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Youth job fair to be biggest ever By SOPHIA BOLLAG
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The city’s youth employment program will attempt to help a record number of young Evanston residents find summer employment at its annual job fair this weekend, organizers say. The Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program hopes to help 500 local students find summer jobs at the event on Saturday at Evanston Township High School, said Porschia Davis, one of the organizers. Last year, the event helped 260 residents ages 14-18 find jobs with more than 50 employers. “I’ve traditionally seen at least a 40 to 50 percent increase of kids being hired for summer jobs from year to year,” said Davis, who serves as the assistant manager for Evanston’s Youth & Young Adult Division. “We are expecting to see an increase in kids looking for jobs, and we have an increase in employers participating this year.” Many ETHS students find their first jobs through the fair, said Ahmadou Drame, a career and job coach at
ETHS. “I think it’s especially helpful for those who wouldn’t have any options in terms of things to occupy their time during the summer,” he said. “It’s also helpful for students who are looking to get some experience and something to add to their resume before they go on to college.” “For many of the youth, this is their first job experience,” said Lori Siegel, the associate operating officer and senior director at the McGaw YMCA, one of the employers at the fair. “So it’s a learning experience for them from the interview process all the way through the hiring. It’s the first time they’ve ever filled out the paperwork and had to be accountable for a job.” At the fair, employers will conduct interviews with students. To help students prepare for the job fair, ETHS has been offering after-school training sessions on resume building and interview skills, Drame said. ETHS itself will also offer about a dozen jobs at the fair, Drame said. The jobs provided by the high school will be part-time and will involve working » See EMPLOYMENT, page 6
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DIVVYING UP NOTHING Divvy bikes sit at a station in the city of Chicago. Evanston did not receive an Illinois state grant it had sought in order to bring Divvy to Evanston.
City rejected for Divvy grant By PAIGE LESKIN
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While approving funds for a bike path through Northwestern, the Illinois Transportation Enhancement Program denied Saturday a separate application to fund the expansion of a Chicago-based bikesharing service to Evanston. An initiative to bring bike-sharing
service Divvy to Evanston was not granted state funds, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said Monday in an email to The Daily. In August 2013, the Chicago Department of Transportation applied for $3 million in state grants to expand Divvy in Chicago and to the suburbs of Evanston and Oak Park. Bobkiewicz, with permission from aldermen, responded with applications for money from the state in order to show increased interest in the bike program.
During a meeting with the Administration and Public Works Committee in 2013, Evanston sustainable programs coordinator Catherine Hurley presented a vision for Divvy’s presence in the city. She expressed interest in building seven stations around Evanston, including some by the lakefront, two CTA stops and the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center. CDOT and the city applied for money » See DIVVY, page 6
Teen fatally shot in Rogers Park University reexamines
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Keno Glass
By PATRICK SVITEK
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Whether it was sports or rap, Keno Glass was always looking for his ticket out of Chicago. The 16-year-old boy did not fear a specific threat in the city, but in the words of one classmate, he knew “how it is.” “You don’t have to gangbang in Chicago,” said William James, who played football and basketball with Glass in high school. “They just automatically assume you do by the neighborhood you live in.” Glass’ dream of finding stardom outside the city was cut short early Tuesday morning, when he was shot and killed near the Chicago-Evanston border. The aspiring rapper — he went by “Kay Pee LaShore,” according to his friends — was at least the second person killed in eight days in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood.
Glass was walking at about 2:40 a.m. in the 7600 block of North Ashland Avenue when a gray minivan drove by, and someone inside the vehicle opened fire, according to authorities. Glass suffered a gunshot wound to the head, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Janel Sedevic. Glass, of the 3500 block of West Walnut Street in Chicago, was pronounced dead on the scene about a half hour later, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Police were questioning a person of interest Tuesday evening in connection with the shooting, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Thomas Sweeney. For Glass’ friends, his death was a devastating end to a life focused on chasing his goals. “He loved doing what he needed to do,” said Derrick Craig, a New Jersey emcee who got to know Glass through their music. “He was just trying to make it big.” James said he was friends with Glass since they were freshmen at Nicholas Senn High School in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago. James played quarterback for the team, while Glass was a running back. On the basketball team, James said he played center and Glass was a point guard. Over the past year or two, though, Glass increasingly set his sights on glory off the field, hoping rap could launch him out of the city, according to his friends. Glass took the goal more and more seriously, going from shooting music videos on iPhones to recruiting a camera crew, James said.
