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Tisdahl selects new alderman By ROBIN OPSAHL
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Eleanor Revelle will replace Jane Grover as 7th Ward alderman, Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl announced Tuesday afternoon. City Council will vote on Revelle’s appointment Jan. 25, and if approved, swear her in at the Feb. 22 Council meeting, according to a news release from the city. Revelle was chosen from 10 candidates who submitted their names to fill Grover’s seat after she left to serve as an outreach principal for the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. Revelle has lived in the 7th Ward for 12 of her 42 years in Evanston, and she has served in leadership positions in multiple local civic organizations, including as president of the League of Women Voters of Evanston, and board chair of the Evanston Community Foundation. In addition, she currently serves as president of Citizens’ Greener Evanston, working to make the city more sustainable. “Eleanor is committed to improving the social and environmental well-being of our community, and will be a dedicated and enthusiastic alderman for 7th Ward residents,” Tisdahl said in the release. Revelle said she already attended many Council, committee and board meetings during her time working for city organizations, and she has a sense of what issues have been central to Evanston residents. Most of her work with city officials in the last few years has been on environmental initiatives on behalf of Citizens’ Greener Evanston, but Revelle said she hopes to branch out. “While these issues are very important to me, I want to broaden my focus from sustainability,” she said. Among her goals as alderman are
improving options for affordable housing, reducing gun violence and creating more room for economic opportunity in the city. Revelle said she wants to highlight initiatives that are already underway but focus on issues that Evanston still needs to work on. “Looking at the city as a whole, there are some big challenges that I’d like to address,” Revelle said. “While Evanston is always getting better, there are areas where I’d like to work with my colleagues on the council that need serious improvements.” Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) said having a new voice on the council will be helpful in moving forward on issues including affordable housing and economic growth. He said a diversity of voices is needed in making these decisions, and the new alderman will be able to bring a new perspective. “I’d say if anything, getting new opinions on these issues gives more credence to what we’re doing,” Wilson said. “Eleanor has been active in the community and will bring in a good perspective, especially having lived in the (7th) Ward so long.” At a meeting with 7th Ward residents last week, Revelle and other aldermanic candidates discussed the sorts of issues the community wanted addressed. Revelle said she was pleased that most of the topics people brought up concerned a larger scope than just one ward. “People were really looking for an alderperson who was not just going to represent the interests of the 7th Ward but really try to make a difference for the whole city,” she said. “I was really heartened by how many people’s comments addressed bigger issues in Evanston.” Revelle said she looks forward to working on tackling local issues, but acknowledged that many problems are already being worked on in the community. » See ALDERMAN, page 7
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NUISANCE ORDINANCE City Attorney Grant Farrar talks before City Council. Farrar presented changes to Evanston’s nuisance ordinance Tuesday.
Council talks nuisance homes Two-tier property designation considered By ELENA SUCHARETZA
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City Council discussed Tuesday revisions to proposals for the city’s nuisance properties. City attorney Grant Farrar presented proposed changes to the nuisance ordinance to aldermen for discussion. The ordinance addresses properties that have been the subject of multiple instances of police involvement. He said revisions should reflect a focus on “corrective action” instead of harsh penalties for landlords and tenants. The proposals included a two-tier
to resolving nuisance problems with properties, Farrar said. Tier one properties would include those which have had few or no nuisance calls, while tier two properties would designate those with more extensive histories, based on staff involvement, call volume and inspection history. Around 15 percent of rented properties would qualify as tier two and require a more “routinized” compliance check schedule, Farrar said. Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) voiced concerns over the tiered system. She said the terminology unfairly singles out tenants that are in circumstances that do not allow them to live in “tier one” housing. » See NUISANCE, page 7
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Admin says no knowledge of prison investments
Students launched a divestment campaign Tuesday, calling for the University to remove its investments from private prison companies. Called “Unshackle NU,” the campaign is holding a launch event Wednesday in Fisk Hall where members will outline the campaign’s goals and discuss the impacts the prison system has on communities of color, according to the event’s Facebook page. On Tuesday, members of the campaign walked through Norris University Center, clad in all black and connected by a white string. The protestors chanted, “Unshackle NU” as they read off denunciations of the U.S. prison system and called for the University to immediately halt investments. However, Northwestern’s Chief Investment Officer William McLean told The Daily in an email he had not heard about the divestment campaign, and he does not believe the University has investments in private prison companies. Members of the campaign declined to comment Tuesday. This campaign joins two other ongoing divestment efforts by students: Fossil Free NU and Northwestern Divest.
classification system for properties and striking property forfeiture from potential penalties for repeated nuisance violations. “Property forfeiture imposes a real opportunity cost on city staff,” Farrar said. “We wind up becoming property managers. Trying to devote hours and hours and days to take over a property is not rational for the city’s ends.” In November, city officials said there were 11 Evanston properties deemed as nuisances to the community. Farrar said discussion among staff to improve the ordinance to better address property issues has been going on for 18 to 24 months. The tier system design was drawn up based on other cities’ protocols related
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CHAINED IN SOLIDARITY Protesters with Unshackle NU walk through Norris University Center to advocate divestment from private prisons. Northwestern’s Chief Investment Officer William McLean told The Daily he was unaware of any University investments in private prisons.
