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so that’s why I came and that was the main takeaway,” Frank said. “This is very serious, and (the United States) had an unfortunately negative role.” Rozoff said he was glad to come to Evanston and speak on the situation, which could become very “grave and dramatic,” as two nuclear superpowers are involved. “Either NATO blinks or Russia blinks,” Rozoff said. “Or we may be heading into a warning about nuclear war.”
A resident at the Feinberg School of Medicine has started a program partnering Northwestern with an Ethiopian medical school to decrease maternal mortality in the country. Last week, Dr. Gelila Goba, a fourth-year resident at Feinberg, returned to NU after a weeklong trip to Ethiopia, her home country. Goba’s program, the Mela Project, partners Feinberg with Mekelle University’s obstetrics and gynecology department in Ethiopia. Feinberg has sent three teams of medical faculty, residents and students to Ethiopia since October for the program, which aims to improve medical education and healthcare delivery in the country’s Tigray region. In Ethiopia, the majority of women deliver at home without a skilled birthing professional, and less than 15 percent deliver at a hospital, according to Dr. Magdy Milad, a Feinberg professor and leader on the Mela Project. The high number of home births, along with a lack of physicians and access to healthcare, contributes to one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. “Four years ago, Gelila interviewed for (an obstetrics and gynecology) residency here and We hope expressed a it will become strong drive a training site and passion to develop a to transform sustainable medical relationship with a medieducation in cal school in Ethiopia. Ethiopia,” Dr. Gelila Milad said. Goba, “I thought Mela Project it was a very founder important opportunity for us to consider, and we recruited her for residency with this partnership in mind.” Goba is juggling all the expectations of a resident at Feinberg, such as exams and hospital hours, while also supporting a family and developing the Mela Project. After deciding to partner with Mekelle, Goba secured a grant from the Chicago-based nonprofit IDP Foundation, Inc. which was matched and exceeded by NU and the Center for Global Health, as well as by Mekelle in order to develop a program that aims to meet U.S. and international standards. “We want to contribute to the efforts to decrease maternal mortality in Ethiopia, as well as across Africa,” Goba said. “We hope it will become a training site to transform medical education in Ethiopia.” The first visit to Ethiopia in October was conducted as a needs assessment to understand the region’s model of healthcare delivery
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CAMERA CONCERNS Evanston police say they will consider adopting body cameras once such cameras are made explicitly legal in Illinois. Police departments across the country are debating the use of body-worn cameras in the aftermath of a police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.
By SOPHIA BOLLAG and CIARA McCARTHY daily senior staffers @sophiabollag, @mccarthy_ciara
In the wake of national debate over law enforcement practices, Evanston police say they will consider adopting body cameras for officers when such cameras are explicitly legalized
in Illinois. “I do think the day will come where we will be using them in Evanston in the next two to three years,” Evanston police Cmdr. Jay Parrott told The Daily. “I think that’s going to be the standard in law enforcement.” The shooting death of black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri,
launched a national conversation about the use of cameras in law enforcement. In December, President Barack Obama called for $263 million from Congress to make 50,000 body-worn cameras available to police. Since then, police departments throughout the country have reconsidered their use of surveillance technology.
In December, Los Angeles announced it will order 7,000 body cameras for police. New York and Chicago police plan to launch body camera pilot programs in the coming months. Illinois formerly had one of the most stringent eavesdropping laws » See POLICE, page 7
Library panelists discuss Ukraine crisis By ALICE YIN
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Two scholars warned against the peril of the war in Ukraine during a talk Saturday at the Evanston Public Library. John Mearsheimer, a professor at the University of Chicago, and Rick Rozoff, manager of the Stop NATO website, met at EPL, 1703 Orrington Ave., for the event. Neighbors for Peace, an Evanston-based community organization aiming to promote peace throughout the world, hosted the talk, which drew about 40 people. The event featured a speech from both guests and a question-andanswer session from the audience. The two speakers spoke on the civil unrest in Ukraine. The crisis began in late 2013, amid movement to integrate Ukraine with NATO and the European Union. The removal of Ukraine’s proRussian president and Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region sparked further tension in the country — and between the West and Russia. Discussing the dwindling United States-Russia relationship and the expansion of NATO, the speakers encouraged taking a more critical view of the West’s role in the crisis. “We continue to encourage (Ukraine) to become part of the West … while doing nothing to help the Ukrainians,”
Mearsheimer said. “This is highly irresponsible.” Mearsheimer, who wrote an article on the Ukrainian crisis published in the magazine Foreign Affairs last fall, said although Putin is not innocent, he is misunderstood. His involvement in Ukraine is a reaction to an increased Western presence near Russian borders, Mearsheimer said. “Putin is not bent on conquering Ukraine,” Mearsheimer said at the talk. “He is wrecking Ukraine and destroying it as a functioning society. We have two choices: the West backs off or (Russia continues) to try to make Ukraine part of the West by wrecking the country.” Dale Lehman, a member of Neighbors for Peace, said he felt the event was important to the organization’s mission of establishing peace in the international community. He said both speakers provided insight that the media and general public have not. “Mearsheimer is a very prominent professor and knowledgeable about U.S. foreign policy,” Lehman said. “We were lucky to get him. Rozoff has all kinds of credentials as an independent researcher who’s followed changes in NATO — things that slip through media without context.” Rozoff spoke on NATO’s growing threat as a military bloc, especially with talks in recent years to align the
