The Daily Northwestern - March 8, 2013

Officials answer diversity proposal questions » PAGE 3

SPORTS Men’s Basketball Cats fall despite career performance on senior night » PAGE 8

OPINION Goodman Hazing an issue overlooked in college sports » PAGE 6

High 39 Low 26

The Daily Northwestern Friday, March 8, 2013

DAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM

CAs contest changes

Find us online @thedailynu

In Focus

Reading Period not priority for some profs

By ALLY MUTNICK

By ALLY MUTNICK

Residential Services is working to finalize several new policies for next school year. But although the goal is to improve residential life for students, the changes have been met with resistance from many Community Assistants.

On-campus housing for international students during breaks and the addition of three new 24-hour residential service desks are among some of the planned changes, Residential Services director Paul Riel said.

“It’s just in line with what we’re moving towards, which is trying to push out more services to residential students,” he said.

However, the new policies would require changes in CA duties. Some CAs would be expected to stay for breaks, and ResLife will let students choose which break they want to stay for. All CAs may have to commit four to six hours a week to run afternoon shifts of the service desk.

Along with the new policies, CAs will also find out their dorm placement in July instead of in February, Riel said. The new policy was communicated to CAs during Fall Quarter.

A second-year CA, who asked to remain anonymous because speaking to the media violates his contract with ResLife, said many CAs are frustrated with some of the changes.

“There are definitely some good CAs that are very up in arms about this stuff,” he said. “You would be hard pressed to find someone that wasn’t upset.”

On Wednesday, Weinberg sophomore Maraika Robinson will take an exam and hand in a 15-page paper for her psychology class — even though both are prohibited during the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Reading Period.

She said her professor was aware of the conflict.

“Someone on the second day of class said, ‘Didn’t you know that this is during Reading Week?’” Robinson recalled. “She kind of said, ‘Yeah,’ and blew it off.”

Mary Finn, associate dean for undergraduate academic affairs, said the faculty voted Reading Period into place in the 1970s. The period is supposed to allow students taking Weinberg classes to have a chance to prepare papers and study for exams without any looming due dates, she said.

Multiple students said their professors had required tests or projects to be completed during the reading period either this quarter or in the fall.

Finn said she knows it is not entirely uncommon for professors to assign reading week deadlines but that, on a policy level, it is not allowed.

“It’s a hard-and-fast rule that you can’t have tests or new work due during Reading Period if you are in Weinberg,” she said.

Robinson said she did not mind having this one early deadline because it kept her from procrastinating, but usually she dislikes having work due during reading week. She noted there was one student in her class who had to get an extension on the exam because he would be away during the Reading Period.

“I am a huge proponent of reading week,” Robinson said. “Normally, I think I would be really unhappy that I had stuff due during reading week because I normally spend reading week preparing for my other classes.”

Finn said if she hears of any Reading Period violations, she works with the department chair to resolve the situation.

She said it usually occurs because there was a misunderstanding by a new faculty member or because a professor was trying to accommodate a student’s schedule.

Some professors offer an earlier exam during Reading Period for students who want to leave campus sooner during finals week, Finn said. However, this is against the Weinberg teaching guidelines.

“Faculty members would have to create a whole different exam,” she said. “It creates a great deal of unfairness, and it does threaten academic integrity.”

Weinberg sophomore Evie Atwater said her history professor is allowing students to take the test on Wednesday of Reading Period instead of their assigned time slot Friday of finals week. She said her professor offered it as an option for students without being prompted.

“It’s nice that he did,” Atwater said.

“It sucks to have to stay all the way through.”

Finn stressed that when two different versions of the final are given, it is hard to make them exactly comparable and that if the same final is given twice it is not fair

daily senior staffer

SERVING THE STUDENTS Riel said housing during breaks is something ResLife had been looking into for a while. International students will indicate if they want to stay for Winter and Spring Breaks in their housing application.

If they choose to do so, they would have to live all year in a designated section of Foster-Walker Complex.

ResLife is still deciding logistics, Riel said, but the new option will launch Fall Quarter. Non-international students who want to stay during breaks may also be able to apply for break housing in the future.

“We just heard pretty loud from our international population that Winter Break is pretty difficult for them to find places to stay,” Riel said.

Krish Suresh, social co-chair for Residential Hall Association, said break housing would make staying in Evanston through breaks more convenient for students.

“I know some of my international friends have to go to relatives’ houses in the U.S. or stay in a hotel over breaks,” said Suresh, a Weinberg sophomore. “This option would help them out.”

The new residential service desks would also be implemented for Fall Quarter. Located in three different dorms, they would serve as information centers for residents where staff can assist with lockouts and other services.

“The desks are a good idea because they will be a centralized resource for the small housing questions that no one knows where to go for,” Suresh said.

daily senior staffer

‘SILENT PACTS’ Students, administrators look to reform a drinking culture short on communication

By SAMANTHA CAIOLA and JOSEPH DIEBOLD daily senior staffers

We’ll never know exactly what happened to Harsha Maddula.

The McCormick sophomore’s disappearance from an off-campus party Sept. 22 stunned a community returning to campus for a new school year. Evanston police concluded their investigation into Maddula’s death last week, determining alcohol played at least a contributing role.

Cmdr. Jay Parrott, EPD’s spokesman, said the death was “accidental in nature with ... a contributing factor of alcohol,” citing a urinalysis test and data from the Cook County medical examiner’s office indicating Maddula’s blood alcohol level was about 0.12 at the time of his drowning.

What made Maddula’s death particularly jarring was how normal the events of his night played out: He attended several parties a few blocks off campus, traveled primarily in a group with his friends and seemed coherent, according to a student who saw him that night. He disappeared the night of Sept. 22, two days after the class of 2016 arrived in Evanston.

Now, following the second alcohol-related death of a student in four years, administrators and student

» See RESLIFE, page 13

Serving the University and Evanston since 1881

leaders are looking beyond policy changes — and toward educational improvements and a new “party monitor initiative” — in their quest to make drinking at Northwestern safer.

HOSPITALIZATIONS COME WITH A COST Associated Student Government formed a fivemember working group on alcohol policy and culture in spring 2012 with the goal of comparing NU’s policy to those of peer institutions. Though full amnesty — the waiving of all sanctions for students transported to the hospital because of alcohol and students who make the call for help — was initially a goal of the ASG working group, group chair Alex Van Atta wrote in an email to The Daily that it was abandoned to focus on more realistic goals rather than risk opening a chasm with the administration.

But between students and administrators, everyone shares the goal of reducing dangerous drinking.

Lisa Currie, NU’s director of health promotion and wellness, said a “ballpark figure” of about 100 students are transported to the hospital each year. That number spiked in the first month of the 2011 academic year to 21 — up from 13 and nine in the same time period the previous two years. » See ALCOHOL, page 8

» See READING PERIOD, page 13

INSIDE Around Town 2 | On Campus 3 | Forum 6 | Classifieds & Puzzles 12 | Sports 16

2 NEWS | THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN

Around Town

“

�

It’s my job to anticipate these issues. And the isses are not rocket science. It’s safety, it’s convenience, it’s lighting.

the daily northwestern

Come the end of March, Evanston residents and NU students might find a giant Buddha head emerging on their way to work or class.

Evanston native and artist Indira Johnson and her nonprofit, Changing World, are installing Buddha statues in Evanston and nine Chicago neighborhoods as a public art project to promote peace and non-violence in communities.

The project, named Ten Thousand Ripples, aims to install 100 fiberglass and resin Buddha heads in the ten locations. In Evanston, an online survey conducted by the city has suggested 10 tentative locations for the statues, including one on campus near the Arch at the intersection of Chicago Avenue and Sheridan Road and one at the downtown fountain area. “A powerful and profound need exists within each of us to know that peace is possible in spite of the violence that surrounds us,� Johnson, who is currently in Mumbai, India, said in a statement. “Ten Thousand Ripples is a reminder of that need.�

Johnson, a Christian, does not want the project to carry religious meanings, said Claire Sutton, the project’s manager. Instead, the Buddha

image is intended to spur community dialogues on peace. “It starts the rippling effect of making you stop, think, and hopefully have these conversations about why they are placed there,� Sutton said.

A powerful Community engageand profound ment is key to the project, Sutton said. Each need exists of the 10 chosen neighwithin each borhoods has founded a of us to know local committee to deterexecution details that peace is mine and additional programs possible. on violence prevention.

Indira Johnson, The Evanston Art CenEvanston native ter, Evanston Township High School and nonand artist profit Open Studio have proposed to host additional events.

Open Studio, a social service focusing on arts, plans to coordinate an art installation project at Grey Park at the corner of Ridge Avenue and Main Street on April 21, where community members would gather together to build a bridge with fabric, paper and other materials woven into it, facilitation director Karla Rindal said. “Basically the concept is about bridging

cultural divides,� Rindal said, noting the neighborhood — hosting a mental health institution, a special education facility and a business district — had experienced sensitive differences between the haves and the have-nots. “This is a project where all the parties involved can come together and contribute to a creative process,� she said.

The project would fit well with other city initiatives to address the issue of street violence, said Jeff Cory, the city’s Arts Council director. “Anything that calls attention to the topic is a potentially positive thing,� Cory said. “This is a way that we can utilize public art to further those goals.�

City Council is scheduled to vote on permit applications related to the project Monday, Cory said, adding that installation of the statues is likely to begin by the end of this month.

Under the current proposal, five of the statues would remain permanently in the city, with the other five on temporary display from March through June, Sutton said. The project would culminate in an exhibition at a Loyola University gallery in Chicago in July, she said. “It really is about starting the dialogues,� Sutton said.

a black hoodie and dark pants.

The girl also saw a second man around the same age with a stronger build, wearing a red and green leather jacket with white lettering on the back, Evanston Police Department Cmdr.

Jay Parrott said.

open construction site in the 600 block of Chicago Avenue. The employee asked what the man was doing on site, to which the man responded he was looking for the iron workers. Later, the employee discovered that the iPad was missing from the work table located on the ground floor of the site. The man was not seen taking the iPad, but the employee who reported the incident to EPD believed that he was the responsible person, Parrott said.

“

jiayou2014@u.northwestern.edu

Police Blotter Teen girl robbed on Dodge Avenue A 16-year-old Evanston resident was robbed of her iPhone 4 while walking down the 1300 block of Dodge Avenue on Feb. 28 around 4:15 p.m.

The young girl was reading a text on her phone when a man walked in front of her and snatched the phone away from her. She tried to hold on to the phone but failed, and the man ran across the street, fleeing westbound on Greenwood Street. The man was described as slim in build, approximately 17 to 19 years old, wearing

iPad stolen on construction site

A construction site employee reported to EPD that an iPad was stolen Wednesday morning.

The employee reported that around 8:30 a.m., a man wearing a worker’s hard hat entered the

Alderman talks city issues, student engagement Page 4

— Ald. Judy Fiske (1st)

Artist to install Buddhas around Evanston

By JIA YOU

FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013

— Ina Yang

The Daily Northwestern www.dailynorthwestern.com Editor in Chief Kaitlyn Jakola

eic@dailynorthwestern.com

General Manager Stacia Campbell

stacia@dailynorthwestern.com

Newsroom | 847.491.3222 Campus desk

campus@dailynorthwestern.com

City desk

city@dailynorthwestern.com

Sports desk

sports@dailynorthwestern.com

Ad Office | 847.491.7206

spc-compshop@northwestern.edu

Fax | 847.491.9905 THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN is published Monday through Friday during the academic year, except vacation periods and two weeks preceding them and once during August, by Students Publishing Co., Inc. of Northwestern University, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208; 847-4917206.

First copy of THE DAILY is free, additional copies are 50 cents. All material published herein, except advertising or where indicated otherwise, is Copyright 2013 THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN and protected under the “work made for hire� and “periodical publication� clauses of copyright law.

POSTMASTER: Send address changes to THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208. Subscriptions are $175 for the academic year. THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN is not responsible for more than one incorrect ad insertion. All display ad corrections must be received by 3 p.m. one day prior to when the ad is run.

Check out DAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM for breaking news

with mention of this ad FREE mat & towel RENTAL UĂŠĂŠ-ĂŒĂ•`iÂ˜ĂŒĂŠ,>ĂŒiĂƒ\ĂŠf£äʍiÀÊVÂ?>ĂƒĂƒ ÊÊÊÊ­"˜Â?ˆ˜iĂŠ*Ă•Ă€VÂ…>ĂƒiĂŠĂœĂ‰-ĂŒĂ•`iÂ˜ĂŒĂŠ ÂŽ UĂŠĂŠfĂ“xäÊvÂœĂ€ĂŠĂŽĂŠ ÂœÂ˜ĂŒÂ…ĂƒĂŠ1˜Â?ÂˆÂ“ÂˆĂŒi`ĂŠ9Âœ}> UĂŠĂŠxĂŠ ÂˆÂ˜Ă•ĂŒiĂŠĂœ>Â?ÂŽĂŠvĂ€ÂœÂ“ĂŠ >Â“ÂŤĂ•Ăƒ UĂŠĂŠ ÂˆÂŽĂ€>“ʸ ÂœĂŒÂ¸ĂŠ9Âœ}> UĂŠĂŠ ˜VĂ€i>ĂƒiĂŠ-ĂŒĂ€i˜}ĂŒÂ…ĂŠEĂŠ Â?iĂ?ˆLˆÂ?ÂˆĂŒĂž UĂŠĂŠ ÂœĂ€iĂŠ ÂœVĂ•ĂƒĂŠEĂŠ ˜iĂ€}ÞÊÉÊ ÂˆĂ€Â“ĂƒĂŠEĂŠ/œ˜iĂƒ

ÂŁn{äÊ">ÂŽĂŠ Ă›iĂŠUĂŠn{LJxxĂˆÂ‡Ă“ĂˆĂ¤Ă¤

ĂœĂœĂœÂ°LÂˆÂŽĂ€>Â“ĂžÂœ}>iĂ›>Â˜ĂƒĂŒÂœÂ˜Â°Vœ“ info@bikramyogaevanston.com

Summer is a great time to catch up, get ahead or try something new.