Fossil Free NU was launched in 2012 to demand the University divests from coal companies. Last February, NUDivest sponsored a resolution that passed in Associated Student Government Senate, calling on the University to divest from six corporations the resolution’s authors say violate Palestinians’ human rights. The campaign recently announced a
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Jeremy Margolis contributed reporting. — Tyler Pager
Three speakers emphasized the need for systemic change in the way governments and individuals address homelessness at a panel Tuesday night. Around 30 people gathered at Fiedler Hillel to hear two panelists from the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless and one from Interfaith Action of Evanston discuss their experiences with homelessness at the event, co-hosted by ZOOZ, Points for a Purpose and the Global Engagement Summit. The speakers, who had either worked closely with the homeless or who had been homeless themselves, started the event by recounting their personal experiences with the issue. Charles Austin, special projects coordinator at the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, said he has been homeless at six different points of his life. “For me, this is my therapy,” Austin said. The panelists focused on the reasons
people become homeless and the failures of public assistance systems. A major topic of discussion was how to talk about homelessness without dehumanizing those who are homeless, with the speakers emphasizing kindness and respect. Susan Murphy, the administrative director at Interfaith Action of Evanston, said she first came into contact with homelessness when she left her longtime role as a stay-at-home mom to become a job counselor at the organization she now leads. “If I was walking down the street and I saw any of you guys and we made eye contact, we’d probably smile and keep walking,” Murphy said. “We’d never see each other again, but there would’ve been contact. But we don’t make eye contact with someone who’s homeless.” The panelists also talked about problems that homeless people can face in trying to obtain state identification to apply for jobs, which often requires a piece of mail requiring a permanent address or a birth certificate, which not all homeless people have. » See HOMELESSNESS, page 7
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Around Town Robert Crown renovations discussed items like the new ice rink. “When you put those all together our goal is to get to $18 or $20 million dollars and to then match that with the city’s bonding money, they’ve committed to fund a $30 million new Robert Crown,” Lyons said. Lyons said they plan to start fundraising immediately, although major decisions about the project have yet to be made, including whether they will form an independent charity or make use of an existing organization to lead the campaign. Lyons listed the Evanston Parks Foundation and Evanston Public Library Friends as possible candidates to handle the campaign, but said city officials will handle the fundraising until an official decision is made. The survey listed the library addition, gym and ice rinks as the highest priorities for the respondents. The library, which would be EPL’s fourth branch, will serve “a need and desire” for a library on the city’s west side, Lyons said. Michael Tannen, the president of the EPL Board of Trustees, said the branch will focus on promoting 21st century literacy and has support among residents in the wards surrounding Robert Crown. “The Evanston Public Library wants to be, and is eager to be, partners with the city in seeing that Robert Crown gets off the ground and spades get
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City officials will move forward with the campaign to overhaul facilities at the Robert Crown Community Center after receiving favorable results from a public survey. Evanston hired an independent agency, Community Counseling Service Co., to gauge public opinion of the planned community center, which will host expanded ice rinks and athletic facilities, multi-purpose rooms and a new library branch with a reading courtyard in either a new or renovated building. The building is located at 1701 Main St. The survey found there was widespread support for the renovations among Evanston residents. “It’s something we owe to the community — to have an appropriate facility,” said Ald. Donald Wilson (4th), who participated in the survey. “Wonderful things happen there.” According to the report, the campaign could expect to raise $3 million to $5 million in small donations, and assistant city manager Marty Lyons said the rest of the funds would come from potential large donations and selling naming rights for
Police Blotter Intoxicated 19-year-old jumps from moving taxi on Sheridan Road
An intoxicated 19-year-old Evanston resident jumped from a moving taxi in the 2300 block of Sheridan Road early Sunday morning and sustained minor injuries, police said. The man was unable to pay his fare upon reaching his requested destination, and while the taxi driver was driving to the Evanston Police Station to resolve the dispute, the man opened the passenger door and fell to the ground, Evanston Police Department spokesman Perry Polinski said in an email to The
Daily. The man was transported to Evanston Hospital and a relative of his paid the taxi fare, Polinski said.
Police respond to shots fired call Monday morning
Officers responded to a shots fired call in the 1500 block of Dempster Street early Monday morning, police said. The officers searched the area at approximately 1 a.m. but didn’t find any evidence of gunshots, Polinski said in an email to The Daily.
in the ground as soon as possible,” Tannen said during the meeting. A few who spoke at the council meeting expressed concern the project would interrupt activities at the center, but recognized the need for the renovations. “I can tell you something that you already know … we desperately need a new hockey rink,” said Matthew Devine, president of the Evanston Youth Hockey Association. Devine asked the council to try to keep some ice available for their use during the renovations. “During the time of this construction … we still have a hockey program,” Devine said. “We still need to serve our clients and our kids and we still need ice.” Many officials said they plan to build a new center rather than renovate the old one, but it may depend on how much money is raised. “This is the project that we need to double down on,” Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) said. “It’s going to be a very targeted fundraising project.” The fundraising will begin soon and will last anywhere from 12 months to 24 months. As for a groundbreaking date, Lyons said that is still up in the air. norashelly2019@u.northwestern.edu
Setting the record straight A story that appeared in Tuesday’s paper titled “BLM demands lead to meeting” misquoted Jamal Julien. He said the students were sent emails informing them they had been selected to speak to administrators. The Daily regrets the error.
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Three Divvy stations to open on campus this spring By HANGDA ZHANG
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Starting this spring, Northwestern students will be able to rent bikes from three Divvy stations on campus. Rob Whittier, director of the Office of Sustainability, said based on the interest of students, faculty and staff surveyed by Associated Student Government and SustainNU, NU is piloting the bike sharing stations at Technological Institute, Norris University Center and The Arch. “My biggest concern is that these stations will get so well-used,” Whittier said. “It happens sometimes in the city of Chicago — I’ll go to a station to try to get a bike to go to work, but the bikes are all gone. The usage is so incredible.” Eight Divvy stations are set to open in Evanston this year, including sites at the Central Street Metra and Chicago Transit Authority stations, the Main Street CTA station and the Davis Street Metra and CTA stations.
