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D65 plans to assess appraisal system By MANUEL RAPADA
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Evanston/Skokie District 65 will look to a long-standing survey partner to assess the district’s teacher evaluation system. A $73,132-a-year contract with ECRA Group, Inc., passed in a consent agenda vote during Monday night’s board meeting at the Joseph E. Hill Education Center. Later in the meeting, the board approved another agreement with ECRA to survey teachers, parents and administrators to determine strategic planning initiatives. Since a November school board meeting drew more than 180 people, D65’s quest to revise its teacher appraisal system implemented during the 2009-2010 school year has taken several turns. Teachers won a reprieve from a revised evaluation system in December, when superintendent Hardy Murphy announced the district would delay this school year’s planned implementation of the new system. In January, Murphy backtracked on his recommendation to work with union District 65 Educators’ Council to accelerate implementation of the Performance Evaluation Reform Act, a state law mandating changes in teacher and principal evaluations. Murphy originally planned to formally set up a joint committee that would give DEC and D65 180 days to reach a consensus on an evaluation system, with student growth as a major component. Failure to agree would have resulted in adopting an Illinois State Board of Education evaluation model. DEC president Jean Luft said Monday she was disappointed in Murphy’s decision to backtrack because implementing » See D65, page 7
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TIMELINE OF RECENT RACIAL CONTROVERSY January 2012
Latina student heckled in broken English on her way home Students host Caucus Against Racial Prejudice on Campus
February 2012
University administrators host roundtable to discuss diversity at NU
September 2012
University releases initial Diversity Report to student body
Lesley-Ann Brown named to new position of director of campus inclusion and community
Ski Team hosts party where students dressed in racially insensitive costumes
October 2012
Students voice desire for student diversity requirement at ASG diversity forum
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Two Asian students egged, verbally insulted on tennis courts
March 2012 April 2012
New University Diversity Council established; Dona Cordero named assistant provost for diversity and inclusion
January 2013
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University Diversity Council completes proposal for schoolwide Social Inequalities and Diversities requirement
August 2012
By LAUREN CARUBA
daily senior staffer
Following six months of collaboration between administrators, students and faculty members, Northwestern’s University Diversity Council has formulated a proposal for a universitywide diversity requirement for undergraduate students. The Social Inequalities and Diversities requirement, recommended for implementation in fall 2015, would include an academic curricular component and a discussion-based activity completed
EPD reaches conclusion in the Maddula investigation By CAT ZAKRZEWSKI
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at NU.” The University also appointed two officials dedicated to improving diversity on campus: Dona Cordero, UDC chair and assistant provost for diversity and inclusion, and Lesley-Ann Brown, director of campus inclusion and community. Cordero said the proposal signifies the council’s ongoing efforts to meet student demands. She stressed the document is still a draft that needs to be reviewed and approved by the president, the provost and the deans within each of the six undergraduate schools. “It’s a work in progress, so we definitely still have some work to do on it, but I think we’ve made some good progress,” she said. According to the document, the curricular portion of the requirement » See DIVERSITY, page 7
» See MADDULA, page 7
NU calls for requirement outside the classroom, according to a draft of the proposal obtained by The Daily on Monday. The two components would be completed during students’ freshman and sophomore years. Initiated last spring, the proposal’s development results from the collaboration of members within the UDC’s Academics/Education working group. If approved, it would represent the first University-wide requirement for undergraduates. The proposal is the culmination of numerous calls by students last year for a cultural competency requirement after a series of racially insensitive incidents on campus. Students voiced the desire for the requirement in open forums and smaller meetings, resulting in the University’s release of the Diversity Report, which highlighted a “serious problem of a lack of diversity
Police close case
Evanston Police told The Daily on Monday they have concluded the death of McCormick sophomore Harsha Maddula was “accidental in nature with ... a contributing factor of alcohol.” Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said police made this conclusion after receiving toxicology results from the Cook County medical examiner’s office that indicated Maddula’s blood alcohol level was 1.5 times the legal limit of 0.08 and a consistent urinalysis test. Although the medical examiner officially ruled the case “undetermined,” police determined alcohol played a role based on these test results and witnesses who observed Maddula consuming alcoholic beverages and smoking marijuana at the off-campus party where he was last seen Sept. 22. “All people react to alcohol consumption differently,” Parrott said. “It’s very hard to predict how his reaction occurred.” Maddula’s body was recovered from the Wilmette Harbor on Sept. 27. The next day, a postmortem examination concluded the cause of Maddula’s death was drowning. Parrott said there were no signs of foul play and Maddula was found with all of his possessions. “His body had no indications at all of any type of trauma in terms of blunt trauma or trauma that was forced by
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NU prof chosen to head economic analysis at DOJ Prof to work with Antitrust Division, evaluate industries By AMY WHYTE
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The U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division last week named Northwestern economics Prof. Aviv Nevo the new deputy assistant general for economic analysis. Nevo will assist with the department’s primary work of evaluating proposed business mergers and ensuring that antitrust laws are upheld. He will take leave from the University to begin his term as the deputy assistant general on April 1 of this year. “I think he’s a good choice,” said NU economics Prof. Robert Porter, Nevo’s colleague. “He’s well suited
to the kind of tasks that are going to confront the antitrust division of the Justice Department over the next year or so.” With several big mergers currently in the works, including upcoming mergers within the airline and brewing industries, Porter said it’s “important that the Justice Department do a thorough and careful review.” “Aviv (Nevo) has exactly the right expertise to oversee those efforts,” he said. Nevo said the work he will be doing at his new position will relate closely to the research he has done at NU. He specializes in industrial organization, a category that antitrust work falls under. “It’s basically looking at how industries are organized, what the market structure is, what the pricing structure is, and the implications it has for consumers,” Nevo said. “Antitrust is one particular subfield within all that.”
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Nevo said this will be his first time working directly with the government. He worked as an economics professor at University of California, Berkley before comHe’s well ing to NU suited to the and works currently as kind of tasks a research that are going associate for the National to confront Bureau of the antitrust Economic division of Research in addition to the Justice his job as a Department ... professor. Bill Baer, Robert Porter, the assistant Economics Prof. attorney general in charge of the Antitrust Division, said in a press release sent out to Justice Department employees Feb.
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19 that Nevo was chosen because he would bring “a wealth of knowledge and insightful analysis” to the staff. “He is widely regarded as an intellectual pioneer in the use of data to analyze consumer preferences, which is fundamental to many of our enforcement matters,” Baer said in the release. “The division is fortunate to have his expertise guiding our economic analysis.” Baer said he would consult with Nevo for advice on handling both merger and civil non-merger investigations. Nevo said he is unsure when he will be returning to NU, because the length of the time he will be working with the antitrust division has not yet been set. “It’s a little bit to be determined, it’s a little open-ended,” Nevo said. “But it’s gonna be for a while.” amywhyte2015@u.northwestern.edu
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TRUST HIM Northwestern Prof. Aviv Nevo has been tapped as the new head of the economic analysis unit at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division.
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Around Town UPD handcuffs student in connection with damaging NU building
University Police handcuffed a student early Sunday morning in connection with damage to a building owned by Northwestern at 640 Lincoln St. UPD observed two men on the entrance ramps to the west side of the building at 12:22 a.m., UPD spokesman Dan McAleer said. When the officers approached the men, one, an NU student, stopped and put his hands up. The other fled the scene and was not located, McAleer said. Officers placed the student in handcuffs and found two broken window panes on the west side of the building. The student had bloody and injured hands, and was treated on scene for minor lacerations by Evanston Fire and Life Safety Services. At about 2 a.m., the student was transported to UPD offices and issued a compliance ticket for criminal damage to property, McAleer said. The student is scheduled to attend a city ordinance hearing. The student was not arrested and this incident will not appear on his permanent record but he may face fines depending on the outcome of his hearing, McAleer said.UPD has stopped searching for the second man involved in the incident. — Ciara McCarthy
Setting the Record Straight In the Monday edition of The Daily, a graphic accompanying a story about student group funding as designated by Associated Student Government misstated the A-status group designated to receive $176,300. That group is Mayfest. The Daily regrets the error.
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Evanston participates in energy efficiency community challenge
Evanston is participating in an energy efficiency community challenge that could earn a local nonprofit $25,000 in prize money, according to a city news release. The city is participating in the Nicor Gas Energy Efficiency Program Community Challenge, running from February through April, to reduce community energy usage, according to the news release. For every homeowner or business that participates in one of the six existing Nicor Gas energy efficiency programs, the city will receive $50 in prize money, up to a total of $25,000. Nicor Gas may also reward the city $85,000 in rebate and incentive offerings
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to be applied toward a community project. The Evanston community can vote online to choose the beneficiary. Candidates include the Child Care Center of Evanston, Evanston History Center, McGaw YMCA and the YWCA Evanston/North Shore, according to the release. The chosen organization will receive an energy efficiency retrofit using the prize money earned in addition to the rebate and incentive money. The city will distribute the prize money April 30, the day the challenge ends. Nicor Gas hosts the challenge as a new initiative to help foster energy efficiency awareness and actions in local communities. The challenge currently takes place in Evanston and Oak Park and may expand into other communities in the future. — Jia You
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Police Blotter Community reports more potentially gang-related graffiti
Evanston Police Department has received reports of three new instances of potentially gangrelated graffiti, following three cases last week. Main Foods at 835 Main St. reported emblems associated with criminal group the Gangster Disciples sprayed on the building sometime between Feb. 19 at 6 p.m. and Wednesday at 7 a.m., EPD Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. The graffiti included pitchforks and black and blue spray paint, which are the colors of the Gangster Disciples, Parrott said. EPD received two additional reports of gangrelated graffiti on Saturday. Vandals used black spray paint to paint an image of a face with a five-point crown on cinder-block wall of a business in the 2400 block of Main Street. The image might be a symbol of the Latin Kings gang, Parrott said. On Saturday evening, vandals used blue paint to spray the entrance sign at James Park, 320 Dodge Ave., with the label SGD, referring to Spanish Gangster Disciples, Parrott said. Street gangs have been known to frequent James Park before, he added.
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EPD believes the new incidents are unrelated, Parrott said. Police do not know if these incidents are connected to previous gang-related graffiti incidents.
Strongarm robbery outside Howard CTA station
A woman allegedly punched another woman — believed to be homeless — several times and took her bag Saturday morning in south Evanston. The robbery victim, 41, reportedly exited Howard Street CTA station at midnight Saturday. She was looking for shelter when another woman approached her and offered her a ride, Parrott said. When the woman declined the ride, the driver offered to let her sleep in the vehicle. After waking at approximately 8 a.m. Saturday morning, the two women apparently got into an argument. The woman with the car allegedly punched the victim in the mouth, head and back and then fled the scene in her vehicle with the victim’s bag. — Ciara McCarthy
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It’s important to just get different people to the game. We think attendance is better because we’re doing these things.
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Student-athletes showcase talents Third annual talent show partners with DM to benefit Danny Did Foundation
Preckwinkle, Norquist to speak at School of Law symposium
baskets for him, score some goals for him.” The acts featured athletes from nine different sports showcasing a range of talent from singing and dancing to slam poetry and standup comedy. Although Carr stole the show as the last act and eventual winner, sophomore soccer player Nikko Boxall’s dance moves and the poetic rhythm of sophomore soccer player Ali Herman earned rave reviews from the judges and fellow acts. Overall, Huth said she was very happy with the event. In a packed Ryan Family Auditorium, the acts proved to be enjoyable for all spectators. “It surpassed (my expectations),” the senior runner said. “They’re all so talented, and to be able to be a part of an event that showcases those talents is absolutely amazing.” joshuawalfish2014@u.northwestern.edu
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GOT TALENT? Host and senior basketball player Reggie Hearn (center), senior wrestler Levi Mele (left) and his family look for Mele’s second child during his comedy routine. The student athlete talent show, which featured ten acts, raised money for Dance Marathon.
department is always looking for new ways to help with the annual fundraiser. Practice and competition schedules hinder student-athletes from dancing, and Huth said the talent show gives the athletes an opportunity to contribute to the campaign. During intermission, Danny Did Foundation co-founder Mike Stanton and his family took the stage and received a standing ovation from the packed crowd. Stanton spoke to the crowd about his son Danny, who passed away from Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy in 2009 and left the student-athletes with words of encouragement. “I want to thank all the student-athletes for coming out tonight and supporting Dance Marathon,” Stanton said. “Danny was a real athlete and I know he would get a huge kick out of being here and seeing all of you guys tonight. … Sweat a little bit for Danny on the courts and on the fields, make some
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Cook County Board president Toni Preckwinkle and John Norquist, president and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism, will speak at a symposium hosted by Northwestern’s School of Law later this week. Preckwinkle and Norquist are the keynote speakers for the sixth annual symposium, entitled “Legal Implications of Urban Development,” of the School of Law’s Journal of Law and Social Policy. The full-day conference is taking place Friday, March 1, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Lincoln Hall. Concentrating on how social policy and urban affairs issues factor into urban development, the symposium will include numerous representatives from organizations across the state, as well as the presentation of two case studies of current development initiatives within the city of Chicago. Preckwinkle, Cook County board president since 2010 and a former Chicago alderman, will speak about the county’s new land-banking project, which is aimed at tackling the 10 percent of properties in the county that are currently vacant. The project, proposed last year, will help simplify land titles so properties can change hands to new owners more quickly. As head of the chief group for neighborhood and community development, Norquist will talk about the impact of federal housing finance protocols on urbanism. The presentation of two case studies, which will kick off the symposium, will examine the potential uses for two Chicago sites: the location that was formerly the town of Pullman and the area that used to be U.S. Steel Southworks. Other notable speakers at the convention include Howard Learner, executive director of the Environmental Law and Policy Center, 10th District Cook County Commissioner Bridget Gainer and Rich Wheelock, director of advocacy for Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago.
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Northwestern’s student-athletes proved Monday the Wildcats are more than just athletically gifted. The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee hosted its third annual Student-Athlete Talent Show on Monday night with 10 acts vying for the winning title at the event. The show opened with members of the NU athletic department doing their own rendition of the Harlem Shake before the rest of the acts took the stage. Austin Carr was named the show’s winner by judges after his soulful renditions of “Use Somebody” by Kings of Leon and “Ordinary People” by John Legend. The redshirt freshman football player even performed an encore of “Forget You” by Cee Lo Green after the judges announced his victory. “I’ve always known that I loved singing,” Carr said. “I couldn’t believe (I won). There were some great acts tonight, I don’t feel like I deserved it. I didn’t think it’d go that well, I was so nervous.” Senior lacrosse player Beatrice Conley and senior basketball player Reggie Hearn reprised their roles as hosts of the event. Audrey Huth, head of the talent show committee within SAAC, said the duo works so well together that it was easy to invite them back as the emcees. Conley was an act in the first year of the event and hosted it last year. She said she enjoyed it so much she decided to come back to host again. “It was a lot more nerve-wracking when I was actually an act because I was being judged,” Conley said. “Hosting is definitely a lot easier, it’s fun, we’ve been ad libbing it a lot.” This year SAAC united with Dance Marathon to donate all of the proceeds to the Danny Did Foundation, DM’s 2013 primary beneficiary. Huth said it is a natural partnership because the athletic
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Reflections on Academy Award’s recent travesties YONI MULLER
DAILY COLUMNIST
As you’re reading this, you’ve had at least 30-some odd hours to absorb and come to terms with the results of Sunday night’s 85th Academy Awards. This year produced some surprisingly good nominees (especially compared to last year’s group). It’s inevitable that some defeats were taken poorly, some arguments broke out among friends and some punches were thrown — and not just by me. So as we all finalize our angry letters to the academy and rub antiseptic on the wounds caused by the moron who said “The Dark Knight Rises� got robbed, let’s take a minute to put things into perspective. The Oscars are the most significant awards moviemakers can receive, and it’s the pinnacle of many people’s careers just to be nominated. But the voters aren’t always right. In fact, sometimes their decisions are downright inexcusable. So before we proclaim from our lead-lined safe rooms that the sky is falling, let’s look back at some of the most egregious mistakes by the Academy in the last decade (going any longer would provide enough material for a novella).
2013: “Life of Pi� wins the most Oscars. Subsequently, the Oscars lose the most respect. That’s just absurd. The movie (deservedly) won Best Score and Best Cinematography, but Steven Spielberg was the obvious choice for Best Director, which Ang Lee somehow got his hands on. Additionally, the movie won Best Visual Effects over “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.� Not only is that stupid, but (as Sam Rojas, the wonderful girl who agrees to date me, points out) it brings to light a modern concern: movies whose visual spectacles are entirely computer-generated should not compete for the same award as those who manipulate physical objects. “Life of Pi� was a stunning movie, but it’s hard to make a tiger look anything but great when you create it on a screen. “The Hobbit� had quite a bit of CGI, but also utilized makeup, cameras that shot at 48 framesper-second, and motion-capture to perfectly create Gollum. The fact that this award has not yet been divided into categories for best live-action effects and best CGI effects is beyond me. 2011: “Please welcome your hosts, James Franco and Anne Hathaway!� Who knew one sentence could be so disastrous. 2010: I recognize that it was beautiful and it made more money than I could ever hope
to, but in no way should a movie whose only achievement is “looking beautiful� garner Best Picture and Best Director nominations. Yet, even with its uninspiring story, its flat characters and its horrific writing, “Avatar� managed to do just that. When the Best Picture category is expanded from 2011: “Please five to ten possible welcome your nominations, each one better be great, hosts, James and Avatar is a far Franco and cry from that. That Anne Hathaway!� the Coen brothers didn’t get directing Who knew one nominations over sentence could James Cameron for Serious Man,� be so disastrous. “A along with a handful of other worthy movies, is a shame. The fact that the academy tried to convince us “Avatar� was a great movie is unforgivable. 2006: And here we see voters make a mistake in a completely different direction. Although both “Avatar� and “Life of Pi� received heavy acclaim and recognition, thanks to brilliant animation, Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth� was shut out of Best Director and Best Picture, despite being a far
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‘Stranger danger’ inhibits connections BLAIR DUNBAR
DAILY COLUMNIST
A week or so ago, I was walking up north to pick up my car on Ridge Avenue. It had been raining earlier, so I was wearing my bright red raincoat. While walking, a middle-aged man with a strange limp complimented me on my coat. I thought that would be the end of the conversation, but he somehow got on the topic of what “political� means and handed me his business card. I halfheartedly nodded as I talked and attempted to walk away from him. He finally said goodbye, and I hurried to my car, every so often taking a look behind me. In hindsight, I think I overreacted. Most likely, the man was simply trying to be friendly, but as children we are programmed to be wary of strangers. Some of us become even more cautious when we arrive at Northwestern and constantly receive emails about robberies near campus. There is a reason that NU students post fliers on the ground; that’s where our eyes are typically aimed. Sometimes we avoid talking to strangers not as a precaution but simply because we are too busy. There is also a reason why, if someone asks you how you are, you always say fine even if you aren’t. Through all this avoidance of
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strangers, I can’t help feeling like we are missing out on some potentially valuable interactions. My mother is someone who will make conversation with anyone who is available. Whether she is walking the dog, shopping or having our house painted, she will inevitably be chatting with someone new. My boyfriend is much the same way. I remember walking with him down Sherman Avenue Through one afternoon when a all this man sitting outside the Unicorn Cafe started avoidance of talking about NU footstrangers, I can’t ball. While I most likely help feeling like would have nodded and continued walking, we are missing he stopped and fully out on some engaged the man. They talked about football potentially and what NU’s prosvaluable pects looked like for the interactions. year. His roommate also spent one afternoon talking to a few homeless men asking for change outside of the Howard CTA station. There are so many times in life when we are forced to interact with new people. For college students, the obvious example is Greek recruitment. When you get older, you are bombarded with job and internships interviews. These are often rather intimidating. Yet we rarely take advantage of the daily practice available to us. Maybe interviews wouldn’t be as frightening if every so often we decided to strike up a
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conversation with the lady selling us a dress or the man taking his dog for a walk during the afternoon. Besides, you never know who that stranger might be. One of my favorite stories from my stepmother is the time she was at the Westminster Dog Show with her sister and mother. Her mother was a dog breeder and trainer for many years. She and her sister were sitting backstage and there was an older woman sitting across from them. The three had a great time talking about the dog show. That older woman turned out to be Olympia Dukakis, a famous, Academy Award-winning actress. Recently I have tried to be more like my mother. As I am checking out at a store, I try to wear a smile and ask how the person is doing. Just two weeks ago I was visiting the Illinois Holocaust Museum. I ended up having two engaging conversations with two different strangers. One was a volunteer whose husband was a Holocaust survivor. The other was the man working at the front desk; I just decided to ask him what book he was reading. I am not saying that we should throw out the lessons we were taught as children. If you are alone at night, it’s not necessarily a good idea to talk to someone in a dark alley. I’m just suggesting that sometimes talking to the person next to you in line might make time pass a little quicker. Blair Dunbar is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be reached at blairdunbar2015@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, email a Letter to the Editor to forum@dailynorthwestern.com.
superior film. “Pan’s Labyrinth� is the perfect example of a film that uses animation and dazzling visuals to complement the narrative rather than to compensate for acting or plot. These aren’t just my opinions – its 98 percent MetaCritic rating is the 15th highest of all time and the highest of its decade. And yet, the movie didn’t even win Best Foreign Film, which I think is criminal. Maybe voters were just traumatized by the Pale Man. 2005: “Crash� wins Best Picture. Let me repeat. “Crash,� the most horrific, black-andwhite (in all too many ways), poorly crafted film most of us could ever hope to see, wins Best Picture. Touche, Academy. Of course there are more disputes and poor choices, but the fact that any voting body can make five mistakes as absurd and horrific as this in a single decade assures me that the Oscars are not to be taken too seriously. Except of course this year’s awards to Quentin Tarantino and Christoph Waltz for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor. Even the academy couldn’t mess that one up. Yoni Muller is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be reached at jonathanmuller2015@u.northwestern.edu. If you want to publicly respond to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to forum@dailynorthwestern.com.
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Council approves mental health services funding Aldermen vote to provide funds for Presence Health, loan for affordable housing By SOPHIA BOLLAG
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City Council unanimously approved a measure Monday night to give additional funding to mental health management services to address the city’s mental illness problems. Evanston Health Department Director Evonda Thomas-Smith presented the proposal before aldermen voted on the measure. The agreement will give $55,000 to Chicago-based Presence Behavioral Health to provide services for the mentally ill in Evanston. “Our goal is to get a solution to address this crisis intervention,” Thomas-Smith said. Presence will provide 24-hour crisis intervention and conduct home visits to aid Evanston residents who frequently make fraudulent 911 calls. “I almost think that the proposal that’s before us tonight is really not enough,” Ald. Jane Grover (7th) said. Kim Fisher, vice chair of the Evanston Mental Health Board, urged Presence to develop criteria for evaluating the services. “The Evanston Mental Health Board lends our full support to this proposal,” Fisher said. “However … we
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BEST PICTURE The portrait of former mayor Lorraine H. Morton was unveiled during Monday’s city council meeting. Aldermen would later approve funding for mental health services, including potential housing for residents with mental health issues.
recommend that Presence Behavioral Health revise their proposal to include quality metrics that would establish the effectiveness of these services.” Frank Perham, vice president of Resurrection Health Care, addressed his concerns when he
answered aldermen’s questions. Resurrection Health Care recently merged with Provena health to form Presence. “That’s a very reasonable request,” Perham said. “We will need some baseline data to know what
“We’re understanding what it takes to win and that’s something we’re going to continue to work on each and every game,” Drohan said. “I would like to see us make adjustments a little bit quicker in the game and not have to wait until the seventh, but I’d rather have fight and guts than anything else.” NU started the weekend in thrilling fashion with a tense game with Georgia Tech. The teams were scoreless headed into the seventh inning, when the Yellow Jackets struck for two runs off senior Meghan Lamberth in the top of the inning. But the Cats came right back, and junior Marisa Bast knocked in two runs with a single in the bottom of the seventh to give NU the walk-off win. Hours later, Bast hit a two-run home run to put NU
in front of No. 4 Tennessee, but the Volunteers worked to get two runs. In the bottom of the sixth, sophomore infielder Anna Edwards doubled into right centerfield, and freshman pinch runner Fran Strub scored on a fielding error, giving the Cats a 3-2 lead. Sophomore Amy Letourneau worked a nearly flawless seventh to pick up the complete game win. In each of NU’s five wins it scored in the sixth inning or later, and each time a different player stepped up on offense. In a 4-1 win over Brigham Young, junior Mari Majam brought home the winning run in the top of the seventh. Lamberth helped her own cause with a double against Loyola Marymount to give NU a 3-2 lead in top of the seventh inning. The Cats would lose the lead in the bottom of the
constitutes an improvement.” The council also approved a nearly $500,000 loan for Housing Options for the Mentally Ill, an Evanston-based nonprofit. The Housing and Homelessness Commission recommended the loan to fund the rehabilitation of 10 rental units into affordable housing for Evanston residents in need. Another commission-recommened loan was taken off the agenda after some aldermen voiced concerns during the planning and development meeting. The loan would fund Chicago-based nonprofit Community Partners for Affordable Housing to purchase a two-unit building and renovate it into affordable rental housing. Several aldermen expressed I almost concern because CPAH, think that unlike Housing Options the proposal for the Mentally Ill, had that’s before us not already purchased the properties in question. tonight is really “My issue is: Show us the building,” Ald. Ann not enough. Rainey (8th) said. Ald. Jane Grover Aldermen approved (7th) a measure to provide $10,000 to the Evanston 4th of July Association to celebrate the city’s 150th anniversary. Funding will be used for a variety of musical acts.
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Kate Drohan would rather her team didn’t wait until the end of the game to score runs, but if Northwestern wins, it doesn’t really matter to the coach. The Wildcats scored 16 of their 27 runs at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in the sixth inning or later to win all five of their games at the event. NU came back three times in the seventh inning to propel it to its first clean sweep of a pre-conference tournament since 2011.
inning, but Lamberth got another clutch hit to give NU the lead for good. In the finale against Long Island University-Brooklyn, sophomore Andrea DiPrima knocked in a run with a single to tie the game at 9 in the seventh before Lamberth brought in the winning run later in the frame. “We showed a lot of fight, and that’s about being gutsy,” Drohan said. “We stayed in it and we kept our focus on the little things that we needed to do to make something happen. Every single time we had a different person stepping up and making it happen, whether we needed a base runner or advancing a runner, everyone stepped up.”
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Athletic Department seeks increased attendance Incentives, Social Media Night attempt to boost student participation By CAT ZAKRZEWSKI
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In the wake of a five-game losing streak and a 13-15 record, the Northwestern Athletic Department is attempting to maintain student attendance at men’s basketball games with free merchandise and monetary incentives for groups and philanthropies. At Wednesday’s face-off against Wisconsin, the Athletic Department sponsored Social Media Night to bolster student attendance. Students who attended the game and registered their Twitter accounts with the Athletic Department received customized T-shirts with their Twitter handles printed on the back. Shawn Sullivan, NU Athletics’ director of sales and marketing, noted a decent student turnout and increased following on the team’s social networking accounts. But many students still cleared out of Wednesday’s game before the final buzzer as the Cats suffered a crushing 69-41 loss. One of the students filing out early was Weinberg sophomore Alex Frankenthal, who said she thought attempts like Social Media night were good, but need to be better publicized. She said she did not even know the event was happening when she went to the game. “It seemed like the normal crowd,� Frankenthal said. “They can only do so much.� The initiative is one of many attempts by the Athletic Department to prevent a falloff in student attendance during what has proved to be a trying season for the Wildcats. Although Sullivan said he would not have exact numbers on
the attendance difference between the seasons, he said there has been a “disappointing� difference between this year and last year, when the Wildcats had a 19-14 record. In addition to Social Media Night, the Athletic Department is trying different incentives to bring students to the Welsh-Ryan Arena. Sullivan said at the games they have given away free T-shirts and signs that provide students a discount at Buffalo Wings. They have We’re trying to Wild also have had Dance find different Marathon and Greek nights, at which Sulincentives livan said groups with that will make the largest attendance won a cash prize that students donated to their hopefully want was team or philanthropy. to bear the “We’re trying to find different incentives weather and that will make students hop on that hopefully want to bear shuttle bus to the weather and hop on that shuttle bus to the the arena. arena,� Sullivan said. Sullivan said the Shawn Sullivan, Athletics’ director Athletic Department has reached out to of sales and students primarily marketing through Wildside, a group of students that promotes support for Northwestern athletics. SESP sophomore Gram Bowsher serves as president of Wildside and said this quarter, the organization has found it more effective to focus on particular student organizations and partner with them to increase attendance. For example, he said they hosted a night for residential colleges where Wildside provided “munchies� for the college with the highest attendance.
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B1G CATS, SMALL CROWD Students had the opportunity to receive free t-shirts with Twitter handles printed on them during Social Media night. Wildside has been working to improve student turnout at sporting events this year.
Bowsher pointed to a particularly successful showing when they hosted International Student Association night. “It’s important to just get different people to a game,� Bowsher said. “We think attendance is better because we’re doing these things.� To his knowledge, Sullivan said NU is the only school in the Big Ten that provides free admission for students to men’s basketball games. He said he does not know why the attendance at NU does not compare to other schools in the Big Ten with that advantage. Sullivan said he thought that because students don’t actually have to purchase a ticket, they may not have an incentive to go. He said he didn’t think NU’s rigorous academic culture contributed to the decrease in attendance at games this year, as the demands in the
classroom have remained the same. “No one was blaming academics when we had record student attendance last season,� Sullivan said. Sullivan said overall, colleges across the country are seeing a decline in attendance due to technological advances, which allow students to access game updates on mobile devices and TV. “It’s easier to catch your game in the warmth of your residence hall,� Sullivan said. Despite that convenience, Sullivan said he hopes the attendance incentives will work for the last home games of the season. “Hopefully we can support our seniors with boisterous student sections,� Sullivan said.
American, who will compete for Big Ten and NCAA Championships before leaving NU, sent a message to his weight class with a 13-1 dismantling of Indiana’s No. 12 Taylor Walsh at 157 pounds. Welch led 6-0 after the first period and 10-1 after the second, only surrendering an escape point. Welch finished his dual career with a 62-5 record, after posting a 26-1 mark this season. Redshirt sophomore No. 18 Pierce Harger also scored a minor upset by knocking off No. 15 Ryan LeBlanc 4-2 in a closely contested battle at 165 pounds. In the last bout between ranked
wrestlers, No. 8 Mike McMullan finished his injury-marred dual season with a 6-2 win against No. 14 Adam Chalfant at heavyweight. The Cats’ attention will now turn from dual season to tournament play. The only events left on NU’s schedule are the Big Ten and NCAA Championships, starting with the conference tournament on March 9 hosted by in-state conference member Illinois. The NCAA Championships will take place in Des Moines, Iowa beginning March 21.
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After a mostly down conference season, Northwestern finished on an upswing. Taking on Indiana, the Wildcats (9-8, 2-6 Big Ten) emerged victorious in large fashion on Saturday, winning their final dual of the season 32-6. The Hoosiers (9-10, 0-8) failed to pick up a Big Ten win in their last chance to do so.
NU won its first conference dual since a win at Michigan State on Jan. 25. The Cats only dropped two of ten bouts en route to the win, but the night started poorly when true freshman Dominick Malone lost 6-4 to Indiana’s Joe Duca at 125 pounds. From there, NU would win the next six contests and eight of the last nine. The dual brought three matchups between ranked wrestlers, and the Cats defeated the Hoosiers in all three instances. Redshirt senior No. 2 Jason Welch posted the most impressive victory of the night in the final dual of his career. The two-time All-
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the state law now would ensure the district’s appraisal system met all of the state requirements, rather than adopting a system that doesn’t meet all those requirements. The joint committee mandated by the law also gives both DEC and D65 control over what goes into the system, Luft said. “As it stands now, (D65 officials) can implement anything they want. But if we do PERA, we have the right to default to the state plan,” Luft said. “It kind of encourages us to come to more consensus.” District administrators and DEC have now agreed to use ECRA to address any concerns in advance of the new system’s implementation. This school year, the new system is running in parallel with the current system though the district still uses the latter to evaluate teachers. Both the current and recently revised models determine teacher ratings using student As it growth and professional practice ratings. stands now, The new system places (D65 officials) students into one of four categories — college and can implement career readiness, grade anything they level, below grade level and the lowest quartile want. But if we — and uses a fifth catdo PERA, we egory to assess overall have the right classroom growth. In the past, teachers to default to the questioned whether the state plan. new system can provide a fair evaluation when Jean Luft, there are few students in DEC president a particular category or Jean Luft when there are special education students in the classroom. Through June 2014, ECRA will review and provide consulting to improve the student growth model. ECRA will also have access to student testing data to conduct individual student growth analysis, according to the letter of agreement. As D65 follows a much more informal path to revising teacher performance evaluations, Luft said she has already met with ECRA representatives and believes they have “a good statistical method.” “We’re hoping for the best that we can work with them to develop something that is fair and equitable for our teachers,” she said.
someone else,” Parrott said. Parrott said Maddula did have bruising on his head, but the medical examiner concluded the marks were consistent with falling into the water or his head brushing up against a pier support or boat during the five days before his body was recovered. Parrott also said Maddula was found with his pants zipper undone. “This is a possible indicator that he may have stopped to urinate at the harbor,” Parrott said. He explained this indicates that Maddula may have fallen if he had attempted to urinate along the side near concrete or if he walked out onto the pier. Parrott said Maddula’s family has expressed he was a strong swimmer, but potential factors that may have contributed to his drowning include the low water levels of the harbor at the time of his death as well as the possibility that he ingested water when he fell. Parrott said at this time there is no evidence that Maddula’s death was a suicide, after a police examination of his bedroom and laptop. “There are no indicators that he had any desire to harm himself,” Parrott said.
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could consist of large lecture courses accompanied by discussion sections to “create a unifying intellectual energy around issues of diversity and social inequality and around their Northwestern identities.” In addition to race, the classes will examine issues of sexuality, gender, class, religion and ability. Spanish Prof. Frances Aparicio, co-chair of the UDC subgroup that developed the proposal, said students would be able to use the academic component to also fulfill a distribution unit to avoid imposing additional graduation requirements on students. Although the requirement focuses on reaching undergraduate students, Aparicio said the hope is to involve graduate students by having them work as teaching assistants for the courses. Students would be expected to fulfill the requirement during their first two years at NU so they could incorporate the knowledge into later experiences in their college careers. “There’s a long history on this campus of racial incidents in the past,” Aparicio said. “Last year many students manifested their discomfort with these issues. The student body here is becoming (more) diverse every year. Students need to learn how to work with difference and interact with others
different from them.” The proposal also includes an appendix of diversity requirements at other institutions in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a collaboration between Big Ten schools and the University of Chicago. Aside from NU and the University of Chicago, all of the schools have some form of a diversity requirement in multiple, single and partial course variations. UDC member Hayley Stevens, who led student efforts for the requirement last year, called NU’s lack of a requirement in comparison with its peer institutions “embarrassing.” “If we are trying to position ourselves as a leader in higher education, we need to be a step ahead of everyone, and in this regard we’re two steps behind,” the Weinberg senior said. The co-curricular aspect proposes the use of the sustained dialogue model of the Washington, D.C.,based Sustained Dialogue Campus Network, formally used by a dozen universities, including Harvard University and Princeton University. Currently being developed by NU’s office of Campus Inclusion and Community and a student task force, the sustained dialogues would involve discussions outside classrooms facilitated by trained student moderators. The discussions, while not necessarily related to courses, would build on the knowledge
Parrott also said it did not appear that Maddula’s diabetes played any role in his death. Maddula was recently diagnosed as diabetic, but the medical examiner’s report showed his glucose levels were normal. Parrott said if any new information that was verifiable were to come forward, the police would look into it, but this is their determination upon receiving the results of the medical examiner’s report about two weeks ago. The University responded to the news with a statement from Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president for student affairs, in an email on Monday night, that expressed the University’s condolences to Maddula’s family and friends. “We are saddened by the fact that alcohol may have been a factor in Harsha’s death,” the statement said. “Northwestern has long had in place policies and programs to address alcohol and substance abuse, including required alcohol education for all new students, intervention training for students, counseling services for alcohol and substance abuse problems, and disciplinary rules that address standards students are expected to meet.” czak15@u.northwestern.edu students are gaining in the classroom, Brown said. “It’s going to give them an opportunity to implement what they’ve learned, as well as do some selfexploration and learn from their peers,” she said. Administrators were already planning to use the model before it was included in the proposal for the requirement, Brown said. The office is piloting the discussions this spring, running five groups of 50 students each that will meet weekly throughout the quarter. Tailored to NU, the document says the requirement is aimed at making students “distinctly Northwestern.” Weinberg junior Sofia Sami, who helped developed the proposal, said faculty input was very important in creating a “feasible” proposal that can be flexibly applied to NU’s different schools. “This really is molded to the way this university functions,” she said. Stevens said the proposal demonstrates how important student activism can be in prompting change at the University. “A lot of what has been done is because students pushed for it,” she said. “If we hadn’t pushed for things, in fact insisted and demanded things, none of this would have happened.” laurencaruba2015@u.northwestern.edu
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Kaihatsu said. “It was extremely close and Carolina is streaky. They have a couple of good sabre fencers that when they’re on, they’re on and when they’re off, they’re not all that off but they’re more manageable. Carolina was fencing really well and we just kind of lost control of it at the end, and of course at the end is what matters.” With the bulk of their season behind them, NU will continue its push through the remainder of its post-season schedule, but Kaihatsu says he thinks there is room for improvement before things wrap up for the year. “I still think we haven’t seen the best of our girls yet,” Kaihatsu said. “I’ve seen moments where they start to show something and I’ve seen opportunities that passed because someone got a little gun-shy. But I think our best is still out there and we still have three more chances to show it.” abigailchase2015@u.northwestern.edu
— Alex Putterman
Women’s Fencing
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FIGHT FOILED Freshman Charlotte Sands competes at the NU Duals in Evanston. The Wildcats traveled to South Bend, Ind. for the Notre Dame Duals over the weekend but were unable to overcome the Fighting Irish.
But I think we fenced really well.” NU closed out the day with a decisive 25-2 win over Cleveland State before traveling on to U.S. Collegiate Squad Championships on Sunday. The Cats were defending three medals: a silver in the epee competition and a bronze in both the foil and sabre events. In the epee competition, the Cats fell to No. 2 Princeton in the semifinals, with a passivity error plaguing the team’s effort against the Tigers, but went on to defeat Pennsylvania 45-25 in the third-place match, clinched by Bazarbayeva. “Sunday was, I thought, a really good tournament for us as a team because it wasn’t the usual structure of NCAA fencing,” Bazarbayeva said. “It was more a team effort so everyone got really into it and really helped each other out. We could have beaten (Princeton) and we could have definitely beaten Ohio State for gold but I thought it was great practice for conference next weekend.” After a bye in the first round, NU’s
second-seeded foil squad squared off against Pennsylvania in the semifinals, but the Cats were unable to top the Quakers, falling 45-29. “It was definitely frustrating because I thought we were pretty evenly matched with Penn so it could have gone either way,” senior foil captain Dayana Sarkisova said. “It sucks because I think it means we didn’t deliver as much as we could have. But it’s a lot harder to fence again after you’ve lost, so fencing for third and having to refocus is tough but I’m glad we were able to do so.” Following a disappointing loss, the foilists dominated NYU in the bronze-medal match, routing the Violets 45-25 with Sarkisova closing out the win for NU. Like the epeeists, the sabre squad fell to Princeton in the semifinals. In the third-place bout, NU’s match against North Carolina came down to the last touch, but the Tar Heels edged out the Cats to take the bronze with a 45-44 win. “That was a heartbreaker,”
Wildcats win one of two in pair of weekend games
The Wildcats split a pair of weekend dual meets, winning and losing to top-20 teams at Evanston’s Combe Tennis Center. On Friday, No. 9 Northwestern lost to No. 14 Texas in a matchup much closer than its 5-2 final score. The Cats dropped the doubles point to fall behind 1-0, then lost five of their six first singles sets, with freshman Alicia Barnett the exception. But Barnett easily dispatched her opponent 6-1, 6-1 to tie the meet’s score 1-1, and Veronica Corning, Kate Turvy, Belinda Niu and Linda Abu Mushrefova all rallied to force third sets. After Brittany Wowchuk lost her match 6-3, 6-3, NU needed to win three of their four third sets to capture victory. Corning prevailed 5-7, 6-4, 6-0, but Turvy, Niu and Abu Mushrefova all lost long sets, to end the nearly four-anda-half-hour meet 5-2 in favor of the Longhorns. Despite the loss, coach Claire Pollard appreciated her team’s effort. “I’ve got to say, I was really happy with today’s matches,” she said afterward. “Disappointing as it is to have lost, I was really much more pleased with today’s performance than I was with last week’s win (against then-No. 19 Notre Dame).” Looking to rebound against No. 19 Baylor on Sunday, the Cats easily secured the doubles point, as Barnett and Corning won 8-1 and Turvy and Niu 8-2. Singles matches were similarly one-sided. Baylor’s top singles player, No. 13 Ema Burgic, defeated Turvy 6-1, 6-2, but the rest of the Bears squad could not keep up with NU’s balanced lineup. Niu, Wowchuk and Barnett all cruised to easy two-set singles victories, and Abu Mushrefova and Corning led their opponents before their matches were abandoned and the Cats awarded a 4-1 victory. At the end of the main chunk of their non-conference schedule, NU is now 6-4, with four wins against top-20 teams. Next up is No. 34 Illinois in the Cats’ first Big Ten meet.
By ABBEY CHASE
Facing a tough Notre Dame crowd in South Bend, Ind. on Saturday, the Wildcats began their final weekend of regular season competition at the Notre Dame Duals. Northwestern cruised in its first four matches of the day, taking out its opponents with ease and winning by 8 points or more in every match. “What I liked about the other matches is that we did not use our traditional starters against almost all of them,” said associate head coach Ed Kaihatsu, who led the team over the weekend because coach Laurie Schiller was unable to travel. “I wanted to give them a chance to get some quality time in and … they took took care of everything and stayed in control of it the entire time against all the other schools, so I was extremely happy with that because it showed our depth as a team.” But against the No. 1 team in the country, not even the Cats’ top fencers could outmatch the Fighting Irish. NU previously met Notre Dame this season at the NYU Invitational in January, with the Fighting Irish taking the match 19-8. But NU hung tough in that dual, losing five bouts by only one touch. “(Olympian) Courtney Hurley (from Notre Dame) lost one of the bouts in New York and I’m pretty sure she hadn’t forgotten that,” Kaihatsu said. “They’re loaded on the epee side and we’re loaded on the epee side too but they just really took it to us on Saturday.” Taking on the full strength of the Notre Dame team on its home turf, NU was unable to gain any ground against the Fighting Irish, who shut out the Cats’ epee team 9-0 and conclusively won the match 21-6. “Of course we would have liked to get one win against them,” junior epeeist Dina Bazarbayeva said. “But the thing is Notre Dame is such a tough team and in order for us to get a lot of wins, we would have to be having a really, really, really good day and they would have to be having a really bad day, which in all odds would happen probably almost never.
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NU wins last two prior to Big Ten season start By ABBEY CHASE
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FORWARD Senior Sidarth Balaji plays a forehand shot during a home match in Evanston. The Wildcats defeated Denver University and University of New Mexico in the the Cats’ last two matches before Big Ten play.
Now finished with the non-conference portion of the season, the Wildcats have surrendered only three matches, tallying a dominant 13-3 record in preparation for the start of a tough Big Ten schedule. With two wins over the weekend, No. 41 Northwestern closed out its non-conference season with a bang, taking out Denver University and the University of New Mexico. After falling to the Pioneers at home last season 4-3, the Cats got their revenge, defeating Denver on its home turf on Friday with a 5-1 win. Two quick doubles wins put NU in the lead, and a performance from Chris Jackman, in which the senior did not lose a game, gave the Cats another point in their favor. In his 16 singles matches this season, Jackman has gone to a third set
in eight of them, of which he has won five. After the previous weekend’s matches, Jackman stated that he wanted to “come out of the gate a little quicker,” and with his 6-0, 6-0 victory at the No. 6 position, Jackman wasted no time in getting the win. Quick straight sets victories by sophomore Alex Pasareanu and junior Raleigh Smith helped clinch the win for the Cats and give NU its second win in school history over Denver. No. 69 New Mexico had proven little trouble for NU in 2012, but in Sunday’s match the Lobos came up with an inspired performance. A split at the No. 1 and No. 2 doubles matches put the pressure on senior Spencer Wolf and freshman Fedor Baev at the No. 3 spot. The duo pushed their opponents to a deciding tiebreak but fell 9-8(4) to surrender the first point of the match. After senior Sidarth Balaji dropped his singles match, the Cats found
themselves down 2-0 against their much lower ranked opponents when they were finally able to turn the match around. Wins by Pasareanu and freshman Mihir Kumar helped to draw NU even in the match, and with a 6-4, 7-6 win by Smith at the No. 2 spot, the Cats were one match away from the victory, but found themselves in a deciding set in the remaining two matches. Both Jackman and Wolf were tied with their opponents late in their respective third sets before Jackman broke through to win the final set 6-4 and secure the win for NU. Wolf went on to close out his opponent 7-5 in the third set, bringing the final score to 5-2. The Cats will now turn their attention to the start of Big Ten play, which begins Saturday with NU’s opening match against Illinois on the road. abigailchase2015@u.northwestern.edu