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organization with Ukraine. The panelist underlined the danger in NATO’s failed promises to stop its expansion. “Almost half of the countries in the world attended NATO’s last summit in Wales,” Rozoff told The Daily. “In 1991 if anyone had suggested this, they would be accused of being crazy.” Libby Frank, a Chicago resident who attended the event, said both speakers helped her understand the different actions of the United States and Russia that led to the crisis. “I don’t feel like I’m getting a real, true picture out of mainstream media
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Around Town City schedules community meeting to discuss Divvy bikes
Before Divvy bikes arrive in Evanston, residents will have a chance to share input on the program at a community meeting Tuesday, the city announced last week. In September, Gov. Pat Quinn’s office announced funding to expand Divvy, a Chicago-based bike-sharing service, to Evanston in spring of 2015. Eight docking stations will be installed throughout Evanston, possibly including some near Northwestern’s campus. “It’s a really good opportunity to get more people riding bikes in that short commute from one part of downtown to another part of downtown,” Ald. Coleen Burrus (9th) told The Daily in November. At Tuesday’s meeting, from 7-9 p.m. at the Civic Center, Divvy and Evanston officials will outline the program and allow residents to ask questions, voice concerns and vote on potential locations for the bike-sharing stations. In partnership with the University, Evanston will offer students with WildCARDs $20 discounts off the $75 Divvy membership. When Divvy’s expansion to Evanston was first agreed upon, Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said the program will help improve residents’ health and reduce the city’s carbon footprint, and Quinn spoke to Divvy’s effectiveness in Chicago. “The Divvy program has proven to be a successful and innovative way to commute, navigate congested city streets and explore vibrant Chicago communities,” Quinn said in a news release. “Expanding Divvy outside of the city limits means fewer cars on the roads and gives more residents and visitors the fun opportunity to take a ride.” Evanston is currently looking for businesses to become partners or sponsors of the bike sharing program. — Alex Putterman
Fire breaks out in northwest Evanston home
A fire broke out at a northwest Evanston home Friday afternoon. The family of six who lives in the home, 2519 Harrison St., was able to exit the house safely. Evanston fire department Division Chief Dwight Hohl said the fire started at around 12:33 p.m. in the attic space of the three-story house.
“It was a very tough fire,” he said. “It took about three hours to get it under control. We had 10 other fire departments from 10 communities assist us.” The fire caused nearby McDaniel Avenue to be closed to vehicular traffic between Central Street and Lincoln Street, police said. One firefighter was injured at the home and taken to the hospital in stable condition, city officials said. — Julian Gerez
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Police Blotter Police field shots fired call Thursday morning
Officers responded to a shots fired call in southwest Evanston on Thursday morning. A call came in of one shot fired in the 900 block of Grey Avenue near the Robert Crown Center at around 6:04 a.m., police said. Police responded but did not locate any evidence, Evanston police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. “We can’t confirm that it was shots fired,” he said. “The call came in that way but it could have been something else.”
A 29-year-old Evanston woman was arrested in connection with retail theft Thursday. The assistant manager at an Evanston Walgreens observed the woman enter the store and put items in her purse, then go to the cashier and pay for other items in her cart, Parrott said. The stolen items had a value of about $33 and included juice boxes, hair dye, Oreo cookies and miscellaneous groceries. The 29-year-old was charged with misdemeanor retail theft and will appear in court Feb. 5. — Julian Gerez
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On Campus NU to hold annual extern program By EMILY CHIN
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The Northwestern Alumni Association and Northwestern Career Advancement are putting on the annual Northwestern Externship Program, which pairs NU alumni with students for a day of career shadowing. Students accompany alumni for a day to their job in places all over the United States to explore potential careers. Alumni were able to register for NEXT, which has been held for more than a decade, last week. As of Friday afternoon, 462 alumni had signed up, said Tracie Thomas, director of career development at NCA. “We’re looking for alumni who are interested in connecting with students, supporting them, providing mentorship, really making those connections where they can not only answer questions and be a resource but also provide students with practical experience on the job,” said Ben Hancock, associate director of alumni professional development at NCA. Alumni come from all different fields, giving students an opportunity to explore a variety of career options, Thomas said. “I think the best thing that students gain is an opportunity to build their professional network and explore careers in a meaningful way
Childhood ‘word gap’ can be combated early, study finds
A Northwestern psychology professor co-authored a study arguing the “word gap” between lower income children and more affluent children, who hear more words during early childhood, can be combated at as early as two or three months of age.
