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NU celebrates 150 years of coeducation The Daily profiled four women who’ve made an impact By EMILY SAKAI

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Riley Lees pounds the Ryan Field grass in frustration after dropping a pass. Northwestern was outplayed Friday night at home by the visiting Buckeyes.

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Buttigieg speaks at UChicago

The South Bend mayor discussed the rise of his candidacy, current race By DAISY CONANT

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CHICAGO — On the heels of his pundit-determined “win” of the fourth Democratic presidential debate, Pete Buttigieg,

mayor of South Bend, Indiana, spoke to a packed audience at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics on Friday. Interviewed by David Axelrod — senior aide to former President Barack Obama and Director of the Institute of Politics — Buttigeig discussed

the rise of his candidacy, holding competitor Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) accountable for the lack of transparency on how to finance her medicarefor-all promises and how he hopes to fix America’s broken democratic structures. The candidate delved into

the idea of ensuring a national popular vote, noting that it was why he is running for president. Buttigieg added he plans to tackle issues of gerrymandering, the role of money in politics and possibly eliminating » See PETE, page 8

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This year marks the 150th anniversary of coeducation at Northwestern. One of the ways Northwestern is celebrating the anniversary is by shining light on some of the remarkable women/womxn from the University’s past and present. These women, a group of over 100 called “catalysts” by the University’s 150 Years of Women Committee, represent diverse backgrounds and vast achievements. As the year continues, the committee hopes to keep growing the list via nominations. “We wanted to show examples of people who are making the world a better place and making this a more equitable and inclusive community,” said University spokesperson Jeri Ward, 150 Years of Women Committee co-chair. “We hope that others will take inspiration from that and drive positive change in the future.” Teresa Woodruff, who is both a member of the 150 Years committee and the catalyst list, sees women as an integral part of Northwestern’s strength as a university. “They’ve been a part of the intellectual firepower that has led Northwestern to be globally recognized as an academic powerhouse,” Woodruff said. “Telling that story acknowledges presence, and that’s really critical.”

Below are profiles of four of these exceptional women.

Sophie Davis

A current junior studying journalism, design, and entrepreneurship and one of Chicago’s 25 under 25, Sophie Davis co-founded her startup, alula, during her sophomore year. The company makes lamps that simulate the sun, helping users wake up more refreshed. “Waking up to the sun is such a calming and refreshing experience, as opposed to waking up in the dark to an alarm that startles you,” Davis said. Davis came up with the idea in her freshman year entrepreneurship class and furthered that idea into a business through The Garage’s Wildfire, an incubator and accelerator for startups. Davis said she’s excited to be launching preorders on the alula lamps soon. Her startup has been “one of the most defining” parts of her college experience, and she looks forward to where it will take her in the future. Davis is also part of the Propel program, which focuses on entrepreneurship among women at Northwestern. “It’s about fostering great relationships between women entrepreneurs,” Davis said. “Women receive less funding for their ventures than men, and women of color receive significantly less. Banding together, we can learn from each other and grow from that.”

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James Foley award winner talks reporting tough stories Max Bearak was recognized for his 2018 reporting in sub-Saharan Africa, covering a range of issues By WILSON CHAPMAN

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Max Bearak, chief of the Washington Post’s Nairobi bureau and recipient of the 2018 James Foley Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism, said his courage is a reflection of the people around him who face more difficult lives with greater courage than his own. “I’m surrounded by people — millions of people, in fact — who are drawing on much deeper wells of courage than my own,” Bearak said. “They’re living without the most basic services from their government, and without the possibility of government if they’re wrong... When I think of my own well of courage, I think about how I’ve relied on others to fill it up.” Bearak received the award

at the Friday event in the McCormic k Foundation Center Forum. Established in 2003, the medal is given by Medill to an individual or team at a U.S-based journalism outlet that displayed courage in their reporting of a story or a series of stories. Bearak was awarded the Medal for his 2018 reporting in sub-Saharan Africa, during which he covered the Ebola crisis in the Congo, Boko Haram defectors and demonstrations after the Zimbabwean general elections. Bearak was chosen as the recipient following a unanimous vote from the judges panel, according to a June press release. “The range of Bearak’s reporting in Africa I think is a complete portfolio of courage, covering a geographic beat in an incredibly rich way,” Medill Prof. Donna Leff, one of the judges for the award, said in a

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June press release. “So many of the stories from this part of the world are often written as one-offs or not heard at all. Bearak was able to write about the Ebola outbreak as it was happening while retaining a rich cultural and historical context.” During his speech, Bearak discussed the people he relied on to provide him with courage, ranging from his parents who helped him through encouragement to The Washington Post, which gave him the job of Nairobi bureau chief at 27. Bearak also praised the courage of the people he worked with, including his translators and guides, and discussed the altruism of a Nigerian governor who believed in the possibility of rehabilitation for children indoctrinated by Boko Haram, and established » See BEARAK, page 6

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Max Bearak. The reporter was the recent recipient of the 2018 James Foley Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism.

