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‘Their absence will be felt’

Lasker’s friends describe her as ‘caring,’ ‘compassionate’ woman

Dayton, grandson of Target founder, remembered as part of SCS ‘family’

By JEANNE KUANG

By PATRICK SVITEK

In the wake of Alexis Lasker’s death, the former student’s close friends at Northwestern remembered her Wednesday as an outgoing individual and selfless friend.

“I don’t want her to be remembered as the sad girl,” Sona Arora (Weinberg ‘13) said. “That wasn’t who she was. She was always vibrant and happy and she always brought life to any party or any group she was with.”

Lasker, 22, was found dead Saturday in the 2500 block of West Fitch Avenue in Chicago, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Her cause of death was determined to be suicide.

Lasker had been on medical leave from NU, her boyfriend Amar Mehta said, and was last enrolled as a student in Fall Quarter 2012.

“She was very selfless, very caring, compassionate,” said Mehta, a Weinberg senior. “Very intelligent … and incredible work ethic.”

Mehta and Lasker met at a party in the spring of 2012. They had been dating for about a year and a half at the time of her death, he said.

Mehta and Weinberg senior Gina Tremmel, a close friend of Lasker, were both in close contact with her while she was on leave. They shared memories of her as a caring individual who would do anything for her friends.

“She had a great personality,” Tremmel said.

“She was very bubbly, and she just always had a smile on her face. She would just brighten your day.”

Northwestern on Wednesday morning identified a man who jumped to his death in downtown Evanston as a former student.

Caleb Dayton, 22, completed classes in the School of Continuing Studies during Winter and Spring quarters last academic year, University spokesman Al Cubbage said. However, Dayton was not enrolled this fall at NU. A Minneapolis native, Dayton hailed from what the Star-Tribune once called “one of Minnesota’s best-known families.” He was the grandson of the late Douglas Dayton, one of the founders of Target. Caleb Dayton was also related to Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton.

Caleb Dayton jumped off the top of the Sherman Plaza parking garage shortly before 4:20 p.m. Tuesday, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. The 12-story garage is in the 800 block of Davis Street.

Caleb Dayton, of the 600 block of Sheridan Road, was taken to Evanston Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 4:55 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The medical examiner’s office ruled his death a suicide Wednesday afternoon, saying he died from multiple injuries due to a fall from height.

The University extended its condolences to the family and friends of Caleb Dayton and Alexis Lasker, a former student who committed suicide Saturday in Chicago.

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Alexis Lasker

Last week, Mehta said, he and Lasker had two tickets to a pre-screening of a film. Each ticket admitted one couple, and Mehta and Lasker were deciding who to give the second ticket to.

“We decided to give it to Gina, who is probably her best friend here on campus,” Mehta said. “I just remember, Gina thought she was going to third-wheel it with us, but Alexis, being Alexis, had an intricate plan to make sure Gina’s boyfriend could surprise Gina.”

Tremmel said her boyfriend does not attend NU, but Lasker had made arrangements for him to come.

“She was always just so willing to do anything for anyone,” Tremmel said.

Mehta added that Lasker “really valued her personal relationships with other people and was just so selfless in showing how much she » See LASKER, page 6

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Caleb Dayton

“Although neither of them was currently enrolled at Northwestern, their absence will be felt and they will be remembered by their friends, fellow students and the Northwestern community,” Cubbage said in a statement.

Eliza Carandang, president of the SCS Student Advisory Board, said Wednesday night she did not know Caleb Dayton.

“However, we at SCS are a family and it is very sad to lose any of our members,” Carandang wrote in email to The Daily. “Such a young life lost is very difficult. We the students send our deepest condolences to his immediate family.”

Before coming to Evanston, Caleb Dayton attended the University of Minnesota for a semester. He was enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts during the fall of 2010, Minnesota spokesman Steve Henneberry said. patricksvitek2014@u.northwestern.edu

ED apps up 14 percent NU startups pitch ideas to city

By TYLER PAGER

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Despite issues with the Common Application, early decision applications to Northwestern for the class of 2018 increased about 14 percent from last year.

While the number may change in the next few days, Christopher Watson, dean of undergraduate admissions, said his office has received 2,794 applications compared to 2,450 last year. Early admissions decisions will be released

by Dec. 15. “(Northwestern) certainly continues to be a popular school both nationally and internationally,” Watson said. “We’re seeing that this trend is continuing, and more and more students beyond the Midwest are looking at Northwestern as a destination more than ever before.”

Watson added that NU’s increased presence in the news has also played a role.

“We certainly are a more visible university,” he said. “The president travels quite a bit, and a lot of what happens on campus makes national news. The admission office tries to do its fair share of travel as well.”

Watson said about 40 percent of the class of 2018 will be filled by early decision applicants.

Michael Goran, director of Los Angeles-based IvySelect College Counseling,

agreed NU has gained more recognition over the years with students both nationally and internationally.

“It’s certainly moved far beyond the regional base that perhaps it once held to being a true national and international university,” he said. “That familiarity certainly has contributed to its rise in applications.”

Sookie Kwak, a senior at Meadowdale High School in Lynnwood, Wash., sent in an early decision application to the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

“I really liked the environment, and I just fell in love with the school,” she said of her visit to Evanston. “I talked to some of the students, and I connected with them. During the tour, I was like, ‘I could imagine myself going here.’”

This year, NU extended its early decision deadline by seven days due to technical difficulties with the Common App. The site for the application, which is used by more than 500 colleges and universities, underwent a complete restructuring for the 2013-2014 admissions cycle.

