The Daily Northwestern — April 3, 2018

The Daily Northwestern Tuesday, April 3, 2018

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Cats win 4 straight games post UNC loss

4 OPINION/Martinez

Loyola Chicago’s NCAA Tournament run attracts Northwestern, national attention

Reaffirming my South Korean identity

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NU executive vice president resigns Nim Chinniah to leave position in early May

By JONAH DYLAN

daily senior staffer @thejonahdylan

Executive vice president Nim Chinniah has resigned from Northwestern, University spokesman Al Cubbage confirmed to The Daily on Monday.

Cubbage declined to comment on the resignation.

Chinniah announced his decision in a Friday email to “University leaders,” which he forwarded to The Daily.

“It has been a high honor for me to serve as the executive vice president over the past four years and to work beside all of you,” Chinniah said in the email. “I have learned and grown tremendously from this experience.

I am ready to explore my next career steps after taking some time off.”

Chinniah was named executive vice president in July 2014, and came to NU after holding a similar position at the University of Chicago. He succeeded Eugene Sunshine, who retired in

2014 after 17 years at the University.

Before working at UChicago, Chinniah spent 16 years working at Vanderbilt University, holding multiple positions including deputy vice chancellor for administration and academic affairs.

He was also awarded the “Rising Star” award in 2003 from the National Association of College and University Business Officers.

Chinniah also ser ved as co-chair of the Global Strategy Task Force, which in 2016 recommended that Northwestern open up to three new international sites over a five-year period.

In the Friday email, Chinniah said he will leave the University in early May. “Northwestern University is a very special place and is poised to reach even greater heights. The relationships that I have built with you will last a lifetime,” he said in the email. “I will always be grateful for the warmth of your welcome and your guidance in my Northwestern direction and journey. I am deeply gratified by what we have done together.” jonahdylan2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Evanston Fire Department and University Police monitor the scene of a March 14 car crash at the intersection of Sherman Avenue and Colfax Street.

Northwestern golfer Luke Miller was arrested in connection with driving under the influence following the crash, according to police reports.

Athletes depart men’s golf team One was arrested in connection with driving under the influence

By BEN POPE

daily senior staffer @benpope111

Two former student-athletes on the Northwestern men’s golf team — junior Luke Miller and freshman Ethan Farnam — are no longer part of the program, an athletic department spokesman

confirmed.

Although the reason for Miller’s departure has not been confirmed, the 20-year-old from Pennsylvania was arrested March 14 in connection with driving under the influence, according to an Evanston Police Department bulletin.

At about 9:30 p.m. that night, at the intersection of Sherman

Avenue and Colfax Street, Miller was involved in a two-vehicle car crash that flipped over one vehicle and led to two people being transported to the hospital with minor injuries.

The reason for Farnam’s departure is also unknown. The athletic department spokesman said that since Miller and Farnam are no longer NU athletes, the athletic

department will not comment further. Neither Miller nor Farnam responded to requests for comment. Their names have been removed from the Wildcats’ online roster.

The men’s golf team is currently in the middle of its spring season, most recently finishing » See GOLF, page 5

Acceptance rate falls to 8.4 percent Report: City sees University accepts 3,392 students from 40,425 applications 82 new businesses Evanston gains national, independent retail

By JONAH DYLAN

daily senior staffer @thejonahdylan

Northwestern accepted a record-low 8.4 percent of its applicants for the class of 2022, associate provost for University enrollment Michael Mills told The Daily in an email.

This is the ninth consecutive year the acceptance rate has dropped. In 2017, the acceptance rate fell below 10 percent for the first time.

NU accepted 3,392 students out of the 40,425 applications it received this year. Of those accepted, 2,320 were notified Wednesday as part of the Regular Decision process, making the acceptance rate for Regular Decision applicants 6.4 percent. The University again received a record number of applications, up from the 37,255 it got last year.

On Dec. 14, NU accepted 1,072 out of 4,049 Early Decision applicants, a record high. The class of 2020 was the first in which Early Decision applicants made up more than half of the incoming class. For the past five years, Early Decision students have made up

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Segal Visitors Center, 1841 Sheridan Rd. Northwestern accepted 8.4 percent of applicants for the Class of 2022, a record low.

50 to 54 percent of the class, University officials told The Daily in January.

Mills projected in January that based on the increased

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Eighty-two new businesses opened in Evanston in 2017, including the first suburban locations for Furious Spoon Ramen and Aloha Poke, according to the Economic Development Division’s annual report released March 6.

The city saw a similar rise in 2016, with 86 new businesses. And with some Chicago-based restaurants and a Target store opening in Evanston earlier this year, Paul Zalmezak — the city’s economic development manager — said there is a “strong” mix of independent and national retail.

He added that the food business is strong in Evanston, retail is stabilizing and unemployment is declining. The commercial vacancy rate also reached its lowest point in 10 years according to the report, dropping to 4.9 percent.

Zalmezak said though the report shows some economic stability, there is still room for improvement.

“The number one thing we hear from businesses is that they’re all doing OK and they’d like to be doing better,” Zalmezak said.

“The way that we can help them do better is to allow some residential density in the downtown which would help drive business.

More people living and working in downtown would really help our local businesses.”

And he said there seems to be a revolving door of restaurants.

Ana Vela, co-founder of Amanecer Tacos, said it was challenging to open her brick-andmortar location in 2017. Vela waited three years to open the location after running her food truck in Evanston before she felt confident in the business’s future.

“A lot of restaurants close pretty quickly in Evanston, so it’s definitely a great community to have for business, but it is very competitive and new things are always popping up,” Vela said.

The report also highlighted businesses that plan to open their doors on Howard Street in 2018, including the second Evanston location for Patisserie Coralie, an expanded Good to Go Jamaican restaurant and the relocated Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre. » See ECONOMY, page 5

INSIDE: Around Town 2 | On Campus 3 | Opinion 4 | Classifieds & Puzzles 8 | Sports 12

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TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2018

AROUND TOWN

The North Face closes downtown Evanston store

By CATHERINE HENDERSON daily senior staffer @caity_henderson

The North Face in downtown Evanston closed its doors on March 23 after struggling to afford the brick-and-mortar location in the city’s center, economic development manager Paul Zalmezak said.

The North Face was located at 1600 Sherman Ave., a high visibility location in the center of Sherman Plaza. The store closure leaves only three locations left in the state — one at Westfield Old Orchard mall, one on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago and one in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood.

Zalmezak said the retail market in Evanston changes with fashion trends. He added that Canada Goose jackets became more popular than North Face jackets in recent years.

“As an observer of these trends, I predicted internally that this would happen,” Zalmezak said.

