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Officials vote to reduce NU parking City hopes to use parking lot east of Kemper Hall

By JULIA ESPARZA

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Members of the Plan Commission voted at a meeting Wednesday night to recommend a decrease in the number parking spaces Northwestern is required to have, opening the way for the city to use the lot east of Kemper Hall.

Based on the amount of parking spaces available on the Evanston campus and the amount of spaces actually used by students, staff, faculty and visitors, the commission unanimously voted to recommend the Planning and Development committee decrease the number of parking spaces mandated by the city. Under the proposed changes, NU will give the city permission to use the parking lot east of Kemper Hall.

A current ordinance states that NU should have one parking space per five residents of dormitories, fraternities and sororities living on-campus

and one per three employees.

The revised amendment would change this number to one space for every 10 residents but would leave the number for employees the same.

Currently the university has 4,111 parking spaces on its Evanston campus. Under current zoning ordinance, the city requires the university to have 4,096 spaces, but several commission members raised concern with these numbers, saying it double-counts students who live on campus.

The amendment comes as NU and the city are working on a plan to renovate the city’s water reservoir at the intersection of Lincoln Street and Campus Drive. The University and the city are co-applicants for this amendment.

Assistant city manager Erika Storlie said the city needs this space since, because of the renovations at the Evanston water reservoir across the street, they will lose about 140 parking spaces at the building.

“Without our need for this requirement to be reduced, we would not be having this conversation,” she said. » See PARKING, page 6

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Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir speaks as part of Discover Islam Week. Abdul-Qaadir, the founder of the “Muslim Girls Hoop Too” campaign, was prohibited from playing basketball internationally for wearing a hijab.

Muslim athlete talks faith, sports Basketball player discusses career as part of Discover Islam Week

By GABBY BIRENBAUM

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For 24 years, basketball was Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir’s entire life.

She broke both the male and female state scoring records at her Springfield, Massachusetts, high school. As the first Muslim woman to play in the NCAA while wearing a hijab, she played for both the University

of Memphis and Indiana State University, helping the latter win the Missouri Valley Conference regular season title.

When basketball was taken away from her, Abdul-Qaadir said she was stripped of part of her identity. And her career didn’t end due to injury or age — AbdulQaadir said she had to give up basketball due to discrimination.

“To this day, it’s hard,” she said.

“They did rob me of a career.”

The Muslim-cultural Students

Association hosted Abdul-Qaadir for a talk and screening of the documentary “Life Without Basketball” on Wednesday at the Rebecca Crown Center. AbdulQaadir discussed her Muslim faith and her journey from athlete to activist as part of McSA’s Discover Islam Week.

After college, Abdul-Qaadir was set to play in Europe in the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), she said. However, she said she was informed that

FIBA had a policy stating that headgear above five inches was prohibited in league play. Her hijab was regarded as dangerous and a safety hazard, she said.

Previously, she said she was known as “that Muslim hooper.”

Without basketball, she was simply Muslim, and she had to decide what that meant for her.

“Basketball was my test of faith,” Abdul-Qaadir said. » See HOOP, page 6

WSJ editor discusses digital media ETHS student to NU alumnus Matt Murray says journalism must serve readers

By AMY LI

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In a talk titled “Why the Nation Needs Real Reporting,” Wall Street Journal deputy editor in chief Matt Murray (Medill ’87, ’88) reminded students that journalism is fundamentally about other people.

“We are here to serve them and not to serve ourselves,” Murray told the audience of about 35.

The conversation was held Wednesday in the McCormick Foundation Center and led by Tim Franklin, senior associate dean for the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications.

Murray said the most important part of any journalistic work is “learning how to think.” Medill taught Murray how to challenge himself and and question his own assumptions, he said.

The journalist recalled when his professor at Medill tore apart his leads, which he said was comical but also humbling in the right ways.

“You can always get better,” Murray said. “If you play professional football, you don’t just show up on Sunday and play.

You’re practicing every day.”

Murray and Franklin addressed the common perception of The Wall Street Journal

send bees to space

By AMELIA LANGAS

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Wall Street Journal deputy editor in chief Matt Murray speaks at the McCormick Foundation Center. The Medill alumnus spoke about journalism in the modern age at the Wednesday event.

as a right-leaning publication, to which Murray said it is important for readers to to draw a line between opinion and news coverage. Murray mentioned many readers are surprised to learn the opinion section of the paper is run separately from the news section.

While many also think of The Wall Street Journal as a print publication, Murray said, it is necessary for its staff to carry out

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an “existential discussion” on how the publication can integrate into the digital age. The team understands that its future growth will not be in print readership, he said, and is focused on learning how to cater to a digital audience.

“For me, being digital is not about chasing clicks,” Murray said. “It’s about taking the great heritage that we’ve got and the strong journalistic standards we have and keeping them strong.”

With a surge of new journalistic technologies, Murray said he is careful in evaluating which ones to implement at The Wall Street Journal. He said journalism is currently undergoing a transformation — much like the movie industry in 1915, which was on the precipice of an explosion of new technology that completely changed the business. » See WSJ, page 6

Evanston Township High School student Sarah Bloom found out this summer over Facebook Live her all-women team won a competition that will allow them to send an experiment to space. At first, she didn’t believe it, she said.

“Honestly, at first I was kind of disbelieving, in shock,” the high school junior said. “You know I was like, ‘Mmm, I don’t believe it, I don’t know if that could really be happening,’ but it was and it is.”

For three days last summer, Bloom participated in Go For Launch!, a program through the nonprofit Higher Orbits, where students across the country work in teams to develop a space-related experiment, Michelle Lucas, the founder and president of Higher Orbits, said. The experiments are evaluated by a panel of judges and the winner gets their experiment flown to the International Space Station.

Bloom said her team’s experiment will be launched into space sometime this summer, but currently her group is working with engineers from Space Tango — a company that designs, builds and operates systems that

facilitate microgravity research and manufacturing — to refine the experiment.