and gain exposure to multiple career fields,” she said. “I think just gaining exposure to different industries and different companies is a great way for students to gain knowledge of different career fields.” Students have the option to complete applications for up to eight externships, which resemble an internship application. Alumni then receive these applications and decide who would be best fit for their particular externship. SESP junior James Keane participated in the NEXT program last year by shadowing Roy Elvove (Communication ’75, Medill ’76), executive vice president of New York advertising agency BBDO Worldwide. Keane said the program exposed him to the world of advertising and helped him secure a summer internship. Prior to the externship, Keane had trouble getting employers’ attentions because he had no connections. He “cold-emailed” employers without any previous history with them. “I was just trying to find anyone who would take me under their wing,” he said. Through NEXT, Keane was able to connect with Elvove, who said it was Keane’s proactivity and hands-on work during the externship that led him to extend an internship offer to him. “In our department we meet as a group and everyday we review what’s going on. James
participated in that meeting and asked questions,” Elvove said. “He got a sense for the magnitude and the volume of work that we’re handling and the diverse nature of them.” Last year was Elvove’s first time participating in NEXT. He said he will participate this year as well. “It was great because it was an opportunity for me to give something back to the University,” he said. “It was a chance for me to help a student and in the process expose them to it and get them excited about it.” Keane said he was rewarded with the connections he got through the program and will apply again this year. Applications for the program open Jan. 26. Keane also pointed out some “hidden gems” to the program last year. Adrienne Moore (Weinberg ’03), who plays Cindy “Black Cindy” Hayes in “Orange Is the New Black,” is an NU alum and offered the chance for students to meet the show’s cast and see the set. “This was an opportunity that only people who look into the program saw,” Keane said. Despite these opportunities, Thomas said the program isn’t particularly competitive, and that all students have a good chance of getting matched. “It’s just important that students are connected with alumni,” she said.
Psychology Prof. Sandra Waxman and New York University Prof. Athena Vouloumanos write in their article “Listen Up! Speech is for Thinking During Infancy” that parents should speak to their infants more. “It’s not because (children) have low vocabularies that they fail to achieve later on,” Waxman said in a University news release. “That’s far too simple. The vocabulary of a child — raised in poverty or in plenty — is really an index of the larger context in which language participates.” The “word gap” refers to the difference in
the number of words lower income children and more affluent children hear during their early childhoods. A 2003 study found children from “professional” families will hear 30 million more words in their first three years than children from “welfare” families. In their article, Waxman and Vouloumanos summarize new research that shows infants who listen to speech gain more than language skills. In the news release, Vouloumanos said listening to speech also “promotes the babies’ acquisition of the fundamental cognitive and
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We are Charlie, however much we disagree with them WILL KIRKLAND
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When walking to the Bastille Metro station from the east, just before you descend the stairs under the old Metropolitain sign, you can see for a moment the massive, green Colonne de Juillet framed perfectly by the trees lining the boulevard Saint-Antoine. It is an image of Paris in all of its expected beauty, a boulevard culminating in a grand column commemorating the long Revolutionary struggle for freedom and fraternity. Not five blocks north from the bustling Place de la Bastille, on Wednesday, 11 civilians and journalists at satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, and one French Muslim police officer charged with guarding them, were savagely gunned down in the middle of an editor’s meeting. Every morning this past fall on my way to classes at the university Sciences Po, I’d see that image of the Bastille on my way to the metro. I’d never heard of Charlie Hebdo before Wednesday, but for four months I unknowingly shared a metro stop with its writers, cartoonists and editors. Only two weeks after I had flown back to the United
States, my old neighborhood had been completely transformed from the spitting image of classic Paris to an epicenter of fear and a new ground-zero in the war on the freedom of expression. What Charlie Hebdo published in its weekly paper was highly provocative — this in the country whose left-wing politicians celebrate Robespierre, whose president is an atheist and whose tradition of tolerance gave the world mĂŠnage Ă trois. As David Brooks wrote in a New York Times column on Friday, their cartoons were so provocative Despite the they would probably newspaper’s never have been published on an American potentially college campus such offensive as our own. Looking remarks, we through some of their still shared the controversial cartoons in the last few days, “Je Suis Charlieâ€? I’d even say that I was offended by some of image on our and I’m not Facebook pages them, Muslim or Jewish, all the same. nor am I particularly religious. If you look through some of them, I think you might have the same reaction. Despite the newspaper’s potentially offensive remarks, we still shared the “Je Suis
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Charlie� image on our Facebook pages all the same. We still tweeted the #JeSuisCharlie hashtag. Some of us even wrote a column in tribute and support of “Charlie.� Does our doing so mean that we support what they wrote and drew? One cartoon from 2013 depicts a Jewish man with an over-exaggerated nose and an Uzi, gunning down a Palestinian woman and shouting, “Here, take that Goliath!� I find cartoons like that offensive, and not even remotely funny. But I joined the many millions of others who paid their small tribute to the newspaper all the same. Je suis Charlie. And that’s the whole point. Freedom of expression is not about defending the words and cartoons that the majority of us would support. It’s not about defending what all of us would feel comfortable posting on our Facebook and Twitter feeds. Freedom of expression is about defending what most of us would not publish on social media, what we might shudder at or grimace about in polite company, what would make us feel uncomfortable. The entire point of freedom of expression is the protection of the kind of thing that the majority finds overly provocative. As George Packer wrote in The New Yorker, “The cartoonists died for an idea. The killers are soldiers in a war against freedom of thought and speech, against tolerance,
