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As Julie Friend drove around Pakistan with a convoy of Medill graduate students, the administrator — whose job was to make sure the young reporters stayed safe — said her chief concern was not terrorism or the Taliban, but something more mundane. She insisted that everyone buckle up. “A seatbelt is the most important thing to keep you safe abroad,” said Friend, the University’s director of global safety and security. “I was pretty militant about that.” Indeed, the leading cause of death for American travelers abroad is automobile accidents, according to statistics from the State Department. Eighth on the list: terrorism. Although the attacks in Brussels reignited some Americans’ fears about terrorism abroad, the University has no plans to change policy following the attacks there and in Paris, Friend said. Friend pointed out that terrorism is not among the leading threats to American students abroad, and said she’s more concerned with everyday dangers: a car accident on a road that’s too congested for an ambulance to arrive quickly, or a beachgoer who swims too far out and drowns because there’s no lifeguard on a public beach. (The University hasn’t had a student die abroad from a car accident or drowning, Friend said.) “A student who gets into a car
accident in Paris — I know they’ll get access to some of the best medical care in the world,” she said. “A student who gets into an accident in rural India, we’ll find a way to get to them, but they’ll probably be triaged by a local hospital, and the care will not be as good.” Still, a brush with terrorism can leave a student with an emotional weight that doesn’t lift easily. Communication junior Savannah Birnbaum was studying in Paris when Islamic State terrorists launched the attacks that left 130 dead and hundreds more injured. Sitting in her apartment, she called her parents and let them know she was OK, but she still felt shook up. Although it took a few weeks to get past that shock, she said support from administrators helped her readjust. She said Friend emailed a list of “common sense precautions” that included heightened awareness in public spaces and on public transportation. She said the advice helped. “They were definitely right there,” she said. “It was a reminder that there were people looking out for me at home. I wasn’t stranded in this foreign country.” It wasn’t the first time terrorism touched her life: Birnbaum, who grew up in Manhattan, was six years old on 9/11. Her parents pulled her out of school that day, and she said she remembers an “ash rain” falling around her neighborhood. She said the two tragedies led her to conclude that terrorism “could reach me anywhere I am,” and so she shouldn’t live in fear of it. “At first, there were feelings of just being scared and not being sure, and then slowly getting over that and becoming someone who could handle those everyday uncertainties and insecurities,” Birnbaum » See BRUSSELS, page 6
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ADAPTING ACADEMICS Provost Dan Linzer speaks to students and fellow administrators at Sargent dining hall on Wednesday. A crowd of 50 gathered to discuss Northwestern’s efforts to make its academic system more inclusive.
Academic inclusion discussed Linzer leads talk as part of dialogue series By FATHMA RAHMAN
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Administrators and students sat around cafeteria tables in Sargent dining hall Wednesday night, discussing the University’s efforts to make Northwestern’s academic system inclusive for all students as a part of an ongoing dialogue series that resulted from campus activism during the previous two quarters. Provost Dan Linzer began the dialogue with a list of the University’s recent actions on that front, including recent financial aid increases and the
Kirk, SCOTUS nominee meet By BILLY KOBIN
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Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) met with U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland on Tuesday, becoming the first Republican senator to sit down with the nominee amid a
partisan battle over whether to seat a new justice in an election year. During the 20-minute meeting in Kirk’s office in Washington, D.C., the Republican senator criticized GOP leaders’ refusal to hold confirmation hearings or a vote on the current federal appellate court judge. Kirk and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) have been the only two GOP senators to
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search for two Native American faculty members. Roughly 50 people that included students and mostly faculty and administrators attended. Linzer said the greater purpose of the dialogue — more than just to share ideas and information — was to work on rebuilding trust among community members. “We have a history of inequality and exclusion on this campus,” Linzer said. “Our goal that we all share is to be an institution of equality and inclusion, but there’s stuff that’s happened over the years that we’re trying to deal with and make right. And while that should be straightforward, it’s full of all sorts of challenges even when we have the
best intentions.” Both students and administrators repeatedly brought up “cultural competence” in a classroom setting. Ron Braeutigam, associate provost of undergraduate education, spoke about planned changes to the Course and Teacher Evaluation Council system which include adding questions about the cost of courses. Braeutigam said this will work toward creating a more inclusive experience in providing students more opportunities to give feedback. As deans and other administrators highlighted plans to improve “cultural competency” throughout the university,
Northwestern tution to top $50,000 next year
currently $48,624. The University announced in early March that students entering next year and beyond will not be offered loans as part of their financial aid packages. In addition, current students will have their need-based loans capped at $20,000. The email also said room and board rates will increase by 3.7 percent from $14,936 to $15,489. Last year, tuition rose by 3.8 percent.
