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In wake of student deaths, NU prioritizes mental health indicates students are becoming more comfortable addressing their mental health problems. daily senior staffer “It suggests that students are more willing to ask for @sophiabollag help,” Dunkle said. “There’s hopefully a lessening of the stigma.”

Emily Fagan is not shy talking Dunkle said the jump from 2011 is likely due about mental health. Last year, stuin part to the three student deaths NU saw dents began coming to her almost last year. weekly to discuss their struggles Weinberg junior Alyssa Weaver comwith mental illness. mitted suicide last November while “They all said, ‘I feel so alone. I studying abroad in London, and feel like no one understands. I feel McCormick sophomore Dmitri Teplov like no one else is going through committed suicide in May in Pancoe this,’” the Bienen junior said.

Hall. McCormick sophomore Harsha Fagan, who has bipolar disorMaddula was found dead in Wilmette der, generalized anxiety disorder Harbor last September. His death was and attention deficit hyperactivity ruled accidental, but it sent shockdisorder, assured the students they waves across campus. weren’t alone.

In addition to prompting more After hearing from many who students to seek services, however, felt isolated coping with their psyDunkle said the tragedies also spurred chological problems, she decided to students to get involved. start a support group through the “One of the things that came out of National Alliance on Mental Illness last year was that a lot of students got at Northwestern. activated in a good way, really trying to Fagan is not the only student takthink of ways that we can address suicide ing steps to improve mental health prevention and mental health services,” resources on campus. After three he said. student deaths shocked the NU comDespite what Dunkle sees as improvemunity last academic year, students ments, he and many mental health advoand administrators began advocating cates on campus say more can be done for better mental health resources on to make people feel comfortable about campus. From increased staffing at coming forward with psychological Counseling and Psychological SerEliminating stigma problems. vices to the creation of a new mental “When you have a mental illness, health Essential NU during Wildcat The number of students requesting help from CAPS that isolation is a huge problem,” has steadily risen over the past five years. CAPS has seen a Fagan said. “You just either want to 20 percent increase in students seeking its services since be by yourself or you feel like you can’t 2008 and a 12 percent increase from 2011 to 2012, tell others, so having a place where NU according to internal records. all of these people can come together Listens CAPS executive director and find support from one another is John Dunkle said the trend a really vital thing for campus.”

By working to start a chapter of NU Active NAMI at NU, Fagan hopes to create Minds a place where students can talk to others facing similar problems.

CAPS Naina Desai, co-president of NU By sophia bollag

Welcome, pressure to enhance mental health programming last academic year has already produced tangible results.

However, CAPS struggles with budgetary constraints and remains understaffed. Many students still do not think the organization meets the needs of those with mental illnesses.

The student group NU Listens continues to seek University approval and funding for a dedicated adviser, and organizations all over campus are looking to reduce the stigma surrounding mental illness.

Both NU Listens and NAMI have also run into liability issues with the University that could prevent them from making progress at all.

By facilitating conversation about mental illness, administrators are concerned the groups could be held responsible if students in the groups harm themselves, NAMI co-president Supriya Bharati said.

“We want to let each other know that we’re not alone and ... there is always hope,” the Weinberg junior said. “But for some reason that comes across as a lot of liability.”

Although activists have lofty goals for psychological services on campus, the community has a significant amount of work to do before mental health at NU looks the way they envision it.

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‘No definite date’ set for Starbucks’ alcohol service

Although Evanston aldermen have approved a liquor license for the downtown Starbucks, a manager said Sunday there is “no definite date” for when the coffee shop will start serving alcohol.

City Council agreed Oct. 28 to allow Starbucks, 1734 Sherman Ave., to offer a small selection of beer and wine after 4 p.m. as part of the “Starbucks Evenings” pilot program. The location will become the eighth Starbucks in the Chicago area to participate in the initiative, which aims to create an evening atmosphere at the coffee shop once the workday ends.

“We’re definitely going to be getting a different feel at night,” said Joel Recinto, manager of the Starbucks in downtown Evanston. “At night it’s usually just studying and coffee, but now it’s going to be studying, coffee and there’s going to be drinks as well.”

Recinto said the program was supposed to launch in October, but the restaurant is still waiting for the city to

finalize the license. He said he has no estimate for when to expect the program to begin.

Nonetheless, the coffee shop has already undergone preparations to transition into Starbucks Evenings, including training all employees on how to distribute alcohol and ensuring all Evenings servers are 21 years or older.

Recinto said Evenings servers will wait on and bring items directly to tables, rather than the order-at-thecounter system used during the day.

The coffee shop will also serve small, “classy” food items with its alcohol selections, he said.

“All our preparations are there,” Recinto said. “We’re ready for it. We’re just waiting for it to launch.”

Recinto said he is also certain the program will appeal to Northwestern students.

“I just think it’s perfect if students are wanting to get a pick-me-up or wanting to get a little bit of energy or somewhere calm to pregame right before heading to the bar,” Recinto said. “There’s a bunch of ways you can look at it. Alcohol brings a whole new perception to the table.”

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heartbreak Senior Kain Colter gets dragged down by a Nebraska defender Saturday. The quarterback ran for 124 yards and threw for 45 more in the Wildcats’ crushing last-second defeat in Lincoln.

Sand Creek Massacre

NU to form second committee By joseph diebold

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On the heels of an open forum on the role of Northwestern founder John Evans in the Sand Creek Massacre, the University announced Friday it is fasttracking the creation of a second committee on the issue.

