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Admissions trial won’t affect NU Administrators say Harvard outcome won’t affect practices

By TROY CLOSSON

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As the Harvard admissions lawsuit placing a microscope on the practice of affirmative action in higher education goes to trial, Northwestern officials say the outcome shouldn’t affect University admissions.

The lawsuit charging Harvard University with systematic discrimination against Asian-Americans will begin its trial Monday in Boston.

Plaintiffs contend the Ivy League school imposes a quota on Asian American applicants while admitting less qualified white, black and Latinx applicants.

“Northwestern prefers not to speculate on the case, as it involves another university. It will be decided on the basis of the facts involving that university,” Northwestern spokesman Bob Rowley said in an email to The Daily.

University President Morton Schapiro said in an interview with The Daily earlier this month that while Northwestern is following the case, he doesn’t believe the courts will do anything that will “change the way we operate.”

The University, Schapiro said, has various admission goals for underrepresented groups — like aiming to admit a class of 20 percent Pell Grant-eligible

students — but doesn’t set quotas, as it is prohibited by the Supreme Court.

Ultimately though, Schapiro added that what happens “really depends on how broad on the ruling is.”

“We’ve been very careful to make sure that any legal scrutiny brought against us will be something that we can hold our heads up and say we’re entirely consistent with the law, so am I worried about the resolution of those cases? A little bit, but I don’t think any surprise…is going to affect the way we do business,” he said.

The ruling has the potential to trigger a reevaluation among schools that consider race to make admission decisions, especially at elite universities like Northwestern. Whether the outcome creates new standards or narrowly affects only Harvard will depend on the breadth of the ruling.

According to University admissions office, 23.5 percent of the University’s Class of 2022 identifies as AsianAmerican, while 13.5 percent of identify as Hispanic or Latino, 10 percent identify as black or African American and 56 percent identify as white. The percentages of Asian American, white and Hispanic and Latino students increased from the previous incoming class.

Christopher Watson, dean of Undergraduate Admissions, deferred comment to Rowley.

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Drew Luckenbaugh is lifted up by his teammates after kicking the game-winning field goal in overtime Saturday. Luckenbaugh made his first two career field goals in Norhwestern’s win.

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University police warn of burglaries

By CAMERON COOK

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University Police sent a security alert Saturday to the Northwestern community, reporting three burglaries that took place on Northwestern’s Evanston campus.

The alert, which came via an

email to students from UP Chief Bruce Lewis, outlined the need for students to “use extra caution.

The alert reported three incidents: one at Willard Hall in which a wallet, an iPhone and a laptop were stolen; another at Willard in which a wallet and headphones were stolen; and a third at Alpha Epsilon Pi, in which multiple laptops, backpacks and wallets

were stolen.

All three burglaries took place between Oct. 6 and 12, according to the alert.

The alert also states that the UP has increased patrols since the incidents, and “does not believe suspect or suspects” who stole the items are in any way associated with Northwestern.

“Many crimes are crimes of opportunity,” Lewis’s email said.

The email urges students to lock their doors, ensure their belongings aren’t left unattended, report suspicious activity by calling 9-1-1 or using the Blue Light emergency phones, and call University Police if they have information about any of the current investigations. cameroncook2021@u.northwestern.edu

Robert Crown group seeks to ease city budget woes

By KRISTINA KARISCH

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City officials and kids from Evanston summer camps shovel dirt at the Robert Crown Community Center groundbreaking ceremony. The complete renovation of the center is scheduled to finish in fall 2019.

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Friends of the Robert Crown Center, a nonprofit organization that is raising money for the new Robert Crown Community Center construction, said they can provide the city with an additional $1 million in funding for the project.

“We wanted for this year to be able to take this issue off the table and give the city some time to get their funding and expenditures straight,” said Peter Giangreco, the group’s secretary. “(For Robert Crown) not one penny is going toward the budget deficit this year.”

As part of the city’s proposed Fiscal Year 2019 budget, city staff is suggesting a $1 million contribution to the Robert Crown Center’s debt service. This number falls into the overall projected budget deficit of $7.4 million, which

city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said is a combination of three things: a $4.9 million general fund shortfall, a $1.5 million replenishment of recently depleted reserve funds, and the $1 million for Robert Crown.

To solve the deficit, Bobkiewicz said staff is suggesting decreasing expenditures by an additional $4.3 million and increasing revenue by $3.3 million, a significant portion of which would come from fee increases.

“We’re trying to mirror revenues with expenses,” Bobkiewicz said to reporters during a budget press briefing on Oct. 4. “In order to better align revenues and expenses, we have to make reductions. … None of this is easy.”