Northwestern’s tuition will top $50,000 next year, the University announced in an email early Wednesday morning. According to the email, undergraduate tuition will rise to $50,424 for the 2016-17 school year, an increase of 3.7 percent. Tuition is
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It’s the bottom of the seventh in the home opener for Evanston Township High School’s varsity baseball team. The opponent: Oak Park and River Forest High School, described by ETHS athletic director Chris Livatino as one of the best teams in the state. With the score tied at 4-4 and ETHS down to one out remaining in the game, junior Jesse Heuer takes the plate. The second baseman swings and makes contact, launching the ball into right field for a walkoff homer. The play ends the game with a score of 5-4, ETHS. “It was not about baseball but it was one of those emotional wins,” Livatino said. “I think it meant a lot to the guys to be back at home. We were playing for Coach (Ross) Freeland.” Freeland, the varsity baseball assistant coach and a math teacher at ETHS, died March 14 after a short battle with stomach cancer. The 41-year-old’s death came a week before the baseball team’ first game of the season. His coworkers in both the math and athletic departments said they learned of Freeland’s illness in January. Several of Freeland’s colleagues emphasized his humility. Math department chair Dale Leibforth said Freeland was often quiet and even shy with his fellow teachers, but with his students, he blossomed. “Whether it was on the baseball field or in the classroom … he is just great with relating to kids and being real with them,” Leibforth said. Freeland joined ETHS’ math department in August 2003 after two years of student and substitute teaching at the high school, District 202 superintendent Eric Witherspoon told The Daily in an email. Leibforth said Freeland had since taught several courses in the math department and even designed and implemented a new class called Algebra in Entrepreneurship. “That’s a class where you take students (for whom) math wasn’t their first love and apply it to that kind of
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a business setting,” Leibforth said. “It’s kind of a flashy course but he just came in and did his thing. That is kind of how I want to remember Ross, as just a guy who did things the right way.” In addition to his teaching and coaching responsibilities, Freeland was a husband, father and — as several of his colleagues described — a mentor to countless students. Livatino said he often tutored ETHS students, and he also helped run Camp Highlands for Boys, an overnight camp in Wisconsin. Sachin Jhunjhunwala, one of Freeland’s close friends and a fellow math teacher at ETHS, said Freeland’s family had received an outpouring of support from the high school and Camp Highlands communities. Jhunjhunwala created a GoFundMe page, the Ross Freeland Fund, so people could contribute donations to Freeland’s family in his memory. “His house was full of flowers and his porch was filled with coolers full of food,” Jhunjhunwala said. “We decided to set up a fund just to give people an outlet (to contribute).” Livatino said the athletic department is also making an effort to commemorate Freeland. While some plans are still being developed, Livatino said for now,
Frank Consiglio, the baseball team’s head coach, ordered white circular patches that bear Freeland’s initials in orange and blue lettering. The players had affixed the patches to their uniforms for the first game on March 21 and are going to wear them for at least the remainder of the season, he said. Livatino also said the baseball program was renaming its program impact award, given to the player who has the biggest impact on the team each year, after Freeland. “A lot of these guys have really, really close relationships with him,” Livatino said. “They’re managing it as well as can be expected but it’s going to be an ongoing process throughout the season. He was really important to so many of them.” Leibforth said Freeland’s family was also intending to hold a service in his honor at ETHS on April 10. “Everybody’s thinking and saying, ‘What can we learn from this, how can we move forward?’” Leibforth said. “And most people say, if you could live your life to be a little bit like Ross everyday, the world would be a better place.” mpage@u.northwestern.edu
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ASG elects speaker of the senate, parliamentarian By ERICA SNOW
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Associated Student Government Senate elected Weinberg sophomore Nehaarika Mulukutla as its new speaker of the senate and Weinberg sophomore Shelby Reitman as its new parliamentarian Wednesday. Both will be sworn in next week. Mulukutla will replace Weinberg senior Matt Clarkston. As speaker, she will be in charge of moderating debates, determining the agenda of each meeting and running the meetings. Mulukutla beat Weinberg sophomore Jake Rothstein and SESP sophomore Josh O’Neil for the speaker seat. Mulukutla, a current Panhellenic Association senator, was also a member of the election commission that chose the executive board, or vice presidents of each committee. Reitman, who represents Foster-Walker Complex, will replace Weinberg senior Scott Spicer as parliamentarian. She will take attendance, count votes and run the meetings when the speaker is absent. Reitman beat Weinberg sophomore Keaton Tatooles for the position. “I know when I started Senate, I was unsure of some of the terms,” Reitman said when addressing Senate before the vote. “That made me sit there and not really have a voice because I didn’t really
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NEW FACES Weinberg sophomore Shelby Reitman talks to ASG Senate on Wednesday night. Reitman was elected parliamentarian and Weinberg sophomore Nehaarika Mulukutla was elected as the new speaker of the senate.
understand what was going on. Especially as we’re getting new senators, it’s important for them to feel that they have someone that they can go to and that way … all the voices can be heard.” Later in the meeting, Senate introduced a resolution calling on Northwestern to withdraw its appointment of former ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry as executive director of the Buffett
Institute for Global Studies. The resolution will be voted on next week, which will be Mulukutla’s first week as speaker. “It may be a divisive issue because I know a lot of students were finding problems with (his) military background,” Mulukutla told The Daily. “I can tell that it might be a heated discussion. If it does happen to be something that personally charges people,
I will hopefully be there to ensure that there is some decorum.” ASG’s resolution on Eikenberry follows a letter to the editor in The Daily signed by faculty members who objected to his military ties. University President Morton Schapiro and Provost Dan Linzer, however, disagreed in their own letter to the editor in The Daily and wrote that his many years of experience and appointment by President Obama made him a strong candidate. Weinberg senior Neha Reddy and SESP junior Matt Herndon, the authors of the resolution, said Eikenberry’s lack of a PhD and background in academia, along with former military experience, is not compatible with the mission of the Buffett Institute to be a global research facility. Weinberg Prof. Jorge Coronado — who signed the initial letter to the editor — stood alongside Reddy and Herndon. The chair of the Spanish and Portuguese department, he has also worked as one of the co-directors of the Andean Cultures and Histories group at the Buffett Institute. “The appointment impacts the students as much anybody else. I would say arguably more,” Coronado said. “So, in terms of support, I would say that it’s important for students to speak out because your voice has a huge impact on the university, on leadership, on your professors.” ericasnow2019@u.northwestern.edu
Columbia prof, NU alumna files suit against employer By KELLI NGUYEN
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A Columbia University assistant professor who received her Ph.D. at Northwestern is suing Columbia for $20 million, alleging gender discrimination and sexual harassment. Enrichetta Ravina (Graduate School ’05) filed