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City residents celebrate Diwali at EPL By ANUSHUYA THAPA

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Standing before a crowd at the Chicago Avenue-Main Street branch of the Evanston Public Library, Martha Meyer, assistant in early learning and literacy services, retold the story of the Ramayana at a Diwali celebration. The epic had been condensed into a short, interactive story where audience members played the roles of characters from ancient Hindu myths. A crowd of a dozen small children and parents attended the event from 11 a.m. to noon. Diwali, known as the festival of lights, is a fourto five-day-long festival celebrated by Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh communities. Typically, the festival involves lighting traditional oil lamps, called called diya, and worshipping Lakshmi, the goddess of fortune. “It was long overdue,” Meyer said of the Saturday Diwali celebration. At EPL, the Diwali celebration centered around a storytime based on the story of the Ramayana, the lore behind the festival of Diwali, arts and crafts activities and a free mehendi station with a volunteer henna artist. After the children listened to the story, they decorated diya and made their own versions of traditional rangoli designs on paper using colored sand. To create the story, Meyer referred to children’s books that adapted the Ramayana, including works like “Prince of Fire.” She also worked

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with advisors to confirm the accuracy of her presentation and ensure that the day’s crafts were appropriate. “I never do events like this unless I talk to the community,” Meyer said. “I have two members of the community that I talk to to make sure what I’m doing is not offensive.” Wilmette resident Ankita Bhan said she enjoyed the reception. She drove to Evanston with her son to attend the event and took several videos of the storytime. Bhan remarked that when she initially came to America from Delhi, she hadn’t anticipated staying. Back then, culture hadn’t been as important for her. Since having children, she said she started putting more importance on community and multiculturalism. “At home, we just do a little puja and make some Indian food,” Bhan said. “This is a much better way of introducing kids to the culture.” For Raquel Galan, an Evanston resident who is originally from Spain, celebrating Diwali became a part of her life when she met her Indian husband 10 years ago. Before settling in America, Galan had never celebrated festivals like Diwali or El Día De Los Muertos, which have now become much more important to her. She came to the event with her husband and two daughters, who had donned traditional Indian lehengas for the event. “Celebrating festivals enriches your life,” Galan said. “Life is a lot more fun now.“ The event attracted families with different ties to Indian culture. The audience cheered on Rama

“casual space” for residents to talk with Evanston police officers. Police officers will be in the lobby of 1800 Sherman Ave., from 10 a.m. to noon to talk with residents. EPD has had a partnership with Northwestern’s Neighborhood and Community Relations Department for “many years,” according to a Thursday news release, and Northwestern has supported police community engagement

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Setting the record straight An article published in Thursday’s paper titled “Dittmar’s “reevaluating ‘a’” illuminates philosophical questions through narrative storytelling” inaccurately stated the name of the typeface designer. It is 53947.

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Henna artist Shruti Vijay (left) applies mehendi to Ankita Bhan and her son. The celebration was held Saturday at the CAMS branch of Evanston Public Library..

through his exile and war against the demon Rawana, ending in a victory cry as the prince returned to his kingdom, and the final lines of Meyer’s dramatic retelling rang true: “Although we may call light something different than Rama, and dark something different than Rawana, we can all celebrate the victory of light over evil in India,” she said.

An article published in Thursday’s paper titled “Block Museum presents film series ‘Ism, Ism, Ism’” misstated the format of the works that were reevaluated. They were amateur works. This story also misstated the city where Lerner came to find the movie’s creator. It was Mexico City’s Roma neighborhood. The story also misstated the financial accessibility of the film series. All of the “Ism” programs will be free. An article published in Friday’s paper titled “CTU members mount picket lines” misstated Gabrielle Odom’s name. Her name is Gabrielle, not Danielle. The Daily regrets the errors.

anushuya@u.northwestern.edu efforts including the EPD Citizen Police Academy. The release also said the city, EPD and the Citizen Police Academy Association are sponsoring the event. According to the release, the “Coffee with a Cop” event builds on EPD’s community policing efforts while providing residents a space to talk with officers, ask questions, share concerns, or “simply talk about sports while sipping a ‘cup of

joe’ or drink of their choice.” The city has held “Coffee with a Cop” events since 2014 and most recently held one last April. EPD also recently relaunched its Hispanic Officers Liaison program to better serve Evanston’s Latinx community and build on the department’s community outreach efforts. — Samantha Handler

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Panel covers economic growth in Japan By RYANN PERLSTEIN

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At Friday’s Walk in U.S., Talk on Japan panel, participants discussed Japan’s recent economic development and sustainability initiatives, while providing guests with complimentary sushi rolls. Northwestern is just one stop of many for the program, which has visited 90 cities and 38 states so far. The program is run by the Japanese government to highlight Japan’s “attractiveness and appeal,” according to the program’s website. Friday’s panel included a delegation of four Japanese delegates, including special adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet, Tomohiko Taniguchi. The event, held in the Rebecca Crown Center, comes a few weeks after the United States and Japan agreed on a new trade agreement that will eliminate or lower tariffs and expand markets on agricultural and digital products. This agreement is the “widest ranging, broadest covering and most cutting edge trade attempt ever done between two advanced economies,” Taniguchi said. He called it “good news” for both Japan and the United States. The event began with a brief history of Japan, including what panelist Yasunori Nakayama, the acting director general of the Japanese Institute of International Affairs, called the “peaceful path” Japan has “consistently” taken since the end of World War II. Other features of Japan’s economy and political participation were also discussed, including the government’s social welfare expenditure on childcare, which includes free daycare and kindergarten for children up to age five. Taniguchi said Japan is also known as a “silver democracy,” since the majority of

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voters are elderly. This elderly population is a key part of the Japanese economy — Japan has the highest percentage of workers between the ages of 65 and 69, as well as an overall population that is declining. “Japan’s social welfare expenditure is not just about the elderly care,” Taniguchi said. “That includes everything: baby care, child care, sickness treatment, poverty reduction, all sorts. It’s one of those classic needs to be said, hard to be done projects.” While the panel primarily focused on the structure and changes in the Japanese economy, there was also an emphasis on the development of sustainability practices, particularly in rural communities. One of the panelists, Akira Sakano, is the chair of the Board of Directors at Zero Waste Academy, a nonprofit organization that develops sustainability initiatives. Sakano lives in the first zero waste municipality in Japan, called Kamikatsu. “I’m coming from a rural area in Japan which is extremely different from Tokyo,”