Thirty one percent of the more than 1,600 student respondents to the 2014 survey said they would use an unlimited bike sharing program at NU or in Evanston at a cost of $55 annually, the current Divvy annual With this, membership fee for colyou pick up a lege students nationwide, said Joji Syed, ASG vice Divvy bike, use president of community it, drop it off at a relations. “Not every student station, done. wants to have a bike,” Joji Syed, Syed said. “With this, you pick up a Divvy bike, use ASG vice president of community it, drop it off at a station, relations done,” she said. With an unlimited number of 30-minute trips as part of the annual membership, students who use the program will also be able to travel from a planned Divvy station near the Central Street CTA station to downtown Evanston near the Main Street CTA station, said Katherine Knapp, the city’s transportation and
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mobility coordinator. Students can also rent Divvy bikes for individual 30-minute periods without a membership. Knapp said the city will focus on ensuring Evanston residents using Divvy bikes are safe in the winter despite the heavy snowfall. “It is all about having right gears, being prepared, making safe decisions,” she said. “But the snow is definitely what we are working with.” Community meetings will be held before the Divvy launch to discuss the stations and increase awareness of their openings, Knapp said. In addition to working on the bike sharing system, Whittier said Evanston and NU will add bicycle lanes on Sheridan Road next year to make biking safer. Syed said the bike sharing system will help students venture beyond NU, and added that she’s excited to see the changes be put into place. “It reduces the barriers the students often see when they want to go into different communities,” she said. “I don’t think it could be better.” hangdazhang2018@u.northwestern.edu
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DIVVY DESTINATION Divvy, a Chicago-based bike sharing company, has more than 4,500 locations throughout the city. Three stations will open on Northwestern’s campus this spring.
ABC7 Chicago producer, a Medill alumna, murdered By JULIE FISHBACH
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ABC7 Chicago executive producer Anne Swaney (Medill ’98) was found strangled to death Friday in Belize, where she was on vacation. An autopsy determined the 39-year-old executive producer of online operations, whose body was found floating face-down in the Mopan River, died of “asphyxia due to compression of the neck area, throttling and blunt force traumatic injuries to the head and neck,” according to ABC7 Chicago. Described as an avid world traveler, Swaney,
who worked at ABC7 since 1999 after graduation, was vacationing alone, according to ABC7. She was supposed to go on a group horseback trip Thursday, but stayed back when there were not enough horses and opted for yoga by the river. Swaney never returned. “She was a trailblazer in the digital news space and was one of our first website employees,” John H. Idler, president and general manager of ABC7, said in a statement. “Anne helped us evolve our business and our newsroom, but most importantly, she was a kind person who always had a smile and a positive attitude.” Medill Prof. Roger Boye, who served as Swaney’s academic advisor and Journalism 301 professor, remembered the late journalist as a dedicated,
engaged woman with a dry sense of humor. “When she would stop by for a visit it was like a burst of sunshine in the office,” Boye said. “She was a wonderful person.” In a statement for Boye’s class in 1996, Swaney wrote she was studying journalism because “There is so much going on in the world, so many things to see and do. I want to experience it all … I want to do more than just write about it, I want to tell people.” Boye said Swaney expressed interest in 2010 about eventually becoming a journalism professor at Medill. “To see someone in the prime of life, who was in the midst of such a wonderful career and such promise beyond that, to be murdered is just such
a tragedy,” Boye said. While no one has been charged in the murder, ABC7 reported that a Guatemalan fisherman is being held in custody as a person of interest. Police are continuing to search the area where Swaney’s body was found. At Northwestern, Swaney was a member of Pi Beta Phi. NU released a statement Friday that said the school was saddened to learn of Swaney’s death. “On behalf of the University, we express our condolences to Anne’s family and friends,” University spokesman Al Cubbage said in the statement. “We extend our deepest sympathy to them.” juliefishbach2018@u.northwestern.edu
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Evanston bike traffic safety needs improvement COREY MUELLER
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Although the temperature is dropping, students will not stop riding bikes to and from class. Because of this, bike safety is more important now than ever, as drivers may not expect bikers to be on the road alongside them. Bike safety requires a little help from the surrounding community — something Northwestern and Evanston are not providing for residents that live off campus. To be fair, once you reach campus, it is fairly easy to navigate on a bike, but getting across Sheridan Road or traveling down it is a test in and of itself. In the 10 minutes before every hour, Sheridan’s sidewalks are notoriously packed with students walking from class to class. This creates a hazardous environment for bikers and pedestrians alike, as it is too crowded for bikers to navigate. At this point, biking is no more effective than walking on the sidewalk. Unfortunately, that’s why you ride a bike: to travel more quickly and more effectively. But bikers are unable to do that when there are
hordes of people on the sidewalk and constant swarms of traffic on the street. This creates added danger, as cyclists have to avoid running into students on the sidewalk and getting run off into the grass. So, Sheridan Road has to have one of two things: two-way bike lanes on the street or assigned lanes on the sidewalk. This way, bikers have their own space to freely move up and down Sheridan Road without having to worry about hitting a pedestrian or being hit by a car. Part of the Sheridan Road/Chicago Avenue Improvement Project will create these bike lanes, but this project has been deferred to 2017. There are innumerable bike racks all over campus, so it seems like NU knows and encourages bike traffic. Because of this, the delay on the project is ill-advised. And the problem isn’t just limited to Sheridan Road. Sheridan Road is not a designated bike route, according to the city. The city’s Code of Ordinances makes it unclear as to what that means, only stating that certain streets can be designated as bike routes and/or may prohibit bike traffic. Never does it state whether cyclists can only ride on those routes or if the routes are supposed to have special accommodations for bikers. I have ridden on both these
“bike routes” and non-bike routes, but there is no noticeable difference between them. In November, I even had an accident on one of these said bike routes: Noyes Street. I was riding toward campus and had just passed under the “L” when I looked over my shoulder to check that no one was coming behind me (University Police deem this “a very important skill” on their website for bicycle safety). No cars were approaching, so I looked forward again, and to my dismay I had drifted to the side of the road, straight toward a parked car. I swerved to the middle of the road, narrowly avoiding the back of an SUV. When I swerved back to try to stay on the right side of the road, my bike slipped out from under me. Face, meet pavement. I didn’t knock myself out, but I hit my chin, chipped off half of my front tooth and opened up a cut on my eyebrow. Now, had there been a bike lane, would this accident have happened? Probably not, seeing as cars wouldn’t be parked in it. That’s not to say I’m blaming this accident entirely on the lack of a bike lane. I messed up, too; I made a mistake and lost control of my bike. That was human error. But, I had to check behind me so I wouldn’t be hit from the rear. The likelihood of having
to swerve out of a car’s way because of this would have been drastically reduced had I been riding in a bike lane. I also wouldn’t have had to get a total of seven stitches for my eyebrow and chin wounds, nor would I have had to Uber to a dentist for an emergency filling in my tooth. I was lucky; I had no serious injury, no concussion. Only a small scar on my chin. But accidents happen, and they can be a lot worse than mine. They can be avoided, though, with the help of bike lanes. The sad thing is, only two roads in Evanston have protected bike lanes: Church Street and Davis Street. Only portions of 11 streets have bike lanes, which safely separate bikers from other street traffic, and none of them even come close to NU’s campus. Evanston officials need to change this, especially where NU students live and bike. If they don’t, worse injuries will occur when they really don’t have to, leaving cyclists with more than just unnecessary scars. Corey Mueller is a Medill sophomore. He can be contacted at CoreyMueller2018@u.northewstern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
