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Harley Clarke Mansion

City to look into lakefront property plan By patrick svitek

daily senior staffer @PatrickSvitek

The Evanston Human Services Committee on Monday night cautiously agreed to look more closely at a new proposal by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to move into the Harley Clarke Mansion.

The department’s interest in the lakefront property marks an unexpected turn in the city’s mission to determine the fate of the lakefront property, 2603 Sheridan Road. The Evanston Art Center, which rents the dilapidated mansion from the city for $1 a year, has signaled it wants to remain in the building and work with the city to finance various repairs.

That plan, however, hangs in the balance more than ever as the city looks to court the department, which declared its desire for the mansion in an Oct. 18 letter to city manager Wally Bobkiewicz.

Diane Tecic, the department’s coastal program director, wrote to Bobkiewicz that the mansion is “ideally suited” for the department’s new Coastal Management program, which would bring offices and instructional space to the building.

“We believe that a strong partnership with the City of Evanston will improve both our organizations abilities to manage

the current and future needs and provide an excellent publicly accessible for Evanston and surrounding communities,” Tecic wrote. “We look forward to continuing the dialogue.”

The committee apparently liked what it heard, though some members cautioned against adding a new piece to the Harley Clarke Mansion puzzle without keeping their constituents in the loop.

“We are in a very ambiguous situation,” Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) told his colleagues on the panel.

“Clearly we learned our lessons from the first round of this,” he added, hinting at the vocal opposition that sunk a controversial bid for the property by Evanston billionaire Jennifer Pritzker this summer.

Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) called the department’s pitch “fascinating,” while Ald. Coleen Burrus (9th) deemed it a “good idea.” The committee unanimously voted to send the issue to City Council, which next meets Monday night.

Despite the panel’s agreement to pursue the department’s plan, its discussion turned into a testy back-and-forth about an issue that has plagued the city for months: the condition of the mansion. Bobkiewicz has said the building needs at least $170,000 for a “minimum of improvements” ranging from the fire alarm system to plumbing.

Citing her observations during an Oct.

Annabel Edwards/Daily Senior Staffer

A CLOSER LOOK Evanston Art Center director Norah Diedrich addresses the city’s Human Services Committee Monday night. The panel voted to further review a new plan for the Harley Clarke Mansion, 2603 Sheridan Road.

26 tour with other aldermen, Burrus said the building may be a “massive liability.”

She said she would not feel safe sending her children there for art classes.

Burrus’ comments earned a sharp rebuke from art center executive director Norah Diedrich, who criticized them as “absolutely unfounded and unbelievable.”

She summoned the art center’s attorney to the podium to clear the air, though Burrus defended her remarks minutes later.

“I ask the hard questions because most people won’t,” Burrus told Diedrich.

Bobkiewicz assured the committee the mansion is not a public hazard, but it is “important to note there are issues that

need to be addressed.”

Bobkiewicz said the department’s next step is likely briefing Evanston residents on “who they are, what they do.” That could take the form of a community meeting in January, he added. patricksvitek2014@u.northwestern.edu

Blackboard alternate piloted Profs launch talks to preview courses

By Paulina firozi

daily senior staffer @paulina_milla

Northwestern has established a program piloting potential replacements for Blackboard, its course management system since 1999.

In Fall 2012, NU’s Education Technology Advisory Committee discussed the state of the University’s educational technology. According to a report later published by the committee, it “determined that the most pressing need for action is a comprehensive review of the University’s course management environment, currently anchored by the Blackboard Learn system.”

The committee created the Learning Management Systems Review Group, made up of 25 faculty and staff, to issue suggestions for a possible replacement. New Blackboard, LoudCloud, Desire2Learn and Canvas are the four LMS candidates that are potential replacements.

Compared to Blackboard, Canvas has a more Web-based interface. Rather

By edward cox

daily senior staffer @EdwardCox16

Source: Canvas screenshot

TIME FOR A REFRESH? Several Northwestern professors are piloting Canvas, a learning management system, in their classes this quarter. The system is one potential replacement for Blackboard, which NU has used since 1999.

than modules and attached files, each course has one page, with users navigating to different sections — including the course’s syllabus, assignments and quizzes — from the left-hand column.

Content displays on the rest of the page

instead of moving to a separate page.

Professors Katrin Voelkner and Mitchell Petersen both began using Canvas in their classes this fall. They » See blackboard, page 6

A new branch of Northwestern Residential Services on Monday launched a series of mini-lectures that allow professors to discuss their upcoming courses in student residences.

Professors will introduce their courses for the next quarter as part of “Coming Soon to a Classroom Near You.” The program is primarily for underclassmen.

The purpose of the lectures is to relieve students of some pressure they face when selecting classes by supplementing traditional tools used to find classes such as Course and Teacher Evaluations, said Brad Zakarin, the director of the Office of Residential Academic Initiatives, which was created this year.

“When students are in their own lounge … they feel a little bit more at home and feel the professors are on their turf and so it is a little easier to ask questions that might be daunting to ask in somebody’s office hours,” Zakarin said.

History Prof. Michael Allen kicked off the series Monday, introducing his U.S. history course to about 20 students in the Public Affairs Residential College. Allen, a fellow at the residential college, enjoyed refreshments with students while he discussed requirements for his course.

“I think this was very helpful,” Weinberg freshman Hayley Landman said. “I got to hear the professor’s perspective, which is not something you can get looking at CTECs.” During the casual one-hour » See mini-lectures, page 6

Lacrosse

NU announces newest game at Wrigley for 2014 season

By Steven Montero

daily senior staffer @Steven_Montero

The lacrosse team will be the next Wildcats squad to call Wrigley field home.

Northwestern will battle against Southern California in the historic ballpark during the Cats’ final regular season match 7 p.m. on April 26. The

game will air during prime time on the Big Ten Network.

NU officially announced the matchup Monday.

Coach Kelly Amonte Hiller will pit her Cats against the leadership of one of her former NU All-Americans, Lindsey Munday. Munday graduated in 2006 and became one of Amonte Hiller’s assistant coaches. Now at the helm of the Trojans, she will return to tackle her former coach and alma

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mater.

