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to do in CAESAR that take an extraneous number of steps,” Chen said. “What Will’s extension really does is cut down on that inefficiency in a major way. That’s one thing that I absolutely noticed and really love most about the extension.” Chen said he admires Xiao’s skill and versatility as a coder, and noted his ability to “churn out little projects on the side” that are clever in some way, if not useful. Xiao said it was challenging to create an add-on for CAESAR, an intricate system composed of massive amounts of coding. “CAESAR is a very unique kind of website, and it’s really complicated behind the scenes,” he said. “There’s a lot of code to weave through and try to figure out how to rework, but once I spent a lot of time looking through
Community members talked about the importance of maintaining the neighborhood character and focusing development near public transportation Wednesday night during a discussion about the possible expansion of the city’s downtown area. Plans for the northern sub-area would provide general guidelines for development in the area between Emerson and Foster streets and Sherman and Ridge avenues. According to city documents, the sub-area could function as a transitional area between the more commercial area of the downtown south of Emerson Street and the more residential area north of Emerson. “We haven’t done long-range planning like this in a long time,” said Ald. Judy Fiske (1st), whose ward contains part of the proposed subarea. “What I’m hoping is that this will be the start of a new approach to looking at how we can better plan, especially for our areas around the downtown.” More than 35 people attended the meeting, which included a discussion portion in which groups brainstormed suggestions for the area. Ideas included keeping the zoning guidelines as is, concentrating development around the intersection of Foster Street and Maple Avenue and encouraging “mixed-use” buildings, which combine residential and commercial uses. The previous downtown plan was created in 2009 and defined the northern boundary of the downtown as between Sherman and Ridge avenues near Emerson Street. The initiative was discussed at a Planning and Development Committee meeting earlier this year and was partially inspired by the failed 831 Emerson St. development project, said Damir Latinovic, a planning and zoning administrator for the city. The project, which was rejected at City Council in February, brought the area to the city’s attention along with an upward trend in CTA ridership and an increase in non-car owning, non-family households in the area, Latinovic said. “The households that live here are totally different than what is usually found in the rest of the city,” Latinovic said. Latinovic said according to census data, although households in the area tend to be the same size as those in other parts of the city, traditional family households are “much less present in this area.” He added that the city is also taking into consideration Northwestern’s upcoming two year live-in requirement, which will go into effect in Fall 2017 and have a significant effect on off-campus rentals. Latinovic told The Daily that any
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An editor at the Huffington Post says a male Medill professor told her she “probably had issues” with her writing ability because her voice was higher-pitched and sounded like that of an undergraduate on a phone call. Amanda Terkel, a political reporter and editor at the news website, said the professor — who Terkel declined to identify — was a reference on a Medill student’s application for an internship at the Huffington Post. Terkel said she called to ask questions about the student and her writing ability when the professor made the comments. Terkel said she told the professor his words were “incredibly offensive.” “You can’t tell someone’s writing ability from the sound of their voice,” Terkel told The Daily. Terkel, who first mentioned the conversation publicly in a series of tweets Wednesday morning, said she declined to name the professor because she doesn’t want him to face intense online backlash that can sometimes follow incidents like this. In an email to The Daily, Medill Prof. Alec Klein said he was the professor with whom the editor had » See CRITICISM, page 10
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OPEN GROUPS Brent Turner, executive director of Campus Life, speaks at ASG Senate on Wednesday. Turner said he wants students and administrators to start a dialogue about student group exclusivity.
ASG talks open student groups New resolution disavows potential proposal By SHANE MCKEON
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Associated Student Government Senate will consider next week a resolution disavowing a potential University proposal that would push some exclusive student groups to open their doors to all. The resolution, introduced during Wednesday’s meeting, not only criticizes a potential open group proposal, but also says ASG would continue to fund a student group even if the University ceases to recognize it. The resolution also encourages administrators to work with ASG to find “alternative policies that foster
inclusiveness.” Senators were at times unclear on what a possible change could look like, as the Office of Campus Life has not released any further specifics about potential changes since The Daily initially reported on the possible proposal Sunday. Brent Turner, the executive director of Campus Life who also attended the meeting, said no specific policy or mandate has been drawn up. Turner said the immediate goal is to start a dialogue between administrators and students before “putting some teeth behind that.” “We want to hold a lot of conversations with stakeholders,” Turner said. “We want to have dialogue over the next 13 months.”
Turner said his office will work with ASG to host an open forum or town hall meeting after Dillo Day to discuss potential changes. Senate will debate and vote on the resolution at its meeting next Wednesday. The Daily reported Sunday that Campus Life is considering a new proposal that would prompt most student groups with application processes to open membership to all interested students. Since then, student feedback has been mixed. Some supported the proposed change for trying to alleviate a culture of exclusivity on campus; others raised » See SENATE, page 10
Student makes CAESAR Chrome extension By JULIA DORAN
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A McCormick junior created a Google Chrome extension to make searching for courses on CAESAR easier and to improve the website’s overall appearance. Regal, now available for students to download, serves as an add-on to CAESAR that fixes system flaws such as timeouts, inefficient search functionality and disorderly course evaluations, said William Xiao, the creator of the extension. “As Northwestern students, we all have to deal with CAESAR probably more than we’d like, and it’s not the best experience,” he said. A computer science major, Xiao said fixing CAESAR had been a goal of his long before he started working
on Regal late Winter Quarter. He said the extension improves CAESAR’s general look and feel by centering the page content, which usually sits on the left side of the screen. He also eliminated rounded corners on the homepage, increased font size for greater readability and made buttons easier to use. Regal also separates individual CTECs into lines, allowing users to clearly see where each comment starts and ends, Xiao said. Additionally, the system bolds and underlines frequently used words and phrases, such as “great course” or “takes a lot of time.” “Before, all the CTECs were just one massive text blob with a little slash between each,” Xiao said. “Now they’re easier to read, and you can see at a glance what a lot of people are saying about a course.” The extension also incorporates a
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“quick add” function, which allows users to type the name of a class into a textbox and add it to their shopping cart directly, instead of sifting through search results, he said. Regal eliminates CAESAR’s 30-minute timeouts and includes a button that connects course schedules to Google calendars. Xiao said the only personal information Regal reads is the user’s class schedule to enable the calendar syncing function. He added that no personal information is stored in the extension. McCormick sophomore Chris Chen, who met Xiao through Northwestern’s student branch of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, said the extension’s attention to detail combined with its clean simplicity creates a highly effective tool for students. “There are a lot of things you want
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Around Town Construction begins on intersection By ROBIN OPSAHL
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An $11.1 million construction project started Wednesday at the intersection of Emerson Street, Ridge Avenue and Green Bay Road, despite ongoing problems with funding due to the state budget crisis. Lapses in state funding for the project through Illinois Department of Transportation grants delayed the city in starting construction, as the city tried to find money to fill a $2.5 million funding gap left from expected grants, said Dave Stoneback, the city’s Public Works Agency director. Stoneback said $5 million of the $11.1 million spent on the project is funded through state grants. Stoneback said the “high-accident corner,” where the three roads meet, is planned for a complete reconstruction, which includes installing new water mains, storm sewage and drainage structures, modernizing traffic signals and redoing the traffic lanes along Green Bay Road. These changes include correcting the elevation difference when coming from Green Bay Road going south or Ridge Avenue going north and making left turns onto Emerson Street, so drivers can more easily enter downtown,
Police Blotter Series of motor vehicle burglaries includes auto theft
A series of motor vehicle burglaries took place Tuesday night in the area around Willard Elementary School, 2700 Hurd Ave. One Evanston resident, a 52-year-old man, reported that he parked his black 2008 Lexus in front of his house in the 2600 block of Central Park Avenue at 8 p.m. Tuesday night, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. When the man went outside at about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, his car was gone,
Stoneback said. Because of the project’s size, construction may go past the planned mid-November end date, Stoneback said during a 2nd Ward meeting last Thursday. “This is by far the largest project the city’s undertaking this summer,” Stoneback said. “I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there is some construction next year.” The project will be conducted in four stages, closing specific sections of the three streets at a time to make sure there is at least one lane of traffic in each direction remaining active, according to a news release. The project is planned to “create a friendlier route for pedestrians, bicyclists and public transit, and enhance aesthetics,” according to the release. Public safety at the intersection was a central concern for the project, as consultants proposed some of the changes based on where traffic accidents are likely to occur. During construction, everyday vehicles are advised to take Church Street or alternate routes outside of the corridor, as the street under construction is a major truckway. Stoneback said the city will try to address concerns about noise and early timing during construction. Additionally, street cleaning and neighborhood parking restrictions will be waived for a as well as the wallet he had left inside, Dugan said. Three other Evanston residents reported Wednesday morning that they had left their cars unlocked outside their homes in the 3000 block of Park Place and the 3000 block of Thayer Street at about 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dugan said. They all reported that when they returned to their cars Wednesday morning, the cars had all been broken into, though no items were taken.
