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Feinberg prof. files lawsuit against NU Prof. alleges breach of contract for employment By AMY LI
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After 28 years of employment at NU, Feinberg professor and renowned neurologist Teepu Siddique filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University, alleging a “deliberate” attempt to force him out of the work for which he was hired, in a breach of contract. The suit names the chair of the department of neurology, Dimitri Krainc, vice president of Medical Affairs Eric Neilson, Northwestern University, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, the Feinberg School of Medicine, and Northwestern Medical Group — formerly known as Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation — as defendants. Siddique specializes in disorders of neurodegeneration and pioneered the first application of molecular genetics to ALS, developing a robust model that was cited in over 1600 scientific publications, according to the complaint. Siddique signed a contract of employment from Northwestern Medical Group in 1990, to become effective
in 1991, the suit says. Since then, he has assumed the roles as an associate professor of neurology, the neurology department’s director of research, and the director of the neuromuscular disorders program, and has had direct supervision of the Les Turner ASL Foundation. The complaint, filed July 2, alleges that Northwestern Medical Group, in concert with its co-defendants, has “undertaken and committed multiple, intentional, deliberate and malicious violations of the contract which remains in full force and effect.” These alleged breaches of contract include seeking the removal of Siddique from the direct supervision of the Neuromuscular Disorders program under the LES Turner Lois Insolia ALS Clinic, the ALS research program and the department’s muscle histochemical laboratory. The complaint alleges Krainc attempted to undermine Siddique’s reputation by announcing at a 2016 faculty and staff meeting — in the presence of Neilson and the head of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Dean M. Harrison — that Siddique had been put “out to pasture.” The complaint also alleges » See LAWSUIT, page 6
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Residents tried forty different beers and ciders at the Evanston Oktoberfest. For the fifth year, hundreds of people came to the popular festival.
Evanston hosts annual Oktoberfest For the fifth year, huge crowds turn out for weekend festivities By MAX PAIK
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Over a thousand people crowded into the intersection at Oak Avenue and University Place on Sunday to celebrate
Oktoberfest by drinking beer and viewing Evanston’s first Maker’s Market, among other activities. Downtown Evanston, a nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting Evanston’s business district, has hosted the event for the past five
years. This year’s festival went all afternoon, from noon to 6 p.m. Tickets were available for $35 and included access to live music, dancing and craft beers and ciders from all around the North Shore. For non-drinkers, $15 dollar tickets were also available. Children under twelve
got in free. Annie Coakley, Downtown Evanston’s Executive Director, said Oktoberfest is a major fundraiser for other events and initiatives in Evanston. This year, much of the funds will go toward » See OKTOBERFEST, page 6
Organization leads NU defeats Michigan in shootout trip on racial justice FIELD HOCKEY
For first time in four years, Cats come out on top as defense leads way By GREG SVIRNOVSKIY
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Picture David and Goliath, a long-awaited matchup between two of field hockey’s best teams. In some respects, Northwestern — a team that entered the day on a seven game winning streak — walked in as the underdog. Heading into Sunday’s game, the Cats (10-2, 2-0 Big Ten) had lost seven straight against Michigan,(6-3, 1-1) falling to the Wolverines five times in the last two seasons alone. No current player on NU had ever beaten Michigan. But with top-five NCAA scoring threats Bente Baekers and Kirsten Mansfield, the Cats were Michaelangelo’s David, standing strong and tall in the face of fate. David. However, Michigan was also battle-tested. The Wolverines entered play Sunday on a five game winning streak, having
Residents travel to Alabama with Dear Evanston By KALEN LUCIANO
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Mackenzie Keegan hits the ball. The junior midfielder has played in every game this season, starting three times.
lost only once in Big Ten play in the last two seasons, ending NU’s season last year in the first round of the Big Ten tournament.
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Goliath. The result — an epic matchup that lived up to the hype. It featured plenty of tackles
shouts for green cards, incredible saves, and in the end, a tightly contested 1-0 victory » See FIELD HOCKEY, page 6
Nearly 100 Evanston residents boarded busses to take “An Uncomfortable Journey” to Montgomery, Alabama in order to learn about and confront the history of racial injustice in the United States. During the trip, which ran from Sept. 13 to Sept. 15, they visited the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration and National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Organized by Dear Evanston, a community activism organization, and sponsored by Evanston Cradle to Career, Evanston Community Foundation and the Evanston/ North Shore Branch NAACP, the trip sought to help visitors “confront the past and commit to challenging racial injustice today,” said the organization’s co-founder Nina Kavin.
Kavin said she organized the trip to work toward Dear Evanston’s goals of building bridges and promoting racial equity. The Legacy Museum displays the history of slavery, racial segregation and the marginalization of people of color, and the memorial recognizes enslaved black people and people terrorized by racial inequalities. “I wanted this to be a trip where white people could bear witness to the brutality that was committed against African Americans,” Kavin said. “For African-American people, this is probably a journey of witnessing their ancestral history. As a group, we all had a unique experience.” When Kimberly HolmesRoss, one of the members on the organizing team, heard about the trip, she said she thought it was important but worried it wouldn’t be accessible to community members of all backgrounds because of either lack of knowledge or funds. Holmes-Ross, who works as the Community Engagement Coordinator for Evanston Cradle to Career, used her experience to » See ALABAMA, page 6
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Willard House Museum commemorates milestone By ANDREW ROWAN
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The Frances Willard House Museum commemorated the social reformer’s 180th birthday Sunday with an open house, where it showcased a selection of some of its thousands of original artifacts. The museum is dedicated to telling the whole story of Frances Willard, said museum director Lori Osborne. She said acknowledging where Willard has fallen short “is empowering to people today, because no one is perfect.” Frances Willard, by 1980, “was the second most well-known and influential woman in the world after Queen Victoria,” according to the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. NU Archivist Janet Olson said Willard was truly a leader in all aspects: from publishing papers on how to run a meeting to how to get published in a newspaper. Willard was most known for her leadership in the temperance and women’s suffrage movements. When the Evanston College for Ladies merged with Northwestern University in 1873, Willard became Dean of Women of the Women’s College at Northwestern University. When she resigned after disagreements with the University president one year later, she began advocating for the temperance union. The museum currently sees about 40 visitors per month during its regular tour hours on Sunday
POLICE BLOTTER Clothes taken from vehicle at JewelOsco A 39-year-old man from Chicago reported a theft from his vehicle around 1 p.m. on Thursday, Evanston police said. The man said the theft took place sometime between Sept. 12 at 12 p.m. and Sept. 25 at 12 a.m.