pluralism, and the right to offend — against everything decent in a democratic society. So we must all try to be Charlie, not just today but every day.â€? The truth is that we are not all Charlie, at least not individually. I probably wouldn’t have published those cartoons, because I don’t necessarily agree with them and even so, I don’t think I would have had the courage to do so. But we are all Charlie, together. Because we believe in the cartoonists’ right to offend, we applaud their satire that challenges us, we cherish their role in our democracies, we believe in their cause of freedom to say anything to anyone. This coming Wednesday, with the help of the French daily LibĂŠration, Charlie Hebdo will publish its next issue with a print run of one million copies. I hope it will be for sale in all of the corner newsstands of Paris, especially at the one in the Place de la Bastille. The appalling massacre of these journalists — and the attacks on other civilians and police in the days after — are a horrifying rally cry for freedom of expression and solidarity. However far from the Bastille and Charlie Hebdo we may be, we can all rightly say, “Nous sommes tous Charlie.â€? William Kirkland is a Weinberg junior. He can be reached at williamkirkland2016@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Let art tell you the truths that journalism can’t RHYTHA HEJAZE
DAILY COLUMNIST
“I’m not sad for the martyr in you, but losing you hurts,� a weeping woman said in “The Square,� to her deceased daughter killed in an army attack on the Egyptian revolutionaries. My heart filled up with overwhelming grief and tears trickled down my cheeks. In my head, I heard myself say the same words I said to myself ever so often, “There’s too much pain and suffering in this world.� “The Square,� a documentary directed by Jehane Noujaim, depicted recent Egyptian revolutions through the eyes of revolutionaries, like Ahmed Hassan, Khalid Abdalla and Ramy Essam, who Noujaim followed around with her camera into their debate-heated homes, the tented Tahrir Square and the tear-gassed streets of Cairo. “The Square� beautifully humanized the Egyptians by engrossing us in their personal journeys and built a bridge for us to connect with the perceived “other.� For centuries, the East has been represented in Western media as an inferior crowd of savages, a practice called Orientalism. I remember a discussion we once had on ethics
of journalism in my “Multimedia and Visual Journalism� class last semester, about how the Western media portrays the “other� in unrelatable ways: When Darren Wilson, a white policeman, shot Michael Brown, an 18-yearold black man, the media initially used photos of Brown flashing gang signs, portraying him as a menacing “other,� distracting people from the truth. In the study, “National Identity and Attitude Towards Foreigners in a Multinational State,� researchers found that if a person identifies with a nation that promotes preserving its own culture, he or she will be hostile toward foreigners because they will be seen as the “other� or a threat to his or her culture. “The Square� diffused the otherness of the people of the Middle East and allowed us to even embrace their otherness. It cut beyond cultural differences and sent a message of humanness. “I felt that if I could really bring people into the lives, personal lives [of the Egyptians] and humanize the people that are going through this so that when you see the Egyptian Revolution, it’s not just this massive crowd that you see on Television,� Noujaim said during a visit to my university, Northwestern University in Qatar, after we watched “The Square.� “You really experience the characters and what they’re feeling,� she added. When you see a revolutionary like Abdalla, the protagonist of “The Kite Runner,� your idea
of the savage men of the Middle East is thrown out of the window. As I sat back in my seat in the cinema, I found soulful human connection in the cigarette-puffing of a distressed Hassan, the plucking of guitar strings of a passionate Essam and the tears of joy of As the Egyptians, amidst journalists, we flailing Egyptian flags, when Hosni Mubarak look for blackstepped down. How and-white do you not connect with such moving facts, but truth humanness? is rarely that “The Square� has simple. been criticized for being biased and telling just one side of the story. The struggles the characters faced, however, and the emotions they felt were truth. Just because “The Square� doesn’t focus on Egyptians outside Tahrir Square, doesn’t mean it’s any less true. Even though journalism asserts to pursue the truth, its boundaries sometimes constrain the telling of the truth. As Jason Silva, a filmmaker, said on The Huffington Post, “Whereas a literal journalist might have certain facts straight, the articulation of a poet or artist, though less ‘factual,’ can actually reveal a deeper truth.� As journalists, we look for black-and-white
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Pick a simpler New Year’s resolution MATT GATES
DAILY COLUMNIST
It’s been 11 days since 2015 kicked off and an estimated 40 percent of Americans made New Year’s resolutions. But how many Americans have held true to their resolutions? As college students, many of us may have resolved to fulfill lofty goals to improve ourselves, our Northwestern experiences and our futures: getting higher grades, exercising more or spending more time with friends and family. But how many of us actually adhere to our plans? According to a study completed at the University of Scranton, only 8 percent of New Year’s Resolutions are successfully completed. Some of us may have already seen friends or relatives fall short of completing their New Year’s resolutions. Why is it that we can commit ourselves to spending a year working towards a goal but then fall short of
it only days later? Perhaps we are too busy. Perhaps we are just not consistently motivated to complete our goal. Perhaps we are just lazy. Or perhaps we have made our goals too complicated? Everyone has moments when they strive for perfection rather than moderate and attainable improvement. Ambitious NU students are as likely as most to adopt this tendency. Rather than creating goals that are too complicated to ever achieve, we should simplify our New Year’s resolutions to a few small steps required to improve our lives. Simple resolutions have the obvious benefit of being easy to follow. It is far easier for a student seeking to improve his or her academic performance to remember to do readings on time than to remember to do readings on time, study early for exams and check over problem sets with a friend. Complicated resolutions also tend to be more ambitious and therefore easier to give up on. Losing 50 pounds may be preferable to losing 10 pounds, but losing 10 pounds is far easier to achieve. A goal of losing 50 pounds will require far more complex diet
