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Students speak out about sexual assault Students remove clothing to start conversation By TYLER PAGER and REBECCA SAVRANSKY
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ON THE HEELS OF PROGRESS Members of Alpha Kappa Alpha organized a march Wednesday for sexual assault awareness. Many participants wore heels during the event, “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes.”
Alpha Kappa Alpha marches to raise awareness about gender-based violence By JORDAN HARRISON
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In an effort to raise awareness about gender-based violence, rape and sexual assault, male and female students marched Wednesday night from The Arch to Elder Hall in high heels. The event, called “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes,” was presented by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. and cosponsored by Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators.
SESP junior Ceara Jemison, treasurer of Alpha Kappa Alpha and the chair of the event, said the heels served to represent women affected by sexual assault. “We’re encouraging men and women to wear heels,” she said. “It’s kind of symbolic, walk a mile in her shoes. (Most) sexual assault victims are female, so that’s where the heels come in.” Jemison also said Alpha Kappa Alpha wanted to focus on sexual assault on college campuses this year in light of recent sexual assault cases at Northwestern and increased
discussion about the topic. Participants chanted phrases such as “yes means yes and no means no” throughout the march. “This year we have signs that are just from college statistics,” Jemison said. “Especially with the recent happenings on Northwestern’s campus and especially with the way the university responded to the issue, I feel like this is a very prevalent cause for the campus.” She said the march was one of other similar marches nationally » See MARCH, page 10
Grandin speaks at Welsh-Ryan By CHRISTINE FAROLAN
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‘OUT OF THEIR COMFORT ZONE’ Temple Grandin speaks during her lecture at Welsh-Ryan Arena.
Animal scientist and author Temple Grandin spoke to hundreds of people at Welsh-Ryan Arena on Wednesday about the necessity of “different kinds of minds” in society, specifically relating to autism. Grandin, who was diagnosed with autism as a child, said neurodiversity is essential because individuals interpret and solve problems differently. This is why the proper education of children on the autism spectrum is imperative, she said. “What I want you to think about today is how different minds may process information differently,” Grandin said. Because autistic children may have different learning styles, including spatial
visual, auditory thinking or photo realistic, she said it is important to accommodate for this and help them develop their natural talents. The event was hosted by the Family Action Network, an organization that hosts speakers who discuss healthy youth development throughout the academic year. Northwestern’s Communication Sciences and Disorders department cosponsored the event with the School of Education and Social Policy’s Master of Science in Education program. Grandin, who holds a PhD in animal science, works as a professor at Colorado State University and also consults slaughterhouses on improving the quality of life for their cattle. She credits her insight into humane animal treatment to her autism, saying it allows her to “think in pictures” and see things others might miss. » See GRANDIN, page 10
Some students wore T-shirts and shorts. Other students were in revealing outfits. Some were only in their underwear. About 15 student activists participated in a demonstration Wednesday in varying states of clothing. Some students were only in underwear with tape over their nipples. The demonstrations took place near Norris University Center, The Arch and Technological Institute. The demonstration was held in an effort to increase awareness about the importance of consent and to continue
activism efforts around the issue of sexual assault. During the two-hour demonstration, students stood with signs that read “consent is not an outfit.” Students also went inside Norris, Kresge Hall and University Library and walked around campus to further spread their message. Weinberg junior Jazz Stephens, who helped plan the demonstration, said it was held in an effort to begin conversations about the importance of consent. “It’s supposed to be to raise awareness around the fact that I guess there tends to be a lot of conversation around campus about somebody deserving it, in less strong language usually, but deserving it because they were passed out or had » See CONSENT, page 10
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‘CONSENT IS NOT AN OUTFIT’ Students stand near The Arch on Wednesday to raise awareness about sexual assault as part of a demonstration.
NU researcher missing since Sunday
A 29-year-old Northwestern researcher was reported missing Monday. Corey Janczak, a laboratory coordinator in molecular biosciences, was last heard from on Sunday, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. Janczak, an Evanston resident, may have recently been in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood near the Chicago-Evanston border, police said. No foul play is suspected but his family is concerned about his disappearance, Parrott said. Janczak suffers from depression and has made indications of wanting to harm himself, Parrott said. Janczak worked in the Keck Biophysics Facility in Cook Hall, 2220 Campus Drive, as an instrumentation
specialist. Police described Janczak as 5-foot-9 and 130 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes. Anyone with information as to his whereabouts is asked to contact Evanston Police at (847) 866-5000. — Julian Gerez
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ETHS to introduce apps, laptops for next school year By paige leskin
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Evanston Township High School is planning to introduce a series of new technological initiatives to its district by the beginning of the 2014-15 school year, including mobile applications and programming to prepare for the distribution of laptops to all incoming freshmen. In a presentation on Monday to the District 202 board of education, ETHS’s Instructional and Informational Technology department presented a report that summarized updates to the school’s infrastructure and communication technology. The staff shared three different smartphone applications that would be released in preparation for the new school year. One app, called the Home Access Center, will act as an online portal where students and their parents can check grades, assignments and schedules. The two others allow parents quick access to school contacts and information. ETHS Director of Technology Paula Frohman said the applications were developed to aid in communication between the school and
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its community. “More people use mobile devices than their computers,” she said. “They don’t have to always just go to the website. So, to access this on your phone is a great thing.” These applications are part of the district’s bigger aim to utilize new technology in improving the quality of their students’ educations. Students need to be “digital learners” in order to be the most successful in the future, D202 Superintendent Eric Witherspoon said. “We are using technology in our classrooms and curriculum to maximize their learning and meet their individual learning needs,” he said in an email to The Daily. “It is important that we prepare our students for 21st century opportunities and careers, and that includes using technology tools effectively.” ETHS announced earlier this year a plan to give each incoming freshman a Chromebook laptop in the next school year as part of the new one-to-one digital learning initiative. This will allow for virtual collaboration and access to online resources, Frohman said. Technology Integration Specialist David Chan told the board of education on Monday that 100 computers were now ready for use.The technology department held a training program for teachers in April called “ChromeCamp” to prepare them to work with the freshman and
their laptops. Chan also shared that an idea was in the works for a student-run technological support center called “ChromeZone.” “Students will run all those repairs and exchanges under the guidance of an adult staff member,” he told The Daily. “We hope to eventually turn it into a class … We’re very excited for that, and that is moving forward.” Chan also provided an update on a partnership between ETHS and Evanston Public Library that would give students access to online library resources. EPL director Karen Danczak Lyons said students would be able to use computers within the school to log onto databases that provide information for papers and research projects. “It grew out of our desire at the library to reduce barriers for students,” she said. “(The databases) have allowed us to include ETHS as another library location. It provides a wealth of access to factual vetted sources of information that can assist them with their research as they consider issues that they’re studying.” Chan also said the IIT department will assist ETHS in installing more than 100 high-definition cameras for the new school year to beef up security both inside and outside of the ETHS building.