An earlier housing deadline creates more problems DANNY COOPER
DAILY COLUMNIST
For many Northwestern students, the beginning of Winter Quarter is a signal to start thinking about housing for the following school year. It also marks the exciting and stressful recruitment period for fraternities and sororities. Clearly, the two are inherently linked. The ability to live in a Greek house can be one of the major reasons someone decides to join a Greek organization in the first place. However, provided one is able to get into an organization, figuring out whether they should live in the house or not is another story. There are numerous factors that can complicate the decision: live-in requirements, financial concerns, the number of spots available for new members. But perhaps the most important is the question of whether someone actually wants to live in their fraternity or sorority house. For firstyear students just getting to know their pledge
classes, this question might not be answered for several weeks. However, due to a new policy change, students will have to make that decision fairly soon. This year, students will only have until Feb. 26 to reserve a spot in on-campus housing for the upcoming academic year. In previous years, the recontracting period lasted from early March to late April. “The changes are meant to streamline the process,” Jack Heider, Residence Hall Association president, said in an interview with the Daily last week. Though the process will most likely be shorter and will certainly end earlier, pushing up the deadline for this decision is only going to create more stress. There can be a major difference between the price of living on campus and the price of living in a Greek house. According to a document distributed by the Panhellenic Association during recruitment, prices for room and board range from under $3,000 a quarter to $5,000 a quarter. For comparison, the rate for just a room (not including board) in Foster-Walker Complex is
around $3,400 a quarter. One’s housing decision can wind up saving them hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars. That’s why it is so important that people receive their financial information with enough time to Though make a well thought out decision. Moving the the process will deadline up impedes that most likely be process. shorter and will In addition, housing decisions will now have certainly end to be made before people earlier, pushing become full members of their new organizaup the deadline tions. Initiation for most for this decision organizations usually is only going takes place during the later weeks of Winter to create more Quarter, potentially after stress. the deadline. This could create several problems. Someone might neglect to sign up for oncampus housing under the belief they will live in a sorority or fraternity house and then decide to
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A troubling way to view sports’ meaning BOB HAYES
DAILY COLUMNIST
As a massive sports fan who loves talking sports with friends around campus, I commonly hear some form of the argument, “I don’t watch (sports’) regular season because it doesn’t mean anything.” I will save an absurdist dive into the recesses of whether anything in life actually “means” anything for another day. It is more relevant to assume people intend to say that in many sports, regular season games have little effect on the ultimate outcome of who wins that sport’s championship, dismissing the idea of spending time watching and following individual regular season games as wasteful. Although it is fair to say regular seasons in American sports often do little to determine who ends their seasons with parades, proponents of this logic entirely miss the inherent purpose of following sports. Ask any person, sports fan or not, his or her reason for watching sports. You will likely hear that he or she loves the incredible true stories that unfold, the constant excitement of competition, the uniting element of supporting teams or even sports as a topic of conversation. I find it hard to imagine anyone watches a sport entirely to learn who wins its annual championship. Why would anyone care about who wins a championship if he or she does not
already hold some alternative form of interest in a sport? We must consider, though, whether the initial set of reasons for following sports relies on championship outcomes. The incredible true stories (like Jeremy Lin’s crazy month in New York, the Golden State Warriors’ quest for a record 73 wins, and countless more) often unfold in the regular season with hardly any impact on championship races. The remaining three reasons all reasonably heighten come playoff time, but all of them persist throughout the year. When it comes to supporting teams, I have found from personal experience that following teams throughout the year leads to a far more enriching experience come playoff time. Although the regular season may not have significant championship implications, following year-round can provide fans with the fulfillment we seek from sports throughout the year while also causally making championship drives “mean” more on a personal level. This interpretation of sports as entirely championship-centric problematically diminishes the perceived importance of a resounding majority of sports games. The addition of a four-team playoff to college football has served to drive a partition between the playoff and the dozens of other bowl games. Under the previous system, fans saw the BCS National Championship, though the most significant game of the year, as another of many notable bowl games. Now, many fans perceive any bowl outside of the four-team playoff as a
pointless exhibition game. Why does the Fiesta Bowl between two top programs mean nothing simply because neither team can win the championship? Ultimately, every game can reasonably be considered a pointless exhibition game. Why does the upcoming Super Bowl “mean” anything? Why can I not dismiss it as a preposterously glorified exhibition game? I believe people dismiss a substantial portion of sports games under this ridiculous argument of meaning because designating championships as prescriptions of meaning — and subsequently any game without a direct effect on championship outcomes as meaningless — allows fans to justify that sports mean anything at all. Whether you believe sports mean nothing or everything, arguing that the meaning or watchability of a game is predicated upon its championship implications entirely evades sensibility. We love sports not because of who wins championships, but because of the stories and experiences sports give us. Ultimately, I have no problem with whether you watch four games a night or one a year, but selectively prescribing meaning to particular sports games misses the meaning of sports altogether. Bob Hayes is a Weinberg junior. He can be reached at roberthayes2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
drop out of the process, leaving them with few options for the following year. This also might keep someone from dropping out of a Greek organization in which they don’t feel fully comfortable, because it might be their only choice for a living arrangement. This move also precludes anyone who rushes in the spring from living in their Greek houses the following year. There aren’t too many people who rush in the spring, but pushing the deadline up to late February seems to be guaranteeing that it won’t be an option. It seems wrong to add more stress to what is already a difficult process, yet by moving the deadline up an entire month, Residential Services has done just that. Pushing the deadline back several weeks to the end of Winter Quarter could make these decisions easier on students. Danny Cooper is a Medill freshman. He can be contacted at DanielCooper2019@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
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State senator discusses education, social justice By DAVID FISHMAN
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SENATOR SPEAKS Illinois State Senator Napoleon Harris speaks Tuesday night in the McCormick Foundation Center on his transition from pro-football to politics. The event featured a lengthy Q&A in which students asked questions about education inequality, police brutality and campus protests.