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Glass was inspired by a group of up-and-coming rappers from Chicago, including Chief Keef, and saw their music “as a way to make it,” James said. But Glass knew there was a dark side to Chicago hip-hop, said Craig, who goes by “SoHusky” and initially reached out to Glass about working together last summer. In a number of conversations on the Web since then, Craig said he could tell Glass did not want to face the same fate as his cousin, another rapper from Chicago who was fatally shot in the city. “He didn’t want the same thing to happen to his people and where he was,” Craig said. “And he wanted to get out.” Glass was killed about two blocks east of a convenience store where a shooting April 7 killed another Chicago man and wounded two others. Last summer, a 22-year-old man was fatally shot about a block north of the convenience store. Since then, four other people have been killed elsewhere in Rogers Park, according to reports. Evanston police have apparently taken notice of the bloodshed, saying Thursday in a newsletter that officers near the Chicago border are ready to “monitor and intervene if necessary in the rising tide of gang activity occurring in Rogers Park.” It was unclear Tuesday evening whether Glass’ slaying was gang-related, though in the same newsletter, Evanston police characterized the April 7 incident as one of two “gang shootings” around that time in the Evanston area. patricksvitek2014@u.northwestern.edu
online education goals By CAT ZAKRZEWSKI
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After its first experiment in for-credit online courses for undergraduates failed, Northwestern is now shifting its focus to developing Web courses for its graduate programs and building up its Massive Open Online Courses. Jake Julia, associate provost for academic initiatives, said the University is assessing the for-credit Semester Online pilot program that was called off earlier this month. “Now we can really look into this,” said Julia, noting the program was a success in sparking a “critical dialogue” about online learning. Few NU students participated in the
NU picks architect for student center
Northwestern announced on Tuesday the architects who will be responsible for designing the University’s new student center. NU chose Ennead Architects of New York from four finalists after a series of interviews were conducted and a committee analyzed the firms. Associated Student Government president Ani Ajith said Ennead stood out among the other candidates, noting the other firms the committee looked at were “some of the top architectural firms in the world.” “At the end of this, Ennead was kind of the clear choice of the committee
online courses; thirteen students took courses in the fall. University registrar Jaci Casazza was not able to provide an exact number of students enrolled in winter Semester Online courses as of Tuesday evening, but she said enrollment decreased for winter courses and fewer than a dozen students enrolled. The pilot program that launched last year will come to an end after the summer semester, for which students can still register. The semester-based program poses a possible deterrent from enrollment for NU students on the quarter system. Because the courses are offered on the semester system, they do not start and begin when NU’s courses do. For example, students enrolling in Semester Online courses for the summer » See ONLINE, page 6 because of their experience and the way they presented their vision,” Ajith said, “For how they would not only go about building this building but engaging with the community in order to really make sure that this building reflects not only who we are but who we want to be and where we want to be over the next several decades.” Ajith said moving forward, several focus groups will be held among community members from across NU to put together the final design. The new student center is predicted to be 80,000 square feet larger than the current Norris University Center and will include more meeting areas and a larger multipurpose room. — Rebecca Savransky
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Artists, students discuss lesser-known art By stephanie kelly
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Artists and scholars spoke Tuesday at the Evanston Art Center about graffiti and circus art and their lack of recognition in the mainstream art world. The panel, which was funded by a grant from Northwestern’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts, focused on the similarities between the two art forms. Aerial acrobat Polly Solomon and NU doctoral candidate in communication studies Caitlin Bruce (Weinberg ‘08) organized and participated in the panel. Bruce has been studying graffiti art in Chicago since 2010. The pair, who have been friends since childhood, wanted to unite their two interests in the event. They put together a similar panel in New York City in September 2013. The panel will be followed by a week of workshops and a final performance on Saturday. The week of activities will combine various forms of art and will be held at Alternatives, Inc., a youth activity center in Chicago. “What we’re really interested in talking about is how can these two different art traditions be put into conversation,” Bruce said in the panel. Through their work, Bruce and Solomon found graffiti and circus art to have three similarities:
Police Blotter Woman charged with driving under the influence after crash A 64-year-old woman was arrested in connection with driving under the influence and numerous traffic violations after a crash in north Evanston on April 8. The Evanston resident was driving a Buick when she knocked down a light pole and dragged it along with another parked car in the 2800 block of Lincoln Street at approximately
movement, spectacle and publicity. “Graffiti is often a demonized medium because it’s associated with vandalism,” Bruce told The Daily. “Similarly, circus artists are both admired and reviled, and you also have the history of freak shows and things like that.” Gabriel “Flash” Carrasquillo, a local graffiti historian and artist, has been a part of the graffiti scene since the 1970s. Invited to the panel by Bruce, Carrasquillo said he wanted to speak because he felt it was time to tell his story. “This is like going into the vault, going into the archives that are not yet open to all the public,” Bruce said. Carrasquillo displayed photographs of graffiti he had taken in the past 10 years and described the beginning of his graffiti career. He also spoke of the difficulties of funding the art form, which Solomon brought up again in her presentation about circus art. “It’s very hard for circus to get public funding, either from grants or organizations that give money to the arts because it says in their bylaws that we do not qualify for those funds,” Solomon told The Daily. Audience members trickled in and out during the event, but Michelle Higgins stayed the entire time due to her interest in circus. “There’s just this explosion of circus in Chicago that I had not the foggiest idea about,” she said. Higgins likened the event’s sparse attendance to 3 p.m., Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. After the accident, the woman was taken to Evanston Hospital, where preliminary tests determined she had a combination of alcohol and a prescription drug in her system, police said. She was also charged with having open alcohol in the vehicle and damaging city property. The 64-year-old was in critical condition at the hospital with a lacerated spleen. She is last known to still be in the hospital, Parrott said. The woman is scheduled to appear in court on April 25.
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST Caitlin Bruce (Weinberg ‘08) speaks at a panel discussion on the similarities between circus art and graffiti at the Evanston Art Center.
a visual representation of what both art forms are struggling with. But Bruce said before the event that she has many goals for the upcoming week of workshops and hopes to attract “as many Chicago residents … as possible.” stephaniekelly2017@u.northwestern.edu
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A 32-year-old man had his car stolen by a friend of a friend at his Evanston apartment Monday morning. The resident said his keys were taken along with his vehicle, a 2003 Lincoln Aviator, by someone who was at his apartment in the 400 block of Howard Street near the Chicago border at about 7:30 a.m. on Monday, Parrott said. — Julian Gerez
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Indian novelist to teach, lecture at NU during visit By TYLER PAGER
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A renowned Indian novelist will be visiting Northwestern for two weeks to share insights on writing, transnational issues and diasporic themes. Amitav Ghosh will teach both undergraduate and graduate students and give two public lectures over the course of his visit. Ghosh, an award-winning author, has written seven novels and he is currently working on the third book in his trilogy, the “Ibis Trilogy.” Communication studies Prof. Dilip Gaonkar serves as the director of the Center for Global Culture and Communication, one of the main programs sponsoring Ghosh’s visit. Gaonkar said Ghosh’s stories about globalization in the 19th and 20th centuries are important for understanding modern transnational movements.
“He gives us a very deep historical understanding of transnational movements,” he said. “Everyone wants to know what globalization is and he gives us a very interesting historical perspective on that. It should be of great interest to anyone who is excited or puzzled by the way the world is rapidly changing today.” Ghosh said he has been invited to NU in the past, but this was the first time he was able to visit. He lives half the year in India and the other half in Brooklyn, N.Y. “I’ve heard so much about Northwestern and there’s such an interesting group of scholars here,” he said. “This was something I was really looking forward to.” Even though he just arrived, Ghosh said he has already learned from the NU community. “Just last night I had dinner with some of the faculty members and I felt like I learned a lot,” he said. “One learns so much from professors, from graduate students and equally from undergraduates.” His first workshop with undergraduate students
took place on Tuesday and his next one will be on April 22. Ghosh said he is looking forward to conversing with students about his books. “We are going to talk about my books and how they relate to the broader themes of their study, such as creative writing and in part to other issues, including history and culture,” he said. English Prof. Rebecca Johnson said Ghosh presents a unique opportunity for NU students and faculty. “Amitav Ghosh is an incredible resource for students and faculty both as a writer and a thinker,” she said. “He’s a deeply historical thinker who is asking important questions about the way the world is connected and has been connected for many years and centuries. It’s fantastic that he is here on campus.” Ghosh’s first lecture will be held on Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Art Institute of Chicago. His second lecture will take place April 24 at 6 p.m. in the McCormick Tribune Center Forum. tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu
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‘TRANSNATIONAL MOVEMENTS’ Amitav Ghosh will visit Northwestern for two weeks to teach undergraduate and graduate students and to deliver two lectures. He has written several novels and is working on the third in a trilogy.
