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Former Rutgers board member to pay $750K for unregistered securities
Jeffrey Mitchell Isaacs served on the Rutgers Board of Trustees between 2003 and 2009. He and his companies have been ordered to pay $750,000 for selling unregistered securities. PTINDIRECTORY
RYAN STIESIASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Jeffrey Mitchell Isaacs, a New-Brunswick man and former Rutgers Board of Trustees member, has been ordered to pay $750,000 in connection with selling New Jer-sey investors more than $7 million worth of unregistered securities that were tied to an alleged $1.2 billion nationwide Ponzi scheme, according to a news release from the Office of the Attorney General.
Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal and the New Jersey Bureau of Secu-rities within the Division of Consum-er Affairs announced yesterday that Isaacs and his companies — JB Fi-nancial Resources and related entities — sold the unregistered securities for the Woodbridge Group of Compa-nies (Woodbridge). The Woodbridge company has been charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Com-mission (SEC) in connection with running a Ponzi scheme.
Securities are things like stocks, bonds and financial notes. Before
it can be offered to public people, it must first be registered with the SEC, according to Investopedia. There are certain exceptions to the rules.
Records show that Isaacs served on the Rutgers Board of Trustees as far back as 2003, according to archived catalogs from the University. Another release indicates that he served until 2009, when he was an Alumni Trustee.
“Despite having no legal authori-ty to sell investments in New Jersey, Isaacs sold the unregistered Wood-bridge securities to New Jersey in-vestors,” said Kevin Jespersen, acting director of the Division of Consumer Affairs. “Isaacs shamelessly profited from this alleged Ponzi scheme while the investors that purchased the un-registered securities are now left to deal with the devastating impact of trying to recover their investments.”
The company allegedly defraud-ed more than 8,400 investors in unregistered Woodbridge funds, according to a press release of the SEC’s charge against Woodbridge.
The company advertised its pri-mary business as issuing loans to
supposed third-party commercial property owners, paying Wood-bridge 11 to 15 percent annual in-terest for short-term financing, ac-cording to the press release.
It allegedly promised to pay in-vestors 5 to 10 percent interest annually, according to the press release. The SEC’s charge alleges that many of the company’s borrow-ers were owned by former CEO of Woodbridge Robert H. Shapiro, and had no income and did not make in-terest payments on the loans.
“Unregistered agents are often at the heart of investment scams, which is why the Bureau strongly encourages investors to verify and review the registration records of anyone offering to sell them an in-vestment,” said Christopher Ger-old, chief of the Bureau of Securi-ties. “Had these investors checked with the Bureau, they would have learned that Isaacs is not registered to sell securities in New Jersey, in-formation that could have prevented
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Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci spoke at last night’s event hosted by Young Americans for Liberty (YAL). He discussed the presence of Jewish culture early in his life and the proliferation of anti-Semitism on college campuses. COURTESY MORRIS ANTEBI
CHRISTIAN ZAPATA NEWS EDITOR
Bringing the pieces of recent anti-Semitic instances on college campuses together, former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci met members of the University at the Chabad House last night with anecdotes of his experiences with Judaism, ways to promote its preservation and a look into his life during and after his time at the White House.
OPENING REMARKS “Countering BDS Campaigns on
Campus with Anthony Scaramucci” was an event hosted by Young Amer-icans for Liberty (YAL) and featured a panel of members from the Univer-sity’s Orthodox Jewish community.
Rabbi Heshy Pincas kicked off the event with a brief prayer and went on to showcase Torah scrolls and describe the tentative process that undergoes their creation. In addition to these artifacts, he described the history of their decimation and dis-played shoe soles with Torah script imprinted on them — a testament to their existence in light of denial that the Holocaust occurred.
The president of Young Ameri-cans for Liberty, Andrea Vacchiano, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, gave her opening remarks where she reiterated the event’s focus to spread awareness of “attempts to delegitimize the state of Israel across SEE STRIKE ON PAGE 4
college campuses by spreading false accusations that are, more often than not, also very anti-Semitic.”
She then recounted Scaramucci’s accomplishments and involvement with Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) — a Palestinian-led movement for freedom, justice and equality that upholds the principle that Palestin-ians are entitled to the same rights as the rest of humanity, according to its site.
Scaramucci is a former Gold-man Sachs executive who served between 1989 and 1996. After which he founded Oscar Capital Manage-ment and then the investment firm SkyBridge Capital in 2005.
Most recently, Scaramucci is known for his time serving as White House communications director this past summer and the 11 days, as corrected by him, that transpired between his appointment and re-moval from the position.
SCARAMUCCI’S SPEECH The Chabad House keynote
speaker retold his story of being raised in a blue-collar neighbor-hood. Growing up, he said there was limited literature in his house. Scaramucci lived in a diverse racial and religious community where he made Jewish friends whose house-holds were the polar opposite of his
— encouraging school work and ed-ucation first.
This secondhand exposure to the normative Jewish household set the foundation for what Scar-amucci said was his educational growth and inclination toward Jew-ish culture.
“Why am I bringing this up?” Scaramucci said. “I’m bringing this up because I am not a Jew, but I have had the benefit of experiencing the Jewish culture, and I can also look at it from a distance, I can look at it from a separation that if you are a Jew growing up in a Jewish culture … you’re not going to see it the way I see it.”
THREE RULES TO LIVE BY Scaramucci listed three rules
that he suggested the audience never forget.
The first, that it is an individu-al’s culture that matters most. Away from media coverage and the glam-our of being in the spotlight, he said what truly matters are the friends, family and culture that binds a per-son together.
“No. 2 … is super important to realize this, the Jewish com-munity globally for 5,500 years is hunching over its weight … Just look at the statistics, you’ve killed it in commerce, you’ve killed it in the arts, you’ve killed it in science … the byproduct of your culture has led to unbelievable charity all around the world.”
Scaramucci went on to say that he thinks hatred toward Jewish people does not stem from the religion but from its success. In a Social-Darwinist fashion, he said this is the result of primordial in-stincts that bring people to want the best for themselves and a be-havior that should be moved away from — toward love and kindness as seen in Judaism.
Lastly, he said that passing the ethos of Judaism onto new gener-ations will benefit the culture and offset hatred with an abundance of peace, discussing his experience during a trip to Israel.
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Study-abroad programs expand educational experience ANNA CLOSE
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
For students who feel the need to get away this summer or in the coming semesters, Rut-gers has them covered through its approximately 400 global partnerships and more than 180 study-abroad programs in 50 dif-ferent countries.