Bloom’s four-person team, called NESS — an acronym using each person on the team’s first initial and also the Hebrew word for “miracle” — created an experiment that will send bumblebees into space and observe how they behave in microgravity, Bloom said. “(Bloom and her team) had great scientific reasoning behind (their experiment),” Lucas said.

“It was an interesting and unique experiment, and they did a great job of research and providing a lot of details. … It checked all the boxes as far as being good science, likely to have good results and somewhat unique.”

Bloom said that observation of the bees could set preliminary research for sending humans into hibernation spaceflight. It’s a “lowrisk” way to determine if hibernation in microgravity has any negative effects on organisms, she said.

Bumblebees’ population growth has been having trouble in recent years, Bloom said, and bees are an important part of the ecosystem.

“Since their population is kind of in decline, it’s really important to do any research how their numbers could be preserved and help their population grow again,” she said. » See SPACE, page 6

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2018

AROUND TOWN Study finds county property assessments are unfair

By ALAN PEREZ

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State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) speaks at an event. Biss said in a news release last week that wealthy homeowners “exploit” the system for tax breaks.

POLICE BLOTTER Evanston resident’s car tires taken from driveway

A 57-year-old Evanston man said he found his car sitting on pavers, missing its tires and wheels Tuesday morning.

The man said he saw the car in his driveway in

the 700 block of Wesley Avenue with the tires at 11 p.m. Monday but woke up and noticed they were gone around 9:30 a.m. the next morning.

The man reported that the four tires are valued at $2,000, said Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew.

There were no surveillance cameras and police do not have any suspects.

An independent study released last week asserts that Cook County property assessments have given tax breaks to wealthy homeowners at the expense of poorer homeowners.

The Civic Consulting Alliance report, conducted at the request of County officials, found that the property assessment system causes a “wealth transfer from owners of lower-value homes to those of higher-value homes.” The news follows months of assertions by the County Assessor’s office that the process was fair.

The defense came in response to criticism that assessments were unequal, but even after the report found assessor Joseph Berrios’ practices were faulty, he repeated claims that he inherited a flawed system.

“As I have said from the start of the process, my priority is to ensure that the assessment system is fair and equitable for every Cook County resident,” Berrios said in a Feb. 15 news release. “I am committed to implementing all of the solutions identified as part of the analysis.”

Critics, however, say he’s been slow to fix the system.

Gubernatorial candidate Chris Kennedy and Gov. Bruce Rauner have called for Berrios’ resignation after an analysis by ProPublica Illinois and the Chicago Tribune in December found inequities in many property tax assessments. Berrios was also fined in January by the county ethics board for accepting campaign donations from property tax appeals lawyers above the legal limit.

The computer program used by the county produces property values outside the target range of

Evanston woman reports home burglary

An Evanston resident reported a burglary from her home near Northwestern on Tuesday.

The 57-year-old woman said she was asleep in the 800 block of Colfax Street when someone entered her home and took a wallet, purse and backpack that contained credit cards and money. Glew said

industry standards, the report found. While a second review by staff improved the assessment, it also introduced “systematic bias” by considering recent sale prices of properties, violating industry standards, according to the report.

The report asserts that the county’s model overvalues low-value homes and undervalues higher-value homes. It also found a high number of appeals by residents compared to other jurisdictions, which also increases the “variability and regressivity” of assessments after reductions are granted. The majority of appeals come from owners of homes worth over $1 million, according to the report.

Civic Consulting Alliance, the organization that conducted the study, is a nonpartisan and nonprofit consulting firm that analyzes public-private sector relationships in the Chicago area. The group suggested in the study that the county limit the number of appeals to reduce regressivity and “overhaul” the assessment technological infrastructure. It also suggested the county perform ongoing monitoring of data quality.

Berrios said he is open to implementing these proposals, as did Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. Berrios, also the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party, is up for reelection this year.

State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston), a gubernatorial candidate, said wealthy homeowners “exploit” the system for tax breaks.

“Middle class families like mine don’t need a study or high-priced consultant to tell us property taxes are stacked against us,” he said in a news release last week.

“We all understand that the system is rigged, but that’s where the similarities end: I have a personal stake in fixing the system while my opponents benefit from its continuation.” aperez@u.northwestern.edu there were no signs of forced entry and the woman said she and her husband forgot to secure the door.

She told police the theft occurred sometime between 2:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, Glew said.

The woman reported the theft that day.

Police do not have any suspects. ­— Julia Esparza

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ON CAMPUS ASG passes ethnic studies resolution

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Associated Student Government passed resolutions in support of textbook affordability and departmental status for Asian American Studies and Latina and Latino Studies in their Wednesday Senate meeting.

The Resolution Concerning the Departmental Status of Asian American Studies and Latino and Latina Studies Program was submitted by the Latinx Asian American Collective, which created a petition earlier this quarter to encourage the University to grant the two programs departmental status.

About 30 members of the Latinx Asian American Collective sat in during the Senate meeting to hear the introduction and questioning of their resolution. Some, including Weinberg junior Jessica Wang, spoke to the senators. Wang said departmental status for these studies will improve curriculum options. “(AASP is) very susceptible to unstable changing curriculums,” Wang said. “And so being able to grant our programs departmental status, this will allow us to hire more faculty full-time, tenure track, so students are guaranteed to continue to have the comprehensive education in ethnic studies that they need.”

The Collective, a joint effort of the Asian Pacific American Coalition and MEChA de Northwestern, said in the resolution that this new status would increase their funding, hiring power, resources, office space and any other necessities for the fields.

ASG also passed a resolution concerning textbook affordability. District 7 Senator Emerson Carlson said this resolution recommends that the University look at options like expanding course reserves, increasing funding for Books for Cats and putting book prices for courses on CAESAR to help low-income and first generation students.

“We’re trying to call on Northwestern to recognize the rising prices of textbooks, and the rising prices of supplements to these textbooks such as the online resources,” the Weinberg freshman said. “We

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Weinberg junior Jessica Wang speaks in support of a resolution for Latinx and Asian American Studies departments. Wang and other members of the Latinx Asian American Collective attended Associated Student Government’s Wednesday Senate meeting.

wish for Northwestern to recognize the possibility of an online group of textbooks that could be accessible by students, that the University could bargain with textbook publishers.”