Kwak said although the site sometimes crashed while she was using it, she never lost any information from her application. Some of her friends, however, had issues, with aspects of their applications getting deleted.

“The fact that there were issues made me nervous,” she said. “I think one of » See EARLY DECISION, page 6

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Northwestern entrepreneurs Wednesday evening pitched their business ideas to Evanston professionals at the city’s first Northwestern University Startup Showcase.

About 80 Evanston business executives crowded into a conference room at the Hilton Orrington Hotel to learn about and offer advice to five NU startups. Evanston’s Economic Development Division and Evanston Inventure, a nonprofit organization concerned with the city’s economic growth, hosted.

“We’ve got a significant ecosystem up here of entrepreneurs based on the activity at the university,” said Paul Zalmezak,

Evanston’s senior economic development coordinator. “That stuff is going on on campus every day, and yet … our city doesn’t really know that. So, we wanted to shine some light on that activity.”

Each startup gave a five-minute presentation of its project, followed by a fiveminute question-and-answer period, in which the audience challenged the groups to think critically about their business models and gave suggestions for improvement.

The startups included Chisel and SwipeSense, both of which have already launched their products, as well as three groups that are still developing their plans: MyChild, Fall Proof and Closet.

The latter two projects started just four days prior to the event at Northwestern’s Startup Weekend.

“The Evanston community is really

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EVANSTON ENTREPRENEURS Robert Yohanan, CEO of Evanstonbased First Bank & Trust, opens the NU Startup Showcase. The event was held at the Hilton Orrington Wednesday afternoon.

supportive of businesses that are based here,” said Yuri Malina (Weinberg ‘11), SwipeSense chief operations officer. “I don’t think it could have gone better.”

SwipeSense, a hand hygiene platform for health care professionals aimed at curbing hospital-acquired infections, started in Evanston two years ago and was a finalist in the Wall Street Journal’s Startup of the Year competition. Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Rush University Medical Center are currently testing SwipeSense. The startup has also just signed contracts with 13 other hospitals around the nation.

“We want these new innovative businesses to stay in Evanston. It adds a lot of vitality to the community, it creates jobs, it creates more small businesses,” said Evanston Lofts owner Mary McAuley, who attended the event. “If there is support in infrastructure for the emerging entrepreneurs, they will stay here, and that’s good for everybody.”

Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl, who also attended the showcase, has been vocal about keeping NU business talent in the city. She told The Daily last month the issue is an area in which towngown relations could still improve.

Zalmezak said the Economic Development Division hopes to host similar events to continue fostering city-university connections. He plans to target more Evanston investors and CEOs to help support the NU startups. kellygonsalves@u.northwestern.edu

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Around Town Restaurants await FDA trans fat ban

By EDWARD COX

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Evanston restaurants and food makers will have to get rid of trans fats in their products should the Food and Drug Administration’s steps to ban the ingredient come to fruition.

The FDA cited the safety hazards of trans fats Thursday as it prepared to outlaw the substance, which Evanston restaurant managers acknowledged has been reduced in their foods through a greater awareness of its harmful effects. Scaling back trans fats could prevent 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 deaths from heart disease a year, according to the FDA. Evanston restaurant owners shared the government agency’s sentiment toward trans fats.

Lucky Platter owner Eric Singer told The Daily his restaurant does not use trans fats, but larger restaurant chains may see the ingredient as a cheap way to make their dishes more appealing.

Trans fats are used to give foods texture, flavor and a longer shelf life. Once the FDA mandated that restaurants show trans fat content in food, many chains like McDonald’s replaced trans fats with other ingredients.

“The FDA is 100 percent right on this one,” Singer said. “These are just some issues the government should have gotten on 10 years ago.”

Some states and city governments have already taken steps to ban trans fats in food. New York City banned the ingredient’s use in 2007, and California became the first state to do so a year later. A proposed ban of trans fats in Illinois failed to pass the General Assembly in 2011.

Carl Caneva, assistant director of the Evanston Health Department, said the ban on trans fats, also known as hydrogenated oils, would benefit public health.

He identified microwavable popcorn and donuts as food products that use trans fats as an ingredient.

If the federal government ban goes into effect, trans fats would be eliminated in the food manufacturing process, Caneva said.

Nevertheless, food scientists would likely find replacements for trans fats that would maintain the taste of traditional trans fat foods, he said.

“All the research they have done has shown that it is not safe,” Caneva said. “Just like requiring people to put on a safety belt before they drive, this is all about prevention.”

Some Evanston restaurants that use deep frying, a cooking technique that involves trans fats, switched to healthier modes of cooking after realizing public awareness of the side effects of the ingredients was growing.

Mustard’s Last Stand owner Steve Starkman said that although the restaurant at 1613 Central Street has switched to healthier modes of cooking

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such as grilling, its french fries may contain trans fat. If the federal government bans trans fats, the restaurant will cut the ingredient, he said.

D & D Finer Foods owner Kosta Douvikas said his fast food restaurant at 825 Noyes St. stopped using trans fat oils three years ago. After the company ended its practice of deep frying, there was no change in the price of menu items, he said. “(Trans fats) was part of what we ate,” Douvikas said. “I hope the government passes this and big corporations don’t lobby. I don’t see any harm in getting rid of it.”

The Greek Fire Grill, 1625 Chicago Ave., also stopped using trans fats in deep frying in 2008 or 2009, said Matthew Douvikas, general manager of the fast food restaurant. The restaurant grills its food, which provides a healthier alternative to trans fats.

Although Matthew Douvikas acknowledges trans fats pose a health concern, he said he believes restaurant owners should take their own initiatives in banning the substance instead of the federal government.

