The Daily Northwestern — October 21, 2016

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Durbin talks opioid crisis at law school In Chicago, senator urges big pharma to admit complicity

By NORA SHELLY

daily senior staffer @noracshelly

The opioid crisis is everyone’s problem, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said on Thursday on Northwestern’s Chicago campus, but big pharma needs to admit their complicity in the epidemic and take steps to combat it.

Durbin spoke at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law as part of an interdisciplinary approach to the opioid epidemic. Durbin said the increase in prescription painkillers since the 1990s has done irreparable damage on the country.

“The pharmaceuticals are flooding our community with greater and greater quantities of these drugs,” he said. “The result: two million Americans addicted to opioids.”

In the last half of the 20th century, Durbin said, the medical community and pharmaceutical companies decided no pain should go untreated, and if the resources were there to alleviate pain, they should be used.

Durbin said it was a rightful cause, but the idea that the pills used to treat it wouldn’t be addictive — and that patients would only take the prescribed number of pills per day — was mistaken.

The industry has also been responsible for television advertisements that normalized the use of opioids and made people work to convince their doctors to write them a prescription, Durbin said.

Durbin said it was ironic that there have been recent advertisements for drugs that treat the side effects of opioids.

“Now it’s become so common that we have to deal with the side effects of opioids pills, and we do it on television,” he said.

Durbin said that although big pharmaceutical companies deserve their share of the blame, doctors also need to step up to help combat widespread addiction.

“We are appealing to, begging those who are writing prescriptions … to be more mindful of what they are doing,” he said.

“We have got to appeal to the medical professionals … they have got to be able to say no.”

Many opioid prescriptions are for those with chronic or acute pain, Durbin said. Patients with that sort of pain are often subjectively diagnosed, as they result from diseases or conditions that are not easily discernible.

The senior Senator said he knows about the struggle of chronic and acute pain through the illness of one of his children.

With this in mind, finding a way to effectively limit doctors from writing errant prescriptions might be tough, he said.

“Chronic and acute pain is a » See DURBIN, page 12

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Kristen Cotton is a biomedical engineering major in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Though underrepresented, black STEM students at Northwestern said they find support through programs like EXCEL and the National Society of Black Engineers.

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Black STEM students find support in one another

By MARIANA ALFARO

daily senior staffer @marianaa_alfaro

John Franklin is taking five McCormick classes this quarter.

In three of them, he’s the sole black student. In one, it’s just him and a friend.

“I’ll see him during class and say, ‘Hey Steven, it’s us two again,’” Franklin, a McCormick junior, said. “The higher I go, especially in my education, the more I feel like the only black student in class.”

According to a Northwestern report released in September, 106 black students were enrolled in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences during Spring Quarter 2016, with 1,700 undergraduates in the school overall. The report was compiled by a task force that reviewed surveys and held focus groups before making 14 recommendations for the University to improve the experience of black students.

The report described the doubts black students have about

YouTube star tells adoption story

By MATTHEW CHOI

daily senior staffer @matthewchoi2018

Had it not been for his music, Dan Matthews said he never would have met his birth family.

Matthews, a YouTuber and hip-hop musician, discussed his experience as a KoreanAmerican adoptee at an event for Korea Peace Day on Thursday organized by the Korean American Student Association and Asian Pacific American Coalition. Matthews, also known by his performance name DANakaDAN, spoke to a crowd of about 40 people in Leverone Auditorium about his experiences reconnecting with his biological family and learning more about the Korean adoptee community.

Matthews ended the evening with a live performance of some of his music.

Joo-Young Lee, external cultural chair of KASA, said KASA and APAC always try to use Korea Peace Day as a platform to raise awareness

on social issues in the Korean community. In past years, they have had speakers discuss human rights in North Korea and domestic violence in Korean households.

“We tried to focus on Korean adoption (because) it’s a really big part of Korean society and history that a lot

(of ) people don’t know about,” the Weinberg sophomore said.

“We hope through this event a lot more people can find out about it.”

The issue of Koreans adopted by foreign parents is generally seen as taboo in Korea, Matthews said. Matthews described the diversity

of Korean adoptees, going to many countries across the world and having wildly different experiences growing up in a new culture. More than 20,000 South Korean children were adopted by American parents in the last 16 years, according » See PEACE, page 15

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YouTuber and hip-hop musician Dan Matthews talks about his experiences as a Korean adopted by American parents. The talk was hosted by the Korean American Student Association and Asian Pacific American Coalition for Korea Peace Day.

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their preparedness for academic rigor in college, saying their insecurity is heightened by not knowing where to go for help.

This, according to the report, leads to frustration, especially for black undergraduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.

Franklin, an electrical engineering and computer science major, said he has become accustomed to the idea of being the only black student in class. » See STEM, page 15

Poll gauges faculty response to plans Report shows more opposition to ‘10-55-10’ calendar

By PETER KOTECKI

daily senior staffer @peterkotecki

A Faculty Senate report released in September showed that many departments at Northwestern do not support the so-called “10-5-5-10” calendar, a proposal that would move the beginning of the academic year to August.

In a University report released in January, a task force proposed NU begin the academic year five weeks earlier, while still maintaining the quarter system. Under the proposed “10-5-5-10” calendar, NU would begin classes in late August and end in late May. Winter Quarter would become two five-week sessions, split by a winter break without assignments.

Of the 74 departments represented in Faculty Senate, 33 responded to a poll about the

recommendations. The Senate’s educational affairs committee compiled the poll responses and reported that 23 departments that participated in the poll opposed the proposed calendar. Only one department was in favor, and in nine departments, faculty were split on the issue.

The task force presented its recommendations to Provost Dan Linzer last Winter Quarter. The Faculty Senate report was dated July 28, but Joshua Mayer, administrative coordinator for Faculty Senate, told The Daily the report was posted online Sept. 16.

Earth and Planetary Sciences Prof. Suzan van der Lee, a member of Faculty Senate, said 13 faculty in her department gave feedback about the proposal. Six opposed the recommendation, four were in favor and three were undecided, she said.

Van der Lee said some of her colleagues were concerned with the proposed change because of an Earth and Planetary Sciences » See RESPONSE, page 15

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AROUND TOWN Lawsuit filed against Cook County for ‘excessive’ bails

Lawyers say state bail statute isn’t constitutional, does not take defendants’ ability to pay into account

By NORA SHELLY

daily senior staffer @noracshelly

Lawyers filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of two men currently imprisoned in the Cook County jail against Sheriff Thomas Dart and several judges over “excessive” bail.

In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs are seeking to get a declaration of the unconstitutionality of the judicial defendants’ practice of applying an Illinois state bail statute “to set a monetary bail for pretrial arrestees without a meaningful inquiry into the person’s ability to pay.”

The two men, Michael Lewis, 40, and Zachary Robinson, 25, say in the lawsuit that, during their bond hearing, the judges didn’t speak to them and set a bail after only a few minutes of deliberation.

One of the lawyers for the plaintiffs in the lawsuit is the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern University Pritzker School of

POLICE BLOTTER Evanston residents shot at with paintball, BB guns from passing vehicles

A group of teenagers were shot at with a BB gun from a passing car Wednesday evening while outside Washington Elementary School — one of four similar instances that same night.

Among the group of kids, all between 13 and 14 years old, one was hit with a BB gun pellet but was not injured, said Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan. They reported to police that the shots came from the back seat of a dark gray SUV at about 7:15 p.m., while they were outside the school at 914 Ashland Ave. At a similar time, a 45-year-old Evanston woman was pulling her 3-year-old child out

Law. Lawyer Alexa Van Brunt said the Center became involved in the lawsuit because they recognized posting bail was a huge problem for some people.

“Many, many people in the Cook County jail are there because they can’t pay bail, and they are kept behind bars, even though they haven’t

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Many, many people in the Cook County jail are there because they can’t pay bail, and they are kept behind bars.