ASG also announced the full distribution of an excess $20,000 that they had from a budgetary misallocation.

In a Jan. 24 Senate meeting, ASG said they would give $10,000 to Student Enrichment Services to supplement their Student Activities Scholarship Fund.

ASG President Nehaarika Mulukutla said this meeting that $7,000 will go toward Universal Design for Learning Training to help faculty teach more accessible courses for students who may have disabilities. She said $2,000 will go to the Center for Awareness, Response and Education to create brochures that will give information for survivors of sexual assault. An ASG statement said the final

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$1,000 will go toward the Improve NU Implementation Fund.

During the meeting, new business for a referendum on cigarette smoking was introduced and then withdrawn so more specific details could be added to the document.

Sky Patterson, the vice president of academics, announced that a guide for creating trans-inclusive spaces will be distributed next week to Provost Jonathan Holloway, department chairs and other faculty members.

Also, it was the final Senate for Parliamentarian Justine Kim, who will officially step down next week for personal reasons. She will nominate a new parliamentarian for the Senate to approve next Wednesday. alexiswhite2021@u.northwestern.edu

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The Wirtz Center’s production of “Twelfth Night” urges the audience to let down their facades, director Jeffrey Mosser said.

‘Twelfth Night’ shows Shakespeare in the Jazz era

By CARMEN FERNANDEZ

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It’s the unwritten understanding of every play: The actors on stage are playing characters, and the audience accepts that those characters are real in the context of the show.

The Wirtz Center’s production of “Twelfth Night, or What You Will” makes that understanding glaringly clear. Communication sophomore Hale Stewart said the play opens with actors greeting the audience in costume but out of character. In this way, the company sets up the motif of “facades” that is explored throughout the show.

“We call attention to the fact that our acting in and of itself is sort of putting up a facade,” Stewart said.

Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” tells the story of twins Viola and Sebastian who are separated after a shipwreck. Believing her brother dead, Viola disguises herself as a man to find employment and unwittingly becomes the love interest of a nearby countess. Audiences can experience the chaos that ensues Feb. 16-25 at the Ethel M. Barber Theater.

Director Jeffrey Mosser said he wanted to use

the disguises that many characters — like Viola — utilize throughout the show as a way to explore the concept of abandoning facades in the modern world.

He explained that while people in our society might not use literal disguises, they can often pretend to be someone they’re not to impress at a job interview or succeed in their love life.

“I hope someone in the audience finds the courage to let down a facade in their own lives,” Mosser said. “(I hope) they are able be honest with the person sitting next to them, that they’re able to find their own truth and live it fully following this show.”

Communication junior Chloe Howard said, in the spirit of the play, actors were encouraged to explore and have fun. They learned about and incorporated commedia dell’arte, an Italian art form that utilizes physicality in establishing archetypal characters, she said.

Howard, who plays the countess Olivia, said one of the core components of the clowning comedy style is determining how a character’s center of gravity influences their overall physicality. For example, some characters might walk leading with their head, some with their stomach, and some with their chest. She said she found it interesting to take these techniques and use them to further understand her character, even though the countess isn’t archetypal.

While the comedy used comes from the Italian Renaissance, the play is set in the jazz era. Mosser said this was an intentional choice, as he felt the overindulgent lifestyles in the show were similar to those of the jazz age. The play features the excessive drinking, eating and dancing that was common in the era, Mosser said.

Mosser also utilized postmodern jukebox songs — covers of contemporary songs in a swing or jazz style — throughout the show. Not only did this fit in with the show’s setting, Mosser also pointed out it furthered the theme of facades, as covers of songs put on the “mask” of a different style.

Mosser said he aims to highlight the current relevance of the themes in the show by incorporating modern elements. He discussed the importance of choosing a fresh setting for a classic play on the basis of it providing “strong point of view.”

“Our play goes far beyond just the aesthetic ideas of… ‘Let’s put Shakespeare in a period that is just aesthetically pleasing to an audience,’” Mosser said.

“Our goal by drawing parallels with the audience is to highlight how Shakespeare has always been a part of our lives.” carmenfernandez2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Sophomore Sam Linda acts in a jazz era production of “Twelfth Night.” Director Jeffrey Mosser said the play worked well with the indulgent attitudes of the era.

Communication senior hits top of iTunes reggae charts

By CHARLOTTE WALSH

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Adam Gross shows off his guitar in the Ryan Center for the Musical Arts. Gross started playing the guitar in a reggae band in high school.

Communication senior Adam Gross discovered reggae in his middle school jazz band. One of his friends got him hooked on the genre, and invited him to play guitar in his reggae band in high school. As the rest of the band came from Jamaican heritage, Adam was the odd man out.

“Here’s me, this Jewish kid from New York, playing in a reggae band,” he said.

Gross has since graduated from his high school band and become a recorded artist. Earlier this year, Gross digitally released a four-song EP titled “In Control,” which hit number one on the iTunes reggae charts.

Gross said topping the iTunes reggae charts was the result of a planned strategy. Understanding that most people stream music rather than purchasing it, Gross convinced his friends and family to pre-order the EP on iTunes. When the project launched, the orders went through all at once, bumping the album to the number one spot.

According to Billboard’s associate chart productions manager Alex Vitoulis, the EP “just missed” entering the weekly Billboard reggae charts. It garnered its first radio play with the song “Energy” playing on 96.1 WKZQ, which caters to the Myrtle Beach, South Carolina area.

Gross created “In Control” while studying abroad in Tel Aviv, Israel during the fall of his junior year.

After the election of President Donald Trump and a break-up with his long-distance girlfriend, Gross said he channeled his emotions into his music.

Gross said the EP is centered around an exploration of control, specifically the dichotomy between the lack of agency people feel within the world’s grand scope and their ability to choose their reactions.

