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Northwestern has the second-highest number of Fulbright students in the country this year, according to a report released in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Twenty-seven We have NU students sustained received a level of scholexcellence. arships from the FulStephen bright Program Hill, for 2011Associate 2012. director of Last year, NU’s Office of the UniFellowships versity placed sixth with 20 recipients, a huge drop from 2009’s first place with 32 scholarships. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor led the list this year, with 29 Fulbright students. “We have sustained a level of excellence,” said Stephen Hill, associate director of the University’s Office of Fellowships. “The last five years we’ve been in the top 10.” The Fulbright program sends American students and faculty scholars abroad for research and cultural education. It also
recruits foreign students and scholars to travel to the U.S. for the same purpose. Though federal funding to the program may face cuts next year, student interest remains strong, based on the number of applicants to the receive the scholarships. In NU’s category of doctoral and research universities alone, about 5,000 students applied for the program as of Oct. 24. Hill said about 100 NU applicants apply each year for the Fulbright, which is on par with schools of the University’s academic caliber, including Harvard, Yale and Stanford. This year, 102 NU students submitted applications for the program. The Fulbright chooses scholarship recipients based on academic standing and leadership potential, according to the program website. The Office of Fellowships began advising students through the application process in 2005, Hill said. The Office assigns each student applying for the fellowship a faculty mentor as a guide through the process. Getting a consistently high number of Fulbright award winners takes a team effort, Hill said. Weinberg senior Redmond McGrath, who is applying to study abroad in Paris next year,
By Marshall Cohen
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Veterans from the Northwestern and Evanston communities greeted the impending withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq with relief and caution Tuesday. President Barack Obama announced Friday that virtually all of the 41,000 troops still in Iraq will come home by the end of the year, effectively ending the eight-year war. Cmdr. Dan Adams (MEAS ‘91) served eight months in Iraq and returned to a hero’s welcome at a large celebration in Winnekta on July 4 this year. He was first commissioned through the Naval ROTC unit on campus.
He said the country will “take a deep breath” once the last soldier leaves Iraq in December. “I’m hopeful that us leaving Iraq will allow both our country and theirs to turn a page, and that one day we will have fully normal relations,” Adams said. Adams, who remotely piloted unmanned aircraft that could detect improved explosive devices, said he was “ambivalent” about the withdrawal itself but pointed to recent progress in the war. “Iraq has had a lot of challenges in the past several years and they will continue to have challenges going forward,” Adams said. “I am hopeful that the Iraqis are now at a point where they are well-positioned to handle those
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said the office worked with him to submit a strong application and practice interview skills. McGrath, a French student of 11 years, said the scholarship would be a valuable asset to his education. “It would give me the opportunity to research and contribute to the historical information of Paris,” he said. The Fulbright Program has funded the research of more than 300,000 participants since
challenges.” Others, like Lt. Col. Nancy Carder, said those challenges are too grave to warrant a withdrawal at this time. Carder, an Evanston resident, is the assistant to the commander of American Legion Post 42, the Evanston chapter of the national mutual-aid veterans organization. She spent 28 years in the Army Nurse Corps and served overseas in Panama and Grenada. She said she strongly opposes the upcoming withdrawal from Iraq. “All of those kids who had gotten injured or even died, it was all in vain,” Carder said. “I sure as hell think they should stay and finish the job they started. I think the kids must be glad to be out of harms way but at the same time
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1946. For Mokaram Rauf, who traveled to the Philippines last year to research local and national health care systems through a Fulbright grant, the program provides the opportunity to affect practical change in the real world. “It was the perfect academic experience,” the third-year graduate student said. “There was prestige but also money to do really good work.” However, funds to the
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, which heads the Fulbright program, may be cut next year, potentially affecting plans of scholars such as Rauf and McGrath wanting to conduct research abroad. The U.S. Senate proposed a 2.2 percent increase in funds for the bureau, but the House of Representatives put forth a plan to decrease their money See fulbright, page 7
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I sure as hell think they should stay and finish the job they started. Lt. Col. Nancy Carder,
Evanston resident, former member of Army Nurse Corps their mission isn’t completed in Iraq.” Maj. Shawn Gardner (MSC ‘10) served two tours in Afghanistan. He first arrived in the country shortly after the October 2001 invasion and returned for another year of service in 2009. Gardner currently works as the director of public affairs for the Indiana National Guard. He said Americans might now focus their interest more on Afghanistan, where there are still U.S.
boots on the ground. “As operations wind down in Iraq, I think the military and the nation will focus solely on Afghanistan and how that war is progressing,” he said. “I was fortunate enough to be there early in the fight and see what their country was like, and then later return to see the progress we’ve made. I credit that to my fellow soldiers, airmen and marines who have See iraq, page 6
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Sound off: Political campaign strategists David Axelrod and Mike Murphy debated economic policy Monday.