Alexa Van Brunt, lawyer at MacArthur Justice Center

been convicted of anything,” she said. “We suspected, based on national studies and information that we have from other jurisdictions, that of her car in the 1000 block of Dodge Avenue when she was shot at multiple times with a paintball gun from a car heading northbound, Dugan said. The woman was not seriously injured.

Less than an hour later, an Evanston man was shot in the eye with a paintball gun from a passing vehicle. The 48-year-old Evanston resident was walking with his wife just before 7:40 p.m. in the 1600 block of Emerson Street when a white car drove by and someone inside shot at the couple several times with a paintball gun, Dugan said. The man went to Evanston Hospital with an injury to his left eye and was also hit in the back and left arm. The woman, 37, was hit in the head and back but was not injured.

At a similar time Wednesday night, a

there are negative implications for keeping people in jail pre-trial beyond the personal implications.”

About 90 percent of the inmates in Cook County jail are there pre-trial, Van Brunt said.

Those kept in jail pretrial because they can’t post bail are likely to lose their jobs or not be able to care for elderly parents or children, Van Brunt said.

The Center studied the fates of people who had to stay in jail pre-trial, and those who were able to post bail and leave jail.

They found those who were able to post bail were more likely to be acquitted.

“As a result of being kept in (jail) it doesn’t only affect your daily life … but you’re also more likely to suffer harsher consequences in the criminal justice system as a whole just because you’re not able to (help) your case on the outside because you’re detained instead of having the ability to mount your defense with the resources that you would have if you were free.”

Van Brunt said the center hopes to make system-wide change.

The lawsuit also argues that excessive bail violates the Civil Rights Act, as it “has the effect of subjecting African American individuals to discrimination because of their race.”

Cara Smith, the policy director for county Sheriff Thomas Dart, said she was surprised that he was named as a defendant.

Smith said Dart and her office have “long advocated” to change the way bails are set in the court system. Dart has advocated for individual defendants in cases, a change in the law surrounding bails and holding the stakeholders who do assign the bail amount accountable.

As sheriff, Smith said Dart has little control over bails given to inmates.

“We certainly agree that the bail statute in Illinois — the way it’s applied in Cook County — has a crushing impact on the poor,” Smith said. “We see it everyday.”

45-year-old bicyclist was riding near the intersection of Dempster Street and Asbury Avenue, when he was shot at multiple times with a paintball gun from a white vehicle, Dugan said. The Evanston man had no serious injuries.

car, along with an open bottle of alcohol and a hand-rolled cigar filled with what officers suspected to be marijuana.

One of the men, a 34-year-old Evanston resident, had been babysitting the 6-year-old boy while his mother — the man’s girlfriend — was at work, Dugan said. The man was arrested and charged with child endangerment. Police also found in the man’s pocket a prescription drug pill, which has been sent to the lab for tests.

Dugan said neither of the men were charged with marijuana possession because of the small amount present and the more serious potential drug charge. The other man present in the car was given a ticket for possession of an open container of alcohol.

Man charged with child endangerment

An Evanston man was charged with endangerment to the health of a child on Tuesday afternoon after police found him in a car with alcohol and marijuana while a 6-year-old was present.

Police were stationed in an empty lot in the 2000 block of Jackson Avenue following complaints of drug deals in the location, when the officers approached a parked car and smelled marijuana smoke, Dugan said. The officers found two men and a 6-year-old child in the

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Issues surrounding the accessibility of reproductive health care include socioeconomic factors that go beyond just contraception, panelists said Thursday night.

The event featured five panelists who spoke about global reproductive justice to about 60 students in Harris Hall. Northwestern’s International Gender Equality Movement partnered with various student organizations to host the panel, which addressed topics such as healthcare, HIV and sexual education.

Panelist Divya Mallampati spoke about the “gross inequities” in reproductive health care that she observes as an OB-GYN resident at Northwestern’s McGaw Medical Center.

She said sexual health services are some of the hardest resources to access, especially in disadvantaged communities.

Mallampati made an example of NU’s delivery rooms compared to those in area hospitals. She said the University’s facilities “look like hotels,” and numerous doctors are available to provide immediate assistance when needed.

In contrast, help often takes significantly longer at other hospitals in other areas of Cook County, she said.

“These differences aren’t just descriptive differences; they’re inequities and differences of justice,” Mallampati said.

Kathy Waligora and Brielle Osting represented EverThrive Illinois — an organization that educates and advocates for women, children and families — at the panel and said reproductive justice is an issue of race, class and gender.

“We try to look at everything from a racial equity perspective,” said Osting, the organization’s manager of maternal and infant mortality initiative. “If you’re a white clinician,

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Panelists speak about class, race and identity in reproductive justice. The panel was hosted by iGEM at Harris Hall on Thursday night.

you have to be comfortable talking about race, acknowledging your own privilege and be willing to engage in those uncomfortable conversations.”

Waligora, EverThrive’s director of health reform initiative, said Illinois legislators have been looking to build on the Affordable Care Act in order to improve access to contraception through health insurance.

EverThrive supported a bill that passed last spring to ensure more birth control products are covered under insurance, including sterilization for men, Waligora said. The legislation is intentionally gender neutral, she said, in an effort to be as inclusive as possible.

All of the panelists at the event encouraged NU students to advocate for the importance of reproductive justice. One way to do so is to vote in the upcoming election, Osting said.

“Don’t be afraid to talk to people in power and make them hear you,” she said. “They work for you.”

Weinberg senior Sanjana Lakshmi, iGEM’s co-president, said the club decided to host the panel to bring different student groups together with professionals in the field of reproductive health and justice.

Arielle Ticho, the co-president of the NU’s chapter of iGEM, said the panel was meant to remind NU students that these issues exist in the Chicago and Evanston communities.

“All of this work is so intersectional,” the SESP senior said. “It’s important to bring it to the forefront that access to reproductive healthcare is an issue that touches so many different aspects of people’s identities.” sydneystone2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Navigating mental health beyond NU CARSON BROWN

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This essay is part of The Spectrum, a weekly 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.

This is my experience with mental health and mental illness on this campus. I want to provide a content warning for mental illness at the start because this article deals with all ways it manifests in the lives of Northwestern students.

I came to NU with only a vague understanding of trichotillomania. Commonly called trich, it’s an anxiety disorder related to impulse control. Basically, when I’m stressed or anxious, it manifests in my lifting my hand and plucking a single hair from my head.

Repeatedly. Often without noticing.

It has to do with the fact that I live with anxiety around everything. Most people have anxiety around certain things, but anxiety disorders heighten this awareness. It eclipses most other emotions and can be difficult to see past. During my first quarter on campus, I was pulling my hair out so often that I would have to sweep entire piles of discarded hair off my desk.

It was alarming, but something I was familiar with. Being diagnosed with trich is pretty easy because it’s an oddly specific habit. The problem is that once you get the diagnosis, it’s easy to assume that’s all you have. Depression and attention deficit disorder are harder to pin down because they manifest in so many ways. I think people with trich often neglect to consider that other things are going on at the same time because they get caught up in this one diagnosis. In reality, if you have one, you’re much more likely to have more than

one. My friends know I have trich, but many people see me as a very happy person. Despite coming to terms with trich and everything that comes along with it, I find it difficult to mention more common things like depression to my friends because it is in such conflict with the identity the world handed to me.

Sophomore year, I went to Counseling and Psychological Services because I felt so overwhelmed. They referred me out and I ended up in the beautiful sky-rise office of an anxiety specialist in Chicago. I loved her. She helped me find concrete solutions and goals to deal with my trich and the underlying anxiety. I felt myself improving, but when we got the bill, my family said I had to stop going and the instability returned. I went home that summer unsure of what would happen next.

My junior year, everything came to a head.

I started out the year studying abroad and got to push away most of my mental health problems. Being away from campus in a place I loved was refreshing and the adventure I needed. Returning in the winter, depression slammed back into my body. It was everywhere and I didn’t know where to turn.

