The Daily Northwestern — April 15, 2019

The Daily Northwestern Monday, April 15, 2019

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4 OPINION/Gutierrez

Elder residents ask for limited construction and housing fees reinbursement in petition

AIDS: Stigma, PrEP and the ongoing crisis

ASG Pres. reflects on legacy of reform

NU raises tuition by 3.9% for next year Increase is the largest fees hike in seven years

Emily Ash prepares for departure from student leadership

By GABBY BIRENBAUM

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Tuition for undergraduates will increase 3.9 percent for the 2019-2020 academic school year, rising to a record high of $56,232, the University announced Friday.

The 2018-2019 cost was $54,120.

Overall undergraduate costs — including tuition, fees and room and board — will rise 3.5 percent. Student activity and athletic fees will increase 4.5 percent to cost $258, and room and board will increase 2.4 to become $17,019 for a double room with a full meal plan. The student health fee will remain at $201.

This is the ninth consecutive year of tuition hikes — and the largest of the past seven years.

At the same time, the University will allocate more than $233 million to financial aid, a 10.8 percent rise from the $210 million that was provided this year.

Approximately half of undergraduates receive financial aid, according to the release.

The increase in financial aid will benefit both low-income and middle-income families, the University said in the release.

NU also said in the release that it will continue its 2016 policy of excluding loans from financial aid packages for first-year students.

Northwestern is the most expensive school in the Big Ten for undergraduates. NU also has the priciest non-tuition undergraduate costs in the Big Ten. Schools in similar price ranges announced tuition increases around Northwestern’s rate too.

The University of Southern California and Cornell University both remain slightly more expensive after a 3.5 percent increase and 3.6 percent increase, respectively. Vanderbilt University and the University of Pennsylvania came in slightly under Northwestern’s price tag after announcing 4.5 and 3.9 percent increases, respectively.

At a community dialogue last year, Provost Jonathan Holloway said yearly tuition hikes are common among Northwestern’s peer institutions. The rise in costs is necessitated by NU’s increasing commitment to providing financial aid and grants, he said.

“We don’t want to be the most expensive school, (but) we don’t want to leave money on the table either,” Holloway said at the time. “To hold tuition flat when the cost of running the University keeps going up seems naturally unreasonable to me.”

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As NCAA proposal nears vote, college baseball and softball coaches seek to elevate volunteers to equal standing

By PETER WARREN

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It was the top of the eighth inning of the 2017 Big Ten Tournament semifinal against Maryland — a win-or-go-home game for the Wildcats — when Sam Lawrence delivered one of the most important pitches in Northwestern history.

NU entered the tournament as the No. 7 seed and was the Cinderella story of the weekend. But their magical run was on the verge of collapse.

The Cats had a 6-5 lead, but the Terrapins had the bases loaded with one out and Zach Jancarski, Maryland’s speedy center fielder and lead-off hitter, at the plate.

After falling behind 2-0 to start the at-bat, Jancarski hit a grounder a few feet to shortstop Jack Dunn’s right. Dunn fielded the ball and threw it to second baseman Alex Erro. Erro caught the ball at second base, took his momentum across the base and fired to first. His throw edged out Jancarski — double-play, inning-over, no runs scored.

“Probably the best double play I’ve ever seen turned in person,” said former volunteer assistant coach Tad Skelley.

NU’s dugout erupted in celebration. For almost everyone watching the play, the turn was smooth, simple and spectacular.

Skelley said it was the proudest he has ever been as a coach. But he also knew there was more to the play than met the eye.

Earlier in the tournament, the Cats had a similar double play opportunity, but Erro stayed back on the throw from Dunn, and it cost the team an out.

Skelley, who worked with infielders on defense, talked with Erro and Dunn about the mistake.

Just a few days later, Erro made an adjustment — and it became the most important play in a win that sent NU to the Big Ten championship game for only the second time in school history.

“Alex did exactly what we had talked about,” Skelley said. “That was pretty cool. That’s pretty special.”

That’s part of why Skelley looks back on his time with the Cats as “probably the best experience” of his life. He loves the players and the coaching staff and still keeps in contact with a good number of them.

But by the time the new year began, Skelley was no longer on staff; he had started a job in the

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Toronto Blue Jays scouting department in January 2018.

Skelley was a volunteer assistant coach at NU for two seasons. That meant he was not paid, did not receive health insurance and could not recruit.

With a family, including a 3-year-old daughter, the need for health benefits outweighed his passion for the job.

But things could have gone differently. When asked if he would have left Evanston if he were a full-time coach, Skelley was quick to respond.

“No.” Soon, however, Skelley’s worries may no longer be a concern for current volunteer assistant coaches.

NCAA Proposal 2018-34, an amendment to be voted on this week at the NCAA Division I Council, would change the third assistant coach position in baseball and softball from a volunteer to fulltime role at the Division I level. The measure has near-universal support from college baseball and softball coaches across the country, but its backing among administrators is more divided.

And when the votes are cast, the conference that may play the most important role in getting the proposal passed is the Big Ten.

NCAA Proposal 2018-34

Baseball and softball currently have the same coaching limitations. Both sports are allowed three countable coaches — paid staff members who provide instruction, assist in tactical decision-making and recruit off-campus. For most programs, like Northwestern’s two teams, that equates to one head coach and two assistant coaches.

NCAA Proposal 2018-34 — submitted by the SEC — would amend Bylaw 11.7 in the NCAA Division I Manual, changing the maximum number of full-time coaches allowed on baseball and softball staffs from three to four.

Craig Keilitz, the executive director of the American Baseball Coaches Association, and Joanna Lane, the director of education and program development for the National Fastpitch Coaches Association, said well over 90 percent of coaches support the change.

The idea has been floated around “off-and-on” throughout the three years Matt Boyer, the SEC’s assistant commissioner for compliance, has worked in the SEC office. But only recently did it reach » See IN FOCUS, page 6

When Emily Ash was elected to Associated Student Government last year, she joined as executive vice president. But when Sky Patterson, Ash’s running mate and the winning presidential candidate, stepped down in the winter, the Weinberg senior stepped into the role.

Economics Prof. and ASG advisor Mark Witte said the move made sense for Ash, a “policy wonk” who had been just as involved in legislation from the beginning of Patterson’s term.

“Emily was always the one doing the back office, cranking out the policy, in the details,” Witte said. “From the beginning, she was very involved in the nitty gritty.”

Ash had always wanted to be involved in leadership. She started her ASG career as a member of the public relations committee before becoming the vice president of public relations. She said she was interested in being a “conduit” between administration and students, and made consistent, transparent communication with administrators to be a key facet of her administration.

To that end, Ash worked to bring members in to speak to ASG Senate and wanted to reform the ways in which students and administrators interact, such as changing the format of community dialogues.

Though she said she knows ASG is not the only platform with the capability to influence administrators, she ran for office because she saw the position as a strategic place to negotiate on behalf of students.

“Over the course of my year in our (executive) board’s leadership, I discovered ways in which I could see myself and a team of students strategically influencing engagement, but also policy and resource allocation decisions,” she said. “I came to see ways in which my own experience, as well as the experience of my peers, is materially impacted by the decisions that our administrators and our trustees make and how you can influence that from the platform of student leadership.”