The first John Evans Study Committee is expected to deliver a report by June on Evans’ complicity in the 1864 slaying of more than 100 Cheyenne and Arapaho people — and whether NU profited financially from the massacre during its nascent years. The second committee was intended to form after and make a recommendation to the University based on the initial findings, but University President Morton Schapiro and Provost Dan Linzer said no matter what Evans’ role is ultimately determined to be, a second committee can assist in improving the current campus climate for Native Americans.

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With Sand Creek, the University is directly tied to the event.

Adam Mendel, former president of the Native American and Indigeneous Student Alliance

“Regardless of the findings of the committee, however, we believe that there are things that Northwestern University can do now to make the University a more welcoming place for Native Americans,” Schapiro and Linzer said in a statement.

Students, led by the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance, began pushing the administration on the issue of Evans’ role in the massacre last academic year.

“A lot of times with historical events, people tend to try to put them in the past and say it’s not important,” Adam Mendel, then NAISA co-president, told The Daily at the time. “But with Sand Creek, the University is directly tied to that event.”

The initial committee held an open forum Oct. 23 to share its work and get public feedback. Committee members praised the public response but said the historical record is still unclear on Evans’ involvement in Sand Creek.

NU is soliciting recommendations immediately for “persons with expertise or interest” in the issues to sit on the new committee.

“The group will be asked to make recommendations for ways that Northwestern can define more clearly the University’s relationships with Native Americans in the areas of academic programs, admissions, support services, and civic engagement and partnerships, as well as respond to the recommendations of the study committee,” Schapiro and Linzer said. josephdiebold2015@u.northwestern.edu

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The Erie Evanston/Skokie Family Health Center will open Monday at a new location, where it hopes to care for about double the number of patients it has been serving at a temporary site for the past year.

The 16,000-square-foot facility, 1285 Hartrey Ave., will be the first location in the Erie Family Center network outside of Chicago, where there are 11 sites.

The health center seeks to offer high-quality health services for those in the Evanston and Skokie communities who do not have adequate health coverage. The center has been operating at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center since October 2012.

Tiosha Goss, director of the center, said it has provided health services for more than 2,250 patients. Its newest location will now be able to care for more than 5,500 people at the expanded, state-of-the-art facility.

In addition to providing health care to those in need, the Hartrey Avenue location will offer dental care, prenatal care, behavioral health and counseling as well as health education classes. There will also be a dedicated playroom for children.

When the health center’s temporary location opened, president and CEO Dr. Lee Francis hailed it as a long-awaited resource for the North Shore.

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grand opening The Erie Evanston/Skokie Health Center opens Monday at 1285 Hartrey Ave. The health center is expected to care for thousands more patients at its. new location.

in the communities where we are needed most,” Francis said in a news release at the time. “Right now, there is a growing need for primary care providers in the suburbs, so we are thrilled to be able to expand our health care services by branching out into Evanston and Skokie to meet increased patient demand.”

Because Erie Family Health Center is an independent, nonprofit organization, the new location was made possible by a $1 million grant from the North Suburban Healthcare Foundation. Beverly Kroll, chair of the North Suburban Healthcare Foundation, said in May that her group supports the health center’s “critical objective” — providing

high-quality care to the neediest members of the community.

Even at its temporary location, the health center received a warm reception from city officials.

“I am so excited that this much-awaited day is here marking the opening of a world-class health center right here in the heart of Evanston,” Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said when the temporary site opened. “But more importantly, I am delighted that many more Evanston area residents and their families will now have access to much-needed, affordable health care.” juliangerez2017@u.northwestern.edu

Police Blotter Masked men attack, rob 15-yearold boy on Halloween

Five people in ski masks attacked and robbed a 15-year-old boy on the night of Halloween in west Evanston, according to police.

Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said the boy was walking his dog when the incident happened at about 8 p.m. Thursday on a

sidewalk in the 1000 block of Florence Avenue.

The people, all male and wearing dark clothing in addition to the masks, approached the boy, demanded his money and punched him in the face, leaving him bleeding from the mouth and nose.

The people fled with the boy’s Android cell phone and $7, Parrott said. The boy picked up

his dog, ran to a neighbor’s house and had the neighbor call police.

Officers checked the area and stopped several people, though the boy did not identify them as the people who attacked and robbed him, Parrott said. ­— Patrick Svitek

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On Campus Sign language club offers beginners’ workshops By lan nguyen

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Northwestern students learned how to communicate with their hands and facial expressions instead of their voices at the American Sign Language Club’s first beginners’ workshop Sunday.

The event aimed to introduce students to basic ASL words and expressions, as well as garner interest and appreciation for the language.

About a dozen students attended the workshop, which was held at Norris University Center.

“American Sign Language is about being able to converse with the deaf community,” said ASL club president Jing Cao, a Weinberg senior. “It’s fun and fascinating, and I think everybody should get a chance to try it out.”

The hourlong workshop consisted of learning the ASL alphabet, basic sentence structures and simple conversational topics such as introductions and questions.

The workshop was led by Kathryn Lalla, the vice president of ASL Club. Lalla draws experience from three years of ASL classes in high school and one at NU. “We all decided as an executive board to start holding workshops because we wanted to give

Director to leave Lurie Cancer Center to work for research hospital

Dr. Steven Rosen, the director of the Feinberg School of Medicine’s Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, will leave Northwestern early next year to become the provost and chief scientific officer of Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope.