the lawsuit March 22, claiming the University failed to intervene when she reported sexual harassment by Columbia Prof. Geert Bekaert and instead retaliated against her. The suit said that Ravina repeatedly reported Bekaert’s harassment to Columbia administrators who belittled her and dismissed her claims. It states Columbia also rushed Ravina’s tenure application process, forcing her to submit an insufficient application as part of a “sham tenure
review” to deny her of the protected status. Ravina’s claims were previously investigated by Columbia and rejected twice, Bekaert said in an emailed statement to the Daily. He said her stories are a falsified attempt to defame him. “I am sickened that a colleague … would manufacture false stories, statements, and events and attempt to destroy my reputation,” Bekaert said in the statement. “I am confident that in the end Prof. Ravina’s statements will be shown to be
completely baseless.” In 2014, a Title IX investigation carried out by Columbia administrators concluded university policies had not been violated and that Ravina had flirted with Bekaert. Ravina told The Daily this was not true, citing the support she received from a majority of tenured faculty members who petitioned the University in protest. kellinguyen2019@u.northwestern.edu
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The problematic obsession with taking pictures BOB HAYES
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While enjoying a wonderful vacation from the stresses of school and daily life last week and subsequently coming across countless pieces of photographic evidence of others’ respective spring breaks, I was quickly reminded of what I see as a cultural trend that is in some ways problematic: the perpetual obsession with picture-taking. Put another way, too many times while on my spring vacation in Peru, I overheard scores of tourists making exclamations like, “Let’s get closer so we can get a better picture!” Nothing is inherently wrong with that desire, but why is the purpose of the desired action improving the quality of our pictures, not of our experiences? We encounter this photo-centric perspective in so many parts of our lives, particularly during meaningful experiences. The appeals of
taking pictures are entirely understandable: We can permanently capture these transient experiences, look back with fond memory and easily share them with all our friends. Additionally, the idea of seeing oneself in a still image or video still feels like a fun novelty, while many see photography as an artistic practice. Despite my own criticism, I enjoy taking pictures and occasionally posting on social media for exactly these reasons. Similarly, I do not see an inherent issue with people taking hundreds of pictures while on vacation and then uploading them online. The problem arises when we dilute our meaningful experiences by focusing so heavily on documenting them via photographs. This has become such a natural trend that I believe few of us even realize our self-inflicted dilution while it happens. A common example is the constant temptation to film your favorite songs at a concert or music festival, which, again, is a practice I do not claim to be above. In these situations, the desire to capture the perfect video or picture at the perfect time occupies so much of our
attention that we often forget to simply enjoy the experience in the moment. By focusing too much on photographing and filming — generally with the goal of replicating that experience for future viewing — we ironically worsen We the experience itself. Intuition may say encounter this that picture-taking and photo-centric fully enjoying an expeperspective in rience are not mutually exclusive. For some, so many parts that may be true. Still, of our lives, I encourage you during your next meaningful particularly experience — whether during it’s overlooking the meaningful Grand Canyon, feeling the vibes at a music experiences. hall or walking on the beach — to take a minute to simply enjoy yourself. I think many people will feel surprised at how different it feels to experience life through their own senses than through camera lenses. Many of the best moments of our lives are
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not captured photographically, and we should feel at peace with that. Recalling a moment solely through memory is in many ways more powerful and personal than through photographs. Ultimately, as exciting as photographs can seem, nothing beats a cognitive memory. With this in mind, what should we consider going forward? Should we stop taking pictures altogether? Of course not! Pictures remain an excellent way to capture memories and share with ourselves and friends. But ultimately, I encourage people to consider that a memory cannot be measured by the quantity or quality of photographs taken. I believe we can each feel a greater reward by placing an emphasis on truly taking in a meaningful experience rather than abruptly rushing to document it photographically. Bob Hayes is a Weinberg junior. He can be reached at roberthayes2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
The desire to do well — not the need — leads to success ALEXI STOCKER
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With the start of a new quarter, academic success is undoubtedly on the mind of nearly every Northwestern student. Many of us are making resolutions to improve our grades, to get straight As, to not cram for every exam the night before. However, just as so many of us start the quarter with the sincerest intention of setting things right academically, procrastination inevitably sets in. Cramming commences and, come week seven or eight, a 4.0 for the quarter becomes a near impossibility. Through my own personal experiences and talks with numerous fellow seniors and NU alumni, I have found that success — whether in academics, careers, personal health and fitness, or interpersonal relationships — all comes down to one simple rule: To succeed, “you gotta really want it.” The desire to
achieve, rather than a perceived need to succeed, is absolutely crucial for success, especially in an environment as competitive as NU. Feeling a need for success is stressful and exhausting; the desire to succeed, on the other hand, provides the needed motivation and vigor to expend the necessary effort. There are, admittedly, other components to success. Doing well in a course requires some degree of interest in the subject matter. Achieving personal fitness goals can be hindered or helped by environmental factors. Landing an ideal internship or job is always easier when you know the right people in the right places. Making friends or finding a significant other is a little easier for those of us who are more physically attractive, naturally confident or just more charming in some way or another. When I say, “you gotta really want it,” I mean that each of us, as individual actors, must truly desire success. It is important to draw distinction between feeling a genuine desire for success versus feeling a need for success. The feeling of needing success implies external factors beyond our own
personal ambitions and goals are the primary motivating factor. Feeling a need to succeed may be a result of parental, peer or societal pressure, an effort to overcompensate for a real or perceived flaw or some other source of anxiety, fear, anger, humiliation and frustration. Although feeling a need for success can deliver short-term positive results, I have observed that fueling the effort necessary for success in ultra-competitive environments with such negative emotions runs a high risk of burning out. Feeling a need to succeed as a means of combatting our personal insecurities will never bring us satisfaction, as each triumph, each victory, only treats the symptoms of our perceived deficiencies, rather than addressing their root causes. The genuine desire to succeed must stem from our own aspirations, a product of what we want out of our lives, rather than what we think others expect of us. I have found the hard work required for success is made possible by the understanding that I am working for myself and nobody else, that my priorities are self-improvement, personal development and, above all else, my own happiness.