David Axelrod, democratic campaign strategist for President Barack Obama, and Mike Murphy, a retired Republican strategist who has worked various state and national campaigns, visited Northwestern on Monday to participate in a debate organized by NU College Democrats. The political experts spoke about a range of topics, but much of the time was devoted to economic policy and education. The debate took place at Cahn Auditorium in front of a crowd of more than 250 students. The event kept true to the debate format — it began with See axelrod, page 6
for township vote By Kimberly Railey
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Evanston Township trustees approved Monday the drafting of ballot language for a March 20 referendum that would dissolve the township. “Few people understand and embrace township form of government,” said Ald. Ann Rainey (8th), who voted in the 5-to-4 majority. “It’s a waste, it’s archaic and we need to move forward.” The decision came even in light of concerns raised by some council members — including Evanston Mayor Elizabeth
Tisdahl — that any townshipaltering structure would prove unwise. “This proposal worries me more than any other proposal that’s come before us,” said Tisdahl, who also said she felt attempts to pass it through the Illinois General Assembly would require extensive lobbying and time. Trustees must “use their latitude” with elected officials in the Illinois General Assembly to pursue legislation that would address township and public aid code to make their See township, page 6
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Metra head meets with city officials By Alexandria Johnson
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Metra officials, including new executive director Alex Clifford, met with Evanston community leaders to discuss the state of the city’s commuter rail lines Friday. Clifford joined Union Pacific spokesman Wes Lujahn, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz, Ald. Jane Grover (7th) and Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) in a tour of the Metra facilities from Howard to Central streets. “The community wanted to meet the head of Metra, and Union Pacific was there since Metra operates over our line there,” said Mark Davis, Union Pacific spokesman. “We’ve worked well with the community.” The event was an opportunity for Metra to communicate with the railroad companies and discuss partnering to address the infrastructural needs for the viaducts and bridges. “We talked with the executive director Clifford about the bridges and the viaducts and how by improving their overall look, it benefits our economy, and how do we do that in the future with tight funding,” said Matt Swentkofske, Evanston intergovernmental affairs coordinator. “We talked a lot about the importance Metra plays in our economic development as a community.” Evanston was one of the first transit-centered cities in the area, developing businesses around the train stops, and therefore, the rail stations play a significant role in the city’s economics, Swentkofske said. “Our economic development is tied to Metra and the CTA in a very positive way, and so we wanted to show them what our community is about and how important Metra is in terms of funding our economic development and overall well-being as a community,” he said. Evanston aldermen addressed concerns about the aging rail lines, and Metra representatives assured the city the lines are inspected regularly, according to present officials. “We were able to help the community leaders
understand that, number one, all the bridges are inspected a minimum of twice a year, and the structures there in Evanston are sound,” Davis said. Swentkofske also noted the positive relationship the city has with Metra, particularly in addressing graffiti underneath the bridges and viaducts. “They’ve been really responsive in getting a negative connotation of graffiti taken care of very quickly, sometimes within an hour or a couple hours,” Swentkofske said. “We really thank them for their willingness to address that so quickly.” Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl attended the event, and fellow city officials touted the rail line’s role in the local community. “It was very good opportunity for the mayor and the council to showcase Evanston as a community and let executive director Clifford know what our community is about and talk about the importance Metra plays in the overall health of our community,” Swentkofske said. Metra and the city have come to a consensus that the next step to fixing these lines is lobbying the federal government for funds to work on the infrastructure, Swentkofske said. He added they will work to contact U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), as well as U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.). “Moving forward, I think both Metra, Union Pacific and the city are going to work towards how do we get the most dollars back from either Springfield, or especially Washington D.C., to make these infrastructure improvements,” Swentkofske said. The Chicago Transit Authority recently began work on viaducts at Dempster, Greenleaf and Grove streets, proceeding to complete the foundational work at these sites. The three bridges over Dempster Street are being assessed by the city, and they include a Purple Line bridge being replaced for 2012, a middle bridge used by the Metra’s Union Pacific line and an unused bridge, formerly the Metra’s North Electric line. “We’re definitely interested in doing some planning and some research with Metra to see if that (unused line) can potentially be removed,” said Eric Palmer, Evanston community information
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coordinator. “What that will do is it will actually open up the business district west of the tracks between Sherman and Elmwood.” The city is discussing developing land close to a Metra stop at Main Street to benefit both the Metra’s productivity and business in the area, Palmer said. “It can bring in visitors, it can bring in other folks to come in here to do business via public transportation, whether it be the CTA or the Metra,” Palmer said. “This is a win-win situation both for us locally, economically speaking, and for Metra ridership.”
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On Campus NU groups join up to host campus Food Day By Vasiliki Mitrakos
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Seven Northwestern student groups collaborated with nuCuisine to celebrate Food Day on Monday. Food Day is a national effort to raise awareness about environmental and health issues associated with food through promotional events throughout the U.S. The NU initiative included several events, from a workshop at the Wild Roots garden Sunday to a film screening of the documentary “Grow� scheduled for Tuesday , in addition to a fresh food market and special meals across campus Monday. Bringing Food Day to NU was a joint effort between Weinberg senior Pamela Hung and SESP senior Heather Polonsky, who also worked with student groups including Students for Ecological and Environmental Development, Northwestern Community Development Corps, NU Conference
on Human Rights, Living Wage Campaign, Wild Roots, Green House and NOM. w“One of the main goals of Food Day was to bring organizations that are already working on sustainable agriculture and health or food related issues together and highlight the work they have been doing and help them collaborate,� Polonsky said. “There are a lot of student groups on campus that work on these issues, but they don’t always collaborate and even when they do, it’s always great to have a larger event that kind of showcases what they do.� Monday afternoon, nuCuisine set up a display of fresh produce and goods grown by local and sustainable farms on the ground floor of Norris University Center. It also offered a lunch special featuring organic vegetables and free-range chicken. In the evening, nuCuisine provided sustainable dinner options in all residential dining halls. “Our big focus is showing that we are serving