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A 14-year-old teen was battered by three other teenagers Sunday night less than a block away from Evanston Township High School. The teen was approached by three teenagers he knew before being punched in the neck, knocked to the ground and kicked in the head and body, Parrott said. The incident occurred
Someone stole a car parked on the street in downtown Evanston on Sunday. A 29-year-old Evanston resident parked his vehicle, a silver 2013 Hyundai Elantra, in the 900 block of Davis Street at about 1:30 p.m., Parrott said. When he returned at about 10 p.m., the
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Associated Student Government confirmed on Wednesday B-status funding recommendations for Fall Quarter, with no cuts or add requests from members of Senate or guests for the first time in at least four years. Senate voted to allot more than $12,000 to more than 50 groups during the meeting. Prior to the funding process, Alex Van Atta, vice president for student groups, described how it would work and emphasized the need for each group to be evaluated on their own basis. “We are dealing with limited funds and we had 59 groups apply for funding so we couldn’t really fund everything that we wanted to,” the McCormick senior said. “We tried to only fund one event per group, their highest priority event that they could put on successfully in the fall and we tried to fund capital improvements with the limited funds that we had left.” He said to effectively fund groups for their most important event, each group ranked their events in terms of priority. “We really tried to make this an equitable process that hopefully will benefit all the groups,” he said. ASG also discussed reforming the makeup of residential senators, in an effort to allot representation more accurately based on the number of students in different districts. This legislation proposes that instead of representing particular buildings, the new residential senators will represent a district to ensure there is more even representation across the board. It also addressed removing the distinction between residential college board senators and residential hall association senators. The newly created districts make more numerical sense than before, in addition to
being more geographically logical, said Weinberg junior Erik Zorn, executive vice president. Chris Harlow, vice president for student life, added that the current makeup of RHA and RCB senators encourages the idea that a senator is responsible for an organization. “We see this huge disproportion,” the SESP sophomore said. “Basically the current model does a couple of things. It reinforces that you as an RHA or RCB senator, it reinforces Nathan Richards/Daily Senior Staffer that you represent RHA or RCB when in fact, you don’t The b list Petros Karahalios and Dana Leinbach listen represent Elder, you represent as the Associated Student Government discusses B-status the residents of 2400 Sheridan group funding at their weekly meeting Wednesday. This Rd., not the actual organiza- was the first time in at least four years there were no cuts tion itself.” or add requests from members of Senate or guests. Senate also confirmed Grant Nicholas as the new vice presiproblems that CTECs seem to cause which dent of analytics. Rafael Henriquez, chief of is like a large gap between how faculty perstaff, introduced Nicholas and emphasized ceive them and how students perceive them, the qualities he has that make him fit for the both in their usage and in their effectiveness position. Nicholas outlined some of his goals and students also found the problem of the for the upcoming year and talked about how accessibility of CTECS,” said Steven Bennett, he would carry out this position. an RCB senator. “He’s a really remarkable guy,” Henriquez Prior to the start of the official meeting, said. “We chose him because he has clear a focus group was held with the architects expectations of what it should look like and chosen to design the new student center in an what it should be doing and clearly values effort to gauge student need and understand the relationship that this position is going to the facilities students would be interested in have with ASG.” implementing in the new building. A piece of legislation proposing the creJulie Payne-Kirchmeier, assistant vice presation of three working groups to analyze the ident of student auxiliary services said the use of CTECS was also discussed. The proarchitects chosen provethey have the ability posal outlined the focus of each individual to innovate and create buildings aligned with group. their purposes. The legislation also proposed a requireA-status funding recommendations were ment for members of the groups to report also outlined and will be discussed further back to Senate by December 2014 with their and approved at next week’s Senate meeting recommendations. on May 28. “We felt that it would be very important to create working groups to alleviate the rebeccasavransky2015@u.northwestern.edu
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Why disinviting commencement speakers is fine Tom Cui
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As Spring Quarter’s second wave of midterms crash upon us, it is easy to forget other colleges are letting their students out, from their hopeful freshmen to their beleaguered seniors. No school would object to the graduating class deserving a good commencement, a reward for four years of work. The interesting thing is what happens when those graduating refuse the plan laid out before them. I am referring to commencement speakers — the collection of slightly important people chosen by administrators to inspire graduates — and how parts of a campus community protest them. This is different from grumbling about relevance, as some did when Northwestern chose Riccardo Muti, music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, to speak this year. It is instead about when speakers, like former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice or accused Islamophobe Ayaan Hirsi Ali, decline their invitations in response to protests about the harm they do in the world. There is much talk of a “disinvitation season” that signals freedom of speech stifled and the university’s purpose threatened. Talking heads feel compelled to assign blame for the declined invitations on student and faculty protesters. But, even if disinvitation is in
season, I do not aborted speech means think there is anya lost chance at a disthing wrong with it. cussion. Really, it just The first reason is means that the discusthat commencement sion can be held anyspeeches are rather where if anyone else is inefficient. Now willing to pay to have it. that the number If I can seize on this of American collast point further — leges has blown up there is a market for into the thousands, speakers, where price wisdom cannot be signals should reflect conjured quickly information about the enough to meet speech’s effectiveness. demand. CelebriThere is something ties and politicians paradoxical about the are hired to dress outrage in general up their message over uninviting speakin humor or purple ers. In a world where prose, but it is hard speechmaking is an to think of ideas industry, celebrities are that have not been branded by and capisaid. We are in an talize on their ability era of diminishing to give the audience Graphic by Ghichong Lew/The Daily Northwestern what they want. Their marginal returns. It will save everyone good money if we stop unique personalities mask the homogeneity of inviting speakers and instead loop David Fosthe content. The Internet gives us mostly free ter Wallace’s “This is Water” speech — so why access to all the claims they will make. Against should we not aim for that ideal? this zero-cost option, why do we still want to The second reason is that there is no pay for speakers? material threat to anyone’s free speech; the You can respond that your time cannot be invitation and its rescinding are just actions wasted having to rifle through the Web for a performed on a contract. Condi will still have celebrity’s thoughts. You may want the thrill other buyers willing to purchase her time for of seeing a personal inspiration in the flesh, $35,000. Some critics of protesters think an or the desire to take a group selfie. These are
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If we had to choose between spending $10,000 for a speaker or for financially supporting a community organizer, I would choose the latter.