Sakano said. “I decided to move to here five years ago for only one purpose: to build practices of sustainable community.” These practices include sustainable waste centers and incentives for restaurants and small businesses to go zero waste. Sakano said this is “beneficial for both” the community members and the environment. Kamikatsu also encourages residents to avoid purchasing new items through a store, where people can take second hand items for free. Sakano said this will “encourage people from buying new stuff all the time,” and will encourage people to “try to seek for second hand options.” These zero waste centers act as “an opportunity for elderly to meet residents in the community” he said. Ultimately, Sakano said these initiatives have become “not only just a sustainability issue, but also a community project.” ryannperlstein2023@u.northwestern.edu

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When we joke about the reality of climate change GRANT LI

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My friends and I often joke around and say, “we’re going to die in 50 years anyways.” I’ve always said those eight words without thinking the specifics too much, until recently when someone replied, “do you really think that?” At first I was taken aback. I’d heard the joke many times, and I had repeated it so often myself that I took it as a given fact. Is 50 years even accurate? Am I being too pessimistic? Is there actually hope for us to turn it around? Of course, I never really looked into it — the whole point of the joke is that the entire situation is depressing, and looking into the facts probably really wouldn’t make you feel any better. Yet struck by surprise, and curiosity, I dug into the details anyways. To no one’s shock, the outlook isn’t great. Currently, the planet is set to warm about

3ºC by 2100. If we continue to be a fossil fuel reliant economy, temperatures can warm to about 4ºC by 2100. Those are scary numbers considering the fact that climate change scientists are already worried about the difference between 1.5ºC and 2ºC. Not to mention that we’ve already seen a global increase of 1 degree.

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Humanity’s existence on the planet is like a painting: if you slash a part of it, the entire painting is ruined. There are also a lot of nuances that shouldn’t be overlooked. Not all the warming will be spread equally. Some places have already surpassed 1.5ºC of warming and will continue to heat up faster than other areas.

Additionally, these numbers should be taken even more urgently considering the fact that the planet is consistently beating the timelines set by the models. Most importantly, all of these numbers are considered in a vacuum. What these numbers don’t indicate are the actual consequences besides the damage to nature. Perhaps they aren’t always included because the problems that will arise out of climate change are so infinite that there’s no way to consider them all. Each of the initial problems set off countless more downstream. From refugees, wars over water, the oil that resides in the regions where the wars over water are occurring, the plight of minorities and the poor, to new superbugs with pandemic potential molded by warmer temperatures, naming all the possible catastrophes is futile. Perhaps I was wrong about 50 years. As a privileged person, I might not be dead in 50 years. But humanity’s existence on the planet is like a painting: if you slash a part of it, the entire painting is ruined. And maybe extinction isn’t the definitive future — extinction in 50 years may not be realistic. But it won’t

be a pretty existence, either. I certainly don’t want to be there to witness the world in the process of sliding into self-destruction. Living and surviving are two different things. Will we actually be living? Or will we just be trying to survive? Fatalistic attitudes can be problematic, and if I’m being entirely honest, the person who initially questioned my joke was getting at that point. At the same time, I believe it’s a valid coping mechanism, in the fashion of the common “expect the worst, and you’ll never be disappointed” mentality. Such a way of thinking doesn’t mean you have to just accept that it’s over and raise the white flag. Rather, it’s when your back is against the wall and you have nothing to lose when you hit back the hardest. Grant Li is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be contacted at ligrant@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.

Under Donald Trump, Republican Party has lost its way ZACH KESSELL

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“I’m a nationalist, okay? I’m a nationalist. Nationalist. Nothing wrong. Use that word. Use that word.” — Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America. With former Alabama senator and Trump administration Attorney General Jeff Sessions coming to speak at Northwestern on November 5 on the topic of “The Real Meaning of the ‘Trump Agenda,’” it is important to point out that the President of the United States has no real agenda. A Democrat for most of his life, Trump has never demonstrated belief in anything but his own financial gain. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist, and the greatest trick Trump ever pulled was convincing the Republican Party that he cares at all about conservative values. That is, of course, where the nationalists come in. There is certainly a healthy form of nationalism; love of country and the celebration of shared history at best create a bond between citizens. At worst, nationalism emboldens racists and promotes the destruction of republican values. In the absence of any ideological coherence from the White House, a new movement has coalesced around the grifters who consider themselves the philosophical heirs to the Trump movement, the shapers of a new Republican Party. Most notable amongst these self-styled “national conservatives” are Tucker Carlson, Michael Anton and, perhaps the most important name to watch, Yoram Hazony. In July of this year, Hazony, an IsraeliAmerican, organized the first ever National Conservatism Conference. The conference’s website describes an effort to promote national conservatism as an “intellectually serious alternative to the excesses of purist

libertarianism.” Upon reading the published explanation of the National Conservatism conference, one could be forgiven for mistaking national conservatism for an updated version of right-wing politics with respect to its purported empathy for Trump’s main — and only consistent — demographic, working-class white people. Hazony wants none of these things. This is a man who calls for the destruction of the liberal order, the end of the Whiggish progression of history toward liberty and justice for all. A man who supports despots like Hungary’s Viktor Orban. Hazony calls for “conservative democracy,” in which the state “upholds and honors the biblical God and religious practices common to the nation.” As Niskanen Center senior fellow Gabriel Schoenfeld wrote ahead of July’s conference, Hazony would “bid farewell to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.” Anton, in the months preceding the 2016 presidential election, wrote an ill-famed essay published by the Claremont Institute entitled “The Flight 93 Election,” comparing electing then-candidate Trump to storming the cockpit on United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. Anton writes in the essay that “the ceaseless importation of Third World foreigners with no tradition of, taste for, or experience in liberty” will destroy the United States like the Visigoths in Rome. Of course, those “Third World foreigners” are fleeing to America in search of protection from despotic governments, violence, and insurmountable economic crises, but that is of no matter to Anton, who naturally went on to serve on the Trump Administration’s national security council. The most famous — or infamous, depending on who you ask — of the trio is Fox News’s own formerly-bow-tied stand-in for any Division III lacrosse flameout with a Four Loko habit and daddy issues, Tucker Carlson. This, of course, being the man who has said that leading a country means killing people, that immigrants come to this country to steal American wealth and make the United States “poorer and dirtier” and who

notoriously called Iraqis “semiliterate primitive monkeys.” Those comments are unsurprising, but what took the political media by storm in January was a monologue on his show in which he all but came out against the free market. In his view, the free market, i.e. the system which has lifted millions out of abject