and exercise plans. Complicated workout routines are hard to follow because the “all or nothing� mentality that can accompany them may actually undermine the resolutions of those who seek to improve their physical fitness. For example, someone who resolves to spend an hour at the gym each day might find themselves not going to the gym at all if they only have an hour to spare on a certain day. It may seem that a complex goal will accomplish more than a simple goal, but a complex plan could be abandoned and accomplish nothing while a simple goal is more likely to be completed. Remember, we may already be 11 days into 2015, but it’s never too late to edit your resolutions. Take that lengthy plan to become the first ever NU graduate to win a Nobel Prize and an Olympic Gold medal and reduce it to a simple one that could someday pave the way for the same results. Matt Gates is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be reached at matthewgates2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
facts, but truth is rarely that simple. Truth writhes in the mysterious, the unknown and the misunderstood. “He was willing to sacrifice a naive realism in order to achieve realism of a deeper sort, like a poet who, though less factual than a journalist in describing an event, may nevertheless reveal truths about it that find no place in the other’s literal grid,� Alain de Botton wrote about an artist in his book, “The Art of Travel.� Maybe we can call a documentary like “The Square� artistic journalism, for art has the power to reveal truths mere facts cannot. “You are expressing an emotional truth about who your characters are and their journey,� Karim Amer, the producer, said when addressing the audience at NU-Qatar with Noujaim. Let art tell you what journalism can’t. Let it reveal shades of truth beyond the black and white. Give room to otherness — to all kinds of truths. You can then lie back in your futon and make your own judgments. Your perception of other people’s truths will be your truth, because there’s no one thing that’s true. Rhytha Zahid Hejaze is a sophomore studying journalism at Northwestern University in Qatar. She can be reached at ridahejaze2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
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Wisconsin shuts down NU in second Big Ten loss By ALEX LEDERMAN
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The home environment did not help the Wildcats on Friday night, as the team dropped another Big Ten contest. Three Northwestern wrestlers got pinned in No. 18 NU’s 30-16 loss to No. 11 Wisconsin (6-1, 4-0 Big Ten) at Welsh-Ryan Arena, and No. 2 heavyweight senior Mike McMullan was defeated. “It obviously wasn’t a great meet for us,” coach Drew Pariano said. “It’s strange because we had really good preparation leading up into it, even this week and today. But that doesn’t mean a lot if you don’t perform a lot when the lights are on.” The night actually started out well for the Cats. The meet opened with the 149-pound weight class, in which NU (8-3, 0-2) seems virtually unstoppable. The Badgers’ Rylan Lubeck took on No. 1 sophomore Jason Tsirtsis, the defending NCAA Champion, but walked away as all of Tsirtsis’ past 37 opponents had — in defeat. Tsirtsis advanced to 22-0 on the season with a 6-1 victory and gave the Cats an early 3-0 lead. “It was a pretty good performance,” Tsirtisis said. “But there were some moments that could have been better. I need to wrestle better for the whole seven minutes.” NU’s luck went downhill from there. Sophomore Ben Sullivan and No. 7 senior Pierce Harger suffered falls in the next two matches to Jarod Donar and No. 3 Isaac Jordan. Sullivan was pinned directly after having his leg looked at and then limped off the mat. “With Sullivan it was an unfortunate situation where it goes from a normal 3-point
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and access to resources. Members of the NU team performed surgeries and participated in rounds with the goal of “training the trainers” at Mekelle. Subsequent trips included the addition of subspecialty physicians, such as family planning and oncology specialists, to implement a more extensive training program. Joan Tankou, an NU medical student involved in the project, first surveyed Mekelle residents in June and traveled to the region again in November. She noted that although Mekelle doctors were knowledgeable about theory, training in procedures and diseases
decision to a fall, a 6-point team score for them, and he kind of tweaked his knee or ankle or whatever it is,” Pariano said. “We’re gonna see how bad that is. It’s unfortunate, but all you can do is come back.” As for Harger’s pin, it was a similar cruel twist in fate. “(The Wisconsin athlete) was in on a nice shot, and we kind of just stopped wrestling for a second,” Pariano said. “That kid’s good, he’s very good. He’s an opportunistic type wrestler and he capitalized on it.” The half concluded with two more defeats for NU: A forfeit at 174 pounds and a 4-0 loss by redshirt freshman Mitch Sliga at 184 pounds to Ricky Robertson. NU entered halftime down 21-3. “It’s hard on the team,” Pariano said of falling behind early. “But the message to the team and the message at the break was, however the first five matches went, that doesn’t dictate how you’re going to wrestle. (Alex) Polizzi was a prime example of that, beating a really good guy.” Senior No. 12 Polizzi at 197-pounds won a nail-biter after the break over No. 10 Timmy McCall. After falling behind 6-4, Polizzi pulled a reversal to get 2 points and scored the riding time point to win a 7-6 decision. “He didn’t allow the momentum of the match at the time affect him,” Pariano said. “He was in a pretty precarious spot there, but he wrestled through it and rode the guy out.” Next came one of the night’s biggest blows, McMullan lost 7-6 to No. 5 Connor Medbery in a thriller. Medbery pulled ahead early 3-0 with a takedown and an escape, but McMullan fought back to tie it up 4-4. Down 6-4, McMullan got a reversal to tie it up in the final minute, but he ultimately could not maintain control and
Medbery escaped with about 15 seconds left to come away victorious 7-6. “There’s 15 seconds left,” McMullan said. “I know I’ve got to get a takedown to win the match, so I’m going all out. It was sloppy. I thought I had it at the end there, but I wasn’t able to secure it.” Next NU won the 125-pound bout by forfeit, but No. 20 Dominick Malone, a junior, was pinned by No. 14 Ryan Taylor at 133. In the final matchup, junior Jameson Oster turned in NU’s best performance of the night
with a 16-5 major decision over Jesse Thielke at 141. But it was too late. The Wildcats were already down 30-12 and his 4 points were not enough to close the gap. “It wasn’t the lack of effort as much as we just didn’t finish some of our crucial positions, and it cost us in a significant way,” Pariano said. “We’re not happy, but we’re gonna let this motivate us as we get back to work.”