McCormick to expand Wildcat Welcome program By DAVID LEE
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The McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science’s incoming freshman class will be the first to take part in a revamped Wildcat Welcome program for the school, which will extend well into the academic year. The new initiative, aimed at providing McCormick students a more individualized experience, started with the hiring of four new faculty advisers and includes a pass/no credit seminar course. The seminar will be categorized as a “personal development” course and will continue many of the discussions started during Wildcat
Welcome on topics such as mental health, diversity and inclusion. However, the class will also focus on new topics such as campus involvement, financial literacy and stress management. The course will serve to promote engagement and a sense of community, communicate the University’s expectations to students and “help students continue to clarify their purpose, identity, and direction,” said Joshua McKenzie, director of First Year Experience at NU. The course, which peer adviser groups will take together, will be co-taught by the PA that the group had during Wildcat Welcome, as well as one of the McCormick advisers. The groups will hold six sessions during Fall Quarter and an unspecified additional number of sessions in Winter Quarter.
Stephanie Caldwell, a McCormick junior and returning PA, said McCormick advising was too focused on funneling people into different majors. “With the new program you are making it more so that you are not just gearing each freshman towards a major,” Caldwell said. “It is emphasizing the community of Northwestern along with your transition.” McKenzie said he has heard similar feedback and that students felt rushed into choosing a major. He said many students from the class of 2017 told him it was difficult to figure out which major to choose because they didn’t know what those majors looked like. “I want to make sure that we are supporting our first-year students as best we can,” McKenzie said. “Of course, for this upcoming year
what that looks like is how we are really tailoring that support for McCormick students.” The process of specializing the program will require substantial effort from the PAs who, in addition to co-instructing the seminar course, will craft lesson plans and undergo additional training, McKenzie said. Even though the initiative is still in its early stages, Caldwell said she is excited for the changes. “McCormick has the stereotype of being an anti-social place; all we do is we study and we’re shy and anti-social,” Caldwell said. “We’re breaking that barrier and saying that we’re a lot more than that and Northwestern is a lot more than that.” davidlee2017@u.northwestern.edu
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Future of wearables bright, but stay away for now LUCAS MATNEY
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On an average day, $1,500 could probably buy you a ton of random stuff, but Tuesday was the only day it could buy you a slice of the future, Google Glass. On Tuesday, Google sold the device — a computer that consumers wear much like a pair of glasses — to the public for the first time since it was introduced nearly two years ago. Glass is the most high-profile of a new class of devices known throughout the tech industry as “wearables” — extremely mobile devices that allow consumers to gather data and access Internet services with greater ease. The tech world is unabashed in its belief that wearables are the future. Several startups and major companies are already investing billions to be the first to command the market; however, the world they’re looking to serve isn’t quite ready for them yet. And until our culture is ready to buy into wearables, these devices will not only fail to reach their potential but will put early-adopters in a tough spot. Though ideas like Glass are truly revolutionary, it may be too much too soon for most people. Even when ignoring the moral quandaries of having a computer directly built into your life, the strangeness of the situation is
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often enough to make some people uncomfortable. According to a recent poll from a mobile researching firm, 90 percent of Americans would be unwilling to use Google Glass on a regular basis. “Social rejection” was referenced in the study as one of the major factors for people’s timidity in adopting the device. Herein lies wearables’ major fault: There really aren’t any advantages to being first in line to get them. All that awaits early-adopting consumers are spotty devices with little third-party support that will likely bring ridicule. Indeed, Google Glass wearers, endearingly referred to as “glassholes,” have already been mocked, detained, ticketed and even assaulted just for wearing the devices.
Remember ASG elections with these 6 takeaways Tom cui
Daily columnist
The results of our Associated Student Government’s last election were crushing: Julia Watson and Erik Zorn won more than five-sixths of the vote, the most lopsided victory since 2007’s uncontested election. More interesting, I believe, is the way the shortened campaign was conducted and its impact on the vote. From these observations, we can wring out some truth about what Northwestern really thinks about ASG; knowledge of this is necessary to combat the apathy harped on every year. 1. Turnout sucked. Less than 20 percent of undergraduates: This election’s most important statistic is a rough turnout estimate, far down from numbers within 40 to 50 percent previously. To be blunt, 40 percent is a miraculously high turnout compared to those for other student governments, which average around 15 percent. In response, ASG should be shocked that they have lost the gift of turnout so well endowed upon them. An ASG official may say this year’s result is just an outlier due to lack of competition. I would say, instead, that the campaign’s newfound brevity made students less aware it existed. Where students used to at least talk about the elections for a few minutes, there is now only confusion. 2. Low turnout was rational. A popular and credible theory, I think, for why turnout has been so high is because of NU’s high concentration of student groups. Students value participation in student groups, and ASG values them by allocating funds and establishing itself as a middleman between groups and the administration. But this arrangement is threatened by a more preprofessional student body — aspiring doctors, businesspeople and politicos — who network with professionals and faculty outside the traditional arrangement. Unable to counter this, ASG is already playing third fiddle to Dance Marathon and ISBE. It will sink lower in prestige unless it sustains the past arrangement or risks a new strategy. 3. ASG must be able to find wild policies. I have heard much discontent within ASG on how its executive board works: It is intentionally nepotistic in order to ensure a succession of competent leaders. This argument from above justifies the status quo. Escaping the status quo means admitting that
