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City expands gun buyback Residents can call 311 at any time to trade in weapons By PATRICK SVITEK
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Evanston expanded its gun buyback program to an ongoing basis Monday, offering the service at any time under a new process. Launched after 19-year-old Justin Murray was shot and killed last fall, the initiative now allows residents to call 311 or the Evanston Police Department’s nonemergency number whenever they want to trade in a firearm rather than on a specific date. An officer will retrieve the gun and give the resident a $100 voucher that can be cashed in at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center. Like the previous version of the program, residents will not face legal action once they hand over the weapon. Police will inventory and destroy the guns they collect. The city came up with the idea after retired Police Chief William Logan told Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl that one of his neighbors missed the first two buybacks but still wanted to exchange a gun. Police rounded up 45 firearms during the first buyback Dec. 15,
2012, and 28 during the second one June 29, including a stolen handgun from Chicago. Encouraged by the results, Evanston Police Chief Richard Eddington suggested making the service “available all the time” after the latest event.
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What we’re preventing is downstream events and tragedies. Richard Eddington, Evanston police chief
“For people who don’t want to maintain firearms, don’t want to care for them, don’t want to keep them under lock and key, we’ve provided a legal avenue for them to turn their firearms in,” Eddington said at the time. “What we’re preventing is downstream events and tragedies.” On Monday afternoon, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said the program helps prevent guns from landing in the “wrong hands.” “It’s one step of an approach to reduce any type of firearm violence,” » See GUN BUYBACK, page 10
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THE GREAT DEBATE The campus shuttle stop near the intersection of Sherman Avenue and Noyes Street was at the center of a city-led debate this summer. NU and officials agreed to move the stop across the street.
Shuttle debate settles down NU moves Noyes stop across the street By SOPHIA BOLLAG
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A city-led debate over campus shuttles appears to have ended — at least for now — after Northwestern
Profs praise MacArthur winner English profs reflect on work of alumna, ‘Genius Grant’ recipient
B.A. in English and Spanish and went on to pursue a Master of Fine Arts at Columbia University, was one of 24 fellows named Sept. 24. With the “Genius Grant” comes a $625,000 stipend paid over five
years that Russell is free to use as she wishes to advance her career. As a fiction writer, Russell was named for her “haunting yet comic” » See RUSSELL, page 10
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Northwestern alumna Karen Russell (Weinberg ‘03) reached a peak in She’s very her writing career deserving. earlier this I hope she month can put (the when she fellowship) to w on t h e prestigious great use. MacArthur Foundation Brian Bouldrey, Fellowship, English prof and the professors that taught her a decade ago are pleasantly surprised. “She’s very deserving,” English Prof. Brian Bouldrey said. “I hope she can put (the fellowship) to great use.” Russell, who graduated with a
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‘HAUNTING YET COMIC’ Karen Russell (Weinberg ‘03) was named one of 24 winners of 2013 MacArthur Foundation Fellowships last week. Russell is an alumna of Northwestern’s creative writing program.
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agreed to move a stop across the street from its original location. In response to noise complaints from residents living near near the intersection of Sherman Avenue and Noyes Street, University and city officials discussed the issue over the summer and agreed to
move the stop. Although when she brought the issue before City Council on Aug. 12 Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) suggested rerouting the Evanston Loop Shuttle and Intercampus Shuttle routes » See SHUTTLES, page 10
Evanston, Chicago campuses affected by Internet outages
Northwestern University Information Technology experienced “intermittent connectivity issues” for nearly five hours Monday morning and afternoon, resulting in spotty Internet service in many campus buildings. Wendy Woodward, director of technology support services, said NUIT was first alerted to the issues at about 11:30 a.m. Monday. Woodward said the sporadic connectivity “affected the majority of the buildings in Evanston and Chicago.” Woodward said it is unclear what the specific cause was of the disturbance, which impacted both wireless and wired networks. “Generally speaking, it looks like the network was seeing a lot of heavy traffic from some source, but we don’t have actual details and specifics at this time,” she said. “To rectify the situation we were able to make adjustments to the network settings, and slowly as we saw that work through the network routers we saw things begin to stabilize.” When first alerted to the issues Monday morning, Woodward said NUIT contacted its network vendor, and the organization’s engineers and technical staff met every 20 to 30 minutes throughout the afternoon. The main NUIT networks in both Evanston and Chicago had stabilized by 3 p.m. while kinks in the organization’s “specialty networks” had been ironed out by 4 p.m.
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SERVER DOWN Northwestern students on the Evanston and Chicago campuses experienced internet connection issues for several hours early Monday.
Woodward preached patience, saying NUIT would use Monday’s outage to attempt to prevent similar issues in the future.
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“NUIT appreciates everyone’s patience today as we worked through the issues as they presented themselves, and we will do everything possible to understand what happened so that we can avoid it in the future,” she said. — Joseph Diebold
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Wellness center celebrates new space By EDWARD COX
Someone hit the head of an 18-year-old resident Saturday evening in west Evanston, according to police. The resident was walking north on Dodge Avenue when someone hit him in the head with a crowbar from behind, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. Police believe the incident was gang-related. The resident received small cuts on his head
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In revamping her business, Floy said she hopes to attract practitioners from different ethnic backgrounds and with different skill sets. Floy said she is planning four empty spaces for more practitioners. Chiropractor Arnetra Gilliam-Wharton said she wanted to join Heartwood three years ago and will now move in thanks to the addition. Heartwood is located near Evanston Plaza, a largely vacated shopping center that the city is
trying to revitalize through TIF funds. During the ceremony, Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) pointed to the Erie Family Health Center, which will soon move near the plaza, as another positive sign of economic development in his ward. Heartwood will host an open house Oct. 5, the same day of Skylight’s grand opening.
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and was bleeding, Parrott said. Paramedics took the resident to Evanston Hospital.
another and located in the same area, according to police. A 1997 red CR-V was stolen from the 1500 block of Madison Street, a 1999 cream CR-V from the corner of Sherman Avenue and Seward Street and a 1995 Odyssey from the 800 block of Elmwood Avenue. “It wouldn’t be unreasonable to say these incidents were related because of the make, model and time frame,� Parrott said.