“Our program could not be more excited for the opportunity to bring women’s lacrosse to Wrigley Field, one of the most iconic sports venues in the world,” Hiller said Monday at a news conference. “We’ve been fortunate to play in some neat settings in recent seasons, including the Coliseum last year, but to take the field in our hometown and with the unique game day atmosphere that Wrigleyville provides will

be an unforgettable experience. The fact that we’re able to welcome Lindsey and her up-and-coming program into the fold only makes it that much more special.”

The team has been a powerhouse in the lacrosse world over the last decade, with NU claiming seven of the past nine NCAA Championship titles.

The Cats tasted sweet revenge in 2013 as they took down the Florida Gators — one of the only teams in the

nation to consistently challenge NU’s dominance — to win their sixth American Lacrosse Conference title in seven years. Fueled by Amonte Hiller and a disheartening ending in 2013, when the Cats fell through in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament, NU will seek to close out its next season with a conquest of the Trojans and defend its stake as Chicago’s Big Ten Team. stevenmontero2014@u.northwestern.edu

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Our neighborhood has been painted as something that is a crime-infested neighborhod, which it’s not.

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Revised ideas for renovations of the Chicago Transit Authority and Metra stations on Main Street were introduced for public feedback at a presentation Monday night.

The proposed improvements are part of a Transit Oriented Development Study conducted by Evanston and the Regional Transportation Authority.

The city and RTA hope to find ways to make the CTA and Metra stations more accessible to each other and to the surrounding Main Street neighborhood.

The goal of the study is to generate economic development and increase ridership, said Jay Ciavarella, RTA division manager of local planning and programs. “(Main Street) is an area where there’s some transit dependence with the location of the El and the Metra,” he said. “I’ve seen success in situations like this. We hope Evanston can follow suit.”

Ciavarella said the study group wants

feedback from Evanston residents to make sure it is “on the right track” with its preliminary concepts.

However, Monday night’s meeting — the second of three — attracted only (Main Street) several people. Mark Muenzer, Evanston’s is an area of commuwhere there’s director nity development, some transit said he was not worried about the dependence turnout. with the “This is an inbetween stage of the location of rollout,” he the El and the project said.

Metra.

Muenzer partly attributed the low Jay Ciavarella, attendance to two Regional other city meeting Transporation happening at about Authority division the same time, as manager well as the Chicago Bears football game.

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Planning program granted Evanston $100,000 to hire a consulting team for the study, which the city matched with $25,000.

Evanston hired Parsons Brinckerhoff, a firm specializing in infrastructure project consultation, to draw up ideas with the help of Chicago public transportation officials.

Tom Coleman, innovation and technology manager at Parsons Brinckerhoff, reviewed the different concepts the team had devised.

The plan that Parsons recommended would cost almost $40 million.

Patricia Simms, an Evanston resident, said that number does not bother her.

“We’re the ones who would benefit from it.

Why shouldn’t we pay for it?” she said.

Simms and her husband Herbert Simms have lived in Evanston for more than 25 years and frequently use public transportation.

She said it is now time for the Main Street area to be renovated “I hope this will revitalize the area by making Main Street more exciting,” she said. “It’s becoming a Mecca, and transportation could support that and make it much better.” paigeleskin2017@u.northwestern.edu

Police Blotter Witness reports too many shots to count in west Evanston A report of gunfire Sunday night in west Evanston led police to a witness who told them he lost count of the shots.

When officers responded to the report at about 10 p.m. near the intersection of Dewey Avenue and Foster Street , they found two witnesses from Chicago, Evanston Police Cmdr.

Jay Parrott said. The witnesses told the officers they saw four to five 18- to 22-year old people, two of whom shot as they walked east and west, respectively.

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One of the witnesses told the officers he counted at least two shots but did not know how many more came after them, Parrott said.

Police also received other calls of shots fired at about the same time nearby. Parrott said one caller described a car “speeding off ” west after the incident. They checked surveillance cameras in the area but found nothing, Parrott said.

Police also did not recover any shell casings.

Boy’s cell phone, wallet taken from YMCA locker

were stolen Saturday afternoon from his locker at the McGaw YMCA, according to police.

Parrott said the items were taken between 4 and 5 p.m. from the locker room at the YMCA, 1000 Grove St. The cell phone is valued at about $600, Parrott said.

The wallet contained club cards.

Police do not know whether the locker was locked, Parrott said.

A 14-year-old boy’s cell phone and wallet

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On Campus Award-winning documentary on genocide shown By jonathan li

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behind the scenes Joshua Oppenheimer, the director of “The Act of Killing,” gives a talk after the documentary screening.

Oppenheimer discussed his experiences making the film.

The Northwestern community packed Ryan Auditorium on Monday for a film screening and talk by director Joshua Oppenheimer, who spoke about his award-winning documentary on the 1965 genocide in Indonesia.

“The Act of Killing” stages a recreation of mass murders committed by death squad leaders in 1965 when the military overthrew the Indonesian government. Two of the original perpetrators reenacted their crimes for the film, demonstrating how 2.5 million suspected Communists were intimidated and then killed.

After the screening, Oppenheimer discussed the documentary’s production.

“I don’t see myself as a documentary filmmaker,” he said. “I see myself as someone who is interested in exploring the hybrid space between documentary and fiction as a way of exploring (how) what appears to be our factual reality is constituted and constellated by myriad, interlocking fantasies.”

The Equality Development and Globalization Studies program presented the event, which was cosponsored by other campus groups. Political science

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Prof. Jeffrey Winters, founder and director of the program, opened the screening. Winters, who studies Indonesian political systems, said the documentary was important for NU students to see because it examines the line between inhumanity and humanity.

“It is probably the most important massacre of the 20th century that no one’s heard of,” he said.

Oppenheimer said he originally traveled to Indonesia to to make a film about plantation workers.