competence is not enough. I believe student government can both strengthen its relationship with student groups and attempt a new strategy, but it needs to eschew the illusion of short-term competence. It would be better if ASG keeps working with well publicized student groups — from startup incubator EPIC to the Multicultural Student Alliance — and start brainstorming wild policies. They can present the results to the administrator stock in the form of a classic negotiation strategy: Start out high and move down low. 4. ASG should replace “values” with policies. Watson and Zorn’s platform claims to eschew areas of concentration for eight values, whatever that means. This tendency to obfuscate policy in broad, vague language is certainly not unique to campus politics, and it is unfortunate the campaign resorted to it even though students have had substantial discussion over policies. Had the duo campaigned on “We will change SOFO” or “Administrators need CTECs too,” policies they themselves propose, I bet a lot more people would have noticed them. 5. The one wild policy proposed is bad. In a category of its own is the “3+E” proposal, which would allow an extracurricular involvement to substitute for class credit. But such a system would open a huge can of worms — which groups are active enough to qualify for the credit, and how will this policy vary between colleges and majors? The most likely outcome is a chilling effect on extracurricular involvement, as students compete for executive positions in certified groups. It will further drive competition between students under the administration’s blessing, when what this community needs is less stress and more guarantees from administrators. 6. Students have to argue about this in the open. It is possible that I have mischaracterized many things in this column, and I would like any dissenters to throw all the vitriol they have at me. The problem is not about civility; the problem is empowering a group of student representatives, almost all of whom have done more work than me to better this campus and whose work is neglected because of drama and apathy. Believing student apathy will suddenly drop is wishful thinking. Public arguments need to be had in order to draw attention to what matters. Tom Cui is a Weinberg junior. He can be reached at tianfangcui2015@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
This backlash is strongly rooted in privacy concerns that have breached the forefront of public consciousness ever since the Snowden NSA leaks. Despite featuring far less monitoring capabilities than the average cell phone, Google Glass may appear even more alarming to those who are deeply concerned with privacy issues given that the device’s users literally have a video camera attached to their forehead. How Americans’ views towards technologies like wearables evolve will ultimately rely on how quickly they realize the inevitability of public profiles, big data and — sadly — mass surveillance. Security concerns aside, like the Bluetooth headset wearers of the past, Google Glass users
still look strange to outsiders, often drawing some rather intense reactions as a result. As technological advances allow wearables to be far less physically bulky, this stigma will definitely lessen, but all wearables are going to have to overcome this strangeness if they are to achieve the reach the tech world is hoping they will. So where are wearables headed from here? In the short term, devices like smartwatches and fitness trackers that communicate with devices users already have will gain popularity and may do the most to shed current misgivings regarding wearables. Commercial success for the market as a whole will necessitate some major launches from companies like Samsung, Google and Apple that have the war chests and influence necessary to wait for consumers to come around. The late Steve Jobs, the immortalized cofounder of Apple, often spoke of innovation as a way of giving the customer something they didn’t know they wanted. His attitude brought about innovations like the personal computer, the iPod and many others. Today, the hucksters in Silicon Valley are hoping to use this same mantra to sell consumers an inevitable future they don’t want now but hopefully will someday. Lucas Matney is a Medill sophomore. He can be reached at lucasmatney2016@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Get social: Watch favorite TV shows with your friends Matt gates
Daily columnist
There are 168 hours in a week. That’s a lot of time, yet we constantly find ourselves “not having enough hours in the day.” Why? Often it’s because we aren’t efficient with our time. From BuzzFeed to 2048 to — of course — TV, the ways many of us find to waste time with technology are innumerable. One study found that the average American over the age of two spends 34 hours a week watching TV. The average Northwestern student probably thinks that this is a waste of time, which should be spent triple majoring while being pre-med with a Kellogg certificate and a minor in Chinese. But the average NU student also probably spends time watching TV. Who hasn’t seen their friends pretending to be on Blackboard while binging Netflix in the corner? But is it really a waste of time to watch TV? I think we would all agree our TV habits could become excessive, and some of us might think it keeps us from spending free time with friends instead. Watching TV with friends rather than alone saves time, creates a better experience and allows for more socialization. At the beginning of Fall Quarter, an upperclassmen told me that the saying “grades, sleep, social life: pick two” applies well to the NU student body. So why would we want to waste our time watching TV when we should be studying, sleeping or socializing? We wouldn’t. TV can fall under the social category. Coming into college, we are told that this is the last time we are ever going to have social lives before entering the workforce full time or going on to grad school where the work is even more intense. So why not make our TV habits into a social activity? Watching with friends is by far a better way of keeping up on your TV shows as a college student than sitting alone in your dorm in front of a laptop. Watching TV is not a bad social activity. Before and during college, I have watched friendships form and flourish through watching TV. “Game of Thrones” Sundays were a staple of my high school experience. Various members of my floor commiserated over the “How I Met Your Mother” finale. Rewatching a TV show is far more entertaining when you have new companions. Other students have told me they are able to enjoy program a second time when they watch them with new people. Comedy shows like “The Office” are funny a second time when you see a friend
who has never seen the show before enjoy I think we the laughs. Meanwhile, dramas like “Law and can all agree we Order” can be enjoyed would be most again as you watch your friend speculate productive if about the outcome of we gave up TV. the mystery or discuss But why not the conclusion afterward. Watching your compromise? favorite TV shows with new friends from college can create a new experience. I think we can all agree we would be most productive if we gave up TV. But why not compromise? TV can fall under the social category of the “study, sleep, socialize” college triangle. Watching TV with friends is a great way to bond and is time efficient.
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Matt Gates is a Weinberg freshman. He can be reached at matthewgates2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
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Red Mango replacement offers another frozen option By Hayley Glatter
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TREAT YO SELF A sign hangs over the location of the soon-to-open Tutti Frutti frozen yogurt shop. Tutti Frutti will fill the space formerly occupied by Red Mango.
