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Alumna donates over $100 million to NU

By CAT ZAKRZEWSKI

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RECORD SETTER Northwestern recognizes Roberta Buffett Elliott (Weinberg ‘54) for her record-setting donation to NU. The sister of financier Warren Buffett gave more than $100 million toward a new Global Studies Institute.

When University President Morton Schapiro met with Roberta Buffett Elliott in December, he expected to discuss the estate of the 1954 Weinberg graduate.

But as he and the younger sister of business magnate Warren Buffett discussed potential uses for the money, she took him by surprise.

“As we talked about all the things we could do, she said, ‘I don’t want to wait until I’m gone to do this,’” Schapiro said in an interview with The Daily.

The University announced on Wednesday that Elliott has donated the largest single gift in Northwestern history to expand the University’s international programming and scholarships for international students. Elliott funded the entire gift of more than $100 million immediately, a decision Schapiro said is unheard of in fundraising.

The large donation will establish an Institute of Global Studies in her name and support scholarships for international students. The gift is part of the NU $3.75 billion “We Will” campaign, bringing the total raised to more than $2 billion and marking a new fundraising record for the University.

Schapiro announced the gift to a packed Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, where faculty and students gathered to get a glimpse of the famed financier and hear a panel featuring some of NU’s most prominent professors, the

Northwestern University in Qatar dean and a Feinberg student interested in global health. The panelists discussed global issues and how the new gift could be implemented.

Schapiro presented a plaque to Elliott, who was escorted to the stage with Buffett holding her arm. The investor quickly returned to his seat to give his sister her time in the spotlight.

Neither spoke at the event.

Before presenting the gift, Schapiro joked that there is no way to repay Elliott for her generous donation to the University, but it was “a pretty nice plaque.” It was one of many jokes Schapiro peppered throughout the panel.

“If you’re planning to take a selfie with Warren, be warned. I go first,” Schapiro said drawing laughter from the audience.

Because Elliott made the gift in full, Schapiro is under pressure to use it immediately. NU can now begin to look for an institute director, who the University hopes will bring high-level experience from government or academia. Schapiro said he established a search committee earlier this week and that with the large size of the gift, committee members should have exciting options for the position.

The institute’s programming will focus on multi-disciplinary approaches to solving global problems, ranging from how to spread democratic political systems to immigration policies. At Wednesday’s panel event, political science Prof. Beth Shakman Hurd spoke » See ANNOUNCEMENT, page 9

Groups form for, SES center holds open house against divestment

By JULIE FISHBACH

By OLIVIA EXSTRUM and ALICE YIN daily senior staffers @olivesocean, @alice__yin

Two student activist groups jumpstarted campaigns last week, one supporting and one opposing a movement for Northwestern to divest holdings from corporations allegedly violating human rights in Palestine.

NU Divest is calling for the University to divest from six major corporations involved in the “occupation of Palestinian lands,” according to the group’s website. The student group follows the Boycott Divestment Sanctions model, a international movement to economically and politically sanction Israel over human rights violations.

“I think we all just felt we no longer wanted to be complicit in the violation of human rights,” said McCormick senior Hagar Gomaa, who is involved in the movement. “Northwestern Palestinian students are essentially forced to fund war crimes against their own families.”

The same week, dissenting students went public with NU Coalition for Peace, a group calling to end the BDS campaign and to support a two-state solution in Israel, according to Communication senior Tina Umanskiy, a spokeswoman for the group. About 20 students were involved in the organization’s creation.

NU Divest published a letter to the editor in The Daily last Thursday, citing

human rights violations in Palestine and announcing its goal of passing an Associated Student Government resolution to support divestment at NU. On Monday, Coalition for Peace published its own letter to the editor condemning the BDS movement for punishing Israel and forsaking peace negotiations.

Both organizations had paper ground fliers and written chalk messages densely spread across campus last week. As of Tuesday evening, NU Divest had about 870 likes on its official Facebook page, while Coalition for Peace had about 780.

Umanskiy said the two groups have not contacted each other so far.

NU Divest kicked off its campaign with “Palestine 101” last Friday, hosted

by Students for Justice in Palestine, and a solidarity workshop Tuesday evening.

