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Schapiro’s statement trivializes my fear
Faculty discuss global report Concerns raised about funding, resource allocation
By ALLYSON CHIU
daily senior staffer @_allysonchiu
Facult y members expressed concern about University task force recommendations regarding funding and resource allocation during a town hall discussion Thursday on the new global report. About 50 people attended the event hosted by the Global Strategy Task Force in the Allen Center. Members of the task force engaged with attendees to discuss their report, which was released last Friday. The report made nine recommendations, which included creating three new international sites and increasing support for language studies. Histor y Prof. Rajeev Kinra said the task force did “extraordinary work,” but he would like administrators to also consider infrastructure and programming on this campus. “ W here can we also
improve here on campus, both in coordinating what’s already here, but also allocating some of the kind of financial resources they’re talking about to existing programs that will also help us improve the kind of education we can offer to our undergraduates?” Kinra said. “That’s really what it ends up being all about.” Faculty members, who made up a majority of the audience, also raised questions about where funding for programs would come from and how research projects in various departments could be impacted by the report’s six central themes. The themes cover topics such as human conflict and violence, finite earth, and cities and migration. It is still too early to determine exact sources of funding, said Kellogg School of Management Dean Sally Blount, who co-chaired the task force and led the town hall. In response to worries about research being influenced by the administration, political science Prof. Elizabeth Hurd, who represented » See GLOBAL, page 8
Credit reduction pleases students
Change in School of Communication receives feedback By ALLYSON CHIU
daily senior staffer @_allysonchiu
at a loss Wednesday morning. ETHS Principal Marcus Campbell said in an email that the school had seen an uptick in students wanting to talk to social workers after the election. The school was was providing “the supports for our students as we would on any given day,” the email said. In his morning announcements, District 202 Superintendent Eric Witherspoon said it was time to reflect and “reaffirm our appreciation for one another.” “This morning I want to remind all of you that ETHS is a safe and welcoming place for you. You attend a school where we not only respect differences, we embrace our diversity,” he said in the
The School of Communication was the first undergraduate school at Northwestern to lower its credit requirements, which students say will give them more academic flexibility. The school dropped the number of credits needed to graduate from 45 to 42, said theater department chair Prof. Harvey Young. It made the change due to a recommendation from a University task force report released in January, said Young, who was a member of the task force. Young said the reduction aims to strike a balance between academics and life outside the classroom. “My hope is that it allows students to realize their full potential,” he said. “This includes taking classes, but also being actively involved in a number of extra-curriculars as well as cocurriculars, such as student performances, productions, athletics and more.” Before the change was announced, Communication sophomore Amanda Xiang said she was thinking of adding a Kapnick Business Institutions Program minor to her communication studies and music double major. Xiang said she is more certain she will complete the minor now that she has fewer credits to do for her communication studies major. However, Young said, having fewer requirements should not change the quality of the education students receive. “Our goal is having this sense of balance without sacrificing the integrity of any single major,” he said. “The majors are strong, they remain strong, students aren’t missing out on things, and they can actually have a day where they can do other activities and get a full night’s sleep.” Fewer mandatory classes within each major in the school
» See STUDENTS, page 8
» See CREDIT, page 5
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MSA assistant director JT Turner (center) talks with Rapper Kool Moe Dee (left) and Afro-Punk festival creator James Spooner during this year’s State of the Black Union. Both artists discussed black representation within the punk and hip-hop communities and the commercialization of both musical genres.
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Speakers address black representation in music By MARIANA ALFARO
daily senior staffer @marianaa_alfaro
Hip-hop and punk came together at Lutkin Hall on Thursday night as Grammy
Award-winning rapper Kool Moe Dee and Afropunk Festival co-founder and tattoo artist James Spooner spoke about black representation and the corporatization of both genres at this year’s State of the Black Union.
During the event, held by For Members Only and moderated by Multicultural Student Affairs assistant director Jordan Turner, Dee and Spooner spoke about their » See UNION, page 8
City educators seek to ease post-election anxiety By NORA SHELLY
daily senior staffer @noracshelly
Some teachers and administrators at Evanston Township High School took time out of the school day to help students process the results of Tuesday’s election. Bill Farmer ( Weinberg ‘03), the Teachers Council president at ETHS, said he was not looking forward to going into work on Wednesday morning. Farmer said being one of the first adults to help students process the results felt daunting. Farmer said he tried to create a space for students to discuss their reaction to the election, but the mood was somber in his first period biolog y class. He gave
post-it notes to students to write down how they felt and talked through the election results with former students who came to his room to “vent,” he said.
His students seemed tired and sad, he said. “They were motivated to try to do something, (but) I think at the age of 14 and 15 they’re not sure exactly how
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ETHS/D202 Board President Pat Savage-Williams speaks at a community dialogue. Some Evanston Township High School teachers tried to help their students process the election results.
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to engage in the democratic process,” Farmer said. Farmer said some students were discussing planning a protest or joining larger protests that were taking place in Chicago on Wednesday night. The timing of the election was particularly poignant for one of Farmer’s classes, he said. They had spent the past week studying climate change and the impact humans had on their environment. In light of Trump’s rhetoric on climate change, students had questions about environmental policy moving forward, Farmer said. The president-elect has said climate change is a “hoax” perpetrated by China and threatened to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Farmer said students and teachers alike seemed to be
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Soda prices for Cook County to rise
Cook County Board narrowly passes tax on sugary drinks with 9-8 vote By SAM KREVLIN
the daily northwestern @samkrevlin
Evanston consumers will have to pay more to buy sugary drinks later this year after a soda tax was passed narrowly on Thursday by the Cook County Board.