Pulitzer-winning author Junot Diaz to speak at Northwestern
Author Junot Diaz will speak at Northwestern later this month as part of the Contemporary Thought Speaker Series, the organization announced Tuesday. Diaz, a writing professor at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” CTSS co-chair Ben Zimmermann said Diaz was at the top of the organization’s list of writers they wanted to bring to campus. “All his works are amazing, from his short stories to his novels,” the Weinberg sophomore said. “They represent important values, from class differences to the immigrant experience, that students
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State senator and former NFL linebacker Napoleon Harris (Communication ’02) spoke to students about police brutality in Chicago, college campus protests and his transition to politics Tuesday night in the McCormick Foundation Center. About 40 students showed up to hear Harris speak during an hour-long event co-sponsored by College Democrats, Wildcats for Israel and Political Union. Harris credits time spent in the locker room for giving him a diverse perspective he now applies to politics. “If you look at a football team, it’s a melting pot of people: African Americans, Caucasians, Italians, Hispanics, Asians — you have all different types of ethnic groups and backgrounds,” he said. “When you enter that locker room, you’re no longer a race. You’re a band of brothers working together for a common purpose.” After playing for Northwestern’s football team, Harris played for a number of professional teams before turning to politics. After Illinois state Sen. James Meeks retired in 2013, Harris successfully ran to replace the 10-year senator. Almost immediately after taking his oath of office, Harris launched a campaign for the U.S. Senate but dropped out of the race in early 2013 and endorsed Rep. Robin Kelly. In an extensive Q&A, Harris touched on a number of hot-button issues including gentrification, police brutality, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and life in professional football — but no issue hit closer to home for him than education. Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, Harris said he witnessed academic inequality, becoming acutely aware of inconsistencies among local schools. “Right now, if you think about the way education are interested in.” Diaz, who was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant in 2012, is CTSS’ second speaker of the school year following Khan Academy founder Salman Khan, who spoke in October. Zimmermann said he hopes bringing a wellknown author like Diaz will draw students who don’t typically come to CTSS events and engage them in the issues Diaz addresses in his writing. “Our goal is to bring thought-provoking
is here in Illinois, I can tell you first-hand it’s inadequate,” he said. “Not every child from every part of this state receives the same education. … The educational formula that we have is based primarily off property taxes.” In March, Harris will face former Chicago Urban League President Andrea Zopp and U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth for the Democratic nomination to challenge incumbent Republican Sen. Mark Kirk for a spot in the U.S. Senate. The son of a single mother, Harris said his political advantage comes not from military experience or financial backing, but from childhood hardship. “I know what it’s like to be poor,” he said. “I know what it’s like to see your mama struggle. I know what it’s like to stand in a welfare line and beg for resources. … No other candidate can say that.” Sky Patterson, who also grew up on the South Side of Chicago, said she mostly agreed with the state senator and would vote for him, but doesn’t believe in the “American Dream,” a focal point of Harris’s speech. “The American Dream is a nice ideology that people like to talk about,” the SESP freshman said. “(But) I don’t think that it’s actually attainable by everyone.” Weinberg senior David Friedman, a member of College Republicans, said he enjoyed hearing the speech and thought Harris had a good chance in the upcoming election. Harris left students with an impassioned remark, received by widespread applause from the audience. “Nobody is going to outwork me,” Harris said. “I am relentless and I will not stop, will not be defeated — I’m too passionate about what I do, I care too much about people that are suffering. … It’s not political with me. It’s personal because I remember my mother sitting there not eating. That’s my driving force.” davidpkfishman@u.northwestern.edu individuals who are able to talk about today’s changing society,” Zimmermann said. “We definitely like to bring in people like Diaz who can make students critically think about these issues.” CTSS, which was founded in 2012, has previously hosted Ezra Klein, editor in chief of Vox.com, and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. The event will be held Jan. 28 in Ryan Auditorium. — Madeline Fox
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In addition to talking about the need for systemic change, the speakers also emphasized the small things people can do to help those who live on the streets. They all recommended against handing out cash or change, and instead promoted offering meals, donating hygiene products and listening to stories. “When politicians look at the budget and are making these decisions, they see a bunch of numbers and stats,” Austin said. “They don’t get to see the faces or hear the voices. That’s why our work is so important.” Weinberg senior Paige Ottmar said she was most struck by learning about how broken the system is. “People are trying to get into transitional housing,
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“There’s this stigma being attached to tenants, and that should not be,” Rainey said. “The stigma should go to landlords that have the bad buildings.” Both Rainey and Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) expressed discontent with the absence of zoning issues from property standards criteria. Rainey said zoning regulations help address improper use of property space that would not be addressed under other criteria. Farrar said the revisions would put issues related to zoning laws under the umbrella offense of “disturbing the peace” as a way to avoid the “minutia” of zoning
National News Rep. Diaz-Balart pushes Cuba to free dissident journalist on hunger strike