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When Nancy Floy’s tenant moved out of a warehouse adjacent to her west Evanston wellness center in June 2012, her business lost a source of revenue. More than a year later, Heartwood Center, 1818 Dempster St., has roughly doubled in size and drawn more practitioners with more areas of expertise. Floy introduced a new Heartwood addition during a ribbon-cutting ceremony with city officials Monday. Known as Skylight, the new area provides more space for practitioners who specialize in health services such as acupuncture, chiropractic medicine and psychotherapy. Heartwood is also using 3,400 square feet of the addition as an event space. At the event, Floy discussed affording the space formerly occupied by Evanston ReBuilding Warehouse, which sold recycled materials. The total cost of renovating the former warehouse was $360,000, Floy said. Fifth Third Bank loaned Floy $100,000., and the city later matched the amount with tax-incremented finance funds. To cover the remainder of the costs, Floy said she mortgaged her Evanston home a second time. “This is a project about collaboration and what happens when we set our egos aside and set ourselves aside and we work together as a community to collaborate,� Floy said.
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3 Hondas stolen within 12 hours
Three cars were stolen Saturday night and Sunday morning in south Evanston, according to police. Parrott said police believe the incidents are related. All cars stolen were Hondas made in the late 1990s, reported as stolen within 12 hours of one
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Shabbat with 10 Strangers kicks off By TYLER PAGER
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Normally a meal to spend time with friends and family, Shabbat dinner will look very different for a dozen Northwestern students this Friday when they attend Shabbat with 10 Strangers’ first dinner of the year. Modeled after the NU Alumni Association’s Dinner with 12 Strangers, Shabbat with 10 Strangers’ dinners are hosted by either a faculty member or NU graduate and allow students to experience a family’s traditional Shabbat dinner. McCormick junior Danielle Marks and SESP sophomore Tova Yampolsky started the program while interning at Hillel’s Campus Engagement Corps, where they identified a lack of opportunities for students to attend informal and intimate Shabbat dinners. “There are few Shabbat experiences planned on campus outside of the traditional Jewish
organizations,” Marks said. A similar program was started two years ago but had limited success. However, Marks and Yampolsky decided to revitalize the initiative with 10 dinners last There are year. They already have few Shabbat five dinners planned for this fall. experiences “After each dinner, planned we send out a survey on campus and the results have been wonderful,” Marks outside of the said. “People always say traditional the food is very, very good and the families Jewish are so welcoming.” organiztions. Medill junior Stephen Autar, the group’s Danielle Marks, marketing director, is McCormick junior not Jewish and emphasized that the dinners are open to students from all religious backgrounds.
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“It’s really awesome for me to learn about a new culture and religion,” he said. “We really want to focus on getting more non-Jewish students involved.” Hillel’s executive director Michael Simon said he is thrilled with the program. “We’re really excited that Danielle and Tova have been able to engage students who might not otherwise connect with Hillel or Jewish life,” he said. “(The dinner is) fun and informal but also a meaningful experience where (students) have the chance to connect with faculty and their peers.” Last year, Simon and his wife, Jewish studies Prof. Claire Sufrin, hosted two dinners through the program. “From the host perspective, it was a tremendous program both in terms of the opportunity to invite and have students in our home — some of whom I’ve never seen at Hillel — and reach a different population of both Jewish and nonJewish students.”
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Northwestern University in Qatar Dean Everette Dennis will deliver a report on the school’s highlights in its first five years in the Louis Room on Wednesday. The topics Dennis will discuss include the school’s recent report on media use in the Middle East. OCT.
New study pinpoints lower back pain source
New research from Northwestern Medicine could change the way physicians treat back pain. Researchers were able to predict with 85 percent accuracy which patients suffering lower back injuries would have persistent pain after MRI brain scans. “We’ve found the pain is triggered by these irregularities in the brain,” said Feinberg Prof. A. Vania Apkarian, senior author of the study, in a news release. “We’ve shown abnormalities in brain structure connections may be enough to push someone to develop chronic pain once they have an injury.” Chronic pain affects nearly 100 million Americans and costs approximately $635 billion to treat annually. The study, whose lead author is Akparian’s former postdoctoral fellow Ali Mansour, is the first
to show that brain structure abnormalities can be a sign of predisposition to chronic pain rather than a symptom of living with it.
Research gives hope for reversing heart damage
A study stemming from an effort begun at Northwestern in 2000 has provided the first evidence that heart damage may not be permanent, as was previously thought. The project, which has grown to involve Duke University and Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center in Houston, was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers found that patients with coronary artery disease and regional myocardial wall thinning often only have minor scarring, meaning a surgical procedure could
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be used to restore function. “What we did was develop a method to distinguish viable heart muscle from non-viable (scarred) muscle in patients with coronary artery disease,” Feinberg Prof. Robert Bonow said in a news release. “The implication is that by identifying those individuals with predominantly viable tissue, physicians could open opportunities for treatment with drugs or revascularization with stents and coronary bypass surgery.” Bonow, the director of the Center for Cardiovascular Innovation, said the study’s results offer hope. “Heart failure is the leading cause of hospitalization in America for those 65 and older and in the Medicare population, two-thirds of patients have underlying coronary artery disease as the cause,” Bonow said. — Joseph Diebold
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‘Mike & Mike’ Friday, 5 to 9 a.m. Deering Meadow
Mike Greenberg (Medill ‘89) and his co-host Mike Golic will broadcast their drive-time ESPN radio show Friday morning from Deering Meadow before Greenberg leads Northwestern’s Homecoming parade as the grand marshal. OCT.
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‘College GameDay’ Saturday, 8 a.m. Lakefill
ESPN’s morning show previewing the day’s college football action will broadcast from Northwestern for the first time since 1995 ahead of No. 16 NU’s showdown with No. 4 Ohio State.