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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist, and the greatest trick President Trump ever pulled was convincing the Republican Party that he cares at all about conservative values.

poverty, is “disgusting.” The transcript, as the National Review pointed out, reads like a Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren stump speech, one that calls for economic authoritarianism up to the point of seizing the means of production. It would not have been surprising to hear Carlson — who, by virtue of his position, is a leader in contemporary conservatism — use the phrase “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” What is the endgame here? For Trump, who, after duping millions into electing him, refuses to divest himself from his personal business, it is money. For the Potemkin intellectual movement surrounding him, it is the transformation of the Republican Party from Reaganite optimism and fusionism’s emphasis on personal liberty to a planned economy and enforced reactionary social traditionalism. In other words, the Republican Party is trending towards fascism.

I am not saying that the Republican Party will suppress dissidents with force or engage in violent ethnic cleansing. What I am saying is that it will look like something out of Mussolini’s fantasies. A myth of national rebirth from decadence, and a myth to which the current dictator-worshipping president has given credence. I am a conservative because I believe in personal responsibility, the free market, individual liberty and America’s moral responsibility to the world. Now, it seems, the Republican Party has lost its way. When the former Attorney General speaks at Northwestern, he will attempt to say that Trump has some sort of grand vision for the United States. He does not. What he does have is the power to allow grifters and con men to permeate the right, until movement conservatism crumbles. We have already seen the consequences in the sycophants that defend President Trump’s offenses against republican governance and his betrayal of the Kurds in Syria. What Sessions will speak of is a false pretense. He will offer a disingenuous cover for the White House’s lack of beliefs. What he won’t acknowledge is that conservatism as he knew it coming up in politics, and conservatism as it was until very recently, is endangered. Without a conservation effort, it will die out and be replaced by the kind of nationalism that scholars of a certain World War know so well. William F. Buckley once said that “a conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.” Oh, how this conservative wishes the Republican Party would heed his message. Zach Kessel is a Communication freshman. He can be contacted at zachkessel2023@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.

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POLIN director discusses Polish memorial culture By LINUS HÖLLER

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Seventy-seven years after the implementation of Nazi Germany’s “final solution of the Jewish question,” which resulted in the murder of up to six million people throughout occupied parts of Europe, Poland is still coming to terms with its role in the Holocaust. Dariusz Stola, professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences and director of Warsaw’s POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, spoke about the Holocaust at the Evanston Public Library on Sunday. He discussed the way the Holocaust is taught, debated and remembered in his native country, Poland. “There wasn’t really any space for this debate behind the Iron Curtain,” Stola said. “Really, there wasn’t any

space for any debate under communist rule.” According to the Holocaust Education Foundation of Northwestern University, which co-hosted the event, the POLIN Museum’s activities have “brought it international acclaim, museum awards — and more recently, vicious media attacks and political controversies.” He mentioned, however, some notable exceptions to this rule. Lively debates had raged in Poland immediately after the end of the war, initiated by a renewed wave of antisemitism within Polish society, Stola said. Later, before the fall of communism in the late 1980s, freedoms of speech and opinion began to reemerge, allowing for discussion about the Holocaust and the peaceful transition away from communist rule. “I don’t think that these debates are over,” Stola said. “But I am worried about where they will go in

the future.” Loyola University Chicago Prof. Jim Blachowicz who was drawn to Stola’s presentation because four of his own grandparents were Polish, said he, too, was concerned about the impact of social media, which is changing the way people are educated about history. Stola is also concerned about new political trends in Poland and more broadly in Europe. The party Confederation Freedom and Independence won 11 of the 460 seats in the Sejm, the lower house of Poland’s parliament, in the election earlier this month. The problem is that “they are proudly antisemitic,” Stola said. “For the first time, a far-right-wing party entered Poland’s parliament,” Stola said. The party, much like the ruling Law and Justice party, which won an absolute majority in the same election, ran on distinctly xenophobic and nationalist

platforms, Stola said. They both incorporate the ideals of “Polish identity” and the large role that Catholicism plays in the country into their programs. In 2018, the Law and Justice party attempted to “suddenly push through a reform of (the Institute of National Remembrance),” Stola said, which would have penalized those alleging that Poland had been complacent during the Holocaust. The proposal was met with broad public backlash, especially from foreign leaders and domestic academics, Stola said. “It was weird for me to see that foreign heads of state were the ones defending the freedom of research in my own country,” Stola said. Stola will speak at Northwestern on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Harris Hall 108. hoeller@u.northwestern.edu

