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Council moves to up group’s funding Cradle to Career takes issue with proposed budget By NORA SHELLY
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Children’s book author and poet Kwame Alexander speaks at Evanston Township High School on Friday. Alexander spoke about using poetry as a powerful tool of communication.
Author speaks on power of poetry Newbery medal winner Kwame Alexander gives talk at ETHS By BENJAMIN SCHARF
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Poetry is a powerful method of educating, Newbery Medal winner Kwame Alexander told an audience at Evanston Township High School on Friday, but one that is often underappreciated. “It’s a way for us to understand the world and our place in it,” said Alexander, a children’s writer and poet. Roughly 50 people attended Alexander’s talk at ETHS on Friday hosted by the Family Action Network, a group dedicated to bringing educational
and inspirational programming to the North Shore. After a brief introduction from FAN executive director Lonnie Stonitsch, Alexander took to the stage to discuss his works and emphasize what poetry means to him. In a reversal of the typical speaker format, Alexander started by taking audience questions, which he answered by sharing some of his own poems and personal experiences. Alexander spoke about his trip to a prison, recounting his worry about whether he could connect with the inmates. He was told the inmates
would most likely be uninterested in him and to “just duck” if a fight broke out. But when Alexander arrived at the prison, he walked into the room, stood on a chair facing the inmates and began to recite one of his own poems. “I screamed at the top of my lungs,” Alexander said. He recited “In My Closet, On The Top Shelf, Is A Silver Box,” a poem he wrote that tells a tragic story of two people through objects in a box. Alexander said after finishing his recitation, the room stood completely silent until a single inmate said, “Yo, that’s poetry?”
Alexander said reciting the poem allowed him to earn the attention of the inmates. He said this moment led him to realize poetry was more than its stylistic value: It has the potential to bring people together. “I found that poetry sort of had a way to get to people in a very immediate way, in a way that other forms of literature and language could not,” Alexander said. He then told the story of how after meeting his wife, Alexander wrote her a poem a day for an entire year before » See ALEXANDER, page 5
Alderman voted Saturday to direct staff to allocate more money in the proposed budget to Evanston Cradle to Career, a collective of schools, businesses and nonprofit groups that works to improve education and support for Evanston kids. The move came after multiple supporters of Cradle to Career came to Saturday’s public forum on the budget to urge the city to fund them at the same level they did in 2016. Previously, the group had received $50,000, while in this year’s budget they were allocated half of that. The group was allocated $25,000 in the 2017 proposed budget,
Evanston man found dead in Michigan
A 70-year-old Evanston man was found dead in northern Michigan on Friday, the local sheriff ’s office said. The man’s son, Luke Milton Hanson, was arrested in connection with the incident and charged with one count of homicide-open murder, according to a social media statement by the Grand
which was half of what they received this year. The additional funding will come from the HowardHartrey TIF fund, which is set to close at the end of the year with over half a million dollars left over. Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) whose ward encompasses the TIF district, suggested part of the leftover funds — of which the city gets 17 percent — go to Cradle to Career. Cradle to Career is a coalition of schools, businesses and other community groups that works to help every Evanston resident become self-sufficient by age 23. Sheila Merry, the group’s executive director, said at Saturday’s meeting that although the group appreciates the city’s support, a reduction in funding would send the wrong message. Merry said it’s critical that the group has “unwavering” support from the city. “If we are going to ensure » See BUDGET, page 5 Traverse Sheriff ’s Office The father, Milton Hanson, was found dead in a residence Friday morning. A deputy from the Sheriff ’s Department was sent to the residence for a welfare check after getting information that an altercation occurred. The 31-year-old son is a resident of Acme Township in Michigan. Bond has been set at $1 million, and Milton will be arraigned on Monday. — Nora Shelly
Students bothered by admin response to mold in Plex By TORI LATHAM
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Some students living in Foster-Walker Complex said they are concerned the University isn’t giving adequate attention to reports of mold in the residential hall. Ally O’Donnell, a McCormick sophomore who lives in the building, said she first noticed mold growing in her room soon after she moved in at the beginning of the school year. After mentioning the problem to her resident assistant, who called to have the mold inspected, O’Donnell said someone showed up to her room and affirmed the mold needed to be taken care of, but nobody came to clean it. O’Donnell said the situation was not properly addressed until her mother got involved and communicated with the University. “I bought a mold spray to
wipe down all my furniture, and that’s when I noticed there were massive amounts of mold under my desk,” O’Donnell said. “It wasn’t just a little; it was so gross.” A University official spoke with O’Donnell’s mother, and people were sent to clean the room, but there were certain areas with mold they were unable to clean, O’Donnell said. Eventually, they came to replace the furniture that had the mold on it, she added. Paul Riel, assistant vice president for residential and dining services, said he was unaware of this specific instance but said it did not sound like the officials O’Donnell interacted with handled it as usual. “On the face of it, this is certainly not our protocol,” Riel said. “We take these claims seriously when they occur.” Neil Dixit, a Weinberg sophomore who also lives in Plex, has also dealt with mold growing in his room this year but said the situation had been taken care of.
