball.

SO TELL ME HOW YOU GOT YOUR START COACHING VOLLEYBALL?

Well, I’ve been playing and coaching volleyball for the last 18 years. I started off playing at St. Joseph’s high school in Metuchen, New Jersey. I kind of got my start through that. I followed my brother. We played club with the Warren SixPak boys club. It’s the biggest club in New Jersey. I kind of took a liking to the game. I’ve always wanted to be a coach. To get my job here at Rutgers, coach Pedro (Trevino) got hired on the men’s team and took me on as his assistant and we just kind of went from there. Prior to that, I coached a little bit in high school. I coached at Bridgewater-Raritan High School, St. Joseph Metuchen High School and J.P. Stevens High School in Edison. I’ve kind of been around a lot of places.

DO YOU THINK YOU’RE ABLE TO COACH ANOTHER SPORT?

Yes. Growing up, I played every sport from soccer to tennis, baseball, basketball. I’m a huge sports fan no matter what it is. When I’m watching television, it’s always some sporting event that’s on. I’m confident I’d be able to coach something else.

WHAT SPORT?

That I’d be able to do well at? I think I’d be a good soccer coach. I think I’d be okay with that and most likely basketball too.

Madsen is a coach with a true passion for the game but when he is off the court, he is just a regular guy who loves to catch some rays.

Photos by http://www.rutgersnewarkathletics.com/


PART F THE TEAM

IF YOU WEREN’T COACHING, WHAT HONESTLY DO YOU THINK YOU’D BE DOING?

I think I’d be a teacher. It’s kind of along the same lines. I think about that all the time, like if I wasn’t coaching. I think I’d like to be a teacher. I was always good at math and science and I like helping people and it all fits into one.

WHAT ARE YOUR BIGGEST ASPIRATIONS WHEN IT COMES TO COACHING VOLLEYBALL?

Right now at Rutgers, for the girls season, it’s to get us back to the prominence that Rutgers-Newark women’s volleyball used to be at. In the late 90’s, they were winning the NJAC and getting into the NCAA tournament. It kind of fell off. So now we’re working hard to get back to that level. We’re super competitive. People kind of looked at our volleyball team as a pushover. We’re starting to turn that around. I believe with the players that we have now and the players that we have coming in, we’re no longer looked at as an easy win. This is good for us, good for the school, good for the city of Newark as well. Everybody like’s a winner. For the women it’s getting us back to where we were. For the men, it’s winning a national championship. I think our men’s team has the potential to win a Division 3 national championship.

YOU DON’T ALWAYS WANT TO COACH HERE. YOU WANT TO GO DIVISION 1 RIGHT?

The ultimate goal for me is to transition into a role in Athletic Administration. Whether it be athletic director, sports information director, compliance office something like that.

SO WHAT IS YOUR LIFE LIKE IN THE OFF SEASON?

There really is no offseason for me. It’s a lot of volleyball all the time. Going from the women’s season in the fall, I coach a club team that goes throughout the winter and then we jump into the men’s season in the spring. So it’s just volleyball, volleyball, volleyball al the time. During the summer I spend time at the beach a lot. Riding personal watercrafts, jet skis, wave runners. I like to sit out on the beach, hang out with my friends, go to the bars every now and then. I’m just a regular guy. I like to have fun just like anybody else.

HOW DO YOU FIND RECRUITS TO TARGET OR DO THEY COME TO YOU USUALLY?

We go out. We actively seek people. I get emails all the time from girls and guys that have some interest. Sometimes I have to explain to them because they think I’m the Division 1 coach from New Brunswick. I have to weed through those to find out who’s really interested. I go out on the road watching high school games all the time around Middlesex and Union county, Essex County too. During club season, I am doing a lot. This year is going to be special because I’m coaching an 18’s team. It’s the level before college, so I get to see who’s out there. Out-of-state girl’s in-state girls. It’s really hard to get out of state girls to come here because it’s so many volleyball teams’ out there. Our out of state tuition, it’s not like crazy pricy, but when they can play in their own state for a lot less, it’s tough. It doesn’t stop me. I have been told no plenty of times. You just have to keep pushing and grinding through and working hard. This is what we do all the time.

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