specific to the region needed improvement. In Ethiopia, medical students use textbooks similar to those used in the U.S., so they often learn about diseases more prevalent in the U.S. than in Ethiopia. Like Goba, Tankou, who is from Cameroon, originally hails from Africa. She hopes to use her education to improve the healthcare system in the area. “For me, this partnership really enforces that it is possible to change the medical system in Africa,” Tankou said. “I hope this initiative to train doctors will reduce the overall mortality and morbidity in Ethiopia.” Tankou encouraged medical students in the U.S. to consider working abroad in areas like Ethiopia with limited resources, because
increased reliance on physical exams instead of expensive diagnostic tools provides students an opportunity to improve basic skills while developing cultural competency and awareness of health disparities. Dr. Melissa Simon, an assistant professor in obstetrics and gynecology at NU, stressed the importance of recognizing such health disparities both abroad and domestically. “An opportunity to train and experience patient care in a low-resource setting like Ethiopia gives students and residents an improved perspective on healthcare delivery,” Simon said. “But we also need to recognize disparities in our own backyard. People forget that there are disparities in Chicago almost as stark as in other countries.”
As part of NU’s interest in exposing medical residents to these local disparities, the John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County in Chicago was recently integrated into Feinberg’s residency program. Goba hopes expand upon this interest internationally by eventually integrating Mekelle University into NU’s residency program as well. “Without a robust experience in under-resourced facilities, you won’t become completely self-actualized as a doctor,” Milad said. “We’re able to share what we are privileged with, and it’s a truly profound experience.”
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BADGER POWER Wisconsin’s Ricky Robertson puts Northwestern’s Mitch Sliga in a precarious position Friday night. Three NU wrestlers were pinned in a 30-16 loss to the Badgers.
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in the nation before the state’s Supreme Court struck down the law in March. In December, the General Assembly replaced the eavesdropping law, which regulated audio surveillance, with a more flexible law that doesn’t directly address body cameras. There is debate among law enforcement as to whether the use of such cameras in the state is legal. State Rep. Elaine Nekritz and state Sen. Kwame Raoul, who sponsored the legislation that replaced the eavesdropping law, are drafting legislation to regulate police body cameras. They hope to bring a bill before the legislature this year, said John Amdor, a spokesman for Nekritz. Amdor said the current law does not forbid the use of body cameras but also does not provide guidelines for police departments that wish to implement them, something the new legislation will aim to address. “There are a lot of questions when you think about this issue,” he said. “When is the camera on, when is it off? What type of data storage requirements are there for the footage? Who is allowed to access the footage?” Proponents of body cameras note the technology’s ability to verify citizen complaints regarding police abuses of power and to protect officers from baseless accusations. “I am now very pro-camera as a crime suppression tool and evidence collector,” Evanston police Chief Richard Eddington said. The American Civil Liberties Union, which often opposes surveillance programs, supports the use of police body cameras — provided they are regulated, Illinois ACLU spokesman Ed Yohnka said. “We recognize there is an inherent value in the ability of law enforcement officials to actually know what their officers are doing on the streets when they interact with civilians,” Yohnka said. “Our view is that we ought to put in place some statewide protections about body cameras.” Discussion about body cameras has begun in Evanston as well, but Eddington said no changes would occur without a public conversation on cost and privacy concerns. Yohnka said the ACLU would prefer that police departments wait for laws regulating body cameras to be passed before starting camera programs. Elgin, Illinois, began a pilot program for police
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body cameras roughly a year ago, said Bill Wolf, deputy chief of the city’s police department. The western suburb equipped its SWAT team and a handful of other officers with body cameras worn on the officers’ vests. Elgin Police Department’s program is still in its pilot phase, and the department does not have set rules for how long the video captured by the cameras is stored, Wolf said. Officers turn on the cameras — which cost upwards of $200 per officer — when they I am interact with civilians, now very but Wolf said so far the cameras have not pro-camera recorded any serious as a crime altercations between officers and residents. suppression “We have not had a tool and situation yet where the evidence camera was being used on a critical incident collector. where it really helped the Richard officer justify something Eddington, they did,” Wolf said. Evanston police Although Evanston Chief does not currently use body cameras, most of the EPD’s cars are equipped with dashboard cameras, Parrott said, which are used to monitor traffic stops. In addition, whenever the Taser’s safety is switched off, Taser cameras automatically capture both audio and video footage. Ald. Jane Grover (7th) said the City Council has not yet discussed equipping EPD with body cameras, but she said if the issue does come before the aldermen, she will weigh the costs of equipping the officers with cameras against the benefits. She said she thinks Evanston police officers have a relatively good relationship with the community, adding that unlike in Ferguson, the racial composition of the department roughly matches that of the city. According to data obtained by The New York Times, 30 percent of Evanston police officers are black, compared to 18 percent of Evanston residents, and 62 percent of officers are white, compared to 61 percent of residents. “The Evanston police really do look like the community,” Grover said. “We’re not Ferguson. That’s for sure.”