CAPS wasn’t helping, I couldn’t afford to go back to Chicago, and the quarter system was thoroughly overwhelming. I barely had time to think, much less self-reflect. Near the end of Spring Quarter, a giant assignment for my journalism major was due the next morning and I hadn’t started it. I spent weeks before the deadline staring at a blank document, unable to make meaningful progress. I’d stay up until 3 a.m., doing nothing, letting my computer watch me sit. Anxiety kept me up, but everything else collided so I couldn’t do the work.

I ended up emailing my professor. Passionate about her subject, she’s always smiling and continues to be one of the people I look up to most. She also ran a demanding classroom, almost constant deadlines piling on one after the other. I sent her the most honest email I’ve ever sent a professor: I was drowning. Her response was to put the assignment out of my mind and see her before class. She pulled me into her office that morning and looked me in my eyes. I felt vulnerable and incompetent.

She listened to my story and recommended I go to Urban Balance. UB describes itself as “insurance-friendly,” and patients pay $20 per session. With an office in Evanston, they seemed almost too good to be true and I was shocked that I’d never heard of the resource.

Now I see my therapist at Urban Balance every Tuesday night. She is kind and funny and she always shows me my options, letting me find solutions on my own.

That professor is one of the many faculty and staff members at NU who work outside the established system to get students the care they need. If I hadn’t been enrolled in her class, I have no clue what my life would look like.

I’m a senior now, with six weeks left before winter break and my journalism residency. I always feel better away from campus but, in the meantime, I feel all the old haunts returning: Excessive apathy, trouble maintaining friendships, trouble maintaining my sense of self, stunning anxiety around the little things, avoiding the big things. My Tuesday nights bring me back to center, but I know I need more.

NU has a serious problem addressing mental health. That is no surprise to anyone anymore. What is jarring is how many people have been impacted by NU’s failures on this front. Policy shifts never seem to net positive.

NU opens unlimited sessions at CAPS, but then closes counseling at the Women’s Center.

Somewhere at the intersection of a terrible reputation, hidden resources and toxic culture, too many students aren’t getting the help they should. Everyone’s path to obtain or maintain mental health is different, so don’t let a lack of a diagnosis keep you from talking to someone. I know how difficult it is, and I know the University too often fails to make it easier, but reach out. Take care of yourself and others.

Carson Brown is a Medill senior. She can be contacted at clbrown@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern. com. Views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of the Daily Northwestern.

Trump refusing vote results is antidemocratic

JESSE RUDNICK

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As politically active as I am, I have largely refrained from contributing to the current flood of political tirades. But something snapped in me as I watched the presidential debate last night.

While many of my peers were out partying away our last summer before college, I spent most of mine working for Hillary Clinton’s campaign, traveling and organizing field offices across the San Francisco Bay Area. I did it because I have looked up to Clinton since I was a little girl, and as a United States citizen, I believe I have a duty to back words up with action. For all its faults, I believe in our government’s ability to protect and support its citizens, and I saw Clinton as the best person to fulfill this vision of good government.

As I worked for Clinton tirelessly all summer, I watched Donald Trump’s campaign unfold with a mix of disgust and, admittedly,

amusement. I joined the chorus of jokes about how he acted like a whiny child. I called him an egomaniac, and I certainly felt angry at his slew of inappropriate and hurtful remarks. But I tried to never get too heated; both in the office and out, I stayed on message and kept my focus on the Clinton platform.

Wednesday night, something changed.

Amid his relentless droning about emails and the wall, Trump said something that sobered me up from all my smug comments and mock outrage. He said he wouldn’t guarantee he’d accept defeat if Clinton wins, and he would consider disrupting arguably the most sacred tradition of American society –– the peaceful transition of political power from one leader to the next.

For Trump to threaten to break with the custom is more than just immature and dangerous — it’s unacceptable.

How dare he threaten so flippantly to take this fundamental concept of American democracy away from me, and from the millions and generations of Americans who have made so many sacrifices to ensure we protect it? Trump doesn’t get to mess with 240 years of tradition

and our country’s core values for his own sick ego trip.

I already believed Trump was a supremely unqualified and divisive candidate for the presidency. But last night I finally learned his most disturbing trait: He does not respect this country’s fundamental values of democracy.

I’m not joking about Trump anymore. The stakes are too high. Instead, I’m going to leave my dorm and contact the campaign office in Evanston. Between now and Election Day, I’m going to put in as much time canvassing and phone-banking as I can to make sure that nobody has to live under a Trump presidency.

And come Nov. 8, I hope everyone will join me in making sure we elect a president who respects this country and the sacred values that have made it truly great.

Jesse Rudnick is a SESP freshman. She can be contacted at jesserudnick2020@u.northwestern.edu.

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Fostering children’s civic engagement begins in school

For many Northwestern students, November will be the first time they cast a ballot in a presidential election. In just a few weeks, students will be lined up to pull a lever that will determine the course of our nation — no pressure for you, first-time voters.

As a recent Northwestern grad and current high school Spanish teacher in DC, I’m also thinking a lot about another group of firsttime voters: my students. Because I teach high school, some of my students are 18 and will be casting their first ballots this November.

Like many young folks of this generation, this election has made my students concerned that their vote won’t matter, or that it is just too polarized to choose. As a teacher, this is why my job is so important. I know my students are the future leaders of our country and that their voices, and their votes, matter deeply.

Teaching Spanish (and sometimes civics) wasn’t always my plan. As a senior, I was on the path to go straight through to graduate school in International Relations. But through meeting people with diverse perspectives and taking classes that pushed my thinking, I learned my privileged upbringing wasn’t the norm. I grew up in a wealthy, mostly white suburb of Milwaukee where I never had to worry about getting a quality education. I quickly realized that if I was going to be part of shaping our nation’s political future, I first needed to understand inequity up close and to make an immediate impact. Reading about injustice from afar simply wasn’t enough.

Now that I’m a teacher, I realize that the future of our country lies squarely in my classroom. Every day my conviction of my students’ boundless potential grows, and I am eager for the day when they’re charting the path of our country.

I think about our class trip to Cuba last summer, where eight of my students were able to practice their Spanish in real life and I was able to share my love of International Relations with them. For one student, Demetrius, the trip was his first experience on a plane.

It was inspiring to see him travel to another country, meet and interact with Cuban people, learn salsa and deal with not having Instagram for seven days. I also think about Ahmad, who sat next to the tour guide during our trip so he could ask him questions about gender equality, civil rights and racism. It’s these moments that turned my hope into conviction.

This November, we must ensure our country’s moral arc continues bending towards justice for all. We can do that by showing our students real-world examples of leaders who look and sound like them — thanks, Obama.

And secondly, we must empower our children to become the next generation of leaders.

So when we think about how this election will go down in history, we have two choices: We can tell the next generation that we lived it, and we couldn’t find the answers. That we didn’t have the courage to disrupt the systems and structures that sustain inequality and injustice.

Or we can tell them that we lived it, and we changed it using our voice and using our vote.

As you head into your polling place, and as you consider how you’ll make your impact after graduation, I ask you to think beyond yourself. Don’t just be a leader. Let’s create the next generation of leaders.

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Department director Lawrence Hemingway said the improvements made to Mason Park will attract more residents, both with its new computer lab and overhauled basketball courts. The courts will open after a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Nov. 3.

“We run an afterschool program at Mason Park, and it is busting at the seams with children, so having some technology access for the kids is a huge thing for us,” Hemingway said.

Renovations were announced for Bent Park as well, with its soccer field turf closing temporarily for the city to lay new sod and renew the surface.

Hemingway said the constant use over the last several years left the field in poor condition.

“If you never let the field rest, let that turf rest, it never has a chance to regenerate and grow,” Hemingway said. “Bent Park has been taking off all summer, and we’ll be able to return that field back to the soccer community next spring.”

Hemingway also discussed a new initiative to bring in consultants to review Evanston’s Parks

Police continue search for Evanston woman missing for almost 1 year

Evanston police continues to search for a woman reported missing by her husband last month.

Nyameka Amanda Bell, 33, left her residence in November 2015 and has not been heard of since, according to her husband. Bell is described as a black female, 5 feet tall and

and Recreation department.

Parks and Recreation assistant director Robert Dorneker said the process would help the board better understand what it’s doing well and where it could improve, adding that the process would “lay a good road map” for future policies and park concepts.

Community services assistant director Karen Hawk said the review process benefits the entirety of Evanston by revealing where the department could fine-tune its processes.

“It can only make us better,” Hawk said. “There are things that we’ve done for years that work but may not necessarily be the best practice. This will push us to be better and to look at how our overall operation is.”

Hemingway addressed the new parks and recreation budget and the Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment program.

Hemingway said his department is ready to help with getting more youth employed in the summer months.

“Our budget grew a little bit, both on the revenue and expenses sides,” Hemingway said. “An additional $200,000 helps our side of the table, the city side, but we also are partnering with the private sector to help us meet that goal and get those thousand workers.” benjaminwinck2019@u.northwestern.edu 150 pounds.

Evanston police have spoken to Bell’s acquaintances, who have not heard from her or seen her since February 2016. Her relatives in South Africa, her country of origin, also have not heard from her since February. Bell’s last known employers told detectives she didn’t pick up her last paycheck.

Bell is also known by the names Nyameka Malindi and Amanda Malindi and owns a grey 2003 Volkswagen Jetta that is unaccounted for.

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Some Fifth Ward residents said Thursday that affordable housing solutions and the continuation of the Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program are the most crucial parts of the 2017 proposed budget to their community.

Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) said making affordable housing more accessible is crucial to the Fifth Ward.

“This affects a lot of people in our community … so we’re really trying to meet the needs of the ones who need it,” Holmes said.

The meeting focused on the proposed budget for 2017 prior to its public hearing on Oct. 29.

The proposed budget has a more than $1 million increase planned for the Affordable Housing Fund and a $300,000 increase to the HOME Fund to increase the number of affordable housing units available and the amount of money given for housing stipends, said Marty Lyons, assistant city manager.

Holmes said there will be a focus on affordable senior housing in the ward.

The proposed AHF increase partially comes from fees collected by the city from buildings that are fined when they do not meet city code. The HOME Fund receives federal money.

Based on the proposed budget, AHF would finance hotel voucher programs and long-term senior housing options. Other AHF and HOME funds would create new affordable housing units and helping maintain current units.

This potential increase ensures those looking for housing will have better financial means to do so and be able to find better rooms and apartments to stay in, Holmes said.

“We’re looking at whether or not we’re going to partner with a developer to build affordable housing units,” Lyons said. “We haven’t got that lined up, but we’re funding it, so we’ll explore all that next year.”

There will be a cross-departmental team in place to work toward the goal of increased affordable housing, using all available resources. Once plans are in place and it becomes time to find developers, the community would be able to provide input on potential developers, Lyons said.

An increase in jobs for the Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program is included in the proposed budget, Lyons said.

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This affects a lot of people in our community ... so we’re really trying to meet the needs of the ones who need it.

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The program currently provides about 600 jobs, most with the City of Evanston itself, but with the goal to add 100 more jobs before the summer.

To achieve this, the proposed budget includes a $200,000 increase in funds. The city is also looking to increase partnership with private sector employers to decrease program costs, while also increasing the amount of job opportunities available, Lyons said.

The total estimated cost for the expansion is $460,000, an increase that would happen incrementally. Lyons said that the primary goal for 2017 is to increase the program to 700 jobs.

Concern was raised during the meeting about whether or not the program will continue on following the election of a new mayor in April. Lyons said he was “optimistic” about the program’s continuation, as it has existed under several mayors and city councils.

Attendees of the meeting also identified housing and youth programs as their main areas of concern.

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Freshman Gaziano provides spark to NU’s defense

By BEN POPE

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In July, Joe Gaziano’s father, Frank Gaziano, was sworn in as a judge on the Massachusetts Supreme Court.

But last Saturday, it was Joe who delivered justice, demolishing Michigan State quarterback Brian Lewerke for a safety in his first career sack.

“I used my hands well against the offensive tackle, and I was able to beat him,” Gaziano said. “As soon as I got a step, I was just thinking to get to the quarterback as fast as possible … and that speed that I used getting around the block just propelled me through him.”

Highlight clips of the redshirt freshman’s sack went semi-viral on the Internet, and the Big Ten received its first glimpse of the man expected to become Northwestern’s next dominant defensive lineman. After the game, coach Pat Fitzgerald credited the play with turning the tide in the 54-40 win — the Cats were losing 17-14 prior to the safety.

Gaziano arrived in Evanston last fall as the defending Gatorade Player of the Year in Massachusetts and the second-highest ranked member of NU’s 2015 recruiting class. He soon discovered, however, that he had a lot left to learn — and a host of great defensive

ends, including future NFL players Dean Lowry and Deonte Gibson, from which to learn.

“They taught me a lot of what the base defense was, of what we’re trying to do as defensive linemen at Northwestern,” Gaziano said. “Dean played with a lot of tenacity and a relentless effort, and it was great to learn from and see him do that. … Deonte also played with a lot of speed and power, and it was great to watch him and how he would

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translate that to the field.”

Throughout his 2015 redshirt year, Lowry and Gibson, in addition to defensive line coach Marty Long, helped Gaziano adjust to the college game.

“A year ago, he played really, really high; he didn’t use his hands as well,” Long said. “Now he’s punching and separating and getting off blocks and making plays.”

This fall, the 6-foot-4, 265-pound lineman began seeing sporadic playing time, recording nine tackles through the first five games of the season.

But when junior starting defensive end Xavier Washington went down with an injury last week, Gaziano knew his role was about to increase dramatically — and he was prepared.

After studying the playbook “in and out” all week, Gaziano aced a written test on gap exchanges, blitz packages and other memorized material on Friday night, Long said.

“He did perfect on it, and I told him that he needed to go out and play that way,” Long said. “And he did.”

Playing primarily on third downs, Gaziano was 7-for-7 at the “point of attack” by the method the team uses, Fitzgerald said. In the box score, he recorded a career-high four tackles — including the gamechanging sack — and alertly recovered a loose-ball fumble in the third quarter.

He was awarded the team’s Defensive Player of the Week award for the performance.

“We needed a big play having (Washington)

down last week, and Joe came through,” senior defensive end C.J. Robbins said. “You could see by the first couple drives that we came out flat, and that (sack) really gave us the spark that we needed.”

Washington is again not expected to play in Saturday’s homecoming game against Indiana, but Long said Gaziano’s performance in East Lansing earned the young lineman more playing time moving forward regardless of the rest of the team’s injury report.

The key to that increased playing time could be his versatility: Despite playing mostly end so far, Gaziano can play all four positions on the defensive line.

“I have a good first step, and I’m quick off the ball, so I’m able to play end, and I’m able to chase down a running back or quarterback because I’ve got that speed,” Gaziano said.

“But also I have the ability to play low to the ground and take on blocks well and be stout on the inside.”

The same high level of adaptability which made Gaziano a top recruit two years ago has now molded him into an important fill-in contributor for the defense during the second half of the season — and the likely heir to an everyweek starting role once Robbins and senior Ifeadi Odenigbo graduate in spring.

“He’ll play all four positions because he has the ability to do that,” Long said. “He has the size, the range and he understands the complete package.” benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu

Offensive line slowly improving after early struggles

By MAX GELMAN

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Through six games, Northwestern’s offensive line hasn’t been great. But at the season’s midpoint, it’s finally showing signs of life.

The Wildcats (3-3, 2-1 Big Ten) rank seventh-worst in the nation in opportunity rate, or the percentage of rush attempts that go for at least five yards, according to FootballOutsiders. com. Though junior running back Justin Jackson has managed to overcome this — he leads the Big Ten in rushing — it’s still an indictment of the O-Line, which has a lot to work on.

“With me and Connor, the two senior guys on the offensive line, the only thing we can do is keep working and hopefully the work will pay off,” senior lineman Eric Olson said. “I think the

start of the Duke game, our offense really started heading in the right direction, and we’ve taken a bunch of steps forward.”

The offensive line has struggled on passing downs as well. Sophomore quarterback Clayton Thorson has already taken 17 sacks, just five away from the 22 he took last year, and seemingly big play after big play has been called back this season due to holding penalties.

Things have been different the last two games.

The O-Line only allowed one sack to Thorson in each — wins over the Spartans and Iowa.

It’s a welcome sign from a unit that allowed a season-high five sacks against Duke and four against Nebraska in September.

But as sophomore guard J.B. Butler put it, the unit can be much better.

“We have so much more we need to improve (on),” Butler said. “We have so many talented guys up front, and we have great senior

leadership. Obviously, a perfect game for us is everyone blocks everyone on every play, we score a touchdown on every play, but the biggest thing for us is just coming to work everyday.”

The biggest step the line group has taken so far, Butler said, is grinding through high-scoring wins and not “sitting on our laurels.” NU ran 86 plays against Michigan State last week.

Butler started for the first time in his career against Michigan State last weekend, filling in for injured senior lineman Connor Mahoney.

As soon as he found out he was starting, Butler said he immediately went to study more tape to prepare.

Coach Pat Fitzgerald hailed Butler’s first start as a success, with room to improve.

“His opportunity presented itself, and all he could control was whether or not he was prepared; and he was prepared, mentally and physically,” Fitzgerald said. “Was he perfect? No. No,

not at all. Neither one of our guards were, but I thought he played hard; I thought he played physical; I thought he played fundamentally pretty darn sound.”

Mahoney will be out again Saturday against Indiana, giving Butler another chance to impress.

If Butler continues to impress, NU could have a shot at picking up its fourth win in the last five games.

With Indiana’s vastly improved defense coming to town for Homecoming, the Cats know they must keep moving forward.

“I’ve really been impressed with the interior of the Hoosiers. Really been impressed,” Fitzgerald said. “We haven’t played each other in a while, so we did our offseason study and got ready for them … and that’s just what jumps off to you, is the change that they’re playing defensively. maxgelman2018@u.northwestern.edu

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It could have been Clayton Thorson’s fumble at the goal line to clinch a seasonopening loss to Western Michigan. It could have been the last-second bankedin field goal that lifted Illinois State to an upset win. It could have been the thorough beatdown Nebraska delivered in Evanston, a game that only looked respectable thanks to two Cornhuskers fumbles in the end zone.

Northwestern’s first month was filled with disheartening moments, any one of which might have been enough for a Wildcat fan to write the season off. The luck that powered last season’s successes dried up.

The defense was mortal, and the offense hadn’t stepped up to fill the gap.

NU was 1-3, and the schedule was only getting tougher.

The only way to fully appreciate how much things have changed in the last three weeks is to recognize how dire things were before that fateful road trip to Iowa. In the course of one 38-31 victory over the Hawkeyes, the Cats went from a team down on its luck to one with some positive vibes. Two weeks later, after NU scorched the Michigan State defense to the tune of 54 points, the team is genuinely hot.

Coach Pat Fitzgerald deserves credit for staying the course, trusting his team was better than its record. The Cats didn’t play their best in the season’s first month, but they were a few breaks from coming out on top against the Broncos and surviving the Redbirds. Fitzgerald never panicked through the losses, sticking with the same lineup and same schemes until the results came.

Still, nothing about NU has really fit expectations. The Cats were supposed to start strong before running into games in Iowa City and East Lansing that they weren’t supposed to win. They were supposed to be led by the defensive stars that formed the nucleus of one of the best units in the country last season, but junior linebacker Anthony Walker has started slowly by his lofty standards, and injuries have left the defense with many questions to answer.

Senior wideout Austin Carr wasn’t supposed to be one of the best wide receivers in the Big Ten, but he leads the conference in receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns.

Junior running back Justin Jackson had high expectations coming into the year, but he was no guarantee to lead the Big Ten in rushing, as he does through six games.

Thorson was supposed to take a step forward in his second season as the starter, but his performance in the last two games — a combined 45-of-65 for 445 passing yards and eight total touchdowns — is more like a quantum leap.

Put it all together and NU sits at 3-3 halfway through the schedule, back from the brink and with a serious shot at a bowl game.

No game can be taken for granted, but the Cats should feel good about managing three wins from four games against Indiana, Minnesota, Purdue and Illinois to get to bowl eligibility.

It wasn’t the path NU was expected to take, but the destination makes sense.

A 1-3 start was supposed to be the end of the Cats’ season. Instead, they’re right where they were supposed to be all along.

Max Schuman is a McCormick junior. He can be contacted at maxschuman2018@u. northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a letter to the editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern. com. Views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of the Daily Northwestern.

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Ball-hawking Igwebuike shines in leadership role

By TIM BALK

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Godwin Igwebuike knew it was a long time coming.

The junior safety had gone nearly two years, and more than 20 games, since his last interception. Back on a chilly day in early October 2014, the then-freshman picked off three passes, leading NU to an upset win over a ranked Wisconsin team.

But outside of the bonanza against the Badgers, Igwebuike entered the Wildcats’ game with Duke this September without another interception to his name.

Prior to the game, Igwebuike, brought up in a Christian household and the grandson of a pastor, was praying. He said God told him, “You’re going to get an interception today.”

“If you believe it,” Igwebuike said God told him, “go ahead and tweet it.”

Igwebuike had reservations. He thought about the fact that his teammates would make of fun of him if he called his shot on Twitter and then failed in the game. In the end, he had faith. About an hour and a half before the game, he tweeted “Thanks for the int.”

The “int” came.

The play came out of the shotgun, as Blue Devils quarterback Daniel Jones faked a handoff and then quickly turned up field, lobbing a pass to his slot receiver, who was running a post route.

Igwebuike, in position and unfooled by the play action, cut off the pass and picked it off. It was a huge, momentum-snuffing play.

The Cats, who entered the game 0-2, went on to win 24-13 and have since won two of three.

Igwebuike saw both his faith and his preparation pay off in the play.

The moment and game were not only turning points in the season, they highlighted the importance of the junior who has stepped up this fall to lead a defense in transition.

A complete athlete

When coach Pat Fitzgerald recruited Igwebuike coming out of high school, he did not know exactly what he was getting. Igwebuike had played running back and defensive back in high school, and Fitzgerald said the team recruited him to play both.

“He could have done either/or, as far as I was concerned,” Fitzgerald said.

Growing up in Pickerington, Ohio, a suburb of of Columbus, Igwebuike was an athlete in a complete sense. In his childhood, he played five sports: football, basketball, soccer, baseball and track, he said.

Football would prove to be his favorite.

“Football ended up being the one I was best at,” Igwebuike said. “So I liked it the most.”

As in sports generally, Igwebuike was all over the place on the gridiron. Thinking back to his early

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Godwin Igwebuike tackles Nebraska quarterback Tommy Armstrong at Ryan Field on Sept. 24. Igwebuike led the Wildcats that day with 15 tackles and two for loss.

football days, Igwebuike said he played “everything but lineman,” but then paused to add that, in fact, he played a little bit of defensive line too. In junior high school, he played quarterback and linebacker.

As he got older, he switched to running back and safety, the two positions he played throughout high school.

Eventually, Igwebuike settled on safety over running back. He found himself growing bored on the offensive side of the ball, but never on defense.

While stalking the defensive backfield, he never wanted to come off the field.

“I enjoyed running back a lot; that’s obviously the glory position,” Igwebuike said. But at safety, he was truly home. “I wanted to play on defense the entire game, if I could. So that was kind of an indicator to me that that was the position I was most passionate about.”

The change was just another adjustment Igwebuike had to make coming in at NU, and Fitzgerald noted that the demands on defensive backs are significant. They usually play the role of the “quarterback of the back half,” Fitzgerald said. Nonetheless, Igwebuike made the adjustment in stride.

And he’s not regretting the switch. When you’re on offense, you have to take the hits, he noted.

“I’d rather be delivering those hits,” Igwebuike

said.

Leading Sky Team

Now in his third year as a starter and fourth year on the team (he started part-time as a redshirt freshman in 2014), Igwebuike delivers leadership to the team’s youthful defensive backs. The group, nicknamed the “Sky Team” for years, has long been considered one of the team’s strongest, but the unit has thinned this fall due to departures and injuries.

The Cats lost starting defensive backs Nick VanHoose and Traveon Henry to graduation going into the season and were further decimated by injuries to junior safety Keith Watkins II, senior cornerback Matthew Harris and junior Kyle Queiro.

Queiro returned against Iowa, but Watkins is out for the season, and Harris’ return timetable has not been revealed.

Igwebuike has often been left as the lone veteran presence left in the defensive backfield.

“He’s done a great job stepping up,” junior linebacker Anthony Walker said before the team’s victory over Michigan State. “He’s leading those young guys and keeping them confident in everything that they do.”

Senior defensive end Ifeadi Odenigbo, another veteran and team leader, echoed the sentiment.

“He’s been a lot more vocal,” Odenigbo said.

“Hearing him talk really inspires all the older guys and younger guys.”

Igwebuike admits that he was not the most vocal in the past. But the situation this year required him to step up into a more prominent clubhouse role.

One place he takes a special leadership role is film room, where Queiro said that he and Igwebuike try to set the tone.

“Even when we’re watching film, we’re calling each other out. Just to let everybody know what we’re looking to accomplish,” Queiro said.

That’s not the only way Igwebuike is leading by example.

Before the Cats’ took the field against Michigan State, sophomore safety Jared McGee took a page out of Igwebuike’s playbook, posting a photo on Instagram with the caption that read, in part, “Thank you Lord in advance for the INTs.” McGee’s followed up his post as well, picking off Spartan quarterback Tyler O’Connor to open at the start of the fourth quarter. He credited Igwebuike for the inspiration.

“Godwin’s leadership has been extremely valuable,” McGee said. “He’s mentored me since the beginning of camp. Before camp, in the off-season, watching film with me, critiquing some of the things that happen when I’m on the field.”

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, McGee paid Igwebuike a major compliment with his prediction before Michigan State. What’s more, McGee’s interception helped hand the Cats an eventual 54-40 win.

Savoring every moment

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Godwin Igwebuike on defense against Michigan State on Oct. 15. Igwebuike led the Cats in tackles in the 5440 victory.

If Igwebuike, described by Queiro as a “real carefree guy,” looks like he’s having fun, that’s because he is.

“I’m definitely having a blast,” he said. “These are the good times.”

He said he’s accumulated some of his best memories at NU, both on and off the field. In particular, he has relished his time on the Sky Team, a group he calls the team’s closest and most energetic. As a

sophomore, he lived in the Foster-Walker Complex and reminisced on his memories there.

“Late night talks with your boys — nothing better,” Igwebuike said. “Just having those conversations, acting a fool, being goofy and just living in the moment.”

Igwebuike was reminded of the importance of the moment in October 2014. While he was thriving in NU’s defensive backfield, one of his close friends, Kody Kasey, experienced a life-changing event.

Kasey, who attended Pickerington High School North with Igwebuike, lost his leg playing football for Georgetown College.

For Kasey, a broken leg gave way to an infection and then an amputation. Kasey, though, was not ready for his time on the gridiron to end. After missing the entire 2015 season, he has returned this year for Georgetown College with a prosthetic right leg.

Igwebuike said his friend’s journey has inspired him.

“That really put some perspective,” Igwebuike said, adding that it reminded him of how easily football can be taken away. “It comes back to that perspective — I’m only going to be able to do this for so long, so why not take advantage of it?”

Igwebuike also credits his teammates for keeping the energy on the team loose and helping to make things fun.

That fun isn’t limited to the field. There’s always social media, too, where Igwebuike jokes he possesses one of the “more balanced and strong” presences on the team.

“I enjoy Twitter,” he said. “Every now and then I’ll put something out there. Maybe throw some wisdom out there. Throw a little joke. Maybe a little prophecy.”

Looking forward

Before the Michigan State game, defensive backs coach Jerry Brown asked Igwebuike if he was trying to be all-Big Ten, the safety said.

Igwebuike admits he doesn’t always look ahead.

“I’m kind of the guy who tries to attack everything individually,” he said.

On a team with a one-game-at-a-time attitude, Igwebuike’s philosophy fits. Fitzgerald and the players so often use language along the lines of going “1-0 each week,” it sometimes draws laughs among media covering the team.

Igwebuike, though, said he took Brown’s question to heart.

“I can incorporate both — attacking everything I do with long time term goals in mind, like being All-Big Ten, All-American,” Igwebuike said.

Igwebuike knows the team has goals ahead too.

Despite the injuries in the defensive secondary, the Cats have recovered from their early season woes and enter their homecoming weekend battle with Indiana just one game out of first in the Big Ten West.

Facing a critical three-game stretch that includes games against No. 2 Ohio State and No. 10 Wisconsin, the Cats will look to Igwebuike to continue to provide tough coverage and veteran leadership.

Some more divinely-inspired interceptions wouldn’t hurt, either. timothybalk2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Solely based on tweets, an application developed by Northwestern professors and students is reported to predict people’s voting preferences with an 80 percent accuracy.

TweetCast is an online program that predicts who Twitter users will vote for by analyzing the terms, hashtags, websites and users mentioned in their tweets. It can also predict whether states will vote red or blue.

For example, terms such as “humanity,” “single” and “yall” are indicators of Hillary Clinton supporters, whereas terms such as “lying,” “corrupt” and “country” are indicators of Donald Trump supporters.

McCormick Prof. Larry Birnbaum and Shawn O’Banion (McCormick ’14) originally developed TweetCast for the 2012 presidential election. The program was also applied for 2013 elections in Norway and Germany.

“It was a cool project done for fun and a demonstration of what technology could do,” Birnbaum said. “We thought it was interesting and thought other people would think so too, and that turned out to be true.”

Thousands of people used the program in 2012, Birnbaum said. It was also featured on a PBS blog post titled “Our Picks for the Most Innovative Election Coverage,” and the 2013 Norwegian version gained attention locally, making headlines in Norway.

With the help of undergraduate McCormick students, Birnbaum updated the 2016 version of TweetCast to include a new geolocation feature, which makes it possible to predict whether states will vote red or blue. The state predictions, however, are not as accurate as the team would hope, Birnbaum said.

Jason Cohn, a fourth-year graduate student in the electrical engineering and computer science department, is attempting to improve the accuracy of TweetCast’s geolocation function. “(The feature) is what I’d like to think (will) be

the future of TweetCast, if we can do these mass predictions at the state level,” Cohn said. “It’s really an open question, and we’re not really sure if we’re going to be able to do it.”

One of the problems he faces is the demographic gap between Twitter users and the actual voting population. Twitter users are generally younger and more liberal, Cohn said.

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Just by reading 200 of your most recent tweets, we can predict who you’re voting for with 80 percent accuracy.

Jason Cohn, graduate student

To correct the demographic biases, Cohn is searching for variables that may reveal statistical relationships between the Twitter population and the general population.

McCormick Prof. Doug Downey, who is helping correct this demographic gap, said the application is a good way to predict people’s opinions without having to conduct costly polls.

“It’s actually very exciting, not just for this presidential election, but for estimating people’s preferences over a wide variety of issues in a much more cost-effective way than we currently do,” he said.

As long as a Twitter account is public, it can be subject to analysis, which Cohn said makes TweetCast an “accessible” application.

He said the project revealed to him how unaware people are about how much is available from their social media accounts.

“Just by reading 200 of your most recent tweets, we can predict who you’re voting for with 80 percent accuracy,” Cohn said. “We want people to think about this. There are a lot of implications, if you think about it.” kristineliao2020@u.northwestern.edu

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reality,” he said. “It is a battle I don’t think we can legislate. It’s so personal, so specific.”

School of Law Prof. Juliet Sorensen, one of the organizers of the symposium, said after Durbin’s speech that the failure to prevent the opioid crisis should be collectively shared among doctors, lawyers and people in other professions.

Hope isn’t enough, Sorensen said, and the professional community needed to respond.

“For us to emerge from the opioid crisis, it is essential to recognize that success will also have a hundred fathers and mothers from the justice system, from medicine, from science from … policy makers and legislators,” she said. “I hope today is not an end into itself.”

An institution like Northwestern was “perfect” to help combat opioid addiction, Sorensen said.

“Getting things done through the legislative process can be long and slow,” she said. “A university has the depth and breadth of expertise

FRIDAY. OCTOBER 21, 2016 here on the faculty and also within the community to create opportunities like this for further strategy and collaboration.”

Sorensen said a way the medical industry could help limit addiction would be to expand insurance coverage for interdisciplinary pain management.

Marcia Hovorka, who said she is a mother of an addict, said the whole symposium was a bit reassuring.

“There are people out there who care,” she said.

Durbin said it was interesting that opioid addiction was just getting widespread attention.

A reason for that could be that opioid overdose deaths were spreading from the inner city to the suburbs, he said.

“There is no town too small and no suburb too wealthy to be spared,” he said. “The fact is it’s nationwide. It’s blue state and red states. Everyone is getting hit with this, and it’s sobering.” norashelly2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Big Ten in goals scored in conference games, with 17, so Saturday’s matchup will pit two of the Big Ten’s best units against each other.

On the other end, although injuries have hit NU’s forward group hard, the team has been able to cobble together just enough chances using a patchwork front line. Moynihan said scoring enough goals to get by has been a team effort.

“Some teams score because they have one or two prolific players that are special and can make the difference,” he said. “Other teams do it because they play well together, complement each other well, and that’s gotta be us.”

In particular, junior Kassidy Gorman, who

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the win over Notre Dame, NU also pulled out a victory against now-No. 11 Florida Gulf Coast on Aug. 26 to open its season. In spite of the wins over strong teams, the Cats’ overall record does not reflect their potential.

On top of the inconsistency, NU will face a tough environment at Michigan State. The Spartans have have won every game at home except for one draw. Meanwhile, the Cats’ only road win came against a Rutgers team that is dead-last in

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he plans to start against the Boilermakers.

Hazen said the team was excited with the way the freshmen played Saturday.

“We were all really excited for them to get that opportunity,” Hazen said. “It is a little bit of pressure for those people who are on the court because there are people on the bench that can come get the job done if you’re not.”

Davis said Lindroth, Johnson and Ehman will definitely see some playing time this weekend. He’ll have to decide whether to start Lindroth or stick with senior outside hitter Kayla Morin.

The Cats could have success against the Hoosiers.

NU last won a set since when it played Indiana back on Sept. 21 in Bloomington. Abbott

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2016 played as an outside back last season, has stepped up for the Cats in a more advanced role this year.

Others, like junior defender Nikia Smith and senior midfielder Rachel Zampa, have shown flashes recently when moved forward.

Ultimately, Saturday’s home game should be a great test for NU, a matchup against the type of opponent it might face in deep NCAA Tournament run.

Regardless of the quality of the opposition, junior goalkeeper Lauren Clem said it all comes down to the Cats’ performance.

“We’ve taken a lot of time just to make sure that we’re physically prepared,” Clem said.

“We’re just going to focus on us.” robinsonmarkus2019@u.northwestern.edu conference standings.

There’s a lot going against NU in Saturday’s matchup. But sophomore midfielder Shannon Seymour said the team — for once — has momentum on its side. “[Notre Dame] is a real confidence-booster going into Michigan State,” Seymour said.

“We’ve won two big games that we’ve really needed.”

Mariana Alfaro contributed reporting. robinsonmarkus2019@u.northwestern.edu said the team definitely sees the game as an opportunity.

“We don’t have to play amazing, all we have to do is do our jobs to beat Indiana,” Abbott said. “If we’re going to beat (Purdue), we have to play our level of play, and they might have to play less than they usually are. I feel like with Indiana we have more control over the outcome.”

Although the Cats are still looking for their first Big Ten win, Hazen said they’re excited about their chances.

“Starting off 0-8 is obviously really tough mentally, but you’ve got to just look ahead and be like: ‘We have 12 games left. If we win out, that’s a great season,’” she said. “We’re just trying to stay positive and focus on the game ahead of us.” jonahdylan2020@u.northwestern.edu

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course that is taught off-campus for two to three weeks prior to Fall Quarter. The 10-5-5-10 calendar would not allow the course to be offered, she said.

Feedback from faculty in the Earth and Planetary Sciences department was similar to reactions from at least a dozen other departments, Van der Lee said.

“I feel (the Senate) rejected the calendar idea based on insufficient information and insufficient exploration of the implementation,” she told The Daily in an email. “I have heard valid arguments for and against … but there are also arguments that puzzle me, for example that having a long break between two 5-week blocks of a course would be detrimental to learning.”

On the other hand, she said, the “10-5-5-10” calendar would help students and faculty in her department

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From page 1 “I definitely am aware of the state I’m in,” he said.

“It’s something kind of innate, something I’m used to doing. It doesn’t necessarily bother me or really impact my education heavily, but it’s just discouraging at times.”

The biggest challenge the STEM fields face when recruiting students of color is getting them excited for a career in science, Franklin said. As the telecommunications chair of NU’s chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers, Franklin said he has reached out to high school students in an attempt to increase their interest in STEM. To get more students of color in STEM programs, Franklin said students need a role model — someone who can tell them, in his words, “Hey, I’m here; I can do it, so can you.” But that support, he said, needs to continue once they are accepted to and enrolled in a university.

Alexander Johnson, a McCormick junior majoring in electrical engineering, said he found the support he needed in NSBE, which currently has about 30 members at Northwestern. Now the treasurer of the organization, Johnson said the group works to make the experience of black freshman engineering students easier by collecting class notes from older students, offering professional networking events and providing tips for job fairs and interviews.

“Sometimes (black students) come from high school and there’s this huge gap between what they know and what a lot of the other freshmen know,” Johnson said. “So we work to try to close that.”

McCormick senior Randall Harris, who studies

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who go on a field trip during Spring Break. The break is currently too short and does not allow students to rest before returning to campus for Spring Quarter, she said. She added that she’d like to hear from more students about the proposal.

Departments commented on other recommendations in the task force’s report as well. Fourteen opposed a recommendation to limit homework to 10 hours per week per credit. Only one department in Weinberg was in favor of the recommendation.

Religious Studies Prof. Laurie Zoloth, president of Faculty Senate, said the educational affairs and student affairs committees will further discuss the recommendations made by the task force.

“Both the Senate and the administration are committed to carefully listening to suggestions, objections and good ideas,” Zoloth told The Daily in an email.

“We can build on the good ideas of the task force,

and learn from ideas that did not gain support as we move forward.”

Zoloth, who served on the the task force, said she supported many of the task force recommendations.

Zoloth said she particularly liked the recommendations to improve the residential college system, enhance Counseling and Psychological Services and find “creative ways to honor the work of teaching.”

“We have listened carefully to the thoughtful responses of colleagues who did not like the calendar changes or the idea of 5 week sessions and have learned from these responses,” she told The Daily in an email.

Zoloth said “open and transparent discourse” will be important in clarifying arguments for the proposed changes.

computer engineering, used to be an executive officer for NSBE. He said institutional support for the group is a good start for making the STEM fields more accessible to black students. However, he said the lack of diversity among faculty in STEM fields at NU can make students feel less understood on campus.

“In terms of being comfortable (it definitely helps) being around other people…that just understand certain things that people who aren’t of color wouldn’t understand,” Harris said.

Harris also gets support from his adviser, one of the five black McCormick professors registered by the University, based on its 2014 Data Book. Another resource he took advantage of was EXCEL — a program for incoming freshmen of low-socioeconomic and/or minority backgrounds in STEM fields — where he made long-lasting friends and connections.

Students like Kristen Cotton, a junior studying biomedical engineering, also participated in EXCEL as an incoming freshman and later served as an advisor to the program. She said EXCEL helped participants build the communities necessary to make it through college, Cotton said.

“In McCormick, if you’re a black engineer who didn’t go to EXCEL … it’s always like ‘Dang, you messed up,’” she said. “You can still hang out and be a part of our family, but EXCEL is probably the best resource McCormick has to make black students feel comfortable.”

Cotton added that her identity as a black engineer comes before her identity as a female engineer.

According to Fall Quarter 2015 enrollment statistics, women make up nearly one third of the total McCormick student population. However, Cotton said it’s evident that there is a lack of black students in the

engineering school.

The underrepresentation of black students in STEM fields leads to a smaller pool from which to hire future professors and leaders of STEM programs at universities, McCormick professor Russ Joseph said.

This is the result of a “pipeline problem” that begins early in a student’s education, African American studies professor Debra Thompson said.

“Students who want to go into the STEM field are often discouraged or pushed out or don’t have the prerequisites to give them a firm foundation,” she said.

Cotton said she considers herself lucky because her parents were both engineers, which inspired her to become one as well. However, she acknowledged that, generally, black students don’t consider going into STEM fields because they’re not exposed to other black scientists or engineers.

Having a more diverse faculty and student body can do more than just encourage other students of color to pursue STEM fields, Harris said.This would also allow for identification of problems that often go unnoticed because they are only experienced by people of color.

As an example, Harris referenced the engineering behind the creation of color film in cameras, which for years only accurately developed white skin. This happened because photos were developed using a “Shirley” card, which meant pictures were calibrated using a shot of a white woman, whose skin set the tone for a picture’s color balance.

“I was just thinking like, ‘Man, if there were people of color in those fields, then they would’ve thought about those things, and they would’ve fixed it,’” Harris said.

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Matthews’ prevalence in the YouTube music scene led the organizers of a conference on Korean adoptees to reach out to him, he told The Daily. After attending the conference, he realized there is a vast community of people like him and was inspired to search for his birth family, he said.

“I don’t think I would (have) met my biological family if it wasn’t for my music,” he said.

Matthews found his biological family three years ago and made a documentary, “AKA Dan,” documenting his trip to Korea to meet his parents and siblings. Matthews showed a trailer for the documentary and described meeting his biological family for the first time since being adopted. While preparing to meet his biological family, Matthews discovered he had an identical twin brother, which is common among adoptees, he said.

“Imagine you wake up one day, and your life is completely normal, and you find out that you’ve got an identical twin sibling on the other side of the world,” Matthews said. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, I could have been him!’”

The experience motivated Matthews to connect with other adoptees and make a second documentary about their stories. He and a team of three others traveled to Seoul last summer to document five other adoptees reconnecting with their birth families.

The second documentary, “AKA Seoul,” aimed to portray the diversity of Korean adoptees, particularly the intersection of adoption with LGBTQ issues, he said.

“AKA Seoul” premieres in San Diego in November.

Weinberg sophomore and KASA treasurer Daniel Kang said he enjoyed hearing Matthews’ perspective on a topic often ignored among Koreans. Hearing Matthews’ account of meeting his family was particularly moving, Kang said.

“That’s really not something that’s talked about in the Korean American community or in the Korean community in general,” Kang said.

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At home, No. 23 Northwestern has been impeccable this season: It’s undefeated and has allowed just one goal during eight matches at Martin Stadium.

To get a win at home against No. 13 Minnesota this weekend in possibly the Wildcats’ toughest game of the season to date, they will likely need to maintain that level.

“We’ve been very good at home,” coach Michael Moynihan said. “It just adds to the sense of confidence that we have.”

NU (13-1-2, 6-1-2 Big Ten) takes on the Golden Gophers (123-2, 6-1-2) on Saturday in what is shaping up to be a must-win game of sorts.

NU has embraced, and wholeheartedly gone after, the goal of winning the Big Ten, and with a win over Minnesota, the Cats could potentially take first in the conference standings.

Currently, NU sits in a tie for second with Minnesota, making the stakes of this home matchup

No. 13 Minnesota vs. No. 23 Northwestern Evanston, Illinois 6 p.m. Saturday

clear. Both teams sit a point behind first-place Penn State, which plays at Michigan State on Saturday. If the Cats win, and the Nittany Lions either tie or lose, NU would be in a position to grab its first Big Ten title with one game to play.

However, the Golden Gophers are formidable. Aside from losses to No. 3 Stanford and No. 4 Duke, Minnesota’s only losses this season came against those current top-five teams and in a 1-0 overtime loss to Wisconsin.

In addition, the Golden Gophers have shown that they can dominate conference opponents, earning 3-0 wins over Ohio State, Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska.

For a Cats team that has relied on its defense to carry it through Big Ten play, allowing a Big Ten-best of just five goals all season, this will be the ultimate test. Minnesota leads the » See WOMEN’S SOCCER, page 14

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Northwestern is quickly moving into must-win territory.

With a six game stretch looming against ranked Big Ten teams, including the No. 1, No. 3 and No. 4 teams in the country, the Wildcats (7-13, 0-8 Big Ten) need a momentum shift this weekend. NU takes on No. 24 Purdue (12-7, 2-6) on Friday and Indiana (13-8, 2-6) on Sunday.

“Anybody can beat anybody in the Big Ten,” junior middle blocker Gabrielle Hazen said. “ We’ve always just kind of been on the losing side of it so far. They’re both beatable teams. We’re looking to beat both of them.”

Coach Shane Davis made some lineup changes in the third and final set last Saturday against Illinois and they seemed to pay off: The Cats scored 22 points, more than they had in a set in five matches.

Davis inserted three freshmen — Sarah Johnson, Allie Lindroth and Emily Ehman — into the lineup.

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After taking down a giant in its last match, Northwestern will look to do it again at No. 20 Michigan State this Saturday.

Although the Wildcats (4-9-1, 2-3-1

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Big Ten) have suffered rough losses for most of the season, they will look to build off a 2-1 overtime upset against No. 4 Notre Dame. Senior forward

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Lindroth had four kills, while Ehman had four digs.

Davis and junior outside hitter Symone Abbott were particularly bullish on Ehman’s play against the Fighting Illini.

“She just kind of came in and did her thing,” Abbott said. “Even though she’s not the person that we look to to get out there and do well … her doing well can incite the rest of us to do better.”

But NU is dealing with libero trouble. Sophomore Katie Kniep started the season as the squad’s libero, but has been out since Oct. 1 with a back injury. Senior outside hitter Rafae Strobos had been playing libero until she was replaced

by Johnson in the third set against Illinois. Davis would not say who » See VOLLEYBALL, page 14

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Andrew McLeod covers a run outside the box. The freshman defender and the rest of Northwestern’s defense will try to hold up against No. 20 Michigan State as the Wildcats look for a third-straight win.

Mike Roberge, who scored the winning goal, said he was thoroughly impressed with his team’s offensive performance against the Fighting Irish.

“We were more efficient in the offensive third,” Roberge said. “We were able to capitalize on the chances we had.”

The Cats are coming off back-toback overtime wins, and their best performance of the season came in the Notre Dame game. If NU pulls out the win against the Spartans (10-3-1, 3-21), it will be the first time this season that they muster back-to-back victories against ranked opponents.

For a team that has consistently struggled to score goals this season, the offense has been the key to recent victories. A third of the Cats’ goals this season have been scored in the last two wins, as NU has won its last two games with two goals each.

But Michigan State will test NU’s offense, as the Spartans have allowed just 10 goals this season, tied for best in the Big Ten. However, the Fighting Irish had allowed seven goals on the season prior to taking on the Cats, so NU recently proved it can challenge strong defenses.

The Cats have been incredibly inconsistent this season, but they have certainly shown they have the talent to take down ranked teams. Outside of » See MEN’S SOCCER, page 14