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Executive director of Health Service steps down By MATTHEW CHOI
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Dr. John Alexander has a bachelor’s degree in engineering, an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, an MD from the Feinberg School of Medicine, is an avid sailor and outgoing executive director of Northwestern University Health Service. “I don’t know what you’ll find interesting about me, though,” he said. Alexander (Kellogg ‘75, Feinberg ‘97) will retire from his position as the head of Health Service at the end of August after holding the position for the past six years. During his time at Health Service, he used his expertise in medicine, business and engineering to help redesign the new Searle Hall, update the pandemic plan for the University and redesign the sports medicine program. After stepping down from the position, he will remain with Health Service on a temporary basis nine months of the year to see patients. Alexander first joined Health Service as a staff physician in 2002, having enrolled in Feinberg as a 43-year-old and graduating with an MD in 1997. Before then he had an extensive corporate career, working with Baxter Labs — a medical products and device manufacturing company — in Deerfield, Illinois, for more than 13 years. His experience in business helped him lead Health Service, he said, which is one of the few Student Affairs offices to have its own source of revenue, as it hosts a full, retail pharmacy. “(Executive director) is basically CEO of the Health Service,” Alexander said. “It’s a little business we run here.”
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In 2005, as medical director of health services, Alexander oversaw extensive renovation and expansion to Searle. The building initially was too crowded with outdated facilities, Alexander said. With an undergraduate background in engineering, he was able to lead the renovations, serving as the primary liaison between Health Service and the architects and construction firms, and drawing specs for the clinic to better match modern college health. “When they found out I could read drawings, it was kind of natural,” Alexander said. Alexander was made interim executive director in 2010 and full-time executive director two years after. As executive director, he was appointed to chair the pandemic planning committee and process, which updates the University’s pandemic plan every year. He was also assigned to put together a comprehensive sports medicine program under Health Service. Previously, athletic trainers and the head team physician reported to the athletic department and were concerned only with intercollegiate athletics, he said. Now, the sports medicine program reports to Alexander and is open to all athletic and performing arts organizations. Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president for student affairs, has worked with Alexander for the past five years and asked him to become full-time executive director. She said his diverse background in numerous fields made him the most qualified for the position. “(He’s) an incredibly multi-talented individual. He’s a great engineer. He’s a great businessman, and he’s a great doctor,” Telles-Irvin said. “We’re going to miss him a lot, and we thank him for all his contributions.” Alexander also oversees day-to-day operations of Health Service both in Evanston and Chicago. Susan
Whiting, clinical practice manager at Health Service, said she values Alexander’s calm leadership, despite all the responsibilities of the job. “People around you can be rather excitable about specific issues, but Dr. Alexander (has) — and he’s taught me this — the ability to step back and take a deep breath,” Whiting said. “I’ve found that really valuable.” The time commitments of being executive director restricted him from seeing patients, Alexander said. After stepping down from the position, he plans to spend his time doing so again, he said. An avid sailor, Alexander also said he hopes to take
advantage of the free summer months to go sailing. As the search for his replacement continues, Alexander said he looks back fondly on his time with the University. “Going back to the early 70s, I’ve been at Northwestern in one way, shape or form more than I have been away from Northwestern,” Alexander said. “I feel very, very fortunate that I’ve been able to be affiliated with Northwestern in so many different ways for so many different years.”
Court nominees released by the Trump campaign Wednesday. Joan Larsen (School of Law ‘93) and Diane Sykes (Medill ‘80) are two of the 11 people Trump is considering to fill the seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. Six of the candidates currently serve on U.S. courts of appeal and the other five serve on state Supreme Courts.
“The following list of potential Supreme Court justices is representative of the kind of constitutional principles I value and, as President, I plan to use this list as a guide to nominate our next United States Supreme Court Justices,” Trump said in a news release. Larsen graduated from the University of Northern Iowa and Pritzker School of Law. She serves as a justice on the Michigan Supreme Court
and previously taught at the School of Law, as well as the University of Michigan School of Law. Sykes, a former justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, serves as a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She graduated from NU and Marquette University Law School.