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This tax can play a positive role in important health issues that impact many of our residents. Toni Preckwinkle, Cook County Board president
The tax, which passed with a 9-8 vote, will increase the price of a two-liter bottle of soda by 68 cents and a six-pack of soda by 72 cents, effective July 1. Board President Toni Preckwinkle made the tiebreaking vote. The tax will make Cook County, which has a population of 5.2 million people, the
POLICE BLOTTER Mark Kirk signs stolen from front yard
Officers are investigating the theft of two Mark Kirk signs from the front yard of a residence on Sheridan Road. Officers arrived at the residence at about 8:20 p.m. after receiving a report from a 22-year-old man stating that the two signs were taken from his home earlier that day, Dugan said. He suspected the signs were taken between midnight and 4 a.m.
most populous jurisdiction in the nation to implement a tax on soda. Seven cities have adopted taxes on sugary drinks, including San Francisco, Oakland and Denver — taxes recently approved through referendums on Tuesday. Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin said the tax will provide a projected $224 million per year, a revenue source used to fund government services. “I voted for this because I thought it is an essential revenue source to keep the county strong, especially since the state is behind in payments to us,” Suffredin said. Suffredin added that Cook County has seen costs to its public health care system increase with the rise of obesity and diabetes. He said the tax will put more money in the healthcare system, while discouraging members from drinking sugary beverages. The former mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, said in a statement following the board’s decision that the tax will help reduce obesity and tackle diabetes. In 2013, Bloomberg attempted to enact a ban on large sugary drinks in New York City, but courts shut the plan down. At that time, no U.S. city had a soda tax. “This is a major victory for American public health — and a very encouraging sign of things to come,” Bloomberg said in a statement. “An idea The signs were each valued at $25.
Man charged with driving under the influence of marijuana
A man from Florida was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of marijuana in Evanston Wednesday night. An officer pulled over the vehicle in the 200 block of South Boulevard after finding it was travelling at 48 mph in a 35 mph zone, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. The officer smelled the odor of burnt cannabis
that was written off not many years ago has now turned into a movement.” Preckwinkle, who was the deciding vote to enact the tax, said in a statement that the tax allows Cook County to avoid budget cuts for public health and safety services. He said the tax will also allow for more spending on communitybased anti-violence initiatives. “This tax can play a positive role in important health issues that impact many of our residents — such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease — and lessen the financial burden on our health and hospitals system,” Preckwinkle said. However, the tax has been met with opposition, with some people concerned that the tax would lead to fewer jobs, lower incomes and higher grocery bills. Suffredin said the concerns are “hyperbole.” The Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce CEO Theresa Mintle said the tax will hurt the Illinois beverage industry. “This is an industry we should be supporting and growing,” Mintle said in the statement. “Instead, the impact of this beverage tax, combined with increases to the minimum wage and mandated paid sick leave, will continue to add uncertainty for the Cook County business community.”
Less than 10 percent of Evanston voters cast ballot for Donald Trump
Although the results of the presidential election stunned many, voting margins in Evanston were as expected for a predominantly-Democratic city. About 7 percent of Evanston residents voted for president-elect Donald Trump, according to the Cook County Clerk’s office. Trump won 47.5 percent of the popular vote nationally and received 290 electoral votes, as of Thursday night. More than 88 percent of voting residents chose to elect Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for president. More than 2.5 percent of Evanston voters supported Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson, and 1.67 percent voted for Green Party candidate Jill Stein. Roughly 70 percent of Evanston residents — 37,224 voters — cast their vote by Nov. 8. The results for the Senate race between Democratic candidate Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Republican incumbent Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) were closer, but still leaned Democrat. Duckworth received nearly 82 percent of votes from Evanston, while about 15 percent of votes were cast in Kirk’s favor. Both Green Party candidate Scott Summers and Libertarian Party candidate Kenton McMillen received less than 2 percent of the Evanston residents’ votes each. — Ben Winck
samkrevlin2019@u.northwestern.edu coming from the vehicle and observed what he suspected to be cannabis on the driver’s pants. The driver exhibited slurred speech and bloodshot eyes, Dugan said. After conducting a field sobriety test, the officer placed the driver under custody for driving under the influence. After being brought to the police station, the driver was charged with possession of cannabis under 2.5 grams, driving under the influence and speeding. — Ben Winck
Daily file photo by Colin Boyle
A voter makes their choice in the 2016 election. Only 7 percent of Evanston residents voted for Trump.
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ON CAMPUS Admins clarify Women’s Center process
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The decision to eliminate long-term counseling at the Women’s Center and integrate its services with Counseling and Psychological Services was made after holding focus groups and encouraging dialogue with students, faculty and staff, an administrator said. Jabbar Bennett, associate provost of diversity and inclusion, told The Daily in an email that the Office of the Provost worked with the Office of Change Management to evaluate possible alterations to Women’s Center services. He said the process involved the Office of Change Management writing a report about the Women’s Center during the 2015-16 academic year and encouraging student dialogue and engagement. Bennett said administrators made certain to talk to students, faculty and staff about potential changes. “We even talked to alumni as well about some of the interactions they have had with the Women’s Center,” he said in an email. “So we didn’t just make this decision. … We didn’t make it up.” When changes to the Women’s Center were announced, some students criticized the decision and said CAPS — which specializes in short-term counseling — would not serve students as well as the Women’s Center does. Counseling will be eliminated from the center by Winter Quarter, administrators said. The day after Donald Trump won the presidential election, the Women’s Center encouraged students to gather, speak to staff or spend time alone in the space in an informational email sent through a Medill listserv. “Know that this space is open and available to you,” the email said. In a previous interview with The Daily, Provost Dan Linzer said it makes more sense for NU to offer its mental health programs in the same place. In writing its report, the Office of Change Management held a study on the Women’s Center’s mission and the University’s needs, Bennett said.
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The Women’s Center, 2000 Sheridan Rd., will integrate counseling services with CAPS by Winter Quarter. An administrator said the decision to eliminate long-term counseling at the center was made after holding focus groups with students.