WASHINGTON-Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart called Tuesday for the Cuban government to release an independent journalist who stopped eating four weeks ago to protest his Dec. 17 arrest. Diaz-Balart, a seven-term Republican from Miami, said Misael Canet Velazquez is being held “in abhorrent conditions in Camaguey’s notorious Kilo 8 prison without clothes or a suitable place to sleep, and has been provided limited access to water.” The Cuban-American congressman’s appeal came three weeks after he demanded the release of another Cuban dissident, Vladimir Morera Bacallao, who had posted a sign on his front lawn last April calling municipal elections then taking place a sham. Morera has waged his own hunger strike while in prison. Canet is a leader of the National Front of Civic Resistance Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a protest group based in southern Cuba. He’s also a reporter for the independent news agency Press Talk. Kilo 8, one of a string of maximum-security prisons that dissidents liken to the former Soviet gulag system, is in Canet’s hometown of
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2016 trying to get on with their lives, and the system seems to fight against that,” Ottmar said. ZOOZ president Natalie Stern said the group became interested in hosting a panel on homelessness after learning about the nonprofit Knock Knock Give a Sock, a group that works to provide people on the street with socks. The Weinberg senior said the group reached out to Points for a Purpose and GES in order to reach the largest audience possible. The panel was originally the culminating event of the three groups’ weeklong sock drive collaboration, but the campaign was extended through the end of this week because of the holiday weekend, Stern said. darbyhopper@u.northwestern.edu interpretation. Braithwaite said the language of the offense was not specific enough to address recurring issues he has personally dealt with as an alderman. “Unfortunately I do not think these terms address everything,” Braithwaite said. “I agree some incidents would qualify as ‘disturbing the peace,’ but I’m afraid that is not enough legal teeth to resolve some of these issues.” Rainey said zoning laws are also used to address problematic properties with landlords that improperly utilize space by placing more tenants than originally permitted in living spaces, creating unsafe situations. “Illegal apartments over time have become the bane of many neighborhoods’ existence,” Rainey said. Camaguey, the third-largest city in Cuba, with almost 350,000 residents. Along with other dissidents, Canet was arrested Dec. 17 during a demonstration in which they demanded the release of a human rights activist. Canet had been one of 20 signatories to a Jan. 17, 2014, proclamation in which leaders of resistance organizations spelled out a common strategy for defeating Cuban President Raul Castro, who took over from his brother Fidel when the revolutionary leader gave up the government reins in 2008 because of illness. Canet, who has been detained multiple times, began a hunger strike after his most recent arrest. Diaz-Balart said 8,000 dissidents had been arrested since President Barack Obama declared his intention to normalize relations with Cuba on Dec. 17, 2014. “Shamefully, the dictatorship’s human rights record has not improved,” Diaz-Balart said. “In fact, several of the Obama-Castro 53 released political prisoners have been rearrested.” Under a deal brokered by Pope Francis, the Cuban government released 53 political prisoners whose names had been provided by the U.S. State Department. The two countries opened embassies in each other’s capitals in July, ending more than a half century of diplomatic estrangement. -James Rosen (McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS)
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HELPING THE HOMELESS Speakers from the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless and Interfaith Action of Evanston discuss misconceptions about homelessness at an event hosted by Northwestern Hillel. All of the speakers had either experienced homelessness or worked with the homeless.
“You have three flat apartments and some landlord jams a tenant in the basement next to the boiler. … It is my recollection that we use zoning to put a stop to that.” Farrar said staff would work to train landlords and other staff to pinpoint and solve commonly recurring nuisance issues that would fall under disorderly conduct or “disturbing the peace.” He said staff has consulted with organizations such as American Civil Liberties Union to address these issues fairly. Further discussion and introductions of the ordinances are scheduled for Feb. 8.
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Revelle said she hopes to bridge the gap between community and city efforts. “The more I’ve started getting into these issues, I’ve found there are a lot of good stuff already happening,” Revelle said. “Evanston is in a good place. We just need to support these already wonderful initiatives that are underway and collaborate.” Alice Yin contributed reporting. robinopsahl2018@u.northwestern.edu
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New Intel chip technology designed to foil hackers
Intel Tuesday announced a chip technology that the company said was designed to foil hackers who use fake emails to trick employees into revealing their usernames and passwords. It could also give future corporate IT managers the option of eliminating long, everchanging passwords and replacing them with short personal identification numbers, or fingerprints and other identifiers. Intel Authenticate will be added to the company’s line of sixth-generation processors and tested by some businesses before entering production, said Tom Garrison, an Intel vice president. Intel will make Authenticate part of all the processors that it sells for enterprise PCs. The authentication system uses hardware-based “multifactor authentication”_more than one method of identifying a user_to keep hackers out, even if they obtain passwords. Putting the authentication process on a chip makes the PC itself part of the security system, the company said. Phishing-tricking people into revealing of passwords with phony emails-is a rising problem. Garrison said an estimated 117,000 corporate cyberattacks occur every day that involve phishing for a username and password.