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Dixit said he requested the mold be cleaned through SchoolDude, a system the University uses for students to put in maintenance requests for residential buildings on campus. Somebody came in to clean his room and said they knew mold had been an ongoing problem in Plex, he said. Although Dixit said he was not expecting any follow-up from the University after the initial cleaning, he said he was concerned other students are also dealing with the problem. “When you put in a SchoolDude, there’s a lag in getting it taken care of, and the fact that people know about it and haven’t taken care of it (is concerning),” Dixit said. O’Donnell said she also heard from the people who came to clean her room mold has been a problem in the building. Emily Patnaude, who lives in the same part of Plex as O’Donnell, also said she has mold in her room. Patnaude
said it seemed like students and University officials were not on the same page. “People who lived here previously said it’s always been an issue, that it’s nothing new,” the McCormick sophomore said. “Facilities said this is the first
they’d heard of it.” Typically, Riel said, reports of mold are followed up by a visual inspection and passed off to a third party that tests the space for mold. He said there have recently been a few calls concerning air quality in Plex, but the rooms
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The outside of Foster-Walker Complex. Some students living in the building said they are concerned Northwestern is not giving adequate attention to reports of mold.
were ultimately found to not contain mold. Most of the time, the third party company determines nothing is there, he added. Mark D’Arienzo, senior associate director of Residential Services’ Administrative Services Team, was in contact with O’Donnell and her mother when they first expressed concern, he said. After he spoke with them, he said he alerted Residential Services’ Facilities and Construction Team to the situation. D’Arienzo said he was aware of the protocol Riel outlined, but could not say whether it was followed once he handed the situation off to Facilities and Construction. He said he has heard of five or six complaints this quarter from students in Plex about mold. John D’Angelo, vice president of Facilities Management, and Johnathan Winters, associate director of Residential Services who oversees the Facilities and » See MOLD, page 3
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AROUND TOWN Know your ballot: Kirk faces Duckworth for Senate seat By SAM KREVLIN
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For over a year and a half U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) have campaigned throughout Illinois, making their case to voters for the U.S. Senate seat. Despite holding different views on social issues and foreign policy, they have both campaigned on a military background and a pledge to work across party lines. Kirk has been a senator since 2010 and was previously a U.S. representative for Illinois’ 10th district from 2001 to 2010. Duckworth was the director of the Illinois Department of Veteran Affairs from 2006 to 2008 before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012 for the state’s 8th district. Republicans currently hold a majority in the Senate, but more than twice as many Republican seats are up for election, including Kirk’s. According to FiveThirtyEight, Democrats have a 71 percent chance of controlling the Senate after November’s election, with Kirk’s seat being one of the most vulnerable.