local and sustainable items on the menu,� said Pam Yee, district marketing managerat nuCuisine. Some of the food featured at the fresh market came from the nuCuisine farm in Wisconsin. As part of the larger effort to increase sustainability, nuCuisine purchased the farm last spring to supplement some of the produce used at NU. NuCuisine recognizes that the food system is not optimal and hopes to increase sustainability by producing organic foods and asking vendors to buy from local farms, said Theresa Laurenz, district dietician at NU. Representatives from the Center for Foodborne Illness Research & Prevention also held a food safety trivia wheel at the Rock on Monday afternoon to inform students of how to prevent foodborne illnesses. Emphasizing the economic and health factors associated with food consumption demonstrates the interdependent relationship of larger issues
related to food production, Hung said. “I kind of wanted to bring together a community where people could talk about food issues and support real food on campus,� Hung said. Food Day also incorporated a panel discussion on NU food production at McCormick Auditorium and a tour of the Norris kitchens, organized by the Living Wage Campaign. “We wanted to make clear that it’s beyond contract negotiations,� said SESP sophomore Robyn Levinson, a member of the LWC. “We wanted to focus on what the workers here are proud to do. A lot of the chefs and workers in our dining halls are really talented and really invested in creating food.� Hung said the student response has been positive, and she hopes to organize a student group to continue the effort next year. vasilikimitrakos2013@u.northwestern.edu
Attorney discusses Supreme Court, prison crowding case By Joseph Diebold
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San Francisco-based attorney Michael Bien (JD ‘80), spoke to about 50 Northwestern Law students at NU’s Chicago campus Monday about the constitutionality of state prison overcrowding. Bien, a managing partner of Rosen, Bien & Galvan, LLP, lectured about how he argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Brown v. Plata last year. In a 5-4 decision handed down May 23, 2011, the Court ruled in favor of Bien, ruling that overcrowding in some California prisons violated the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution unless courts placed population limits on the prisons. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the five-justice majority. “This case arises from serious constitutional violations in California’s prison system,� Kennedy wrote
in the opinion of the Court. “The violations have persisted for years. They remain uncorrected.� In his lecture at NU, Bien praised the Court’s decision. “Law can still be a tool for social change,� Bien said. “Justice Kennedy’s decision is a powerful affirmation of the fundamental power due to the federal courts to remedy violations of Constitutional rights. The Eighth Amendment not only lives on but it is stronger today than it has been for years.� The verdict is controversial, however, because population quotas often mean releasing convicted criminals before their sentences are complete. “If I were a citizen of California, I would be concerned about the release of 40,000 prisoners,� Justice Samuel Alito had said during the case argument. Justice Antonin Scalia agreed, writing a critical dissent in the Brown case. “One would think that, before allowing the decree
of a federal district court to release 46,000 convicted felons, this Court would bend every effort to read the law in such a way as to avoid that outrageous result,� Scalia wrote. Bien disagreed with Scalia’s argument, saying not one person in California was released early. In his talk, Bien said changes to the parole and probation systems, including moving those convicted of minor crimes to county jails, opened up space in the overcrowded state prisons. Alan Mills (JD ‘81), the legal director of the Uptown People’s Law Center, said Bien’s work fits with NU’s mindset as a university. University programs such as the Medill Innocence Project and the School of Law’s Center on Wrongful Convictions are devoted to similar issues. “It fits in perfectly with Northwestern’s overall philosophy, which leans heavily on clinical education, and the (Bluhm Legal Clinic) has a major focus on
the criminal justice system,� Mills said. Second-year law student Linda Nyberg praised Bien’s work. “It’s really interesting work because you do have those issues of discrimination and coming up against very entrenched stereotypes about prisoners as their own category versus prisoners as people,� Nyberg said. “He’s fighting for the prisoners as people, a standpoint which is not very popular in many segments of the population.� Third-year law student Will Singer agreed Bien is bringing justice to those who need it most. “It’s clear California is probably the leading example of a prison system and a criminal justice system gone completely haywire,� Singer said. “He’s doing great work and it’s a position that more politicians and hopefully more citizens will come to agree with.� jdiebold@u.northwestern.edu
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THE DRAWING BOARD
by Julianna Nunez
Free Willie from corporate sponsors Last weekend I returned to campus for my 40th reunion, and I was more than a little disappointed, and not just because we lost another football game that we probably should have won. You see, my class was best known for taking over buildings and shutting down Sheridan Road during the student strike in 1970. And I was sad to learn that more than a few former classmates had eventually “sold out to the man,” and worked for corporations we had vilified during our protest days. But I was really disturbed when I ran into an old friend who was so shameless about “selling out” that he showed up at the reunion brazenly sporting a big corporate logo on the front of his shirt. Unfortunately, the friend to whom I refer is Willie the Wildcat — now presumably to be called “Willie the Wildcat brought to you by Meijer.” Of course, the Meijer logo is strategically placed where it will be prominently featured in every photo that Willie poses for with every cute little Wildcat wannabe. I don’t blame Willie. I sincerely doubt that he had any say in the matter. Besides, he never complains about anything. Even when we’re blowing huge leads to teams we should be able to put away, he keeps giving us that same old Willie smile. I certainly applaud anyone who is willing to support Northwestern athletics, but couldn’t Meijer be satisfied with a sign on the scoreboard, a page in the program, or a “shout-out” to their tailgate recipes on the NU athletics website? Yes, I understand that Pat Fitzgerald is officially the “Dan and Susan Jones Family Head Football Coach.” But Fitz doesn’t have his sponsors’ names sewn on his sideline attire and neither should Willie. For years, Coca-Cola has pretty much claimed that they “own” Santa Claus, but even Coke has not tried to slap its corporate logo on Old Saint Nick. Doesn’t Willie deserve the same respect? Back in my day we might have boycotted Meijer or staged a protest in front of their stores. Occupy Meijer’s would have made Occupy Wall Street seem like a walk in the park, which to some extent it is. But there are more creative ways to deal with this problem. Here’s one suggestion: take the Meijer logo off of Willie’s shirt and sew it to the front of every one of Morty’s well-tailored suits. He’s far more articulate than Willie, though arguably less huggable. Besides, Morty goes overseas a lot so the Meijer’s people would get a lot of international exposure. Assuming that Morty refuses to cooperate, we could all join together and buy back Willie’s soul. I have a feeling that if we put up more money than Meijer we could “sponsor” Willie, and return him to his rightful owners: the Northwestern family. I don’t know what Meijer paid for the privilege of stitching their logo on Willie’s jersey, but I’m betting that if each of us — every current student and every living alum — sent the athletics department a check for ten cents we’d be able to free Willie. And if we were unsuccessful in our endeavor, at least they’d have a nice down payment on that new athletic complex they keep talking about. Won’t you please join me in my crusade? If you don’t I fear that by the time you return to campus for your 40th reunion Willie will resemble a NASCAR driver, the alma mater will be rewritten to include corporate slogans, and you’ll be spending far more time than I am photoshopping logos out of your favorite mascot’s pictures. Some things in life just shouldn’t be for sale. Like Fitz or Santa or Morty or especially Willie. Ed Streb Class of ‘71
