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Students march for survivors Res Services aims to fill 2 openings By david lee
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speak out A student leads a chant Thursday evening at the Take Back the Night March. Students marched around campus and back to Norris University Center to show support for survivors of sexual violence.
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About 100 students, faculty and community members marched down Sheridan Road on Thursday as part of the Take
Back the Night March, an annual event focused on increasing awareness about sexual violence. The march, sponsored by the Northwestern University College Feminists, was the main event of Sexual Assault Awareness Week. “Raising sexual violence awareness
is especially important on college campuses because rape and rape culture are so prevalent,” said Communication sophomore Sanjana Chetia, a member of the publicity team for Take Back the Night and a co-president of College » See night, page 7
Residential Services has begun the search for a new director of residential life and graduate housing residential director, two positions that recently became available. Mary Goldenberg, the outgoing director of residential life, is being promoted to Assistant Dean of Students over the summer pending finding her replacement. The University is also looking for a new graduate housing residence director. Kristina Richards, who formerly held the position, died in March. Paul Riel, executive director of Residential Services, said the director of residential life is essentially “responsible for the on-campus experience.” Riel, who is tasked with finding a replacement, said the position has numerous responsibilities and oversees the 107 student community assistants and the area-specific residential directors. Residential Services placed the job
offer online about a week ago and is currently accepting applications. An 11-member committee of individuals from various NU organizations will convene Friday to begin sorting through resumes. Riel said the committee hopes to conduct on-campus interviews by May 19 in an effort to fill the position by July 1. “What we’re looking for is a passion for residential students, understanding of the residential environment and interest in expertise and background in staff development,” Riel said. “Certainly someone who has a love of working with students and an appreciation for what an oncampus living experience can do.” Cassie Eskridge, senior assistant director for residential services, is in charge of finding the new graduate housing residence director, who will supervise the roughly 800 graduate students living in University housing. Eskridge said the main requirement for the new employee will be experience. She said whoever is chosen will have worked on other college » See residential, page 7
NU Listens to begin Chicago, city police cooperating service Friday night By julian gerez
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NU Listens will begin offering a pilot version of its peer listening service by phone open to all Northwestern students beginning Friday night. After a long process of training, the peer listeners and working with the administration, the team of undergraduates is ready to introduce a preliminary version of its program. Students can call the group’s number every Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening from 8:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. This time was chosen due a higher likelihood of crises occurring. Weinberg seniors Jennifer Siedjak and Leah Grodinsky serve as the organization’s co-directors. Siedjak explained that the service aims to remove the stigma surrounding mental illness by allowing students to speak to one of two peer listeners on duty about any concerns. To reach this point, the team of 11 listeners began its planning stages during Fall Quarter. Starting in January of 2014, they underwent a 10-week training seminar led by Counseling and Psychological Services to better understand a variety of
topics concerning college students. These included LGBTQ issues, eating disorders, depression, drugs and sexual health. Being able to apply this knowledge in a conversation and refer students to proper resources was a key part of the listeners’ training. They use a technique called active listening, which involves certain strategies to help callers feel more at ease. John Dunkle, executive director of CAPS, has served as an adviser for the students throughout the entire process of planning, training and organizing. By ensuring that everything was conducted responsibly under his professional oversight, NU Listens was able to begin creating the peer listening service. He said he and all the CAPS psychologists are excited to see its kickoff. “I’ve worked very closely with these listeners and the exec board and they’ve been great,” Dunkle said. Siedjak said the group’s work began during Spring Quarter of the 2011-2012 academic school year. “Back when I was a freshman, mental health was not as big a part of the dialogue as it is now,” Siedjak said. “It’s only recently, I feel, become a hot button issue.” » See nu listens, page 7
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The Chicago and Evanston police departments have been collaborating in order to combat a recent spike in gun violence, including two fatal shootings this month, near the Chicago-Evanston border, in what Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said is a “very successful partnership.” Although the departments have often worked together in the past, the two parties are cooperating because of the recent upswing in violent crime in the area. “There’s a border between Evanston and Chicago. Crime doesn’t abide by that border,” Parrott said. “Criminals travel back and forth and conduct their business on both sides of the streets. Police discussed the partnership and the recent rise in crime near the Chicago-Evanston border at a Chicago Police Department meeting Thursday, which more than 50 people attended. The meeting, which was held in the Chicago Math and Science Academy, 7212 N. Clark St., allowed members of the community, specifically those in Chicago’s 24th policing district, which includes Rogers Park, to talk about conditions in the neighborhood and to identify crime and develop possible strategies to
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working together The Chicago Police Department’s 24th district holds a meeting in Rogers Park Thursday evening. This branch of the CPD is working with Evanston police to reduce violence around the border between the two cities.
combat problems in the district. Sgt. Robert Kane of the CPD said his department is working closely with Evanston police to help reduce violence and apprehend criminals. Evanston police are helping by redeploying some of their police officers to Howard Street, which divides Evanston and Chicago, Chicago’s 49th ward Ald. Joe Moore said in a news release. Early in the morning on April 15,
a 16-year-old boy was killed near the Chicago-Evanston border. Nearby, a Chicago man was killed and two others were wounded April 7 when someone fired into a convenience store in the 1600 block of West Howard Street. Parrott emphasized the importance of the two departments working closely together. » See Police, page 7
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State gets No Child Left Behind waiver By paige leskin
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Illinois was granted a waiver April 18 from the No Child Left Behind Act, joining 42 other states exempted from punishment if schools do not meet standards set by the law, which include a demonstrated 100 percent proficiency by students on standardized tests. In exchange for flexibility from the U.S. Department of Education in following NCLB mandates, Illinois implemented a more rigorous system in evaluating school districts and their teaching processes, said Mary Fergus, a spokeswoman from the Illinois State Board of Education. “It still provides assurance and transparency in school,� Fergus said. “It’s less primitive. It’s still about highlighting a number of metrics.� The law was enacted under the George W. Bush administration in January 2002. Its goal was to “close the achievement gap with accountability,
flexibility, and choice, so that no child is left behind,� according to the text of the law. After its implementation, NCLB fell under strong criticism for its standards of adequate yearly progress, commonly referred to as AYP, used to measure student performance in schools, including a call for 100 percent proficiency in reading and math on state tests by the end of the 2013-14 academic year. With this benchmark, only 17.6 percent of Illinois districts in 2012 met the AYP, resulting in a loss of federal funding for failed schools. The Department of Education allowed states to apply for the waivers in 2011, letting them set state-specific reforms aimed at academic achievement. The Illinois Board of Education called NCLB “counterproductive� and “unrealistic.� Fergus said the bill failed to take into account that schools in the state are starting at different levels of proficiency. The state’s mandates will address that disparity by identifying which schools need the most services, she said.