Working across party lines
After suffering a stroke in 2012, Kirk said during the Chicago Tribune editorial board debate on Oct. 3 that he spent weeks looking out the window of the rehabilitation Institute of Chicago thinking about his role as a senator. Kirk said one of his most important goals is creating a close relationship with Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), his counterpart in the Senate. “I have sought to be the glue in the Senate to make sure things happen,” Kirk said during the debate. “I am asked to go back to the United States Senate to be the bipartisan type of guy. …To always put Illinois ahead of party.” For months Kirk has been trying to back up this claim. He has been outspoken against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, calling him “unfit” to be president. While almost all Senate Republicans were outspoken about blocking Judge Merrick Garland from a hearing, Kirk was the first Republican senator to meet with the judge.
Weinberg freshman Dominic Bayer, who has volunteered for Kirk and is a member of College Republicans, said he appreciates that Kirk tries to work across the aisle. “He has made his whole time in the Senate about working to get things done,” Weinberg freshman Dominic Bayer, who has volunteered for Kirk and is a member of College Republicans. “If it includes working with the Democrats, he does that.” Duckworth too has stressed her ability to challenge her own party. She criticized Hillary Clinton for her vote in favor of the Iraq War and her infamous personal email server. She called for Clinton to turn over her undisclosed emails and said her handling of the situation was “absolutely poor.” She has also been skeptical of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy in Syria and rejected his plans to arm and train Syrian rebels in the region. Obama in 2014 attempted to provide $500 million in funding to arming and training “moderate rebels” in Syria. Duckworth said she was not in favor of supplying rebels with American-made weapons and bullets nor does she approve of sending American troops into the region without a plan. “I am going to vote on the issues,” Duckworth said at the Tribune debate. “It is why I have stood up to President Obama when he wanted to arm Syrian rebels who had attuned $500 million dollars, and Hillary Clinton voted for that; Senator Kirk voted for that. I thought it was a foolish thing to do.”
Army versus Navy
On the last mission of the day on Nov. 12, 2004, Duckworth’s Black Hawk helicopter was hit with a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq. Duckworth said in last Thursday’s debate that veterans have been her life’s work since losing both her legs in the incident. Duckworth has used her military background to promote domestic issues such as affordable college tuition. Duckworth said she sees education as a foundation for national security. “When we talk about national strength and our role as a global leader, nobody talks about education as part of that foundation,” Duckworth said at an October roundtable discussion with Illinois teachers
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Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill) and Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill) attend a debate last week. Duckworth is gunning for Kirk’s senate seat, which he has held since 2010.
and students in Chicago. “If we don’t have affordable college education, we aren’t going to get the pilots to fly those aircrafts. … We aren’t going to get engineers who are going to be developing the next generation of fighter jets.” Kirk, who served 23 years in the Navy, criticized this type of spending and said we have a “call to protect the people of the United States from the fate that befell to the people of Puerto Rico and Greece.” He said congressmen must know how to balance a budget. However, Kirk has been willing to spend money on maintaining America’s military presence abroad. Kirk called for a safe haven for Syrian refugees in Jordan, with U.S. troops guarding the zone. Duckworth criticized the plan, saying that would mean supporting ground troops in the region and said the logistics of his plan weren’t feasible. “What you are seeing is a big difference between Army philosophy and Navy philosophy,” Kirk said on the logistics of providing a safe haven.