“North Face has a presence at Old Orchard. They are where they need to be.”

Zalmezak said he “caught wind” of the location’s closing a couple weeks ago. The store was not performing at the level the company wanted to see, he said. The owner of the building has

already found a replacement that Evanston residents would like, but Zalmezak could not yet share what the new tenant would be.

The North Face, which sells mainly coldweather apparel and gear, is owned by the VF Corporation. VF owns several popular clothing brands such as Vans, Wrangler and Nautica.

When the store opened its doors in 2007, thenmanager Ross Cavanagh told The Daily that the Evanston location would draw a different crowd than other locations in Chicago because it would not be able to reach tourists. However, he said he hoped Northwestern students, particularly women, would shop at the store.

“We realize that lifestyle is a big part of our appeal,” Cavanagh said. “It’s almost the Northwestern uniform.”

Weinberg sophomore Grace Learn said The North Face is out of budget for most NU students.

“I actually like North Face a lot, but whenever I’d buy anything, I would usually get it with my mom or plan it out ahead of time, not just go in on a whim and buy a really expensive coat,” Learn said, adding that its location in downtown Evanston wasn’t the right place for the store.

Syd Stone contributed reporting. catherinehenderson2021@u.northwestern.edu

Burglary reported at Wheel and Sprocket on Monday

fled the scene on the bike going east.

Polinski said the suspect was described as wearing dark clothing and gloves. Police do not have anyone in custody at this time.

Officers responded to a burglar alarm set off at Wheel and Sprocket bike shop, 1027 Davis St., early Monday morning.

Evanston police communications coordinator Perry Polinski told The Daily in an email that when officers arrived on the scene around 12:15 a.m., they observed that the front door glass was broken. He said a person entered the bike shop and took a red Trek electric bicycle valued at approximately $5,000. He said the person then

A 40-year-old Evanston resident reported criminal damage to his home in the 1400 block of Howard Street on Monday morning.

Around 1 a.m., the Evanston resident alerted police that a person broke two of his apartment windows, Polinski said. The man told police he had been playing cards with two other people when one of them became upset

POLICE BLOTTER

Criminal damage to home reported in south Evanston

Colin Boyle/Daily Senior Staffer

The North Face, 1600 Sherman Ave. The company closed its doors at its downtown Evanston location on March 23.

during an argument and used a brick to break his windows.

Polinski said the man was initially asked to leave and complied. A few minutes later, the Evanston resident’s kitchen and living room windows were broken. The suspect was described as a black male, of unknown age, approximately 6 foot 7 inches tall, with glasses.

Polinski said he was last seen wearing a black and grey hat and brown pants. The resident was only able to share a “minimal” description of the man with police since he was only a companion of the other card player. ­— Julia Esparza

Setting the record straight An article published in the Feb. 7 paper titled “Kipnis talks #MeToo, Ansari allegations in New Yorker podcast” misquoted Laura Kipnis twice and misstated Kipnis’ comments about the sexual behavior of men, women’s participation in sexual interactions, the power of public revelation and ways in which the #MeToo movement is an educational moment.

The Daily regrets the errors.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2018

ON CAMPUS

Loyola’s NCAA run attracts NU fans

By JONAH DYLAN

daily senior staffer @thejonahdylan

A year ago, Northwestern truly lived up to its name as “Chicago’s Big Ten Team,” riding a historic season to its first-ever NCAA Tournament berth and a win over Vanderbilt in the first round.

But this year, it was a different Chicago-area team that stole the spotlight.

While NU’s season ended in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament, Loyola’s meteoric rise was just starting. The Ramblers won the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament and earned an 11 seed in the NCAA Tournament. And without a team of their own to root for in the postseason, some NU students hopped on the Loyola bandwagon.

Medill junior Chris Burton picked the Ramblers to beat Miami in their first round game, and then journeyed down to the Loyola area to watch their second round game against Tennessee.

“One of the big reasons I supported Loyola was it was such a good story, and it feels like a lot of colleges kind of around here want to support each other,” he said. “I’m sure there were Loyola fans coming up here when we took down Vanderbilt. The fact that Northwestern didn’t have a great season this year probably played a role.”

After beating the Hurricanes on senior forward Donte Ingram’s 3-pointer with less than a second to go, the Ramblers started to pick up fans, both in Chicago and nationally. When junior guard Clayton Custer’s last second shot gave Loyola a 1-point lead with just seconds to go, the Ramblers were off to the Sweet 16.

Burton said the environment at Loyola for the Tennessee game was unlike anything he’s experienced before.

“It’s the loudest place I’ve been in maybe my whole life,” he said. “It was absolutely insane. You could feel electricity in the air, which I know is kind of a cliche, but it was actually true. It was just such a wild experience.”

Against Nevada in the Sweet 16, Loyola played

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Loyola head coach Porter Moser cuts down the net after a 78-62 win against Kansas State in an NCAA Tournament regional final at Philips Arena in Atlanta on March 24, 2018. Some NU students journeyed to

its third straight close game. Up by one point in the final minute, junior guard Marques Townes hit a 3-point shot to ice the game, and the Ramblers eventually won by just a single point. In its first three games of the tournament, Loyola won by a combined 4 points.

The Ramblers then easily dispatched Kansas State in the Elite Eight to earn a berth in the Final Four, becoming just the fourth 11 seed to ever make

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it that far. Their run came to an end in San Antonio when they lost to Michigan, who lost to Villanova in the title game.

Weinberg freshman Jacob Neuman went to Gentile Arena for a viewing party during the Final Four.

Neuman said he didn’t start following the team » See LOYOLA, page 5

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NU needs to improve course, professor evaluations JOSHUA VARCIE

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At face value, Northwestern undergraduates appear to be receiving an elite university education. We attend a top-ranked institution, get high-paying jobs after graduation and often become leaders in our respective fields. But is the quality of education received by undergraduates at NU truly reflective of the University’s elite status? The answer is unclear, and the current approach to evaluating undergraduate learning at NU does little to answer this question. Instead, it simply provides University administrators with unreliable information that may lead them astray.

Let’s start with an examination of the flawed Course and Teacher evaluation system, the primary tool University officials use to “improve the learning experience at Northwestern.” It’s quite obvious that the CTEC system suffers significantly from selection bias. This occurs in many aspects of the system; however, most relevant is that CTECs only request information from those who have completed the course, ignoring the students who dropped the course before the end of the quarter. Presumably, students drop a course because they are dissatisfied with it, so the opinions of students who do not like a course are underrepresented in CTECs. In turn, this selection bias can artificially inflate CTEC ratings, especially for classes with high drop rates.