Though the election was contentious until the end, Patterson and Ash ended up prevailing, winning 49.2 percent of the vote.

Upon taking office, Ash set to work picking up on the priorities » See OUTGOING, page 8

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AROUND TOWN

EPL explores discrimination through human ‘books’

By THEA SHOWALTER

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The Evanston Public Library’s Human Library event takes the phrase “Don’t judge a book by its cover” to heart.

EPL held its third Human Library on Sunday, and visitors were invited to converse with volunteer human “books” about their lives and experiences with identity-based discrimination. The event is part of an ongoing project that began in Copenhagen in 2000, said EPL’s volunteer coordinator Mary Kling.

“It was started to provide a vehicle for people to sit down and talk to each other who otherwise might not have that opportunity and a safe place to ask questions that you probably wouldn’t ask somebody that you met casually,” Kling said.

Kling said the “books” were members of the community who had faced discrimination or prejudice. The volunteer “books” went through one-onone training and interviews to ensure they were comfortable with the situation and their ability to communicate with others. Each volunteer “book” had a title describing the reason they faced prejudice.

Susanna Bohacsik’s book title was “Disabled.”

Bohacsik, who has cerebral palsy, said being a human book was an opportunity to tell people her story and answer questions they might have.

She said Sunday was her second time being a book in the Human Library.

“Evanston is a wonderful community, where it provides an opportunity to meet different people

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Susanna Bohacsik talks with a guest in EPL’s Human Library on Sunday. Bohacsik, who has cerebral palsy, also participated last year.

with disabilities,” Bohacsik said.

She added that when she was growing up, she didn’t feel she was able to use her voice in the way she can during Human Library. She said the event gives her an opportunity to correct misconceptions that people may have about her life and condition.

Bohacsik, who has a masters degree in social work, said she wanted people to know that despite

assumptions about her condition, she is intelligent and her disability is not contagious. Bohascik said she likes to emphasize her similarities with other people when talking to them in the Human Library.

Tori Foreman, whose book title was “Biracial,” also returned to volunteer as a human book. She said last year she felt a lot of people were curious about how she identifies. Foreman said the event gives people

A 78-year-old Evanston resident called police around 9:10 p.m. after hearing a loud noise and finding the back door of the residence kicked in, said Evanston police Cmdr.

Ryan Glew. W hen officers arrived, they checked the inside of the home, which the resident shared with their spouse, Glew said.

No suspects were found, and it is unclear if anything was taken.

After the incident, three people found in the area were stopped and detained by police, Glew said. However, there is not enough evidence at this time to charge them with burglary, Evanston police communications

the opportunity to ask questions they may have been secretly “wondering (about) their whole lives.”

“What it taught me is that people have questions in their head that they don’t want to ask anybody until they’re one-on-one,” Foreman said. “What’s nice about this is that they’re able to sit down with someone they’re curious about and just ask them a question that they wouldn’t ask in a group.”

Sean Gallagher said he didn’t know EPL was holding a Human Library event Sunday, but when passing through he saw the sign and thought it looked interesting. Before talking to any human books, he said he anticipated an opportunity to “really dig deep” into someone else’s culture.

After talking to a drag queen, Gallagher said that while drag queens are often stereotyped as wild and “flamboyant,” he and Alexis Bevels — the drag queen volunteering to be a book — had a “spot-on, intellectual conversation.”

“The more you’re engulfed in culture, the more you can accept it,” Gallagher said. “If it’s something you don’t know, it’s something you don’t understand.”

Kling said she thinks the object of the book titles is not to label people, and that for the Human Library, it’s necessary to “to get to the heart of the experience that created the discrimination that they have felt.”

However, she added that measures are taken to ensure that people are treating the “books” with respect. Anyone wishing to talk to a book first has to verbally agree to be respectful.

“It’s not a place for debate or an argument,” Kling said. “It’s just a conversation.” theashowalter2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Studying for finals in Elder Hall’s first-floor lounge, Weinberg freshman Abby Heath was alarmed when she heard “jackhammer noises” beneath her. She quickly realized where the noise was coming from: the construction zone in Elder dining hall.

“The situation is infuriating,” Heath said. “Everybody in the dorm is extremely angry.”

After weeks of living in a building Weinberg sophomore Wesley Shirola called “uninhabitable,” he led residents in creating a petition that asks for limited construction days and times in Elder Hall. It also advocates for Elder residents to receive a reimbursement for housing fees.

Shirola, a columnist for The Daily, created the petition after contacting NU personnel, only to receive “single-line” responses or no answers at all. He said he did not expect to get more than 50 signatures on the petition, but it currently has over 200.

“We’re paying to live in a safe and useable dorm where we can do what we’re supposed to do here at Northwestern: learn,” Shirola said. “Right now, this environment is just not conducive to do that.”

While Compass Group North America planned to complete Elder dining hall renovations by December 2018, students learned this Winter Quarter that this was no longer the case. As previously reported by The Daily, an email sent by student affairs administrators said “it became clear” in the fall of 2018 that the renovation plan for the dining hall “would need to be adjusted” to incorporate features like a new kosher kitchen.

Georgene Sardis, a marketing director for Compass, said in an email to The Daily that “renovations at Elder are currently on track.” She added that the dining hall is proposed to be finished by summer 2019.

Upon hearing about the delay, McCormick freshman Miranda Swartz was not surprised. Elder dining hall was formerly visible through a window in the mamammamjfjjfjfjfjf jajajajajaja

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Noisy construction to Elder dining hall has affected residents’ emotional and mental health, as well as their academic performance.

building’s entrance way, and Swartz said she saw no construction occurring during Fall Quarter.

“It was pretty visible that there was literally no work being done,” she said. “It’s frustrating because developers must have known it wasn’t going to be finished, yet they only felt the need to tell us right before we thought it would open.”

Due to the extended renovation period, Northwestern Dining has provided breakfast and dinner options for residents of Elder, as well as implemented a Meal Exchange program for all NU students on the Open Access and Base 14 meal plans.

McCormick freshman Jacob Rogers feels the breakfast and dinner programs were a “Band-Aid attempt” at fixing Elder’s problems. He is especially upset about the power outage the building experienced April 1, which he said lasted for approximately four hours. Elder residents received an email from NU Residential Services stating the outage was caused when construction crews “accidently cut through an electrical feed servicing Elder Hall.” Rogers thinks this incident was “absurd.”

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because the card-scanners on the entrance doors had no power,” Rogers said. “Eventually the doors were propped open, but we had no air conditioning or Wi-Fi either.”

Now, with the petition circulating on students’ Facebook pages and via text message, Weinberg freshman Katherine Gu said the greater NU community is made aware of “the low level of care administrators seem to have for students’ living conditions.”

Additionally, on April 15, Stacey Brown, the director of NU Dining services, and Jim Roberts, the senior executive director for division services, will hold an Elder Hall Dining Forum. In an email to residents, the event is described as a time to express their concerns about the construction. But Shirola said he is unsure of whether or not the town hall or petition will make a difference.