Duckworth has called for an increase in Syrian refugees in the United States. “We are not a nation that turns our back on children drowning in the Mediterranean,” she said at last week’s debate. “We are not a nation that turns our back on families fleeing butchers.” Since Thursday, Kirk has faced backlash over remarks on Duckworth’s family military history and heritage. Duckworth said her family has fought for American since the revolution. Kirk responded by saying, “I had forgotten that your parents came all the way from Thailand to serve George Washington.” The Human Rights Campaign, a civil rights organization working toward LGBTQ equality, revoked their endorsement of him in response. Duckworth and Kirk will meet for their final debate on Friday. samkrevlin2019@u.northwestern.edu
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Associated Student Government’s internal judicial branch, if approved by a committee formed last week, would help keep members accountable for their actions, ASG President Christina Cilento said. The Judicial Branch Reform Committee, which was formed Wednesday after Senate unanimously passed a resolution, is responsible for researching judicial branches in other universities’ student governments and presenting its findings later in the school year. Its findings will help determine whether ASG will create its own judicial branch. Cilento said conversation on the subject first began last Spring Quarter during her own impeachment hearing, when Cilento and executive vice president Macs Vinson were found guilty of violating election guidelines. Cilento and Vinson were required to give written and verbal apologies as punishment, and Cilento was also required to perform 10 hours of community service. She said the unprecedented situation made it clear the Rules Committee — which currently
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functions as ASG’s judicial branch — wasn’t “fully equipped” to handle impeachment cases, prompting members of Senate to propose the idea of a judicial branch. “There was no precedent set as to what to do in this situation because it had never happened before,” said SESP sophomore Justine Kim, member of the Judicial Branch Reform Committee. “(We) were not sure as to what parts of the situation should be addressed by Rules and what parts should be addressed by the election commission.” Weinberg senior Joji Syed and Weinberg junior Archit Baskaran, who ran for ASG president and executive vice president last year, had included the creation of a judicial branch as part of their campaign platform. They proposed a council that would serve as ASG’s highest court and a hearing panel addressing student conduct. “It’s exciting to see some of the ideas that we campaigned for still being brought up today,” Syed said. “It speaks a lot to the fact that something that Archie and I ... pushed for last spring wasn’t just relevant for the campaign but … is like a major policy change that centers on Northwestern as a whole.” Cilento said the key difference between ASG’s current efforts and Syed and Baskaran’s platform
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From page 1 Construction Team, deferred comment to Riel. After the mold was taken care of in O’Donnell’s room, Patnaude said she expected an email to be sent out to students living in the area, alerting them to the situation, but one never came. She said she is still dealing with the mold in her room, and efforts to clean it have not gotten rid of it fully. Riel said these instances of mold are generally isolated to one room, but if they occur in larger spaces, such as a common room, the University would do more about it and tell students. However, Patnaude said she wasn’t so sure.
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is the role a potential judicial branch would play on Northwestern’s campus. She said it would serve as an internal mechanism to keep ASG accountable and would not apply to any student conduct cases. Syed and Baskaran’s platform did include addressing student conduct violations as one of the potential judicial branch’s functions. “The concern that … we still have with the judicial branch is that we don’t want this to be something that would be able to punish students or be in any way involved in student conduct on campus,” Cilento said. “We don’t think that’s students’ role.” During last week’s Senate meeting, Kim said re-examining ASG’s Code and constitution should be a priority of the committee. She said a clearer understanding of both documents would help clarify how to go about re-creating or reforming ASG’s current judicial process. “The first thing the judicial branch that is created should do is take a really good hard look at the Code,” Kim said. “(It should) look at what parts are actually followed by Senate right now and what parts are considered antiquated that we have already changed.” yvonnekim2019@u.northwestern.edu
“The only way to get it fixed is if you come to them,” she said. D’Arienzo emphasized this is because of the large number of students living on campus. Individual administrators are unable to constantly monitor the situation in all rooms without students reaching out, he said. According to Northwestern’s Master Housing Plan, Plex will undergo a full renovation starting in 2019. “The important thing is that if students do have issues in their room, that they let us know about it,” D’Arienzo said. “There are far more rooms than there are us.” torilatham2017@u.northwestern.edu
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American Jews need to recommit to racial justice allyship JESSICA SCHWALB