Intel’s new business processors will verify an employee’s identity with a personal identification number, proximity of the employee’s mobile phone or badge, biometrics like a fingerprint, and location of the building the employee is in. IT managers can decide which factors to embed in the chip, Garrison said. “IT has full control.” “One of the biggest keys to this is there is a secure element inside the Intel processor that manages all of this,” said industry analyst Patrick Moorhead of Moor Insights & Strategy. “That wasn’t available before. A lot of different pieces had to come together. “Hardware is a lot harder to get into,” he said. Someone armed with a password would be blocked by additional layers of security tucked away in the computer’s processor, he said. “lf you look at where attacks come, typically somebody gets you to give them your password with a fake email or text that says ‘hey, log in’ to a pirate website,” he said. “Now, you wouldn’t have a single password. You would stick in your thumb, or look at the PC, have your phone near you, and be opening the PC where they know you work, and not somewhere in Lithuania,” Moorhead said. -Pete Carey (San Jose Mercury News/TNS)
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Notre Dame
Despite strong performances from many of the team’s best swimmers, Northwestern fell to Notre Dame 166-132 on Saturday. The Wildcats won their fair share of events, taking home seven of 16 first place finishes. However, injuries prevented NU from taking advantage of those wins. “We swam really well on the top end, but just couldn’t capitalize on that because of a lack of depth,” said coach Jarod Schroeder. In the losing effort, several younger swimmers had standout performances against Notre Dame. Freshman Carter Page won both the 1,000 and 500 yard freestyles. Although he trailed Notre Dame’s second-place finisher in the 1,000 by nearly a full body length after only 200 yards, Page quickly turned the race around, ultimately
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one person.” To pick up its first Big Ten road win of the season, NU will need a strong start. Against Ohio State, the Cats led by double digits after the first quarter, then held on for the victory. But at Maryland, NU trailed by double digits after one quarter and was unable to come back. Lyon said the Cats didn’t have as much early energy against Maryland because they weren’t converting on offense. “Against Ohio State, we hit a lot of shots in the
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winning by nine seconds after delivering a thunderous final lap in less than 28 seconds. In the 500, Page led the entire race and held off a challenge in the final laps to win by 0.19 seconds. Schroeder singled out the performance of redshirt freshman Anthony Marcantonio, who won the 200 yard freestyle in a personal best 1:39.52. Marcantonio also set season-best times in his other two events, including an incredibly close win in the 200 Individual Medley. “The whole team had a great meet,” Marcantonio said, “We all had high energy throughout.” Freshman Thanas Kountroubis took home first place in the 100 yard breaststroke for NU while fellow freshman Will Hofstadter came in third,
finishing 0.14 seconds behind Kountroubis and only 0.01 seconds behind second place finisher Andrew Jensen of Notre Dame. Although the swimming events saw strong competition, the diving events were more lopsided in the Cats’ favor. Junior Andrew Cramer won both the one meter and three meter events, and his teammates captured third, fourth and fifth place in both events. Cramer won the one meter board by over 30 points, falling only 3.5 points short of earning the NCAA qualifying standard in the event. The team lost the meet, but Schroeder expressed a general feeling of success about the competition. Many swimmers achieved faster times than they did in the fall, and the young team was still able to hang alongside Notre Dame despite lacking experience and depth. “Even though we took a loss today, winning as many events as we did is good,” Schroeder said. samueljohnson2019@u.northwestern.edu
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Missimo drafted by Philadelphia Union in MLS SuperDraft
Senior midfielder Cole Missimo was selected by the Philadelphia Union in the 2016 Major League Soccer SuperDraft on Tuesday. Missimo, who scored seven goals and racked up 12 assists in his four seasons at Northwestern and made the All-Big Ten second team twice in his career, was chosen in the fourth round with the 64th pick in the draft. “It’s an unbelievable feeling to have an opportunity like this,” Missimo said in a news release. “I just want to thank the Philadelphia Union for giving me this opportunity … I can’t wait to get up there and get to work.” The winger is the second Wildcat from this year’s team to make the jump to MLS this year, with senior forward Joey Calistri previously signing a homegrown contract with the Chicago Fire. Missimo is the sixth NU player to be selected in the MLS SuperDraft in school history and the first since goalkeeper Tyler Miller was chosen in the second round of the 2014 draft by the Seattle Sounders.
beginning … and that spurred our energy,” Lyon said. “What we’re learning from the Maryland game and other games is that when we don’t hit those shots in the beginning, we need to focus on our defensive pressure and get stops to generate energy instead.” McKeown agreed that struggling offensively affected NU’s defense against Maryland and said the team can’t let offensive mistakes affect its defensive effort. Lyon said the Cats have been talking all season about responding well to adversity. So far, they have only lost consecutive games once, showing they have the ability to respond to tough losses. That’s
exactly what NU will be looking to do once more on Wednesday. If the Cats can beat Minnesota and then come back home and take care of Indiana, they will have their first winning streak in the Big Ten and some momentum. Despite their rough start to conference play, junior forward Nia Coffey said all of the team’s goals are still attainable. “We still aspire to be Big Ten champs — that’s still very much on the table for us,” Coffey said. “We still know that we can make the NCAA Tournament. We still have 12 games left, so anything can happen.”
could,” freshman forward Aaron Falzon said. “I thought we made as many plays as we could to win the game.” Coming out of a Penn State loss that few predicted, the Cats could have rolled over. A bad loss like that, coupled with health issues and a tough upcoming schedule, could doom NU’s tournament chances.
But despite a disappointing outcome, Tuesday’s contest showed the Cats know how to respond after a loss. “We played a great team to overtime,” Collins said. “I think that they are the most talented team in the country.”
Layman sent the crowd at the XFINITY Center into a frenzy with a 3-pointer to restore Maryland’s lead with 4:43 to play in the second. Yet a McIntosh free throw that tied the score 48-48 with 2:34 remaining proved all the Cats needed to force overtime, with the two foes missing their final five combined shots. From there, key plays by Stone, two crucial 3-point misses from Demps and made free throws by Maryland sealed the game for the Terrapins. “For us to come into their home floor and battle the way we did, I’m proud of,” Collins said. “But tonight we weren’t able to finish the game.”
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Leads in both halves and in overtime all eventually disintegrated for Northwestern as it fell, 62-56, at No. 7 Maryland on Tuesday night. The Wildcats (15-5, 3-4 Big Ten) led by as many as 6 points in the first half, 4 in the second half and a single point in overtime before Diamond Stone helped the Terrapins (17-2, 6-1) pull away in the closing minutes.