A defense of changing, evolving one’s ideas TIM BALK
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It might have sunk John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign. And it’s a familiar charge against current Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. In America, we accept plenty of flaws, but there is one thing we really can’t stand: a flip-flopper. Changing one’s mind is looked down upon in our society. It is an outrageous way of thinking to which we all, to some degree, seem to subscribe. Consistency is almost unquestioned as one of the great virtues a person can possess. Ezra Koenig, the lead singer of the band Vampire Weekend who made a bizarre stop in front of the Fiji house at the end of Winter Quarter, is a big Bernie Sanders fan. In January, Koenig told CNN that going back to the 1990s, he sees “a consistency in (Sanders) that’s rare in most human beings, let alone politicians.” Now, I love Koenig. And I like Sanders, too. But that should not be all that great a compliment to the Vermont senator. I’m not suggesting that you should not — or should — support Sanders. What I do believe, though, is that it is odd how our thirst for consistency manifests itself in the political arena. We expect our politicians to be constant and unchanging. This is strange because as people gain information and experiences, their opinions should, in fact, naturally change and evolve. Even those of politicians.
I will absolutely concede that the hostility to flip-flopping politicians does have an underlying logic: We do not want to elect politicians who are insincere or will say anything for a vote. But we should still be open to the evolution of ideas. Unfortunately, resistance to this change is not just a political phenomenon. We are all victims of it. Perhaps it is because our thoughts and opinions make up a key part of who we are and what we represent. Perhaps it is because we more easily understand people if they are consistent. Or perhaps it is because we are nostalgic beings and are often averse to change in all spheres. I often feel this pressure to be consistent. In my time writing columns at The Daily, I have never written a column I would now disavow, and when I write, I worry, “What if I change my mind about this later?” Once we express a certain view, we are often expected by others to hold it permanently. It is a subtle, nagging pressure we all feel. When I look back on my opinions and relative lack of knowledge when I entered college as a freshman, I see a huge gap between then and now. I am sure 30-year-old me will feel the same way about 20-year-old me. As we absorb knowledge, we change our minds, reconsider and retool our opinions. It’s natural. Just expressing our opinions can change them. It exposes them to scrutiny and forces us to justify them. Atheists can become believers. Capitalists can become socialists. Yankees fans can become Red Sox fans. Pacifists can become soldiers. And vice versa. Barack Obama and Clinton can accept gay marriage. And it’s natural and should not be
acrimoniously labeled flip-flopping. Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, once said Steve Jobs changed his mind on a daily basis. “This is a gift, because things do change, and it takes courage to change,” Cook explained. The truth is, taken on a broad scale, our society is changing its mind for the better. Take gay marriage: according to Pew polling, in 2001, 35 percent of Americans favored it, but by 2015, 55 percent did. In 1958, four percent of Americans approved of black-white marriages, but by 2013, 87 percent did, according to Gallup polling. The list goes on. This positive change does not occur without flip-flopping. And it happens with individuals all the time; as they grow and learn they develop better, more nuanced, more sound views. Society is growing up, and we are too. Particularly at key times such as college, when we are absorbing knowledge at an incredible rate and have unique opportunities to gain insight into new and different ideas, we should be open to changing our minds. Eighteen years of life is not nearly enough time to develop strong, well-developed opinions about all that many issues. So reconsider deeply held beliefs or argue them vigorously and see if they last. Ralph Waldo Emerson was onto something when he wrote, “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” Tim Balk is a Medill sophomore. He can be contacted at timothybalk2018@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
This philosophy yields not only success, but also, more importantly, satisfaction and enjoyment, two crucial prerequisites for continued effort and hard work. What are the ultimate implications of “you gotta really want it?” Simply put, it is important that each and every one of us take a moment at the beginning of this quarter to really think about why we want to succeed. Do we have a genuine desire for success or, rather, a perceived need for it? Answering that question is crucial not only in succeeding academically or professionally, but also in determining what we really want with and from our lives. We can only “really want” to succeed in courses, jobs, internships, sports or even relationships that bring us true fulfillment. “You gotta really want it” speaks both to the necessity of hard work and the value of being true to ourselves. Alexi Stocker is a Weinberg senior. He can be contacted at alexistocker2016@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
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Feinberg prof focuses on LGBT health collaboration Brian Mustanski leads first University-wide LGBT research institute in U.S. By PETER KOTECKI
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Despite last year’s landmark Supreme Court decision on marriage equality, the LGBT community continues to face unique health-related and psychological issues, said Feinberg Prof. Brian Mustanski. And a lack of research on those fronts makes the new University-wide LGBT research institute a crucial new element, said Mustanski, the institute’s director. Mustanski said the need for more research on mental health, the high rates of violence experienced by transgender people and health care for transgender people led him to push for the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, a University-wide institute that is the first of its kind in the United States. As the institute’s director, Mustanski said he hopes to stress collaboration between different academic areas and grow research on LGBT health in Chicago. “One of the big goals of the institute is to start addressing other aspects of LGBT health more broadly than HIV, which has been a major focus of our work in the past,” Mustanski said. “We partner with researchers at Northwestern,