The input the office had received emphasized the importance of both long-term counseling and the Women’s Center’s existence, he said, which made clear to administrators the good work the staff at the center does. The Office of Change Management is responsible for working with different units across the University on change-based projects by providing analysis or assessments. It reports jointly to the Office of the Provost and to the Office of the Executive Vice President, said Marianna Kepka, senior director of change management. “We really work in a sort of facilitative role,” Kepka said. “What we do internally is put a team together to support a project, whatever the appropriate resources or skillsets are to devote to a certain initiative.” Bennett said the Office of Change Management assisted the Office of the Provost in reaching out to students through emails between March and July, incentivizing students to share their opinions in focus
groups. “We want to learn more about your experiences with the Women’s Center and suggestions to ensure the Center meets the needs of today’s campus community,” said Roma Khanna, director of change management, in an email sent to students in April. Bennett said the focus groups gathered input from 10 groups, including undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and Student Affairs staff. He said attendance in these focus groups was low. Looking forward, he said, students could have opportunities to weigh in on similar topics through community dialogue-like sessions. “We really talked to people who have utilized this service and have been around and care about the center,” Bennett said in an email.
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Coping with the idea of a future President Trump ISABELLA SOTO
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On Tuesday morning, I took the train into Pilsen to cover Latinx and Hispanic voters for my journalism class. On the Pink Line, a mother and her child, Kayla, sat next to me. Kayla is almost one year old, I soon found out, her birthday only 10 days after my own. After making funny faces and smiling down at her, the child’s mother took her out of her stroller, and, in a matter of minutes, she was sitting on my lap. I couldn’t remember the last time I’d held a child so small. I giggled each time she laughed a raucous laugh, relished in the joy of playing patty-cake with her, feeling as though this interaction was a sign from above that the election results would bring good things. I can’t come up with words to describe Tuesday night. I can’t explain how I felt watching the number of electoral votes climb until Trump passed 270. I was numb. I wish I could say I was in disbelief, but in my deepest heart I knew there is too much hate in the United States for this not to happen. I was wracked with sobs, fearing for what this meant for my fellow women of color, for immigrants, for every marginalized group Trump has taken time to alienate and demonize. On Wednesday morning, I wasn’t sure if I was going to make it out of bed. I fought with myself to get up and go outside. I didn’t want to accept this defeat of human decency. I sat stone-faced in class, unable to speak and unable to focus on anything but pain. I felt unsafe in my body. I felt uncomfortable in the world. I sat on the Lakefill and cried, looking at the Chicago skyline, wondering why my country doesn’t love me back. I have defended it. I have worked hard for it. I have privileges and opportunities because of it. I was proud to be an American, but it’s clear America isn’t proud of me. I am a woman of color. I am a Latina daughter to two immigrant parents from the Dominican Republic. I am someone who has been groped without my consent. Nearly half of the popular vote and the majority of Electoral College votes went to a candidate whose rhetoric has attacked or made light of my identities and experiences, as well as countless other identities that I do not hold. It is not just about the candidate. Donald Trump is the figurehead for a campaign of inflammatory hatred against anyone that isn’t a white, cisgender, heterosexual, Christian
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Protesters gather in Chicago near Trump Tower on Wednesday night in reaction to Donald Trump winning the presidential election. As of Thursday night, Trump had won 47.5 percent of the popular vote and received 290 electoral votes, as of Thursday night.
man. It is about millions of people feeling threatened and unsafe because of the policies that Trump promised to institute or repeal. It’s about the violence and intolerance his supporters have demonstrated at Trump rallies. It’s about the campaign’s overwhelming message to marginalized people: We are not included in Trump’s “great America.” On Wednesday evening, I went to mass for the first time in several years at Sheil Catholic Center. I’m not religious in the slightest, but I needed to try to make sense of this outcome in a spiritual sense. I wanted to speak to the feelings of worthlessness and betrayal inside my body. I thought of Kayla. I thought of what this outcome would mean for other small Black, Muslim and Latinx children. How do we show them that we cannot let this pain and fear felt throughout marginalized communities be normalized? How do we stay resilient when this is no longer an isolated event, but a nationwide movement against our lives? On Thursday morning, I woke up without the desire to cry. I was hurt on Tuesday. I am hurting today. I will continue to hurt. Our communities
will hurt for who knows how long, and that’s okay. But something is turning inside me. There is a new fire, a new anger, a new passion. This hurt and pain we feel can be transformed into something radical and beautiful. To everyone who is hurting as I am, to people who identify as Latinx, Black, a woman, an immigrant, LGBTQ, indigenous and Native American, Muslim, differentlyabled folks, a person of color, a survivor of assault and so many other marginalized communities: we matter. While the United States may not love us, we must love one another. We must love fiercely, and we must show we’re not willing to give this fight up to someone with an agenda as full of hate as Donald Trump’s. Protests have already begun across the country, with marginalized people and allies already coming together to let people know that this man does not represent them. And once we have healed, we must organize against the entitlement and violence that Trump supporters are already acting upon. Everyone demonstrates resistance differently. For some of us, simply existing is resistance in itself. But we must at the very least
Schapiro’s statement trivializes my fear JADE MITCHELL
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As a junior, I’ve received my fair share of Morty emails addressing current events. But his statement in response to the election rubs me the wrong way. Part of the statement read: “The results of yesterday’s presidential election surprised almost everyone, including those of us in the Northwestern community. For some, it may have been a pleasant surprise, but for others it undoubtedly is a cause of great concern. And for many, it brought a sense of relief that this bitter and divisive campaign is finally over. I hope all of us now can set aside whatever differences may have occurred during the campaign and continue to do what the University does best: teach, learn, discover and reflect.” This excerpt came from an email sent out by Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro on Nov. 9, vaguely titled “The Election and the University.” I do not know if Morty actually drafts up these statements himself or if it is the unfortunate job of someone else. But regardless of who wrote it, shame on you. Let us start first with this statement: “For some, it may have been a pleasant surprise…” The words “pleasant” and “cause of great concern” are incredibly trivializing to the