He planed to dramatize how a lack of unions forced women to spray herbicides without any equipment, which caused them to die in their 40s. The women were afraid to organize because at the time unions were associated with Communists. But Oppenheimer realized he was on to something bigger — the women were living in fear of the anti-Communist government that has been in place since 1965.

In his talk, Oppenheimer noted the two perpetrators in his film are proud of their past and live guiltfree. He originally approached many of the perpetrators about creating isolated reenactments of their crimes but eventually decided to follow two murderers, gangsters Anwar and Adi, for five years.

Oppenheimer said the challenge was ensuring that none of the dramatizations involved any victims or their families.

“I eliminated 75 percent of extras because it was

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important that there was no survivors in the reenactments,” he said.

Approaching the gangsters as human beings helps highlight the nature of human evil, Oppenheimer said. He shows how the murderers lie to themselves to justify their actions to shield themselves from guilt.

For example, the gangsters convince themselves to believe propaganda demonizing Communists, though they know the films are false.

At the end of the documentary, the lead gangster plays the victim in the reenactment and realizes the pain those murdered felt.

“Being human they are moral beings,” Oppenheimer said of the gangsters. “They know what is right and wrong, and they need to protect themselves from torment and guilt.”

Medill freshman Gauri Rangrass said she came to the event after seeing Oppenheimer on “The Daily Show.” Although she had already seen the film, she said Oppenheimer’s talk gave her new perspective.

“I think what he said in the last few minutes about lying to oneself, how that was really the aim of the film,” she said. “I didn’t pick up on that having seen it a few times before, but now I can look at the film a different way.” jonathanli2015@u.northwestern.edu

NU official: No reports of insensitive Halloween costumes

There have been no formal complaints of students wearing offensive costumes or hosting inappropriately-themed parties during Halloween celebrations, Dean of Students Todd Adams said Monday.

“We haven’t received to this point, and to my knowledge, any reports dealing with insensitive costumes or concerns over themes or themed parties,” Adams said.

Adams and Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president for student affairs, each sent emails to Northwestern students in advance of the holiday reminding students to dress respectfully while celebrating. University administrators began the practice in 2008, after a photograph circulated of two students in blackface for Halloween.

“Many still recall that, several years ago, our community came together after insensitive costumes worn by NU community members made headlines,” Adams wrote in his email Wednesday. “Please consider carefully when choosing a costume or selecting a theme.”

Adams also said there was no increase in noise violations over the weekend.

“I don’t believe this last week was any different,” he said. “I didn’t see an uptick because of Halloween, but a similar number to what we’ve been notified of from prior weeks in the quarter.

Although residents continue to file noise complaints, Adams said he is grateful that students are walking in groups together. However, he said it is important for students to remain cognizant of their Evanston neighbors.

“As a university ... we have a lot of activity on evenings, on weekends, both on campus and around campus, that not everyone follows that same calendar or schedule,” Adams said.

— Tyler Pager

Across Campuses Police: Gas leak at UC Davis frat set to maim or kill

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“We’re taking it extremely seriously,” Davis Assistant Police Chief Darren Pytel said Monday of the leak at Kappa Sigma house.

Pytel said Davis police have contacted the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and are working with university fire and police.

Davis police were called about 1 p.m. Sunday to the fraternity, a townhouse-style building in the center of a neighborhood densely packed with multi-family apartments, police officials said. Pytel said fraternity members first detected the strong smell of natural gas 12 hours earlier at about 1 a.m. Sunday, along with evidence that someone tried to set a fire to trigger the fumes.

Pytel said six fraternity members were at the home.

Suspects and a motive remained a mystery Monday.

— Darrell Smith (Sacramento Bee)

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Tea a healthier, smarter alternative for coffee addicts KAITLYN VINES

Daily columnist

What’s up with this coffee craze? More than half of Americans say they need coffee just to start their day. This obsession with coffee is no doubt due to the power that caffeine has to wake people up, but people overlook the negative effects of coffee, such as decreased oral health and high blood pressure. Although it is often not considered a valid choice of morning drink, tea is a great alternative to coffee. It can provide that early-morning boost while allowing one to avoid coffee’s side effects.

Coffee has always been my drink of choice, and Starbucks was once like heaven to me.

Unfortunately, when I was a sophomore in high school, I was diagnosed with supraventricular tachycardia, a condition that causes the heart to race. I was told that I had to avoid heavily caffeinated beverages. I went on the search for something new to replace my love of coffee, and that is when I discovered the wonders tea has to offer.

Although coffee is the substance that most

Americans are drawn to in the morning to rouse them from their sleepy state, tea is an option that provides the ideal level of caffeine.

The average cup of generic brewed coffee contains 95 to 200 milligrams of caffeine, an exorbitantly high amount when compared to the average cup of brewed black tea, which contains anywhere from 14 to 86 milligrams of caffeine.

By choosing tea over coffee as a morning drink, people consume less caffeine, which can help them avoid getting the overly jittery feeling that coffee is known for causing but still enjoy enough caffeine to effectively wake them up.

In addition to the caffeine boost coffee can provide, it is frequently sought out as a source of antioxidants. However, tea has antioxidants without the side effects. The high levels of antioxidants in tea are thought to protect against a huge array of cancers, including stomach and colorectal cancer. Tea can also protect against heart disease, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, diabetes, high cholesterol and stroke.

Of course, everyone knows drinking coffee is bad for one’s oral health, causing brittle and discolored teeth. On the other hand, tea has been shown to stave off cavities and is rich in polyphenols and fluoride that prevent the development of the bacteria responsible for causing bad breath. Tea is a better substance for

people to put in their bodies because it provides antidepressant. a defense against these diseases and conditions, In the end, Americans want to look good and and unlike coffee, tea hydrates the body. feel good. It is a relief to know that there is an With obesity in America rising, people are alternate morning beverage that provides the constantly searching for a tool to help them lose same benefits that coffee does, but that does not weight. Once again, the powerful antioxidants cause the damage that coffee does. If 60 percent in tea, especially green tea, are at work. This of Americans need a caffeinated drink to start time they are helping to speed metabolisms and their day, they should choose the beverage that slim waists, because a faster metabolism can protects and improve the body in ways that reduce appetite and stimulate the body to burn coffee cannot. calories.