DPOE pushes for climate change education in Evanston By JACOB FULTON

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The Democratic Party of Evanston’s Climate Action Team pushed for climate change education at its meeting on Sunday. The Climate Action Team formed in early 2017, after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, as a part of the DPOE’s attempt to create different local organizing groups to tackle national issues. The team most recently worked with students at Evanston Township High School for the climate strike on Sept. 20. The committee is dedicated to providing climaterelated resources and information for local activists to spread the word about the issue of climate change. For group members like Chicago Waldorf School science teacher Jim Kotz, the inclusion of climate issues in the classroom is essential to students’ education. “As a scientist, I definitely became aware of climate change. But I really enjoyed bringing the issue to my students,” Kotz said. “They’ve been very responsive,. So when there is positive feedback, I try to educate the students, and they show their appreciation.” The City-School Liaison Committee, a group of aldermen and school board members, focuses on

building relationships between the City Council, Evanston/Skokie School District 65 and Evanston Township High School District 202, and to allow community members to address concerns that affect both the city and the school districts. At the committee’s next meeting, the Climate Action Team will discuss how the city and school districts can work toward educating the public about climate change and positively impact the community. The group decided to push for the inclusion of climate-related topics in education at all grade levels, said committee chair Bob Heuer. The inspiration for this push stemmed from a discussion about a project that sixth graders in District 65 undertook last year, where they investigated environmental issues, including invasive species and stormwater runoff, and presented possible solutions. ETHS sophomore Ethan Schaefer said though many students don’t receive in-depth education about climate change in their classes, many are getting involved outside the classroom and speaking up about the issue. Heuer estimated that approximately 300 people attended the climate strike, the majority of whom were students. Schaefer attended the committee’s meeting and said some people’s hesitation to discuss climate change

comes from how it is talked about on the national level. “If you play the fear card — you talk about how the earth is heating up and the oceans are rising — you’re just going to scare people,” Schaefer said. “That’s not what needs to be talked about. There needs to be a focus on solutions. If people are scared, they won’t want to talk about it, and those things will actually happen.” The Climate Action Team’s work includes discussions about Evanston’s Climate Action Resilience Plan — a plan for the city to reduce its environmental impact through 2050. One of the Climate Action Team’s goals is to ensure funding for the project. However, the organization wants to continue community involvement in climate change action, and according to DPOE director of communications Neal Weingarden, part of the plan to do so includes starting with smaller, more attainable goals. “A lot of these things are big ideas, and they can take a long time, which is a good way to get people to lose interest,” Weingarden said. “Identifying small, digestive parts where we can get small wins is the best way to keep people involved.” DPOE has planned a Nov. 19 discussion with the Evanston City-School Liaison Committee to further discuss climate change education. jacobfulton2023@u.northwestern.edu

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DPOE Climate Action Team Chairman Bob Heuer. Heuer speaks with an Evanston resident about how the group can publicize the issue of climate change.

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From page 1 the electoral college. “It’s never sexy, the process stuff is not sexy,” Buttigeig said. “But that’s got to be done right alongside dealing with climate and wages and racial inequity and health care if we want to advance as a country in our lifetime.” Refocusing on Warren, Buttigieg highlighted their differing policies on the financing of higher education. The mayor said he believes it’s important to consider “who is paying for what for whom,” opposing the policies of more progressive candidates in which the government provides “free college” for everyone. Instead, he advocates for a model in which only lower and middle income students would be relieved of the cost burden, one that wouldn’t apply to wealthy Americans. Axelrod then quipped that the individuals that Buttigieg calls “very rich,” the University of Chicago calls “trustees.” “Those trustees’ children, should they go to college, I think they can pay their own tuition,” Buttigieg replied. “I don’t think we need to make it free for absolutely everybody. I think we should make it free for anyone who would face this as a barrier.” The mayor spoke to a diverse audience, paralleling the demographics of the Hyde Park neighborhood in which the university’s campus is located. This came in direct contrast to a September grassroots event Buttigieg held in the Bronzeville neighborhood — as Axelrod pointed out during the conversation, the audience there was overwhelmingly white despite the area’s predominantly black population. While his comments on resolving the damage created by Trump’s presidency and how the mayor’s promises are more sound than his fellow candidates elicited nods of approval from the crowd, Buttigieg received critical notes from both Axelrod and students on his relationship with

Source: Northwestern ‘Genevieve Forbes Herrick, Lorraine H. Morton, Teresa K. Woodruff and Sophia Davis.

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then Genenvieve Forbes, graduated from Northwestern in 1916 and two years later began working for the Chicago Tribune. As a female reporter in 1918, Forbes was assigned to write for society pages, but she pushed her editors to let her take more serious stories. In 1921, she convinced her superiors to allow her to cover the process of immigrating to the U.S. Posing as an Irish immigrant, she went through the entire process of coming to America, uncovering the abuse immigrants endured at Ellis Island. Her 13-part series led the firing of the Ellis Island commissioner.

Lorraine H. Morton

After graduating from Northwestern in 1942, Lorraine H. Morton spent decades serving Evanston as an educator and public servant. She taught at Foster School, Nichols Middle School and Chute Middle School before becoming principal of the integrated Haven Middle School. In 1989, Morton retired from education and ran for mayor in 1993. Winning the election, she became not only the city’s first black mayor but its first Democratic one as well. Morton served as mayor for 16 years, making her Evanston’s longest serving mayor. Morton passed away in September 2018 at the age of 99.

Teresa K. Woodruff

Teresa Woodruff is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology, molecular biosciences, and biomedical

engineering at Northwestern, as well as researcher and dean of The Graduate School. Woodruff, a champion of women’s health, created a new medical field called oncofertility, a combination of oncology and fertility. “The focus is allowing young people going through cancer treatments to maintain their reproductive health through treatment,” Woodruff said. She also founded the Women’s Health Research Institute, which fights for inclusion of females in research studies. “On a fundmental level, including sex as a biological variable in basic research studies is critical. It ensures that in the long run, drugs won’t be less effective or harmful for some individuals,” Woodruff said. In addition to her work for women’s health, Woodruff was on the committee for the 150 Years of Women project. She worked on the “Hidden No More” project, which highlights impactful women from Northwestern’s faculty that have often been left out of the University’s history. “Uncovering individuals who were part of the fabric of the University but have never been looked at before was really exciting. It helps us understand the narrative of what has led to our ability to be here,” Woodruff said. To Woodruff, celebrating this anniversary is an opportunity to remember that women are an essential part of the University’s past, present, and future. “My hope is that these stories give us all reason to hope that the next 150th anniversary will be more inclusive for all of us, and that the world will be better because of that,” she said.