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Small decisions, big repercussions The best and the brightest advised the president to send additional advisors to Southeast Asia in 1961. The president concurred, and he dispatched men to Vietnam. Within seven years, 400 American Green Beret “Special Advisors” became 537,000 service members. And before the conflict ended, 58,175 Americans lost their lives. It’s easy to forget that President Kennedy sent the first American troops to Vietnam, but the lessons of the conflict are seared into the current American consciousness. Small commitments can rapidly become unsustainable and the safest of military endeavors can end in tremendous failure.w Those lessons are now well known, but they were alien to Kennedy and his team of advisors. In his review of the muddled foreign policy that led America to intervene in Vietnam, David Halbersten places blame on the academics and intellectuals in Kennedy’s administration. They were the best and brightest, but they erred with tremendous ramifications. They lost a war and forever changed the role of America in world politics. This week, another academic made a small, safe commitment to send 100 American troops abroad to Africa. Guided by the internationally accepted “responsibility to protect” doctrine, President Obama has authorized an armed force to aid in the destruction of Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army, a regional force that has raped, killed, maimed and kidnapped with impunity in at least four countries. Only 98 years ago, Woodrow Wilson preached the virtue of moral policy and sent waves of American forces overseas. Like Obama, he was an academic (the president of Princeton) and represented the vanguard of intellectualism and
morality, as opposed to his predecessors who touted the virtue of the dollar and big stick diplomacy. He was the original intellectual president. However, his fervent belief in the Monroe Doctrine and moral policy led to a series of foreign misadventures in Central America, including intervention and military presence in Mexico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Nicaragua between 1912 and 1917. History has washed Wilson’s intervention from the American mind, but the defeat of the U.S. Marines remains a point of great national pride in Nicaragua. More importantly, it ushered in Nicaraguan governments prone to systematically oppressing, killing and undermining their own citizens. The powers that emerged in the wake of American intervention would go on to rule Nicaragua tyrannically until 1990. Starting with the forced ousting of President Jose Santos Zelaya in 1909 due to U.S. intervention, Nicaragua experienced a rapid economic and humanitarian decline, though conditions within Nicaragua cannot be blamed entirely on American foreign policy. Likewise, modern-day conditions in Mexico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Cuba are not entirely the result of Wilson’s actions. However, his military commitments strongly shaped Central America in unintended and often deleterious ways. In contrast to the flimsy support Wilson used to wage war, intervening in Africa now appears to be a defensible action, and certainly a moral one. Likely, it might even succeed. A similarly small British force subdued a rebel uprising in Sierra Leone that had engaged in Kony-style butchery in 2000. If a small American force can save lives at minimal cost it should be utilized, but with great caution. Unfortunately, it’s not so easy to decipher if intervention is for the good and what the longterm implications of any actions are. Therefore, Congress must accept greater oversight of American intervention, and the American public must press for a reduced level of international intervention. The risks of not doing so are simply too high, for Americans and foreigners alike. Scott Rosenfield is a Medill junior. He can be reached at ScottRosenfield2012@u.northwestern.edu
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Baseball players choose their walkup tunes with little regard to fan allegiances in the music industry. When I was about 10, my favorite Mets player, an outfielder named Derek Bell whom I favored because of his interesting mustache, approached the plate to the opening strains of Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin’.” It didn’t matter to Derek Bell, Jay-Z or myself that Jay actually supports the Yankees. Sometimes I wish political allegiances were more like our sports loyalties, that is, important to us in varying degrees, but not the lens through which each of our interactions with the rest of the world should be viewed. I feel comfortable gently ribbing a Phillies fan, and goodness knows I’ve learned to take what they dish back at me, but we can generally get along (as much as anyone can get along with a Phillies fan). Similarly, I think I’m quite able to engage people whose political views differ from mine in debates and good-natured trash talking, but I’ve never seen a dissenting opinion as a reason to write someone off entirely. Speaking of things people write off entirely, let’s talk about Fox News and Maroon 5. Living on a college campus in a major metropolitan area can insulate us from many of the realities of American life, like Top-40 pop/rock and conservative-leaning news organizations, so it’s not likely that many of us were tuned in when Fox News ruffled Adam Levine’s feathers by playing one of his songs. Luckily, Levine’s angry tweet at the network briefly lit up the blogosphere last week, so now the disagreement is on our radar. This is a new twist on a very old issue. Leftleaning musicians have a long history of asking conservative politicians not to use their music at campaign events. Most recently, Tom Petty asked Michele Bachmann not to use the song “American Girl.” The tradition goes back much farther, at least to Reagan’s campaign, during which Bruce Springsteen asked that Ronald Reagan not use “Born in the U.S.A.” It’s really too bad everyone always harps on how the song is misunderstood and not actually patriotic. I was always hoping Obama would give it a political reprise. What’s different in Levine’s case is that Fox News is a network, not a politician. Fox was shelling out royalty payments to Levine for the use of the song. For campaign events, the intellectual property law is a lot murkier, but artists tend to exert their rights over songs only when they don’t like the people who are using them. In each case, I recognize that artists have opinions, and it can be tough to watch someone use what you’ve created to espouse a different one. But I wonder if it might be a wiser choice for artists to enjoy the exposure and save the grandstanding for a different occasion. Here’s what happened in the case of “Big Pimpin’”: When I got a little older and heard the song in its entirety, I recognized it as a connection to my youth and to a time when the Mets were good. I liked the song. I liked Jay-Z. I don’t think alienating all non-Yankee fans has ever been high on Jay-Z’s priority list, so I wonder why so many artists seem dead set on distancing themselves from all potential fans who are conservative. Adam Levine, Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen have enjoyed tremendous musical success among bipartisan audiences. Fans are able to look past their disagreement, and maybe the artists should also be able to. It’s not that Adam Levine isn’t entitled to his own opinion. He’s just as entitled as the pundits on Fox News are. He should be able to express his opinion however he wants. My opinion happens to be that viewers aren’t really missing much if they can’t hear “Moves Like Jagger.” Regardless, letting our political viewpoints dictate whom we allow to interact with us seems pretty limiting for all parties involved. Ali Elkin is a Medill senior. She can be reached at ali.elkin@u.northwestern.edu