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Police charge Wilmette woman with driving under the influence
Burglars stole numerous household items from a house in west Evanston on Tuesday afternoon, police said. Police responded to a burglar alarm from a home in the 1800 block of Lemar Avenue at about 1 p.m. Tuesday, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. Officers observed a window on the first floor that was open and the resident, a 36-year-old woman, reported televisions, laptops, a lawnmower, a snow blower, jewelry and two DVD players missing. Police recovered some of the stolen goods, including two laptops and two televisions, a few blocks away near a residence in the 2300 block of Foster Street, Parrott said. Neighbors observed two teenagers wearing
Police arrested a Wilmette woman Wednesday in connection with driving under the influence. Officers on routine patrol observed a car traveling north on Ridge Avenue, Parrott said. Officers smelled a strong odor of alcohol from the breath of the woman, 55, after they pulled her over, Parrott said. They performed a sobriety test and then took the woman into custody, Parrott said. At the Evanston Police Department station, the woman took a breathalyzer test and her blood alcohol content was determined to be above the legal limit. She is scheduled to appear in court May 29. — Ciara McCarthy
District 202 superintendent Eric Witherspoon agreed the law made goals that were unachievable for a comprehensive high school like Evanston Township High School, which has never met the proficiency level set by the NCLB before. “Only a selective enrollment high school that tests students for admission and admits only students who are already proficient could have 100 percent of their students proficient in everything — including all special education student and English Language Learners,� Witherspoon said in an email. Fergus said the Illinois mandates will focus on developing a more transparent evaluation system. The board is currently field-testing to alter its statewide test to the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, which will replace the Illinois Standards Achievement Test. Illinois aims to reduce its achievement gap by 50 percent in five years, a more attainable feat than the one from the NCLB, Fergus said. paigeleskin2017@u.northwestern.edu
Setting the record straight In “‘Class Confessions’ discussion continues� in Thursday’s print edition, Elvira Salgado’s title was misstated. She is the Quest Scholars service chair. In “FAQ on Friday’s unionizaton vote,� the location of McGaw Memorial Hall was misstated. Welsh Ryan Arena is within McGaw Hall. In “Big K.R.I.T. raps for FMO concert� in Monday’s print edition, the name of the DJ was misidentified. DJ Oreo perormed. The attendance was also incorrect. About 400 people attended the event. The Daily regrets the errors.
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Students create program to track electricity use By rebecca savransky daily senior staffer @beccasavransky
A group of Northwestern students were awarded funds from the Clean Energy Challenge earlier this month for a program they created to track personal electricity use. Team members said the original idea to create the program, called MeterGenius, stemmed out of their participation in the class NUvention: Energy, offered as a collaborative course to both undergraduate and graduate students. They said they created the program in an effort to make customers more aware of their energy consumption. “MeterGenius is an energy efficiency software essentially and it allows residence electricity users to view their electricity use in real time, or near real time, and to understand it and earn rewards,” said Weinberg senior Hillary Hass, one of the members of the team. They said the team originally decided to apply for the Clean Energy Challenge after it was brought up during the class. Upon learning they won, they said they were excited and looking forward to expanding their product. “There were tons of great, really innovative sustainable technologies that we competed against,” said graduate student Ty Benefiel, another member of the group. “There were some very impressive technologies, and really we were honored to just be competing amongst them.” Hass said the team initially thought about creating a smart power strip device before
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speaking with several electricity suppliers across the country and deciding to go in a different direction. She said through talking with various providers, the team identified the most common problems in an effort to come up with solutions. However, the group did not actually begin production on MeterGenius until the class was completed. “During the class, we just did customer development kind of and fleshed out the idea, and then we started actually creating it a few months after the class,” Hass said. Benefiel said the team had a customer commit to pilot the product prior to it actually being created, noting the team was just in the “idea phase” at that point. The current product includes the ability to track individual’s electricity consumption with the potential to accumulate enough points to obtain certain rewards for one’s efficiency. It also includes options to view energy use in comparison to an individual’s community and gives customers “genius tips,” to save money and improve energy efficiency. “Right now, it is such a relatively low cost compared to your other bills that people don’t really care about it when looking at it from just a money standpoint,” Benefial said. “What we’re trying to do is, regardless of what you think about the environment or anything like that, we’re trying to push or increase engagement among residential users of electricity with their electricity consumption.” The application is being tested through a pilot program in Texas involving about 3,000 her multi-city book tour, A&O Productions announced Thursday. A&O and the Office of the President are hosting Huffington’s talk, which will take place at 7 p.m. in Harris Hall. Huffington will discuss “campus life, stress and strategies in dealing with
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LIGHTS ON, LOG ON MeterGenius, a Northwestern student-led startup, won a $25,000 grant this month at the fourth annual Clean Energy Challenge in Chicago. MeterGenius evaluates users’ electricity use, encouraging efficiency.
participants. Team members said they had been receiving positive feedback in response to the pilot. Customers involved gave comments saying they shared the application with their friends and were thrilled their electricity supplier was giving them a tool they could use to check their consumption regularly. Team members added that in the future, they are planning to create a mobile app, in addition to initiating more pilot programs and expanding the product to several other
states. Hass said because this is a concept she has felt passionate about for an extended period of time, she is excited to be making a difference in the field of energy sustainability. “I think energy sustainability is extremely important for everyone,” she said. “I think legitimately it is something that is really important and something that more people need to focus on and be aware of.”
these difficulties,” A&O said in a news release. A signing of Huffington’s book, “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder,” will follow the talk. Alicia Menendez, the anchor of Fusion’s “Alicia Menendez Tonight,”
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Dozens to participate in ‘Iliad’ marathon on Lakefill By jordan harrison
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Late at night on the Lakefill, Northwestern students will experience a different kind of Greek life as they conduct a marathon reading of “The Iliad” from May 23 to 24. Participants will read Homer’s famous We’re trying to epic about the end recreate this of the Trojan War ancient Greek beginning at 10 p.m. on May 23 and conexperience ... tinuing until dawn it’s going to be the next day. The Department a humanizing of Classics, which and educational is hosting the event, event. received funding in the fall from the Maria Kovalchuk, Alumnae of NorthWeinberg senior western University, a volunteer organization, to bring to NU a production of “Socrates Now,” an interpretation of Plato’s “Apology of Socrates,” featuring Emmy-winning actor Yannis Simonides.
