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NU to rethink its Saudi relationships University asks profs to reconsider Saudi donations

By ALAN PEREZ

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Northwestern is asking its faculty to reconsider its relationships with Saudi Arabia, just days after the University’s funding from a Saudi research organization was brought into question.

Earlier this week, media revealed that the Saudi regime had donated millions of dollars to American universities, including $14.4 million to Northwestern.

The funds to NU, from the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, came in the form of contracts and a $45,000 monetary gift.

“We have reviewed our funding from Saudi Arabia and determined that the vast majority of the funds received have been to faculty in the form of grants for basic science research,”

Bob Rowley, a University spokesman, said in a statement, adding that the results of the research will be shared to spread “global benefits.”

However, he added that the University is asking faculty to reassess their relationships with Saudi Arabia.

The ties came under fire after Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi writer for The Washington Post, was killed inside a Saudi consulate in Turkey last month. Khashoggi was on self-imposed exile and was critical of the Saudi government in his columns for the Post.

The kingdom, in changing and sometimes contradictor y accounts, has described the incident as one carried out by rogue government operatives. But Turkish officials and others suspect high-level Saudi officials ordered Khashoggi’s death, including the de facto leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The kingdom has denied the accusation.

“Northwestern extends » See SAUDI, page 9

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Kevin Stoffel, Weinberg senior, writes on a board titled “Dear Perfectionism.” The Family Institute’s #PerfectlyImperfectNU campaign encourages students to “flaunt their flaws” and speak up if they need help with the pressures of school.

TFI tries to combat perfectionism

In event at The Rock, students talk about ‘silent epidemic’ of modeling perfection

By CAMERON COOK

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The Family Institute wants students to flaunt their flaws — and in return, they’ll offer

hot chocolate and tips on how to cope with perfectionism and the chance to write perfectionism a postcard.

The Family Institute hosted #PerfectlyImperfectNU at The Rock Thursday to make students aware of what SESP Prof. Jessica

Rohlfing Pryor calls the “silent epidemic” of modelinbbg perfectionism at Northwestern.

“Students don’t normally talk about it or report it,” she said.

“You’re a more highly achieving student and a more successful student if you can work hard

without talking about how much that hurts.”

Pryor’s work at the Perfectionism Research Lab looks into the negative interpersonal effects of high levels of perfectionism, » See PERFECTIONISM, page 9

Athletics prepares for huge weekend Patrols near Jewish Northwestern hosts Notre Dame, plans to re-open Welsh-Ryan

By PETER WARREN

daily senior staffer @thepeterwarren

The past seven years have all been leading up to this weekend.

It started when Northwestern Athletic Director Jim Phillips and Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick announced in April 2011 that the two football programs would renew their rivalry — dormant since 1995 — with two games, one in 2014 in South Bend and one in 2018 in Evanston.

Five years later, Phillips announced that the WelshRyan Arena would be renovated during the 2017-18 school year and would be set to reopen in the fall of 2018.

Earlier this year, University President Morton Schapiro announced men’s basketball

would open the arena the same weekend as the Fighting Irish football game.

Throw in women’s basketball playing their first game at new Welsh-Ryan on Sunday and the Big Ten Field Hockey semifinals and finals and this weekend is the biggest sports weekend on campus in at least five years, and possibly the most important in the history of the athletic program.

“It’s a logistical challenge but one we can actually do and look forward to,” Phillips told The Daily in May. The two main attractions are the football game — set for Saturday night at 6:15 p.m. and the Fighting Irish’s first trip to Ryan Field since 1976 — and the men’s basketball exhibition against McKendree — starting Friday at 7 p.m.

For the football team, the Notre Dame game is

spaces increased UP, EPD ramp up patrols after synagogue shooting

By ALAN PEREZ

daily senior staffer @_perezalan_

Daily file photo by Colin Boyle

Ryan Field. Northwestern football will play Notre Dame at the stadium for the first time since 1976.

surprisingly not as important in the grand scheme of the Cats schedule. Since Saturday’s game is a non-conference affair, the result neither harm nor hurt

NU’s chances of making the Big Ten Championship game.

Win or loss, NU will be atop » See WEEKEND, page 9

Local police are stepping up safety patrols around the city’s Jewish institutions after a gunman shouting anti-Semitic slurs opened fire in a synagogue last weekend, rattling the nation’s Jewish community.

The Evanston Police Department said in a Twitter post Thursday that officers are conducting “high visibility” patrols of the city’s synagogues, including the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation, Sephardic Congregation and Northwestern Chabad House.

“Security of institutions

like that are always a concern, and there’s a concern from the public that they too will fall victim to something that will be similar,” Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew told The Daily.

Northwestern Hillel has also asked for additional protection.

In response to the killing of 11 people at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, Hillel said on Saturday that it has “deep concern” for security amid a rise of anti-Semitism and a “broader worry for all individuals and communities targeted by hate and fear.”

“Northwestern University Police swiftly enacted a visible presence at Hillel events, including the Candlelight Vigil, and increased patrols,” University spokesman Bob » See PATROL, page 9

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AROUND TOWN Profit shares help student groups with fundraising

By AVI VARGHESE

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You’ve seen the Facebook events: “Come to Blaze, a portion of the profits go to our student organization.” Or student groups may be asking you to come to Chipotle, Naf Naf Grill or even Epic Burger.

When the academic year begins, it’s profit share season.

Since Chipotle, once a staple of Northwestern student organization profit shares, reduced the percent of profits it gives to groups from 50 percent to 33 percent, there has been room for other businesses, like Blaze Pizza, to gain footing in the profit share market.

Profit shares allow customers to support area organizations while paying normal price for local eats and generate additional profits for businesses, especially those near college campuses like Northwestern, which has an abundance of student organizations.

Communication sophomore Jillian Korey, who planned a profit share through Chipotle to raise funds for her production of the play “You Got Older” in collaboration with WAVE Productions, said fundraiser money made up one-sixth to onefifth of her planned budget, which also includes

POLICE BLOTTER Woman arrested for reckless conduct

Evanston Police Department officers arrested a 20-year-old woman on Wednesday morning after she turned herself in for an accusation of reckless conduct.

On Oct. 27, the woman pulled her car up next to an Evanston resident, who was riding his bike, at the corner of Sheridan Road and Ridge Avenue in north Evanston, said Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew.

“She began yelling profanities at him and gave

grants from Associated Student Government and Hillel. She said she hopes to raise between $100 and $200 to fund set design and lighting, and subsidize free tickets.

“Chipotle used to be the go-to 100 percent,” Korey said. “I think (it) might up the competition back between a couple other places that also do it.”

Weinberg junior and Global Brigades public relations chair Troy Biermann said Chipotle, which until this June gave organizations 50 percent of profits, used to be the most popular fundraising destination. By comparison, businesses such as Blaze and Epic Burger offer 20 percent of profits returned to the participating organization.

Richard Perez, Blaze’s general manager, said students often hear about profit share opportunities by word of mouth and that they either walk in or call the restaurant to learn more. He also said Blaze looks for students with club and organization apparel who visit the store and refers them to fundraising opportunities.