experiences of students of color and other marginalized groups in this campus. More appropriate words include: horrid, disgusting, terrifying and infuriating, to name a few. There is no condemnation of Donald Trump in Morty’s statement, though it is absolutely warranted. Any student on this campus who voted for Trump condones a candidate who has made it clear that he hates me, as a Black woman, and everything I stand for along with many other students on this campus. Trump voters are a danger to my presence on this campus and my education. There is fear within our communities, as Trump supporters have already been shown to be reckless and dangerous. Now on to the next point: “I hope all of us now can set aside whatever differences may have occurred during the campaign and continue to do what the University does best: teach, learn, discover and reflect.” The differences that have occurred during this campaign are not schoolyard issues, Morty. It’s not a trivial disagreement over whether you pour the milk before or after the cereal. As a Black woman, many Trump supporters literally do not believe in my personhood. Trump wants to strip my rights to my own body and believes my quality of life must be horrible because, according to him, all Black people in America live in poverty. So no, I cannot put aside our differences. You want us to continue business as usual, suck it up and keep going through the
rigorous environment at NU. But students of color and marginalized groups on campus deserve to have our fear validated and acknowledged. Step out of your bubble of privilege and be the University President you claim to be. Support your students who are struggling, check your students who are letting their privilege and bigotry run rampant. Have empathy for your students who are unsure about their future and are fearful for their lives and loved ones. Make sure your faculty is understanding toward students who are in emotional turmoil right now. Following the words highlighted in your statement, do what the University does best: teach, learn, discover and reflect. Teach this campus to be more tolerant and empathetic to marginalized groups. Learn to properly address the trauma being inflicted on these groups. Discover and implement useful resources to support this trauma. Reflect on how your privilege sometimes make you ineffective in dealing with issues and work to deconstruct it. Do better, Morty. Jade Mitchell is a Weinberg junior. She can be contacted at jademitchell2018@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.
come together and show that we will not stand for this. If you are a white ally, show up. Prove that you love and care for your friends who hold marginalized identities and uplift them. Actively work to deconstruct and denounce the white supremacist practices in your life and in society, now more than ever. And for those of us who are marginalized: all of us, our parents and our ancestors, have worked to make this country what it is. While the United States’ history is colonial, racist, violent and full of the exploitation and suffering of marginalized people, we have overcome before. We have helped make this country great despite how it has treated us. We deserve that credit. We deserve to feel safe. We deserve to feel appreciated. We deserve to be here. Isabella Soto is a Medill sophomore. She can be contacted at isabellasoto2019@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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on additional quarters and take on additional loans.” Bahamon added that this change could lower all students’ stress levels, which is a “major game-changer.” Despite the positive impacts of the change, Communication senior Carmen Mackins said she does not think the School of Communication was the “most necessary” place to start making these changes. “Out of all the majors in Northwestern, communication studies isn’t the most demanding time wise,” Mackins said. “We do have to write a lot of papers, and we do have a lot of projects to do, just like every other major. However, I would say it’s one of the least stressful majors at Northwestern.” Mackins said she thinks McCormick should
have been the first school to reduce credit requirements because she knows students who have had to take multiple challenging engineering courses every quarter during their time at NU. The goal is to have all schools at NU reduce credit requirements, Young said. However, it is up to individual schools and departments to decide if and how they would like to approach this change, he said. “What happens is, sometimes there can be inertia where people might be slow to embrace any sort of change, but when you get more people together in a room with a great idea, then it’s really easy to put this into place,” he said. “I’m optimistic this will occur across the university.”
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Test results verify reports of mold in Bobb By TORI LATHAM
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Preliminary testing for mold in Bobb and McCulloch Halls came back positive for the same type of mold recently found in Ayers College of Commerce and Industry, a University official said Monday. Students alerted the University to the possibility of mold in Bobb, and the building is continuing to be tested, said Paul Riel, assistant vice president for residential and dining services. In an email sent to Bobb and McCulloch residents Wednesday, Riel said Facilities Management staff are also evaluating the building’s ventilation system and monitoring its air quality and humidity levels. “(Other big buildings) are being checked now with sort of the same process to make sure we’re not missing anything from a fresh air standpoint and an exhaust standpoint,” Riel said. The University is continuing to test CCI and Foster-Walker Complex — which had previous reports of mold — as well as Sargent Hall, Riel added. Anabel Mendoza, a Medill freshman who lives in Bobb, said she is considering moving out of the building due to health concerns from the presence of mold in her room and the rest of the building. She said she began feeling the symptoms of a cold during Wildcat Welcome and the cold has persisted ever since. After going to an immediate care center to determine the cause of her illness, Mendoza said she suspected it was caused by the air quality in the building, something the doctor had also mentioned. Mendoza said she had previously heard other students in Bobb talking about mold in their rooms, and she checked her room after returning from the immediate care facility. She said she found mold above her windowsill and in the bathroom. Mendoza said she told her resident assistant about the mold and someone from the maintenance team came to clean it. Maintenance staff said it was “just dust,” Mendoza said, but she said the mold is still there and “doesn’t just disappear with the wipe of a tissue.” “I have to consider what’s best for my health,” she said. “But it’s difficult to move out of a place when these are the people that you meet from day one and now you’ve gotten really close to.” Communication freshman Rachel Cantor said she also found mold in her room in Bobb and that the maintenance team was “super proactive” in taking care of it. Cantor said she did not think of the mold on her ceiling as a serious issue until her friends encouraged her to report it. She said her room has been free of mold since it was cleaned last week. Riel said he did not have a precise number of students who reported mold in Bobb, but both Mendoza and Cantor said they have heard numerous Bobb residents talking about mold in their rooms. Last week, Riel told The Daily that students should continue to submit requests related to mold through SchoolDude. He added recently that the University is focusing on inspecting larger buildings with window air conditioner units because those are the ones in which they are seeing issues. torilatham2017@u.northwestern.edu