“We understand the construction is necessary and we are excited about the dining hall, but we need some semblance of a place to live,” Shirola said. “We deserve a home.” zoemalin2022@u.northwestern.edu

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AIDS: Stigma, medicine and the ongoing crisis A. PALLAS GUTIERREZ

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This is the ninth column in “50 Years of Queer Anger,” a series examining LGBTQ+ issues in the United States since 1969.

On April 24, 1980, the CDC was informed that Ken Horne, a resident of San Francisco, was exhibiting Kaposi’s sarcoma, a type of cancer that, until that point, had mainly been found in old men. On June 5, 1981, the CDC’s “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report” included an article about five unexplained cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in five young gay men living in Los Angeles. The illness was then reported in San Francisco, and by 1984 at least 800 people had reported symptoms of what was originally called gay-related immune deficiency, or GRID. If you told any of those diagnosed that they had AIDS, none of them would have understood.

Almost 40 years later, it’s impossible to imagine a world without AIDS. HIV/AIDS education is required in 33 states and the

District of Columbia. Events like World AIDS Day, organizations like (RED) and celebrity fundraisers like Magic Johnson, who has been living with HIV since 1991, have made AIDS a somewhat normalized part of the national American conversation about health.

However, recent events have made, at the very least, one realization necessary: The AIDS crisis is not over.

By no means is the AIDS crisis in America as devastating as it was in the 1980s and ’90s, but that does not mean it can be simply dismissed. In 2017, there were 38,739 new HIV diagnoses in the U.S. Black queer men made up 26 percent of those diagnosed, the most of any single group. This is due to a number of societal factors, including poverty, stigma and lack of access to health care.

Pre-exposure prophylaxis, a drug intended to stop HIV negative people from contracting the virus, has been making national headlines over the past few months due to its failure. As of October 2018, six cases of men on PrEP contracting HIV had been reported internationally. However, considering that 77,120 people were on PrEP in 2016 and that there was an average increase in users of 73 percent per year from 2-12 to 2016, these cases indicate a very small proportion of people on

PrEP. Instead, it is crucial to talk about who has access to PrEP and other AIDS care.

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Nearly 50 percent of people taking PrEP in 2016 lived in New York, California, Florida, Texas, and Illinois, but the Southern U.S. made up 52 percent of new HIV diagnoses and only 30 percent of PrEP users. Despite the renaming of AIDS, the stigma of it being a “gay-related” sexually transmitted disease has not faded.

Cost is an additional barrier to treatment.

Truvada, the brand name of PrEP, is manufactured by Gilead Sciences, which charges $2000 per month or more for the medication — despite it having a production cost

of less then $6. People are afraid of outing themselves by getting treatment, are unaware of their status or simply don’t have the resources to be educated or protected against HIV. Since HIV/AIDS is still largely associated with gay people and sex workers, for some people being open about their status feels like admitting a moral failure. Anyone can contract HIV/AIDS, but societal stigma is very powerful.

The HIV/AIDS epidemic is far from over.

Although an HIV diagnosis is no longer a death sentence, living with HIV/AIDS is still incredibly expensive, as well as physically and emotionally taxing. National and international stigma around HIV is still very real, and prevent people from getting the treatment they need. The fight against HIV and AIDS, both at home and abroad, must continue.

A. Pallas Gutierrez is a Communication f irstyear. They can be contacted at pallas2022@u. northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

Social media and short-term memory culture limits us us closer together, and pictures and brief phrases aren’t enough to give me insight into other people’s lives.

ALEXANDRA HUANG

DAILY COLUMNIST

Social media has made the concept of friendship ever more confusing. Sure, 560 people follow me on Instagram. Sure, I have 700 friends on WeChat. But how many of them do I actually care about, and how many of them do I actually talk to? I would say around 25.

It’s easy for social media to give us the false idea that we have a ton of friends, while the reality is often that we can only keep a dozen deep connections in our life simply because we all have a limited amount of time and energy. Each post we share is a potential pitfall for people to believe that based on the images we put out, their experiences, their friends and their lives are subpar to everyone else’s.

Scrolling down friend’s posts and stories, you’re supposed to get updates on different people’s lives and feel “connected.” But in reality, social media may not always bring

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What is emotional and experiential for me gets turned into a cheap form of entertainment for someone else; something they will forget before they even put their phone down, Alexandra Huang, Daily Columnist

Social media — like many other consumer-based things in life — thrives off of a short-term memory culture. It’s the epitome of instant gratification: it takes one second to like a post, to write a comment, to post a story. It takes one second to take a selfie on Snapchat and another second for it to go

away. Nothing lasts, and nothing is remembered after a couple of hours.

It also minimizes reality by taking vibrant experiences — ones with sight, hearing, taste, feel and smell — and makes them into something flat and single-faceted. Social media sells itself on the ability for us to transmit, imitate and send an experience to anywhere around the world; but what people see is not nearly as complete as the real experience.

For example, when I am in a restaurant eating a plate of hot curry rice topped with crispy fried chicken, I am delighted and my heart jumps with joy. But my viewers can’t fully understand my experience: they won’t know the food is delicious to me because I was super hungry before going to the restaurant, or that I was missing my Asian roots and the food of my culture. It’s the combination of all my emotions, memories and the food itself that gives me my experience. Very little of this can be translated by someone sitting in front of their phone scrolling down a list of 100 photos; they might think the food looks delicious, but they won’t be able to fully engage with such an experience the way I do.

What is emotional and experiential for me

gets turned into a cheap form of entertainment for someone else; something they will forget before they even put their phone down.

I do not want to deny social media as a whole. Just like any other tool, it’s doubleedged. We can either use it to our advantage or to our disadvantage. For example, individual artists have taken great advantage of social media to bring their music to the world. Small businesses have also mastered the art of aesthetic marketing on platforms like Instagram through which they create an artistic layout to attract customers, especially young millennials with a detailed taste for design.

My point, however, is that before we scroll through our screens, we should first be clear about our purpose and whether social media is benefiting us on a personal level.

We should have the power to control our tools, not the other way around.

Alexandra Huang is a Weinberg f irst-year. She can be contacted at alexandrahuang@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

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formal discussions, he said, during the conference’s annual spring meeting in May 2018.

Those conversations led to the formal proposal the conference submitted to the NCAA in August. The Division I Council will vote on the amendment at their April meetings, which will take place Thursday and Friday.

Under the proposal, schools can decide how to handle the fourth countable coach. A school can pay an assistant coach as much or as little as it wants — and can even elect to not pay at all if it chooses. While the failure to mandate that institutions pay this position may make the amendment seem irrelevant, the proposal’s significance goes beyond the money.

Even if they were not paid, they would receive

all the benefits paid assistant coaches do. It also places equal value on coaches’ well-being — along with that of student-athletes — and provide opportunities to up-and-coming coaches.

“It’s really not about how much they are going to get paid,” said Karen Weekly, NFCA president and co-head softball coach at Tennessee. “It’s just removing those restrictions so they’re treated under the rules the same way as the other coaches.”

Life of a Volunteer

The basis of a volunteer’s pay comes from youth and prospect camps run by their school’s baseball or softball programs. Depending on the camps’ reputation and success, a volunteer might make a liveable wage.

But that’s only a select group. Not every school’s camp series makes enough for a volunteer assistant coach to earn a significant amount of money.