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
City council talks zoning, township By Susan Du
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Although township dissolution was a priority issue at Monday’s Evanston City Council meeting, members also discussed zoning for a multifamily dwelling and allowing special use for a bed-andbreakfast. Mike Rourke, the owner of the development project located at 2500 Green Bay Rd., attended the planning and development committee meeting to recommend the adoption of an ordinance that grants zoning relief for his multifamily dwelling, which is under construction. The current zoning code in the R5 general residential district allows a maximum of nine units and requires a minimum of 18 off-street parking spaces, but Rourke asked committee members to allow the construction of 12 residential units and permit 15 on-site parking spaces. Committee members moved to remove the requirement for an extra three parking spaces. Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) commended the project for taking advantage of “foundation in need of development,� while Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) agreed to allow 15 parking spaces because the families that Rourke expect to move into the dwelling would not own many cars. “It doesn’t make sense to require there be enough parking spaces at this point,� Wilson said. In the case of an application for special use for a proposed bed and breakfast at 300 Church St., the council had previously voted 7-2 against it. Andrew Scott, an attorney representing Evergreen Manor LLC, attended Monday’s meeting to propose an ordinance in response to the council’s concerns that the majority owner of the bed and breakfast, James Pritzker, does not plan to live on the property and operate it himself. Council members asked that Pritzker have a ownership interest in the limited liability company in order to apply for special use for his bed-andbreakfast. Scott proposed that the owner-occupy rule not be restricted to the minority owner, who plans to operate the business in place of Pritzker. Rainey expressed concern about how changes in the bed-and-breakfast’s owner-occupant might create unnecessary risk for the business. “If there’s any change in the owner-occupant, we need to confirm it with the council,� she said. “The restriction out to be that the owner-occupant needs to occupy the premises at all times.� On the other hand, Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) said her primary concern is that Pritzker himself will not live on the property. She suggested to council that special use for the bed-and-breakfast be tied to Pritzker’s ownership of the business. Wilson amended her motion to include the provision that if Pritzker were to divulge ownership of the bed-and-breakfast, the current operator could continue to work as long as she remains an owneroccupant. The motion was approved as amended. shijundu2014@u.norwthwestern.edu
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Jewish school sues for building rights By Joyce Lee
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The lot on 222 Hartrey Ave. stays unoccupied while Joan Dachs Bais Yaakov Elementary, an Orthodox Jewish school, and the city engage in an ongoing lawsuit for JDBY’s rights to build on the property. In January 2007, the school bought the sixacre property to expand its over-populated Chicago school, said Moshe Davis, the president of the Associated Talmud Torahs of Chicago school board. However, the property had been an industrial zone at the time JDBY purchased it, which does not allow for the building of schools, religious or secular. Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl and Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) could not be reached for comment for this story. City attorney Grant Farrar, former plan commission member Charles Staley, Ald. Coleen Burrus (9th), city manager Wally Bobkiewicz and city spokesperson Eric Palmer declined to comment. According to court documents, JDBY first submitted an appeal to build on the lot as a religious institution, which is allowed on industrial zones, shortly after the purchase. The city denied the appeal, maintaining JDBY’s standing as an educational institution. After several more appeals, JDBY withdrew them all except one asking the city to change the zone type from industrial to commercial. The city also denied this motion. “We thought it would be a safe property behind the shopping center, behind the church, with a safe religious atmosphere for
our school,� Davis said. “We thought it was an obvious no-brainer.� City officials including Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl and Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) cited the tax-revenue loss and “permanent loss of already scarce land zoned as industrial� as reasons for denying JDBY’s appeals, according to court documents. They further stated the city would only accept buildings on the property as long as they had potential for industrial use. However, Davis said JDBY is willing to make up for any losses in tax revenue. “We sympathize with them,� he said. “We would make a deal with them so that we would offset the problem that Evanston has about not being on the taxroll.� As for the city official’s second point, Davis said there is no industrial demand for the property in question. “There is no industry that wants that property anymore,� he said. “The property was vacant for many, many years and the owner at the time in 2006 was just tired of it.� JDBY sued the city in Spring 2009 to get a zoning release on grounds of violation of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, according to court documents. A church next to the property had been allowed a special exemption to build on the industrial zone; JDBY representatives argue in their lawsuit the city violated the act when it granted the church the right to build. Extending the similarity between the two cases, JDBY claims the city also violated the Equal Protection Clause. In two weeks, both sides will respond to
We feel this is a basic First Amendment right, it’s a religious land-use right. Moshe Davis,
President of Associated Talmud Torahs of Chicago school board the motions filed by giving rebuttals in court. The judge will have two months to rule on the motions. “We feel that this is a basic First Amendment right, it’s a religious land-use right,� Davis said. “This is a state tax issue and a federal law. You can’t mess around with it. It’s black and white and they’re doing this improperly.� Shortly after the lawsuit was filed, the city council unanimously voted to eliminate the exemption allowing for religious institutions to build in industrial zones. Davis said the school had overspent financially in order to maintain the lawsuit as well as a school composed of middle-class students, 80 percent of whom are receiving some form of financial aid. “We’re doing our best to keep our heads above water,� Davis said. Several aldermen were asked not to comment on the lawsuit. “We’ve been looking for many years for an alternative location for the school and when this option came up, we thought this would be ideal,� Davis said. “I don’t know what would be the benefit of leaving it vacant forever.� solee2015@u.northwestern.edu
NU slips into higher Sexual Health ranking By Julia Rudansky
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Northwestern is ranked 28th on Trojan’s 2011 Sexual Health Report Card, increasing 35 spots since last year. The move up is partially due to the generous funding allocated toward new peer education programs and the availability of anonymous advice at NU, said Bert Sperling, president of Sperling’s BestPlaces, an independent research firm that conducted the study. The study, done in partnership with the makers of Trojan condoms, looks at 141 universities across the country each year and analyzes the services and information available to students. Researchers collected data through questionnaires filled out by student health centers and visited each center’s website to determine its accessibility. Schools were scored based on 13 categories, including HIV testing and sexual health outreach programs. “We know it is looked forward to each year,�
Sperling said. “It’s a wake-up call, because students are actually taking the message and using the study as evidence that they’re not getting the kind of information and resources that they think they deserve. It’s really very empowering for the students.� He said NU’s ranking in the study improved due to strides such as the addition of a 24-hour hotline available to students and significant developments in sexual assault programs. NU also received “extra credit,� which was given to schools providing unique or unusual programs and services, for the University’s student peer groups services. NU’s Women’s Center Director Renee Redd said participation of student groups has helped improve the school’s ranking. “We have a couple of really strong, vibrant student organizations that have helped us get here,� Redd said. One of the areas NU scored poorly in compared to last year’s rating was the availability of and information about condoms. Sperling said his research last year found
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Dissolution causes council unease From township, page 1
case, city attorney Grant Ferrar said. Some trustees viewed these efforts as worthwhile, touting potential benefits they deemed inherent in abolishing the township. Ald. Coleen Burrus (9th) said such an action would generate at least $500,000 in savings. “The benefits and salary costs are pretty remarkable, and the number of employees general assistance has seems a little abundant,� said Burrus, referring to the program that allocates various benefits to adults without children. Rainey pegged savings at an even higher cost — $750,000. Currently, the City of Evanston and Evanston Township share the same boundaries, sparking comments that township programs could easily be assumed by the city government. That move would promote greater efficiency and possibly even increase the housing and personal benefits that are distributed, Rainey said. At the meeting, Evanston Township assessor Bonnie Wilson emphasized the township’s role in providing services to taxpayers. Wilson said her office provides “much needed services,� which include helping seniors applying for exemption benefits and assisting residents making tax appeals. “My staff and I are very honored to help Evanston taxpayers and be their advocate,� said Wilson, as she pointed to a box full of files representing taxpayers township staff has helped. Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) said services like
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President Obama for his resolve in ending this war and in meeting the needs of returning veterans by creating jobs and improving health care services for those injured.� Betsy Tolstedt, team leader at the Evanston Veterans Center, declined to comment without prior approval from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. More than 4,400 Americans have died during the conflict in Iraq since the initial invasion in March 2003.
opening statements followed by a series of questions and ended with closing statements — but did not have the feel of a debate, Weinberg freshman Jonathan Muller said. “I found it hard to declare a winner and a loser because it was less of a debate and more of a discussion,� Muller said. “If it wasn’t framed as a debate, I wouldn’t have known it was one.� Also contributing to the lack of a typical debate format was the fact that the Republican primary has yet to be decided. Although Axelrod spoke in support of President Obama’s agenda, Murphy did not support or defend a single candidate. Instead, he analyzed the field of Republican candidates. “A lot of the debate was about the politics, not the policy,� Weinberg freshman Tom Cui said. While the two campaign strategists laid out ideological differences on issues such as tax policy, they disagreed less on the politics of campaigning and likely political strategies in the upcoming presidential election. The debate was organized after Axelrod’s agents contacted College Democrats about an event on campus. In return, the group proposed the idea of a debate like the one they organized last year between former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean and current Republican primary candidate Rick Santorum, said Josh Noah, president of College Democrats. “Axelrod was interested in going around and talking to college campuses to try and probably get the youth vote energized,� the Weinberg junior said. Noah said one of the motivators behind including Murphy in the debate was the friendship Murphy and Axelrod share, a relationship they both mentioned during the debate. That contributed to a lighthearted atmosphere, and Murphy especially had a casual tone, Noah said. Murphy’s closing statement consisted of two words: “Vote Republican.� Despite the jokes, the two shared serious moments of optimism about their work in politics. “I am not cynical,� Axelrod said. “Despite all my experiences, I still have great faith in this country, in our system, and you guys being here gives me even greater faith.�
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Township tension: Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl and City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz discuss the possible dissolution of Evanston Township at Monday’s council meeting.
the general assistance program are endangered if not provided by the Evanston Township, arguing the state is ill-suited to assume such duties. “It’s irresponsible for us to talk about abolishing the township without having a firm plan of what’s going to happen to the general assistance fund,� Holmes said. In response to fears over the program’s survival, City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz said he believes it could become incorporated into the City’s community and economic development department.
Bobkiewicz added he would be “happy to come back� with a detailed plan at another meeting in November, though that date was unclear. The last township-dissolving action in Illinois occurred in Williamson County in 1932, indicating the “very rare� nature of the trustees’ deliberation, Ferrar said. The township resolution must be filed with the Illinois State Board Elections by Jan. 3, 2012. kimberlyrailey2014@u.northwestern.edu
Mixed reactions meet Iraq withdrawal From iraq, page 1
put in so much time.� Adams also mentioned the U.S. troops currently serving in Afghanistan and around the world. “We’ve got guys all over the world right now,� Adams said. “It will be great to leave Iraq but we’ve still got a full plate. I’ll be glad that those guys are coming home to their families, but I’m still thinking of those men and women who are still deployed doing the difficult and dangerous work of our nation.�
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Adams currently works as a certified financial planner and lives with his wife Teresa, whom he met at NU, and kids in Walla Walla, Wash. U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), whose district includes Evanston, welcomed the news of the withdrawal, calling the war “unnecessary� and “unfunded� in a news release Friday. “I applaud President Obama’s announcement that he will bring our brave military men and women home from Iraq by the end of the year,� she said in the news release. “I thank
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NU has fallen into swoon season By Nicholas Medline
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Northwestern returned home to Lakeside Field two weekends ago hoping its impressive non-conference results would translate into Big Ten victories. Now, with only a pair of games remaining prior to the start of postseason play, the Wildcats are running out of time to end a late-season swoon. After a commanding, albeit expected, 5-0 win Friday against Pacific, the Cats failed to capitalize on several opportunities the following day in a disappointing 5-2 loss to Iowa. While No. 20 NU (11-7, 1-4 Big Ten) looks to bring home the Big Ten Tournament title, which would give the team an automatic berth in the NCAA Championships, it first must rediscover its ability to win crucial games.