Giangreco said the group has raised more money this year than originally anticipated, and may now be able to fill the $1 million gap. He said the group’s board voted » See CROWN, page 6

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Panel discusses real estate tax, mansion referendums

By ALEX WONG

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Panelists discussed the real estate transfer tax and Harley Clarke Mansion referendums at a Sunday forum hosted by the League of Women Voters of Evanston.

City Council will ask voters in November whether the real estate transfer tax should increase for sales over $1.5 million and whether the Harley Clarke Mansion should be protected from demolition. Panelists, who spoke at Evanston Township High School, answered audience questions posed by the roughly 40 attendees.

Real estate transfer tax

The proposed real estate transfer tax increase has the possibility of making the city less attractive to homeowners and businesses, panelists said.

The real estate transfer tax would increase from $5 per $1,000 in sales to a rate of $7 for sales between $1.5 million and $5 million and $9 for sales over $5 million. City staff estimate the tax, which would be the first progressive real estate transfer tax in Illinois, would increase annual revenue by $850,000.

Panelist Paula Worthington, a public policy professor at the University of Chicago, said if the tax is implemented, there is some evidence that shows certain sales of commercial property would disappear.

Businesses may also push the taxes’ costs onto consumers, said panelist Joseph Roth, the governmental affairs director of Illinois Realtors.

But only 34 out of 1236 of transfer sales in

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Evanston Police Department officers arrested an Evanston man on Thursday after he admitted to a charge of battery that took place on August 23.

The man who was assaulted, a 57-year-old male resident of Wheeling, was sitting in front of D&D

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The Harley Clarke Mansion in north Evanston. An advisory referendum regarding the demolition of Harley Clarke will be added to the ballot in November.

Evanston were above $1.5 million in 2017, said panelist Hitesh Desai, Evanston’s chief financial officer and city treasurer. Only nine of those sales were above $5 million. Unlike property taxes, Desai said, sellers would only pay the real estate transfer tax once.

Roth also worried the proposed tax would lead to further increases in following years whenever Evanston’s budget deficit widens. Desai, however, said the city doesn’t intend to increase the rate any further and emphasized the government services the increase could support.

“The city intends to use the revenue for the social services, for health programs, for public safety and buses, with the intention to continue the same level of service so that Evanston residents and businesses get quality service,” Desai said.

Dogs in north Evanston when the Evanston man walked by and kicked his leg before walking away, said Evanston Police Cmdr. Ryan Glew.

About five minutes later, the Evanston man asked the 57-year-old , “Why are you watching me?” and grabbed the man by the shirt and threw him on the ground twice. The 57-year-old man was able to get away from the Evanston man, Glew said.

The man’s daughter acted as a translator and witness, and told officers that the Evanston man was stranger, Glew said.

The Wheeling man picked the Evanston man out of a photo lineup on Wednesday.

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Harley Clarke Mansion demolition

Another panel spoke about the upcoming Harley Clarke Mansion advisory referendum.

In July, City Council voted 5-3 to demolish the historic lakefront mansion and create public park

Beers almost stolen from Target

Officers responded to a report of retail theft at the Target at 2209 Howard St. on Thursday night.

space. During the meeting, aldermen approved a demolition proposal by a group of private donors under the name Evanston Lighthouse Dunes. The group will contribute $400,000 to fund the demolition itself, the proposal said.

Since then, a number of residents have urged aldermen to reconsider demolition. An advisory referendum regarding the demolition will be added to the ballot in November.

Trish Stieglitz, a 30-year Evanston resident, and Brad White, author of Evanston’s Preservation Ordinance, argued on the panel that the mansion holds architectural and historical significance and is the last building along the lakefront that is publicly accessible.

An estimate of the demolition costs, which would preserve the building’s reusable materials, has been done by private contractors and posits a cost of $450,000.

Stieglitz said this estimate may still be too low.

“There are about 30 items not even accounted for on their own paperwork, that say, ‘Excluded, excluded, excluded,’ that they haven’t paid for,” Stieglitz said at the forum. “Until they have experts in there with reports, they can’t tell you how much it’s going to cost.”

Amina DiMarco, who served for 10 years on Evanston’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, said the mansion’s estimated renovation costs of $4.8 million still far exceeded the costs of demolition.

The Preservation Commission will hear the city’s Certificate of Appropriateness, which states that demolition is an appropriate action for the building, on Oct. 23. In advance of the meeting, members of Evanston’s Preservation Commission will be allowed to visit the mansion. alexwong2022@u.northwestern.edu

Officers spoke to the loss prevention agent at Target, who said an unidentified man took four packs of beer, then passed the last point of sale.

The loss prevention officer was able to recover the beer, a gray sweater, a cell phone and white headphones, all belonging to the man. The man has yet to be found. ­— Cameron Cook

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Electronic cigarettes should be seen as a unique tobacco product rather than another type of cigarette, a research commentary co-authored by Northwestern researchers says.

The commentary examined different studies of electronic cigarettes to better understand how researchers have been discussing the devices, and what substantial differences emerge between e-cigarettes and regular ones. Published September 28 in Nicotine & Tobacco Research, the article aims to provide a fresh perspective on e-cigarettes and improve how researchers view them.

“Even in its name, electronic cigarettes, it has implications for how we view its dangers, its benefits, how people are going to use it,” said co-author and Feinberg student Matthew Olonoff. “Just being able to remove those assumptions… will make it better for researchers to make more informed opinions and beliefs in research about how people actually interact with these devices.”

The original idea for the commentary came from Olonoff during his time working in professor Brian Hitsman’s Nicotine Dependence and Treatment Lab. According to Hitsman, Olonoff came into Feinberg with an interest in studying non-combustible nicotine and tobacco use, when the lab primarily studied combustible nicotine products.

He began working on a master’s thesis about e-cigarette use among racial and ethnic minority college students, and developed ideas from his studies that led to this paper. The two began working on the commentary, eventually bringing in New York University professor Raymond Niaura — who Hitsman had previously worked with due to his knowledge and expertise in e-cigarette research. “(Olonoff has) had some really great ideas about how the field needs to move in a certain direction in order to improve our understanding of e-cigarette use,” Hitsman said.

One of the main differences between vapes and

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A person vapes using a juul. A commentary published in September by NU researchers says electronic cigarettes like Juul should be viewed as separate products from regular cigarettes.

regular cigarettes, Olonoff said, is right in the name: because users vape a liquid rather than combusting nicotine, its effects differ. Another major distinction is that e-cigarettes can vary in the size of their nicotine containers, so the nicotine dosage often varies from vape to vape.

E-cigarettes and regular cigarettes also differ in the way people smoke them. Users can smoke one or two puffs of an e-cigarette at a time, allowing prolonged usage throughout the day. This change can have significant implications on a user’s health.

“Rather than looking at how people might get sick, we may start looking at how smokers switching to these products actually have been better in terms of lung function, coughing, things like that,” he said.

Despite having less consequential health setbacks, e-cigarettes have come under recent scrutiny for getting teenagers hooked. Each researcher said the

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prevalence of e-cigarettes among high school and college-aged demographics is alarming, especially as the e-cigarette Juul becomes increasingly popular among the demographic.

Younger audiences, Olonoff said, often have less exposure to other forms of tobacco and nicotine products, making it easier to get hooked. Niaura added that Juul can be attractive to students for several reasons, including its design, portability and small-size.

Hitsman agreed that e-cigarettes are almost certainly safer than regular cigarettes, but said their health effects are still largely a mystery to researchers.

“In a way we’re kind of having to start over a little bit, trying to find out what dependence is like for people with e-cigarettes,” he said. wilsonchapman2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Resolved: SCOTUS justices shouldn’t have life term ALEX SMITH

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In this series, members of the Northwestern Political Union debrief their weekly debates on a range of topics. All opinions expressed are those of the author alone and do not reflect the views of the Northwestern Political Union or its members.

“Before the Law sits a gatekeeper.”

— Franz Kafka, The Trial Each justice of the Supreme Court comprises one-ninth of the highest level of the judicial branch of the United States Government. The justice is the ultimate arbiter and the canonical interpreter of the Constitution. The importance of the position is self-evident. So, too, are the politics of its succession.

Think back to the fraught nomination of Judge Merrick Garland. Justice Antonin Scalia, a stalwart conservative member of the Court, died unexpectedly and was potentially to be replaced with a moderate liberal judge nominated by President Barack Obama.

Rather than lose this essential seat, Senate Republicans ran out the clock, waiting for reinforcements, and eventually went on to confirm Justice Neil Gorsuch instead — an extraordinary political maneuver, especially for the branch of our government meant to be the least politicized.

As Supreme Court appointments have become more consequential and long-lasting, parties have greater incentive to use extreme

measures to influence the composition of the Court. A lifetime appointment is a long time — and it’s becoming longer. Justices have been serving increasingly longer tenures in the centuries since our country began.

As elections or appointments are perceived to be more important, political actors fight harder for their preferred outcome. If there are half as many Supreme Court justices in the coming century, then each appointment becomes twice as consequential. If you have been alarmed to see this logic on display so vividly over recent years, then it should be apparent that it is in the best interest of our country to lessen the perceived importance of individual Supreme Court appointments.

The question before us now is, given that nominations will become less frequent and more contentious, what is to be done?

With this context in mind, the Political Union held a debate last Monday on the following resolution: Supreme Court justices should not be appointed for life. The discussion itself focused more precisely on whether justices should be appointed to a single 18-year term, with a seat opening every odd year such that a president will appoint two nominees per term. This is not a new idea, but it has been suggested with renewed vigor since Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation proceedings began. The vote at the outset favored this resolution.

Those who spoke in favor of the resolution, the affirmative (which, in full disclosure, I spoke on behalf of ), argued that a predictable confirmation process that kept average tenures from increasing would ease some of the pressure building in the politics of Supreme Court confirmations.

Justices plan their retirements to ensure that they are succeeded by someone with a

similar ideology, and only the fickle hand of untimely death can provide the seemingly once-in-a-generation opportunity to swing a seat from one ideology to the other.

Term limits that provide guaranteed appointments to presidents concomitant with election victory will shift their focus away from the potential crisis of a dead judge and instead towards winning presidential and congressional elections. Further, a higher turnover of seats from one ideology to the other will mean that parties in a divided government will be more likely to nominate and vote for mutually tolerable judges, since control of the presidency will inevitably flip and the cooperation of the other party will be needed. This logic was the norm before 2000, with most justices approved overwhelmingly.

As in so many things, the United States is the only major democracy with lifetime appoints to its highest judicial body, and a change would be for the better.

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There is no such thing as a solution, only choices with trade-offs, and the devil we know is preferable to the devil we don’t.

Those who spoke against the resolution, the negative, unconvinced that term limits would dampen partisan rancor surrounding Supreme Court confirmations, argued that lifetime tenure was essential for safeguarding an independent judiciary. The institution of

the Supreme Court was designed to ensure that justices are insulated from politics and the vagaries of public opinion. They are not elected and thus the Court can act as a countermajoritarian body when the law conflicts with prevailing sentiment. Term limits would pervert this essential judicial independence.

Under the proposed term limits, a justice appointed at age 50 would be able and willing to run for political office after leaving the Court at age 68. Justices would make excellent Senate and Presidential candidates.

With an eye to future office, the justices would be careful to avoid voting in such a way as to diminish their appeal to the party base. This is problematic, to say the very least.

These latter arguments were convincing to many; the final vote took a dramatic turn against the resolution. I imagine the prevailing sentiment to be that things may be bad now, but alternatives are usually worse. There is no such thing as a solution, only choices with trade-offs, and the devil we know is preferable to the devil we don’t. I will allow myself only the passing remark that, in a changing world, the conservative view is at times the most radical.

The next topic will be Resolved: The United States should facilitate regime change in Venezuela. The debate will be held at the Buffett Institute, Monday, October 15 from 7 to 8 p.m.

Alex Smith is a Weinberg junior. He can be contacted at alexandersmith2020@u.northwestern. edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@ dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

For fix to Supreme Court nominations, look to France MARCUS THUILLIER

DAILY COLUMNIST

It has been a week since Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in to the Supreme Court in what was one of the most disputed and controversial processes in recent political memory. For members of our generation, who have only been active in politics for a short amount of time, the nomination and confirmation process may have seemed rushed and unfair.

Although a difficult task, it is crucial to examine the Supreme Court appointment system itself, temporarily disregarding the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh and his seeming unfitness for the position.

The U.S. Senate, which votes on the appointment of Chief Justices to the Supreme Court, is a court of a hundred senators. Before 1975, cloture required a two-thirds affirmative vote. Since then, cloture has only required a three-fifths majority. The democratic senate set an important precedent in November 2013 by invoking the “nuclear option,” which bypassed the supermajority for a simple

majority on executive branch nominees and judicial nominees. The current Republican Senate has become the first to use the nuclear option for Supreme Court nominees, effectively pushing through Neil Gorsuch and Kavanaugh in the past couple of years.

Essentially, the division of the Senate has led to a circumvention of its own rules. The result is the appointment of an unpopular supreme court nominee just because he broadly agrees with 50 Republican senators.

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By voting on candidates

based on party lines and not on merit, the Senate has effectively turned the Supreme Court nomination process into a farce.

This brings up another point of concern: partisanship. The Supreme Court of the United States needs to be nonpartisan. As a judicial court, it needs to work as a defender of the constitution and a check to the

president’s dictatorial tendencies. However, by voting on candidates based on party lines and not on merit, the Senate has effectively turned the Supreme Court nomination process into a farce.

What happened over the past few weeks was a Republican president passing down a nominee to a Senate with 51 Republicans, who effectively blurred the lines separating the judiciary, executive and legislative branches of the government.

The streamlining of this process in recent years is a problem, one that could easily be resolved were more actors introduced. In France, the highest court of the land doesn’t obey a unique hierarchy like its U.S. counterpart because of its convoluted structure. The highest court of the judiciary is the “Cour de Cassation,” and the highest court of administrative is the “Conseil d’État.” The “Conseil Constitutionnel,” France’s equivalent to the Supreme Court has jurisdiction over national elections and reviews the constitutionality of bills, so its authority is mostly limited to French institutions and it works as a check to possible abuses of power in the government. Like in the U.S., the Conseil Constitutionnel has nine members, but they are only appointed for 9 years, cannot have their terms renewed and three are switched

every three years and appointed by three different entities: the president, the Senate and the National Assembly.

This system is far from perfect, but at least achieves a better balance than in the U.S. by separating judicial authority into different courts and aligning their appointments more closely with the voting tendencies of the time (more indicative of a direct democracy). In the U.S., recent developments have made the Supreme Court the object of partisan fighting and rule-bending.

If the Supreme Court is to protect the Constitution, it must abide by the very principles of checks and balances outlined in the earliest documents that established this nation. Until the system of appointments is fixed, it will be a long road until we can trust the Supreme Court’s authority to determine what is constitutional.

Marcus Thuillier is a f irst-year graduate student.

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specific use of race and ethnicity in Northwestern’s admission decisions is not publicly available.

The case against Harvard is a renewed effort by conservatives to eliminate the use of raceconscious admissions in the nation’s colleges. In 2016, the Supreme Court upheld the University of Texas at Austin’s consideration of the racial and ethnic backgrounds of applicants as a factor in its holistic review process. But with the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court earlier this month, proponents of affirmative action have expressed unease that the appointment of the judge — and the resulting 5-4 conservative majority — will push the court to roll back previously established safeguards on the practice.

All justices, however, should initially be given the “benefit of the doubt” — especially given Kavanaugh’s lack of prior rulings on affirmative action cases in college admissions, former Pritzker School of Law dean Daniel Rodriguez said.

Still, the former federal judge’s addition to the court could prove critical, he added.

“There is a real risk, no two ways about it, that the replacement of Anthony Kennedy with Brett Kavanaugh will make a difference — as it will in so many other areas of law — on the law of affirmative action,” Rodriguez said.

After the Trump administration revoked Obama-era guidelines encouraging the use of race in college admissions in July, Northwestern announced it would not change its admissions practices.

Later that month, 16 highly selective universities including Columbia, Duke, Johns Hopkins and Stanford jointly filed an amicus brief with the federal district court in Boston in the Harvard lawsuit. Considering race as a factor in the holistic review of applicants, the brief said, is

ruling in the Harvard lawsuit, Rodriguez called additional federal inquiry into college admissions “probable.”

“The important question is in light of these interrogations — ongoing in the case of Yale, or more threatened in the case of others — whether universities and colleges will feel obliged to not only look anew at their policies,” he said, “but whether they’ll change them to try to avoid the scrutiny that comes from a skeptical administration.”

unanimously to give the additional money to the city.

In a letter sent to Mayor Steve Hagerty and members of City Council, the organization’s board said they have already raised $11.7 million of their $15 million “stretch” fundraising goal. Because of this, the city will only have to contribute $38 million to the total price of Robert Crown — estimated at $53 million.

“We hit that number in October and said that we’d keep raising money because we thought there was still support out there,” Giangreco said.

The new Robert Crown Community Center plans to have two full sheet ice rinks, turf fields, a daycare center and a branch of the Evanston Public Library. The new center is scheduled to open in fall 2019.

At a February City Council meeting, aldermen decided that Friends of the Robert Crown Center had to provide the city $2.5 million toward construction costs in fall 2018. But according to the letter, the group is able to give $3.5 million — $1 million more than expected.

Giangreco said since the package passed, the project has experienced $4.5 million in construction overruns.

Bobkiewicz said his office has received the proposal and has sent it to the legal and finance departments for further evaluations of the terms and conditions of the issued bonds.