Final Markdowns 60% OFF

s Choose from more than 300 courses. s )MMERSE YOURSELF IN AN INTENSIVE LANGUAGE OR SCIENCE SEQUENCE s 'ET AHEAD ON CREDITS TOWARD YOUR DEGREE s %XPERIENCE ALL .ORTHWESTERN AND #HICAGO HAVE TO OFFER IN THE SUMMER

All Sale Rack Shoes Williams Shoes

The Walking Spirit Where all your dreams come shoe!

Ç£äÊ Â…Ă•Ă€VÂ…ĂŠ-ĂŒĂ€iiĂŒĂŠUĂŠ Ă›>Â˜ĂƒĂŒÂœÂ˜ĂŠn{ÇÊÎÓn‡xnĂˆn

Registration opens April 8. Classes begin June 24. www.northwestern.edu/summer

FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013

“

On Campus

This increased demand for services is happening across the board, whether in higher education or in mental health facilities (in general).

THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN | NEWS 3

”

CAPS looks to expand services in light of high demand Page 5

— CAPS executive director John Dunkle

Ethnic studies panel talks community, ‘disruption’

By LAUREN CARUBA

daily senior staffer

Advocating for coalition building and disruptions to the campus climate, a panel of professors and graduate students spoke Thursday evening about the significance of Northwestern’s ethnic studies programs in nurturing unique communities on campus.

About 75 people crowded into the Northwestern Room in Norris University Center for “The Importance of Ethnic Studies,” a discussion panel co-hosted by the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance, Alianza and For Members Only.

Part of NAISA’s ongoing campaign to establish a Native American studies program at NU, the discussion hit a variety of topics, including the history of ethnic studies at NU, the string of racially insensitive incidents that have occurred on campus within the last year and the newly released proposal for a

university-wide Social Inequalities and Diversities requirement.

Panelists included Asian American studies Prof.

Jinah Kim and African American studies Prof. Nitasha Sharma, as well as African American studies graduate students Jean-Pierre Brutus and Sam Tenorio.

The panelists said ethnic studies departments were important for creating counter-narratives in American society and history.

“Another name for ethnic studies is disruption studies,” Brutus said. “Once ethnic studies (is established), all the traditional disciplines have been fundamentally changed.”

Another theme of the discussion focused on how the programs offer minority students a welcoming space on campus. Sharma said students needed a place where they are “around not just white bodies.”

“I find it an enormous buffer from the reality of the institution,” she said.

NAISA co-president Heather Menefee said she

hoped the event would highlight the value Native American studies would add to NU. “The hope of the panel is to build a community of people who care about this and understand that this needs to happen,” the Weinberg sophomore said.

During the question-and-answer portion, panelists gave students advice about how they could become more involved with NU’s diverse communities.

Kim and Sharma also emphasized to NAISA members the importance of building relationships with other groups and spreading awareness on campus as they continue to meet with administrators about Native American studies.

“There’s going to be a lot of bars you’re going to be expected to meet,” Kim said. “You’re going to have to keep up your political presence. You have to be politically visible all the time.”

The event is the second collaboration among the three groups this year. In October the groups worked together to promote the “Dress to Respect” campaign,

which encouraged students to be mindful of other cultures when selecting Halloween costumes.

Alianza co-president Carlos Martinez said his group sponsored the panel with NAISA to support efforts to expand Native American curriculum at the University, noting the struggle involved in establishing NU’s other ethnic studies programs.

“I’m very much in favor of shifting the discourse from our traditional Euro-centric perspective on history,” the Medill junior said.

Weinberg senior Carol Li said she attended the panel after taking Sharma’s class this quarter on Asian and black historical relations. After noting the diverse range of people present, she said the panel was a good step toward connecting NU’s ethnic communities.

“It’s a cool opportunity for students of different backgrounds to come together,” the Weinberg senior said. laurencaruba2015@u.northwestern.edu

Officials address diversity requirement proposal questions

By JUNNIE KWON

the daily northwestern

Associated Student Government organized Thursday a question-and-answer session on the Social Inequalities and Diversities proposal with three faculty and staff members of the academics/education working group.

About 15 students asked questions and discussed concerns about the draft proposal with Mary Finn, associate dean for undergraduate academic affairs, Lesley-Ann Brown, director of the Office of Campus Inclusion and Community, and Louie Lainez, director of Asian and Asian American Student Affairs.

The academics/education working group under the University Diversity Council released in February a draft proposal for the creation of a Social Inequalities and Diversity requirement with curricular and

co-curricular components. A course model that could fulfill both components would be a large lecture course paired with small discussion sections, said Finn.

One student, Weinberg junior Giovanni Delgado, expressed concern about how the requirement would be incorporated into already-existing distribution requirements. Finn emphasized that the requirement would not add an incremental course but could possibly be an additional distribution requirement. She said each school would reform its own curriculum to meet the requirement, which could result in creating new courses or changing current curricula. The proposal also includes the creation of a committee that would review potential courses, Brown said.

Finn said because faculty largely control curricula, they will be crucial to the development of the requirement. The working group has been aiming to meet with faculty members, said Hayley Stevens, ASG associate vice president of diversity and inclusion.

“We haven’t yet gotten to professors in STEM fields, but we’re preparing for those, anticipating them to be more difficult than the other ones,” the Weinberg senior said.

Reflecting on the working group’s meeting with sociology and African American studies Prof. Mary Pattillo, Stevens said departments who were supportive of the proposal were mostly concerned about the practicality of implementing the requirement. Finn attested to having this concern for Weinberg.

“Because the proposal says students have to meet the requirement in their first two years, it means 2,000 students need to take a course,” she said. “It’s a problem of scale that we have to deal with.”

Jazzy Johnson, a Communication senior, said some students feared the requirement’s aim would be to “brainwash” people into believing liberal ideas.

“Someone expressed that if you come a white supremacist and leave a white supremacist, you should

still get the same grade,” she said.

Brown said she would not have supported the proposal if these fears were true.

“If the goal is to bring everyone to a left leaning side, I’m uncomfortable with that,” she said. “But if the goal is to have students engage in issues on campus and learn from their peers, then I’m all for it.”

The proposal is unique because the requirement would allow students to not only discuss topics but also think about their position within the subject matter, Finn said. The incident regarding the ski team’s event where members wore racially insensitive costumes partially inspired the development of the proposal, she said.

“It looked like American know-nothing-ism, when Americans go abroad and are incredibly culturally insensitive,” she said. junniekwon2015@u.northwestern.edu

upcoming events

@ P I C K - S TA I G E R

MARCH 7 - 22, 2013

8

9

15

16

22

23

Elizabeth Buccheri and Sylvia Wang, piano Lutkin, 7:30 p.m.

March 8: Buccheri and Wang

10

Concert Band Pick-Staiger, 3 p.m.

Vladimir Gorbach, guitar Lutkin, 3 p.m.

Philharmonia Pick-Staiger, 7:30 p.m.

11

March 10: Vladimir Gorbach

12

Northwestern University Saxophone Ensemble and Quartets Pick-Staiger, 7:30 p.m.

13

March 13: Contemporary Music Ensemble

Contemporary Music Ensemble Pick-Staiger, 7:30 p.m.

14

Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra Pick-Staiger, 7:30 p.m.

Symphonic Band: Fiesta in Winter Pick-Staiger, 7:30 p.m.

Kevin Robert Orr, piano Lutkin, 7:30 p.m.

Keyboard Conversations: Schubert in the Age of the Sound Bite Pick-Staiger, 7:30 p.m.

March 10: Philharmonia

March 12: Sax Ensemble

Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra: Student Showcase Pick-Staiger, 7:30 p.m.

March 22: Keyboard Conversations

BIENEN SCHOOL OF MUSIC

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSIT Y TICKETS: 847.467.4000

O R W W W . P I C K S TA I G E R . O R G

4 NEWS | THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN

FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013

Ald. Fiske responds to dim lighting concerns

By MANUEL RAPADA

daily senior staffer

Ask Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) about city economic development, and she will light up.

There is clear support in Evanston for locallyowned small businesses, Fiske said Thursday from the back of Fit + Frisky, the Davis Street pet shop she has run since 2007.

Running a small business also gives her 1st Ward constituents the opportunity to discuss economic ideas and comments with her. “Everyone knows where to find me. There’s absolutely no excuse for people not to find me ‘cause if I’m not here, I’m four blocks away,� Fiske said of the shop’s proximity to her home and the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center.

After winning election to the City Council in 2009 by a nearly two-to-one margin, Fiske now faces off against Sherman Plaza condominium resident Edward Tivador in the upcoming April 9 election.

Fiske has proposed incentives to revitalize the downtown area, though she advises residents to remain realistic on what can go there. When Evanston cannot afford to rebuild downtown to attract national chain retailers, city officials need to coax startups and niche retail into the area, she said.

A balanced downtown full of offices, residences, restaurants and retail stores is key to the city’s long-term success, she said. Fiske called Northwestern students the economic engine of the downtown area.

Though Fiske said she thinks she does a good job reaching out to her various constituencies, she admits more 1st Ward students should attend her quarterly meetings. Yet with so many activities and classes on a student’s agenda, Fiske said she understands adding city issues to that list is a much smaller priority. “It’s really important to me in working on neighborhood issues that we have students that understand that they are neighborhood residents,� she said.

All residents in her ward, including those in NU residential housing, should receive postcards reminding them of these meetings.

To compensate for the lacking student involvement, she said she tries to anticipate those issues

Manuel Rapada/Daily Senior Staffer

LIGHT IT UP Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) has operated the pet shop Fit + Frisky in Evanston since 2007. Constituents often visit her shop to share suggestions for the 1st Ward, she said.

relevant to students, reaching out to students like Steven Monacelli, ASG’s vice president of community relations or even going out in her ward to talk to students.

About two months ago, she spent a weekend asking student bicyclists passing by at Chicago Avenue and Clark Street whether the bike riders would appreciate a protected bike lane. Nearly all the bicyclists said yes. “It’s my job to anticipate these issues,� Fiske said of her initiative to engage with students. “And the issues are not rocket science. It’s safety, it’s convenience, it’s lighting.�

Fiske responded Thursday to some students’ claims that campus lighting was inadequate. She reiterated that the 1st Ward was never part of the city-University partnership to fund street lighting.

The 5th Ward, home to many of NU’s off-

SEIZE THE 46..&3

campus dwellers, led to lighting improvements.

The area around campus in the 1st Ward was the first to receive lighting improvements in the last few years, Fiske said. Lighting on Orrington Avenue, Sherman Avenue and other 1st Ward side streets near NU are at the highest lighting level those fixtures can handle.

The only way to further increase lighting levels would be to replace all the street lamps, which the city cannot afford. When asked if the University would be willing to contribute to replacing the lamps, Fiske said “that would be part of a community conversation.�

Fiske said it was an “honest mistake� that she did not respond to requests to attend an ASGorganized light walk in October. All communications to her about the event stated the walk would focus on the 5th Ward. However, a portion of Library Place, which falls in Fiske’s ward, was

included in the walk.

These dim lighting moments aside, Fiske described her “safe routes to campus� initiative that is slowly being implemented. Mastheads along Sheridan Road have already been replaced, and Fiske said the project will also improve the Chicago Avenue path to downtown.

The 1st Ward alderman referred to “safe routes� as one of the projects discussed at her quarterly ward meetings.

Fiske says she wants more students to be a part of the surrounding neighborhood that, contrary to student conceptions, completely supports the students. “Every single person that lives along Orrington Avenue or Sherman Avenue or any of the side streets, if there ever was a problem, you could ring their doorbell, and they would respond,� she said.

That shared sense of community, however, does not mean Fiske and the University will always see eye to eye. She said she wished the University asked for public input from residents near the new visitors’ center, which she called an “eight-story parking garage.�

As for the over-occupancy ordinance, Fiske supports effort to make the colloquially named “brothel law� more practical and user-friendly.

However, she wants to discourage landlords from rushing ahead of reforms, an effort that will require inspection of units. “If it’s 10 bedrooms, and they’re all legal bedrooms, there’s no reason 10 people can’t live there,� said Fiske, a former realtor. “And I said that, first thing.�

When students head to the polls April 9, Fiske said, she hopes they recognize her efforts to increase city-student engagement and to increase government transparency. As someone who has lived in Evanston long enough to see issues evolve, Fiske sees Tivador as someone who does not really understand the issues. “It’s really important to me that Northwestern students understand that they are a very valued group of people not just because they’re just spending money on the downtown,â€? she said. “Aside from that, as neighborhood residents ‌ they’re very important to the community.â€? manuelrapada2015@u.northwestern.edu

4)2%$ /& '2%!39 "!2 &//$ #/-% 3%% 7(9 4(%

#()#!'/ 35. 4)-%3 )3 3!9).'

h%XECUTIVE #HEF 2ENE ,ORENZANO IS ELEVATING CREPES TO AN ART FORMv

We don’t slow down during the summer, and neither should you.