According to Perez, the vast majority of profit shares occur during the Northwestern school year.

During the summer, he said Blaze hosts only a couple fundraisers a month..

“It is very dependent on when Northwestern is in school,” Perez said. “Once school is in… sometimes we’re getting a couple in one week.”

Students who wish to fundraise with restaurants generally apply through web applications that ask him the finger,” Glew said. “I assume that means the middle finger.”

The woman pulled forward and hit the man’s rear bike tire, causing him to fall onto the street.

She then drove away, Glew said.

The man reported the car make and license plate to the EPD, and picked the woman out of a lineup, Glew said. Once contacted, she arrived at the station and turned herself in, he added.

Stereo equipment and collectibles stolen from apartment

EPD officers on Wednesday evening

Daily file photo by Katie Pach

Blaze Pizza in Evanston, 1737 Sherman Ave. Student organizations often partner with local restaurants for profit-sharing fundraisers.

for information like a description of their club and the expected number of attendees. If their fundraisers are approved, the restaurants often give them custom promotional materials, and groups may create Facebook event pages and make their own posters or flyers to further promote the events.

Blaze fundraisers typically generate sales of $200 to $300, Perez said, although he has seen organizations bring in over $1,000.

Global Brigades generates a few hundred dollars a year from profit shares and the majority of the club’s estimated $8,000 in funding comes from grants and Cats Give Back donations, but responded to a report of a burglary in the 700 block of Hinman Avenue in south Evanston.

The 61-year-old resident told officers a speaker dock, some collectible trains and collectible airplanes were stolen. Other items, such as a coin collection, were touched but left behind, Glew said.

Officers found a damaged screen on a window in the back of the kitchen, through which the person presumably gained access to the apartment, Glew added. ­— Cameron Cook

Biermann said that the club’s goals in fundraising are as much about raising profit as garnering exposure.

“Of course there’s the money associated with it, but it’s still a way to get the organization name around,” Biermann said. “Even if you’re just telling your friends about it or people you already know about it you still get a little more exposure to people in the organization, who they are, might give them a spiel of what exactly we do on campus, so it’s good for publicity on campus.” avivarghese2022@u.northwestern.edu

Setting the record straight An article published in Thursday’s paper titled “NU prepares for new-look offense” misstated the number of threepointers Dererk Pardon has taken in his career. Pardon has one career threepoint attempt.

The Daily regrets the error.

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ON CAMPUS Schakowksy urges students to vote

By ZOE MALIN

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Ten-term U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) told a group of Northwestern students, five days before what she called the most important election of her lifetime, that everything was at stake.

“This is your century, and it’s yours to shape.”

Schakowsky, who is up for reelection on Nov. 6, articulated her concern for the state of the nation in a conversation with about 40 students hosted by the College Democrats and the Northwestern University Political Union in Norris University Center on Thursday night. She briefly touched on issues of immigration, the environment and healthcare, but focused on mobilizing students to participate in the election.

Schakowsky said her greatest fear was that voter turnout — especially among young people — for the upcoming midterm election would decline. She added that turnout for the primary election in March and not been “great.”

Schakowsky asked the audience to raise their hands if they voted early, plan to vote on Election Day, or have voted absentee. When she saw that some students still had their hands down, she said they could register to vote in Illinois on Election Day at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center — and that the power is in their hands to make a difference.

“I understand that voting is not as sexy as going to a rally or protesting, but its crucial,” Schakowsky said. “If you’ve gone to rallies, great.

If you’ve gone to protests, great. But it’s not the same as voting.”

Moving to discuss President Donald Trump, Schakowsky told students they would warn their tell grandchildren of his time in office, as he is causing “turmoil, chaos and terror.”

She also delved into the power of words, and said the “hateful tone” being used across the country “came from the top.” While Schakowsky said she will not blame President Trump for the horrific

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U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) calls on young people to take to the polls this midterm election.

event that unfolded at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, she does hold him accountable for “emboldening people, and giving them permission to say racist or anti-Semitic things.”

“Words really matter,” Schakowsky said. “And words kill.”

SESP freshman Daniel Rodriguez, who attended the event, got to know Schakowsky as a “passionate” elected official while he was her intern last summer.

“Jan thinks it’s really important that young members of communities step up and be leaders in their field because they are the future of government,” Rodriguez said. “It’s important for Northwestern students to hear that.”

Schakowsky engaged students throughout the

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event, and fielded questions after speaking about the 2018 midterms. She walked directly to students’ seats in the audience to give answers, which Weinberg freshman Alex Chang appreciated.

Chang said she liked how “personal” Schakowsky made the evening’s discussion. She added that she liked how the congresswoman collaborates with Republicans to “create a more productive dialogue.”

In her final words to students, Schakowsky made sure her message was clear.

“If you don’t play, you can’t win,” Schakowsky said. “I’m telling you: your vote really, really matters.” zoemalin2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Why Project Wildcat is worth it and shouldn’t be cancelled next school year This week, the 2018 Project Wildcat counselor body found out that there would be no PWild trip in 2019. New Student and Family Programs sent out a list to counselors — including the current PWild hiking location and the organization’s culture — of definitive reasons they need to take an entire year to fully re-adjust the program. From a culture standpoint, I want to share why that isn’t necessary.

Like any first-year student, I was anxious coming into my freshman year. I was nervous about meeting people, the rigorous academics at Northwestern and the general college transition.

I can confidently say that PWild was the main reason I arrived on campus ready to tackle my

first year at college.

I was a camper on the PWild 2017 trip. My two counselors, Sofia and Peter, led our group with endless enthusiasm and patience. On trail they were willing to answer any questions we had about backpacking and NU, and I was immediately comfortable in our group. I met other incoming students who had similar interests to me in a setting nowhere near as overwhelming as Wildcat Welcome. I got to relax and forget all my freshman fears for a week and was able to reflect on what I wanted my first year at NU to be.

What I definitely did not experience were any of the horror stories that still seem to swirl around PWild’s reputation. I wasn’t forced to figure out how to survive in the woods with no help from my counselors, I wasn’t hazed and I never felt unsafe.

Based on my trip as a camper, I knew I wanted to be a PWild counselor, so I could have the same impact and relationships with new incoming students that my counselors had (and still have)

with me. When I was accepted as a counselor for PWild 2018, I was thrilled to join a community I had admired for so long. The PWild counselors are close, but how could we not be? Over spring quarter we have class every week to prepare for the trip. Additionally, we spend two weeks before pre-orientation putting in more work getting Wilderness First Aid certified, participating in a training trip ourselves and spending hours on safety plans to make sure we can lead a successful trip for incoming students.

I couldn’t have asked for a better group for PWild 2018. Our campers were the most energetic and willing first years my co-counselor and I could have asked for. The trip was nothing but positive, and I returned to campus knowing that I had given my campers what my counselors and PWild gave me as a freshman: a sense of community, a little bit of peace and lots of excitement for the year to come.

PWild has gone through a lot of changes in

the past few years. What clearly hasn’t changed is the determination of the counselor body to run a successful trip and the reception our hard work gets by the campers who participate.