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beginner’s luck Weinberg sophomore Kathryn Lalla teaches a sign to students at a workshop hosted by the American Sign Language Club on Sunday. Students learned basic vocabulary and sentence structure at first of what will be weekly workshops.

people a real learning experience,” the Weinberg sophomore said.

Students not only were taught vocabulary

words but also learned tips about facial expressions and control of hand movements. Lalla encouraged participants to practice the language

institution with so many accomplished and talented scientists, clinicians and administrative leaders,” Rosen said in a news release. “City of Hope is one of the great treasures in American medicine, with some of the most important discoveries of the last decades coming from its investigators — both in terms of scientific observations as well as clinical advances.”

Rosen helped bring the cancer center to national prominence in his 24 years there, including his treatment of Maggie Daley, the wife of former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Maggie Daley died in 2011 after a nine-year fight with breast cancer.

He was also named in a lawsuit alleging a former Lurie center physician misused federal grant money.

NU settled the lawsuit — which was unsealed this summer — and paid $2.93 million without admitting wrongdoing.

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“It’s hard maintaining these skills with just meeting once a week,” Lalla said. “I’m hoping that the people who came have enough interest in ASL to take time outside of the workshop to practice.”

Lalla said the ASL class at NU is no longer being offered, and she hopes to gain enough interest from supporters to petition for the course’s return.

This workshop was the first in a weekly series of ASL workshops that will be held over the academic year. Students of all abilities are welcome to attend, organizers said.

“I thought the workshop was great because I like learning how to communicate with people I wouldn’t normally be able to communicate with,” McCormick freshman Jenn Kroon said.

In addition to attending the workshops, students can further develop their skills by joining the ASL Club, which meets at 8 p.m. Thursdays on the second floor of Norris.

The club focuses on learning words relating to a certain theme or concept. They also use supplemental songs and videos.

“Sign language certainly takes some getting used to,” Cao said. “However, it’s going to be really rewarding for those who stick with it.” lannguyen2017@u.northwestern.edu

release. “Dr. Rosen’s experience and vision will create the environment necessary to accelerate the pace of meaningful discoveries that extend both quality and length of life.”

Rosen will leave NU on Jan. 31 and begin at City of Hope on March 1.

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Mindful meditation should be more mainstream thomas pollick

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The first time I really learned about meditation was during my sophomore year of high school in an Eastern Religions class. A Buddhist speaker came in to talk about his experiences. Following the talk, I asked him how I could incorporate meditation into my everyday life. He said that every day right after I get up, I should sit on the side of my bed for five minutes and focus on my breathing.

That’s all it was. Just five minutes, focusing on my breathing. Contrary to what I expected, there was no talk of spirituality or references to religious teachings. It seemed easy enough to give it a shot. All it took was setting my alarm clock five minutes early.

Today, four years later, I practice the same meditation that was taught to me that day: what I now know as a form of mindfulness meditation. It is a daily practice that helps me feel relaxed and focused and keep a clear mind during stressful situations.

Like many other habits, getting started was the hardest part, but once I committed myself to it and felt the results, it became easier to do.

I have spoken to many people who have reported similar benefits. Perhaps the greatest story I’ve heard was from my friend who

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went to a mindfulness meditation session at his school after dealing with depression for years.

After practicing mindfulness meditation every day for three weeks, he was pulled out of his depression, and he has continued practicing it ever since.

Researching the effects of mindfulness meditation on the brain, I found an overwhelming amount of evidence consistent with my experience and the stories I’ve heard: that it reduces anxiety and improves focus and well-being.

Studies show that also it produces measurable physical changes in the brain. It increases connectivity between the brain’s attentional networks and affects activity in the amygdala, a part of the brain important for emotional responses.

Mindfulness mediation is about clearing your mind by following one particular present sensation. There can be many ways to do it. I would consider exercise a form of meditation — many people report the same mental

benefits from exercise that people gain from mindfulness meditation.

However, when I tell my friends about mindfulness meditation, there are a lot of misconceptions I come across. A few of these are the same ones I used to have. Some of my friends thought that meditation was exclusively a religious practice. One friend described it as “sitting for a long time and thinking,” insisting that he would go crazy if he had to do that.

Contrary to these misconceptions, meditation can be a simple and practical way to deal with the stresses of daily life. However, people often have the idea that it’s unreachable, that it requires a sort of spirituality or patience that isn’t for them.

Having experienced the benefits of meditation for myself and having heard stories of others’ experience, I truly believe that the world would be a better place if meditation were demystified and was a more mainstream practice.

I rarely go though a day at school without hearing people talk about how stressed out they are. Technology has increased the pace of everything, and people seemed to get trapped in the momentum that surrounds them. For me, meditation has taught me that no matter how crazy things get, I can always remove myself and feel at peace.

Thomas Pollick is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be reached at thomaspollick3.2016@u.northwestern.edu. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

Coding is the skill you did not know you needed william mclaughlin daily columnist

Haoqi Zhang’s class offered this fall, An Introduction to Computer Science for Everyone, has nine available seats. Further down the class list in CAESAR, Introduction to Computer Programming, taught by John Tumblin, has 10 spots open to students who can figure out time travel and show up for the first day of class. In fact, every single course offered by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has room for more students. Although it’s impossible to say whether the classes were full and then saw students drop, the basic point remains: With technology playing such a large role in our lives, it’s curious that a top school is

not funneling more students to at least grasp the basics.