Frozen yogurt fans will soon have another option to satisfy their sweet tooth, as international froyo company Tutti Frutti is scheduled to open a downtown Evanston location. The store, 809 Davis St., will fill the space previously occupied by Red Mango, which closed earlier this year. Tutti Frutti’s Evanston location owner Robert Chong said the store will host a soft opening April 22, before it has its grand opening April 25. Chong, who owns two other Tutti Frutti locations in the Chicago area, said Evanston was an obvious choice for where to open next. “It’s a vibrant city,� Chong said. “Tutti Frutti is the largest yogurt franchise in the world, and I chose Evanston because there’s only one yogurt shop in the city. We need one more. The main reason I chose Evanston is because
it’s alive. It’s got a combination of students and other people who live around the area.â€? Tutti Frutti, a self-serve frozen yogurt business, has hundreds of independentlyowned stores on six continents. The company focuses on providing healthy yogurt and dessert options. Although frozen dessert stores already exist in downtown Evanston, Chong said he is not worried about the competition. “I will have many more toppings,â€? Chong said. “We’re going to have about 40 to 50 different toppings ‌ (and) the store will be the cleanest.â€? Competitors are certainly taking note. Forever Yogurt employee Raymond Lee said he is anticipating Tutti Frutti’s opening. “I checked it out and walked by the other day, and it’s kind of worrisome because apparently they’re a big chain and very popular,â€? Lee said. “But Red Mango used to be there, and it was a similar deal ‌ it’s kind of similar in that it’s just being replaced by a different name, but it’s still self-serve froyo.â€?
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With any business, I think it’s a common denominator that you listen to your customers and you treat them well. Robert Chong, owner of Tutti Frutti in Evanston
Lee said he hopes Forever Yogurt’s location, which is closer to Northwestern’s campus, will give it the edge. Chong said the customer experience will set Tutti Frutti apart. “With any business, I think it’s a common denominator that you listen to your customers and you treat them well,� Chong said. “That’s a common line of how to succeed in business.� Chong said he hopes to reach out to NU students with a discount. hayleyglatter2016@u.northwestern.edu
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RTVF prof’s YouTube channel educates with animation By Christine Farolan
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In a world of increasingly complex and miscommunicated information, Radio, Television and Film professor Eric Patrick has launched an animated YouTube series titled “Citizen Primer,� which tries to clarify a variety of issues for American voters. Patrick said created the series for many reasons, partially inspired by an instance in which his friend, a professor at a large research university, complained that he would lose money after getting a raise since his salary moved up a tax break. “And I thought, wow, here’s somebody who’s very in the know about so many things but has this one basic thing wrong,� Patrick said.
The first video, which was released last week, explained the progressive tax code that was worrying his friend, and the second covered the Affordable Care Act. The second video was released on Tuesday. These will be followed by four more episodes discussing Social Security, deficit and debt, Medicare and securities regulation. Patrick explained that his goal is to produce “bite-sized chunks of information� and to clarify things in a non-partisan way because he said it is becoming difficult for everyday voters to parse information themselves. As a former animator for the children’s TV show “Blue’s Clues,� he said he feels like he is doing similar work with this project. “The ideal for this project would be to make it like a ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ for adults,� Patrick said, referring to another popular educational children’s series. “This is something that I’ve always been
interested in: how we educate people and communicate those ideas in a clear, concise way.� In creating an episode, Patrick and a team of Northwestern undergraduates research an idea they believe voters struggle to understand, create an information sheet covering primary sources and look for the best visual framework with which to convey the idea. “We try to think in terms of getting it as tight as possible,� Patrick said. “So the screen is not just showing what you’re hearing on the voice track, but it’s also showing you additional information.� Communication freshman Jordan Scherer, the marketing and press manager for “Citizen Primer,� said she became interested in the project as a way for her to continue making a difference in the political process, although she is too busy to work on campaigns. She believes that information is
necessary for an effective democracy, and that is what makes the series important. “I have gotten many emails from educated, successful people responding to our first video and saying that they ‌ learned a lot,â€? Scherer said. “I was very surprised that even very educated people have such glaring knowledge gaps.â€? When the six-video series is finished, Patrick plans to remake them in Spanish and keep them free on the Internet, with the intention of reaching as many people as possible. The project is currently funded by the Chicago Digital Media Production Fund and some NU grants, but he hopes to be able to secure more funding to continue the series in the future. He would like to introduce other topics such as incarceration, vaccination and conspiracy theories. christinefarolan2017@u.northwestern.edu
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Feinberg student named Luce fellow By olivia exstrum
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A first-year student in the Feinberg School of Medicine has been named a 2014 Luce Scholar, a national award that gives students the opportunity to live and work in East or Southeast Asia for a 10-month fellowship. Andrew Peters, who is one of 18 students to receive the award, will be living in Japan, studying neurolinguistics and conducting research on aphasia and other language disorders. “There’s a lot of research happening right now on how language works in the brain,” Peters said. “I think it’s an important field that needs research and I think I have the background to do something with it.” Although Peters is currently unsure of what institution he will be working with, he will be doing research on language disorders in a university setting. Peters, who majored in linguistics during his undergraduate education at Carleton College, said he has always been interested in the study of language.
President Obama congratulates alumnus on NAA recognition
President Barack Obama said “Go Cats!” in a YouTube video for the second time Monday to congratulate his chief speechwriter Cody Keenan (Weinberg ’02) on winning an award from the Northwestern Alumni Association. Keenan received the Emerging Leader Award from the association and was honored Saturday at a banquet at the Union League
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However, he said he did not become interested in linguistics in relation to health until recently. “Eventually I became interested in the language of the brain, because that’s where the intersection of those two interests, language and medicine, is,” Peters said. The application process to become a Luce Scholar, which Peters began in September 2013, is lengthy. After NU chose Peters’ application for its nomination, he worked with the University to improve his application for submission to the Henry Luce Foundation, the organization that sponsors the fellowship. After an initial interview with a past winner, he was then recommended to the foundation and had a final interview in San Francisco with other finalists. Peters learned he had won in the first week of February, the evening of his final interview. Although Peters has studied abroad in Japan before, he said he was mainly spending time with other American students. “I think this will be a good opportunity to challenge myself in a cultural immersion experience,” he said. “I’m also excited to be doing independent research.” Peters will be arriving weeks before his 10-month
Peters said he is looking forward to studying both language and medicine, but he said he is even more excited to experience a different culture. “I want to have gained in kind of a real and deep way a perspective different than what I have now,” he said. “And in terms of how I want to spend my career, I think this year will be a big influence in helping me figure that out.” oliviaexstrum2017@u.northwestern.edu
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I want to have gained in a real and deep way a perspective different than what I have now. Andrew Peters, first-year Feinberg student
From page 1 through the Illinois Transportation Enhancement Program, which allocates federal money to Illinois transportation projects. The funding will support community projects throughout the state, totaling $52.7 million, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announced Saturday. “These projects will support hundreds of jobs while preserving our heritage, beautifying communities and creating opportunities for pedestrians, bicyclists and others across Illinois,” Quinn said in a news release. Although no money was allotted for the Divvy program, Evanston and CDOT are in the process of
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University and University of Rochester were originally members of the consortium but pulled out prior to the launch of classes. Cynthia Cyrus, Vanderbilt’s associate provost for undergraduate education and digital learning, said Semester Online was incompatible with financial aid packages. “It’s definitely a for-profit venture,” Cyrus said in May. Julia said there was critical debate among NU faculty about the effectiveness of the courses. He said the University continues to analyze the pilot courses from the fall and those being offered now. He said it is currently unclear if it was more successful in some disciplines than in others. Julia said NU will continue to add to its growing
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in the garden across the street from the high school and working with a geometry class project to construct a house for a low-income family. All the jobs offered at the fair will pay at least minimum wage, Davis said. Employers that cannot afford to pay the full wages of young summer employees can apply for the city’s 50/50 program, which reimburses qualified employers for 50 percent of the wages of young residents they employ through the partnership. The McGaw YMCA has had jobs at the fair through the 50/50 program in the past, and hopes to offer about 20 jobs through the program at this fair, Siegel said, adding that the YMCA has had a “positive” experience finding summer employees through the program. “It’s why we continue to do this,” she said. “We look forward to the interviewing process with all the youth and it’s really been a win-win for both the youth in Evanston and for the McGaw YMCA to be able to support our youth as well.” The fair will take place at ETHS on Saturday, April 19 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Students must live in area codes 60201 and 60202 to participate.
fellowship, and during his year in Japan, he said he will be living and working on his own. Although the scholars are all placed in different countries, they will spend a week together in New York before traveling to San Francisco to depart separately. There will also be meet-ups throughout the year.
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Club in Chicago, the NAA said. The award goes to an alumnus who has made “a significant impact in his or her profession and/or community at large by the age of 35.” Keenan became the president’s director of speechwriting in 2013 and wrote the 2013 and 2014 State of the Union addresses. As he did in his surprise video for Block 1 of Dance Marathon, Obama cheered on NU in his congratulatory address to Keenan. “Even though you didn’t write this, I know you’d want me to say it — go Cats!” he said in the video.
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list of MOOCs offered through the digital platform Coursera. In the fall, the University drew more than 68,000 students to its first three offerings. NU launched two more courses in engaging audiences and environmental assessment in January. In March, a McCormick professor began a course in digital image and video processing. These MOOC courses offered through Coursera differ from Semester Online in that they are noncredit and do not cost tuition. Enrollment is also open to everyone, unlike Semester Online, which required students to attend a consortium or affiliate school or apply. NU’s School of Continuing Studies offers online accredited courses. Students using the programs can earn master’s degrees in global health, information
applying for other state grants, Hurley said. Although Divvy was rejected, ITEP awarded money for Evanston improvements to bike transportation. Illinois granted Evanston almost $1.5 million.. The city detailed its plans for improvements in a news release on Monday. The project includes establishing two-way bike paths along parts of Sheridan Road and Chicago Avenue, with a tentative timeline of starting construction in the spring of 2015. The city is talking to the Illinois Department of Transportation and the governor’s office to look for more grants and funding to bring Divvy to Evanston, Bobkiewicz said in the email. paigeleskin2017@u.northwestern.edu systems, medical informatics, predictive analytics, public policy and administration and Medill Integrated Marketing Communications. The school additionally offers a variety of certificate programs. Julia said any future partnerships with external providers would likely be focused on expanding offerings in master’s degrees. Although the Semester Online termination marked the end of for-credit options for undergraduate students for now, professors are increasingly using online components in their courses for undergraduates on campus, Julia said. “I would say overall I hope that what we learn from this pilot program will enhance our offerings,” Julia said. czak15@u.northwestern.edu
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From page 8 detailed ShotLink information.� For Goss, it’s been a childhood’s-worth of Christmas gifts. He now runs a database of every stat the PGA Tour has kept on Donald since 2002 and works with multiple statisticians to follow any trends. He can use 10 years of detailed statistical information for any PGA Tour player he works with. He can dream of the day in the not-too-distant future when the European Tour and the major championships start recording ShotLink-like data. More and more swing coaches are discovering the value in this data, but Broadie, who developed the PGA Tour’s strokes gained putting stat, along with writing a book, Every Shot Counts, on his analytics findings, sees Goss as the pioneer on this front. “Pat isn’t just a swing instructor — he coaches the whole player, and he critically looks at each part of the process in order to continually improve,� Broadie said. “Pat was the first coach to embrace and use strokes gained and advanced golf analytics, and this shouldn’t be a surprise since it is consistent with his entire approach to coaching.� It doesn’t stop there for Goss. He uses a ShotLinktype system, called “Shots to Hole,� to measure his college players’ detailed shot-by-shot data against PGA Tour averages. In addition, Goss incorporates Trackman and 3D Biomechanics at the college and professional levels. Trackman is a radar device that measures a golf ball’s speed and spin on a hit, as well as its axis tilt, maximum height, angle coming down, etc. 3D Biomechanics measures a player’s body functions, where the strengths and weaknesses
are during a swing. Goss interprets the biomechanics data of his college players himself, as, according to Goss, NCAA rules prohibit an outside firm from doing more than capturing the information. Sam Snead, when asked how he hit a draw, responded “I think draw.� Goss certainly could never think that way, and the data backs him up. The ballad of Luke Donald Goss and Donald have been intertwined ever since Donald’s electric college years at NU. The duo met at NU, where Goss was the coach and Donald his star player. Donald became the No. 1 amateur in the nation, kept Goss as his swing coach after college and eventually became No. 1 in the world as a professional, with the help of a world-class short game the two concocted early in Donald’s pro career. Goss, of course, found great pride in seeing Donald rise to the top of professional golf in 2011. Even if it was hard to fully enjoy Donald’s rapid ascent at the time. “When we were in the middle of it, I don’t know how much I enjoyed it,� Goss said. “It was just about constantly getting better, and I think it was one of the things that allowed Luke after he got to No. 1 in the world to really become the first player to continue to distance himself at that position since Tiger Woods.� Donald has since fallen to No. 29 in the world and switched his swing instructor to Chuck Cook in August 2013. Goss remains his short game instructor and stats maven. The move hasn’t hardened Goss against his pupil
and longtime friend — the coach understood the inevitability of the move. “That was something I had anticipated from day one from coaching him,� Goss said. “I certainly wasn’t idealistic and thinking that I would coach him until the day he was done. We probably made it a lot longer than any relationship basically ever does.� Goss and Donald I think at remain incredibly close friends today. Goss is times Goss has adamant that he supbeen the most ports Donald over the desired golf Americans in the Ryder Cup, regardless of how coach in the much it could impede a country but he’s U.S. victory. “I spent so many years chosen to stay. with Luke and our famiTom Johnson, lies are so close,� Goss NU golfer from said. “To be a part in see2000-2003 ing someone you really care about achieving their goals at the highest level, obviously I’m very proud of and I’m proud of any small role I played in it.�
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Northwestern lifer? Goss’ time at NU is approaching a quarter century, and he doesn’t appear to be showing any signs of frustration with this place. He still runs his team in the same way he did from the start. “In my experience, it’s still the same,� junior Matthew Negri said. “We’re still really close. He treats us like family. He’ll be around us with his family, it’s the same kind of family-oriented team.�
And it’s not like Goss hasn’t had options to leave over the years either. “When Stanford was hiring a new coach a number of years back, with Wally Goodwin having been there being a former Northwestern coach, I think Pat had an inside track on the job if he wanted it,� Johnson, the former player, said. “But he didn’t. Like Pat Fitzgerald, I think at times Goss has been the most desired golf coach in the country but he’s chosen to stay. It goes to show how committed he is to our program.� Goss is also the ultimate multi-tasker. Aside from all his NU-related duties, the married father of three is currently writing a book on golf analytics with Donald, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, the co-authors of “Freakonomics,� a collaboration he hopes will be finished within the next couple years. He also remains vice president of the Board of Governors at The First Tee of Greater Chicago and chairs their Luke Donald’s Taste of The First Tee fundraiser. Goss doesn’t get the sense he’ll be moving on from NU anytime soon and neither does his former coach. Goss just cares too much about the people there. “He thinks about his players and what their lives are going to be like all the time,� Mory said. “Coaching isn’t a job where you punch out and go home. Whether it’s about thinking how these kids will do in business or after school or how they’re doing with class, their families or their personal relationships, he really does think about these kids all the time. And as a golfer he’s always thinking about how to make them better too.� kevincasey2015@u.northwestern.edu
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Welcome to The Sideline, a series of profiles of Northwestern’s coaches. In the coming months, The Daily’s sports staff will provide detailed looks into the lives and personalities of all 19 varsity coaches. Our second installment covers men’s golf coach Pat Goss. Pat Goss doesn’t give the feeling he is very impressed with his career. Though pictures of his pupils hug one wall and a few of his awards hang framed on the other, the display is not overwhelming. He’s holding back. Goss, Northwestern’s men’s golf coach and director of golf, admits he possesses a few more photos that could more properly decorate the room, he just chooses not to put them up. Actually, it’s surprising anything is there at all. Several years ago, the walls were barren of such material. When Goss eventually chose to decorate, his main purpose was recruiting much more than self-importance. Really, he comes across as your textbook fatherly sweetheart. “He’s so affable,” assistant coach David Inglis said. “He’s such a good guy, a nice guy with a good sense of humor.” So maybe it’s understandable for this 44-year-old not to trumpet his best stuff. Just don’t underestimate what Goss brings to the table. Origin story The game of golf can unmask the power of the physically unspectacular. Goss is average height, not a great athlete and was once described as a doppleganger for Opie on “The Andy Griffith Show.” After being raised in Crystal Lake, Ill., he played his first two years of collegiate golf at Marshall University, transferring to NU in 1991. Goss describes himself as a mediocre Division I golfer, a player who could have been a stud at the Division III level but nowhere else. That didn’t stop then-NUhead coach Jeff Mory from seeing something special in Goss. “I could tell all the way along, even when he was a player, that he had an amazing passion for the game,” Mory said. “But more so, he always wanted to understand more about the teaching and the learning. He was interested in how everything worked.” Goss graduated from NU in 1992 with a degree in economics, and that same year, Mory secured minimal
funding for an assistant coaching position, a job he entrusted to Goss. Less than five years later, in February 1997, Mory left to become the head pro at Conway Farms, and Goss was hit with the interim head coaching tag. He was 27 and indistinguishable from the members of his team. In restaurants, Goss’ starters would ask waiters to play a game of the guess the coach, and four of the five players beat Goss almost without fail. But Goss quickly took advantage of his interim opportunity. His team surged under his leadership with a runner-up finish in his first coaching start and, soon after, the team’s first tournament win in four seasons. Three more wins in a row and Goss’ interim title was promptly lifted. As the head coach, Goss helped his team gain a spot in the NCAA Championships, where NU was the I could tell all host squad. Shockthe way along, ingly, the even when he Cats led the was a player, tournament for the first that he had two rounds, an amazing and were in passion for the second place with 18 holes game. to go before fading back Jeff Mory, to seventh former coach by the end. The final result, along with the rest of the team’s rapid improvement in previous months, turned heads, and Goss was named Golfweek’s National Coach of the Year. Goss downplayed his role in this turnaround, offering Mory most of the credit for his award. But today, Mory isn’t having it. “It’s very kind and I’m glad he says that, but our team was actually struggling quite a lot at that time,” Mory said. “We put a lot of pieces together to do really well, and we had the right talent and the right mix of guys. But without question, the fact that Pat came in and offered a different perspective and a fresh one, allowed a lot of things to gel that were spinning a little bit at the time.”
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Building on early success Goss made sure the 1997 season was not a fluke. Over the next three seasons, three more top-20 finishes in the NCAA Championships would follow, including a third-place effort in 1999. That year, the Cats won the Big Ten Championship, the team’s first victory in that event in 51 years. They won the tournament the next two years as well
there’s nobody else in college who can do that,” Mory said. “He understands intimately what it takes to be the best at the professional level. It’s sort of like having Larry Brown being your coach in basketball. No college coach offers the instructional component he does.” Goss has even more duties at NU. As the director of golf, he oversees the women’s golf program too. And from the way he speaks, he could be their golf coach rather than the men’s. “In the latest Golfweek poll, they’re 12th now and I think they’re even better than that,” Goss said. “Next year our top five players return, we have two really strong recruits next year. The program is really going in an incredible direction.” A pioneer in analytics
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GOLFING WITH GOSS Pat Goss peers over his player as he sizes up a putt. Goss has been the head coach of the Northwestern men’s golf team for 18 seasons.
and made it a fourth in eight years with a triumph in 2006. NU has qualified for regionals 14 of 17 years under Goss and has made it to the NCAA Championships seven times. Goss has won four Big Ten Coach of the Year awards along the way. All of this is an accomplishment in itself, considering where the program once was. As late as the early 1980s, NU treated men’s golf as something near a club-level sport. NU placed last in the Big Ten Championships 17 consecutive times from 1967-1983, often finishing miles behind the ninth place squad. Former coach Wally Goodwin began the turnaround that Mory furthered and Goss completed. Fundraising has been key. Without it, Goodwin never would have been able to recruit or get his team into truly competitive events throughout the country. Mory could not have made this a nationally relevant program without significant outside funds. Goss takes this part of the job seriously. In 1998 Goss secured a $6.1 million gift from Eric Gleacher, $5 million of which went toward endowing both golf teams’ budgets and the other $1.1 million of which pointed to the construction of the Gleacher Golf Center, a state-of-the-art indoor golfing facility. Goss asserts that it was one of the first
of its kind in college golf. But it takes more than great fundraising to convince talented recruits to ignore the siren calls of southernbased, warm-weather schools and trudge their way up to the Chicagoarea cold. Somehow Goss has managed to get some of the most talented youngsters in a game largely dependent on good conditions to believe that cold weather is actually an advantage to their games. “I had interest from schools like Arizona and UCLA, pretty warm weather schools, and Goss sold me on the fact that golf is not all about no wind, no rain, warm. It’s not a fixed environment,” said Tom Johnson, an NU golfer from 2000-2003. “If you can get good at golf when the weather’s tough, you’re challenging yourself more and you’re improving. Pat convinced me. In the end I figured it would be better for my game to challenge myself in tougher weather.” Beyond fundraising and recruiting, much of Goss’ success has come through his emphasis on teaching his players. He was named one of Golf Magazine’s Top 100 Teachers in America in 2007 and was the Illinois PGA Teacher of the Year in 2012. “He’s taken a player all the way to No. 1 in the world (in Luke Donald) as a teacher, not just as a coach, and
Goss’ work extends far beyond Evanston. The coach has made quite a name for himself in the professional game with his work as Luke Donald’s swing coach, along with recent short-game work with Gary Woodland. But he has also been a leading figure in the golf analytics movement. Goss feels his mind is wired with a statistical bent, a Moneyball-like approach that gels well with advanced analytics. But as recently as a decade ago, there was no critical data out there to mine through. “The statistics and analytics that were being used were not useful,” Goss said. “The traditional stats of fairways hit, greens in regulation, putts per round and up-and-downs never told you the story, they never told you the story of who is the better player and why they were the better player. Then what happened is the PGA Tour started keeping ShotLink data.” ShotLink was first implemented by the PGA Tour at the 2001 Buick Classic and officially put to full use in the statistics program at the beginning of the 2004 season. It’s a system that works by keeping detailed shot-by-shot data on every player during every round of most Tour events. And that opened up the pathway for hundreds of new stats, as specific as “Approaches From 125150 Yards” and “Putting From 4’.” This explosion of information has been quite worthwhile. “A stroke a round is millions of dollars worth of difference at the end of the year,” said Mark Broadie, a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. “If you’re trying to figure out where that stroke a round is coming from or where it is going to, you really do need access to this » See GOSS, page 7
Women’s Golf
NU nearly slays Southern California, comes in 3rd By Kevin Casey
daily senior staffer @KevinCasey19
As the season has progressed for Northwestern, it appears more and more likely that the 14th place showing at the Bryan National Collegiate will serve as a serious outlier. Northwestern traveled to California in the two days following the Masters and nearly struck gold. The No. 20 Wildcats finished third in the 15-team Silverado Showdown, a tournament consisting of nine top-50 teams. The performance may have marked a high point in NU’s 54-hole stroke play tournaments of the spring. Sure,
NU actually won its event in Miami, but the field assembled there was not nearly as difficult. And even if the Cats finished third in Puerto Rico with just as many ranked teams present, that affair did not include the sport’s royalty. NU battled No. 1 USC down the stretch for second position, ultimately falling two strokes shy of defeating the powerhouse Trojans. In the process, though, the Cats beat six top-50 teams, including No. 9 Arizona. For coach Emily Fletcher, this was a tournament that was almost perfect. “We were close to being really, really good this week,” Fletcher said. “Struggled just a little bit around the greens and putting but I’m pleased
we’re competing on a national level with the best teams in the country and coming out on top of USC two out of three rounds. We’re building momentum for sure.” NU was in second place after the first round and actually climbed into the lead midway through the second round before falling to fourth. NU jumped Oregon State on the final day. The event marked the return of Elizabeth Szokol, who struggled mightily in her previous 54-hole event with a tie for 76th. Instead of two rounds in the 80s this time, the sophomore went 74-75-72 on her way to a tie for 16th. Szokol felt her improvement was
inevitable as long as she was patient. “We had some good practice over spring break, and it took time to let that set in,” Szokol said. “We have good facilities at home, which helped.” Szokol was far from the only story, or the only NU competitor, who played solid golf. In fact, this was a tournament where the Cats’ supreme depth shone through. All five players finished in the top 30, within five shots of one another, with sophomore Kaitlin Park leading the way in a tie for 13th. When NU’s strength, its depth, is really clicking, this is a dangerous team. One tweak could bring a whole new level of play, though. “This last tournament, we were all
pretty consistent,” freshman Kacie Komoto said. “When one of us can go really low and the rest of us can maintain a really even score, we can sneak up on people who will underestimate us.” And you don’t have to remind this team that Big Ten Championships are a little over a week away. They’re liking their current play and are ready to defend their title. “Everyone is coming in with their best form of the spring which is what we’re going to need at Big Ten Championships,” Fletcher said. “It’s going to be incredibly competitive, and we’re going to need to be at our best.” kevincasey2015@u.northwestern.edu