“The government should stay out of the way of private businesses … (but) this is not to be confused with no government intervention when it comes to providing a safe working environment and using safe products,” Douvikas said.

WASHINGTON — Just one in four people nationwide who have enrolled in health coverage on the new insurance marketplaces have done so through the troubled HealthCare.gov website — even though the site serves 36 states.

New figures from the Department of Health and Human Services made public Wednesday showed that 106,185 Americans selected health plans through the exchanges from Oct. 1 to Nov. 2. The bulk of those enrollees — nearly 75 percent, or 79,391 people — signed up through state-run websites that serve 14 states and the District of Columbia.

The report said that California led the nation, with more than 35,364 enrollees. But California’s insurance marketplace executive director, Peter V. Lee, said nearly 60,000 people had signed up as of Tuesday.

But just 26,794 people managed to complete enrollment on HealthCare.gov, the problem-plagued federal government website, which serves as the portal for consumers to enroll in insurances plans available through the federal marketplace.

The federal enrollment figure was in line with the “very low” numbers that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had projected in recent congressional testimony. Technical problems with the website have frustrated users, as many became stuck and were unable to create the personal accounts required for enrolling in coverage.

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Police Blotter Coat taken from North Face store in downtown Evanston A jacket was stolen Tuesday morning from the North Face store in downtown Evanston, according to police.

Shortly before 11 a.m., an employee heard a theft alarm at the store, 1600 Sherman Ave. and found an empty hanger on a sale rack, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. The employee reviewed the incident on surveillance footage, which showed a man taking a small blue coat,

putting it under his own jacket and walking out of the store.

The North Face coat is valued at about $100, Parrott said.

The store turned over the surveillance footage to police, he said. Detectives are investigating the theft.

2 masked men attack south Evanston resident

Two masked men attacked a 29-year-old

man last week in his south Evanston apartment, according to police.

Parrott said the resident encountered the men when he came home at about 10:30 a.m.

Nov. 5 to the apartment in the 700 block of Brummel Street.

Wearing ski masks and black hooded sweatshirts, the men showed the resident a semiautomatic handgun, punched him in the head and commented on the resident’s family moving out of the apartment within the past

week.

The resident suffered a minor injury to the face but refused medical attention, Parrott said.

Police described the men as having thin builds and wearing blue jeans in addition to the masks and sweatshirts.

Detectives are investigating the home invasion, Parrott said.

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FMO holds vigil to honor slain teen

By OLIVIA EXSTRUM

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Lights illuminated The Rock on Wednesday night as about 30 Northwestern students clutching candles gathered to honor the death of — and seek justice for — a woman not far from their own age.

Medill junior April McFadden opened the event, speaking passionately about racism in America.

“Racism exists in systems of oppression that we don’t even realize are happening every day,” McFadden said.

The gathering, hosted by For Members Only, was a vigil in remembrance of Renisha McBride.

McBride, a 19-year-old black woman from Dearborn Heights, Mich., was shot and killed Nov. 2 after going to a stranger’s house seeking help following a car accident. The shooter, a 54-yearold man whose name has not yet been released, told his attorney he believed someone was trying to break into his home, according to reports. As of Wednesday night, no charges had been filed in the case.

The story has received national attention, with many bringing up the question of racial profiling in light of the case of Trayvon Martin, the teenager who was killed in February 2012 by a neighborhood watchman in his Florida gated community.

Both have sparked criticism of state stand-yourground laws, which allow people to use deadly force in self-defense without making an attempt to avoid confrontation.

The vigil began with McFadden, FMO’s coordinator, giving a short introduction, then opening the floor for others to speak. One speaker was Medill sophomore Simedar Jackson, FMO’s historian. Jackson talked about the importance of education when it comes to talking about race.

“People need to be educated,” she said. “Then, those same people who understand the complexities and nuances of race and sexuality need to be the people making legislation.”

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IN MEMORIAM For Members Only leads a candlelight vigil for Renisha McBride on Wednesday night at The Rock. The teen was shot Nov. 2 in Dearborn Heights, Mich.

FMO spokesman Matthew Wright said he recognized that race is not always the easiest thing to talk about. He stressed, however, that getting over that initial discomfort is the only way for change to happen.

“I think that people like being comfortable, and when they’re pushed to be uncomfortable, they’re quick to be defensive,” the Medill sophomore said.

McFadden agreed that the discomfort with having a discussion about race prevents progress.

She talked about the notion of living in a postracial society, saying that although “racism is no longer blatant,” it is still present.

“This is a culture where people see a person of color and view them as a threat,” she said. “This is something that is societally constructed and it’s a learned behavior.”

McFadden also touched upon the issue of sexuality present in the shooting of McBride.

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The case caught the attention of national figures like Rev. Al Sharpton and U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), who expressed hope for justice for the McBride family. Conyers issued a statement saying he has “long opposed” the stand-your-ground laws of Michigan and other states.

“What happened to her is tragic,” McFadden said. “The person that shot her needs to be prosecuted and the fact that he hasn’t been is a crime in itself.”

