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SAVING KARL EIKENBERRY Inside administrators’ efforts to preserve the appointment of the former ambassador By JULIA JACOBS and TYLER PAGER daily senior staffers @juliarebeccaj, @tylerpager
Karl Eikenberry had already bought a house in Winnetka. The former United States ambassador to
Afghanistan had been appointed to serve as the first executive director of the Buffett Institute for Global Studies last November. Administrators were gushing about all the new opportunities the wellconnected former U.S. Army leader and Stanford University faculty member would bring when he assumed the position Sept. 1. But debate over Eikenberry’s appointment
mounted during Winter Quarter. Faculty and students questioned whether someone with military experience but without a Ph.D. would be the best person to lead an academic research institute. The Buffett Institute serves as a hub for Northwestern’s programs and research on global issues. As concerns arose over whether he could serve in an environment where many opposed
his appointment, administrators took measures to secure Eikenberry’s place at the university. Days before news broke on April 14 that Eikenberry would no longer serve in the position, Provost Dan Linzer and executive vice president Nim Chinniah flew to California to meet with » See EIKENBERRY, page 8
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Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl discussed recent crime incidents in the city, as well as problems Evanston is having due to the state budget crisis at a town hall Thursday night. The city is experiencing limited funding and a potential threat to revenue because of the budget
impasse — which has gone on for nearly a year, Tisdahl said. She said she has talked to Gov. Bruce Rauner three times as part of her duties as the president of the Northwest Municipal Conference, primarily about her concern with Rauner’s Turnaround Agenda, which advocates for a property tax freeze, restructuring the motor fuel tax and giving local governments the ability to file for federal bankruptcy. Tisdahl said Rauner told her
that under the plan Evanston could have a possibility of declaring bankruptcy — an option the mayor said she wants to avoid. “It’s tremendously important to keep cognizant of the amount of debt we have in this community, and to be sure that we don’t spend ourselves into Gov. Rauner’s scenario of going bankrupt,” she said. Tisdahl told The Daily that » See TOWN HALL, page 7
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in a field office on the second floor of the building by a colleague who called police at 10:19 a.m., said Gloria Graham, University Police assistant vice president and deputy chief of police. He had spoken with someone else in the building 30 minutes beforehand, Olson added. When UP arrived at the scene, Evanston Fire Department officials were already treating the man. The fire department proceeded to take him to Evanston Hospital, 2650 Ridge Ave., Graham said. “It’s tragic,” Olson said. “We went to the wake (Wednesday) night for him. He was a young man. This shouldn’t happen.” The Cook County medical examiner’s office is in the process of determining an official cause of death, Graham said. — Jeremy Margolis
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The Illinois House of Representatives passed a state budget for next fiscal year late Wednesday, despite not passing the budget for 2016 and heavy criticism from Republicans. The proposed budget for fiscal year 2017 passed the House 63-53. It allocates $14.1 billion in general funds spending starting July 1 of this year. However, the proposed budget did not factor in automatic spending for pensions and debt payments, as well as back spending for court-mandated social services because that would have placed the proposal $7.2 billion over budget, according to criticisms by House Republicans. The budget passed 55-2 in the Illinois Senate on May 5 and now goes back to the Senate where it awaits a review of amendments before moving to the governor’s office. However, Gov. Bruce Rauner reiterated in a statement Sunday that he is not willing to sign an unbalanced budget into law.
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A 48-year-old man was arrested Monday morning in connection with stealing a bicycle from an apartment complex in the 900 block of Hinman Avenue. The man, a Chicago resident, took a blueand-silver Schwinn women’s bicycle, valued at $200, from the bicycle room in the complex, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. Dugan said the witness who reported the
Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) was one of seven Democrats to vote against the bill. She said in a statement to press that she voted against the bill because she did believed the state could not afford the proposed allocations, and that passing it through without bipartisan support would not be productive. “My vote was not a vote against social services, organized labor or essential programs — things I have forcefully advocated on behalf of the entire time I’ve been in the General Assembly,” Cassidy said. “It was a vote against doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” On Thursday morning, the bill was put to a re-vote where it passed again in a 60-53 vote, missing three supporters from the night before because they had been absent. No House Republicans voted in favor of the bill on either vote. House Republican Leader Rep. Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) said the proposed budget was the “biggest joke” he had seen in his 18 years in office. “This is a slap in the face to the hard work of the men and women who’ve been working
hard on this, but more importantly a slap in the face to every Illinoisan who wants transparent government,” Durkin said during the budget discussions. “This is a repeat of last year on steroids.” However, House Majority Leader Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie (D-Chicago) said lawmakers have a duty to not repeat the failures of last year. The proposal was an attempt to move forward from their current standstill, she said. Earlier in the year, Illinois legislators passed $600 million in emergency funding for public higher education. However, no social services have received state payments during the budget crisis, which resulted in a coalition of social services suing Rauner and his administration for unpaid contracts in early May. “It is unconscionable this state has failed to do its job during the current fiscal year,” Currie said during budget discussions. “It would be even more unconscionable for us to leave this assembly without taking care of our responsibilities for the fiscal year to come.”
burglary in process, a 35-year-old man who works at the complex, told police he observed two black men he did not recognize as residents in the bicycle room. One of the men took the bicycle and fled westbound on Greenleaf Street. The witness pursued him by car and notified Evanston police, who apprehended him at 10:10 a.m. in the 1000 block of Sherman Avenue. The other man was able to escape while the witness was chasing the man who had taken the bicycle, Dugan said. The arrested man was charged with felony burglary.
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Director, founder of Study Abroad Office to retire Bill Anthony will step down in July after 30 years of work at Northwestern By DAVID FISHMAN
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Bill Anthony comes from a long line of storytellers. Growing up with three siblings, his parents would read him the Sunday comics, from which he acquired a self-professed “irreverent” sense of humor. His grandfather, a dentist, used tales instead of novocaine to narcotize patients. And his wife, Carolyn, is the director of the Skokie Public Library. “Human beings are the only prescient life forms on this planet who narrate in the past tense,” Bill Anthony said. “It’s the glue that bonds us all together — we tell funny stories, sad stories, profound stories. We are born storytellers.” And he has a world’s worth of stories to tell. Anthony, who founded Northwestern’s Study Abroad Office in 1997, will step down as director at the end of this year. Current associate director Alicia Stanley will temporarily take over until the University finds a permanent replacement. During his tenure, the office expanded its international offerings to more than 50 countries, expanded the number of University-affiliated programs more than tenfold and increased how many undergraduates study abroad per year from about 100 to more than 750. “He’s generous with creative ideas and praise,” Stanley wrote in an email to The Daily. “He has a unique gift of balancing seriousness of purpose about our important mission and hard work with a sense of humor, and employs his storytelling abilities at just the right moments.” When Anthony first arrived at the University in 1986 as a German lecturer, he said the study abroad process was in disarray. Separate committees with different standards determined a prospective student’s eligibility to go abroad. One student in SESP, for example, might receive credit for a particular program, while a Weinberg student might not, he said.