Other institutions have taken notice. At Harvard University, the institution that gave Mark Zuckerberg to the world, introductory computer science course CS50 was the second highest-enrolled course this fall. These students are likely not computer masters after the class, but they are on their way.

A cursory knowledge of code can help an entrepreneur start a website. Scientists could write a script to automate parts of an experiment. And even Ph.D.s might need to create a personal website describing their academic lives. You might not be an expert after a single class, but at least you will know what is going on under the hood. A little string of code goes a long way.

I bet many who start a computer science sequence are quickly turned off by the sterile lectures and difficult assignments. Especially at

Northwestern, where the quarter system favors rote memorization over subject mastery, students simply do not have time to take their time.

Computer languages, like foreign languages, require attention and deep interest to get right.

The solution here would be to audit a course or take it pass-fail.

I have started to learn to code this fall and regret that I did not consider computer science courses until then. It is particularly unfortunate because I do not have a great deal of freedom in my schedule to take more classes before I graduate. Whether through formal or informal instruction, students would be wise to grasp the basics of at least one language such as Python, JavaScript or HTML. It could be a waste of time, or it could be the best decision you make. For me, taking the red pill has been a worthwhile journey.

I worry that students hear a barrage of advice about courses. Take Chinese; it’s the future! (I

Early admission needs improvement MATT GATES

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While current Northwestern students enjoy the fall weather and de-stress after midterms, high school seniors are in the midst of the exhausting college application process. Being admitted to a top university such as NU is an accomplishment that gets harder to attain every year. Given the insanity of the college admissions process, especially for students applying to NU and its peer institutions, many students choose to use the early decision program to try to increase their chances of admission.

The early decision acceptance rate for the NU class of 2016 was 37 percent, whereas the overall acceptance rate was 15.3 percent. Not only does early decision allow students to have a greater chance of admission to the school of their dreams, but it also allows admissions committees to know for a fact that their school is a student’s top choice.

The way in which a university selects its students inevitably affects its campus culture. Even though most regular decision students are thrilled to be at NU, students that applied early decision wanted to be here more than anywhere else.

However, because early decision does not allow students the opportunity to compare financial aid packages, this admission program can disadvantage students who do not come from high-income

families. The Single Choice Early Action programs available at other schools would allow NU to continue attracting students that truly want to be here but also not disadvantage lower-income students.

The SCEA program at schools such as Harvard and Yale allow a student to apply early at only one private institution but are not binding. These programs attempt to keep admissions fair to students of different socioeconomic backgrounds while giving students a way to let a school know that it is their first choice. Like early decision, applying SCEA seems to provide an advantage to students: Last year, Harvard admitted 18 percent of its SCEA applicants but only 6 percent of its applicants overall. SCEA provides students with the benefit of proving a college is their first choice but also the chance to compare financial aid packages.

Eliminating early admission in general would be harmful to NU’s student body. Although we would all like to believe that high school seniors never choose to apply to a school just because of its name, we all know that some students do. Many students pull schools mainly from the first few pages of U.S. News & World Report’s ranking in order to create their college list. Because early decision or SCEA applicants have chosen one school as their top choice, they are likely to choose the school they believe will be the best fit for them. Students who apply regular decision could write 10 essays, each claiming that a different school is their first choice, but can only apply to one school under either of these programs.

Even though NU has taken action to help make early decision an option for as many students as

possible, it could go even further by instituting a SCEA program. NU gives early decision students who are accepted the chance to reject an offer of admission for reasons of “financial hardship.”

But even with this policy, some students still shy away from early decision for financial reasons.

Students who are admitted to NU early do not have the option of comparing financial aid packages before committing to the school. What is “enough” financial aid for a student to be able to attend also varies from family to family. I had high school classmates who were offered what a school considered to be adequate financial aid only to find that their family could not realistically balance funding their college education and other endeavors. Lower-income students may be unable to apply early decision even if NU is their first choice, while students whose families are sure they can fund their college education have this option.

Like other colleges, NU must balance selecting a class of students that truly want to be here with keeping the college admissions playing field as fair as possible. NU could consider switching to a Single Choice Early Action admission program in order to keep the benefits of its current early admission program but avoid the downsides present with the binding early decision option. Early admission may help some students, but it carries a price for others that a few changes could remedy.

Matt Gates is a Weinberg freshman. He can be reached at matthewgates2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

did, and it’s not.) Study Arabic — you can be a diplomat! (First station: Libya — if you’re lucky.)

Pursue engineering — you’ll get a job! (Your roommate who didn’t take Engineering Analysis I-IV also will.)

But where this advice has fallen short (bets on future economic and political relevance), a foundation in computers still makes sense. But consider typing. It might have seemed silly to learn how to type at some point, a trivial skill for specialists perhaps, but its importance is arguably unquestioned today. To me it’s so trivial it is not even a skill anymore. Our children might not ask us for help on their math homework.

Instead they’ll ask us a problem from a robotics assignment, and we’ll be none the wiser.

Will McLaughlin is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at williammclaughlin2013@u.northwestern.edu. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

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Day of the Dead celebration comes to city library

By Amanda Gilbert

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Although Halloween was earlier in the week, Evanston residents came to the city’s public library Saturday to celebrate another holiday.

Daylily Alvarez, Evanston Public Library’s Latino outreach specialist, planned a day of cultural activities for families to learn about Dia de Los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead.

In many Latin American countries, the holiday

celebrates loved ones who have died and often includes family gatherings to share memories, food and artifacts.