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Science denial difficult to overcome JULIAN CARACOTSIOS DAILY COLUMNIST
Last week, Popular Science officially shut off comments on its online articles. The 141-year old magazine said, “Even a fractious minority wields enough power to skew a reader’s perception of a story ‌ and because comments sections tend to be a grotesque reflection of the media culture surrounding them, the cynical work of undermining bedrock scientific doctrine is now being done beneath our own stories.â€? This is a development that is unfortunate at best and downright worrying at worst. However, “science denialâ€? is old news by now. But while we tend to see it as a function of education and open-mindedness, the problem, I believe, is rooted in the role that science plays in our society, which has changed vastly over time. Before the scientific revolution, science — often called “natural philosophyâ€? — was just one part of an integrated corpus of human knowledge, which included religion, philosophy and many other things which are considered decidedly “unscientificâ€? today. Modern science has shed its murky, nebulous notions of the past and is now defined by clear-cut, logical rules of mathematics and empirical experimentation. As a result, it became all the more powerful and plays an ever-larger role in society. And therein lies the issue. Much of what was once dictated by religion, tradition and philosophy is now the domain of science. It has taken the reins of power, being the ultimate tool of mankind to dictate its position in the natural world. We now look to science for our deliverance from evil, for it
is ingrained into our minds that the future will be one of greater wealth, happiness and longevity due to the inevitable march of technology. Unless, of course, we are sinful, and we misuse what science has given us. In which case, we’re only a few hydrogen bombs away from Armageddon. Of course, this flowery analogy only goes so far, but it suffices to say that — relative to 500 years ago — science has usurped much of the authority — and awe — that was once vested in God, the Church, philosophy and cultural tradition. Science is, of It’s easier to course, supposed remember that to be hermetically science is a tool, sealed from arguments not rooted in which — like evidence, but due to a hammer — its newfound imporhas nothing to tance in society, it will remain a public say about the affair, participated in intentions and not only by those in lab coats, but anyone desires of its whom it affects — users. which, effectively, is everyone. From this perspective, the key problem is not the denial by uneducated individuals who, blinded by whatever dogma they ascribe to, refuse to believe in evolution and other well-established theories. That’s only the most salient aspect of a problem that has plagued humanity since the dawn of time. Our brains are simply far worse at analyzing data from a dispassionate, logical perspective than they are at bending those facts and twisting that logic to make the evidence confirm what we already believe. Regardless of what knowledge humanity has, the arrival of new knowledge will always be resisted by those who are
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uncomfortable with it. Even amongst those of us who are “educated,� the scientific facts of politics, economics, gender, sexuality and many more fields are debated and contested in a way much more akin to the older conception of science, a way not entirely differentiated from one’s normative beliefs. Being able to see what is uncolored by what one thinks should be is not a simple task, and not one learned from mere education, but from experience, maturity and a lifelong effort to see outside one’s prejudices. The paradox is that while the strict rules of logic and empirical experimentation were supposed to free scientific reasoning from human pretensions, it created a field of knowledge so powerful that it is impossible not to attract them. What we face is not a problem of knowledge, but a problem of wisdom. Although it is tempting to see science as an all-encompassing arbitrator of truth akin to God, this is ultimately a misconception — and a harmful one, because once science can dictate truths absolutely, it’s easy to confuse scientific facts with one’s personal feelings and opinions. What to do about this is a question far beyond a 21-year-old opinion columnist at the school newspaper, but a place I like to start is thinking of science as a convenient set of explanations which enables humans to, for example, build refrigerators, rather than truths about the nature of reality. With that in mind, it’s easier to remember that science is a tool, which — like a hammer — has nothing to say about the intentions and desires of its users. Hammers can be used to create or destroy, so let’s make sure to use ours wisely. Julian Caracotsios is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at juliancaracotsios2014@u.northwestern.edu. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.edu.
U.S.-Iran relations show improvement ANTONIO PETKOV
DAILY COLUMNIST
This past Monday, President Barack Obama met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the increasingly stale issue of Iranian sanctions. During the meeting, Netanyahu cautioned Obama that it would be unwise to relieve diplomatic pressure on Iran or withdraw sanctions, and at the first sign of trouble, the sanctions should be tightened. Despite this statement, the indications for a long-overdue conclusion in the Iranian nuclear sanctions saga are positive. Ever since the election of Hassan Rouhani as president, there has been an increasing thaw in U.S.-Iranian relations, which culminated last week in the form of the first telephone conversation between the American and Iranian heads of state in more than 30 years. During the conversation, Rouhani and Obama discussed an outline for the definitive, meticulous verification of a peaceful nuclear program in Iran before the U.N. Rouhani even proposed resuming flights between the two countries. This contrasts noticeably with the previously unyielding U.S. demand that Iran dismantle its nuclear program. For the first time, the legitimacy of a peaceful program, previously dismissed as a cover, is being considered in earnest. Negotiations are scheduled for next month, during which Iran is set to prove the peaceful nature of its program so that the international community may at last drop the
sanctions it has imposed on the state for so long. I am not a huge Obama fan, but I will say that I applaud his sound judgment and his use of logic and checks and balances, all of which were cast away entirely by his predecessor. He was right to refuse Turkey’s demands for a pre-emptive strike on Syria, and he was right to maintain an independent position from Israel in this instance, especially given Netanyahu’s tired rhetoric claiming that Iran was not to be trusted and that it was committed to Israel’s destruction. I am not advocating optimism to the point of foolishness, but there are several reasons why I dis-
agree with Netanyahu. These sanctions have been going on for a long time. General sanctions against Iran have been in place since the revolution in 1979, and the ones pertaining to the enrichment program have been in place since 2006. This means close to a decade of severe economic hardship for Iran. At this point, ideology takes a backseat to fatigue. Although there is negative sentiment on the part of the Iranians toward Israel, their capability to put together a nuclear device and attack Israel is, in my opinion, not very real. Adding to the sheer amount of time this has carried on, it is also prudent to acknowledge the generation gap. The current generation of Iranians is not the same as the previous one; it is less regimented and more accommodating of new ideas. These Iranians favor progress and compromise in favor of rigid ideology, and the Supreme