“On one hand, there are a lot of people, a lot of college students, who don’t like who’s in control right now in terms of our tumultuous political moment,” he

said. “But also, when we’re at this age, we sometimes don’t feel like we have the agency to decide what it is we want to do with our life.”

In addition to writing the lyrics and instrumental music, Gross also played guitar and recording synth for the EP. He brought in a bass player, drummer and different vocalists to complete the project. It was recorded and produced in Brooklyn by producer Michael Goldwasser, whom Gross had worked with as an intern to learn more about music business.

Goldwasser said he enjoyed working on the EP due to the unique nature and style of each song on the project.

“I hate when the music industry and listeners pigeonhole people,” Goldwasser said. “I think we need more artists like Adam who are willing to just write and make the songs that are in their hearts.”

Joel Levy (Weinberg ’17) has been friends with Gross since their freshman year at Northwestern, and was living with Gross in Tel Aviv when he created the EP. Levy said he first understood how musically talented Gross was when they sat next to each other on the flight to Northwestern Ski Trip their sophomore year.

“He sat on the plane with a little mini keyboard on his computer for five hours, and made the instrumentals to one of the songs on the EP, the ‘No More Control’ song,” Levy said. “Adam’s a person who’s immensely naturally talented when it comes to music.”

Gross said he maintains individuality in his music by overseeing every part of the creative process, from performing to marketing. Getting to dabble in all aspects of the music production process and working as his own manager is enjoyable, he said.

He said he’s confident music will remain a part of his career after Northwestern, even he is not a professional musician.

“I write songs because it helps me, and I want others to be helped by the songs in some way,” Gross said.

“I can definitely see myself being involved in music for as long as possible.” charlottewalsh2021@u.northwestern.edu

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AMTP musical features Marie Curie

By CARMEN FERNANDEZ

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Traditional musicals often feature classic tales of love and triumph backed by sweeping melodies and catchy showtunes. “Marie in Tomorrowland” features a J-Pop star version of Marie Curie exploring a postnuclear amusement park.

Abandoning the traditional format of a structured plot, the American Music Theatre Project’s “Marie in Tomorrowland” instead features several versions of Curie as she explores humanity’s relationship with the nuclear age, Brannon Bowers said. A staged reading will take place in the Mussetter-Struble Theater on Feb. 24.

Bowers — the producing director of American Music Theatre Project — said each version of Marie Curie is characterized by a specific style of music.

Unlike traditional musicals, which feature just one genre of music, “Marie in Tomorrowland” incorporates everything from J-Pop to rock ballads to musical theater. Bowers said he hopes the abstract show will challenge the audience’s presumptions about what successful musical theatre looks like.

Co-creator Maggie-Kate Coleman said the show isn’t a biography of Marie Curie, but rather explores the modern repercussions of Curie’s work with radiation by taking Curie through a history of nuclear disasters, ranging from Chernobyl to Fukushima. “(We’re) trying to examine living in a post-nuclear world,” Coleman said. “What does that mean to be humans? What does that mean about humanity after World War II, after the dropping of those bombs? It’s like the human race became a very different thing.

The possibility of total destruction became real and, unfortunately, seems relevant for us today.”

Coleman said her primary motivation to write this show stemmed from her desire to explore the experience of women in science. She said she found

it inspiring how Curie managed to accomplish great things despite all of the pressures and adversities she faced.

“I feel like we can relate to seeing strong, powerful women — who just want to do their own work and be left alone — be vilified by the press and vilified by their colleagues,” Coleman said.

Bowers said one of the most worthwhile parts of the project is allowing students and professionals to collaborate together on the same work. He said the connections forged between professional artists and students can make the theater world smaller and result in future employment opportunities for these students after they graduate.

In the case of “Marie in Tomorrowland,” students have had the opportunity to work with creators Coleman and Erato A. Kremmyda and director Sam Pinkleton to shape a new piece of musical theater.

The show is being workshopped at Northwestern

as a part of a partnership between the University and the Jonathan Larson Grants, associate artistic director of American Music Theatre Project Ryan Cunningham said. The grants are funded through the American Theatre Wing and provide funds and opportunities for emerging writers with a desire to reinvent the musical form to produce their work.

Northwestern’s new partnership with the Jonathan Larson Grants aims to not only give artists a place to bring their work to the next stage of development, but also to bring a wide range of voices to the Northwestern theater scene, Cunningham said.

“It helps diversify the way we select shows and diversify the people who are selecting the shows,” he said. “It isn’t just the folks who work at AMTP, but it is a larger community of folks who are identifying these as the next generation of artists.” carmenfernandez2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Dissatisfied with the one-dimensional portrayal of Chicago in the media, Dustin Nakao-Haider and Ben Vogel decided to create their own “passion project” about high school basketball in the city: “Shot in the Dark.”

The documentary follows the stories of Tyquone Greer and Marquise Pryor, two student basketball players at Orr Academy on the West Side of Chicago, and their coach, Lou Adams. The documentary also deals with issues of gangs and gun violence that are commonly portrayed in the news, but the creators said they wanted to show a more human perspective to create empathy for their subjects.

“I can’t tell you how everyone is, but I can at least give you a specific perspective that you might not normally see,” Nakao-Haider said. “We want the viewer to attach themselves to the dreams and ambitions that Tyquone has … and allow that to carry them through their experience watching the film.”

Nakao-Haider and Vogel, both Evanston Township High School alumni, initially met Greer when they were working on a short film called “Ball So Hard” for Jay-Z’s Life+Times in 2011. When they began working on the project, they sought out the expertise of Daniel Poneman, another ETHS alumnus who is a basketball scout in Chicago. Poneman put the team in touch with Greer , who became the subject of the film.

Q+A: Medill alum, author of ‘Sunburn’

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Laura Lippman (Medill ’81) graduated from Northwestern with a degree in journalism. However, with the encouragement of an English professor at NU, she has since published 21 crime novels and now considers herself a full-time fiction writer. Her most recent novel, “Sunburn,” tells the story of a mysterious woman who appears in a small town in 1995 and attracts the attention of an equally enigmatic man.