CTECs are also not generally used

appropriately by undergraduates. When asked to speak to a course’s attributes in the published comments, most undergraduates comment on the difficulty of the course, address the professor’s grading scale or give advice to other students, rather than providing feedback on the quality of instruction received. This misuse of the system, while helpful for those attempting to maximize their GPA while minimizing their effort, doesn’t improve the quality of instruction at NU. The fact that NU relies on this flawed system as its primary means of understanding undergraduate learning is reflective of how out-of-touch the University is with the undergraduate learning experience.

Furthermore, the University harms the undergraduate learning experience by failing to actually understand how classes are being taught. It is commonplace in the private sector, and even in primary and secondary education, for the performance of employees and the institution as a whole to be regularly evaluated. However, academic departments at NU are only required to be evaluated every seven to 10 years. Additionally, this process contains no system through which professors’ teaching methods in their undergraduate courses are actually observed in-person by members of the review committee. Instead, these department reviews rely on the flawed CTEC system to gain feedback on the quality of undergraduate instruction, resulting in little quality control; professors can teach the content they want in the way they want, regardless of how well these methods promote students’ learning and development.

This is problematic not only because it fails to hold professors accountable for their

teaching, but because it prevents professors from receiving valuable constructive criticism that can actually allow them to improve their performance. Of course, this is not to suggest that professors deliberately choose to do their jobs poorly, as many incredible undergraduate professors exist at NU. But the fact that administrators remain largely unaware of the performance of undergraduate professors in their classrooms is detrimental to the University’s very purpose of providing an elite-level education.

To begin, NU should require students who drop courses after the first week of classes to fill out CTECs for their dropped courses at the end of the quarter.

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There are several steps NU can take to mitigate these shortcomings in its approach to evaluating undergraduate learning. To begin, NU should require students who drop courses after the first week of classes to fill out CTECs for their dropped courses at the end of the quarter. Of course, students who have dropped courses are not able to give an accurate description of the course as a whole, but they can provide valuable answers to questions such as “Why did you drop the course?” or “To what extent was the quality

of instruction a factor in your dropping of the course?” Adopting such a mechanism in CTECs would help reduce the effect of the selection bias in the system, providing administrators with valuable information about why certain courses experience high drop rates and how this can be improved.

Furthermore, the University should require that all professors who teach an undergraduate course are observed at least once per year by a fellow faculty member or administrator in their department. Peer observers should provide constructive feedback to the faculty member on the quality of the instruction and how well the course meets the objectives stated in the Undergraduate Course Catalog.

Moreover, observers should report anonymous feedback to each academic department so that it can obtain an understanding of the common shortcomings in the department and work to address them. These evaluations should not be used for tenure decisions or granting pay raises, but rather for constructive feedback for the department.

Currently, NU administrators fail to understand the undergraduate learning experience because the methods used to review undergraduate education are inadequate. It is crucial for them to take positive steps to reverse this trend if the University wants to remain an elite institution not only for research, but also for learning.

Joshua Varcie is a Weinberg junior. He can be contacted at joshuavarcie2019@u.northwestern. edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, 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.

I visited South Korea and reaffirmed my cultural identity navigated the bus and subway system with our limited language skills and met up with the rest of our group with ease. Together, we traveled to some of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen, and I grew closer to my

MARISSA MARTINEZ

DAILY COLUMNIST

I’ve dreamed of visiting South Korea since I was 8 years old. But because of money, school and work issues, we were never able to make the trip back to my grandmother’s homeland. She had immigrated to the United States with a 6-month-old baby (my mother) at age 20, unable to return and see her family for 50 years.

So when my mother asked if I wanted to join her side of the family and explore the country for two weeks, I said “yes” before she could finish the question. I paid for my own plane ticket, rented travel books and learned hangul, the relatively easy Korean alphabet.

As I sat on the 14-hour flight, I itched with anxiety. I was concerned with not being able to speak Korean — in fact, besides my fluent grandmother, none of us could say more than 20 words. I had also never met any of my family members who live there, and I was afraid of doing or saying something wrong by accident and offending my grandmother in the process.

But when we landed, all my fears were replaced with excitement. My mother and I

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It’s true that I didn’t have a stereotypically Korean childhood. But being Korean is more than being able to eat spicy food or watch K-dramas for hours. I always knew that, but traveling to South Korea this spring break made me believe it more deeply.

younger cousins, who have always been like sisters to me.

While the trip was meant for my family to have fun and learn about our Korean roots, it was also planned so my grandmother could reconnect with her brother and cousins and pay respects at her parents’ graves. My grandmother was my age when she left her village behind to come to America and start a family of her own. While she doesn’t regret it,

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she did miss important moments in the lives of her relatives, like her younger brother’s marriage and her parents’ deaths. After I witnessed all the tearful reunions and formally bowed in front of my great-grandparents’ graves, my Korean-American heritage somehow made more sense.

Whenever I tell people I’m Korean, I’m met with conditional acceptance: Sure, but have you ever been there before? Can you speak the language? Do you celebrate all the holidays? These questions are asked as though my answering “yes” to them would suddenly make me more validly Asian.

None of my other racial identities are picked apart in this manner, even though biologically I’m equal parts of everything.

But because of my appearance, I have only been deemed “acceptably” black and Mexican.

It’s true that I didn’t have a stereotypically Korean childhood. I do eat Korean food, attend 100th Day parties, take my shoes off when I get home and partake in an intensive skin-care routine with my aunt. But because my multiracial household is filled with so many other cultures, all of them become minimized by nature.

Being Korean is more than being able to eat spicy food or watch K-dramas for hours — it’s about being able to respect and learn from your elders. I always knew that, but this trip made me believe it more deeply. Seeing

my incredibly strong grandmother be vulnerable, reconnect with her little brother and make some peace with her parents deepened my understanding of my family’s struggles.

Even 50 years later, the deep bond she and her remaining relatives had was almost tangible. Their unconditional generosity and love for each other taught me to honor and fight for the family I have, no matter the obstacles.

My uncles and aunts accepted me completely and never once made me feel like I wasn’t Korean enough, even though I look different from them. They never questioned my language skills or what holidays we celebrate at home. All they cared about was meeting us and showing us their love for their country.

I had to travel over 10,000 miles to strengthen my Korean identity. Along the way, many laughs, tears and peace signs were shared. Best of all, I gained a stronger sense of my own history that I can take with me back to America.

Marissa Martinez is a Medill freshman. She can be contacted at marissamartinez2021@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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ECONOMY From page 1

Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) told The Daily in November that people have become more comfortable on Howard Street after increased police presence.

In November, the Evanston Police Department vacated its Howard Street outpost, opening up the space for Cafe Coralie to move in and marking a newfound confidence in the area.