At the beginning of the event, McFadden led a moment of silence for Alexis Lasker and Caleb Dayton. Lasker, a former Communication student, took her own life Saturday, and Dayton, a former School of Continuing Studies student, jumped to his death Tuesday. oliviaexstrum2017@u.northwestern.edu

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Guest Columns

Learning from loss: Listen, ask, understand

Suicides show campus view on mental health still needs change

Open the mental health dialogue, listen to the simple answers

KAITLYN JAKOLA

JOSH WALFISH

GUEST COLUMNIST @KaitlynJakola

On my way to work this morning, I found out that two more Northwestern students had committed suicide this week. Well, “former Northwestern students,� but it’s no surprise that people with mental health issues at some point found there was no room for them at NU. Right now, I am angry. I feel furious and guilty for somehow convincing myself that things had gotten better as a consequence of the last four years of suffering and death. I thought we’d learned something. But apparently that’s not the case. How many more students have to die — or hurt themselves, or have week-long anxiety attacks, or lie to everyone they know so they won’t be kicked out of school, but the pressure becomes too much and before they realize it, they’re considering suicide — before significant efforts are made to take care of us? With every new initiative announced, building constructed and staff member hired over the last four years, I thought we were at least getting close. But these most recent deaths prove that I was wrong.

CAPS saved my mind, if not my life, and I am grateful every day for the work my providers there did to help me through the hardest parts of my NU career. But they simply don’t have the resources to provide that kind of care to every student who needs it. I shouldn’t have to feel selfish for accepting that care when I know there may have been others who needed it more. I shouldn’t have to second-guess the motives of a University organization that broke its own highly-touted rules to keep counseling me for twice as long as permitted. (I saw providers at CAPS weekly for much of my last two quarters in school.

The usual limit is 12 sessions.) Yet here I am, alive, wondering if I deserved to be on this growing list of names instead of Alexis, or Caleb, or Dmitri, or Alyssa, or Rebecca.

I have been involved in mental health issues on campus from many sides — as a sufferer, a caretaker, a journalist, an activist and a helpless bystander. But it has been my work as a journalist that has most illuminated the situation for me. Speaking with top administrators as well as the students who bravely share their stories with reporters, I have realized where the disconnect lies: NU does not see its students as adults capable of having serious adult problems and handling them in serious adult ways, particularly not through suicide. And if suicide is a thing a student is considering, University officials firmly believe the best place for that struggle to happen is as far away from campus as possible, preferably under parental supervision.

Because that’s what you do when a child is struggling in school: You send them home to their parents. Even when that child’s biggest fear is of failing at a school that has assured them they are among the best. For administrators, it is the right thing to take those students and say, “We’re sorry. We messed up. You aren’t one of the best like we thought — at least you aren’t now, and we don’t have the time or energy to turn you into one. Go home and see if you can’t be a little better,

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and then maybe we’ll think about letting you come back.�

This is not to say that the administrators I’ve talked to don’t care if students kill themselves. I’m sure that when they hear, they get that same feeling in the pit of their stomachs, feel just as sick as the rest of us to realize how seriously they have failed yet another young adult. But they have a fundamental lack of understanding of how students operate and what forms their issues take. They see their roles as our educators and caretakers, but that ultimately places us in a position as their subordinates. They forget that the huge sums of money we pay, the school pride we profess and the purple we don all put them in debt to us, not the other way around.

The NU administration owes its students more than just four years of classes and a piece of paper saying we’ve learned some things. We deserve respect and care for every part of our life while we are a student — because, let’s not forget, we quite literally put our adult lives on hold for the years we spend as students. We are preparing for adulthood,

The NU administration owes its students more than just four years of classes and a piece of paper saying we’ve learned some things.

We deserve respect and care for every part of our life while we are a student. but we are not yet living it. School becomes the priority, and we build our lives around it.

Shouldn’t NU resources be the counterbalance to that, reminding students that we are still people with lives and loves and worries to attend to? Isn’t that why we come to campus for four years rather than taking online courses or hiring private tutors? So we can get an enriching, whole-life experience that helps us better ourselves both academically and personally? That’s what I thought I was signing up for.

There are many problems that hit the desk of an NU administrator each day, and nearly all of them have easier, more immediate solutions than the issue of students’ mental health. And there will never be a day when every single Northwestern student is happy, well-adjusted, sleeping adequately, eating properly and spending more time with their friends than their books. With approximately three weeks of midterms and two more of finals each 11-week quarter, there’s just no way. But rather than telling struggling students that they clearly can’t handle the pressure, that they should just go home for a bit and try again later, I implore the University to stop seeing them as students. I want you, President Schapiro, to see us as people. And I want you to think about the worst possible thing you could say to a person facing their biggest fear. And I want you to stop saying it.

Kaitlyn Jakola (Medill ‘13) is a former Daily editor in chief. She can be reached at kait.jakola@gmail.com. If you would like to respond publicly to this colum, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com

GUEST COLUMNIST @JoshWalfish

I shouldn’t be alive.

I should never have met most of you reading this column.

I am a survivor of suicide.

I tried to take my own life twice, and both times somebody was there to stop me. Someone was there to catch my knife-wielding arm as I attempted to slit my wrists or tackle me to the ground as I ran away with my noose made from a belt, ready to hang myself from a tree. I had people that cared about me, and, when my life hung in the balance, they proved that and went above and beyond the call of duty as a friend.

The past 12 months have been difficult for me, with two Northwestern students killing themselves and two more former students taking their own lives over the past five days. I did not know Alyssa, Alexis, Caleb or Dmitri, but at the same time I understood them, and I knew what it was

“How are you?� is a question we ask halfheartedly most of the time, which leads to most of us tuning out the answer. However, every answer has a specific context and, depending on the tone of voice, could mean different things. I have three standard answers to this question: “All right,� “fine� and “could be better.� Yet all three mean different things, and the speed at which I say them connotes different meanings. A quick “fine� means there is no issue, but a slow “fine� means I have a problem, and it’s under control.