/&&

Register for one of our six-week accelerated summer programs, and catch up, get ahead or graduate sooner.

It’s the competitive edge you’re looking for.

WITH .5 7ILD#ARD

t QMVT PO DBNQVT PQUJPOT t QMVT POMJOF DPVSTFT JODMVEJOH NBOZ QPQVMBS JOUSP BOE DPSF DPVSTFT t .PSOJOH PS FWFOJOH DMBTTFT Classes fill up fast.

Register at marquette.edu/summer beginning March 21.

S U M M E R S T U D I E S AT M A R Q U E T T E

www.creperiestgermain.com 1512 Sherman Ave. Evanston, IL 847.859.2647 "1,-ĂŠĂŠ œ˜`>Ăžq/Â…Ă•Ă€Ăƒ`>Ăž\ĂŠÂŁÂŁ\Îä>q™Ê Ă€Âˆ`>ÞÊEĂŠ->ĂŒĂ•Ă€`>Ăž\ĂŠÂŁÂŁ\Îä>q£äÊÊ-Ă•Â˜`>Ăž\棊\Îä>q™

OMC Summer Studies_Northwestern_ad_2013.indd 1

2/27/13 12:41 PM

THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN | NEWS 5

FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013

CAPS attempts to expand after increased demand the daily northwestern

As of March 1, Counseling and Psychological Services has experienced a 9 percent increase in the number of students using their services this year.

This increase comes as CAPS is attempting to expand its services and staff, something it has been planning to do for a while, but which might finally come to fruition due to heightened student usage. CAPS executive director John Dunkle said he has requested funding for an additional four full-time psychologists.

Dunkle said between June 18 and March 1, 1,586 students used their services. For comparison, 1,461 students accessed services in the same time period one year ago, he said.

Dunkle said there is no clear indicator for the increase, but he did say the deaths of McCormick sophomore Harsha Maddula and Weinberg junior Alyssa Weaver in the fall, as well as continued struggles to find employment in a tough economy, may have contributed.

“You can’t pinpoint one thing,” Dunkle said. “This increased demand for services is happening across the board, whether in higher education or in mental health facilities (in general).”

Dunkle said he has been researching the framework of mental health issues at peer institutions, such as Duke University and Cornell University, with students on the campus coalition on mental health. He said although the services offered by CAPS parallel peer institutions, NU lags behind other schools in its ratio of staff to students.

Altogether, the office has 18 employees, but not all are full time. Its ratio between full-time equivalent employees and students is 1 to 1,211. Dunkle said he hopes to bring that ratio down to 1 to 1,000 or better.

“We have to really make our students’ health and wellness a major priority because otherwise they can’t succeed in general,” Dunkle said.

He said if CAPS receives the funding, one of the psychologists will likely run the Question-Persuade-Refer Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training Program, which teaches students how to question someone about suicidal thoughts, persuade them to obtain assistance and refer them to the most suitable services.

Dunkle said more than 800 members of the University community have been QPR certified since the program began. Alex Van Atta, a member of the campus

coalition on mental health and ASG vice president for student life, said CAPS trained the entire ASG senate and executive board during a meeting last week.

Dunkle also noted CAPS hoped to have one new hire to focus on programming for “students of color” through Multicultural Student Affairs. He said data from a recent survey showed students from the multicultural community were less likely to reach out for help from CAPS. The issue of mental health was raised at last week’s march and demonstration for a change to NU’s “culture of racism.” Bienen senior Rohan Zhou-Lee highlighted this as an area that needed improvement when he spoke to more than one hundred students gathered We have to at The Rock. really make our The third psychologist students’ health would likely be “someof a generalist,” and and wellness a what Dunkle said he hopes he major priority or she would allow CAPS to offer more long-term because treatment options. Curotherwise they rently, he explained, stucan’t succeed in dents are given 12 free sessions after an initial intake general. appointment.

“My hope is as we get John Dunkle, more staff we would be CAPS executive able to explore what would director we be feasible in terms of increasing session limits,” he said. “It doesn’t mean we’ll be able to see everyone full-time.”

The fourth psychologist Dunkle proposed would work with two graduate students and the student group NU Listens to develop a peer listening program. Weinberg senior Miriam Mogilevsky first asked Dunkle to bring the program to campus two years ago.

“Not everyone is lucky enough to have the type of friend who will sit there for an hour and listen to you,” she said. “In a college setting where connections are often so short-lived, it would be good to have a place you can always go to be listened to.”

Mogilevsky explained the program would train students to be “active listeners” to the problems of their peers. They would not try to actively give advice or act like a professional counselor.

She said a survey last year showed about 75 percent of the student respondents thought NU needed

“

9

Percent increase in students accessing CAPS services this year

1586

Number of students who accessed CAPS services between June 18, 2012 and March 1, 2013 Courtesy of Katie Sanford

CHANGING THE CONVERSATION Panelists answer questions at Active Minds’ November event Raising Awareness, Reducing Stigma. The group helped in establishing a mental health essential NU for this fall’s Wildcat Welcome.

this service. Mogilevsky said the majority of NU’s peer institutions have this kind of programming.

A new counselor is needed to make sure the program is started “responsibly” and that students receive proper training, Dunkle said.

As CAPS attempts to expand its staff, the campus coalition on mental health has been meeting throughout the quarter to explore ways to identify students at risk and raise awareness of the services CAPS offers.

Earlier this quarter, CAPS announced that due to funding from an anonymous donation, they would be offering a mental health orientation program.

Van Atta said the coalition is currently pushing to expand training about mental health particularly to first points of contact for new students, such as peer advisors and community assistants.

“It’s a really important priority,” the McCormick junior said. “People may not be talking about it 24/7, but it’s something the entire Northwestern community can benefit from.”

1461

Number of students who accessed CAPS services between June 18, 2011 and March 1, 2012

1:1211 Ratio between full time equvalent employees and students

1:1000

Goal ratio between full time equvalent employees and students

czak15@u.northwestern.edu

SHERMAN DENTAL ASSOCIATES OF EVANSTON STUDENT SPECIAL: 2013 DIRECT DENTAL CARE PROGRAM Our DDC program is designed for all college students who do not have dental coverage. Program includes 2 examinations, 2 cleanings and 1 set of x-rays, all for the low price of $250 per year. Current patients, refer a friend and receive a $10 gift card. We also offer 20% discount off our normal fee for other services. For more information or to schedule an appointment, please call or visit our website.

Call now! 847-475-6300 or visit www.shermandental.org

Only blocks from NU! Next to Davis St. CTA 909 Davis St., Suite 120 Evanston, IL 60201 847-475-6300

recycle your fashion CURRENT STYLES WOMEN'S & MEN'S EVANSTON: 1730 SHERMAN AVE. 847.492.9400 CHICAGO: 2711 N CLARK ST. 773.296.1000 1519 N MILWAUKEE 773.227.5300

buy/sell/trade/consign www.crossroadstrading.com

Photo: JEFF SHANES

By CAT ZAKRZEWSKI

FORUM Friday, March 8, 2013

Join the online conversation at www.dailynorthwestern.com OPINIONS from The Daily Northwestern’s Forum Desk

PAGE 6

Leadership should actively prevent hazing culture MEREDITH GOODMAN

DAILY COLUMNIST

As a self-proclaimed band nerd (Yes, I consider marching band a sport), I participated in marching band during high school and my first year of college. I even served as drum major for two years. While I hated the actual “marching� part, I enjoyed the sense of camaraderie and trust I gained from my fellow band members.

Therefore, I was shocked when a deep culture of hazing within marching bands and other high school and college sports was revealed after the hazing death of Florida A&M drum major Robert Champion.

In November 2011, Champion, as part of Florida A&M’s “Marching 100,� was participating in a time-honored ritual known as “Crossing Bus C.� Unfortunately, this ritual involves walking backwards through a crowded bus while fellow band members viciously strike the walker with their hands and drumsticks.

At the end of this ritual, Champion was beaten so badly that he collapsed and ultimately passed away from “hemorrhagic shock.� On Monday, Florida prosecutors added manslaughter charges on top of third-degree hazing

charges to a dozen former members of the Florida A&M marching band for their role in Champion’s death.

While researching this case, I have always wondered where the band directors were.

Throughout high school and college band, my directors would divide themselves up between buses. Particularly in But ultimately, high school, they would interfere on the bus if the problem the students got too rowdy or unruly. of hazing is a I also wonder how cultural one the band directors that must be managed to ignore the addressed by physical signs of hazing. The students who team leadership were victims of “Crossbefore specific ing Bus C� must have off the bus limpindividuals are come ing, obviously in pain. punished.

Were they not aware of these students’ injuries?

Did they not see the bruises that should have covered the victims after a severe beating?

When I came home for Thanksgiving this year, the news had just broken of a hazing scandal involving the Maine West High School freshman and varsity boys’ soccer teams. Freshmen soccer players told Des Plaines police that they

“

had been “sodomized with fingers and sticks,� had their “heads dunked in a hot tub� and had been beaten by older teammates in hazing rituals during training camp and the regular season.

It seemed that the boys soccer program at Maine West had a culture of hazing that was implicitly tolerated by the players and coaches.

Then the other day, I saw an intriguing headline that stated three members of the Bronx High School of Science track team were accused of hazing. What was classified as hazing seemed to me like full-on sexual assault, with accusations of track teammates touching a freshman member’s genitals and threatening to rape him twice.

I have realized that hazing is not the stereotypical fraternity or sorority problem of the past but rather a modern problem in high school and college sports. Many athletes convicted of hazing their peers face stiff criminal penalties, such as in the Champion case. But ultimately, the problem of hazing is a cultural one that must be addressed by team leadership before specific individuals are punished.

In each of these hazing cases, team leadership was noticeably absent or ineffective. The freshman on the Bronx High School Science team was assaulted for more than three months before he reported the case. This student should have been instructed by his coach at the beginning of the season to report this type of behavior to the

coach or school administration.

In the Maine West case, the coaches are defendants in a school board hearing for “employee discipline matters.� The district claims that Michael Divincenzo, the boys’ varsity soccer coach, saw the hazing of his athletes and even congratulated one and welcomed him to the varsity team. If these allegations are true, the coach obviously failed in dealing with the hazing effectively and, unfortunately, allowed the problem to continue.

What could have prevented hazing in all of these teams is a clear definition of hazing and explicit instructions on how to deal with it from leadership. Coaches should instruct their athletes to report to them or another trusted adult at the first sign of hazing. Hazing should never been allowed to occur for months at a time — this only creates the standard that hazing is acceptable.

Before another student athlete is forced to “Cross Bus C� or be coerced into sexual assault from his or her teammates, coaches and team leadership need to be held responsible and constantly search for signs of hazing to prevent another needless death like that of Robert Champion.

Meredith Goodman is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be reached at meredithgoodman2015@u.northwestern.edu.

If you would like to respond publicly to this letter, send a Letter to the Editor to forum@dailynorthwestern.com.

Dance Marathon a life-changing NU experience ARABELLA WATTERS

DAILY COLUMNIST

At 19, there is almost nothing more monumental than experiencing the rites of passage that have grown to characterize my life so far: getting my license, graduating from high school, the first insatiable taste of sweet freedom mixed with terror that was moving into my college dorm the first day, the less-sweet taste of what it felt like to take a final on the quarter system (it comes all too fast and hits you like a load of extremely academic bricks), winter in Evanston, etc.

But there is nothing that defines my Northwestern experience more than Dance Marathon. I don’t need to explain that we endearingly call Dance Marathon “DM� or that the entire 30 hours is a gauntlet to say the least.

I don’t think that there is anything more fulfilling that I’ve done in my whole life. As a freshman, DM seemed like just another hurdle that I had to jump in order to pack as

much as I possibly could into what had been undeniably the best and most dauntingly chaotic year of my life.

Before I entered the tent, before that first weekend in March crept up slowly and then explosively just like it did this year, I hadn’t really conceptualized what DM was or what it really truly meant. Everyone was doing it, so how could I not? But DM is not just another thing to tick off the immense to-do list that is life as an NU undergrad. (There is never going to be enough time do everything; I’ve resigned myself to that sad fact.)

DM is a time that isn’t about me or my friends or how badly I did on the final I just took or what time my meeting is on Monday.

DM is something that is larger than all of us.

It challenges us to look outside of ourselves, to sacrifice our basic human needs for a cause that is bigger than us and a whole lot more important. The Danny Did Foundation and every single philanthropy DM has supported in the past 39 years has been bigger than us. I think that is beautiful.

There is nothing more important than the service for human beings in need. The selflessness of DM touches me every time I think

The Drawing Board

of it. These are probably our most formative years in terms of cultivating our identities.

Do you ever wonder how the choices that you are making right now turn DM is a time that you into the kind of person you’ll be for isn’t about me the rest of your life? or my friends I wonder sometimes life is less about or how badly I ifmeaningful moments did on the final and more about the spectrum of infinitely I just took or monumental experiwhat time my ences, the living and meeting is on the breathing that us on fire. I don’t Monday. DM is sets mean to get philosomething that sophical here, but is larger than all there are only so many chances that you’ll get of us. in your life to make decisions that can not only define you, but also to reach out, with every yearning, aching fiber of your being to become the kind of person who serves others

“

by Susan Du

above themselves.

We are only malleable in our selves for so long, and it makes me afraid to think about the time I have left to become the kind of person I want to be. I am on the precipice of adulthood, or maybe I’ve already teetered off the edge, and participating in DM is the kind of experience that colors in those blank spaces of the person I really want to become.

It’s that life-changing of an experience.

I have never felt more alive or full of burning vitality as I did in the last seconds of DM. The moment when the clock ticked down and the money countdown was revealed is one of those rare, overwhelmingly visceral experiences in life that hit me straight in the face.

DM has the ability to create, to change, to elevate and to make us more than just the students we walk around as for the other 363 days of the year. I think that is what truly makes DM unparalleled in its excellence.

Arabella Watters is a Medill sophomore. She can be reached at arabellawatters@yahoo.com. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to forum@dailynorthwestern.com.

The Daily Northwestern Volume 133, Issue 90 Editor in Chief Kaitlyn Jakola

Forum Editor Caryn Lenhoff

Managing Editor Paulina Firozi

Forum Editor Joe Misulonas

Web Editor Joseph Diebold

READING WEEK

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR may be sent to 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208, via fax at 847-491-9905, via e-mail to forum@dailynorthwestern.com or by dropping a letter in the box outside THE DAILY office.

Letters have the following requirements: t 4IPVME CF UZQFE BOE EPVCMF TQBDFE t 4IPVME JODMVEF UIF BVUIPS T OBNF TJHOBUVSF TDIPPM class and phone number. t 4IPVME CF GFXFS UIBO XPSET They will be checked for authenticity and may be edited for length, clarity, style and grammar.

Letters, columns and cartoons contain the opinion of the authors, not Students Publishing Co. Inc. Submissions signed by more than three people must include at least one and no more than three names designated to represent the group.

Editorials reflect the majority opinion of THE DAILY T TUVEFOU editorial board and not the opinions of either Northwestern University or Students Publishing Co. Inc.

THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN | NEWS 7

FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013

EPD report increase in gang graffiti

in graffiti in the suburbs in the past few years. She estimated that roughly 80 percent of the graffiti they remove is gang-related. “If we don’t take it down right away, retaliatory graffiti goes up,� she said.

In response to the increase in gang graffiti, Parrott said officers have been made aware of the trend and are checking certain areas more frequently than usual. “When they put it down, I try to pick it up,�

Mims said. “That’s the only way I see a remedy for control.� ciaramccarthy2015@u.northwestern.edu

— Jillian Sandler

Emerson St Elg

in R

Church St

Dempster St

Dodge Ave

Mcdaniel Ave

Lee St

Chicago Ave

N McCormick Blvd

Florence Ave

Oakton St

Greenleaf St

Brown Ave

Main St

Pinter Ave

Crain St

d

Ridge Ave

Bennett Ave

the daily northwestern

“

Nort Univhweste ersi rn ty

By CIARA MCCARTHY

Vandals have caused a dramatic increase in Evanston graffiti during the last three weeks, almost all of it gang-related.

Daily crime reports from the Evanston Police Department show 12 incidents of gang-related graffiti since Feb. 18. Police have also arrested one Evanston man in connection with criminal defacement.

EPD found three When they put incidents of graffiti from it down, I try to the night of Feb. 20 and pick it up. That’s at least seven additional since then. the only way I instances Graffiti from the past see a remedy two weeks marked the first gang graffiti of the for control. year.

Karlton Mims, Concentrated incicity graffiti dents of graffiti are typical technician for Evanston, city graffiti technician Karlton Mims said. He estimated that graffiti sprees break out two or three times a year in various areas of the city.

Much of the recent graffiti has stemmed from a conflict between two local Latino gangs, EPD Cmdr.

Jay Parrott said. “Some of the recent graffiti stems from a disagreement they had,� he said. “Other than that, we don’t know what’s directly caused in the increase in gang graffiti.�

Some of the graffiti may simply be “tagging,� where vandals write their name or their gang’s logo on different surfaces. Parrott added that some of the graffiti may not actually be made by individuals in gangs, but rather by people who want to reproduce gang-related images. “It’s hard to pinpoint who’s actually doing it and what it actually means,� Parrott said.

However, Parrott maintained that a conflict between Latino gangs caused much of the recent

In the first large-scale longitudinal study of obsessive-compulsive tendencies in new mothers, Northwestern Medicine has found postpartum women to show a higher rate of obsessive-compulsive tendencies than the general population, according to a University news release published Tuesday.

According to the release, the study found 11 percent of women at two weeks and at six months postpartum expressed obsessive-compulsive symptoms, compared to 2 to 3 percent of the general population.

Researchers said in the release the symptoms often include worrying about germs and concern over injuring the baby. If they impede daily functioning, a psychological disorder may be at hand, they said. “It may be that certain kinds of obsessions and compulsions are adaptive and appropriate for a new parent, for example those about cleanliness and hygiene,� said study senior author Dr. Dana Gossett, chief and assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Feinberg and a physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, in the release. “But when it interferes with normal day-to-day functioning and appropriate care for the baby and parent, it becomes maladaptive and pathologic.�

The women in study were recruited during hospitalizations for deliveries at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. They were screened for anxiety, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder two weeks and and again six months after going home, the release said. About 50 percent reported an improvement in their symptoms at six months postpartum, but some developed new symptoms by this point they had not experienced beforehand, according to the release. “If those symptoms are developing much later after delivery, they are less likely to be hormonal or adaptive,� Gossett said in the release.

The release also said about 70 percent of the women who screened positive for obsessive-compulsive symptoms also displayed depressive symptoms. This finding in combination with the distinct compulsions shown in the post-partum period may indicate the existence of a unique mental illness for new mothers that is not currently well defined, said Dr. Emily Miller, lead study author and a clinical fellow in maternal fetal medicine at Feinberg, in the release.

The findings will be published in the March/April issue of The Journal of Reproductive Medicine.

Locations of graffiti incidents in Evanston

Asbury Ave

Police say graffiti sprees break out two or three times a year in Evanston

Michell Kim/The Daily Northwestern

graffiti. The disagreement between these gangs might be related to clashes stemming from Latino gangs in Chicago, Parrott said. Some of the graffiti has included symbols of different Latino gangs, including a five-pointed crown, a symbol of the Latin Kings gang, and a pitchfork, a symbol of the Spanish Gangster Disciples.

Mims said he has handled more than 20 incidents this year, using paint or a power wash to cover the graffiti.

Chicagoland Graffiti Removal also works to remove markings in Chicago and surrounding suburbs. Mary Kate DeCraene, the company’s office manager, said she had definitely seen an increase

OCD tendencies higher among new mothers, NU study finds

POST-BACCALAUREATE CERTIFICATE IN

Creative Writing Develop your craft, formalize your training and build a solid portfolio of work for application to MFA and MA/PhD programs. Receive feedback from fellow writers in workshop courses led by respected authors.

Choose your focus — fiction, creative nonfiction or poetry — based on your discipline and on your level of writing experience.

Take advantage of the following support services: s Academic advisers and tailored academic plans s Workshops and events to help you develop your application s Online service Interfolio to manage your application materials

Apply today — the summer quarter application deadline is May 1.

PREGRADUATE SCS NORTHWESTERN EDU s

FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013

8 NEWS | THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN

THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN | NEWS 9

FROM TEMPERANCE TO TRANSPORTS Alcohol’s long history at NU

1853: Northwestern is founded, and the charter forbids the sale of alcohol anywhere within four miles of the campus.

1972: A long-awaited vote finally legalizes the sale of alcohol in Evanston for those with liquor licenses.

1980: Illinois drinking age is raised from 19 to 21.

Alcohol From page 1

Alcohol transport numbers may be dragged down by high ambulance costs, which can dissuade students in need from accepting transport. Superior Ambulance Services, which provides ground transport for Evanston Hospital, 2650 Ridge Ave., charges an $800 base fee for a transport with an additional $1,650 per mile.

The hospital is about a mile from South Campus.

Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president for student affairs, said the number of students transported to the hospital because of alcohol is unacceptable.

“I’m very concerned with the amount of drinking taking place,” she said. “There have been too many transports for the size of our university. We need to assess the most productive way to change that, and students need to be involved in the conversation.”

But there is room for debate about whether a rise in transports is a negative sign.

“The reality is if people need help they should be where they can get the help, and if that’s the hospital, so be it,” Currie said. “That may not be really popular with hospital (emergency room) staff, but if that’s where a person needs to be to get the help that they need, I’m fine with that.”

‘STUDENTS ARE GOING TO DRINK’ NU has roots in alcohol prevention nearly as old as the school itself. It went dry with the city of Evanston 80 years before Prohibition, when the 1853 charter forbade the sale of alcohol within four miles of its premises, according to the University Archives. The city and the school remained, at least officially, alcoholfree until the late 1960s, when a group of students began advocating for liquor licenses, finally getting the issue to a successful vote in 1972. The campus enjoyed a brief period of alcoholic freedom until the state drinking age was raised to 21 in 1980.

Today, both on-campus and off-campus drinking is forbidden for students under 21. Those over 21 may drink in residential halls and colleges, or in their off-campus apartments, but only with other of-age students. Nevertheless, police officers, administrators and community assistants acknowledge these rules are broken on a daily basis. Given the circumstances, students and administrators have to tiptoe the line between policy enforcement and student safety.

“Students are going to drink,” said Van Atta, McCormick junior and ASG’s vice president for student life.

“As much as the administration hates to admit that they’re going to drink even when they’re under 21, I think we need to be doing a better job of making sure they’re safe when they’re doing it and focusing on safety rather than policing.”

Daniel McAleer, deputy chief of University Police, said a weekend hardly ever goes by that UP doesn’t receive a noise complaint about a location on or around campus, and that those investigations often include very drunk students.

“We do have to deal with intoxicated students and making sure they can be transported to the hospital for treatment on most weekends,” he said. “That’s something the whole community is trying to reduce.

Hopefully by watching out for their fellow students and making sure they drink responsibly, they can help to get them to a safe place.”

McAleer said UP generally does not look specifically for parties where alcohol is being consumed, instead responding when other residents have concerns about noise.

One McCormick sophomore, who was in Chi Psi fraternity before it was disbanded last year, said when the group had on-campus parties, they rarely encountered UP. “The campus police hardly ever come through,”

said the student, who asked to remain anonymous. “A lot of the drinking at this school is silent pacts: How much do you look the other way, and how much do you not?”

A TRAGEDY BRINGS REFORM After the death of SESP freshman Matthew Sunshine in 2008, the University ramped up its safety efforts, instituting a number of alcohol education and prevention programs, including Red Watch Band training, reexamination of the Responsible Action Protocol, an alcohol resource web page and an Office of Health Promotion and Wellness. The new programs were part of a rider in a no-fault legal settlement between NU and the Sunshine family. Five years later, the University and Sunshine are still discussing pieces of the contract, as well as implementation of the rider, and dangerous drinking still occurs, said Jeffrey Sunshine, Matthew’s father.

Matthew Sunshine was found dead in his Foster House dorm room after consuming 17 shots of vodka in about an hour during a finals week drinking contest.

After he passed out, the two upperclassmen he was

“

A lot of the drinking at this school is silent pacts: How much do you look the other way, and how much do you not?

McCormick sophomore

drinking with carried him to his room, thinking he was asleep. When authorities found him in the morning, his blood alcohol content was .396, nearly five times the standard for intoxication.

“There is no reason that sober students for their amusement should be permitted to provide and encourage already intoxicated and incapacitated students to keep drinking until the intoxicated student needs to be rushed to the hospital or, as in the case of our son, is killed,” Jeffrey Sunshine said. “Northwestern needs to determine what kind of an institution it wants to create and what values it wants to instill in the students entrusted to it.”

The RAP was revised again in fall 2011, according to Jim Neumeister, assistant dean of students.

“The language of the RAP was modified beginning in the Fall of 2011 to clarify that, if students follow the protocol – Call, Stay, Cooperate – they will not face formal disciplinary action for alcohol or drug offenses, and that the RAP also applies to groups and organizations,” Neumeister wrote Tuesday in an email to The Daily.

For his part, Jeffrey Sunshine believes in a reversal of the policy’s phrasing. Section 6 of the rider indicates the Sunshine family’s belief that instead of waiving or reducing punishment when students call for help, they should be punished unless they call for help.

‘IT’S A BALANCING ACT’ ASG is currently pushing risk management initiatives that may help students better look after one another. The group has pared seven initial recommendations down to three that it hopes to present to the administration by the end of the quarter: expanded Red Watch Band training, improved education and the creation of a team of University-approved and funded “party monitors” who would stay sober at off-

June 10, 2008: SESP freshman Matthew Sunshine dies in his Foster House dorm room after a night of heavy drinking. His parents embark on a long legal negotiation with NU about how to make the school safer and decrease the prevalence of heavy student drinking.

2009: Department of Health Promotion and Wellness is created and Responsible Action Protocol is revised.

Spring 2010: National Red Watch Band program is implemented.

campus parties and provide assistance in dangerous drinking situations.

Van Atta said the idea is one that “a lot of people are on board with” and that has had success at other schools. In the study of eight peer institutions, the group found both Dartmouth College and Haverford College had successfully implemented similar programs. Dartmouth’s Green Team, which was founded in 2011, pays its members $40 per night to walk through a house party at 20-minute intervals. They are modeled off of Haverford’s “Quaker Bouncers,” a program that saw a 50 percent drop in alcohol-related hospitalizations after its first semester on campus.

There is also opportunity for collaboration with new dean of students Todd Adams. Adams recently left his administrative role at Duke University, which has a policy similar to NU’s in that it penalizes all violations of the state drinking age but offers leniency for those who make a call for help. At the beginning of this school year, Duke launched a team of party monitors to supervise on-campus drinking events.

Student groups hosting on-campus social events are required to have one party monitor for every 25 guests and a licensed bartender to check partygoers’ identification.

Tom Mrva, a senior at Duke studying public policy, said party monitors at Duke have so far found an appropriate balance.

“They’re pretty effective at keeping people safe,” Mrva said. “They’re not trying to crack down on underage drinking, they’re just making sure things don’t get out of hand. If someone’s sick, they’ll look after them. If they have to call (Emergency Medical Services), they’ve been trained for that.”

Adams said finding that balance is crucial to the success of the program.

“Peer monitoring can be very effective,” Adams said. “It also involves a great deal of training and a great deal of trust. It involves a partnership among students and the administration and support by the entities that are hosting those events. It can be very effective when its done well. But if its not well-resourced or thought out, it can be less than effective.”

But implementing this kind of a team, especially if it is to be associated with the University, requires a level of trust and transparency between NU and ASG, Van Atta said. Party monitors will be there for safety reasons, not for “cracking down on every single party that happens,” while also “operating within the risk management desires of administration.”

“In some places, universities can be very handsoff,” he said. “But I think we do have a very conservative administration here as far as risk management and making sure we’re following all the rules ... if this is something that the University wants to fund.

It’s a balancing act that we have to figure out as we move forward.”

Once he begins his tenure in the dean’s office, Adams will chair the Community Alcohol Coalition, which will be reformed under his leadership.

Susan Cushman, alcohol and other drug prevention coordinator, said the coalition has existed in various forms for her three years at NU but began to dissolve with the recent reshuffling of administrators in the Division of Student Affairs. Cushman said she is looking forward to the coalition’s renewal.

“That’s really important to have both students and staff — and hopefully faculty — really engaged and actively addressing issues around alcohol and other drugs using a really comprehensive approach,” Cushman said.

In the meantime, the ASG group will also work toward mandating Red Watch Band training for student group leaders and increasing alcohol education.

Summer 2011: Patricia TellesIrvin, whose time at the University of Florida often focused on curbing binge drinking, takes over a vice president of student affairs.

Fall 2011: Responsible Action Protocol is revised for second time in three years to clarify that if students follow the Call-Stay-Cooperate protocol, they will not face formal disciplinary action and that the protocol also applies to groups.

Fall 2011: Alcohol-related hospital transports reach 21 for September and early October alone, an increase from 13 and 9 in previous years for the same period.

More than half of those transported are freshmen, according to then-dean of students Burgwell Howard.

‘I’M NOT SURE IF THEY COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND’ Much of NU’s current educational programming comes from two Essential NU programs, AlcoholEdu and Wildcat Voices, Alcohol Choices, which are completed during the summer before freshman year and during Wildcat Welcome. Van Atta said the “information overload” of Wildcat Welcome means alcohol education can get lost in the shuffle.

“If that’s the only time (new students) hear what the alcohol policy is, then there are a lot of misconceptions about what it is at this school, in terms of individual amnesty, caller amnesty or organizational amnesty,” he said. “Students know that we have an alcohol policy, but I’m not sure if they completely understand what exactly it is or what their rights are when it comes to drinking alcohol.”

ASG’s data, compiled in a Fall Quarter 2012 survey, backs that up. Just 58 percent of students said “caller amnesty when you call for a friend” was included in the Responsible Action Protocol.

In fact, the policy says that “no formal University disciplinary actions or sanctions will be imposed for alcohol or drug infractions, but the incident will be documented, and educational, community, and health interventions — as well as contact with a student’s parents or family — may be required as a condition of deferring disciplinary actions or sanctions.”

Currie said certain myths need to be cleared up, particularly among students who would like full amnesty for anyone making a call.

“There’s this belief that amnesty is sort of this ‘get out of jail free’ card, and it’s not,” she said.

Still, she emphasized that the biggest thing a student who follows the policy will get is a “big thank you” and said since she came to campus in 2009, she’s seen significant progress in education about the policy.

“I ran into students that first year who were like, ‘Oh my God, if I call for a friend, we’re both going to get suspended,’ or ‘Our chapter is going to get disbanded immediately,’ these really extreme sort of beliefs that I think had kind of developed through the grapevine through misinformation,” she said.

But the anonymous McCormick sophomore said the consequences can still be prohibitive.

“There’s a stigma around reporting because of the trouble you can get in,” the student said. “They discourage kids way too much for seeking help when they need it. I know a ton of friends that that’s happened to.”

Daily file photos

TRAGEDY STRIKES After Matthew Sunshine’s death from alcohol poisoning in 2008, students held a vigil to commemorate the SESP freshman.

ANOTHER LOSS Four years later, the feelings of grief were all too familiar for students who attended a vigil the night administrators announced McCormick sophomore Harsha Maddula’s body had been found in Wilmette Harbor.

PREVENTION STRATEGY Lisa Currie, director of health promotion and wellness, conducts Red Watch Band training with students. The program was brought to NU in 2010 and is an effort to prevent alcohol-related deaths.

THE PROGRAMMING QUESTION Another aspect of education is programming, like AlcoholEdu, that focuses on the harmful effects of binge drinking. But one difficulty is that students, particularly those who were not heavy drinkers in high school, don’t absorb the information until it’s too late.

One male junior, who asked to remain anonymous, was returning from a fraternity party in 2011 when he stumbled in a Sheridan Road construction project and fell asleep. After being discovered by a group of students, he returned to his South Campus residential college and vomited in front of the community service officer, who called for him to be transported to the hospital. His story was not an anomaly.

“I wasn’t a very experienced drinker,” the student said. “I barely drank in high school, once or twice I think, and coming to college I started drinking a good amount. There was one night where I just got separated and started drinking kind of irresponsibly ... I definitely blacked out at some point and did not know where I had taken those last few shots.”

The student called his hospital visit “a lesson learned the hard way.” He said though alcohol education programs like AlcoholEdu provide useful information,

Spring 2012: ASG forms a working group, chaired

by Alex Van Atta, vice president for student life, for the purpose of analyzing NU’s alcohol policy and comparing it to those of peer institutions.

they fail to present students with the real-world impact of their actions.

“The problem is that when you take that, I feel like that’s more of an exam that you’re doing, something you’re doing to get it done,” he said. “You’re learning about a subject, and when you actually go out and drink, it’s totally different because nobody counts their drinks, nobody actually measures out an exact shot and says, ‘OK, here’s one shot, let me wait 15 minutes.’”

Patricia Hilkert, director of new student and family programs, plays a major role in shaping the Essential NUs. She said cases like this student’s are ones the administration is intimately familiar with.

“There are some college students who, no matter how much programming you do, their main goal is going to be to drink a lot,” Hilkert said. “The students here probably work hard and play hard. Our job is to make sure they know about all the resources and how to be safe if they do decide to experiment.”

The student, like all NU students who are transported to the hospital, then entered Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS), a two-session program through the Department of Health Promotion and Wellness. Though

“

There are some college students who, no matter how much programming you do, their main goal is going to be to drink a lot.

Patricia Hilkert, director of new student and family programs BASICS is what is known as an “early intervention” program, the department’s educational programming is meant to be preventive as much as it is protective.

Cushman, who coordinates BASICS, said its efforts often center around “this idea of helping to avoid these problems from the get-go.”

‘THE FRESHMEN ARE GOING TO GET WASTED A LOT’ On the University web page “Real NU Party Habits,” the administration points out that 23 percent of NU students do not drink and 50 percent drink in low-risk quantities (fewer than seven drinks a week or 14 drinks a week for females and males, respectively).

ASG’s recent student survey supports that claim, citing only 11 percent of students as consuming seven to nine drinks per week and 37 percent as consuming four to six per week.

Publicizing this information is also a focus of the ENU during Wildcat Welcome. Cushman said one of the goals for incoming freshmen is “letting them hear from other students who either drink in moderation or not at all so that they have Northwestern student examples to look to.”

But Carolyn Jones, a former community assistant, said kids are always going to feel pressured to drink and even one night of heavy drinking for a student who has never tried alcohol before can lead to a dangerous situation.

“Northwestern is a party school. Nerdwestern, Northwasted, Nerdwasted. Kids really like to drink,” Jones, a McCormick junior said. “College is supposed to be this big party environment. Everyone’s seen ‘Animal House,’ it’s like nuts. College is drinking.”

The problem with this attitude, she said, is that

Sept. 27, 2012: Harsha Maddula’s body is found after a five-day search following his Sept. 22 disappearance. In February, police conclude that alcohol was a contributing factor in Maddula’s accidental death.

new students will go out to Greek houses and drink with near-strangers because they are not permitted to drink in their dorms. She said the dry policy in dorms encourages “heavy drinking in small dark places with locked doors.” It forces students to go out to parties and not come back because they do not want to get in trouble, she said.

“The freshmen are going to get wasted a lot, and they’re going get wasted however they can,” she said.

“And if you make them nervous and scared, then they’re gonna do stupid things, and they’re going to do it quietly and silently and then when they are in trouble, you’re not going to be able to find them.”

The anonymous McCormick sophomore said although off-campus drinking is often preferred to avoid the watchful eye of police and administrators, there can be safety issues with transportation.

“Off-campus drinking is very different,” the student said. “It’s better and worse. But you have to drink off campus because of the liability and rules here. And it’s definitely not as safe.”

The student told the story of finding a friend passed out in the snow who would have been in significant danger if he and his friends hadn’t helped him.

SOBER ALTERNATIVES Jones also cited the lack of sober programming in dorms as a factor in the drinking culture, saying the dorm is “not a place that people feel like it’s cool to hang out on the weekends.”

In response, NU and ASG have provided funding for NU Nights, a new student group that creates late-night, alcohol-free programming on weekends.

The group, which formed last year, is now expanding to partnerships with other student groups so sober programming is offered every weekend.

“There is a big drinking culture at NU, but there’s a lot of students who de-stress and relax in different ways — who enjoy just having fun,” said Rachel Galvin, a Weinberg junior and the incoming president of NU Nights. “I think NU Nights provides a space for that.”

Another issue that arises, particularly with cultural changes, is difficulty in measuring the impact of new initiatives. Cushman said the department uses a multi-pronged approach, implementing evidence-based solutions and constantly soliciting feedback.

“We don’t just do programs because they feel good,” she said. “We want to provide quality types of programs here.”

Currie said changing the culture can be even more difficult than changes to policy or additions to programming and can undermine even the best administrative efforts.

“If the social environment says, ‘Well, it’s OK to drink,’ or ‘It’s preferable that you don’t make that call to get somebody help,’ then that places enormous pressure on the individual to go with what the social environment says rather than what the policy says,” she said.

Telles-Irvin, who was hired in 2011 from the University of Florida after cracking down on binge drinking at the school, said in the end, the administration needs to partner with students to curb the destructive impacts of alcohol abuse.

“Students come here with expectations and ideas about their life, about how to make a contribution to society when they graduate,” she said. “I want to make sure those dreams happen. It’s really hard when people aren’t able to reach those dreams because of alcohol. We need to be partners with students to help them achieve those goals.” samanthacaiola2014@u.northwestern.edu josephdiebold2015@u.northwestern.edu

FRIDAY, MAR

10 NEWS | THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN

WINTER 2013 ROUND-UP 1. Harsha Maddula investigation closes Evanston Police closed the investigation into the death of 18-year-old McCormick sophomore Harsha Maddula. Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott told The Daily on Feb. 25 that Maddula’s death has been ruled accidental with a contributing factor of alcohol consumption. Maddula was last seen at an off-campus party around midnight Sept. 22, and his body was recovered from the Wilmette Harbor on Sept. 27. Parrott said on Feb. 28 there were no leads as to why Maddula decided to walk north to the harbor after leaving the party and that police are no longer looking for evidence of him falling into the harbor from video surveillance.

2. NAISA calls for Evans investigation

The Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance is calling for the University’s acknowledgement of its founder and Evanston’s namesake John Evans’ role in the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. In its Feb. 27 meeting, ASG passed a resolution in support of NAISA and the investigation into Evans’ history. Three weeks ago, the University formed a committee to look into the details of Evans’ past and present a report to Provost Dan Linzer by June 2014. NAISA is also calling for the creation of a Native American studies program at NU, as well as the creation of a memorial to commemorate Sand Creek and a scholarship to appeal to more prospective Native American students.

1 Kaitlin Svabek/Daily Senior Staffer

3. Campus rallies for Josie Nordman

Various Northwestern student groups raised money throughout the quarter for Josie Nordman, a Communication sophomore with cystic fibrosis who is on the wait list for a double lung transplant.

Nordman’s family is expected to pay up to $75,000 of the $750,000 cost of the transplant. The Greek and theater communities, as well as the equestrian team and other campus groups, have been active in helping her family reach this goal, putting together a wristband sale that raised more than $5,000 and fundraisers at various shows and events. A&O Productions also raised $1500 for Nordman at their Winter Speaker show on Saturday, which featured actor and comedian B.J. Novak. As of Thursday, almost $45,000 had been raised for Nordman, according to her Indiegogo fundraising page.

4. Students protest racist culture

For Members Only and Alianza organized a demonstration and march down Sheridan Road on Feb. 28 in protest of what they called a culture of racism on campus. More than 100 students left their classes early that afternoon to participate and call for a change in Northwestern’s racial climate.

The event addressed several incidents but was sparked by the case of University maintenance worker Michael Collins, who in December said he found a black teddy bear hanging next to his desk as if it had been lynched.

— Jillian Sandler

S a l on Rou l a

4 Susan Du/Daily Senior Staffer

3 Source: Facebook

jiffy lube SIGNATURE SERVICE® OIL CHANGE

­n{Ç®ÊÎÓn È££äÊUÊÈäÎÊ >Û ÃÊ-Ì°

NU students, faculty and staff show your Wildcard & receive f£äÊ" Ê ÊV > }i ÊÊ7 Ì ÊÌ ÃÊV Õ« °Ê Õ« Ê `iÊ 7£ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ

25% OFF Any first time service * 20% OFF Future Appointments with Wildcard * *with selected professionals. Not valid with any other specials or keratin services. Must present coupon.

jiffy lubeÊUÊ£ {£Ê7°Ê i «ÃÌiÀ

Û> ÃÌ Ê­ ÕÃÌÊÜiÃÌÊ vÊ `}i® n{Ç ÎÓn xÓÓÓÊÊUÊÊ À Ên È]Ê->ÌÊn x]Ê-Õ Ê£ä {

12 NEWS | THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN

FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013

The Daily Northwestern Winter 2013 | An independent voice since 1923 | Evanston, Ill. EDITOR IN CHIEF | Kaitlyn Jakola MANAGING EDITOR | Paulina Firozi ___________________ WEB EDITOR | Joseph Diebold ___________________ CAMPUS EDITOR | Jillian Sandler ASSISTANT EDITORS | Lauren Caruba, Ally Mutnick ___________________ CITY EDITOR | Manuel Rapada ASSISTANT EDITOR | Jia You ___________________ IN FOCUS EDITOR | Michele Corriston ASSISTANT EDITOR | Cat Zakrzewski __________________ DESIGN EDITORS | Tanner Maxwell, Christine Nguyen DEPUTY EDITOR | Kelsey Ott ASSISTANT EDITOR | Chelsea Sherlock

THE CURRENT EDITOR | Chelsea Peng ASSISTANT EDITOR | Jennifer Suh THE CURRENT DESIGN EDITORS | Tanner Maxwell, Christine Nguyen ASSISTANT DESIGN EDITORS | Chelsea Sherlock, Kaitlin Svabek ___________________ PHOTO EDITORS | Susan Du, Ina Yang ASSISTANT EDITORS | Melody Song, Skylar Zhang ___________________ COPY CHIEFS | Devan Coggan, Lydia Ramsey SLOT EDITORS | Sarah Blau, Sophia Bollag, Alyssa Brewer, Bethany DeLong COPY EDITORS | Annie Bruce, Callie Counsellor, Maria Fernandez-Davila, Jenna Katz, Nina Marshall, Meghan Morris, Gracie Schwartzenberger, Chelsea Sherlock, Katy Vogt ___________________ DEVELOPMENT EDITOR | Stephanie Haines ___________________ FORUM EDITORS | Caryn Lenhoff, Joe Misulonas

SPORTS EDITOR | Rohan Nadkarni ASSISTANT EDITORS | Ava Wallace, Rebecca Friedman ___________________ VIDEO EDITORS | Annie Chang, Alejandro Pallares ___________________ GENERAL MANAGER | Stacia Campbell SHOP MANAGER | Chris Widman ___________________ ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Ryan Daggs, Kelly Hwu, Alice Liu ___________________ BUSINESS OFFICE STAFF Hazim Abdullah-Smith, Hailey Arterburn, Juli Del Prete, Megan Hernbroth, Megan McCormack, Taylor Mitchell, Samantha Stankowicz ___________________ ADVERTISING PRODUCTION STAFF Ryan Daggs, Annabel Edwards, Katie George, Ava Khatri, Liz Schrier, Jason Vanderlinden

&#+.; %.#55+(+'&5 Daily Policies THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN is not responsible for more than one incorrect insertion of an ad. Corrections must be received by 10am on the day before ad runs again, call 847-491-7206. All Classifeds must be paid in advance and are not accepted over the phone. To run online, ad must run in print on same day.

The Daily does not knowingly accept misleading or false ads and does not guarantee any ad or claim, or endorse any advertised product or service.

Please use caution when answering ads, especially when sending money.

Place a Classified Ad CLASSIFIED ADS in The Daily Northwestern are $5 per line/per day (or $4 per line/per day if ad runs unchanged for 5 OR MORE c onsecutive days). Add $1/day to also run online. For a Classified Ad Form, go to: dailynorthwestern.com/classifieds FAX completed form with payment information to: 847-491-9905. MAIL or deliver to: Students Publishing Company 1999 Campus Dr., Norris-3rd Floor Evanston, IL 60208. Payments in advance are required. Deadline: 10am on the day before ad is to run.

Office Hours: Mon-Thurs 9-5; Fri 9-4.

Phone: 847-491-7206.

Help Wanted HELP WANTED ADS are accepted only from advertisers who are equal opportunity employers. The presumption, therefore, is that all positions offered here are available to qualified persons without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, handicap, or veteran status.

Short-term library research needed at Northwestern U libraries. Some library research experience preferred. $15 per hour. Contact karlajones39@yahoo.com for details Have a place for rent? Go to: dailynorthwestern.com/classiďŹ eds Place an ad online over spring break.

On Loyola Campus Perfect for Roommates!

MagniďŹ cent 17 story elevator bldg restored.

Amazing lake views, huge apts w/ parquet oors, remodeled kits w/ updated appliances. Tons of closets. Laundry room on-site.

2BD : $980 - $1,290 3BD : $1,300 - $1,555 4BD : $1,410 - $1,610 Call (773) 274-6230 or email 6230ken@wreleasing.com

For Rent

2146 Sherman-2 BR Near NU. A/C, Laundry, 1.5 baths, bike rack, It is the policy of The Daily Northwestern parking avail. $1450 - $1625 7/1 & 9/1 to accept housing advertising only from Adam 847-328-3330. Farnsworth Hill. those whose housing is available without discrimination with respect to sexual 722 Clark Studios Available. Across orientation, race, creed or national ori- from NU music school. 3 story bldg. gin. The presumption is therefore, that Laundry on site. $825 - $850 7/1 & 9/1 any housing listing appearing here is Farnsworth Hill. 773-206-0849 non-discriminatory.

Live with Friends & Walk to Campus? Steps to Northwestern Apts/Houses Let us help you ďŹ nd a rental that ďŹ ts your needs! Tell me the speciďŹ cs of what you are looking for and I will e-mail you all your options THIS SERVICE IS FREE - We Charge no fees for matching you with your housing.

Locations: MAPLE, SHERMAN, ORRINGTON, CHURCH, FOSTER, GARNETT, HAMLIN, PRATT, NOYES, SIMPSON, AND RIDGE Well Maintained Properties including New Kitchens, Baths, Grassy Backyards, Parking, Storage, Laundry, Very Large room sizes, hardwood oors, kitchens with dishwashers and garbage disposal.

Email Nancy at EvanstonRentals@ hotmail.com or call 847-507-2649

&#+.; 57&1-7 Complete the grid so each ROW, COLUMN and 3-by-3 BOX (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9.

For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk SOLUTION TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE

FALL RENTALS STEPS TO CAMPUS 817 HAMLIN 1&2 BEDROOMS HARDWOOD FLOORS EAT-IN KITCHEN (1 BED) DINING ROOM (2 BED) LAUNDRY INCLUDES HEAT $975-$1200/MO 2 BEDROOM APTS HARDWOOD FLOORS WALK-IN CLOSETS BREAKFAST NOOK AIR CONDITIONING INCLUDES HEAT $1050.00/MO DENIS 847-424-9946 Ceti1@SBCGLOBAL.NET

DO YOU HAVE THE FLU? CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY! Phone: 312-695-6518 Pager: 312-921-9451 Email: flu.northwestern@gmail.com Monetary Compensation Provided PI: Pedro Avila, MD IRB#9011

3/08/13

Level:

Š 2013 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. All rights reserved.

DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE THE FLU? CALL US WITHIN 24HRS OF THE ONSET OF YOUR FLU SYMPTOMS AT 312-695-6518

FOSTER & MAPLE

Join the yearbook team!

We create the printed volume that 4-3-2-1 BDRMS chronicles a year at NorthwestLarge Apts. ern. No yearbook experience Parking Avail. necessary.

Also Roommates to Share 847-869-1444 Interested? Write to: evanstonapartments.com syllabus@northwestern.edu $1. 52::260 ,4<. 6<5+.9: 26 ;12: 8<AA4. 092- *9.

26;.6;276*4 *6- 8*9; 7/ ;12: 8<AA4.E: ;1.5.

&#+.; %4155914&

(+ '"!%!+ $&!+ $%0 *(++/(* -11%!

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis -2;.- +@ "2,1 7992: *6- 7@,. .>2:

!.9.662*4 :,*9: :;*84. *67.2:;E: ,1*44.60. *5. >2;1 8.47;*:

*92* )) ;1. 4*:; 7<:. 7/ *+:+<90 9<4.9 $1.@E9. /7<6- 26 +*9:

7:; ,75/79;*+4.

9..- ,*626.: C!.;.9 !*6D ,1*9*,;.9 9*:. *: /975 5.579@ %39 76,.

76.@ .*9 879;9*@.9 26 C 70*5+7D 23. :75. 4*+79 57;276*44@ :;9*26. *+26.; -.8; ,9.*;.- <6-.9

!9.=.6; ;1*; :263260 /..4260

6;.9;>26.:

!@05*4276E: :;*;<.

7<9:. 6<5+.9

$7<,1.

C $*4. 7/ 7=. *6- *936.::D *<;179 *;2=. 7479*-*6 26*6,2*4 $25.: 92=*4 +92./4@

.:; !2,;<9. 7/

$9*26 >2;1 -<3.: C 1*;. ;7 26;.99<8; D #;9*:+7<90E: 9.0276

6 * -./.6:2+4.

5*66.9

274702,*4 9.=.9:276

.>+796 9*8;79:

!9709.:: +@ -29.,;.- .//79;

".;29..E: *;;29.

67,3

C".=.60. 7/ ;1. #2;1D .82:7-.

6<5+.9

0 .$ ,!$' !*" ' .$ #$%%$)+

*/B 9.*-260

!.*,. 7+.42:; ;>7 @.*9: */;.9 .:576 $25. ;9*=.4260 7,;79 #1<; 26 !<824 ,76;9744.9 #>*95: #,79.4.:: ;927 795*;276 5.*6260 C6.,3D 26 9..3

( ,7<6;9@ ,4<+ 973. 097<6 5879;*6; 09..617<:. 0*: 7 ;:*9 >2;1 !.;.9 $& ,773 ..6 !97526.6; 26:;9<5.6; 26 C!*26; ; 4*,3D

92;2:1 67+4.5*6 2+42,*4 ,7=.9 <8 #6*,3 26 <6 +*9

.00@ >*-.9

7<4-6E; 0.; .67<01 7/

5.92,*6 92=*4

C ;E: 587::2+4.D ,9776.9

#-*+ 02+ -11%! (%.!

*$ -'! ! $ !*.$ !+ '

'*;,1.: >2;1 >76-.9

#,2 /2 >92;.9 9.-.923 .0*4 79-.9: "2=.9 81.675.6* 79 >1*; 42;.9*44@ 1*88.6: :2? ;25.: 26 ;12: 8<AA4.

*9=.:; :201;

$7>.9 +<24-260 0*5. <; 7// #<+<9+*6 :@5+74

!*:;<9. 6.>+796

)) ,*6;7

24 9*63:

!9./2? >2;1 8978@4

; 5201; +.

792026*4

7<4-.9 19:

THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN | NEWS 13

FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013

ResLife

From page 1

AIRPORT EXPRESS SHUTTLE NORTHWESTERN

S PE C I A L

$15 per person for

O'HARE

$20 per person for

MIDWAY Special NU RATE pick up times: 9am, 11am & 1pm.

Special NU RATE is avail. from March 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8, 2013.

LATE NOTICE If CAs are unhappy with their residential hall placement, the later notice will mean they will have missed the chance to apply for other campus housing or to sign off-campus leases, the second-year CA said. In the past, February decisions gave students more flexibility.

However, in February, upperclassmen have not yet chosen housing for next year, and incoming freshmen have not been admitted. Riel said July placement will help ResLife better match CAs with residents.

Additionally, Riel said ResLife would be hiring new Resident Directors, formerly known as Area Coordinators, who would want to select their CAs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It makes the most sense for us,â&#x20AC;? Riel said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you need to have this information prior to July, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good indication that this is not a good thing for you.â&#x20AC;?

The second-year CA questioned the idea of matching CAs with residents and the new Resident Directors, noting ResLife does not know enough about the new residents or the CAs to make a compatible match. The surveys given out to residents only discuss topics such as sleep schedules, cleanliness and smoking, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will pair all the neat CAs with the neat residents?â&#x20AC;? the CA said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the logic there?â&#x20AC;?

CONTRACT SURPRISES Weinberg freshman Elizabeth Larsen applied to be CA this year and was given an offer last month. She decided to turn it down, mostly because she would be traveling during the summer and did not want to come back to campus early for training, but also because the contract she received had unexpected terms.

Reading Period From page 1 to any of the students.

She said she often does not hear about any violations for a number of reasons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the problems is that they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t complain because it can be advantageous to students, but it creates inequities potentially,â&#x20AC;? Finn said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m concerned about.â&#x20AC;?

Atwater said her professor told the class the two tests would be the same level of difficulty. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know the TAs and the professor are very meticulous and would check and make sure the averages are the same,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Political science Prof. Andrew Roberts, director

(Enter "NWU" in the Disctount ID box)

those who worked breaks would get extra days off during the regular school year.

The second-year CA said a group of CAs are collectively drafting a letter containing their grievances to submit to ResLife at an undetermined date. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no CA input,â&#x20AC;? the second-year CA said of the changes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are all behind-the-scenes decisions, and no one is being asked.â&#x20AC;?

He noted that the contract was ambiguous, and CAs were given few details about the changes because ResLife had not fleshed out the details. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a half-baked idea,â&#x20AC;? he said.

of undergraduate studies for the department, said he tries not to move any tests or assignments into Reading Period because he understands its importance. Still, he said he knows students do not like staying on campus when the final falls on the last day of finals week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I did try to preserve that sacred time,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Students seem positive that they would rather do something reading week than stay until Friday afternoon.â&#x20AC;?

Roberts said it is more difficult to make two separate versions of the test but added he is able to make them comparable. In general, Roberts said he feels his colleagues do try to follow the Reading Period guidelines. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think people try to stick to the rule unless there are some special circumstances,â&#x20AC;? he said.

There is a mechanism in the Weinberg teaching

guidelines that would allow a test to be moved, Finn said, but to her knowledge, she has never seen it used in her time here.

She said if the professor allows it, the entire class could vote unanimously and anonymously to move the test to a specified time but she noted it is difficult to coordinate a test around the schedules of everyone in the class.

Finn said she understands that professors want to be kind to their students, but the Reading Period policies are necessary to ensure fair evaluations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The integrity of the exam system on behalf of our students is the most important thing,â&#x20AC;? she said.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;

STAFFING CONCERNS The second-year CA said he felt the new rules would lower the quality of the staff by discouraging those with high interest and passion from applying for the job. He said he thought that many of those who do apply will be doing it primarily for financial reasons and may not be as active in dorm life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are making the demands so high,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the end of the day, the residents are going to be the people who suffer.â&#x20AC;?

However, Riel said the return rate for CAs this year was 66 percent, up 2 percent from last year, and that ResLife was pleased with the number that returned.

He said the changes were decided by higher-up ResLife staff and that the department was not open to changing the decisions, but he would like to meet with CAs to further explain the reasoning behind them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tried to be as open and as clear in what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing as we can,â&#x20AC;? Riel said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Any way I can meet with people to make sure they understand â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I am happy to do it.â&#x20AC;? allymutnick@u.northwestern.edu

Â&#x201E;

allymutnick@u.northwestern.edu

Mom always loved She always you wanted best... you to have a Breakfast, Brunch good breakfast. or Lunch She always wanted you to Breakfast, Brunch have a good breakfast. or LunchBuy one entree at regular price and get your second Breakfast of equal or lesser at at Breakfast Le Peep. at Le Peep.Buy one entree entree Mom would be pleased. regular price and getvalue for just 99¢

TO BOOK Call: 1-800-284-3826

(must use "NWU" code) OR book online at www.airportexpress.com

Larsen said she did not know about the break housing or residential desks when she applied. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know about any of the changes,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really think that on the first application they should put the terms of the job.â&#x20AC;?

Multiple CAs confirmed they did not know they might have to stay for breaks or work at a residential service desk until February, when they read We just heard the contract for next year.

The contract was also pretty loud the first time they learned from our that the mandatory traininternational ing sessions, which used population that to be once a quarter on a weekend, would now Winter Break is be held once a month on pretty difficult Wednesdays from 4:30 6 p.m. The contract for them to find to stipulated that CAs must places to stay. schedule class around the training time.

Paul Riel, Riel said he was not Residential sure when CAs were notiServices director fied about those new policies, but previous contracts had said the CAs may have to serve in the mail rooms, which he said was similar to working the residential desks.

Contracts were given out Wednesday, Feb. 20, and had to be returned the following Monday by 9 a.m., giving returning CAs about five days to process the new terms.

The contracts do not specify that CAs would get extra compensation for increased duties, but Riel said

99¢

Breakfast, Brunch or Lunch Mom would be your second entreeOffer good Monday-Saturday only Offer good only at restaurants listed Evanston, 827 Church St. of equal or lesser Mon. - Fri. 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Limit one offer per coupon. Offer expires 3/22/13.

Mom always loved you best... pleased. value for just 99¢ Sat. - Sun. 7:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

(847)328-4880

Breakfast, Brunch or Lunch

Offer good Monday-Saturday only Offer good only at restaurants listed Limit one offer per coupon

IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO ORDER A YEARBOOK! (YDQVWRQ

0RQ )UL D P WR S P

3DUN 5LGJH

&KXUFK 6W

6DW 6XQ D P WR S P

6 (XFOLG

6XPPLW 6KRSSLQJ &HQWHU

Mon. - Fri. 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Sat. - Sun. 7:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Offer 11/19/07 Offer expires 10/22/07

Bring $55 or your credit card to the 3rd floor of Norris to reserve your 2013 NU Syllabus

questions? visit NUSyllabus.com

2013 Syllabus Yearbook ORDER FORM DELIVER OR MAIL this completed form with a check for $55 made payable to: Students Publishing Company Norris Center/3rd Floor 1999 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208

Studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Name: NU I.D. # Studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s E-mail: Home Mailing Address:

Or bring your credit card M-F 10 amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;4 pm FOR OFFICE USE (DAILY) Amount Pd. ............................ Check # ............................

Date ........................................ Initial ................................

Parentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Phone and/or E-mail:

Circle Year: Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior

14 NEWS | THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN

FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013

Wrestling Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies & the University Library at Northwestern University

Northwestern looking for redemption at Big Ten Championships

After a sub par regular season, Northwestern can erase those poor memories at the Big Ten Championships.

The Wildcats finished 2-6 in the Big Ten during dual play, hampered by injuries and inexperience throughout the season.

Redshirt senior Levi Mele went down early in the season after career-ending knee surgery, and redshirt sophomore Mike McMullan missed a handful of duals in the middle of the season.

With Mele and McMullan absent, the Cats turned to a pair of true freshmen, Garrison White and Jacob Berkowitz, to take the place of their injured stars.

Berkowitz and White suffered the ups and downs of being talented but young in the tough Big Ten, but now both remain in the lineup, with Berkowitz moving to 184 pounds after the return of McMullan at heavyweight.

The entire squad can rewrite their Big Ten records with a successful showing at the Big Ten Championships, the start of championship season for the Cats.

In addition to earning conference glory, successful showings at the tournament help for seeding at the NCAA Championships later in March.

The Cats boast two top-three seeds in their lineup, with McMullan and redshirt senior All-American Jason Welch both seeded second at heavyweight and 157 pounds respectively.

Welch will embark on a quest for his first Big Ten championship. Last year, Welch completed an undefeated dual season but fell in the 157 final during the conference tournament for his first loss of the season.

McMullan, who built from his Big Ten success to a third place finish at last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s NCAA Championships, can also win his first Big Ten championship.

Another wrestler who could upset his competition on the way to a high finish is redshirt sophomore Pierce Harger.

Harger finished 5-3 against the Big Ten field in his weight class of 165 pounds en route to his 22-5 record in the regular season.

White could also surprise at 133 pounds. The youngster fared well during his first run through the conference, finishing a respectable 3-3 against

M M S S For more information, attend our info session: Date Tuesday, March 12

Place Kresge Hall Room 1-330

Time 4 p.m.

The MMSS director will talk about the program and answer questions

Free & open to the public Lecture on the History of the Book

Christopher A. Reed (Ohio State University) Monday, March 11 at 4p.m.

Leopold Room (Harris Hall 108) 1881 Sheridan Rd, Evanston campus Reception to follow

Daily file photo by Jai Broome

CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON Redshirt senior Jason Welch wrestles during a home dual.

Welch will start chasing championships starting in the conference this weekend.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dukes & Nobles Above, Scholars Belowâ&#x20AC;?

Northwestern at the Big Ten Championships

Remembering Beijing's Old Booksellers District 1769-1941

Champaign, Ill. All day, Saturday and Sunday

the tournament field in his weight class.

The Cats will bring a relatively young team to the tournament. True freshman Dominick Malone will start at 125 pounds. Outside of Welch, NU will start nine underclassmen over the weekend. Outside of the three true freshmen, the Cats will use six redshirt sophomores.

After the Big Ten Championships in Champaign, Ill., the Cats will finish their season in Des Moines, Iowa, at the NCAA Championships starting March 21. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rohan Nadkarni

The Program in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences is looking for freshmen with superior academic records and an interest in combining the study of math and the social sciences to enter the program as sophomores

Why MMSS? â&#x20AC;˘ Students in the program develop quantitative skills that they apply to social sciences like economics, political science, psychology and sociology. â&#x20AC;˘ They are well prepared for graduate school, and they are highly sought by employers. â&#x20AC;˘

 â&#x20AC;¨â&#x20AC;Š

 â&#x20AC;¨â&#x20AC;Š

 â&#x20AC;¨â&#x20AC;Š

 â&#x20AC;¨â&#x20AC;ŠThe program provides excellent preparation for the Kellogg undergraduate certificate programs.

Sophomore entry applications are due April 1.

Apply online at the MMSS Web site.

MMSS Kresge Hall, Room 1-340 Phone: 847-491-3574 Web: www.mmss.northwestern.edu E-mail: mmss@northwestern.edu

5PEBZ JT UIF MBTU 8JOUFS 2VBSUFS QSJOU JTTVF

CCHS

CCHS

www.historicalstudies.nortwestern.edu

www.historicalstudies.nor

www.historicalstudies.northwestern.edu Northwestern University | Bienen School of Music

Vladimir Gorbach Sunday, March 10, 3 p.m.

Lutkin Hall, $20/12 Heâ&#x20AC;&#x153;literally subdued the audience with his musicality and extreme virtuosity.â&#x20AC;?

-Ouest France

'JSTU 4QSJOH QSJOU JTTVF 5VFT "QSJM $POUBDU 5IF %BJMZ /PSUIXFTUFSO BU PS &NBJM TQD DPNQTIPQ!OPSUIXFTUFSO FEV UP CPPL ZPVS BET 8BUDI GPS %BODF .BSBUIPO DPWFSBHF BU %BJMZOPSUIXFTUFSO DPN

www.pickstaiger.org | 847.467.4000

THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN | SPORTS 15

FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013

Women’s Tennis

Wildcats looking to build off of victory over Illinois

By ALEX PUTTERMAN

the daily northwestern

After Northwestern’s performance in a 5-2 victory against Illinois last weekend, the team’s coach said she was worried about the future.

“I felt like we were a little better than Illinois,” Claire Pollard said. “But that’s just not going to be good enough. It’s not going to be good enough next weekend. It’s not going to be good enough for us to really achieve and over-achieve as the year goes on.”

The No. 8 Cats (7-4, 1-0) will venture to Iowa City, Iowa, on Friday to take on the Hawkeyes (5-4, 0-1), then visit Lincoln, Neb., on Sunday to play the Cornhuskers (13-1, 1-0).

Iowa will be the first unranked team the Wildcats face in 2013 after meeting top-40

foes in each of their first 11 meets. NU is 38-2 all-time against Iowa, has never lost to the Hawkeyes under coach Claire Pollard and has not allowed Iowa more than one point since 2007, outscoring them 33-3 during the last five years.

The Nebraska meet is likely what Pollard was referring to when she worried about the aforementioned “next weekend.”

The Cornhuskers are the Big Ten’s secondhighest ranked team and have lost only once in 2013. They have won eight consecutive meets, including their last five in 7-0 shutouts, although none of those blowouts have come against top-30 teams. Nebraska is 7-1 on the season against ranked opponents. Its only loss of the season came on Feb. 8 to Miami, a team the Cats beat two days later.

NU is 4-3 all-time against Nebraska,

including 3-1 through the last three seasons.

In 2012, the Cats split a pair of dual meets against the Huskers, winning 4-3 on Jan. 29 but losing 5-2 on March 25.

Sunday’s meet will be crucial for NU. In order to win the Big Ten, a goal and expectation every year, Pollard says her team can hardly afford to lose even one Big Ten dual meet.

“History has shown over the last few years, to win the conference you really can’t afford a loss,” she said. “If you lose you’re sharing probably, and that might not even be good enough this year with how well some of the teams are playing and how good our league is.”

Pollard said she was disappointed in NU’s performance against Illinois despite the final result. According to the coach, the doubles point, which the Cats won, was closer than it

should have been, and singles could have also been better. Freshman Alicia Barnett, who won both her doubles and singles matches, agreed with Pollard’s assessment of the team’s effort.

“Our energy wasn’t as good as it has been in the bigger matches,” Barnett said. “We can play a lot better than we did. We kind of played down to their level a bit.”

NU will need to avoid similar lack of intensity against Iowa, then elevate its game further two days later against Nebraska. The team will likely be prepared.

“We just need to keep our concentration on improving the stuff we didn’t do as well this weekend,” Barnett said after the Illinois meet. “For the next few days, practice will be really big.” alexanderputterman2016@u.northwestern.edu

Men’s Tennis

Nebraska, Iowa, Western Illinois awaiting Northwestern

By ABBEY CHASE

the daily northwestern

In its first Big Ten match of the season, Northwestern faced off against its in-state rival Illinois, falling 5-2. But the Wildcats gave the Fighting Illini a competitive match and have maintained a positive attitude as they gear up for the rest of the season.

“We have eight people on this team, and everyone tries a lot and everyone is getting better in practice,” senior Spencer Wolf said. “We have a lot of good recruits for next year, and this program is just getting better and better, so it’s pretty exciting to be a part of it.”

For NU, the end result hasn’t always been the telling figure. The Cats have faced a lineup of consistently highly ranked teams and have not allowed their opponents any easy wins.

“With the exception of Duke and maybe a little bit against Illinois, we’ve been in a position to win

every match, so that means that the team has come out and competed quite well through the year,” coach Arvid Swan said. “We haven’t converted in every match obviously, but that’s been a big focus for us, and I’ve been pleased with how they’ve competed.”

New rankings released Tuesday saw NU climb even higher in the ranks, landing at No. 18 and passing all but two of its Big Ten rivals.

“In relation to the ranking, that’s something that we don’t have any control over,” Swan said. “But we do have control over getting better. After the match against Illinois, we have to get better this week to play against two very good Big Ten teams.”

While the Cats have been keeping their heads down in regards to their ranking, NU fans have something to be excited about. The last time the Cats broke the top 20 in the rankings was in 1990, when they were led by All-American Todd Martin, who went on to earn a career-high ranking of No. 4 in the world on the ATP World Tour.

Wolf said the Cats are working toward building

a ranking that would allow them to host during the NCAA tournament, rather than simply qualify, which has been the goal in the past.

“It was pretty good news when our coach told us last week,” senior Chris Jackman said about the team’s then-No. 20 ranking. “Obviously we were all very excited and proud of what we’ve accomplished. It’s important to remember that we’re actually this good. Before, it was always, ‘Oh we could be a top 25 team, and we should be,’ and now that we are a top 25 team, it’s about having that belief and not wanting to settle.”

Three matches at home will keep the Cats busy this weekend as they continue their push through their Big Ten schedule. First up will be Nebraska, which will be competing in its first Big Ten match of the year, followed by a double-header Sunday featuring Iowa and Western Illinois.

“I was really impressed with the level of their talent last year, and they’re having very good results this year,” Swan said of Nebraska. “They’re another top 35 team, so they’re always going to be

very talented at the top, but they also have depth.

They have had a lot of players in the past from Germany, and those players are very good. Iowa is another tough Big Ten team. We can’t have any spots in the lineup where we don’t give ourselves a chance to win in the end when you’re playing good teams like this.”

In its first meeting with Nebraska last season, NU won the match in a tight 4-3 contest against the Cornhuskers in Lincoln, Neb., in which Jackman won the deciding match in a three-set comeback win.

“I’m definitely happy that we’re playing at home,” Jackman said. “Lincoln was a tough situation last year. We like our Wildcat fans, so we’re definitely looking forward to it. I think we’re a way better team than we were last year, and I think we’re going to have a pretty good result against Nebraska, but it’s definitely going to be tough. But we can do it.” abigailchase2015@u.northwestern.edu

The UPS Store For all your packaging and shipping needs.

Shipping out for Spring Break?

SHIPPING STORAGE Services Services Small stuff. Large stuff.

UPS ships it all.

INTERNATIONAL, TOO

Short term. Long term.

Packing, Shipping & Moving Supplies

FREE Insurance

FREE PICK-UP available (first $100)

NO REGISTRATION FEES! For more info and to sign up online: www.chicagolandshipping.com

Northwestern Special: Show your Wildcard or mention this ad for

10% Off UPS SHIPPING 847-869-3000 Visit us in downtown Evanston

1555 Sherman Ave.

Hours: M-F 9-6, Sat. 10-5, Sun. 12-4

SPORTS

ON DECK

ON THE RECORD

Men’s Basketball 10 NU at Michigan State, 5 p.m. Sunday

MAR.

It’s just amazing what everybody at the table with me has accomplished over the last four years.

— Joe McKeown, women’s basketball coach

Friday, March 8, 2013

@Wildcat_Extra

Career high from Marcotullio not enough Wildcats fall to Penn State on senior night in season’s home finale

By JOSH WALFISH

daily senior staffer

Thursday night belonged to Alex Marcotullio.

The senior guard’s final game at Welsh-Ryan Arena will be memorable despite the fact Northwestern could not pull out the victory. Marcotullio set a career high with 22 points and hit a career-best six 3-pointers in the Wildcats’ 66-59 loss to Penn State.

“It hurts,” Marcotullio said. “I wanted to go out on top here, but sadly that’s not the case. I left everything out there and so did (senior guard Reggie Hearn) and everyone else. I’m just happy to be a part of this great program and university.”

Penn State coach Patrick Chambers said he expected Marcotullio to have a big night.

Marcotullio entered the night shooting a career low from behind the arc, stuck at 30 percent for the season.

Thursday night, the senior hit 67 percent of his shots, all of which came from behind the three-point line.

Marcotullio’s night was overshadowed by a plethora of Cats’ (13-17, 4-13 Big Ten) errors that allowed the Nittany Lions (10-19, 2-15) to escape Evanston with their second Big Ten win. NU’s mistakes began with 10 first-half turnovers, which led to 16 points for Penn State on the other end. The Cats ended

the game with 15 turnovers, but the Nittany Lions did not capitalize on them in the second half.

Many of the turnovers came at crucial points where NU had a chance to limit the damage or take control of the game. Coach Bill Carmody said he can understand if his team had an emotional letdown at the beginning of the game, but he criticized his guards’ decision-making on the floor, which led to all the turnovers.

“We were careless,” Carmody said.

It hurts. I “We were wanted to go throwing the ball to trap- out on top here. ping spots I’m just happy right over half court. It to be a part was probably of this great some comprogram and bination of emotion and university. just a little carelessness.” Alex Marcotullio, senior guard Most of the early turnovers came against Penn State’s threequarters court press, something Carmody said the team should have been ready for. Hearn said NU had prepared for the press and were able to break it during practice, but could not translate that success to the game.

“We didn’t handle their press very well,” Hearn said. “We knew they were going to play that 1-2-2 trap, and we didn’t execute like we had in practice.”

NU did not do itself any favors starting each half. The Nittany Lions scored the first 12 points of the contest in the

“

Penn State

66

Northwestern

59

first five minutes and the first 7 points in the second stanza. The Cats had five turnovers before they scored their first points of the game, including two giveaways from Marcotullio, who ended the game with five.

Penn State committed 16 turnovers, leading to 15 points for NU, but the big discrepancy remained in the paint. The Nittany Lions outscored the Cats 28-12 in the interior, and NU’s big men had no answer for the numerous drives to the hole from Penn State’s guards. In addition, the Nittany Lions scored 11 points off 10 offensive rebounds.

“We just weren’t able to establish anything inside,” Carmody said. “There wasn’t enough pressure on the ball.

There has to be pressure on the passer so they can’t see it. We have to get some deflections and hands on passes.”

Both seniors received standing ovations as they left the court. Hearn said he was too frustrated with picking up his fifth foul to soak up the moment and would appreciate it more in the hours after leaving the arena. Carmody said all the right things about his seniors and how much they meant to the Cats.

“Both of these guys since they came here, they’ve played with a passion,” Carmody said. “Both of them are good players and very good teammates, and we’re going to miss them.” joshuawalfish2014@u.northwestern.edu

Men’s Basketball

Meghan White/Daily Senioir Staffer

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES Senior guard Alex Marcotullio shoots a three. He made six en route to a career-high 22 points on Thursday.

Women’s Basketball

Lacrosse

Iowa drops Cats in rubber match

Wildcats take the road for two undefeated teams

By REBECCA FRIEDMAN

the daily northwestern

The No. 10 seeded Wildcats couldn’t muster enough strength to get past the Hawkeyes in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament on Thursday, falling 60-55.

Northwestern didn’t get off to a hot start in the teams’ third matchup of the season.

The Cats were trailing 28-17 with three minutes and 25 seconds left in the first half. However, thanks to a 9-2 run, they were able to close the gap and head into the second half down only 30-26.

NU attempted to battle back at the start of the second half. However, Iowa was able to keep the momentum and gained a 9-point lead with 11 minutes and 22 seconds left in the game. The Hawkeyes continued to maintain control of the game and had a comfortable 15-point lead with only three minutes and 34 seconds left to play.

The Cats had one final comeback attempt and were able to push the Hawkeyes’ lead to only 6 with just over a minute left to play, but Iowa held them off for the five-point victory.

One reason the Cats seemed to be outplayed by the Hawkeyes was NU’s 20 turnovers.

“That was part of our game plan and just really try to take care of the ball the best we could,” said Inesha Hale, one of the team’s four seniors who played their final game in purple. “But today, and even Sunday’s game, it really hurt us. But we just tried to really just get a hold of it.”

The Cats were also plagued by fouls.

Freshman Lauren Douglas got into foul trouble early and was forced to stay off the floor. NU missed her impressive offensive play.

“Not having her on the floor during that stretch in the second half probably hurt us. And who knows, maybe (it) might have changed the outcome today,”

Daily file photo by Meghan White

THIRD TIME, NO CHARM Senior forward Kendall Hackney attempts a block. Hackney led the Wildcats with 13 points in their loss to Iowa.

Northwestern

55 Iowa

60 Coach Joe McKeown said. “But I think the future with her is really the sky’s the limit and great kid, just really excited about her.

But we missed her out there, missed her ability to score, too, at times.”

Douglas, along with fellow freshman Maggie Lyon, has been a spark for the Cats all season long. Lyon, who had scored double digits in her last 12 games, was held to only 4 points on the night.

“Iowa focused on shutting Maggie Lyon down, too, and took people off of other people to help on her,” McKeown said. “It’s been a great growth experience for her, to learn how to play off the ball and when people are really focused on trying to stop you. But what an incredible year she’s had.”

NU’s defensive play was on point, as

the team was able to hold Iowa’s Melissa Dixon, who scored 21 points in both their previous matchups, off of the scoreboard.

Senior forward Kendall Hackney, who scored a team-high 13 points, led the Cats’ offensive efforts. Sophomore guard Karly Roser had another great game for NU, chipping in 11 points, and senior forward Dannielle Diamant added 8 in her last career game.

McKeown was quick to acknowledge the impact of Diamant and Hackney in Thursday’s game and their careers at NU, as well as the other two seniors, Hale and Kate Popovec.

“For Dannielle and Kendall, you saw tonight,” McKeown said. “We honored them on Senior Day for their careers. It’s just amazing what everybody at the table with me has accomplished over the last four years. So due respect to Iowa, hardfought game. Tough game. But we have nothing to be ashamed of.” rebeccafriedman2015@u.northwestern.edu

If Northwestern hopes to build off its most recent win, the team will need to put together a complete effort lacking against Boston College.

In the second half of its Wednesday night home opener at Lakeside Field, NU tied Boston College for draw controls and, subsequently, goals scored.

Although the Wildcats won the game by a comfortable seven-goal margin 17-10, the Eagles gave them cause for worry by playing the Cats evenly for much of the game.

Despite struggles with complacency, NU is still dominating the game in one important category.

The Cats are first in the nation in draw controls per game. Boston College ranked 16th, but the Cats’ next opponent, Johns Hopkins, ranks second.

So despite junior midfielder Alyssa Leonard’s 41 draw controls so far this season — she ranks second in the nation in draw controls per game — Johns Hopkins’s may pose some problems for the Cats.

No. 4 NU (4-1, 1-0 ALC) faces No. 12 Johns Hopkins (4-0, 0-0) on Saturday in its second conference matchup this season and Navy (5-0) on Monday afternoon.

The Cats’ first game of the weekend pits great defense against great offense. NU has been working on its transition and midfield game lately, but it is the squad’s characteristically powerful defense that often anchors the Cats.

Ball control will be key, and the matchup between the nation’s top two teams in draw controls could be the game’s deciding factor.

Although coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said she wanted her team

No. 4 Northwestern vs. No. 12 Johns Hopkins Baltimore, Md. 11 a.m. Saturday

No. 4 Northwestern vs. Navy Annapolis, Md. 3 p.m. Monday

to work on discipline on defense after its exhibition matches against Team England and Team USA at the end of January, NU has been able to hold its opponents to an average 17.6 shots per game, while it averages 33 shots per game.

Amonte Hiller also changed the team’s defense slightly after losing to North Carolina earlier in the season.

Senior midfielder Gabriella Flibotte played defense for the Cats against Boston College and had a landmark game that included 5 ground balls and 6 forced turnovers. But Flibotte, if she stays at defense, and the rest of NU’s backfield will have their hands full with Johns Hopkins efficient offense.

The Blue Jays have the No. 3 scoring offense in the nation and rank sixth in the nation for ground balls per game. Johns Hopkins has also had a dominant season so far.

With the exception of their most recent game against rival team Loyola Baltimore, which the Blue Jays won 11-8, the team has won all of its games by at least 10 goals .

Navy will also be a defensive test for the Cats — the Midshipmen rank eighth in the nation for scoring offense. Navy boasts a quartet of formidable attackmen. Jasmine DePompeo, Kathy Young, Loren Generi and Aimee Gennaro are Navy’s big guns and have combined for 63 of their team’s 81 total goals so far this season.

— Ava Wallace