who are doing excellent work in other health areas that are relevant to the LGBT community, and work with them to apply their work to the LGBT population.” Mustanski said he was drawn to interdisciplinary studies as a graduate student at Indiana University. He worked at the university’s Kinsey Institute, which he said is well known for research on sexual health. Before the institute was founded, Mustanski became the director of the IMPACT LGBT Health and Development Program at NU, which conducts research to improve the health of the LGBT community. Recently, the program — now part of the University-wide institute — received more than $20 million in research funding from the National Institutes of Health and other foundations. Mustanski added that community engagement has been a hallmark of his work for many years. When IMPACT came to NU, the program became the resident research partner of the Center on Halsted, the largest comprehensive social service agency for the LGBT community in the Midwest, he said. “We definitely are very interested in doing work that is engaging with the community,” Mustanski said. “There is so much we can learn from them and what they are doing, and we
CCHS Conference 2016
The Power of the Past: Myth, Tradition and History Friday April 1, 2016 Harris Hall 108 (Leopold Room) 1881 Sheridan Rd, Evanston
9:00-10:45 Panel One: Memory and Polity-Making Raevin JIMENEZ (Northwestern), Nathan KWAN (Hong Kong University), Aurelio INSISA (Hong Kong University), David SAUNDERS (Hong Kong Univesity) Commentator: Jean ALLMAN (Washington University) Chair: Yanqiu ZHENG (Northwestern)
11:00-12:45pm Panel Two: Remembering, Forgetting and Violence Aram SARKISIAN (Northwestern), Valeria NAVARRO-ROSENBLATT (UW-Madison), Nathaniel MATHEWS (Northwestern) Commentator: Benjamin FROMMER (Northwestern) Chair: Joy SALES (Northwestern) 12:45-1:30 LUNCH 1:30-3:00 Keynote: Professor Yael ZERUBAVEL (Rutgers University) "History, Myth, and CounterNarratives in the Construction of Mnemonic Traditions” 3:00-4:45 Panel Three: Memory, Community and Social Reproduction Sian Olson DOWIS (Northwestern), Christopher MUHOOZI (Northwestern), Sarah YU (Hong Kong University) Commentator: Jean ALLMAN (Washington University) Chair: Samuel KLING (Northwestern) Reception to follow The Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies at Northwestern University historicalstudies.northwestern.edu
hope that some of the scientific activities that we are doing can help inform their work as well.” Eric Neilson, dean and vice president for medical affairs at the Feinberg School of Medicine, said the new institute will help further research on LGBT health in addition to teaching NU students. Most of Mustanski’s own research focuses on young gay and bisexual men, he said. His work aims to understand factors that are related to HIV and substance use, he added. At the institute, Mustanski said, these projects are divided into two main areas — some focus on understanding factors that drive HIV, while others seek to prevent HIV or help lead people into HIV care. “We do a lot of projects where we are following young people over time, young men over time, to understand their development,” Mustanski said. Mustanski said he also works a lot with technology, developing Internet-based approaches to sexual health education for young men to help them understand their risks and how they can prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. peterkotecki2018@u.northwestern.edu
City named finalist in WWF competition for second consecutive year
Evanston is a finalist in the competition to represent the United States in World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour City Challenge for the second year in a row, competing against Burlington, Vermont, and Boulder, Colorado. The Earth Hour City Challenge is an international competition for cities transitioning toward 100 percent renewable energy and addressing climate change on a local level. There are 124 cities across 21 countries competing, with contenders including Chicago, New Delhi and Seoul, South Korea. In 2015, Evanston represented the country in a global conference on sustainability in local government, where the city placed fourth worldwide on local sustainability and renewability efforts. Evanston’s sustainability efforts this year include being on pace to achieve its goals from its 2014 Evanston Livability Plan, which pledged to reduce emissions by 20 percent relative to 2005 baseline levels. If Evanston wins the title of U.S. Earth Hour Capital, it will proceed to the global conference again and receive funding from WWF to further its sustainability programs. The WWF will announce the National Earth Hour Capitals in May, according to the competition’s website. — Robin Opsahl
Duckworth denounces Trump’s comments, links Kirk to those views
U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth’s (D-Ill.) senatorial campaign released a statement Wednesday criticizing Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s comments that women should be punished for abortions and claimed Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) would align himself with Trump’s views. “Donald Trump’s comments today are horrific, and reveal genuine misogyny,” the statement said. “And yet it is exactly this approach that Mark Kirk ‘certainly would’ support in the November election.” When asked to define his “pro-life stance” in an MSNBC interview Wednesday, Trump said not only should abortion be banned, but there should also be a form of punishment for women who chose abortion. Trump later said should abortions be banned, the doctor who performed the abortion would be held responsible instead. — Rishika Dugyala
Setting the record straight A story in Tuesday’s paper titled “Walk-off loss wraps up rough road schedule for NU” incorrectly stated that Dan Kubiuk is no longer on the football team. The Daily regrets the error.
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said. Because of that threat, the Office of Global Safety and Security, which Friend directs, has a process that requires program sponsors to prove to University administrators that students will be safe abroad. When the State Department determines there are “long-term, protracted conditions that make a country dangerous” for American travelers, it issues a travel warning. According to the department’s website, a warning prompts travelers to “consider very carefully whether you should go to a country at all.” The department also issues travel alerts, which, by contrast, are less severe and often ask travelers to be more vigilant.