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We American Jews tell ourselves a story about our history in this country: We live in tenement houses; we work hard to escape the lowest social and economic bracket, then we march with Dr. King. We emphasize the parts of our religious scroll that command us to make the world a better place. We are engaged and politically conscious. We love Israel. The Aug. 1 release of the Movement for Black Lives platform tore the Jewish community across ideological and generational lines. As a progressive, young Jew I was hugely disappointed in the swath of religious leaders who condemned a movement based on its incendiary language around and support of divestment from Israel. That the platform uses “genocide” and “apartheid” to describe Israel are no small choices — to accuse the Jewish people of genocide a little more than half a century after the Holocaust stunned American Jews. These words are vast oversimplifications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; they are more instigatory than informed, and they certainly lack nuance. But these two words have become non-starters to a conversation about Jewish allyship for racial justice. Instead of merely decrying the platform over a few words, American Jews would do well to take time and reflect on our role as allies in greater movements for social justice. It’s time to stop resting on the actions of our
grandparents in 1968 and to start owning the ways we have benefitted from — and often abused — privilege in the years following the Civil Rights Movement. It’s time to condemn the occupation, unequivocally. It’s time to show up with our actions, not just our words, to prove our commitment to bettering the world. A large portion of the American Jewish community has responded to the platform by decrying the shrinking space for Jewish involvement in activism, particularly on college campuses. Yet we haven’t spent nearly as much time committing ourselves to pursuing justice for marginalized voices. Northwestern’s campus was dramatically split after the winter 2015 divestment vote, and the Jewish community as a whole has struggled to find our way back into campus advocacy after Students for Justice in Palestine effectively mobilized both students of color and other activist groups at NU to vote for divestment. My parents and Jewish communal leaders spent their time preparing me to “face” BDS (whatever that meant) and the “scary” reality of anti-Zionists before I arrived on our campus last year. They didn’t spend nearly as much time dissecting allyship and privilege. If we complain about losing campus social justice credibility for support of Israel, some of our community members’ reactions to the platform sure didn’t help. If the Jewish community used half the time, money and energy that it does on BDS to instead declare, loudly, that “black lives matter” and to call for racial equity in this country, we’d be a lot closer to the world as it should be. Instead, we’re so wrapped up in ourselves that finding a safe
space to be pro-Israel has become first on the agenda. We’ve neglected the practice of being good allies. We’re being called out as a community for not showing up for racial justice because we haven’t done so. Jewish institutions on this campus have taken a collective step back from engaging in many forms of activism that make us uncomfortable, likely because of how they challenge our surface-level commitment to fighting inequality. We certainly have not reckoned with the ways that whiteness and privilege infect our every claim of historic oppression and discrimination. Repeating the
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It seems like the American Jewish community is far more concerned with presenting itself as proIsrael than with fulfilling its commitment to justice.
well-worn trope of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marching with Dr. King is hard for some to swallow on a campus where most of the white Jews epitomize privilege. It isn’t that those two historic examples aren’t true — they are — but when repeated over and over without any kind of acknowledgement that white (and passing) Jews have benefitted from white supremacy in this country, they leave a bad taste. Acknowledging we share complicity in a history of racial injustice is the first step to
earning us a seat at the activism table. (We don’t get there by complaining.) The next step is action. We do not get to gripe about being left out of social activism and pretend not to know why. There are certainly Jewish organizations that serve as great examples of allyship, and there are certainly individual Jews who commit to social activism. However, our community’s institutions do not bring Jews into the streets for justice for black and brown Americans, nor for Palestinians This fact, rather than a debate about the importance of semantics, was my biggest take-away from my community’s reactions to the platform. It seems like the American Jewish community is far more concerned with presenting itself as pro-Israel than with fulfilling its commitment to justice. Communal leaders say our priority is social justice, but our actions show that our priority is combating anti-Semitism on campuses and fighting Big Bad BDS. The platform can provide an opportunity to reflect as a community: Do we care more about telling each other that we are committed to justice or about proving it through our actions? This is the very work that American Jews haven’t been showing up en masse to do over the last 45 years. We haven’t lost our social justice credibility. We’ve lost our commitment. Jessica Schwalb is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be contacted at jessicaschwalb2019@u.northwestern. edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@ dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
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the employability of our young people and address issues of violence that exist in our community, we know that it’s going to take giving parents and young people the supports they need to be successful,” she said. Merry said the group is well situated to take additional funds from other organizations, such as the United Way, to reach their goal. Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said the city is doing “anything but” cutting off funding to Cradle to Career. “We are, I believe, a major part of the Cradle to Career initiative,” she said. “There is a strong message here of strong support that we have given … and are planning to continue to give.” Rainey made the motion to allocate $25,000 from the fund to the organization.