Bo Martino, who is the volunteer assistant coach at Stephen F. Austin, is part of the latter group. He said he works about 12-hour days — which include his job as a volunteer assistant coach, holding private lessons after practices and running tournaments during the offseason.

Martino said the proposal would be a “game changer” for his family. He has a son who recently turned 1, and because of the hours he spends working, Martino usually only spends time with him in the mornings. In addition to the benefits of having health insurance for his family, the chance to cut back on his other work would provide him the opportunity to spend valuable time with his wife and son.

MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2019 “He’s walking, he’s going to start talking soon and if you are not home, you are going to miss a lot of those things that are milestones in your family’s life,” Martino said. “It’s just frustrating at times when you’re not missing (them) because of the actual job, you are missing (them) because you have to do things extra to make money to supplement an income.”

Martino said on a normal non-gameday in the spring, he works until 9 or 9:30 at night.

Keilitz said many volunteer coaches are often treated the same as countable coaches by players, and pull 50-70 hour work weeks.

For John McCormack — the chair of the Divisio. I committee of the ABCA and the head baseball coach at Florida Atlantic — the lack of medical insurance provided to volunteer assistant coaches has led to perpetual nervousness about what could happen if he gets hurt on the job. The opportunity to get those health benefits, Skelley noted, would have a positive impact on the quality of life for young coaches.

Brett Schneider, currently in his second season as Florida Atlantic’s volunteer assistant coach, lives at his parents’ home and does not pay rent. However, McCormack said housing has been an issue in the past.

“Boca Raton, the rents are pretty pricey,” McCormack said. “So it’s always been a little bit of a tough thing for us to keep a volunteer because of that. Camp money only goes so far.”

Those challenges might not be universal, but for some, they are a barrier to entry for the position. For most people, being a volunteer assistant coach is a stepping stone to other jobs.

But it can be a difficult step to take without a safety net.

The hope is that by making this role full-time, people who would have faced barriers in making ends meet in the position will now be able to take on the job.

When Ray Tanner — the former head baseball coach and current athletic director at South Carolina — took over in Columbia, his first two volunteer assistants worked other morning jobs before heading to the baseball offices: one at a bagel shop working from 5 a.m. to noon, and the other as a high school teacher.

But once his volunteers earned enough from camps to pay their bills, Tanner said they focused all of their effort into coaching.

Current NU volunteer assistant coach Dillon Napoleon does not hold another job, and neither did Skelley. While Cats head coach Spencer Allen would have been supportive of Skelley’s choice to pick up extra work, he wanted to focus on his passion.

“If I got a random job in Evanston, it would have been time that I’m not in the office, and I’m not learning and getting better, being around the coaching staff and being around the players,” Skelley said. “I felt like, ‘How am I going to progress if I’m not here all the time?’”

Home and away

When head coaches look to hire a new assistant, McCormack said one question is always asked: “Can the applicant recruit?”

Recruiting is one of the most important parts of any coach’s job, so applicants need experience to make themselves competitive.

There are two sides to recruiting, McCormack

said: evaluating talent and selling players on the school. Learning how to do the latter well takes time. Yet, volunteer assistant coaches are prohibited from off-campus recruiting, and therefore, unable to develop this crucial skill.

“It’s hard because you have to develop your voice, if you will — the way you approach young people, the way you approach parents, how you lay out what the university has to offer them,” McCormack said. “It takes a little practice.”

The ability for a fourth coach to recruit would also benefit the rest of the coaching staff.

Off-campus recruiting means time away from players and families. An extra coach could more evenly distribute the recruiting burden to allow coaches more time on campus. From a player’s perspective, this means more time to build relationships with coaches and receive more focused instruction in offseason practices.

For softball, the meat of the recruiting is done in the fall, and sometimes multiple coaches might be off campus for those trips.

NFCA executive director Carol Bruggeman said that stretch can be tough on players, and having an extra recruiter should increase access to coaches — both for on-field and off-field discussions.

“Let’s say you’re a college freshman,” Bruggeman said. “It’s late September your freshman year and the classes start to pile on…You may or may not be a little homesick. If you’re not a confident, well-versed young lady on campus resources and that sort of thing, you might be a little lost there for a while.”

The player-to-coach ratio is a central part of the proposal. Baseball’s player-to-countable coach ratio is about 12-to-1 — the worst among nationally played college team sports, and one Boyer called “exceedingly high” and in need of change. No other sport is above 8-to-1.

Baseball players have many different skills to develop, and ideally would receive specialized training for their positions. But with such a high ratio, McCormack said coaches are forced to wear multiple hats and split their time among subsets of players.

“Don’t our athletes — baseball players — deserve the same thing everybody else is getting?” McCormack said. “We talk about student-athlete welfare a lot. We have 35 athletes, and it’s time that we get another paid coach to be on staff.”

— he could pay one and not the other.

“He doesn’t have to give softball (another paid) position,” Lane said. “Title IX does not require it. Title VII does not require it. If he and his athletic department look and think baseball needs to fill that void first, that’s OK.” Some coaches reportedly worry about being put at a disadvantage if their fourth countable coach is not paid. These coaches — likely to be working at smaller programs — believe they could have their personnel poached more easily by bigger institutions. On the flipside, Martino said he believes this proposal will actually help small institutions by leveling the playing field.

Big Ten administrators are also reportedly concerned about the measure causing other sports’ coaches to want to add to their staffs.

Skelley said he thinks administrators are looking to the future, adding that people outside of athletic departments might not be thinking about those ramifications.

“They probably don’t realize the trickledown effect that (the proposal) could have on other sports,” Skelley said.

But finding money to fund the position in the first place remains a worry for some.

Though a salary is not required, schools will still have to pay for the health benefits the coaches will receive, among other things.

Tanner emphasized that budget concerns should not factor into the vote. Those concerns affect him like any other athletic director, but Tanner said he feels the proposal’s benefits — including the ability to pay what one can — are more important.

Reasons for pause

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While the proposal’s creators do not see downsides to the measure, administrators across the country — and even a few coaches — are more cautious.

Texas’ athletic director Chris Del Conte said he would “fully support” adding a third assistant coach for baseball, but felt there had not been enough discussion around the impacts to softball. So he voted no.

“The reason for my pause supporting this current legislation is because we haven’t vetted the need for softball and felt we should do so,” Del Conte tweeted last week.

But Lane said the way the proposal is written, Del Conte would not have to fund both sports

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The makeup of the Division I Council, and how it votes

The Division I Council has 40 members, the majority of whom are conference representatives. Each of the 32 Division I conferences has one representative in the Council. Those 32 conferences are split into four different subdivisions: the Autonomy

“This is a student-athlete well-being issue,” Tanner said. “This is an opportunity to develop coaches. Don’t let the financial aspect of your budget weigh in whatsoever. If you take (the budget) off the table, why would you vote against it?”

The fact that the position doesn’t have to be paid is likely to play a key role in the votes of many smaller schools and conferences who would not have the funds to afford the position if they were forced to pay it.

Natalie Shock is the associate athletic director for compliance at Central Arkansas in the lower-tier Southland Conference. The school is in favor of the proposal, she said, but likely would not be if the fourth countable coach had to be paid.