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Julie Friend, director of the Office of Global Safety and Security
The State Department issued a worldwide travel alert after the Paris attacks and a Europe-wide alert after the Brussels attack. Alerts do not usually require programmatic changes, although Friend’s office often will release short statements about some noteworthy alerts, she said. When issued, travel warnings set off a mandatory review process among administrators: All future programs in the affected country are automatically suspended, but a program’s sponsor can apply for permission to continue with the program as planned. Provost Dan Linzer has final say on whether or not a program continues. Currently, the University has affiliated or sponsored programs in four countries with outstanding travel warnings: Israel, Kenya, Mexico and Turkey. This past fall, Weinberg sophomore Parker Levinson worked in Kenya, where terrorist attacks and violent crime have led the State Department to issue multiple travel warnings since 2013. But Levinson said she wasn’t worried at all living in the country’s western
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THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2016 region, noting the attacks were mostly in Nairobi, the northeast and along the Somali border to the east. “It’s the same personal safety you’d think about in Chicago at night,” she said. “Just common sense things: making sure I was home before it got dark, wearing a helmet on the motorcycle. It wasn’t anything special.” She also said the University limited her travel to keep her safe: No traveling overnight, and no trips out of the country or to Nairobi. They also “drew a circle on a map,” she said, roughly 100 miles in radius and outside of which she could not travel. Although violence might threaten only a particular region of a country, State Department warnings are country-wide. For example, Turkey currently has a travel warning due to terrorism along the Syrian border to the southeast. Northwestern’s study abroad programs in Turkey are based in Istanbul, more than 600 miles from the Syrian border. Weinberg senior Will Oliver traveled to Israel during Spring Quarter 2014. He said he had to adjust to the heightened security that pervades the country: metal detectors in shopping malls, uniformed men with AK-47s patrolling public spaces. But he said after a month or so he got used to it, and the trip let him see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with new eyes. “Overall, I felt very safe,” he said. “I had this first-hand experience to understand what it’s like to be Israeli and what it’s like to be on the other side.” Friend said she understands some students might be apprehensive about traveling abroad. “We’re not forcing anyone to go anywhere,” she said. “Everyone needs to travel within their own tolerance for risk.” Bill Anthony, director of the study abroad office, acknowledged that students abroad can harbor some fears. Those fears can range from sounding foolish in a foreign language to horrific terrorist attacks. But he said conquering those fears is part of the value of studying abroad. “It’s easy for an old guy to say, but be bold,” he said. “The bubble is comfortable. But, in my experience, it’s discomfort that produces some growth.” shanem@u.northwestern.edu Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. The man was released from a correctional facility Oct. 9 and had until Oct. 12 to register as a sex offender, Dugan said. Evanston police had been investigating a theft report when they encountered the man’s profile on a private online database and noticed he had not registered.
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From page 1 would do that really wants the constitutional process to go forward,” Kirk told reporters, according to The Associated Press. Garland is currently the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. President Barack Obama nominated Garland in March to fill the opening on the Supreme Court created after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia last month. Garland was born in Chicago and attended Niles West High School in Skokie. Kirk praised him Tuesday as “one of the most eminent jurists in the country,” The Associated Press reported. Kirk is currently in reelection battle for his U.S. Senate seat and will face Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) in November’s election. Kirk’s Senate seat has been characterized by many political experts as the most endangered in the country leading up to November’s election. Duckworth’s deputy campaign manager Matt McGrath said in a news release that Kirk “seems to expect extra credit by doing the bare minimum” and meeting with Garland. “Instead of going through the motions, Senator Kirk should show leadership by putting pressure on McConnell and urge him to give an eminently qualified Illinois-native a fair hearing followed by an up-or-down vote,” McGrath said in the release. “If he doesn’t, Illinois families have every right to question Kirk’s sincerity and whether this is more election year posturing from a vulnerable candidate.” McConnell discussed on the Senate floor in March the seriousness of choosing the next justice. Garland is considered a centrist jurist,
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From page 1 Communication junior Syedah Cabell said professors need to better understand marginalized student experiences to ensure their students are comfortable in the classroom. She asked administrators if there was “anything more immediate that will get faculty to understand the impact of the little things,” recalling her own experience in an uncomfortable classroom environment. Wesley Burghardt, associate dean of undergraduate engineering, said as an administrator, he hopes students won’t stay silent about bad The man was charged with a felony and is scheduled to appear in court April 5.
Woman reports home burglary in south Evanston
A 55-year-old woman reported her safe stolen on Monday from her home in south Evanston. The Evanston resident said the burglary took place
which could result in a major change from the conservative Scalia. “The next justice could fundamentally alter the direction of the Supreme Court and have a profound impact on our country,” McConnell said. “So of course the American people should have a say in the court’s direction.” williamkobin2018@u.northwestern.edu
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MAJOR MEETING U.S. Sen Mark Kirk receives a ballot to vote Tuesday, March 15, 2016, at a Highwood, Ill., recreation center. Kirk was the first GOP senator to meet President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.
experiences in their classes. “I want to create an environment where if students are having bad experiences, I have a chance to learn about it and do something about it,” Burghardt said. Linzer agreed, saying feedback from students is key. “If there’s one student at Northwestern who is unhappy and feels that things have gone wrong, that’s one too many,” Linzer said. “We all want to make this place great and how we do that is going to happen because of a collective effort.” fathma@u.northwestern.edu in the 900 block of Oakton Street some time between March 19 and March 28, Dugan said. Items taken included the safe, a metal box containing miscellaneous papers, a driver’s license and a state ID, he said. There were no signs of forced entry in the apartment and no one was physically harmed, he said. — Juliet Freudman
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NU trudging forward after losing Peri to ACL tear Nebraska vs. Northwestern
By MIKE MARUT
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Over the break, Northwestern suffered four losses, dropping three matches and losing junior Manon Peri to another ACL injury a little over a year after her first one. Peri tore her ACL against Georgia Tech over a month ago, but only got surgery on the injury Monday. The junior had been making great progress on the court for the Wildcats (5-8, 3-0 Big Ten), and after finally being cleared to play singles matches in January, Peri worked her way up to the No. 6 singles court and No. 3 doubles court. Coach Claire Pollard said she finds it to be a tough pill to swallow.“It’s a big loss,” Pollard said. “We’re trying to recover from it. You get dealt some bad luck, and it’s more about how you respond than the event. We have to continue to salvage what we can out of the year and get the most out of ourselves. … We have to regroup.”Pollard also noted that Peri was more positive this year than last year after her injury. In addition to her coach, Peri’s teammates expressed their disappointment in losing her for a second consecutive year.“We feel really bad for her,” said sophomore Maddie Lipp, who did not participate last season due to injury. “I think she’s handling it really well. … It’s really tough to have (Peri) gone, there’s really not much positive out of that. As much as it hurts to not have her in the lineup or around in practice, having (sophomore Rheeya Doshi) is almost like a new energy.” Peri was not available for comment after her surgery.