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Visitors to the Frances Willard House Museum speak with museum staff. On Sunday, the museum hosted an open house to commemorate the social leader’s 180th birthday.
from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Osborne said. Museum Operations Manager Cate LiaBraaten said Willard’s story is complex, which the museum tries to address through exhibits like “Truth Telling: Frances Willard and Ida B. Wells.” “It’s a small museum but we’re doing big things here,” Liabraaten said.“We’re celebrating Willard’s leadership, but also acknowledging blind spots in
her leadership too.” Located at 1730 Chicago Ave., Willard’s house “served as an informal national headquarters for the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and a boarding house for its workers,” according to its website. The Center for Women’s History and Leadership is the non-profit that manages the museum,
The items stolen from his vehicle consisted of two pairs of shorts, two pairs of socks, five to six pairs of underwear and five or six designer T-shirts. The vehicle, a 2004 Hyundai, was parked in the Jewel-Osco parking lot at 2485 Howard St., Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said. Glew said that the means of entry are unknown but the door’s key locks were loose. There is no offender information, Glew said.
Burglary attempted on Seward Street
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A 51-year-old Evanston woman reported an attempted burglary at 12:41 p.m. on Thursday. She told police upon arrival that an unknown individual was trying to gain access to the house while she was inside but did not enter, and fled the scene before police arrived. The individual attempted to open the east door to the single-family residence, located in the 1400
library, and archive within the house, which is a National Historic Place. “Everything in this house is original,” said tour guide Kathleen Koehnke. Willard’s friend and personal secretary Anna Gordon recognized the importance of preservation of the space after Willard died in 1898, said Koehnke. The house was the first museum in the country dedicated solely to a woman. Recently, the Evanston Bicycle Club provided a grant to the museum for a bike rack in the backyard. Willard learned to ride a bike at age 53 as a way of combating her health decline. One of her bikes, named “Gladys” — because riding it made Willard glad — was restored several years ago with another grant from the Evanston Bicycle Club. Within the house, the rooms have been restored to look like their original purposes. The office, which unofficially served as the WCTU headquarters in the 1890s, has several artifacts such as typewriters, pamphlets, and dictaphones, tour guide Fiona Maxwell said. The museum has worked with different classes at both Northwestern and Loyola University Chicago, in addition to receiving residents from Northwestern’s Willard Residential College who are interested in the woman that the hall is named after. Looking forward, the museum hopes more locals will come experience a piece of U.S. history in Evanston. andrewrowan2023@u.northwestern.edu block of Seward Street, Glew said. The woman described the man as being between 20- and 29-years-old, between 5’9” and 6’1”, and having a slim build. He was wearing a white T-shirt, grey pants and black shoes. She did not see where he fled. Glew said that there is currently no one in custody and there is no more information. — Natalie Chun
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Students reflect on global protests By JAMES POLLARD
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Mariana Zárate, an international student from Venezuela, said being unable to participate in protests at home while being in the U.S. left her with a feeling of guilt. “When you’re far and there’s demonstrations going on home, you feel very guilty,” she said. “And you want to be doing something and giving something to the country but you’re here living this reality.” In Venezuela, opposition leader Juan Guaidó, head of the National Assembly, declared himself the interim president on Jan. 23, less than two weeks after President Nícolas Maduro took office despite tens of thousands of protestors calling his election unconstitutional. Over the summer, hundreds protested in front of the United Nations office in the capital city of Caracas, and Guaidó called for nationwide protests against Maduro’s Independence Day military parade. Zárate spent five weeks at her home in Caracas interning at a non-governmental organization connecting families with nutritionists and medicine. The Weinberg sophomore said she has friends who have been jailed after demonstrations. Friends of friends have gotten killed, she added. This summer, she said demonstrations were not as frequent as they’d been the previous two years, and she described a “weird hopelessness” setting in. In 2018, only 15 students from Venezuela were enrolled at Northwestern. Zárate said the distance from her homeland is especially difficult when the people around her are not aware of what’s happening. While informing people is one way to help, she said that there are many fundraising pages for medicines, food and school supplies — Zárate assisted a Chicago group that collected medical supplies for Venezuelans. “But still, you know, you do what you can,” she said. Over 10,000 miles west across the Pacific Ocean, another political movement was brewing. In February, Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam introduced an extradition bill that would allow the
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Protesters set up road blocks on Nathan Road, a busy main street, outside the Mong Kok police station in Hong Kong, on September 8, 2019.
government to transfer criminal cases to Hong Kong and mainland China. Protesters saw it as a loophole to allow mainland officials to arrest political dissenters, an imposition on their democratic rights, and a bill that would fundamentally undermine the autonomy that was promised 1997, leading to Hong Kong’s largest protest since the handover. McCormick sophomore Ishaan Narain lives in the Tsim Sha Tsui district of Hong Kong, where many of the protests took place. He said he saw clouds of tear gas from a distance, and people running from the police. “Almost everybody was talking about it back home,” he said. “So even if you weren’t really involved in politics it affected enough of Hong Kongers’ daily life to talk about it.” Narain said while the majority of students coming from international high schools and studying in American universities support the protestors, opinions seem to be shifting due to the effect protests had on daily life, especially after protestors temporarily shut down operations at Hong Kong International Airport. When he left Hong Kong for the U.S., he said the airport was on lockdown, and only people with tickets could enter.