“At our level, with our budget, is it going to be a paid position?” Shock said. “Probably not.”

The Big Ten influence

Many conferences nationally have not openly expressed opinions on NCAA Proposal 2018-34. The only official endorsement from a conference has been a March 1 public letter from SEC commissioner Greg Sankey.

However, the Big Ten has been in the spotlight following news of the conference’s likely vote against the proposal. On February 8, Aaron Fitt, a managing editor of D1Baseball. com, first tweeted the results of a straw poll conducted at a meeting of Big Ten athletic directors.

The vote was 13-1 against the proposal, and the lone “yes” vote reportedly came from Rutgers’ athletic director Patrick Hobbs.

The Daily emailed members of all 14 Big Ten athletic departments to ask if their respective athletic directors would be interviewed for this story. Only Iowa’s Gary Barta agreed. He told The Daily in an email there were mixed

Conferences, Non-Autonomy Conferences, FCS Conferences and DI Conferences.

The Autonomy Conferences are the traditional “Power Five” conferences: the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC. The Non-Autonomy Conferences is the collective known as the “Group of Five” for FBS college football purposes: the AAC, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West and Sun Belt. FCS Conferences are ones that sponsor DI football, but do so at the lower FCS level — for example, The Ivy

opinions in conference discussions. “(We) have had more than one conversation on this topic in multiple meetings,” Barta wrote. “I don’t recall a ‘straw poll’ per se… and I don’t recall the sentiment being 13-1. I do recall there are differing opinions on the topic and people voiced where they stood at that time.”

Big Ten coaches were disappointed. In a column Fitt authored in support of the proposal, he cited four unnamed coaches in the conference who were angered by the results of the straw poll.

The news did not sit well with those outside the Big Ten. McCormack called the lack of support “disturbing” and Tanner felt it was “disappointing.”

Kyle Peterson — ESPN’s lead college baseball analyst and former two-time All-American pitcher at Stanford — said the results angered him, especially because of how much the quality of baseball in the Big Ten has risen recently.

“You look at the league from afar and go, ‘Man, they’re close,’” Peterson said. “Then you see that that is the feedback that their coaching staffs are getting from their administration — it was maddening. If I was a head coach at one of those programs, I would have been a little ticked too.”

League. DI Conferences are those that do not sponsor football — most notably, the Big East.

The other eight slots go to a variety of different groups. The commissioners of the Autonomy Conferences, Non-Autonomy Conferences, FCS Conferences and DI Conferences each have their own representative, who account for four of the eight other slots. The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee has two representatives, while the Faculty Athletics Representatives

Association and Division IA Faculty Athletics Representatives each have one representative.

While each representative gets one vote, the weight of each vote is not the same.

Representatives of the Autonomy Conferences — and their commissioner representative — have a weight power of four for their vote. Representatives from the NonAutonomy Conferences and their commissioner representative have a weight of two attached to their vote.

makes passing the measure more difficult than expected.

This became even more apparent after Kendall Rogers, another managing editor of D1Baseball.com, broke the news April 10 that the Big 12 held a non-binding vote and ruled against supporting the proposal.

every time one of the Power Fives doesn’t back it, it gets a little bit more difficult.”

Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State and TCU were the only four schools to vote “yes.” On the “no” side were Texas and Texas Tech, which saw their baseball teams make the College World Series last year, and Oklahoma, which saw its softball team advance to the Women’s College World Series.

Keilitz said he was “really surprised” by the results and added that coaches in the conference were “extremely disappointed.”

The Big Ten’s potential influence on other Midwestern conferences makes McCormack nervous about what a “no” might mean. He said he could envision a scenario in which other conferences in the region vote against the proposal due to the Big Ten’s likely decision.

There is still a chance that the Big Ten supports the amendment. Barta, who is the Big Ten representative at the Council meeting, said April 4 he has not formed a “final opinion” on the proposal and that no official conference vote had been held.

Yet after the news of the Big 12 vote broke, Keilitz said he did not know whether the proposal was going to pass.

“I hate to put anything on it because there are so many other factors,” Keilitz said. “But

ing in college baseball and softball would be forever changed — in supporters’ minds, for the better. The proposal would take effect August 1.

But if the proposal fails, there is no clear plan for what happens next.

Boyer said the SEC has not spent much time discussing what would happen if the vote does not pass. It would be sent back to the drawing board, McCormack said, to create a version that can pass the next time it goes in front of the Division I Council.

One Big Ten coach told Fitt that if the proposal does not pass, and the Big Ten votes against it, other conferences will blame the Big Ten — and hold it against them in scheduling. Another told Fitt the same will happen in recruiting.

Though Tanner said he does not see that as a possibility, McCormack thinks all the conferences who vote against the measure will see some blame put on them.

There is only one thing that is certain.

“If it doesn’t go through, it’s not going to go away,” Peterson said. “That’s for sure.”

Not going away

If the Division I Council announces later this week that the measure passed, it would be a win for both coaches’ associations. Coach-

Passing the proposal

The vote of a single conference might not seem particularly important. But the Big Ten is one of the most powerful conferences in the country, and that power is apparent in how the voting process works.

With the extra power of the Autonomy Conferences, having those five conferences in alliance is critical. There are 64 total votes, and a simple majority is needed for a measure to pass. The potential loss of the Big Ten vote

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of past ASG President Nehaarika Mulukutla’s administration, implementing Senate seat allocation reform and Center for Awareness, Response and Education training for student leaders. Ash’s administration passed emergency funding for student groups in the face of the budget deficit. When she took the mantle of president in the winter, Ash worked to pass some of the accomplishments she’s most proud of.

ASG began the winter by digitizing Student Organization Finance Office payments so they could accept Venmo — “good low-hanging fruit” that was easy to pass quickly and get the ball rolling on legislation.

From there, Ash spearheaded efforts to speak out against Title IX changes from the U.S. Education Department, worked with Faculty Senate to provide suicide prevention training to faculty members and created a proposal for the Provost’s office around software affordability.

Working with Residential Services to expand gender-open housing was one of the highlights of her term, Ash said. She attributed the speed with which ASG saw administration action taken on the policy to her bringing administrators in to Senate to engage with students and collaborate with them.

“People say all the time that Senate has no teeth,” Ash said. “That’s because we often choose not to let it… Bringing administrators face-to-face with students in a controlled setting that is safe and responsible for all parties was really powerful.”

The concept of holding space will define the legacy her administration hopes to leave behind, Ash said.

Much of the legislation and advocacy that came out of the year, including getting University approval of both gender-open housing expansion and creation of an FGLI space on campus considered questions of what groups hold physical space on campus and what holding space means to those with marginalized identities.

T the more space that diverse groups hold on campus, Ash said, the more the University will be living up to the ideal of inclusion.

Agneska Bloch, the vice president of academics, said Ash’s ideas for creating long-term inclusion and institutional knowledge of ASG made her a great president.

“Working with Emily has been an incredibly rewarding experience,” the Weinberg senior said.

“She is a very dedicated person. She makes ASG her number one commitment at all times to the point that I don’t know when she goes to class or sleeps or eats.”