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suffocating defense, Maryland also boasts the No. 3 scoring offense in the nation, averaging more than 15 goals per game. NU has scored more than 15 goals this season only once, against the No. 53 defense in the country, Marquette. With the Terrapins’ highpowered offense and lockdown defense, the Cats will have to control the tempo of the game by winning the possession battle. And luckily for them, Fredericks has been dominating draw controls. The sophomore set a school record for the most draw controls in a single game against Colorado last week, recording
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As a silver lining of sorts, NU regained Doshi who had taken a personal leave of absence for the past six months. Pollard and her players said they are excited to have Doshi back.“I’m hoping she’s enthusiastic and excited; she hasn’t been through the drudgery of the season that the girls inevitably feel in month three of … playing a lot of really tough matches,” Pollard said. That fresh enthusiasm is almost like having a brand new player to help the team, Lipp added. Moving forward, the Cats have to find a way to get back to winning after being swept last week in Texas. Fortunately for NU, those matches were out-of-conference and the Cats find themselves still undefeated in the Big Ten, having beaten Illinois, Rutgers and Maryland before Spring Break. Taking on Nebraska and Iowa this coming weekend should be a refreshing change of pace for NU. The team has the opportunity to get back on their home courts and take on familiar opponents.“(Since Spring Break) we have a clean slate,” senior Alicia Barnett said. “We’re still in it to win it. That’s our goal. Everyone is focused on that and focused 10. The Cats average 12 draw controls per game, only two less than Maryland averages. Fredericks will need to set the tone early for NU, but the Cats will also need freshman goalkeeper Mallory Weisse to step up. After recording her third double-digit save game, Weisse received both Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week and Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors. Weisse leads the Big Ten with 7.63 saves per game, but she will face her toughest task yet Thursday. The Cats will take on the Terrapins at 6 p.m. before traveling to No. 16 Penn to wrap up the team’s road trip. danielwaldman2019@u.northwestern.edu
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DOUBLES TROUBLE Alex Chatt serves the ball to her opponent. The sophomore has helped lock down the No. 1 doubles slot for the Wildcats, winning 3-of-5 thus far.
on getting better. We need to get better to beat these top teams.”In order for the Cats to achieve their Big Ten championship goal, moving past Peri’s injury with the newly returned Doshi will be key to that accomplishment.“If we can focus on the fact that we’re undefeated in Big Ten play,
that goal is still alive and well,” Pollard said. “We have to try and have a short memory for our out-of-conference play and really focus on the opportunity ahead.”
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from last year’s tournament, as the Cats finished fourth following a win over then-No. 7 Arkansas but saw losses to host Georgia and then-No. 5 Duke. The format presents various challenges, and Fletcher’s main concern is the demeanor of the team throughout the tournament. “We want to keep a good attitude in match play because there’s so many swings up and down,” Fletcher said. “My expectation and challenge to our girls is to just stay engaged and keep a really good attitude and keep fighting.”
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the competitive environment is much different from an average round of golf, forcing players to adapt. Kim spent much of her Spring Break practice preparing her game for the unfamiliar format that the team will face in Georgia. “Coach really wanted us to get into that match play mentality,” Kim said. “I worked on playing a lot more aggressive and just playing more assertively.” NU will look to improve on its performance
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Branford Marsalis, saxophone Victor Goines, clarinet Northwestern University Jazz Orchestra, 7:30 p.m. Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, $30/10 Victor Goines, conductor
A performance of Victor Goines’s Crescent City featuring Grammy-winning saxophonist Branford Marsalis, accompanied by students and alumni of the jazz studies program. The concert will also feature Goines as clarinetist in his 2009 ASCAP commission Benny: Then, Now, Forever.
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A Conversation with Branford Marsalis and Victor Goines, noon Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall, free
Composer, bandleader, educator, and Grammy-winning saxophonist Branford Marsalis has performed with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, the Wynton Marsalis Quintet, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, and Sonny Rollins. Victor Goines, the Bienen School’s director of jazz studies, has been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Wynton Marsalis Septet since 1993, in addition to leading his own quartet and quintet.
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Men’s Tennis Wisconsin at No. 13 NU, 6 p.m. Friday
To hit the first home run (here), it’s a great honor, especially to put us ahead in the game. — Jack Claeys, sophomore catcher
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Sophomore hits grand slam to ignite Wildcat comeback in first game at new stadium CHICAGO STATE
By WILL RAGATZ
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Jack Claeys christened Rocky and Berenice Miller Park in grand fashion Wednesday afternoon. With Northwestern trailing Chicago State 3-1 in the bottom of the third inning, Claeys stepped up to the plate with the bases loaded and no outs. In one swing of the bat, the sophomore catcher made history with the first home run in the new park and gave the Wildcats a lead they would not relinquish.“(With the bases loaded), what you’re trying to do is just slow the game down, put a good swing on the ball, find some barrel, and hit it hard somewhere,” Claeys said. “Thankfully, I got (a pitch that was) up a little bit and was able to drive it to left-center. I think the wind helped it a little bit today, but it was still a great feeling.”Claeys’ long grand slam was the highlight of a six-run third inning that catapulted the Cats (7-18, 1-2 Big Ten) to an 11-5 win over the Cougars (6-17,
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Cats to face many top opponents By JOE WILKINSON
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The top seven teams in the country face off in the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic this weekend, including No. 4 Northwestern, which is looking to follow up on its third consecutive Hurricane Invitational victory with a win in Georgia. The Wildcats’ quest for back-toback victories won’t come easily, as they enter the tournament behind fellow top-5 entrants: No.1 Duke, No. 2 USC and No. 3 UCLA. “It’ll be great for us,” coach Emily Fletcher said. “It’ll be great experience and great competition. I just want to see us continue to improve and compete at a high level.” In addition to the top three teams, the tournament also includes No. 5 Alabama, No. 6 Georgia and No. 7 Arkansas. Sophomore Hannah Kim, coming off a dominant victory in NU’s previous tournament, has been busy over break preparing to face top competition. “I just want to play confidently and play assertively,” Kim said. “I know that I put in the hours of practice, so I just have to trust what I worked on.”