Throughout the event, attendees could make their own muertos folk art, such as sugar skulls and dioramas. Some of the artwork created at the event is now on display at the library, 1703 Orrington Ave. The Mexican Ministry of Tourism and Culture provided Aztec performers to demonstrate how ceremonial drumming works, Alvarez said.

The day also featured story time, dancing and face painting.

“I wanted to make it a family event,” she said,

“which is why we had a lot of events children could participate in.”

The holiday brings a new perspective to the way the community remembers those who are no longer with it, Alvarez said. She emphasized that the Day of the Dead is not about grief.

“It’s important for us to come together and to get to know one another,” Alvarez said.

She said Evanston has a diverse population, and tensions can arise when people do not know a lot about each other’s traditions and cultures.

Alvarez said events such as Dia de Los Muertos work to bridge that gap.

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STORY TIME Children listen to a dramatic reading of a scary story at the Day of the Dead celebration on Saturday afternoon.

Man attacks police officers at hospital

An Evanston man has been charged with attacking two police officers Tuesday evening at St. Francis Hospital.

Jared Lester-Childs, 27, punched both officers in their chests while he refused to be sedated and restrained at the hospital, 355 Ridge Ave., Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.

One of the officers suffered a minor injury to his right hand.

“Once we know more about each other, we are more likely to engage with one another,” she added.

Alvarez’s daughter, Gwinieere Puschautz, volunteered to help out at the event.

She said she was glad to see a lot of children from many different cultures participate.

“There was a lot of kids that stayed from the beginning until the end, so that was nice to see that they enjoyed it,” she said. “There was a lot of different things going own and a lot of cute kids.” amandagilbert2015@u.northwestern.edu

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JUST DANCE Dancers perform a Mexican folk dance Saturday as part of Evanston Public Library’s effort to unite the community and teach residents about diverse cultures.

The incident happened at about 6:40 p.m., shortly after police responded to a report of domestic battery at Lester-Childs’ home in the 700 block of Grey Avenue, Parrott said.

The officers took Lester-Childs to the hospital after arresting him because he had a head injury from a physical altercation with a family

member.

He faces two counts each of aggravated assault and domestic battery.

Lester-Childs is scheduled to appear in court Nov. 8.

— Patrick Svitek

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Active Minds, said she wants to see students’ comfort discussing mental illness expand even further, to the point where mental health becomes part of everyday conversations on campus. “Your mental health is part of your general health,� the Weinberg senior said. “You would talk about going to the gym. We should be just as OK to talk about going to a therapist for stress. There shouldn’t be any difference.�

Moving in the right direction The inaugural mental health ENU, held Sept.

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Your mental health is part of your general health. You would talk about going to the gym. We should be just as OK to talk about going to a therapist for stress. There shouldn’t be any difference.

Naina Desai, co-president of NU Active Minds

22, closed to a standing ovation from an audience of new students and peer advisers. The presentation, required for all new students, included an overview of NU’s mental health resources and a speaker who shared his struggles with depression and suicide. “No freshman or transfer student can say now that they’ve never heard of CAPS,� Dunkle said. “The one message that I told students to leave with that Sunday night (was) this: ‘It’s OK to ask for help.’�

CAPS is already seeing the impact of the ENU. At least five students told CAPS they made an appointment because of what they heard during the presentation, Dunkle said.

The other major change to CAPS this year — the addition of three new psychologists, two of whom have already been hired — has improved the organization’s student-to-doctor ratio.

Last academic year, the Undergraduate Budget Priorities Committee announced it would fund three new positions: two requested by CAPS (a psychologist to focus on Latino students and another to lead the Question-Persuade-Refer suicide prevention training program) and a third requested by the athletic department to support student athletes.

Now that CAPS has hired Monika Gutkowska to oversee the QPR program and Lori Jeffries (SESP ‘05) to work with student athletes, the

Monday, November 4, 2013 CAPS faculty-to-student ratio is 1 to 1,000, bringing NU closer to the average ratio for peer institutions, which is about 1 to 945.

With a bigger staff, CAPS is expanding its efforts to reach as many students as possible, Gutkowska said. “Most students do not come to counseling services when they really need help, especially ‌ students who come from underrepresented groups or students who feel a little shy about entering our door or have preconceived notion about what counseling is,â€? Gutkowska said.

The QPR program Gutkowska now leads is working to aid those students. The program has trained about 1,600 NU community members since its implementation last academic year.

QPR training represents a vital part of CAPS’ strategy for earning a seal of approval from the Jed Foundation, an organization that promotes mental health and suicide prevention on college campuses.

This year, the foundation awarded 30 colleges the JedCampus Seal, signifying they had met requirements for improving mental health and suicide prevention.

When CAPS hires the third new psychologist, who will specialize in the mental health of NU’s Latino population, NU’s ratio will reach 1 to 980. The third psychologist will join doctors already working at CAPS who work with other minority groups on campus, including students in the Asian, black, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.

Getting off the ground Weinberg junior Theo Cunningham said she was surprised to learn NU lacked a peer listening service when she transferred to NU in 2012 from Washington University in St. Louis. “Because it was such a prominent force on campus at Wash U, I assumed every college campus had one,� she said.

Despite the addition of the new psychologists, CAPS and NU Listens, a group looking to start a peer listening service at NU, are both still waiting for the administration to grant their request for two more.