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The cast of “Marie in Tomorrowland” rehearses in the Mussetter-Struble Theater. The musical follows the repercussions of Marie Curie’s work with radiation in a post-nuclear world.

Basketball doc takes new Chicago angles

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Poneman had been working in the Chicago basketball community for a few years before Nakao-Haider and Vogel showed up to film “Ball So Hard,” Vogel said. Vogel noticed that Poneman’s connection with the players put the athletes at ease because they knew he “had good intentions.”

The team kept in touch with Greer after working on the short film, and they were considering creating another film about Greer ’s friend, Marquise Pryor, in 2012. When Pryor was arrested for gun possession that August, the team felt the need to pursue a more in-depth project.

“When (Pryor ) was arrested, his name and face and story was plastered all across the Tribune and on the news,” Nakao-Haider said. “It was that moment when I saw that happening from New York, where I was like, ‘This story is getting bigger than I even realize.’”

After two years filming and nearly four years editing “Shot in the Dark,” the documentary first screened at the Camden International Film Festival in September 2017, Vogel said. The team showed it at several other screenings including the Austin Film Festival, DOC NYC and a Black History Month film festival in Chicago hosted by Chance the Rapper’s nonprofit, Social Works.

Chance the Rapper is one of two big names on the “Shot in the Dark” project. He got on board when he saw the festival cut of the film last year, Nakao-Haider said. Orr Academy was one of the first schools Chance the Rapper donated to with his New Chance Arts and Literature Fund, so he has a personal connection to the film’s setting, the team said.

The other famous executive producer on the project is professional basketball player Dwyane Wade. Wade joined the team early in the post-production process, Vogel said.

When Wade saw a preview of the film, NakaoHaider said he identified with the storyline, despite being from the South Side and the documentary being set in the West Side.

“The obstacles and hurdles that young men and women in these communities have to go through to achieve what everyone considers the American dream — it’s something we show through the film through these two gentlemen, but Dwyane himself lived as well,” Vogel said.

“Shot in the Dark” will be nationally broadcasted on Fox on Feb. 24. Fox is partnering with a philanthropy called Good Sports, which facilitates donations of sports equipment to high schools in need, in conjunction with screenings of “Shot in the Dark” at those schools.

The documentary team also has its own philanthropic mission: the Shot in the Dark Foundation.The foundation helps connect student basketball players in Chicago with schools that offer basketball scholarships, Poneman said.

“We help over 100 kids a year go to college for free, kids who wouldn’t otherwise go to school,” Poneman said. “Basketball is a way that these kids are able to create a better life for themselves, even if they’re not going to play professionally.” andreamichelson2020@u.northwestern.edu

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The Daily: You’ve written many crime novels before. How would you say this one is different than the others?

Lippman: This book is the first one I’ve written that really falls into the a Noir tradition, in that it takes characters who will stop at nothing to get what they want. That’s not something I’ve done before. I certainly — because I write crime novels — have written about lots and lots of people who have done terrible things. This is probably the first time I’ve asked readers to have empathy for those (characters) and to try to understand why the characters are doing what they’re doing and how they’ve strayed so far from conventional morality.

The Daily: You seem to focus heavily on the characters in this novel. Do you believe that characters or plot are your priority when writing fiction?

Lippman: Character drives plot. Plot serves character, not the other way around. In order for stories to make sense, it doesn’t matter how intricate and twisty they are unless they are absolutely true to the characters who are living them. I’m not really interested in amazing twists. I’m happy if people think I’ve pulled them off, but what I’m trying to do when I sit down to write a crime novel is create characters who are vivid and interesting to the reader. I think a lot about that reader who reads once they understand the story, once they think they’ve seen it all. It’s my belief that the way you keep that reader in the story is through character.

The Daily: Do you have any plans for the future?

Lippman: This (fiction writing) is my full-time job. It has been my full-time job since 2001, so I try to write a book a year. The one I’m working on right now is historical, even though it happened in my lifetime. It is in fact a newspaper novel — I never saw that coming, I really didn’t. crystalwall2020@u.northwestern.edu

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The city’s neighborhood and land use planner, Meagan Jones, said these ordinances were created when Evanston was still home to other colleges and universities, including Kendall College and National Louis University. She said since Northwestern is the only university in Evanston today, the ordinance is out of date.

The commission also pointed to a study the University conducted in 2015 that showed parking utilization rates at peak hours still produced a surplus of 1,161 spaces.

Jones also noted that there are 492 NU students — who are either seniors or graduate students — living in residential dorms, sororities and fraternities that are eligible for a parking passes, but only 30 students actually have them.

“This (new) requirement would still provide more parking than the 1-to-16 ratio of students who have parking permits to those who are eligible to obtain parking permits,” Jones said.

The proposed amendment would reduce the number of required spaces to 3,493. The commission said the amendments would also aid in future

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From page 1 Medill sophomore Jasmine Teng said she found that comparison to be “quite apt.”

“We’ve got an explosion of new tools to tell stories and it’s never been more exciting,” Teng told The Daily.

Murray also spoke about the reasons behind the erosion in trust between news organizations

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From page 1 Kristen Perkins, Northwestern’s partnership coordinator with ETHS, said she first met Bloom when she was a freshman in high school through an ETHS program called Women in STEM. WiSTEM is a club that works closely with NU to create a supportive community of girls who are interested in STEM fields, Perkins said.

Perkins, who also works with WiSTEM, said Bloom is one of her “rockstars.” She really got to know Bloom by driving her and other ETHS students back and forth to the Go For Launch! program in Deerfield, Illinois over the summer.

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the 1997-98 season. That’s also the last time the Badgers missed the NCAA Tournament.

Forward Ethan Happ is still dominant, averaging 18 points and eight rebounds per game. But the rest

construction projects at NU. City staff wrote in a memo that the proposal was working towards a goal of balancing institutional needs and the quality of surrounding neighborhoods.

The amendment will now move to the Planning and Development Committee for discussion and approval.

and the readers they are attempting to serve.

“One of the trust problems is that there are a lot of journalists who are building their own personal brands through opinion and trying to be controversial in columns,” Franklin said.

President Donald Trump is neither the first nor the only public figure who has denounced press coverage as a political tactic, Murray said, though he observed the issue is currently reaching a “fever pitch.” He said it is important to

accept journalism as a human activity that can never be perfect.

Social media is partly responsible for this growing phenomenon by encouraging “inward looking,” Murray added.

“I always tell writers to keep the focus away from yourself and on the stories,” Murray said.

“That’s what people care about.”

Perkins said Bloom was good at engaging everyone riding with them in their rides to Deerfield. “(She was good at) breaking the ice and talking to students who came from different backgrounds, who didn’t really know each other at all,” Perkins said.

She added that Bloom helped everyone in the car feel included — a skill she said is rare to see in high school students. She said Bloom had a “natural leadership quality.”

Bloom said she most enjoyed working together with her team on the project as they brainstormed ideas and researched.

“I really liked just working with my group and talking through all of the details, figuring out what

would go where, what would we need, why was this important, if it would be feasible,” Bloom said.

“Just working with my team and just bringing it all together into one cohesive project.”

Bloom said in the future, she would love to work at NASA or become an environmental engineer.

For now, the high schooler is continuing to take higher level science classes to help her understand how the world works in more “depth” and “detail.”

“Space has always called me just because of how much we don’t know and how much there is still to find and how many problems we still have yet to solve,” Bloom said.

of the team isn’t quite as good. Wisconsin’s post-upcentric offense hasn’t functioned as well when Happ is kicking the ball out to a supporting cast that has combined to shoot 33 percent from 3-point range in conference play. A solid percentage of those looks are wide open, too, thanks to all the double-teams Happ draws down low.

This year’s Badgers squad isn’t anything like the one that ran NU off the floor in 2015, and the Cats will justifiably be betting line favorites as the home team.

But there are no guarantees. After all, NU has struggled all year to live up to expectations.

In college, she said she found it hard to keep up with her faith while surrounded by mostly nonMuslims. She prayed “with no feeling” and barely read the Quran, she said.

Abdul-Qaadir said she considered taking her hijab off for games in order to continue her career.

Feeling unsure of how to proceed, she decided to turn to prayer. Kneeling down, she began to cry and had a revelation.

“I physically felt something change in my heart,” she said. “(I realized) this is bigger than (me) and this is bigger than basketball.”

Reinvested in her faith, Abdul-Qaadir said she advocated for a rule change and inspired young Muslim girls. She began speaking around the country and started “Muslim Girls Hoop Too,” a movement to raise awareness about the difficulties she faced.

In addition, Abdul-Qaadir founded “Dribbling Down Barriers,” a basketball camp and clinic for Muslim girls. She said as a player, she would often be given “stares and glares,” and on one occasion she was even tackled by an opposing player at the instruction of a coach. By encouraging Muslims girls to play basketball, she said she hopes they can walk into arenas and not be viewed as an abnormality.

McSA secretary Saadia Elahi told The Daily that Muslim women are often perceived negatively for having ambition. Abdul-Qaadir’s speech showed Muslims and non-Muslims alike that Muslim women can and do follow their dreams while retaining their spiritual identity, she said.

“This speaker especially meant a lot to me, because hearing about a woman pursuing her passions without letting anybody get in the way of her faith in that process is just really important for young Muslim women to hear,” Elahi said.

In May 2017, after years of petitioning, FIBA rescinded the hijab rule. Earlier this month, AbdulQaadir made a triumphant return to basketball, playing for Somalia in the Arab Women’s Sports Tournament in Dubai and averaging 30 points per game, she said.

Abdul-Qaadir said the return was especially sweet because she played in a Muslim country. She said she has received invitations to play in more international tournaments and is still considering them. However, Abdul-Qaadir said she’s enjoying speaking about her journey and coaching basketball in the meantime.

McSA’s ASG Senator, Ahmad Keshk, told The Daily that Abdul-Qaadir’s talk moved him and was important in bringing Muslim representation to Northwestern students who may not otherwise hear such stories.

“Bilqis has a way of connecting with every different person, whether you’re a female athlete or a female Muslim,” Keshk said. “She’s able to connect with different people and really just inspire.”

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Wildcats finish 6th in the Prestige at PGA West

By SOPHIE MANN

daily senior staffer @sophiemmann

After a less-than-stellar start to 2018 for Northwestern in Big Ten Match Play, the Wildcats brought the heat this week in La Quinta, California, at the Prestige at PGA West.

Unranked NU finished at 6th overall, topping No. 14 Southern California. In the field of 16 teams, a quarter of them were in the Top 25, including No. 12 Stanford, which played its A and B teams, No. 9 LSU and No. 1 Oklahoma State.

Though the Wildcats finished outside the Top 10 during Big Ten Match Play, they demonstrated their strength during their first stroke play tournament of 2018.

Senior Sam Triplett finished the first day of competition on Tuesday sitting in the top spot, with fellow senior Dylan Wu and junior Ryan Lumsden tied for 17th. Triplett’s 4-under, 67-stroke round was the second-best score in his college career.

“Sam’s really worked hard, really improved,” coach David Inglis said. “He’s gotten to the point where he looks like a good player. That’s a feeling you can’t recreate in practice; that’s a great learning experience.”

The second day of competition on Wednesday proved a little more of a mixed bag, but set the Cats up to finish the contest strong. Lumsden and Triplett tied for 10th and sophomore Everton Hawkins moved up 22 spots to finish at 21st. Inglis said that Hawkins came through for the team after a poor start.

On the other hand, Wu fell out of the top 20

and never returned, tying for 28th; freshman Eric McIntosh tied for 73rd.

Even with the strong start, though, Inglis said they need to continue learning from mistakes and improving in order to be the team that can show up on a national stage.

“I don’t care about beating Stanford’s B-team; we need to beat their A-team,” Inglis said, “and we were close to doing that. Overall, it was encouraging.”

Lumsden said he just kept doing what he has been working on in order to secure his top-10 finish.

He agreed it was an encouraging finish, even if they could have done better.

While he said the team didn’t play as well as it could have, he added that they were not far off from what their most competitive performance could be and that with a little more work, they can be on par with the top teams in the field.

“We played with four of the best teams in the country this (week),” Lumsden said. “We didn’t play too well, and we (still only) lost by nine or something, which in golf isn’t that much.”

The team has a short turnaround before heading back out west to compete in Las Vegas at the Southern Highlands Collegiate next week.

Inglis said that even with a top-10 finish, the team cannot slow down their improvement or they won’t be able to keep up with the steep competition they will be facing.

“I don’t want to overplay the way we played just because I think we can do better,” Inglis said. “If we’re gonna win a Big Ten championship, if we’re going to win an NCAA finals and win match play … we’ve got to learn some lessons.” sophiemann2018@u.northwestern.edu

NU research reveals new insights on Picasso’s art

By ALLIE GOULDING

daily senior staffer @alliejennaaa

Using novel techniques in imaging and X-ray radiography, Northwestern researchers discovered that five of Pablo Picasso’s bronzes can be traced to the foundry of Émilie Robecchi, one of his lesser-known collaborators.

The bronzes were created during the Nazi occupation of Paris when the majority of the city’s metal supply was reserved for the war, said Marc Walton, co-director of Northwestern University/Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts.

“It adds into this overall story of Picasso thumbing his nose at the Nazis and going ahead and doing these castings, even though there was a ration of metals,” Walton said. “It’s this sort of information that we can get out of the analysis to build the larger story about how the artist was working at a particular time period and what the overall socioeconomic situation might have been for these bronzes.”

Walton, NU-ACCESS co-director Francesca Casadio, and postdoctoral fellows Emeline Pouyet and Gianluca Pastorelli were part of the team that revealed information about Picasso’s artistic style after discovering the history behind the bronze casts and a landscape hidden underneath his Blue Period “La Miséreuse accroupie.”

NU-ACCESS created an X-ray fluorescence scanner to analyze the elemental distribution of various pigments of the painting. This information complemented information from hyperspectral imaging done by John Delaney, a senior imaging scientist at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

The researchers worked with the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery to analyze the painting and bronzes using these instruments, revealing their collaborated research on Saturday.

While analyzing the painting “La Miséreuse accroupie,” they discovered the hidden landscape, which Picasso rotated 90 degrees and incorporated into his own work by turning the lines of the cliff edges into a woman’s back. They also discovered that Picasso had originally painted the woman’s right arm, but later covered it with

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These details revealed that while Picasso’s Blue Period paintings might look simplistic with their monotone palettes, they actually include complex layers of “different shapes and forms that are being layered on top of one another,” Walton said.

“In our analysis techniques, it allows us to probe that (idea), giving us different information about how and when he made those decisions along the way,” Walton said. “In that sense, we’re getting into the mind of the artist, understanding how he is taking the creative process.”

Art History Prof. Christina Kiaer, who specializes in global modern and contemporary art in Europe, said she if she were to teach “La Miséreuse accroupie,” she would emphasize the “flatness” of it, but would also question why the painting looks the way it does.

“This material science, I imagine, is an aid to show part of the reason this line is curved is because he was looking at the landscape and saw the curves and thought, ‘This could work well for this picture I have in mind,’” Kiaer said.

Walton said the team plans to analyze Picasso’s “La Soupe” as the next step in its research,

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which will be presented at the annual American Institute of Conservation meeting June 1. For the bronzes, Pouyet said the plan is to “create a database of bronzes in the 20th century” using this same technology.

The details uncovered by the further research will be revealed in a Picasso Blue Period exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario and The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. from 2020 through 2021, according to a Saturday news release.

The portable imaging technology opens up new opportunities for scanning other artists’ paintings, as current imaging techniques are typically only used at national facilities, Walton said.

“To travel a work of art to one of these national facilities is difficult because museums don’t want to move their paintings,” Walton said. “It’s expensive. It’s potentially damaging … We’ve made an inexpensive way of being able to bring that technology to the paintings, which opens up new possibilities to scanning many more paintings.” alliegoulding2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Program-changing seniors to go out in mediocrity

By JOSEPH WILKINSON

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The first home conference game that seniors Bryant McIntosh, Scottie Lindsey and Gavin Skelly ever played for Northwestern came against Wisconsin.

Back in January 2015, they got their first taste of humiliation, hosting the thenNo. 4 Badgers — a Final Four-bound team that featured four future NBA players — and walking out of Welsh-Ryan Arena holding an 81-58 loss.

Thursday night, McIntosh, Lindsey and Skelly will play their final home game — though McIntosh may very well miss it, as he’s sat out the past two games with a shoulder injury — matching up with a very different Wisconsin team, in a very different location, with a very different vibe to the season.

“You’ve got to dig down and come together and close it out,” coach Chris Collins said after Monday’s loss to Maryland. “And that’s just kind of been the story of a lot of our season. We haven’t been able to win these games, and it’s obviously frustrating.”

McIntosh, Lindsey and Skelly were

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part of Collins’ first true recruiting class, which at the time was the best in program history. Along with now-junior Vic Law and former player Johnnie Vassar, the young squad wasn’t expected to do much and scrapped to a less-than-noteworthy 15-17 record, finishing 6-12 in conference play. At one point, NU lost 10 straight games, beginning with that blowout at the hands of the highly ranked Badgers.

This year’s Wildcats (15-14, 6-10 Big Ten) could easily finish with the exact same record. NU rode into the season saddled with a No. 19 ranking and expectations to return to the NCAA Tournament. Instead, the Cats have been torched by quality opponents, squeaked out wins over bad teams and most recently collapsed down the stretch in three straight games.

“When things kind of get in tough times, we haven’t really rallied together and kind of worked ourselves out of those situations for a lot off the year,” Collins said. “A lot of times that’s the fine line (between) winning and losing, and these last three

games are very indicative of that.”

As the most decorated senior class in school history, many would argue this trio deserves a rousing senior day, no matter the state of the team. But that seems like an increasingly unlikely possibility given the venue for the send-off: Allstate Arena.

The cavernous Rosemont stadium has served as the temporary home of the team this season due to construction on Welsh-Ryan Arena, and the effects have been noticeable. The two highest-attended games in school history have come this season, against Michigan State and Illinois.

Both of those games were largely populated by opposing fans.

“Part of changing the culture of a program is done by the coaches, the players and the fanbase,” Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said after the Spartans’ historic comeback Saturday. “This team deserves to have sell-outs of their own. (The Michigan State crowd) helped us today, there’s no question about it.”

Wisconsin (13-16, 6-10) has fallen even further from its own highs. Just three years after appearing in the second of back-toback Final Fours, the Badgers have already lost the program’s most games since » See SENIORS, page 6

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Bryant McIntosh drives to the hoop. The senior guard is in danger of missing his last home game Thursday with a shoulder injury.

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By CASSIDY JACKSON

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In Northwestern’s second-to-last game of the regular season, NU left its home court behind and headed to Columbus to take on No. 14 Ohio State.

Walking in, the Cats knew they were in for a tough night, given that the Buckeyes currently sit at the top of the Big Ten. Ohio State blitzed the Wildcats (10-19, 3-12 Big Ten) early, coming out with 28 points in the first quarter and 22 points in the second to take a 22-point lead into the half. It was easily looking like a 100-point game for the Buckeyes (23-6, 12-3), but NU marginally held them back in the second half, losing 88-54.

Although the team wasn’t able to grab a win, junior forward Pallas KunaiyiAkpanah said she saw a lot of good play and thinks the team learned an important lesson.

“We never stopped fighting,” Kunaiyi-Akpanah said. “We really played like we wanted to win. People were playing hard, and I think we had each others’ back. (We learned) to not play too fast but always playing with an urgency. As the game went along, we started to play more aggressively with our driving to the paint and looking for open spots.”

Slowing down Ohio State’s offense is a hard feat; the Buckeyes lead the Big Ten in scoring. The Cats were somewhat successful offensively in the first half but also weren’t able to match the hosts. At the end of the first quarter, NU trailed 28-13. Before halftime, the gap widened even further to 50-28.

Coach Joe McKeown said the two opponents had very different goals going into the game, but in the third quarter, he saw a switch flip in the Cats.

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“Our goal was to slow the game down a little bit, but their goal was to speed the game up,” McKeown said. “They shot a lot of 3s in a row, and we had some bad turnovers and they converted. They made a big run the second quarter. Third quarter, I thought we outplayed them.”

In the third, NU and Ohio State looked like comparable opponents. The Cats kept the Buckeyes to 16 points in the frame and scored 14 points of their own — with major contributions coming from Kunaiyi-Akpanah, who scored 10 herself in the period. Kunaiyi-Akpanah

finished the game with a team-high 23 points.

Ultimately, though, NU wasn’t able to turn the game around in their favor, snagging just 12 fourth-quarter points. A piece of the losing puzzle was the Buckeyes’ depth. Seniors and juniors make up the entirety of Ohio State’s starting lineup, and senior guard Kelsey Mitchell garnered the Buckeyes 22 points.

Cats freshman guard Lindsey Pulliam said they know what they have to improve on for the last game of the season against Rutgers on Sunday.

“I think we broke down in some areas, but in some ways, we did good. I think we have a lot to work on,” Pulliam said. “We know what we need to work on for Friday and Saturday to get ready for Rutgers.” cassidyjackson2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Jordan Hamilton pulls up for a jumper. The freshman guard will be tasked with a difficult role in Wednesday’s game at Ohio State.

against Southern Cal

By ANDREW GOLDEN

the daily northwestern @andrewcgolden

After getting their first taste of ranked competition last week against then-No. 19 Colorado and No. 10 Duke, Northwestern is looking ahead to its matchup against No. 7 USC on Sunday.

The No. 13 Wildcats, (3-1) who lost to USC last year in overtime, will try to avoid losing back-to-back games. After easily winning their matchup against Colorado on Thursday 15-8, NU lost on the road Sunday against Duke 9-8.

Even though they lost, the Cats believe they can beat USC (1-1) by fixing the mistakes that cost them the Duke game. However, junior attacker Selena Lasota said that NU will continue to focus on what has made them successful.

“It was a self-inflicted mishap that we had on the weekend,” Lasota said.

“Going forward, we have to stay true to what we’ve been doing all along and just continue to go as a group.”

Goalkeeper Julie Krupnick said that the Cats will aim to perfect the little details. In particular, they will practice shooting, recovering on defense and draws, a problem that caused them to struggle all weekend.

In the contests against the Buffaloes and Blue Devils, NU struggled in the faceoff circle, winning just 18 of 44 draws.

“We just need to be consistent and continue what we have been doing,” Krupnick said. “(We’ll) fix the little things that we made mistakes on against Duke and we’ll be successful.”

The absence of senior attacker Shelby Fredericks has hurt the Cats on draw

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controls. Fredericks had 165 draw controls last year, setting NU’s single-season record. In last year’s matchup against USC, Fredericks won nine of the Cats’ 16 total draw controls, while USC only controlled seven. Coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said that she is hopeful that Fredericks will be back for the game on Sunday.

Regardless of Fredericks’ status, NU will look to find a way to win and defend its home turf. Even though last year’s game against the Trojans was on the road, Lasota said that the Cats won’t change their identity this time, but playing at Martin Stadium will still help them.

“Anytime you go on the field, whatever field it is, you need to step up and play your game the way you know how to do it,” Lasota said. “But I think that playing on lakeside, it’s obviously our home, so it’s always nice to step foot on lakeside.”

Amonte Hiller said that there is a specific type of mentality that the team has to have during practice to focus on the details under pressure.

She said she knows that the one bad game isn’t indicative of NU or the rest of the season.

“We had a couple of good games before that. I don’t think we played our game on Sunday,” Amonte Hiller said.

“We just need to regroup and get back to what makes us successful and just put it behind us.” andrewgolden2021@u.northwestern.edu