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Evanston is looking to expand its electrical car charging station program to other parking garages after a report showed its use in the Maple Parking Garage during the first month reached about 80 individual uses. “Due to the prime location of the Maple Parking Garage, guests from the adjacent Hilton Garden Inn and visitors to the nearby shops and entertainment venues can charge their vehicles while they spend time and money in downtown Evanston,” Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) said in a newsletter. From Feb. 22 to March 22, a dual connection electric vehicle station, which can be seen from the garage’s entrance, was in effect on the first floor. The
Francesca Tataranni, a professor of classics, said the idea for “The Iliad” reading was inspired by a group she is a member of called The Readers of Homer, which performs marathon readings of “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey” all over the world. Weinberg senior Maria Kovalchuk, co-president of the NU chapter of Eta Sigma Phi, a classics honor society, said those organizing the event wanted to mimic the epic poem’s original presentation. “Greek epic poetry was sung by a bard often over the course of a few nights, and people would come to these recitals to be entertained,” Kovalchuk said. “Here at Northwestern, we’re trying to recreate this ancient Greek experience. I think it’s going to be a humanizing and educational event for Northwestern.” Weinberg senior Brian Earl, also a co-president of Eta Sigma Phi, said he and other members worked on editing “The Iliad” down to fit in the allotted time. “The whole thing takes about 24 hours to read if you do it uncut, so we’re going to do about a third of it,” Earl said. Earl said he hasn’t studied the Iliad, but is familiar with the story as a criticism of war. “It’s just about actually a very short period in the Trojan War — it takes place over a couple of weeks in the whole ten-year war,” he said. “‘The
Iliad’ has been called the greatest peace story of all time because it shows war how it really is — very bloody, grim, somber, heart-wrenching, terrible.” Tataranni said as of now, she has received more than 60 requests to read passages from the text. Readings will be 50 to 100 lines long, and some readers will be responsible for multiple readings, Earl said. Students can sign up to read by sending an email expressing interest to Tataranni by April 30. “We have people from the School of Communication, people from Weinberg, people from Medill,” Tataranni said. “The 60 people who contacted me are really from everywhere on campus.” The group also organized an opening event which will be held in Harris Hall from 6-7:30 p.m. and will be dedicated to translations of “The Iliad,” Tataranni said. During this event, faculty members and students will read parts of the text in multiple languages, including Italian, German and Russian. However, Tataranni said she is still deciding whether readers can use any language in the main Lakefill reading, because they will not be able to project translations to help people follow along. Earl said he thought a variety of languages would enhance the experience.
“Because the Iliad is such a universal poem, it’s been translated I think into just about every language,” he said. “It allows people to read in the language that is most comfortable to them or that they feel most at home speaking. We want this experience to be both deeply personal and bringing the community together … and our community is not one language-speaking.” Katie Hartsock, a fifth-year graduate student in comparative literary studies and assistant director of the reading, said community members don’t have to have knowledge of “The Iliad” to participate. “Whatever experience you have with ‘The Iliad,’ please come, whether you’ve just heard of it and never read it or if you’ve spent a lot of time reading it,” she said. “Bring blankets and hang out for the night and listen to this poem unfold.” Hartsock said the outdoor, nighttime locale would add atmosphere to the reading. She added that she hopes the reading will conclude just as the dawn breaks. “Just as Achilles is wandering the beach at dawn, we’ll be reading those lines,” she said. “I think it’s going to be so awesome when Achilles is walking up and down the beach, and the sun is rising over Lake Michigan.”
success of the station has led the city to consider increasing the number of stations, which would not require changing the electrical system. The program cost less than $12,000 and half of that amount will be refunded by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. The station was available for people to use without additional costs. The only fees required were from the standard parking fees already in place for the garage. A cord retraction system was in place, enabling drivers to not need to touch the cables. The stations also notified users when their vehicles were fully charged. This charging option accompanies three others in Evanston, all of which were not publicly funded. Twenty-four Evanston vehicles were registered as electric near the end of 2013, the city said.
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Examination fell above the state average. U.S. News also reported a higher percentage of ETHS students who fell into “typically underperforming subgroups” demonstrated proficiency than the state average — 35.7 percent of ETHS students in those groups scored at or above a proficient level, compared with 30.3 percent across the state. However, the achievement gap within ETHS remains significant. Nearly 88 percent of non-disadvantaged students meet proficiency requirements, compared with nearly 36 percent of disadvantaged students, according to U.S. News — a 52 percent difference. U.S. News also ranked ETHS No. 524 in the country.
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The U.S. News and World Report ranked Evanston Township High School No. 21 in Illinois in its annual rankings, which were released Tuesday. The school dropped two spots from last year, when the publication ranked it at No. 19. The rankings are based on overall performance on state standardized tests, the performance of black, Hispanic and low-income students and on Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate data. The school’s overall test scores in both reading and math on the Prairie State Achievement
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NU prof. discusses black Chicago renaissance By paige leskin
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As part of an initiative to expand programming on African American history beyond February, the Evanston Public Library hosted a Northwestern professor on Thursday night to discuss the little-known “Black Chicago Renaissance” of the 20th century. African American studies Prof. Darlene Clark Hine addressed an audience of more than 50 people about “The Black Chicago Renaissance,” an anthology of essays she edited. Her book, which she started researching 14 years ago, details a cultural movement in Chicago from 1930 through the 1950s, one she said easily rivals the 1920s Harlem Renaissance in importance. Both were significant and had a major impact on black culture, but the one in Chicago has never been referred to as a “renaissance,” she said. “You might not have heard about it, but it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen,” she said. “Something happened in Chicago, and it was decidedly a workingclass movement.” Hine said the Great Migration, which brought a multitude of black Americans to the Chicago area, played a major role in starting the renaissance. Their immediate political engagement turned to the creation of desegregation movements and conversation of increased rights for black Chicagoans. “When you put people together ... they can be very disruptive of the status quo,” she said. “There was nothing like this in Chicago before.” She named a list of prominent black Americans that included musicians, artists and scholars who all helped cause societal and cultural change, she said. “African Americans are no longer bullied to ride in the back of the bus,” Hine said. “The lesson of the renaissance is that it helped African Americans realize their fullest potential.” Hine’s talk was part of the library’s program “11 Months of African American History,” which started in March. The series, which features an interactive event each month, was organized to provide discussion of African American culture for the Evanston community throughout the year. “It seems very unrealistic and unfair to try to cram
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LIBRARY LEARNING Darlene Clark Hine, professor of African American studies and history, gives a talk on her book “The Black Chicago Renaissance” at Evanston Public Library on Thursday evening. Hine discussed a Chicago cultural movement in the 20th century that rivaled the Harlem Renaissance in significance.