At the last “Conversations with the President� event in April, University President Morton Schapiro expressed his commitment to improving CAPS, saying there is “no limit to how much we would spend to ensure the health and safety of our students.�

However, the funding for the three new psychologists does not cover two positions CAPS initially requested, one of which would work with NU Listens to train students to be a part of a peer listening service.

While at Wash U, Cunningham worked for Uncle Joe’s, the school’s peer counseling service. She said a similar program at NU would bridge a gap in mental health services that CAPS does not fill.

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“CAPS ‌ resources are wonderful, but there’s a huge demand for them that’s not necessarily being met,â€? Cunningham said. “There’s a conception that your life has to be falling apart completely before you can make that call and go see a professional, whereas having a bad day or a string of bad days, a string of bad weeks doesn’t necessarily warrant that. That’s where a peer listening service is a great thing to have.â€?

Dunkle said he still wants to see the University provide funding for a psychologist to work with NU Listens.

Although the administration has not agreed to fund a psychologist to work with the group, in the meantime Dunkle and NU Listens are partnering to create a pilot peer listening program. “We can’t go large-scale yet because you really do need to have a full-time staff member dedicated to it,� Dunkle said. “It requires a lot of training and oversight to do it responsibly.�

NU Listens executive members say they hope to have the pilot running by Spring Quarter, even without a new CAPS staff member dedicated to working with them. They plan for the program to launch in two dorms and provide confidential peer listening sessions.

However, the group still needs to clear up liability issues with the University before it can proceed. Because NU Listens, like NAMI, will encourage students to talk about their mental illness, the group could be held responsible for students’ deaths if they come to a session and reveals suicidal intentions, said Leah Grodinsky, co-president of NU Listens.

Those working to start the NU Listens pilot

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and NAMI support groups see the benefits of encouraging discussion about mental illness as outweighing liability issues. “It’s the thing that Northwestern needs most that a lot of students and faculty, the administration don’t even realize it needs,� Cunningham said. “But once it’s here and once people experience it, it’s the most wonderful thing.�

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One Communication junior, who requested to remain anonymous, has gone on medical leave twice for her depression. She said though her initial experience with CAPS was positive, as soon as she left school the first time, the psychologist working with her became “cold and difficult.� “I got the sense that I was not her problem once I was back if I tried to ask her about something,� she said. “That was a problem, not having questions answered.�

She said CAPS did not provide much help in determining when she should return to school. Although she had not used all 12 free sessions, she said the center did not allow her to return for treatment after arriving on campus last fall. Âť See IN FOCUS, page 7

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“When I came back, support through CAPS was not presented as an option transitionally, which I think it really should have,” she said.

She added that though CAPS gave her a list of doctors in the area, it did not help her determine which doctors would be covered by her insurance.

She isn’t the only student who has complaints about CAPS In the spring services. Bharati said there were a her own experiences going to CAPS for her lot of events depression left her going on, but dissatisfied with the organization. most of them “Every single person were poorly I’ve talked to either has attended. We personal stories or stories from friends about had quantity, how CAPS has let them but not quality. down,” Bharati said. “I know from friends that Alex Van Atta, Associated Student making an appointment at CAPS is a giant Government struggle.” executive vice Dunkle said he president wants to improve the resources CAPS provides to students who require long-term help — and to make it easier for all students to schedule CAPS appointments.

“We’ve gotten a lot of feedback from students about how they feel like there’s a lot of steps in getting appointments,” Dunkle said.

“We’ve looked internally this summer at ways to reduce that, the number of people that they have to see and we’re implementing some of those things.”

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Reaching a broader audience Mirroring efforts by administrative and student groups to improve mental health resources, Associated Student Government is facilitating collaboration among campus organizations.

When too many groups put on events with similar aims, attendance at each tends to be disappointingly low, said Alex Van Atta, ASG executive vice president.

“In the spring there were a lot of events going

on, but most of them were poorly attended,” the McCormick senior said. “We had quantity, but not necessarily quality.”

CAPS, NU Listens, NU Active Minds and the new NAMI chapter are among the groups ASG has united this year, coordinating their events to reach a broader audience.

In November, ASG will launch a new campaign spreading mental illness awareness called “Greater Than,” which was announced at the Senate meeting last week.

The initiative will feature posters with pictures of students and a statement of their accomplishments showing they are “greater than” their mental illness.

The campaign will lead up to Stigma Panel, an annual event hosted by NU Active Minds during which students with mental illness discuss their experiences.

A ‘community issue’ Although NU Listens is still waiting on another new psychologist, Grodinsky said she thinks the group’s pilot program will be successful — provided the group receives administrative approval.

“We’re optimistic, but we don’t want to sound overconfident,” she said.

Dunkle said he sees the collaboration between CAPS and NU Listens as a model for successful mental health programming.

“Addressing mental health and suicide prevention on a campus is a community issue, not just a counseling center (issue),” he said.

All the changes are intended to make campus safer, healthier and more supportive.

Fagan hopes to help achieve that goal with the support groups once they receive University approval.

“Our hope for NAMI on campus here at NU is to help provide a place for people who are struggling,” she said. “No one has to be alone in this fight.”

CAPS and mental health at NU in general, Dunkle said, will never run out of ways to improve.

“Even when we increase staff members, it doesn’t mean that we won’t necessarily have a suicide or won’t necessarily have a student death,” Dunkle said. “The most we can do is train, educate and try to reduce the possibility and potential. And I think we’re doing that.”