Kim was not alone in her intense preparation over break. Each player had the opportunity to return home, relax and work on their game before the team came together for an intrasquad match play competition in Arizona to wrap up the time off. “It was fun to be back in that competitive environment with your teammates,” sophomore Sarah Cho said. The Cats’ focus on match play was no coincidence, as the upcoming Classic features only a single round of stroke play, followed by three rounds of match play on Saturday and Sunday. The format is similar to the NCAA Championships at the end of the year, but very different from most tournaments on NU’s schedule this year. “It’s really about getting our kids comfortable with that format,” Fletcher said. “Since it is different than what we play day in and day out it can be a little bit unsettling, and so our goal on Spring Break was really to embrace that. I think it’s a great look forward as to what we might have at the national championship.” Although the course stays the same in a match play competition, » See WOMEN’S GOLF, page 7
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0-3 WAC) in their home opener. It was also Claeys’ fi rst collegiate homer.“Honestly, it’s so surreal,” Claeys said. “When I was recruited, they were talking about the stadium and we’d been waiting for so long, and to come out and beat a good team like Chicago State, and to hit the first home run (here), it’s a great honor, especially to put us ahead in the game and get momentum going back our way.”In NU’s decisive third inning, Claeys wasn’t the only Cat to record his first career home run. Just two batters after Claeys’ grand slam, freshman infielder Willie Bourbon slugged a solo shot to left field. Bourbon finished 4-for-4 at the plate and just a triple shy of the cycle.“Once you really get in a rhythm … especially after a big hit like that, you’re feeling good about yourself, you get in the box and you’re a little bit more confident,” Bourbon said. On the other side of the ball, freshman reliever Danny Katz helped NU bounce back from a rough start, allowing just two earned runs in a career-high five innings pitched. Senior pitcher Jake Stolley lasted only two innings in his first career start as he struggled with control, walking 3 of the 12 batters he faced. Coach Spencer Allen inserted Katz after a leadoff walk in the third, and he responded by
tossing four straight innings without allowing an earned run.“When you come in and have runners on base, you just want to do your job and limit as many runs as you can, then hopefully get the bats going like we did,” Katz said. “Then when you go out there with the lead, you know you just gotta throw strikes, attack the hitters, pound the zone and let your fielders make plays.”By the time Katz gave up a two-run homer in the seventh inning, the Cats had turned a 3-0 deficit into a 10-3 lead. Allen said coming into the game, he was not planning on having Katz throw five innings.“He was just going to throw two or three,” Allen said. “He was really efficient with getting his outs and just pounding the strike zone. The tempo that he worked at changed the whole game. We were just like like, man, let’s him keep rolling.”After pounding Chicago State, it’s safe to say the home opener was a success for NU. The Cats totaled 11 hits as a team, but none were bigger than Claeys’ historic blast.“That just relaxed everybody,” Allen said. “It started before that with a couple walks, a couple good swings on the ball, and that just allowed Claeys to do his thing.” williamragratz2019@u.northwestern.edu
NU seeks revenge against Terps By DAN WALDMAN
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The Wildcats are seeking revenge this week, opening their Big Ten season with a rematch of last year’s NCAA Quarterfinals. Thursday’s bout will feature the two most prolific women’s lacrosse programs in the country, setting up a showdown between No. 8 Northwestern (4-4) and No. 1 Maryland (8-0), the reigning champion. The two winningest programs will battle it out in College Park, Maryland, for the first time since the Terrapins handled the Cats 17-5 in the NCAA Tournament.In last year’s disappointing defeat, Maryland put 11 more shots on goal than NU and took advantage of the Cats’ lack of discipline,
No. 8 Northwestern vs. No. 1 Maryland College Park, Maryland 6 p.m. Thursday
earning 6 free-position shots. The Terrapins also completed 10-of-12 clears while NU struggled, completing only 1. However, the Cats are a different team this season.Prior to NU’s matchup with Maryland, then-freshman attacker Selena Lasota led the team with 67 goals — 22 more than then-junior attacker Kaleigh Craig, the second-leading scorer. This season, the team’s scoring is more spread out, with its top four scorers all within eight goals of each other. Instead of running the offense through last season’s premier scorer, the Cats are
focusing on making everyone a scoring threat to increase the team’s shots on goal. The squad has seen growth on offense, especially from senior leader Craig, sophomore attacker Shelby Fredericks and junior attacker Christina Esposito. Despite the team missing junior midfielder Sheila Nesselbush — who already has 9 goals in four games — for the last four games with a lower body injury, NU still has been able to generate 10.75 goals per game during that stretch. But even with the Cats’ more balanced offense, the team will still have to find a way to crack Maryland’s stifling defense, which is No. 7 in the country in goals allowed per game. The Terrapins still have not allowed a team to score doubledigit goals this season. Along with its » See LACROSSE, page 7
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TOP TEAM Christina Esposito cradles the ball in her stick. The Wildcats will take on the Maryland Terrapins on Thursday in a rematch of last year’s NCAA Tournament game in which Northwestern lost 17-5.