Study-abroad programs hap-pen all year long, with shorter winter or summer programs and longer semesterly programs, said Christina LoBrutto, a pub-lic relations specialist at Rutgers Global. The programs can range from one-week long to a full se-mester — and even an entire ac-ademic year.
The sessions offer many op-portunities for students to not only travel, but also gain experi-ences and knowledge they may not be able to get in a Rutgers classroom, said Stephanie LaCa-va, senior program coordinator at Rutgers Global.
“It opens your mind to new expe-riences,” LaCava said. “It takes you out of your comfort zone. Not only are you opening your mind to new experiences, but you’re challeng-ing yourself. A lot of studies and research have shown that we only grow real-ly, as a person, when we’re chal-lenging ourselves.”
While studying overseas may seem like a large financial in-vestment, the cost for a semester abroad is often similar to a semes-ter at Rutgers, LaCava said.
She explained that some pro-grams, like studying abroad in London or Australia where prices
are more expensive, cost more. The opposite is true for other less traveled destinations where the costs can sometimes be lower than tuition at Rutgers.
To help pay for these programs, Rutgers Global gives scholarships to students every year.
“We give awards of $1,000 for short-term programs, so for winter and summer, and then $4,000 for se-mester (programs),” LoBrutto said.
Scholarships can also be found in each academic department, de-pending on the program, she said.
Rutgers itself offers many scholarships in general, but there are also specific depart-mental scholarships and national scholarships, one being the Gil-man scholarship.
“(The Gilman scholarship) is state department money that’s one of the top ways that students can get funding to go abroad,” said Mary D’Ambrosio, a profes-sor in the Department of Journal-ism and Media Studies.
Scholarships can help diminish the costs of studying abroad, she said. Any student that receives financial aid or scholarships at
Rutgers, including the Pell Grant, can also use those scholarships toward study abroad programs.
The programs offered cater to all majors and interests, accord-ing to the Rutgers Global website. With programs like Language Studies in Morocco, Business in South Africa or Finance and
Economics in China, Rutgers has a program for any student who wishes to apply.
“In our department they can re-port on migrants coming to Italy,
they can study media in Guatema-la, they have gone to France and England,” D’Ambrosio said about programs in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies.
Rutgers Global works with stu-dents to make it so study-abroad classes transfer successfully and do not put students off track.
“Regardless of what you’re studying, even if it’s as crazy as engineering or things like that, we work with all of these de-partments to find the best time
to study abroad,” LaCava said. “We’re constantly trying to work to course match.”
Rutgers Global gives students hundreds of opportunities to study abroad at any time throughout a student’s academic career, accord-ing to the Rutgers Global website. It also lists available opportunities
and scholarships one can apply to. Rutgers Global also has walk-in hours Monday through Friday from noon to 3 p.m.
LaCava said that only 2 per-cent of students at Rutgers study abroad.
With the help of scholarships and planning, the possible ex-periences are endless, she said. Regardless of major or year,
there is a program that can help expand knowledge beyond Rut-gers campuses, and help students get hands-on experience before they graduate.
“It can showcase a student’s skills when they’re looking for jobs and things like that. You set yourself out from the crowd,” LaCava said.
“It opens your mind to new experiences. It takes you out of your comfort zone. Not only are you opening your mind to new experiences, but you’re challenging yourself.”
STEPHANIE LACAVASenior Program Coordinator at Rutgers Global
Stephanie LaCava is the senior program coordinator at Rutgers Global and said that popular destinations, such as London or Australia, are often more expensive than study-abroad programs in less frequented locations. LINKEDIN
Only 2 percent of University students enroll in study-abroad programs. Rutgers Global offers hundreds of opportunities that students can apply to at any point during their academic careers. PINTEREST
them from becoming a victim.”Gerold said that as the case
against Woodbridge continues, the bureau will continue to identify and hold accountable the individuals that sold unregistered securities, according to the news release.
According to a Summary Penal-ty Order issued yesterday, Isaacs’s agent and investment-adviser rep-resentative registrations were sus-pended by the Bureau of Securities in 2013 for “dis-honest or uneth-ical practices.”
Between 2013 and 2017, Isaacs and his related entities alleged-ly sold approx-imately 88 of Woodbridge’s unregistered securities — val-ued at approxi-mately $7.1 million — to at least 26 New Jersey investors, according to the Summary Penalty Order.
He allegedly acted as an unreg-istered agent in the offer and sale of the unregistered Woodbridge investment products in the form of First Position Commercial Mortgages (FPCMs), according to the Summary Penalty Order.
On Dec. 4, 2017, Woodbridge and related entities filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and the FPCM interest payments to investors stopped, according to the Summary Penalty Order. Weeks later, on Dec. 20, the SEC filed a complaint against Woodbridge and related companies.
When reached for comment, Isaac said this was the first he had heard of the order and asked for the press release and penal-ty order to review, according to TAPinto New Brunswick. He de-clined to comment further.
Isaacs also attended Rut-gers and grad-uated from the U n i v e r s i t y ’ s Livingston Col-lege in 1984. He was previously honored by the Rutgers Alum-ni Association with the “Loyal Sons & Daugh-
ters of Rutgers Award,” according to a list of the recipients.
“Ponzi schemes only work when unscrupulous individuals lure un-suspecting victims into a scam for their own profit,” Grewal said ac-cording to the release. “To protect New Jersey from these types of Ponzi schemes, we will continue to take action against those who seek to harm our residents and our fi-nancial markets.”
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SECURITIESJeffrey Mitchell Isaacs has been ordered to pay $750K for selling unregistered securities in NJ
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U. professor bats eyes at these nocturnal creatures ERICA D’COSTA
ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Although bats are not the most popular field of study for most bi-ology majors, Angelo Soto Cente-no has always known he wanted to pursue the examination of these unique, nocturnal creatures.
Growing up in Puerto Rico, Soto Centeno, an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Scienc-es at Rutgers—Newark, exhausted his free time outdoors, immersing himself in the interaction with all sorts of insects and animals, accord-ing to a Rutgers Today article.
“My life is about bats, pretty much my favorite creature,” Soto Centeno said, according to the arti-cle. “There is something so intrigu-ing about these mammals, one that many people living in America have never seen up close.”