Most people hear the word “fine� and ignore the context, but you are missing out on half the answer by only taking things at face value.

If we as a community are going to do a better job of preventing suicides, we must do a better job of listening to the people we’re close with. You don’t need QPR training to figure out something is wrong and talk with your friend about it, although it certainly helps. That single conversation alone could save someone’s life and has stopped me many times from acting on my feelings. If you don’t feel comfortable having this type of conversation with someone, then I suggest you evaluate your friendship with that person and figure out their purpose in your life.

On the flip side, if you feel the need to talk to someone about your issue and don’t feel comfortable with any of your friends, I think you should ask yourself whether you are surrounding yourself with the right people. You don’t need to feel comfortable having these serious conversations with everyone, but you must have one confidant to whom you can spill your guts. If you don’t find that person, I will personally volunteer to be that person for you because I have been in your shoes, and I can help you get better.

I am lucky because I have a group of people who have been at my side for the past eight years. I have people who ask the easy questions and listen to the responses and actually probe me for more details on my issues. When life gets rough enough for suicide, no person can shield all their feelings from the public. The signs are there that things are wrong. All I ask is that you listen next time you ask someone how they are doing because you’ll learn a lot more than you expect about them and their mood.

So I ask you, Northwestern, how are you doing?

If we as a community are going to do a better job of preventing suicides, we must do a better job of listening to the people we’re close with. ... That single conversation alone could save someone’s life. like to walk in their shoes. I could feel their pain, and I empathized with the fact they felt like they only had one option. But it forced me to get help for my issues, and I am now proudly visiting CAPS and a therapist on a weekly basis.

I would not be here today without countless individuals to whom I am indebted, but I want to highlight five who made the simple effort of asking the most important question we as a community can ask one another: “How are you?� Each morning when I walked into high school I had three people who would ask me this one question and listen attentively to my response. So I want to thank Alon, Andrew and Ryan for being there for me. The same goes for the two people at NU who do the same thing for me — Sam and Spencer.

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approved more than $10,000 in funding for B- and T-status groups introduced A-status funding recommendations, which will be voted on next week introduced legislation to be voted on next week that would approve $150 to bring therapy dogs to Norris University Center the day before finals start as a fundraiser for Relay for Life brainstormed ideas for Senate reform in small groups introduced legislation that would create a working group to assess the needs of student groups

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Associated Student Government Senate approved more than $10,000 to fund B- and T-status groups at its meeting Wednesday.

Of the $10,430 it approved, Senate allotted $950 to ReFresH dance team, making it the group receiving the most money of the 52 Band T-status groups that requested ASG funding this quarter.

International Student Association and Dance Marathon were the only two groups to receive funding beyond what was recommended by the Student Groups Committee, which makes funding recommendations for all B- and T-status groups.

Senators voted to approve $300 more than the SGC suggested for ISA in order to fund the group’s formal.

Senate approved $200 beyond the amount SGC recommended for DM to fund tents for its annual fundraiser. DM spokesman David Harris requested the amount, saying the group deserved the additional money because it does not fit well into the B-status category, citing the large number of students who participate in the philanthropy.

He said DM does not fit cleanly into either the B-status category or the much higher-funded

A-status category. “I think we meet all the criteria that qualify us as an A-status group,� the SESP senior said. “But we won’t accept the revenue-sharing component of us having to give back some of the money that we earn to ASG.�

Student groups vice president Neel Lalkiya said his committee didn’t approve all the money DM requested based on the standards used to recommend funding for B-status groups. “Dance Marathon should be able to find funding for themselves as a great, well-organized organization on campus,� the Weinberg senior said. “But that being said, we fully support Dance Marathon.�

Senate will vote on funding for A-status groups next week. sophiabollag2016@u.northwestern.edu

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By PAIGE LESKIN

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Despite numerous concerns about the current state of America’s foreign policy, former Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) said Wednesday night at Northwestern he still has faith the United States is the “strongest country on Earth.�

Lugar explained that America remains the only nation with the resources to send troops anywhere in the world and stability to control the seas. The senator spoke to a crowd of more than 125 people in Harris Hall for the 24th annual Richard W. Leopold Lecture.

Established by the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences in 1990, the lecture was named after an NU history professor who specialized in foreign policy. Leopold, who died in 2006, was remembered for his “high standards� and “unmatched intellectual drive,� Weinberg Dean Sarah Mangelsdorf said. “I never knew anyone who cared so much about what he was teaching,� said Phil Friedman (Weinberg ’76, Law ‘79), who was once a student of Leopold’s. “It was an around-theclock job for him.�

Friedman said Lugar was a logical choice to be selected as the lecturer. The Leopold speaker is chosen each year by a special committee,

currently led by history Prof. Michael Sherry.

Sherry said the team looked for “a distinguished person who has had an important role in American foreign relations.� “(Sen. Lugar) is just the kind of guest Dick Leopold had in mind,� he said.

Whether we Lugar served in knew it or not, the Senate for 36 years, from 1977 we were under to 2013. During the gun for 40 that period, he was years. named chairman of the Foreign RelaRichard Lugar, tions Committee former senator two different times.

His work toward dismantling nuclear weapons around the world led to the creation of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, which led to the destruction of such weapons in the Soviet Union. He was defeated in the Indiana Republican primary in 2012 by tea party challenger Richard Mourdock.

In his speech, Lugar emphasized the improvement in American foreign policy that has occurred since the Soviet Union broke up in 1991. “Whether we knew it or not, we were under the gun for 40 years,� he said.