“We are still evaluating issues with the bonds that were issued,” Bobkiewicz said. “My hope is that we’ll have more information for the Council as they start deliberating the budget starting on Oct. 22.”

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Alumni Watch: recent graduate’s journey from NU to Times Square

During her time at Northwestern, Caroline Caffrey was involved in student-led theater.

Now she’s expanding on her love for communication in the commercial sector.

Caffrey, a School of Communication alumna (’18), majored in theater and sociology.

“Right from freshman year, the ‘theater is in our DNA’ idea really kicked in me” she said. “I quickly got involved in several theater productions” The community at Northwestern and her involvement in student productions and Northwestern A Cappella Community Alliance allowed her to make a subsequent transition into a double major with sociology.

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An aerial view of the Harvard University campus in 2013. Harvard is facing a lawsuit charging the university with discriminating against Asian-Americans that could have wide-ranging impacts on the use of race in college admissions.

“necessary to achieve the benefits of diversity” in its backing of Harvard’s practices.

Other than the University of Chicago, Northwestern was the only top-10 university in U.S. News’ 2018 rankings to not sign onto the brief.

Rowley did not immediately return request for comment on NU’s decision not attach its name to the brief.

Earlier this year, the Justice and Education Departments launched a separate civil rights investigation into whether Yale discriminates against Asian-American applicants, amid a similar probe into Harvard. Regardless of the “It helped me understand human behavior and communication in an entirely different way, which made me a well-rounded academic and allowed me to do several different types of studies,” Caffrey said. “I love anything that involved communication.”

During the course of her time at NU, she also wrote and archived for the 86th Annual Waa-Mu Show and at one point she was planning for and leading all 14 a cappella groups.

“The skills I learned from theater are applicable to a lot of things that aren’t theater,” she said.

This past summer, Caffrey accepted a history storytelling and archive fellowship with the Times Square Alliance in New York City, a not-for-profit that promotes Times Square.

“When I saw the job online, it seemed interesting because the job had a little bit to do with theater with the history of Broadway and the history of New York in general,” she said.

In a few weeks she will be moving into a customer solutions job in the Chicago area with McMaster Carr.

“It’s not customer service, it’s about dealing with specific problems for customers.” she described it.

Caffrey was also recently accepted into New York University’s Tisch School of Arts graduate program for musical theater writing, where she will begin studying in the 2019 academic year.

She plans on pursuing musical theater writing with a day job in communication after graduate school. Her advice to undergraduate students? Follow your passions.

“Don’t just do something because you feel like it will round out your resume because if you pursue the things you love,” she said. “Don’t undervalue your on-campus experience.”

— Priyanshi Katare

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Caroline Caffrey (’18). During the course of her time at NU, she wrote and archived for the 86th Annual Waa-Mu Show.

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After a week of events leading up to Homecoming Weekend, alumni returned to Northwestern’s campus this Friday and Saturday to meet up with old friends, take in the new architecture, and cheer on Northwestern football against Nebraska.

Annie Krall, a Weinberg senior, was crowned Homecoming Wildcat.

On Saturday, winless Nebraska took an early lead against the Wildcats, who eventually came back to get ahead by halftime.

A scrappy second-half effort wasn’t enough for a win, and the game was pushed to overtime.

Northwestern won the game off a kick from Drew Luckenbaugh.

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ON THE RECORD

They came up with a saying, ‘Justin Jackson the ballcarrier’ around here. Right now it’s, ‘Clayton Thorson the thrower.’

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ecstatic out there.”

Nagel, a senior receiver, tied or set new career highs across the board with 12 receptions for 220 yards — the most by any Big Ten receiver since 2013 — and two touchdowns, and Thorson did the same with 41 completions for 455 yards, as NU (3-3, 3-1 Big Ten) dealt Nebraska (0-6, 0-4) a most painful loss at Ryan Field on Saturday.

The Cornhuskers, trailing 14-13 at halftime, surged in the second half to take a two-score lead and had all but put the game to bed after backing the Cats into a fourthand-10 deep in their own territory with barely five minutes left and a 10-point deficit. But Thorson kept NU alive with a completion, and the hosts drove close enough for Luckenbaugh to drill a 31-yard field goal, the first of his career, to cut into the deficit with 2:27 left.

The Cats’ defense, gorged all day long until that point by Nebraska running back Devine Ozigbo (159 yards, two touchdowns), then came up with three crucial stops to get the offense one more chance.

“We just realized the game was

when we went on that run last year.”

Not everything was rosy for the Cats, beyond the fact it took an against-allodds rally to beat a winless team at home.