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a deradicalization program for members of the terrorist organization. Bearak also said although his reporting focuses on African countries facing turmoil, unrest does not characterize the whole of Africa. Conceptions of the country as a uniquely troubled place can be viewed as a subjugation similar to colonialism, he said. In his reporting, Bearak said he is aware of preexisting prejudices and aims to challenge them by representing those he covers as people instead of victims. “The voices that portray Africans universally as victims sometimes seem louder than those that view them as people,” Bearak said. “The far

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black Americans. One point of contention was built off the news that the Buttigieg campaign would return thousands of dollars in contributions by former City Hall attorney Steve Patton, who fought against the public release of footage showing then-officer Jason Van Dyke’s fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald. Axelrod brought up the announcement just before turning to the audience for questions, noting that this was a “growing pains” story and the campaign should have created the infrastructure to evaluate donors more thoroughly, especially considering his support amongst African American voters in certain primary states is “negligible.” “That’s not an unfair way to put it,” said Buttigeig, adding that his campaign had increased from around four to 400 staffers over the past 10 months. “I’d hire one more and put them on vetting,” Axelrod responded. The first audience question came from black graduate student, who asked what Buttigieg would do to close the racial wealth gap as president. Buttigieg answered that he supported H.R. 40, a congressional bill to study and commision a proposal for retributions to African Americans. He also mentioned his proposals for criminal justice and access to credit reform, noting that because the “disparity is systemic, the solution has to be systemic too.” “There is a conversation that needs to happen among white Americans — this can’t be something that is only raised as a sort of specialty topic for black audiences,” Buttigieg said. “And frankly, it’s important to not only hear about this from candidates of color, because there’s got to be a way without arousing some of the defensiveness that a lot of people have to talk about how everyone is implicated in this problem and how everyone can be a part of a reparative or restorative process to make it better in our lifetime.” daisyconant2022@u.northwesterrn.edu greater courage comes from an instinct ... to go forth as a journalist not just to bear witness, but to ask tough questions, of your sources and of your readers, and to challenge their prevailing misconceptions.” Medill’s director of alumni engagement Belinda Clarke, who helped organize the event, told the Daily that she thought Bearak’s presentation was fantastic, and she appreciates his humility and his skills as a reporter. “He mentioned, but didn’t talk much about it, he’s grown up all over the world — both his parents were global journalists,” Clarke said. “That makes him very comfortable in places most journalists don’t want to be. And that makes him really good at what he does.” wilsonchapman2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern demolishes Cats fall to 0-8 in Big Ten Kent State in big victory for second straight season By GABRIELA CARROLL

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Northwestern looked perfect. The No. 10 Wildcats demolished Kent State in a 5-0 victory that saw Bente Baekers score her third hat trick of the season,the defense hold the Golden Flashes to just one shot and the team earned plenty of momentum for a top-10 matchup with No. 6 Iowa next weekend. NU (12-5, 4-2 Big Ten) was in control offensively the entire game, scoring its first goal just nine minutes into the contest with a tip in from freshman midfielder Alia Marshall,] who scored her first career goal. “Usually I play in the backfield, so to be in the deep end of our offensive circle, I was a little out of sorts,” Marshall said. “I knew to just hold the post and the ball came trickling through, so I just put it in.” Marshall and the rest of the midfielders and defenders locked down Kent State (9-6, 4-0 MAC), as the only shot they allowed came late in the fourth quarter long after the game had been decided. The Cats controlled the pace, easily shutting down fast breaks and scoring opportunities. NU was 2-for-5 on penalty corners with both goals coming from Baekers, one off a rebound and the other directly from the top of the circle. When the Cats execute their penalty opportunities, they play with more confidence. In its last contest against Rutgers, NU was 2-for-6 plus a penalty stroke score. The Cats run a few different penalty corner plays which give the ball to either Baekers, junior forward Lakin Barry, or sophomore midfielder Maren Seidel. A play they ran twice on Sunday included two stick stopper set ups, which forces the already undermanned defense to make a quick decision as to which person they think will get the ball. On Sunday, Kent State picked Baekers, giving Barry a window to fire the shot that led to Baekers’ first goal. “We have two stick stoppers, two batteries, almost all the time, so they don’t know who it’s going to,” coach Tracey Fuchs said. “They have to decide as the

For the third time in four years, Northwestern is 0-8 in conference play. This weekend, the Wildcats dropped matches to No. 7 Minnesota and No. 6 Wisconsin, both in straight sets. In six matches against ranked opponents, NU has yet to win a set so far this season. The Cats (9-11, 0-8 Big Ten) first traveled to Minneapolis on Friday. The Golden Gophers (13-3, 7-1) started strong in the first set, leading from the opening point en route to a 25-18 victory. The second set was even more lopsided, as Minnesota dominated following an 8-8 tie to secure a 25-15 win. NU was competitive in the third set, as they rallied late before falling 25-22 to clinch a 3-0 defeat. The Cats were outperformed in nearly every statistical category and struggled to limit mistakes — NU committed 22 errors compared to just eight for the Golden Gophers. Despite the sweep and the lackluster stats, coach Shane Davis said he was impressed with the Cats’ serving and passing. “I was pleased with our ability to control our first contact,” Davis said. “We had a pretty good hitting efficiency that third set but just came up short in the end.” NU has now lost nine straight matches to Minnesota dating back to 2014. The Cats suffered the same fate against Wisconsin (12-4, 8-0) on Saturday. The first set started off promising, with NU trading leads with the Badgers throughout the set. The Cats took a 21-16 lead late in the set, but, like several other matches this year, they failed to close. Wisconsin broke off a 9-1 run to finish the set with a 25-22 win. “You feel great that you can get to that