He outlined the good and bad of the country’s current international relations. He said it

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is a “blessing� that Europe has been at peace since NATO was founded; however, Lugar said, a crisis still lies in the continent’s economy. He also said German chancellor Angela Merkel’s recent discovery of spying by the National Security Agency gave the world reason to distrust America.

Lugar also addressed the U.S. involvement in the Middle East, praising the scheduled removal of troops from Afghanistan by 2014.

He also expressed concern about the effects of air pollution in China on global warming. “People can barely see their ways across the highway,� he said.

He defended the American government with regards to the recent government shutdown.

He said that although it was “embarrassing,� it only showed “the nature of our political system.�

Before the lecture, Lugar held a questionand-answer session Wednesday afternoon for a group of 15 students.

Besides discussing foreign policy in countries like China and Brazil, he shared how he became interested in foreign policy. He told stories about his time as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, calling it a “lifechanging experience.� “I discovered there how big the world is,� he said. “So diverse, so unusual.� paigeleskin2017@u.northwestern.edu

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LUGAR LECTURE Former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) speaks at Harris Hall. Lugar gave a talk Wednesday night about his experiences working in foreign relations.

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Men’s Basketball

Cats crave payback in smart school showdown

By ALEX PUTTERMAN

daily senior staffer @AlexPutt02

As basketball programs and schools, Stanford and Northwestern are so similar that Kale Abrahamson could barely choose between them.

Two years ago, the forward from Iowa narrowed his college decision to the Cardinal and the Wildcats, then chose NU because — well, he doesn’t really remember.

“It just came down to — I don’t know. I don’t really know what I decided back then,” the sophomore said Tuesday.

The teams play in Palo Alto, Calif., on Thursday, the second straight year the academic powerhouses will meet on the hardwood. Stanford (1-1) beat NU (1-0) 70-68 when the Cats hosted last season.

The Cardinal enters this year’s rematch coming off

Lasker

From page 1 cared.”

Tremmel met Lasker on move-in day their freshman year. The two both lived in the International Studies Residential College.

“We just became friends from day one,” Tremmel said. “If I was having a bad day she’d be like, ‘Come to my room, I just got a new shipment of tea.’ ... She was always just wondering what she could do to make someone else’s day a little bit better.”

Arora, who met Lasker during Arora’s sophomore year through a mutual friend, said Lasker was “one of the most quick-witted people I have

Collins

From page 8 “(I) actually played against Duke twice,” Brey said, “once when I was at Delaware and once in the NCAA Tournament with Notre Dame, and lost both of them. It was a little distracting back then.”

Despite a couple of hiccups against the Blue Devils, Brey has compiled an impressive coaching resume. He amassed a 99-52 record at Delaware

a 112-103 loss to Brigham Young on Monday. The Cats, who take pride in their ability to limit opponent scoring, don’t plan on replicating the shootout.

“We watched it,” junior guard Dave Sobolewski said. “I don’t think we’ll try to play the game in the hundreds on Thursday. … The staple of our team is defense. We’re really taking pride on the defensive end, so we’re going to try to definitely try to hold them way below what they scored.”

Stanford guard Chasson Randle dropped 33 points in the loss to the Cougars, scored 37 in the Cardinal’s exhibition game and 18 in the season opener, after averaging 13.6 points a game last season.

Coach Chris Collins emphasized team defense as the key to neutralizing Randle, suggesting no individual guard is up for the task alone. He said help defense will be important, and he won’t rule out switching to zone if necessary.

“With a really good player, you’re not going to shut him out,” Collins said. “For us it’s, ‘Let’s try to make

ever met” and full of enthusiasm for her interests.

She said Lasker took Arora to see her first opera, Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.”

“She really loved arts and theater,” Arora said.

“It wasn’t in English, I didn’t understand it, but it was entertaining, and she was really trying to show me a much classier world.”

Tremmel said Lasker would often joke about culturally educating her friends.

“She said I was going through ‘culture training’ and when she was done with me I would be cultured,” Tremmel said. “And I think my junior year she was finally like, ‘You’ve become cultured,’ and I was so excited. She’d done her job.”

Lasker had been studying in the School

him make tough shots, keep him off the free throw line and eliminate his layups in transition.’”

NU, which allowed 46 points in its exhibition game and 55 in its opener, will have to slow the pace to beat Stanford on Thursday.

Though the Cats and Cardinal don’t play at the same tempo, they have other things in common.

As schools, they have similar academic reputations. As programs, they have had comparable levels of success in recent years. And as teams they are led by coaches with parallel resumes, as Collins and Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins both played and then coached at Duke.

There’s a degree of rivalry between the two outfits, both on the court and on the recruiting trail.

“Both the schools are going to target guys that value academics and athletics,” Collins said. “If you look at a lot of the lists of guys that we’re recruiting, (Stanford is) usually on the list as well.”

Stanford targeted Abrahamson early, the

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sophomore said, and the idea of playing for a Duke assistant appealed to the lifetime Blue Devils fan, but he chose NU nonetheless. On Tuesday, a few minutes after saying he didn’t remember his reasons, Abrahamson recalled some of the thought process.

“Obviously they’re both world-class institutions,” Abrahamson said. “Stanford was farther away than here, which probably played a little into it, but other than that I just looked at basketball because I knew the schools were pretty much a give-and-take. Stanford’s great, and Northwestern is great.”

Wednesday will, for the moment at least, decide who is greater. asputt@u.northwestern.edu

Early Decision

of Communication. She was a Quest Scholar and a part of the Honors Program in Medical Education.

Tremmel said Lasker also volunteered on campus at the Women’s Center.