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Earlier this week, members of the Daily’s sports desk sat down with vice president for athletics and recreation Jim Phillips. He touched on a number of topics, including the Northwestern football team. His answers have been edited for length and clarity. The Daily: Do you like the new Friday night Big Ten games, and do you think they’re good for Northwestern? Phillips: Yeah, I do. We’re just a landscape that has changed. You see the Big 12 plays on Thursdays; the Pac-12 plays during the week. I think we strategically waited to see what others had done, tried to learn a little bit, and I think it’s a slight modification. We have to see how it goes. We have to see about player health and safety and some of those things. We certainly take academics seriously here — we’ve got to see what the implications are of leaving to go out to Maryland on Thursday and missing class on potentially Thursday and Friday. So it’ll be a little bit of a test pilot. The Daily: Northwestern was the only school to get two Friday games. Was that random or did the program push for that? Phillips: It’s random, but a little bit of good fortune as well. That’s going to be a Friday night where there’s one Big Ten game on, and we’re going to get a chance to play on the road once and have a chance to showcase it here on campus. And there are lots of things I want to see. For home, I want to see what happens with our students. Is that something our students like on a Friday night after a long week of school? Maybe that’s a great time instead of knocking on their rooms at nine o’clock in the morning on Saturdays and saying, “Come on, get up,” and they’re like, “Oh my gosh, I’m exhausted. I don’t know if I want to necessarily get up.” The Daily: If the Friday night games become successful, will there be plans to add permanent stadium lights at Ryan Field, and if so, what is the timetable? Phillips: Yes. The expectation of the Big Ten is for us to have lights in each of the facilities. I assume we’ll treat the first year as we’ve treated previous years where we’ll just bring them. But ultimately, we have to find a permanent solution to that, and it just would make sense for us to invest in permanent lights. We would have to work with the city and some of the community folks, et cetera, but long-term we’d like to get to a permanent light situation. I think next year we would go with temporary lights, but hope by maybe 2018, 2019. I don’t really want to pin it down. I still don’t know what that would entail to work through campus and facilities, so there’s some moving parts to all of it. The goal is to eventually have some kind of permanent lights. The Daily: Across college football, there has been a proliferation of bowl games. Just last year, we saw three 5-7 teams qualify for bowls. How do you feel about the number of bowl games, and do you think 5-7 teams should be playing? Phillips: So that’s part of my ultimate responsibility as chair of the NCAA Council; we’ve talked about that. We put a ban and moratorium on any new, additional bowl games. We want to see one more year to see what that cycle looks like. I’m not sure I know where the end result will be. Any time you can give a group of student-athletes at a university a chance to go and celebrate and be together for a bowl game that’s a great thing. Bowl season play is terrific. But do we have an over-saturation? Should we reduce the amount? Should 6-6 be the criteria, or should it be a
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winning season, 7-5? Those are things we’re still debating and talking about and we’ll see where that goes. The Daily: So much has been made about the safety of football in recent years, and you see injuries like Matthew Harris’. From a Northwestern, or even college football standpoint, do you think that the game is going to be changed at all to better prevent those types of injuries? Phillips: I do, and I think it’s already taking place. I’m proud that we were the first college program to have an independent concussion spotter up in the press box that has communications to the sideline and that can yank someone. Also, for return to play, we were one of the first, if not the first. It was really patterned off to the NFL. We did that several years ago. I think the rules have changed for the betterment, the kickoffs, some of the targeting rules, some of the tackling rules, leading with your head and those things, I think they’ve all made the game safer. My hope is that it continues to be a safer game. I’m really proud of Matthew. I’ll share a private story with you: I’ve been close with Matthew. One of the things I think my responsibility is, is when we get a kid sent to the hospital, I go with them. I went with Matthew at Penn State when he left the game, I did it with Brett (Walsh) a few weeks ago when we were in Iowa, when he was carted off. But I had Matthew in my office less than two weeks ago, probably last week, the days run into each other. And I wanted him to know how proud I was of him for walking away from the sport of football, a sport that he loves, a sport where he had aspirations to play on Sundays in the NFL, that he was making the right decision. He’s a wonderful young person. He’s bright, he’s got a very bright future ahead of him, and I could only imagine what he went through to get himself to that position. Those kinds of decisions are the right decisions. You don’t need to suffer another head injury after you’ve had a few already when you have a beautiful future ahead of you. But it’s tough, it’s tough. And you also sometimes feel outside pressures, and I’m not saying this about Matthew but just in general, whether they be family pressures, coaching pressures, other pressures of “Hey you gotta get back out there, we gotta win this game.” That’s not what it’s about. It’s really the health, welfare and safety of overseeing young people, and I think that’s what was done very correctly with Matthew. And he won’t be the last. He’s not the first and he won’t be the last, we’ll have to continue with that. We also look at a sport like soccer. Women’s soccer had more concussions last year than football did, we see with the new data. So you’ve got to take the same kind of care with them as you do with football or any of your other programs.
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Looking at Wildcats’ potential bowl scenarios BOBBY PILLOTE
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Sitting at 4-5 with three winnable games left on its schedule against Purdue, Minnesota and Illinois, Northwestern looks poised to make a bowl game for the second season in a row. Minnesota (7-2, 4-2 Big Ten) is the only one of the remaining opponents with a winning record. Purdue (3-6, 1-5) and Illinois (3-6, 2-4) each sit at the bottom of the conference, and the Wildcats triumphed over all three teams in 2015. Barring an epic late-season collapse, NU should reach the six wins necessary to qualify for a postseason berth. Below are the three potential finishes that could be in store for the Cats, and what they will mean.