“Now we have a lot of exciting, wonderful, taxpaying, entertainment-generating, wonderful things for people to do down there,” Rainey said. “We don’t really need a police outpost any longer, and that is a very positive thing.”

The city also brought in $4.8 million in construction permit fees, with construction and renovation

GOLF

From page 1 sixth out of 26 teams in The Goodwin tournament in Palo Alto, Calif., this past weekend. Neither Miller nor Farnam competed in the tournament.

Miller last appeared in the Big Ten Match Play tournament in early February, losing two head-tohead matches and finishing all-square in a third.

Earlier this year, he tied for 50th out of 84 golfers at 9-over at the Windon Memorial and tied for 42nd

ACROSS CAMPUSES Teen admitted to all 20 colleges and universities he applied to for admission

When Michael Brown was in elementary school, he watched his mom earn a college degree that expanded her options and launched her career.

Now, the Lamar High School senior is ready for college himself -- and thanks to her example and a 4.68 GPA, he has more options than he ever imagined.

Brown, a 17-year-old from Houston’s Third Ward, applied to 20 colleges and universities, including four Ivy League schools. He’s been accepted by every one, with a full ride to each and more than $260,000 in scholarships.

“It’s surprising I was accepted to all of them,” Brown said Sunday, a few days after the last of the acceptance emails rolled in. But his principal and counselors are not surprised at all.

Beyond the sky-high GPA, Brown is involved in a long list of extracurricular activities, including

projects at Northwestern contributing to about 80 percent of the revenue. The Fountain Square construction and new Target store opening also played a role.

Zalmezak said the Target is “exceeding expectations” and that he hopes it will stabilize retail in downtown Evanston. He added that once construction on the new Fountain Square is complete, new businesses will want to open around that area.

“The Fountain Square redesign is going to be a great improvement to actually have an outdoor, urban experience,” Zalmezak said. “It’ll just be a nice place to linger.”

LOYOLA From page 3

out of 87 golfers with a 13-over performance at the Marquette Intercollegiate.

Farnam, in his first collegiate season, turned in a plus-seven performance in the UNCG/Grandover Collegiate tournament in October — tying for 17th out of 75 golfers — after tying for 50th along with Miller at the Windon Memorial. Farnam’s resume prior to his arrival at NU was highlighted by winning the 2015 Illinois Junior Amateur championship.

until they reached the Sweet 16, but was immediately struck by the underdog story.

“It’s really rare to have an 11 seed reach the Final Four. There was an icon as well, to give the team a national face,” he said. “Whenever an underdog has that much success, it’s fun to be a fan and jump on the bandwagon.”

Loyola also gained heaps of national attention due to its team chaplain, 98-year-old Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, who gave pep talks that mixed religion with a scouting report before each game.

Burton said he’ll definitely follow Loyola’s team next season, and that he’s excited for its future. The Ramblers will lose senior guard Ben Richardson but will return MVC player of the year Custer, MVC freshman of the year Cameron Krutwig and several other rotation players.

After the Ramblers’ season came to an end, Custer reflected back on the campaign.

“I think we inspired a city,” Custer said after the game. “We inspired a lot of people across the country. People can be proud to say that they went to Loyola. The word Loyola has a whole new meaning now. We proved to ourselves that we can play with anybody in the country.”

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debate. He volunteers. And the future political science major is politically involved -- most recently, he worked on Mayor Sylvester Turner’s election campaign.

Brown hasn’t made a final decision yet, but he has narrowed his list to seven schools. “In no particular order,” they are: Northwestern, Georgetown, Princeton, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard and Stanford.

Every time a message from a college popped up, Brown said, “I got nervous, because I don’t think anyone ever wants to be rejected.”

But every time, the schools said yes -- from Stanford to Princeton, Amherst to Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins to the University of Texas at Austin.

It’s not privilege or money that put Brown on the radar of so many selective schools.

“If you look strictly at statistics and demographics, then the cards were stacked against him,” said Lamar principal James McSwain. The teen’s success is an example, he said, of what can happen “when the forces line up the right way” -- when kids are given opportunity, support and good direction.

The Houston ISD student has benefited from several college prep programs, including EMERGE, which started in HISD and has now spread to Spring and Spring Branch ISDs. EMERGE offers workshops, guidance, college visits and test prep to help kids from underserved communities find their way to some of the best schools in the country.

Low-income kids have trouble finding their own way to top colleges, said EMERGE founder Rick Cruz. “The kids have a drive -- they have the desire -- but they don’t necessarily know how to access these types of opportunities.”

Brown says he got serious about college toward the end of his ninth-grade year.

“I got very serious about finding ways to get extra-involved in my community and be prepared for college admissions when I got older,” he said.

He “fell in love” with debate his sophomore year, got involved in political activism -- it was simply a matter of “finding what I enjoy doing and doing those things well.”

Brown gives his mom, Berthinia

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Loyola guard Ben Richardson celebrates after defeating Kansas State, 78-62, in an NCAA Tournament regional final at Philips Arena in Atlanta on March 24, 2018. Some Northwestern students journeyed to Loyola’s campus to cheer on the Ramblers during their tournament run.

Rutledge-Brown, much of the credit for his success.

“After she got divorced, she decided she needed to get a better job,” he said. Rutledge-Brown enrolled at Houston Community College and worked hard to become a licensed counselor when Brown was 8 or 9 years old.

She’s still showing him how to strive, Brown said; she now works two jobs as a chemical dependency counselor.

“The best lesson she taught me was through her actions and her working hard and dedicating herself -- just doing what she tells me I should do.”

Brown predicts that his final college decision will be between Harvard and Stanford. He’ll visit both campuses and make a decision by the May 1 deadline. But Clark, the EMERGE program director, doesn’t want him to rush.

“He could throw a dart at any of the schools and he’s going to be just fine, so there’s no pressure coming from me,” Clark said. “He has a track record of making great decisions. Now it’s up to Michael.” ­— Alyson Ward (Houston Chronicle/TNS)

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TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2018

Evanston residents march to protest gun violence

By SYD STONE

daily senior staffer @sydstone16

While Americans gathered in cities across the country on March 24 to protest gun violence and advocate for gun control in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, Evanston and other North Shore residents also took activism into their own hands.

Many locals ventured into downtown Chicago for the March for Our Lives, including Linda Tate (Weinberg ’76). Tate attended the event as a representative from Indivisible Evanston, one of more than 5,800 Indivisible groups nationwide that formed in the wake of the 2016 election to resist a conservative agenda on local, state and national levels.

Tate said volunteers with Indivisible Evanston traveled downtown with other residents and set

up voter registration booths in an effort to help the march’s student organizers.