Soto Centono’s research focuses on the extinction of the mammals, particularly in the Caribbean. Out of more than 130 Caribbean mam-mal species that previously exist-ed, only approximately 15 species of land-based mammals and 66 bat species remain today, according to the article.
“What we are trying to deter-mine is what makes these bats either vulnerable or very good survivors,” he said.
His mission is to study bats alive today and the fossils of their ancestors to better understand the creatures, he said.
Soto Centeno’s research takes him on adventures to tropical Ca-ribbean Islands, including the Baha-mas, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, according to the article.
Part of his studies involve learning how evolutionary biolo-gy, the geographical distribution between plants and animals and climate change, affect the habitats and ecosystems, according to the article. In the Caribbean islands, more mammals have gone extinct over the last 20,000 years than anywhere else on the planet.
“Although bats are resilient, on many islands the number of species has decreased by up to 50 percent over the last 1 to 4,000 years,” Soto Centeno said.
He explained that he plans on analyzing the past and research-ing the present to get a better vi-sion of the future.
Soto Centeno said that al-though most people might not think about the study of bats as important, the species are a cru-cial part of the food-chain system and their extinction would notably impact the ecosystem.
“Bats have a very diverse diet,” he said.
Beyond eating insects, provid-ing a natural pest control and pre-venting agricultural threats, bats pollinate mangoes and bananas and are the sole pollinators of the agave plant, which is used in the production of tequila, according to the article.
“Bats get a bad rap, most-ly because they are secretive creatures,” Soto Centeno said. “Humans are afraid of things un-known and because bats live in places that are feared, like caves, they are often seen as unworthy, bad animals that carry disease.”
Soto Centeno spends sever-al hours everyday on bat hunts,
Angelo Soto Centeno, an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Rutgers—Newark, studies bats in the Caribbean islands. RUTGERS.EDU
STRIKEScaramucci was White House communications director last summer for 11 days
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ELEVEN DAYS IN THE WHITE HOUSE
In regard to President Donald J. Trump’s decision to launch missile strikes, he said the use of chemical weapons has long been a red line countries do not look to cross.
“(Trump) doesn’t necessarily want to get involved in their civil war. He’s not a neoconservative interventionist, but he doesn’t want innocent children being gassed by their political leader-ship,” Scaramucci said.
Like a domino effect, the fall-out of events such as this has an impact on the possible rise of dic-tatorships, loss of life and liberty, he said. As the fulcrum surround-ing Israel, Scaramucci said Jew-ish people are the first domino to fall if anti-Semitism is allowed to thrive and will just as easily affect other nations around the world.
“You can’t gas innocent people and watch them choke and die on chlorine. And so the president hit them, he hit them surgically, he dismantled some of their capabil-ity, and by the way, I’ll speak very candidly, the effort was done in a way to avoid the Russian troops who don’t want World War III over this. But we do want to send the message that we don’t want inno-cent people killed,” he said.
Scaramucci responded to a question regarding the Israel- Palestine conflict with an assess-ment of the land, which he said should stay in the hands of the Jewish people in order to secure their survival. He added that it is one of the reasons why Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem, in order to “take that off the table.”
He is a proponent of a one-state solution, one in which Jew-ish people and Palestinians retain their legal and political character
as separate nations, and suggests a strategy that protects statehood above all else.
When asked what he would do differently as a college student in light of current social issues, he said he would pay more attention to the politicians who affect the small and large pieces of a per-son’s life and would be a more active player in the systems that control subsidies on the money he was motivated to earn early on.
“If you stay with it on the down-turn, if you stay with it and opti-mistic you’ll catch the upcycle again, but you’ve got to stay in it. Don’t leave it, be persistent, be passionate and pick something you really love doing and it’ll be really easy to do that,” he said.
SCARAMUCCI RECEIVES AWARD
In a surprise announcement, Scaramucci was awarded a pho-to album keepsake as a gift from the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce.
“This gift on behalf of YAD VASHEM, which came from them on their own good will to Antho-ny, demonstrates how much his visit impacted all Holocaust sur-vivors through the recognition and understanding which Antho-ny generated about the Holocaust and the 6,000,000 Jews destroyed in the name of hate,” said Duvi Honig, founder and CEO of the Orthodox Jewish Chamber Of Commerce in an email to The Daily Targum.
This story has been cut for con-cision. Read the full article at The Daily Targum website.
from the morning to often times, past midnight. He said he under-stands the fear of the unknown, but regardless, he still immerses himself in exotic locations that this field requires him to trek, such as caves and dense forests.
He and his team take on the ad-ventures of the world most people deem dangerous, according to the article. They leave the comfort of their homes and face mosquitos,
extreme weather conditions, poi-sonous plants and venomous ani-mals all for the love of research, and to him, it is all worth it.
He said that when he first re-ceived his doctoral degree in biology, his family was so proud because no one in his family had ever achieved that level of educa-tion before.
Their excitement was quickly eclipsed with confusion, he said —
they did not understand his work. They could not comprehend why a person with a doctorate degree in biology would be studying bats instead of people and the health of the population.
“They refer to me as Indiana Jones,” he said. “To them I might not be taking care of people but I have amazing adventures and in-spire other people. That’s enough for me.”
After receiving a photo album keepsake gift, the Chabad House speaker posed for a group photo. COURTESY OF MORRIS ANTEBI
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I n most editions of this column, I have taken extensive lengths to highlight some problem regarding the public health and show readers why both policy and leadership are failing to properly
address the needs of the people affected by the problem. For this edi-tion, I would like to take the time to discuss a new frontier that may actually be a policy move in the right direction and highlights how the changing of the guard in the United States’ two-party system can create net benefits to the public health and the needs of the vulnerable.
Through Executive Order 6 (EO 6), Gov. Phil Murphy (D-N.J.) has be-gun efforts to revamp and expand the state’s medical marijuana program. In doing so, Murphy has stated that, “We are changing the restrictive cul-ture of our medical marijuana program to make it more patient-friendly,” signaling dramatic departures from former Gov. Chris Christie’s (R-N.J.) approach to marijuana as a therapeutic technology. It is no secret that upon Murphy’s inauguration New Jersey would be in for reforms to marijuana across the board, with his campaign touting goals of a total legalization bill possibly within one year, and the establishment of a new $1.3 billion indus-try in the Garden State. EO 6 directs the New Jersey Department of Health to conduct a 60-day review of the state’s medical marijuana program, with stated intentions to expand the list of conditions eligible for medical mar-ijuana treatment, improve patient engagement through a digital portal to manage prescriptions as well as instate a multitude of regulatory changes that would streamline accessibility to marijuana for patients, allow doctors to make prescriptions more easily and allow existing businesses to expand, while increasing support for new medical marijuana businesses. The Mur-phy administration’s report on EO 6 delineates policy reforms from the patient, Alternate Treatment Center (ATC) and physician perspectives, and intends to engage all stakeholders as the legislative agenda is enacted across the beginning of Murphy’s tenure as governor.