Scenario 1: NU wins out (7-5)
This, of course, is the best possible case: NU rolls to three straight wins and ends the season having recovered nicely from an embarrassing 0-2 start. But in the evermore-convoluted world of bowl games, it’s not as simple as slotting NU into a game based on its record. There’s a pecking order among the bowl games with tie-ins to the Big Ten, with certain bowls getting preference over others. The Citrus Bowl, for example, gets a better pick of teams than the Heart of Dallas Bowl. Under the conference’s current agreement with bowls, the games submit a team preference to the Big Ten but the conference must approve the final slate. The Cats benefit from a contractual provision that most of the Big Ten’s bowl partners must select at least five different teams over six years. The current bowl contracts kicked in prior to the 2014 season, meaning teams which played in a given bowl game in the last two years are unlikely to play in that same game this year. The rule could lead to some reshuffling among the bowls that ends with NU playing in a bowl it otherwise wouldn’t have. At 7-5, the most likely bowl choices for the Cats are either the Pinstripe Bowl, played on Dec. 28 in New York, or the Music City Bowl, played Dec. 30 in Nashville. The Pinstripe Bowl makes a lot of sense; NU has a significant East Coast fan base, and the
venue, Yankee Stadium, isn’t as difficult to fill up as some of the NFL stadiums used for other bowl games. Helping the Cats here is that Indiana (5-4) played in the Pinstripe Bowl last year and likely won’t be selected for the game again. NU should be the pick if it’s between those two schools. The worst case scenario for the Cats at 7-5 would be the Foster Farms Bowl, played Dec. 28 in Santa Clara, California.
Scenario 2: NU finishes 6-6
The Cats will still make a bowl game at 6-6, but the options become far less exciting. The two main choices here are the Quick Lane Bowl, played Dec. 26 in Detroit, or the Heart of Dallas Bowl, played Dec. 27 in Dallas. NU could sneak into the Foster Farms Bowl at 6-6, but that would probably require some surprising upsets to end the season. A Maryland loss at home against Rutgers (2-7), an Iowa loss on the road against Illinois or an Indiana loss at home against Purdue could knock respective those teams out of bowl eligibility, but the Cats shouldn’t count on those outcomes.
Scenario 3: NU finishes 5-7
Yes, a team can finish 5-7 and still qualify for the postseason. There are now 41 bowl games requiring 82 teams, but just 79 finished 6-6 or better in 2015. The NCAA fills these open spots with 5-7 teams, picking the most academically proficient teams first. NU had the fourth-highest NCAA academic progress rate among FBS schools in the latest reporting cycle. Two of the teams ahead of the Cats have already become bowl eligible, and NU beat the third, Duke, in the teams’ head-to-head matchup this season. If the NCAA is selecting 5-7 teams, the Cats should be the first one picked and would probably be slotted for the Heart of Dallas Bowl. But there’s no guarantee there won’t be enough 6-6 teams. If NU doesn’t win two more games, the Cats could still end up out of the postseason. Bobby Pillote is a McCormick senior. He can be contacted at bpillote@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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Weinberg on the task force, said there is “no way” that could happen. “We have one of the most highly qualified, internationally recognized faculty in the world,” Hurd said. “These people are doing their work, and they’re doing it at the top of their game. It would be ridiculous for me or someone else on this committee to tell them what to do and how to do it.” Some professors also said their voices were
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From page 1 experiences working in the music industry. Spooner spoke about creating the 2003 documentary “Afro-Punk,” which explored the experiences and culture of black people in the then overwhelmingly white punk scene. The documentary sparked the annual Afropunk Festival, celebrated in New York and other cities such as Paris and London.
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As a young man, Spooner said, he felt supported and understood in the punk community. However, he said he was aware of how historically white that culture was. “It was a very empowering place,” Spooner
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016 not represented in the report. Hurd said this oversight may have been a result of the task force having only one representative from each of the university’s schools. Hurd said she recognized the limitations of being the “one faculty member representing 600-odd faculty members.” “I’m very respectful of my colleagues who feel like, ‘Hey, I’ve never heard of her,’ or, ‘She’s in a field that’s very different from mine,’” Hurd said. “Those concerns are real and palpable and I respect everyone who has them.” Concerns voiced during the town hall will
be passed on to Provost Dan Linzer, University President Morton Schapiro and various deans, Blount said. She added that acknowledging these concerns is necessary for creating change. “This kind of debate is very important because you learn where the sensitivities are, you learn where the aspirations are and you learn where the people who aren’t feeling heard are,” Blount said. “We don’t have a self-interest except the betterment of our community.”
said. “But at the same time, I was recognizing that there was this understanding that, as a black person, I wasn’t really supposed to be part of it, or I wasn’t supposed to remind the white people that I was friends with that I’m a black person.” In response, Spooner said he decided to dig deeper into the history and community of black punks, leading him to create the 66-minute documentary and later the Afropunk festival. He said he left the festival after its third iteration when it became over-commercialized, something he said separated it from its original punk culture. However, he said he still believes the festival a space for black people who enjoy funk to celebrate both identities. “It’s gotten really corporate and un-punk,” he said. “But there’s still value.” Dee, the first rapper to perform at the Grammy Awards, said he has seen a similar commercialization of his music genre. During the 1980s, he said, hip-hop artists who gained popularity when their styles became fashionable were given money and luxuries by “corporate America,” affecting their songs’ lyrics and themes. Despite these issues, he said, there is a wide range of themes and ideas in hip-hop music. “Hip-hop’s voice isn’t one voice. It’s many
different layers of voices,” he said. Dee also said hip-hop’s lyrics are influenced by its historically male-dominated mindset, in which black women were oversexualized and underrepresented. During the event, no one mentioned this week’s election of Donald Trump for president. Spooner encouraged students with creative passions to pursue them and become trailblazers in areas that interest them. “Just because it’s never been done before doesn’t mean you can’t do it, you know?” he said. “Genius springs from just being like, ‘F–k it, man! This is the way I want to do it.’” SESP junior Michelle Sanders, an FMO leader who attended the event, said the group decided to invite Spooner and Dee to campus because it wanted to look at different narratives within genres of music central to black communities. “I really enjoyed hearing both perspectives on the erasure of black women and queerphobia in both genres and looking at how … white supremacy and white male hetero perspectives are dominating within the genre as it becomes more like a business rather than a form of expression,” she said.