The running game, for example, again struggled mightily: NU averaged 2.1 yards per rush attempt and finished below 40 total rushing yards for the third straight game, plus leading runner John Moten departed midgame with an injury.

Still, the Cats successfully rode their clicking aerial attack to exhaustion — Thorson attempted 64 passes — to slightly out-gain the Cornhuskers, 487 yards to 482, and get back to .500 on the season entering a should-win matchup at lowly Rutgers next weekend.

“That’s the most fun football game I’ve ever been a part of,” Nagel said. “Just trusting all these guys around me is what it comes down to.”

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Flynn Nagel turned to his teammates on the Northwestern sidelines, not far from the scoreboard that showed Nebraska leading 31-24 with two minutes to play. The senior receiver had a message for all of them.

“He was just saying, ‘We’re going to win this game. We’re going to win this game. You’ve got to believe it,’’ senior quarterback Clayton Thorson relayed.

Nagel turned out to be right.

O ver the next half-hour, a remarkable 99-yard touchdown drive to tie the game with 12 seconds to go, an interception from sophomore safety J.R. Pace on the Cornhuskers’ overtime possession and the second career field goal by backup kicker Drew Luckenbaugh lifted the Wildcats to an improbable 34-31 overtime win on Homecoming.

“That was a feeling that I don’t think I’ve ever had playing football, it just felt different,” Nagel said after it was all said and done, the grin on his face stretching almost to Lake Michigan. “The love for everybody beside me … was just on a different level this game, and the trust with Clayton. I was just

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on the line, and for us to win the game, we had to do what we can and stop the offense,” Pace said. “It was a heightened sense of urgency — we realized the game was on us.”

The offense then delivered.

Thorson hit Nagel on three straight plays to move in to Cornhusker territory, connected with junior receiver Ben Skowronek to move down to the 5-yard line and then found freshman JJ Jefferson diving into the end zone to send the purple portion of the sold-out crowd of 47,330 into delirium.

“If you go back and look at the last few years, our two-minute offense has been really good,” Thorson said. “We had the ball on our own half-yard line really, and we were just thinking we’ve got to get the ball out, get a little breathing room, and then we’ll just go into our normal stuff. … Our receivers were getting open the whole day and our O-line was doing a great job.”

Once overtime started, NU — now 4-0 in games tied after 60 minutes over the past two seasons, including one last autumn in Lincoln — seemed destined for another wild victory, and this time, it was destiny that delivered.

“We’re pretty salty in overtime,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “We have great confidence and belief in that time. There’s a lot of seniors who have been through a lot of games

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The idea of Clayton Thorson as an NFL quarterback seems more and more reasonable every week.

The senior has always looked the part at 6-foot-4, 220 pounds, but he ranked last among qualifying Big Ten quarterbacks in passing efficiency in 2017 and was coming off an ACL tear in NU’s Music City Bowl victory.

Those doubts, however, have mostly melted away over the last two weeks.

Seven days after torching a top-25 team through the air, the senior quarterbacked a 14-point fourth quarter comeback, featuring a 99-yard drive in 1:50 to tie the game with 12 seconds left, as NU (3-3, 3-1 Big Ten) pulled out a 34-31 win over Nebraska (0-6, 0-4) in overtime Saturday.

“That was pretty cool,” Fitzgerald said. “I don’t think I’ve ever put them 99-and-a-half, with two minutes to go in practice. … Clayton managed it like a senior quarterback, like an NFL player, like a pro.”

Whatever the Cats needed, Thorson provided it. Throw 64 times? He completed 41 of them for a career-high 455 yards. Need a do-or-die conversion on 4th and 10? How about two on the game-tying drive. Darts anywhere on the field? Just ask Flynn Nagel, who had a career-high 220 yards on 12 catches and caught two of Thorson’s three touchdowns.

“He knows where I’m going to be, he knows my skill set,” Nagel said.

“When you play with somebody for four years, the trust is just built up over those four years.”

It wasn’t a perfect day for Thorson.

He threw two interceptions, including one on a ball into traffic as NU was driving in the fourth quarter; that led to a Nebraska field goal that put the visitors up 31-21 with 5:41 to go.

By ELLA BROCKWAY

Drew Luckenbaugh lined up for his first career field goal attempt with less than a minute to go in the third quarter of Northwestern’s home matchup against Nebraska on Saturday. The redshirt sophomore’s career stat line up until that moment was limited to 16 kickoffs in four games, and the two extra points he had kicked earlier in the day, playing as the first-string kicker in place of the injured Charlie Kuhbander.