Leader’s fanbase is not what it used to be. Neither is the Revolutionary Guard Corps, whose sphere of influence has greatly diminished under Rouhani. Releasing these sanctions upon verification of Iran’s peaceful nuclear program would go a long way toward reconciling relations between the U.S. and Iran, especially considering the fact that Iranians trust Americans even less than vice versa. Iranian distrust is understandable from a historical standpoint, given the 1953 CIAsponsored coup ousting their first democratically elected leader, as well as American sale of chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein during the bloody Iran-Iraq War (ironic given our criticism of Assad, eh?). Even the most conservative critics of the U.S., however, took note of Obama’s tone during his speech at the U.N. General Assembly and appreciated his reference to the 1953 regime change. The bottom line is that Netanyahu’s admonitions are unnecessary. There are plenty of hard-line, old-time elements in both the U.S. and Iran, along with a host of skeptics who will ensure that any warming of relations happens slowly. When it does happen, though, it will show the international community that such a development is possible with the proper administrations and use of caution, common sense and sound judgment. It will also highlight what is hopefully a new trend in U.S. foreign policy – namely, an independent approach, a respect for the Constitution and a willingness to be reasonable. Antonio Petkov is a McCormick freshman. He can be reached at antoniopetkov2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Letter to the Editor
Appearance-ism a social feature we must work to eliminate
Many(!) summers ago, I attended Northwestern. Non-academic highlights were serving food to the Medill ‘Cherubs’ to offset my board, marking a milestone of a personal nature, and having a sort of emotional breakdown at the end of the term. I had not quite evolved from the beautyobsessed teen who wore false eyelashes (a la the supermodel ‘Twiggy’) to attend high school. If I had time-travelled to the future, I would have been utterly astonished at how I became my current self. As a teen I’d read “The Diary of Anne Frank,� taking from it, above all, that she was obsessed with appearance (and ‘film stars’); and that the non-Jewish friends who supported her family in hiding sustained incomprehensible personal risks. How would I become a recipient I eventually of the Spirit of Anne realized that Frank Award, in some way that related to my appearance beauty obsession and was not the stereotyping? essence of my Brief answer: I eventually realized value, and I that my appearance didn‘t want to was not the essence of my value, and I didn’t be judged or want to be judged or judge others judge others solely on solely on this this basis. I used the word, “Appearancebasis ism,� for the issue I knew so well. I began to ‘peel my personal onion’ and to heal, (also cry quite a bit), through this process. Eventually, I began to teach what I most needed to learn, and what I wanted for our world; to transform our inner critical voices AND vanquish stereotyping, appearance-ism, age-ism, homophobia, religious and ethnic bias, etc. The chilling interplay of appearance-ism, snap judgments, stereotyping, and racism crystalized when my neighbor, Ricky Byrdsong, an NU basketball coach was murdered by a white supremacist in 1999. I felt compelled to craft a community response. My journey kept unfolding, leading me to South Africa; to write “RACE: An OPEN & SHUT Case�; to befriend families of innocent men who were murdered in attacks directed at Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims and South Asians in the backlash aftermath of 9/11; and to fight — hard — as a Jewish ally against Islamophobia and xenophobia, ever since, and continue to work for a culture in which we all live safely and fully.
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Anya Cordell is an Evanston resident and anti-bias activist. Her website is Appearance-ism.com. She will present a program titled “Critical Inner Voices and Stereotyping — BEGONE!� at Parkes Hall at 3 p.m., Oct. 6.
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Committee approves $21,000 grant for Curt’s Cafe Nonprofit hopes to fund training program for at-risk youth if City Council approves
According to the terms agreed upon at the committee meeting, Curt’s Cafe will receive each $3,000 grant as long as the student keeps or continues to search for a job 30 days after completing the cafe’s training program. Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) said that the 30-day
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Curt’s Cafe, an Evanston nonprofit organization that works with at-risk youth, is asking the city for a $21,000 grant to help fund its training program. Evanston’s Economic Development Committee on Wednesday night approved the grant — $3,000 for each of seven students — to Curt’s Cafe, which plans to use the money to help provide each student with housing, food, job training and tutoring throughout a three-month training period. City Council is expected to discuss the grant at its next meeting, Oct. 14, before the restaurant can receive the grant. Curt’s Cafe, 2922 Central St., opened in Spring 2012 and received a loan from the city last year. Since then, executive director Susan Trieschmann has been working toward the grant. “I was frustrated because we hadn’t been given any money, and I thought that was kind of silly if we’re working with a population that most people don’t want to work with,� Trieschmann said. “So I suggested to them strongly that I would like to figure out how to fill out the paperwork.� Although the process has taken over a year, Trieschmann said she believes the city was fair in negotiating the funding.
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post-training period allows the students to show that they are not just receiving the stipends, turning and moving on. She said she supported the grant as a committee member and believes City Council will do the same. “I think that Curt’s Cafe has a different approach to employment of those that are hard to employ and just trying to get people in the work force, and this is the Economic Development Committee’s focus, trying to create more jobs in the community,� Holmes said. “I think it’s a good thing.� Trieschmann said the grant is important for
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DECAF DEVELOPMENT Curt’s Cafe is asking the city for a $21,000 grant. The cafe, 2922 Central St., helps train at-risk youth.
the cafe’s future. “We train them in life skills and support them with social workers and tutors and things like that, with the goal to get them off the streets, get them
to safe housing (and) kind of reboot their life a little bit,� Trieschmann said.
invisible, but important, nonetheless. The State Department, for example, will have to halt some processing of passport applications in federal offices not run by the agency but that are shut down, potentially threatening business or vacation travel of unsuspecting citizens. Most of the Treasury Department’s law enforcement support functions tied to the Bank Secrecy Act will be halted, interrupting efforts to crack
down on money laundering and other financial crimes. But the Department of Transportation said that all air traffic control services will continue without interruption, which is good news for the flying public. Amtrak doesn’t expect disruption of passenger railroad service, either.
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Shutdown will mean furloughs, fewer services
A broad swath of the public might not even notice the partial shutdown of the federal government Tuesday, but many federal employees, government contractors and users of government services are likely to feel the pain.
The wallets of at least 800,000 federal workers furloughed in a shutdown will be thinner, at least temporarily. Those workers will be paid until there’s an agreement to fund the government anew. Unable to reach an agreement last night as the House and Senate played political tennis over a plan to temporarily fund the budget, the nation will wake up to an altered government landscape. Some of the services immediately affected are largely
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Alum’s group donates cars to needy The Road Less Traveled Fund provides vehicles for Chicago students
“I applied to The Road Less Traveled Fund because it was an opportunity for me to explain how a car would benefit me and my family and how I would take it further than just going where I wanted to go,” Ross said. In her application essay, she wrote of her desire to drive her 9-year-old sister to school during the winter months because her school is unable to provide buses, as well as her wish to drive her grandmother, who is recovering from back surgery. She is scheduled to take her driving test in the next few weeks and will receive her car Dec. 1. “I didn’t know that opportunities like this were available,” Ross said. “It’s just really awesome to know there are people out there to think of stuff like this.” ericawitte2017@u.northwestern.edu
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IN A YELLOW WOOD Jesse Heng sits in the car he won. Heng was the first recipient of a car from The Road Less Traveled Fund, which seeks to provide low-income students with transportation to get to school or a job.
achievement in academics and community service. Students apply during the summer by writing essays about how a car would help their community. True to the foundation’s name, applicants also relate Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” to their own lives. Lee returned to campus in May to speak at an event for NU’s Asian American Heritage Month. Along with AJ Aguado (Communication ‘10), Lee shared how he learned to accept his Asian-American heritage during his time at NU. Lee’s program has already helped two students. Jesse Heng of the University of Chicago was the first to receive a car from the Road Less Traveled Fund last winter. On Sept. 1, Ross, a junior at Bloom High School in Chicago Heights, was informed she is the 2013 recipient.
Obama administration backs use of race in college admissions In the wake of a recent Supreme Court ruling that narrowed but did not do away with affirmative action in college admissions, the Obama administration has reaffirmed its commitment to using race as a factor in college admissions to help increase campus diversity. In a letter to college and university presidents, the departments of Education and Justice reminded educators that the Supreme Court in June ruled that race could still be used as a factor in admissions, as long as the race-based policies were necessary to achieve diversity. In its 7-1 decision in Fisher vs. University of Texas, the court held that race could be used if “no workable race-neutral alternatives would produce the educational benefits of diversity.” Civil rights advocates and many university officials were relieved that the high court continued to allow race to be used in considering admissions, while opponents argued that there was still enough ground for further suits to challenge such policies. The use of affirmative action has divided Americans since the 1970s. In college admissions, supporters have used such policies to give opportunities to qualified minority students to help them overcome the effects of long-term discrimination. Opponents have contended that affirmative action is really reverse discrimination. The Obama administration has supported the use of race to help improve diversity. “The Departments of Education and Justice strongly support diversity in higher education. Racially diverse educational environments help to prepare students to succeed in our increasingly diverse nation. The future workforce of America must be able to transcend the boundaries of race, language and culture as our economy becomes more globally interconnected,” the letter says. The letter goes on to say that the 2011 policies on voluntary use of race in admissions remain available and that the agencies “stand ready to support colleges and universities in pursuing a racially and ethnically diverse student body in a lawful manner. We look forward to working with you on this important goal.” The letter was signed by Catherine Lhamon, the Education Department’s assistant secretary in the Office for Civil Rights, and Jocelyn Samuels, the Justice Department’s acting assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division.
By ERICA WITTE
On her way to an amusement park to celebrate her 16th birthday, Aiyana Ross, a high school junior from Chicago Heights, Ill., received a phone call from Joseph Lee (Weinberg ‘09), who informed her that she had won a car. Ross received her car from Lee’s organization, The Road Less Traveled Fund, which he founded in 2012 to provide vehicles Not only is it to worthy students dangerous who struggle without for students an efficient means of to take public transportation. “I was ecstatic,” transportation, Ross said. “I just but it also just screamed, and I was jumping up and takes much, down and hugging much longer. my mom.” Inspired by his Joseph Lee, experience with The Road Less Teach For America, Traveled founder Lee wanted to help lessen disparities in Chicago-area neighborhoods. Lee, now a third-year medical student, said he realized while teaching there is no better way to extend opportunities for success to students than through donation of a vehicle. “Not only is it dangerous for students to take public transportation, but it also just takes much, much longer,” Lee said. The Des Plaines, Ill.-based Road Less Traveled Fund solicits donations from the community, aiming to raise $5,000 to purchase a car for each student. Applicants must be Chicago-area college or high school students who have shown
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College Dems push forward on same-sex marriage By JEANNE KUANG
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Despite a setback in the Illinois House this spring, NU’s College Democrats plans to continue its advocacy for same-sex marriage in Illinois this month. It just happened The group will hold weekly phone banking to be a really sessions in coordination with Equality Illinois, a historic LGBT rights orgamoment when state nization. The organiwe started zations hope to push a same-sex marriage doing this. legalization bill through Lauren Izaak, the General Assembly College Democrats during the veto session president at the end of the month: The bill failed to go to vote in the House in late May. Same-sex marriage is one of College Democrats’ “legislative initiatives,” three issues the group chose last academic year to focus on and advocate for, president Lauren Izaak said. The group phone banked for the same-sex marriage initiative twice
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PHONING IT IN A student phone banks as part of College Democrats’ push for same-sex marriage legalization in Illinois. Despite the failure of a similar bill in the spring, the group is moving ahead with weekly events.
in the spring. “It just happened to be a really historic moment when we started doing this. It was coming up for a
vote,” said Izaak, a Weinberg senior. “We felt like we could really make a difference on an important issue for our generation.”
At the sessions, where an Equality Illinois representative is present, participants call Illinois residents whose state representatives are on the fence about the issue. Izaak said the callers are focusing less on changing people’s views and more on finding supporters of the legislation. “Basically we’re informing them that the House is going to vote for this in the veto session,” Izaak said. “If they’re in favor of marriage equality, we’re going to ask them to call the representative and tell them that they support marriage equality.” Weinberg sophomore Kevin Cheng, College Democrats’ vice president of programming, said the phone banks support strategic decisions made by Equality Illinois. “We’re just doing everything we can to rally support on campus,” he said. Medill freshman Mollie Cahillane participated in the first phone banking session Monday night. She said she persuaded a few people to call their representatives and voice support for the legislation. “I had never phone banked before, and especially when you’re talking about a controversial issue, you can be a little worried about people’s reactions,” she said. “It’s still definitely something I want to try again.” jeannekuang2016@u.northwestern.edu
Police plan additional resources for ‘College GameDay’ By PATRICK SVITEK
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Evanston police are planning a “heavy presence” for the arrival of “College GameDay” on the Northwestern campus this weekend, according to the city’s top cop. Evanston Police Chief Richard Eddington told City Council on Monday evening that accommodating the ESPN show — as well as several other blockbuster events around the city — will be a “huge logistical effort,” but his force and other authorities are up to the task.
He said he will send more officers than usual to off-campus neighborhoods between 4 a.m. Saturday and 4 a.m. Sunday. ESPN confirmed Monday that “College GameDay” will start at 9 a.m. Saturday on the Lakefill, its first stop in Evanston since 1995. An NU spokesman said Sunday the show would broadcast from the northern part of the on-campus lakefront. City officials noted “College GameDay” is not the only attraction expected to bring large crowds to the city at the end of this week. “Mike & Mike,” the ESPN radio show co-hosted by Mike Greenberg (Medill ‘89), will broadcast Friday morning from Deering
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If there’s a bump, we’ll be ready to respond as quickly as we can. Wally Bobkiewicz, city manager
Meadow. Greenberg will lead NU’s Homecoming Parade on Friday night as Evanston Township High School celebrates its own homecoming festivities. “It’s going to be a busy, busy weekend,” city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said.
He said the city will extend its hours for 311 and keep more staff on hand throughout the weekend. “If there’s a bump, we’ll be ready to respond as quickly as we can,” Bobkiewicz told aldermen. Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl asked Eddington if the city could request more portable toilets for traveling partygoers. Eddington said he is looking into the possibility. City officials are expected to discuss the preparations in more detail at a meeting Tuesday morning. patricksvitek2014@u.northwestern.edu
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Shuttles
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The Cats have dominated conference awards all season. Medina’s honor, his first, marked the fourth straight week an NU athlete has been named the Big Ten’s top offensive player. Calistri earned the distinction on Sep. 9 and 16, and senior Chris Ritter shared it with Penn State’s Mark Wadid on Sep. 23. Miller previously won Defensive Player of the Week on Sep. 23. Though the Cats won at least a share of both awards last week, Monday was the first time since Oct. 15, 2012, NU has swept them outright. No other Big Ten team has won more than two weekly Big Ten honors this season. The recognition comes in response to a historically hot start. The Cats’ current seven-game winning streak is the longest in program history, and the team has not begun a season 7-1 since 2008, when it started 11-0-2 on the way to the NCAA quarterfinals.
stories that “blend fantastical elements with psychological realism and classic themes of transformation and redemption,” the MacArthur Foundation wrote on its website. Bouldrey said he remembered those types of elements from Russell’s writing when she participated as an undergraduate in NU’s creative writing program. “She wrote with humor, wit, and charm in her emails,” Bouldrey recalled. “I could tell her writing was going to be that way.” Bouldrey worked with Russell during the second half of the two-part program. He said Russell stood out to him. “She could easily write at the novel level,” he said. “Some are good at short stories; she was good at them. But not everyone can write longer.” Russell has written award-winning short stories and novels. Her two short story collections have been named to various bestseller lists. She was also named on The New Yorker’s prestigious “20 Under 40” list in the 2010 Summer Fiction Issue. Her first novel “Swamplandia!” was named a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. “When I got the call from the MacArthur Foundation, all of these physiological things you hear about shock turn out to be true,” Russell said in a video released by the foundation. “I was, like, quakey. I was just giddy, really giddy, sort of an incredible effervescent feeling.” English Prof. Sheila Donohue was Russell’s teacher in Theory and Practice of Fiction, the most advanced writing class that NU has to offer for students majoring in creative writing. The talent that Russell presented in the class — which only admits 15 students per quarter — was promising, Donohue wrote in an email. Donohue characterized Russell as clear in her “devotion to the life of the writer” and her stories as “riveting, packed to the brim with character and detail, lush, and always surprising.” Donohue, who says she still keeps in touch with Russell and always looks forward to congratulating her on her latest successes, said she had nothing but admiration for her former student. “There are a multitude of remarkable books published every year that go uncelebrated,” Donohue wrote, “and when this kind of accolade is given to one so young and so fine a writer, we can only feel our faith in the continuation of literature renewed.”
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CALL TO ARMS Evanston resident James Davis fills out paperwork at the city’s second gun buyback event June 29. The three guns he traded in for $100 each brought the city’s total haul to 28 firearms.
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he said. “It’s not the end-all, be-all, but it is a way to get money for firearms that aren’t being used.” The Evanston Community Foundation is
helping fund the latest version of the program. Northwestern donated $10,000 for the first buyback. Tanner Maxwell contributed reporting. patricksvitek2014@u.northwestern.edu
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Cats sweep weekly conference awards
No. 7 Northwestern (7-1, 1-0 Big Ten) swept Big Ten Player of the Week awards this week, the conference announced Monday. Freshman Brandon Medina won Offensive Player of the Week and junior Tyler Miller grabbed Defensive Player of the Week after the Wildcats defeated Michigan 2-0 on Saturday to begin conference play. Medina notched a goal and an assist against the Wolverines, continuing an excellent debut season. The Chicago native has been a breakout star for the Cats, already tallying three goals and five assists, both second on the team behind sophomore Joey Calistri. Miller, NU’s goalkeeper, made four saves to hold Michigan scoreless for his sixth shutout of the season and 25th at NU, second best in school history.
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to bypass Noyes Street entirely, administrators and city officials ultimately decided that was not a viable option. “There weren’t really any great alternatives to Noyes,” said Brian Peters, assistant vice president for University Services. Other streets near Noyes were either too small or busy to accommodate a shuttle stop, Peters said. Moving the stop across the street takes into account both students’ and residents’ concerns, he added. The University is looking into new equipment that would reduce There weren’t the noise generated by really any great shuttle engines. Peters said the noise alternatives to is one of the central Noyes. sources of residents’ complaints. Brian Peter, He said he hopes to assistant vice hear back from the compresident for pany that runs the UniUniversity versity’s shuttles regardServices ing the new devices this week. Associated Student Government president Ani Ajith met with aldermen over the summer to discuss the issue. Although eliminating the westbound stop near the intersection of Sherman Avenue and Noyes Street and consolidating it with the southbound one across the street seems to have solved the problem, the University and ASG will continue monitoring the situation, he said. “It’s something that we’ll have to keep checking back in on,” Ajith said. At its Aug. 12 meeting, City Council set up a subcommittee to consider changes to the shuttles. However, the issue was resolved before the subcommittee could meet in public. Fiske and city manager Wally Bobkiewicz decided there was no reason for the subcommittee to convene once the decision was made to resolve the issue by moving the shuttle stop across the street, Peters said. “It never met,” Peters said of the panel. “Hopefully … it will never need to meet.”
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Fencing
From page 12 Americans and a well-decorated coach. Schiller won the Midwest Fencing Conference Coach of the Year honor for last season’s performance. He is also a member of the United States Fencing Association’s national board of directors. Junior Courtney Dumas won the epée competition Saturday, continuing her success as one of last season’s All-Americans. The Cleveland native went a clean 5-0 throughout the Burton Open and bested fellow teammate and Second Team All-American Dina Bazarbayeva to take home the top prize. “Teammates are teammates, but when you have to play each other you’re out there to win,” Schiller said. “I expect nothing less than 100 percent effort from any of my fencers when they fence each other.” This is a routine the athletes are used to. Two of the freshman on the saber squad come from the same club in New Jersey. Schiller said every player has had to stare down an opponent who was a friend before the masks came on.
In the foil competition, sophomore Jen Yamin faced a similar situation. She stepped her way through six pool bouts to ease into the top seed for the direct elimination round. She then defeated sophomore Charlotte Sands in the final bout and captured the gold. Schiller said Yamin is the one to whom leadership falls this season among the foil competitors, with the graduation of four-year AllAmerican Dayana Sarkisova. The largest take-away from the Burton Open for the veteran coach is NU’s next move. Schiller said the Cats’ domination is an exciting feat, as every victory should be, but there are mistakes to work on in these early days of the season. “I’m happy with the results, always happy when we win gold medals, but what we’re looking at is how they performed rather than the results.” he said. “We’re more concerned about the process aspect right now than the outcome.” To his team he puts it even simpler: “Congratulations, you have a gold, but now you have to work on this.” stevenmontero2014@u.northwestern.edu
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SWEET NEAR SWEEP Sophomores Juliana Barrett and Helen Foster face off at the USFA Burton Open on Saturday. Barrett ended up with the bronze as Northwestern won gold and silver in all three weapons.
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NU nears long-awaited OSU homecoming game By JOHN PASCHALL
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Smiles crept upon the faces of seniors Tyler Scott, Kain Colter and Damien Proby and junior Tony Jones at Monday’s press conference when asked about how long the team has been thinking about Saturday’s game against No. 4 Ohio State. They giggled and exchanged glances at one another, waiting for the others to speak up and say what Northwestern fans wanted to hear. After Scott claimed the Wildcats had only been thinking about the Buckeyes since the end of the Maine game, Colter jumped in. “I’m not gonna lie,” Colter said. “This is a game I circled on my schedule just because I
haven’t played these guys before.” It’s no secret that there’s tremendous buzz surrounding the Cats’ Big Ten opener this weekend. ESPN’s “College GameDay” crew is rolling its set onto the Lakefill, Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic will broadcast live radio show “Mike & Mike” from Deering Meadow the day before the game, and the average ticket resale for the event is up to $162 as of September 23 — the highest ever for any NU football game. Even coach Pat Fitzgerald, who’s usually known as an old school guy, can’t hide from all the social media chatter. “In the Twitter-sphere, that’s impossible,” he said. “I think you embrace whatever it is that comes along with college football. That’s why we have the structure within our program. Nothing changes for us this week. Our routine is our routine. We do what we do, and hopefully we put
together our best week of preparation.” NU started its season without star senior tailback Venric Mark, who has been day-today with a lower leg injury. Fitzgerald wouldn’t show his hand on what he has planned for his dynamic playmaker but did profess optimism about Mark’s chances of suiting up on Saturday. “If Venric has a good week, we’ll have him in some capacity this weekend,” Fitzgerald said. “I feel very strongly that he’s progressing in the way that we want him to. But we also have Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday of preparation time to see how everything responds. But I feel good about where he’s at.” The Cats have struggled with the Buckeyes in the past. In Fitzgerald’s first season as NU’s head coach in 2006, the Cats lost 54-10 at home. The following year NU didn’t do any better in
Columbus, falling 58-7. The 2008 season was the last time the two teams met, and the result didn’t change, as the Cats were beat up at Ryan Field, 45-10. Fitzgerald kept his comments brief Monday and didn’t sugarcoat why the Cats have had their share of tough times against the Buckeyes. “They’re really good,” he said. Fitzgerald also admitted there’s a talent gap between teams in the top five and everyone else. “I had a chance to watch a couple of the top five teams,” he said. “They’re incredibly talented. But I think we’re pretty darn talented too. … But obviously those top five teams are talented because they play up to their talent consistently.” johnpaschall2014@u.northwestern.edu
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Fencing
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Northwestern had only four days of practice before the team played in the USFA Burton Open over the weekend, coach Laurie Schiller said. The No. 8 Wildcats may have been a bit rusty in Schiller’s eyes as their season kicked off Saturday, but they certainly displayed their powerhouse program. NU dominated the medal Teammates stands, claimare teammates, ing all three golds at the but when you Burton Open for the third have to play consecutive each other, year. you’re out Yet gold there to win. I wasn’t enough for the team. expect nothing The Cats also less than 100 hogged every medal percent effort. silver and claimed Laurie Schiller, all but one bronze among fencing coach the three weapons during the competition in Evanston. Schiller said he expected the sweep. “That’s actually fairly typical results in the last 10 years or so with this group,” he said. “I would expect that. But that being said, I mean, we’re still two weeks into practice. This is still preseason training camp in a sense. For us, this is like the
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Against the Hawkeyes, the Cats had a few opportunities to score in the second half but could not capitalize. Hawkeye keeper Hannah Clark was not able to secure a save, and NU’s Schrakamp put it on goal only to have it knocked away by a Hawkeye defender. Later in the second half, Allen had two opportunities: the first nearly between the legs of Clark and the second just over the crossbar. Next weekend they face conference opponents Indiana and Purdue on Friday and Sunday, respectively. Last season, NU lost to both schools 1-0. If the Cats keep shooting like they did this weekend, they will be a formidable force for the rest of their opponents. The Big Ten tournament is still within reach for NU, Moynihan said. The Cats are getting ever closer to breaking open high-scoring matches. The players have been shooting all around the net; it’s only a matter of time until they reap the benefits. “(We will work on) a lot of finishing,” Moynihan said. “Keep hammering away at that. … In the end we need to find ways to get to the back of the net.”
In 2002, I bought the first video game I ever paid for with my own allowance. I had just acquired a shiny new purple GameCube, and, well, I would settle for nothing less than NCAA Football 2003 for the machine’s inauguration. With hometown boy Joey Harrington on the cover, the game was as close as 10-year-old me ever came to nirvana. Years came and went. The allowance grew, from $5 to 10 to 20. Some years it yielded the new copy of NCAA Football, others it didn’t. Some years the game’s release was the highlight of my summer. I pored over reviews, watched footage on YouTube, eagerly awaited news of which players would be rated highest that year. Other years it was merely a blip on the radar, a mindless tool to pass the time until the new Madden came out or school started again. But it was always there. And for a long time, I remained blissfully unaware of the house of cards on which it was built. I remember (very distinctly, as if my conscience knew things at the time that I didn’t) being firmly convinced that the game did not include player names because the disc was not big enough to hold them. Never mind that it had upwards of 100 teams, each with distinct uniforms and stadiums and playbooks. The names of 10,000 Division I football players, I told myself, were a bridge too far. Of course, we can’t stay in fifth grade forever. As the game grew up, so did I. I learned the real reason — a system of amateurism which exploits athletes without compensating them in return for the value they bring to their programs, which rewards athletic directors with six-figure salaries for winning even if it loses their school millions of dollars, which puts its players in harm’s way every Saturday each fall with no guarantee of a safety net in case of injury — why Northwestern’s starting quarterback appears in the game as a nameless, faceless “QB #2,” why the only athletes who appeared on the game’s cover had already left the clutches of the NCAA. A month ago, I bought a copy of the latest version of NCAA Football that will hit store shelves in the foreseeable future. Electronic Arts announced last week it would not make an NCAA Football 15, and it had settled a lawsuit with former players suing the game company and the NCAA for profiting off of their likenesses. My mental house of cards has finally collapsed, even if the NCAA’s remains ever so stubbornly propped up against the winds of change. Even so, I never stopped playing NCAA Football. Ultimately, all fans of college football decided at some point that they will contribute, however implicitly, to the system. I think that’s OK. I may never adore the game the way I did when I was 10, but I’ll never quite lose the joy of running the option, winning the Heisman Trophy or going down to the wire with friends either. They say you never love sports again as much as you did when you were a child. I don’t know if that’s a bad thing.
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REAL GOOD Alisha Gomez-Shah was undefeated Saturday in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion and seized gold in the saber competition. Coach Laurie Schiller said the freshman is “real tough and real good.” Gomez-Shah’s triumph in the USFA Burton Open is only one of several wins Schiller expects from the New Jersey native.
football spring game.” This first dip into the season is a “stepping stone” for what lies ahead, Schiller said. He said the team will use this to see where its weaknesses lie and what it needs to improve on in order to be more competitive in
the future. “We need to get to work on not only our technical aspect of some our games but most especially what I would call our tactical control,” Schiller said. “Controlling the distance and the ability to set up your
attacks and defenses so that you’re able to effectively win without giving up a lot of touches.” NU charged into the season in good standing, returning two All» See FENCING, page 11
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Cats come off ‘frustrating’ weekend Iowa
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Northwestern still searches for its first Big Ten win this season after falling to Nebraska and Iowa this weekend. The Wildcats lost by 1 in both contests: 2-1 against Nebraska and 1-0 against Iowa. “(Iowa) was a very frustrating game,” coach Michael Moynihan said. “Every game leading into this has been He said that’s similar: lots the hardest of fouls and working team really no to (he’d) seen in a rhythm the game.” long time. This weekend the Michael Cats outMoynihan, shot their women’s soccer opponents coach 43-21 but could only put one ball in the net. On the flipside, Nebraska was able to score twice on 10 shots while Iowa scored once on 11 shots. “Short-term it really gets the team going when you have good chances (to score),” junior midfielder Sami Schrakamp said. “But in the long term we try to learn from our mistakes; if we miss a little wide, we try and focus on hitting our shots. We don’t really dwell on the fact that we may have missed a shot.”
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NICE TOUCH Margo McGinty handles the ball during Northwestern’s Sunday defeat at the hands of Iowa. The sophomore defender has played nearly every minute of the 2-7-2 Wildcats’ season.
Senior forward Kate Allen took 15 shots this weekend — nine of which were on goal. “(Hitting shots) is definitely something we have to get better at and work on during practice and hopefully (results) will come in future games,” Allen said. Against the Cornhuskers, the Cats racked up 24 shots but only 1 goal off a penalty kick from Allen. Nebraska scored twice in the first half, but, NU
was raring to go coming into the second frame. “I was really happy with the response by our team in the second half against Nebraska,” Moynihan said. “The opposing coach was very complimentary toward our side. He felt very fortunate to get out of there with a win. He said that’s the hardest working team (he’d) seen in a long time and … nobody’s out shot him … or out-played him that way.”