sufficient reasons, but they are personal ones. They can, and will, be the source of misunderstanding to those who do not understand your exuberance. The point of disinvitation season, I think, is not about freedom of speech, and I think viewing it in that frame is not useful. The point of these protests is that we assign value on speakers based on their ability to incite our passions, and the way speakers profit is through inciting them effectively. Conversation summoned from excited passions flare up before fading away. Can we not engage in dialogue better? I am not saying that I despise all speaker events on campus. I am saying that, if we had to choose between spending $10,000 for a speaker or for financially supporting a community organizer, I would choose the latter. Tom Cui is a Weinberg junior. He can be reached at tianfangcui2015@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Find, appreciate positives Market size drives NBA amid end-of-year chaos ratings, player earnings YONI PINTO
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We’re approaching the end of the year — only a week or so of classes remain ahead of us, and we’re turning onto the final stretch. The weather’s actually becoming nice, and the campus has started to look like what we saw on the brochures before we came here. At this point, the work all of us have to do is increasing exponentially as we move closer to finals and projects approach their deadlines. While we’re scrambling to meet all these deadlines, stress comes in. Stress makes everything worse: You struggle to come up with an idea for your paper, there’s a lab that you need to complete for tomorrow, you haven’t slept more than five hours in the past four days. How are you going to finish this paper? Was there another thing due yesterday? When will you study for the math midterm? Chaos. So many things your mind’s telling you that it doesn’t know how to accomplish. The guilty feeling from missing deadlines
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slowly creeps in. You begin to feel uncomfortable and annoyed with yourself but can’t fix it. It’s the worst situation to be in. I imagine this is the situation a significant amount of students go through often during their time here. Almost everyone always has a lot on their plate — too many things to complete in too little time. I certainly have been in this situation, and, to be perfectly honest, it has resulted in some of my worst days at NU. It’s unhealthy, demoralizing and depressing to constantly be stressed, and that seems to be what a lot of people are experiencing. When we’re buried under all these things we have to do, when our minds are chaotic, when we get stressed out, uncomfortable, sad and depressed, it’s easy to lose sight of what makes things great. To everyone who might be stressed out for any reason whatsoever, take a step back. Calm down and take a short break. Take a moment to look around you and find the positives: See what makes the things around you great. Give your mind enough peace so it can keep going on. When I did that today, I saw how pretty campus was — the Lakefill, green and under sunlight, is truly beautiful. I realized how interesting the classes I’m taking are, how they make me more interested in what we were learning about. But besides all that stuff, there was one thing that really stood out today, one important element that makes NU great. Us. The students. We’re what makes this place so great. Every person I’ve met here is exceptional in one way or another. Everybody’s extremely capable, strong-willed, visionary. Every student here has what it takes to make life amazing for the ones around them. But more importantly, each and every one of us has what it takes to overcome the stress and chaos. That’s why I love it here. The negatives are significant — aside from the stressful academic workload, the six months of snow, cold and darkness don’t help — but the positives I’ve found far outweigh them. Northwestern is truly a great institution — just make sure you’re calm enough to be able to see it. Yoni Pinto is a Weinberg freshman. He can be reached at ybpinto@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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Following yet another championship between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics – who collectively have won 33 of the NBA’s 67 championships and, perhaps more importantly, play in massive television markets – the infamous “Summer of 2010” had arrived. To the adamant disapproval of fans, megastar LeBron James announced his decision to take his talents to South Beach to join up with all-stars Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in Miami. Carlos Boozer signed with the Chicago Bulls to vie for a championship with Derrick Rose, while Amar’e Stoudemire moved to New York and was soon joined by Carmelo Anthony. Looking at that NBA Finals matchup coupled with those monumental moves, NBA executives, fans and talking heads wrote their spiteful eulogies for the NBA’s small-market franchises. Los Angeles and Boston were in the Finals, and the top players had all moved to America’s biggest cities. There was no turning back. This argument certainly seems to hold merit. The NBA has always been an urban league – popular in the big cities, while smaller cities and rural areas focus on football and collegiate athletics. All the players moving teams in 2010 moved from cities with markedly smaller market sizes – except for Bosh, but he moved from a historically unsuccessful team pinned away in Canada to Miami — to team up with two superstars. Now that we are a few years removed from this perceived crisis, we can evaluate this argument a little better than we could have before. Yes, it has been a small sample of seasons, but the NBA is a league which reflects changes immediately due to the relatively significant impact of individual players. Just how important is market size to the NBA? We can attack this question from three different angles. First, the success of teams. Take a look at the four teams remaining in the NBA playoffs and their respective cities: the Indiana Pacers, the Miami Heat, the San Antonio Spurs and the Oklahoma City Thunder. It is worth noting that these teams also represented the best teams in their respective conferences all season. Last season, Indiana, Miami and San Antonio also competed in the
semifinals, joined by the Memphis Grizzlies. All five of these semifinalists rank in the bottom half of NBA market sizes. The New York Knicks (1st-largest market), Los Angeles Lakers (2nd), Philadelphia 76ers (4th) and Boston Celtics (7th) all missed the playoffs and were, quite frankly, terrible this season. Yes, we are looking at just one season, but looking at the data, it is nearly impossible to make the argument that market size dominates the success of NBA teams. Still, market size is greatly important to the NBA. If we look at Nielsen ratings for the NBA Finals by year, matchups between teams from larger cities clearly lead to higher television ratings. Last season’s Finals between Miami and San Antonio, despite being fantastically exciting and featuring the league’s brightest star, was the lowest-rated Finals since 2009, which featured the Lakers for the second straight year dominating a boring Orlando Magic team. This year, I suspect NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is having nightmares of a championship between San Antonio and Indiana, two small markets that fail to move the needle like James’s Heat or Kevin Durant’s Thunder. Market size also has a significant effect on players’ individual endorsement earnings. If we look at the NBA’s highest-paid players — including endorsement deals — they all come from large markets, with the exceptions being Miami’s James and Wade and Oklahoma City’s Durant, who won the NBA’s Most Valuable Player award this season. If you have been watching the playoffs, you will surely notice that Durant – playing in the NBA’s third-smallest market – seems to feature in more advertisements than any other star, while Gatorade has picked none other than Indiana’s Paul George to star in its commercial. Though playing in a smaller market has not kept Durant and George from profiting from their popularity, still, stars from larger cities like the Los Angeles Clippers’ Chris Paul and Blake Griffin have been all over America’s television sets. Next time another star — as will likely happen this summer with Kevin Love of the Minnesota Timberwolves — moves to a big city and signs a new sneaker deal, remember that the NBA’s biggest cities attract the most money and fame but not necessarily success on the court. Bob Hayes is a Weinberg freshman. He can be reached at roberthayes2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
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An Evanston woman was found guilty Wednesday afternoon of giving heroin to a teen who reportedly died of an overdose. A Lake County jury deliberated for two hours before convicting Michelle Lee, 21, of one count of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance, a Class 2 felony, according to court documents. Lee, of the 400 block of Howard Street, faces a possible sentence of up to seven years in prison. Lee was charged in 2012 with providing heroin to a 15-year-old girl, according to court documents. Lee pleaded not guilty in the case. News reports say the girl, a student at Vernon Hills High School, died of an overdose from the heroin she received from Lee. Lee was jailed after the verdict was announced, according to records from the Lake County sheriff’s office. Court documents show she had previously been released on bond and required to follow a curfew, among other conditions. Lawrence Sommers, Lee’s attorney, told The Daily she is a student at the College of Lake County. Lake County Judge Mark Levitt presided over the trial, which began Tuesday, according to court documents. Lee is scheduled to appear in court again July 10. — Patrick Svitek
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ust this year, Spectrum Theatre Company has tackled heavy topics from government conspiracies to atomic bombs. This weekend, however, the student theater board will end its 2013-14 season with a playful production of “Peter Pan.” Directed by Communication juniors Collin Quinn Rice and Maia Safani, “Peter Pan” is the spring main stage production by Spectrum, a student theater board that addresses social and political issues through its productions. “Our overall mission is to produce socially charged and aware pieces of theater, and when we were discussing ‘Peter Pan,’ we talked a lot about the pressures of growing up and what that means,” said producer Alex Wolfe. Though the childlike qualities of “Peter Pan” may not immediately bring to mind heavy social and political topics, the directors say the theme of growing up is just as powerful as it was when the play was first staged more than 100 years ago. “There’s a reason that this story is told so often, and it’s because it has such an effect on each of us, and we can all relate to it,” Safani said. “More than being intimidated, I think we were really excited by the idea that this was something that could bring people together, and especially at a time of year where we’ve been going through the whole year and everyone’s stressed out. We want to have a moment where we can all just take a breath, come together, have fun and kind of check our worries outside for a little bit.” Even though “Peter Pan” is traditionally told as a children’s story, Wolfe emphasized the timelessness of the plot. “It’s not necessarily a niche group of people that would want to see this show,” the Communication sophomore said. “Rather, it’s something that everyone would be
interested in because of the story and that nostalgic feel, that connection to childhood and that seed that’s been planted in everyone from so long ago that they can kind of reconnect with.” In fact, the directors say the play’s themes of growing up make it perfectly suited for a college audience. “Something we were really interested in with ‘Peter Pan’ was that we’re all going through this phase in our lives where we’re growing up,” Safani said. “As college students we’re grappling with what that means, what responsibilities we need to take on that perhaps we weren’t prepared for.” Although J.M. Barrie’s original story has been adapted countless times, the most famous being the 1953 Disney film, Spectrum’s production goes back to basics — with a few twists. “We focused very hard on staying true to J.M. Barrie’s script, but it’s in the ways that we’re presenting it that are kind of off the cuff,” Rice said. Much of the production’s style is based in found objects, further emphasizing the show’s childlike themes. From shadow puppetry to chandeliers hung from the ceiling of the Louis Room at Norris University Center, the directors set out to create what Safani calls a “sense of magic.” “The phrase I’ve been using is making the ordinary extraordinary,” Rice added. As for the traditional use of rigging and wires to help the actors fly? “There’s a ton of YouTube videos of people trying to fly as Peter Pan and flying into a set piece,” Wolfe said, laughing. “We’re not trying to do a lot of these things literally but rather represent them in these interesting and beautiful ways.” “Peter Pan” will be performed May 22 at 10 p.m. and May 23 and 24 at both 8 and 11 p.m. Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for the general public and will be sold at the door.cleanser. devancoggan2015@u.northwestern.edu
I was truly my most fashionable self at the prime age of 12: My uncontrollable bangs gave my mismatched outfits a degree of je ne sais quoi that even Lauren Conrad would have been hard-pressed to recreate. Unlike LC, however, I wasn’t rocking the designer labels at this time but instead strutted my stuff in equally catwalk-worthy attire. My favorite article of clothing was a pale yellow shirt covered in glitter from Justice — because Limited Too was too mainstream — that read, “Brain freeze: It’s a risk I’m willing to take.” The phrase continues to be my life motto, and it inspires me on the daily to indulge in all sorts of frozen treats. Luckily, Evanston is far from a dessert desert, and now that the weather’s better, I set out to find E-Town’s most brain freeze-worthy treats. Because if you’re going to suffer, it may as well be for a yum-o treat.
New on the Evanston froyo scene, Tutti Frutti bottoms out my list. It’s farther from campus than most other offerings, and the flavors were below par. Adding insult to injury, the fresh fruit toppings were seriously lacking, and I found myself utterly disappointed by even my go-to cookie dough topping. All in all, I don’t think I’ll be going to Tutti Frutti again.
5. Cold Stone Creamery, 1611 Sherman Ave.
the Potbelly milkshake should not be overlooked. The storefront is sandwiched (get it? Sandwich? Potbelly?) between two frozen drink giants in Edzo’s and Jamba Juice but offers significantly lower prices and a delicious flavor. The Oreo shake even comes with Mini Oreos on top, and in addition to being arguably the cutest snack cookie of all time, the Mini Oreo is positively scrumptious.
Network. The milkshakes at Edzo’s are unparalleled, and the gigantic portions almost make up for the relatively high price. I have consumed way more Nutella milkshakes from Edzo’s than is medically advisable and can firmly tell you there is no better way to lull into a sugar coma.
3. Forever Yogurt, 1739 Sherman Ave.
In my diet, Andy’s is its own food group, so when I got an email last week stating that the custard shop was changing its loyalty program to offer rewards, I was rightfully thrilled. The frozen custard is about as perfect as ice cream can get, and with a WildCARD discount, the sticker price is a little less shocking. From jackhammers to concretes, Andy’s is absolutely Evanston’s best frozen treat location and truly stands in a league of its own.
I really like hard-scooped ice cream, but Cold Stone simply doesn’t do it for me. Maybe it’s the buttery feeling it leaves in my mouth, or perhaps it’s the absurdly high prices. But overall, this treat is best left alone.
I have to say, froyo is not usually my dessert jam, but Forever Yogurt brings the heat with its cool treats. With far better and more creative flavors than Tutti Frutti and a toppings bar that just won’t quit, Forever Yogurt is an excellent dessert option.
4. Potbelly Sandwich Shop, 630 Davis St.
2. Edzo’s Burger Shop, 1571 Sherman Ave.
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‘no plans’ Canadian DJ Ryan Hemsworth will perform May 31 as Dillo Day’s main stage electronic act. Hemsworth joins confirmed performers 2 Chainz and Chance The Rapper.
“Distorted” focuses on fast, aggressive and percussive sounds and rapid-fire rap delivery from Shady Blaze, Hemsworth’s co-collaborator. Songs such “Mile A Minute” or “Let’s Ride” frequently throb with bass or distortion. Shady Blaze’s lyrics
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DJ Ryan Hemsworth proves good things can last As Mayfest continues to reveal its planned artists for Dillo Day on May 31, I continue to shrivel in fear of what can possibly lie in wait. 2 Chainz was such a resoundingly poor decision in my opinion (you’d know if you read last week’s edition of The Current). If Mayfest is capable of revealing someone laughably bad, certainly someone else 2 Chainzesque could be around the corner, right? Well, Mayfest’s latest website reveal left me uttering an emphatic “Huh?” which is a definite improvement from last week’s deflation and exasperation. But the mystery box that was Ryan Hemsworth, a relatively unknown DJ from Canada— he’s won a Juno, known as a Canadian Grammy, which is about as relevant as the Canadian Football League — turned out to contain a consistently enjoyable and versatile artist with room for growth. Color me surprised, Mayfest. Color me surprised. Sadly, though, this means that (other than that cheap shot at the Junos) there will be no jokes made at the expense of the artist this week. Let’s hope it stays this way. Since Hemsworth is fairly new on the scene (starting in 2010), I’m going to skip the introduction step of the review and get right to the juicy bits. If you’d like to see my carefully crafted excerpts from Hemsworth’s interviews or Twitter account (@ ryanhemsworth), you could do yourself one better and just bone up on them. You should: The guy’s funny and relatable. Hemsworth has played with two different styles between 2011’s LP “Distorted” and 2013’s LP “Guilt Trips,” with 2011’s EP “No Plans” being his most wide-ranging stylistically.