Along with the physical health benefits, Katy Vines is a Weinberg freshthere are numerous psychological advantages to man. She can be reached at choosing tea kaitlynvines2017@u.northwestern.edu. over coffee.

If you would like to respond publicly to Green tea this column, send a Letter to the Editor in particular to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. has been shown to have polyphenols that regulate learning and memory, and that can prevent and treat diseases like Alzheimer’s. These polyphenols can also stop Source: Creative Commons neurotransmitters such as Photo illustration by Susan Chen/The Daily dopamine from degrading, Northwestern which means tea acts as an

Dinner with 12 Strangers Why we need to weed an incredible experience out ‘weed-out’ classes Julian caracotsios Daily columnist

Over the years, I’ve amassed a large college bucket list. Those of you who are seniors know exactly what I am talking about — as for the rest of you, you will soon enough. Given that the most commonly uttered phrase on campus is something like “OMG I’m soooo busy #NorthwesternProblems,” it is difficult to not only go to every event you want but also to even know about all of them. Ergo, yours truly thought it wise to inform you of one opportunity you absolutely should not miss.

Dinner with 12 Strangers is one of Northwestern’s most popular traditions. The name is rather self-explanatory: A group of students are hosted for dinner by several NU alumni, ostensibly forming a group of 12 people total, though I experienced a larger crowd. For those of you who aren’t paying attention, let me point out that this means you get free food. Yes, my fellow college students, free food, and we’re talking fancy places like Farmhouse and Found that you only go to when you can weasel an expensive meal out of mommy and daddy’s wallet when they come to visit you. Or, just as good, a fantastic dinner at the home of an NU alumnus, which — given the innumerable consultants, doctors and other people with high-to-do, fancy titles that this university casually produces — is an experience not to be missed.

I actually got rather lucky. Due to some extra openings, I was able to attend two different dinners, hosted by different alumni. On Saturday, I was hosted at the home of an NU alumna in Winnetka. On Sunday, I was at Farmhouse, right downtown, hosted by two Kellogg graduates.

Both dinners were interesting in different ways. Carol Genis, my host in Winnetka, had us for dinner in her home. It was comforting, relaxed and felt like I was back home at a Christmas party with old family friends — except that I wasn’t. I was with people I had never seen or even heard of before. And I came away with ideas and knowledge that wouldn’t have crossed

my mind in the past, including — among other things — just what exactly people in the School of Communication actually do, which, for a math major such as myself, had theretofore been a mysterious black hole in some far-flung corner of the universe.

Farmhouse, in some ways, was the opposite. It was upbeat, energetic and made me feel excited to explore a busy world. Our hosts — Bronwyn and Peter Poole — just so happened to be friends with the owners of Farmhouse itself — Molly McCombe and TJ Callahan — so I had the pleasure of listening in on a lively conversation about what it takes to make it in the restaurant business. Restaurateurs didn’t seem as alien to me as theatre majors, but by the time I left, I realized that I know as little about what was going on behind the scenes of a restaurant as I do about Shakespeare. For someone who SparkNoted every single unendurable play that he was cruelly subjected to the torture of reading, that’s effectively nothing.

I kid. Though I hated Shakespeare in high school, being able to understand things, Hamlet included, outside of my comfortable world of integrals and power series, is the point of that bucket list I mentioned in the beginning. And it’s exactly why I signed up for Dinner with 12 Strangers. It’s like playing the lottery, except you don’t have to pay and the worst you get is some good eatin’. If you love to try new things, this is for you. If you don’t, this is still for you, because you need to get out and try new things.

Unfortunately, though, Dinner with 12 Strangers only happens once a year, so those of you who missed it will have to wait until next year. For all you freshmen, sophomores and juniors out there, make sure you check your email when next Fall Quarter rolls around. For all you seniors, well, I guess it’s just tough luck.

But, hey, maybe one day you’ll be the person hosting one. I know that if, one day, I somehow manage to get a job and not live under a box, I certainly will.

Julian Caracotsios is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at juliancaracotsios2014@u.northwestern.edu.

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antonio petkov

Daily columnist

When thinking about the ideal college experience, most of us picture autumn on a gorgeous college campus, cheerfully biking to and from class, making life-long friends and even surviving that inevitable weed-out class. But it’s the concept of those classes that we seem to never question.

Those very words are irksome to me: weed out. They evoke images of pesticides and those annoying Round-Up commercials. They are not at all evocative of the lofty ideals that come to mind when we think of a university education.

Obviously, the idea is very simple. Early in the course sequence of a particular major, there are classes that make you question your life decisions because of how difficult they are. Only the truly dedicated — only those who live, breathe, eat, sleep, chew, and expel their chosen field every single day and have an unbelievable, burning passion for their subjects — will make it out in the end, alive and with their souls intact. Those who are unworthy or not motivated enough will either flee before having a nervous breakdown, or fail despite their willingness to sacrifice their social life and aught besides.

Initially, it seems plausible: Those who are left are the best and brightest, the most resilient weeds of them all, and to make a long story short, they will make the world go round.

This idea is asinine. It’s ridiculous, it’s absurd, it’s backward, and it’s wrong. It goes against everything that enabled us to be where we are now, all of the things which interested us in education in the first place. Chief among those is intellectual curiosity and the corresponding thirst for learning. All of us have had at least one great teacher who inspired us, not by making easy things complex, but by explaining the seemingly impossible in the simplest terms. They showed us learning is not something to be afraid of, to be marginalized, to be done for the duration of the school day and then pushed into a dark corner in favor of an activity that will restore our good

spirits. It is a thing to be cherished and done in our spare time out of enjoyment. Just think: How different would your life be if your elementary school teachers deliberately started weeding kids out and steering them towards failure instead of urging them to do well in school and nudging them toward success? Students who might have been successful would have hated school and devoted their energies to something else. And that would really be a shame.

I am aware this isn’t elementary school, but I believe the principle holds.