“Qualification (for the tournament) is so important,” sophomore midfielder Maria Kovalchuk said. “We need to win every game to keep our hopes alive.” NU started its weekend on the right note, dominating from the opening whistle on Friday, as redshirt freshman Kelsey Thompson scored her first career goal just less than 10 minutes into the game. Junior midfielder Chelsea Armstrong notched her 23rd goal of the season shortly after to give the Cats a 2-0 lead. Sophomore forward Nikki Parsley continued her emergence as a prominent offensive threat for NU, as she scored twice in the second half. Armstrong provided an insurance tally as the Cats pelted the Tigers’ goalkeeper with 23 shots on goal. Freshman goaltender Maddy Carpenter made three saves for her third shutout of the season.
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Lone highlights: Redshirt senior back Megan Jamieson opened the scoring for the Cats on Saturday, but her goal came a little too late, as NU already trailed Iowa 4-0.
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The next day, NU faced an Iowa team that had given up just 1.29 goals per game. Sure enough, although the Cats owned possession early in the game, the Hawkeyes prevented quality shots. When the defense lapsed, junior goalkeeper Kathleen McGraw was up to the task, making five saves in the first half. “She’s one of the best goalies in the conference,” coach Tracey Fuchs said. “A goal would have turned the tides but we let them stay in the game.” No. 11 Iowa (13-3, 4-2) connected more than 23 minutes into the game when junior back Jessica Barnett scored off of a penalty corner play. After a stoppage in play during which an injured bird was escorted off the field, sophomore back Niki Schultheis converted to give the Hawkeyes a 2-0 halftime advantage. “They were intense defensively,” Kovalchuk said. “They marked down on our players and stopped us from capitalizing.” Despite noteworthy performances from Kovalchuk and sophomore midfielder Catherine Franklin, NU was unable to stop Iowa from pulling away. Sophomore Aubrey Coleman beat Carpenter on the far post and Barnett added another penalty corner goal in the 54th minute to make it 4-0. Redshirt senior back Megan Jamieson finally opened the scoring for NU with fewer than eight minutes remaining and Parsley capped her outstanding weekend by knocking home a rebound from senior forward Regan Mooney. The rally was to no avail, as Iowa sophomore Kelsey Mitchell put the game on ice by scoring off a pass from Coleman. Fuchs noted that it was “frustrating” how the final score highlighted NU’s lack of execution. Although the Cats outshot the Hawkeyes 16-8, they were unable to take advantage of the majority of their opportunities. It is imperative that the team control the scoreboard — and not just the game — when it hosts No. 18 Ohio State (10-7, 3-2) and Louisville (10-7, 3-3 Big East) next weekend. “We’re raring to go,” Jamieson said. “All games have been close.” Sixteen teams will compete in the NCAA Field Hockey Tournament, and even though the Cats are likely to fall out of the top 20 when the rankings come out on Tuesday, they are still hopeful that they can make the field. “In the end, it doesn’t matter where you’re ranked when you go in,” Fuchs said. “It matters where you come out.”
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by 10.1 percent. The Obama administration also requested a $1 million decrease in the Fulbright Program. Hill said while a 10.1 percent cut would not devastate the program, limiting its funds would have serious consequences. “Denying numbers of students to this scholarship simply sets this country back,” he said. “If it goes away, you just can’t replace it with online (education). Hopefully lawmakers will see the value of the Fulbright Program and see it is well worth the money.” Hill said Fulbright will either give out fewer scholarships or, less likely, reduce the award amount given to each scholarship recipient. But Hill said the second option would not give students enough money to fund themselves for a year of research. For students considering the program, the potential funding cuts are of particular concern. If accepted, McGrath said he would receive $30,000 to $40,000 to pay for all of his expenses in Paris — if the amount were reduced, however, he would not be able to find a good place to live near where he would research. Rauf agreed that a funding decrease would negatively impact the experience, which already often suffers from budget constraints. He said travel and living expenses were some of the most costly parts of his trip and affected how much he could use on research. “It’s not a blank check,” he said. “There’s limited funding already, and (further) limited funds will jeopardize the program.” Kris Anne Bonifacio contributed reporting.
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Turf toe might sideline Persa at IU
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Brought down: Senior quarterback Dan Persa was tackled from behind Saturday against Penn State, and was ultimately forced to leave the game as a result of turf toe.
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daily senior staffer
The Wildcats may be without the services of senior quarterback Dan Persa against Indiana as coach Pat Fitzgerald said Monday that Persa was questionable with turf toe in his left foot. “Right now we’ve got him in a boot,” Fitzgerald said. “It’s one of those deals where you kind of sprain the joint in your toe. We’ll just see how it responds as he goes through treatment.” Though Fitzgerald said following Northwestern’s 34-24 loss to No. 21 Penn State on Saturday that Persa could have returned to the game after limping
off the field in the fourth quarter, it now appears the injury is more serious. NU did not make Persa available to the media on Monday, but Fitzgerald said he spoke with Persa earlier in the day after a team meeting. “He said he felt much better,” Fitzgerald said. “He said he was going to play, so same old Dan.” If Persa cannot play against Indiana this weekend or if he is limited, that will mean more reps for Kain Colter. The sophomore was the Cats’ starting signal-caller for the first three games of the season while Persa recovered from a torn Achilles tendon he suffered last fall against Iowa. In those three games,
Colter led NU to its only two victories of the season, passing for 390 yards with one touchdown while rushing for four scores and 237 yards. Even with Persa back in the lineup, Colter has continued to get snaps at quarterback, running an option offense that has picked up decent yards on the ground. “(Colter)’s just an extremely talented athlete and he’s going to scramble out and run for 100 yards probably in the game,” senior left tackle Al Netter said. “You do want to be able to hold your blocks a little bit longer. You never really know where the ball’s going to be.” Persa picked up right where he left
off after making the All-Big Ten first team last year, throwing for 990 yards and six touchdowns in four games since his return. However, he has not been the same dual-threat quarterback he was last year. After leading the Cats in rushing yards per game the previous season, he has rushed for minus-seven yards this year. Persa’s health has been a question mark throughout the season. There were originally thoughts he might be ready for the start of the 2011 season, but he misplanted his foot in June, which set him back a month in his recovery. Even with the summer setback, he was listed as questionable for NU’s first two games
of the season against Boston College and Eastern Illinois, but didn’t play. He dressed for the team’s third game of the season, a 21-14 loss to Army, but once again didn’t play. In his first appearance of the season, he started against Illinois, only to be removed in the fourth quarter after taking a hit to his injured foot. Fitzgerald remained optimistic that Persa would play on Saturday unless he doesn’t recover from his injury as quickly as expected. “We’ll operate and expect Dan to play,” Fitzgerald said. “Then we’ll adjust accordingly.” colinbecht2013@u.northwestern.edu
Metoric rise lands NU in first Twinbill triumph gets By Dan Ryan
the daily northwestern
Even as Northwestern failed to notch a goal for 76 minutes against the top team in the Big Ten, it was hard not to expect the Wildcats to pull it out. They’ve just been playing that well. So it came as no surprise when junior midfielder Nick Gendron took a perfectly placed pass from sophomore midfielder Layth Masri and buried it in the back of the net to defeat Wisconsin 1-0. And with that, NU, which was playing
just well enough to lose when it got off to a 1-3-1 start this season, was sitting atop the Big Ten standings, much to the amusement of coach Tim Lenahan. “Are we in first place?” Lenahan said. “I know. Obviously we still have two games left. But we knew it was going to be a one-play game. We played very well and defended very well. And the one thing is when you’re able to keep the ball like we did today, you don’t have to defend as often.” The teams traded scoring threats for much of the first half. Twenty-two minutes
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At the tiller: Freshman goalie Tyler Miller has provided a steady hand on the steering wheel for NU, with three saves in a win over Wisconsin.