New Faces Additional CAPS psychologists expand center’s outreach to students Monika Gutkowska Roles within CAPS: staff therapist, Question-Persuade-Refer suidice prevention training program coordinator As the QPR coordinator for CAPS, Gutkowska trains students and faculty to recognize when students and peers are in crisis and persuades them to seek help.

“It’s a community health appraoch,” Gutkowska said. “If we can work together and find ways to support students who are at risk, then we can hopefully save lives.”

She said her goal is to ultimately train everyone on campus in the suicide prevention method.

In addition, to coordinating the QPR program, Gutkowska also serves as a regular staff therapist at CAPS. As a Polish immigrant, she said she has a particular interest in helping international students.

LORI Jeffries Roles within CAPS: staff psychologist, liason to the athletic department A former member of the Northwestern women’s swimming team, Jeffries (SESP’05) now works with student athletes with psychological issues, from managing their competition anxiety to building confidence.

“We need to be paying attention not just to their physical health in sports but also their mental health and emotional health,” she said.

Jeffries divides her time between her two offices in Searle Hall and Ryan Field where athletes train. Jeffries also serves as a staff psychologist, counseling other NU students.

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Roles within CAPS: liason to the Hispanic student community CAPS is still searching for the third new psychologist, who will specialize in working with Latino and Latina students.

CAPS executive director John Dunkle said the new psychologist might also help translate some of the brochures and reading materials the center uses into Spanish.

“I want to make our services very accessible to (Hispanic and Latino) students and their parents,” Dunkle said. “There’s a lot of stigma associated with reaching out for help, and we wanted to particularly target that population.”

The third new psychologist will join doctors alreading working at CAPS who specialize in other minority groups on campus, including Asian, black, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students.

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A tough way to lose. I feel for our guys. They fought and scratched and clawed. ... They got one taken away from them. — Pat Fitzgerald, football coach

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Hail Mary heartbreak Miracle pass dooms Cats to devastating defeat By alex putterman

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just out of reach Nebraska’s Ron Kellogg III throws the miracle Hail Mary in the final seconds to grant the Cornhuskers an unbelievable victory over the Wildcats. Northwestern has now lost five consecutive Big Ten games and spirals ever deeper in the standings.

Green rises as NU’s savior after injuries By john paschall

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The injury bug isn’t just biting at Northwestern — it is feasting on the Wildcats.

Entering Saturday against Nebraska, seniors Venric Mark and Mike Trumpy and freshman Warren Long were ruled out with injury, leaving only redshirt freshman Stephen Buckley and junior Treyvon Green as the only running backs who had any significant carries this season.

That number dwindled to just one after Buckley suffered a potentially serious knee injury late in the first quarter.

Everything seemed to be spiraling out of control early in the game for an offense that couldn’t pick up any big yards passing the entire evening.

It would have been easy for the Cats to wave the white flag and limp into the bye week.

But somewhere on the sidelines out of the sight of cameras, Green put on his superman cape and, sans

a ridiculously lucky Hail Mary pass, carried his team to a victory.

“He’s unbelievable,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said of Green. “When his number was called, he battled through injuries, and then to come back and play the way he played with an injury in game, absolutely amazing job by him.”

Green, who missed the last game with an undisclosed injury, finished with 149 yards and 3 touchdowns.

He earned every yard he gained on the field and made some Cornhusker defenders look silly with spin moves.

After the game, Green said he was excited to get back on the field.

“I was hungry to come back and make a name for myself and get the offense going again,” he said. “We needed to get our offense going. We needed to get our rushing game going and help the offense.”

Green’s 3 touchdowns came in the first half. In the third quarter, Nebraska made some adjustments to try to slow down the Cats’ rushing attack. But Green credited the offensive line for carrying the unit when it mattered.

“They’re the ones giving us the holes

and the seams,” he said. “All the credit goes to the offensive line. They put the offense on their back today, and our rushing game was successful.”

Buckley, whom Fitzgerald lauded coming off last week’s game against Iowa, grew up near Green in Texas.

Green said it was difficult to watch someone so close to him go down with an ugly injury, but that motivated him for the rest of the game.

“Buck’s like my little brother,” Green said. “Seeing him go down, I got a little emotional just because we were only coming into the game two deep. With him going down, it really brought me into my zone, knowing that I’m playing for him and my seniors.”

It won’t be easy for the Cats to move on from the near win in Lincoln, Neb. Green said the younger players will lean on the veterans during the bye week to move on and forget about the disastrous ending.

“Our leaders, captains and leadership council are going to make sure we are going to go back to work and get ready for the next game,” he said. johnpaschall2014@u.northwestern.edu

LINCOLN, Neb. — Northwestern raised the bar on soul-smashing losses Saturday.

The Wildcats lost 27-24 to Nebraska on a 49-yard Hail Mary touchdown with no time on the clock. The pass deflected off a collection of receivers and defenders and landed in the hands of Cornhusker wide receiver Jordan Westerkamp, who was stationed in the end zone behind the scrum.

“A tough way to lose,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “I feel for our guys. They fought and scratched and clawed. …

They got one taken away from them.”

An interception late in the fourth quarter by defensive end Tyler Scott set up a go-ahead field goal and positioned the Cats to win, but the Cornhuskers responded with a miracle drive that included a conversion on a fourthand-15.

The loss was the Cats’ fifth consecutive defeat and the latest in a multi-year string of devastating endings.

After three weeks of offensive ineptitude, NU flashed an effective attack early, scoring three times in 19 minutes to start the game.