This is my experience with PWild: supportive, fun, rewarding and essential to my first-year experience. Every incoming student deserves the opportunity to benefit from a program like PWild, because after being outdoors for a week, worries about college feel so much smaller.

If your experience with PWild has been similar, I encourage you to contact the NSFP office and the vice president of student affairs Patricia Telles-Irvin (vpsa@northwestern.edu) to let them know that postponing PWild is a mistake.

If you want to get more involved in bringing PWild back for 2019, feel free to reach out to me. PWild does so much good, and it deserves to be an option for incoming students next year.

— Tara Krantz, Weinberg 2021

Elton John brings important messages to United Center WESLEY SHIROLA

DAILY COLUMNIST

I’ve had the pleasure to be a fan of Sir Elton John since I was 5 years old, and I am immensely thankful to him and his music for inspiring me to become a pianist and singer myself. When John announced in January 2018 that he would be retiring from touring, I was heartbroken. But, thankfully for me and his thousands of other fans, he’s not hanging up his Donald Duck costume or parting ways with his signature, flamboyant glasses just yet. In fact, his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour will take him to five continents and over 300 shows before wrapping up in 2021.

The tour began in Pennsylvania last month, and when it came to the United Center on Friday and Saturday nights, the 71-year-old John showed no signs of slowing down just yet.

For close to three hours he played hit after hit — “Bennie and the Jets,” “Rocket Man,”

“Philadelphia Freedom” and “Tiny Dancer” to name a few. The songs were big and brilliant. As his fingers pounded the keys, John’s famous gaptoothed smile showed that he was having as much fun as the crowd, if not more. Three hours wasn’t enough time to include all of the classics he’s written over the past half-century, however. “If I’ve left any of your favorites out, I truly apologize,” he said early in the show. Indeed, some of my favorites were missing, but apology rightly accepted.

I’ve seen Elton in concert nearly 15 times and can say with certainty that this is his most extravagantly produced show to date. The stage — framed fittingly by a yellow brick road that acknowledges a few of John’s many achievements over the years — is adorned with a giant LED video screen that stokes the wildness of old, presenting John as the revolutionary pop-icon that he was and still is. The singer himself changed costume three times, all heavy on the jewels and glitter and combined with the crazy eyewear he’s known for.

Aside from the great music and all the glamor, however, one thing that struck me about this concert in particular was the important messages — both through the lyrics of his songwriting partner

Bernie Taupin and his own personal experiences — that John shared with the crowd.

“Indian Sunset,” for example, tells the plight of the Native Americans who — in addition to being dehumanized, scalped and disenfranchised — were forced to live on reservations in terrible conditions. “In this land that once was my land, I can’t find a home,” John sings — not only about Native Americans, but also about so many of us today who are still trying to find a place in this changed world that we live in.

During “Border Song,” a collage of human rights pioneers flashes across the video screen as Elton sings, “Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease.” The song was written in 1970, but the lyrics are, sadly, still relevant today. “There’s a man over there, what’s his color I don’t care. He’s my brother, let us live in peace.” John continues.

John, himself, had words of wisdom to impart on the crowd, compelling us to embrace “the healing power of compassion and love … it’s exactly what needs to happen in the world now.”

John also addressed the shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh that killed 11 people only hours before the start of his Saturday show. “Love

is the cure for what’s happening in the world today,” he proclaimed. “We need to be nicer to each other.” He couldn’t be more right. In a world full of crime, violence and hatred, we do indeed need to be nicer to each other. It’s time we finally realize that we’re all human beings and that we all call the same planet home. It’s not that hard to do, as John showed those of us in the crowd, pointing out that we all came together to share the joy of music, ignoring political affiliation, religion and color for a change.

“I’ve finally decided my future lies beyond the yellow brick road,” John sang to close out the show. After the final chord dissipated, John left the stage by rising into the heavens emblazoned on the video screen, walking down his yellow brick road and leaving the audience behind.

to the public, environmentally conscious and reflective of the land’s true potential.

As it stands, the City of Evanston has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Evanston Lighthouse Dunes group that lays out a plan for Evanston Lighthouse Dunes to pay for the mansion’s demolition and the subsequent restoration of the lakefront property on which it currently sits. In multiple Evanston media sources, the Evanston Lighthouse Dunes is characterized as a small group of rich citizens who want a better view of Lake Michigan. Rather than spending millions of dollars to create a partially public space for expensive programming, Evanston Lighthouse Dunes will provide a new, publicly accessible Evanston park that will be owned by the city forever.

The city purchased the Harley Clarke Mansion and its grounds in 1965 from the Sigma Chi Fraternity’s Northwestern Chapter, and then entered a 50-year lease with the Evanston Arts Center. As the mansion fell into disrepair and the arts center moved to a new location, the City of Evanston has undertaken a lengthy consideration of the future of Harley Clarke. Commissions have been created and disbanded, reports have been published,

developers have bid for access to the space, and someone has always found fault with whatever plans arose. This debate has cost Evanstonians over $45,000 in fees for Harley Clarke, while the mansion has been empty and unused. The idea that the Evanston Lighthouse Dunes plan for Harley Clarke is, as some opponents would have it, jumping the gun is preposterous when considering how long public commentary has halted action. Nearly four years is plenty of time to create proposals for the land and present them to the city — and far too long for Evanston residents to pay for an unusable “public” asset.

Although the land has been zoned for public use since its purchase, the Harley Clarke Mansion has never served the entirety of the Evanston community. While the Evanston Arts Center provided cultural enrichment to Evanston families who could afford it, the classes, camps and programs were not free and financial aid was limited. Since its purchase in 1965, the Harley Clarke Mansion has served only those with enough privilege to afford the EAC programs and get transportation to the far north side of Evanston. To argue, as the Evanstonian — the student newspaper of Evanston Township High

School — editorial board recently said, that “Harley Clarke serves as an access point to the lakefront for families who historically have had minimal access to the area” ignores the lack of needs-based programming at the mansion and the acres of publicly accessible land surrounding it. This building, which is paid for by all taxpayers in Evanston, has only ever benefited those Evanstonians who live in the surrounding area. But anyone and everyone would have access to the park on the former grounds of the Harley Clarke Mansion.

On Nov. 2, all publicly minded and fiscally responsible Evanstonians should vote NO on the vaguely worded referendum that hopes to save the Harley Clarke Mansion but at an uncertain cost to its taxpayers. Demolishing the mansion is the only way to create — and at no cost to taxpayers — a truly public space on such a beautiful and historic city-owned lakefront property.

Wesley Shirola is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be contacted at wesleyshirola2021@u.northwestern. edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@ dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

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Demolishing Harley Clarke mansion is a win for preservation in city

Since 2015, the Harley Clarke Mansion has stood empty. The vintage building is nestled between the Grosse Point Lighthouse and Evanston’s Lighthouse Beach in the city’s far northeast corner. As city officials have contemplated what to do with the mansion and the valuable land it takes up, Evanstonians have engaged in a heated debate over the best use of the mansion. Two private-citizen groups, Evanston Lakehouse and Gardens and Save Harley Clarke, that are in favor of preserving the building have used inflammatory posts to stifle dissent around an issue that affects every Evanstonian.