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SCORING DYNAMO Ashley Deary weaves her way through traffic. Five Wildcats scored double-digit points against Michigan State on Sunday, but the sophomore led the way with a team-high 18 points.
It was a different venue, but a similar result for the Wildcats (13-2, 3-1 Big Ten), as they picked up a 77-70 win at home against Michigan State (8-8, 0-5) on Sunday. After falling behind 14-5 at the start of the game, Northwestern used a 20-0 run to establish a lead it would not relinquish for the rest of the game. “We just tried to settle down,” coach Joe McKeown said. “We knew the shots that we wanted to get, and felt like they were there, it was just that people were a little hyper coming out.” During the run, NU had assists on six of the eight baskets from the field that put the team ahead 25-14. Along with that, the Cats started playing a pace the Spartans did not look comfortable competing at. Clearly NU’s competitiveness was not lacking. “(There was) just a drive to want to win,” sophomore guard Ashley Deary said. “I know we started off slow, but we just really wanted to win this game and prove we were the better team.” From there, the Cats got into a back-and-forth game with the Spartans until the 5-minute mark, when NU started a 15-4 run that netted a 44-29 halftime lead. Deary led NU offensively. She shot
6-of-6 from the field and 2-of-2 from the free throw line in the half to post 16 points to go along with her four assists. Junior Maggie Lyon added 10 points of her own, as the other leading scorer at the break. To start They the second were getting half, the Cats looked momentum to get sophomore Nia and energy that Coffey more they hadn’t had involved. earlier in the Coffey leads the team in game with that scoring for run, and I think the season, we countered averaging 15.6 points that pretty well. per game, Maggie Lyon, but shot junior guard 1-of-7 in the first half and had only 2 points. “We were just trying to get her in different spots, get her shots in different locations,” McKeown said. “She’s such an explosive player, you want to make sure she gets touches. I’m glad she’s on my team.” Coffey scored 8 of the team’s first 15 points out of the break. The Cats looked like they were ready for a blowout victory against the Spartans as they established a 20-point lead with 12:25 left in the game. Unfortunately, it would not be smooth sailing for the Cats. Michigan
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State, led by the game’s leading scorer, sophomore Aerial Powers, was able to fight back into the game. Powers put up 24 points, including 15 in the second half to help cut the NU lead to 4 points with 3:20 remaining. “I think that being at home, it definitely helps to maintain composure, especially when the other team is making a run,” Lyon said. “They were getting momentum and energy that they hadn’t had earlier in the game with that run, and I think we countered that pretty well.” The final counter punch for the Cats came from Lyon as she sank a three-pointer with 41 seconds left on an assist from Deary. This put NU up 77-70 and following a missed shot from the Spartans, Lyon grabbed the game’s final rebound so the Cats could run out the clock. Five NU players ended the game in double figures. Deary was the team leader with 18 points and had a game-high 10 assists as well. Lyon finished with 15 points and seven rebounds while senior Alex Cohen totaled 14 points. Coffey and fellow sophomore Christen Inman had 12 and 14 points respectively. “I’m really proud of our team,” McKeown said. “We’re still young, we still do things that we got to get better at, but we aspire to be a great team. I think it’s good that we have some teaching points too.” khadricerollins2017@u.northwestern.edu
Wildcats fall to Spartans Rebounding woes follow Cats to East Lansing By JESSE KRAMER
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Height only matters if you know how to use it, and Northwestern is surely a work in progress in this regard. Despite being significantly taller than Michigan State, the Wildcats failed to match up down low with the Spartans in Sunday’s overtime loss in East Lansing, Michigan. NU is at +1.9 in effective height, according to kenpom.com. Meanwhile, Michigan State is last in the Big Ten at -0.9. Although Michigan State is known for having a trio of guards who can shoot the lights out, the Spartans outscored the Wildcats 34-26 in the paint. They also out-rebounded the Cats and held a major advantage on the offensive glass. Michigan State turned 11 offensive rebounds into 12 second-chance points. Eight of those boards came from 6-foot-6 forward Branden Dawson and 6-foot-9 forward Gavin Schilling, who was giving up three inches to Cats center Alex Olah. Dawson and Schilling outworked NU’s big men. Even when they could not fully corral a rebound, they often got a piece of the basketball, leading to three tip-ins in the second half. However, coach Chris Collins said he was satisfied with the Cats’ effort. “You might not always make shots, but you can bring effort, you can bring attitude and you can bring fight,” Collins said to WGN. “And we definitely did that tonight.” NU finished with a respectable seven offensive boards but did not get its first until the 4:02 mark of the second half. Even so, the Cats