My question is this: Why is it necessary for some curricula (I am not pointing fingers) to deliberately make already difficult and challenging material even more difficult merely to limit the number of people who can understand it?

Why do you have to start out with a class full of students who all have interest in a given subject and deliberately make them hate the things they’re interested in? Education is not the treasure of the Knights Templar. It is not something to be hoarded or hidden or rationed; it is something to be distributed to as many people as possible, because society needs young adults who are willing and capable of solving its problems.

The more of them that there are, the better it will be. You don’t need just a handful, just a super small elite who can do things, and the majority to be ignorant and dependent upon the minority.

The greater percentage of a population that is educated, the greater its independence will be.

On a final note, in light of all the weeding out and competition, I am reminded of Mikhail Baryshnikov’s commencement speech in June.

Baryshnikov remarked that working to be better is not the same as trying to be the best. “Do not make your goal to be the best. Best is a label — it’s something someone else decides for you.

Better is something more personal, and far more interesting.”

This is the spirit we should all have — not to be the best, but to be better than the person we were before.

Antonio Petkov is a McCormick freshman. He can be reached at antoniopetkov2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

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Committee postpones ‘safe school zone’ expansion

By Jeanne kuang

daily senior staffer @jeannekuang

Evanston’s Human Services Committee informally agreed Monday night to table a plan to expand the so-called “safe school zone” around Evanston Township High School.

The decision came after Ald. Jane Grover (7th) drafted a resolution detailing safety measures already in effect at ETHS, 1600 Dodge Ave. The resolution says the school and city plan to install more lights along Church Street and train ETHS safety personnel and Evanston police in cultural diversity, among other goals.

On Monday night, Grover said those measures are enough to avoid expanding the safe school zone, a plan that has sparked civil rights concerns from ETHS neighbors. Under state law, anyone who tries to reenter the zone after being told to leave could face criminal trespassing charges.

“What I’m proposing is that … we let our police and our school do what they do best, which is to work hand-in-glove outside of and on the ETHS campus every day during the school year,” Grover said Monday night.

Without a vote, the panel agreed with her suggestion.

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school zone Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) listens Monday night as the Evanston Human Services Committee discusses student safety at Evanston Township High School,1600 Dodge Ave. The panel informally agreed to table a proposed expansion of a so-called “safe school zone” around ETHS.

The proposal, an intergovernmental agreement between the city and District 202, is based on a state requirement to establish safe

zones around schools that took effect January 2012.

Grover noted that the state law was

gov website, which serves as the entry portal for the federal health insurance marketplace.

That means frustrated users aren’t bypassing the website when they use the HHS call center or submit paper applications. They’re merely leaving it to someone else _ who would still have to navigate a frequently problem-plagued system _ to create an account for them.

“The same portal is used to determine eligibility no matter how the application is submitted,” read an HHS memo obtained by ABC News.

“The paper applications allow people to feel like they are moving forward in the process and provides another option. At the end of the day, we are all stuck in the same queue.”

For weeks, President Barack Obama and his aides have touted the alternative enrollment methods, rarely mentioning that they ultimately go through the website.

Julie Bataille, the communications director for HHS’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, wouldn’t address the accuracy of the memo Monday, saying only that “notes are not official documents.” In a phone briefing, she said callers had, in fact, been able to apply and enroll over the phone. Bataille maintained that the site should be functioning properly for the vast majority of users by the end of November.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said the alternative enrollment methods could save time

implemented in Champaign, Ill., without the need for an intergovernmental agreement “in a way that has been entirely compatible with both the city’s and the school’s goals for ensuring the safety of residents, staff and students in and around the school campus.”

She said aldermen would not need to revisit the general issue of ETHS safety unless they find any problems with how the state law is handled in Evanston.

Grover acknowledged the tensions that have arisen due to the proposal.

“It’s been a really long process,” she said.

“I regret … all of the negative stuff that has happened.

“I hope that the community does not expect or think that the state statute for a safe school zone somehow created an impervious force around our schools,” Grover added.

Evanston resident Betty Ester, who lives near ETHS, said aldermen cast a negative light on the neighborhoods surrounding the school while discussing the issue.

“Even if this ordinance had been withdrawn, thrown away, the damage to our community has already been done,” Ester said. “Our neighborhood has been painted as something that is a crime-infested neighborhood, which it’s not.” jeannekuang2016@u.northwestern.edu

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday defended its request that consumers frustrated with the malfunctioning HealthCare.gov website apply for coverage by phone after it emerged that customer service operators must still use the troubled website to assist callers.

The issue flared up at Monday’s White House news briefing after ABC News reported that an Oct. 11 memo from the Department of Health and Human Services claimed that all applications _ whether submitted by phone, paper or online _ are processed through the HealthCare.

for consumers.

“The whole point was to alleviate the frustration that so many Americans were having online and to take that frustration away from them and allow a live person at a call-in center to handle their questions and their sign-ups and their enrollment for them,” he said at his daily briefing.

But Carney, pushing back against a series of aggressive questions, said the administration had always made it clear that the website would still be used.

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are two of 14 professors listed as part of the new pilot program.

Voelkner, director of the Weinberg College of Arts and Science’s Multimedia Learning Center, said she volunteered to test the program because it would be helpful to know how the system functions. She is using the program for her 300-level German course.

She said she used to have to use different websites to accommodate the forum-based discussions she assigns her students.

“It has been very positive for me,” she said. “I like to get input from students so I used a bunch of other tools at the same time, and that just became cumbersome.”

She said the Web-centered functionality made Canvas “easy and intuitive to use” compared to Blackboard.

Peterson, a Kellogg professor, used a separate website for his class’s discussion groups and had concerns with Blackboard’s other basic functions.

“With some of the online quizzes, if the answer was $1,000 and the student used a dollar sign or comma, Blackboard would count it wrong,” he said.

“So I ended up with a lot of frustrated students.”

Peterson said he was concerned the transition to Canvas would be difficult for his students who were used to the old program, but ultimately that was not the case.

“I definitely like the style better,” he said. “If you want to look at the discussion, you click on discussion, if you want to look at grades, you click on grades. It’s just more intuitive.”