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announcement. “Today, I urge you to be kind and caring to one another.” ETHS District 202 Board President Pat Savage-Williams said the announcement sent the right message to the students after a “divisive” election season. The most important thing was to make students feel safe, Savage-Williams said. “Whatever side they’re on, our goal and our job is to embrace the students, to help them feel like they belong there, to help make sure they feel, that they are safe, so that we don’t add to their anxiety,” she said. Ald. Donald Wilson (4th), who has three kids who are students, said that Tuesday night was “quite stressful and disappointing” for the whole household.
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Wilson said the message he tried to get across to his children was that now was the time to assess their future plans for political and social involvement. “The next day there isn’t anything you can do about the results from the day before, but what you can do is to look at what happened and make a personal commitment to effectuate change in the direction that you think it should be changing,” he said.
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Students abroad react to Trump’s election victory By ERICA SNOW
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When Kimberly Hill went to bed in Paris on Tuesday night, the election was too close to call. She woke up the next day to a Donald Trump victory. Hill, a Weinberg junior, said she believes social progress occurred during President Barack Obama’s two-term presidency, but she said she is worried about what the future holds. After hearing the election results, she said she went in a hallway and cried for two hours. “It’s definitely hard because I’m in a sorority and I’m really close to my family, and being away from those two support systems has been really challenging,” Hill said. “I got a lot of emails from different places at Northwestern, different communities I’m a part of that were like, ‘Here’s the on campus resources that we’re having,’ … and it’s been hard not to have those things.” Luke Miller, a Weinberg senior studying abroad in Barcelona this quarter, said professors have singled him out in class to offer condolences or joke about the election. He said his professors and classmates felt sorry for him. Miller also said he had to explain the U.S. political system to his international peers, and many were left in disbelief. One professor asked Miller’s entire class if they were doing well that day, before looking directly at him, he said. “He turned at me and was like, ‘You’re not,’ and I’m like, ‘You got that right’,” Miller said. “One woman in front of me turned around and was like, ‘Why, what happened?’ and I was like, ‘I’m American.’” Miller said his class spent an hour talking about Trump and U.S. politics. Elaine Parizot, a Weinberg junior studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark, said Europeans would ask her to share her thoughts about
the U.S. election and seemed like they had a stake in her answer. “The economies over here are a lot smaller, especially Denmark, and depend a lot on what happens in the U.S., so they are genuinely concerned,” Parizot said. Hill said dealing with the election results is difficult abroad because she has to rely on people she has only known for a few months instead of being surrounded by friends and family. Although she said moving abroad ultimately isn’t the solution after Tuesday’s election result, she joked that she considered staying abroad. “I just want to see my friends and family, and I want to know that everything’s going to be OK,” Hill said. “It might not be, but it’s hard being here to find a support system. I was feeling a little homesick before. Now it’s like, ‘Well, do I really want to go back there?’” ericasnow2019@u.northwestern.edu
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MEN’S BASKETBALL From page 12
wasn’t necessarily happy … Hopefully I’ll play better going forward.” Much of NU’s rotation returns from last season’s team, which won 20 games on the back of a soft nonconference schedule and ran into trouble against more talented teams in the Big Ten. Although improvement from the returners can help, Brown and Law represent the Cats’ best chance of closing the talent gap with their conference foes.
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Flashes played a Big Ten team this season was Aug. 19, when Kent State lost 3-0 to Ohio State, a team the Cats tied Oct. 1.
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A lot of people had us barely making it into the Big Ten Tournament. ... I’m happy (the players) are hungry. Michael Moynihan, coach
For NU, this will be a return to the NCAAs after a second-round loss last year. It is only the fourth tournament appearance in the Cats’ history, and they have never made it past the round of 16.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL From page 12
get back on the court in a regular season game and had her own reasons to predict improvement. “I think we can do everything better; we have a lot of scoring power,” Douglas said. “We also have a lot of people that can defend.” The Cats’ weaknesses may not be fully tested in Friday’s game, but the contest will be an important indicator of how the new players will be integrated into the lineup. Though no one yet knows how NU will
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2016 It’s a lot to ask of the two players, one finding his way in college and another finding his way back from injury. But starting with Friday’s game, the play of Brown and Law and the new skills they bring could define NU’s upside this season. “We’ve been pretty predictable — not that that’s bad, but we’ve been pretty predictable with what we’ve had.” Collins said. “Now I think we have more versatility and more guys who can get out there and do some things, which will help us hopefully win.” maxschuman2018@u.northwestern.edu NU beat expectations to get to this point, and coach Michael Moynihan said the Cats have surprised this year by playing with a special kind of energy. “A lot of people had us barely making it into the Big Ten Tournament,” Moynihan said. “I’m happy (the players) are hungry.” NU will have its fair share of challenges ahead if it can get past Kent State. If the Cats win, NU will likely take on No. 11 Notre Dame in the second round. In addition, No. 1 West Virginia is in the Cats’ region of the bracket, and NU could have to face the Mountaineers if it advances to the quarterfinals. The Cats went down 4-0 to West Virginia in the second round of the NCAAs last year. Looking forward to the tournament, sophomore defender Hannah Davison made it very clear that the team has a matchup with the Mountaineers on their mind. “The goal is to get to the Elite Eight,” Davison said. “We’re more than capable of that.” robinsonmarkus2019@u.northwestern.edu improve on its rebounding and replace departed guard Maggie Lyon’s shooting, some of the questions may start to be answered as a new season begins. “For everybody it’s like spring training: you get to play somebody different and play against people who are preparing for you just like you’re preparing for them,” McKeown said. “The biggest thing for us is getting our confidence, learning how we can blend in some of our new players.” benjaminapelbaum2019@u.northwestern.edu