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Histories conflict on the evolution of Dillo Day By KELLEY CZAJKA
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As students anticipate the arrival of artists such as ScHoolboy Q and The Mowgli’s to the Lakefill on Saturday, few likely stop to think about how Dillo Day became a trademark part of the Northwestern experience. “There’s lots of lore around it,” said Mayfest spokeswoman Elisa O’Neal, a SESP senior. “There are really a lot of things that could totally be true, we just don’t know how they all tie together. … I don’t think a lot of Northwestern students really question it, and if they did they’d be like ‘why does this exist?’” Although there is little definitive proof of how Dillo Day started, the story Mayfest tells is that a group of students from Texas gathered in 1972 to celebrate the armadillo, an iconic animal in their home state, said Mayfest spokesman Ben Bass, a Communication junior. A memo from 1973 outlined the first annual “I Don’t Think We’re In Kansas Anymore” Festival and Fair presented by Armadillo Productions. The event was described as an afternoon on Deering Meadow in which student organizations would operate booths — from fortune telling to body painting — to have fun through active participation rather than expensive, passive entertainment. Donald Stout (Weinberg ‘73), who said he founded what is now known as Dillo Day, said the event arose out of a desire to create a spring festival that wasn’t related to Spring Thing, an event geared toward members of
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Greek life. “Our thinking was, ‘Hey, we don’t fit into that, it’s so dominated by the Greeks, let’s do something different,’” he said. ”And out of several nights of marijuana smoke-filled rooms, this idea arose.” But another document provided a different origin story. In a memo from the University Archives, titled “Dillo Day: How It All Began,” Richard Gochnauer (McCormick ‘72), president of the 1971 Interfraternity Council, said IFC and the Panhellenic Association pooled their excess money to fund a school-wide party with five bands that would play all afternoon and into the night. But in an 2005 email from Stout to a University archivist, Stout contended that the story about IFC funding was an inaccurate depiction of the founding of the annual tradition, and his non-Greek-affiliated festival is what developed into the modern version of Dillo Day. Although Mayfest is now a student organization, it hasn’t always been. According to a 1980 article from The Daily, Mayfest was a several-day festival founded in 1977 as a combination of other springtime events. That year’s festival comprised 70 events over a period of 10 days. Mary Recktenwalt (McCormick ‘84) said she remembers Armadillo Day — what it was called during her time at NU — as a schoolwide event. “If you hadn’t seen some of your friends in a while, then that would be the place to go ‘cause you knew that if you spent the whole day there you would run into people that you hadn’t seen in awhile so it was a big deal,”
Recktenwalt said. “It was just a time for everybody to just kick back and relax and eat and listen to music and just kind of hang out.” Today, although Mayfest still centers on Dillo Day, organizers said they try to put on diverse events that appeal to as many students as possible. O’Neal said many people only know Mayfest as the people who put on Dillo Day when in reality, they are responsible for putting on events from Battle of the DJs to Mayhem, a free student variety show held at World of Beer, 1601 Sherman Ave. O’Neal said the various events have one common thread. “We think music has a way of bringing people together so our events find a lot of different ways to do that,” she said. The histories of Dillo Day and Mayfest are far from concrete, and there’s no question that they have evolved significantly over the years. For instance, 10 straight days of programming and a costume contest with a prize of a horseback ride across Deering Meadow are things of the past. Stout said he is surprised that the festival has lasted more than four decades. Although no one he worked with intended for it to leave a long legacy, it makes sense that other students wanted to build off the success of his festival, Stout said. “But maybe some group will decide, ‘We’re tired of this, we want something alternative’ and maybe something else will start,” he said. “That wouldn’t be a bad thing either. Things need to get disrupted once in awhile, that’s a good thing.” kelleyczajka2019@u.northwestern.edu
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The Syndicate has triumphed in Battle of the Bands and will take the stage Saturday at Dillo Day’s mainstage at 1 p.m. A version of the group named Syndicated Traphouse performed at Dillo Day in 2014. The Daily sat down with two members of the nine-piece band, Bienen senior and trombonist Cameron Kerl and Bienen and Weinberg junior Alex Warshawsky, the group’s bassist, to talk about their expectations for Dillo Day, future projects and more. The Daily: How would you describe The Syndicate’s style or sound? Alex Warshawsky: It definitely draws on a lot of different sounds and we’re trying to
find our own. The one we stick with is groove music — we’re really trying to make people bounce and to get to that, we draw on funk, hip-hop and jazz mostly, in addition to whatever other influences. The Daily: How does it feel to win Battle of the Bands? Warshawsky: It was just so much fun this year, playing the last slot of Battle and the whole audience was loving it and it was super live and lit in 27 Live. Everyone was bouncing with us and then after we finished our set, the Mayfest representative (came out) and the crowd was shouting our name, so it was pretty clear that we did well. The Daily: How has your sound changed since the last time you played Dillo Day in 2014? Cameron Kerl: Our musical sound since then has become more cohesive and we’ve become tighter as a band, so we’re able to give a much more effective live show and over time we’ve built up a nice fan base. Warshawsky: Since last Dillo we’ve written a ton of new music and we’ve developed our sound. … In terms of the Battle, we only had a week in between so we actually had a marathon rehearsal (Tuesday night) trying to figure out some new stuff. … Ideally we would have
had a month or two in between Battle and Dillo to learn some new songs but it’ll be good because we can play some of our fan favorites plus a couple of new tunes. The Daily: Do you have any hints for what you’re playing ? Warshawsky: I’ll just say a couple fan favorites and we changed up a really well known song, gave it a little reggae cover, and I think people will definitely recognize it and be singing along, so it will be fun. My hint for that is, “bounce bounce.” The Daily: Do you have any favorite Dillo Day memories? Warshawsky: The first year (I went) was beautiful out, we played and then I packed up and came back to the stage for Chance the Rapper’s set, which was incredible. I’ve never see that band live. They’re similar to us in that they draw from all these different influences. They come a little bit more from gospel, but it’s that same idea of using hip-hop as a platform but drawing off jazz and gospel and funk, so it’s cool seeing them do that live, in the model for what we’re trying to do. The Daily: Why is it important for student artists to play at Dillo Day? Kerl: It’s a great opportunity to get the kind of experience that these professional groups get all the time, and being up on stage like that is really eye-opening because there’s no other experience like that in school. Dillo
Day, Battle of the Bands is great — it’s honestly been a great motivator for bands to come together and get a set because every year I’ll hear different bands at Battle of the Bands and they all have unique sounds and it’s always impressive to see that. Warshawsky: There’s enough of a good music scene on this campus that deserves to be represented. For us specifically, which I can speak to, we’ve been working really hard at recording, making videos and playing house shows all the time and developing a following, so it’s fitting of Mayfest to recognize all that work and all of that following that’s accumulating and give us the slot, because we are a big part of the campus music scene. The Daily: What’s next for the Syndicate? Warshawsky: I know that Thaddeus (Tukes), for example has been working with Donnie Trumpet, and he was actually on (Chance and Donnie’s) recent album, “Surf.” … We’re trying to figure out how we can get a recording project done here at school, with the resources we have, and I think we have pretty good resources where we can make an EP happen real soon, hopefully this year. weizheyang2018@u.northwestern.edu
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By EMILY CHIN
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Indie-rock band The Mowgli’s will open the Dillo Day main stage this year. The California-based band is known for its upbeat music, including singles “I’m Good” and “San Francisco.” The Daily spoke with band member Katie Jayne Earl about her experience leading up to Dillo Day. The Daily: What most excites you about performing at Dillo Day? Earl: Honestly, just the show. We’ve been working on so much new material and it’s going to be one of the first times that we get to really try some of these new songs and see how people like them and see what the reaction is like and that’s one of our favorite things to do, just to play shows and get the crowd excited. The Daily: What is it like performing at student music festivals compared to other events? Is there a different vibe? Earl: Students just work a little extra hard for that fun. They’re in the middle of school so they’ve been taking tests and studying and dealing with all of that college life stuff and they really feel like they’ve earned themselves a good time when they get to a festival. The Daily: The Mowgli’s are known for having a very positive, happy, upbeat vibe with positive messages. Where does this come from and where do those messages originate? Earl: A lot of us grew up listening to a lot of emo music. It’s all we listened to in high school, bands like Saves the Day and Dashboard Confessional and these bands that express themselves in kind of a sad way. I think a lot of the boys grew up playing music like that. And then it became this thing where it was more challenging to express ourselves in a meaningful way using joyful art, rather than making sad art. And that just became a challenge. Sometimes it’s a little easier to write out your sad feelings and talk about your sad feelings. … It’s a little more of a challenge to do that all with a joyful message and with a joyful sound. We opted to take
that challenge and to express ourselves in a more positive way. And that doesn’t mean that we’ll never make music that is sad; it’s just that we use this project to channel those positive emotions and those positive things that we’re feeling. The Daily: How does your music in general relate to college students specifically? Earl: We’re all different ages in the band, and you’re getting a lot of perspective about people going through some of those things that you’re going through at that age: finding yourself, figuring out who you are, falling in love with yourself, falling out of love with yourself, falling in and out of love with other people. I think with The Mowgli’s you get that perspective — you get a woman’s perspective, you get a 20-something-yearold’s perspective, you get an older person who’s been through it’s perspective because there’s so many of us and we’ve had so many different experiences. We come together when we write those songs and we share our experiences. I think that college students who are currently going through that can listen to the music and relate to it because you’re … listening to somebody who’s been through it. The Daily: What’s your favorite part about making music? Why do you choose to do this as a career? Earl: I have a passion for entertainment. I love putting on a show. I love performing live. I love playing this character that even though it’s ourselves on stage, it’s this enhanced version of ourselves. That’s really what I live for. It’s my favorite thing to do, whether it’s music or comedy or any kind of physical performance, that’s really what I’m passionate about. If you ask the same question to some of the other Mowgli’s, they’re passionate about writing, they’re passionate about playing, for me it’s really all about entertainment. I love being an entertainer and I wouldn’t want any other job in the world. The Daily: How do you engage people in your live performances and how do you plan on engaging students at Dillo Day? Earl: I think what we do to engage people is we just make sure we put on the very best show we can. If every single person on stage is giving it 100 percent and putting out
By STAVROS AGORAKIS
the daily northwestern @stavrosagorakis
In a new escape room that will appear on the Lakefill for Dillo Day this Saturday, the main attraction will be none other than a virtual caged armadillo. A partnership between Mayfest and Lock Chicago, an interactive escape room venue that opened earlier this year at 1601 Sherman Ave., resulted in the Dillo Day-themed space. In the room, participants will compete against time to solve a series of puzzles — based on knowledge they have about the largest student-run music festival in the country — to free the armadillo, said Bane Srdjevic, co-designer of the room. Escape rooms, which are inspired by the immersive qualities of video games, typically challenge teams of two to eight players to find clues and escape from the space within a 60-minute time limit. In this particular room, each team will only be allotted 20 minutes to solve fewer but “equally complex” puzzles, said Srdjevic, who co-owns Lock Chicago. “It will be fun for people in a shorter amount of time, but it will give them the same amount of rush an hour-long escape room does,” he said. Srdjevic said the design of the room veers away from the standard murder mystery plot and will instead be more “fun and lighthearted” in that it will relate to Dillo Day’s theme and history. Mayfest spokesman Ben Bass said the space will be an “exciting” addition to the Lakefill, because it is a novel opportunity for students who have not yet had the chance to experience an escape room.
all of their energy and putting out everything that they have inside of them, then I believe that kind of thing is contagious. So if we go out there and we give 125 percent of our energy, people pick up on it and then they start putting out all of their energy and the people around them start putting out all of theirs. The Daily: If you could ask for one thing on Dillo Day what would it be? Earl: I hope in particular for this show that everyone who comes to the performance leaves feeling better than they came. If everybody who shows up to that performance leaves and walks away feeling five, 10 times better than they did when they got. emilychin2018@u. northwestern.edu than working each scene rep etitively du ring film ing , the act ors scr ipt as a bas e for impro use d the vis ation. Th e film is Szy mansk i’s featureActor Adam DeVine doe sn’t just cry film directori al debut. Since graduin movies, he “spit cries.” ati ng from the Sch ool of CommuDeVine showc ase d his spit-crying nic ation, he has worke d on “Funny abi lities to more than 40 students at or Die,” a comedy video The Ro ck on We dnesd website and ay afternoon. pro duction compan y, and “Saturday “Spit crying is my favori te becaus e Night Live.” in movies when anyon e ever cries, a “(Afte r you gra du ate ) few tears like rol l down their che eks cut you r tee th an d try you get to an d it’s all sto ic an d a be au tif ul,” stuff and have a litt le mo bu nc h of DeVine told The Daily. re fre edom “But I look to learn and fai l,” he tol like a f—— monster wh d The Daily. en I cry. Like “You see wh at you’re go od at an d I’m just like ‘blehh hh hh .’” wh at you r stren gth s are an De Vin e an d dir ect or Jak e Szy - works , an d yo u jus t kee d wh at manski (C ommunication p ma kin g ‘04) visite d big ger and big ger thing s.” Northwestern on We dn esd ay to proSzymanski said he began mote their comedy film his career , “Mike and in comedy by act ing as a per for mer, Dave Ne ed We dding Da tes,” which is hea d wr ite r an d dir ector in NSTV. set to be releas ed July 8. The movie Af ter gradu ating , he add is about two brothers, portraye d by ize d he wante d to con ed, he rea ltinue ma king De Vin e an d Za c Efron , wh o have people laugh. been ordere d by their par ents to find Co mm un ica tio n sen dates for their sister’s up ior Da vid coming wed- Brown, who attended the Q&A sesding in Hawaii. sion wit h De Vin e an d Szy mansk i, De Vin e, kn ow n for his rol es in said it was interesting to “Pitch Per fec t” and “W hear about orkaholics” Szymanski’s journe y fro m wr iting for told The Daily many of the lines the NSTV to bec om ing a feature-f ilm cast improvis ed made the final cut, director. as the film’s fou r lea d actors have “I seek the se thi ng s ou had pre vious exp erienc t bec aus e e in comedy I’m getting ver y ner vou s about gradand improv. uat ing , so it’s alw ays nic e to hear a “We use d a lot of what we played mix of the sor t of hig her cre ative idearo un d wi th,” De Vin e sai d. “We als mi xed wit h how the y got the ir (improvis ed ) so mu ch an d (Sz y- first jobs,” he said. mansk i) threw so many dif ferent In finding projects he is lin es at us. Fro m wa passionate tch ing the about, Szy mansk i told The Daily he movie back, there are cer tai looks for people who val wh ere I’m lik e, ‘I don’t n scenes ue the work rem ember rat her than the payche ck. say ing that.’” “I have bee n ver y lucky On set, Szy mansk i trie to work d to main- wit h people I enj oy wo tai n an op en spa ce in rki ng wit h,” wh ich the Szy mansk i said. “I know act ors cou ld try ad din this sounds g the ir ow n kind of simple, but it’s not always that ide as to each scene, he said to more way.” tha n 30 stu de nts du rin g a Q& A mo derate d by Northwe stern Sketch emilychin2018@u.northweste Television. DeVine add rn.edu ed that rat her agorakis@u.northwestern.edu By EMILY CHIN and STA
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“People are going to have a lot of fun with it,” the Communication junior said. “This year our programming team has done a great job of finding some really awesome stuff to do on the Lakefill in addition to watching the musical acts.” The Mayfest partnership with Lock Chicago also gave rise to a “Championship Week,” which took place May 1 to May 8 in the downtown Evanston venue. During that week, NU community members received a 30 percent price discount to compete in the two existing escape rooms, “Sunburn” and “Malfunction.” Lock Chicago co-owner Brian Lee said they decided to host the event in addition to creating the mobile escape room because they want to increase the business’ exposure at NU. Currently, about 6 percent of the Lock Chicago participants stem from the NU student community, he said. “Obviously we were college kids, too, so we know the price point is always going to be a big obstacle,” Lee said. “We wanted to make sure we could provide something that gives them the chance to go in and ties in with the festival.” More than 125 students and faculty competed in the rooms during “Championship Week,” motivating the Lock Chicago owners to plan to host similar events twice a year, Lee said. Moreover, Lee said they hope to expand to a new space in Evanston toward the end of the year to fit more rooms, which they are currently designing. The mobile escape room tent will stand opposite the food truck line May 21, near the WNUR stage. agorakis@u.northwestern.edu
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Open admission, selective applications can coexist COLIN WANG
DAILY COLUMNIST
On Sunday, The Daily reported that Northwestern plans to move toward open admission policies for student groups that use University resources. Brent Turner, the executive director of Campus Life, said this new plan is part of an ongoing quest for greater accessibility. Turner said that beginning some time next year, NU will no longer recognize new organizations that reject students. This new announcement has generated polarized reactions. Some vehemently oppose the goal. On Monday, columnist Jacob Altstadt wrote that “closed admission allows the organization to screen unfit candidates and maintain an optimal level of talent” and “by banning applications school-wide, the University would
cripple the entire worth of its extracurricular life.” There are also those that are very much in favor of the new goal. A major reason for their support is that open admission would get rid of the current application process used by many exclusive groups. A common process for joining many student groups entails filling out a one- to two-page application and interviewing with a current member of the group. I believe both reactions are valid. On one hand, forcing student groups to take in anyone and everyone could be detrimental to a cohesive group culture and make it harder to build meaningful relationships among members. On the other hand, the current application process is flawed because it reduces all applicants to their applications and the claims that they make in their interviews. Embracing open admissions does not mean we have to abandon selective applications. Student groups should use the open admission policy to improve the quality of their core
members and leaders. Open admissions would create a large and diverse pool of general members. And by holding events that general members could attend, those with true commitment could distinguish themselves and show their alignment with the student group’s mission. The experience that general members would gain at these events would solidify their reasons for joining and strengthen their applications for core membership and leadership positions. The idea of having general membership brings up the aforementioned concern that having too many members makes it difficult for all members to build substantial relationships. Building such relationships should not be the purpose of general membership. General membership should be treated as a free trial period. Core membership and the benefits that come with it should still be earned by general members that stand out and take more active roles in the group. Another concern with the idea of general membership is the potential costs to the
student group. If NU is going to mandate that all student groups open their doors to everyone, then the school must commit to drastically increase funding for student groups and further streamline the process for accessing funds. The bottom line is that NU, as an educational institution, has a responsibility to make learning opportunities accessible to all students. The new open admissions goal should not aim to coddle rejected students. Rather, it should provide a more welcoming and meaningful experience that enriches the college experience of all interested students, even those that do not become group leaders or committee members. Colin Wang is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be contacted at colinwang2018@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.
Dillo Day lineup demands talk of females in music JESSICA SCHWALB
DAILY COLUMNIST
We seem to have exhausted the belittling of Mayfest on social media for last year’s cancellation of Dillo Day. Instead, perhaps we should be asking them to provide Northwestern with more female artists so as to break the male-dominated studio space in popular music. The WNUR side stage will feature two female performers, but this year’s Dillo Day, like much of the music industry, is largely male-dominated. Looking at this weekend’s Dillo lineup should compel us to reflect on women’s role and agency as performers, producers and consumers of music. The need for and impact of positive female role models is unquestionable. The music industry has no shortage of women whom
Mayfest could consider bringing: Missy Elliott, Grimes, St. Vincent, Sylvan Esso or MIA. From Mitski to Girlpool, leading ladies are killing the indie and punk scene. Soulection’s Sosoupersam and New York-native Vashti both hold down the turntables. Rock, blues, rap and EDM are all within our lady fingers’ grasp. Where best to showcase female musical prowess than at Dillo, where the purpose could be to have fun and be inspired by such women? It might be easy to look at the list of possible female performers above and conclude that the music industry might be the one place without a gender gap. But female performers rarely get the recognition they deserve, evident in our male-heavy lineup. And on the other side of the studio glass, the story is very different: Women account for less than 5 percent of music producers, and most production companies and record labels feature more men throughout their organizational hierarchy. Women are rarely the biggest earners of
the music industry. To be sure, female producers have created some of our most iconic songs and albums, from “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” to “Rapper’s Delight” to “I Am Sasha Fierce.” These women are the exception, however, and not the rule. Medium’s Cuepoint analysis of the music industry’s sexism concludes: “Female producers, mixers, engineers, designers and editors are few and far between, and the ones who do exist are consistently overlooked and discounted.” Yet for women in the music industry, getting through the studio door is hardly enough. Male executives and consumers alike tell female performers they won’t be successful unless hypersexualized. Female performers are usually slotted into well-established archetypes: the diva, the dancer, the girlnext-door and the “dainty songstress,” describes The Fader. When men dictate and profit from these archetypes, women have far less agency to determine their own
image. The most insidious example of male dominance in the music industry is Sony Music’s refusal to release singer Kesha from her contract with producer Dr. Luke despite allegations that he sexually abused her, which has sparked the #freeKesha campaign. The implications of a lack of female representation and power in music, from production to profits, are wide-reaching and range from subtle to unsafe. To see more women performing at Dillo this weekend would have been a muchneeded confirmation in our community that female performers and producers alike deserve recognition and representation, even, and especially on, our Lakefill. Jessica Schwalb is a Weinberg freshman. She can be contacted at jessicaschwalb2019@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.
Henry Bienen is incorrect on foreign policy suggestion DANNY COOPER
DAILY COLUMNIST
At an event earlier this week, former University President Henry Bienen criticized President Barack Obama’s foreign policy as not assertive enough. Bienen identified Obama’s reluctance to use force outside of drone strikes as a problem. However, the force that Obama exercises through drone strikes has actually been overly aggressive. Obama’s drone strikes have endangered civilians and harbored enmity for the United States in the Middle East, all while circumventing the U.S. legal system. Too often, drone strikes cause significant collateral damage. According to a report from The Intercept, over a five-month period during a previous campaign in Afghanistan, almost 90 percent of those killed in airstrikes were
not the targets. The same report suggests that U.S. designates men killed in drone strikes as terrorists unless contrasting evidence emerges posthumously, minimizing the number of reported civilian casualties. The only times the U.S. seems willing to admit mistakes is when they are truly egregious and cannot easily be hidden, such as the bombing of an Afghani Doctors Without Borders hospital in late 2015. Obviously the U.S. should be attempting to eliminate its enemies abroad, but doing so with such little regard for the civilians who surround their targets is callous. Such reckless attacks not only harm the communities in which people are killed, but can also engender distrust and hatred for the U.S. In the aftermath of a tragic drone strike, terrorist organizations can capitalize on the anger and sadness of those left behind to spread anti-American and anti-Western sentiments. There is a strong belief in Pakistan that drone strikes motivate terrorist groups to attack both Pakistani police forces and civilians.
Drone strikes can be inspirational for domestic terrorists, too. Both the Underwear Bomber and the Times Square Bomber listed drone strikes as part of their motivation. Though both of their attacks failed, it is clear that drone strikes have a powerful emotional impact even for those outside of the Middle East. These strikes threaten more than the citizens and infrastructure of the United States; they sometimes shake the foundation of our hallowed legal system. In 2011, Anwar Al-Awlaki, an American cleric and alleged Al-Qaeda operative, was killed while hiding in Yemen. Though perhaps morally justified, Obama had authorized the killing of an American citizen without constitutionally-guaranteed due process. A Justice Department memo deemed the action lawful due to extraordinary circumstances including the inability to capture Al-Awlaki, but the move set an unsettling precedent. For all the damage drone strikes inflict upon
people, families and in some cases the law itself, it’s unclear if it is even the best method for fighting terrorist operatives around the globe. I’m not suggesting boots on the ground would be more effective, but rather that it is difficult to fight an ideological war with firepower. It’s a lesson we should take from Cold War conflicts and, even more recently, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Too often, over-aggression leads to alienation of the people the campaign is intended to help. Because of this, a call for increased force is misguided. Instead, the U.S. should reduce the usage of drone strikes to avoid creating even more senseless violence and discord in the Middle East. Danny Cooper is a Medill freshman. He can be contacted at danielcooper2019@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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ASG election guidelines may change after leaks By ERICA SNOW
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Following election leaks during April’s presidential campaign, election commissioner Lauren Thomas presented potential changes Wednesday at Associated Student Government Senate to the election guidelines that would give more power to the election commission to punish campaigns that violate rules. The proposed changes would make the election commissioner the only authorized person to communicate with campaigns on behalf of the commission. It would also require future campaigns to inform the election commission within 30 minutes after any unlawful information is received, barring extenuating circumstances. The reforms would also allow the commission to remove a campaign from the ballot while polls are open or to invalidate votes retroactively if campaigns are found in violation. Senate will vote on the changes next week. “The commission has essentially no power when the polls are open, which is when violations are probably most likely to happen because that’s when people are really eager to get out the vote,” Thomas said. “Our only violation this entire year came when the polls were open, so we wanted to give the commission more power. … This will prevent any leaks from affecting the campaign in the future.” Thomas, a Weinberg junior, issued a violation against SESP junior Christina Cilento and McCormick junior Macs Vinson after a member of the election commission told Cilento the voting margin was “extremely close” and within five to 10 votes while polls were still open. Among other supporters, Cilento sponsored the reform, along with her opponent during the presidential campaign, Weinberg junior Joji Syed. Cilento said because her campaign’s violation was unprecedented, it made dealing with it more stressful because no one knew how to proceed. She said she supported the changes because they would clearly outline violations and the
proper punishment procedure. “It’s not like I look at this and I’m offended because it attacks me in any way — it doesn’t,” Cilento said. “It’s just saying that things need to run smoother in future years. Obviously there needs to be a way that we can ensure that students trust the election results in future years, and this presents that avenue to make sure that we do better in the future.” Syed agreed the resolution wasn’t a partisan issue but a step forward in improving the accountability of elections. “We all can agree that over the past two months, we realized the shortcomings of the current commission guidelines,” Syed said. “To ensure that no other student has to go through what this campus went through this past year and this past election cycle, I wanted to be part of the process that fixed the wrongs that our election guidelines had within them.” The reform would give the commission “more teeth” and fill a “lapse” in the guidelines about the legality of information sharing, Thomas said. She plans to propose an amendment next week that would allow only the election commissioner, not every member of the seven-person commission, access to voting margin data while polls are open. Later in the meeting, Senate approved ASG’s internal budget, presented last week by Cilento and Vinson. More than $73,000 will be allocated to various grants, stipends and committees to fund ASG expenses. Included is $10,000 for the Student Engagement Stipend, which failed to be disbursed this academic year. Cilento said she met with Kourtney Cockrell, the director of Student Enrichment Services, to discuss opportunities to partner with SES in administering the stipend. Weinberg junior Eric Oringer, vice president for A-status finances, also presented the funding plan for more than 40 student groups for senators to approve or reject next week. The A-status finances committee recommended the allocation of more than $1.1 million out of the nearly $1.6 million requested total. ericasnow2019@u.northwestern.edu
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Susannah—a pretty and well-mannered young woman of humble origins—faces jealousy and hostility from her rural Tennessee church community in this story of religious hypocrisy and innocence lost. Carlisle Floyd’s dramatic work was awarded the 1956 New York Music Critics Circle Award for Best New Opera. This 60th-anniversary production is also the opera’s Northwestern premiere. Performed in English.
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As the yearlong celebration of the new Ryan Center for the Musical Arts draws to a close, the ensemble welcomes 30 distinguished brass and percussion alumni to perform the first half of the evening’s concert. The program also features arrangements and compositions by Northwestern alumni Timothy Higgins, Brett William Dietz, and Michael Martin. Featuring Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, Dmitri Shostakovich’s Festive Overture (arr. Michael Martin), Brett William Dietz’s Pandora’s Box, and the world premiere of Michael Martin’s Lontano: Symphony for Wind Ensemble.
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Supplies cost question may be added to new CTECs When a group of faculty, students and administrators meet next year to discuss changes to the Course and Teacher Evaluation Council system, they will consider adding a question asking students to report how much they spent on course materials. This quarter’s CTECs will be formatted the same as usual, but Northwestern is still adding classes to a new course and teacher evaluation software pilot, said University registrar Jacqualyn Casazza. The software, Blue, will replace NU’s old system for CTEC. Blue has more flexibility in formatting and more advanced reporting capabilities, she said. Casazza said administrators want to have a good understanding of Blue before making changes to CTECs.
“We wanted to make sure that we knew what the options were before we decided what changes we wanted to make, because, of course, the available options might influence how we ask the questions,” she said. The group will also review recommendations from the 2015 Faculty Task Force on the Undergraduate Academic Experience, Casazza said. Among other things, the task force recommended that the University require instructors to announce course materials before class registration. To help students know about course expenditures, CTECs could include a section asking how much students spent on course materials, said Ron Braeutigam, associate provost for undergraduate education. He said it helps to hear about cost from students who have already completed a particular course, as it is difficult for professors to determine how much a student will spend on course materials. Braeutigam, for example, teaches an economics
course and said students can get several different versions of the same textbook, each of which has a different price. The new CTECs question could be similar to an existing section that asks students how much time they spent on the course, he said. “I think we could add something like that that would give students a much better picture of expenditures,” Braeutigam said. Casazza said administrators have discussed the idea of asking students how much they spent on course materials. However, a decision has not yet been made, she said. The question could help students know how much to spend even if they don’t know exactly which textbooks they will need before course registration, Braeutigam said. Although a federal law requires professors to disclose textbooks prices “to the maximum extent practicable” in advance of course registration, he said it is sometimes difficult
to do so. Braeutigam himself was unable to disclose course materials prior to registration for a freshman seminar he taught because the textbook he wanted to use was supposed to be published near the start of the quarter. “I held off on ordering books until I knew whether it was going to be published or not,” he said. Despite the difficulties, the registrar is working with department chairs and other administrators on providing textbook information earlier than before, Braeutigam said. If students know which textbooks they will need, they can shop around and find the best deals, he said. “What we are going to try to do in the best way possible is to get the departments to provide that information in a more timely fashion,” Braeutigam said.
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concerns that such a change could dilute the experience for students who are admitted to selective groups. Weinberg junior Kathir Sundarraj, one of the resoluWe can tion’s authors, said think of more Northwestern’s student groups should be effective ways more inclusive, but a to include proposal that would make most of them students on open isn’t a “nuanced this campus solution.” “We can think of Kathir Sundarraj, more effective ways to Weinberg junior include students on this campus,” he said. He also said an open group proposal would “fuel a culture of overcommitment,” as students wouldn’t face the same weeding out that happens now. Medill sophomore Ross Krasner, ASG vice president for community relations, sponsored the resolution. Krasner said he hopes a possible change doesn’t include a mandate, but rather steps such as making admissions policies more fair and creating new student groups if there’s overflow in student interest. “There’s a lot of steps that can be taken besides a mandate,” Krasner told The Daily. “I was glad to hear Brent speak today.”
spoken. Klein said when he saw that the editor had tweeted about the exchange, he immediately called back and apologized for any “misunderstanding.” “It was never my intention to leave the impression that the Huffington Post editor’s voice had anything to do with her writing ability,” Klein said in the email. “I wanted to make sure the misunderstanding didn’t hurt the student’s chances and I was assured it wouldn’t.” Klein said he had “strongly recommended” the
student seeking the Huffington Post internship. Later Wednesday afternoon, Terkel tweeted that she appreciated the professor’s apology. Terkel told The Daily earlier in the day that it was “unnecessary and unhelpful” for a Medill faculty member to “attack” a journalist who is interested in hiring a Medill student. University spokesman Bob Rowley said the University had no comment as of Wednesday afternoon. Terkel said the incident is indicative of a more widespread sexism in the news industry, particularly surrounding the way women speak. Certain word choices or “vocal fry” — the low crackle a voice can
make when a word is drawn out — can make some listeners think a woman “sounds dumb,” Terkel said. “Policing women’s voices is something that goes on quite a bit,” Terkel said. “Often I have people thinking I’m younger than I am or making assumptions about my age. I have a coworker who mentioned to me she was doing an interview, and someone kept telling her she’s too young to be a reporter.” Despite the encounter, Terkel said she still has “great respect” for Medill and Northwestern and that many Huffington Post reporters are Medill alumni.
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the code, it got a lot easier.” Xiao said he’ll keep working on the extension to make CAESAR even better. For example, he plans to add course names to shopping cart items and to enlarge the buttons that select a particular quarter for enrollment. Weinberg sophomore Michelle Cao, who used Regal while registering for Fall Quarter classes, said the extension made navigating CAESAR much less frustrating. “Usually it’s really time consuming to search through classes and read CTECs, and I feel like the whole class registration process is a bit tedious,” she said. “Having this new resource made everything a lot smoother, especially being able to add classes without the hassle of scrolling through lists.” Ann Dronen, director of Northwestern University Information Technology’s Student Enterprise Systems, did not respond to a request for comment.
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Ventura of Oklahoma State. Wu tied for the tournament lead in birdies with 11, and shot 5-under on par-5s over the three days, tying for the lowest score on such holes. “My drive was definitely the best part of my game this week,” Wu said. “I put the ball in play a lot and hit a lot of fairways. I think I drove the ball perfectly.” The 2016 season represented a return to the NCAA Regionals after NU failed to qualify in 2015. This year’s seventh place finish was a significant improvement on the Cats’ previous regional performance, when they finished in last place in San Antonio in 2014. Freshman Ryan Lumsden was NU’s secondhighest finisher, shooting 12-over to tie for 22nd overall. Sophomore Sam Triplett finished 18-over, while seniors Andrew Whalen and Josh Jamieson finished 26 and 32-over, respectively. “I hit some really good iron shots,” Lumsden said. “I was also able to fight through some adversity quite well. I didn’t let bad holes bother me, and I also bounced back and made a few good birdies.” NU opened the tournament with an impressive 12-over round Monday, good enough to tie for third headed into Tuesday’s round. The wheels came off Tuesday, however, as the Cats shot the worst round of any team that
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lessons I took with them. I knew that I was going to be here in the fall (of 2015), so I might as well get a grad degree.” At the end of her collegiate career, Niedospial finished second in Wildcats history in digs with 1,788 and in 2015 ranked second in the Big Ten in digs per set at 4.66. Looking back on her career at NU, Niedospial said she wished she could have told her freshman self to just relax and be in the moment more, a lesson she said she learned during her last year on the team. She said she also learned to not be too hard on herself for making mistakes because sometimes, they are inevitable. “I remember I used to get so mad at myself after making a mistake, and I would beat myself up for it for hours after the game,” Niedospial said.
day, shooting 31-over to drop to eighth place. “The second round was just so disappointing,” Inglis said. “We weren’t able to grind out a decent score. We couldn’t do things that we’ve really worked hard at and practiced for, being ready to compete when we had some adversity. We weren’t tough enough on Tuesday.” NU closed the tournament with a solid 15-over performance Wednesday, moving up to seventh. Scores throughout the week were high on the Karsten Creek course, as the difficult greens and overall length of the course challenged the golfers from all over the country. “The golf course was just incredibly tough,” Inglis said. “It was really demanding, not only off the tee, but the greens were fast. It was definitely the toughest test we’ve seen all year.” The seventh-place finish for the Cats was the best end to a season in the career of both Jamieson and Whalen, whose previous best finish came their freshman year when NU finished eighth in their regional. Inglis, despite the team’s less-than spectacular finish, said he feels confident about the program moving forward. “For sure it’s a step forward in the right direction after not making regionals,” Inglis said. “In pieces we had it. We had the essence and core of a good team. We just never put all of it together and played a great tournament.” josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern.edu “You just gotta get right back up and make a play at the next ball.” What started as a desire to be like her older sister turned into a lifelong passion and driving force for Niedospial. After completing her senior season, Niedospial said she doesn’t want to leave volleyball behind and she plans to pursue a professional volleyball career in the fall. Her toughest critic and inspiration, the older Niedospial, said her biggest regret in her career is never getting to play alongside her younger sister. Sarah Niedospial said her sister’s strength and drive has defined her volleyball career and stood out through her accomplishments on the court, off the court and everywhere in between. “It kind of came full circle,” said Sarah Niedospial. “She always grew up idolizing me, and now I idolize her.” sophiemann2018@u.northwestern.edu
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Sometimes younger siblings follow each other into sports. Eli followed Peyton into the NFL. Five Sutter brothers followed the eldest, Brian, into the NHL. And senior Caroline “Carks” Niedospial followed older sister, Sarah, into collegiate volleyball. Niedospial, who got her nickname from being unable to pronounce “Caroline” as a toddler, began her volleyball career at age seven after going with her older sister to practices and tournaments. Sarah Niedospial’s love for the game, in addition to Caroline Niedospial’s admiration of her older sister, got the younger Niedospial hooked. “I was very obsessed with it,” Caroline Niedospial said of her early volleyball days. “I missed some of (Sarah’s) games sometimes because I’d be practicing on another court. Eventually, I started playing club and I loved that and the rest is history.” Niedospial said her entire family’s involvement in the sport, including her cousins, aunt and mother, helped her improve. They would play together at family events and her aunt coached a club team consisting of Niedospial and her cousins. The Niedospial sisters’ mutual love of volleyball strengthened their relationship. After the older Niedospial graduated college, she returned to Chicago’s Marist High School, where she — and her sister — played. Sarah Niedospial was the head coach while her sister was on the team, and said she pushed her younger sister harder than everyone
else. “I knew her potential was really great; we kind of butted heads when I coached her, but it made our relationship a lot stronger because she really started believing in herself,” Sarah Niedospial said. “Everyone would always talk about my little sister because everyone was always so impressed.” At Marist, Caroline Niedospial started as an outside hitter but eagerly made the switch to libero when she realized she wouldn’t be tall enough to play on the front line in college at only 5-foot-7. In addition to gaining playing experience at Marist, she met Katie Krasowski, her teammate and eventual best friend, who went on to play for Eastern Michigan University. Krasowski said it was Niedospial’s hunger for winning that lit the team’s fire. “She was always a huge driving force between our motivation to win, and you could always count on Carks for a huge dig or a huge point,” Krasowski said. “She’s always there and always motivating us.” During her high school volleyball career, Niedospial was a four-year varsity letter winner, team captain, a Second Team All-American and First Team All-State selection in Illinois, in addition to playing club volleyball. Her dedication to volleyball first blossomed from following in her sister’s footsteps, but it ultimately grew to have greater purpose: playing in the Big Ten, the most competitive collegiate conference in the country. “Since I was like 12 years old, I always had the dream of playing in the Big Ten, so that’s always what motivated me,” Niedospial said. “When I got to high school, I always
had that goal for myself.” Niedospial spent her four years of eligibility playing as Northwestern’s libero and defensive specialist. When she steps on the court, Niedospial turns into a completely different person, from the silly, selfdeprecating woman her family and friends see into someone who “lives and dies on every play,” her sister said. Despite volleyball being her passion and outlet, the game has not always proved an easy road. After her freshman year at NU, Niedospial had an auxiliary bone removed from her foot, which doctors said would help alleviate her persistent foot pain. Unfortunately, the opposite occurred, as she was forced to redshirt and said her feet still give her trouble almost four years later. Even though she missed a year on the court, she said the redshirt was surprisingly beneficial. “During that (redshirt year), I got to watch the game more and that really helped,” Niedospial said. “I kept learning and finally feeling more confident and comfortable.” She didn’t let the pain derail her when she returned. Niedospial returned as a junior and, as she had three years left of playing eligibility, ultimately decided to stay on for a fifth academic year. She will obtain a Master’s degree in June, and said the extra year helped her contribute more to the team and learn more than she could have in four years. “My fifth year I felt really, really experienced, and I’m really happy I got to be there for so long,” Niedospial said. “I got to teach all the younger kids and got to share all the
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Northwestern’s season came to a close Wednesday, as the Wildcats finished seventh in the NCAA Stillwater Regional, finishing 12 strokes behind Purdue, the last team to qualify. NU finished the tournament at 58-over par, while Purdue finished 46-over and champions and hosts Oklahoma State finished 7-over.
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Wildcats end their season in seventh By JOSEPH WILKINSON
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“It was encouraging overall,” coach David Inglis said. “We just weren’t tough enough, and that’s just the unfortunate truth.” The Cats were led once again by sophomore Dylan Wu, who opened the tournament with a blistering 2-under 70 on Monday, but finished 6-over par on a rough Tuesday. He eventually landed tied for sixth at 5-over for the tournament, five strokes behind champion Kristoffer » See MEN’S GOLF, page 11
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COMING UP SHORT Josh Jamieson pumps his fist. The senior finished 32over par at the Stillwater Regional.
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While the rest of the Dilloentranced student body parties on the Lakefill this weekend, the 30 players of Northwestern’s baseball team will fight 700 miles away to avoid setting an infamous record. Less than a week removed from a disastrous series against Cal in which the team was outscored 59-5 over four games, the Wildcats (13-38, 5-16 Big Ten) must sweep the series against the Scarlet Knights (26-26, 8-13) to avoid setting the outright record for the most single-season losses in school history. Given the course of NU’s season thus far and Rutgers’ 5-4 record in conference home games, it will be a difficult task for the Cats. Coach Spencer Allen said he hopes his team will be able to concentrate on their own growth despite the bleak situation. “We’re just looking for guys to get a little bit better,” Allen said. “We’re not focused too much on Rutgers; we’re just focused on ourselves getting better.” Senior pitcher Reed Mason (2-6, 4.15 ERA), who was honored in Monday’s 13-2 Senior Day loss to Cal, will start Thursday for NU, followed by junior Joe Schindler (1-2, 4.15 ERA) on Friday and sophomore Tommy Bordignon (2-3, 4.15 ERA) in the season finale Saturday.
Northwestern vs. Rutgers Piscataway, New Jersey 12 p.m. Thursday
This weekend will also end the collegiate career of senior reliever Jake Stolley. Stolley hasn’t allowed a run in eight of his last 10 appearances — including 3.2 innings pitched in NU’s sweep of Purdue from May 6 to 8 — before a rough Sunday outing against the Golden Bears, when he conceded four runs while recording only two outs. Against Rutgers, he’ll seek to conclude his time with the Cats on a higher note. “(We want to) just build upon what we had last weekend against Purdue and play baseball like we know how to play,” Stolley said. NU holds a 2-1 all-time record against Rutgers but has yet to face the Scarlet Knights since it joined the Big Ten in 2014. Rutgers will also need a sweep, and help from other teams, this weekend to accomplish their goal: to qualify for the conference tournament, for which they must jump three teams in the standings to squeeze into the eight-team field. The hosts’ ability to steal bases could be a major key to the matchup. The Scarlet Knights have attempted 131 stolen bases this season — 33 more than any other Big Ten team — and succeeded on 109 of them. The Cats, meanwhile, have allowed 87 stolen bases against them this year,
almost 20 more than the next highest Big Ten team. NU sophomore catchers Jack Claeys and Mat Jones will likely be tested thoroughly on their pick-off throws to second and third base. On Thursday, the Cats will face Rutgers pitcher Howie Brey, (6-4, 3.27 ERA) who leads the Big Ten in innings (We want to) pitched just build upon this seain what we had last son, a series weekend against opener Purdue and play that will eliminate baseball like we one of the know how to play two teams’ dreams of Jake Stolley, a sweep senior reliever while keeping the other’s alive. Allen said his team will try to “play spoiler” in that momentum-swinging first game. Fresh off of his 200th career hit earlier this month, senior first baseman Zach Jones is thinking even further ahead — he said he sees this weekend’s series as a potential to springboard the team toward the future. “Hopefully … (we can) end the season on a couple wins and just go have fun and play good baseball and hopefully get some momentum for this program moving forward,” Jones said.
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