Finding time for herself — to go to class, sleep, eat and take care of herself — was a priority for Ash. Past

ASG presidents have struggled with balancing the demands of the job with their own mental health — Mulukutla discussed her struggles in her final speech to the Senate in 2018 and Patterson resigned to focus on her well-being.

Ash said the intensity leading up to her election opened her eyes to the compromises student leaders make regarding their own wellness to pursue their passion. She learned quickly that in order to be an effective president, she would have to take care of herself physically and mentally. Leaning on her coworkers in ASG and others in her personal life carried her through the term.

In giving advice to future presidents, Ash said prioritizing the quality of ASG’s work over credit claiming makes the job more manageable.

“I was really surprised how easy the work became when I stopped worrying about who’s going to get credit for it and just focused on outcomes and focused on having the most meaningful impact I possibly could within a 12-month timeline,” Ash said. “It’s really freeing when you take that pressure off of yourself to deliver outcomes for the vanity of the organization… and (instead) focus on leaving the student body and the student experience and the organization better than where it started.”

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Mediocre a cappella group hosts first auditions

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Sharpay Evans warm-ups and faint hummings of pop songs could be heard coming from Kresge Hall on Wednesday, as “Mediocretones” auditions began. The new a cappella organization welcomes a group who may struggle to find spots in other singing groups on campus: the untalented.

Garnering an attendance of about 35 students, the “Mediocre A cappella” audition room buzzed with activity, as singers prepared their voices for the opportunity to prove their lack of ability. The preparations died down as Arzu Singh, began to speak.

“Don’t be anxious, this is all for good fun,” the SESP junior said to eager auditioners. “The only fear is that you’re too good. If you are too good, you’re not in.”

The singers were instructed to split into groups.

Each group then chose a slip of paper, only then learning which song they would be singing for their audition.

An emotional rendition of “Hello” by Adele came first, as three students belted out the words to the tune that would begin their a cappella careers.

“Definitely bad enough to be here,” Singh decided.

A 14-person group came next, gracing the room with their passionate performance of Avril Lavigne’s “Sk8er Boi,” followed by a rendition of “Kiss Me Thru the Phone” that had every auditionee clapping for their future aca-members.

The cheering climaxed as a group of two confidently missed the high note in Miley Cyrus’s “The Climb.”

Singh said this was precisely the type of fun she

Northwestern Qatar dean will step down, Holloway announces

Northwestern University in Qatar Dean and CEO Everette Dennis will step down in 2020, Provost Jonathan Holloway announced Thursday.

Dennis has been the dean since June 2011, with the first class at NU-Q graduating in

had imagined for the group.

“I always enjoyed listening to a cappella and watching a cappella groups perform,” she said. “I just felt like mediocre singers like me could also join in on the fun if only there was a space for it.”

She said the idea originated from a performance by a group of girls in a high school talent show who performed a version of “mediocre a cappella.” In fact, she had been joking about starting a group of this kind since her freshman year.

Two years later, she is finally taking action.

“I realized that if I didn’t do it this quarter, I probably never would,” Singh said. “Spring quarter is when people have the most time and the most energy. And next year I will be a senior, so I just decided to make a Facebook event and make it happen.”

Singh is planning to organize three rehearsals before the group’s performance at the end of the quarter.

SESP sophomore Bijal Mehta said the low commitment level of the group was a factor in her decision to audition. She also enjoys its stress-free attitude.

“It’s a good stress reliever,” she said. “You just sing your heart out, and it doesn’t matter how good you are.”

McCormick freshman Priya Kini said she auditioned for the unusual opportunity to showcase her voice.

Though Kini usually performs for an audience of just herself, she was excited to audition.

“I [sing] a lot in the shower and in my room, and usually it has to be in my head because it’s pretty bad,” Kini said. “I thought this was the perfect time to let it out.” cadencequaranta2022@u.northwestern.edu

2012. Under his leadership, NU-Q hit record enrollment and developed research important to Qatar and the region.

“I am proud to have guided NU-Q into a stunning new building, expand our research and lead this unique, one-of-a-kind school at a time when we are preparing our students to enter the 21st-century media economy,” Dennis said in a news release. “We have made a real difference in shaping the influence of Education City, the changes in Arab society and the lives of Qataris and international students alike.”

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Mediocretones is a new a cappella group on campus. The group held auditions in Kresge Hall for all those unable to sing.

While at NU-Q, Dennis managed the transition of the school into the new media and communications building, considered one of the largest of such facilities in the world, the release said. This was one aspect of his several outreach initiatives to create a regional reputation for NU-Q. Although Dennis is leaving NU-Q, he is not leaving the Northwestern community. He will be on leave during the 2020-2021 academic year before returning as a tenured faculty member of the Medill School of Journalism, Media,

Integrated Marketing Communications.

“Dean Dennis has sharpened the focus on educating students in a rapidly changing global media environment and helped NU-Q foster research in the Arab media world with farreaching effects,” University President Morton Schapiro said in the release. “We are grateful for his leadership, which has helped NU-Q grow impressively and substantially in reach and impact. We wish him well on the road ahead.”

— Josiah Bonifant

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The Northshore Association of Student Activists board members, artists and guests pose for a picture. NASA held an event showcasing student activist art Sunday.

Students and community members gathered Sunday at Evanston SPACE to attend an art showcase organized by the newly-founded Northshore Association of Student Activists. The event showcased student artwork as well as singing, dancing and spoken word performances.

Liana Wallace, a founding member of NASA and a senior at Evanston Township High School, said the event was an example of how art can be an outlet “for students who are dealing with really hard stuff in their lives to share what they’re going through.”

The student performances focused on issues such as suicide, police brutality and gun violence, topics that NASA often interacts with. The organization’s mission is to unite “student activists across the Northshore in the pursuit of inter-school community building and fighting against physical, mental, racial and structural violence,” according to a flyer from the event.

ETHS sophomore Nikki LeVee choreographed a dance called “Thoughts and Prayers” in response to the lack of action taken to prevent gun violence.

“Thoughts and prayers show sympathy and are necessary at times, but they are not enough to bring back the lives that are lost due to gun violence,” LeVee said. “This choreography embodies the pain that victims and those around them have gone through and the hope that we must have for a better future.”

Beacon Academy junior Teagan Springer created a piece of artwork: a mirror with red wire

that spells out “Female Does Not Equal Fragile.”

Springer said she hopes people can see themselves reflected in her art, “and think about those messages of femininity and fragility that are everywhere.” In Springer’s mind, femininity should be associated with strength rather than weakness.

“Women are creators,” she said. “Every one of us came from a woman… thinking that that is fragile is so backwards, because women are strong.”

According to NASA member Isaac Slevin, a junior at ETHS, the main goal of the art showcase was to spread the word about NASA and show the community how the organization is working to create change and influence local policy.

One of NASA’s current goals is to work to ban the NRA Carry Guard program in the state of Illinois, Slevin said. This policy, which has already been banned in two other states, provides insurance for gun owners to cover civil and criminal legal fees related to gun violence. NASA has created a petition to ban Carry Guard, and the organization hopes to eventually send the petition to Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as well as Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

NASA has also recently begun protesting the construction of the Niles gun range, which is located less than a mile away from Niles West High School. Slevin said that it’s important for people to fight for issues impacting them at the local level.

