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‘A NEW VENTURE’ Semester Online, a new online for-credit education platform, incorporates weekly video conferences with classmates and individual assignments. Applications for the classes are due May 24.
Schools question online classes By LAUREN CARUBA
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As registration deadlines near for taking the new for-credit Semester Online classes, concerns over cost and educational value have provoked shifts among participating universities. Since it was rolled out in November, the group of Semester Online schools shrank from the 10 initial participating schools to seven. Including Northwestern, six universities will offer 11 courses this fall. Applications for the classes are due May 24. Duke University recently opted out of the new online platform based on a faculty council vote in late April. Vanderbilt University and the University of Rochester also pulled out earlier this year, and several other schools remain on the fence.
In its decision, the Duke council cited numerous issues, including a lack of control over curriculum, educational quality and little interaction with students. Duke officials could not be reached for comment. Vanderbilt is instead pursuing other online platforms like Coursera, a massive open online course provider. Vanderbilt recently passed the 200,000 mark for students taking its Coursera offerings, Cyrus said. The University of Rochester has also chosen Coursera over Semester Online’s for-credit classes. NU will participate in both platforms. Besides NU, University of Notre Dame, Emory University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brandeis University and Washington University in St. Louis remain in the consortium. Boston College, not originally included, is now offering two courses, while NU will offer an integrated marketing communications
Proposed state bill would protect gang witnesses By CIARA MCCARTHY
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Illinois state senators will vote in the coming weeks on a bill that would provide protection to witnesses of gang crimes, a measure that could help the efforts of Evanston police. The Gang Crime Witness Protection Act of 2013 unanimously passed the Illinois House in April. Police have determined the two most recent homicides in Evanston are gangrelated. Justin Murray and Javar Bamberg were killed last year in an ongoing gangaffiliated family feud. The investigations have been stalled because not all witnesses are cooperating, according to police. Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said witnesses to gang crimes are often unwilling to cooperate with police because of a “no-snitch culture.” Parrott said the bill could provide greater incentive for them to come forward. State Rep. Chris Welch (D-Westchester), the chief sponsor of the bill, said it would create a new fund that would protect and, in extreme cases, relocate, witnesses of
gang crimes who are unwilling to provide information out of fear of retaliation. Welch (Communication ‘93) said he observed gang problems while living in Evanston that are similar to those in his district. “I think it’s a good tool for law enforcement throughout the state of Illinois to break the code of silence and get these crimes solved,” he said. The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority would create the program, Welch said. Local police could apply for funding through the ICJIA in the event of a gang crime. Parrott acknowledged the bill would be another tool for lawmakers but said the legislation might have limited impact in the face of a larger no-snitch culture. Parrott said gang members or witnesses to gang crimes would have to be willing to leave the gang environment before working with police or accepting protection services. State Sen. Patricia Van Pelt (D-Chicago), who is sponsoring the bill in the Illinois Senate, said she expected the bill to pass. ciaramccarthy2015@u.northwestern.edu
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class. The fluidity of the consortium’s makeup has not fazed NU officials. “We’re watching it, we’re aware, but I don’t know if concern is the right word,” said Jake Julia, associate provost of academic initiative. Julia said changes within the consortium do not diminish its potential. Many NU faculty members have expressed interest in engaging with the platform, he said. “More than anything, there’s just an excitement about giving us an opportunity to innovate,” Julia said. The courses cost $4,200 each and include individual assignments and weekly video interactions with professors and classmates. The price has put off some schools, including Vanderbilt. Cynthia Cyrus, the school’s associate » See ONLINE, page 7
Non-Northwestern Dillo Day attendees under the age of 19 will be more strictly monitored with a new wristband policy, Mayfest announced Tuesday. Like last year, Dillo Day guests who are not registered by a NU student will need to be accompanied by an adult. This year, that adult must be over the age of 25. NU students will only be permitted to register four guests, and only two may be under the age of 19. Under-19 guests will be registered under the contact information of their accompanying NU student or over-25 adult and given different wristbands that link to the chaperone’s wristband through a serial number. “The adult can’t leave Dillo Day,” said Mayfest promotion co-director Bri
Hightower. “They have to stay at Dillo Day with their guest.” The Communication junior said this system is meant to ensure under-19 guests could be tracked back to an adult. This is the second year that Mayfest has enacted policies to restrict the entrance of guests under the age of 19. The policies began as a result of the physical, alcohol-related or medical incidents that came with a rising number of local high school students attending Dillo Day in recent years. “The reason why we were targeting under-19 guests specifically was because we’ve seen that a lot of these problems … were coming from these under-19 guests,” said Jesus Roman, Mayfest’s director of university relations. “We wanted to limit that population and track how many people came.” » See DILLO, page 7
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ENTRANCE EXAM Dillo Day, which will be held June 1, will enforce new restrictions on high school attendees this years. Mayfest said the event last year saw fewer problems after enacting stricter entrance policies.
CAESAR alternative goes live By REBECCA SAVRANSKY
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As preregistration for Fall Quarter classes begins, a group of Northwestern students is trying to make the process faster and easier. Seven students teamed up to create a website called “Courseseek” that addresses some of the flaws of the University’s course registration system, CAESAR. Courseseek went live May 13 and has had 2,133 unique visitors thus far, according to the students who created it. “We wanted to do something to help people make their schedule,” said Corey McMahon, a Weinberg sophomore on the team. “In the beginning, all we had was a table with course information, which isn’t useful. Then, the whole project was finding a way that the information could be put to good use, and we decided on something that lets you put classes in a calendar and easily see conflicts.” Courseseek has a calendar feature, something CAESAR lacks in the preregistration stage. CAESAR’s course registration process is not conducive to
how most students want to visualize their schedule, said Weinberg junior Moritz Gellner, a member of the development team. The website puts each class the user looks at on a calendar to view and alerts users if there is a time conbefore We wanted to flict adding do something subsequent to help people classes to their lists. make their The developers started schedule. working on Corey McMahon, the website Courseseek at the beginteam member ning of the quarter as a class project and have spent upwards of nine to ten hours a week on it since. The team encourages users to submit any problems they find while using the website. “People have been really good about coming to us and saying what isn’t working about specific classes,” said McMahon, a former Daily staffer. “Most of them fall under the same bug, but it’s good to know that we have specific incidences of this bug so we can always make sure it’s fixed and working properly.”
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Some students have been impressed with the website and are giving feedback. Weinberg sophomore Augustine Santillan made a few suggestions for the site after using it to search for his classes. “I think it’s a really cool interface, and it’s so much easier than CAESAR to just see when all the courses are,” Santillan said. “It could provide more information based on the five digit course identifier, the location of the class and maybe a link to the description.” Weinberg sophomore Alex Krule agrees that Courseseek is a great concept and would benefit from a few added features. “I thought it was great,” Krule said. “If it could have descriptions or CTECs, those would also be great features. But now, it’s really easy to look at the time on Courseseek and then go back to CAESAR to look at the CTECs for the professor.” While the developers are spending most of their time trying to fix the bugs users have brought to their attention, some members of the team plan to make new additions to the website in the future. “We have big plans with this,” Gellner » See COURSEWEEK, page 7
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Evanston tavern Farmhouse trotted closer to its summer opening as a city board endorsed its artistic plan Tuesday. The tavern’s designer, Peter Hurley, appeared in front of Evanston’s Public Art Committee during a meeting at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center, 927 Noyes St., with a proposal to position a mural behind the bar, which plans to open its second location Evanston this summer at 703 Church St. The mural would consist of landscape scenes, Hurley said. “Part of its exterior application of this art is trying to celebrate the rural roots and Part of its the farm connections to that part of the exterior he said. application of town,” Because the mural this art is trying did not fall into the strict category of a to celebrate sign, it was passed the rural roots down to the committee for consideration and farm public art, said Jeff connections to as Cory, director of the that part of the center’s cultural arts division. town. The committee Peter Hurley, unanimously recomFarmhouse mended the project to designer the city’s Sign Review and Appeal Board. Farmhouse owner TJ Callahan said although the restaurant is opening three months later than expected, the grand opening will be timed with the Northwestern graduation. The committee also discussed a public arts project at the Sherman Plaza Garage, the second venture completed at the garage inside
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FINE ART Artist Peter Hurley discusses plans for a mosaic at Farmhouse, a tavern, in front of Evanston Public Art Committee members Tuesday night at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center.
the Washington National TIF district. The artist team Krivanek+Breaux will create a multimedia project at the garage, funded by the city’s Percent for Art Program, which allocates a portion of city construction funds to public art works. Those funds have diminished during the last few years as the city put fewer funds into the Community Public Art Program, Cory said. The committee will try to acquire more funds in next year’s budget, he said. In addition, committee members discussed adding temporary sculpture displays in private and public venues throughout the city, a
suggestion hindered by financial constraints. Artist David Geary, who was introduced as a new committee member at the meeting, said it would be difficult to make high end artists display their work in Evanston for free. Members brought up the Evanston150 initiative as a possible source of revenue for arts projects. “There has to be something included for the artist to work out there,” Geary said. “(For) the higher end and quality work, they all want something.” edwardcox2011@u.northwestern.edu
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Police Blotter Men steal peanuts, chips from 7-Eleven
Two men stole from a 7-Eleven on Thursday evening, Evanston police said. The men, wearing hoodies, entered the store, 847 Dodge Ave., at 11:20 p.m., Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. One man started asking questions about cigars at the check-out counter while the other looked around the store and picked out various items, including
peanuts and Pringles chips, Parrott said. The man in the aisle then put everything in his bag and left without paying, while the other man distracted the employee at the counter, Parrott said. The pair later fled north. Parrott said an officer identified one of the men from surveillance video, and he was later arrested and identified by the store clerk as being involved in the incident.
Parrott said the man was treated at Evanston Hospital for a cut on his hand from an incident before police took him into custody. He was charged with retail theft and is scheduled to appear in court June 5.
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up on beaches around the world and what can be done to scale back the refuse. Every piece of trash affects the health of the ocean and as a result the economy, the environment and animal health, said Nicholas Mallos, Ocean Conservancy’s marine debris specialist and a conservation biologist. Plastic debris has two risks, he said. There’s an entrapment or strangulation risk to wildlife. But the longer plastics are in the ocean, the more likely they are to absorb other toxins, too. “Plastics leach chemicals into the environment, but plastics also absorb chemicals from the environment,” he said. “And certainly when animals _ fish or other marine organisms _ ingest those plastics, there’s some accumulation of those toxins in their systems and as they move up the food chain.” There’s also a real cleanup cost to coastal communities. In tourism-dependent beachfront destinations such as Myrtle Beach, S.C., having a pristine appearance is crucial to attracting visitors. In the summer
months, the city mushrooms from 27,000 year-round residents to the biggest city in South Carolina. Upward of 14 million tourists visit each year, and they’re accompanied by tons of trash, said Mark Kruea, a spokesman for the city. Myrtle Beach spends about $1.1 million annually on trash pickup, which includes raking the beach for trash every morning. “Because we welcome a lot of people, we want to make sure that we look good,” he said. “As a result, we pick up a lot of trash.” There’s also been a greater demand for recycling facilities in recent years, Kruea said. The city has had visitors from out of state say they’ve taken their crushed cans and cardboard home with them, because recycling isn’t readily accessible at some vacation rentals. Recently, the city has been testing the use of recycling bins along a seven-block stretch of the beach. Beaches in places like Alaska, with more than 44,000 miles of coastline, and much of it remote,
face a separate challenge. Currents and winter storms bring significant debris to the state each year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. There, the problem is more likely to be abandoned fishing equipment. It’s not enough just to pick up the trash, Mallos said. The Ocean Conservancy would like people to focus next on producing less waste before it even makes its way into the oceans. That means taking simple steps such as avoiding single-use products and embracing reusable water bottles, coffee mugs and grocery bags. “By getting out there and removing everyday forms of trash from our beaches, and really systematically re-evaluating our daily lives and the choices we make,” Mallos said, “we can keep trash from the beaches and ensure that in the face of future natural disasters, we have a more resilient ocean ecosystem.”
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cars in Evanston between Sunday and Monday, according to police. The cars, including a 2000 Saturn, a 1990 Oldsmobile and a 2006 Jeep, were all parked in the 200 block of South Boulevard, Parrott said. Police believe the incidents occurred during the same time.
National News Beach litter mars national, global coastlines
WASHINGTON — It’s a beach bummer. Shorelines worldwide are clogged with trash, so much so that during their annual cleanup last year, volunteers with the Ocean Conservancy picked up refuse that weighed as much as 10 Boeing 747 jumbo jets. Cigarettes, food packaging and plastic bottles topped the list from the 2012 cleanup. Debris from the Japanese tsunami and Hurricane Sandy also marred some U.S. beaches, the Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit group that works on ocean protection, reported Monday. Volunteers turned up some weird stuff, too: mattresses, candles, toothbrushes and sports balls. More than 550,000 people picked up in excess of 10 million pounds of trash along 17,719 miles of international coastlines in September during the Ocean Conservancy’s annual cleanup. Billed as the largest ocean-related volunteer effort in the world, the event spotlights just what sort of ocean trash washes
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Time capsule marks 40 years of Norris By JARED GILMOUR
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A time capsule will be dedicated Friday as part of the yearlong celebration of Norris University Center’s 40th birthday. “We just really wanted to mark the occasion because this is such a big milestone,� Tracey Gibson-Jackson said, an organizer and Norris Center for Student Involement’s coordinator of student theater and performing arts organizations. The time capsule will be opened 40 years from now. Gibson-Jackson and others will dedicate the time capsule during Norris’ Blues and Barbeque event 5 p.m. Friday on the East Lawn. Blues and Barbeque will feature music, games and food for kids, college students and adults. The highlight is a free concert featuring blues musician Shemekia Copeland, who is also the headliner of the 2013 Chicago Blues Fest. “We’re really hoping for 800 to 1,000 people,� said Gibson-Jackson, adding that the concert and time capsule dedication are the biggest events Norris has planned all year. “This is really the
icing on the cake. We wanted to do something that involves the entire community.� Gibson-Jackson and her fellow organizers decided to forgo burying the time capsule, the traditional way to dedicate it. Instead, organizers are working with the University Archives to store the capsule in the We’re looking archives. James McHaley, for anything assistant director of personal student affairs marketing for Norris, said or unique burying the time capfrom people. sule would be unwise Obviously, the given possible Norris renovation plans in the smaller the future. Any renovation better. would likely involve digging up land around James McHaley, Norris, he added. Norris assistant “We don’t want to director of student bury something just affairs marketing to dig it up in the near future,� McHaley said. Gibson-Jackson said she has plans to submit some Northwestern buttons, lapel pins and
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laminated photos for the capsule. “We’re looking for anything personal or unique from people,� McHaley said. “Obviously, the smaller the better.� McHaley said no one has brought in items for the time capsule yet, and he encouraged students to consider contributing. Items should be nonhazardous and non-perishable. But sometimes perishables hold the most meaning. “I think we should just cut out a piece of sod from Norris East Lawn,� Weinberg junior Alex Matelski said. He said the East Lawn is a special part of NU because it’s home to schoolwide events like Philfest and Dance Marathon. “That grass is holy ground,� Matelski said. Interested students, faculty and Evanston residents can drop off items for the time capsule at the Student Affairs Marketing office on the third floor of Norris any time before noon Friday, McHaley said. People can also bring memorabilia to Friday’s Blues and Barbeque event, where there will be a table accepting items for the collection. jaredgilmour2014@u.northwestern.edu
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Across Campuses Job prospects improve slightly for new college graduates
WICHITA, Kan. — The chilling mix of rain, sleet and wind last week may have felt like a metaphor for the local college students scurrying across campus. Many of them entered school in 2009 as the recession began battering Wichita. Four years later, many are finding they didn’t escape its effects. The prospects for the class of 2013 appear to be better than last year, but not much, say college officials. Students in accounting, engineering, computer science and the health professions are seeing pretty good demand, said Jill Pletcher, director of the career services for Wichita State University. “Beyond that, it’s a very, very tight market,� she said. That jibes with the recently released Job Outlook Spring Update from the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Companies in the survey, all large national employers, say they expect to hire 2.1 percent more new college grads this year than last. Last fall, these employers said they expected the new-grad hiring to increase 13 percent. The more recent, lower figure seems in line with the subdued economic expectations of many businesses and a frustratingly slow job market. A different survey, from consulting and outsourcing giant Accenture, reports that about 60 percent of 2013 college graduates expect that finding a job will be difficult or extremely difficult. In the same survey, 41 percent of 2012 graduates reported that they were working in jobs that didn’t require a college degree. An additional 7 percent said they were still unemployed. Devon Hummel, a December graduate in marketing and management from Wichita State University, appreciates having a job as assistant manager at an apartment complex, but it’s not what she wants in life. She is pushing her husband to move out of Kansas to someplace warmer with more prospects in her field. She’s finding it difficult to enter the job market of a distant place. Visiting for interviews is expensive. “I’ve applied for many, many jobs in Texas,� she said. “At first I was setting my sights high, applying for marketing jobs, and then lowered it to just about anything to get out of state. It’s a little discouraging not finding anything.� She said she regrets not being more aggressive in seeking out internships while in college. Now, she said, they may wind up just moving and looking for work after they move. Connie Dietz wishes more people like Hummel would stop by her office, Cooperative Education and Work-Based Learning at Wichita State. Dietz, the office’s director, said finding an internship can be crucial to getting a foot in the door of a career-starting job. If nothing else, she said, it will give students a good feel for the profession and some real work experience for their resume. — Dan Voorhis (The Wichita Eagle)
USC lures two prominent brain researchers from rival UCLA
LOS ANGELES — In a major case of academic poaching involving cross-town rivals, University of Southern California has lured away two prominent neuroscientists from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a promise to expand their internationally renowned lab that uses brain imaging techniques to study Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, autism and other disorders. Arthur Toga and Paul Thompson will move to the USC Keck School of Medicine campus next fall, along with scores of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and staffers who now work at UCLA’s Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, known as LONI. In establishing a new institute at the USC campus in Boyle Heights, they will also move substantial government and private grants that fund the lab’s $12 million annual budget as well as some of the highly sophisticated equipment used to investigate the brain’s inner workings. The new hires mark another chapter in a long Los Angeles rivalry in sports and, increasingly, in academic prestige. It also raises concerns about the ability of financially strapped public universities. Toga and Thompson said they do not think their departure from UC signifies a brain drain from the 10-campus University of California system, which has grappled with budget cuts over the last four years. They said USC has pursued them for years with offers of larger facilities, additional financial resources and the chance to hire more researchers. Scientists around the country said the move would further elevate USC, which recently has hired away professors and researchers from Caltech, Harvard and other prestigious institutions. “It’s a feather in USC’s cap,� said Dr. Bruce Rosen, director of a biomedical imaging center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. — Larry Gordon and Eryn Brown (Los Angeles Times)
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In diversity conversations, Editorial Professionalism lacking NU needs to widen scope HAYLEY STEVENS
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I have been trying for a few weeks now to figure out what I want to say and how to say it. The past few weeks have been some of the most disheartening weeks in my four years here at Northwestern. I never thought I would be so disappointed in my classmates, many of whom I have worked with through various initiatives. In the past month, I have seen mean-spirited events and conversations, hurtful Tumblr posts and memes, and angry students verbally attack others in a recent Associated Student Government meeting. Students posed loaded questions and made hurtful remarks meant to entrap and demean their peers. Please do not interpret this the wrong way: Anger lights the fuse; it is essential to diversity initiatives across campus. But anger can only get you so far. Anger must be vented before entering a situation where you must be respectful. It is one thing to voice your opinion, it is another to yell misinformation and hate at another person. Many students came up to me following that meeting and shared that they no longer feel comfortable talking about diversity in fear that they will be yelled at and disrespected. One student even told me that he was afraid to share an opinion that evening because he was “scared of being massacred.� This is a problem. There is so much work to be done on campus, and now we are one step back from where we were a week ago. We need all students on campus, regardless of race, color and background, to listen to our cause and understand that we are are advocating for inclusion. Now, many students that we have been trying to reach do not even want to hear from us. Anger and disrespect turn people away from the cause; we have seen this before and now we see this again. We need every student on campus to feel comfortable voicing their opinions. If their opinion offends you, you need to be just as comfortable respectfully sharing with this person why it hurts you. We need to inspire a culture of respect at Northwestern. While it may seem like what happened in Senate was an isolated incident, in my four years here, I have seen students from all areas of campus attack people for so many different reasons. There is never any reason to emotionally or verbally (or God forbid, physically) attack another student here. We are all here to learn, and while half of our education comes from the classroom, we all know that
the other half comes from our peers, student groups and our undergraduate experiences as a whole. We need to transform our community to include open cultural education and dialogue as well. For example, after the Senate meeting, a student asked whether a certain phrase was offensive. He then admitted that I was the only person he felt comfortable asking because he felt like I wouldn’t get mad at him for asking in the first place. We need more students to ask questions and we need more students to feel comfortable answering respectfully. It is okay to inquire about one another. It is okay to ask questions. It is okay to not know something. It is okay to educate. Let’s create a campus culture and community that promotes cooperative learning where we learn from one another in every aspect of our day. No one will ever understand what it is like to walk in another person’s shoes, but we need to get to a point where we can listen to any individual’s experience and empathize and learn just from hearing about their background. We need to develop this sense of community, because right now, we are just letting anger divide us. Diversity and inclusion is perhaps the largest issue facing Northwestern; we are a community of so many incredible backgrounds and perspectives, but it pains me to see that some students find exploring each other’s experiences irrelevant to their personal perspective. Diversity means more than talking only about race, religion or ethnicity. We need to widen our scope, and we can start by listening to one another. This might sound silly, trite or cliche to say, but let’s promote kindness. We are so ready to jump on people and get angry about how they seem or what they represent and we fail to ever applaud their contributions or their acts of compassion and kindness. Let’s be nice to one another. Let’s care for one another. Let’s support one another. I’m not going to end this on some mushy note about One Northwestern, but let’s be a Northwestern that treats every person here with greater respect, even people who seem like they have nothing in common with you. Just listen, be kind, and be respectful. Everyone has something positive to contribute, you just have to be willing to hear it. Hayley Stevens is a Weinberg senior and a member of Associated Student Government’s outgoing cabinet. She writes this column as a student rather than from an official perspective. She can be reached at hayleystevens2013@u.northwestern.edu. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
in latest ASG controversy
Throughout last month’s Associated Student Government election campaigns, each presidential ticket expressed a desire to increase the efficiency of Senate meetings and enhance transparency for students and campus groups. Last week’s Senate meeting brought neither of these feats to fruition. In rejecting nominees for three cabinet positions, Senate has compromised its efficiency and effectiveness, while simultaneously displaying an alarming lack of professionalism in the run-up to the controversial votes. Although we understand the tensions surrounding the nominations are an inherent part of the political process, The Daily believes attendees should have conducted themselves more respectfully at last week’s meeting. ASG failed to confirm nominees for three cabinet positions: chief of staff, vice president for public relations and associate vice president for diversity and inclusion. The nominations for the former two positions were surrounded by claims of political favoritism by ASG president Ani Ajith and executive vice president Alex Van Atta. Julia Watson, the nominee for vice president for public relations, was Ajith and Van Atta’s campaign manager and chosen over David Harris, Ajith’s opponent in the April election. Chief of staff nominee Stephanie Hong was nominated over Carly Blumenfeld, who previously had the job and publicly endorsed Harris during the election. Though it’s possible political favoritism played a role in these nominations, Ajith and Van Atta ultimately have the right to support cabinet members they believe most align with their viewpoints and support their agenda. The most troubling part, though, was not the accusation of political favoritism by disgruntled ASG members, but the fact that attendees declared during the meeting their opinions on “better� candidates while the nominees were on the floor. Never mind the fact that no one was supposed to have information on the identity of the other applicants — we expect people to talk — but explicitly pointing out candidates who would better serve the position is blatantly disrespectful to the nominees. The discussion on nominees is meant to focus on evaluating the nominees themselves, not on who could be more suited to the job. But this all pales in comparison to
End of Spring Quarter brings growing pains ARABELLA WATTERS
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The end of the quarter is bittersweet. I remember this time last year vaguely. Spring Quarter was lost in an exhilarating blur of sunshine, grass, afternoons on the Lakefill and the enjoyment of Northwestern in an entirely new light. There was sunlight and warmth for the first time, and as a freshman I was completely caught up in the indulgent freedom of being young and relatively without obligation. High school was far enough away that I felt starkly grown up, but it was still close enough that coming home didn’t feel stifling. I specifically remember one night I spent on the Lakefill with my friends, the air hot and muggy, clinging to my arms. The sky was that delirious orange, the familiar glow from Chicago drifting, inking the stars into one another. I laid in the grass and thought about the glory of the last nine months. There was nothing but time stretching languidly in front of me and instead of being daunting, that expansiveness felt freeing. The summer would drift by slowly and then I’d return to Northwestern in the fall. Experience brings certainty, and the fact that I had survived freshman year brought
that certainty. Fast forward a whole year, and things are just slightly different. I say slightly because I’m still the same person who I was, except time doesn’t have that luxurious dilated feeling any longer. Instead of watching the end of the quarter fade into summer, I’m watching the quarter end without the hope of seeing Northwestern in the fall, I’m looking at a long six months All this without being here. Six months and then sunshine I’ll be here for all of might just be 10 weeks. Thank you, going straight Medill, for scheduling my Journalism to my head, Residency in my same but the quarter year as when I’ll be ticking down studying abroad. I’ll surpass the bitteris more than ness because it’s not the end of the really worth it. I’ll be here for 10 weeks springtime. next year. Ten weeks of snow, ice, pain, misery, angst. OK, maybe I hyperbolize just a little bit, but it’s safe to say that Winter Quarter is most definitely nobody’s favorite. Regardless, it’s odd to contemplate my next year without Northwestern as really part of the equation. Growing up is odd that way; nothing really ever stays the same. From this point in our
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lives, change is basically inevitable. This next year will pass by in a beautiful, chaotic whirlwind of experience, memories, fear and elation, and then I’ll be back at school where I’ll have one last year of glory until the real world happens. I don’t really like it, but I realize that it’s part of what we have come to terms with as we get older. The fact is that things aren’t segmented in the neat little boxes they used to be in when we were kids, even during that summer before college or freshman year. Being halfway done with college kind of throws into perspective the ephemeral nature of our time in this halfway, peaceful limbo. Northwestern is my home in a way that I could never have fathomed would be possible two years ago. Places grow on us and we grow into them, just as people come into our lives, shifting and shaping who we are with poignant subtly. I’m prone to this kind of existential musing. All this sunshine might just be going straight to my head, but the quarter ticking down is more than the end of the springtime. It’s a halfway point that I really don’t find very much excitement in reaching. Sorry, real world, things are pretty sweet over here, just the way they are. 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 opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
attendees’ poking and prodding and eventual rejection of Stephen Piotrkowski for associate vice president for diversity and inclusion. Piotrkowski was dubbed the “best candidate� by Hayley Stevens, outgoing vice president for diversity and inclusion, and other influential diversity leaders. Despite this, Piotrkowski was rejected on the basis that he is a white, heterosexual male. Attendees at the meeting claimed that because of these identifying factors, Piotrkowski could not adequately Ultimately, serve Northwestern’s multicultural Senate needs communities. Some to take the even said his idenlead and act tification with a religious minority much more and his experiences professionally having a sister who is a lesbian weren’t to truly instill a good enough to sense of respect make him qualified and openness for the job. The fact that at NU. senators did not take Piotrkowski’s relevant experiences into consideration and rejected him based on the basis of race, gender and sexual orientation symbolizes a step backward for our community in diversity conversations. It is ludicrous for members of ASG to expect that the vice president for diversity and inclusion can physically represent every single multicultural community at Northwestern. Recognizing that one’s ability to do a job well is not dependent on physical attributes is a crucial step in creating an open and respectful community, and as leaders on this campus, it is ASG’s responsibility to ensure this occurs. It would be wrong to ban Piotrkowski from reapplying for the position because of this blunder, and we urge him to keep pursuing it in his future years at NU. Ultimately, Senate needs to take the lead and act much more professionally in order to truly instill a sense of respect and openness at NU. We have a long way to go to improve this university as a student body, and ASG needs to resolve all of its internal political issues and overlook physical biases before senators and cabinet members can effect any meaningful change for the rest of us.
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College Republicans screen ‘Hating Breitbart’ film By PATRICK SVITEK
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Conservative activist James O’Keefe on Tuesday urged Chicago-area fans of Andrew Breitbart to take it upon themselves to continue the late provocateur’s legacy. “I can’t do it alone,� O’Keefe told about 40 people in a Technological Institute auditorium. “They have come at me with everything. I’m still standing.� O’ Ke e fe, who I can’t do it brought down comalone. ... They munity-organizing giant ACORN with a have come series of undercover at me with videos, was on campus to help promote everything. “Hating Breitbart,� I’m still a new documentary standing. about the controverJames O’Keefe, sial blogger’s life. The conservative film follows Breitbart activist as he navigates several muckraking projects, leading up to his involvement in the sexting scandal that culminated in the resignation of U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.). Breitbart unexpectedly died of heart failure last year after what director Andrew Marcus described as an “incredibly stressful lifestyle.� Dane Stier, vice president of special events for NU College Republicans, called Breitbart a “very powerful voice for conservatives� and applauded the film for highlighting his jocular
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University Library to return rare Bonaparte family letter to France
University Library will present a letter from Napoleon Bonaparte’s brother and 250 other documents to a top French diplomat serving the Chicago area on Thursday.
personality. “The documentary showed a side of him we’re not entirely used to in terms of how other media portray Andrew Breitbart,� the Weinberg junior said. After an advance screening of “Hating Breitbart,� O’Keefe and Marcus answered audience questions on topics ranging from O’Keefe’s next stories to the libertarian billionaire Koch brothers’ rumored interest in buying Tribune Co. Asked how online pioneers like Breitbart could gain more traction outside conservative circles, O’Keefe stressed his followers have to understand where widespread exposure lies. “You have to get covered by the mainstream media,� O’Keefe said. “That’s what success is.� O’Keefe took particular aim at journalism schools, including the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. He laughed as he recalled walking through the McCormick Tribune Center earlier Tuesday, holding up a video camera and finding visibly uncomfortable students. “There is a sort of fascist disposition toward what I do� at places like Medill, O’Keefe said. Stier said he invited “at least a dozen� Medill professors to attend the discussion, but none showed up. Marcus took a broader view of the state of journalism education, stressing today’s students must learn from Breitbart and build their own brands. “They’re going to find out themselves on their own,� Marcus said. “They need to be creative about what they’re going to do.� patricksvitek2014@u.northwestern.edu The letter, written by Joseph Bonaparte, discusses a skirmish in Corsica involving Napoleon Bonaparte. Dated April 27, 1792, the letter was given to NU as part of the McBride Collection in the 1980s and discovered four years ago. “Issues and problems of displaced cultural material and ownership are common,� associate University librarian Jeffrey Garrett said in a news release. “Although works of art receive the most public attention, all kinds of cultural property
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‘STILL STANDING’ Fans of the late conservative provocateur Andrew Breitbart watch a documentary about his life Tuesday night in a Technological Institute auditorium. Conservative activist James O’Keefe and the film’s director took questions after the screening.
are held, but not necessarily owned, by museums and libraries.� The collection, which spans about 450 years, was given to the library by the family of Jack McBride. He saved the documents from destruction toward the end of World War II while stationed in Corsica as a magician and dancer in a USO troupe. The collection includes correspondence by
prominent French figures, ranging from poets to prominent dramatists. It also contains documents with an unknown connection, ranging from proclamations related to the Oregon territory to a handmade swastika. The symposium and ceremony will take place 2-4 p.m. in the Big Ten Room of Norris University Center. — Cat Zakrzewski
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Evanston residents can purchase season tokens in preparation for the upcoming beach opening, the city announced Tuesday. Tokens are available for sale at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center and the city’s six community centers, according to the announcement. The season pass is valid from the time of purchase until Labor Day. The tokens are available at a discounted rate of $26 for Evanston and Skokie residents and $42 for non-residents now until June 14. Afterward, tokens will be sold at $34 for residents and $58
for nonresidents. Residents can also purchase daily passes at a rate of $6 for children ages 1 to 11 and $8 for those 12 and older. Infants under the age of 1 can enjoy the beaches for free. The city also offers beach token fee assistance for residents in need and a free beach token program for teens. Evanston teens ages 13 to 18 can pick up a free 10-punch pass at community centers and the Evanston Public Library, 1703 Orrington Ave., provided they present proof of residency. The city’s five public swimming beaches will open for the season May 25. — Jia You
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Evanston man, 20, killed in Chicago
An Evanston man was shot dead on the South Side of Chicago early Sunday morning, police said. Police found Blake Ross, 20, in the 2800 block of East 76th Street in Chicago with multiple gunshot wounds in his head and body, said Chicago Police Department spokesman Joshua Purkiss. Ross, who lived in the 2300 block of Greenwood Street, was pronounced dead at the scene at 3:55 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
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dismiss the case on the grounds that Beavers owners James Nuccio and Gabriel Wiesen had never actually applied for an operating license. After a Cook County judge sided with Evanston in January, Beavers officially applied in March for a license to operate in the city. The city denied Beavers’ application in April, citing the fact that Nuccio and Wiesen didn’t own a licensed food establishment in Evanston. Because the city denied Beavers’ application, a judge ruled the case would proceed. Evanston has until June 4 to file a response to Beavers’ amended complaint, and the court will hold a status hearing on the case June 18, Beavers’ lawyer Jacob Huebert said.
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After months spent in a legal back-andforth, the dispute between Evanston and food truck Beavers Coffee and Donuts is now back where it all started. A Cook County judge ruled Tuesday the case would proceed after several steps slowed down its progress. Beavers initially filed a lawsuit against the city in August to protest a city ordinance mandating that mobile food vendors have a licensed, brick-and-mortar food establishment within city limits. Evanston subsequently filed a motion to
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A power outage hit hundreds of customers in downtown Evanston on Tuesday, canceling movies at the local theater. The outage began about 1:45 p.m. and impacted 800 customers at its peak, Commonwealth Edison spokeswoman Noelle Gaffney said.
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The outage resulted from a cable fault, and workers restored power to the area by about 3:45 p.m., Gaffney said. The area impacted was bordered by Simpson Street on the north, Davis Street on the south, Benson Avenue on the east and Darrow Avenue on the west, Gaffney said. The outage affected Century Theatres, 1715 Maple Ave. Movies were canceled during the outage. — Ciara McCarthy and Jia You
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said. “I don’t know how quickly we’ll be able to implement it, but our next big goal is incorporating descriptions and CTECs and to make the calendar shareable over Facebook and Twitter, so you can show people your schedule.” Although the website is still functioning as an alpha version, it has reached a maximum of 80 to
90 visitors at one time. Students have been promoting Courseseek via social media, encouraging others to experiment with it. “It’s the first product I’ve ever released that other people have used,” McMahon said. “It’s cool to see other people responding well and wanting to use it.”
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From page 1 Last year, students could enter Dillo Day with a WildCARD. Guests had to have a wristband proving registration with an NU student or a state ID proving they were over 19. The minimum age of accompanying adults for guests last year was only 19. In addition to limiting NU students to registering four guests, up to two of whom can be under 19, Evanston adults over 25 also can only register up to
four guests under 19. “It was very visible that there weren’t as many high schoolers and weren’t as many problems as years prior,” Roman, a Weinberg senior, said of last year’s Dillo Day. Mayfest worked extensively with the University “every step of the process” to develop its new policies, Mayfest co-chair Wil Heintz said. Co-chair and Communication senior Jeremy Shpizner called the refining of the regulations a “collaborative process” and said Mayfest often met with Burgwell Howard, assistant vice president for student
provost for undergraduate education, said Semester Online was incompatible with financial aid packages. “It’s definitely a for-profit venture,” Cyrus said. Students like SESP junior Kristina Nolte also expressed concern about cost. “To have it cost the same as a regular class seems kind of ridiculous,” she said. Some schools are still exploring their options. Brandeis’ contract has not been finalized, but the school plans to participate in the spring semester, Brandeis spokeswoman Ellen de Graffenreid told The Daily. Wake Forest University, an original member of the consortium, is still evaluating the opportunity. engagement, to discuss the policies. Mayfest also met with University Police. “We have to check in with them and make sure we’re hitting all the concerns,” Shpizner said. Weinberg freshman Erik Baker attended Evanston Township High School. He said in high school, “countless students from all grades went to Dillo Day.” Baker said he has mixed feelings on the high schooltargeting policies. “I definitely don’t think that having unrestricted high school students is a huge problem,” he said. “I
Jennifer Collins, Wake Forest’s associate provost for academic initiatives, said faculty prize a “face-to-face educational experience.” “It’s a new venture,” Collins said. “You want to make sure that anything that you start that would be this different would add value to our students.” NU officials have said they are unsure about how students will incorporate the semester classes into NU’s quarter system. Despite the issues raised by other schools, Julia said NU will ultimately make its own independent decisions. “Northwestern is really a leader in this area,” Julia said. “We feel we need to do what’s in Northwestern’s interest basically going forward.” laurencaruba2015@u.northwestern.edu can’t remember any big safety incidents. I do think that Dillo Day is a Northwestern event.” Heintz said Mayfest must strike a balance between safety and “making sure Northwestern students can come and go as they please.” “Ultimately this is an event that is paid for by Northwestern students for Northwestern students, and we want to make sure first and foremost that our students are enjoying it as much as they would like,” he said. jeannekuang2016@u.northwestern.edu
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Zach Morton just cannot get away from Evanston. The redshirt senior grew up two miles from Northwestern and is now finishing his fifth year on campus, studying sports administration as a graduate student. Along the way, he was named first-team All-Big Ten at second base as a sophomore, missed a season to injury and anchored NU’s starting rotation this season, hitting in the middle of the order and playing the field on non-pitching days. This season, Morton has batted .288 with a team-best 31 RBIs and has posted a 3.12 ERA in 78 innings pitched. The senior also boasts a Steve Nash-like hoops game, is distantly related to a Hall of Fame baseball player and crushes on Jessica Biel. He spoke on all that and more in his conversation with The Daily this week. The Daily Northwestern: How did you choose your walk-up music (“Harder Than You Think” by Public Enemy)? Zach Morton: It’s always kind of a big thing picking walk-up music, and I like Public Enemy, I like the passage that I selected and it just seemed to get me going for my at-bat. The Daily: You’re a Cubs fan, right? Morton: I am a White Sox fan. Had to keep it on the DL for Wrigley. The Daily: Who was your favorite player growing up? Morton: Paul Konerko has been my favorite player for a long time, being a White Sox fan — ’05 World Series and everything. He’s the
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Work harder in school your first year. Don’t worry so much about baseball. Zach Morton, Second baseman
man. The Daily: Why do you wear No. 14? Morton: My favorite number is four, but my uncle — my mom’s brother — married (Hall of Fame center fielder) Duke Snider’s daughter, and he wore No. 14. So that’s kind of cool that it worked out that way. Didn’t know that. I wanted a four in there, but it worked out that way too. Stick to that. It sounds better. The Daily: Who would play you in a Zach Morton biopic? Morton: Matt Damon. I don’t know why. I’m not going low-key right here. The Daily: Who would play your love interest in that biopic? Morton: Anyone? I like Jessica Biel. The Daily: I’ve heard you were quite the high school basketball player. Which pro player did your game resemble? Morton: I would kind of like to think I’m a Steve Nash kind of guy. I kind of distribute and am not the most athletic. The Daily: If there could only be one Morty at NU, why should it be you and not University President Morton Schapiro? Morton: Dang it. If there’s anything — which there’s not, he should be the one Morty
that’s recognized — it’s because I’m born and raised in Evanston. But don’t tell him that. The Daily: What’s your favorite memory of NU? Morton: Probably my sophomore ye ar. Pau l Snieder hit a walk-off home run against Michigan State, and that sent us to the Big Ten Tournament. The Daily: We’re coming up on your last Dillo Day. What’s your favorite Dillo memory? Morton: Honestly it’s not even from
when I was here. I was a senior in high school, and I saw Common perform, which was pretty cool. The Daily: If you could give your freshman self one piece of advice, what would it be? Morton: Work harder in school your first year. Don’t worry so much about baseball and the pressures of trying to adjust to college athletics as much as to college education. The Daily: What will you miss most about NU? Morton: Definitely just being around the team, being around the team every day. Just jokes, laughing, the bus trips. I really like the bus trips and traveling. But overall, just being around the team all the time. alexputterman2016@u. northwestern.edu
Daily file photo by Meghan White
SENIOR SPRING Redshirt senior Zach Morton batted a team-best 31 RBIs this season. The Evanston native said above all, he will miss being around his teammates when he graduates Northwestern.
Freshman 15: Big Ten Freshman of the Year, Maggie Lyon By JOHN PASCHALL
the daily northwestern @John_Paschall
While most freshmen on campus are worrying about the dreaded Freshman 15, we know one group of new students who won’t: the athletes. Instead of packing on the pounds, these new faces answer 15 questions about what it’s like to wear purple and white for the next four years. Name: Maggie Lyon (6-foot-1) Sport: Basketball Position: Forward The Daily Northwestern: You’re a local girl from Wilmette. Is it weird going to college so I would say I’m close to home? a pretty good Magdancer, but gie Lyon: nobody on my I thought it would team would say be at first, but I really that. enjoy it. Maggie Lyon, I love the Women’s basketball area that forward I’m from, so why not stay close to home? The Daily: Have you ever lost in a game of H.O.R.S.E.? Lyon: When I was younger, I used to play my brother and my dad in my backyard, and I wouldn’t always win. My brother would try and do some trick shots. Now, it’d be pretty even. He’s not too bad, but I think I would probably win.
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The Daily: Who was your idol growing up? Lyon: Roger Federer was my favorite athlete. I never
played tennis but I always looked up to him because he’s such a classy guy in his sport. The Daily: I know you’re a big Taylor Swift fan. What’s your favorite song of hers? Lyon: That’s an impossible question. But I’ll have to say “All Too Well.” The Daily: Where’s your favorite place to shop? Lyon: J.Crew. The Daily: What’s a movie you could watch a million times? Lyon: “Country Strong.” The Daily: With all these
superhero movies coming out now, who’s your favorite superhero? Lyon: I’d say Batman maybe. I like all those movies. The Daily: What’s the hardest class you’ve taken at NU? Lyon: I’d say social psychology because I’m not very good at multiple choice tests. The Daily: What’s been your biggest freshman moment so far? Lyon: I forgot my ankle braces when we went to Minnesota, and I was freaking out. I don’t normally tape my ankles. But
our trainer always brings extras, so we were all good. The Daily: Who’s the biggest prankster on the team? Lyon: Probably Lauren Douglas. She has a good poker face, and you never know when she’s serious or not. She’s always thinking of ways to joke with people. One time, she tried to take this fake cow up the elevator and put it in our coach’s office. But it wouldn’t fit in the elevator. The Daily: What’s your favorite dining hall on campus? Lyon: Plex. The Daily: How many halfcourt shots have you made in your life? Lyon: In a game? Never. Sometimes after practice we will practice those, and I’ve made quite a few. I’m pretty good at them. The Daily : Any hidden talents? Lyon: I would say I’m a pretty good dancer, but nobody on my team would say that. The Daily: What’s your favorite TV show? Lyon: “Nashville.” The Daily: Who’s the toughest player you’ve had to guard this year? Lyon: Maggie Lucas from Penn State. She’s a great shooter and can get her shot off really quickly. She knows how to use screens to get Daily file photo by Meghan White
YOUNG BLOOD Big Ten Freshman Player of the Year Maggie Lyon scored 12.8 points per game this season, and is the first Northwestern player in program history to be awarded the conference honor.
Column
Selection committees could use consistency JOSH WALFISH
SPORTS EDITOR @JOSHWALFISH
Most college sports use a selection committee to decide which teams will compete for the national title. For the most part, the handful of people do a good job at selecting the teams, but when the bubble gets involved, it gets a little dicey. How do you judge two teams that never played on the field and determine which one deserves the spot? There is no right way to split hairs and pick one team, but there should be some concrete guidelines from year to year. What makes selection committees so controversial is the fact the decisions they make are contradictory. The softball committee is a perfect example of this contradictory logic. Iowa won six of its last nine games and had an RPI of 34 at the end of the season with a 30-24 record. The Hawkeyes finished ninth in the Big Ten with eight conference wins. They also had six wins over ranked teams. Mississippi State lost eight of its last 11 games to finish with a 32-22 record and ended up with an RPI of 33. The Bulldogs were tied for 10th in the Southeastern Conference and did not make the conference tournament, despite their eight wins in the SEC. They only had four wins over ranked opposition. So who got into the field of 64? Mississippi State, of course. The decision made little sense, and it showcases the issue with selection committees. If Mississippi State made the tournament, certainly Iowa deserved a shot to play for a national title. The Hawkeyes had a better resume, and although the Bulldogs played in the tougher conference, the Big Ten was not terrible like the selection committee made it out to be. Every March we talk about which teams got snubbed from the NCAA basketball tournament and which schools were lucky to sneak into the field. However, the committee is clear on what it is looking for in a tournament team. It wants teams who had big wins, few bad losses and challenged themselves out of conference. For the most part, the committee sticks to that and selects the field based on those principles. However, most committees are not that consistent. Last year, Northwestern was in the softball tournament based on its strength of schedule, but it seemed strength of schedule played no role this season. Alabama-Birmingham made the tournament despite only winning two non-conference games against tournament qualifiers from BCS conferences. Iowa had four wins and the better RPI. Selection committees must act like the college admissions process. You know in general what you need to do and will be rewarded for going above and beyond the expectations and will be punished for falling short. The issue is selection committees don’t stick to their guidelines with enough consistency to be trusted with deciding which teams can compete for the ultimate prize. There are two simple solutions: Stick to the criteria or let a computer – something like RPI – decide who will play for the national title. joshuawalfish2014@u.northwestern.edu