New Jersey’s medical marijuana program was enacted in 2010, but only five dispensaries have opened across the entire state, creating access for just more than 18,000 patients as of 2018, which is far small-er than comparably populated states. Murphy has drawn contrast to Michigan’s medical marijuana program, which has created access for
218,000 people in a similar time frame. Murphy’s new health commis-sioner, Dr. Shereef Elnahal, has been a vocal supporter of expanding marijuana accessibility from his firsthand experience with treating pa-tients suffering from cancer and chronic pain. Under Elnahal, a new staff of leadership includes an assistant commissioner for medical mar-ijuana, Jeffrey A. Brown, to oversee the development of the program.
In a 2018 report from the non-profit group Americans for Safe Access called “Medical Marijuana Access in the United States: A Patient-Focused Analysis of the Patchwork of State Laws,” New Jersey’s current medical marijuana laws and regulations were given an overall “C” grade at 76 per-cent, compared to the highest “B+” score given to California at 89.55 per-cent. Grading is issued according to categories of patients’ rights and civil protections, access to medicine, ease of navigating the medical marijuana system, functionality of the system and consumer safety and provider re-quirements. Although Americans for Safe Access commends the reforms put forward by the Murphy administration, it points out significant flaws in the existing system, particularly in the way of patients’ rights and civil protections. Under the current New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act, medical marijuana patients are not protected from being terminated by employers for using their prescribed medicine, being evict-ed by landlords for using marijuana at home or from being discriminated against in receiving an organ transplant. The report recommends re-forms in all the aforementioned areas, as well as advocates for expansion of production and supplies for medical marijuana products.
Murphy’s stated goal is to fully legalize marijuana for recreational use within his first year of office, operating as the backbone for the gover-nor’s entire economic legislative agenda. Through the increased reve-nue produced by marijuana sales, Murphy has stated interest in funding schools, fulfilling obligations to government worker pensions, creating free community college and raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour. Expanding a more compassionate medical marijuana program is a good step in the right direction, but the Murphy administration must be vigi-lant in filling in the gaps that produce injustice across the medical mari-juana system. Additional efforts to leverage total marijuana legalization as a means of reducing mass incarceration, expanding social justice and reducing inequality are promising, but only time will tell if Murphy can successfully use Trenton’s bully pulpit to build a fairer New Jersey.
Jake Wasserman is an Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Pub-lic Policy senior majoring in public health with a minor in cognitive sci-ence. His column, “A Healthy Dose of Justice,” runs on alternate Tuesdays.
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Rutgers is on upward trajectory
U niversity President Robert L. Barchi commended the University for its ongo-ing growth at the Board of Governors
meeting last week. In recent years there has been a marked increase in new student applications — since last year we are up 7.3 percent at New Brunswick and 9.3 percent for all three campus-es together. The number of out-of-state students coming to Rutgers is also continuing to steadily increase. To boot, Rutgers has an extremely high retention rate of more than 90 percent. This prog-ress is likely at least a partial result of the work Rutgers has been putting into spreading and mar-keting the school’s brand across the country. Of course cross-coun-try marketing re-quires the allo-cation of a most likely hefty sum of money — which many members of the Rutgers com-munity probably believe should be spent elsewhere. That being said, it seems the benefits that likely entail the spending of that money make it worthwhile.
In addition to the ongoing Rutgers brand mar-keting campaign, the University also spends 2 percent of its budget on athletics. In addition to that 2 percent, there is also a certain amount of money granted to us through the revenue stream of the Big Ten — $16.1 million in 2017, and only increasing — as well as money received through general donations. Once Rutgers is a full member of the Big Ten, it is hoped that the athletics de-partment will be self-sustaining, in which case the University will be able to allocate that part of its budget to other pressing matters. The money go-ing toward athletics right now, though, is worth it because our teams essentially work as walking — or playing — advertisements in themselves. This year, for example, Rutgers put on a pretty decent show in the Big Ten Conference Men’s Basketball
Tournament and undoubtedly drew attention to the school. When potential out-of-state students see and hear about Rutgers, it makes them more likely to want to apply here — which they have been at increasing rates. Sports can have a huge impact on the trajectory of our school, so while it may look foolish to invest so much time and ener-gy into them on the face, the long-term results are most definitely worth it. This is obvious when one looks at schools like the University of Michigan and Penn State.
Of course the larger the applicant pool, the more options we have and therefore the more selective the admissions department can be — this is im-
portant. But there is more to it than just selectivity. A larg-er applicant pool means more appli-cations from not only everywhere in the United States, but even the world. This means that these school mar-keting strategies are not only work-ing to bring the best of the best to Rut-
gers, but will help increase the diversity of world-view and perspective that we cherish.
Though a larger applicant pool may result in less in-state students being accepted, it can be argued that increased selectivity is generally good — not only for Rutgers’ future students, but for those of us who are presently here or are recent graduates in search of a job. Being a student at or a graduate of an elite school can obviously go a long way, and having fellow alumni all over the world is clearly op-timal for networking.
In the end, Rutgers’ marketing strategies will ben-efit not only Rutgers, but New Jersey. We cannot forget that Rutgers represents the cutting edge of academics and research in New Jersey — we should want what is best for our state university the same way we want what is best for our state, that being growth and progress.
Money being allocated toward spreading our name is worth it
“... these school marketing strategies are not only working to bring the best of the best to Rutgers, but will help increase the
diversity of worldview and perspective that we cherish.”
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Starbucks incident shows current lack of social equality
P icture this. The year is 2018. Barack Obama, a Black man, was our last president. The Black
Lives Matter movement is bigger than before. And the simple idea of racism is deemed antiquated and socially inappro-priate. And yet it still exists. In fact, you do not need to close your eyes to imagine this. Simply open your eyes and observe the ev-eryday interactions around you, because racial prejudice is still very much alive re-gardless of the progressive steps taken to attempt its abolishment.