His attempt didn’t go as planned: Luckenbaugh rushed into the kick, and the ball sailed far wide left of the goalpost, preventing the Wildcats from drawing within 3 points. The Cornhuskers scored a touchdown to increase their lead on the next drive, and the Pennsylvania native knew he had to put his miss out of his mind.

“As I was growing up, we had a saying, ‘Fix it and forget it,’” Luckenbaugh said.

“So I realized what I did, and then just fixed it and moved on in the next one.”

Move on he did: Luckenbaugh converted his next two extra point attempts and a 31-yard field goal in the fourth quarter to help power the Cats back from the deficit and into overtime, before sending the ball straight through the uprights for a 37-yarder to give NU a dramatic 34-31 win on Homecoming at Ryan Field.

The winner came on the heels of a game-tying 99-yard drive at the end of regulation and a forced four-and-out by the Cats defense at the start of overtime.

It was NU’s first game-winning field goal since a 2015 win over Penn State, in which kicker Jack Mitchell missed three kicks before converting a gamewinning attempt with seconds remaining.

Coach Pat Fitzgerald noted after the game that Luckenbaugh’s willingness to step up and make a big play down the

stretch, especially after his initial miss, helped the Cats climb out of a hole in the fourth quarter. “(It’s a) next-man-up mentality, and it was his turn, his opportunity,” Fitzgerald said. “He stepped up and really responded incredibly from that first kick.”

Luckenbaugh joined the team as a preferred walk-on, redshirted his first year, and did not see any game action last season. He had a career-long field goal of 47 yards while in high school — a school record, and finished with the most field goals in all of Pennsylvania as a sophomore in 2013.

He spent the past two seasons learning behind Mitchell and Kuhbander on the depth chart and, after it became clear that Kuhbander would not play against Nebraska, took advice this week from long snapper Tyler Gillikin and holder Jake Collins, mentally preparing for a moment like Saturday.

“Every week we usually have some kind of (special) situation or something where we practice going in that rush, going down to the kick to try to win the game,” Luckenbaugh said. “It’s different what it’ll actually be in the game, but it at least gets you in that mindset and gets you prepared for it.”

In addition to the two field goals, Luckenbaugh ended the game a perfect 4-for-4 on extra points and with 263 yards from five kickoffs.

While it’s still uncertain what the kicking situation will be for next week’s game at Rutgers — Fitzgerald described Kuhbander’s injury status as “day-to-day” in the postgame news conference — the coach was full of praise for Luckenbaugh after the win.

“Drew made a big statement that he was ready mentally,” Fitzgerald said.

“He was able to overcome some adversity after that kick (and) he stepped up when his teammates needed him. To me, that’s pretty special.” ellabrockway2021@u.northwestern.edu

By JOSEPH WILKINSON

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Clayton Thorson fires a pass. The senior quarterback tallied a career-high 455 yards in Saturday’s win.

His 5-for-13 performance on the next drive was similarly imperfect, but two completions on fourth downs got the Cats into field goal range.

“I’ll remember going down by 10, talking to the guys, and seeing the life in their eyes,” Thorson said. “We had some key catches by some guys who maybe only had a couple catches the whole year.”

Nagel also had the biggest catch on the 99-yard drive, reeling in a 32-yard grab on a wheel route to take NU across midfield. Thorson was 6-of-8 for 89 yards and the touchdown pass to JJ Jefferson on the game-tying drive.

And he did it all with little help despite the Cornhuskers undoubtedly expecting NU to pass on almost every down. Running backs John Moten and Solomon Vault tallied only 39 yards on 19 carries.

“You have to adapt,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “They came up with a saying, ‘Justin Jackson the ball-carrier’ around here. Right now it’s, ‘Clayton Thorson the thrower.’”

Last week, Thorson put up similarly large tallies, throwing for 373 yards on 47 attempts in a win over Michigan State. The past two games were in stark contrast to some of Thorson’s earlier performances, like sub-200 yard efforts against Duke and Michigan.

By the time sophomore kicker Drew Luckenbaugh drilled a 37-yard field goal to clinch the overtime win for NU, Thorson had finished with career highs in completions, attempts and yards. It was a far cry from his freshman season, when the gunslinger leaned heavily on Jackson — and his own running ability.

“It’s a big confidence builder. We couldn’t have done that three years ago,” Thorson said. “It’s a challenge.

They know what we’re going to do, we know what they’re going to do, and it’s just about who’s better. We’ve shown that we could do that the past few weeks.” josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern.edu