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Ald. Melissa Wynne attends a city meeting. Wynne said at a Saturday council meeting the city should show full support for Evanston Cradle to Career.
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proposing to her. He said compared to other mediums, poetry is a more effective way of communicating with people on a personal level. “(Poetry) works. It’s so concise. It’s so riveting,” Alexander said. “Poetry can transform your life.” The power of this message was echoed by audience members, who said they appreciated Alexander’s approach to presenting in a way that allowed them to think about the role poets play in society.
The TIF will have $513,865 left when it closes on Dec. 31. Some of those funds will go to taxes and the police and fire pension funds, leaving the city with little over $87,000. Rainey said that although she is not too familiar with Cradle to Career, the organization seemed dedicated to its mission. “There was a lot of passion we heard today about this small amount of money,” she said. Assistant city manager Marty Lyons said allocating the money would have no effect on taxpayers. Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd) said it was important to show Cradle to Career full support. “This is a long-term project,” she said. “We’re not going to turn the ship around right away.” The council also discussed the property tax levy and police and fire pensions at the meeting, which was called for the public to have some input on the proposed budget. The city’s police and fire pensions are currently funded at just under 50 percent. The city has been fighting an uphill battle when it comes to pension funds, like cities across Illinois. State policy and advice from actuaries has led to pensions having high unfunded liabilities. Lyons said the city would be in better shape had the pensions been more fully funded in the past. “Over the past 10 years it’s been a huge effort, and it’s showing,” he said. “The reverse is if we’re all caught up and fully funded, then you only need to pay the normal cost.The normal cost is much much less.” The council and city staff will continue to discuss the proposed budget in the coming weeks, with a final vote planned for late November. norashelly2019@u.northwestern.edu “I had not thought that much about poetry, but now I am inspired to read my children poetry,” said Trish Andrew, a parent who attended the event. Stonitsch said FAN brought in Alexander as a featured speaker at the recommendation of a local sixth grade teacher who emailed FAN describing the importance of Alexander’s work to her and her students. Alexander’s next book, “Rebound” — a prequel to his Newbery winner “The Crossover” — is scheduled for release in approximately a year and a half. bscharf@u.northwestern.edu
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McCormick Prof. Stephen Carr speaks about “The Signal and the Noise” on Oct. 21. Carr, the One Book faculty chair, discussed the book in Norris University Center during Homecoming weekend.
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A student, dressed up as Stitch from the movie “Lilo and Stitch,” participates in the Wicked World Cup tournament. Teams consisted of seven or eight coed players for a five-on-five game.
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A participant gives his dog a treat during the city’s annual Trick or Treat Trot for Tails Walkathon. The two mile walk was held to benefit the Evanston Animal Shelter Association, a local nonprofit that manages the care of animals at the Evanston Animal Shelter.