Mehta, a pre-medical student, said he would have liked to study at the Feinberg School of Medicine with Lasker in the future.

“She had so many similarities to me,” Mehta said. “It’s going to be hard to find someone like her.”

A memorial will be held 7 p.m. Thursday in Harris Hall 108.

my teachers had issues with it, and I know of one person who was really close to not sending their app because their counselor had some issues.”

Watson said universities, including NU, may look into other application systems for the future as a result of the glitches.

“It’s something we always think about,” Watson said about looking into other options. “It’s probably something we will look into, but I have no idea what we will do.”

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and led the Blue Hens to two NCAA Tournament appearances. Since he started at Notre Dame, Brey has added another 285 wins and nine NCAA Tournament bids. He credits Krzyzewski with much of his success.

“Coach K had a great influence on me,” Brey said. “I’ll always be thankful he hired me when I was an assistant high school coach and really trained me to be a head coach. I draw on my experiences with him every day as a head coach now at Notre Dame.”

The 26-year college coaching veteran also had some advice for Collins.

“I think to establish yourself,” Brey said, “you’ve got to find your personality as a coach. You do have to be yourself. You draw from all the influences you’ve had and come up with your own style.”

It’s hard to predict what the future holds for Collins and NU’s squad. Only time will tell, as Dawkins, Amaker and Brey all needed several years at their respective programs to find sustained success. However, it is worth noting that the trio of

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Krzyzewski proteges found their eventual homes at schools very similar to Duke.

“I think it’s kinda funny we’re all at academicoriented schools,” Collins said. “You have Johnny at Stanford, Tommy Amaker at Harvard, Mike Brey at Notre Dame, myself at Northwestern. I think we’ve all found a similar niche of school that we loved about being at a place like Duke. That’s the main similarity of all of us.” robertpillote2017@u.northwestern.edu

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With Collins, NU joins an elite coaching line has yet to crack the NCAA Tournament field. His only postseason of note was in 2012, when Stanford won the NIT. Still, Dawkins has his team on the cusp of recognition. The Cardinal was listed among others receiving votes in the preseason Associated Press Top 25 poll, a superlative likely to earn Dawkins his first NCAA Tournament berth if Stanford can maintain that stature throughout the season.

Amaker was on the Duke roster for three seasons with Dawkins, playing for the Blue Devils from 1983-87. His time as an assistant began immediately after his playing days and lasted until 1997, when Amaker took his first head coaching job at Seton Hall. In four seasons there, he guided the Pirates to a 68-55 record and one NCAA Tournament appearance.

In 2001, Amaker took over a tumultuous Michigan program, where he faced Duke and Krzyzewski in only his seventh game on the sideline.

“It was a nightmare,” Amaker said about the experience.

The Wolverines struggled to recover from NCAA sanctions imposed in the wake of a money laundering scandal and in six years under Amaker’s leadership never made the NCAA Tournament. Amaker left for Harvard in 2007 and has been steadily building a program since. After not making the postseason in his first two years, the Crimson made the CIT in 2010 and the NIT in 2011 and has been in the NCAA Tournament the past two seasons.

By BOBBY PILLOTE

the daily northwestern @bobbypillote

As Northwestern takes on Stanford on Thursday night, college basketball fans everywhere will bear witness to an increasingly familiar sight: one former Duke assistant coaching against another.

Wildcat coach Chris Collins, who played for the Blue Devils from 1992-96 and coached there from 2000-13, will square off against the Cardinal’s Johnny Dawkins, who also played for Duke from 1982-1986 then coached for from 1998-2008, respectively. Both coaches are descended from the lineage of current Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, one of the greatest college basketball coaches ever, whose pedigree is only padded by his impressive coaching tree.

Former Blue Devils assistants Dawkins, Tommy Amaker and Mike Brey have all left the tutelage of Krzyzewski to lead successful programs at other schools, and NU hopes to be next in line.

Dawkins had an illustrious career as a player at Duke, becoming the team’s all-time leading scorer by the time he graduated, and after a stint in the pros returned to his alma mater to become an assistant under Coach K in 1998.

Although Stanford’s program has improved since he took the head coaching job, the team still has a long way to go. Despite guiding the Cardinal to a 94-74 record in five seasons, Dawkins

Prestigious parallels

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DUKE IT OUT Chris Collins is the latest former Duke assistant to take a head coaching job. He’ll look to mirror the success of Mike Krzyzewski proteges at other schools: Johnny Dawkins (Stanford), Mike Brey (Notre Dame) and Tommy Amaker (Harvard).

“It’s always a challenge to create the culture and identity that you believe in,” Amaker said on moving to a new school.

Brey, who currently coaches at

Women’s Basketball

Notre Dame and coached at Duke from 1987-95, is the most successful of Coach K’s former assistants. He took the helm for the Irish in 2000 after a brief stint at Delaware. No stranger to competing

against someone he used to coach with, Brey has matched up against his mentor multiple times in his career. » See COLLINS, page 6

Men’s Soccer

Cats stifle Cougars at home Returning stars shine in 1st round

By JOSH WALFISH

daily senior staffer @JoshWalfish

By BOBBY PILLOTE Northwestern pulled away early and never looked back, cruising to a victory over Chicago State on Wednesday night.

After surrendering the opening basket, the Wildcats went on an 18-2 run and then methodically continued to increase their lead to as many as 30 points early in the second half.

The lead dipped to 23 in the second stanza, but the Cats made a late run to handily beat the Cougars 64-33 and move to 2-0 on the young season.