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into the game, the Cats nearly converted a corner kick, but Badgers goalie Max Jentsch caught the ball at the last moment. With 21:40 left in the frame, NU goalie Tyler Miller made a diving stop to his left to block the best Wisconsin scoring opportunity of the game. The Cats (8-4-3, 3-0-1 Big Ten) opened the second half by getting consistent good looks on offense. And it took only one to dethrone the Badgers (7-6-2, 3-1-0). With only 14 minutes remaining in regulation, Gendron took a pass from Masri off a corner by sophomore forward Reed Losee and deposited it safely in the Wisconsin goal, thus completing the Cats’ run to the top of the Big Ten. “Reed did a good job of throwing it to Layth,” Gendron said. “And Layth just put the ball right on my head. Would have been a crime if I didn’t finish that one.” Senior midfielder Oliver Kupe said the Cats foresaw the game’s result. “We knew what we were getting into coming here and playing Wisconsin,” Kupe said. “We knew it was going to be a grindout kind of game, and the better defense would win. And one person had to make the play.” Gendron and goalie Tyler Miller earned Big Ten Offensive and Defensive Player of the Week honors, marking the fourth and fifth NU players to receive a weekly conference award this season, a school record. The string of individual accolades has led to powerful team results, as the Cats are riding a six-match unbeaten streak, a run which Kupe attributed to their ability to guard the goal. “It’s just our commitment to defense,” Kupe said. “I know when we turned the ninth game of the season, we had a whole half to play. And we decided to really focus on our defense. We knew if we kept the number on our opponent’s scoreboard to zero, we’d have a chance to win every single game.” danielryan2014@u.northwestern.edu
Cats off to strong start By Kevin Trahan
the daily northwestern
The Northwestern men’s and women’s swimming teams both opened their seasons with road wins on Friday. The men defeated Eastern Michigan 165-130 and the women defeated Illinois 199-101. Men’s coach Jarod Schroeder said he was happy with his team’s performance against perennial powerhouse Eastern Michigan, which has won 10 of the last 12 Mid-American Conference championships. “It was good first meet of season for us,” he said. “Timewise, we’re not where need to be in terms of what end result was, but in terms of racing, we did good job of racing.” Schroeder said he was impressed with the way the seniors stepped up for the Wildcats. Jake Grosser helped lead a young squad to victory in the 200 medley relay and also won the 50 free, John Frutiger took home the 200 free and Tony Mattar finished first in a one-two NU sweep of the 200 fly. Co-captain and junior Charlie Rimkus said he was also excited about the potential the freshmen showed. “We brought in some great freshmen and they’re all stepping up,” he said. Rimkus put forth a spectacular performance of his own, winning the 1,000 free by nearly 12 seconds. He said NU still has work to do if it wants to compete in the Big Ten. “It’s always good to get the cobwebs off and I’m glad we could come away with the win, too,” Rimkus said. “(We need to continue) to take steps forward in practice. There are obvious things each of us needs to work on and all of us know what those are.” NU will begin its Big Ten season in two weeks with a match-up against Purdue. The Boilermakers beat the Cats 193-107 last season en route to a fifth-place finish in the Big Ten. “Purdue will be a big test,” he said. “They’ve got great diving there,
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199 101 typically some of best divers in country. That does present a little bit of a challenge for us. We could go into swimming portion of it typically behind 26 points.” While the men will be searching for their first conference win of the year against the Boilermakers, the women’s team already has a Big Ten win with its defeat of Illinois. “There is certainly a long way to go and a lot we can do to improve,” coach Jimmy Tierney said, “but for the first meet of the year, and a conference and instate rival, we were pleased to come out with a win and a decisive win for Northwestern athletics.” The Cats were aided by strong showings from both their upperclassmen and freshmen. “We think we have a lot of great leaders in our senior class,” Tierney said. “I’m pleased with how the freshmen responded, too. It was their first dual meet, so I’m sure they were a bit nervous. Their attitude was good and they came ready to race, so that was a good sign for me.” Senior Hannah Points spurred on her teammates with wins in the 200 fly, the 200 breast and the 400 individual medley, while junior Felicitas Lenz led the way on the diving boards. “We were pretty pleased,” Tierney said. “We went down there to race and compete hard, and well, for the most part, we got our hand on the wall in close races.” kevintrahan2015@u.northwestern.edu