Maryland’s freshman center broke a 55-55 deadlock in the extra period with a 3-point play, then later hit two critical free throws to extend the lead to 4 points with 31.3 seconds left — a deficit from which NU was unable to recover. “We had to try and manage the possessions and make it a grind it out game, and I thought we did that,” coach Chris Collins said. “We had our opportunities, but Maryland, give them credit, they made some plays down the stretch.” Freshman forward Aaron Falzon led the way for the Cats with 13 points on 3-for-7 shooting from 3, while NU’s
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NU fights hard in tight conference loss By GARRETT JOCHNAU
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Northwestern needed a signature win to offset Saturday’s demoralizing loss against Penn State. Through two halves and nearly four minutes of overtime, it seemed as though Tuesday’s road contest against No. 7 Maryland would provide the Wildcats with just that. From start to finish, the Cats played with a mission. They crashed the offensive boards and hustled on defensive rotations. But when the final buzzer sounded, the Terrapins finished on top, 62-56. And a quick glance at the stat sheet reveals what should have been obvious going in: Maryland was the better team. “When you play Maryland, we’re not going to win a racehorse game with them when they’ve got athlete on athlete and pro on pro,” coach Chris Collins said. The Terrapins shot the ball better, especially out of the gate. By any metric, an NU team with a still-recovering star center in senior Alex Olah, a
slumping senior guard in Tre Demps and a collection of shooters who shot 5-of-21 from deep should have been blown out. And yet, they weren’t. Until the final stretch, Collins’ team played with a fire perhaps unseen thus far into the season. It was evident in the way they rebounded as a team on the offensive end, grabbing 16 offensive boards to Maryland’s four. It was evident in the way they moved within their matchup zone on defense. “I thought Northwestern was a tougher team most of the night, they were ready to play,” Maryland coach Mark Turgeon said. “You can tell by the first couple of possessions, we weren’t rebounding. We gave up 18 points off turnovers and second chance in the first half.” In the end, heart wasn’t enough to overcome an obvious talent disadvantage, amplified tenfold by Olah’s lingering health concerns and Demps’ shooting slump. But against Maryland, an outmatched NU squad showed that when talent isn’t enough, they have that extra » See FIGHT, page 7
leading scorer this season, sophomore guard Bryant McIntosh, struggled with his shot on his way to 12 points on 5-for-18 shooting. After an awful shooting night doomed the Cats against Penn State, NU made more 3s in the first half (four) than it did in the entirety of Saturday’s loss. Ultimately, the Cats went cold for yet another game, finishing a mere 5-for-21 from distance in a close game. NU compensated with grit by dominating the boards, out-rebounding Maryland 41-32 overall and 16-4 in offensive rebounds. But the Cats
struggled mightily at the charity stripe, converting just 5-of-12 free throws while their opponents drained 16-of-19. “We just came together and knew the effort we could give. We expect no less than what we did today,” said Falzon, evidently pleased with his team’s performance despite the final result. In the opening 12 minutes of the game, strong rebounding by junior forward Sanjay Lumpkin and scoring by freshman center Dererk Pardon off the bench, aided by seven Maryland turnovers, boosted NU to an early edge. A 3-pointer by Melo Trimble,
however, gave Maryland its first lead of the game in the closing minutes of the first half. The hosts finished the opening frame on a 10-2 run to lead 31-29 at the break. Senior guard Tre Demps remained stuck in his winter slump for much of the night, failing to finish with the basket on four different fast breaks and converting just 3-of-14 shots. But it was Demps who gave the Cats a 45-43 edge with 7:41 left in regulation before Maryland fought back. Jake » See MEN’S BASKETBALL, page 7
Cats preparing for Minnesota By WILL RAGATZ
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With its toughest stretch of the season in the books, Northwestern has a prime opportunity this week to start its first winning streak in Big Ten play. After a huge upset win over then-No. 5 Ohio State last Thursday snapped a two-game losing streak, the Wildcats (13-5, 2-4 Big Ten) struggled defensively in a tough loss at then-No. 8 Maryland on Sunday. The team said it is looking to put that stretch behind it and isn’t worried about being just 2-4 in conference play. “We’re 0-0 this week and looking to go 2-0 against two teams we haven’t faced yet,” senior guard Maggie Lyon said. “We’re gonna give the best effort we can, stay focused and stay together after the rough stretch we’ve had.” Coach Joe McKeown said his team learned against Maryland, it can’t have one great game and then let up, and that to be a great team, NU has to play at a high level consistently. This week’s task for the Cats is less daunting than last week’s as they play at Minnesota (11-6, 3-3) and at home against Indiana (10-8, 2-4). The two teams are in the middle of the pack in the Big Ten. However, NU isn’t taking anything for granted, especially against Wednesday’s opponent, the Golden Gophers.
Northwestern vs. Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota 7 p.m. Wednesday
Minnesota is 8-2 at home this season, and its nine made 3-pointers per game tops the Big Ten and ranks eighth nationally. After allowing eight triples to Maryland sharpshooter Kristen Confroy on Sunday, McKeown said defending the arc has been a point of emphasis in practice. “It’s a huge challenge to get to their
shooters,” McKeown said. “They do a really good job of finding them at the right times.” Minnesota is led by senior guard Rachel Banham, who ranks sixth in the NCAA with 23.6 points per game, but Banham isn’t alone. “They have a lot of weapons,” McKeown said. “As great a player as Rachel Banham is…(sophomore guard Carlie) Wagner, (senior guard Shayne) Mullaney — they’re all shooting really well right now, so you can’t just key in on » See MINNESOTA, page 7
Women’s Basketball
Daily file photo by Katherine Pach
GET ROLLING Christen Inman rises for a layup. The junior guard is averaging 15.2 points per game and will be looking to help Northwestern get back on track Wednesday against Minnesota.