“You’re going to have nights when the ball doesn’t go in,” coach Joe McKeown said. “On nights like that, you have to play defense as hard as you can play and I thought we did a good job at that.”

The freshmen yet again stole the show at Welsh-Ryan Arena with their stellar performances. Guard Christen Inman led the charge for NU, scoring 18 points with an impressive 9-for-15 shooting performance. Forward Nia Coffey recorded her first career double-double scoring 17 points and grabbing 14 rebounds in the victory.

Guard Ashley Deary continued to orchestrate the offense efficiently, dishing out six assists with only two turnovers.

Sophomore guard Maggie Lyon had 13 points as well, but no other player even approached doubledigits. NU did have success on the glass though, picking up 46 rebounds including 18 offensive boards. The work on the offensive glass led to 21 second-chance points. Coffey said she focused on rebounding after the team struggled in that area against IllinoisChicago.

“I know I have to work on finding my girl and boxing out,” Coffey said.

“I wanted to make sure I boxed my girl out, go for the ball hard and just run into our offense.”

Turnovers were the story of the game, but it was Chicago State’s

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BLOW OUT Christen Inman was one of three Northwestern players to crack the double digits in points Wednesday night. The freshman guard put up a game-high 18 points in the Wildcats’ 64-33 rout of the Cougars.

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miscues which fed the NU offense, particularly early. The Cats feasted on 20 Cougar turnovers in the first half to a tune of 17 points and ended the game with 23 points off 35 turnovers from Chicago State. NU committed 20 turnovers itself, mostly from the freshmen, but Chicago State was unable to capitalize on the Cats’ errors.

“We were just trying to stay low and just make sure we stayed in front of our defender,” Inman said. “Coaches are always telling us to make sure we cut them off and not allow them to straightline drive to the basket so we were trying to keep that in mind and stop them from driving.”

NU’s defense was certainly a factor in many of the turnovers, but it was stifling without creating opportunities going the other way. Chicago State shot less than 23 percent from the field and the 33 points allowed

was a low for the McKeown era.

More importantly, the Cats played clean defense, only committing 17 fouls after having 23 in their opener against the Flames.

As dominant as the Cats were in the contest, there are still plenty of things for NU to clean up. The entry passes into the post were clumsy at times, including a couple that sailed out of bounds over the intended recipient’s head. The Cats also missed all 13 of their 3-point attempts in the game as well, which brought down their shooting percentage from 45.7 percent to 37.5 percent on the night.

McKeown said some of the issues were due to the youth but most of the poor shooting performances were an anomaly.

“I’m just going to chalk them up because I know what they’re capable of,” McKeown said. “I don’t know what happened tonight, maybe it got cold out and the wind came through Welsh-Ryan and blew some of those shots off the rim. Layups you got to make and free throws you got to make, no excuses.” joshuawalfish2014@u.northwestern.edu

For Northwestern, all it took was the return of three of its best players.

The Wildcats(10-6-3, 2-4-1 Big Ten) welcomed back senior midfielder Chris Ritter, junior goalkeeper Tyler Miller and junior defender Nikko Boxall on Wednesday night, and the results were immediate in a 2-1 victory over Wisconsin (13-4-2, 4-3-0) in the opening round of the Big Ten Tournament.

“Those three players coming back gave us great confidence,” coach Tim Lenahan said. “To get that kind of result is big for us.”

Both Ritter and Miller have been battling ailments throughout the second half of NU’s season. Ritter, a team co-captain, sprained his ankle early in the Oct. 30 match against Loyola.

Miller has been sidelined for the past five games with an illness, including a 1-0 loss against Wisconsin on Nov. 3.

“After you miss a lot of time you’re always antsy to come back,” Miller said. “And we knew this was going to be a tough game.”

The Cats’ star goalie was tested early. Less than four minutes into the game, Miller made a save on a shot by Badgers midfielder Nick Janus, who leads Wisconsin with 9 goals this year.

The netminder deflected two other volleys in the first half and finished the game with a total of five saves.

Ritter, on the other hand, struggled to regain his form, sailing a shot over the crossbar in the fifth minute.

The anchor of the offense, who has 5 goals and four assists this fall, had a quiet game and recorded no other stats save for a yellow card late in the first period.

The rest of NU’s offense was there to pick up the slack. Junior defender

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Grant Wilson broke the deadlock in the 31st minute, scoring a goal off a corner kick set-piece from Cole Missimo. The sophomore midfielder had another assist before the close of the half, this time on a give-and-go to junior midfielder Eric Weberman, to help put the Cats up 2-0.

Determined to keep their Big Ten title hopes alive, the Badgers opened the second half with a furious attack.

They found the back of the net in the 59th minute on their own corner kick set-piece, when midfielder Tomislav Zadro connected with defender Carl Schneider to break the NU shutout.

“It was a nice corner from Wisconsin,” Miller said. “They had a near post runner, so I couldn’t come out (to play the ball), I had to stay.”

Wisconsin kept the pressure on, generating shots throughout the latter half of the second period, but the Cats were able to thwart every offensive opportunity that the Badgers generated. NU held on to win 2-1, its first conference victory since September.

“The last half of the season we haven’t been playing that well,” Missimo said. “We haven’t been getting the results we’ve deserved.”

With the win, the Cats are now back in contention for a spot in the NCAA Tournament later this month.

For now, however, the focus remains on capturing a third straight Big Ten Championship.

“This team earned it,” Lenahan said. “We’ve been through a lot together with all of these injuries. ... We’re going to enjoy tonight and worry about about our next opponent on Friday.” robertpillote2017@u.northwestern.edu