“If we want to make change on a community level where we can really affect things, we have to advocate on our own level,” he said. “We have to advocate for our own lives, the lives of our friends and family and community members.” savannahkelley2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern loses pair of road matches, drops in Big Ten standings

After losing two matches last weekend to Michigan and Michigan State to crush their chances for a Big Ten regular season title, Northwestern dropped another two matches to conference opponents this weekend.

The Wildcats (11-9, 5-4 Big Ten) lost to Minnesota 4-3 on the road Friday and then to Wisconsin 4-3 two days later. This is the first time in at least 20 years that NU has lost four matches in a row to Big Ten opponents.

Coach Claire Pollard said after the loss to the Spartans that she believed a change of environment would help the Cats get back

on track. She immediately took advantage of the opportunity by changing up the doubles lineups in NU’s first match against the Golden Gophers (11-10, 4-5).

Freshman Hannah McColgan and junior Julie Byrne played first doubles against Minnesota. The 47th-ranked pairing of freshman Clarissa Hand and senior Lee Or — which had played 17 matches at first doubles before Friday — split, Hand playing at second with senior Rheeya Doshi and Or at third doubles with sophomore Inci Ogut.

The Cats won the doubles point but struggled in singles. Byrne and Or each won in two sets, but Hand lost at first singles. The Golden Gophers took three additional points from singles play, and claimed just their second ranked win of the season.

Two days later, NU traveled down I-94 to

Madison to face the 47th-ranked Badgers (154, 7-2), a program it had not lost to since 1998.

The Cats lost the doubles point and fell in an early hole.

Or lost quickly in straight sets — the first individual match she’d lost since March 1 — to even up the total score. Pozo won the first set of her singles match, but then dropped the next two sets for her fourth consecutive Big Ten defeat. Hand took her match against No. 63 Sara Castellano to three sets and came away with her first win in three matches.

The defeat was the Cats’ ninth of the season, the most since 2017. NU now sits in fifth place in the Big Ten standings, with just two regular season matches before the conference tournament starts on April 25 in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Julie Byrne hits the ball. The junior won both her singles matches in the Cats’ Big Ten defeats this weekend.

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THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN | SPORTS 11

MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2019

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Wildcats drop Big Ten matches to OSU, PSU

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

daily senior staffer @bxrosenberg

Northwestern fell to a pair of teams in the top half of the Big Ten standings this weekend, losing 6-1 Friday to No. 2 Ohio State and 4-2 Sunday on Senior Day to Penn State.

The biggest bright spot for the Wildcats (13-12, 4-5 Big Ten) was senior Jason Seidman, who secured NU’s only win against the Buckeyes at No. 6 singles in a super-tiebreak and also beat his Nittany Lion opponent.

“I think we have really good depth,” Seidman said.

“One of our top guys is out, so I’m lucky that I have the opportunity to play, and it shows that a lot of the guys who aren’t in the lineup can still play. Just trying to get my best effort out there.”

Against Ohio State (24-2, 9-0), the Cats kept it close in the doubles, but fell short. Sophomore Antonioni Fasano and freshman Trice Pickens lost 6-4, while senior Ben Vandixhorn and freshman Simen Bratholm fell 6-3.

Outside of Seidman’s win, not many of the singles matches were competitive. Junior Chris Ephron forced a third set at No. 3 and Pickens played a pair of tight sets at No. 5, but the other three matches saw NU win no more than four games total.

The Cats fared better against Penn State (16-7, 6-3), but not well enough. NU lost 6-4 at both No. 2 and No. 3 doubles, allowing the Nittany Lions to secure the crucial opening point.

“It was fun to be out here one more time,” Vandixhorn said. “We had a good crowd and good energy throughout the match, and so we could kind of feed off that and enjoy it for our last time out here. Unfortunately, we couldn’t come out with the W.” Fasano was easily dispatched 6-0, 6-4 at No. 2 singles, but NU made it competitive on all the other courts.

Seidman picked up his second win of the weekend, beating his opponent 6-4, 6-3 to give the Cats their first point. Junior Dominik Stary lost a tight match at No. 1 singles to put NU down 3-1, and the three remaining matches all went to a third set, meaning the Cats would have to win all three to get the victory.

They won just one. Ephron split a pair of close sets

against Penn State’s Gabriel Nemeth before winning the decisive set 6-1 to keep his team in the match.

“Second set, I started off a little slow and didn’t really pounce on (Nemeth) like I should,” Ephron said.

“In the third, I got an early break the first game, went up and then I started bringing a lot of energy at him, got in his face a little bit and he backed down. I started playing really well, put a lot of pressure on him.”

But it was not quite enough. Pickens fell in his third set to Christos Antonopoulos as the Nittany Lions secured the win.

NU has two regular-season matches remaining, traveling to Wisconsin and Minnesota next weekend.

Vandixhorn said the Cats are on the bubble for an NCAA Tournament berth, so these matches could help turn the tide one way or the other.

“We have two very good opportunities this coming weekend,” Vandixhorn said. “If we can come away with two road wins, then we put ourselves in a great position going into the Big Ten Tournament.” benjamin rosenberg 2021@u.no rthwestern.edu

Evan Robinson-Johnson/ Daily Senior Staffer

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ON THE RECORD

It only really matters at the end of the season. What’s more meaningful to me is how tough our team played today.

There’s just no quitting, this team. — Kate Drohan, coach

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BRING OUT THE BROOMS Lily Novak hits walk-off homer, Cats sweep No. 25 Wisconsin

By SOPHIA SCANLAN

the daily northwestern

From small ball to slugfests to an extra-innings walk-off homer, Northwestern did it all this weekend in its sweep of Wisconsin, which continued the Wildcats’ 11- game win streak and guaranteed them sole possession of first place in the Big Ten. Entering the weekend, NU (33-7, 12-0 Big Ten) held first place in the conference alongside Michigan. But with the Wolverines’ loss to Ohio State on Saturday afternoon and the Cats’ triumph over the Badgers (30-8, 7-5), NU took the lead in the standings and maintained its perfect conference record. The Cats have now also won 16 of their last 17 games.

NU opened the series at home Friday with a 4-1 victory against Wisconsin off only three hits. In a game of small ball, the Cats scored runs off walks, fielder’s choices, the Badgers’ errors and a few clutch singles.

Saturday’s doubleheader featured more slugging, with a combined total of six home runs for the NU in its 8-5 and 5-4 wins, respectively. In the final game, senior Lily Novak hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 10th to give the series win to the Cats.

“I don’t really remember much of it,” Novak said. “I was just going for a base hit and staying back and wanted to get a rally going for the team.”

The second game, however, didn’t begin as smoothly. The day started with a

No. 25 Wisconsin

1 5 4 Northwestern

4 3 5 rocky outing from sophomore pitcher Kenna Wilkey, who allowed four hits and four runs in just 1.1 innings.

Senior Kaley Winegarner came in relief and gave NU 3.1 innings, before junior Morgan Newport — typically an outfielder — earned the save.