Junior running back Treyvon Green ran for 92 yards and 3 touchdowns in the first half, and senior quarterback Kain Colter added 50 rushing yards of his own before the break. Colter highlighted NU’s first touchdown drive with a dazzling nine-yard run on which he dodged and juked past several defenders for a first down.

“All the credit goes to the offensive line,” Green said. “Me and Kain are the ones running the ball, but they’re the ones giving us the holes and giving us the seams.”

NU led 21-14 at halftime, before Nebraska defensive end Avery Moss leapt from the line to intercept a pass from junior quarterback Trevor Siemian.

Moss returned the pick 25 yards for a game-tying touchdown.

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punted 11 times on the day, each after the first quarter, and gained only 104 total yards in the second half.

“Nebraska made adjustments,” Green said. “Give the credit to them. They obviously came out with different things and switched it up to stop our run.”

NU stayed alive due to its ability to force turnovers, which defined the defense early in the season but had disappeared lately. On Saturday, the Cats intercepted four passes, including Scott’s clutch pick with less than three minutes to play.

“That was our goal these last couple of weeks, getting the ball back and letting our offense have it,” Scott said. “It was good that we got that mentality back and got some turnovers.”

Nebraska quarterback Tommy Armstrong and tailback Ameer Abdullah combined for nearly 200 yards on the ground, as Nebraska outgained NU 472-­326. Eventually, quarterback Ron Kellogg III, the Cornhuskers’ best healthy passing threat, led Nebraska to its final drive and the most improbable of victories.

NU suffered plenty of insult with the traumatic loss and a heavy dose of injury. At least six Cats players left the field, including two key cogs whose issues appeared especially severe.

Redshirt freshman running back Stephen Buckley was carted off in the first half with a left-knee injury. Minutes later, sophomore cornerback Nick VanHoose went down with an apparent head injury. Neither returned.

In the end, the enduring image is the Cornhuskers’ bench emptying to celebrate in the end zone as Cats defenders dumped heads in hands and collapsed to the ground.

After the game, Green spoke about the devastating quiet in the locker room and his reaction to the fateful play.

“There really are no words to describe it,” he said. asputt@u.northwestern.edu

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Cats can’t hold on to momentum against Badgers By bobby pillote

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Northwestern didn’t gain much traction in its penultimate game.

The No. 25 Wildcats (9-5-3, 1-3-1 Big Ten) fell to the No. 23 Wisconsin Badgers (12-3-2, 3-2-0) Sunday at Lakeside Field in a 1-0 loss. NU sorely missed the presence of one of its best players, senior midfielder Chris Ritter. A team co-captain, Ritter suffered an ankle sprain in the Oct. 30 game against Loyola.

“He’s day to day right now,” coach Tim Lenahan said. “Hopefully he’ll be back by the Big Ten Tournament.”

Stepping up to take Ritter’s place, junior defender Nikko Boxall was busy early. Within the first five minutes, Boxall broke up a Wisconsin drive into the box and deflected a cross. The dynamic center-back was also active on offense, recording two shots off headers in the first half.

“Without Ritter, we knew it was going to be a struggle,” Boxall said. “I thought maybe as one of the leaders I could try and push myself into that role and help

the team out, but today it just wasn’t good enough.”

The Cats had an excellent scoring opportunity midway through the opening period. Sophomore midfielder Cole Missimo took a corner kick and directed a low pass to the near side of the box, where sophomore forward Joey Calistri was waiting. The Big Ten’s leading goal scorer had his drive blocked by a Badgers defender. Missimo corralled the deflection and took his own shot, but Wisconsin goalkeeper Max Jentsch was there to make the save.

The Badgers attack immediately countered. Wisconsin midfielder Tomislav Zadro took a shot that was saved by NU sophomore goalkeeper Zak Allen. The Badgers had a clear shot on the resulting rebound, but the ball was booted well over the crossbar.

Both teams made an offensive push to end the half, but as time expired, the game remained scoreless.

Wisconsin stayed aggressive to open the second period. The Badgers nearly scored seven minutes in when a header by midfielder Jacob Brindle, who leads the team with 8 goals this season, bounced off the left post. Allen laid out going for

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the save, and a Wisconsin follow-up shot rolled past the far side of the open net.

The Badgers kept the pressure on, driving back into the box minutes later.

Forward Chris Prince crossed to midfielder Nick Janus 10 yards from the net, and Janus easily pushed the ball past a helpless Allen to give Wisconsin a 1-0 lead.

“We made a mistake on the back end,” Lenahan said. “You can’t make mistakes. ... If you limit those things, you are going to make the other team play great soccer to beat you.”

NU rallied toward the end of regulation, but it wasn’t enough for a team that has struggled all season to score in Big Ten play. Boxall took a free kick in the 58th minute from 25 yards out that was blasted directly into a Badgers defender.

The loss was the Cats’ third in conference play this fall. NU has one more opportunity to improve its seeding in the

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bad news badgers Sophomore goalkeeper Zak Allen, who filled in for an ill Tyler Miller, and freshman defender Nathan Dearth lunge to stop a Wisconsin attack Sunday. The Badgers battled Northwestern’s defense all afternoon and broke through once to claim a 1-0 victory.

Big Ten Tournament, as it faces Indiana in its final regular season match Friday.

“We need to be the team with the intangibles,” Lenahan said. “Today we kind of waited for things to happen, and

it happened against us. I don’t think we had a real pulse or the energy that it takes to win a Big Ten game.” robertpillote2017@u.northwestern.edu