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Website for ranking women removed

By Rebecca Savransky daily senior staffer @beccasavransky

A website launched Friday that ranks Northwestern women based on physical appearance was taken down Saturday night.

The website, called Morty’s Angels, presented two pictures of female NU students on the home page and asks individuals to rank “who is hotter,” to compile a top 50 page.

It also included a section encouraging people to email the name and picture of anyone that should be added to the list.

The top 50 page was changed earlier Saturday to eliminate the rankings and instead display a message reading “F**k this website.”

Prior to being taken down, the website read Saturday night that “there is no site deployed at this address.”

Joan Slavin, director of NU’s Sexual Harassment Prevention Office and Title IX coordinator, emailed the site requesting it be taken down as it may be a violation of the University’s sexual harassment policy, University spokesman Al Cubbage said.

In the about 24 hours the site was up, about 224,000 votes were generated, a creator of the website said in an email. The website was taken down due to a request

by University administrators, the creator said.

Associated Student Government and the Panhellenic Association released a combined statement Saturday night emphasizing their outrage about the website and commending students and the administration for the actions they took to get it taken down.

They noted members of the NU community should hold each other accountable for actions taken in an effort to maintain a “safe and inclusive campus.”

“This incident, however, must be seen within the greater context of Title IX issues across the nation,” the statement said. “The responses to this website are valid reflections of the belief that the Northwestern community should be a safe and inclusive space for everyone.”

The authors of the statement recommended that students who wanted to discuss the incident further reach out to Dr. Renée Redd, director of the Women’s Center or Slavin, for those who want to take legal action.

Multiple students posted on social media about the site, and some have encouraged others to file complaints with the Department of Campus Inclusion and Community in an effort to get it taken down.

Before the site was removed, Medill senior Elyssa Cherney said » See morty’s angels, page 9

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Ludlow sexually assaulted her. The student is also suing Ludlow under the Gender Violence Act of Illinois, which guarantees legal protection to victims of gender-based violence.

The lawsuit was filed two years after the alleged incident took place, a period filled with anxiety and isolation for the student, she told The Daily in February.

She met Ludlow at the beginning of her freshman year in “Philosophy of Cyberspace,” a course about ethical questions of virtual worlds. The student said she developed a professional relationship with Ludlow after interviewing him for a journalism project.

Although she enjoyed his class, the student said some discussions were uncomfortable. Course content included the use of Second Life, a program that allows users to interact via avatars.

The student told The Daily that at least once in the class, Ludlow showed a “graphic video of virtual people having sex” that “weirded everybody out.” In the professor’s response to the Gender Violence Act suit, he confirmed that some of the video clips included “anthropomorphic ‘furry’ avatars engaged in something like sex.”

The next quarter, the student and Ludlow arranged to attend a Chicago art show relevant to his research.

On Feb. 10, they went to several art exhibits and bars, and the student said Ludlow repeatedly bought her alcohol despite her protests and fact » See in focus, page 6

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In the midst of national outcry and campus activism, Northwestern may soon be defending itself against two lawsuits alleging the school mishandled students’ sexual assault complaints.

On Thursday, the attorney of an NU graduate student said his client might sue the University, which would mark the second suit against the administration for its response to sexual assault this year. As the first progresses slowly through the court system, students and professors have taken matters into their own hands.

The Daily spoke to two other students — one who went through the Sexual Assault Hearing and Appeals System and one who chose not to — whose stories indicate the University’s processes for handling sexual violence don’t always put the survivor first.

NU’s student handbook defines sexual assault as any intentional, non-consensual touching or fondling by an individual of another person’s genitals, breasts, thighs or buttocks, as well as any touching or fondling of the individual against the victim’s will and any non-consensual acts involving penetration.

An additional policy, issued in January, defines consent to be knowing, active, voluntary, present and ongoing. It also states consent is not present when an individual is incapacitated due to age or physical

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This fall, the University plans to improve its disciplinary system for sexual assault complaints. Though these changes were in motion before a Medill junior filed suit, her story brought NU to the forefront of the national conversation on sexual assault. Administrators have already implemented what they say are progressive policies on sexual violence in an attempt to make NU a model of a safe campus.

“I would love to see Northwestern be an absolute leader,” University President Morton Schapiro said in an interview last month with The Daily.

“There’s nothing more important than the safety of our students.”

At a panel in April, Schapiro spoke about the challenges the Medill junior’s lawsuit raises and the complexities of addressing sexual assault.

“It’s a question that’s not always easy to figure out what to do,” he said.

“Sometimes we fail miserably with that.”

Behind the lawsuit NU joined the national conversation in February, when the Medill junior filed a Title IX lawsuit against the University. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits sex discrimination in education, which includes sexual assault and harassment.

The suit alleges NU failed to adequately address the student’s complaint that philosophy Prof. Peter

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Starlight Children’s Foundation Midwest, a Chicago-based organization focused on improving the lives and health of chronically ill children and their families, will be the primary beneficiary of Dance Marathon 2015, DM announced Monday night.

Starlight Midwest works to improve hospital life for children with chronic illnesses such as leukemia, Duchenne musclar dystrophy, severe asthma, congenital heart disease and epilepsy. The Midwest chapter of the national organization was founded in 1986 and works in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin.

DM spokeswoman Arielle Miller said working with the organization will allow DM to continue to support the causes of past benWe eficiaries.

She added think this is the absolute best there are ways organization to besides engage more dancing to support people within Starlight and beyond the Midwest.

Northwestern “If you are not able community. to dance or Arielle Miller, fundraise, DM spokeswoman there’s incredible service opportunities to work with these Starlight children and build very important beneficiary relationships,” the Medill sophomore said.

“We think this is the absolute best organization to engage more people within and beyond the Northwestern community.”

Starlight Midwest’s work impacts children in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Inside hospitals, the organization focuses on the development of Starlight Sites, which include treatment rooms, teen lounges and playrooms. These sites are known as “no white coat zones,” as they are designed to be safe spaces for chronically ill children.

Outside of hospitals, Starlight Midwest plans therapeutic entertainment and educational programs to create opportunities for families to spend time together.

Starlight Midwest plans to build up to 10 additional Starlight Sites with the funds raised from DM. The new sites will allow the organization to reach nearly two million children and family members. One of the sites is planned for Evanston Hospital.

Joan Steltmann (Kellogg ‘93), executive director of Starlight Midwest, said being chosen as the primary beneficiary is “a dream come true” for the organization.

“Not only will we be able to undertake unprecedented levels of projects and programming to help us reach the one in 11 kids who need Starlight, but

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Evanston police ticketed those charged with possession of a small amount of marijuana more often in 2013 than they arrested them, according to a study released last week.

In Evanston, 69 percent of people were ticketed in Evanston for the violation and 31 percent arrested. Just 7 percent in Chicago were ticketed for the same offense and the remaining 93 percent were arrested, according to a study published May 19 by the Illinois Consortium on Drug Policy at Roosevelt University.

The lower number of arrests in Evanston, which decreased 46 percent from 2012, according to the study, is the result of a change to the city’s controlled substance ordinance that City Council passed in November 2011, Evanston Police Department Cmdr.

Jay Parrott said.

“The officers are using their discretion and applying the ordinance change. … It’s much quicker to process somebody with a ticket as opposed to a physical arrest,” Parrott said. “It’s easier, it takes less time and it allows for the officer to be finished quicker with processing the individual so they can be up and available to respond to emergency calls or other types of service that we do.”

The ordinance currently states that individuals found with less than 10 grams of marijuana will be issued a notice of violation, directing them to appear at an Evanston administrative adjudication hearing, where the appropriate punishment is determined. Those found in possession of more than 10 grams go to Cook County Circuit Court. Before the policy change, individuals found in possession of any amount of marijuana were arrested and adjudicated by the county court.

The new ordinance saves time for police officers, who do not need to make appearances at administrative hearings, Parrott said.

The new policy means Evanston has partially decriminalized marijuana possession. Federal and Illinois law still deem possession an offense

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punishable by prison time. Parrott said the new city ordinance allows for officers to decide whether to ticket or arrest individuals, depending on the circumstances of specific cases.

“The law is marijuana’s still illegal,” Parrott said.

“We have to take enforcement action against it …

We’re still holding people accountable and that needs to be done. People should not be standing out on the corner smoking marijuana.”

The ordinance was also intended to avoid giving permanent criminal records to those found with small amounts of cannabis when a fine or community service could be suitable punishment, he said.

Weinberg senior Marko Pavisic presented a proposal to City Council in March for changes to Evanston’s controlled substance policy that has similar goals. Prison, as a punishment for nonviolent offenses, has an unfairly destructive effect on people’s lives, he said.

“There’s a scourge in society that destroys individuals, families and communities and that’s incarceration,” Pavisic told The Daily. “That’s sort of why I found a connection with the drug policy movement.”

Pavisic is a former co-president of Northwestern’s chapter of the Students for Sensible Drug Policy.

At the March council meeting, he proposed that Evanston implement three reforms to help lower the rate of incarceration for drug-related offenses in the city. He suggested all cannabis charges be met with administrative adjudication and fines scaled to match the amount of cannabis found on the individual.

However, Pavisic said he doesn’t think the reforms will be passed by the city to further decrease prison time for marijuana possession. Although police expressed support for issuing tickets over arrests, the discrepancy between local and Illinois law remains, he said.