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alternate between quick and breathy or bursting with crackling energy. This style would be right at home with the other rap artists at Dillo Day. I actually think Mayfest could’ve brought Hemsworth as the second rap artist and saved one of the five slots
should he decide to perform primarily with this style. OK, I’ve shed my tears. Now let’s move on. “Guilt Trips” pulls back from the speed of 2011 and dives into a more aquatic sound. With muffled sounds pervading this album, like rippling percussion on “Yaeko Mitamura Is Lonely” and water droplet sounds on “Weird Life,” Hemsworth gives this LP an underwater feel while still weaving in triumphant synths and emotive singing, such as on “Still Cold.” It’s overall a more meaningful project than 2011’s “Distorted,” thanks mostly to Hemsworth being on his own on this one. And sure it can get schmaltzy at times, with its over-saturation of one particular atmosphere, but I can get behind his attempt at doing something wholly cohesive while still attempting to branch out creatively. And then there’s 2011’s EP “No Plans,” which is of LP length, oddly enough. This collection contains my favorite song of the DJ’s discog. All-tooknowingly called “Good Things Can Never Last,” this not-quite-three-minute track is easily his best. Taking a page from R&B and soul, there’s funky, subtle bass (not every song can, nor ought to subjugate your entire being to bass), haunting crooning and delightful play between muted and thumping percussion. The rest of the album is more standard fare, although never conforming quite as rigidly to any particular style like on the other two albums. If I had to recommend one of these works above the rest, it would be “No Plans,” no questions. So it seems we have a two-thirds success rate, in my opinion. Can Mayfest bat .800 and deliver on the next two artists? Stay tuned, and keep hitting that refresh button. In the meantime, listen to “Good Things Can Never Last,” damnit!
An iconic look when it comes to makeup, winged eyeliner or the “cat eye” can be tricky to accomplish on the first try. Between the angle, the length and occasional smearing, a few tips could help make this process a little less challenging. This week, I talked to Communication freshman Nikita Kulkarni about how to perfect winged eyeliner.
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When Kulkarni applies her liner, she first starts
Why to love it
The winged eyeliner look is popular because of the almond-shaped eye illusion it creates. By applying the extra liner to the corner of your eyes, the technique makes your eyes look bigger and more defined. Nikita’s bonus benefit: “It makes you look like you know your (stuff), that you’re really good at makeup and that you put in a lot of effort to do your makeup in the morning, even if all you did was take 30 seconds to put your eyeliner on.”
The tools
Picking the right eyeliner is important to create a smooth line. Kulkarni explains that all types of eyeliner work whether it is liquid, gel or powder. However, she prefers the eyeliner pen as her tool of choice: liquid liner in the format of a pen that you can use to draw out your line. She recommends using an eyeliner pen if you are a beginner because it has the same shape as a normal pen and is easier to control. Nikita’s tip: “I don’t do this, but some people find it helpful to have a mirror in their hand and kind of look down at it. That way you can keep your eye open while doing the wing, as opposed to you trying to hold it closed because sometimes your eyelid trembles a little bit.”
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at the top and applies the liner in little dashes. These quick, small motions help keep her line precise instead of risking a mistake by doing a single motion. She then separately draws out the wing in the corner of her eye. The angle of the wing, as Kulkarni describes, should be from the outer edge of the eye up to the outer edge of the eyebrow. She then checks to make sure the wings are symmetrical. After drawing the wing and the top line, Kulkarni will then connect the line from the top of her eye to the inner corner of the wing line to finish off this eyeliner technique. Nikita’s tip: “(The length of the wing) depends on how dramatic you want your look to be. I would say keep it pretty small for the daytime, but if you’re going out, by all means go full-on Amy Winehouse with it.”
Smear guard
A lot of times you create this perfect winged look, and then two hours later you find it’s disappeared or smudged. To counter this, Kulkarni stresses the importance of using waterproof eyeliner to resist this rubbing off. Her go-to product is Stila’s “Stay All Day Waterproof Liquid Eye Liner.” Nikita’s tip: “Another thing to make it last longer is you could put a primer underneath the liquid (liner) and then go over it with a powder, or you could do a pencil and then go over it with a liquid (liner).”
Add intensity
After drawing winged eyeliner on the top of the eyes, you could just stop there, but Kulkarni also says adding black liner to the waterline intensifies the overall look. However, be careful when adding this bottom liner during the daytime, as it could appear overdramatic. If you want added color to the bottom without having your makeup look too heavy, Kulkarni recommends applying a peach or brown eyeliner on
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College Republicans’ speaker talks political debate By annie mcdonough
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Northwestern University College Republicans brought conservative commentator and author Ben Shapiro to speak Wednesday night about the silencing of conservative opinions. The lecture, titled “Intimidation: Partisan Politics in 21st Century Society,” was based on Shapiro’s most recent book, “Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America.” About 50 people attended the event, which was held in Harris Hall. “We were looking to bring a speaker who could discuss the lack of diversity of opinion on college campuses,” said Daniel Villalon, NUCR’s spokesman. The Weinberg sophomore said he was concerned that conservative ideas are not given a sufficient platform for discussion at NU. “A lot of our previous speakers have raised opinions that are not commonly heard on campus,” Villalon said. “We do a good job of making sure those opinions are heard.” Shapiro, who is currently editor-at-large of Breitbart.com and runs a legal consulting firm in Los Angeles, criticized the debate tactics used by the political left and presented a strategy for the right to use against them. “We live in an era, unfortunately, of partisan politics in which each side demonizes the other,”
Shapiro said. “It’s how the left wins in America, by avoiding discussion and attacking the character of their opponents.” Shapiro said attacks on character used by the left, like calling opponents “racist” or “bigoted” inhibit evidence-based debate. “If you win a debate simply by ascribing motives to somebody that they don’t have, that’s a morally inferior thing,” he said. In a ten-step strategy to defeat an opponent in a debate, Shapiro laid out tactics including “hit first,” “frame your argument” and “force the opponent to defend their position.” Shapiro cited President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign strategy of framing his argument with the slogans “hope” and “change,” as evidence of effective use of these tactics. Shapiro suggested that the best way to defeat the debate tactics of the left is “mutually assured destruction.” “The left’s tactics are extraordinarily successful,” Shapiro said. “The goal of the right needs to be to use the left’s tactics against them, to knock out those tactics so we can finally get to evidencebased discussion. If we all have to call each other morally deficient to the point where nobody calls each other morally deficient anymore, then I’m okay with that.” Medill senior Jordan Minor, who identifies as a Democrat, said he came to the event to listen to a different perspective. “Shapiro’s politics are completely counter to mine, but I like to see people like that to understand where they’re coming from and get a better
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raising opinions A member of the audience asks a question during a talk given by Ben Shapiro at Harris Hall on Wednesday night. Shapiro, brought to campus as the College Republicans’ spring speaker, spoke on the silencing of conservative opinion in modern media.
sense of my own politics,” he said. In the Q-and-A session following the presentation, the conversation turned to Shapiro’s critique of the left’s tendency to tell the people on the right to “check their privilege,” referring to the idea that social and economic privileges inhibit the right from understanding minority perspectives. “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 and only
soldiers are deciding foreign policy.” Shapiro, who grew up in a Jewish family, rejected the idea that lack of privilege should stop people from going after what they want. He spoke of his grandparents who worked to overcome discrimination against Jews in their time. “If the system is not fair to you in America, work harder,” Shapiro said. “If you want to change the world, get out and do something instead of just sitting and musing about social justice.” annemcdonough2017@u.northwestern.edu
Partnership brings plays to nontraditional venues By paige leskin
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A new partnership between Evanston and Northwestern will bring graduate student performances to spaces in Evanston not traditionally used for theater productions. The event, called the Surprising Intersections of Theatre in Evanston Festival, aims to connect NU with the Evanston community in ways that are different than previous University-city collaborations. The three shows – completed by NU students pursuing Masters of Fine Arts and previously performed on campus – will take place in a vacant building, a craft brewery and a golf course, starting on Friday. “We decided it was a good opportunity to bridge the walls of campus and really get emerged into the Evanston community,” SITE festival producer
Emily Campbell Berezowsky said. “We also wanted to make a more thoughtful and positive impact presence in parts of Evanston that might not normally get to see Northwestern shows or know what we’re doing on campus.” Berezowsky characterized the festival as a “sitespecific, site-responsive project,” where the spaces were specifically picked to suit the performances. She said directors looked for spaces that were underused and unknown in order to attract new audiences in three distinct neighborhoods on the perimeters of Evanston. One play, adapted from Shakespeare’s “Henry V,” is about a war veteran coping with his return home. Director Damon Krometis modified the script to allow the performance to take place at the Evanston Wilmette Community Golf Course, 1030 Central St., where audience members will walk the 18 holes as they watch the production. Evanston Cultural Arts Coordinator Jennifer Lasik said the goals of the city’s Arts Council
aligned well with those of Berezowsky and other NU faculty at the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts. “We loved that Northwestern was taking performances off their campus and getting out around the community,” Lasik said. “We like the approach that it’s art in unusual spaces, the idea for having performing arts in areas where you wouldn’t normally see them.” Lasik also said the Arts Council wants to continually encourage the arts at NU to strengthen the relationship between the two groups. Berezowsky agreed that she hoped the partnership would be extremely beneficial for both NU and Evanston. Berezowsky said the sites for the performances will each accommodate about 30 people, which will create a more intimate event for both actors and audience members. “Each audience will really have sort of this allaccess pass to the location,” she said. “It becomes a really unique experience. This is a much more
personal kind of theatrical experience. … It becomes a different kind of audience agreement when they walk in, which is like, ‘Wow, I’m part of this new and site-interactive experience.’” Michael Rohd, the lead faculty mentor for the festival, said he feels it is important for graduate students to keep up with an emerging trend around the world of performers engaging with locations in unique and adventurous ways. This drive to interact with the surrounding community is in line with NU’s goals to connect with Evanston. “It’s sort of a no-brainer that it sort of aligns with the University’s current mission pretty strongly,” Rohd said. “Historically, (the theater’s) relationship … is we make stuff and then we ask Evanstonians and others to come to our place and see our stuff. We feel like this is a really interesting way to be a bit more reciprocal.” paigeleskin2017@u.northwestern.edu
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WASHINGTON — Five Republican former governors who supported the Common Core from its creation during the Bush administration said Wednesday that disinformation from conservatives threatened to highjack the higher standards for what students should be able to accomplish in each grade. “I’m a believer that facts ultimately prevail among most reasonable people,” said former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, who helped lead the development of the standards and continues to support them. “I think it’s incumbent on us to speak out and defeat rumors and innuendo and allegations with facts about how the Common Core began, what its purpose is and how we believe it can be positive for American society.” Governors and state education officials created the standards in response to concerns that American students were falling behind those from other countries and that companies weren’t able to find workers with basic skills in math and reading, Perdue said. He said he was puzzled by the criticism from the right. “I don’t know how in America you can be against higher standards,” he said. Critics call the standards a national curriculum and a federal takeover of education. The governors at the gathering said they were neither. The federal government wasn’t involved in developing the standards. The Obama administration later gave states credit for adopting higher standards in its Race to the Top grants program. That was a mistake, said former Michigan Gov. John Engler, now president of the Business Roundtable, an organization of CEOs who promote economic growth. But Obama had nothing to do with developing the standards, he said. “By the time he was elected, it was all done.” The standards spell out what students should learn year by year, but leave decisions about books and lesson plans up to the states and local districts. “If we fail to implement the Common Core and go back to the drawing board again, there’s going to be another generation that falls further behind internationally,” said former Hawaii
Republican Gov. Linda Lingle. Parents are right to complain about curricula or tests they don’t like, Lingle said. “But that’s not what the Common Core is.” But growing political criticism has resulted in challenges to the standards in eight states. In addition, Indiana has dropped the standards. South Carolina, for instance, in April withdrew from the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, one of two groups that have developed tests for the standards. In Missouri, the Republican-led legislature passed a bill to develop standards to replace the Common Core. It’s pending before Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon. In North Carolina, House Speaker Thom Tillis, a Republican challenging Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan in November, said in April that he favored repealing the standards. But in May he said a full repeal may not reach a vote during the current session and that more study was needed. A resolution by the Republican National Committee called Common Core “an inappropriate overreach to standardize and control the education of our children.” Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan said supporters “fell in love with an abstraction and gave barely a thought to implementation.” The criticism has entered comedy as well. Louis C.K. tweeted in April: “My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core!” And on “Late Show with David Letterman,” talking about helping his daughters with math, the comedian said, “I look at the problems and it’s like Bill has three goldfish, he buys two more. How many dogs live in London. Or something like that.” “There are crazy examples, but they’re not in the Common Core,” former Republican Gov. James H. Douglas of Vermont said at the Chamber of Commerce event. “We’re talking about a level of achievement, not the specifics of how it’s obtained.” Engler said that polls show that when people are informed about what the standards are, support for them is strong. The Higher State Standards Partnership, a joint effort of the Business Roundtable, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other groups, recently aired an ad on FOX News in support of the Common Core. -Renee Schoof (McClatchy Washington Bureau)
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drank too much, so that was kind of the rationale behind this,” she said. Stephens said overall, the event was a success. “I think it’s just something to start conversation, talking about why is it that in certain contexts we feel that the level of consent needed is lower,” she said. “I think that seeing something in a different context could be awareness raising.” She said the group received positive responses from the majority of passersby, noting the most interesting feedback came from Yik Yak, an anonymous social media application. Posts ranged from support for the demonstrators to mocking their efforts. Students involved added that after last quarter’s activism, they wanted to plan more initiatives to continue spreading awareness about sexual assault. Bienen sophomore Jacqueline Ovalle took part in the demonstration after receiving the invitation on Facebook. She said she felt this was an important issue to discuss and participated to increase conversation on the topic. “I go to parties, I see things going on, I have friends, things have happened and things have happened in other schools where they try to cover it up,” she said. “This conversation needs to keep on going.” She added that the visual nature of the event
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“Visual thinking has been a huge asset in my career designing livestock facilities,” she said. Communication lecturer Stacy Kaplan said that due to the increasing number of people being diagnosed with autism, it was important for the NU community to hear Grandin’s speech. “Given that Temple Grandin is such a name in the field of autism and within in the Communication Sciences and Disorders field, we were very excited to get on board with this,” she said. Sarah Liddell, an attendee with an autistic five-year-old son, went to the event to gain more insight from Grandin after having read several of her books. “I think the most helpful thing was, even though (autistic children) may get obsessed with something … you want to take that and expand it,” she said. Another mother in attendance, Kelly Oberholtzer,who also has an austistic son, said
thursday, may 22, 2014 contributed to its success. “I definitely support visual art and art that is more like an embodiment rather than just something you see on the wall, because this is really like in your face kind of and I think that’s also needed on this campus a little bit,” she said. Weinberg freshman Isabel Sturla said the purpose of the event was to emphasize everyone should be respected no matter what they wear. “The way that somebody dresses is their completely personal decision, and it really does not mean that they want something, whatever that means,” she said. “Consent is something that is really necessary and really important and is so much more complicated than something as simple as what you wear.” Weinberg junior Kayleen McMonigal, who also took part in the demonstration, said she had participated in a similar event before called Slut Walk. She said the event held today encouraged continued conversation about important campus issues. “I think it’s just important to (discuss these problems) so people don’t forget about these issues, because everyone gets all angry about the lawsuit and stuff and then a couple weeks later, it’s out,” she said. “Things get forgotten about so just keeping the conversation going and making sure that people know things are happening.”
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From page 1 and that this is the third year Alpha Kappa Alpha has hosted the event at NU. SESP junior Nicole Reed, incoming president of the sorority and a member of SHAPE, spoke briefly after the march. “Sexual violence is a really important subject,” she said. “It doesn’t just happen for females. It also happens for males. It’s not heteronormative; it can happen in LGBTQ relationships as well, so this is a really important walk for us to raise awareness.” Weinberg freshman Warren Long said he walked most of the way in borrowed heels, but they didn’t fit and started to break about three quarters of the way through. “I’m an athlete,” he said. “I have good balance,
so if the heels would’ve fit it wouldn’t have been an issue.” He said he thought men played an important role in raising awareness for sexual assault. “Usually it’s men doing those acts, but the whole thing is men are victims too, so I know it’s not one-sided,” he said. “I do think men should be obligated to raise awareness about it.” Debra Hill (SESP ’71, ’72), the sorority’s graduate adviser, said the attendance at the march has increased since its first year. “The first year we maybe had 15 people,” she said. “We did have one brave guy that actually made it the whole mile in heels. He was crying by the time we got here. His feet hurt, but he got here.” jordanharrison2017@u.northwestern.edu
tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu rebeccasavransky2015@u.northwestern.edu the event allowed her to learn more about her son’s point of view. She agreed with Grandin’s call to encourage specific, individual skills. “A lot of what she said as far as finding certain interests is huge,” she said. “Finding what makes them tick and going with that as what drives them is really important.” Eustacia Cutler, Grandin’s mother, opened the event by giving her perspective on raising an autistic child. She later joined Grandin and Communication Prof. Molly Losh, who specializes in autism and other neurogenetic disorders, for a panel discussion. Earlier this month, NU released a study that found simulating human interaction can help people with autism improve the social skills needed when interviewing for a job. This is another step in the direction Grandin wants to see. “You’ve got to stretch these kids just out of their comfort zones,” she said. “We can’t let these kids be recluses.”
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TAKE A WALK Students walked from The Arch to Elder as part of the “Walk A Mile in Her Shoes” march to speak out against sexual violence at colleges and universities.
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Northwestern went 0-for-3 Wednesday in the first round of the NCAA Singles Championships in Athens, Georgia. Women’s tennis seniors Belinda Niu and Veronica Corning and men’s tennis senior Raleigh Smith all lost their opening matches, ending their singles careers as Wildcats. Niu said she and Corning were ready to “go out and have fun,” as their last hoorah for NU appeared around the corner. But the end came soon for both players, on the first day of singles play. Niu fell to the Georgia’s Silvia Garcia 6-2, 6-2 and Corning fell to Virginia’s Danielle Collins 7-5, 6-2. Coming into the singles-only tournament, Niu had the most wins on the NU squad with Corning second. Corning dominated her No. 1 singles court, while Niu took care of business on the No. 2 court, raking in win after win. Niu spoke last week about how this competition would be her last ever, but Corning plans to try the professional circuit for the next year and keep up with her tennis. Corning will have a chance to play doubles Thursday as she and sophomore Alicia Barnett were selected to compete in the NCAA Doubles Championships. Meanwhile, No. 49 Smith lost 6-3, 6-3 to No. 32 Jason Tahir of Duke on Wednesday morning. Smith, NU’s lone senior, was the only male player for the Wildcats to qualify for the Singles Championship. He led a pack of young Cats this year to a 21-11 record, a run to the Big Ten Tournament semifinals and a thirdstraight NCAA Tournament berth. Coach Arvid Swan said Smith is one of the best players he has ever coached. The senior nabbed a 13-10 record this year at the No. 1 singles spot for NU and was a
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CLOSE CURTAIN Senior Raleigh Smith was one of three Northwestern tennis players to see their singles careers end Wednesday at the NCAA Singles Championships. Belinda Niu and Veronica Corning lost in the first round of the women’s draw.
first-team All-Big Ten selection for the second consecutive year. He also reached a career-high ranking of No. 37 earlier this season and beat five ranked opponents. Smith finished his career 67-47 in singles and 63-57 in doubles alexanderlederman2017@u.northwestern.edu michaelmarut2016@u.northwestern.edu
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Likhite continues to build program By ellie friedmann
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In late July 1987, Northwestern track and cross country athletes were notified that the school was completely dropping their sports. After the 1987-88 seasons, Northwestern became the only Big Ten school without men’s and women’s cross country and track programs. When NU decided to add another sport in 1998, it was decided that women’s cross country would be resurrected. But still, no men’s team and no track and field at all. At that time, coach April Likhite, then April Ecke, had just taken her first head coaching job at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She had recently graduated from Mississippi State, where she ran cross country and track and was named Southeastern Conference Student-Athlete of the year in 1995. She also made the All-America cross country team in 1993 and was an All-SEC pick in 1992 and 1993. The reason Likhite continued her cross country career through coaching had a lot to do with chance. She got a scholarship to go to grad school at UAB, where an assistant coaching position opened up, so she got the opportunity to go to school and further pursue her running passion. “I’m a big believer that everything happens for a reason,” Likhite said. “I think I was still really hungry to compete, but I knew I wasn’t able to. I feel like I took a lot of that and was able to transfer it into coaching individuals who shared the same goals and dreams that I had.” While she coached at UAB, one of her coaching peers called her and told her NU was starting a women’s cross country program only, something Likhite had never heard of before. But she grew up in the Midwest and knew NU was a great school in a great conference, so she came all the way to Evanston for an interview and got the job. Likhite said it was initially overwhelming to resurrect only one aspect of a big program that had been completely dropped a decade earlier. She and the University were excited, though, because adding women’s cross country made a lot of sense. The sport usually draws strong, academically
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from the start April Likhite took over Northwestern’s cross country program when it was resurrected in 1998 and coached the Wildcats until 2001. Then, after leaving for a few years, she returned in 2007. During both tenures, she has kept the program stable despite structural disadvantages.
driven students and did not require additional facilities. By its third year back, the women’s cross country team finished fifth in the Big Ten. They just missed out on going to the NCAA Championships that year but had two women who were All-Big Ten and had one woman compete individually at nationals. Such quick success was a surprise for the new program, but Likhite said she knew she had the right athletes to make it happen. “We brought in some young women who were just really excited about being a part of starting a program from scratch,” Likhite said. “They really bought into the possibilities of this happening without that track aspect. I think that’s unique.” Assistant coach Patricia Tormey, who has been with NU for four seasons, said a big element of the runners’ attitudes comes from how Likhite inspires them. Tormey has finished her last season with the Cats and will be moving to California. She said she’s sad to be leaving behind the tight-knit family Likhite has built. “She is an incredible motivator, and she’s super passionate,” Tormey said. “I
think that’s probably one of her biggest strengths. She’s able to inspire them through running and through the team, but I think she also has a lasting impact on who they all become, which is really amazing to see.” Tormey said Likhite has become one of her best friends over the past few years, and it is not easy to leave the team behind. Many years ago, after that third season when the Cats placed fifth in the Big Ten Conference, Likhite faced a similar dilemma. She had just gotten engaged to her then-fiance Craig Likhite, whose job moved them to Michigan. Saying goodbye was the hardest decision of her life, she said, especially because the team was in such a dynamic position. She considered her collegiate coaching career over and moved on to high school teaching and coaching. Likhite had her son, Cade, in Michigan. Shortly after, however, the time was right once again for Likhite to find herself in the perfect coaching position. Her husband’s job moved her family back to Chicago, and right when she came back, the coach who had replaced her at NU was leaving. She got her job back.
Likhite’s second time around at NU has come with many more challenges than she faced originally. The Big Ten Conference has become much more competitive, but more importantly, the Cats’ cross country only program now faces certain restrictions that other Big Ten programs do not face. During the team’s offseason (winter and spring), the players are not allowed to miss class. Other programs that have track and field programs, especially in the Midwest, travel to warmer climates to race, while NU is restricted to a few meets in the Chicago area. Likhite knows that the NCAA has the athletes’ best interest in mind. She doesn’t want her athletes to miss class, but she believes these rules don’t appropriately apply to her program like they do for others. NU is only allowed to travel during the traditional cross country season, while other schools reap the benefits of competition year-round because of their official track and field programs. “Our sport during our non-traditional season isn’t cross country; it’s track,” Likhite said. “Whereas a soccer program during their non-traditional
season, they’re going up against programs that are soccer. We’re going up against these programs that have track.” No matter how much of a competitive edge the Cats might lose as they miss out on the big meets of indoor and outdoor track, they make up for it in other ways. Likhite’s main strength as a coach is her ability to build a solid, strong team culture that incorporates a hard work ethic, good leadership and team chemistry. A few years ago, Likhite decided not to have team captains on her team. Instead, she has built a leadership council with five women whom their teammates select to represent them, communicate well and genuinely adhere to the team’s philosophies. Junior Elena Barham is one of the members of the leadership council, and she said Likhite’s willingness to have an open dialogue with them is unique and productive. “Having the leadership council is cool because it doesn’t have the bossiness or hierarchy that you affiliate with team captains,” Barham said. “It’s cool because you can all sit around in a group and be really candid about how we feel the team is doing.” Instituting the leadership council reflects Likhite’s willingness to understand each individual’s needs, something Barham said is Likhite’s greatest coaching strength. Likhite has used her leadership and guidance to build a strong team despite intrinsic challenges the program faces, but she made it clear that the team has returned that favor to her, too. She said raising her 8-yearold son, Cade, in this kind of environment is an incredible opportunity. “He gets to be around not only my team, which I think are amazing role models for him, but he gets to interact with student-athletes all the time.” Likhite said. “He loves sports. He loves basketball. He loves baseball. He loves football. It has just been really fun watching him grow with the student-athletes here.” At the end of the day, Likhite said her life revolves mostly around her team and her son. Moving forward, she wants to continue to see her son affected by the positive influence of the women on her team and to foster a strong team culture that will bring the Cats a national championship. ellenfriedmann2.2016@northwestern.edu
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NCAA should provide more leeway to conferences Alex Putterman Daily sports @Alexputt02
On Tuesday, the Associated Press obtained a letter from Pac-12 university presidents to their colleagues across the NCAA’s major conferences — the Pac-12, Big 12, Atlantic Coast Conference, Southeastern Conference and Big Ten — suggesting those leagues push for greater autonomy within the NCAA framework. The Pac-12 presidents figure if they and their major-conference brethren have greater leeway in what they can provide players — cost-of-living stipends, increased medical benefits, guaranteed scholarships and more — they can increase the degree to which athletes benefit from revenue they produce. It’s an idea that’s been tossed around as a partial response to calls for
increased rights for college athletes and one that seems to be gaining traction. After all, it’s only sensible the schools that benefit the most from the labors of college athletes should most reward those athletes. That’s capitalism at its simplest. When former Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter says universities should pay football players the full price of college attendance in return for the revenue they generate, he’s not talking about programs with shoestring budgets. He’s primarily talking about the major-conference money machines filling giant stadiums, selling thousands of jerseys and paying coaches seven-figure salaries. Schools with limited athletic budgets can’t easily afford paying out revenue to athletes, but the conferences in the Big Five absolutely can. In an interview with The Daily last month, NU President Morton Schapiro expressed support for the establishment of different rules for different
conferences. “These five major conferences have some different interests than a lot of the other ones,” Schapiro said. “Most of the revenue comes through those conferences. So to have greater control over our destinies makes some sense. … There are differences across those five conferences, but there’s also some commonality, and if we can better serve our student-athletes by taking control over the votes, given the revenue coming in, I think that would be a good move.” In 2011, the NCAA weighed allowing schools to provide athletes a $2,000 stipend on top of their scholarships but eventually tabled the proposal in part because it was considered unfair to smaller athletic departments. Along those lines, some argue that expanded rights for certain conferences would undermine competitive balance in college sports. This would allow the big-time programs recruiting advantages over their less affluent
counterparts. But only the world’s biggest idealist would entertain that competitive balance exists at the top rung of collegiate sports. No one recruited by Ohio State goes to Boise State, because although all schools play by the same rulebook, those rules govern vastly different realities. Schools in the five biggest conferences already generate revenue through merchandise, ticketing and (especially) television that non-power conferences can’t match. That means these powerhouses can invest in infrastructure that — through recruiting and preparation — results in success on the field. More power to the major conferences might exacerbate this effect, but competitive balance in college sports is not something anyone has ever worried about, and it’s hypocritical to start protesting on that basis now. The biggest casualties of leeway for certain conferences would be
traditional basketball schools outside of those leagues like Connecticut, Memphis and Georgetown. But this is about programs with money rewarding the players who earn it for them, and football generates the most money, so schools with strong football programs are naturally prioritized. If a few basketball programs fall off slightly for the sake of hundreds of college athletes getting back some of the value they create, so be it. The solution of increased autonomy for the Big Five conferences is far from perfect. Eventually, some of the benefits the Pac-12 presidents suggest (such as medical assistance for players who suffer debilitating injuries) should apply to all athletes in all sports at all schools. But this proposal starts the NCAA on the right track. The fight for college athlete rights shouldn’t stop with this action. But it might as well start there. asputt@u.northwestern.edu