On April 12, two Black men were ar-rested at a Starbucks in Philadelphia. The men were at the cafe waiting for a meeting with a real estate developer for potential business but wanted to use the bathroom without the purchase of a store item. The store manager saw them and told them to leave but they refused, so the manager called 911 for assistance. At least six police officers showed up and asked the men to go elsewhere. By this time, the other customers realized some-thing was amiss and began recording the events, thus providing footage of the al-tercation. In the video, the customers are heard telling the officers that the men have done nothing wrong and are victims
of the store’s and police’s discrimination but the officers paid no mind to these comments. One of the customers advises the men to leave, as it was becoming ap-parent that the police were being unfair. The officers said it was too late since the men did not comply the first time the offi-cers told them to move and said they are no longer “free people” and instead they moved the chairs aside and told the men that they were under arrest. The men, who are not identified, were then taken to the police station to be photographed and
fingerprinted and were in fact kept there for 8 hours before they were let go as the district attorney could find no evidence of an actual felony.
The video of the men getting arrested has sparked a lot of fierce criticism of the Starbucks franchise with many attempting to boycott the chain completely. Due to the backlash, the Starbucks CEO, Kevin John-son, publicly apologized three times for the actions of his employees as he said that they are not reflective of the store’s ideolo-gy. He plans on flying from Seattle to Philly
to personally apologize to the men, request-ing for a face-to-face meeting with the men, who have agreed to it. Protests are still taking place outside the location of the inci-dent and this may be the reason why John-son publicly apologized immediately.
Many people use the restrooms at stores regardless of a made purchase or not. In Philly, there are high rates of home-less people and they use the restrooms a lot without even having intentions of mak-ing a purchase, and yet are not called out for doing so. All I can do is applaud the
wrongly accused men of their courage and conviction for standing up for them-selves — praise them for challenging the ideas set in place by an unfair system. I am impressed with the poise both of them showed in the situation as many people of color fear the police, and it is not hard to when police are supposed to be there for the people, protecting them from crimes and violence. It is easy to forget that they are supposed to be the “good guys” that reinforce rules and regulations. This ide-ology has been challenged a lot recently
due to recent instances of unfair police treatment and Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and Jordan Edwards are only a few of the many victims of this mistreatment. Being a per-son of color, it is hard hearing about your people being killed, being discriminated against, being marginalized again and again. Thus I have to commend the men at Starbucks for putting their fears, racing heartbeats and ringing alarm bells aside to calmly stand up to the discrimination they were facing. They did not resist arrest and completely complied with the officers at the police station even though they were publicly humiliated.
This incident was very eye opening because it not only showed systematic oppression through the actions of the store manager and the police but also showed the support the customers had for the wrongly-accused men. Several customers spoke up for the men and many protested outside the store, show-ing that people today recognize the mis-treatments faced by person of color and are making ef forts to right the wrongs. Incidents like this are tragic but can be prevented by being aware and accepting the concept of social equality and taking action to address the inequalities.
Harleen Singh is a School of Arts and Sci-ences sophomore majoring in cell biology and neuroscience. Her column, “Got Rights?”, runs on alternate Tuesdays.
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support the customers had for the wrongly-accused men.”
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Get head start on summer reading with new April releasesALMIER MCCOY
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The last thing on a college student’s mind might be picking up another book. Knowledge is power, though, so why not start a list of potential books for your summer reading now? Check out this list of great reads that have al-ready been or are being released this month.
“DRED NATION” BY JUSTINA IRELAND
Dred Nation is a story that follows Jane, who was born two years before the dead rises during the Civil War. In the novel, the Native and Negro Reeduca-tion Act requires children to train and fight in combat against the dead, but Jane has other plans. This fictional spin on the Ameri-can history that is taught in grade school is the perfect end of the semester read.
A regular on The New York TImes bestseller’s list, Meg Wolitzer recently released “The Female Persuasion,” a novel that follows a college student’s feminist journey. INSTAGRAM
“AMERICA IS NOT THE HEART” BY ELAINE CASTILLO
Castillo is a California native, so it makes sense that her debut nov-el takes place in her hometown. The story follows Hero De Vera, a young woman who returns to the
Bay Area to live with her aunt and uncle after returning from polit-ical prison in the Philippines. Set during the 80s, Hero De Vera must adapt to life outside of prison. This story follows not only her journey trying to figure out who she is, but
also the perspectives of her family on her newfound freedom.
“THE FEMALE PERSUASION” BY MEG WOLITZER
In her latest release, Wolitzer, a repeat New York Times best-selling author, writes a story about college first-year student, Greer Kadetsky, who meets an older woman who is involved in a women’s movement, and how she steered her onto the right path toward finding her ultimate fulfill-ment. The novel also talks about feminist issues specifically on how second-wave feminism struggled to adopt intersectionality.
“THE RECOVERING: INTOXICATION AND ITS
AFTERMATH” BY LESLIE JAMISON
Author of the New York Times bestseller “The Empathy Exams,” Jamison is a recovering alcoholic who reminisces about her 20s and
how she would resort to drinking in order to block out insecurities about herself and her relation-ships, according to her website. “The Recovering” is based on her experiences with this disease, and also includes the history of recov-ery and addiction literature by great writers and other alcoholics who inspired her when she was a young writer, according to Vogue.
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When life gives you lemons, put them in your water. Why? Because
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While it is common to add a few squeezes (or for more fun and col-or, slices) of lemon to your water, rev it up with raspberries. The sweet, little fruits make for more than a delicious treat at the bot-tom of your glass. They will save you from the sniffles as they boost your immunity, they are packed with Vitamin C, they boost vision acuity and keep your skin supple. So double up on the health bene-fits by enhancing your water with this summery, vibrant duo: lem-ons and raspberries. Try out this recipe, as found on Shape.com.
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Happy Birthday: Your changing attitude will confuse the people around you. Before discussing plans that may or may not unfold, you’d be wise to do more research. Organization and planning will make a difference in what you accomplish this year. Don’t underestimate someone waiting to take ad-vantage of you. Listen carefully and plan your actions with detail and preci-sion. Your numbers are 4, 11, 14, 20, 28, 37, 43.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t disregard what others do or say. Size up your situation and consider your options. Learn from past mistakes and leave no room for error. If you want something, be willing to work for it. Know your boundaries and limitations. 3 stars
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Op-portunity knocks. Don’t sit back when you should be doing every-thing in your power to get things done. Take a unique path if it will result in higher returns. Open up to someone you love to improve your relationship. 3 stars
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’ll thrive on change and taking on new challenges. Don’t underestimate the extent of a job, or you may end up falling short of the expectations you set. You are better off doing less and adding more details. 3 stars
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your generosity will send a message to someone special. Nurture relation-ships and make plans that will bring you closer to the people you enjoy being around most. Opportunities to expand your family or circle of friends look promising. 4 stars
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Don’t leave anything to chance when it comes to work and money. A responsible attitude will help you bring about changes that will make you look good. A personal incident should not be al-lowed to hinder your efficiency. 2 stars
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Business trips, educational pursuits and net-working functions are favored. Your involvement will help you figure out the latest trends and set new goals that will help you keep up with technolo-gy or research in your chosen field. A partnership will intrigue you. 5 stars
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Look for opportunities that will encour-age you to take on a new challenge or pick up skills that fit the current economic trends. Take care of per-sonal money and domestic matters that can affect your lifestyle or an important relationship. 3 stars
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Ex-amine alternative ways to deal with matters that put you in charge of other people’s affairs. A creative ap-proach to your relationship with an older family member will help you avoid cleaning up a messy situation. Discuss family matters openly. 3 stars
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Put more into your job and how you earn your living. Look for a way to make your money stretch and to use your space to create a less extravagant lifestyle. Adopt changes that promote a healthier environment. 3 stars
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Stick close to immediate family, and be careful when dealing with outsid-ers. You’ll be given poor information or limited support and should be prepared to do your own research. Opportunity comes to those who are willing to do the legwork. 5 stars
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Emotional troubles will surface when dealing with peers, a friend or relative. Choose your gestures care-fully, or someone will misinterpret the signal you are trying to send. You don’t want to be accused of a slight you never intended. 2 stars
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Memories will encourage you to at-tend a reunion or to connect with someone you haven’t seen in ages. A personal contract can be adjusted or updated to better suit your cur-rent situation. 4 stars
Horoscopes Eugenia Last
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Over The Hedge T. Lewis and M. Fry
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Solution
ACROSS
1 Unit of capacitance
6 Hockey success
10 Potted meat brand
14 Primo
15 Choir section
16 Jason’s fabled ship
17 Song you want now
20 German prison camp
21 Certain sword
22 Compete
23 Related item
25 Gets lost in the moment
27 Carry-all
30 Neither go-with
31 Recipe segment
32 ___ mater
34 Tardy
36 Stir up, as a fire
40 Lose-lose inquiries
43 Casual material
44 Word for the divisive?
45 Car-dismantling “shop”
46 Drops back
48 Use one leg
50 Pig’s digs
51 Dose container
54 ___ four (little cake)
56 Sequel number
57 Dexterity
59 Funeral vehicle
63 What you dare not exceed
66 Send forth
67 Tweak some strings?
68 Film Superman
69 Stamping tools
70 “Come Sail Away” rockers
71 City near Frankfurt
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1 Government agents
2 Landed safely
3 Baltic capital
4 Slanted
5 Keep in custody
6 Guy’s companion
7 Like days in the past
8 Resting above
9 Like a limbo winner
10 Erie Canal mule
11 City in Utah
12 Once more
13 Ways, as of transportation
18 From ancient times
19 Least 18-Down
24 Iranians’ neighbors
26 Type of lens or nerve
27 Lacking hair
28 Cosmetics ingredient
29 FBI guy
31 Churn inside
33 Gallic farewell
35 Wine cask
37 Amazed utterances
38 Gordian, for one
39 Notice out there
41 Distinctive badge
42 Make calm
47 Nice ones of old slang
49 South Dakota capital
51 Steadied a weapon
52 Florida city
53 Type of dust
54 Spring bloomer
55 Fanciful stories
58 Indecent material
60 Lobsters’ corals
61 Use a piggy bank
62 Famous garden
64 “___ about time!”
65 Bug or rile
Yesterday’s Solution
Universal Crossword
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Knights suffer 1st sweep since last season, end 6-series winning streak
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Senior designated hitter Milo Freeman hit his first home run of the season in game one of Illinois’ sweep of Rutgers this weekend. THE DAILY TARGUM / MARCH 2018
It marked the team’s first dou-ble-digit inning since it scored 11 against Georgetown five years ago.
“We knew we had enough time (to come back) because we had eight innings to chip away at that lead,” said junior center fielder Jawuan Harris. “We’ve done it be-fore, so we just had a positive mind-set. Everyone tried to do something purposeful when they came up, and we were able to put up 10 runs.”
That fourth inning started modestly enough, with a walk to redshirt freshman shortstop Dan DiGeorgio. But, the wheels start-ed to turn when junior catcher Nick Matera and fifth-year senior infielder Chris Folinusz both sin-gled to load the bases. Harris hit a sacrifice fly to score the first run, and junior third baseman Carmen Sclafani followed with an RBI double.
When senior designated hit-ter Milo Freeman struck out one batter later, the Knights had two outs in the inning and were still down by 7. Even with the odds against them, they kept the rally going.
Sophomore Kevin Welsh hit a 2-run double and came around to score on an error. Junior right fielder Luke Bowerbank stole home to cut the lead to 2 and Har-ris eventually hit a 3-run double to make it 10-9 in Rutgers’ favor.
Freeman would hit his first home run of the season an inning later to increase the lead to 2, but Illinois answered with 3 runs an inning later to take the lead. The Knights tied it in the seventh, and the Illini scored the decisive run in the eighth before retiring Rut-gers in order in the ninth.
Despite the loss, head coach Joe Litterio praised his team for overcoming a big deficit.
“We went down 9-0 right out of the gate, and it was still 9-0 after three full innings,” he said. “And yet we were able to end the fourth inning with the lead. I’m very proud of the way they responded. They didn’t collapse and fought back hard. It was a tough loss, but I was proud of how they hung in there and battled.”
The next day’s game had a much lower score, but it was still the same outcome for the Knights, losing the game 2-1.
Freshman pitcher Harry Rut-kowski pitched six innings, strik-ing out six and leaving nine run-ners on base, but only got 1 run of support for the second outing in a row.
“I don’t think (low run sup-port) gives me pressure,” Rut-kowski said. “It gives me an incentive to try not give up any runs and give the team the best chance to win. Still, it would have been nice if they put up more runs early.”
Rutgers had some opportuni-ties to score, like when they had runners on second and third in the fourth, but was unable to break through like it did the pre-vious day.
It finally cut the deficit to 1 in the seventh, but stranded the tying run on second base. The team would go hitless in the fi-nal two innings, guaranteeing the series loss.
Illinois completed the sweep on Sunday with a 10-4 victory, giving the Knights a season-high three-game losing streak.
Rutgers struck in the first on a double from Matera, while soph-omore pitcher Eric Reardon held the Illini scoreless through two innings. It wouldn’t last though,
as Illinois took the lead on a grand slam in the third, and added 3 more runs in the frame to take a 7-1 advantage.
The Knights got 3 back on se-nior designated hitter Kyle Walk-er’s first home run of the year, but were scoreless for the rest of the game. The Illini scored 3 more in the fifth to bring their lead back to 6, where it stayed for the remain-der of the game.
Rutgers now faces in-state ri-val Monmouth (12-19, 6-3) today, their first Tuesday game in over a month. The Hawks are com-ing off a doubleheader sweep of Maine and Sacred Heart on Saturday, and have a chance to push the Knights’ losing streak to four.
“They’re a good team, they’re ran by a very good coach who’s been there a long time,” Litter-io said Sunday night. “We got to play a good game to beat them, and can’t take them lightly by any means (sic).”
A busy schedule means the Knights will keep at it and try to put their first sweep of the season behind them.
“If we keep hitting and play-ing defense I think we’ll be fine,” Harris said. “I don’t think it’s any-thing to worry about, and we’ll bounce back and get a couple wins this week.”
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Hall takes multiple moves up program record books in doubleheader losses
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Senior first baseman Rebecca Hall is tied for second all-time in doubles and is third all-time in RBI’s in Rutgers program history. DANIEL MORREALE / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / APRIL 2018
But after going up 1-0, the Wolverines answered with a grand slam in the bottom half of the first inning off of sophomore starter Cambria Keefer. She last-ed just two innings in this one, allowing 6 runs on six hits and four walks. With the loss Keefer moves to 5-8 on the season from the circle.
The Knights’ only other hit in the game came from fresh-man second baseman Myah Moy. Freshman reliever Taryn Collins came in after Keefer was pulled and pitched the remain-der of the game, giving up 5 runs on five hits.
In game two of the double-header, Rutgers put out junior pitcher Whitney Jones, while Michigan countered with the sec-ond ace on its staff, Tera Blanco.
Jones lasted four innings for the Knights, allowing 6 runs on nine hits and four walks, on the way to a 9-2 Wolverine victory. With the loss, her record moves to 8-11 on the season.
Blanco pitched six innings of work for Michigan, allowing 2 runs on five hits, while striking out three. Blanco picked up the win on the day, improving her re-cord to 8-2.
Sophomore right fielder Ni-cole Bowman broke up the shut-out in the fourth inning with an RBI single that scored Hoklotub-be. Junior shortstop Jess Hughes had the second and final RBI for Rutgers in the fifth inning, with a single that scored sophomore Anyssa Iliopoulos.
Looking ahead for Rutgers (17-21), it will take on Mary-land (16-27) on Tuesday in a doubleheader. The games will
FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK ASH HAS LONG SUMMER AHEAD OF HIM IN DECIDING HIS STARTER
Quarterback group highlights annual spring gameCOBY GREEN
ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
With the annual Scarlet-White game in the books and the Rut-gers football team’s offseason now in an interesting but familiar spot, head coach Chris Ash and his coaching staff have a lot of work to do this summer in hopes of competing this fall.
After ending the game tied at 132, there were certainly points on both sides of the ball that needed to be addressed and will need to be once summer training commences.
But, none were more glaring than the quarterback carousel, which appears to be a likely sprint to the finish line. Although Ash put out all six of the quarterbacks on the roster, he really sees the spot at the top of the depth chart as a three-man race.
“It’s three guys that are com-peting with the 1’s, between Gio, Art and Jonathan Lewis,” Ash said. “All three of those guys have gotten the reps with the 1’s here this spring.”
Here are four observations of the quarterbacks that stood out at the Scarlet-White game.
SITKOWSKI HAS THE ARM TO REALLY
THROW THE FOOTBALLYou couldn’t have drawn up a
better sequence between fresh-man Artur Sitkowski and soph-omore wide receiver Bo Melton, on a throw that turned into a 75-yard touchdown.
Sitkowski, who left high school early to join the Scarlet Knights for spring practices, put on a show in his debut in front of fans at High Point Solutions Sta-dium on Saturday. The 75-yard connection to Melton was 1 of 3 on the day between the two, in what may have been a preview for the fall. Sitkowski finished the game with 11 completions on 24 attempts, good for 280 yards and the 3 touchdowns to Melton.
It was a shocking display for someone who should still be in high school, and to do so his first
time in front of thousands of fans? Mind-boggling. But, Sitkowski did show that he is still raw and has some maturing to do, as he threw two sloppy interceptions that instead could have just been taken for sacks — Sitkowski was also sacked three times on the day, the most of any quarterback.
LEWIS LOOKS LIKE HE NEEDS MORE TIME
Already familiar with the Rut-gers faithful after putting in time on the field last season, you would have expected to see a bit more out of sophomore Johnathan Lew-is. While Ash cited Lewis as 1 of 3 guys being looked at as top
choices for starting quarterback come September, Lewis was giv-en significantly less time on the field than Sitkowski and fifth-year senior Giovanni Rescigno.
Lewis went 4-for-10 for 19 yards. Throwing 40 percent from the field in a scrimmage does not look promising for some-one who, according to his head coach, has the potential to start for a Big Ten school. Last sea-son, Lewis showed promise, but still looked like he needed some more “fine tuning.” Appearing in seven games, Lewis completed just 37 percent of his passes for 167 yards and 2 touchdowns. He will need to improve significantly
this summer if he hopes to hear his number called first in the fall.
FLACCO HAS SOME WHEELS ON HIS FEET
Someone who is both under the radar on the team but one of the bigger names off of it, junior quar-terback Tom Flacco made his de-but in front of the Knights’ faithful on Saturday as well, after transfer-ring from Western Michigan in the summer and being ineligible to play last season due to NCAA transfer regulation rules. Flacco is also the younger brother of Baltimore Ra-vens quarterback and Super Bowl XLVII MVP Joe Flacco. So, you could say the pressure is on for him.
Flacco put on a show for the fans on Saturday, going 8-for-10 for 73 yards — albeit with an in-terception in the mix. But it wasn’t Flacco’s arm that stole the show, it was his legs. When he wasn’t set to throw the ball, he was running with it.
Flacco led the team in rushing on the day — if you don’t include four-year-old Mordechai Carthy’s program record 93-yard rushing touchdown to tie the game for the Scarlet side in the waning seconds of the game. Flacco ran four times for 25 yards, most no-tably an 18-yard run that resulted in a touchdown.
Although his name wasn’t mentioned by Ash as a potential guy to lead the team just yet, he certainly put in the work and ef-fort to, at the very least, make a case for himself.
RESCIGNO WILL PROBABLY BE THE STARTER ON SEPT. 1
At the end of the day, you have a fifth-year senior in Gio Rescigno who has been with the team the longest, got a lot of reps on Sat-urday and produced well at the same time. Rescigno knows the system and seems most likely to be named the starter by Ash during summer training.
Rescigno went 9-for-19 for 87 yards on Saturday, a solid perfor-mance that almost seemed like a formality for the quarterback. He started the most games of any quarterback last season (seven) while throwing just one intercep-tion over the span of nine games.
He ended the season going 47-for-100 for 517 yards and 2 touch-downs. Not staggering numbers by any means, but between him and Lewis coming back from last season, and Flacco and Sitkowski still too raw to start as of spring practices, we will have to see how the summer goes. But, Rescigno looks destined to be the starting quarterback for Rutgers this fall.
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be away from Piscataway in Col-lege Park.
The Terrapins rank 153 in RPI, while the Knights rank 112. This should be a good bounce back series for Rutgers, as it lost its last six games dating back to April 1. The Knights have also played two consecutive ranked Big Ten opponents in series’.
Maryland hits a lowly .234 as a team, while allowing op-ponents to hit .290 off of them. The team ERA isn’t that great either, with a combined staf f number of 4.38, while allowing opposing pitchers an ERA of 1.91 against them.
The games will be nationally televised on the Big Ten Network starting at 5 p.m. on Tuesday. Rutgers will likely throw its top two pitchers in Keefer (5-8, 4.20 ERA) and Jones (8-11, 4.04 ERA). Look for the Terrapins to count-er with Ryan Denhart (8-12, 3.44 ERA) and Sydney Golden (8-13, 4.26 ERA).
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Junior quarterback Tom Flacco led Rutgers in rushing on Saturday, running for 25 yards, while also scoring the lone rushing touchdown of the day. DECLAN INTINDOLA / PHOTO EDITOR / APRIL 2018
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“We knew we had enough time (to come back) because we had eight
innings to chip away at that lead.”
— Junior center fielder Jawuan HarrisSPORTSTUESDAY, APRIL 17, 2018 ONLINE AT DAILYTARGUM.COMRUTGERS UNIVERSITY—NEW BRUNSWICK
EXTRA POINT KNIGHTS SCHEDULE
BASEBALL NO. 18 ILLINOIS 10, RUTGERS 4
SOFTBALL NO. 17 MICHIGAN 9, RUTGERS 2
Knights skid at 6 after loss to Wolverines
Rutgers gets swept for 1st time this season
SEE LOSS ON PAGE 11
SEE SEASON ON PAGE 10Junior center fielder Jawuan Harris was a part of the Rutgers group that sparked a 10-run fourth inning over the weekend, but it wasn’t enough, as the Knights would lose the game 13-12 to the Fighting Illini. CASEY AMBROSIO / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / MARCH 2018
Freshman second baseman Myah Moy had 1 of the 2 hits that Rutgers had in game one against Michigan this past weekend. The Knights lost both games by a combined score of 20-3. DANIEL MORREALE / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / APRIL 2018
CASEY ROSE,junior midfielder on the men’s lacrosse team, had 4 points for Rutgers in its near comeback loss to No. 1 Maryland on Sunday. Rose scored 2 goals and dished out two assists, but the Knights gave up a lead in the final minutes and ultimately lost.
TRACK AND FIELD
Virginia Relays
Friday, All Day,Charlottesville, Va.
JORDAN FARBOWITZCORRESPONDENT
The Rutgers baseball team came into its second series against a top-25 team this season looking for results. The team cer-tainly got results, but they weren’t the ones it wanted.
The Scarlet Knights (18-14, 4-5) suffered their first sweep of the season at the hands of No. 18 Illinois (23-8, 9-3) this weekend. It was the first series loss since losing 2 of 3 to then-No. 9 Miami to open the season back in February, and their first sweep since their season-ending series against Northwestern last year.
The sweep wasn’t without its high points, and there were fireworks from the very beginning. The series started of f with a bang on Friday night, in a back-and-forth af fair that saw Rutgers pull a massive comeback, only to fall short in the end, 13-12.
The Fighting Illini put the Knights on the ropes early, scoring 9 runs in the bot-tom of the first and seemingly putting the game out of reach. But fighting back from adversity is nothing new to Rutgers this sea-son, as it responded with 10 runs of its own in the fourth to take an improbable lead.
MATTHEW HOWESTAFF WRITER
Last weekend, the Rutgers softball team traveled to Ann Arbor to take on No. 17 Michigan in a three-game series. Due to rain on Sunday, the Scarlet Knights were only able to play the Wolverines in a doublehead-er on Friday.
In game one of the doubleheader, Mich-igan threw out its ace, freshman Meghan Beaubien, who pitched a complete game (5 innings) two hitter, allowing Rutgers to score only once, while striking out seven, en route to an 11-1 mercy rule win. Beaubien’s 25th win of the season leads the nation in individu-al pitching wins.
The Knights scored first in the game, thanks to an RBI double from senior first baseman Rebecca Hall in the top of the first inning, which scored sophomore left fielder Hailey Hoklotubbe.
Hall’s double gave her 46 career doubles as a Knight, tying her for second all-time in program history. With the RBI, Hall sits at 135 for her career, which gives her posses-sion of third place all-time in Rutgers pro-gram history.
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NY MetsWashington
AtlantaPhiladelphia
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ColoradoPittsburgh
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TENNIS
vs. Purdue
Friday, Noon,Piscataway, N.J.
SOFTBALL
at Maryland
Today, 5 p.m.,College Park, Md..
BASEBALL
at Monmouth
Today, 3 p.m.,West Long Branch, N.J.