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Students react to comedian Celebrasia audience leaves show divided over ‘offensive’ jokes

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Following concerns about comedian Eliot Chang’s comedy routine at Celebrasia on Saturday night, leaders of Northwestern’s Chinese Students Association and Taiwanese American Students Club released a statement Tuesday apologizing for any discomfort, anger and hurt students might have felt.

The statement was released in response to students posting on social media that they were offended, a sentiment organizers shared, said Chinese Students Association co-programming chair and Weinberg sophomore Kimberly Chow.

Although the overall show was well received, Chang’s routine, which incorporated jokes that could have been misconstrued as sexist, crossed lines at multiple points, said Chinese Students Association internal president Jonathan Lo. The Weinberg senior said although there were people laughing, there was a general feeling of uneasiness.

Chang said although some students conversed with him about why they did not appreciate his routine, many still told him they enjoyed his comedy. In addition, Chang said he performed the same routine at the University of Oklahoma, and there were no complaints.

“You’re right to have the feelings that you have, but I am not changing my

act,” Chang told The Daily on Tuesday.

“I never apologize for my performances, for my comedy or my humor because I’ll only apologize if I thought I did something wrong.”

Because every audience has a different sense of humor, Chang said he wished the boundaries of what he could say at NU were communicated a little more clearly so he could consciously avoid upsetting those who were more “politically sensitive.”

Communication junior Mary Ann Anane tweeted at Chang after the event, critiquing his routine as sexist and saying “women are not on this earth for (his) not funny comedy routine.”

Anane told The Daily she noticed many people in the audience were uncomfortable, adding that the routine differed from most other comedy shows because it was not clear that Chang knew what he was saying was sexist or politically insensitive.

The Celebrasia organizers should have done more research on what Chang would say and how he would perform before bringing him onto campus, Anane said. Their inviting him made it seem as if the organizers agreed with his content even though that was not their intention, she added. Anane also said the routine’s offensiveness should have been addressed at the show in the moment.

However, Leo Zhu, Chinese Students Association external president, said responding at the show was not feasible.

“There was no time for us to prepare and come up with a thoughtful enough response to his performance on the day of the show,” the Weinberg senior said.

“It would’ve been slightly irresponsible » See CELEBRASIA, page 10

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ACCESSIBLE HOUSING The architects of the 1717 Apartments, 1717 Ridge Ave., reached a settlement with fair housing nonprofit Open Communities to make the building more accessible to people with disabilities. The changes will be implemented over the next five years.

Building betters accessibility Improvements ordered for 1717 Ridge Ave.

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A local apartment building will become more accessible to residents with disabilities after the architects and a fair housing agency came to an agreement last month following a two-and-a-half year process.

The agreement — which will implement federal accessibility standards in the 1717 Apartments, 1717 Ridge Ave. — settled complaints that Open Communities, a nonprofit that aims to enforce fair housing in 17 Chicago suburbs, first filed with the

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in June 2014 and also with the Illinois Department of Human Rights in July 2014, according to a settlement.

In the summer of 2013, Open Communities sent undercover testers to the recently built apartments to determine if the building was compliant with Fair Housing Act standards, a method of systematic investigation for recently constructed buildings, Open Communities executive director Gail Schechter said.

Amendments to the federal Fair Housing Act, which expanded the act to include protection for people with disabilities, were added in 1988 and apply to certain

buildings built after 1991, Schechter said.

Open Communities’ complaints focused on the “failure” of 1717 Apartments’ developers, Focus Development, Inc. and Booth Hansen Ltd., to adhere to the Fair Housing Act, specifically accessibility for people with disabilities. Open Communities highlighted the building’s insufficient floor space to maneuver a wheelchair, high mailboxes unreachable for people in wheelchairs and lack of wheelchair ramps, according to the settlement.

Representatives from the 1717 » See HOUSING, page 10

All ETHS students to get laptops Congress asks how

NU endowment spent

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By MADELINE FOX Every student enrolled at Evanston Township High School will have a Google Chromebook in the 2016-2017 school year — a full year earlier than originally projected when the plan was first implemented two years ago.

Eric Witherspoon, superintendent of School District 202 Evanston Township High School, announced Jan. 28 at the State of the Schools address that every ETHS student will receive a device by August. Payment for the Chromebook varies depending on the student’s financial situation, said David Chan, director of instructional technology at ETHS. The implementation was originally supposed to be completed in the 2017-2018 school year.

“Next year we make that big leap,” Witherspoon said. “Every student in every grade level in ETHS will have … their own Chromebook.”

Chan said in talking with peer institutions, he learned about some of the roadblocks that come with the multiyear rollout of technology programs, which contributed to ETHS’s decision to speed up implementation of the project.

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THEIR OWN DEVICES Evanston Township High School students will all receive Google Chromebooks by the end of the next school year. School officials decided to expedite dispersal of the Chromebooks by a year — the project initially wasn’t slated to be finished until the 2017-2018 school year.

The original plan, which ETHS has operated under for the past two years, gave Chromebooks to the entering freshman class, while the returning students operated without the devices.

The problem, Chan said, appears in the third year of the program, when juniors with Chromebooks would be in classes with seniors who would not have the devices.

“As freshmen, it’s not a problem,” Chan said. “Same thing with sophomores: A lot of them are in classes with

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Chan said ETHS was prepared to deal with the third year under the original plan, but when an alternative appeared, the administration took advantage of it. William Stafford, chief financial officer of ETHS, said the primary reason why the sped-up program became financially feasible was because » See CHROMEBOOKS, page 10

Northwestern was one of many universities to receive a letter from Congress asking how the University uses its multi-billion dollar endowment, Executive Vice President Nim Chinniah said Tuesday.

The letter, signed by the chairmen of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee and the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, was sent to 56 private universities with an endowment larger than $1 billion, according to Bloomberg News. NU’s endowment had a value of nearly $9.9 billion at the end of fiscal year 2015.

Chinniah said staff from the development, finance and investment areas of the University are working together on responding to the letter, which legislators requested by April 1.

He also noted the importance of the University’s endowment to its long-term sustainability.

“We have a large endowment and … it is probably the single largest longterm asset of the institution, so how it’s

invested is a decision that’s really a board decision that’s made through the investment committee,” he said.

The congressional letter comes as part of a push by federal legislators to scrutinize college affordability and university endowments. Earlier this month, Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.) introduced a bill that would require universities to provide a price model to allow students and their families to plan for tuition costs throughout students’ college careers.

Although the letter deals more with how universities are spending their endowments, NU has also come under scrutiny from the student body for how it invests its endowment due to pressure from three student movements calling for the University to divest from certain assets and to be more transparent in its investments.

Scott Brown, coal divestment group Fossil Free NU’s campaign coordinator and a former Daily staffer, said the idea behind the letter to call for greater transparency surrounding the University’s endowment was in line with the intention of Fossil Free NU’s platform, even though it dealt with a different aspect. » See ENDOWMENT, page 10

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Independent pharmacy slated to open downtown

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A new local pharmacy, which plans to focus its efforts on offering medicine over other drugstore amenities, is slated to open in downtown Evanston this spring.

Evanston Health Mart, located at 1706 Maple Avenue, will neighbor the Northwestern Medicine Immediate Care offices and the NorthShore Medical Group offices. The independent pharmacy’s owner, Imtiyaz Lakada, said he believes the strategic location of his new pharmacy will help benefit business.

“If you see the doctor and you’re not feeling well, you can quickly just get your prescriptions right next door,” Lakada said. “You can do a onestop-shop: get your stuff and be able to go home and feel better.”

Health Mart is a branch of the McKesson Corporation, which offers a variety of medical services, including developing and distributing medical supplies, and health information technology. Independent pharmacists can open their own pharmacies under the McKesson franchise, which comprises a national network of independently owned pharmacies.

“Health Mart helps independent pharmacies in promoting their business and helps in setting up programs, such as immunizations and medicine synchronization,” Lakada said.

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Police Blotter Employees at home for adults with autism charged with endangerment Two employees at an Evanston home for adults with autism were arrested and charged with endangerment Saturday in connection with burns suffered by a 21-year-old female resident, police said.

The woman — a resident of Rimland Services,

Mark Muenzer said he believes the new pharmacy will increase pedestrian activity in downtown Evanston, which he said will ultimately benefit the area as a whole.

“Any time that you’re filling a space with a use that’s going to add pedestrians to the area, as a pharmacy typically does as a good driver of pedestrian activity, then that’s a benefit to the city,” Muenzer said.

Although Lakada said he may expand the range of services provided by Evanston Health Mart in the future, he said the pharmacy will focus primarily on providing medications. As one of several pharmacies in Evanston, Health Mart will concentrate less on offering amenities such as photo printing or grocery services that other Evanston pharmacies like CVS or Walgreens provide, Lakada said.

Without the range of products offered by major corporate pharmacies, Health Mart’s aim is to concentrate on building a more specialized and attentive pharmacy, Lakada said.

“Every patient is going to be different,” he said.

“I can try and accommodate every patient’s need.”

Overall, this pharmacy is aimed to work more closely with patients to attend to their specific medical needs, more so than its corporate competitors, Lakada said.

Muenzer said Evanston Health Mart customers will benefit from the pharmacy’s focus on prescriptions alone.

“If a customer wants a more specific experience, and they’re not also trying to pick up gum and milk and whatnot, then this is the type of 1265 Hartrey Ave. — was being treated at Presence Saint Francis Hospital on Jan. 31 when the burns were discovered and reported to police, said Evanston Police Department spokesman Perry Polinski.

Her caretaker — a 21-year-old Skokie woman — was one of the employees charged. She told police she stepped away from the shower momentarily and the woman turned up the water temperature, which she said explained the burns, Polinski said.

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DOCTOR’S ORDERS Incoming pharmacy Evanston Health Mart will occupy the same building that currently houses the Northwestern Medicine Immediate Care offices, 1704 Maple Ave. The independently-owned pharmacy will prioritize medicine over other offerings, such as groceries, that are often available at pharmacy.

business for them,” Muenzer said.

Despite the presence of other major pharmacies in Evanston, Paul Zalmezak, an economic development official, said he doesn’t feel the success of Health Mart is necessarily in jeopardy.

“What they’re trying to do is differentiate themselves by being focused primarily on health

and medicine,” Zalmezak said. “Pharmacies have kind of taken on more of a corner general store appeal. I think the idea behind Health Mart is they’re highly focused on health-related matters and a high level of service.”

A 55-year-old nurse was also charged. It is unclear exactly where she was at the time of the incident, Polinski said.

Both women were scheduled to appear in Skokie court Monday.

a necklace valued at $5,000 had been stolen from her room at the Hilton Orrington/Evanston hotel, 1710 Orrington Ave., police said.

The gold and diamond necklace had been in a cardboard jewelry box on a desk in the room and was taken sometime between Sunday and Monday mornings, Polinski said.

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The full Northwestern Board of Trustees will not meet with Fossil Free NU — a group seeking coal divestment — at the board’s March conference, Chief Investment Officer Will McLean said.

Community outreach coordinator Christina Cilento said the group has sought to meet with the full board since November 2014, after discussing the University’s stance on divestment with the chair of the Investment Committee. Though the group has received “unprecedented” access, she said, the board has acted too slowly on divestment issues.

“The fact of the matter is that climate change is incredibly urgent and at this point we can’t really remain passive or inactive,” the SESP junior said.

“The board just doesn’t feel the sense of urgency around this matter as much as falling markets globally.”

McLean, whose office facilitated a number of meetings between Fossil Free NU and board members, said volatile markets meant coal divestment was not a priority at this meeting but told the students he would relay a summary of recent conversations directly to the Investment Committee.

“In our minds the issue has been debated and discussed thoroughly at numerous meetings between Fossil Free NU and Investment Committee members. The students have been heard and there’s no reason to take it any further at this time,” he said. “The primary role of the endowment at a university is not to be a mechanism for social commentary, it’s to earn a return that allows students and professors to have financial resources to come to school here and to teach.”

In the future, the University may adopt a socially responsible investment committee, which would include students, faculty and administrators, due in part to efforts made by Fossil Free NU, McLean said. This potential addition follows NU becoming the third U.S. institution to sign the United Nations Principles for Responsible

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MEETINGS WANTED Students march to a Board of Trustees meeting in 2014 to ask Northwestern to divest its endowment funds from the coal industry. Members of Fossil Free NU will not attend the full meeting of the Board of Trustees in March as they had requested.

Investing, which addresses environmental, social and corporate governance issues.

Executive Vice President Nim Chinniah said the group has already met multiple times with the chair of the Investment Committee, who who has delegated responsibility to speak for and act on behalf of the entire committee.

Chinniah said calls for divestment oversimplify a very complicated issue by boiling it down to a “yes or no answer.” Many things factor into a divestment decision, he said, including impact on other socially responsible concerns like financial aid and NU’s sustainability.

“Every decision that the Investment Committee makes sets a precedent for another group to come up,” he said. “And the issues seem to get broader and broader, and it’s a changing landscape.”

Momentum has slowed since students

overwhelmingly passed a referendum last year supporting University divestment from coal, Cilento said. The group has met with trustees several times, delivered hundreds of letters in support of coal divestment to McLean and held a teach-in to inform students about climate justice.

Cilento said she hoped the board’s recent decision would reinvigorate supporters and lead to more proactive action. In March, the group plans to carry out a sit-in or demonstration during the board’s meeting, she said.

“We’re hoping that this decision not to hear us will actually strengthen our movement and rally people around our cause,” she said. “Because if they won’t hear us willingly, we’ll make ourselves heard.” davidpkfishman@u.northwestern.edu

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NU should not drop Early Decision COREY MUELLER

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I have to disagree with Caroline Vakil’s column earlier this week calling for the elimination of the Early Decision application.

Maybe it’s because I applied Early Decision and have a bias toward that process. Maybe it’s because I remember having the same conversations with my parents. Whatever the reason, I cannot resist responding to her arguments.

Vakil begins by claiming that students from lower socioeconomic status are “forced” into applying Regular Decision because Early Decision is a legally binding contract that limits their ability to have financial aid packages from multiple schools. Well, yes, an Early Decision applicant is unable to compare financial aid from other schools. But in no way is that forcing students to apply Regular Decision.

The biggest misconception about Early Decision is that it is financially legally binding. It actually is not.

The one and only way that an applicant can get out of an Early Decision commitment, according to the National Association for College Admission Counseling, is the following: “Should a student who applies for financial aid not be offered an award that makes attendance possible, the student may decline the offer of admission and be released from the Early Decision commitment.”

Although the Office of Undergraduate Financial Aid may seem robotic and removed, it’s necessary to understand that it comprises people who are, in fact, here to help. Like the Office of Undergraduate Admission that accepted the applicant, the Office of Undergraduate Financial Aid wants students to be able to attend this university. They’re not trying to pull a fast one on students, especially not students with financial needs. They can’t make those students pay for

choice of the Early Decision applicant, so the school’s admissions department knows that this student will gladly help fill the newest class of students.

The real issue which Vakil seems to allude is that students are unprepared to make the decision to definitively say that a school is their number one school. This is an issue for another column or article, but it’s more about access to college counseling resources.

I was lucky enough to have a mom that happens to be a college counselor and a dad that loves to research colleges for his kids. I understand this isn’t the case for everyone, but there are resources available to the general public that help people like my dad understand exactly what a specific university has to offer, what its campus is like and how someone would fit in on that campus.

The final problem I have with Vakil’s opinion is that she states she decided not to apply early because she wanted options.

This is an incredibly valid reason to choose not to apply Early Decision. But Early Decision is not for everyone. That’s the point. Students have to be fairly certain that they want to attend NU. It is perfectly understandable that people make mistakes when choosing a university.

However, this should not call for the elimination of an application that is specifically designed for people who think they have figured out where they want to go to shield them from making a mistake. Nor should we perpetuate the notion that the Office of Financial Aid is trying to screw over students and hold them to pay when they can’t.

something they can’t afford, so why would they try to do so and, in turn, lose a potential student?

I understand that some people may be hesitant to reach out and talk to the Office of Undergraduate Financial Aid as it is intimidating and possibly embarrassing to ask for more aid. But that’s what is necessary. Being accepted early gives students and families a lot of time to make those important phone calls and emails to communicate to the Office of Undergraduate Financial Aid that their package doesn’t allow for the student to attend the university. And these communications are key, especially in creating a personal relationship with people whose job is to help alleviate financial issues.

It is widely believed that students who are accepted Early Decision must withdraw all applications from other schools.

Not quite. According to College Board, students may wait until they find out how much financial aid they will receive at a school before they withdraw their other applications. So really, this eliminates the risk of not having options.

But that’s not the point of Early Decision. Early Decision is for those who explicitly mark that university as their first priority, so having the option to attend another school shouldn’t really matter to that applicant.

Vakil made the claim that applying Early Decision “operates under the assumption that a student applying through Regular Decision lacks this motivation, which is unfair.”

It does not operate under the assumption that a Regular Decision applicant lacks any and all motivation to come here. It operates under the assumption that the student is applying to other schools and that Northwestern is not necessarily their top choice.

This application process is more based on a risk-and-reward system from both the applicant and the school. It’s important to look at the situation from the school’s perspective, too.

Accepting an Early Decision applicant is much lower risk than a Regular Decision applicant.

The university knows that it is the absolute first

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What representation in Associated Student Government should be

This Wednesday evening, at 6 p.m., Associated Student Government is hosting a forum for students to voice their opinions about our recent proposal to overhaul the way that seats are apportioned in ASG Senate.

The allocation of Senate seats exerts an enormous influence on how Senate functions. Senate has the final say on ASG’s budget, student group funding requests and executive board members.

If you belong to any student group that gets ASG money or have a stake in ASG’s advocacy about issues like mental health services on campus, Senate plays a role in your Northwestern experience.

Our reform is motivated by two convictions.

First, we want to increase representation of student groups. Under the current system, Senate is not able to grant Senate seats to every student group that applies, and student groups sometimes have to form uncomfortable coalitions to gain a voice in Senate. We think this situation does Senate a great disservice. First, student group seats have huge representative value. For many students, the groups that they’re a part of are far more central to their NU identity than where they live or what school they’re in.

Furthermore, many student groups focus on goals that ASG shares: supporting student mental health, combating racism on campus and making NU more sustainable. Therefore, it is crucial for ASG to interface more effectively with those groups. Adding more Senate seats for student groups will help ASG support their work instead of attempting to replicate it.

Second, we want to address ASG’s past failures to engage with and represent students who are typically left out of NU’s student governance.

We envision an ASG that amplifies the voices of traditionally marginalized students, rather than reflexively re-entrenching existing social hierarchies. In the Daily article initially reporting on our proposal, some senators criticized us for not using numbers based on constituent populations to represent students. This methodology does not make sense. The populations represented by Senate’s caucuses are not disjoint: many students, for example, are in Greek life, live off-campus and are members of a student group. Attempting to allocate seats using quantitative measures is ineffective.

Furthermore, completely proportional representation, by definition, limits the ability of any institution to safeguard the interests of its minority constituents. A 51-seat Senate that “proportionally” reflected the demographics of NU’s undergraduate student body would have three black senators — which throws into sharp relief the importance of conscientiously taking steps to ensure that NU’s most vulnerable communities have a loud voice in ASG. Our proposal has come out of conversations over the past several months with current and former students in and outside of ASG, and we’re happy with it. Agree or disagree, love it or hate it, we hope that you’ll join us on Wednesday to speak your mind and help us make Senate the best institution it can be.

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After a disappointing end to 2015, Wildcats are hungry for yet another title

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Ten years after their first National Championship, the Wildcats fell — hard.

In May 2015, No. 1 seeded Maryland handed Northwestern its worst loss of the season in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament, knocking the Cats out of championship weekend for the first time in a decade.

The loss was an end to an underwhelming season.

Some wondered if it was the end of a dynasty. For the Cats, however, it’s just motivation.

Armed with a corps of top recruits, No. 4 Northwestern (1-1) is back on the field and hungry for

revenge.

“Last year didn’t go as we had hoped, obviously,” junior midfielder Sheila Nesselbush said. “Having so many returners, we all went through it and felt the disappointment, and I think that that is lighting a fire under us. We are not going to let it happen again.”

But after splitting a pair of games to then-No. 4 Duke and No. 10 Virginia in their opening week, it’s clear that the season isn’t going to be seamless.

Victims of a decade’s accumulation of expectations, the Cats may have more to prove now than ever before.

Fresh legs

There is a group of 10 new players donning NU jerseys this year, comprised of nine freshmen and a junior transfer. Keeping with expectation, the new

class is exceptionally strong; Inside Lacrosse ranked the Cats’ class as No. 8 in the country.

Many new recruits played on the U.S. or Canadian U19 national teams and almost all were named AllAmericans in high school.

Just one week into the season, some freshmen have already seen playing time.

“They’ve all been doing a great job,” coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said after the Duke matchup. “Obviously Mallory (Weisse) played well in her first game.

Claire Quinn got in there and played pretty strong too. Nell Copeland got in there as well. Those three have really emerged.”

The most impactful new member thus far has been Weisse, who is the Cats’ new starting goalie after Bridget Bianco graduated.

Following an outstanding performance against

Duke as the second NU freshman to ever start a season opener, Weisse was named National Rookie of the Week by Inside Lacrosse. Weisse had a similarly successful game against Virginia, recording 10 saves in the loss.

The Westfield, New Jersey, native said her experience captaining the U19 national team prepared her for the jump into elite college lacrosse.

“I had a lot of great talent shooting on me,” Weisse said. “(NU is) definitely a step up, so I adjust myself a lot. We have a pretty veteran defense in there and everyone is helping me with the plays and the sets.”

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Spencer Allen already a hit for NU

By MAX GELMAN

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Northwestern has a new sheriff in town.

Former Illinois assistant coach Spencer Allen took the Wildcats’ reins following the retirement of longtime manager Paul Stevens at the end of last season, and so far it’s clear from the way Allen carries himself in the clubhouse that he is extremely eager for the season to begin. While it’s still early, Allen is enjoying his first solo head coaching gig but also recognizes that he is coming into a situation that had seen little change over during the past three decades.

“I’ve really tried to stay true to myself,” Allen said about leading a program for the first time. “There’s times We want when you have to to have guys that make tough decisions, and ultimately can drive the ball I get the win-loss record … but our consistently, and veteran players have we want to have been great in this guys that get on transition.”

Allen said he will base consistently. lean on some of those Spencer Allen, veterans as he is takcoach ing over a team that won just one out of every three games in 2015 and finished tenth in the 13-team Big Ten. (Wisconsin has not had a baseball program since 1991).

One such veteran, senior pitcher Reed Mason, is expected to front NU’s pitching staff in 2016 after Brandon Magallones and Matt Portland were drafted in June. Mason said he hasn’t noticed much of a difference between the coaching styles and personalities of Allen and Stevens.

“They’re both good people to be around,” Mason said. “There’s a lot of excitement that comes with (coach Allen’s) age and the rest of the coaching staff — all young guys who just love to be here and are in a great opportunity to bring a program up from a steady state.”

For Allen, a former Iowa State captain, the transition from assistant to head coach, he

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said, has been smooth. Before working with the Fighting Illini last season, Allen bounced around coaching staffs, working for Iowa, Purdue and Washington State, in addition to multiple stops at Creighton. He also worked for the MLB’s Detroit Tigers and Kansas City Royals as a scout.

Everywhere Allen has coached, offense has been the name of his game. But he will have a lot of work to do with an NU team that scored the fewest runs in the Big Ten a season ago.

“We want guys to figure out what their strengths are and we want to have a balanced lineup,” Allen said. “We want to have guys that can drive the ball consistently, and we want to have guys that get on base consistently. The combo of those will hopefully lead to a good offensive production.”

Allen’s hitting background doesn’t mean he is completely disregarding his pitchers. One of his first missions as head coach was to overhaul the coaching staff with instructors who have proven track records.

Josh Reynolds, the Cats’ new pitching and associate head coach, is just that. Over the past five years as pitching coach at Kansas State, Reynolds helped lead those Wildcats to a 2013 Big XII Championship after his pitching staff posted the program’s lowest ERA in over 35 years.

Reynolds said that he wants NU to eventually establish itself as a regional force, and that the best way is to pound the strike zone.

“Sometimes as pitchers, and I was one myself, we get caught up in trying to trick the hitters,” Reynolds said. “But we want them to swing the bat because hitting is hard to do, and to get (our) guys to understand what they’re good at.”

The Cats are still a ways away from overwhelming success, and there remains work to do both on the field and off.

No matter what hardships the team may face, players said camaraderie is strong and appears to only be growing under Allen.

“It’s been great — the wheels have been moving and we’re starting to really gel as a team,” Mason said.

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Wildcats place heavy emphasis on ‘blue-collar’ mentality

By MELISSA HANIFF

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After yet another NCAA tournament appearance in a 2015 season where Northwestern finished 28-23, and went 14-8 in the Big Ten, the Wildcats are primed for another successful season with coach Kate Drohan at the helm.

The team made it to the NCAA South Bend Regional last season, where it dropped both games to Kentucky and then-No. 16 seed Notre Dame. That being said, the Cats are off to a hot

start this year, winning three of five games in Arizona last weekend, and Drohan said she is confident the Cats can elevate their play this season.

“We really slowed down at the end of the year last year, and we want to stay healthy this season,” Drohan said. “We’re a very veteran team this year, very athletic, with a lot of experience. It’s about taking that experience and really taking it to the next level.”

All the pieces for a winning season are in place, and both Drohan and senior shortstop Andrea Filler agree the team’s mentality going into the season will be the difference-maker in winning close, tight games that have often been an Achilles

heel for the Cats.

Filler said nurturing a “blue-collar mentality” has been a key piece of Drohan’s offseason plan.

“One thing that Kate introduced to us this year was having blue-collar Chicago grit,” Filler said.

“We’ve taken that everyday and really reminded ourselves of that, especially in hard situations. If we hit a lull, we’ll continue to work hard and push forward so that we can be in the race for the top.”

As the Cats look ahead to this weekend’s Big Ten/ACC Challenge, Drohan sees plenty of opportunity to test that grit by making adjustments to the lineup, incorporating new faces and finding the winning combination to take the field.

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KNOCK ON WOOD Kristen Wood delivers the pitch. The senior is Northwestern’s ace in 2016 after starting the most games last year for the team.

Although NU plans to play all five freshmen on roster before Big Ten play begins in March, the team will be heavily reliant on the seven returning seniors and a core of healthy, skilled pitchers, including ace senior Kristen Wood and versatile senior Amy Letourneau. Wood, who went 16-11 with a 4.30 ERA in 2015, appeared in 41 games and pitched 190.2 innings with 229 strikeouts.

“Our seven seniors have been showing up everyday with a strong push, they’re driving the mentality of our team right now,” Drohan said. “We have a five pitcher staff, and that’s providing us a lot of depth so we’re hoping to keep that group healthy and use a lot of different combinations.”

On the other side of the ball, Filler, who led the team in batting average, RBIs and home runs last season, will continue to anchor the offense. This past weekend, Filler led the Cats at the plate with two doubles, a triple, three home runs and 13 RBIs throughout the five game Kajikawa Classic.

Combined with last year’s Big Ten Freshman of the Year, centerfielder Sabrina Rabin, who led the Big Ten with 18 stolen bases in conference play, NU’s offense should be a powerhouse this season. Filler and Rabin will also have help from senior second baseman Brianna LeBeau and sophomore catcher Sammy Nettling, both of whom have proven to be clutch in RBI situations, driving in 29 and 25 RBIs respectively in 2015.

Even with the loss of a core group of four seniors last season, who each played in key positions on the field for the majority of their careers, Filler is confident the team’s offseason preparation has sparked new chemistry the group will need to win big.

“This offseason, we divided up into smaller teams and competed against each other, which was a fun aspect because we all kinda kicked up our competitive edge and worked a little harder against each other,” Filler said. “We really wanted to work on working together, learning styles of new players on the team and making sure they were comfortable.”

As the team’s mentality continues to intensify, the Cats will continue to take each game one pitch at a time, with Drohan hoping that a Women’s College World Series berth is in their line of sight. melissahaniff2016@u.northwestern.edu

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Strong winter play puts Wildcats in great position

By BENJY APELBAUM

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Northwestern has set lofty goals the past few years, but with its performance early this season, the team is proving that a Big Ten title and a run in the NCAA Tournament are within reach.

With much of last year’s roster returning, the No. 21 Wildcats are hoping their increased experience and a focus on player development will put the program over the top this year.

From the beginning of the year, the team’s primary goal has been to win the Big Ten Championship, a feat the Cats have not accomplished since 1990.

However, the Big Ten will be difficult to conquer this year as NU has No. 8 Ohio State, No. 12 Illinois and No. 23 Minnesota standing in its way.

“Our main goal is probably winning a Big Ten title, obviously there’s a lot of good teams in the Big Ten Conference, but I think we have a good shot,” junior Konrad Zieba said. “We’re all playing well. We’ve got a lot of momentum.”

That momentum has propelled the Cats to an 8-1 start to the season, with seven of those victories coming over top60 teams.

One of the defining aspects of this year’s team is its continuity. The only singles player from last season that departed was Logan Staggs, who transferred to UCLA. Staggs was replaced in the singles lineup by freshman standout Ben Vandixhorn, who has compiled a 4-1 record

in singles matches this winter, primarily at the No. 6 spot.

Outside of Vandixhorn, all six of the other singles and doubles starters are upperclassmen who started last year. With much of the talent in place from 2015, NU has focused on player development and improving its mentality in order to achieve its lofty goals.

For coach Arvid Swan, that means teaching his players to be able to make the correct decision out on the court. “(You have to) know when to come in (toward the net), know when to stay back,” Swan said. “That’s something that in college you have to learn because the players are so much better than they are in the juniors.”

One player that has shown dramatic

improvement already this year is Zieba, who finished last season unranked and playing third singles. This year, he has risen to the No. 1 singles spot and is currently ranked No. 14 in the country.

Additionally, junior Strong Kirchheimer said the team has tried to develop a mentality that will foster confidence in tough matches. Teammate junior Alp Horoz agreed.

“We have been developing what I would call a relentless attitude, and being able to win and being confident in ourselves,”

Horoz said. “It’s just the relentless winning attitude we have to bring to practice and matches.”

With new no-advantage scoring rules in place this year, entire matches can hinge on a handful of points. Horoz said this year the team is ready to step up and turn close losses into wins, something the Cats struggled with last year.

“Every year this tennis program has been getting better, and every year we’ve been close to winning a Big Ten Championship and being top-15, top-10 in the country,” Horoz said. “But I think we’re even closer now, and I think we all feel that we can do it and it’s really exciting to be a part of that.” benjaminapelbaum2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern looking for success despite poor start

By MIKE MARUT

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Northwestern’s program is historic to say the least — the team has won many Big Ten Titles under the tutelage of coach Claire Pollard. With that, Pollard said she works her players hard and makes sure they understand what they

are in for. Freshman Lee Or even called the practices tougher than her time in the Israeli military.

Last season, the Wildcats did not fare well and were plagued by many costly injuries that cost them a chance at the Big Ten Title. This season, the team is fully healthy, but has struggled so far, unlike the previous starts under Pollard’s watch. For the first time since Pollard became coach, the Cats find themselves in a

1-4 rut, still spinning their wheels at the starting line while other, equal-caliber teams such as UCLA cruise by on the road to conference competition.

Having a four-match losing streak may not be as bad as it seems, however, as this has been the toughest start for NU since 2009-10, and the Cats could easily be 3-2 right now instead of 1-4. The difference in the loss to then-No. 14 Duke to round out January was just one singles

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match, as three of the four singles losses went into a third set.

This was seemingly the first sign NU could hang with top teams. Another example was Sunday’s 4-3 loss to No. 5 Vanderbilt when the deciding singles match between junior Jillian Rooney and the Commodores’ Fernanda Contreras went into a heated third set.

“We came away with stuff that we need to work on from each match,” sophomore Maddie Lipp said. “We’d rather be playing tough matches than getting easy wins.”

The Cats have not taken the poor season opening lightly. Pollard has identified some intangible barriers the team still has to overcome in order to finish a point, game or match.

“The challenge so far has been a really tough schedule,” Pollard said. “It hasn’t been insurmountable — we’ve played well; we’ve played hard. … Having a consistent lineup would be nice, and we haven’t been able to do that yet.”

Historically, NU has more or less It’s lived and died by the doubles point. probably made us This year is much the same, with a better team, and it will in the long the Cats’ closest matches coming run. I think we are after winning the doubles point but on the right path, being unable to win going in the right the later singles direction. matches that would have closed out the Alicia Barnett, victories. senior When NU loses the doubles point, the match ends in a large deficit for the Cats.

“Our doubles play needs to be more consistent,” Pollard said. “Psychologically getting over ‘If we do lose the doubles point, the match isn’t over’ is something we need to do a better job of. If we can do those two things and then give ourselves a chance at all the singles spots, I’m excited to see how good this team can be.”

The general consensus among NU is that it can play with the better teams, including defending NCAA Champion Vanderbilt. But in order to turn close losses into victories, the Cats understand they need to keep working on fundamentals.

“None of us like losing,” senior Alicia Barnett said. “It’s probably made us a better team, and it will in the long run. I think we are on the right path, going in the right direction. It’s just a matter of time before we break through that last bit. We’re a good team; it will show sooner or later.”

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SINGLES SEASON Jillian Rooney readies a forehand shot. The junior has been a big part of Northwestern’s singles lineup in the last three games.

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Northwestern looks to top record-setting season

By JOSEPH WILKINSON

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Northwestern is heading into the spring looking to build on last year’s historic season.

The Wildcats’ 10th place result in the NCAA Championships was a team record in NU’s third straight trip to the national tournament. After taking second place at the regional tournament in Raleigh, North Carolina, to advance to the finals, the Cats came up two spots short of making the final eight-team match play tournament that determined a champion.

In 2016, the team is looking to go even further, and they open the spring season ranked No. 6 in the country.

However, junior Kacie Komoto said she is simply looking to build her game one tournament at a time.

“Personally, I think it would be nice to start on a good note,” Komoto said. “It will kind of help me transition all the way to Miami and then even into the spring. I’m excited; I think my game is to a point where I can play well, so I’m excited to see what I can do.”

Although the spring season is just beginning, NU played four tournaments in the fall, taking second in the first two before winning the third — the Windy City Classic in Wilmette.

Komoto led the Cats in the latter, tying for fourth

place overall, resulting in one of a slew of individual top-5 performances from NU in the fall which were highlighted by sophomore Sarah Cho’s victory in the Dick McGuire Invitational in New Mexico.

Much like Komoto, however, Cho is just looking to improve her game.

“I’m still just trying to have a solid swing … and just make it really simple and not too complicated,” Cho said. “I’m just trying to be consistent more and just trying to be a better teammate.”

Cho and Komoto aren’t the only ones dropping top-5 finishes for the Cats. Sophomore and reigning Big Ten Player of the Year Hannah Kim, tied for third in New Mexico and also tied for fourth at the Stanford Intercollegiate where NU took fourth overall in a field that included three of the top four teams in the country.

But the depth doesn’t end there for the Cats, as freshman Stephanie Lau shot 10 under par to take third at the Mason Rudolph Championship in Tennessee.

Following these impressive performances in the fall, the team has been hard at work throughout the winter, and coach Emily Fletcher said she has noticed improvements up and down the lineup.

“They’ve really all had individual things that they’re attacking and trying to get better at,” Fletcher said.

“Steph’s done a lot of work on her putting fundamentals, and she’s really come a long way on that.

Hannah Kim’s been focusing a lot on her pitching and

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FAIR CHOICE Kaitlin Park chips from the fairway. The senior is a two-time All-Big Ten first team selection.

chipping. We’ve broken it down; coach [Pat] Goss has worked with her a little bit on some basics.”

These improvements will be put to the test against some of the best teams in the country right out of the gate as NU faces three top-10 teams at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic before heading to the Hurricane Invitational where they will attempt to defend the title they won last year.

However, the ultimate goal hasn’t changed since

last year. NU is looking to build off their 10th place finish and grab one of those top eight spots and a chance at the NCAA title.

“Really this gives us a time to work on our technique, see how we’re doing and I’m doing myself,” Komoto said. “We can expect pretty good things from us coming up.” josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern.edu

Deep roster, solid start have Wildcats dreaming big

By TYLER VANDERMOLEN

the daily northwestern @tgvandermolen

The Big Ten may possess several of the nation’s premier collegiate golf programs, but some of Northwestern’s most intense competition this season may be among its own team.

Players and coaches alike have repeatedly emphasized the depth of the Wildcats’ 2016 roster,

which coach David Inglis believes contains eight players ready to contribute this spring. Yet with a limit of five golfers per competition, Inglis is likely to be faced with some tough decisions as the heart of NU’s stroke play season fast approaches.

“It’s definitely a good problem to have, but we really do feel like all eight guys are capable of helping us succeed, which means sometimes you are going to have to make some difficult calls,” Inglis said. “That’s something we’ve talked about with them, and we want to see them pushing each

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WELL-ABOVE AVERAGE Dylan Wu ponders his next shot. The sophomore was a standout last season, leading the Wildcats in scoring average.

other and making each other better every day in practice.”

After an up-and-down fall that saw the Cats post a pair of top-three showings at the Windon Memorial and UNCG Bridgestone Invitational, the spring season got off to a fast start with a runner-up finish at the Big Ten Match Play Championships last weekend. NU narrowly lost after being edged out in the championship match against a Michigan State team that it beat a day earlier.

Still, the strong performance has left the team feeling confident heading into a stretch of several important tournaments.

“It’s always a good feeling to get your season off to a fast start, especially when it’s against some of your Big Ten rivals,” senior Josh Jamieson said.

“We all came out of that feeling pretty excited about what’s in store for us over these next few weeks.”

The result was even more impressive considering the Cats were without their best player in sophomore Dylan Wu, who represented NU alongside alumnus and former world No. 1 Luke Donald at the Northern Trust Open Collegiate Showcase in California. Wu is coming off a freshman season in which he established himself as a top conference golfer after coming within a single shot of earning a coveted individual berth in the NCAA Division I Championship.

Wu will team with seniors Jamieson and Andrew Whalen as well as graduate transfer Harley Abrams to form a talented and experienced core. In particular, Whalen’s return from a redshirt year could prove to be critical to the team’s prospects this season.

“Getting Dylan back will obviously be big for us, and if those other guys are playing the way we know they can it’s going to be exciting to watch,” Inglis said. “Especially with Andrew coming back this year and the way his game has improved so much, that’s something that is going to be key to our success.”

Yet those experienced players are likely to compete for playing time by the team’s younger members in sophomore Sam Triplett and freshmen Luke Miller, Pete Griffith, and Ryan Lumsden. Jamieson believes this internal competition will only serve the team well going forward.

“Every one of those guys is a really, really good golfer, and they’re all capable of going out and helping us win in any given week,” Jamieson said.

“Coach has talked a lot about us working to get ‘one percent better’ every single day, and the fact that the young guys have outplayed the older ones at different points has helped everyone focus even more on doing that.”

Inglis, for one, can be counted among those who believe the Cats possess potential to make significant waves this season, not only in the Big Ten, but nationally as well.

“What I think what we showed in the match play event is that when it’s our day, we can be as good as anyone out there,” Inglis said. “If we go out and play the way we can, this team is certainly capable of competing for a Big Ten championship, of making the national tournament, being one of those teams with a chance at a match play spot.” tylervandermolen2018@u.northwestern.edu

New coach focused on preparing NU for outdoor season

By TUCKER JOHNSON

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With only three indoor meets under its belt this winter, Northwestern is already looking ahead to the outdoor season.

“We took it as a deemphasized indoor (season) learning rhythm, learning pace and setting ourselves up for the longer events, like the steeplechase, 5K and 10K,” coach ‘A Havahla Haynes said.

Last year was the Wildcats’ first with NCAA sponsorship for the track season, allowing them greater freedom to travel for meets, as well as the opportunity to compete at NCAA Championship meets during both indoor and outdoor seasons.

The travel opportunities allowed NU to run in more prestigious meets and compete against some of the top athletes in the nation.

As they raced against stronger competition last spring, the Cats smashed old personal best times and junior Andrea Ostenso qualify for the NCAA West preliminary meet.

“Our goal (this season) is to get some women qualified for the NCAA’s first round,” Haynes said, referring to the West preliminary meet that serves as a final qualifier for the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

Ostenso missed the fall cross country season due to injury, but has returned with a vengeance during the indoor season. At the Windy City Rumble hosted by the University of Chicago on

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RUNNING WITH A PASSION A pair of Northwestern runners take off at the starting line. The Wildcats’ new coach believes the team is well prepared for the outdoor season.

Feb. 6, Ostenso finished second in the 1-mile run with a time of 5:09.35, and set a personal best for 800 meters –– a shorter distance than she typically runs –– in 2:28.85.

The Cats saw 10 personal records fall that day,

including five in the 800 meters.

“It was really nice to get a race in,” Ostenso said, “It was a short race, but it was fun to get the spikes back on.”

While most of the team competed at UChicago’s

Henry Crown Field House, senior Elena Barham ran at Notre Dame’s prestigious Meyo Invitational.

Barham set a 17-second personal best in the 3K against a field that included a handful of professional runners and saw Notre Dame’s Molly Seidel break the school record previously held by Olympian Molly Huddle.

Barham’s time of 9:52 was only good enough for 34th against the field at the Meyo Invitational, but is still the Cats’ fastest time this season by more than 30 seconds.

This season is NU’s first with Haynes as coach, as she was hired after longtime coach April Likhite retired after last track season. “(Haynes) has a different approach, which I really like,” said junior Jena Pianin. “(We are) more focused on training (this winter), because we’re focused on outdoor track.”

The Cats have one more weekend of indoor competition left, and will send squads to the Orange and Blue Invitational at Illinois and the Alex Wilson Invitational at Notre Dame, both Feb. 20.

After Spring Break, NU will begin its outdoor competition at the San Francisco State Distance Carnival on April 2, and will return to the Bay Area a month later for the Payton Jordan Invitational at Stanford.

“I’m really excited for the team,” Ostenso said, “Everybody is doing well and getting faster times already.” samueljohnson2019@u.northwestern.edu

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trying to adapt to a slew of rule changes for the 2016 season.

Perhaps the biggest change this year deals with the continuation of play after a penalty.

Previously, players granted possession would

have to wait for the penalized player to move four meters away and for the referee to blow their whistle before starting play.

Starting this season, the player granted possession is able to continue play without the referee’s whistle. The only caveat to this selfrestart is that the offending player may not be a full four meters away. It is the player’s choice

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as to whether they wish to self-restart or wait for the referee’s whistle.

The new rule, almost identical to the foul procedure in collegiate field hockey, is an attempt to speed up the pace of play. Amonte Hiller sees the rule change as a positive addition, a sentiment that is echoed by her players.

“People are still getting used to it, but it’s great any way we can make our game faster,” Amonte Hiller said. “I think it’s exciting for the fans. I think it’s exciting for the athletes.”

Another major rule reversal concerns the 3-second penalty. Any defender who is in the 8-meter arc for 3 seconds without being within a stick’s distance of an offensive player is called for a penalty.

In past seasons this was considered a major foul, and the offensive team was awarded a free-position shot on goal.

Starting this year, the 3-second penalty is considered a minor Mentally, foul, and the offense is I think that it’s awarded the ball outside of the 12-meter the same as arc. everything.

Other rule changes this season include The more the addition of a preparation you possession arrow for offsetting fouls, the have, the better. implementation of Selena Lasota, sudden-death oversophomore time and required attacker stick checks after scoring plays.

“Everyone is still getting used to the rules,” sophomore attacker Selena Lasota said. “I definitely think that the 3-second rule is overall just a good rule change, and obviously the selfstart is just going to make the game faster.”

However, the biggest rule change for women’s lacrosse still looms.

Starting in the 2017 season, Divison I will add a 90-second shot clock. In a game where flow, pacing and timing are crucial, the shot clock will completely disrupt the current style of play.

Amonte Hiller, Weisse, Nesselbush and Lasota all said they haven’t begun to think about the shot clock and are just focusing on this year’s changes.

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RETURN OF THE WILDCATS Lauren Murray gets pumped up during a break in play.

Northwestern is looking to return to the Final Four after being blown out by Maryland in last year’s NCAA Tournament.

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necessary to win; the outcome of this season will depend on teamwork and execution.

After a busy offseason leading the Canadian U19 national team to its first world championship, Big Ten Freshman of the Year Lasota is back and already leads the team in goals and shots.

Lasota said not much has changed since last year, save for the extra year of experience.

“Physically, I have kept training really hard,” Lasota said. “Mentally, I think that it’s the same as everything. The more preparation you have, the better.”

But Lasota isn’t the only player the Cats will need to lean on this season.

Offensively, the veteran squad of Nesselbush, senior midfielder Kaleigh Craig, junior attacker Danita Stroup and attacking midfielder Shelby Fredericks has the experience and camaraderie to be an unrelenting force on the field.

The challenge this year will be channeling their learned teamwork into precision, mainly in the midfield where they have struggled so far with possession.

Draws will also be crucial; in the Cats’ lackluster first half against Virginia, they only grabbed 1-of-9 draw controls.

The defense, on the other hand, finds itself in a unique situation. After losing Bianco, the seasoned group now has a freshman in the cage and at the helm.

Nesselbush said Weisse has fit seamlessly into their unit, and cohesion is always a focus on defense.

“The biggest struggle on defense is figuring out who works well together and how to make it click,” Nesselbush said. “I guess since we’ve all been here before, we know how to play with each other already. Mallory’s a freshman, but she doesn’t play like one.”

Amonte Hiller said if the team achieves this unity, this season won’t be another disappointment.

Maybe, she said, they already have accomplished this goal.

“You got some seniors (on defense) and some returners from playing out of the midfield, and I think it definitely helps to have that cohesiveness, the gelling,” Amonte Hiller said. “Early on in the season, I think that we worked hard at that. That’s been our focus both offensively and defensively — play together as a team, and we’ll do good things.”

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Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) criticized Senate leaders Monday for reactions to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, saying both parties are being disrespectful by immediately making his death a political issue.

The senator released a statement Monday after the death of Scalia, who died unexpectedly Saturday in rural west Texas, criticizing the current debates between the U.S. Senate’s Republican majority and

Blogger Katie Pavlich announced as College Republicans’ speaker

Katie Pavlich, editor of the conservative website Townhall.com, will speak at Northwestern next week as College Republicans’ winter speaker, the group announced Tuesday night at its weekly meeting.

Pavlich, a conservative author and political

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of us to jump the gun and say something at the event at a show that was largely successful.”

Chang said some people took his comedy too literally. He pointed out that a video shown during Celebrasia depicted a girl being thrown off the roof and a boy being stabbed, and he argued that the video, which implied murder, assault and battery, should have received a stronger reaction than his jokes did.

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Apartments and Focus Development, Inc. declined to comment, and attorney Scott Fradin, who represented Focus Development, Inc. in the settlement, as well as representatives from Booth Hansen Ltd. could not be reached for comment.

In the settlement, both Focus Development and Booth Hansen denied the discrimination allegations, but the companies settled the claims “to avoid the cost of protracted litigation.”

Despite the extensive process, the settlement allowed Open Communities to come to an agreement with Focus Development, Inc. and Booth Hansen Ltd. without having to go before a judge, Schechter said. Schechter added that the changes agreed upon in the settlement will be implemented over the next five years.

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President Barack Obama over who would appoint his successor on the Supreme Court. The president pledged to nominate someone to the court before the end of his term, but Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ken.) said Senate Republicans said they would block any nomination to replace Scalia, who was known for his staunch conservatism and “original intent” interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

The Supreme Court vacancy has caused controversy because Scalia’s absence leaves the court with four liberal and four conservative judges, so the new judge will be a deciding vote on many issues. Kirk criticized both parties for turning Scalia’s death into a political issue within days of his passing, calling the debate “unseemly.”

“Scalia was a giant in the history of American jurisprudence,” Kirk said in the statement. “Let us take the time to honor his life before the inevitable debate erupts.”

However, Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), who is running against Kirk for the Senate seat, said he has a duty to take a position on the issue.

“Senator Mark Kirk must immediately level with the people of Illinois, and let us know whether he supports the Constitution, or if he’ll be a rubber stamp for Mitch McConnell’s obstructionist and unconstitutional gambit,” Duckworth said in a statement Monday.

commentator, graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Arts in broadcast journalism and currently serves as a rotating panelist on Fox News Channel’s daily show, “Outnumbered.”

In 2013, the Conservative Political Action Conference named her Blogger of the Year for her work at Townhall.com, as a Fox News contributor and 2012 book, “Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up.” “NUCR is honored to be bringing such a dynamic, up­-and-­coming speaker as Ms. Pavlich,”

the group said in a statement. “(We) are proud of the tradition of bringing highly informed commentators for our annual winter speaker series, and announce Ms. Pavlich in the confidence that her speech is a continuation of that tradition.”

Associated Student Government and the Young America’s Foundation provided funding for the speaker, according to the news release. Pavlich will talk 8 p.m. in Swift Hall next Monday at the free event, which is open to the public.

“One thing people missed overall … the person I’m ridiculing the most is myself,” Chang said. “I personally don’t understand why anyone would go to a comedy show looking for a serious message. You don’t go to a comedy show to, you know, look for holes or flaws in someone’s way of speaking because if you do that you can always find a flaw in anything.”

The goal of Celebrasia is to promote AsianAmerican awareness and inspire those in the AsianAmerican community at NU, Chow said.

Lo said he didn’t think Chang’s performance should take away from the success of the rest of the

show, which sold out the entirety of Cahn Auditorium for the first time this year.

“To extract this one event and to extrapolate it onto the rest of the show and the success of the show overall — it wouldn’t be doing the show justice,” Lo said. “The skits that were filmed this year were phenomenal, the other acts that we brought out were phenomenal and the fact that you have a thousand people in the Northwestern community coming out to watch Celebrasia is a testament to that.”

In addition to modifications made to address Open Communities’ complaints, the agreement states that Focus Development, Inc. and Booth Hansen Ltd. will each pay $87,500 in damages to Open Communities, according to the settlement.

“This is the biggest settlement we’ve had in over 25 years in Evanston,” said Jes Scheinpflug, a spokeswoman for Open Communities. “We’ve come such a long way with disability rights that people don’t pay attention to issues that make things not accessible.”

Schechter said failure to meet certain fair housing requirements does not fall on any single person because several levels of people, including architects, contractors, developers, owners and investors are involved in the construction process. Therefore, every member throughout every step of the construction process must be aware of standards set by the Fair Housing Act, she said.

Scheinpflug said oftentimes, however, people at

every level of a building’s construction are not aware of the accepted handicap accessibility standards.

“For fair housing, when we see discrimination in 2016, the optimist in me likes to believe that it’s just because people don’t know any better, that landlords don’t know the laws, developers don’t know the requirements and they’re not doing it on purpose,” Scheinpflug said. “When we have settlements like this, it can let other developers know that this does exist, so in the future they are educated about fair housing.”

Schechter said she hopes this settlement will inform others about accessibility laws and standards to ensure that housing in Evanston and other suburbs remains inclusive in the future.

“It ended up being a protracted process, but we’re very happy with the outcome,” she said.

Brown said transparency has become a particular concern of Fossil Free NU’s members as they’ve met with administrators and the Board of Trustees.

“The fact that we’ve had to fight for four years just to be in direct contact with the trustees … shows that there really is a huge barrier of transparency at the university that needs to be addressed,” the Medill junior said. “If Northwestern were to increase transparency of how it’s using its endowment and how it’s investing its endowment, it would really only benefit the university as a whole.”

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the school had enough devices in its possession to be able to offer them to the senior class of 2017.

“Between the ones that we’ve got in the classrooms and the spares that we have, we’ve actually come up with about 800 more, so those really aren’t costing us anything,” Stafford said.

Chan said ETHS had been exploring the option of moving up the implementation plan since fall by looking at schedules, calculating the number of available devices and seeing if the extra devices could be insured. The new plan was presented to the board in early February.

The funding for the devices comes from the school’s normal budget, not an outside grant. Stafford said ETHS pays for the Chromebooks up front at roughly $300 apiece, and students pay $50 a year over four years and then will take the device with them when they graduate.

The 2017 seniors will pay $70 for the year, the $50 fee and $20 for insurance. They will still graduate as owners of the refurbished devices.

Stafford said the school budget eats about $100 on each device — money Chan said was reallocated from other places in the budget such as money for desktop computers.

Chan said students who have demonstrated financial need can reduce their fees, and students receiving free lunch do not pay at all. These students will still get to keep their Chromebooks when they graduate.

“They will not get a special device or a labeled device; they will not have to return the device at the end of the year,” Chan said. “There’s equity across the board.”

Although ETHS faces an uncertain financial situation under the state’s budget crisis, Stafford said the Chromebook program is here to stay.

“To be very frank, that program will continue to go on,” Stafford said. “That is not a large enough expenditure item in the grand scheme of things.

We’ll keep that going.” darbyhopper2019@u.northwestern.edu

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NU excited to compete in Big Ten Championships junior Lacey Locke qualifying in the 100 backstroke, junior Melissa Postoll in the 200 backstroke, freshman Peyton Greenberg in the 200 breaststroke and junior Lauren Abruzzo in the 400 IM and the 400 and 800 freestyle. Future Cats Krystal Lara and Sandra Freeman, who have signed National Letters of Intent for NU’s Class of 2020, have also qualified for Olympic Trials, in the 100 backstroke and 400 IM respectively.

Freshman diver Olivia Rosendahl has qualified for the Olympic Trials for the second time, and she is one of only four American women to have met the qualifying score in every diving event this season.

The Cats have swum in only two multi-session meets this season. At the first, the threeday TYR Invitational in November, NU finished first out of six teams.

At the Cats last meet Jan. 29 and Jan. 30 against Minnesota and Purdue, they lost by large, similar margins to both of their opponents.

Steketee referenced Muhammad Ali’s famous “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” philosophy when describing the team’s approach to the multi-day competition.

“On the deck you’re focused on the things you can control, the floating like a butterfly, not getting all hung up on the things you can’t,” she said. “The sting like a bee is you never give up. You’re not just racing with your muscles, but with your spirit.”

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After a strong regular season, Northwestern is heading to the Big Ten Championships looking to prove itself a team to reckon with.

The Wildcats will take on several ranked opponents at this year’s Big Tens. Facing tough competition, the team has been training to peak at this specific meet all season and is prepared to swim its best times this year.

“I’m looking forward to racing fully rested, something we haven’t done all year,” senior Julianne Kurke said. “It’s always fun having the easy speed.”

NU will spend four days in Ann Arbor for the meet, which will include seven separate sessions of preliminary rounds and finals against some of the toughest teams in the nation. Thirteen of the Big Ten’s 14 schools have varsity women’s swim teams, and seven of those teams are currently ranked among the top 25 in the NCAA. Minnesota is looking to win its fifth consecutive Big Ten championship at the meet.

The Golden Gophers defeated NU 245-108 at their late January meet, but are currently No. 24, behind conference rivals No. 6 Michigan, No. 12 Indiana, No. 17 Wisconsin, No. 18 Purdue and No. 21 Penn State.

“We’re looking for the same goals we started with at the beginning of the year: personal records, NCAA qualifiers, and improving on (last year’s) tenth place finish,” coach Abby

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as well.

“I thought Olah played great tonight, but because he was in foul trouble we couldn’t play him the amount of minutes we’d probably like to,” McIntosh said. “It took him a little out of rhythm because he had to sit on the bench.”

That NU didn’t share the effort spent getting to the stripe further doomed it in this contest of sheer physicality. Though they ultimately found an offensive groove out of the pick-androll set, the Cats played a relatively cautious

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FREESTYLING Ellen Anderson participates in the freestyle. The senior holds the Wildcats’ top time in the 500-yard freestyle this season.

Steketee said.

Close races in last year’s preliminary rounds cost NU at least a few points, such as when then-sophomore Annika Winsnes missed qualifying for the A final in the 200-yard freestyle by 0.04 seconds. By taking ninth overall in the preliminary heats, Winsnes earned the first seed in the consolation final and ultimately offensive game — jumping at the opportunity to take open shots and only driving to the rim when a Purdue big was drawn out of the paint.

Ultimately, there was little NU could do.

Against Purdue’s size, a Cats team with limited interior options and a penchant for small ball was simply outmatched.

“They’re hard to guard because of what they present physically,” Collins said. “We did our best, and when they’re calling it tight on those guys … it’s going to be really impossible to stop them.” garrettjochnau2019@u.northwestern.edu

finished 10th.

“All the places were really close last year, especially in that eighth, ninth, 10th spot,” senior Ellen Anderson said.

Additionally, this year’s Big Tens will give the Cats an opportunity to earn Olympic Trials qualifying times. Four NU swimmers have already earned cut times for the Trials, with

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learning from the other film we watch on them and just putting it all together.”

After NU went 12-6 in conference play last year and advanced to the NCAA Tournament, expectations for this year’s team were high. Despite the recent string of losses and with repeat tournament hopes all but dashed, Deary said confidence remains high within the team.

“We’ve had some good wins, like Nebraska, Ohio State, (North Carolina), where we put together four quarters, so we know we’re capable

of it,” Deary said of beating top teams. “It’s just having the mindset to actually do it.”

McKeown, who has never beaten Penn State, echoed Deary’s sentiment. He pointed out that a handful of players were doing individual work with coaches before practice and that the team had just finished a weightlifting session.

The coach said instead of dwelling on past losses that could have been wins, looking ahead is his focus.

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Northwestern proved unable to match up against No. 17 Purdue’s tremendous size in a 71-61 loss Tuesday.

The Boilermakers (21-6, 9-5 Big Ten) out-rebounded the Wildcats (17-10, 5-9) by a whopping 45-24 margin, the biggest rebounding deficit for NU in more than two years. The 7-foot Purdue center A.J. Hammons pulled down 12 rebounds to go with a team-leading 18 points as the senior star dominated inside.

Hammons and his fellow frontcourt players, center Isaac Haas and forward Caleb Swanigan, outmuscled and outplayed every player the Wildcats (17-10, 5-9) threw at them, forcing freshman center Dererk Pardon to foul out and senior center Alex Olah, freshman forward Aaron Falzon and sophomore forward Gavin Skelly to rack up four fouls each.

“Their strength of going inside, their rebounding, their physicality, put a lot of pressure on us,” coach Chris Collins said.

“When they’re calling it tight like that on those guys, they’re so big … and it’s going to be really impossible to stop them.”

Senior guard Tre Demps led the way for the Cats with 16 points, shooting 7-for-13 and pacing the offense with well-timed buckets throughout the night. Sophomore guard Bryant McIntosh added 14 points

and three assists, while Olah scored 10 of his 12 points in the second half.

NU did little to counteract Purdue’s advantage inside with its perimeter shooting. The team missed nine of their first 10 tries from deep and finished the game 6-for-27.

Collins said he felt his team would need to hit 11 or 12 3-pointers and “at least 20” of their attempts were open shots, but their inability to get such shots to fall proved costly.

Purdue dominated early on and appeared en route to a thorough blowout victory, but an 8-2 surge to end the half pulled the Cats back into the game at halftime, trailing 35-27.

The positive momentum continued after the break as the visitors trailed by as little as 4 points on several occasions and cut the lead to 56-50 with under eight minutes to play.

However, Purdue’s physical dominance helped it maintain the lead and eventually pull away, opening up the perimeter down the stretch as NU collapsed defensively into the paint to compensate for their foul issues.

Back-to-back 3-pointers by the Boilermakers’ Ryan Cline and Johnny Hill stretched the lead to 62-50 with under six minutes left, putting the contest essentially out of reach.

“The biggest shot of the game was Ryan Cline coming off a ball screen, hitting a 3,” McIntosh said. “We go down (the court)

and we miss a 3 really bad, and that was the game.”

Purdue entered the game as the second-best team in the conference in both free throw percentage and average rebounding margin, and it delivered in both regards.

Hammons alone attempted and made more free throws than all of the Cats combined, going 8-for-11 and boosting his team to a 21-for-28 accord at the charity stripe as they rode the double-bonus for the final 10:52 of the game.

The vast difference at the free-throw line not only affected the score immensely but also prevented the Cats from gaining any rhythm or flow in the game.

“They blow up all your sets,” Demps said. “They’re extremely sharp on the offensive end and that’s why they’re good. We just had a couple key breakdowns late that really killed us.”

Cats upbeat despite close losses

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Although Northwestern languishes near the cellar of the Big Ten standings and has won just once in its last nine games, coach Joe McKeown said he isn’t discouraged.

The Wildcats (14-12, 3-11 Big Ten) enter Wednesday’s game against visiting Penn State (9-16, 4-10) with their only February win coming against last-place Illinois, but McKeown said he remains upbeat.

“I feel really positive,” McKeown said.

“From a positive standpoint we made a (15-0) run on Maryland where a lot of teams would have been blown out. We crawled right back in, had a chance to win. So that’s encouraging.”

In Sunday’s 79-70 loss to the No. 5 Terrapins (23-3, 12-2), NU fell behind 25-5 after the first quarter but outscored Maryland in the final three periods. The Cats cut the deficit to 5 but couldn’t complete the comeback.

Sunday’s loss was only the most recent of a string of defeats decided late in the fourth quarter. Last Wednesday against Rutgers, the Cats had the ball in a tie game with 10 seconds to play, but junior forward Nia Coffey’s layup was blocked and the Scarlet Knights scored a gamewinning layup with less than 2 seconds left.

NU has lost half its conference games by 9 points or fewer.

“It’s definitely frustrating, but it’s also something that you have to be accountable for,” junior guard Ashley Deary said of the many close losses. “We started slow against Maryland and that hurt us because we played three strong quarters but we didn’t put it all together. … Finding the will to finish games is going to be important for us going forward.”

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The Cats’ conference opener at Penn State on New Year’s Eve, a 79-72 loss, was another game in which NU played well in spurts but not for the entire game.

The Cats went on a 17-2 run in the third quarter to turn a 13-point deficit into a 2-point lead and led with less than four minutes to play.

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The Nittany Lions, however, scored 16 points in the final 3 minutes to secure the win. After the game, McKeown said NU couldn’t defend when it needed to.

Junior guard Christen Inman said although the game took place nearly seven weeks ago, the Cats can learn from the loss.

“It was a long time ago, so we’ve improved and they improved,” Inman said. “Just learning from those mistakes, » See PENN STATE, page 11

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CONSISTENT CHRISTEN Christen Inman drives around the defender. The junior guard has played every minute in four of Northwestern’s past five games.

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Foul trouble dooms less-physical Cats

By GARRETT JOCHNAU

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With under 9 minutes remaining in Tuesday’s road contest against Purdue, the Wildcats’ first player fouled out.

It was freshman center Dererk Pardon, who, in just 6 minutes of playing time, picked up five fouls as he struggled to contain Purdue’s interior wrecking crew.

He wasn’t alone, though: The entire frontcourt struggled to keep the Boilermakers’ physicality in check. And behind a 21-5 disparity in makes from the free throw line, Purdue took advantage of an NU squad with no answer along the defensive interior, winning 71-61.

“It’s difficult,” coach Chris Collins said. “(I’m) not quite sure how you guard them on some of those … We just got in really deep foul trouble and then they were able to live at the line.”

In the end, senior center Alex Olah, sophomore forward Gavin Skelly and freshman forward Aaron Falzon all fell one foul shy of sharing Pardon’s fate. Graduate transfer center Joey van Zegeren and junior forward Sanjay Lumpkin both notched three fouls, as did sophomore guard Bryant McIntosh from the backcourt.

Collectively, the team’s foul trouble did more than simply award the Boilermakers opportunities from the charity stripe. Spending the

game on the fringe of fouling out prevented NU’s bigs from bringing the intensity necessary to oppose a Purdue interior crew that included senior center A.J. Hammons, freshman forward Caleb Swanigan and sophomore center Isaac Haas.

Only Pardon seemed unhampered by the threat of fouling out — not that it helped NU. From start to finish, the Boilermakers worked the ball into the post where the 7-foot Hammons — who alone finished 8-of-11 from the free throw line — or another Purdue big would bully an NU defender into either fouling or allowing an effortless attempt from down low.

“It’s hard to put a run together when they’re constantly at the free throw line,” McIntosh said. “I have to applaud them; they do a great job getting the ball inside, and their bigs can get to the free throw line.

They understand how to get fouled and know how to attack.”

Even when the Cats found themselves forcing the Boilermakers into a series of mid-range jumpers to start the second half, Purdue compensated for its inability to hit a field goal — it went 8-plus minutes without one — by routinely getting to the free throw line.

And when the defense relaxed, with Olah, Skelly and company looking to avoid joining Pardon on the bench, the Boilermakers’ frontcourt seized the opportunity » See FOUL TROUBLE, page 11