turned those seven second-chance opportunities into just 4 secondchance points. NU has lost the rebounding battle in all three of its Big Ten games, and offensive rebounding in particular has been an issue. The Cats are 11th in the Big Ten and 232 in the nation with a 29.4 offensive rebounding percentage, at time of publishing. For a team that does not shoot the ball well from the field, having so many possessions with just one shot attempt makes scoring even more diffi cult. The Cats scored You might not 1.11 points per possesalways make sion Sunshots, but you day against can bring effort, an elite you can bring defense, but their attitude and track you can bring record shows fight. that is an anomaly. Chris Collins, Headhead coach ing into Sunday’s contest, NU was averaging just 1.01 points per possession against a set of defenses far easier than the Spartans’ stingy unit. If the Cats can keep up Sunday’s stellar shooting performance (54 percent from the field in regulation), the rebounding question becomes less of an issue. More than likely though, NU will revert back closer to its offensive average. And unless rebounding becomes much improved, NU will seriously struggle on the offensive end going forward.
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After Northwestern was held scoreless in the opening four minutes of Sunday’s contest against Michigan State, the game appeared to be all but over. Although the Wildcats (10-6, 1-2 Big Ten) ultimately fell 84-77 in overtime to the Spartans (12-5, 3-1), the contest was far from being a blowout. The teams were tied at halftime and again at the end of regulation, with each team claiming several leads throughout. NU had a good shot at winning until it faltered in the final five minutes. “I’m really proud of my team, we won the game,” coach Chris Collins said after the game on WGN radio. “The way we started the game … (it) could have gotten out of hand really quickly, and I thought our bench was tremendous.” JerShon Cobb was the player who got the Cats going. After NU’s starters went down 9-0 at the first official timeout, the senior guard came off the bench to score 10 of the Cats’ next 12 points. Cobb finished the game a perfect 5-of-5 shooting with 12 points, four assists and two rebounds but was limited in the second half due to his ongoing health problems. “I think he got his foot stepped on or something and they said he couldn’t go,” Collins said on WGN about Cobb. “So it was a tough break because I thought he was playing his best game of the year … We could’ve used him there at the end.” After Cobb ignited the offense,
freshman guard Bryant McIntosh and junior guard Tre Demps kept the points coming. McIntosh in particular impressed, running the offense and tying for a game-high 18 points to go along with five rebounds and five assists. “We ran our same offense,” McIntosh said. “We just hit shots today … We got great looks, and I thought we got to the basket a lot.” But despite McIntosh’s continued strong play, Collins turned to the more experienced Demps for NU’s most important possessions. Revered among Cats fans for his late-game heroics, Demps had the ball in his hands for the final shot of regulation with the game tied at 72. As time expired he dribbled left off a screen and elevated for a minimally-contested long two, but the shot fell just short to send the game to overtime. Despite the disappointing loss, Collins lauded his team’s performance. The coach said his players “bring it every night” and felt that ferocity was evident Sunday. NU’s downfall was its sputtering overtime offense. In regulation, the Cats shot an astounding 54 percent from the field, along with an equally absurd 55 percent rate from 3-point range. In the extra period, though, NU shot just 11 percent from the field and 20 percent from behind the arc, scoring just 5 points in overtime to the Spartans’ 12. But normally stout NU also struggled defensively throughout the game. Michigan State shot 50 percent from the floor and all five of the Spartans’ starters finished with doubledigit point totals. Michigan guard Travis Trice led the way, recording a double-double with 18 points and 10 assists. He also got to the free throw line 10 times, making eight of those attempts. And despite NU being the bigger team (Michigan State doesn’t have a player on its roster listed taller than
6-9), the Cats struggled on the boards. NU was only out-rebounded by one but didn’t have an offensive rebound until 4:05 remaining in the second half. The difference in second chance points proved critical for the Spartans. Collins was dissatisfied with the loss but still saw plenty of positives with his team’s tough performance in a difficult game. “I was really proud of our guys, we fought tremendously well,” he said on WGN. “This is not an easy place to play, it’s one of the toughest venues in the Big Ten and we were really ready to play … It’s just heartbreaking for my guys because I feel like we should be the team in there celebrating right now.” The Cats continue conference play Wednesday when they return to Welsh-Ryan Arena to take on Illinois. bpillote@u.northwestern.edu
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PAINT PRODUCTION Michigan State forward Gavin Schilling shoots over Northwestern forward Sanjay Lumpkin. Schilling had 13 points and 6 rebounds Sunday.