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On the surface, there aren’t many similarities between Isiah Brown and Vic Law, the two biggest additions to Northwestern’s rotation this season. The first is a freshman guard, inexperienced but known as a natural scorer who broke the career scoring record for Seattle high school players. The other is a redshirt sophomore forward, highly touted out of high school for his versatile skillset and ruled out with a shoulder injury before he could take the floor for the Wildcats last year. The duo play different positions, have different strengths and are at completely different stages of their collegiate careers. But when NU begins its new season against Mississippi Valley State on Friday, both Brown and Law will share the label of X-factors that can help push the Cats to new heights. In his first appearance for NU in last Friday’s exhibition against Illinois-Springfield, Brown was a
revelation, scoring 18 points in 23 minutes on the floor. He shot an efficient 7-for-11 from the field and flashed dynamic scoring ability, albeit against a lesser opponent. “Ever since Isiah came to campus, he’s been like a lightning rod of energy,” coach Chris Collins said. “He’s electric with the ball. He can really score. He can make plays. … There’s no question this year that he’s going to be a big part of what we do.” Brown figures to be a spark off the bench this season, spelling junior guards Bryant McIntosh and Scottie Lindsey, and his attacking mentality should add a new dimension to the backcourt. That confidence translated immediately in his first collegiate action, as he knocked down pull-up jumpers and got to the rim frequently. With his pedigree as a volume scorer, Brown has a chance to be the game-changing reserve the Cats
lacked last year. “My job is to put pressure on the defense, play in attack-mode and be aggressive,” Brown said. “We’ve got a lot of guys who can do a lot of different things, but when I come in I want to make an impact right away.” Law’s return to the court wasn’t quite as auspicious. The sophomore scored 11 points on 4-of-11 shooting in his first action since spring 2015. Although he hit double-figures in points, the forward was out of rhythm for most of the game after early foul trouble, hitting 2-of-6 three point attempts and turning the ball over twice in his 22-minute stint. But Law’s impact was felt as a playmaker on the defensive side, as he notched three steals and two blocks. Law’s blend of size and athleticism is unmatched in NU’s forward group, and his exhibition showing was a reminder he can make a difference for the Cats even when he’s not playing his best. “I think just shaking the jitters off was good,” Law said. “I was satisfied with my performance, I’ll say. I » See MEN’S BASKETBALL, page 10
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Cats looking to figure NU set for NCAA Tournament out rotation in opener By ROBBIE MARKUS
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As a new season dawns, Northwestern is hopeful that its new additions, particularly in the frontcourt, will allow for improvement from last season.
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We have six new players, and I think we’re in the process of blending them in. Joe McKeown, coach
The first challenge for coach Joe McKeown’s squad comes at home on Friday afternoon against Hampton, and the team likely will showcase a deeper rotation than last year. “We have six new players, and I think we’re in the process of blending them in during the preseason and through November, December, nonconference,” McKeown said. “As we get ready for Big Ten play, hopefully that’ll be a positive experience.”
Of those six new players, four are freshmen, one is transfer center Oceana Hamilton, and the final one is fifth-year forward Lauren Douglas, who returns after taking a medical redshirt last season. Five of the six new additions are listed as forwards or centers on the roster, positions in particular that did not have much depth last season. The “big three” made up of senior forward Nia Coffey and senior guards Ashley Deary and Christen Inman is sure to lead the team, but Coffey believes Douglas has the potential to contribute in a big way. “She’s tall, and she’s a fifth-year senior, so she has a lot of experience to help everyone, especially the freshmen and underclassmen,” Coffey said. “She can stretch defenses, and she can be a very lethal option for us on offense.” The question of whether Douglas is fully healthy remains, but she scored six points in fifteen minutes of action during the NU’s exhibition game against Illinois-Springfield last Sunday. Douglas expressed excitement to » See ROTATION, page 10
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No. 21 Northwestern will host an NCAA Tournament game at Martin Stadium for the first time in the program’s history on Saturday. To advance, the Wildcats (14-24, 7-1-3) will have to take down a Kent State (15-2-2, 8-1-2 MAC) team making its first NCAAs appearance.
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Junior goalkeeper Lauren Clem said she’s excited to start off the playoffs on a field where the Cats have not lost all season. “We really want to take advantage of the home field,” Clem said. “We definitely love having the fans
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Nandi Mehta turns in the midfield. The graduate midfielder and Northwestern will look to begin its NCAA Tournament run with a win Saturday against Kent State.
there.” This season, Clem, the Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Year, and NU’s defense have thrived at home, allowing one goal in 11 in Evanston. And regardless of where they’ve played, the Cats have consistently had one of the stingiest defenses in the country, allowing six goals all season and one in their last six games. Although it’s clear NU’s defensive unit is as strong as ever, the Cats will need to come prepared against a Kent State offense that puts up 2.36 goals per game. The Golden Flashes powered their way to an MAC conference tournament championship en route to the NCAAs, winning three games by a combined score of 6-1. NU’s defense has propelled it to many victories this season, but the Cats’ offensive success will ultimately determine their fate. NU has scored just one goal in its last five games, and been sporadic on offense all year. Although both teams have lofty records, NU has faced more tests throughout its conference schedule than Kent State. The Big Ten sent eight teams to NCAAs, the most of any conference, and Kent State is the only team in the MAC that received a berth. The only time the Golden » See WOMEN’S SOCCER, page 10
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