But there is another perspective that demands to be heard. Considering the lack of public access to the existing structure and its continued cost to Evanston, the mansion is proving to be more of a burden than a benefit to the city. I believe the mansion should be torn down to save taxpayer dollars and to create a park that is open

— Mollie Hartenstein, Evanston Township High School senior Hartenstein published a similar piece in The Evanstonian in October.

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Offensive line finds consistency after early malaise

By COLE PAXTON

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Two days after Northwestern escaped lowly Rutgers with an 18-15 win, Pat Fitzgerald called out his offense in a team meeting.

The Wildcats’ offensive line took the message to heart.

In its next outing a week ago, the NU front pummeled Wisconsin en route to a 31-17 upset win, powered by a line that dominated the trenches against a team known for powerful line play. The victory both kept the Cats atop the Big Ten West and signaled a turning point for a unit that has struggled to find a consistent combination of top performers.

“We took that really personal. That’s when things really started to change,” sophomore tackle Rashawn Slater said of Fitzgerald’s remarks. “We all got together and said, ‘We’re going to pound whoever we go up against. We’re going to run the ball.’”

The results bore that out: NU rushed for a season-high 182 yards and tallied 49 attempts — itself a season best. Freshman running back Isaiah Bowser rolled for 117 yards alone. Pass blocking was similarly effective; senior quarterback Clayton Thorson was sacked just once.

Those late-October numbers mark a sharp contrast from earlier performances. The Cats rushed for a woeful 68 yards over a three-game span of Big Ten games. NU went more than seven weeks — between the season opener against Purdue and the contest at Rutgers — without rushing for 100 yards as a team.

Much as it did a season ago, the NU line has seemed to recover from September stumbles to find its best form when summer fully gives way to fall.

“We’ve had more consistency the last couple of weeks, and that’s the biggest thing for us,” senior guard J.B. Butler said. “When we’re not playing well is when we’re not being consistent,

we’re not sustaining drives, we’re not putting the ball in the end zone when we should. The past couple weeks we’ve done that.”

In addition to more consistent play, the Cats are relying on a more consistent cast of characters. Only two players — junior Jared Thomas at center and Slater at right tackle — have started every game. Left tackle Blake Hance and right guard Tommy Doles, both seniors and the most experienced players on the line, missed games with injuries.

At left guard, Butler has fought off challenges from multiple players. Sophomore guard Nik Urban has served as a jack-of-all-trades, starting games at both guard spots and backing up Thomas at center.

NU has changed its personnel in the trenches so often that it used five different starting combinations in one five-week span; only in the last two weeks has Fitzgerald settled on his regular first five.

“A lot of improvement needs to happen in that room, but to get those guys back has really helped,” Fitzgerald said of his returning seniors.

“We’ve got have some competition up there now, some of those younger guys are getting better.

They played probably their best game of the year against a really good front (in Wisconsin).”

With four returning starters, the line was slated to be a bright spot for the Cats this season.

But little went right in the early going: starting running back Jeremy Larkin was forced to retire suddenly; NU allowed 12 sacks in a three-game September skid; injuries began to pile up.

But as the season has progressed, those issues have gradually faded, and Bowser is now nearing the numbers Larkin tallied before he left the field.

“At the end of the day, it’s still football. So it’s just mental,” Thomas said. “We have to look within and really focus on what we do each and every day. … Once we did that, we opened up some holes for Bowser, and he has made us look good.” colepaxton2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Several offensive linemen prepare to engage blocks. The Wildcats have picked up their play in recent weeks.

Hall returns from injuries to bolster linebacking corps

By JONAH DYLAN

daily senior staffer @thejonahdylan

Northwestern was practicing for last December’s Music City Bowl when Nate Hall felt something pop in his knee.

“Just when it happens, you immediately understand the challenge that it’s gonna present, and so that wave of emotion comes over you,” Hall said this week. “And then you start to doubt a little bit. ‘Will I be the same?’”

He appears to be, but only after a few setbacks. He spent several months of his offseason rehabbing from a torn ACL — often alongside quarterback Clayton Thorson, who sustained a torn ACL of his own during the bowl game.

Both then made it back for Northwestern’s opener at Purdue, and both played well in the win. Hall led the Wildcats with seven tackles.

But three games later, Hall sustained another injury, which the senior linebacker called a “soft tissue” issue. He missed another three games before returning last Saturday against Wisconsin and recorded three tackles in a huge win for NU. “It was an amazing feeling, to join the party again, as coach Fitz would put it,” he said. “Sometimes it’s hard watching from the sideline, to find that it’s your brothers out there battling and all you want to do is battle with them. But at the same time you’ve got to be smart about your body.”

Hall first became a starter as a sophomore in 2016, and he has played with a plethora of standout linebackers during his time as NU, including current Indianapolis Colts starter Anthony

Walker. He tallied 73 total tackles his sophomore year, and then racked up 79 — including an impressive 16.5 for loss — in a breakout 2017 campaign.

Hall returns to a linebacking corps that continues to be one of NU’s best position groups.

Sophomore Blake Gallagher leads the team in tackles, while sophomore Paddy Fisher is following up a standout freshman season with another promising campaign. With Hall back, the linebackers and the defense as a whole are nearly back to full strength.

Linebackers coach Tim McGarigle said Hall’s relentlessness stands out as one of his most important qualities.

“It’s just him as a person,” he said. “No one worked harder to get back to where he got with a knee and a shoulder and everything. He’s gonna continue to do that, not only this year but his whole life. That’s who he is.”

Sophomore Chris Bergin filled in admirably in Hall’s absence, recording 35 tackles on the year.

Hall has 28 tackles, despite the fact that he’s only played in four and a half games. When healthy, he’s one of NU’s best defenders.

“Having Nate Hall back is huge,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “All Big-Ten level player, he’s got a wealth of experience. I was just so happy for him. He had a big fumble recovery (against Wisconsin) that led to a touchdown that was a big play in the game.”

NU now faces a difficult two-game stretch, starting with a home matchup against No. 4 Notre Dame and concluding with a trip to Iowa City for a game that could decide the Big Ten West. If the Cats want to win those games, they’ll need a stellar defensive performance, and Hall

could be key to that.

Fisher praised Bergin’s performance, but also said he’s excited to have Hall back in the fold.

“He makes plays,” Fisher said. “He does his job. He’s just very physical and very instinctual

and very fast. He makes plays and that’s one thing that with him out on the field, we can always count on him making plays.” jonahdylan2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Nate Hall celebrates among teammates against Wisconsin. Hall returned against the Badgers following a pair of injuries in the past season.

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When Northwestern’s 2018 schedule was announced over a year ago, few could have predicted where the Wildcats sit now: Preparing to welcome No. 4 Notre Dame for a primetime game, riding a four-game win streak and sitting atop the Big Ten West.

The fate of NU’s season isn’t contingent on any result against the Fighting Irish (8-0), as a Nov. 10 trip to No. 16 Iowa that will likely determine the divisional champion looms large on the horizon. But the Cats (5-3, 5-1 Big Ten) are still embracing the challenge to take on one of the nation’s best on their home turf.

“We do have nothing to lose, but we have a great opportunity to showcase our program in primetime against the No. 3 team in the country,” senior guard J.B. Butler said Monday. “You can play loose and have fun because it doesn’t really impact the Big Ten at all, but it’s still a meaningful game for us, and it’s going to be a great time.”

Collecting the program’s first win over a top-5 team since 1959 will be far from an easy task for the Cats.

Quarterback Ian Book, who took over as the starter in the Fighting Irish’s third game of the season, has thrown for 1,481 yards and 13 touchdowns so far, and has the country’s best completion rate at 76.5 percent.

Notre Dame’s run game — ranked 46th in the nation — isn’t a calling card, but Book has collected more than 30 rushing yards in four of his last six games. NU’s defense struggled against dual-threat quarterbacks earlier this season, such as Nebraska’s Adrian Martinez and Akron’s Kato Nelson, and stopping Book in both the air and on the ground will be a priority.

“We’ve just got to play our game and out-physical them,” sophomore linebacker Paddy Fisher said this week. “They’re a solid team all the way across the board, and we’ve just got to make more plays than them.”

On the opposite side, coach Pat Fitzgerald said Notre Dame’s defensive front is the best the Cats have faced since their 20-17 loss to Michigan on Sept. 29.

The Fighting Irish’s pass defense is one of their biggest strengths, holding opposing offenses to just 5.5 average yards per pass play this season.

Notre Dame is ranked sixth in the country in Defensive S&P+, an advanced metric that attempts to holistically measure a defense’s performance. NU has played two other teams with top-20 S&P+ ranked defenses this year with vastly different end results. In a win over Michigan State (ranked 14th), Cats quarterback Clayton Thorson threw for 373 yards and three touchdowns.

Against top-ranked Michigan — whose only loss this season came to the Fighting Irish in Week One — Thorson managed only sixteen completions and was sacked six times.

While one team has nothing to lose in this game, the other has almost everything. With a win over NU on Saturday, Notre Dame’s chances of making the four-team College Football Playoff jump from 50 percent to 61 percent, according to FiveThirtyEight’s latest projections.

With a loss, that likelihood falls to 23 percent.

All the Cats can do, they emphasized this week, is welcome the opportunity and focus on bettering themselves.

“You control what you can control,” Fitzgerald said.

“We’re not where we want to be as a football team and we just gotta keep getting better... We can’t have self-inflicted wounds like we’ve had in past games if we expect to be competitive in this game.” ellabrockway2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern quarterback Trevor Siemian runs into the end zone in the 2014 game at Notre Dame. The Wildcats face a tough test against the Fighting Irish on Saturday.

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By BEN POPE

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It was 1889 when Northwestern and Notre Dame met for the first time in football.

The two programs have inscribed 129 years of indefatigable history since, albeit a decidedly unbalanced history at that. The Fighting Irish have won 37 head-to-head meetings, captured 11 national titles and produced seven Heisman Trophy winners. The Wildcats have won nine times, captured no national titles and produced zero Heismans. One program has cemented itself as one of the most storied in college athletics; the other has broken out of irrelevance only on a few special occasions.

Yet this Saturday, it is the former of those programs heading on the road and putting its college football playoff aspirations in serious jeopardy against the latter.

Indeed, for the first time since 1976, the next chapter of NU and Notre Dame’s rivalry for Chicago’s hearts and spoils will be written at Ryan Field, before 47,130 fans ready to watch Evanston’s most anticipated sporting event in years.

They’ll see a Wildcats team, led by arguably its most accomplished quarterback of all time and currently in pole position in the Big Ten West race, host an undefeated, No. 4-ranked Fighting Irish squad with eyes on a 12th title.

The stakes can’t be overstated.

A spotty history

It was 1930, and again 1936, when the Wildcats entered the final game of the season undefeated — with the national title within reach — but were felled by the Irish. Within that stretch, the two teams began playing for a knobby walking-stick trophy known as the Shillelagh, a tradition that lasted three decades.

It was 1962 when Cats entered their Notre Dame matchup ranked third, following a big road upset of Ohio State. They exited ranked first, having pummeled the Irish — for their fourth win in as many years in the series — in front of the biggest crowd in Dyche Stadium (now Ryan Field) history.

Center Jay Robertson, then a team captain, remembers the game well.

“I don’t think the national picture focused on Northwestern much (beforehand),” Robertson said this week. “They knew we were 4-0 going into that Notre Dame game, but when we won that game 35-6, then I think the national picture shifted to the Wildcats.”

Larry Benz, a fullback who had thrown two trick-play touchdowns passes in the team’s 12-10 road win the year before, does too. “(The Irish) were not, I would say, at their peak,” Benz added. “I definitely think we were a better team than they were, and I thought we beat a lot of teams where they were a better team than we were.”

Not since that era of Ara Parseghian has NU defeated a top-5 team at home — they last did so in 1959, upsetting Oklahoma — or been ranked No. 1 in the AP Poll. Parseghian, in fact, may have accomplished a bit too much for the Cats’ own good. It was 1964 when Parseghian was lured away from Evanston to become the head coach in, of all places, South Bend.

Northwestern stars Rodney Ray (left) and Steve Schnur (right) celebrate the team’s 1995 win in Notre Dame Stadium.

It was 1995, three long decades later, when NU stunned Notre Dame in the season opener

to spark the fabled Rose Bowl season, signifying the program’s return to relevance.

Those Gary Barnett-led Cats entered Notre Dame Stadium as four-touchdown underdogs, kicking off a season that pundits overwhelmingly expected would be the program’s 24th consecutive losing campaign. That team featured a new starting running back named Darnell Autry, who went on to finish fourth in Heisman voting, and a junior linebacker named Pat Fitzgerald.

NU walked onto the field with confidence that steamy afternoon and, against all odds, walked off three hours later equally confident, as 17-15 victors.

“You don’t even go into that stadium awestruck, because if you do, you’re going to lose,” Barnett said to The Daily this week. “In my pregame talk, I had said to them that after we win this game, I do not want Gatorade on me and we have to act like we’ve been here before. On the field, that’s the appearance that we gave: We didn’t want to act all giddy and stupid on television. We wanted to look like a team that was assured.”

But in the locker room?

“It was a little bit different, it was a little bit crazier,” Barnett said with a laugh.

Northwestern kicker Jack Mitchell strides forward for the game-tying field goal in the Wildcats’ 2014 win over Notre Dame.

Finally, it was 2014 when the two schools ended a 19-year stretch without a single meeting, the longest the programs separated by a mere 110 miles had stayed apart since 1920, on a frigid evening in South Bend.

Cats kicker Jack Mitchell played hero that night, drilling a 45-yard field goal to force overtime in the waning seconds and a 41-yarder in overtime itself to give the purple visitors yet another unlikely victory in Notre Dame Stadium.

“You come in with your own sense of, ‘This is Notre Dame, and I’ve seen them play on TV plenty of times, and I know this stadium and that lots of historic things have happened here.’ At the same time, it’s also just another game,” Mitchell said this week.

He then admitted that once the game came down to him, he had none of that big-picture perspective.

“You just have to go with it and it happens,” Mitchell said. “There aren’t thoughts running through your head at that point.”

If those three victories represent the glorious apexes of NU’s Notre Dame history, though, they do little justice to the vast swamps in between. It was the late 1960s and early 70s when the Irish beat the Cats 11 straight times — each by 20 or more points, including a combined 134-3 margin over their last three trips to Evanston.

Northwestern struggled to find much room to run in their 1976 game against Notre Dame at Ryan Field.

The last of those, a 48-0 drubbing on Sept. 25, 1976, marked the last time — until this weekend — that Notre Dame played beneath the matching corner towers of Ryan Field. University archivist Kevin Leonard was there.

“Northwestern was flattened, pulverized, by Notre Dame that day,” Leonard said. “They just ground them to bits.”

Randy Dean quarterbacked the Cats that afternoon, completing six of 16 passes for 77 yards and two interceptions. Nowadays, he doesn’t even remember the score of the game — “Selective memory,” he attributes as the cause, chuckling.

But he is bringing his whole family from Milwaukee to Ryan Field for the Irish’s return this weekend, and as he watches the action transpire before his eyes Saturday, it’ll carry a tinge of

nostalgia.

“This is ideally what we would’ve liked when I played 42 years ago, to have this type of expectation for this game,” he said.

Bringing the Irish back

When Northwestern athletic director Jim Phillips and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick talk on the phone, there’s usually a lot of money involved. They are, after all, the two highest-paid ADs in the nation.

Their conversations in early 2011, scheduling the two-game series between the two schools that resulted in the 2014 game as well as Saturday’s contest, were no different.

Phillips, a former administrator at Notre Dame himself, had to convince Swarbrick that sleepy, historic, 47,000-seat Ryan Field was a suitable venue for the vaunted Irish. The last two times Notre Dame played the Cats outside of South Bend — a 42-7 win in 1992 and a 42-15 win in 1994 — the games were held at Soldier Field, a neutral site. NU had millions of dollars in ticket revenue and invaluable exposure to gain from getting an actual home game this time around.

They also had an important scheduling conundrum to resolve. The Cats were slated for only four Big Ten home games in 2018, meaning they needed all three non-conference games to take place at home in order to hit the seven homegame threshold most major programs consider necessary. That’s often not easy to do when dozens of other schools are trying to do the same.

“There’s just not that big of an inventory (of non-power-five schools) to go across the 65 power-five schools,” Phillips told The Daily last year. “And then you don’t have a 110,000-seat stadium here that’s generating $50 a ticket. You have a 45,000-seat stadium. And so the economics are tough, when you’re going up against somebody else in the Big Ten to find a partner.”

Phillips has often turned to other academically selective schools with major athletic programs — “peer institutions,” he calls them — for his non-conference scheduling, and has found success doing so. Stanford, Vanderbilt, California, Rice, Boston College and Syracuse have already faced NU so far this decade.

But it is one thing to host the Rice Owls, and another to host the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

Doing the latter is truly indicative of “the maturation and the development” of the Cats’ football program, Phillips said.

And after those calls with Swarbrick, after working out the logistical kinks and the timing difficulties and the economic viability, Phillips made that very thing happen. The home-andhome series was officially announced in April 2011.

“I think it’s important to have a game like (this) on our campus, in our community, in the city of Evanston, to shine a really bright light about a great area,” Phillips said. “It really didn’t take a ton of back and forth.”

Saturday’s game, preceded by Friday’s basketball exhibition game debuting the new WelshRyan Arena, is indeed expected to bring a remarkable sports fervor to Evanston.

For the first time in institutional memory, tickets to this contest were available only through purchasing season ticket packages. A huge turnout of Notre Dame alumni living in the Chicago area is anticipated, as well. As of Wednesday, resale tickets on the popular website StubHub began at $120, and went as high as $686. Tickets for the Nov. 24 Illinois game, meanwhile, start at $6.

“We’ve seen unprecedented demand,” Heather Obering, the associate athletic director for

marketing, told The Daily this week.

What this game means

Jared Thomas, a junior offensive lineman from Indianapolis, doesn’t have any direct ties to Notre Dame. He doesn’t have any relatives who are alumni. He didn’t grow up a fan. He didn’t get a scholarship offer there.

But Thomas still found his life in Indiana dominated by Irish references because his high school, Cathedral, modeled itself after the prestigious university.

“We had the same gold helmet type. We were an independent school. And the Irish Way and ‘Play like a champion’ slogan, all those things that are taught at Notre Dame, were a carbon copy,” Thomas said.

Not many current Cats players chose NU over Notre Dame during their high school recruitment process, simply because the two schools typically recruit within very different tiers in the recruiting hierarchy. Junior cornerback Roderick Campbell is one of a mere few who did, and though he picked the Cats, he said he still viewed receiving the Irish offer “as a validity thing — it was like, ‘Maybe I’m pretty good.’”

Yet plenty of NU players are connected to Notre Dame nonetheless, wrangled in one way or another by way of one of the Irish’s two ubiquitous brands: the nation’s most recognizable Catholic school, and one of the nation’s most recognizable football schools.

One of Thomas’s fellow offensive linemen, senior J.B. Butler, hails inconspicuously from Plainfield, Illinois — but his dad lived in South Bend, and Butler said he grew up a Notre Dame fan, frequently attending games.

“I know it means a lot to a lot of our guys,” Butler said of Saturday’s game, shortly before insisting “there’s nothing in my heart for them anymore.”

Even Pat Fitzgerald himself at one point clearly harbored resentment for the Irish, even if he won’t dare speak of it now. “I enrolled at Northwestern so I could beat Notre Dame,” he famously told reporters after the 1995 win.

In one sense, Saturday’s game means very little.

Regardless of the result, NU will remain 5-1 in the Big Ten and maintain its lead on the West division heading into a decisive matchup next week at Iowa.

But in another sense, Saturday’s game means more than any other night of football Evanston has seen in years, dating back at least to the 2013 College Gameday matchup against Ohio State.

The history is there, for over a century. The emotion is there, embedded within the hearts of many Cats players who, long before their own college days, either dreamt of playing for Notre Dame or playing against the Fighting Irish. And in a stroke of fortune not even Phillips could have anticipated seven years ago, the stakes are there, too: Notre Dame is an unblemished 8-0, boasting wins over the likes of Michigan, Stanford and Virginia Tech already, and a projected playoff team as of now.

Even for NU standouts like junior receiver Bennett Skowronek, who grew up in northeast Indiana but said he has no personal Notre Dame ties, that last factor alone is enough to make this game special.

“It’s not every day you get to play one of the top-ranked teams in the country, sold out, at night, in your home stadium,” Skowronek said. “Those are the games you dream about as a kid. Those are the games, when you’re being recruited, that you want to play in.” benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu

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the West Division.

For Notre Dame, the stakes are much higher.

The Fighting Irish are undefeated and occupy the No. 4 spot in the College Football Playoff rankings. A loss to the Cats will likely result in Notre Dame dropping out of the top four.

“I think most of the times when we play on the road, it’s a really good environment. We expect a tough game,” Fighting Irish coach Brian Kelly said. “We know we have to play well. We’ve got to play with a lot of energy, a lot of enthusiasm. We expect the atmosphere to be — that’s why they put these games on TV. They don’t put them on TV because there’s half full crowds and nobody cares. They know the environment is going to be

really good.”

The last time the men’s basketball team played at Welsh-Ryan was March 5, 2017 when they lost to No. 16 Purdue by four points. Friday’s exhibition will likely not be as close — McKendree is a Division II school that finished last season with a 12-16 record.

After playing last season at Allstate Arena, NU players have expressed excitement about being able to be back on campus and play in front of a large compact contingent of fans and students. The carnivorous Allstate never reached peak occupancy last season and usually featured a sparse student section.

“Not having to go out to Rosemont will be nice,” senior forward Vic Law said. “Feeling the buzz of the campus before a game and then getting in there and seeing the fans having a nice

easy commute over...It’s really good to back in Evanston.”

As for new Welsh-Ryan, the athletic department has announced that Friday’s game is a sellout.

Women’s basketball is also playing their first game at Welsh-Ryan as they will go toe-to-toe with Lewis in an exhibition game Sunday a 2 p.m.

Senior forward Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah and sophomore guard Lindsey Pulliam will lead the Cats heading into the year. Kunaiyi-Akpanah averaged a double-double last season and is a member of the Preseason All-Big Ten team, while Pulliam was the team leader in scoring at 15 points per game last year and was a member of the AllFreshman team.

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The final will be at 1 p.m. on Sunday. Northwestern was eliminated from the tournament last weekend when the Wolverines beat them 3-1.

With six games of major importance — whether it’s with championship aspirations at stake or the grand opening of a new facility — there is no place this weekend that will feature much more athletic drama and tension than Evanston, Illinois. peterwarren2021@u.northwestern.edu

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the most worrying of which is social withdrawal, she said.

Students who want to appear perfect may come off as “aloof and withdrawn,” which in turn leads to others withdrawing from them.

“That’s the exact opposite of what most of us actually want,” she said.

Pryor’s research has also shown that students who demonstrate high levels of perfectionism are extremely unlikely to seek help. Other studies have revealed that students at private universities are even less likely to ask for assistance or mental health support, Pryor said, making NU students at particularly high risk.

Sarah Meister, a graduate student at The Family Institute who began working in the Perfectionism Research Lab this academic year, said she noticed the high levels of perfectionism and stress at NU when she started attending grad school.

“The types of people who get in here are competitive and incredible students,” she said. “That being said, I think there are a lot of things that come along with having to perform at such an elite level. Being able to talk about that and bringing some awareness helps.”

Meister felt pressure to be perfect as an undergraduate at the University of Missouri, where she was an athlete and student. She called her experience “mentally and emotionally exhausting” and added that having a support system like #PerfectlyImperfectNU would have served her well.

SESP sophomore Adina Barg said she thinks events like this are important, especially at Northwestern, where she said “a lot” of people are perfectionists.

“This is a very good program to have,” she said. “It’s always good to see ‘I don’t need to be good enough’ because a lot of people need to step back and realize they’re doing their best, even if their best isn’t an A.” In addition to snacks and signs, the event featured a student panel where those who struggle with perfectionism on a day-to-day basis spoke about their experiences, an effort to normalize the conversation around this aspect of mental health.

But this is just the first step in a long process, Pryor said. She hopes to engage more of the Northwestern community and start dialogues with student groups about perfectionism as well.

“I think this is just the beginning,” Meister said. “There’s a lot more work to be done. We’re really excited to represent perfectionism as a whole because we want everyone to feel imperfectly perfect.” cameroncook2021@u.northwestern.edu

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heartfelt condolences to the friends, family and colleagues of Mr. Khashoggi,” Rowley said.

Universities like the Massachusetts Institute Technology and Columbia University have joined Northwestern in saying they are reconsidering their Saudi funding. aperez@u.northwestern.edu

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Michael Simon, the Hillel executive director, said EPD and University Police have been “tremendously supportive.”

Hillel also hosted a prayer vigil at The Rock on Monday after Evanston’s Beth Emet The Free Synagogue hosted its own prayer vigil Sunday.

Robert Bowers, the accused gunman, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to 44 counts of murder, obstructing religious practice and other crimes.

Cameron Cook contributed reporting. aperez@u.northwestern.edu

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International students to face stricter visa rules with new Trump policies

International students at Northwestern continue to face more regulations as the Trump administration intends to set a new maximum period of authorized stay for student visa holders and make it easier for them to receive unlawful presence status.

A rule published on Oct. 17 — and scheduled to take effect next fall — will change the period of authorized stay for certain visa holders, including those on F1 visas. Instead of allowing students to stay in the country until the end of their academic program, the government plans to set a predetermined period for legal residence.

Some schools and higher education advocates fear the rule will reduce foreign interest at a time when international students in the country are declining. Though Northwestern’s share of international students continues to rise, the rate has sluggishly slowed down in the past three years.

Most of these students in higher education eventually work high-skilled jobs and contribute billions of dollars to the American economy. In publishing the rule, the government said it hopes “to decrease the incidence of nonimmigrant student overstays and improve the integrity of the nonimmigrant student visa.” The Department of Homeland Security estimates just 1.33 percent of visa holders, including student visa holders, overstayed their visa during the 2017 fiscal year.

The proposal also includes setting a maximum period of stay for visiting scholars, though it does not say how long. They are currently regulated to a “duration of status,” which is typically the time of an individual’s academic studies.

A different rule that took effect in August made it easier for international and exchange students on visas to receive “unlawful presence status,” which the government sometimes considers when banning individuals from the country.

Under this policy, unlawful presence begins the day after a student discontinues his or her studies or violates his or her immigration status in other ways. Unlawful presence used to begin after the government notified the visa-holder of an alleged violation of status.

NU depends on student visas to host about 4,000 international students and 1,600 visiting scholars.

The new policy demands a greater level of vigilance from international students and scholars on the status of their visas, Ravi Shankar, the director of the International Office, said in May. Minor mistakes such as international students working without authorization, failing to update information with their affiliated university or failing to reach minimum course load can be met with what many regard as disproportionately harsh repercussions — students could be denied re-entry for three years, 10 years, or permanently.

The notice was met with backlash from several higher institutions, four of which filed suit to federal court to contest the policy.

— Amy Li

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The International Office. Schools and higher education advocates said two new Trump administration policies will reduce foreign interest at a time when international students in the country are declining.

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Football No. 4 Notre Dame at NU, 6:15 p.m. Sunday

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LAST SHOT

NU to face Ohio State in first round of Big Ten Tournament

By STEPHEN COUNCIL

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Indiana beat Northwestern, 2-1, earlier this year on what the Wildcats felt was an officiating mistake. NU wants another shot, and it can earn a chance this weekend.

The No. 8 Cats (5-8-5, 0-5-3 Big Ten) head to Bloomington, Indiana for the Big Ten Tournament, where they will face No. 9 Ohio State (1-142, 0-7-1) in the first round Saturday.

No. 1 Indiana (15-2-0, 8-0) has already clinched a quarterfinal slot, and will play the winner of the firstround contest.

NU finished off its regular season with a 6-0 win against ConcordiaChicago last Friday. Senior midfielder Camden Buescher netted three goals, and the Cats found some confidence after going winless in their previous 11 games.

NU tied the Buckeyes 0-0 on Sept. 21, and Ohio State went on to lose nine in a row. However, the Cats know they can’t look past any Big Ten team. Coach Tim Lenahan cited results from all throughout the league when he talked about Saturday’s matchup. Ohio State took No. 2 Wisconsin into overtime last week, and IU edged the Buckeyes just 1-0

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the game before.

“There’s so much parity in the Big Ten,” Lenahan said. “It’s hard to win games period, but it’s hard to win games in this conference.”

NU’s side of the bracket, along with Ohio State and Indiana, holds No. 4 Michigan State and No. 5 Maryland.

The Big Ten championship game will be on Nov. 11.

Sophomore goalkeeper Miha Miskovic has kept the Cats in games all year. He averages almost four saves a game, and said he is excited to go into the tournament coming off a victory.

Miskovic also said he doesn’t want to assume they’ll face Indiana yet.

“We always take it one game at a time, make sure we get a win on Saturday and then we’ll have time to think about Sunday after that,” Miskovic said.

Lenahan is happy with his team’s buildup to the tournament. The players dressed up in costumes before their “fun” Halloween practice, but also have been working hard. NU is heading to Bloomington early for a Friday practice Despite the one-game-at-a-time

attitude, the Cats have been peeking forward at Sunday and Indiana. The Hoosiers beat every team in the Big Ten this year, but were tested on Sept.

26 against NU. In the 60th minute, freshman forward Jose Del Valle was called offsides after scoring a goal that would’ve given the Cats the lead. Indiana capitalized in the 87th minute, and came away with the win.

“If anybody was to knock off Indiana this year I think it could’ve been us,” freshman defender Julian Zighelboim said. “I’m really really excited to walk into the Big Ten Tournament as a lower seed, because nobody expects anything from us, but I really think we’re a team that can knock down some of the higher seeds.”

In the most recent national rankings, Indiana slotted in at No. 2. After a tough loss to Illinois-Chicago a few weeks ago, Lenahan said he still thought they’d bring down a top-25 team this year. If they make it, Sunday is the Cats’ chance to prove their leader right.

“We’re in a kind of ‘Why not us?’ mentality,” Lenahan said. “We’ve been so close all year, we’ve been on the brink of breaking through, why not this weekend?” stephencouncil2022@u.northwestern.edu

FENCING

Wildcats to particpate at first collegiate tournament

By PETER WARREN

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After two preseason individual, non-collegiate tournaments, Northwestern opens up the collegiate schedule with the Penn State Open in State College, Pennsylvania.

However, unlike most meets the Wildcats will attend this winter, the Penn State Open is not a dual meet — it is an individual meet. That means the format is similar to the Remenyik Open and the October North American Cup competitions from October.

The Remenyik was NU’s first fencing competition on campus since 2015, and the Cats did a great job in their first event at Ryan Fieldhouse, with 12 fencers finishing in the top five.

One aspect of the Remenyik that coach Zach Moss said he was really happy with was the performance of the freshmen. Freshman sabre Abigail Swallow finished second in the junior sabre event, freshman epee Ananya Gupta was second in the junior epee competition and freshman sabre Robyn Songwas the runner-up to sophomore sabre Alexis Browne in the Division I-A sabre bracket.

“Our freshman are working really

hard, they are fitting in really well, they are performing well as they are acclimating to Northwestern,” Moss said.

The Penn State Open will feature some of the best fencing programs in the country — including Penn State, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Temple and North Carolina. Other teams at the tournament are Harvard, Yale, John Hopkins, Lafayette and Wagner.

The last time the Cats fenced in State College was the NCAA Championships in March. At the championships, four NU fencers battled and three of them — senior foil Yvonne Chart, sophomore foil Sarah Filby and junior epee Pauline

Hamilton — finished in the top 12 of their respective event to earn AllAmerican status.

The three fencers have all performed well to start the 2018-19 season. Filby finished in third at the Division I-A foil event at the Remenyik, while Chart claimed seventh place. Hamilton had the best finish of the three at the NU-hosted tournament, finishing in first place in the Division I-A epee event.

In addition, Chart is coming off a successful weekend at a World Cup event in Barcelona. She finished 3-3 in a pool that featured Japan’s Haruka Yanaoka, who finished fifth in the competition. In the direct elimination

tournament, Chart lost a close 13-12 bout to Spain’s Barbara Ojeda.

Moss said something that has impressed him so far is the team’s approach and chemistry. He said if the team continues to follow a good process, the “sky’s the limit.”

“They love the sport, they are working hard, they are working together,” Moss said. “This is the most cohesive team that I have had based on mentality and approach to the sport. They all want to get better. they all want to work hard they all enjoy what they are doing even on the rough days.” peterwarren2021@u.northwestern.edu

VOLLEYBALL

Northwestern looks to continue winning ways on the road

By ANDREW GOLDEN

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Before playing its first game in the new Welsh-Ryan Arena next week, Northwestern will head on the road to face Maryland and Ohio State.

The Cats, who played their final game in Beardsley Gym on Sunday,

enter this weekend having won three of their last four games. The Terrapins, on the other hand, have lost four out their last six.

As a team, Maryland (14-10, 5-7 Big Ten) has a .213 hit percentage, but sophomore setter Nicole Alford and freshman middle blocker Rainelle Jones lead the team with rates of .271 and .268, respectively.

Fortunately, NU (13-11, 3-9) has

started to find its grove after losing eight straight games to begin Big Ten play, including six games against ranked in the top 25. In their last three victories, the Cats have hit .233, which is an improvement from .195 average on the season.

In addition, NU’s two highest hitting percentages in conference have been in its last two contests. After hitting a remarkable .321 against Iowa on the

road, NU’s hitting percentage was .258 against Ohio State and the team will look to continue its success again on Sunday in Columbus.

Sunday, the Cats beat the Buckeyes (12-12, 3-9) in straight sets and sophomore middle hitter Alana Walker led the team with 10 kills and a .571 hitting percentage. She was not the only player who contributed efficiently as Olivia Viscuso had a .471 hitting percentage

and Kiara McNulty added 23 assists.

Winning both games this weekend would be huge for the Cats as they currently sit at 11th in the Big Ten, tied with Ohio State. At 3-9, two wins could separate themselves from the Buckeyes and move up the standings and catch up with Maryland, who currently has a conference record of 5-7. andrewgolden2021@u.northwestern.edu