In 1997, NU opened its Study Abroad Office with Anthony at the helm. The office, which originally offered 11 affiliated programs, dissolved the disjointed committee process and began to review applications independently. “Some ideas crystallized slowly and then suddenly the fog disappeared and it became obvious that this (office) was a necessity,” Anthony said. “During that first full year under our aegis … the numbers doubled right away, and we did not know then how fast they would go up.” But Anthony’s influence on the world of study abroad extends far beyond NU. In 2007, New York’s attorney genAt some point eral launched an inquiry into whether universities you have to were accepting perks such go and let the as complimentary travel next generation expenses for partnering with specific study abroad come on. programs. In response And the next to the inquiry, Anthony craft a transforgeneration is helped mative code of ethics that here. has since been adopted by more than 750 instituBill Anthony, tions, said Brian Whalen, founding director president and CEO of of the Study The Forum on Education Abroad Office Abroad, a nonprofit that provides training and resources to its members. At the time, no such regulations governed study abroad. “The code of ethics reflected very well on the seriousness and ethical way in which universities in the forum membership go about their work,” Whalen said. “It was a key moment, and Bill was one of the leaders of the whole effort.” As a child, however, Anthony did not travel much. It wasn’t until after high school, when asked to represent his school on a trip to Germany, that he finally left the United States.
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Anthony said he had little prior knowledge of Germany and initially struggled to assimilate. Back in the 1960s, he said, there were no pre-orientation meetings, study abroad liaisons or any of the other resources students enjoy today. Instead, the school placed him on a boat with three large duffel bags and bid him adieu. After he returned to the U.S., Anthony began a pre-med track at Colby College but quickly switched to a German and English double major. Following a six-year stint teaching at a high school outside Baltimore, he joined NU. “The first impression of Bill is his humor,” said German Prof. Franziska Lys, a long-time friend of Anthony’s. “He’s a practical joker with his colleagues.” Lys said she worked with Anthony to produce educational documentaries of German life, which they subsequently used to teach students. She said the documentaries — ranging from history of the classic Trabant cars to Berlin apprenticeships — yielded an unprecedented glimpse into the German way of life, previously presented through stolen restaurant menus and outdated magazines. Kathy Dedo (Communication ’90), who took introductory German with Anthony as a freshman, said she recalled his “earnest, goofy” manner of teaching and his care for students. Dedo said Anthony inspired her to continue pursuing German classes long after fulfilling her language requirement. After decades of helping students create their own stories abroad, Anthony will give up his post in July to do some storytelling of his own. Despite having newfound spare time to pursue fiction writing and painting, Anthony said he has mixed feelings about retirement. Nevertheless, he has accepted the impending transition. “At some point you have to go and let the next generation come on,” he said. “And the next generation is here.” davidpkfishman@u.northwestern.edu
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Young Chicago-area poets explore violence, equality and Louder Than a Bomb is one that actively contests those dominant tropes of patriarchy and narratives that we think are problematic,” Coval told The Daily. “We try to create a space for anybody and everybody to be themselves fully, freely and unapologetically. We have seen young woman be themselves and emerge as great artists and great people.” Weinberg sophomore Olivia Paulhac, campus outreach chair for NCDC, said she hopes the event sparks conversation on campus about inequality in Chicago. She referenced Chicago rapper Noname, who performed at the event, as an example of a minority voice in the city’s poetry scene who offered a new perspective. Paulhac noted a lack of women among the performers at Dillo Day and said Thursday’s event allowed students to see a more diverse group of performers. “(Noname) is a black woman in the rap scene which isn’t usual,” Paulhac told The Daily. “Her music addresses black feminism and the struggles of being a black woman. It’s great timing having just had Dillo, because it’s cool to have different kinds of artists and conversations about music.” Weinberg sophomore Aaron Clarke said Noname, being a black woman in hip hop, will help inspire other young women interested in rap, where more and more female artists are emerging. “Specifically women of color, she is a force in those communities,” Clarke said. “It is very material and very relational in terms of inspiring women to write.”
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Michelle Solayman, a junior at Maine East High School in Park Ridge, said poetry has given her a voice and allowed her to write about the injustices in her community. At an event at Fisk Hall on Thursday, Solayman stood alongside three other Maine East students as the four switched off in reciting a poem and listing the names of black people killed by police, such as Tamir Rice, who was shot and killed by a Cleveland police officer in November 2014. “Building walls, dropping bombs,” they read, “all while packing black and Latino men into buses that follow the route of mass incarceration.” The group was one of many from the Chicago area to perform at the event, hosted by Northwestern Community Development Corps. More than 150 students attended the performance, in which the teenaged poets used hip hop and poetry to discuss violence and inequality in Chicago. Solayman and her peers were semi-finalists in Louder Than a Bomb, a poetry festival for young poets in the Chicago area. “Writing poetry has changed my life,” Solayman said. “I am a happier person because I am able to verbalize how I feel and what goes on every day.” Along with violence in Chicago, many of the poets spoke about police brutality and tensions with local
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PERFORMING POETRY Kevin Coval, co-founder of Louder Than a Bomb, speaks at Fisk Hall on Thursday. Coval spoke at an event hosted by Northwestern Community Development Corps that showcased young Chicago-area poets.
officials, such as the city’s mayor, Rahm Emanuel (Communication ‘85). “It is really crazy on the West Side right now,” artist Stark of HUEY said before he performed a poem. “Bodies falling left and right — there are kids from my high school that are dying right before my eyes. Sometimes it is hard to cope with, but the scary part is you kind of get numb to it.” Kevin Coval, who founded Louder Than a Bomb,
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‘Grit’ is an overrated quality in achieving success SARA HALLORAN
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In 2013, psychologist Angela Duckworth delivered a powerful TED talk on the importance of “grit,” or outstanding ability to persevere through failure, as a predictor of success. Duckworth claimed that, in her studies, she had found the key “wasn’t social intelligence. It wasn’t good looks, physical health, and it wasn’t IQ. It was grit.” However, Duckworth’s findings have recently been questioned by Marcus Crede, a psychologist at Iowa State University. Besides calling out the legitimacy of Duckworth’s sample size for her study, Crede suggests that grit is not quite as decisive a secret to success. I agree with Crede that Duckworth’s findings are nowhere near revolutionary. As long as I can remember, grit has been one of the primary skills that schools have attempted to instill in their students. I am grateful that my education has taught me to set and persist toward goals, but it can just as easily be argued that this insistence on making all children grit-oriented results in widespread burnout. I have “grit” to thank for most of my successes. Without four years of hard, grinding work in high school, I never would have gained acceptance to Northwestern. Yet for nearly the entirety of my high school career, I was profoundly unhappy; I worked myself so hard that I often found myself physically ill. Still, I would have been one of Duckworth’s success stories. Nor was grit my only beneficial trait. Since I was placed in gifted programs from a young age, I had access to opportunities that other students, some of whom I’m sure deserved them more, did not. I worked, commonly to the point of exhaustion, for what I had. But, even in public
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schools, I was set up for success. Why do we insist on quantifying success in such a limited, myopic way? Not every child has to, or, more importantly, wants to, win the spelling bee. Crede makes an important point that grit is “strongly correlated with conscientiousness,” a nearly-immutable personality trait that is already well-known to psychologists. In other words, some children have it;
others don’t. Forcing everyone to operate in the same way ruins school for people who are wired differently. In fact, emphasis on “grit” is not only detrimental to those who aren’t grinders, but is also borderline ableist. Much is made of CEOs with dyslexia — Malcolm Gladwell dedicates an entire chapter of his book “David and Goliath” to this topic — but does not
sufficiently consider how much harder children with learning disabilities must work to achieve the same level of success as their neurotypical peers. Millions of children with dyslexia don’t become CEOs or underachieve relative to their classmates. Are these children all simply lacking in grit? Even worse, people who become consumed by displaying their dedication to work often struggle to adjust their approach. People’s interests evolve over time, but people are understandably reluctant to change paths after investing an inordinate amount of time on a singular task. As a result, many gritty people are left pursuing careers and fields of study for which their passion is long gone. Ironically, Duckworth herself has changed careers twice — initially a management consultant, she became a teacher, then a psychologist. Many of the “gritty” aren’t even fond of grit. Constant hard work is, of course, productive, but can be extremely taxing both mentally and physically. It is certainly important to teach children to persist. However, the grit mindset encourages not so much a fear of failure as an attempted avoidance of it. Students will work themselves to death in a field in which they are sure of their competency, rather than challenging themselves by exploring their interests. Not everyone can, or will, or should work this way. The fact is giving up is OK. There is no shame in doing things a little slower, allowing yourself free time, or changing your major. This obsession with “grit” is unhealthy and discourages creativity — we might want to consider focus on deemphasizing “grit” to young overachievers. Sara Halloran is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be contacted at sarahalloran2018@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.
Bernie Sanders should drop out of the presidential race JOSE TREJOS
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During the last few weeks, Sen. Bernie Sanders has acted in a harmful and downright childish manner that has brought about catastrophic electoral consequences and incited serious violence. Although Sanders has the theoretical right to remain in the presidential race so long as people support him, his toxic rhetoric is bringing national politics to new lows, and it is time to call on him to end his populist campaign. Sanders has decided to label the Democratic primary “rigged,” and his rhetoric implies that Hillary Clinton’s victory is illegitimate. First and foremost, we should establish that this is false: Sanders lost because the majority of people voted against him, and the system was actually strongly biased in his favor. Sanders found 11 of his 19 wins in caucus states, which cast their vote in byzantine caucuses that take upwards of five hours. Since only political fanatics seem to attend these low turnout events, hardline candidates such as Sen. Ted Cruz and Sanders almost always win.
Without this undemocratic quirk in the process, Sanders would have probably dropped out months ago. The real reason Sanders lost is his abysmally low support among minority voters, as he has reliably lost the Hispanic vote and black vote by often spectacular margins. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has ventured an interesting idea as to why: History has taught these groups not to support a stranger making careless, unrealistic promises to everyone he talks to. Sanders’ vague accusations of a rigged system have led some of his supporters to push conspiracy theories about fraud on the part of the Clinton campaign which he has never taken the time to address. Unsurprisingly, this rhetoric eventually led to violence. In the Nevada Democratic convention, uncredentialed Sanders supporters were not allowed a rule-change after losing a voice vote, which led them to rush the stage screaming at the committee chair, now accompanied by a security detail after numerous death threats targeting her and her grandchildren. I am certainly no fan of the Vermont senator, whom I view as a similar phenomenon to Latin American populists like Juan Perón and Hugo Chávez. However, even I was taken aback when Sanders responded to the
accusation that his campaign has a “penchant for violence” not with a denunciation but rather an unapologetic statement aiming wild accusations at the Democratic Party, dismissing this assertion as “nonsense” and reiterating complaints about the committee that Politifact has found to be false. The Nevada Democratic party later denounced “the Sanders Campaign’s penchant for extra-parliamentary behavior — indeed, actual violence — in place of democratic conduct.” Following Nevada, Democratic Party officials have gone on record saying they fear violence at the Democratic National Convention, a catastrophe that has not occurred since 1968. I can only imagine what could happen on a hot summer day, when tens of thousands of Sanders’ coalition of young and male supporters all simultaneously hear of his final defeat. Although political violence is always concerning, I find myself even more scared about recent polls. Usually, when your candidate loses, you move on to the next: Just days after Scott Walker dropped out I was already cheering on Jeb Bush. But when Sanders supporters are made to believe their candidate lost as a result of fraud, they obviously refuse to support the winner. Clinton, who
previously held a solid lead against Donald Trump, is now losing to him in recent polls. What is driving this trend is no mystery: Exit polls out of this month’s West Virginia primary suggested 44 percent of Sanders’ supporters in the state plan on voting for Donald Trump. Although Sanders himself may be able to stop this if he tried, his recent statements only suggest increasing bitterness and contempt toward Clinton and her party, and I cannot imagine more than a half-hearted “Trump might be worse” coming from Sanders. And thus we arrive at the situation where Trump might triumph over a former Secretary of State on the coattails of the 74-yearold socialist. So before Philadelphia erupts in violence, before Trump takes an unstoppable lead, let us please bring an end to all this. Sanders can no longer win the presidency. Let us hope he finds it in himself to accept reality and step down before he brings about disaster. Jose Trejos is a Weinberg freshman. He can be contacted at josetrejos2019@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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Evanston wasn’t in danger of going bankrupt. However, she said the possibility that money could be taken from the local government
distributive fund and allocated to the state would be a potential threat to the city’s funds. Also essential in light of the budget impasse is for the city to continue putting money into the fire and police pension funds, which are both currently funded at under 50 percent,
Tisdahl said. Along with the budget, Tisdahl discussed the status of affordable housing in Evanston, saying it’s something “we’re always working on.” However, Evanston resident Jane Wickenkamp, who attended the meeting, said she has
concerns about the status of affordable housing in the city, particularly for older residents who may not be able to afford to stay in the city. “That’s my concern, that we’re getting (to be) like a Winnetka and everybody is being priced out,” she told The Daily. The community has also expressed concern for the potential effect of Chicago’s increased crime rates on the city, Evanston Police Department Deputy Chief Aretha Barnes said. “One of the sad facts is that three young men have been killed — two of them have been killed in Evanston,” she said. “We cannot blame the homicides on spillovers from Chicago because these are young men who grew up in our com-
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munity and they are us.” EPD has issued an arrest warrant in one of this year’s homicides and are confident they will come to a “good conclusion” in the investigation into the other homicide, Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said. Evanston has seen a 26 percent decrease in violent crimes so far this year, Barnes said, but there has been an increase in some less violent crimes, including residential and car burglaries. At the event, Tisdahl also answered questions about various city properties, such as Robert Crown Center, Harley Clarke Mansion and the Canal Shores Golf Course, all of which are under discussion for possible redevelopment or repurposing. A priority for Tisdahl is the proposed renovations to the Robert Crown Center, she told The Daily, due to its central role in the community. “It would be a tragedy if our children no longer had the ability to play basketball there or skate,” she said during the meeting. “I don’t know that we need a mansion on the lake. I think it would be nice to have, but if you want me to pledge millions of dollars to it, I don’t see that as great a need as the Robert Crown Center.” norashelly2019@u.northwestern.edu
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the former ambassador, Faculty Senate president Ed Hughes said. But their efforts failed to convince him to come to NU. Eikenberry informed administrators he was pulling out of the position, the provost told The Daily. “We very much wanted him to come,” Linzer said. “This is a guy who is connected to everything, and he could have provided people with access to leaders, to committees. ... And so that’s a lost opportunity.” Eikenberry declined to comment for this story.
Raising the stakes
Hughes, a Kellogg professor, learned on April 2 that Associated Student Government was putting forward a resolution that week opposing Eikenberry’s selection with the support of some faculty. As a result, he scrambled to conduct his own investigation. Hughes embarked on a “crash course” to learn about the appointment, calling members of the search committee that weekend and questioning them on the process. Hughes met April 4 with the Faculty Senate executive committee, the leaders of the organization. They decided to deepen the investigation, aiming to write their own resolution before the faculty and student senates each convened two days later. At a March 30 meeting of ASG Senate, students introduced a resolution asking the University to withdraw Eikenberry’s appointment because he lacks a Ph.D. and they worried his military experience made him unfit to lead the Buffett Institute. Spanish and Portuguese Prof. Jorge Coronado, one of the faculty organizers who opposed Eikenberry’s appointment, stood with the students as they introduced the resolution.
“We felt, my goodness, that the word of the professors should be heard,” Hughes said. “If the students proceeded with that vote, believing that they were advancing the will of the faculty … that would have had negative consequences for Ambassador Eikenberry’s decision of whether to ultimately come.” Hughes said he had spoken with Eikenberry in March, when the former ambassador expressed concern over whether the “environment would be constructive for his leadership.” The next month, Eikenberry canceled a visit he had scheduled to the University, Hughes said at the April 6 Senate meeting. At that same meeting, Communication Prof. Robert Hariman, a member of the executive committee, said Eikenberry’s “appointment might be in peril,” according to the meeting’s minutes. That weekend, Linzer and Chinniah went to California, Hughes said. “As the students got more engaged, central administration got more and more concerned,” said Coronado, who is co-director of Andean Cultures and Histories
FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2016 at the Buffett Institute. Linzer said ongoing meetings with senior-level hires are not unusual and any meetings would have been to resolve any questions that came up “during the process of finalizing the arrangements.” “I’m not confirming nor denying that there was such a meeting,” Linzer said. “But it is standard to have discussions with people throughout a process. … It’s not relevant where it was or if it took place in a certain way.”
to give a talk at the university. Some faculty took their criticisms public in February when 46 faculty signed a letter to The Daily asking Schapiro and Linzer to rescind Eikenberry’s appointment. In the letter, faculty said they had concerns about Eikenberry’s lack of academic experience, namely the fact that he does not have a doctorate.
Seeking an executive director
In March 2015, the University announced the launch of a search committee for a new leader of the Buffett Institute. Chaired by former University President Henry Bienen, the committee had 11 members including Chinniah, Kellogg dean Sally Blount, vice president for research Jay Walsh and Ron Braeutigam, associate provost for undergraduate education. It also included five additional NU professors and Ivo Daalder, the president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. The search committee was announced following a more than $100 million donation by Roberta Buffett Elliott (Weinberg ‘54). Elliott’s gift benefited the Buffett Institute and increased international student financial aid. Bienen said the committee’s charge was broad and a wide range of candidates were considered. The search committee worked with an independent search firm to identify candidates for the position. Search firms provide a list of names ranging from 50 to 100 people, Bienen said. Members of the committee also reached out to candidates they thought might be interested. He said roughly 30 to 40 people applied for the position. Bienen reached out to Eikenberry, whom he knew through their work on the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit international affairs think tank. Eikenberry retired from the military in 2009 as a lieutenant general after serving 35 years. He was then chosen by President Barack Obama as the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan from 2009 to 2011. He is now a faculty member of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford. Candidates, Bienen said, included academics, ambassadors and members of the policy community. In the end, Bienen said the committee interviewed about 10 people and submitted three finalists — in no particular ranking — to University President Morton Schapiro and Linzer, who selected Eikenberry. Much of the criticism about Eikenberry’s appointment has been directed at the search committee. “Somebody from a non-academic background was chosen … with no experience in this sort of leadership role,” Coronado said. “The fact that he was chosen was maybe the most important sign that something had gone wrong with the search process.” Some faculty said the committee was not transparent and that it didn’t have enough meetings. Bienen adamantly refuted these criticisms, calling them “nonsense.” “It was not any more closed off than any other search,” he said. “The notion that the committee didn’t meet and it didn’t meet as a committee with all its members — of course not every member was there for every time — but it was a very conventional search.” Jake Julia, associate vice president and associate provost for academic initiatives, staffed the search committee and said it met four times.
Community mounts opposition
Faculty raised concerns about Eikenberry’s candidacy as early as September, said political science Prof. Jacqueline Stevens, one of the main professors organizing opposition to the appointment. She said she sent an email to Bienen on Sept. 30 outlining faculty concerns, asking the search committee to consider other candidates and to invite Eikenberry
“The Ph.D. is a marker of faculty who are engaged in research as well as teaching, and especially at the intersection of research and teaching, which is what the university is all about,” Coronado said. Faculty were also worried about a speech he made at the 2014 Chicago Humanities Festival, in which he discussed using the humanities to advance U.S. soft power, which is a persuasive approach to international relations typically involving appeal rather than coercion. Schapiro and Linzer wrote their own letter to The Daily in response, reaffirming their support for Eikenberry. “Karl stood out in his global engagement and visibility; access to a broad array of scholars, government officials, and world leaders; and ability to integrate the diverse backgrounds and viewpoints of the military, diplomatic corps, and academia,” they wrote. Coronado said some people have tagged him and other faculty members as “against the military” for their opposition to Eikenberry’s appointment. He said a military background can be coupled with an academic one, but Eikenberry didn’t have that combination. “The issue was that we had somebody with absolutely no background or training in this sort of profession being put into a post with enormous funds and authority,” Coronado said.
and faculty members were inhibited from speaking candidly while he was there. Although Hughes said he sees some merit to that concern, he said, “people are adults and can speak.” Coronado, who had spoken on the Eikenberry issue at the March Faculty Senate meeting along with Stevens, had no clue the Eikenberry appointment would be discussed at the next meeting in April. But two-and-a-half hours before the April meeting started, Coronado and Stevens were invited to speak. The two professors, along with Ginsburg, rushed to make it to the 5 p.m. meeting. “We had no idea what was happening,” Coronado said. The Faculty Senate was considering a resolution in support of Eikenberry’s appointment, citing evidence from the executive committee’s investigation that the search had followed standard procedures in selecting him. An email with the meeting’s agenda and documents pertaining to the committee’s findings had been sent to senators about 90 minutes before the governing body convened, violating a Faculty Senate rule that the agenda must be dispersed at least five days in advance of the meeting. “When I got to the April meeting, I hadn’t seen the documents beforehand,” said English Prof. Barbara Newman, a faculty senator. “I got there, I was amazed Eikenberry was on the floor again. I thought, you know, ‘Why are we talking about him again? Haven’t we finished with this?’” Hughes said although he regretted the agenda’s late release, he said the executive committee was under “extreme time constraints” after learning about the ASG resolution opposing Eikenberry’s appointment days before the meeting. He also said since the beginning of the year sending out the agenda a day or two in advance — instead of five — had become standard procedure. The Senate voted in support of Eikenberry’s appointment with 32 in favor, five against and nine abstentions. At the May meeting, Newman introduced a motion to declare the Senate vote in support of Eikenberry invalid because of rule violations, including dispersing the agenda and accompanying documents late, entertaining a motion to cut off debate even though it interrupted a guest’s speech and failing to ensure both sides of the issue had equal opportunity to share their perspectives. The motion failed, upholding the Senate’s April vote in support of the appointment. Newman said her main concern was not about Eikenberry himself but with the Senate leadership “disregarding” its own rules.
Fight in Faculty Senate
After months of back-and-forth letters arguing over the former ambassador’s selection to lead the Buffett Institute, debate was first opened on the floor of the Faculty Senate on March 2. At that meeting, senators and invited guests discussed for about an hour the merits and flaws of a man who was never in the room. At the March meeting, the executive committee invited Linzer — who oversees all faculty — which frustrated some professors who felt people could be nervous about criticizing Eikenberry after the provost spoke in support of him. “People cannot speak freely about problems with the provost when the provost sits there,” said French and comparative literature Prof. Michal Ginsburg, the faculty senator who originally brought the issue to the Senate. “Even people who have tenure, even people who are big shots … why would they want to make their life difficult by speaking critically?” Stevens, who is director of the Deportation Research Clinic at the Buffett Institute, said Linzer was allowed to “dominate” the time at the meeting
Although Newman said she thought it was normal for the provost to speak at the March meeting, she would like to see the Senate as a whole take a more “independent course,” separate from the administration. Ginsburg said not only did the Senate fail to play a useful role in the issue but it became a “tool of the administration” in rallying support around Eikenberry. “Three times in a row the Senate was kidnapped,” Ginsburg said. “It was appropriated for the sake of the administration rather than playing its role as enabling faculty.” Hughes said he’s familiar with the accusation that Faculty Senate leadership has been a “lackey” of the administration amid the Eikenberry debate but that, in reality, their decision to pursue the issue was independent from the administration’s suggestions.
The debate moves to ASG
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EXPANDING THE INSTITUTE Northwestern recognizes Roberta Buffett Elliott (Weinberg ‘54) for her donation to the University. The younger sister of financier Warren Buffett gave more than $100 million to benefit the Buffett Institute for Global Studies.
Right after the April meeting adjourned, several faculty and administrators — including Linzer — went directly to the ASG Senate meeting. There, Weinberg senior Neha Reddy and SESP junior Matt Herndon were preparing to deliver their resolution recommending the University rescind Eikenberry’s appointment. Minutes before Reddy and Herndon were called up to speak, then-ASG President Noah Star, a Weinberg senior, pulled them aside, saying Linzer had advised him to be wary of potentially defamatory language in the resolution. Reddy said Star’s warning caught her and Herndon off guard. “It definitely felt to Matt and I like an intimidation tactic,” she told The Daily after the incident. “I tried not to make eye contact with any of the administrators and we just said what we prepared.” Star said he later apologized to Reddy and Herndon, saying he did not intend for the message to be
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FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2016 alarming. He said his goal was just to inform them of the conversation he had with the provost. Reddy also approached Stevens, who seemed “furious,” Reddy said. Stevens said she went up to Linzer before the students delivered their resolution to ask how it could be construed as defamatory, but she said he did not indicate specific sections. When she followed up over email, he did not provide specifics, according to emails viewed by The Daily. When asked about the incident, Linzer said he was just trying to make sure the students were safe. He said the Office of General Counsel alerted him of potential concerns with the resolution. “We don’t want to put our students in a situation where they have any legal risk,” Linzer said. “I went back to (Star) and I said, ‘Please let the students know that they should be careful in how they phrase this.’”
‘A missed opportunity’
With Eikenberry no longer an official part of the Buffett Institute’s future, Linzer and Walsh, the vice president for research, have pushed up discussions about long-term planning for the Institute. Originally, Linzer said the discussions were planned for the fall once Eikenberry would have arrived on campus, but they are now slated to begin this spring.
In an email sent last week to the Buffett Institute community, Linzer and Walsh said they want to develop strategies “to move Buffett and Northwestern into the top ranks of global studies institutions.” The executive director position, however, remains vacant.
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“I’m not about to jump into another search immediately,” Linzer said. “No, let’s listen to people and talk it through.” Sociology Prof. Bruce Carruthers, director of the Buffett Institute, said Eikenberry’s decision to withdraw is “a missed opportunity,” but he said the Institute hasn’t slowed down its activity. “Don’t assume that because there’s not a big ugly fight going on that there’s nothing interesting going on,” he said. Schapiro told The Daily in April he was disappointed Eikenberry would not be joining the University. “I hope he stays engaged with us,” he said. “He had the potential to be a transformative leader.” Eikenberry will speak on campus Tuesday at a Buffett Institute event in recognition of National Military Appreciation Month. He is scheduled to discuss the challenges of the U.S. military’s all-volunteer force model and the political, economic and foreign policy implications of the military’s organizing principles. Linzer said he wanted Eikenberry to visit NU so faculty and students could meet him and hear him speak. In debates like the one over Eikenberry’s selection, he said the central characters are often reduced to “two-dimensional caricatures.” “I hope people come out and take advantage of the opportunity to hear from someone whose experiences are probably quite different than what the typical academic experience would be,” Linzer said. “It would broaden their understanding of the world.” juliajacobs2018@u.northwestern.edu tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu
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Feb. 8 — ‘Dear Evanston’ social media campaign aims to combat violence
A group of Evanston residents launched a social media campaign in early February through a program under the Evanston Community Foundation. The campaign, “Dear Evanston,” was designed to give city residents a platform to discuss violence. “Because violence in Evanston is such a multi-faceted issue, it was really a challenge to decide which angle to approach it from,” one of the campaign’s founders, Nina Kavin, told The Daily in February. “We decided to do something that would engage the entire community and start a discussion of violence through social media.” The group wrapped up its project in May with a video compiling social media posts and interviews members conducted with community leaders and activists.
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Jan. 20 — Unshackle NU kicks off private prison divestment campaign
The new group called on NU to divest from companies including G4S, Corrections Corporation of America and The GEO Group, in addition to a longer list of companies relating to the prison-industrial complex the campaign says the University invests in. “Mass incarceration is not just an issue that affects everybody; it affects people of color and especially black people disproportionately,” Weinberg junior Marcel Hanna told The Daily in January. “It’s a racial caste system and it works very much in the ways that slavery and Jim Crow worked and disenfranchised people of color on a large scale.” William McLean, NU’s chief investment officer, told The Daily that NU has less than $1 million invested in G4S and no investments in the other companies named. Unshackle NU’s resolution was passed by Associated Student Government Senate on March 2.
Black House
Nov. 15 — Proposed Black House changes prompt protests, dialogue
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A SAFE SPACE Students gather outside the Black House to protest the University and express solidarity with other campus movements. The University eventually abandoned a series of proposed changes to the Black House.
Students gathered at the Black House in solidarity with other college campuses across the nation fighting racial injustice at the time. After meeting, the students disrupted the groundbreaking ceremony for a new athletic facility at the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion, protesting the changes and demanding the University take measures to improve the experiences of students of color. During the summer, Multicultural Student Affairs and the Office of Student Affairs announced Campus Inclusion and Community offices would be moved into the Black House and Multicultural Center. This announcement upset some students, faculty and alumni, who in response started the Sheridan Block Club, a group meant to fight the changes. During Fall Quarter, Student Affairs held a series of listening sessions to discuss the future of the Black House and the MCC. During the third session, vice president for student affairs Patricia Telles-Irvin announced that any changes to the Black House and the MCC would be canceled.
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FORMAL APOLOGY SESP junior Christina Cilento and McCormick junior Macs Vinson address ASG Senate. The ticket was elected ASG president and executive vice president despite controversy over leaked voting information during the election.
April 18 — Cilento, Vinson violate ASG election guidelines, apologize
During the April election, a member of Associated Student Government’s election commission twice leaked the size of the voting margin to SESP junior Christina Cilento’s campaign. The commission later ruled Cilento and her running mate Macs Vinson, a McCormick junior, had violated ASG’s election guidelines. The Rules Committee recommended the two make public apologies and that Cilento perform 10 hours of community service, which Senate later approved. “I believe we ran this race with an incredible amount of integrity, and I deeply regret that that integrity did not follow through with the last half hour of the campaign and the ensuing election violation investigation,” Cilento said at an April ASG Senate meeting. “For this, I apologize.”
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Ongoing — Evanston nonprofits cope with ongoing state budget crisis
Illinois has been without a state budget since July 1, 2015, and the lack of funding has hit Evanston, particularly in its social services and educational facilities. Over the past 11 months, non-profit agencies such as Connections for the Homeless have had to lay off staff and reduce the number of services they offer to their beneficiaries. Others have been providing services with the expectation of being reimbursed when a state budget arrives, despite reimbursement not being assured. Gov. Bruce Rauner has yet to sign a bill to aid social services. However, he has approved the allocation of about $600 million to fund higher education to alleviate some issues in that sector. Educational institutions that serve Evanston residents, including Oakton Community College, should receive money to ease previous impacts of the budget impasse. In addition, the Monetary Award Program, which provides aid to low-income and middle-income students from Illinois who attend higher education institutions in the state, did not receive the nearly $2 billion it was supposed to. NU covered the grants for roughly 500 students who are MAP recipients.
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Dave’s Italian Kitchen, a 44-year-old Evanston restaurant, officially closed its doors April 11 as a result of crippling debt and a downturn in business. “Dave’s really represented a wide swath of the community,” Ald. Judy Fiske (1st), who had eaten regularly at the restaurant for at least 40 years, told The Daily in April. “You could go in there and see parents with newborn babies all the way up to 100-year-olds. Everyone was in that restaurant.” On April 23, owner Dave Glatt announced the opening of Dave’s IK, a reincarnation of the original Italian restaurant, on Noyes Street.
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DAVE’S DRAMA Dave’s Italian Kitchen, a 44-year-old Evanston institution, closed its Chicago Avenue location and announced plans to reopen in a smaller space on Noyes Street.
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March 8 — Former President Bill Clinton speaks in Evanston
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A week ahead of the Illinois primary, Clinton spoke in Evanston about social and economic inequality and stumped for his wife Hillary Clinton, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. “She’s running for president so we can all rise together,” he told the crowd at Beth Emet Synagogue, 1224 Dempster St. “She knows we can’t do it unless we have inclusive economics, inclusive social policies, an inclusive national security policy and inclusive politics.” Roughly 750 local residents and Northwestern students attended his talk. Hillary Clinton later narrowly won the Illinois primary.
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Nov. 3 — Philosophy Prof. Peter Ludlow resigns
Ludlow’s resignation came as the University was moving to terminate his employment, University spokesman Al Cubbage told The Daily in November. Ludlow had been at the center of more than a year of legal battles: In February 2014, a then-Medill junior filed a Title IX lawsuit against Northwestern, alleging the University inadequately handled her complaint that Ludlow sexually assaulted her in 2012. A judge sided with the University in November 2014, finding it acted reasonably following the alleged assault. Ludlow later sued the University and other top University officials for defamation, gender discrimination and invasion of privacy.
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FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2016
Work ethic defines Mihir Kumar’s four years at NU By ROBBIE MARKUS
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During the summer going into his senior year, Mihir Kumar had his nose to the grindstone. “I’d get up at 6 a.m., work out in the morning, get into work at 8 a.m., get out at 7 p.m., and then go hit with random kids from Connecticut at night,” Kumar said, referencing his schedule during his internship last summer. “Sometimes I’d go back at 9 p.m. and finish work.” A ferocious work ethic and a disciplined mentality are what makes Kumar — one of the two seniors on the men’s tennis team — tick. Fedor Baev, his fellow senior teammate, calls Kumar “the perfect student-athlete.” “He doesn’t half-ass anything,” said Baev, Kumar’s best friend on the team. “He really does everything as well as he can.” Kumar’s mental game peaked his senior year, when his hard work and maturity propelled him to a 20-4 doubles record, largely contributing to Northwestern’s record-breaking season. However, it wasn’t always rosy for Kumar. When Kumar played No. 1 singles at Carmel High School in Carmel, Indiana, he said he suffered from a lack of confidence, as he never succeeded in his ultimate goal of winning a state singles championship. Once he got to NU, he had a hard time transitioning from high school. Aside from fighting for playing time, he struggled to find time for academics and social life. However, he applied himself both in the classroom and on the court. Near the end of his freshman year, he found himself cemented in the Cats’ singles and doubles lineups. He transitioned with some confidence into the summer, where he found himself training at NU at an intense level. “Dead summer: 90 degrees, three practices and a (workout). I definitely got burnt out a little,” Kumar said. “But I was always the guy who loved extra practices.” Kumar got better his sophomore year, the season he describes as his best tennis year. He played Nos. 3 and 4 singles and No. 1 doubles for the majority of the year. He carried this success into his junior year, acting as the rock in the middle of NU’s lineup, but Kumar’s darkest moment came in March of his junior year.
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Kumar had been playing No. 4 singles consistently, and said clinching a singles win against No. 23 Columbia to decide the match 4-3 was his most memorable victory. However, then-sophomore Konrad Zieba returned from injury after the match, so one player had to be removed from the singles lineup for the next match against Rice. Kumar didn’t play the Rice match, and the Columbia match was the last time he regularly appeared in the singles lineup for the rest of his collegiate career. “I was in absolute shock,” Kumar said. “I didn’t understand why it was happening.” Carrying a six-match winning streak into the Rice match, the Cats were obliterated 4-1 by a lesser-ranked team, and Kumar was forced to overcome the adversity of watching from the sideline. More importantly, Kumar said his priorities changed after the Rice match, as he began to realize that tennis wasn’t going to be a part of his life forever. Swan said his proudest moment as a coach was when he talked to Kumar about his role on the team his senior year and praised his willingness to do what was best for the team. Baev said he did a “tremendous” job of accepting his new role, and Kumar thrived at No. 3 doubles with Alp Horoz, earning the 2nd-best doubles winning percentage in a single season. “He’s brought so much energy,” Swan said. “The No. 3 doubles team brought tremendous energy to all three doubles teams every single match.” Now that Kumar is done with tennis, he’ll be starting a job with the firm he interned with last summer. Kumar said he needed to move on from tennis, but at the same time it was hard to let go of the sport forever. “You’re losing your identity,” Kumar said. “I’ve been playing tennis for 14 years.” robinsonmarkus2019@u.northwestern.edu To see the full version of this story, please visit dailynorthwestern.com
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For Abby Steketee, Northwestern is home By TUCKER JOHNSON
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When Abby Meadema first visited Northwestern as a prospective student in the late 1990s, she was struck by Steve Steketee’s name on several school swimming records. The poolside record board may have lauded Steketee’s athletic feats, with multiple school records and a Big Ten championship in the 200 yard freestyle — but for her, his “unfortunate” last name was more memorable. “She still thinks it’s a bad last name,” Steketee said of his wife, who is now the head coach of NU’s women’s swim team. Interjecting, Abby Steketee — who took her husband’s name despite her distaste for it — countered by asking him to “try to spell it over the phone some time.” An unrecruited high school swimmer, Abby Steketee came to NU “100 percent certain” that she would become a journalist. But something about Medill didn’t quite fit, and after jumping from major to major, she ultimately graduated magna cum laude from the School of Education and Social Policy in 2003. “I took classes in every single school (at NU) except engineering,” she said. “Eventually I switched to SESP when I realized I wanted to do interesting things with interesting people. It’s broad and all about personal connections.” During her sophomore year, Abby Steketee approached Jarod Schroeder, then the head of NU’s youth swimming club, Northwestern Aquatic Swimming Association, about the possibility of coaching one of the age groups. In addition to her job with the NASA team, Steketee was an accomplished member of NU’s club crew team. In 2002, her four-person boat beat out Indiana by 0.7 seconds for third place in a regatta with “more than 100 schools.” She was a team captain, and during her senior year she helped coach the novice rowers, driving to the boat house in a parking lot on Chicago’s South Side twice a day to t rain younger, less expe-
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rienced teammates. On the NASA team, Schroeder put Steketee in charge of the youngest kids who were just learning to swim. She coached about three hours a night to earn spending money. “You’re basically fishing them out of the pool (at that age),” she said. Among the kids she coached were Stephen Shull and Andy Jovanovic, now juniors on NU’s men’s team. Shull only vaguely remembers the specifics of being coached by Steketee as an 8-year-old kid who was brand new to the sport but said her impact on him has been clear. “She was really fun and exciting on deck and didn’t let us take it too seriously,” he said. “She fostered a love of the sport that’s kept me going through the past 13 years.” When asked how they met, Steve and Abby Steketee both turned and pointed to the corner of the pool furthest from their shared office. They said that they’ve only ever known each other as coaches. “Right over there, coaching, under that record board,” Abby Steketee said. “He was coaching NASA too, and he was coaching the age group above my group so we were both on the pool deck at the same time.” Now, about 15 years later, coaching together is still the basis of their relationship, as Steve Steketee is currently a volunteer assistant coach for the team. As husband and wife, their relationship extends beyond that of typical coworkers, which they said gives them a huge advantage over other teams. People often ask how they can work together, surprised that they don’t drive each other
crazy. After so much time spent together on the deck, they are able to communicate in a short hand of common experiences, problems and solutions — a privilege few other coaches have. Despite their shared memories, the Steketees said they are polar opposites when it comes to their coaching styles. “We’re really complementary in that we’re different,” Abby Steketee said. “I’m really focused and tend to be task-oriented, while Steve is really good at being a pressure valve and balancing the other side. It makes us really efficient as a work unit … (Coaching together) is very rewarding, I don’t think many people get to work with their best friend.” In 2003, Abby Steketee graduated in the top 13 percent of her class in SESP. After graduation she planned to attend the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Virginia, but that didn’t quite pan out. Sergio Lopez, NU’s associate head coach at the time, had been hired to be the head coach of West Virginia’s men’s and women’s swimming programs, and Steve Steketee planned to follow him to Morgantown as an assistant coach. “It was an easy choice (for me) to keep coaching — I liked being here at the pool, and people had always told me when I was a swimmer that I should be a coach,” he said. “I always said ‘No, no, I’d never do that.’ Famous last words.” Abby Steketee followed, enrolling in West Virginia’s masters program in public health and joining the swim teams as a volunteer assistant coach. At West Virginia, she focused her studies on adolescent behavior and how to help teenagers make decisions about their health. At the time, the state had no laws regulating indoor tanning salons. There were no restrictions on radiation levels, bed sanitation or youth use of tanning facilities. “That became my final project, I decided I wanted to get a tanning law passed,” she said. “Now West Virginia has a tanning law.” During her final year at West Virginia, she helped lay the groundwork for a new tanning law. In 2013, six years after she completed her degree, her tanning salon bill was signed into law. After completing her master’s degree, she again followed Steve Steketee –– who had been hired away from West Virginia the year before –– to the University of South Carolina where they both worked as assistant coaches with the swim teams. “Coaching is addicting. There’s nothing quite like it in terms of the
connection you make with someone,” Abby Steketee said. “I was a lot more fulfilled on the pool deck than I was going to a legislator and talking about indoor tanning.” In 2011, the head coaching job for Nevada’s women’s team opened up. Steve Steketee suggested that she should apply — and she got it. Four years later, NU’s coaching job became available when longtime coach Jimmy Tierney left the team. She said she knew immediately that she wanted to come back to NU. In applying for the job, Steketee said she gave everything she had. She said she got an interview, and later the same day, received a phone call from athletic director Jim Phillips asking if she’d “like to come home.” “When I was a high school student, Northwestern was a dream school. As a college coach, Northwestern was a dream school,” she said. “I didn’t wait until they’d even sent me the details of the contract (to accept the job).” Abby and Steve Steketee, who joined the program at the same time as his wife as a volunteer assistant coach, have brought new life to NU’s women’s swimming program. After finishing 10th with only 138 points at the Big Ten championships in 2015, the team finished 2016, their first year under the duo, by scoring 467 points to take eighth place at the championship meet. “Abby is awesome, she’s the most organized person I’ve ever met,” junior Lacey Locke said. “She not only cares about our swimming, she cares that we grow as people.” The Steketees both said they follow the philosophy that coaching is about much more than just physical training. They emphasize a set of values — people, character, integrity, passion and hard work — in their coaching to drive their swimmers to improve both in the pool and in academics. One of the most important parts of coaching, Abby Steketee said, is pushing people out of their comfort zones. “We talk a lot about mental training with our team. This is a really cerebral group, if you give them the rationality behind motivation, that can motivate them too,” she said. “If you can give them the tangible science behind (a workout), they’ll go for it.” At the end of the day, coaching for Abby Steketee is not about making the fastest swimmers. She says she tries to coach people, and placing higher in the Big Ten is just the icing on the cake. “It’s not about where (the team) eventually ends up but about how we go about getting there, making sure everyone who comes to this program has a meaningful degree, is glad they did it,” she said. “It’s one of the reasons we wanted to come to Northwestern, we’re not just part of an athletics community, we’re part of a broader educational community of people committed to personal development.” samueljohnson2019@u.northwestern.edu
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FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: HANNAH KIM, GOLF Hannah Kim had one of the best years in NU golf history this year, almost single-handedly rewriting the school record book on her way to first team All-American status, something no Wildcat had ever accomplished before. In addition, she was named Big Ten Player of the Year for the second straight year. Kim’s 7-under 64 at the Hurricane Invitational was the best round in program history, and helped Kim win the tournament by 5 strokes. Kim’s 14-under 199 for the tournament was the best 54-hole performance in program history
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by 5 strokes. Additionally, Kim had the lowest stroke-per-round average in program history, averaging only 71.79 strokes per round. Kim also helped the team in its second-straight split of the Big Ten Championship with Ohio State, as well as its 18-stroke victory in the NCAA Regional tournament and programrecord ninth place finish at the NCAA Championships. Honorable mentions: Nia Coffey, basketball; Dominique Masters, field hockey Daily file photo by Chelsea Sherlock
Looking at Thorson’s freshman year stat line, it’s easy to question why he’s worthy of this award. The quarterback just barely completed 50 percent of his passes, throwing for only 1,522 yards and tossing more interceptions (nine) than touchdowns (seven). But in spite of his poor statistical production, Thorson asserted himself as a critical cog in the Wildcats’ 10-3 machine by showing a knack for making big plays in big spots. There was his touchdown sprint against a ranked Stanford team in his first-ever start, his two long runs in a road win over Nebraska and his trio of touchdown throws to lead a comeback victory, just to name a few. Thorson undoubtedly looked the part of a freshman quarterback all season long, but NU wouldn’t have tied a program record for wins, or reached the Outback Bowl, without him. Honorable mentions: Carter Page, swimming; Aaron Falzon, basketball
MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR:
ANTHONY WALKER, FOOTBALL
Walker’s nickname on the football team is “The Franchise,” and for good reason. The sophomore linebacker did just about everything for NU’s defense in his first full year as a starter, leading a unit that finished seventh in the nation in yards
FEMALE FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR:
MALLORY WEISSE, LACROSSE
Weisse anchored NU’s defense during one of the most difficult seasons in program history, leading the conference in both total saves and saves per game. The Cats faced 12 ranked teams during the regular season, including games against both No. 1 Maryland and thenNo.2 Syracuse. The team finished the year with an 11-10 mark and went 5-10 against ranked teams. After NU spent most of the season battling back to a .500 record to become eligible for the NCAA Tournament, Weisse stepped up for the team in the postseason. Weisse led the Cats to a 15-5 rout of Louisville in the first round, recording a careerhigh 12 saves in the game. However, the team fell in a brutal loss to Notre Dame to end the squad’s season in the second round of the tournament. Although NU came up short, Weisse provided a bright spot for the team. The freshman finished No. 31 in the nation in saves per game, averaging 7.52 — seventh best among freshmen. Weisse ended the season at No. 11 in the NCAA in total saves with 158, putting her at second among all freshmen. The Cats will graduate seven seniors this year, but, with Weisse leading the defense, the team looks to be in good hands heading into next season. Honorable mentions: Stephanie Lau, golf; Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah, basketball
allowed per play. On his own, Walker led the team with 120 total tackles and 20.5 tackles for loss while also compiling four sacks, two fumble recoveries, a forced fumble and an interception. Those numbers earned Walker recognition as first team
GAME OF THE YEAR: FOOTBALL NORTHWESTERN BEATS STANFORD
However you assess the quality of a sporting event — in terms of excitement, unexpectedness, memorable moments or impact on the season — this game had it. NU surprised almost everyone by upsetting then-No. 21 Stanford, kicking off a historic 10-2 run through the regular season. The suddenly dominant Wildcat defense befuddled Cardinal quarterback Kevin Hogan and the potent
Stanford rushing attack all game long, announcing the arrival of sophomores linebacker Anthony Walker and safety Godwin Igwebuike as stars. Redshirt freshman quarterback Clayton Thorson — making his very first start — broke the game open with an eye-popping 42-yard touchdown sprint, and sophomore safety Kyle Queiro sealed the win with an athletic interception in the end zone. This win announced to the rest of the
college football world that the 2015 version of NU football was for real, having ditched the doldrums of the two prior 5-7 seasons. That Stanford went on to win the Pac-12 conference and post a blowout victory in the Rose Bowl was a nice transitive win for the Cats. Honorable mention: Men’s tennis: Northwestern defeats Illinois 4-3 on March 12
All-Big Ten and third-team All-American. From any perspective, Walker absolutely dominated as the best player on one of NU’s best teams this academic year. That he has at least one year left in Evanston should terrify opposing offensive coordinators. Honorable mention: Konrad Zieba, men’s tennis
COACH OF THE YEAR:
ARVID SWAN, MEN’S TENNIS The ninth-year coach led NU to the best record in program history this season and has turned around a program that finished last in the Big Ten his first season. Swan and assistant coach Chris Klingemann were named ITA midwest coach and assistant coach of the year as they led the Cats to a 26-5 record, second round NCAA Tournament appearance and finished the season ranked No. 15. NU had 6 of 7 starters from the previous season return, and those six upperclassmen and freshman Ben Vandixhorn took the team to
a new level. The most dramatic improvement came from junior Konrad Zieba, who played No. 3 singles last season and after a summer of improvement with Swan became the Cats’ No. 1 singles player and went into the NCAA Tournament ranked No. 20 in the nation. With 5 of 6 singles players returning next season, Swan and his team have a chance to make more history in Evanston. Honorable mention: Fletcher, women’s golf
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TEAM OF THE YEAR: MEN’S TENNIS
The Northwestern men’s tennis team entered the 201516 season with a strong foundation, but quickly elevated its play to new heights. Junior Konrad Zieba’s emergence as a national superstar bolstered a deep lineup already featuring big names with juniors Sam Shropshire and Strong Kirchheimer. A second
place finish in the Big Ten and a dominant non-conference campaign earned the Wildcats the opportunity to host the regionals portion of the NCAA Tournament after the squad logged a program-record 24 regular season wins. Despite a loss in the national tournament’s second round, NU enjoyed quite possibly its finest season ever. Da ily fil by Da e pho nie l T to ian
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UPSET OF THE YEAR: VOLLEYBALL NORTHWESTERN BEATS PENN STATE A lot went wrong for NU this season. The Cats finished under .500 for the first time since 2008. Coach Keylor Chan, one of the longest-tenured coaches at the school, is not returning to NU. The Cats finished tied for 10th in the Big Ten. Coming off a sweep at the hands of then-No. 9 Ohio State, in which it looked utterly baffled on the court, NU welcomed an even tougher opponent to Evanston: then-No. 3 Penn State. The Nittany Lions had won back-to-back NCAA Championships and six of the last eight overall, and with Welsh-Ryan Arena nearly filled to the brim with visiting fans, another bad loss seemed inevitable. But on the evening of October 10, 2015, the Cats shocked the volleyball world. NU took the first set — its first set victory in almost a month — after rattling off 7 straight points
to clinch. Following a close second set, which Penn State eked out by two points, the Cats won the third frame 26-24 despite being down to set point. The fourth set wasn’t very competitive, with the Nittany Lions coasting, and it came down to the fifth. NU started off strong when a controversial call nearly sunk its hopes. However, the Cats didn’t let it faze them and won the last set, setting off a raucous celebration. Defeating an elite program like Penn State, essentially the volleyball version of Connecticut women’s basketball, marked one of the most historic upsets in school history. Honorable mentions: Women’s Basketball: Northwestern takes down No. 5 Ohio State 86-82; Softball: Wildcats win nailbiter over No. 2 Michigan 13-12