He said the ability to integrate calendar items

tuesday, november 5, 2013 from Canvas into personal systems, such as Microsoft Outlook or Gmail, made it simpler for his students to keep track of assignments and due dates.

Wendy Woodward, director of technology support services for Northwestern University Information Technology, said it made sense for the University to review a system that has been in place for almost 15 years.

“We’ve had Blackboard a long time and innovation in the space is happening at a rapid pace,” she said. “It’s just an opportunity for faculty and others in the University to review learning management systems.”

Although the pilot programs will extend through the rest of the academic year, Woodward said NU has not yet decided whether to replace Blackboard.

She said the review group will meet with the advisory committee at the end of the year to make a recommendation, and the University would move forward from there.

“I know it’s a very complex project and there are different things to figure out,” Voelkner said.

“Different instructors have different needs. I would embrace and would love to keep using Canvas, but I know there are a lot of different needs to consider.”

Peterson said he knows of other universities as well as some high schools that are already using programs such as Canvas. He said that may be one incentive for NU to upgrade to a more modern system.

“If some students are using it in high school ... and they come to Northwestern and it’s not as evolved as what they’re using in high school, we’ve got a problem,” he said. pf@u.northwestern.edu

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live course description History professor Michael Allen previews his course in Public Affairs Residential College. This discussion was part of a new endeavor called “Coming Soon to a Classroom Near You.”

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discussion, Allen described the content of the class and answered broader questions, such as the difference between 200- and 300-level courses.

“It can help them get work done and get people to think about the class in more practical ways,” Allen said.

About 20 professors are scheduled to introduce their classes over the next two weeks. During the summer, Zakarin compiled a list of professors who might be interested in participating the program after realizing students were constrained in their ability to explore class options in NU’s

fast-paced quarter system.

Lecture locations vary from the 1835 Hinman dining hall to the College of Cultural and Communities Studies lounge.

The office’s new initiatives have led students to create events of their own to expedite the process of choosing classes, Zakarin said. A group of three upperclassmen led by Residential College Board president Erik Zorn are planning to organize events that will help students learn how to use CTECs most efficiently, he said.

If turnout for mini-lectures is adequate, the office will hold similar events in the future. edwardcox2011@u.northwestern.edu

NU alumnus creates application for sports fans

By Julian Gerez

the daily northwestern @jgerez_news

Many Northwestern fans have a familiar problem: They are outside of the Midwest, but the Wildcats are playing that day. They look for a place to watch the big game, but the sports grill they stumble across ends up being the opposing team’s favorite venue.

To solve that issue, Babak Poushanchi (Weinberg ‘98) created Fanatic, an application that generates a list of locations where fans will be watching their favorite teams’ games. Ten months after its founding, Fanatic has more 10,000 users in more than 20 countries.

It is a sort of social network for fans to “follow your teams, find the best places to watch every big game and share the fan activity with your friends,” Poushanchi said. People can

create their own events and invite friends, and the venues are ranked by popularity.

Poushanchi’s desire to create Fanatic stemmed from his own life. He grew up in the Chicago area, attending Glenbrook North High School in Northbrook. He currently lives in New York.

“In New York there was just a couple of us who used to go to this bar to watch Northwestern football,” Poushanchi said. “As the years went along, word of mouth increased. We’ve grown from that handful of people getting 260 or so people, and the games are insane there.

We sing the fight song and the bartenders even serve purple shots.”

Poushanchi asked himself why technology that “would help fans of any type of sports affiliation find each other” did not exist. He created Fanatic in January.

The application is not limited to college athletics and has a growing roster of sports

teams, ranging from hockey to soccer.

“Fanatic is awesome for me because it allows me to find Wildcat fans at home where there aren’t many,” said Carly Fox, a Weinberg freshman from Georgia.

Users earn points for their participation in Fanatic to compete with friends to see who the biggest fan is. The points are not redeemable for anything yet but are used for “digital gamification.”

Fanatic provides users with updates about their friends’ activities, as well as official news sources of the teams they follow. They can create a new Fanatic account or connect throug Facebook.

“Our focus is on the social component of watching sports,” Poushanchi said.

Fanatic is available for free for both iPhones and Android phones. juliangerez2017@u.northwestern.edu

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Cats come painfully close to sweep By kevin casey

the daily northwestern @KevinCasey19

Northwestern won more than 50 percent of its sets this weekend and proved yet again that it will not wilt against stiff Big Ten competition.

But the results were bittersweet.

On the road Friday and Saturday night, the Wildcats squared off with Iowa (10-14, 1-11 Big Ten) and Nebraska (19-4, 8-2) and nearly swept the slate.

To start, NU (14-10, 6-6) took care of the Hawkeyes in four sets. Although the teams played at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, the road squad was clearly the better unit. In the first two sets, Iowa actually hung pretty tough, falling 23-25 in the opening stanza and cruising 25-16 in the second game to knot the match 1-1.

The next two sets were a different story.

The Cats took charge, nailing down the third set 25-17 and romping to a 25-13 margin in a fourth set. For the match, NU forced Iowa into 28 attacking errors while committing only 19.

Coach Keylor Chan attributed those extra mistakes to his team’s ability to put Iowa in tough situations offensively. As for the Cats’ offense, the totals were 50 kills at a .225 rate.

Outside hitter Stephanie Holthus, who tallied 16 kills of her own, was pleased by the attacking effort, with a qualifier.

“Against Iowa it was great,” the senior said. “We had great offensive rhythm against them. But if you want to look at it sideways, they’re definitely a shorter team than Nebraska is.”

Fresh off their victory over the Hawkeyes, the Cats traveled to a boisterous Bob Devaney Sports Center to take on the No. 11 Cornhuskers, and the match did not disappoint.

Both teams came out firing, vying for each point, but the road squad held the advantage after three sets, as NU sandwiched a 17-25 loss in the second stanza between two 25-21 triumphs.