She said the Evanston community should be concerned with gun violence, even if residents don’t think they are directly impacted. The city has seen its share of tragedy, including the recent shooting death of Evanston Township High School graduate Yakez Semark on Feb. 8.

“I’m a mom always first and foremost,” Tate said. “The idea of gun violence affecting one of my children is just frightening,” she said, adding that she thinks gun laws need to be stricter, especially after Parkland.

She said although local Evanston officials are doing a good job to ensure gun safety, residents still need to hold elected officials and police officers accountable for safe gun practices. Tate also said it is important for Evanston residents to understand their “white privilege” and view the gun control debate from different perspectives.

Tate said she thought the March for Our Lives

in Chicago was more diverse and positive in tone than other marches she has participated because the march was “not against something” but “for change.” She said thinking about the march made her emotional because it was “such a powerful experience.”

Evanston resident Frank Koppelman organized a local march in Evanston for residents of The Mather, a senior living community. He said around 85 Mather residents marched from their location at 425 Davis St. to Fountain Square, with more people joining in the march along the way.

Once at Fountain Square, he said there was a rally where residents gave speeches and led chants.

“We were very successful,” Koppelman said.

“The thing we can do is keep out there protesting with more marches, more parades, more rallies and writing our legislators to encourage them requesting their support.”

Jacki Krashin, a Wilmette resident who participated in a local march, said gun control has

always been an important issue for her.

Krashin is involved with the Evanston chapter of Moms Demand Action, a group which advocates for common-sense gun reform. As a parent of elementary-school-age children herself, she said the Parkland shooting was “so upsetting,” and compelled her to further advocate for change.

Although she is a new member of Moms Demand Action, Krashin said she has already begun to see increased interest in the group since the Parkland shooting.

“I just started recently and went to the meeting in Evanston,” she said. “Normally there are 10 people and there were like 50 people there.”

Tate called the march “powerful,” and said it is just the beginning of a larger movement.

Koppelman echoed Tate’s sentiments saying, “This is going to be a long hard battle (and is) not going to be over in a month or two months.” sydneystone2020@u.northwestern.edu

Source: Linda Tate

Indivisible Evanston volunteers at the Davis Street CTA station. Volunteers helped with voter registration at the March for Our Lives in downtown Chicago.

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NU students participate in March for Our Lives

By JONAH DYLAN

daily senior staffer @thejonahdylan

Medill senior Stephanie Bernstein is from Plantation, Florida, just a 30-minute drive from nearby Parkland, Florida. When a gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Feb. 14, Bernstein wanted to take action.

“When the shooting happened on Feb. 14, it just hit way too close to home to just kind of sit here and sulk,” she said.

Bernstein, along with other Northwestern students, participated in the March for Our Lives on Saturday.

The march was a student-led demonstration held in cities around the country to protest gun violence in the wake of the Parkland shooting.

On March 14, the one-month anniversary of the shooting, hundreds of NU community members

participated in a walkout to advocate for gun reform.

Later that day, a report of a person with a gun on the Evanston campus resulted in a lockdown. While the report was later determined to be a hoax, many students recounted the day as a traumatizing experience.

“I personally feel like I can’t afford to wait until someone does something,” Bernstein said. “Given the scare, albeit it was a hoax, it was a very real scare and a very real, frightening threat on that day that this could have happened at Northwestern, and we could’ve been another school on people’s posters.”

Communication freshman Valen-Marie Santos, who helped organize the March 14 walkout, attended the March for Our Lives event in Parkland. Hearing members of the community speak, she said, gave her hope that change will come soon.

“Hearing those words coming out their mouths, hearing their actual experiences and how this really directly affected them and how they can take all the trauma, all the frustration and all the grief and turn it

Source: Maddie Gaines:

A sign outside of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

into words of inspiration and lead something like this is just incredible,” she said.

Medill junior Danny Cooper, who also helped organize the walkout, attended the flagship March for Our Lives event in Washington, D.C. According to NBC News, organizers estimated that more than 800,000 people attended the Washington event, which featured performances and speeches from students and celebrities.

Cooper, a former Daily staffer, said he was inspired by the speakers and the fact that high school students, especially those from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, had mobilized so quickly to fight for gun reform.

“If they’re able to do that a month after their friends were killed next to them, why should we not do everything we can to be as supportive of the movement as possible, so that no one has to ever go through anything like this again?” Cooper said. “To actually hear them speak in person was pretty amazing.”

Northwestern Stands with Marjory Stoneman Douglas, a Facebook page that has more than 500 likes, organized the walkout on March 14. Bernstein, Santos and Cooper are all members of the group and said they are planning an event for April 20, which will be the 19th anniversary of the Columbine school shooting.

The group is also trying to reschedule a vigil that had been planned for March 14 but was canceled due to the gun scare. Santos said it’s important to keep talking about these issues moving forward.

“With these kinds of things, it’s very easy to get outraged and have all these events and really do something at the beginning right when the topic is fresh and something has just happened,” Santos said. “But I think the hard part, the part that I hope succeeds, is the persistence to keep addressing this issue even as the tragedy gets further and further away.” jonahdylan2020@u.northwestern.edu

Source: Maddie Gaines Northwestern students Farrah Sklar (left), Maddie Gaines (center) and Valen-Marie Santos, who helped organize Northwestern Stands With Marjory Stoneman Douglas, attend the March for our Lives event in Parkland, Florida. Several NU students participated in marches across the country on Saturday to protest gun violence in the wake of the Feb. 14 shooting in Parkland.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2018

Viet Nom Nom opens quarter-long Norris kiosk

By ALAN PEREZ

daily senior staffer @_perezalan_

Following storefronts and pop-ups by restaurants including Frontera Fresco and The Purple Pig, yet another local eatery will set up shop on the Evanston campus, feeding an effort by Northwestern Dining to bring students fresh food from nearby businesses.

Local restaurant Viet Nom Nom opened a kiosk Monday on the ground floor of Norris University Center, where it will operate as a quarter-long popup restaurant serving Vietnamese-inspired dishes.

The project is part of a larger strategy by NU Dining to feature local establishments that follow food trends, said Buzz Doyle, general manager of retail dining operations.

“We wanted to partner with some local businesses that we can bring in to Norris to make a better offering to the students of what our local community is like around us,” he said. “Viet Nom Nom was a great partner to start that with.”

While the change gives students better access to food they already enjoy, it also allows Northwestern to feature a startup created by a member of the “Northwestern family,” Doyle said.

Owners Alan Moy and Noah Bleicher (Kellogg ’15) began developing the business when Bleicher was still a graduate student. The two have since moved from offering “grab and go” options in the Kellogg School of Management to operating out of several campus locations and an Evanston restaurant.

The Norris kiosk marks a new milestone for the business, which Moy said he hopes to eventually expand throughout the Chicago area. For now, however, Moy said he enjoys his partnership with the NU community.

“We’re doing it with the right partners, and we’re doing it with the right community,” he said. “This is everything you could dream of and more when it comes to familiar faces, really good community

NU alumnus Mike Greenberg starts new ESPN morning show

Mike Greenberg (Medill ’89) launched ESPN’s new morning show “Get Up!” on Monday, competing against shows like NBC’s “Today” show and ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

The show, which also features Michelle Beadle and Jalen Rose, is a live, three-hour daily show that features sports news, opinion and analysis. Airing from 7-10 a.m. EST, the show

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Viet Nom Nom in Norris University Center. The Norris kiosk, which opened Monday, will serve pho, banh mi sandwiches and “grab and go” food.

partners and good operational partners.”

Communication sophomore Zury Cutler, who frequents the downtown store location, said he’s likely to visit the new kiosk because he eats from Norris restaurants often.

Its location is convenient for students, he added, and the menu is inclusive of different diet options.

“I’m a big fan of also that Viet Nom Nom has a lot of really good vegetarian options,” he said. “It’s really good because that tends to be lacking in a lot of restaurants in Evanston and also on campus.

Viet Nom Nom will provide some good variety for

vegetarians on campus.”

The menu offers healthy, tasty and high-quality food that fits both the business’ “mantra” and food trends enjoyed by students, Moy said. In addition to salads, peanut noodles and spring rolls that are made fresh daily, the kiosk will offer pho and banh mi sandwiches with several protein options like chicken, pork and tofu. Moy said he hopes to eventually bring new options like bubble tea and smoothies.

The kiosk is open on weekdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., but Moy said he hopes to expand those hours. Meanwhile, Viet Nom Nom’s kiosk is a

is filmed at a new studio in New York City, according to a news release.

“Sports fans start their days with sports and with ESPN,” the show’s executive producer, Bill Wolff, said in the release. “Our programming is based on two tenets — personality and authority.

In both areas Michelle, Greeny, and Jalen are stars, which is why we’re so excited for ‘Get Up!’” Greenberg previously co-hosted ESPN Radio’s “Mike & Mike” alongside Mike Golic from 2000 to 2017. He first launched his career at ESPN in 1996 as an ESPNews anchor and later anchored “SportsCenter” as well. He was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters’ Broadcasting Hall of Fame and

Northwestern’s Medill Hall of Achievement in 2016.

Aside from being a journalist, Greenberg is also a non-fiction best-selling author of “Why My Wife Thinks I’m an Idiot” and “Mike & Mike’s Rules for Sports and Life.” He has also written two fiction novels, “All You Could Ask For” and “My Father’s Wives.”

Beadle is currently the full-time host of “NBA Countdown” on ABC and ESPN and former co-host of “SportsNation.” Jalen Rose has co-hosted ESPN Radio’s “Jalen & Jacoby” since 2015.

welcome addition for Norris executive director Jeremy Schenk, who said he has received positive feedback about the retail dining changes, such as made-to-order pizza station The Kiln and other pop-ups.

“We’re really trying to look at how do we meet those growing and changing needs of what our students are wanting,” he said. “We know that means we need to be fresh in ideas and fresh in concepts and that we are constantly being innovative in our approach.”

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TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2018

Evanston Community Foundation hires new development officer

The Evanston Community Foundation hired Rebecca Parmet as the foundation’s new development officer, according to a Monday news release.

Parmet previously worked at The Rotary Foundation, where she served on a team that

Chicago/Sheridan construction project to begin final phase soon

The Chicago Avenue/Sheridan Road Corridor Project will begin its final phase of construction next week with water main installation north of Lincoln Street, according to a March 27 news release.

The release said the project will improve traffic flow and safety for pedestrians and bicyclists in downtown Evanston and on the

NATIONAL NEWS Democrats think Parkland-fueled activism can neutralize the NRA WASHINGTON — Sean Casten remembers that shortly after he announced his campaign for Congress last year, a Democratic friend told him he had better avoid talking about gun control or risk an “onslaught” from the National Rifle Association.

He’s ignoring the advice.

“Thank you, thank you, thank you to the kids in Parkland,” said Casten, now the Democratic nominee in a battleground suburban Chicago House race who — in a break from his party’s recent past — supports an assaultweapons ban.

“Politically, I feel extremely fortunate that they basically made it possible for someone like me to say I’ll be honest and open with my positions and can still fend this off,” he said.

Last month’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — and the outspoken activism of its surviving students

supports global efforts for legacy gifts. She was also a board member of Caring Outreach by Parents in Evanston and served as a tutor for Books and Breakfast at Kingsley Elementary School, according to the release.

For the past four years, Parmet worked with Curt’s Café in several capacities, including as the general manager for the women’s empowerment program. While there, she increased the cafe’s fundraising capacity through grant writing and donor cultivation, and she wrote the workforce and life skills training curriculum

focused on student leadership.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in family community services from Michigan State University and a master’s degree in public administration from Roosevelt University.

“Rebecca brings with her a great deal of experience, enthusiasm and love for Evanston,” ECF’s director of philanthropy and communications, Jessi Donaldson, said in the release.

“We are so excited to welcome her to ECF.”

Northwestern campus.

Plote Construction, Inc., the contractor for the project, will replace the existing water main in two stages. Meanwhile, temporary traffic staging and detour setup will be posted along the route while it undergoes construction, according to the release.

The first stage of construction on the water main will last from April 9 to May 22. The project will result in two-way traffic on Sheridan Road between Lincoln Street and Central Street, shifting traffic to the east side of the roadway.

The second stage will last from April 25 and June 7, causing southbound vehicles traveling

on Sheridan Road between Ridge Avenue and Ingleside Place to be redirected to use Ridge Avenue from Isabella Street to Central Street, according to the release.

In April 2017, the city kicked off the federally and locally funded improvement project as part of a continuous effort to update the roadway system. After completing the water main installation, the road will be “patched in preparation for full-width roadway construction.” The construction is slated for late June, according to the release.

— has produced a once unthinkable shift in the public’s view of gun control, according to an array of polls. And now, Democratic candidates such as Casten are racing to take advantage, convinced they can harness the boom in enthusiasm for new gun laws to grow their campaigns and defeat their Republican opponents.

Already, they’ve used the issue to raise money and recruit volunteers. They’ve been emboldened in their agenda, proposing fartherreaching legislation.

In some cases, the candidates have even used the issue in early campaign ads against their opponents.

“It’s really clear gun safety has emerged as a defining issue for the 2018 midterms,” said Isabella James, political director for Giffords, a gun-control advocacy group that takes its name from former Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords, who in 2011 survived a gunshot wound to the head.

Even recently, most Democratic candidates have hesitated to make gun control a primary issue in their campaigns. Measures such as

expanding background checks benefited from broad public support, but a small and dedicated group of opponents — often mobilized by the NRA — often proved more politically influential.

Democratic candidates are showing less restraint now. In one key Colorado House district, for example, Democratic candidate Jason Crow used the first digital ads of his campaign to criticize GOP Rep. Mike Coffman, accusing him of taking money from the gun lobby while offering nothing more than “thoughts and prayers” to victims.

Another Democratic candidate, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell in Florida’s 26th Congressional District, highlighted her father’s death by gunshot in her own first political ad last week, turning the tragedy into a call for stricter gun control.

A raft of other Democrats, including California contenders such as Katie Porter in Orange County, have asked supporters to sign online petitions to “demand action” on gun laws.

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Sheridan Road under construction earlier this year.

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ads is primarily to attract the support of guncontrol activists, who can provide crucial on-the-ground enthusiasm and resources for campaigns. That’s especially true for Crow and Macarsel-Powell, both of whom face primaries before they can move on to the general election.

“It’s more just using it as a tool to bring new names and new volunteers and new donors into campaigns,” said Ben Pollara, a Miamibased Democratic strategist. “Because other than Donald Trump, it is the single greatest rallying cry for Democrats right now.”

Polls have shown a marked increase in support for gun control since the Stoneman Douglas shootings. An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll from March found that 69 percent of Americans supported stricter gun laws, an eight-point increase since October. Democrats familiar with the party’s internal polling say they’ve seen a similar bump in support. ­— Alex Roarty (McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS)

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SOFTBALL From page 12

St. John’s, something it hadn’t done since May 11, 2012, against Illinois. The Cats stole 14 bases this weekend and now rank third in the NCAA with 3.15 steals per game.

NU was also strong defensively, and sophomore pitcher Morgan Newport said the team did a good job of backing her up on the mound this weekend.

“My defense behind me is always so strong.

They do such a great job,” Newport said. “My job is to pound the zone. I’m going to roll them ground balls, and they’re going to make the plays, and they really did that this weekend. I’m really thankful for them.”

Newport picked up her second and third wins of the season this weekend. She came on in relief

TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2018 to pitch four scoreless innings against San Diego State on Friday. She said that facing the Aztecs for a second time helped her to exploit their weaknesses by throwing the right pitches at the right time to adjust to their tendencies.

Despite the team’s record this weekend, Drohan thinks that games against tough competition will help them grow into an experienced team with only two weekends until conference play begins.

“We’re trying to teach our team, especially our freshman, the pace of the game,” Drohan said.

“We love coming out to this tournament because there are so many fans. And to play Tennessee on a Saturday afternoon in the middle of the park … it’s a great year for our freshman and for our team. It’s why we play the game.” andrewgolden2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Coach Spencer Allen said he was impressed with pitching performances from Lavelle and fellow freshman Jack Pagliarini, who pitched 7.2 innings on Sunday and struck out seven batters.

Nonetheless, to win close games, Allen said the team needs to focus on putting the ball in play and executing with runners in scoring position.

“We’ve played solid baseball,” Allen said.

“The biggest takeaways are we have to get the big hit, make the play, and we’re just not quite finishing games.”

Through six conference games last season, the Cats held a 2-4 record, only marginally better than their 1-5 mark through the same time frame this season. That team went on

MEN’S TENNIS From page 12

Brookes 6-0 and its second pair recording a 6-4 victory.

Three singles matches also went in favor of the Hawkeyes, with wins at the No. 3, 4 and 5 seeds. Brookes and fellow freshman AJ Joshi had their matches go unfinished, despite both leading in their third sets.

The lone victor against the Hawkeyes, sophomore Dominik Starý, provided a silver lining for the team while occupying the No. 1

a spirited run to end the season, winning seven of its last nine regular season conference games before upsetting its way to the Big Ten Tournament championship game.

Claeys said this year’s team is in a better situation than the previous one, and that they need to not panic going forward. He added that if a few things had gone differently in tight scenarios, the Cats could easily have won three or four more games.

“Last year, I feel like in our losses we were getting blown out by teams, we weren’t putting together competitive, full-inning games,” Claeys said. “This year, you look at our losses, they’re good games against good teams.”

NU will face the reeling Illinois-Chicago Flames, who have lost their last five games, on Tuesday. ryanw@u.northwestern.edu spot in the Cats’ lineup. Starý defeated Iowa’s Piotr Smietana 6-3, 6-4 in straight sets.

Brookes, who holds the No. 2 spot for the team, has also put up impressive performances recently despite his unfinished match Sunday. He held a 4-0 record in his first four matches of the dual season.

With seven matches remaining before the end of the season — all against conference competition — NU will need a strong finish to equal last season’s 7-4 Big Ten record. alisonalbelda2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Morgan Nelson comes in to score a run. The Cats scored 16 of those across four games, but 12 came in a single game as the offense turned in an inconsistent performance.

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Sheila Nesselbush races for a ball alongside a defender. The senior midfielder has tallied 16 points during the Wildcats’ four-game winning streak.

No. 9 Northwestern came into a March 17 matchup against then-No. 4 North Carolina looking for an upset.

The Wildcats (9-3, 2-0 Big Ten) had rolled to a 20-9 win over Marquette (7-4) a week earlier and were preparing for their fourth game in a six-game home stretch.

NU hadn’t beaten the Tar Heels (8-3) since 2014, and for an instant, it looked like 2018 might be the year that changed.

The teams traded punches through the first half, and when a goal from senior attacker Claire Quinn gave the Cats an 11-10 lead with 22:41 left in the second, the momentum was in their favor.

But North Carolina’s offense got hot at the right time, and the Tar Heels scored five straight goals late in the second half to prevent an upset and seal an 18-13 win.

Since that loss, NU has won four straight games, including three against ranked opponents.

“We didn’t have our best performance last game (against North Carolina),” coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said after the Cats beat Michigan on March 23 to start their win streak. “We wanted to just make sure

that we did all the little things and played together and played for each other.”

NU’s 16-7 win against the Wolverines (5-7, 1-2) was its first in Big Ten play this season. Senior midfielder Sheila Nesselbush finished with three goals, while senior attacker Shelby Fredericks added three assists, two draw controls and two ground balls.