“For a doubleheader in the Big Ten, you need all hands on deck,” coach Kate Drohan said. “The neat thing about our pitching staff is they’re so unique, and they bring something new to the field.

Morgan Newport hasn’t been out on the mound a lot in the last month, and she just really challenged the hitters and used her changeup very well.”

Drohan added that Winegarner and Newport’s experience against Wisconsin helped them in their pitching, and she praised their poise and offspeed pitches.

Newport also contributed to the game offensively when she blasted a two-run home run in the bottom of the first. Sophomore Rachel Lewis smashed a three-run homer of her own in the fourth to give the Cats the lead, and moments later, senior Morgan Nelson gave NU its eighth run of the game with a solo shot to right.

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Throughout the series, Nelson faced many long at-bats, including one that lasted 14 pitches.

“It’s mentally tiring,” she said. “My attention span hasn’t always been the greatest, but that’s something the coaches have been working on with me in my at-bats.”

Game 3 — which began around 30 minutes after the end of Game 2 — featured more big hits. Lewis popped another dinger, and so did freshman Maeve Nelson, who hit the ball so hard and so high that it landed on WelshRyan Arena.

But tied at four in the seventh, the game went to extra innings. Freshman Danielle Williams, who had pitched the full game on Friday, pitched all 10 innings in this final game with a pitch count of 160.

“She battled,” Drohan said. “And that leadoff walk (in the top of the 10th), you saw her kind of pushing the ball a bit, and then she came right back.

She’s learning how to do that — to get the feel back and be aggressive.”

Novak’s game-winning homer in the 10th finished the three-hour game and sealed the sweep and perfect conference record for the Cats.

But Drohan said she doesn’t want to focus on the standings right now.

“It’s great and all, but it only really matters at the end of the season,” she said. “What’s more meaningful to me is how tough our team played today.

There’s just no quitting, this team.” sophiascanlan2022@u.northwestern.edu

SOFTBALL

NU snaps win streak at home Balance, versatility

By GREG SVIRNOVSKIY

the daily northwestern @gsvirnovskiy

If an objective viewer took one look at Northwestern’s offense from the three games played this weekend against Maryland at Miller Park, they’d likely guess that the Wildcats won the series, maybe even all three matchups. NU’s potent offense put up run totals of eight, 13 and 10, with hitters from all over the lineup pitching in with key hits.

But offense was far from the story of this weekend, as the Cats (16-16, 5-4 Big Ten) dropped two of three decisions to the Terrapins (18-17, 5-4). Defensive miscues — including three walks and three errors in the final game of the series — halted a run which saw NU win nine of its last ten matchups.

On Friday, the Cats battled back from a 9-1 deficit by scoring six runs in the fourth inning, keyed by freshman second baseman Shawn Goosenberg’s triple and junior third baseman Alex Erro’s run-scoring single. Despite the team eventually falling 13-7, coach Spencer Allen said his players exhibited abundant effort and tenacity in the comeback bid.

“They’ve continued to fight,” Allen said. “I’ve had no issue with their fight.

We’ve gotta be a little bit smarter in some spots.

On Saturday, the Cats played twice, as the game scheduled for Sunday was moved forward because of the inclement weather the day promised. NU won the first matchup 13-8, receiving timely hitting from sophomore outfielder Casey O’Laughlin, who batted 2-for-3 on the night and recorded three RBIs. O’Laughlin’s triple to center field,

which drove home two runners, was his first of the season and second of his career. Allen said O’Laughlin’s performance helped alleviate pressure off of the top of the lineup, pushing the Cats over the top.

“It’s good at the bottom of the order, to get a little bit of production, get some guys on there for the top to continue to hit them in,” Allen said.

“That was good. Casey had some good at-bats there for sure.”

In the second game, NU dropped a closely contested 12-10 decision, in which the team failed to take advantage of elite offensive production, allowing three walks and three errors. Erro said when position

players are struggling, it was incumbent upon the team’s hitters to come up with the offensive numbers for victories.

Erro has been hot lately, too.

Against Maryland, he hit 7-for-15 and recorded seven RBIs, including a three-run homer in the eighth inning of NU’s lone win in the series.

“Hitting is contagious,” Erro said.

“Once the guys are rolling, everybody starts hitting. Innings are led by hits, and the guys move people over.

Whether it’s a sac fly or another hit, it just keeps on rolling.” gregorysvirnovskiy2022@u.northwestern.edu

(Brian Meng/Daily Senior Staffer)

Willie Bourbon swings. The senior had five hits and three RBIs in NU’s weekend series against Maryland.

fuel Wildcats in wins

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

daily senior staffer @bxrosenberg

All teams rely on their star players.

But what sets the good teams apart is their balance and the ability to have people step up in multiple ways.

Northwestern used that formula to perfection this weekend in a stirring sweep of No. 25 Wisconsin (30-8, 7-5 Big Ten), which gave the Wildcats (337, 12-0) sole possession of first place in the conference. The first game of this series was a grinder. The second, a slugfest. The third, a marathon.

The series featured an outfielder pitching and a pitcher playing the outfield, another pitcher getting her first career at-bat as a senior and the Cats tallying more runs than hits in each of the first two games.

But the defining moment of the series, and of NU’s season so far, came in the 10th inning of the nightcap of Saturday’s doubleheader. The sun had disappeared behind Welsh-Ryan Arena and daylight was quickly fading.

It was with that backdrop that Lily Novak, a senior first baseman mostly known for her defense who entered the weekend with just three career home runs, launched a towering blast that just cleared the left-center field fence to send the largest crowd of the season at Sharon J. Drysdale Field home happy.

Novak’s walk-off dinger epitomized the balance throughout the Cats’ lineup.

The top of the order was strong in both games Saturday — sophomore second baseman Rachel Lewis, senior left fielder Morgan Nelson and freshman shortstop Maeve Nelson all homered.

But NU also got major contributions

from junior Morgan Newport in the No. 5 hole, freshman pitcher Danielle Williams from the eighth spot and Novak from the seventh position.

“It shows the balance of our offense,” coach Kate Drohan said. “For Lily to come up with the big hit, and Rachel to come up with some clutch hits as well, and Morgan Nelson, just epic at-bats.

The balance was also on display with regards to the pitching staff. When the plan for Saturday’s first game went off script, a pair of little-used veterans stepped up in a big way.

Sophomore Kenna Wilkey, the Cats’ second-strongest pitcher, struggled against the Badgers’ powerful lineup, prompting Drohan to bring in senior Kaley Winegarner in the second inning.

Winegarner battled hard and allowed only one run in 3.1 innings on a home run by the Big Ten’s leading hitter, Kayla Konwent. She even batted for the first time in her career, lining out to third base.

When Winegarner put two runners on base in the fifth, Drohan brought Newport, a major part of the rotation last year but mainly an outfielder this year, into the circle. Newport, pitching for just the fourth time since the beginning of March, had her best outing of the year, going the final 2.1 innings without allowing a hit as NU held its three-run lead.

“They’re veteran pitchers who have pitched in a lot of Big Ten games,” Drohan said. “They also understand how Wisconsin plays. Their poise was outstanding, and we’re all about just challenging the hitter and trusting the off-speed in any count.” benjaminrosenberg2021@u.northwestern.edu