“Northwestern students tend to go through the administrative adjudication process for the (10) grams or less,” he said. “Meanwhile, people who aren’t Northwestern students tend to go to prison … People can still get arrested under the state law.”

Pavisic’s drug policy reforms are on the agenda to be presented at the city’s Human Services Committee meeting on June 2, which Pavisic plans to attend. paigeleskin2017@u.northwestern.edu

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It was really a great year to build a foundation of contacts and hopefully this will become an annual summit each spring.

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Middle school girls attend leadership summit See story on page 8

Local acts to perform on Dillo Day’s IndieU stage

By Rebecca Savransky daily senior staffer @beccasavransky

The lineup for the IndieU stage at Dillo Day, a collaboration between WNUR, IndieU and Mayfest, will feature several local artists throughout the day including RUNNING, Teen Witch Fan Club, the GTW and Tink, Mayfest announced Sunday.

In launching the collaboration, WNUR approached Mayfest expressing interest in getting involved in the second stage, which was first added to Dillo Day last year, said Mayfest co-chair Xander Shepherd, a Weinberg senior.

“For us, it was really exciting to be able to collaborate both with another significant student organization or group on campus but also allow for additional styles and genres of music to be present on the day of,” Shepherd said. “We looked at this opportunity as a way to target much more specific niches of music taste on our campus as well as just artists that WNUR felt confident would excite people.”

Nick Harwood, outgoing Streetbeat music director and booking co-chair for WNUR, said IndieU, a music technology company, reached out to Streetbeat in an effort to collaborate on an event.

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Across Campuses At Penn State, off-campus safety net helps more sexual-assault victims

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Sexual assault on college campuses is an ugly topic, but it’s one that has been getting more and more headlines in recent years. From the Jerry Sandusky scandal to the White House’s Not Alone initiative, more students are hearing about it, and the more it is brought into the light, the more reports are being made.

senior Natalie Edell, and has an online magazine and mobile app which “connects independent artists to a targeted college fan base,” Edell said in a statement.

Harwood, a Communication senior, said he was excited to be working with such a successful company to bring different artists to Dillo Day. “They are super-supportive and really awesome and excited about basically blessing us and making the stage as big and awesome as it can possibly be in terms of the artists that we book and the way the stage looks,” Harwood said.

RUNNING, a punk band, will play the IndieU stage’s first slot of the day, followed

by Teen Witch Fan Club, a DJ who will be remixing pop hits with house energy.

Harwood said Teen Witch Fan Club is a well known DJ throughout the the Chicago area and said he was looking forward to his performance.

“He takes these enormous pop songs and sort of chops them up and creates something completely new out of them so it’s really weird, left-leaning type of stuff but everything is recognizable so I think it’s like a perfect type of DJ for a campus event,” Harwood said.

The vocalist GTW will follow Teen Witch Fan Club. Rapper and R&B vocalist Tink will serve as the stage’s headliner and close out the day.

“Tink is also the first female act that will be brought to Dillo in four years, and we know there was a big push for that in the beginning of the year and there was that petition that went out,” said Medill senior Ramona Roy, WNUR marketing and promotions co-director.

“We were really excited to be able to work with Mayfest to make that happen, because it’s something that meant a lot to all of us.”

Harwood said having the IndieU stage serves as a good opportunity to bring in local Chicago artists and give students a “taste of the amazing array of culture that we have here.”

“What we really wanted to emphasize was a very diverse lineup not just in terms of the gender of the performers but also the genre of the performers, the age of the performers,” Harwood said. “We really just wanted to showcase the diverse and eclectic sounds that come out of Chicago.”

Shepherd said he hopes the IndieU stage will encourage students to stay on the Lakefill during the day, noting student feedback has been very positive.

“We’re giving the student body so much more opportunity and reason to stay out on the lake,” he said. “People have been very excited to see what the three of us were able to put together. It’s been extremely positive.”

Dillo Day is scheduled for Saturday.

But not all of them are made on campus.

At Pennsylvania State University, the numbers in released data show a misleading increase — the majority of on-campus sexual assaults reported in 2012 actually happened in previous years — while off-campus advocates say the numbers of reports by students who don’t want to say anything on campus are growing.

The most recent Clery Act data reported by the university show that 56 on-campus sexual assaults were reported in 2012, up from 24

reported in 2011 and just four reported in 2010. The federal Clery Act requires universities to report safety statistics.

The 2012 data include 36 instances that occurred in prior years but were reported in 2012, leaving just 20 occurring and being reported that year. University spokeswoman Lisa Powers said the numbers at the Center for Women Students have been holding steady.

The Centre County Women’s Resource Center, just a few blocks from campus, receives about 50 sexual assault reports from Penn State

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TWO STAGES Tink, a Chicago rapper and singer, is one of several local artists to be featured on the IndieU stage at Dillo Day. The lineup will also include RUNNING, Teen Witch Fan Club and the GTW.

students per year, on average.

But from the 2011-12 school year to 2012-13, the center saw reports almost double.

‘The more you talk about it’ Alison Kiss, executive director of the Clery Center for Security on Campus, is not surprised. She is just glad the issues are being addressed somewhere.

“The more you talk about it, the more people are going to report it,” she said.

— Lori Falce (Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.)

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Guest Column

Why the US should abolish the death penalty Philip Egger

Guest columnist @philipegger

I was in diapers when George H.W. Bush used Michael Dukakis’ opposition to the death penalty as a cudgel in a campaign commercial. Since then, according to a 2013 Pew survey, support for the death penalty has been “gradually ticking downward” to 55 percent of American adults.

Until very recently, I was one of the 55 percent.

The argument that there are certain offenses which, if committed, forfeit the offender his or her right to live, retains a strong hold on my conscience — although many common arguments for abolition of the death penalty have been easy for me to dismiss. For instance, many of these arguments are grounded in religious teachings, which has always left me, as a secular person, utterly unmoved. The appeal to the growing anti-death penalty consensus in our fellow Western democracies always seemed insufficient to convince me to turn against it. After all, the mere fact that something has attained the status of conventional wisdom does not make it right. And though the racial, geographic and socioeconomic disparities that plague the use of the death penalty in this country are extremely troubling, they could just as well be resolved by a more equitable application of the death penalty as by its abolition. Nor was it the recent botched execution in Oklahoma that caused me to reexamine my stance; indeed, I sympathize with those who say that any scumbag capable of murdering a young woman by burying her alive, and then showing no sign of remorse, rightfully deserves every second of what Clayton Lockett went through.

No, the decisive factor was the release, in

the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, of a study that conservatively estimated the percentage of death row inmates wrongfully convicted at about 4 percent. That our vaunted democratic system of justice could fail so spectacularly in a task of such importance floored me. Even conceding that death penalty inmates in the United States, once convicted, are automatically afforded a right to appeal, there is no reason to believe that the appeal process is any more rigorous and less prone to failure than the original criminal trial. With this hypothesis, the percentage of death row inmates wrongfully convicted whose sentence would end up being upheld on appeal would be 4 percent times 4 percent, or 0.16 percent. This means that at a conservative estimate, for roughly every 1,000 monsters rightfully put to death, the state will have executed an innocent person. And althought the fact that innocent persons are sent to prison would not justify dismantling our whole criminal justice system, death is unique in that absolutely nothing can be done to grant any measure of redress to one wrongly subjected to it.

So the question becomes the following: Is it better to allow the 1,000 to go on living, while preserving the possibility of freedom for the one innocent person, or to execute all 1,001?

I choose the former, because I agree with the Jewish sage Maimonides who said “it is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.” I choose the former, because if there is any chance that the state could err, it should not engage in acts that are irreversible.

And because I choose the former, I believe that the time has come for my country to abolish the death penalty.

Philip Egger is a Weinberg graduate student. He can be contacted at philipegger2015@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

Trust yourself to make your best decisions meera Patel

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If there’s anything I’ve learned over the past year, it’s that even when you have no idea what you’re doing, you have to learn to fake it until you make it. You will have to make decisions throughout your life; make the ones that you need to before someone else makes them for you.

What keeps us from making decisions? What keeps The us from doing what events that are our gut tells us to do is the feeling happening to that we don’t know you right now what is best for are happening ourselves?

One of my for a reason. friends decided You’re going to to drop a major because she realized learn from every it wasn’t necessary. experience that When she talked you have and to her father about it, he told her she grow as a person had made a huge mistake. After that throughout your conversation, she life. felt terrible about her decision, even though she had felt so good about it before.

You’re the person living your life. If you’re a Northwestern student, you’re probably around 20 years old; you’ve been around enough to know what you need to do for you, even if you aren’t completely sure of what you’re doing. And you’re going to be the one dealing with the consequences of your own actions.

In regards to the job, if you don’t have that double major, is it really going to make or break your job opportunities in the future? Maybe for your first job, but after

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that, you’re being hired because of your experiences. Your majors from college won’t make that much of a difference; most skill sets you learn on the job.

It’s really easy to fall into the trap of doubting how well you can make your own decisions. If you think about all the times you’ve made mistakes because you made the wrong calls, you may think that you are not the best person to be in charge of your future.

Well, guess who is in charge of your future. You. Sometimes you have to make calls that you aren’t sure of, but you know are necessary. After you make those decisions, it’s important to stick to them and be confident in knowing that you made the right choice at the right time.