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Weinberg junior Jenny Kang, an international student from Hong Kong, said she was only there for two days this summer, making her feel disconnected from the movement. She said she tries to talk about the events, posting on her Instagram story and Facebook page, but she said that many international students have the privilege to disassociate from the protests. “I just don’t want people to ignore what’s happening,” she said. For Kang, it’s not about telling her friends and followers what to think about the protests. She wants to remind them that Hong Kong is their home, and they will return there. Kang added that because she can only rely on updates from friends and Western media, she has struggled to trust her own opinions. She said while the media has documented police brutality, there are some extremist protesters that have gone largely uncovered. “The Western media and anglophone media specifically, a lot of the support is for the protestors, which I agree with now,” she said. “But I would’ve liked to come to that conclusion myself.” jamespollard2022@u.northwestern.edu
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Editor’s Letter: Who we are as editors PRIYANSHI KATARE
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Dear Readers, My co-editor Pallas Gutierrez and I are as distinctly different as they come. If we were to draw a venn diagram of our experiences, the only thing in common would be our love for the Daily, and this what we bring to the whole process. As editors, we recognize the need to be as inclusive in our narrative as possible. We understand that no two voices sound the same and that is exactly why they must all be heard. When I first joined the Daily, I focused on writing stories that talked about issues that affected students on campus. I wanted to write for the Opinion desk for the same reason. I view human-centric issues to be an urgent conversation that we need to start having as a community. I joined the Opinion desk to be able to provide a platform to start this conversation. I consider my job as Opinion Editor to be rooted in the ground values and childhood experiences that have shaped me. In my life so far I have studied in ten different academic institutions and lived in six different cities. I’ve lived in rural Wisconsin where
the sun set at five and in the greater Mumbai region where it rains for five months straight. This was crucial to shaping me as a person. As a child in an ever-changing environment, my only form of stability was the customs and traditions of the society I belonged to. For the most part, I had to learn to adapt my South Asian roots to the environments that for the most part were not always conducive to it. I often catch myself saying that I grew up in an extremely positive conflict. On the one hand, I was being pushed to follow through with the changing times of my generation and on the other hand, my feet were being nailed to the ground by the ideals considered appropriate and genuine by my society. I belonged to this society. I respected it and I wanted to honor it in every way possible, but I also wanted to do justice to myself and so at a very young age I found myself to be in an identity crisis. My only solution to this crisis was to aggressively adapt and almost match one domain of my life to another. This helped me find common ground but also maintain individual grounds for things I considered to be right by my standards. At every point of time, I asked myself if I was diluting the impact of the experiences I was brought up in. Another facet of my ever-changing environment was the constant change in the
groups of people I interacted with. This taught me to develop a sense of relatability where ever I went. I understood very quickly that in order to talk about issues that are significant, I must first empathize and understand the people it concerns. But even in moments of no change and absolute calmness I constantly deliberated with myself. The questions of ‘who am I and do I belong here’ were in fact the ones that allowed me to understand the impact I could create and role I could play in any given community. These questions allowed me to reflect on the person I was at that moment and where I saw myself. In my time at Northwestern, I have often found that there is a tendency to merge and bracket people off into very narrow categories. As an editor, I intend to fight for the very opposite of this. I believe that we need to provide people with the space to find their own common and individual grounds without pressuring them into the confines of narrow definitions. Priyanshi Katare is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be contacted at priyanshikatare2022@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.
Editor’s Letter: Why we have this section PALLAS GUTIERREZ
OPINION EDITOR
In June, I wrote what I thought would be my farewell to the Opinion section and The Daily Northwestern. I enjoyed my time as a columnist and assistant opinion editor, but there were times I felt out of place in the newsroom: I’m not a Medill student, so I didn’t understand the shared classes and jokes my fellow editors had, and I wasn’t sure that I was qualified to write for any desk other than Opinion. I planned on leaving to give myself time to pursue theatre, but I also didn’t think anyone cared if I came back. I was wrong. In June, our editor-in-chief, Troy Closson, encouraged me to apply to be Opinion editor for fall quarter. Bolstered by his encouragement, I applied, and I was thrilled when I was invited to be co-editors with Priyanshi Katare. As I was reading applications for Opinion columnists this summer, I realized the essential role the Opinion section played in my life, the paper, and Northwestern. I initially started writing for Opinion because I wanted to pick my own stories. But a year writing for Opinion changed my view of the importance and purpose of this desk. I used to be the kind of person that asks, “Why is there an opinion section in the newspaper? News is supposed to be objective, and Opinion clearly isn’t. It doesn’t belong.” I quickly learned that Opinion is vital to a newspaper. Nothing is completely objective. Even statistics, which are sometimes held up as the most objective facts journalists can utilize, can be warped. Every person has a viewpoint, and that viewpoint translates to things that a person creates, like articles and essays. Opinion makes no secret of the fact that
the pieces aren’t objective, and the author only claims to represent themselves. At the bottom of every Opinion piece is the sentence, “The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.” This freedom from representing all staff members allows writers to share their non-mainstream and sometimes controversial opinions, as well as personal stories. Being able to represent individuals allows Opinion to provide a forum for debate and marginalized voices. In a ranking of the most liberal college campuses in the United States, Business Insider put NU at No. 22 last year. As a result, The Daily and the Opinion section often lean liberal. As editor, I am committed to publishing pieces that give a complete survey of political views on this campus. Does that mean the section will still often lean left? Yes, because the campus does. But Opinion’s role is to provide a space for everyone to state their opinions and the reasons they hold them. Political diversity is only one type of diversity which I hope to highlight and discuss in this section. In November 2018, Pew Research found that newsroom employees were less diverse than the American workforce overall. 77 percent of newsroom employees are white, rather than 65 percent of all U.S. workers. 61 percent of newsroom employees are men, who only represent 53 percent of workers. White men represent 48 percent of newsroom employees, but only 34 percent of the total workforce. Statistics are harder to find on LGBTQIA+ journalists, which makes their lack of inclusion even harder to address. A lack of diversity leads to stories falling through the cracks because they are dismissed as unimportant, or skewed by a lack of knowledge about the history and context. In Opinion, we work against these trends. All of the four opinion editors in my time at The Daily have held various marginalized identities in terms of gender, sexuality, race, and