The Cats closed their home stretch with a 14-10 win over No. 11 Syracuse (7-5) on March 26. Nesselbush scored a career-high five goals and one assist, and Fredericks matched her season high with 13 draw controls.

“We’ve really been trying to focus on our mentality,” Nesselbush told the Big Ten Network after the March 26 win.

“We’re looking at being champions in each moment, so it wasn’t going our way at the beginning, but we just let that go and focused on the moments in the present.”

NU then traveled on March 30 for its first road trip since February to face then-No. 23 Johns Hopkins. The Cats took home an 11-10 win over the Blue Jays (7-5, 0-3) to stay undefeated in Big Ten play.

NU was down 10-7 with just over 13 minutes left to play, but rallied to score four straight unanswered goals to end the game.

A strong defensive performance sealed the

BASEBALL

win, as redshirt freshman goalkeeper Julie Krupnick made a career-high 14 saves.

The Cats wrapped up their spring break schedule with a road matchup against then-No. 6 Penn on April 1. NU opened the game on a high note, scoring six straight goals to take an 8-2 lead with just over five minutes left in the first half.

While the Cats never trailed during the game, the Quakers (8-2) found their offensive rhythm near the end of the second half. Down 11-6 with 14:31 to play, Penn scored five consecutive goals to tie the game at 11 and send it to overtime.

It seemed as though, two weeks after the North Carolina loss, another five-goal run was going to doom the Cats. But after a scoreless first overtime period, junior attacker Selena Lasota found the back of the net in double overtime for the game winner, her fourth goal of the game and her 30th of the season.

The upset win against Penn pushed the Cats back into the Top 10 for the first time since the loss to North Carolina. “(It was a) huge week for us,” Lasota said after Sunday’s win. “Overall, just the team playing together as a unit, I think we really made steps forward this spring break.” ellabrockway2021@u.northwestern.edu

SOFTBALL

NU struggling in tight contests Surging Wildcats keep

By RYAN WANGMAN

daily senior staffer @ryanwangman

After shaky performances in extra inning affairs throughout the past month, Northwestern has raised questions over its readiness for clutch play in crunch-time situations.

Three extra frame defeats in conference play have left the Wildcats (8-14, 1-5 Big Ten) tied for last in the conference and losers of seven of their last eight games. In that eightgame stretch, NU scored more than 5 runs just once: 7 in a loss to a lowly Chicago State team that had fallen in 15 consecutive contests before taking down the Cats.

NU played in four extra inning games last season, splitting the contests, but lost all three of those situations this year. In games over the past month decided by 1 run, the Cats have floundered, going 0-5.

Still, there are bright spots for the team.

In the most recent series against Maryland, (14-14, 2-1) where NU took one of three, senior catcher Jack Claeys went 5-for-12, tallying 4 RBIs and only striking out once. In a 10-inning loss against the Terrapins on Saturday, Claeys had a lights-out performance, with 2 home runs in a game for the first time in his collegiate career.

In that game, Claeys said he felt “locked in” against Maryland’s left-handed starting pitcher Tyler Blohm, getting into hitter-friendly counts before he hit his home runs.

Regardless, he said although he definitely enjoyed his individual performance, he would sacrifice it for a conference win.

“Especially in Big Ten games, those team wins are more important than individual performances,” Claeys said. “We just need to get the ball rolling here and come up with some more clutch hits later in

the game.”

Freshman left-handed pitcher Quinn Lavelle dominated in the team’s sole win against the Terrapins, pitching a complete game shutout and lowering his ERA on the season to 2.10. In his time on the mound, Lavelle struck out eight batters and only gave up four hits and one walk.

Lavelle, who netted Big Ten Pitcher of the Week for his outing, is the first NU pitcher to earn that distinction since Brandon Magallones in May 2015. Lavelle said the quality start gave him confidence going forward, and that he’s approached each at bat knowing every collegiate hitter can be dangerous.

“When you’re at this level, all these guys were the best hitters on their high school team,” Lavelle said.

“There’s almost zero guys that are a for sure out. But I think I have adjusted pretty well, just not overlooking anyone.” » See BASEBALL, page 10

rolling, top Nebraska

By ANDREW GOLDEN

the daily northwestern @andrewcgolden

Northwestern’s offense struggled to find its rhythm until the final game of the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in Cathedral City, California this weekend, finishing the tournament 2-2.

Friday, the Wildcats (7-6) didn’t score through the first seven innings against San Diego State, a team they had beaten in extra innings earlier in the season. They had the same result against the Aztecs this time around, scoring three runs in the eighth inning to win their opening game.

Following the win, NU lost twice, scoring just one run on seven hits in two games against Long Beach State and No. 11 Tennessee. On the final day of the tournament, the Cats burst out of their hitting slump, beating St. John’s 12-3 in five innings.

Senior center fielder Sabrina Rabin said that NU needs to be bolder in the

batter’s box from the beginning of the game to score more.

“We really just need to come out being aggressive (when) hitting,” Rabin said Sunday. “Just make sure we’re hitting as a team — like today, we did a much better job just scoring runs.”

Despite the inconsistent hitting this weekend, coach Kate Drohan said the Cats did a good job getting players on base and stealing bases, but they didn’t execute to get those runners home. Both Drohan and Rabin agreed that speed is central to the team, but Drohan said they have to do more than just get runners on base.

“Our speed was key to our offense in our wins, and that’s going to be the backbone of our offense,” Drohan said.

“But for our team to take the next step, we need to come up with some timely hits to score these runners.”

NU tied the school record with eight steals in Sunday’s game against » See SOFTBALL, page 10

MEN’S TENNIS

Wildcats lose 2 of 3 matches during break

By ALISON ALBELDA

daily senior staffer

Daily file photo by Lauren Duquette

Jack Claeys frames a pitch. The senior catcher cranked 2 home runs in a game against Maryland over the weekend.

Things have been tumultuous for Northwestern during the absence of head coach Arvid Swan as the team has failed so far to get back to .500.

Associate head coach Chris Klingemann has assumed head coaching duties since Swan began a personal leave of absence in early March.

The Wildcats (7-11, 2-2 Big Ten) have won three of their past six matches, with two victories against fellow conference foes, but remain well off the pace set by last year’s

22-11 team.

Every loss in the past month has been a blowout. No. 6 Illinois and Texas Tech each dominated NU in 4-0 wins, and Iowa cruised to a 4-1 victory as well.

W ins against Indiana and Nebraska are reminiscent of last year’s success. That Cats team also emerged victorious against the Hawkeyes, however, something this roster could not pull off Sunday.

Iowa first captured the doubles point, with its top pair defeating NU’s junior-freshman combo of Michael Lorenzini and Nick » See MEN’S TENNIS, page 10