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Ohio State edges past Northwestern in Columbus By MAX GELMAN
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — With a chance to put an exclamation point on a marked turnaround from earlyseason struggles, Northwestern fell just short Saturday. The Wildcats (4-4, 3-2 Big Ten) couldn’t quite get the job done against the No. 6 Buckeyes (7-1, 4-1) in a 24-20 loss, falling to .500 with four games left in the season. Saturday’s contest seemed winnable for the Cats all afternoon, and they pulled even late in the third quarter, but Ohio State retook the lead with a late touchdown and held on for the victory. “It didn’t start the way we wanted it to, spotting them a couple scores, but the guys didn’t flinch and kept swinging,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “We ended up one punch short … we went toe-to-toe but just couldn’t find a way to get it done in the end.” With under four minutes remaining in the fourth quarter and a seven-point deficit facing the Cats, Fitzgerald elected to kick a field goal on 4th-and-goal from the 15-yard line rather than leave the offense on the field. Fitzgerald’s decision was a break from an otherwise aggressive game plan which saw NU convert on both of its fourth-down attempts earlier in the game. Ultimately, the choice to kick
proved the Cats’ undoing, as Ohio State quarterback J.T. Barrett iced the game after breaking free for a 35-yard run on a 3rd-and-10 with 1:57 left on the clock. “There’s an added pressure on third downs to get off the field, that’s what changes the game,” junior safety Godwin Igwebuike said. “We didn’t do a great job on third down today, and all we can do now is just go back to the film and see where we went wrong.” Fitzgerald added he likely would have gone for the touchdown on fourth down had the Cats not just been pushed back with a holding penalty on the previous play. Coming into Saturday, NU had a potential path to a Big Ten West title and spot in the conference championship game. Saturday’s defeat, however, was a major setback toward that goal — because No. 7 Nebraska owns the tiebreaker over the Cats after its win at Ryan Field in September, NU will need significant help from other teams to have a chance to play for a Big Ten championship. One week after Penn State sprung an upset on the Buckeyes, NU had hoped for a similar outcome. Sophomore quarterback Clayton Thorson said Saturday’s loss was a missed opportunity similar to earlier this season when the Cats lost to Western Michigan and Illinois State. “We’ve got to show up for every game, and we’ve got to come ready to go, not just in practice. We’ve got
to do it every game of the year, and it doesn’t matter who we’re playing,” Thorson said. “It’s easy to come and show up for an Ohio State, or a Michigan State or an Iowa — we’ve got to show up every game, and it’s really biting us in the butt right now. We’re a 4-4 football team, a .500 football team, and we know we shouldn’t be.” Despite the loss, Thorson played perhaps one of the best games of his career, repeatedly finding senior
wide receiver Austin Carr and junior superback Garrett Dickerson for short and medium gains. Carr racked up a career-best 158 receiving yards, becoming the first NU wideout to reach at least 100 yards in three straight games since at least 2000, and Dickerson hauled in a careerhigh eight receptions. The Cats’ won’t get too much time to harp on the loss, as No. 11 Wisconsin rolls into Evanston next week.
With the end of the season quickly approaching, Fitzgerald said NU doesn’t want to “be remembered for being average,” and still needs to keep improving. “There’s going to be no easy fix,” Fitzgerald said. “If we keep battling and keep fighting and scratching and clawing, we’ll give ourselves an opportunity to compete.” maxgelman2018@u.northwestern.edu
Needing TD, Wildcats kick late NU reversing recent By MAX SCHUMAN
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — With less than four minutes left in Saturday’s game against No. 6 Ohio State, coach Pat Fitzgerald had a choice to make. Northwestern (4-4, 3-2 Big Ten) trailed the Buckeyes (7-1, 4-1) 24-17 when its potentially game-tying drive stalled in the red zone. The Wildcats suddenly faced a fourth-and-goal from Ohio State’s 15 with two options: kick a 33-yard field goal to cut the Buckeyes’ lead to four or go for an unlikely touchdown to tie the game. Fitzgerald chose the former, sending out senior kicker Jack Mitchell for a successful kick. It was the last time NU would see the ball in its 24-20 defeat. “I felt like if we get points there, we get a stop; I have three timeouts, threeand-a-half minutes left,” Fitzgerald said. “That’s what went into it, and I ended up one call short.” The three points left the Cats needing a defensive stop and a touchdown on their ensuing possession to win the game. It seemed counterintuitive for NU to give up the ball with a touchdown in sight given that it would need another touchdown even after a field goal. Converting from 15 yards away with the Buckeyes’ defense keyed on keeping the Cats from scoring would have been a tough ask, but NU’s offense had been solid for much of the game, putting up more than 400 yards of offense and succeeding on numerous third- and fourth-down plays. Fitzgerald had already shown a willingness to be aggressive as the underdog in the game, and the Cats rewarded him with two fourth-down conversions on Ohio State’s side of the field, each coming on