socioeconomic status. As a result, articles dealing with diversity and issues that may not have received coverage otherwise have appeared in our section. Marissa Martinez wrote about multilingualism and the importance of black journalists. Andrea Bian wrote about the lack of women of color on the Medill faculty. I wrote “50 Years of Queer Anger,” a series about queer issues today. Opinion columnists and contributors have written about eating disorders, diversity on television and problems with brands like Victoria’s Secret. These are issues that may not receive front page news coverage, but are still important to consider and discuss. I’m glad the Opinion section has been able to serve as that forum. Still, I know there is more diversity on our campus than represented in our pages. As reported in The Daily Northwestern’s 2019 Diversity Report, 11.8 percent of staffers at The Daily identify as low-income, and 13.2 percent are first-generation college students. Issues affecting FGLI students are usually limited to the Campus section, as sharing personal stories about these sensitive topics can be intimidating. Disability issues are also extremely underrepresented at The Daily, both on staff and in our coverage. I hope to give people who need the space to discuss these issues that space right here in the Opinion section. I look forward to spending this quarter improving the diversity of voices represented in the Opinion section. Our new writers will surely bring some new ideas, and, as always, we are always open to Letters to the Editor and pieces by one-time contributors. Pallas Gutierrez is a Communication sophomore. They can be contacted at pallas2022@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.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
The Spectrum: In the Moment the Spectrum This poem is part of The Spectrum, a forum in our Opinion section for marginalized voices to share their perspectives. To submit a piece for The Spectrum or discuss story ideas, please email spectrum@dailynorthwestern.com. Many times I have closed my eyes and became apart of my ancestors trials and tribulations Ropes on their necks Chains on their hands Whips on their backs Pain in their souls Everything spiraling out of control No one to console them But the white man to the control them Ropes on their necks Hanging from the trees like strange fruit Nothing to see but their feet Chains on their hands Enslaved Whips on their backs Everlasting scars forever etched in their skin Pains in their souls They can not win Mothers wondering when they would catch wind of where their child is Many times I have closed my eyes and I have wept because I was angry Angry that my people were ripped away from their culture, then treated like garbage like we asked to be here Liked we asked to be raped Like we asked to be lynched Like we asked we for anything Angry because whether we wanted to do anything we couldn’t We had no power even though we are powerful Angry because young people like me who now have power to do something aren’t doing anything Too busy trying to be popular Many times I have opened my eyes and saw the world around me Saw that not much has changed And somehow are a part of a deranged system to set us up And we out here killing each other Killing our women Our children Our future What is our future? A grim one? A slim one? A no one can win one? Will we have ropes on our necks? Chains on our hands? Whips on our backs? Pain our souls? Like Dr. King said, “our bodies are tired and our feet are somewhat sore” So I ask you, what more can I, you, we endure before we start opening up doors? Everyday I wake up I become apart of my ancestors trials and tribulations I am so tired of these inhumane situations — Ashanti Cole-Stallworth, Evanston Township High School Senior
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2019
WOMEN’S SOCCER
Cats win second straight conference road game By ANDREW GOLDEN
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In Lincoln, Nebraska three days ago, Northwestern was outshot 14-3, but still managed to turn one of three shots into a goal and escape with a victory. On Sunday, the Wildcats (4-5-1, 2-1-0) once again were outshot, this time 22-6, by Iowa during the first 90 minutes of the game. But once again, NU turned one of their few chances into a goal in the first half, but this time had to play extra time after giving up a goal before halftime. In overtime, NU junior midfielder Kylie Fisher crossed the ball into the box, where there was a scrum for the ball. Out of the big pile came Cats freshman defender Danika Austin, who struck the ball past the Hawkeyes’ goalie Claire Graves to give NU a 2-1 victory. “We’ve just always been about capitalizing on the opportunities that we get,” Austin said. “You can’t really look at the stats. You’ve gotta be scrappy and you’ve just gotta keep going.” Coming into Sunday’s matchup, the Cats hadn’t lost to Iowa since 2014, when they lost 1-0. The Hawkeyes came out the gates firing, looking to end NU’s streak. Iowa was aggressive, taking four shots in the first 15 minutes of the game before the Cats took their first shot of the game. But NU broke the tie early, as freshman midfielder Lily Gilbertson took a corner kick and sent it into the box, where the ball sailed just over the outstretched hand of Graves and right to head of Cats freshman defender Reilly Riggs
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for a 1-0 lead. The Hawkeyes continued their offensive attack, taking six more shots after the Cats goal and broke through to tie the game at one. Despite giving up the goal, sophomore goalkeeper Mackenzie Wood was stellar. The sophomore from Granger, Indiana, saved three straight shots before giving up the goal in the 38th minute and saved eight shots for the whole game. Both teams were knotted up at one in the second half and played a highly competitive contest in the second half, but neither team was able to score the game-winning goal in regulation. “The word I would use for both of these games this weekend is gritty,” coach Michael Moynihan said. “I thought we showed a lot of heart and character (and) battled well.” In overtime, the game was just as hotly-contested as the first 90 minutes with NU and Iowa trading possession. The Hawkeyes were able to take three shots to the Cats one, but none of Iowa’s were on goal. NU, on the other hand, created more pressure on the Hawkeye defense through set pieces. The Cats had two corners in extra time and, while they didn’t convert, kept the ball on the Iowa half of the field and led to the goal. The game-winning goal was a special one for Austin, as the freshman defender scored the first of her young career. “It’s just an awesome feeling,” Austin said. “When your hard work finally pays off and you see that result and it goes through the back of the net, it’s just awesome.” andrewgolden2021@u.northwestern.edu state courts. Skokie as well as three Skokie residents and a local business sued Evanston in June claiming the rate at which Evanston charges Skokie for water violates the Skokie plaintiffs’ rights to due process and equal protection under the law. The lawsuit named the City of Evanston, Mayor Steve Hagerty and all Evanston aldermen as defendants. U.S. District Court Judge Charles Kocoras
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Junior midfielder Nia Harris tries to steal the ball. The junior has scored one goal this season.
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1,000 gallons while Evanston charges Niles and Morton Grove $0.78 cents per 1,000 gallons. Evanston and Skokie entered into negotiations over water rates after a 30-year contract expired in 2017. Evanston filed a complaint in state court in 2017 alleging that Skokie has not been paying the new rate. — Samantha Handler
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replacing the city’s two-decade-old Christmas lights. Beyond finances, Coakley also sees Oktoberfest as a chance to showcase and celebrate local businesses. “We have all these great breweries in Evanston,” Coakley said, “and we wanted to highlight them.” Twenty different breweries and cideries were represented at Oktoberfest, with over forty different styles of beer and cider available. Chris Collins, owner of North Shore Cider, came back to Evanston Oktoberfest for the third time. Collins had two drinks on tap, Never Say Never, a rosé cider, and Punkin, a fall-themed pumpkin spice cider. His company, located on Howard Street, emulates less sweet European ciders. “There weren’t any ciders that reminded me of French or English ciders,” Collins said, “so I started making my own ciders.” This year, Coakley said, Downtown Evanston made an effort to incorporate more traditional
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that continuous funding cuts and redirection “tried to set (Siddique) up for failure by making his job responsibilities virtually impossible to perform at the highest level. Since Krainc’s appointment, and “largely by instigation,” Siddique has been forced to reduce staffing and experiments due to funding cuts from the Les Turner ALS Foundation, first by more than 60 percent and then by 80 percent, the complaint alleges. Steven J. Rosenberg, who is representing the plaintiff in the suit, said Krainc and Neils cited the fact that Siddique’s research was operating in deficit — generating less in revenue than the money given to support the lab — as a reason for funding cuts. In addition, Rosenberg said at Neilson’s and Krainc’s direction, the money funded to Siddique’s lab has been diverted to grants, research facilities, tech assistants and other types of help. “Of course they’re operating in deficit, because Krainc and Neilson were causing the deficit,” Rosenberg said. “They had put a dollar sign on
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spread the word to minority communities who she said normally don’t hear about these types of events. Dear Evanston organized a bus trip to make it an affordable way of travel for those from lower-income backgrounds, so people who wanted to go were able to. Holmes-Ross said these efforts matched the results she was hoping to achieve. “I really got a good look of what I feel like Evanston looks like on those busses,” Holmes-Ross said. She said the bus had about 40 white participants, 50 who identified as black. Others identified with
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German elements during Oktoberfest. Evanston’s Prairie Moon catered the event and served Bratwurst, Thuringer sausages and burgers. Smylie Brothers Brewing Company sold pretzels and La Cocinita sold arepas, tacos and Carribean Bowls. “If we were going to continue using the Oktoberfest name,” Coakley said, “we needed to have more of the spirit of a traditional Oktoberfest.” Die Musikmeisters, a traditional German band, played until 3 p.m. with dancers dressed in lederhosen performing in front of them. For the first time this year, Evanston Made, an organization founded in 2012 with the goal of promoting local artists, hosted a Maker’s Market alongside Oktoberfest. On the fifth level of the 1800 Maple Garage, over 70 artists, 21 of whom were kids, set up galleries paintings, ceramics, jewelry, t-shirts and more. Tickets were sold separately for five dollars each. Liz Cramer and Kathy Halper, project coordinators for the Maker’s Market, both saw Oktoberfest
as a chance to give local artists a platform beyond the studio tours and gallery visits Evanston Made has put together. “There are a lot of talented and professional artists living in Evanston,” Cramer said. “It’s one of our best kept secrets.” For some, the Maker’s Market represented the first chance to put their art on display. This was the case for Steve Denenberg, an Evanston resident for the past thirty years. Denenberg’s work involves both paintings and three-dimensional collages, where chopsticks, circuit boards, toothpick dispensers, and other bits of plastic are layered on top of paintings and pictures. Denenberg says he was motivated by a desire to be less wasteful while also creating an eye catching piece of art. “I would just throw this stuff away,” Denenberg said, pointing at one of his collages. “Now it jumps out at you in an interesting way.”
pure scientific research. That’s not the way research should be done.” Rosenberg alleges the plaintiff, at 72, has been humiliated and denigrated in front of his colleagues and consistently given signals that the goal was to force him out of the roles mandated by his employment contract. “They’re trying to eventually squeeze him to the extent that he no longer has his staff, his lab, his research facilities, and eventually the obvious play here is he throws up his hands and say he’s going to walk away, which he’s not going to do,” Rosenberg said. With these allegations, Siddique filed for three counts of breach of contract by NMG, Northwestern, and NMHC, as well as two counts of interference with contract by Krainc and Neilson, requesting $30,000 each in damages incurred by the plaintiff. In a response filed last Friday, NMHC, NMG and Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, said Siddique abandoned the 1991 contract when he neglected to object to the defendants’ earlier breaches of the contract by accepting increased
compensations throughout his 28-year tenure. “Plaintiff unequivocally accepted the increased compensation and additional monetary benefits on several occasions throughout his employment, even though the provision of such breached the contract,” the defense wrote. The hospital defendants also denied that Siddique is entitled to “either the relief requested or any relief whatsoever” due to his failure to mitigate the alleged damages earlier on in his employment. However, Rosenberg said Siddique has reached out to the defendants, but to no avail, due to Northwestern’s “extremely complex, convoluted, and confusing corporate structure.” Both Northwestern University and Feinberg stated that the issue was out of their jurisdictions. The Northwestern defendants were not available for immediate comment. Siddique plans to continue with discovery against the hospital defendants, interrogatories, and requests for production of documents and depositions, Rosenberg said.
different ethnicities. The age of those travelling ranged from 18 to 80. One of the youngest members on the trip was Ashanti Cole-Stallworth, who is a senior at Evanston Township High School. She said she gained a lot from the museum and memorial. Though she is still digesting what she saw and heard, she learned to be more open-minded and dig deeper into history and learning about others. “It’s just a whole new experience, and I think people need to travel more and have more experiences like this,” Cole-Stallworth said. As a community organizer, Holmes-Ross said she
hopes that this trip can be a model for others to give this experience to everyone but especially students who lack the in-depth education about black history that the Legacy museum provides. Kavin said she wants to consult other groups to take this trip as well. “Every single one of us needs to know this history,” Kavin said. “And until there’s a museum and memorial like this in every city in America, we need to make pilgrimages to learning and confronting our past in order to move to a better future.”
for the Cats. “We knew if we came in and we played our best that we would have a shot to beat them,” coach Tracey Fuchs said. “I’m just so happy for our seniors who have put in a lot of work in that purple and black uniform and finally they got the victory they deserved.” NU owned the game’s first two quarters, outshooting Michigan 4-1 and earning two corners in the process. From there, they Cats waited patiently, taking care of the opposition’s offensive threats and making it through a back and forth overtime period in which junior goalkeeper Florien Marcusson made three saves. With no scoring in regulation and overtime, the game turned to penalty shots. After one shooter on each side missed a penalty in the first sequence of the shoot out, the contest moved to a sudden death format, where senior midfielder’s Saar De Breij’s second goal of the shoot out proved to be the eventual difference maker. De Breij, whose has already matched her previous season’s goal total of four in six less games, said she was anxious in the lead up to her shot. “I just got really nervous so I tried to take a couple deep breaths,” De Breij said. “And then I’m only gonna focus on the goalie and the ball and I stick to my plan. I have a plan in my head of what I’m gonna do. And I just go in there and try to play the ball out. She stick hacked me once and I just stayed strong on the ball and curled around her.” With the teams seemingly scoring at a back and forth pace, the Cats finally topped Michigan in the sixth round of the shoot out, when Kathryn Peterson’s goal was overturned after the ball was found to have bounced off of her shin on its way into the net. “We practice them a lot,” Fuchs said. “It’s really important to actually ask if they want to take one. So we did that and we had five people sit on the bench faster than I can ask. It’s a pressure situation. It’s fun. Pressure is a privilege and they really did a great job.” The win was the Cats’ eighth straight, a perfect intensity builder in the leadup to next Thursday’s matchup against defending NCAA finalists Maryland, who have lost only once all season. “Everybody has to play together for us to win,” Fuchs said. “Everybody is playing their role, whether they’re on the bench, whether they’re on the field, whether they’re coming off the bench. When you have that kind of culture and that kind of chemistry, you can do great things.”
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NU drops consecutive matches to start Big Ten play By CARLOS STINSON-MAAS
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Northwestern got off to a rocky start in Big Ten play this weekend, opening with back-to-back losses against Iowa and No. 3 Nebraska. Friday’s matchup against the Hawkeyes (7-6, 1-1 Big Ten) was competitive in every set. The Wildcats (9-5, 0-2) took an early 11-8 lead in the first set thanks to three consecutive service aces from first year outside hitter Temi Thomas-Ailara. However, the Hawkeyes bounced back, finishing on an 8-1 run to win the set 25-17. NU responded well in the second set, edging Iowa 25-23 behind another dominant performance from Thomas-Ailara. Through two sets, she fired 10 kills and delivered five service aces. In a frightening moment midway through the third set, Thomas-Ailara spiked the ball directly into the face of Iowa outside hitter Griere Hughes, knocking her tooth out. Hughes would return to the game.
Sets three and four went Iowa’s way, with the Cats failing to close, losing by a combined five points in the final two sets. Coach Shane Davis attributed the 3-1 loss to chances that he feels his team let slip away. . “There were probably 30 missed opportunities where it was an overpass or perfect situation where we ended up giving the ball up,” Davis said. “We need to capitalize on those.” Despite the loss to the Hawkeyes, NU shook off its Friday performance and started strong Saturday against the CornhuskersNo (10-1, 2-0), jumping out to a 17-10 lead in the first set. Like Iowa a day before, Nebraska rallied and finished the set on a 15-4 run to win 25-21. The second set looked competitive early, but a 5-0 run by the Cornhuskers gave them an insurmountable lead, resulting in a 25-17 win. Davis said the Cats’ lack of aggressiveness contributed to Nebraska’s scoring runs. “Those runs were hesitations on our part,” he said. “Whether that’s swinging, whether that’s communicating the serve receive. Nebraska’s not gonna hesitate. If you hesitate and give them an easy ball they’re gonna come right back at you.”
NU stayed competitive in the third set, changing leads with the Cornhuskers 16 times. The Cats had multiple chances to close out the set, failing to convert three set points before falling to the Cornhuskers 30-28. The crowd at Welsh-Ryan Arena became heavily involved, with most fans rising to their feet for the final points of the third set. Thomas-Ailara and Davis both said they were impressed with the fan engagement Saturday. “The crowd was electric,” Davis said. “It was really great engagement. I thought the kids played hard. I thought it was a hard, tough battle by both teams.” The Cats played better than last season against the number three team in the country, a team with three wins against top-25 opponents and back-to-back NCAA championship appearances. Graduate setter Payton Chang said the team was optimistic after the match despite the 3-0 loss. “I definitely think we improved a lot tonight,” Chang said. “We know we can play with all the top teams in the nation.” carlosstinson-maas2023@u.northwestern.edu
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Temi Thomas-Ailara prepares to serve the ball. The freshman outside hitter had five service aces against Iowa.
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In another overtime game, Wildcats draw Ohio State By DREW SCHOTT
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With a win over Ohio State on Saturday, Northwestern could’ve achieved its first 2-0 start in Big Ten play since 2012. However, on a windy afternoon at Martin Stadium, the Wildcats (5-3-1, 1-0-1 Big Ten) and Buckeyes (5-3-1, 0-1-1) both failed to score during 90 minutes of regulation and two 10-minute overtime periods, leading to a 0-0 tie. “It was a good Big Ten game,” coach Tim Lenahan said. “Obviously, (with) the weather, the wind, the chill in the air for the first time, you’re not going to see as beautiful a game as you would on a beautiful day.”
NU put together one of its best offensive games this season, firing 11 shots, its third-highest amount this season, and taking a season-high 10 corner kicks. Although Lenahan said the Cats are the Big Ten leader in shots-on-goal percentage, they must improve their shot selection to produce more goals. During the first half, NU and Ohio State weren’t explosive on offense, taking only seven combined shots. But, in the second half, the Cats’ offense blossomed, with the squad playing at a faster pace, leading to more possessions on the Buckeyes’ side of the pitch. NU took five shots to Ohio State’s one and earned five corner kicks, but the Cats couldn’t manage to score due to the Buckeyes’ physical defense. The two teams went into overtime, where NU continued to attack and Ohio State struggled to
contain its offense as the home team took three shots and three corner kicks. Senior midfielder Matt Moderwell, who led the team with four shots, was proud of the Cats’ productive offense. “We were getting chances. There were some opportunities that we wished we would’ve finished,” Moderwell said. “But other than that, you can’t argue with all the corners… and all the shots on goal that we had.” The lack of scoring could also be attributed to the goalie play. Both NU goalie Miha Miskovic and Buckeyes keeper Parker Siegfried made great saves to keep the game scoreless. In the 20th minute, Siegfried, to save a bicycle kick from Cats midfielder Vicente Castro, jumped into the air and blocked the ball over the goal. Meanwhile, Miskovic, in the 30th minute, saved a shot from Ohio State midfielder
Xavier Green with his knee. Miskovic received his first Big Ten shutout to give him three total on the season and, with the tie, NU still holds an above .500 record. Lenahan acknowledged that going forward, the Cats must capitalize on scoring opportunities, especially since their next game is against Indiana, an eight-time national champion and the reigning Big Ten champion who beat NU twice last season. However, Moderwell believes the team will carry momentum from the tie into their matchup against the Hoosiers. “We felt we should’ve won today,” he said. “And so, bouncing back against Indiana, a great opponent, here… that’s going to be exciting.” drewschott2023@u.northwestern.edu
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The Wildcats’ offense struggles in road loss to No. 8 Badgers By ANDREW GOLDEN
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MADISON, Wis. — In the first half of Saturday’s matchup between Northwestern and Wisconsin, the two teams were trying to pay homage to those who came before them: donning throwback uniforms and playing subpar offense. In October of 1891, the Wildcats and Badgers couldn’t score, finishing in 0-0 tie. Almost 130 years later, the two teams were once again locked in a tight defensive battle, combining to score 10 points in the first half. But in the second half, No. 8 Wisconsin’s (4-0, 2-0 Big Ten) defense ultimately stole the show in the Cats’ 24-15 loss. “Outside of the self-inflicted wounds, I think we’re really close,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “No team is good enough to give up 14 points to an opponent and expect to win a lot of games consistently. That cannot happen. Period. End of discussion.” Wisconsin came out of the gates firing, taking the opening kickoff to its own 46 yard-line. The Badgers, with a balance of runs and passes, methodically moved their way down the field and capped the drive off with a 13-yard run by Jonathan Taylor. On the other side of the ball, NU (1-3, 0-2) put together back-to-back
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three and outs, but caught a break when Wisconsin committed a personal foul penalty on the punt, giving the Cats a glimmer of hope. On the next three plays, NU marched from its own 19 to the Badgers 13-yard line, where the drive stalled and were forced to settle for a field goal from junior kicker Charlie Kuhbander. But just like most of their first half drives, NU’s offense couldn’t capitalize on the play of its stellar defense. The Cats had six first half drives, but only two lasted over a minute and, aside from their lone 83-yard scoring drive of the half, had just 49 yards of offense. Both team’s offensive struggles carried into the second half, but the Badgers defense continued their early-season dominance with another strong showing. With 2:34 remaining in the third quarter, Wisconsin safety Eric Burrell strip sacked sophomore quarterback Hunter Johnson and the ball rolled into the endzone, where the Badgers recovered it for a touchdown. Johnson got hit again early in the fourth quarter and while he tried to return, he was eventually pulled from the game. Junior quarterback Aidan Smith
replaced Johnson and, a few plays later, threw a pick six to put the Badgers up by 21. A Wisconsin muffed punt led to a Drake Anderson touchdown, but a missed two-point conversion made the game 24-9 with 8:45 remaining. The Cats recovered an onside kick right after and, despite not scoring on that drive, scored a touchdown on the next possession, went for two once again and came up short. Instead of a potential one score game, NU ended up needing two possessions to complete the comeback — but there simply wasn’t enough time. “When you’re down 15, you go for two because those are the analytics we pulled to shorten the game,” Fitzgerald said. “You can’t ever know what’s going to happen next so you have to assume we gotta score as many points as we can right here, right now.” The Cats are 1-3 for the second straight season after losing to a top Big Ten opponent. But junior safety Travis Whillock said the team is focused on watching film and getting better for next week. “It goes back to getting back to the drawing board and taking it one day at a time,” junior safety Travis Whillock said. “This year isn’t last year, so we’re not worried about last year. We’re worried about this team and a legacy that we want for us.” andrewgolden2021@u.northwestern.edu
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NU offense fails to produce
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MADISON, Wis. — Northwestern became the first team to score in the first half against Wisconsin this season. That was about it for bright spots, save for a few moments in the fourth quarter when the Badgers loosened up their defense at the end of a 24-15 win. Wisconsin’s defense suffocated almost everything the Wildcats wanted to do and scored 14 points itself, nearly matching the output from NU’s offense. “There are some things that are there that for whatever reason we’re not seeing it, and we’ve got to help our guys see it better,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “So that’s what we’re gonna do. We’re gonna be relentlessly positive and we’re gonna just keep coaching the heck out of them.” NU’s running game has also struggled this season. Isaiah Bowser led the attack last season but has battled injuries this year, and redshirt freshman Drake Anderson again earned more playing time than the sophomore on Saturday. The Cats totaled 2.4 yards per carry against the stout Wisconsin defense and couldn’t get anything going early on, save for a pair of explosive plays that led to a first-half field goal. Protection was a problem all day, as unblocked rushers were camped out in the backfield for most of the game and made it hard for either Hunter Johnson or Aidan Smith to get into any kind of a rhythm. Johnson left the game after taking a massive hit late in the second half and was replaced by Aidan Smith, who threw a pick-six and lost a fumble but also moved the Cats down the field with efficiency and threw
By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH
The play call that drove Northwestern fans crazy against Wisconsin goes back to a rainy Saturday in Boston at the end of February. At the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference — a well-attended summit that focuses on the intersection between sports and analytics — over 50 teams attended a job fair to find new additions to their analytics staffs. There were two recruiters representing college football programs. Both were from Northwestern. After the Wildcats’ (1-3, 0-2 Big Ten) 24-15 loss to No. 8 Wisconsin (4-0, 2-0), coach Pat Fitzgerald cited the previous conversations he’s had with analytics experts as the reason he went for the two point conversion down 15 points with 8:45 left in the game and again down 9 points four minutes later. Instead of making it a clean 14-point deficit on the first attempt, the analytics told the Wildcats to try to cut a bigger dent in the deficit. “You go for two early, which unfortunately a lot of people don’t believe in,” Fitzgerald said. “You can’t ever know what’s going to happen next so you have to assume that we need to score as many points as we can right here right now.” It’s all explained on Fitzgerald’s play sheet, which he fastens to his belt loop and carries with him every game. At one point, a person who’d crunch the number explained to Fitzgerald how to handle situations like this, and he said the conversation was a learning experience for him after decades of football experience. This week, he watched a YouTube video of Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh explaining why a team should take as many points as it can when making a multi-score comeback. Baltimore went for two when it
was down 11 points in the fourth quarter last weekend against the Chiefs and Harbaugh drew criticism for the decision, but he said weeks of preparation go into decisions like these. “If you do your homework online, even, and you pull up how football analytics work you can dig up a lot of information,” Harbaugh said Monday in the video Fitzgerald referenced. “While you may think getting it to 10 is the thing to do, it’s the thing to do if you want to get into overtime. It’s not the thing to do if you want to win the game in regulation if that’s the thing you’re trying to do.” The reason NU lost Saturday wasn’t because of its decision to go for the conversion — it had more to do with executing the play calls. The Cats got the first opportunity for a two point conversion after a touchdown cut their deficit to 15 points. On the play, backup quarterback Aidan Smith threw a shuttle pass to redshirt freshman running back Drake Anderson, who was tackled behind the line of scrimmage. After another touchdown that made it a 24-15 game, Smith connected again on a pass to Anderson in the backfield, but the running back lost yardage for second time and it remained a two-score game. NU got the ball back again for twominute drill, but the Cats turned the ball over on downs before they made into the redzone. Smith, playing in his second consecutive game after starter Hunter Johnson left with a knee injury, said he stands by the play calls in two of the game’s defining moments. “Those are plays we rep during the week and went well,” Smith said. “We’ve just got to trust in the playcalling. Those are the two plays that do work and it just comes down to execution. Part of that can be on me and part of that just comes down to the execution of those plays.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu
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Riley Lees chases down a Wisconsin linebacker Noah Burks, who scored on a 68yard pick six. Northwestern’s offense turned the ball over three times and struggled throughout the day.
his first career touchdown. “Starting out, I didn’t play like I wanted to, or how I was recruited to play,” Smith said. “Once I felt like I got into the flow of the game, everything started coming a little bit easier.” Still, it was far too little, too late, especially as NU missed a pair of twopoint conversions that prevented the Cats from pulling within one score. Saturday’s dismal offensive showing wasn’t the first of the year. NU couldn’t get anything going in the opener against Stanford and was dominated for most of the game in last week’s Big Ten opener against Michigan State. Now, with Johnson’s health in doubt, it’s unclear who’ll be at the controls of Mick McCall’s offense. “I don’t know what’s going on with Hunter, but I’m really proud
of the way Aidan stepped up. He made a big mistake, but I thought he improved as his experience went on in the game,” Fitzgerald said. “I was really proud of the way that he fought through the end of the game.” This is the second straight season where the Cats have started 1-3, but there wasn’t any uncertainty at quarterback a year ago. NU has a lot to figure out before next weekend’s visit to Lincoln, where they’ll desperately want to avoid an 0-3 Big Ten start. “I think we’re more than capable of it,” receiver Riley Lees said. “We’ve just got to do it on Saturday. At the end of the game we’re moving the ball well like we want to, we’ve just got to find what’s missing and get everyone together and just get a little mojo going.” jonahdylan2020@u.northwestern.edu