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Bente Baekers runs with the ball. The sophomore recorded her third hat trick of the season on Sunday.

ball is coming out, and we have three really good hitters, so it gives us a lot of options so that other teams, when they scout us, have no idea who it’s going to.” Baekers topped the win off with a beautiful reverse hit in the fourth quarter. Her ability to create shots for herself with minimal space is one of her biggest strengths, Fuchs said. Baekers has scored 22 goals this season, and at least two goals in each of the last two games. Baekers said Fuchs will remind the team in the huddle that the game is a team effort, and that individual scoring is a smaller part of the team message. “If no one passed the ball to me, I can’t score,” Baekers said. “I’m glad my role is to reward everyone for the great setup we do, all the passes that I get, they’re all perfect — well, they’re not all perfect, but we make it work.” gabrielacarroll2023@u.northwestern.edu

point against these top teams,” Davis said. “But it’s also very frustrating at the same time, allowing them to slip away at the end. The ball just literally didn’t fall our way at times.” NU may have pulled off a win in the first set were it not for a bad no-call at a crucial moment. Up 21-19, the Badgers committed a clear double contact following a block by the Cats. Wisconsin went on to win the point, so Davis challenged the no-call. Although the Big Ten broadcasters said the point would assuredly be given to NU, the officials upheld the call and the Badgers won the point. The Cats never gained the momentum back, scoring only one point the rest of the game. “You can’t put any losses on the officiating, but it was a tough break in my opinion,” Davis said. “The explanation I got from the official wasn’t great. I think it was a turning point because a block like that is a great momentum builder.” The Cats bounced back and took a 19-18 lead in set two. However, Wisconsin finished on a 7-2 run, winning 25-21. The Badgers jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the third set and never looked back, finishing the sweep with a 25-17 victory. Ultimately, NU improved its play against Wisconsin but once again couldn’t keep up with a powerhouse opponent. On the bright side, the Cats got back sophomore outside hitter Ella Grbac, who returned from injury and recorded six kills and two total blocks in her first game since Sept. 13. “It’s been a long process and kind of a frustrating process for her,” Davis said. “We felt really comfortable about giving her a look and to see what she could do against a team like Wisconsin. She managed her swings well, she got some good kills for us. So it was great having her back.” carlosstinson-maas2023@u.northwestern.edu

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They executed really well. That’s what a top-3 team in the nation looks like. — Paddy Fisher, middle linebacker

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On a chilly night where Northwestern was outclassed by a program operating miles and miles away in the college football stratosphere, Paddy Fisher stepped to the postgame presser wearing a Rose Bowl pin he’s had since last summer. “I’m always looking at this rose just as a team goal, as an individual goal, to help these guys accomplish what we want to accomplish, what we set to accomplish at the beginning of the season,” he said. “And maybe that door has been closed, but it’s not the end of the world. We’ll be back.” Less than 11 months after the Wildcats (1-5, 0-4 Big Ten) met Ohio State with a Rose Bowl berth on the line, the two teams met again. But NU never showed any signs of life in a crushing 52-3 loss at the hands of the No. 4 Buckeyes (7-0, 4-0 Big Ten) as superstar quarterback Justin Fields tallied 194 yards and four touchdowns in what amounted to an easy tune-up before next week’s showdown with No. 6 Wisconsin. “There’s been a change of leadership, I’d say,” quarterback Aidan Smith said. “And that’s not to say the leaders on the team aren’t doing a good job, but I think we need to do a better job of holding players accountable, holding our teammates accountable.” Smith got the start at quarterback over

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Northwestern snaps 4-game losing streak By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

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The last time Northwestern won a home Big Ten men’s soccer game, the Wildcats had just started recruiting Logan Weaver, a local junior in high school at the time. Between Oct. 15, 2017 — NU’s last home conference win — and Sunday’s game against Rutgers, Weaver had won two high school state titles, committed to play for the Cats and played in 11 college games as a freshman. The drought lasted 736 days. “I wasn’t aware of it until coach (Tim Lenahan) said something,” Weaver said. “Hopefully it doesn’t take as long for us to get our next one.” NU wouldn’t have broken their twoyear streak without Weaver, who scored his first career goal and gave the Cats (6-7-1, 2-3-1 Big Ten) a two-score lead in its 2-0 win over the Scarlet Knights (7-4-3, 1-4-1). In the 11th minute, sophomore midfielder Richie Bennett sent a cross near the goal that was intercepted by Scarlet Knights defender Thomas Devizio. But Weaver took the ball away from defender –– he called it a “pickpocket” –– and created a scoring chance. After he took control of the ball, Weaver tried to pass to a wide-open Ugo Achara Jr. in front of the net, but instead it ricocheted off Devizio into the goal for a 2-0 lead. Weaver’s goal and the technical precision that led up to it was more impressive considering most of his experience this season has come on defense at left back. Weaver had only taken three shots this season before Sunday, but Lenahan said he trusted him to create an opportunity. “That’s what he does,” Lenahan said. “That’s why he’s playing out of position as