drives that ended in NU touchdowns. “We’ve realized we can beat some really good teams,” sophomore quarterback Clayton Thorson said. “We’ve realized we’re a good offense.” In the moment, though, Fitzgerald took the ball from his off ense. And regardless of his choice, NU’s defense would need to keep the Buckeyes from moving down the field on the next possession to give the Cats a chance. On the final drive of the game, the defense nearly held up its end of the bargain, but came up short. NU forced two third downs with eight or more yards to go on Ohio State’s final drive, but Buckeyes quarterback J.T. Barrett converted the first one through the air and the second on a designed run that went for 35 yards, ending the Cats’ upset hopes. “We got them in the positions
that we wanted,” junior linebacker Anthony Walker said. “We have to be able to make that play to get off the field.” Without a stop, the choice between kicking a field goal and going for a touchdown on that fourth-and-15 became largely academic. Choosing the more guaranteed points over a slim chance at tying the game likely didn’t cost the NU the victory nor did it wipe away a solid effort against one of the best teams in the country. But in a game they nearly won, the final play offensive play for the Cats will be remembered. “If I go for it right there and we score, we’re tied, and we’re probably still playing,” Fitzgerald said. “I chose to take the points, expecting us to get a stop…and we didn’t get it done.” maxschuman2018@u.northwestern.edu
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Senior kicker Jack Mitchell takes aim at a 33-yard field goal late in Saturday’s loss to Ohio State. Northwestern kicked the field goal in the red zone on its last possession in the 24-20 loss.
history with Buckeyes By TIM BALK
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Northwestern entered Saturday’s game with Ohio State looking to shock the Buckeyes at their place for the first time since 1971. Instead, they ended with a similar result to the last time the two teams battled, a narrow Ohio State win three years ago. Coach Pat Fitzgerald said the game still had major differences from that primetime showdown in Evanston, despite the similarly close scorelines. “That was one of the games that kind of started to take our focus in other different directions,” Fitzgerald said of the 2013 showdown, which turned out to be the start of a sevengame losing streak. “We’re in a totally different place than we were at that time.” But in a largely uncompetitive series, these Wildcats (4-4, 3-2 Big Ten) took the No. 6 Buckeyes (7-1, 4-1) down to the wire in a way they rarely have over the past few decades. Since 1971, the Cats have only topped Ohio State once, and in their 30 losses to the Big Ten rival, have only kept three games within single digits including Saturday. In 2013, the Cats narrowly missed that mark, losing 40-30 to the thenNo. 4 Buckeyes. That game came in front of a packed Ryan Field and with the eyes of a primetime audience watching. “That might be the most electric I’ve seen Ryan Field in my career,” said Fitzgerald, who played at NU before coaching the team over the
past decade. The close loss that night appeared to cement then-No. 16 NU’s place as a serious contender in the conference. Then came the losing streak, and any indication that the program was ready to burst through quickly dissipated. After this loss, the Cats were reluctant to chalk the performance up as anything more than a missed opportunity. “(Ohio State) has always been that top-tier program, and, if we want to get up there, we have to win these games,” junior linebacker Anthony Walker said. “We can’t accept any moral victories.” Nonetheless, the consecutive narrow losses to the Buckeyes show that NU is getting closer as a program to a top-tier level. Before 2013, it had lost its four games against Ohio State by at least 35. Junior safety Godwin Igwebuike said Saturday’s performance in particular showed more about the Cats than just how far they’ve come over the past few decades. “It says something about the perseverance, the family on this team,” Igwebuike said. “These are games that you want to come away with. But let it be known that if you play us, you’re going to have to battle.” This competitive loss will carry more meaning than the one three years ago if the Cats can back it up with a strong showing against No. 11 Wisconsin next Saturday. “It’s on to Wisconsin,” sophomore quarterback Clayton Thorson said. “If you look in your rearview mirror in the Big Ten, you’re going to get your butt kicked.” timothybalk2018@u.northwestern.edu