Nebraska tallied 10 blocks in those opening three games, an effort that should’ve gotten them out to the early lead. But the Cats compensated elsewhere to deal with the front-court

onslaught.

“Their blocking was definitely good,” said Savannah Paffen, NU’s junior Iowa middle blocker. “They made us have to open the pin more and try to reverse the flow with our setting.

It was definitely tough to Northwestern get around them though, we went with high hands and it worked.”

Up against the fence, the No. 11 Cornhuskers brought out Nebraska their best. Nebraska took the fourth set 25-17 and blitzed NU with a series of blocks and kills to start the fifth and deciding set 9-4.

At a point where the Cats could have faltered, they instead chose to fight. In a furious rally, NU scored 8 of the next 11 points to tie the set 12-12 and was threatening to pull a big road upset in spectacular come-from-behind fashion.

But Nebraska woke up just in time, registering kills on three of the next four points to finish off the match.

It was a disappointing finish for the Cats in what had appeared a promising match. But in the aftermath, Holthus was ecstatic about the team’s effort in a notoriously hostile Lincoln environment.

“I swear in that fifth game, we couldn’t even hear ourselves think,” Holthus said. “We fought so hard, and that’s why we’re so beaten up by the game. A lot of us feel like we didn’t even play our best game. The fact that we went out, fought and took that game to five was really awesome for us.”

Nebraska finished the match with a whopping 18 blocks. Despite that, Holthus became NU’s alltime leader in kills when her 11th termination of the match dropped.

The senior surpassed Janine Makar’s previous mark of 1,666 on that shot and added six more thereafter to up her career total to 1,673. Needless to say, the record-breaker was in awe of her own achievement.

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killer cat Outside hitter Stephanie Holthus slammed down 17 kills in Lincoln and burned her mark in the Northwestern record books. With her performance against Nebraska, the senior is now the all-time leader in kills with 1,673.

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said. “He got thrown into the fire last year, but he has a ton of skill and he just needs to believe in his abilities. … Alex is the strongest athlete at Northwestern, so I think he can handle the challenge.”

The afternoon ended with another impressive performance from the Cats on the mat. NU won seven more matches with bonus points including two second-period pins in the win over Stevens Tech. Malone got the first pin of the duel, pinning his opponent at 133 pounds just 28 seconds into the second period. Polizzi dropped back down to 197 pounds against the Ducks and picked up the fall about halfway through the second period.

On the East Coast, McMullan took on Minnesota’s Tony Nelson at the NWCA All-Star Classic in Fairfax, Va. The redshirt junior lost 2-1 in double overtime in a tightly contested bout between the two national finalists from a year ago.

“Bad news for Minnesota, we have an awesome strategy now,” Pariano said. “He is the best pure heavyweight in the country and he actually wrestles like it. He’s doing a great job and he’s only going to get better as the season goes along.”

NU resumes its season Friday with another doubleheader, this one in Denver against Air Force and Northern Colorado. joshuawalfish2014@u.northwestern.edu

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“It’s amazing,” Holthus said. “There’s been so many great athletes — volleyball players — to come through the Northwestern program. I still can’t really wrap my head around it.”

Of course, a sweep would’ve done nicely as well. Still, Chan believes NU is competing like a top-15 squad and is bullish on his team moving forward.

“To play Nebraska like that and to show that kind of determination and will says a lot about our team,” Chan said. “I loved the way we’re playing volleyball right now, the only thing we don’t like is the outcome. But the process of what we’re doing within the team, and what the girls are doing is outstanding.”

next year,” she said. “And we’ll definitely come to games and stick around.”

Moynihan takes an optimistic view on this season but knows the challenge that lies ahead.

“We have a lot of work to do in the offseason,” he said. “Coming in last place is not where we ever want to be again, and it’s going to take a lot of work to get ourselves out of there, but I don’t think we’re as far away as the record might suggest.”

At the end of the day, the Cats’ season did not go as planned, but they look forward to hitting the reset button next fall.

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With a little help from Michigan and dominance over Ohio State, No. 14 Northwestern (15-4, 5-1 Big Ten) was named a co-Big Ten Champion alongside No. 6 Penn State.

Friday marked the seventh shutout of the season for the Wildcats, who defeated the Buckeyes 5-0.

Four out of the 5 goals came from seniors. Midfielder Tara Puffenberger claimed 2, and forward Nikki Parsley and midfielder Kristin Wirtz each put 1 on the board.

After a slow start, NU picked up the pace and started shooting ball after ball at the Ohio State goalkeeper. Eventually, Sarah Lemieux let four balls past her, before coach Anne Wilkinson replaced her with Sydney Stype, who let one ball behind her with less than 16 minutes to play.

Puffenberger’s goals came from a penalty corner assisted by freshman midfielder Dominique Masters and a reverse shot assisted by redshirt freshman midfielder Ashley Bernardi. Parsley knocked it in off of sophomore defender Lisa McCarthy’s assist. Wirtz took the ball herself and slapped it in for the Cats’ final goal.

“It was just something you practice every day,” Parsley said. “We do corners over and over and over again, so it was just a matter of executing during the game. (The extra practice) has definitely helped out. It is really important to execute on corners.

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… The more times you’re in the 25, the more times you’re in the circle, the more chances you have to score goals, and it’s important to capitalize on those chances.”

NU had yet to claim the Big Ten title since coach Tracey Fuchs began her tenure. The Cats last took the title in 1994, when the team’s current seniors were enrolled in pre-school.

“I (am) so happy for these seniors who are really the foundation of bringing this program back to a top-10 program,” Fuchs said. “I would be lying if I didn’t say it (is) the best thing that has happened to the program since I’ve been here.”

Overall, the game could not have gone much better for NU. They led in every statistic except corner opportunities.

The Cats notched double-digit shots with 12, eight of which were on goal, and four assists. The defense held the opponents to only nine shots, and junior goalkeeper Maddy Carpenter made four saves.

“Every goal starts with the defense,” Puffenberger said. “(My) second goal really started with the defense. We’ve been working on getting outlets … and have turned it into a strength and did well with that this game.”

The team looked like a well-oiled

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champs Redshirt junior Kristin Wirtz scored one of Northwestern’s goals in its 5-0 victory over Ohio State on Friday. With the win, the Wildcats won a share of the Big Ten regular season title for the first time since 1994.

machine, methodically picking apart Ohio State, which pleased Fuchs.

“I think it was great,” Fuchs said.

“I think the first five or 10 minutes we were tentative and back on our heels, but once we got into the flow of the game I thought we controlled the match. We had some really nice plays. … I thought we had some really nice

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passing patterns, so it’s nice to see them put in what we worked on all week in practice.”

Coming into the game, NU trailed Penn State in the Big Ten standings because the Nittany Lions had topped the Cats back in October. A loss to Michigan on Friday afternoon gave Penn State a 5-1 conference record

to tie NU’s.

“I think we’ve really hit our stride at the right time,” Parsley said. “We kind of gradually made our way to where we’re at now. … We’re in a really great position moving forward.” mike82293@gmail.com

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NU dominates home opener Cats finish season in familiar fashion By josh walfish

daily senior staffer @JoshWalfish

By alex lederman Northwestern took care of business to begin its 2013-14 campaign.

The Wildcats were missing their returning national runner-up Mike McMullan, but that didn’t stop the team from cruising to a 38-0 win over the University of Chicago and a 38-6 victory over Stevens Tech. The only two matches NU didn’t win Saturday were a double forfeit at 184 pounds against the Maroons and a forfeit at McMullan’s Northwestern heavyweight spot against the Ducks.

“The results Chicago we re ve r y favorable,” said coach Drew Pariano, Northwestern who was with McMullan at the NWCA All-Star ClasStevens Tech sic and not at the duel. “You expect dominating results and that’s what we got.”

The first duels of the season provided some interesting lineup changes from last year. Sophomores Dominick Malone and Garrison White switched weight classes, with Malone going from 125 pounds to 133 pounds and White dropping from 133 to 125.

Junior Pierce Harger jumped up a weight class to 174 pounds, replacing classmate Lee Munster, who was out of the lineup with an upper-body injury.

NU opened Saturday’s festivities with a dominating rout of Chicago as seven matches ended in bonus points for the Cats. It was a quick start for

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in control Junior Alex Polizzi takes down Jeffrey Tyburski in Northwestern’s clean sweep of Chicago on Saturday. Polizzi sealed off the match with a win by major decision and kept the Wildcats perfect in their opening match.

NU with two technical falls in the first four bouts, one from White and one from redshirt freshman Jason Tsirtsis.

Tsirtsis was one of two Cats wrestlers making their first career starts; the other, redshirt freshman Ben Sullivan, earned a hard-fought 6-0 win in his debut at 165 pounds against the Maroons.

“Jason’s a very slick wrestler and he’s well-polished and as long as he continues to progress he’ll be great,” Pariano said. “As for Sullivan, it was nice to get him out there. We have a lot of great options at 157 ... so it’s

definitely our deepest weight class. ” There were three interesting matches in the back half of the lineup that proved to be the might of NU’s lineup. There was a double forfeit at 184 pounds because Chicago could not field a wrestler at that weight.

The forfeit forced sophomore Jacob Berkowitz and junior Alex Polizzi to step up a weight class and both handled the jump well, earning decisive wins for the Cats.

“Jacob has a lot of skill,” Pariano » See Wrestling, page 7

Northwestern’s season of highs and lows — mostly lows — came to a close this weekend as the Wildcats dropped their final game of the season Saturday at Wisconsin.

“For Wisconsin, they needed the win to get into the Big Ten Tournament, and they came out playing like that,” coach Michael Moynihan said. “We didn’t really match their intensity.”

Wisconsin midfielder Lindsey Holmes, forward Cara Walls and midfielder McKenna Meuer kicked the Badgers into the Big Ten Tournament by sending shots past NU goalkeepers Jenna Hascher and Ali Herman for the 3-0 victory.

The Cats, however, will not be joining the Badgers in Urbana-Champaign, Ill., for the Big Ten Tournament, as only the top eight teams in the conference qualify. With only one Big Ten victory, NU finished dead last in the standings.

“It’s rough,” Moynihan said. “Coming into the season we had hoped to be contenders for the Big Ten Tournament. We felt that we’d be in a position to do that, and I think that as we look back at the season there’s really no reason that we couldn’t have been.”

“We were very close on a number of games to getting results,” he added. “I think the part that we have to look at is, ‘Why didn’t we get the results and why didn’t we get them consistently?’

There’s luck, there’s decisions by referees, there’s all sorts of things that play into it, but when you see it on multiple occasions, you have to look inward and figure out, ‘What do we have to do differently to be on the other end of these results?’”

Moynihan, however, still believes his club made strides this year.

“If you look purely at the record,” he said, “I think you’d look at it and say maybe we went backwards a little bit.

But if you look at us game by game in terms of performance and our ability to compete with a lot of these teams, I think we definitely moved forward.”

Major contributors to the Cats’ progress this season were the seniors.

Forward Kate Allen and midfielder Julie Sierks tied for the team lead in goals with junior forward Katie Landgrebe, and Allen led NU in assists and points.

The team on the whole, though, had too many flaws. Although they put up a respectable 267 shot attempts on the year, the Cats were unable to finish, only finding the net 16 times.

The chances were plentiful for NU, but the team was rarely able to capitalize on these opportunities. NU sent many shots wide and became all too familiar with friends it would prefer not to have: the posts and the crossbar.

Nonetheless, seniors said they will miss being Cats.

“It’s definitely sad,” senior midfielder Natalie Lagunas said of her career ending. “I felt that after the game it was just sad knowing that something I’ve worked so hard for in the past three years has finally ended.

I’m going to miss the team most of all.”

Sierks said it feels “weird” for the season to end with one game. Even so, she said she is comfortable with the foundation her class has laid for this team moving forward.

“We’ve all worked so hard, and I think that it’s unfortunate the results didn’t go our way but I hope at least what we’ve done will help the team for » See Women’s Soccer, page 7