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an unheralded freshman from around the corner. But because of his fight and spirit, he’s gotten his way on the field.” The Cats scored both of their goals during one of their best offensive stretches of the season in the first half. In the 11th minute, senior midfielder Matt Moderwell crossed the ball from the left wing in the direction of sophomore attacker Jose Del Valle’s head. Del Valle redirected the ball toward the upper right corner over the outstretched arm of leaping Rutgers goalkeeper Oren Asher to get the team on the board. The early lead was pivotal for an NU team missing two starting defenders. Senior defender Andrew McCleod and sophomore defender Julian Zighelboim were both out Sunday, so Lenahan moved starting midfielder Mattias Tomasino to the back line. Lenahan also added sophomore Jayson Cyrus to the starting lineup as well, and the new look defense limited the Scarlet Knights to three shots in 90 minutes. To make up for the missing figures on the back line, Lenahan said he put more athletic players on defense than usual. It worked, and the Cats jumped to sixth place in the conference standings with two conference games left. “When we’re a little more athletic, people can’t beat us from behind,” Tomasino said. “That’s a big problem we’ve had in the past. Today with did that and played solid, hard defense which is exactly what we need to do.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Hunter Johnson and didn’t do much to inspire confidence that the competition is in any way settled. The junior finished 6-of-20 for just 42 yards and an interception in a dismal performance. Johnson — NU’s highly-touted five star transfer — was nowhere to be seen, even in garbage time when Andrew Marty replaced Smith and promptly threw another interception. The result was never really in doubt. NU won the toss and deferred, giving Fields and Ohio State’s high-powered offense the first possession. The Heisman candidate found Chris Olave for an opening-drive touchdown to give the Buckeyes a very early lead. The Cats managed to drive into Buckeye territory and countered with a Charlie Kuhbander field goal to pull within four, but that was the closest they’d ever come. Ohio State exploded in the second quarter, buoyed by two J.K. Dobbins scores and another Fields-Olave connection in what coach Pat Fitzgerald called the “Buckeye onslaught.” To add insult to injury, Blake Haubeil hit a 55-yard field goal as time expired, giving the Buckeyes a 31-3 lead at the break. NU’s defense had a few opportunities to stop Ohio State but just could not get off the field on third down. Ohio State converted five of six first quarter third

downs, including a key Dobbins run on the game’s opening drive. Dobbins — who entered the game second in the country in rushing yards — tallied 121 yards on 18 carries, including a 68 yard run right through the heart of NU’s defense. “They care so much,” Fitzgerald said. “They’re a great group of guys. That’s why my heart breaks for them.This is…I’ve had a lot of special groups of guys. This is up there and we’re just gonna keep coaching positively, we’re gonna be relentless working fundamentally and just as the snowball kinda goes in a negative way, you can flip that thing around in a positive way.” The game was effectively over and fans were already heading for the exits when the teams came out after the break. Fields threw his fourth touchdown of the game and Ohio State added two garbage time touchdowns to run the score to an absurd 52-3. NU has now lost four straight, all with awful offensive performances. Bowl eligibility is suddenly looking more and more like a pipe dream, a crushing reality for a team that was 60 minutes from Pasadena less than a calendar year ago. “It’s been a challenging beginning of the season, but there’s a lot of ball left,” Fitzgerald said. “And that’s what I challenged our guys with. Let’s flush it, let’s leave it here and let’s not look in the rearview mirror. Let’s look forward and get our seniors into the postseason. And we gotta do that by going 1-0, and we’ve got to get ready to do that next week.” jonahdylan2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Talent gap shows in blowout loss By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

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They congregated on the south side of Ryan Field before the game to get a close look at some future stars. Multiple NFL general managers and dozens of scouts arrived well before kickoff and scribbled in their notebooks. They weren’t there to see Northwestern. Coach Pat Fitzgerald understands why, as he recognized the NFL talent on the other side of the field. Quarterback Justin Fields is a future first round pick, running back J.K. Dobbins is an All American candidate and defensive end Chase Young is on the Bosa-route to a top-five selection in this year’s draft. Ohio State isn’t just the best team in the country, according to Fitzgerald. They’re the best built team. So it wasn’t even close Friday night at Ryan Field, and the Wildcats (1-6, 0-4 Big Ten) were outmatched by the No. 4 Buckeyes (7-0, 4-0) in a 52-3 loss. “We can start to wear on you a little bit,” Day said in one of the biggest understatements of the season. Take Justin Fields, who was interested in NU before he turned into a fivestar high school prospect. After transferring from Georgia to Ohio State last spring, Fields is becoming the next great Buckeye quarterback. Fitzgerald said the Cats couldn’t sign him after he got “too many stars,” but Ohio State could. The rich get even richer. Fields’ performance Friday matched those high expectations. On the first series of the game, Fields dropped back and was hit as he threw off his back foot. He still found receiver Chris Olave open in the endzone, having shaken safety Travis Whillock with a sharp, precise cut. That was the start of the Buckeyes’

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Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields sprints forward. The sophomore powered the Buckeyes to a blowout win over Northwestern on Friday.

“onslaught,” as Fields threw for four touchdowns in three quarters and Dobbins added 121 rushing yards. Fitzgerald said Ohio State didn’t surprise him with anything they did –– they just executed that much better than NU. “They didn’t do anything different than we expected to see,” Fitzgerald said. “The plays they made were the plays we expected to see, and that’s what makes you really, really mad. Doesn’t it, when you’re calling plays from the (sideline) and they run it and you don’t stop it? That ticks you off.” The Buckeyes were just as effective defensively, limiting junior quarterback Aidan Smith to 42 passing yards and a 30 percent completion rate. Smith only had one sack and one pick in his second career start, but he didn’t complete a pass longer than ten yards. Ohio State rarely missed a tackle. Fitzgerald said he sees four players on

the Buckeyes’ secondary being taken in the first two days of the draft this spring. NU hasn’t had a player taken in the first three rounds since Luis Castillo’s first round selection in 2005. The Cats were competitive with this same program for three quarters in the Big Ten Championship game last season. The change in leadership from Clayton Thorson and a talented senior class was cited as the biggest reason for the growing discrepancy between the two programs. Unlike the game in December, Ohio State got what they wanted on both sides of the ball and handed NU its biggest loss since 2007. “They executed really well,” junior linebacker Paddy Fisher said. “That’s what a top-3 team in the nation looks like.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu