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Julia Van Etten was first inspired to photograph her microorganism samples under a microscope by her marine biology classes in college, in which she would collect different types of plankton and observe them. JULIA VAN ETTEN
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Julia Van Etten, a graduate student in the Department of Ecology Evolu-tion and Natural Resources, has al-ways been interested in the unusual.
Van Etten has recently gone viral due to her Instagram page, @couch_microscopy, which shows close-up photographs of different microorgan-isms found in bodies of water. The ac-count has garnered more than 18,000 followers within a year and a half.
“I was just taking some photos, and thought they were pretty cool ... I don’t know, I just made it one day,” she said. “I didn’t think anyone was going to follow me other than my
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friends, and then people just started following me. It was insane.”
She started the Instagram page out of boredom when she was stuck at home and recovering from Lyme disease. Though she majored in ma-rine biology, Van Etten has always been artistic, so she spent her time painting at home before moving on to something else.
Inspired by her marine biology classes in college, in which she would collect different types of plankton for observation under a microscope, Van Etten decided to purchase a microscope to use in her home. She then collected water
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Konstantin Severinov, a principle investigator at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology and professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers—New Brunswick, will be able to provide different adaptations of the enzyme McbBCD. RUTGERS.EDU
U. scientists work with international partners to solve enzyme mystery
ANNIE KIMCONTRIBUTING WRITER
In an international collaboration with universities in Poland, Russia and England, Rutgers scientists solved a 30-year mystery of a specif-ic enzyme’s molecular machinery in producing an important antibody, which is a key protein used by the immune system to fight off bacteria.
Enzymes are a type of protein, and their primary role is to speed up
chemical reactions within the body. Konstantin Severinov, a principal investigator at the Waksman Insti-tute of Microbiology and professor of Molecular Biology and Biochem-istry at Rutgers—New Brunswick, studied the enzyme called McbBCD, whose job is to produce an antibody called microcin B, which is specifi-cally deadly against E. coli bacteria.
The research team was able to understand both the production and complicated chemical structure of
microcin B by decoding the three-di-mensional structure of the enzyme.
This discovery of how the enzyme functions enables scientists to now pro-vide different adaptations of the anti-body, which will also help to further re-search on new antibodies in the future.
“Antibiotic resistance is becoming a major problem and, if unchecked, it may throw us back to pre-antibi-otic era when people were dying from what is now considered easily curable conditions,” Severinov said.
This discovery is important be-cause it reduces the progression of microbial resistance to antibiotics. He said a way to overcome the problem is to look for new antibiotics, but ones that are different from the ones cur-rently in use because bacteria have already acquired resistance to them.
Severinov, alongside an internation-al team, traced the enzyme’s molecu-lar machinery to understand how the antibody was being produced. After understanding the production, they were able to naturally control the pro-duction to create synthetic derivatives, or man-made imitations, of the natural antibody to increase its potency.
Though the discovery is significant, it will most likely not be used in clini-cal trials. While the understanding of
the antibody helps in the production of synthetic versions of it, Severinov said there was also the potential possi-bility that one of the newfound deriva-tives will not react as anticipated.
As a result, antibacterial mole-cules such as microcin B are unlike-ly to make it to market production due to strict regulations and re-quirements. He said the discovery was still important in uncovering the secret to the production of nat-ural antibodies.
“But this work must be done for out of an effort of hundreds of labs, every once in a while you get a hit that becomes a real drug. In fact, the story of Rutgers’ Sel-man Waksman shows this well,” he said.
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THURSDAY 1/31 Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies presents “Transmission and Indigenization of Chinese Daoist Faith in Late Choson Korea” from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Alexander Library on the Col-lege Avenue campus. This event is free and open to the public.
ArtsCONNECT program of Mid-At-lantic Arts Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts present “Audience Empower Work-shop” at 7:30 p.m. at Loree Gym-nasium on Douglass campus. This event is free and open to the public.
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Rutgers to implement new core curriculum for Fall 2019SAM LEIBOWITZ-LORD
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The incoming first-year class of the Fall 2019 semester will see a new core curriculum that includes new requirements and rules designed to make scheduling and fulfilling the core easier.
The new curriculum, which will not affect students current-ly enrolled, will make several changes to the rules and require-ments of the current Rutgers—New Brunswick core curricu-lum. The administration hopes the changes will improve student scheduling and provide a more well-rounded education.
“The process of changing the core curriculum began sev-eral years ago after faculty from the School of Arts and Sciences passed a resolution for a tem-porary committee to review the core curriculum,” said Carolyn Moehling, the associate dean for Undergraduate Education. The committee involved various par-ties on campus including students and academic advisors.
The resolution was then act-ed upon by the Core Require-ments Committee (CRC), which is composed of faculty from all the schools that follow the cur-riculum, including the School of Arts and Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, School of Management and Labor Relations, School of Communication and Information, Mason Gross School of the Arts and Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. A new core curriculum was drawn up and approved in May 2017,
Planning for a new core curriculum first began several years ago, after a resolution was passed by faculty from the School of Arts and Sciences for a temporary committee to review the current curriculum. MICA FINEHART
first for faculty and then for stu-dents in 2018.
“The goal of these changes was to make the core better serve our students, to meet the learning goals that the faculty believe are import-ant and to recognize the challenge students face in putting their sched-ules together,” Moehling said.
The approved proposal to change the curriculum, which The Daily Targum received a copy of, highlighted one of the most significant changes to the core, which is in the Contemporary Challenges Learning Goals. This requirement will be subdivided into two new requirements: “Di-
versity and Social Inequality” and “Our Common Future.” Classes that fulfill the Diversity and So-cial Inequality requirement will analyze contemporary social jus-tice issues and unbalanced social power systems. Classes that fulfill the Our Common Future require-ment will analyze the relationship
that science and technology have to a contemporary social issue.
Moehling said this particular change was pushed by student groups such as the Rutgers Uni-versity Student Assembly (RUSA) and the Coalition for Cultural Competency (CCC), both of which advocated for the core to better reflect the role of diversity and technology in society.
Other changes outlined in the approved proposal included elim-inating the Information Technol-ogy and Research requirement, as the requirement overlapped with the Discipline-Based Writing and Communication requirement. The new core will aim to make ful-filling the core easier for students by ensuring that all classes which complete the core requirements will be offered at least every other year on a regular schedule.
The new core will also include a rule that a single course can only fulfill up to two core require-ments. This was done due to the fact that faculty noticed students scrambling to get certain courses on their schedule that could fulfill multiple requirements. The new rule will better equalize the value of each core class.
Moehling said the new core did not receive significant oppo-sition, although there were con-cerns about the costly nature of changing a program as massive as the Rutgers—New Brunswick Core Curriculum.
“We’re optimistic about the changes,” said Moehling. “We understand there might be some confusion, but we’re working to minimize that. We’re confident this is a move in the right direction.”
A major change to the core is the Contemporary Challenges Learning Goals. The requirement will be subdivided into two new requirements: Diversity and Social Inequality and Our Common Future. MICA FINEHART
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Paper critiques health behaviors of children
BRENDAN BRIGHTMANSTAFF WRITER
Early childhood obesity pre-vention and intervention is needed beyond preschool edu-cation settings, a Rutgers study found, according to an article by Newswise.
The paper reviewed 34 stud-ies of obesity prevention pro-grams and policies spanning pregnancy, infancy and pre-school. According to the arti-cle, the researchers found that there is a need for culturally adapted nutrition and physical activity programs for children and their families.
“We also discovered there is little research on the cost-effec-tiveness of these programs and how much it actually costs to im-plement these prevention strate-gies,” said Sheri Volger, the lead author of the study and graduate student at the Rutgers School of Health Professionals.
Approximately 14 percent of preschool children are obese, with the highest-ranking among low-income racial and ethnic mi-nority communities, according to the article.
The study additionally found that less than half of the obesity prevention initiatives recommend-ed during pregnancy, infancy or
preschool worked at improving ap-propriate weight gain in children. The studies that did improve health behaviors, according to the article, included activities such as limiting screen time, providing alternative playtime activities and serving nu-tritious snacks at childcare centers.
“Our study took a life course approach, which takes into ac-count the important role that early life events play in shaping an individual’s future health,” Volger said.
Approximately 80 percent of the interventions examined occurred during the preschool years, with 63 percent of these conducted in early childcare ed-ucation settings. 42 percent of registered children participat-ing in programs such as Head Start or the YMCA had a signif-icant improvement in the body mass index (BMI) in children at high risk of obesity, according to the article.
“We found that programs that incorporated parental or fam-ily participation tended to be the most successful. The study reinforces the need to develop multi-level, multi-component obesity prevention (and) public health initiatives focusing on the child, family and community to obtain the largest population re-search,” Volger said.
The paper found there is little research on the cost-effectiveness of health behavior programs for children. Sheri Volger, the lead author of the study and graduate student at the Rutgers School of Health Professionals, said early life events play an important role in shaping future health. FLICKR
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STUDENTVan Etten’s Instagram account has more than 18,000 followers since its start 18 months ago
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samples from ponds, puddles and lakes around her neighborhood. She took the samples to her couch to view and photograph them.
Van Etten’s Instagram page at-tracted people from all over the world. Her followers are divid-ed among artists, students and people from miscellaneous back-grounds who happened to stum-ble upon her page.
She said the page started as a personal art project, which was a concept she tried to maintain de-spite the fact that her photos now have a substantial audience.
“I try to keep doing what I’m doing based on what’s in my head,” she said.
The only change to her content was her captions. Her first photo-graphs only included the name of the microorganism and the magni-fication she used. After receiving messages from people asking for more about the microorganisms, she started spending more time giving scientific context to the samples she was photographing.
Her account has also been a personal learning opportunity. For instance, while she knew how to identify saltwater plankton, she was unfamiliar with the freshwater
microorganisms found in ponds and lakes. She said she found a community where she could ask questions and learn more about mi-
crobiology by joining a Facebook page with other people who ob-served water samples as a hobby.
Van Etten not only learned about other scientific microorganisms, but also about the intersection between art and science. She said she did not intentionally mean to receive such a large reception for her Instagram, but realized that an important way to communicate science was by making it artistic.
“People in the general public relate to art and to aesthetical-ly pleasing things. I personally
would rather look at a pretty pic-ture and learn about it rather than read a paper,” she said.
The project has now extended to Rutgers, where Van Etten is bring-ing her microscope and artistic skills to observe algae and protists at Pas-sion Puddle on the Cook and Dou-glass campuses. She is currently working with Debashish Bhattacha-rya, a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, who also runs the Genome Cooper-ative at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.
Bhattacharya said the Genome Cooperative works with scientists around the globe to study the genet-ic makeup of a variety of organisms, including fungi, plants, bacteria and algae. As part of the project, Van Etten will train undergraduate stu-dents in basic microscope skills so that they can also post images for a separate Instagram she has created specifically for the University.
“The Instagram page presents microbial diversity that provides the fodder for basic science aimed at determining what these species are, how they live and what sorts of genes they encode in their ge-nomes to allow their lifestyle,” Bhattacharya said.
While Van Etten plans on con-tinuing work on her Instagram page, she also hopes to do out-reach in the future.
“This can be done by anyone. It can be a hobby, you could know nothing about it, pick it up as a fun thing and contribute to science,” she said.
“The Instagram page presents microbial
diversity that provides the fodder for basic science aimed at determining
what these species are.”
DEBASHISH BHATTACHARYAProfessor in the Department of Biochemis-
try and Microbiology
Julia Van Etten’s photography provides valuable information about the microorganisms at Passion Puddle on the Cook and Douglass campuses. INSTAGRAM
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Politics ought to build more on empiricism
I f you ever decide to take an introductory course in economics at this or another university, one of the first things you will learn is the difference between two basic frameworks of economic anal-
ysis. The first, called positive economics, aims to describe the world as it is. This may mean calculating the effect of a particular policy on economic growth, poverty or the federal budget deficit.
The second is normative economics, which attempts to describe the world as it should be. This could include judgments on the fairness of distribution of income, valuing social welfare or examining a potential policy with an eye toward some definition of justice.
When discussing politics, we spend an overwhelming majority of our time within the latter framework. Most people have no appetite for empirical estimates, instead applying their almost instinctual systems of values and morality to whatever issues are up for debate. While in an ideal world, voters would spend time looking at the empirical estimates of the policies and platforms they support, this is an unreasonable expectation. In fact, it may be outright irrational for people outside of the political sphere to spend their precious hours hunched over academic studies.
Nevertheless, missing the distinction between these two systems causes problems, often leaving us feeling as though we are not even discussing the same subject. Take, for instance, a recent progressive proposal to raise the top federal marginal tax rate to 70 percent on incomes more than $10 million. This elicited apocalyptic reactions from many on the Right.
Infamous anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist even compared the proposal to slavery. Others predicted it would have large negative effects on economic growth. Of course, none of these terrifying predictions were based on genuine economic modeling or good faith attempts to gauge the effects of this rate. Instead, they began from a moral opposition to the idea and expanded from there to conclude it would also be catastrophic. After all, if an idea is so morally reprehensible, it must also be an economic disaster, right?
As it turns out, the proposal will likely not have much of an impact on the broader economy, let alone meet these dire predictions. Very few people make $10 million per year, and according to the conservative think tank, Tax Foundation, even a rate this high will not significantly change how much they work. They estimate the tax would raise only a modest $20 billion per year. I am personally ambivalent on the idea, but see the utterly cartoonish rhetoric about it as a disservice to public discourse.
This example is one of many that highlights the need to separate our moral system of values from statistical truths. We may think a policy violates our definition of morality, but that should not serve as an excuse to be dishonest about its actual effects in practice. It is reasonable to think it immoral for
government to take 70 percent of each dollar earned above $10 million without believing such a tax will plunge the national economy into recession.
Unfortunately, it seems many are not secure enough in their moral beliefs to admit that many ideas they view as immoral may not be so catastrophic in their effects. According to new research from political scientist Timothy J. Ryan of the University of North Carolina, people who attach absolutist moral convictions to political issues tend to dismiss cost-benefit analyses. In other words, the more empirical issues become moral issues, the less fact-based our politics will become.
On some issues, there is no getting around long-entrenched morals. Abortion, for instance, will never become an empirical, technical debate. Stances on abortion are based in faith, which is almost by definition unfalsifiable. But for the political issues most of us confront on a day-to-day basis, this is not the case.
Why should anyone who has not examined the economic modeling of higher taxes on the wealthy have such strong opinions on what its effects would be? Why should anyone who has not studied the empirical effects of conservative proposals to cut government spending have such strong opinions on how they would affect poverty? Sure, you may have sturdy moral views on what government should or should not do, but that is a separate and distinct set of questions.
In that sense, perhaps it is best if we reduce the role of absolutist value judgments in politics and leave a little more room for evidence and data to sway our opinions. After all, if the actual results of an “immoral” policy are surprising or counterintuitive, we may find that we like the end result. But if we continue flinging absurdities at each other, not only will our debates become further detached from reality, but the governments we elect will become further paralyzed and ineffective.
Connor O’Brien is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in economics. His column, “Taming Tribalism,” runs on alternate Thursday’s.
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TAMING TRIBALISM
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Progressive taxation rightfully favored
B eneficiaries of the status quo are rarely among those who look to change it. Yet, the theft of the American Dream and the
problems that have manifested out of the concen-tration of wealth demand confrontation. In the nation that invented progressive taxation, change can be won once again.
A year has passed since the tax cut package pro-claimed to bring with it an economic boom of capi-tal investment, wage growth and job improvement, which proved to be a sham sold by false prophets. The President Donald J. Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion tax cut package appeared to have negligible impact on businesses’ capital invest-ment and hiring plans, according to recent data. The National Association of Business Economics’ (NABE) quarterly business conditions poll found that 84 percent of responding companies have not changed their practices.
Corporations, big shareholders and top-cor-porate executives strip away the majority of the gains from the tax cut, as it did not boost econom-ic growth substantially, did not result in a capital spending or U.S. manufacturing renaissance and might have contributed to limited job growth and imperceptible wage increases.
Now, as a new Congress begins its session and 2020 presidential candidates start to differentiate their platforms, a potential shift back to an ideology that drove leading American politicians to proclaim a willingness to tax the wealthy to both increase reve-nue to address rising deficits and limit an excessive concentration of economic power will occur.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has garnered continued media coverage after she had proposed a 70-percent marginal tax rate on income earned above a $10 million threshold. While some were quick to brand the proposal as radical, polling tells a different story.
“Voters support tax increases on families making more than $10 million annually by a 46-point mar-gin (70 percent favor-24 percent oppose) and sup-
port a hike on those making more than $1 million by 36 points (65-29 percent),” according to a poll by Fox News. 45 percent of Republicans support the 70-percent marginal tax rate, according to a recent HarrisX poll.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has also unveiled a proposal cutting directly toward the heart of the concentration of wealth. The proposal would impose a 2-percent annual tax on an individual household’s net worth in excess of $50 million, and an additional 1-percent tax on wealth above $1 billion.
This tax would only affect approximately 75,000 households, and yet it would raise around $2.75 trillion over the next decade, according to analysis by two of the world’s leading experts on economic inequality Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman. Polling by YouGov commissioned by Data For Progress found that 61 percent of Americans sup-port Warren’s proposal to tax the rich, including 44 percent of Republicans.
Former Republican President Dwight Eisenhower understood that taxes on the rich were a prerequisite for a nation with a deficit. “The fact is there must be balanced budgets before we are again on a safe and sound system in our economy. That means, to my mind, that we cannot afford to reduce taxes, reduce income, until we have in sight a program of expen-ditures that shows that the factors of income and of outgo will be balanced,” he said.
Deficit hawks have now awoken after lying dor-mant as the tax cut expanded the deficit. But polls have shown overwhelming public support for in-creasing, not cutting, spending on Medicare and Social Security.
We have a rich history of economic growth along-side the avoidance of the rigid-class system and in-equality — a history that continues to distant itself for contemporary times of economic immobility and concentration of wealth. The public appears to be shifting, ready to welcome the American democrat-ic ideal that once went hand-in-hand with a form of equal access to property growth.
Nation wants taxes on excessive wealth, proposals to address inequality
“Unfortunately, it seems many are not secure enough in their moral beliefs to admit that
many ideas they view as immoral may not be so catastrophic in their effects. ”
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Benefits of education in philosophy are far reaching for all
E veryone has their own philoso-phy in life, even if they do not re-alize it. Many people have prem-
ises to support whatever it is they believe, whether it be why their favorite soccer team is the best or why they believe aliens exist. Now, I am not saying that every stu-dent should be studying philosophy, but I believe that every student should take ad-vantage of the ideas that philosophers have to provide, right here at Rutgers. Through-out this article, I will provide you reasons as to why students at Rutgers should take at least a few philosophy classes and what benefits philosophy has in their lives.
Philosophy makes a central contribution to the entire spectrum of education. Education in philosophy requires learning critical, evaluative and interpretive skills that can be applied in any subject. Philosophy can pertain to literally any idea or instance in life, and can be a method to support students in any circumstance. The study of philosophy enhances their ability to solve problems as they analyze arguments, organize their ideas and synthesize them into a hypothesis.
If I have not won you over yet, then I suggest you consider the persuasive abilities
philosophy has to offer. Philosophy provides the student training in creating clear and well-supported arguments with strong, irrefutable premises. I have seen first-hand how philosophy students and professors build and defend their views, point out flaws in the opposing argument’s premises and demonstrate a respect and appreciation for the experience of the argument itself. If that is not a power move, then I do not know what is, quite frankly.
With quality reasoning skills and substantial experience with varying perspectives, philosophy students develop a second nature toward writing. Writing is extensively taught in most
philosophy classes, and teaches students to extract the most important information from challenging texts while using that information to share their support or opposition to the topic. Comparative writing is common in philosophical journals, as many philosophy writers try to share all of the alternative views they can think of in order to show the reader that they are unbiased and fair in their judgement of different ideologies in their dissertations.
Students in philosophy are encouraged to write with originality and challenge standard philosophical perspectives. Philosophy gives students the tools needed to reach a clearer understanding of difficult texts as they analyze why the author wrote what they did, using the information they deciphered to further strengthen their argument.
Philosophy allows students to both give and take criticism. It gives students the skills needed to excel in ethics, politics, epistemology, metaphysics and much more. Philosophy gives students the proper balance of self-confidence and humility to declare their position on a subject while also having a way to defend it and explore the
possible objections that might arise. The majority of successful nations, economic systems and governments were all built off of the understanding of philosophy and its importance to life and stability.
Simply put, life is short, and we do not have the answer to everything. But philosophy gives us the grounds to be able to question things that people have deemed as facts for generations. Without philosophy, not enough people
would be questioning what is right or wrong in society and how we can better ourselves as time progresses. I believe there is an undeniable stigma around philosophy, and to a certain extent I understand it. Similar to Plato’s analogy of the cave, the cavemen are content with only seeing the reflections on the cave wall rather than going outside and seeing what the world looks like with a more subjective lens.
People fear the questioning of what they know as fact, because believing that most things are certain is much simpler than having to consider that what they deem as facts might just be well-educated guesses. To those who relate to this view, I want to make it clear that I understand the fear of losing what you believe to be fact.
But, the more we question, test new theories and search for the “what if” reasoning behind what we believe to be a fact is the closer we get to the truth and progress of humankind. Philosophy is what progressed us to the modern era that we are fortunate enough to live in. Continue to question the truth for the sake of progression and a better understanding of the universe that we are lucky to be a part of.
Kaan Jon Boztepe is a School of Arts and Sciences junior double majoring in philosophy and history. His column, “Kaanotations,” runs on alternate Wednesday’s.
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Feminist authors offer new framework at Eagleton eventJADE CHANDLERCONTRIBUTING WRITER
In the past, it was widely agreed upon that angry women should be muzzled. The opinions of political-ly-minded women were tamped down by the traditional views of the early 20th century. But times have clearly changed.
On Jan. 29, the Eagleton Insti-tute of Politics hosted an event in which Rebecca Traister and Brit-tney Cooper discussed the politi-cal power of women’s anger.
Traister is a writer-at-large at New York Magazine as well as a contributing editor at Elle. She's also the author of "Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger," which offered a framework for the discussion.
Cooper is an associate profes-sor in the Department of Wom-en's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers Uni-versity—New Brunswick. Coo-per authored the book "Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower."
The conversation took place in Trayes Hall at the Douglass Stu-dent Center, where Traister and Cooper discussed their ideas about the foundation of women's rage and their experiences as females in this world. The discussion sparked applause, laughs and occasional outrage from audience members.
Traister and Cooper are both influential women in their field,
The two authors discussed the purposes of women's political anger throughout history. Brittney Cooper, in line with the Black feminist tradition, argued that political action should center on people of color, women and the LGBTQ community. JADE CHANDLER
and tackled the limited views of the patriarchal system. They shared their raw thoughts about political establishments and institutions.
“We live in a world where we see these interesting displays of white male anger show up, and they don’t get narrated as things we should be afraid of. But when women get angry and people of color get angry, then that suddenly evokes fear," Cooper said.
There's no denying the fact that marginalized groups are
still belittled for their "passion" toward equality.
"The quickest way to discredit a woman who's threatening you is to depict her as having her mouth open in direct challenge," Traister said.
Even when women like Hillary Clinton move up the political lad-der, they can still be harmed by patriarchal power. Being vulner-able and "angry" is the result of trying to pursue political ambi-tions in an unwelcome space.
The women explored both men and women's rage, and Traister
concluded that this country was built on men's anger. History validated women and people of color's fury due to the long, cur-rent fight to achieve the coun-try's principles of liberty that was promised to them.
Cooper stressed the need for a revolution at a time like this, but not the romanticized, violent kind of revolution. Instead of excit-ing minorities about change that must engage an already broken system, the revolution she spoke of should be a transformative one that won't repeat past mistakes.
Traister identifies as feminist, and Cooper explicitly emphasized her identity as a Black feminist. Cooper said she's looking to elect candidates for office who put forth an agenda that supports Black people, transgender people, queer people and working-class people.
Both women believe the ideas of understanding anger must change, and that it shouldn't be viewed as a destructive force. Cooper explained how she learned that her displeasure was the very thing that made her good at what she does, and Tra-ister identified anger as being the uniting factor in coalitions of marginalized communities.
"Discouraged individuals must understand that the source of their resentment can be reinterpreted as a strength," Traister said.
By being able to acknowledge women's rage instead of dismiss-ing it as anger and allowing it to eat them alive, we need to have conversations on honest terms. If we realize the truth about their anger and are able to speak on their injustices, women can then build movements based on that need for change.
The event was very informa-tive, as the women offered new perspectives on how we can and should engage politically. The event was controversial at times, but one opinion that everyone shared was that women should be muzzled no longer.
Prioritizing mental health reduces academic burnoutALMIER MCCOY
CORRESPONDENT
As a direct result of the chal-lenges that college brings, many students may feel “burnt out,” leading to a lack of determina-tion and motivation to continue throughout the semester. Addi-tionally, many students suffer from mental health issues that ex-acerbate the situation, ultimately
affecting not only academic suc-cess, but daily activities as well.
In fact, researchers found that 35 percent of the approx-imate 14,000 first-year college students surveyed struggled with a mental illness. The most common mental illness found among first-years was major de-pressive disorder, according to a worldwide study by the World Health Organization.
Sleep deprivation and internalizing negative feelings are a few ways that a semester can turn sour, academically and emotionally. Seeking help, while hard, is worth it. UNSPLASH
There are University resourc-es designed to help students achieve academic success while promoting self-care and recog-nizing mental health issues. Still, the stigma surrounding mental health may make students feel as if they should handle it on their own. This often results in a nega-tive snowball effect.
With that being said, there are many ways to remain focused and driven to ensure academic success without overwhelming yourself. Studies have shown that mental illness and sleep deprivation inter-twine, so it is crucial to get an ade-quate amount of sleep each night. Developing lifestyle changes, such as reducing the amount of caffeine consumed, can reduce the risk of increased mental illness, accord-ing to an article published by Har-vard Medical School.
Because of a student's hectic class schedule, which often in-cludes extracurriculars, it can be hard to stick to a sleep schedule that ensures getting the proper amount of rest. That’s why it is im-portant to take a moment to step back from everything, even if it is just for a day, to prepare yourself both mentally and physically for the next day.
Another great way to avoid burning out is to maintain a
healthy diet consisting of break-fast, lunch and dinner. People often underestimate just how vi-tal breakfast is to starting your day. If your body does not get the proper amount of fuel it needs, this could potentially affect how the rest of your day unfolds.
Despite the stress that comes with being a college student, the great thing about being at an establish-ment such as Rutgers is that there is an abundance of resources, in-cluding various support systems. Helping students feel comfortable is crucial to aiding them in voicing their concerns.
Many stu-dents avoid dis-cussing their problems in fear of a breach of confidentiality and privacy, ac-cording to Mental Health Carers NSW. Clearly, a sense of security is imperative.
A great way to eliminate the fear of having your privacy vio-lated is to start by asking friends questions pertaining to what they have been feeling and go from there. If this isn’t effective, then finding a support system with other students may be the
best bet. For example, the Cen-ter for Counseling, Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program and Psychiatric Services (CAPS), offers various workshops fo-cusing specifically on self-care, depression, anxiety and helping students recognize symptoms of mental illness.
In addition to support groups, seeking out an academic coach located in the learning centers
around campus can help stu-dents stay on the path to academic success. One of the biggest fac-tors that can help reduce depres-sion and anxiety is organization. Making a plan for when to study
for exams and when assignments are due can help ease your stress.
Finally, realizing that you are not alone is the most effective way to avoid getting into a hab-it of burning out. Talk to your family members, friends and es-pecially professors. That way, if you are a student dealing with mental health issues you will avoid getting into a hole that you may not be able to dig your way out of.
“Helping students feel comfortable is crucial
to aiding them in voicing their concerns.”
Happy Birthday: Follow your heart and your head, and let your will lead you to victory. Reach out to those who have something to offer and are willing to share. Collaboration will encourage new beginnings that can improve your standard of living. Embrace change, and be prepared to take physical action in order to turn your dream into a reality. Strive for equality. Your numbers are 7, 12, 20, 27, 33, 41, 46.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Ob-serve, but don’t feel you have to agree with what’s taking place. Con-centrate on personal gains, physical and emotional health and using your skills and experience to get ahead. A colleague will offer valuable infor-mation. Romance will enhance your life. 5 stars TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Keep moving. Refuse to let what others do or say get to you. Progress will be made if you work alone and you refuse to let anything or anyone stand between you and finishing what you start. Let expe-rience guide you. 3 stars GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’ll be drawn to charismatic, intelligent peo-ple. Focus on collaborating and flesh-ing out ideas that can help you turn a project you are working on into some-thing tangible. Personal matters will take favorable turns and provide new opportunities. 3 stars CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your intent should be to stabilize your life, not add to the confusion. If someone is being erratic, you are best to remove yourself from the equation. Stick to those offering something consistent and of interest to you. 3 stars LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Networking will change the way you think, how you perform and what you do next. An interesting conversation will lead to an opportunity to partner with some-one who has as much to offer as you. Romance is on the rise. 5 stars VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Stay focused on what you are trying to accomplish. Refuse to let personal or domestic problems stifle your pro-ductivity. Someone you thought you could trust will let you down. Ask an expert how best to handle a messy sit-uation. 2 stars
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Person-al improvements will lift your spirits, boost your confidence and put you in the running for a positive change. Share your ideas, and make the chang-es that will bring you the satisfaction and happiness you long for and de-serve. 2 stars SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Think before you speak. You will be tempted to disagree if someone is evasive or ex-aggerating. Don’t let anyone bait you into saying something you’ll regret. Fo-cus on a creative project and gaining experience and knowledge that will help you advance. 3 stars SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Stick to the truth. If you promise too much or you exaggerate, someone will hold you accountable. If you want change, go about getting it yourself. Don’t rely on anyone to help. Do the job yourself and reap the rewards. 3 stars CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t get angry about the changes going on around you. Focus on doing your own thing and adapting what you do to fit the current climate. It’s how you react that will make a difference in the outcome. 3 stars AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): What you do for others will be appreciated and rewarded. Your enthusiasm will make a difference to someone who needs reassurance. Personal gains and improvements will lead to unique op-portunities. Celebrate your success with someone you love. 4 stars PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Listen, but don’t do something based on what someone tells you. Research and facts will spare you from making a mistake that could cost you financially, emo-tionally or physically. When in doubt, talk to the experts and get more than one opinion. 2 stars
Horoscopes Eugenia Last
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Pearls Before Swine Stephan Pastis
Non Sequitur Wiley
Lio Mark Tatulli
Over The Hedge T. Lewis and M. Fry
Yesterday’s
Solution
ACROSS
1 Savory jelly
6 Deep divide
11 Talk like a lover
14 Canonized one
15 Valium producer
16 Put two and two together?
17 One fine hat?
19 Free (of)
20 Got a perfect score on
21 Supposedly wise bird
22 Acts without speaking
24 Make plans?
26 Yoga posture
28 Decal on a witch’s transport?
33 Energy unit
36 Competed at Indy
37 Mercury-regulating org.
38 If not
39 2018 Marvel alien movie
40 Worry
41 June honoree
42 One of nine in an SSN
43 Offers, as a question
44 Item at a swanky bar?
47 Kind of closet for sheets
48 Some early Mexicans
52 Europe’s longest river
54 Pollen holder
56 Syrup brand
57 ___ moment (epiphany)
58 Dog that’s no longer relevant?
62 Sergeant’s address
63 Admit (to)
64 Corvette or Miata
65 Dawn goddess
66 Birdfeeder contents
67 Not just suspend
DOWN
1 Syrian strongman
2 Deep-dish pizza filler
3 Organ tubes
4 Like poisonous mushrooms
5 Midpoint: Abbr.
6 Corn-eating bird
7 Roaring wind sound
8 NBA knee tear site
9 “___ sells seashells”
10 Woman/fish hybrid
11 Honda and Hyundai
12 Garfield’s prank victim
13 They can be long or even
18 One-named Irish rocker
23 Magazine for CEOs
25 M.A. hopeful’s test
26 Wide neckties
27 Arise (from)
29 Willamette Valley’s state
30 Craze
31 Olympics sword
32 “Darn!”
33 Luke Skywalker, e.g.
34 Royal Norwegian name
35 They’re worth less
when inflated
39 The “V” in VP
40 Climactic “Goldfinger” setting
42 Spirited sorts
43 Candy in dispensers
45 Tractor trailer
46 Folded Mexican food
49 Really enjoy
50 Folded French food
51 Cartoonist Edward
52 Bouquet holder
53 The Buckeye State
54 Small earring
55 Photos and iTunes
59 Have creditors
60 Eight-hundred preceder?
61 Finish a cupcake
Yesterday’s Solution
Universal Crossword
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ALEX FABUGAIS-INABACORRESPONDENT
Continuing to build from its clean sweep against Delaware, the Rutgers tennis team will take on Penn State Friday at the East Brunswick Racquet Club.
Competing against the Nittany Lions (4-0) will be the first Big Ten dual for the Scarlet Knights (1-0), but is considered a no-play match and will not have any effect on them as they try to qualify for the Big Ten tournament toward the end of the season.
Despite the no-play rule, Rut-gers still plans to treat each new competition in the same manner, no matter how deep the rivalry is with Penn State or any other Big Ten opponent.
“We’re going to have the same mentality playing everybody and just focus more on ourselves,” said sophomore Maya Jacobs.
The Knights have gained a lot of confidence over the past couple of months and their home opener last week was no exception.
In addition to capturing the dou-bles point against the Blue Hens (1-3), Rutgers claimed all six singles spots, as well.
No. 1 seed junior Kat Muzik and freshman Tess Fisher contributed a 6-3 win on the doubles court. On the singles court, it was Jacobs that held on for three sets to defeat Del-
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“Our ladies work at a really high caliber,” Ritchie said. “We push our-selves. The number of hours these ladies commit to their training and their academics is tremendous. The Big Ten, in general, just the caliber of tennis is outstanding.”
Muzik and junior Jaci Co-chrane are the only Knights that actually competed against the
aware’s Viva Laas for the No. 1 spot (6-3, 4-6, 6-2).
“Delaware’s definitely a tough team, but I think getting into a Big Ten match, playing Penn State, is definitely going to be a new chal-lenge,” Muzik said. “We’ve been training really hard and have good energy in practices and matches, so I think that will really help.”
The Lions are dominating the court this season with four straight wins already in the books. They have swept 3 out of the 4 matches against Navy, George Washington and Towson.
Penn State’s dual against Pitts-burgh was still a strong perfor-mance where it only dropped 1 point to win 6-1.
“The ladies are definitely ex-cited,” said head coach Hilary Ritchie. “They’re looking forward to the match. We’ve really been try-ing to focus on the process and talk about effort and we know that you have to earn everything.”
Tennis isn’t as big of a sport as football or basketball, but the Knights know the amount of work that they’ve put into practice and competition won’t go unnoticed.
The last time Rutgers played the Lions was back in 2017 where the Knights won 5-2. Penn State head coach Chris Cagle actually credited Rutgers for competing better than his team had during the match. It will be looking to do the same this year.
Knights prepare for 1st Big Ten matchLions two years ago. They both contributed singles and doubles points in Rutgers’ two Big Ten wins that season.
This time around, the Knights will have a home court advantage and can secure their second win of the season.
“Competing at home is going to be actually really exciting,” Jacobs
said. “We have a lot of friends and family coming especially because most of us are from New Jersey, so having a big turnout for our tennis matches will sway the nerves a lit-tle bit to perform better.”
For updates on the Rutgers ten-nis team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
CHRIS TSAKONASCONTRIBUTING WRITER
This Friday, the Rutgers women’s track and field team is returning to Staten Island, N.Y. to compete in the Metropolitan Championships meet. This meet
Another strong event for Rutgers this season has been the 4x400 relay. So far, the unit has been comprised of freshmen Mackenzie Prezume, Erin Bertscha and Brooke Riedy, along with senior Phyllis Gordon.
That lineup is expected to change this weekend with the debut of freshman Reanda Richards, who’s also return-ing from a stress fracture suf-fered in the fall. Richards is a
highly-touted recruit who the coaching staf f expects to have an immediate impact, especial-ly in the 4x400 relay.
“I think the training plan they’ve been following has been great,” Robinson said. “And the 4x400 relay will improve when (Richards) joins this weekend.”
Other events where the Knights are expected to do well include the 200 meter. Kollock is coming of f an 11th-place finish with a time of 25.12
seconds at the Terrier Classic last weekend. In the 800 meter, senior Jenna Sobieski is head-ing into this week’s meet after attaining a career-high 2:10.28 finish last weekend.
In the distance medley, Rut-gers won first place at the Ter-rier Classic, with a team com-prised of Gordon, Sobieski and sophomores Kiera Nealon and Olympia Martin. They finished with a time of 11:50.88.
In the field events, the long and high jumps have been the Knights’ best events. Rut-gers is coming off a meet in which it took 2 of the top-5 spots in the long jump, with junior Rhonda Rogombe and s o p h o m o r e C o u r t e n e y
Campbell taking third and fourth place respectively.
In the throwing events, fresh-man Zyra Thomas will look to improve on her 11.27-meter throw last week.
Following this meet, the Knights will return to Boston for the Valentine’s Invitational.
For updates on the Rut-gers women's track and field team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
Junior Kat Muzik tallied singles and doubles wins against Delaware last weekend, as Rutgers picked up its first win of the spring season. MICA FINEHART / JANUARY 2019
will mark the midway point of the indoor season.
The main objective for the Scarlet Knights at this point will be to build off of their early suc-cess and fine-tune some issues before the Big Ten Champion-ships in late February.
“We’re honing in on a few things to get ready for the stretch,” said head coach James Robinson. “I told them last week that they turned the corner.”
One event where Rutgers has been strong is the 60-meter dash. Senior Oniesha Clarke and freshman Iyanla Kollock have put the team in contention in ev-ery meet.
For Clarke, who arrived on the Banks as a transfer from Mi-sericordia in her junior year, the success has been in part due to getting c o m f o r t a b l e with life out-side the track.
“ W e l l , she’s older and more mature, and she’s getting used to the University as a transfer last year,” Robinson said. “She’s very confident and very com-fortable, and I think that’s show-ing in her competitions.”
The 60-meter dash lineup will be further bolstered this week, as freshman Icisys Sadler will return from a stress fracture and make her collegiate debut in the event this week. This return will make her the fourth Knight to compete in the 60 meter, joining Clarke, Kollock and freshman Gabriela Sanchez.
“I told them last week that they turned the corner.”
JAMES ROBINSON Head coach
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True freshman guard Ron Harper Jr. celebrates with sophomore guard Peter Kiss as the Knights picked up their third home win.GARRETT STEFFE / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / JANIUARY 2019
HISTORY
CONTINUED FROM BACK
Rutgers’ 22-0 run seals win vs. Indiana, earns third straight win to go to 11-9
WRESTLING SURIANO OVERCOMES MOST ADVERSITY HE’S FACED IN COLLEGIATE CAREER
Suriano overcomes struggles beside Knights MATTHEW HOWE
CORRESPONDENT
No. 4 junior 133-pounder Nick Suriano had never lost back-to-back matches in his college ca-reer before he lost when the Rut-gers wrestling team fell in Iowa on Jan. 18. Suriano, four-time New Jersey high school state champi-on from Bergen Catholic, didn’t drop a bout in all 159 matches that he wrestled in.
In his freshman season at Penn State, he lost only two matches, one due to an injury forfeit that ended his season.
Fast forward to his first year on the Banks, his lone loss came to Iowa’s Spencer Lee in the NCAA Championship match.
So it’s safe to say, Suriano is not used to losing all that much, espe-cially in consecutive matches.
But that’s exactly what hap-pened two weeks ago, when he lost back-to-back matches to Okla-homa State’s Daton Fix and to Io-wa’s Austin DeSanto.
The match against Fix, whom Suriano had beaten be-fore a few years back in FloW-restling’s “Who’s Number One?” Tournament, was filled with controversy.
In front of a near sold-out crowd at the Rutgers Athletics Center (RAC), there were mul-tiple stoppages due to replay re-view, many controversial calls and ultimately, Suriano lost on a ques-tionable penalty.
In overtime, he was called for hands to the face, resulting in 1 point awarded to Fix and the match ending, just like that.
“I just think it turned into a show,” Suriano said. “I respect Daton. It’s all good, and it’s about competing.
“But I just think the way it went, the whole situation ... I don’t know if it was the hype or what,
but it turned into a show. It turned into a fiasco.”
Things didn’t get easier for Suriano in the coming days, as the No.18 Scarlet Knights (8-4, 2-2) matched up with the pow-erhouse then No. 4 Hawkeyes (10-0, 5-0) at the Carver-Hawk-eye Arena.
In that match, Suriano had an-other tough opponent. Then No. 7 DeSanto, a transfer from Drex-el who Rutgers alumnus Scott DelVecchio defeated last year in the NCAA Tournament.
On paper, Suriano, then ranked No. 2 at 133 pounds, should have won the match.
With the match tied at 4 with just 10 seconds to go, DeSanto shot in on a single leg at the edge of the mat.
With just a second left, De-Santo completed the 2-point take-down in front of a raucous Iowa crowd to pull off the upset.
So what will this teach Nick Suriano? Hopefully it will be a valuable building block to re-flect on when heading into the Big Ten and NCAA tournament this season.
Quite possibly, Suriano will see DeSanto again in the Big Ten tournament, and could just as well see Fix again in the NCAA tournament depending on the seeding.
It’s very hard to beat a good wrestler twice, especially a wrestler as good as Suriano is, so expect a fired-up and re-venge-seeking Suriano if he competes against DeSanto or Fix again this season.
After the consecutive loss-es, Suriano battled through a toe injury and took the mat for the Knights, who were in des-perate need of a win against Michigan State.
He delivered a technical fall over his opponent, Logan
Grif fin, to earn 5 crucial team points for Rutgers.
Don’t expect a regression for Suriano following two tough losses against nationally ranked opponents.
Instead, expect the matches to inspire and motivate Suriano for the rest of the season.
The Knights will face four more ranked opponents in the regular season. These opponents include
No. 9 Nebraska, No. 20 Princeton, No. 19 Purdue and No. 9 Michigan.
For updates on the Rutgers wres-tling team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
13 points of the second half and taking its first lead since 1:23 into the first. The Knights didn’t allow a single point until 14:29 to play on the clock and overall went on a 31-7 run (including a 22-0 run that marked the largest since joining the Big Ten) stemming back to that 25-15 deficit.
“We weren’t even thinking about how many points we were scoring,” Baker said. “I knew they weren’t scor-ing and that was kind of the main thing. Just keep locking them up and keep playing defense and I think that was really our point of emphasis for this game.”
A battle ensued at the RAC af-ter Indiana called a timeout down 46-32, as the two squads went back and forth down the stretch. With 8 minutes to play, Rutgers held a
slight 52-45 lead as the Hoosiers went on a mini run of their own.
Omoruyi played a big role down the stretch, securing offensive re-bounds and putting in back-to-back layups to help the Knights separate themselves even more. But, Indi-ana continued to stay around and
returned the game to just a 5-point differential with 2:03 to play.
Baker was fouled with 1:50 to play and proved he can be clutch in big moments, hitting both free throws and making it a three-pos-session game.
The Hoosiers followed up by putting up 3 3-pointers off an of-fensive rebound and steal, but missed them all and put Baker
back at the line — once again, he hit both free throws.
More missed shots from Indi-ana and a breakaway dunk from sophomore guard Peter Kiss all but iced the game for Rutgers. Some intentional fouls that put the Knights at the line weren’t enough to stop this streaking group, who now have their most consecutive Big Ten wins in program history.
Baker led the way in points on the night with 16 and was followed up by Omoruyi with 14, Harper Jr. with 10 and freshman forward Shaq
Carter with 8. Omoruyi picked up his sixth dou-ble-double of the season after grab-bing 10 boards in the win.
Rutgers will go out to Colum-bus, Ohio to face Ohio State this
Saturday at noon before hosting No. 5 Michigan at a sold-out RAC next Tuesday night.
“They tried to do a number on us, but me and my guys, we’re go-ing to go out there and we’re go-ing to fight,” Harper Jr. said.
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“I knew they weren’t scoring and that was kind of the main thing. Just keep locking them up and keep
playing defense.”
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Sophomore guard Peter Kiss slams a dunk to put the Knights up 64-56 and sealed the team’s first victory against Indiana in regular season conference play. They last defeated the Hoosiers in the second round of last season’s Big Ten tournament. GARRETT STEFFE / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / JANUARY 2019
Rutgers RACs up some historyKnights defeat Hoosiers for most Big Ten wins ever, best conference streak since 2003-04
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In a game with heavy conference standing implications, the Rutgers Men’s basketball team was able to get the edge over Indiana Wednesday night, taking the game over af-ter digging itself out of a double digit deficit in the first half caused by early miscues and troubled shooting.
The Scarlet Knights (11-9, 4-6) and the Hoosiers (12-9, 3-7) both came into last night’s matchup tied with Nebraska and Northwestern at three Big Ten wins for the
No. 9 seed in the conference standings. But, the home team got the best of the visitors this go around, leaving the Rutgers Athletic Cen-ter (RAC) with a 66-58 win and the most Big Ten wins in the regular season since joining the conference in 2014.
Rutgers took out Indiana the last time the two teams met at Madison Square Garden, when the No. 14-seeded Knights upset the No. 6 seed Hoosiers in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament, 76-69.
Rutgers got off to an extremely slow start after winning the tip off and couldn’t seem to hold onto the ball, turning it over an average
of once per minute through the first 8 min-utes of play. Indiana fed off those turnovers and held a 16-8 lead with 12 minutes to play in the first half.
But from then on, the Knights played clean basketball, not turning the ball over the rest of the half.
“We just kind of settled down,” said head coach Steve Pikiell. “We turn the ball over, we kind of have times like that. We try to get through those times. And I knew if we just sit down and guard them, not turn the ball over and get our shots up, we’d be okay.”
The Hoosiers expanded their 8-point lead to 10 with the score 25-15 with a little more than 6 minutes to play, but Rutgers came roaring back to make things interesting. The Knights ended the half on a 13-4 run off points from sophomore guard Geo Baker, ju-nior forward Eugene Omoruyi and true fresh-man Ron Harper Jr. — who scored the final 5 points on a breakaway dunk and a corner 3-pointer in the final 3 minutes of play.
Down 29-28 at halftime, Rutgers came out of the locker room red hot, scoring the first