an entire program into just one month,” said Lesley Williams, EPL’s head of adult services. Williams said the idea for such a series came to her after observing the superficiality of other programs that tried to squeeze programming into a single month. Other library programs focused on few key time periods, like the Civil Rights Movement — only the tip of the iceberg that is African American history, Williams said. Hine was added as a contributor to the series for her unique perspective on a more local African American history, Williams said. The librarian touted Hine as “one of the most prolific scholars” of African American history, making her a critical addition to the program. Hines said the event was sponsored by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at NU, which paid for dozens of copies of Hine’s book to be available for attendees. paigeleskin2017@u.northwestern.edu
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Dunkin’ a wasted chance for healthy food
MEERA PATEL
KATY VINES
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For almost as long as McDonald’s and Burger King have been competing for the title of America’s favorite fast food restaurant, another rivalry has been brewing — literally. Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks have been fighting for the label of America’s most beloved coffee house. For a while, it seemed as if Starbucks had won the beverage battle on Northwestern’s campus since its installation almost seven years ago. Then, when Spring Quarter came this year, Dunkin’ Donuts came with it. Although it is always exciting when there are changes made on campus, this modification to Norris University Center leaves a lot to be desired because NU filled a spot in Norris with something we didn’t need. Dunkin’ Donuts doesn’t bring anything to NU that we don’t already have. In fact, we had the better coffee place, Starbucks, on campus first. People mainly utilize these stores for a lift in the form of a caffeine-rich cup of coffee. Starbucks coffee contains 20.6 milligrams of caffeine per fluid ounce while Dunkin’ Donuts coffee only contains 12.7 milligrams of caffeine per fluid ounce. If you want a pre-class or mid-afternoon boost, Starbucks is the place to go. The worst part is, customers are not paying less for the lesser amount of caffeine! As the warmer weather rolls in, customers will probably be more likely to buy cold drinks. A small iced coffee from Dunkin’ Donuts costs $1.99 whereas Starbucks only charges $1.95. The prices are comparable at both stores, so it’s hardly practical to pay the same price for less of a boost. Furthermore, the addition of Dunkin’ Donuts to Norris hinders healthy eating habits for consumers. A medium caramel iced coffee from Dunkin’ Donuts contains about 7.083 calories per ounce while the same drink from Starbucks contains about 6.875 calories per ounce. If you are drinking from Dunkin’ Donuts regularly, those few extra calories are going to add up. Besides
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buying beverages, customers of these stores often purchase food. Both places serve various breakfast sandwiches and sweets. But at neither place are these snacks necessarily healthy. Instead of adding a competitor store from which students will buy junk food like scones and donuts, Norris should have added a healthy alternative to the Starbucks upstairs. There are so many different stores that could have filled the spot that Dunkin’ Donuts now occupies. One option is Orange Julius, which serves smoothies and juices, because it would be unique in Norris and healthier than Dunkin’ Donuts. Even if Norris didn’t focus on a healthy alternative, there are stores that could better serve the NU community than another coffee place. Almost everyone I have met here loves frozen yogurt but has to walk off campus to get it, which can be a pain especially if they live up North. A lot of people would enjoy if there was a frozen yogurt place in Norris. Norris really couldn’t have gone wrong if they had picked any new place but Dunkin’ Donuts. It just doesn’t make sense to have two coffee places in one building, separated only by a floor. A better idea would have been to evaluate the interest of the community to see what we really wanted in that spot because at NU, we love diversity, and I doubt we would have settled for another coffee place on our grounds. Katy Vines is a Weinberg freshman. She can be reached kaitlynvines2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Prospective students have been everywhere for the past few weeks. Spring Quarter means nicer weather – knock on wood – and a bunch of parents taking pictures of their kids under The Arch or next to the Northwestern sign at Fisk. It’s also been a week full of student activism for important causes on campus. I support many of the causes that students are working for. I’m a part of a few of them, but it concerns me when current NU students trash talk certain aspects of our university around prospective students. Put yourself in their shoes: Are you going to want to come to a university where everywhere you go, there seem to be students who are unhappy with their experience, handing out fliers or wearing masks with our president’s face on it around prospective students and their parents? This doesn’t only affect the administration, it affects us students. For whatever reasons, you picked NU as the school you wanted to go to. You’re here right now; you’re going to graduate with a degree from Northwestern University. If in the next five years, students stop wanting to come to NU, what are people going to think of that degree? Is NU going to be able to fund as many activities, the ones that helped us meet like-minded activists, as it does now? It’s really important for us to speak up and to talk about these issues that face college campuses today, especially at our own schools, but we need to be careful of our audience. We’ve all learned, one way or another, that once something is on the Internet, it’s out of our hands. It can go viral in a matter of hours, or even minutes. One part of being a leader in any sense, whether it’s as a parent or as the president of an organization, is that you are responsible for the actions of your constituents, whether you have control over them or not.
As a person, you represent not just yourself, but your family, your last name, any organizations you’re a part of, your faith and anything else that you believe in. We tend to generalize and make assumptions on It’s really an entire group of important for us people based on the to speak up and actions of one or two of them. This is to talk about something we need these issues to keep in mind both when reflecting on that face college the actions of others campuses and when thinktoday ... but ing about our own actions. we need to be If you do somecareful of our thing stupid and know it, and you tell audience. someone you are a part of an organization, that person is going to associate whatever stupid thing you did with that organization, whether the leaders of that organization told you to do it or not. Here at NU, there are a lot of changes taking place. I know of at least one largescale organization that has standards review committees in place to ensure that events put on by members of this organization live up to the standards that are expected of them. We have to start a conversation about the parts of our university that we feel strongly about, but we need to make absolutely sure that we know the full story before we start publicizing all the problems we see on campus. Again, I’m not saying we don’t have problems on campus or that we shouldn’t talk about them. I am saying that we need to be absolutely sure we know the complete story, what we’re saying and how it reflects on us before making assumptions. There are two sides to every single story. Be sure to understand those before pointing your finger at someone else.
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Meera Patel is a McCormick junior. She can be reached at meera@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
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Scientific illiteracy linked to marijuana research REX TAI
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Cannabis has been consumed for thousands of years, and scientific research of its physiological effects on the brain has been going on for decades. So why should one particular Feinberg School of Medicine psychiatry study on marijuana use be published and set off a media storm just days before 4/20, or “Weed Day?” It would be remiss to deny a certain uptick in marijuana use on this day, but I wouldn’t be so quick to predict a massive surge of brain damage across the country, and, as it turns out, neither would the research paper, “Cannabis Use is Quantitatively Associated with Nucleus Accumbens and Amygdala Abnormalities in Young Adult Recreational Users.” A close reading of the study in question reveals some serious limitations that significantly reduce the generalizability of any results found by the researchers. Co-senior study author Dr. Hans Breiter has stated in his interviews to mainstream media outlets like Fox, USA Today and Time that findings of “alterations of the neural matrix of core reward structures” from his study “raises a strong challenge to the idea that casual marijuana use isn’t associated with bad consequences.” However, no “strong” conclusions can be made at all from the tiny sample size of 40 participants, only 20 of whom were cannabis users. Experimental subjects were deliberately selected to be just as healthy as control subjects, creating a nonrandom sample, and no consideration was given to the possibility that existing brain differences can predispose certain individuals to smoking pot in the first place, serving as the cause of marijuana use instead of the effect. Furthermore,
Dr. Breiter’s definition of “casual use” is highly suspect, considering the group of marijuana users studied smoked an average of 11.2 joints per week, an amount that probably hasn’t been casual since Woodstock in the 1960s. Before even examining the results, we should be worried about the researchers’ ability to design a controlled study. Digging into the data, we confirm that cannabis affects the same limbic dopamine system targeted by alcohol and all other drugs. However, their findings here don’t exactly warrant “severe worry.” The limbic structures in question only exhibited minor changes in shape and density, including some that occasionally even help the brain. We already know from previous research that the brain alters its shape to respond to a changing environment, and such changes of plasticity tend not to be permanent. More notable
is that even though these alterations may in fact have unaccounted negative effects on the brain, there is no evidence at all in the study results that any notable structural changes, much less any cognitive abnormalities, were found in the most casual users, those only using marijuana 1-2 times per week. In its conclusion, the paper is right to suggest that any implications arising from the data are highly speculative and require much more robust, longitudinal research before any long-term implications can be identified. The paper’s generally unexciting results leave us to question in awe the incredible media frenzy that surrounded its publication. I believe this may stem from America’s longstanding distrust of science, which is only exacerbated when drugs like marijuana are involved. We ignore and misinterpret scientific findings at our own peril. Dr.
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Breiter expresses “worry (that) we haven’t studied this compound,” when, in fact, we do know a fair bit about cannabis after years of research both inside and outside of the U.S., from which we’ve learned many good and bad things about this ancient plant. Even more worrisome, though, is that we routinely forget the most important lesson in science and statistics: Correlation does not equal causation. Dr. Breiter is not justified in saying “People think a little recreational use shouldn’t cause a problem if someone is doing OK with work or school. Our data directly says this is not the case,” because the study does not establish that marijuana causes anything, and the press fails to recognize these glaring limitations of the study. So now it falls upon us to be the discerning readers and “weed” out the faulty science from the valid and rigorously tested science, the sensational media from the cautious and skeptical media. Even if some scientists may be opinionated and try to grab undeserved headlines from a scientifically illiterate press, not all of them are, and we as a public need to recognize the differences. With regards to marijuana, we know a good deal about the positives (relaxation, appetite stimulation) and the negatives (memory loss, potential for dependence), so using involves a calculated risk. If you do smoke next 4/20, know what you’re doing, drink lots of water and just to be safe, try to stay under 11.2 joints. Rex Tai is a Weinberg junior and the co-president of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. He can be reached at RexTai2015@u. northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
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NU has since seen several mental health initiatives including the Essential NU talk on mental health added to the Wildcat Welcome program and related groups like NU Active Minds. The community committed to changing the way campus handles mental illness has been growing stronger, she said. Communication freshman Casey Doherty has used her role as part of NU Listens’ public relations committee to further this movement of support. She said the group’s Facebook page posts “feel-good information� to increase awareness of the service and encourage people to use it themselves or refer it to their friends. “Obviously we’re doing it because we see a void in what’s available to students and we want to be able
to give them that network to reach out to,� Doherty said. In the future, Siedjak said she would like to see the program expand to include more hours of operation and other modes of communication, such as speaking in person or over instant message. During the first month of the pilot program, CAPS will observe the operation to decide what the next steps will be for the program. Siedjak said she is confident in the empathy of the peer listeners. “They’ve dedicated countless hours to making this service happen and they genuinely care,� Siedjak said. “So I think that’s the most important thing right there — it’s a group of great people who really want to help the community.�
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campuses with CAs and students. The jobs offered at NU are in very high demand, which allows the process to be extremely selective, even for an entry-level position, she said. “People want to live in Chicago and the Chicago area,� she said. “It’s very easy to get (to Chicago) and we have the best of both worlds. People want to be happy both personally and professionally.� Eskridge said they are much further along in their process than that of finding the director of residential services. The top five applicants had on-campus interviews during the past two weeks, and the final decision has been made pending
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From page 1 Feminists. Throughout the week, there has been programming for a variety of different audiences. Chetia said some events focused on providing support for victims of sexual violence and giving advice on how to support those who have a friend or a family member affected by sexual violence. The march started at The Rock and continued down Sheridan Road. Before the march began, students heard from the Take Back the Night co-chairs, Weinberg juniors Haley Pilgrim and Lizz Bohl, as well as Megan Blomquist, northside prevention educator at the Chicago organization Rape Victim Advocates. Blomquist spoke briefly on her own experiences with sexual assault and offered words of encouragement to survivors and supporters. “I realized that it wasn’t just me,� Blomquist said. “It wasn’t just my friends, my family that were impacted. It was everyone. It’s the society we live in that allows rape to happen.� During the march, different student groups carried banners with messages of support for survivors and victims of sexual violence. McCormick sophomore Evan Gray and Medill sophomore Anthony Settipani both participated in the march with their fraternity, Phi Mu Alpha. Both students said they took part because they felt it was a very powerful way to show support for those impacted by sexual violence. “I think it’s nice to get a lot of people in the same place supporting something together, especially when it’s something that in certain circles is very well known, but in other places not well known or discussed,� Settipani said. Gray said condolences for sexual violence can sometimes be hard to articulate, but the march was a good way to show their solidarity with survivors. “Oftentimes you want to do something, but it’s hard to find ways to do so,� Gray said. “I think the march is very effective and very visible to the community.� A survivor speak-out immediately followed the march at the Dittmar Gallery in Norris University Center, where survivors of sexual violence were able to tell stories in a confidential space. “It’s a safe space for people to share their stories,� Bohl said. “It’s just a room that’s so full of love and support, and it’s just invaluable and so powerful every time.� Take Back the Night events are part of an international effort by the Take Back the Night Foundation to support survivors and raise awareness of sexual violence issues. Laura Stuart, sexual health education and violence prevention coordinator at the Center for Awareness, Response and Education, said her main goal is to create a campus climate where sexual violence isn’t tolerated. Stuart said the most important aspect of Take Back the Night is that it “lets survivors know that they’re not alone.� “A lot of people don’t disclose or want to take any kind of action because they are afraid that people aren’t going to believe them,� Stuart said. “Public events like this allow people to realize they are not alone.� oliviaexstrum2017@u.northwestern.edu
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From page 1 “We have a long history of working with them on numerous issues from violence to drug sales to quality of life issues,â€? Parrott said. “It makes us more effective in our job.â€? An Evanston police officer was also present at the meeting. Kane said it was important to have a presence from Chicago’s northern neighbor at the meeting. “Typically we try to have someone from Evanston here because Howard ‌ does neighbor Evanston,â€? he said. “We’re two cities that work together to combat crime.â€? Nearly all of the recent shootings stem from a longstanding gang conflict between two local factions of the Gangster Disciples Gang, Moore said in the news release. In February, gang members participated in a back-and-forth dispute in Evanston involving criminal defacement. Citizens were also able to express their concerns, which took up the majority of the meeting. juliangerez2017@u.northwestern.edu
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NU alumni advocacy group outlines platform Game Changers will not take position on union but plan push for many CAPA goals By Alex putterman
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NU Game Changers, a group of Northwestern alumni advocating for college athletes’ rights, announced its goals at a news conference Thursday afternoon. The group read a 10-point list of proposed changes for revenue-producing sports at NU. The “blueprint of broad principles” proposes an increased living stipend, expanded medical benefits, guaranteed athletic scholarships beyond four years, transportation for players returning to school and more.
NU Game Changers leader Kevin Brown read a letter the group has sent to the NU Board of Trustees. “As a private NCAA institution, Northwestern is in a unique position to lead,” the letter said. “The University should begin by making modifications to the governance process to give players a greater voice and a substantive stake in the creation of policies and regulations that impact their interests.” The statement also expressed support for former NU quarterback Kain Colter, who spearheaded the movement for player unionization, but did not take a position on his cause. The team will vote Friday on whether to form a union. In addition to Brown, former players Alex Moyer, Rick Telander, Todd Jenkins and Mike Adamle spoke at the news conference. “The main reason I got involved and what sparked all of this is Kain Colter,” Moyer said. “His heroic stance, his leadership and his
courage in bringing all this together, what it did was really galvanize the movement among former players. It really sparked something in us.” The main Telander, a Chicago reason I got Sun-Times columnist, said he has recused involved and himself from writwhat sparked ing about the issue all of this is Kain and devoted himself instead to enacting Colter. change. Alex Moyer, “We would like former NU Northwestern to be football player first and best,” he said. “We don’t want to see this groundswell movement co-opted by any other school.” Telander made clear NU Game Changers’ focus is not the proposed union, to be voted on Friday, but the overall cause of athletes’ rights.
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Brown would not go into specifics about how to implement the group’s platform under the NCAA framework but said aspects of the blueprint are attainable through direct negotiation with the University. Multiple NU Game Changers leaders expressed worry about other former players attempting to affect the union vote in recent weeks. “We were concerned there were outside parties not directly affiliated with the University influencing the players,” Todd Jenkins said. “The process should not be contaminated by outside factors.” Brown said the group’s leaders have received positive feedback from many, including players, coach Pat Fitzgerald, athletic director Jim Phillips and others.The group will work continuously with the administration to enact aspects of their platform, he said. asputt@u.northwestern.edu
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A month after Evanston was awarded a 4-star sustainability ranking for its environmentally friendly initiatives, the city’s sustainable programs coordinator expressed her desire to put Evanston on the map as an environmental leader. “We want to be on the minds of people who say they want to be like Portland, Seattle, Cambridge — and like Evanston,” Catherine Hurley, Evanston’s sustainable programs coordinator,
told an audience at the Firehouse Grill on Thursday night. We want to be Evanston became the second city in on the minds the nation to receive of people a 4-star ranking who say they from Sustainability Tools for Assesswant to be like ing & Rating ComPortland, Seattle, munities in March. Cambridge — and The city earned 488 points on the STAR like Evanston. rating system in categories includCatherine Hurley, ing recycling, green Evanston’s transportation, sustainable programs energy efficiency coordinator and other sustainability efforts. STAR Communities was founded in April 2012 as a standardized way for local communities to achieve sustainability goals.
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Participating communities are awarded a ranking on a scale of one to five stars, based on an overall points score of local sustainability efforts and achievements. “What I really like about it is that it measures civic engagement,” Debbie Hillman, a resident of Evanston for 38 years, said. “On the face of it, that may not seem like a sustainability issue, but sustainability is citizen-driven.” Evanston resident Jim Parks, who has lived in the city since 1959, said he had noticed an increased partnership between engaged citizens and the Evanston government to be greener. “The city has always had a good ear for having respect for what the people want,” Parks said. Hurley stressed that the need for such a relationship is significant. “You can have a lot of great citizen work and a lot of great community work, but if the local government isn’t an active partner, there’s only so much you can do,” she said.
The ranking was awarded after a yearlong review that looked at seven goal areas, including Evanston’s natural systems, climate and energy and health and safety for the community. Evanston’s 4-star status will stand for three years. Hurley said the city is already looking ahead to its next review in 2017. “Just to sustain our 4-star, we have to keep improving, keep reducing energy,” Hurley said. “We have to keep adding affordable housing. We have to continue to add more opportunities for healthy food, and if we want to get to the (5-star ranking), we have to come up with stuff we want to actually work on.” City officials’ new goals include focusing on public fields and parks and promoting its progress to make Evanston a nationally known city for environmental action, Hurley said. “If anyone out there is able to achieve (the 5-star rating), it’s going to be us,” she said. marissamizroch2017@u.northwestern.edu
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double trouble Doubles play has been an emphasis all season for Northwestern. Maddie Lipp and Nida Hamilton, the nation’s No. 85 duo, has been the team’s most consistent pair.
By Mike marut
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No. 2 seed Northwestern is ready to rumble in the Big Ten Tournament. For the first time since 2004, the Wildcats will host the conference tournament on their home courts, with the first round having started on Thursday. The top four seeds — Michigan, NU, Ohio State and Purdue — all received first round byes and begin play Friday. The Cats will play Indiana, who defeated Penn State 4-1 on Thursday. “We’re just focusing on ourselves and every match we have to play,” freshman Maddie Lipp said. “Every opponent is going to be really tough and important. We’re just focusing on what we need to do to get the win.” Under the leadership of coach Claire Pollard, the team has won 14 of the last 15 Big Ten Tournaments, its only loss coming to Purdue in 2012. This season, the Cats finished with a 10-1 record. Despite the one loss, NU is still the highest-ranked team nationally, at No. 16. Last year, the Cats were in the same situation with a 9-2 record. They claimed the No. 3 seed because of losses to Michigan and Nebraska but ranked No. 16 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings. During the tournament, NU took back both of those matches to become conference champions. This year, NU finished out the regular season with dominant matches against Minnesota and
Wisconsin, sweeping both events 7-0. Pollard has mentioned the team needs to play its best tennis now in the postseason in order to advance far first in the Big Ten Tournament and potentially the NCAA Tournament, to be held in Georgia. “We need everyone to show up every time we play,” Pollard said. “I think if you look over the course of the season, when we’ve played a great doubles and six significant chances at all six (singles) spots, we’ve been really, really good. When we haven’t done that, we’ve been very average.” One of the performance goals Pollard set for the team going into the final regular season weekend was to win a match without the doubles point. The Cats have yet to achieve that goal, but now is not the time to test fate. Throughout the season, NU has needed the doubles point to emerge victorious: The Cats have lost every match in which they haven’t secured it. To cap off the season, sophomore Alicia Barnett won all 10 of her conference singles contests, including in the one conference loss to the Wolverines. Barnett is looking to avenge the team loss during the conference tournament. “I think we have a really good chance of beating them this time as long as we give all nine (doubles and singles) spots a chance,” Barnett said. If the Cats win the tournament, NU will have claimed at least one Big Ten title, either regular season or tournament, for all 16 years that Pollard has helmed the squad. michaelmarut2016@u.northwestern.edu
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NU looking to extend win streak at Ohio State No. 25 Northwestern vs. Ohio State
By Huzaifa patel
the daily northwestern @HuzaifaPatel95
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No. 25 Northwestern will make its final trip of the season to a Big Ten ballpark this weekend to take on Ohio State. It will be the team’s first visit to Columbus since 2010. The Wildcats (29-11, 11-6 Big Ten) will look to continue their stellar play of late — the team has won six in a row since losing two straight to then-No. 14 Minnesota. The Buckeyes (22-23, 8-9) are also trying to stay hot. They are coming off of a doubleheader sweep of conference opponent Penn State on Wednesday. Ohio State’s offense has been powered by junior outfielder Taylor Watkins and senior first baseman Evelyn Carrillo. Watkins is batting .478 with 11 RBIs and three home runs in her last 15 games, while Carrillo is hitting .326, also with 11 RBIs and three homers. NU is led on offense by senior third baseman Marisa Bast. The reigning Big Ten Player of the Week picked up six RBIs against Illinois, bringing her season total to 45. NU’s pitching duo of sophomore Kristen Wood and freshman Nicole Bond is also firing on all cylinders. The Cats’ opponents have scored only 7 runs in the last six games, with three of those games being shutouts. Both pitchers have been clutch in key situations, stranding runners and keeping the damage to a minimum. “I get nervous, but it’s good for me because it
gets me more fired up,” Wood said after Sunday’s win over Indiana, in which she held a tie game for the last three innings. “I know that my team is there to back me up.” The Buckeyes will likely feature junior Olivia O’Reilly and freshman Shelby Hursh on the mound. O’Reilly has pitched the most for the I get nervous, team this year, holding a but it’s good for 10-8 record with a 3.03 Hursh is coming off me because it ERA. a great outing in which she gets me more pitched her third complete game of the season, allowfired up. ing no runs on three hits Kristen Wood, with nine strikeouts. sophomore The two teams last faced pitcher each other in 2012. NU lost the first game 6-2 but took the next two 3-1 and 8-5. The Buckeyes will be honoring eight seniors as a part of Senior Weekend. NU has only three series left before hosting the Big Ten Tournament from May 8 to 10. After facing Ohio State, the team will visit DePaul on April 30 before hosting its own Senior Weekend against Michigan State.
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NO KNOCK ON WOOD Sophomore pitcher Kristen Wood has been a workhorse for Northwestern this season. Wood has appeared in 27 of the Wildcats’ 40 games, making 21 starts and hurling 137.1 innings.
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Confident Cats prepare for 3 games against MSU Northwestern vs. Michigan State
By jesse kramer
the daily northwestern @Jesse_Kramer
East Lansing, Mich. Friday-Sunday
Northwestern (12-25, 4-10 Big Ten) is back on the road this weekend as it looks to continue its hot streak at Michigan State (21-17, 5-7). The Wildcats are coming off a pair of midweek wins against Wheaton and Chicago State, and overall they have won six of their last seven games. Coach Paul Stevens said he thinks the Cats’ recent hot stretch has been a result of the team finally getting settled. Due to a slew of injuries, Stevens had to keep mixing and matching with
his lineup. “There’s people in spots that they’ve never been in,” Stevens said. “I think they’re starting to feel comfortable with it.” Meanwhile, NU catches Michigan State during some tough times. The Spartans knocked off Toledo on Tuesday, but before that they had lost four games in a row. Still, Stevens refuses to overlook Michigan State. The Spartans boast a loaded pitching
staff. Probable starters Mick VanVossen, Justin Alleman and Cam Vieaux have combined for a 14-6 record with a 2.57 ERA. They also have a dangerous hitter in Blaise Salter, who ranks second in the Big Ten in RBIs and third in slugging percentage. But Stevens is not concerned with how things look on paper. “Anybody in baseball can beat you on any given date,” Stevens said. “At the end of the day, it is about the people who are out there and how they’re going to react to what’s going on.” Already in the second half of the Big Ten schedule, this series could also have conference tournament implications. NU sits in last
place, but it is only one game out of sixth place. Michigan State sits in seventh place. The top eight teams in the league make the Big Ten Tournament in May. Stevens said taking two of three games at Nebraska — then in second place — last weekend helped build the Cats’ confidence for the final month of the regular season. “They believe that they can’t be denied right now,” Stevens said. “They’re going to work their backsides off every single opportunity they have a chance to go out there and compete. That’s what I’ve been asking of them all year. And they’ve been really good at that.” jessekramer2017@u.northwestern.edu
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Wrigley game momentous for many reasons By AVA WALLACE
daily senior staffer @AvaRWallace
No. 6 Northwestern heads to Wrigley Field on Saturday to play No. 40 Southern California in what is sure to be a celebration of the sport, the program and, as it turns out, NU’s athletic department. The game is the second part of a five-year NU partnership with the Chicago Cubs, following last year’s baseball game against Michigan. And boy is the timing perfect. NU heads into Saturday’s historic game with a 9-5 record, the worst the team has seen in over a decade. USC clocks in with an 8-7 record on the season and is coming off of an 11-10 upset of No. 14 Stanford, but the Cats walloped the Trojans 18-5 when the two teams met last season. The 2-year-old USC program is also coached by two NU alumnae, Lindsey Munday and Hilary Bowen. “(Munday’s) pumped,” NU coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said. “We obviously have a tremendous amount of respect for each other. We’re very close friends. I think as a byproduct of having her and Hilary Bowen as the opposing team, we have quite a lot of alumni come back to watch and support, so it should be a great day.” Munday and Bowen’s presence adds additional meaning to a match in which the quintessential symbol of Chicago sports will become a meeting
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ground of old and new, a representation of the program’s roots and how Hiller’s influence has expanded the sport. To add to the game’s importance, the Wrigley game is NU’s last of the regular season, its last chance to gain momentum heading into its conference tournament. In short, NU could certainly use the mental and emotional boost Saturday’s game is sure to provide, win or lose. Strategically, the Cats only benefit from having more time on the field after losing their leading scorer, sophomore Kaleigh Craig, to a lower body injury. Hiller moved attack-midfielders sophomore Lauren Murray and junior Jess Carroll up to true attack in Saturday’s game against No. 4 Florida. Murray had 1 goal, and Carroll notched an impressive 2 — her athleticism shining against the relentless Gators — in support of junior Kara Mupo, who took the lead on attack with 4 goals. Leading up to the Wrigley game, Mupo said the new attack group has been working on being flexible within the team’s set plays and getting used to playing closer to the cage. “Attack middie and attack are two totally different looks, coming out of
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LUCK OF THE DRAW Senior draw control specialist and NCAA draw control record holder Alyssa Leonard hugs her teammates. As a senior member of the squad, Leonard also played in Northwestern’s games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 2013 and Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., in 2012.
the box and then actually being on the field in transitions,” Mupo said. “So just kind of getting used to that, working with each other, getting in the flow of things. Once you have that flow, it’s hard to put it to a stop.” The mental, emotional and strategic pluses of the Wrigley game are hugely important to the program, but it should be noted the players aren’t the only ones who stand to benefit
from a good outing Saturday. The game at the Friendly Confines comes in the wake of the football team’s Friday union vote that has students, administration, faculty and alumni abuzz. The athletic department couldn’t have asked for a better moment for an outpouring of NU support. The culmination of the celebration of NU’s most successful athletic
program and a chance to remind fans that NU is “Chicago’s Big Ten Team” is almost too good to be true. Despite all that’s at stake for the team, the program and the athletic department, Hiller remains unfazed. “We’ll see how it goes on gameday,” she said. avawallace2015@u.northwestern.edu
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ONE DOWN Senior Raleigh Smith and his Northwestern teammates cruised past Iowa on Thursday in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament. The Wildcats advanced to take on Purdue on Friday.
By ALEX LEDERMAN
the daily northwestern
No. 32 Northwestern steamrolled Iowa on Thursday in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament, its 4-0 victory the first step on a quest for conference glory. “We played a complete match,” coach Arvid Swan said. “Both good doubles and good singles.” NU (20-9, 7-4 Big Ten) will now face Purdue (15-6, 7-4) in the tournament’s second round. The last time the two squads squared off, the No. 34 Boilermakers edged out the Cats 4-3. But this doesn’t worry Swan. “We’re much better in both doubles and singles now than we were the last time we faced Purdue,” he said. “Our team is continuing to improve, and we still can get buttern
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But we’ve certainly made a lot of progress in the last several Big Ten matches.” The Cats didn’t even drop a set Thursday against Iowa (9-15, 1-10). The doubles teams cruised to victory, only losing a combined four sets. The 28th-ranked duo of senior captain Raleigh Smith and sophomore Mihir Kumar put up a bagel, sweeping Michael Swank and Brian Alden 8-0. The new duo of freshman Sam Shropshire and junior Alex Pasareanu faired equally well, handling Jonas Dierckx and Matt Hagan
easily. The Cats were just about as dominant in singles. No. 120 Shropshire, freshman Strong Kirchheimer and Pasareanu won three quick matches, and No. 46 Smith, Kumar and freshman Konrad Zieba were all leading when play in their matches was halted because NU had scored the four wins necessary to move on. NU has now won its past eight matchups, including seven against conference foes, each by a score of 5-2 or better. The winning streak is the team’s longest of the season. The only four Big Ten teams to beat the fifth-seeded Cats were the top four seeds: Ohio State, Illinois, Penn State and Purdue. Key to NU’s recent run have been Shropshire and Kirchheimer. Each extended their win streak to 12 on Thursday. Shropshire is now 11-0 in conference and Kirchheimer 11-1. “Both guys are taking care of business,” Swan said. “They work hard in practice, and they’ve gotten results all year. They’re two good, young players for sure.” NU has not lost even a point in its past three matchups, sweeping Wisconsin (9-16, 1-11) and Minnesota (11-13, 5-6) 7-0 and Iowa 4-0 in the course of a week. And while the Cats have heated up, the Boilermakers have gone cold. They have dropped three matches in a row, their longest losing streak of the year. Both Michigan and Michigan State — two teams NU handled with ease — trumped Purdue 5-2. Additionally, NU is playing its best doubles of the season. After early season struggles, the Cats have now won the doubles point in seven of the past eight matches. “We’ve had a good start to the tournament,” Swan said. “We’re excited to keep it up against Purdue.” alexanderlederman2017@u.northwestern.edu
last year’s Big Ten title By KEVIN CASEY
daily senior staffer @KevinCasey19
It was this time last year when Northwestern dialed up its play and blasted its way to the most accomplished season in program history. The follow-up campaign has been about building on those successes and, at this point, the Wildcats are in line to do just that. The Big Ten Championships have finally arrived, and NU couldn’t be more ready for the event to arrive: The team will tee off in Friday’s opening round following nine days of rest. More importantly, the Cats arrive in French Lick, Ind., coming off two of their best performances of the season, an 11-stroke victory at the 18-hole Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic and a near takedown of No. 1 USC at the Silverado Showdown. No. 19 NU is the highestranked team in the field. And let’s not forget NU is a defending champion this week, courtesy of the first Big Ten title in school history being won last year. Needless to say, coach Emily Fletcher is confident in her team. “I feel ready good about this group,” Fletcher said. “They’ve worked hard this spring, they’ve been focused, and we’ve gotten some shots of confidence that we needed.” The tournament, played over 54 holes from Friday through Sunday, offers a sixcount-four format, which means each squad is afforded six starters rather than the usual five. NU has used the same starting lineup for much of the season season due to the continued contributions of five particular members. Senior Devon Brown has not made a return to the starting lineup. A sixth spot, though, means she will play this weekend, and she plans to do
something with it. “I love coming down here and playing in the postseason,” Brown said. “I’m ready to compete and it being my senior year, I want to leave a big impact.” The other starters remain entrenched and often close in score, with just five shots separating them all at the Silverado Showdown. For star Kaitlin Park, the beauty of this particular team is that the best performances aren’t restricted to the top of the lineup. “Anyone on our team can put out a low score,” the sophomore said. “We can all put out low scores and produce another school record.” Going low is relative. The team will move from the Donald Ross Course at the French Lick Resort to the Pete Dye layout, hardly a reprieve. At the men’s side of Big Ten Championships last year, only one player broke par on the Dye track. “The determining factor will be our patience, because the golf course can be challenging at times,” Fletcher said. “We just have to play smart and not get greedy and cost ourselves a couple of shots at times.” The signs are all there for an NU triumph, but golf rarely pays much heed to that sort of thing. Whatever the case, winning is on the players’ minds. Brown’s seventh-place individual showing at Big Ten Championships last year played a large role in the team’s victory. She envisions a similar result this week. “We’re more prepared than last year, we’re sitting well, and all the girls are pretty confident at this point,” Brown said. “Winning another Big Ten title is what I’m coming down here to do. It would be great note to end my four years on.” kevincasey2015@u.northwestern.edu