We all make mistakes; there are times when you wish you hadn’t made a choice that you did. In this case, you have two options. You can wallow in the past and think about all the things you could have or would have done, or you can accept that what happened occurred and move on. You can’t change the past; recognize when it’s necessary to let go.

A couple of nights ago, one of my friends said she believes that everything in her life happens because it’s what she needs to happen at that time. It’s been a while since I’ve thought about what’s supposedly meant to happen. I’d stopped believing in that type of thing a while ago.

But if you think about it, there’s really no other way to look at life. Life isn’t only about everything that happens to you, it’s about the way you handle yourself through it all. The events that are happening to you right now are happening for a reason.

You’re going to learn from every experience that you have and grow as a person throughout your life.

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.

What Facebook commenters are saying:

Conservatives tendency to think of themselves as silenced and victimized is more a reflection of their overinflated sense of entitlement, that their opinions, no matter how specious and oppressive, deserve to be heard because these opinions represent the voices of authentic Americans. Silencing is a code word that seeks to delegitimize non-conservative opinions, as if non-conservatives hate America and have unfairly pushed conservative thought aside. Also, Ben Shapiro’s facile dismissal of so-called identity politics—what Shapiro would probably call a promotion of universalism—is in fact a tactic designed to reinforce a particular brand of identity politics (which we used to call Eurocentrism but now refer to as hegemony) in which everybody would be compelled (via textbooks and the ways issues are framed in media, church, etc) to see issues only from the point of view of the ruling class.

In response to: “Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro discusses political debate tactics,” May 22

“I disagree on a fundamental level that an argument is more or less valid based on the person making it,” Shapiro said. “If that’s true, then we’d have to polarize the political debate to the point where only women are voting on contraception...”

Because God forbid, right? Ben Shapiro, push a baby out and call me.

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Fallen saluted at Memorial Day event The American Legion Post 42 held a Memorial Day ceremony in Evanston on Monday to honor fallen American soldiers. More than 50 veterans and civilians gathered in the plaza at the intersection of Sherman Avenue and Davis Street for the annual event. Several speakers, including Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl, spoke in honor of fallen American soldiers at the ceremony. Students from the Rickover Naval Academy performed the presentation of colors.

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Options for sexual assault survivors:

that she was underage.

Ludlow eventually brought the student to his Chicago apartment, ignoring her repeated requests to be driven back to Evanston, the suit alleges. The suit says that Ludlow forcibly kissed and groped her. After blacking out that night, the student said she woke up the next morning in Ludlow’s bed with his arms around her. Ludlow then dropped the student off in Evanston.

Two days after the incident, the student attempted suicide. She was hospitalized for three days and diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder, she said.

The student reported the incident, launching a two-month investigation by Joan Slavin, the director of the Sexual Harassment Prevention Office.

Ludlow has denied all allegations of sexual assault through his attorneys. In a statement, Ludlow’s attorneys said the student “initiated friendly communications” the day after the alleged assault and before it engaged in “unprofessional communications” with him.

When a sexual assault not committed by a student is reported to the University, Slavin’s office investigates the incident and releases findings that inform potential sanctions. In 2012, University policy prohibited student-faculty relationships in which the professor held a supervisory position over the student. Since NU’s policy was overhauled in January, all romantic relationships between faculty and students are prohibited.

Slavin interviewed the student, Ludlow and “other witnesses,” in addition to reviewing documents the student provided. She concluded her investigation in April 2012, when she emailed the student a summary of her findings. She found Ludlow had made “unwelcome and inappropriate sexual advances” toward the student and that he violated NU’s sexual misconduct policy.

Slavin did not tell the student about any disciplinary actions taken against Ludlow due to “its confidential personnel nature,” according to an email Slavin sent her.

The University imposed disciplinary sanctions on Ludlow after the investigation, denying him a pay raise for the 2012-13 academic year, rescinding his endowed professorship, requiring him to complete a harassment-prevention training program and issuing a no-contact directive.

The student was not informed of these sanctions and learned that Ludlow would remain on campus through another professor. The next quarter, the student said she repeatedly ran into Ludlow, interactions that triggered anxiety and panic attacks.

She sought assistance from the Center for Awareness, Response and Education, the University’s advocacy office for sexual assault survivors.

She called the resource “totally useless.”

The student used CARE but is no longer receiving services, saying the center cited a conflict of interest.

Laura Stuart, CARE’s coordinator of sexual health education and violence prevention, said the office recommends that students who sue the University seek advocacy services elsewhere because their records there may no longer be confidential.

“There are pros and cons to having survivor advocates who work for the University,” Stuart said. “This is one of the downsides.”

Ludlow’s academic path Ludlow is a leading scholar in his field, a unique blend of philosophy and linguistics. He began teaching at NU in 2008 and has written extensively on hacktivism and digital culture. His next book will be released July 8.

Before NU, he taught at the University of Toronto Mississauga, the University of Michigan and Stony Brook University. Jason Stanley, now a philosophy professor at Yale University, worked closely with Ludlow while the two were at Stony Brook together. Stanley, then an undergraduate, said Ludlow was “remarkably generous” with his time.

“He was so willing to drop everything to work with me,” he told The Daily.

Ludlow made waves in the online world in 2003, when Electronic Arts, the owner of The Sims Online, terminated his account. He was banned from the game after publishing a virtual newspaper about the criminal underbelly of the game’s biggest city, reporting on theft and a teenage prostitution ring. Salon magazine dubbed him an “unabashed muckraker” fighting censorship by the Sims’ creators.

Meanwhile, Ludlow’s prominence led to him being offered the top spot at one of the nation’s best philosophy departments. In November, the philosophy blog Leiter Reports wrote Ludlow

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would serve as the next director of the Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

Brian Leiter, the blog’s creator and a philosophy professor at the University of Chicago, wrote in a February email to The Daily that Ludlow’s position at Rutgers was “not in doubt” at the time of his post.

Ludlow indicated he had accepted the job in a public Facebook post. “I read this on Leiter, so it must be true,” he wrote, linking to Leiter’s blog.

Multiple Rutgers employees congratulated him on Facebook.

After the lawsuit was filed, Rutgers denied Ludlow had the job.

“This was not brought to our attention by either the candidate or his employer. We are looking into this matter thoroughly, including requesting all relevant information to fully evaluate his candidacy,” Rutgers spokesman Greg Trevor told The Daily in a statement in February.

As of Friday, Rutgers had yet to make a decision on Ludlow’s candidacy. His attorneys did not follow up on requests for comment.

University spokesman Al Cubbage told The Daily that Ludlow will not teach classes Fall Quarter. Schedules for the rest of the 2014-15 academic year have not yet been finalized.

Taking a stand Ludlow — and the Title IX lawsuit centered around his alleged assault — has spurred protests at NU and Rutgers.

Sociology Prof. Laura Beth Nielsen published an op-ed in The Daily the day after the suit was filed, calling for greater accountability from the University.

After publishing her column, Nielsen, the director of legal studies, said concerned faculty began reaching out to her. About 20 faculty members started a Change.org petition to the University’s Board of Trustees on Feb. 23, garnering more than 1,600 signatures.

The document calls for full implementation of Title IX and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act. It also asks that any faculty member found in violation of the sexual misconduct policy be terminated and those findings be included in a staffer’s personnel file.

Associated Student Government passed a resolution several days later supporting the petition.

The administration and students had their first direct confrontation March 4 with a sit-in and march along Sheridan Road. After, students began

Reporting assault

Although the case involving Ludlow was investigated by Slavin, survivors of student-on-student sexual assault can report their cases to the University through SAHAS. The complainant and responding student may reach an agreement through mediation with administrators or they may proceed to a hearing before a panel of five to seven students, faculty members and administrators. Each panel member must receive 12 hours of case training related to sexual assault.

Each side presents a five-minute opening statement and then receives an hour to call on witnesses and present evidence. The complainant and responding student then give a fiveminute closing statement.

The panel deliberates, decides whether the respondent has violated University policy and moves into the sanctioning phase. During this time, each side may present information for the panel to consider in deciding the respondent’s punishment. Either side may also appeal the decision.

For one survivor of sexual assault, reporting the incident to the University proved frustrating and disappointing.

The Weinberg sophomore, who asked to remain anonymous, said she was sexually assaulted by another student in February 2013 while sleeping in her dorm room with her boyfriend, who was visiting from another college.

“I woke up in the middle of the night and there was another student in my bed, and he was touching me,” she said. “We asked him to leave, he wouldn’t leave and he put up a fight.”

Her residence’s community service officer identified the assailant as the boyfriend of another student who lived there. Her freshman adviser directed her to CARE, where she spoke with Eva Ball, coordinator of sexual violence response services and advocacy, and decided to report the assault to the University through SAHAS. She said she chose SAHAS rather than reporting to the police because going to court would have been too stressful and time-intensive and Ball told her it would be easier to prove the assailant was guilty at NU because the evidence required by SAHAS is less concrete than in court.

The hearing was held in March 2013. The assailant was found to have violated the University’s sexual assault policy and put on deferred suspension, meaning if he didn’t follow any other conduct policies — including a no-contact agreement drawn up between him and the student — he would be suspended from NU for at least one quarter.

In hindsight, the student said, that wasn’t enough.

She said during the hearing’s sanctioning phase, she was allowed to “present what I think would be an appropriate punishment,” but she did not know what to say.

“That’s one of the things I wasn’t really happy with the school about,” she said. “I just wanted to know what is a realistic thing to expect, and what is a normal sanction, and no one could tell me. So I had no idea what to ask for.”

At the time, she didn’t feel comfortable asking for the assailant to be expelled, she said, and administrators did not properly advise her of standard punishments.

“Everyone in the school that I asked, Student Conduct, even Eva, I would say, ‘Is it too much for me to say that I think he shouldn’t go here anymore?’” she said. “And everyone would say, ‘Well, every situation’s different.’”

Immediately after the assault, University Police asked her if she wanted the assailant arrested, but she requested only that he be removed from the dorm.

“I just said, ‘I want him to leave for now,’ I didn’t want to make any big decisions,” she said. “I was panicked and I didn’t know what to do.”

Tara Sullivan, director of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution, told The Daily the punishment for sexual misconduct “really depends on the

Counseling and Psychological Services, Center

Turn to legal options if University processes fail

a series of meetings with Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president for student affairs, and Dean of Students Todd Adams. Administrators announced the cancellation of Ludlow’s Spring Quarter class on March 12.

NU also expressed an interest in working with a third-party consultant to evaluate policies on sexual misconduct, a step a White House task force has recommended for schools nationwide.

While students on both campuses await a decision about Ludlow’s future at Rutgers, activists at the New Jersey school are protesting as well, asking the university’s president to deny Ludlow the job and to change how the school hires new faculty members.

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individual situation” because of the variety of acts covered under the policy. She could not comment on individual cases.

“We absolutely have the ability to go up to and through suspension and exclusion, and that’s always something that’s talked about by the board,” Sullivan said. “Their decision to use a suspension or exclusion is ruled by some individual factors of the specific case.”

Looking back, the student said she wishes she had “done something more severe” than SAHAS, such as reporting to police. She said the hearing was disorganized, and administrators did not act appropriately.

Witnesses during the hearing were not allowed to speak with her or the assailant. But she said the assailant’s mother, a character witness for him, approached her and pleaded with her not to get her son expelled.

“Everyone knew it was inappropriate but no one was saying anything until it was really severe, and she was in my face, and it should have been stopped much before,” she said. “No one really knew their place … which I also know is probably because there haven’t been that many hearings, so people actually didn’t know what to do. But they should.”

According to the Student Conduct website, one SAHAS hearing occurred during the 2012-13 academic year.

The no-contact directive between the student and assailant, established after the hearing, stipulates that he cannot approach, communicate with or be in the same room as her. He is also forbidden from retaliating against her for reporting the act.

But the student said her assailant violated the contract numerous times.

“We were both at this event, and he said he wasn’t going to leave unless I called the police because he doesn’t care,” she said.

In October 2013, she complained to Student Conduct her assailant had violated their contract.

She hoped he would be removed from campus but encountered roadblocks with the reporting process.

“I was under the impression that it was an automatic ‘he gets kicked out for a quarter,’” she said. “I didn’t realize that I had to go through (the University Hearing and Appeals System) and do a whole other trial.”

This time, the sophomore said, she was only a witness, and an administrator from Student Conduct presented the case to another panel. After many attempts to communicate with the administrator and receiving what she said were infrequent responses from him, the hearing was nearly rescheduled to Winter Quarter. It was eventually held the last day of Fall Quarter.

“It was just really disorganized, and obviously not a priority that they could just push it off until the next quarter,” the student said.

She described the hearing as “awful” and “unprepared.” She said the administrator who presented the case neglected to take a witness statement for a friend’s testimony, “so it didn’t count for anything,” and the panel was later made aware the assailant lied at the hearing but did not do anything about it.

He was ultimately found not to have violated the contract, and the student said she chose not to appeal.

“The fact that I had even lost the hearing made me ridiculously upset,” she said. “I didn’t know if I was going to come back to school Winter Quarter.

It didn’t make sense to me that they were aware he lied ... and there was nothing they could do about it except have me go and re-appeal, and it wasn’t necessarily guaranteed that he would get kicked out still.”

student sexual assault, included a closed hearing Sullivan said the investigator would be used in both before a panel of one administrator, one student SAHAS and UHAS proceedings.

One student, who asked to remain anonymous, and one faculty member.

Prior to the creation of SAHAS, the Office of told The Daily she chose not to go through SAHAS Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution heard after she was sexually assaulted because she didn’t sexual assault cases through UHAS, which deals want to discuss the incident in front of her peers. with all student conduct violations. No sexual “Part of SAHAS is being in front of your peers assault case had ever been filed with the UHAS and the other students and confronting the person,” panel, its executive secretary told The Daily in the student said. “I think that really deterred me May 1990. from doing that.”

Sullivan said unlike the current model, the In early 1991, NU hired a sexual assault coordinator. But conflict persisted between the admin- change would allow an investigation to occur before istration and activists hoping for reform. Students the hearing rather than during it. continued to demand stricter measures, such as “That’s why it sometimes has a tendency to drag more specific sanctions in sexual assault cases. on for many, many hours,” she said.

In October 1991, written messages on women’s NU has gathered feedback from ASG and student bathroom walls began appearing, accusing one groups such as Sexual Health and Assault Peer Edustudent of rape and urging women to “unite” cators and Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault, against him.

Sullivan said. She said students have responded Women’s Center director June Terpstra left positively to the investigator model.

NU in 1993, citing clashes with the administraSullivan said administrators may also allow stution. Later that year, UP dents who report assaults to be was granted jurisdiction in in a different room from their investigating cases of sexual assailant during the hearing. assault on campus to allow The Student Conduct revivictims to be questioned as sions will be the next step in a I just wanted to know little as possible. series of administrative actions what is a realistic thing In 1994, NU barred that began last spring. The attorneys from representing Title IX Coordinating Comto expect, and what is a students or the University formed in April 2013, normal sanction, and no mittee in UHAS cases so students with administrators from sevwould not feel at a disad- one could tell me. So I had eral offices and departments.

Slavin was also named Title IX vantage. The change made no idea what to ask for.

UHAS more closely resemCoordinator to ensure UniverWeinberg sophomore on ble SAHAS, which has never sity practices comply with the SAHAS procedure allowed lawyers. law.

In early 2000, SAHAS In January, the University released a new sexual misconcame under fire when the University handed a one-year suspension to a stu- duct policy, developed with the help of the Campus dent whom the panel unanimously found to have Coalition on Sexual Violence, which expanded the sexually assaulted another student. He remained definition of consent and more strictly prohibited on campus and in his dorm while he appealed the stalking and dating violence. Sullivan was hired that decision, a process that took about six weeks, and month as director of student conduct and conflict the survivor came in contact with him during that resolution to revise SAHAS and UHAS. time. Students in the assailant’s dorm were not Administrators also plan to better publicize NU’s notified he violated the sexual assault policy. resources in the future.

“That’s really disappointing, that they’re still not “I think what we’ve been able to do relatively willing — in the year 2000 — to make a precedent quickly is pull together the community and make by expelling someone for sexual assault,” the sur- some changes on policy,” Dean of Students Todd Adams said. “Our next step is process and that’s vivor told The Daily at the time.

Students demanded a SAHAS overhaul, includ- where the investigator would come in as a potential ing harsher punishments and a stricter selection option.” process for panel members. A review committee Sullivan said the University will spend much of of students, faculty and staff members formed in the 2014-15 academic year encouraging students to come forward and report assaults to the revised Spring Quarter 2000.

In January 2001, then-University President Student Conduct system.

Henry Bienen approved the seven SAHAS changes Faculty members at CARE also hope to expand recommended to him by the review committee, their sexual assault-related services. including considering drugs and alcohol an “aggraIn February, CARE reapplied for a U.S. Departvating factor” in sexual assault cases. ment of Justice grant which supports universities’ Administrators told The Daily at the time the sexual assault response and prevention programs. changes strengthened SAHAS but the system itself NU first received the $300,000 grant, which expires did not need a complete overhaul. More than a in September, almost three years ago and used some decade later, that outlook has changed. of the money to establish CARE. Stuart said if NU receives the new grant, it will ‘Our next step is process’ use some of the funds to investigate sexual violence issues relating to black and LGBTQ students. CARE The University hopes to revise its practices this would also hire a new full-time coordinator of men’s fall, considering the addition of a third-party inves- engagement. tigator to look into student conduct complaints.

The Title IX Coordinating Committee was A national movement already considering this model when the White House recommended it in an April report about Title IX and the Clery Act govern universities’ combatting college sexual assault, Slavin said. responses to sexual assault. The two federal laws

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Shaping the system Questions about how NU handles sexual assault are nothing new.

Despite Title IX providing students with legal protection from sex-based discrimination starting in 1972, sexual violence remained a key campus issue. At least two different student groups created escort services in the 1970s to walk people home on weekend evenings. Prior to 1990, NU had a policy on sexual harassment but not on sexual assault.

The University addressed sexual assault directly in 1990, partially spurred by incidents that came to light that May. A Weinberg freshman was arrested twice in connection with sexual assaults on campus. He denied the charges but temporarily withdrew from NU. In the same month, a Medill senior was arrested in connection with the off-campus sexual assault of a woman he was dating. The University later said there was not enough evidence to pursue disciplinary action, but the student went to court on a criminal sexual abuse charge.

Less than a week after students demanded more campus safety measures, the University released its first sexual assault policy on May 15, 1990. That fall, NU began requiring new students to attend a sexual assault education session.

In the fall of 1990, the University also debuted SAHAS. The disciplinary procedure, created specifically to deal with alleged cases of student-on-

have given legal backing to activism against sexual assault nationwide.

In April 2011, the Department of Education issued a “Dear Colleague” letter clarifying Title IX’s requirements. Under the law, the letter said, universities are obligated to maintain safe environments for students to report their assaults, seek services and continue their education without interruption.

Colleges that do not comply with Title IX risk losing federal financial aid money. Students who believe their schools have not met Title IX’s requirements can file a complaint with the department’s Office for Civil Rights, which can lead to a federal investigation.

A slew of Title IX complaints have taken aim at colleges across the country.

Lena Sclove, a student on leave from Brown University, filed a complaint Thursday against her school. Brown found a student guilty in October of strangling and raping Sclove but reduced the assailant’s suspension time from two years to one, which includes the semester of the hearing.

The assailant could have returned to campus this August, but has said he will not.

Twenty-three Columbia University and Barnard College students filed a complaint in April, claiming administrators were too lenient with students who were found guilty of sexual assault and did not accommodate survivors’ mental health issues.

Weeks later, a list of names of students who had allegedly violated the school’s sexual assault policy began appearing on Columbia’s campus.

In October 2012, Angie Epifano, a former student at Amherst College, wrote a first-person account of her school’s lack of support after a fellow student raped her.

“He graduated with honors. I will not graduate from Amherst,” Epifano wrote in The Amherst Student. “The stories and statistics are miles long in regards to sexual assault on campus. My story is far from unique.”

The article went viral, prompting an NU student to come forward after she said she was pressured into taking medical leave following her rape.

“They took an already traumatized person and just made it exponentially worse,” Lauren Buxbaum, then a Weinberg senior, told The Daily in November 2012. “And then told me it was my choice whether to go on medical leave or not.

But you’ve made it so that I am a broken person now.”

About a year after leaving Amherst, Epifano and an alumna filed a Title IX complaint against the school. Amherst is on the list of the 55 colleges under investigation for alleged Title IX violations, which the DOE released May 1. The list of colleges has since grown.

The list’s release came alongside a federal crackdown on college sexual assault. In January, President Barack Obama established the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault.

Wagatwe Wanjuki, a social media consultant for the student activism group Know Your IX, is one of eight organizers of ED ACT NOW, a campaign founded almost a year ago pushing the DOE to better enforce Title IX. Earlier this year, Wanjuki and other ED ACT NOW organizers met with the White House task force to discuss possible solutions.

“They actually reached out to us, and they said our petition was actually one of the biggest reasons why they decided to create this task force,” Wanjuki told The Daily.

The task force released its first report April 29. Among its recommendations are campus climate surveys about sexual assault at a school and bystander intervention training for campus community members to prevent sexual assault.

NU already has a bystander intervention program, and the University is considering sending out campus climate surveys.

‘No one has helped me’

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‘take action’ Students protest outside the kickoff of Northwestern’s $3.75 billion capital campaign, “We Will.” The students are part of a movement that has questioned NU’s handling of sexual assault in the campus community.

Although activists nationwide are pushing for reform, any changes will come too late for students like the Medill junior suing NU and the Weinberg sophomore who went through SAHAS. The sophomore said knowing her assailant remains at NU has impacted her life on campus.

She looks around whenever she enters a room to see if he is there, and “it’s weird knowing that everyone in his frat hates me,” she said.

She said she would not recommend others attend NU because of her experience with SAHAS and administrators, who she said are “not looking out for the students.”

When asked if she feels safe on campus, she answered, “Yes and no.”

“I don’t think anything would happen to me realistically,” she said. “But if something did happen, I then wouldn’t feel safe. Now that I’ve dealt with literally everyone in Northwestern’s administration and no one has helped me in the past, I don’t think that they would help me in the future.” jkuang@u.northwestern.edu mccarthy@u.northwestern.edu

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American Sign Language Club hosts ‘Silent Night’

By Jordan harrison

the daily northwestern @MedillJordan

Northwestern’s American Sign Language Club hosted its first speaker Saturday, bringing deaf activist Karen Putz to campus to talk about accepting her identity as a deaf person and rediscovering her passions in life.

The event, “Silent Night,” began with performances by Lauren Putz, Karen Putz’s daughter, and her friend Keely Holtz. The duo, which performs under the name Ren and Keely, performed sign language interpretations of One Direction’s “Story of My Life” and Little Mix’s “Wings.”

Weinberg sophomore Marie Peeples, vice president of the ASL Club, also presented a sign language interpretation of the Robert Frost poem “Fire and Ice.” Karen Putz spoke and signed simultaneously during her speech. She began her talk by describing her childhood. She and several of her family members grew up hard of hearing,

and she got her first hearing aid at nine years old.

“I got my first hearing aid, and absolutely hated it,” she said. “It was just one hearing aid, and I never, ever showed it to anyone, because I was very ashamed, embarrassed, and the interesting thing is that I had no one to compare it to except for my family.”

She became completely deaf after a barefoot waterskiing accident when she was 19.

After her accident, she said she had to decide whether to stay at home or go to college at Northern Illinois University. She chose college, and said she had a hard time adjusting to classes and social life.

“In this kind of auditorium, when the teacher is walking up and down and writing on the board and some student in row 53 is answering, it’s impossible for a deaf or hard of hearing person to follow,” she said.

But one day, Putz said, she accepted her deaf identity.

“That morning, I got up, and I put my hair in a ponytail, slapped on my hearing aid … got on the bus, and went to class,” she said. “I

got on the bus and thought, wow, everybody’s looking at me. They weren’t.”

She said she had to “learn to be deaf ” and came to see her deafness as When you shift your paradigm of a blessing.

“When you shift what it means to your paradigm of be deaf ... you shift what it means to be deaf, what it means it to something to be hard of hearthat’s normal and ing, you shift it to something that’s natural. normal and natural, and all of a sudden Karen Putz, it’s not something to deaf activist be fixed,” she said.

Four years ago, Putz rediscovered the passion that took her hearing – barefoot waterskiing – after seeing a clip from the “Today” show about a 66-yearold competitive barefoot waterskier.

She now serves as a board member for Hands & Voices, a national support organization for

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children who are deaf and hard of hearing, and she is the founder of its Illinois chapter.

Weinberg freshman Brittany Bair said she was interested in ASL because she has deaf grandparents, and enjoyed Putz’s talk.

“I thought the speaker was so inspiring,” she said. “Her stories were very funny and her outlook on life, even if being deaf or hard of hearing isn’t something that somebody you know has had to deal with, it’s really inspiring to hear.”

When describing the purpose of the ASL Club, Weinberg sophomore Katie Lalla, said some of the group’s goals are to expose to people to sign language, create a group of signers on campus, and create a welcoming, deaffriendly environment on campus. She said the group is only a few years old, and Putz’s talk is the first big event the club has put on.

“Basically, as a club we want to spread the word about ASL, get people interested, give people a place to go when they want to learn sign language,” she said. jordanharrison2017@u.northwestern.edu

IGEM leadership summit educates dozens of local girls

By TYLER PAGER

the daily northwestern @tylerpager

The International Gender Equality Movement held a leadership summit Saturday for 54 middle school girls in an effort to develop leadership skills and educate them about issues that girls in developing countries face.

The summit was held in Harris Hall, and participants came from the Evanston and Chicago area.

Weinberg sophomore Vivien Hastings and SESP sophomore Carly Pablos founded iGEM in November. The organization was founded as a chapter of Girl Up, a campaign by the United Nations Foundation, which aims to empower American girls to raise awareness and funds to support adolescent girls in developing countries.

Girl Up was founded three years ago and holds an annual summit each year in Washington, D.C. iGEM, which Hastings said is one of the first collegiate Girl Up chapters, is funded by the Roberta Buffett Center.

Hastings said the goal of the event was to educate the girls and spread Girl Up’s message in the Chicago and Evanston communities. She said she hopes the event will inspire other girls to create

Girl Up chapters.

As a result, Julie Willig, a grassroots officer for Girl Up, said this event was important in spreading the organization’s message to new communities.

“Girl Up is a for-girls, by-girls movement, so this type of event really epitomizes that type of movement and campaign,” she said. “It’s great because the girls are learning in an interactive, fun way, and they are able to see these campus leaders as mentors, as role models too, and as people to aspire to and be like.”

The summit was divided into two parts. The morning session focused on leadership and team building. In the afternoon, the girls split up into different interactive breakout groups to participate in simulations on issues such as health, safety and education. Sessions were led by members of NU’s Conference on Human Rights, College Feminists, GlobeMed and Students for Education Reform.

“We really wanted to bring in other student involvement into this project so that we could really join as Northwestern students into teaching what we have accomplished and teaching how these girls can become the next global leaders and really learn about global issues at a young age,” Hastings said.

Despite the group’s new presence, Pablos said the group worked hard to establish connections

Source: Arielle Ticho

HERE TO LEARN Middle school girls from the Chicago area attend the International Gender Equality Movement’s leadership summit in Harris Hall. The summit on Saturday involved sessions on team building and simulations on issues about health, education and safety.

within the community in order to make the event possible. She said after the event’s success this year, the group plans to improve and grow the summit in the future.

“We didn’t really know what to expect because this was our first big event for people that don’t

go to Northwestern,” she said. “It was really a great year to build a foundation of contacts and hopefully this will become an annual summit each spring.” tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu

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City looks to hold 2nd set of social media webinars

By Bailey williams

the daily northwestern @news_BaileyW

The city’s Economic Development Division is looking to hold its second set of social media webinars May 29, focusing on Pinterest and Instagram tips for local businesses.

The free webinar lasts 75 minutes and is targeted at social media coordinators at a beginner or intermediate level. The webinar will include information on how the city uses social media and strategies businesses could use to increase and better their social media use.

Among those who will be present are Luke Stowe, digital services coordinator, Elaine

Kemna-Irish, Evanston Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, Charliese Agnew, Community Engagement Specialist and Cindy Plante, ICMA local government management fellow Cindy Plante.

During the first webinar, the discussion focused on texting, website hosting, Facebook, Twitter, and some other tools, Stowe said. This inspired a different focus for the second webinar’s discussion, which will cover new social media platforms and perspective on other topics.

“There’s so much going on… that (with) one webinar, there wasn’t enough time,” Stowe said.

Stowe calls Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Instagram and Pinterest the

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There’s so much going on ... that (with) one webinar, there wasn’t enough time.

Luke Stowe, city digital services coordinator

“big six” of social media. There is “a tendency to always talk about Facebook and Twitter,” Stowe said. Despite this, he said, depending where you look, Pinterest has an increasing presence.

According to a Pew Research study, 71 percent of adults who use the Internet also used Facebook in September 2013. About 22 percent

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she filed a complaint to take action against the site’s objectification of women.

“I think the website should be taken down,” Cherney, a former Daily staffer, said. “I think it’s more than distasteful, it’s harmful.”

Cherney said there is a need for more dialogue on campus about issues of objectifying women and emphasized that anyone should

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Starlight, star bright A child attends the Starlight Children’s Foundation’s Fantasy Flight event. The Midwest chapter of the organization will be Dance Marathon’s 2015 primary beneficiary, DM announced Monday.

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From page 1 we also have the chance to work with this amazing group of students who have been so impactful to their community,” she said in a press release.

DM spokesman Ross Gordon said the fact that one in 11 children has a chronic illness is evidence of the broad impact DM’s funds can have on the organization.

“It makes you realize that this organization can

touch so many different people and is so vast in scope,” the Medill junior said. “It’s something that we are excited to work a whole year for and very excited to rally the campus behind.”

For the 18th consecutive year, the Evanston Community Foundation will serve as DM’s secondary beneficiary.

The 41st year of DM will be held March 6 to 8, 2015. tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu

Student dies of gunshot after killing 6, hurting 13 in Southern California rampage

ISLA VISTA, Calif. — At first, when it began, it was lost to the soundtrack of another Friday night in this bluff-top college town: screeching tires and what sounded like fireworks.

But then — shattered glass. Sirens. Screams.

Within 10 minutes, it was done — seven dead, 13 wounded, a tortured young man slumped at the wheel of a shattered BMW, a gunshot wound to his head, three semiautomatic handguns and more than 400 rounds of ammunition at his side.

Behind him, there were 10 distinct crime scenes in a single square mile — skateboarders and bikers run down and tossed into the air;

used LinkedIn and 21 percent used Pinterest.

These three were closely followed by Twitter and Instagram.

During the webinar, Stowe said he hopes to encourage small businesses to reconsider how they distribute their money, shifting advertisement revenue to a more digital source. Stowe said that there is some reluctance to make this shift, but hopes this is the direction businesses start to take.

For the first webinar, there were about 35 attendees, Stowe said, adding that he expects a similar turnout at the May 29 webinar. He said the city may schedule a third webinar in the future. baileywilliams2017@u.northwestern.edu be allowed to speak out against discrimination based on gender or sexuality without worry of receiving backlash.

“I think it’s important for Northwestern students to know that people on this campus are thinking these things and do these things,” Cherney said. “I think there’s a tendency to think that at elite institutions, people are somehow above this and don’t do this but that’s not true.” rebeccasavransky2015@u.northwestern.edu bullets bursting through the windows of shops; police officers tackling pedestrians and hauling them indoors to protect them; two young women dying on the lawn of a sorority.

For months, Elliot Rodger, 22, had posed behind the wheel of that same BMW, posting videos of himself on social media.

The son of a Hollywood director, he was born to a rarefied world, but he had been suffocating in sadness and self-pity, lashing out at those he felt had rejected him. To the popular kids, the sorority sisters, “the brutes,” he promised “a day of retribution.”

On Friday, the authorities said, it arrived.

Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown called the rampage “premeditated mass murder,” the “work of a madman.”

— Adolfo Flores, Kate Mather and Scott Gold (Los Angeles Times)

Talking Back/Taking Back: Re-Appropriation in Native Poetry Visiting Writer-in-Residence Poetry and Fiction Writer

MARK TURCOTTE Tuesday, May 27, 2014 5:30-6:30 pm University Hall, Room 201 1897 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208

Poet and fiction writer Mark Turcotte (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) will share his own and the works of a selection of Native poets, and offer a discussion of attempts by many Native writers to address the long history of misrepresentation and appropriation created by non-Native authors.

Q&A and book-signing will follow.

Sponsored by the Northwestern University’s Center for the Writing Arts www.northwestern.edu/writing-arts/

Student Recitals MAY 27 - JUNE 3 27TUE

Master's Recital: ShuYi Guan, piano 6 p.m., Lutkin Student of Alan Chow Works by Brahms Clara Hofeldt, violin 6 p.m., Garrett Student of Blair Milton Works by Leclair and Mozart Master's Recital: Gawon Han, Ă XWH 6 p.m., Regenstein Student of John Thorne Works by Ran and Schubert Senior Recital: Helaine Liebman, soprano 8:30 p.m., Lutkin Student of Pamela Hinchman Works by Handel and Liszt Michaela Kizershot, violin 8:30 p.m., Regenstein Student of Blair Milton Works by Mozart and Bach

28WED

Doctoral Recital: Jamie Namkung, piano 6 p.m., Lutkin Student of Alan Chow Works by Mozart Master's Recital: Daley Melton, violin 6 p.m., Regenstein Student of Blair Milton Works by Mozart and Brahms Henry Myers, FHOOR 6 p.m., Garrett Student of Hans Jensen Works by Walton and Carter Cameron LeCrone, MD]] SHUFXVVLRQ 8:30 p.m., Lutkin Student of Victor Goines and Willie Jones III Works by Monk and Davis Senior Recital: Seth Kelley, horn 8:30 p.m., Regenstein Student of Gail Williams and Jon Boen Works by Bach and Strauss

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Joseph Schuster, YRLFH 6 p.m., Lutkin Student of Theresa Brancaccio Works by Mozart and Cui Maya Cohon, violin 6 p.m., Regenstein Student of Almita Vamos Works by Brahms and Bach Doctoral Recital: David Gauger, WUXPSHW 6:30 p.m., Regenstein Student of Charles Geyer Works by Honegger and Sachse Master's Recital: Tobias Wright, YRLFH 8:30 p.m., Alice Millar Student of Kurt Hansen Works by Eisler and Britten Brynn Johnson, YRLFH 8:30 p.m., Lutkin Student of Karen Brunssen Works by Handel and Mahler Doctoral Recital: Aaron Miller, GRXEOH EDVV 8:30 p.m., Regenstein Student of Andrew Raciti Works by Glisic and Hill

30FRI

Karen Schriesheim, soprano 6 p.m., Lutkin Student of Sunny Joy Langton Works by Heggi and Strauss Master's Recital: Joshua deVries, WXED 6 p.m., Regenstein Student of Rex Martin Works by Eccles and Strauss Master's Recital: Yueun Kim, piano 8:30 p.m., Lutkin Student of Alan Chow Works by Schubert and Franck Elena Spiegel, violin 8:30 p.m., Regenstein Student of Blair Milton Works by Bach and Bruch

31SAT

Master's Recital: Bonnie Frauenthal, soprano 12 p.m., Lutkin Student of W. Stephen Smith Works by Verdi and Liszt

31SAT CONT'D. Master's Recital: Gina Bordini, violin 12 p.m., Regenstein Student of Frank Almond Works by Bach and Kernis

Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Recital: Audra Loveland, horn 12 p.m., Alice Millar Student of Gail Williams Works by Bozza and Brahms Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Recital: Melissa Serluco, PH]]R VRSUDQR 3 p.m., Lutkin Student of W. Stephen Smith Works by Strauss and Ravel Master's Recital: Joshua Harrison, GRXEOH EDVV 3 p.m., Regenstein Student of Andrew Raciti Works by Bach and Vanhal Senior Recital: Brent Fernandez-Morera, MD]] WURPERQH 5 p.m., Alice Millar Student of Elliot Mason Works by Morgan and Jobim Master's Recital: Ji-Ye Kim, FHOOR 6 p.m., Lutkin Student of Hans Jensen Works by Bach and KodĂĄly Doctoral Recital: Sean Hurlburt, VD[RSKRQH 6 p.m., Regenstein Student of Timothy McAllister Works by Leroux and O'Brien Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Recital: Juan Garcia, JXLWDU 7:30 p.m., Vail Student of Anne Waller Works by De Milan and Kellner Doctoral Recital: Sergiy Komirenko, piano 8:30 p.m., Lutkin Student of James Giles Works by Chopin and Medtner Doctoral Recital: Rodolfo Vieira, violin 8:30 p.m., Regenstein Student of Gerardo Ribeiro Works by Mozart and Grieg

Alice Millar Chapel 1870 Sheridan Rd

Garrett Seminary 2121 Sheridan Rd

Lutkin Hall 700 University Place

Regenstein Hall 60 Arts Circle Drive

Vail Chapel 1870 Sheridan Rd

Admission for student recitals is free.

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Sarah Stumbras, GRXEOH EDVV 12 p.m., Lutkin Student of Andrew Raciti Works by Bach and Anderson Master's Recital: .HYLQ 3Ă&#x20AC; VWHU EDVVRRQ 12 p.m., Regenstein Student of Christopher Millard Works by Françaix and Hetu Claire Werling, FODULQHW 3 p.m., Lutkin Student of Steven Cohen and J. Lawrie Bloom Works by Bassi and Mozart Master's Recital: Lucas Boyd, EDVVRRQ 6 p.m., Lutkin Student of Christopher Millard Works by Sluka and Poulenc Master's Recital: Joseph Aumann, WURPERQH 6 p.m., Regenstein Student of Michael Mulcahy Works by FaurĂŠ and Premru Ian Greenberg, FHOOR 8:30 p.m., Lutkin Student of Hans Jensen Works by Pärt and Barber Senior Recital: Jonathan Yu, violin 8:30 p.m., Regenstein Student of Gerardo Ribeiro Works by Brahms and Bach

2MON

Pan Xiao, piano 6 p.m., Lutkin Student of Alan Chow Works by Mozart and Liszt Doctoral Recital: Tong Wang, piano 8:30 p.m., Lutkin Student of James Giles Works by Franck and Perle Master's Recital: Caroline Rothstein, violin 8:30 p.m., Regenstein Student of Blair Milton Works by Mozart and Bach

3TUE

Kevin Haseltine, horn 6 p.m., Regenstein Student of Gail Williams and Jon Boen Works by Schumann and Brahms Anthony Bellino, WUXPSHW 8:30 p.m., Regenstein Student of Robert Sullivan Works by Turrin and Glière

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Student Recitals JUNE 4 - 17 4WED

Master's Recital: Jonathan Charles Tay, WHQRU 6 p.m., Lutkin Student of W. Stephen Smith Works by Falvo and Valente

7SAT CONT'D.

Senior Recital: Kelton Koch, WURPERQH 12 p.m., Regenstein Student of Michael Mulcahy Works by Sulek and Brahms

Master's Recital: Timothy McNair, YRLFH 8:30 p.m., Lutkin Student of Sunny Joy Langton Works by Strauss and Brahms

Master's Recital: Aaron Villarreal, SHUFXVVLRQ 3 p.m., Regenstein Student of She-e Wu Works by Bach and Ishii

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Senior Recital: Benjy Howard, EDULWRQH 3 p.m., Lutkin Student of Karen Brussen Works by Schubert and Finzi

Master's Recital: Autumn Chodorowski, violin 6 p.m., Lutkin Student of Almita Vamos Works by Ravel and Mozart Master's Recital: Melanie Erena, horn 6 p.m., Regenstein Student of Gail Williams Works by Heiden and Mozart Andrew Junglin Yang, piano 8:30 p.m., Lutkin Student of James Giles :RUNV E\ 3URNRÀ HY and Schumann Master's Recital: Jeff Siegfried, VD[RSKRQH 8:30 p.m., Regenstein Student of Timothy McAllister Works by Berio and Rogers

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Senior Recital: Kevin Krasinski, EDULWRQH 6 p.m., Lutkin Student of Karen Brunssen Works by Wolf and Milhaud Senior Recital: Kelly Saroff, Á XWH 6 p.m., Regenstein Student of Richard Graef Works by Quantz and Hüe Andrew Lu, piano 8:30 p.m., Lutkin Student of Marcia Bosits Works by Bach and Ravel

7SAT

Master's Recital: Colin Bianchi, horn 11 a.m., Lutkin Student of Sunny Joy Langton Works by Bowen and Messiaen

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Senior Recital: Katharine Hedlund, MD]] SLDQR 3 p.m., Regenstein Student of Jeremy Kahn Works by Copland and Strayhorn Master's Recital: Ryan Townsend Strand, WHQRU 6 p.m., Lutkin Student of Theresa Brancaccio Works by Wolf and Musto Master's Recital: Adam Bell, WURPERQH 6 p.m., Regenstein Student of Michael Mulcahy Works by Persichetti and Couperin Master's Recital: Chet Baughman, VD[RSKRQH 8:30 p.m., Lutkin Student of Timothy McAllister Works by Etezady and Berio Grace Lee, viola 8:30 p.m., Regenstein Student of Roland Vamos Works by Bach and Brahms

8SUN

Senior Recital: Weston Olencki, WURPERQH 12 p.m., Regenstein Student of Michael Mulcahy, Timothy Higgins, Douglas Wright, and Randall Hawes Works by Young and Carter Master's Recital: Joaquin Garcia, piano 3 p.m., Regenstein Student of Jeremy Kahn Works by Bach and Monk

8SUN CONT'D.

James Cameron Dennis, piano 6 p.m., Lutkin Student of Sylvia Wang Works by Bach and Barber Master's Recital: Rachel Leeper, EDVVRRQ 6 p.m., Regenstein Student of Christopher Millard Works by Vivaldi and Hummel Master's Recital: Elisa Sutherland, PH]]R VRSUDQR 8:30 p.m., Lutkin Student of Theresa Brancaccio Works by Ravel and Bach Jason Shiuan, VD[RSKRQH 8:30 p.m., Regenstein Student of Timothy McAllister Works by Rivier and Tomasi

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Lee Fan, viola 6 p.m., Lutkin Student of Roland Vamos Works by Clarke and Bowen Brendan Fitzgerald, GRXEOH EDVV 6 p.m., Regenstein Student of Andrew Raciti Works by Bach and Vivaldi Ansel Norris, WUXPSHW 8:30 p.m., Lutkin Student of Robert Sullivan Works by Enescu and Neruda

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Doctoral Recital: Jialiang Wu, piano 6 p.m., Lutkin Student of Alan Chow :RUNV E\ &KRSLQ DQG 3URNRÀ HY Nina Kiken, viola 6 p.m., Regenstein Student of Roland Vamos Works by Bach and Coletti

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Master's Recital: Huan Yang, piano 6 p.m., Lutkin Student of Alan Chow Works by Ravel and Chopin

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11WED CONT'D. Doctoral Recital: Jeffrey Nelson, FRPSRVLWLRQ 6 p.m., Regenstein Student of Jay Alan Yim Works by Nelson Yueun Kim, piano Ethan Hoppe, violin 8:30 p.m., Lutkin Students of Sylvia Wang Works by Beethoven

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Master's Recital: Christian Lopez, WURPERQH 6 p.m., Regenstein Student of Michael Mulcahy Works by Vivaldi and Pastorius Garam Kim, violin 8:30 p.m., Lutkin Student of Robert Hanford Works by Faurè and Shostakovich

13FRI

Doctoral Recital: Tom Curry, WXED 6 p.m., Regenstein Student of Rex Martin Works by Stein and Scelsi Master's Recital: Sam Swanson, WUXPSHW 6 p.m., Lutkin Student of Robert Sullivan Works by Fasch and Ewazen Doctoral Recital: Igor Lipinski, piano 8:30 p.m., Lutkin Student of Alan Chow Works by Szymanowski and Chopin

14SAT

Senior Recital: Nicholas Heinzmann, FHOOR 6 p.m., Regenstein Student of Hans Jensen Works by Bach and Fauré

17TUE

Master's Recital: Robert Harris, WHQRU 8:30 p.m., Lutkin Student of Sunny Joy Langton Works by Gounod and Strauss

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SPORTS

ON DECK

All 19 of NU’s varsity sports teams have wrapped up their 2013-14 seasons. Stay tuned this week for our year-in-review coverage.

ON THE RECORD

Credit goes to Maryland. They played a great game.

— Kelly Amonte Hiller, lacrosse coach

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

@Wildcat_Extra

Maryland ends NU’s season with Final Four win

By AVA WALLACE

daily senior staffer @AvaRWallace

No. 5 Northwestern

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No. 1 Maryland

TOWSON, Md. — Northwestern coach Kelly Amonte Hiller was wrong when she said her team could play with anybody in the country.

After a season with more losses than the Wildcats (14-7) have clocked since 2003, Maryland (22-1) cut short NU’s dreams of an eighth national title short Friday evening at Johnny Unitas Stadium at Towson University, beating the Cats 9-6.

The only Final Four team NU had not played before Friday’s semifinal, Maryland outplayed NU top to bottom Friday night, especially after the Terrapins started beating senior draw control specialist Alyssa Leonard on the circle in the second half.

Easily the most important statistic of the semifinal matchup, the Terrapins ultimately bested the Wildcats 10-7 on the draw after the first half ended with each team winning four.

Maryland’s offensive leader Taylor Cummings, who led her team with four draws on the evening, said she didn’t try to win the ball to herself against Leonard but rather send the ball to her circle players to create a ground ball situation.

Leonard acknowledged Cummings’ strategy worked.

“A lot of the balls kind of went to the outside of the circle and neither of us were really getting our sets to go straight up,” the senior said.

“Then it was just a scramble on the ground.”

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Maryland also presented a fierce offensive attack, outshooting NU 24-17 with powerful attempts. The Terps seemingly had no trouble finding gaps in NU’s defense within the eight-meter, often holding onto the ball deep into the Cats’ zone.

NU’s defense did manage to hold Maryland to its second-lowest scoring game of the year, thanks in large part to senior defender and go-to face guarder Kerri Harrington marking Cummings.

The senior kept Cummings, who has 60 goals on the season, to a single score Friday.

Still, Maryland had a tighter group of offensive leaders who operated with a clearly defined system.

Only junior attack Kara Mupo had more than one goal for NU, while Maryland had two players with two and one with a hat trick.

The Terps also had five assists on their 9 goals compared to the Cats’ two on 6.

Ultimately Maryland was more poised than NU throughout the game. That opportunism first showed in the first half, when the Terps started building their lead off the man-up situation that came when senior attack Christy Turner was assessed a yellow card with just over two minutes left in the half.

“In the first half, we had some

Women’s Tennis

Lacrosse Brian Lee/Daily Senior Staffer

EIGHT WILL WAIT Junior attack Kara Mupo and the Wildcats fell short of an eighth national championship, falling to Maryland 9-6 Friday in the NCAA semifinals. Mupo was NU’s only player with more than one goal.

chances and we just didn’t capitalize on them,” Amonte Hiller said.

“You have to do that in these types of games, it’s a game of inches … you know, you have two really good teams out there and you have to capitalize on the opportunities you

have and we didn’t.”

Maryland started the second half with a 3-goal lead, and though the two teams both scored 4 times in the second half, the Terps’ defense forced the Cats to spread out their goals so much that the tallies proved

to be too little, too late.

The Cats first and second goals of the half were more than 15 minutes apart, and the Terps’ defense held NU shotless for long stretches several times.

After a four-year stretch where they won two national championships — including one over Maryland — NU’s seniors went out Friday with a loss.

Despite the unusually challenging season — and a disappointing conclusion, Amonte Hiller credited her seniors for representing the program’s winning culture.

“I think this senior class, they really bought in to the tradition of Northwestern lacrosse, and the culture that we set forth, right from the beginning,” Amonte Hiller said. “I really felt like they brought it back for us, brought it back to the original days and what Northwestern lacrosse the culture is all about.”

But among the symbolism and intense emotion displayed Friday both during and after the matchup, Amonte Hiller summed up the semifinal concisely.

“Credit goes to Maryland,” she said. “They played a great game.”

Maryland went on to defeat No. 2 Syracuse (21-3) 15-12 in Sunday’s final to win its first national title since 2010 and its 12th in the history of the program.

The NCAA also announced senior draw control specialist Alyssa Leonard and junior goalkeeper Bridget Bianco as members of the All-Tournament team. avawallace2015@u.northwestern.edu

Women’s Golf

Corning, Barnett fall Cats solid in 15th-place finish in NCAA 2nd round

By KEVIN CASEY

daily senior staffer @KevinCasey19

By MIKE MARUT

daily senior staffer @Mikeonthemic93

Northwestern has a long and storied women’s tennis legacy, and another chapter — arguably one of its most exciting ones yet — came to a close for the program on Saturday.

On Thursday, senior Veronica Corning and sophomore Alicia Barnett began their journey through the NCAA Doubles Championships bracket. The name of the game all weekend was serves and returns: When the two excelled at that, they won.

Corning and Barnett dominated their first match 6-3, 6-4 over University of Kentucky’s Caitlin McGraw.

“We had a great first match,” Corning said. “I had short-term memory and began to focus on the second match soon after the first was over. Our second match we played really well, but our serves and returns were not as good.”

The tandem’s second match came down to three sets against host University of Georgia’s Lauren Herring and Maho Kowase.

The Wildcats took the first set 7-5, then fell behind early in the second and eventually lost 2-6. The third and final set was similar to the second set with Corning and Barnett falling early and not being able to recover, finally losing 3-6.

“It was a good way to finish the season despite losing,” said Barnett, a Daily staffer.

“We played really solid. Unfortunately our serves and returns were not that good. We did the best we could do, though.”

Barnett described herself as “the smasher” while Corning was “the finisher.”

Both have great serves: Barnett has powerful hitting abilities and a really good baseline shot and Corning has the ability to use her finesse to finish the point for the duo. The two teamed up over the season to record 23 wins overall and only 12 losses at the No. 1

Nathan Richards/Daily Senior Staffer

OUSTED Sophomore Alicia Barnett and her doubles partner, Veronica Corning, won their first match at the NCAA doubles championships before losing in the second round.

doubles spot.

Coach Claire Pollard said she could not be prouder of her players for their effort all season. The Cats have won 15 Big Ten titles in 16 years, and this is the 15th time they hosted the opening rounds of the NCAA tournament.

Corning earned the unofficial award of most improved player under the tenure of Pollard, while senior Belinda Niu earned the Intercollegiate Tennis Association/Arthur Ashe Jr. Award for sportsmanship and her commitment both on and off the court.

The Cats were represented in the Singles Championships on Wednesday by both Corning and Niu, but both lost in the opening matches. Corning commented that her serves and returns were not up to par during her match and fell 7-5, 6-2. Niu lost in the first round of play 6-2, 6-2 and was “disappointed” in her performance on the court, but overall was satisfied on the season. michaelmarut2016@u.northwestern.edu

It was a second consecutive banner season for Northwestern, and it closed with a familiar finish.

The Wildcats concluded the NCAA Championships on Friday tied for 15th, their exact position at the end of play at last year’s event.

For a program that had not made it to nationals since 2000, back-to-back top-15 showings at the pinnacle tournament of team golf is a landmark performance.

One might have expected the Cats to improve on last year’s showing. This team was slightly better than last year’s iteration, and while they were ranked No. 15 in the country, they were the 12th-highest ranked squad in the event.

But not all 15th-place finishes are the same, as NU proved this week.

“Although we had the same finish as last year, this year we were much more competitive,” coach Emily Fletcher said. “We were hanging in there. And we were just three shots out of a top 10, and that’s nothing.”

Indeed, three shots is nothing.

Midway through the final day at Tulsa Country Club, the Cats dangled in 10th position, even moving up to ninth at one point. The players had a tougher front nine left, but they had a good chance to keep their top-10 status.

That would not be the case. The fact they were in that position at all proved NU played some good golf the last two days, as the five starters did not get off to a great start.

“The last two days we were playing some of our better golf,” junior Hana Lee said. “But the first couple of days, it was hard to tell because of the wind and the conditions. We fought hard. We just couldn’t get that round or two that could’ve helped get us into that top-10 spot.”

The Cats did not put on t heir best display Although in t hos e difficult we had the same finish as conditions during last year, this Tuesday’s year we were opening round, as much more they stood t i e d f or competitive.

16th after Emily Fletcher, 18 holes. coach Matters changed little the next day when NU moved up to 15th, but the third round brought some glory when the squad moved up to a tie for 10th.

Once again, Suchaya Tangkamolprasert led the team’s postseason charge. The sophomore has produced the lowest score among the starters in six tournaments in her two years, a nice haul but nothing that jumps out.

That is, until you look at her postseason record and notice that she finished first among her teammates in both regionals and nationals in which she has competed.

Her tie for 16th in Tulsa made it four-for-four in team-best scores in the postseason. The key? While a long year may wear on others, time only increases Tangkamolprasert’s resolve.

“I just get stronger, mentally and physically, as the year goes by,” she

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said. “We work so hard all year long, and I just felt very confident by the end of the year. I felt I could go out there, have fun and accomplish what I wanted to.”

There were some other notable rounds throughout the weekend from the Cats, like sophomore Elizabeth Szokol’s three-under 67 in the second round and Lee’s 71-71 over the final 36.

But nobody was able to sustain their performance over 72 holes like Tangkamolprasert, as Szokol placed tied for 77th along with Lee. Freshman Kacie Komoto tied for 74th. Sophomore Kaitlin Park rebounded nicely from a ghastly opening 86, but that still only meant a tie for 116th.

Fletcher was pleased with the showing from her squad, even if the team didn’t max out on its potential.

Whatever the case, this program’s status as a national contender is going nowhere. All five starters, four of them All-Big Ten honorees, return, and two bluechip recruits in Hannah Kim and Sarah Cho will enter the fray.

A top-10 or a top-five finish at NCAA Championships may have slipped away from the Cats this time, but those results might not elude the squad much longer.

“This team’s very competitive, and they’re a talented group,” Fletcher said. “And next year we’re going to have an even better opportunity to top what we have done. Making it to the afternoon wave of tee times is something that we looked for as progress as well as hanging in there for nine to 12 holes of the final round. We’re really close.” kevincasey2015@u.northwestern.edu