Gomaa said the group has been setting up informational tables on campus and is planning to host a Palestinian cultural event and more workshops. NU Divest also released a video of students expressing their support. She said NU Divest plans to present its resolution calling for the University to divest at Senate soon.

Serene Darwish, who is involved in the divestment campaign, said as of Tuesday the group has no plans to reach out to the University.

“It’s hard to put an end date on a campaign like this,” the Weinberg

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The Center for Student Enrichment Services held an open house Wednesday evening to introduce the office and its services.

“It really is a chance to come together as a Northwestern community that is committed to supporting low-income and first-generation students,” Kourtney Cockrell, director of SES, told The Daily.

The event, held in Scott Hall, provided an opportunity for students and faculty to learn about

the newly opened SES, to meet the director and to share their ideas for programming. The center, housed within the Department of Campus Inclusion and Community, was created Fall Quarter with the goal of helping low-income and first-generation students access resources on campus and supporting them with issues including financial aid and leadership training.

“It’s incredibly important that this event is happening because news about resources for low-income and first-generation students doesn’t necessarily travel as fast as other news,” Communication junior Amanda Walsh, president

of NU’s chapter of the Quest Scholars Network, said. “It’s important that people know what the office is about, where it’s located, what we’re doing with it and get to know Kourtney and network with other students.”

The office was created in response to the needs of NU students and the large demographic of low-income and first-generation students, Cockrell said. The number of students with this background is currently at 14 percent of the student population and is expected to continue increasing, » See SES, page 9

Donation aids local businesses

By JOANNE LEE

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When Art Mollenhauer (Kellogg ’02) donated 600 cookbooks in mint condition from his deceased wife’s collection to help out a newly opened bookstore, he did not expect anything in return.

“I wanted to try to honor her legacy by finding new ways of getting those cookbooks to somebody who would really appreciate it and use it with the same passion that she did,” Mollenhauer said.

After reading a column in the Chicago Sun-Times about the new, independent

Evanston bookstore Bookends & Beginnings, Mollenhauer decided to give the shop the collection, which belonged to his late wife and cooking connoisseur Ida Mollenhauer.

“The gift came with no strings. We felt that what he had done, it inspired us,” said Nina Barrett (Medill ’87), a co-owner of the store. “When someone is really brave and really generous, you should make a big fuss over them and thank them.”

The bookstore will host a celebration of its new partnership with the NorthShore University HealthSystem Foundation Thursday night, which was inspired by its new connection to Art Mollenhauer.

“It was an extraordinary gift,” said Jeff Garrett, the other Bookends & Beginnings co-owner. “We were just getting started at that point and our cookbook collection was still struggling. With this single gift, we were put on the map.”

The event will also include a silent auction of select cookbooks in the Mollenhauer collection and music performances from two violinists associated with the Adiana Strings, an Evanston string instrument rental company.

Bookends & Beginnings has since integrated the Mollenhauer cookbook collection into their “Food & Cooking” section, and have already sold about 94 » See IDA, page 10

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Evanston bakery hires people with autism

By EMILY CHIN

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Evanston bakery Sugar & Spice Extraordinary Sweet Treats has partnered with Chicago-area nonprofit Have Dreams, to teach a class for people with autism to gain skills for the workforce.

The Coleman Foundation, which gives grants in the field of developmental disabilities, gave Sugar & Spice and Have Dreams $125,000 to create the program and share it with other small employers. “This is a growing population, individuals with autism, so it’s a challenge that we’re going to increasingly see in our society,� said Clark McCain, senior program officer at The Coleman Foundation.

McCain said the partnership between the bakery and Have Dreams indicated both organizations “could really understand the business case� for employing people with autism.

Participants in the 10-week class work at Sugar & Spice packaging cakes and cookies three days a week and spend time at Have Dreams two days a week. Bakery owner Jean Kroll said she hopes that through working in the commercial kitchen, participants will learn the basics of interaction and teamwork.

Police Blotter Two cars broken into on same block Two cars were broken into Friday night in the same block of south Evanston, police said.

The two vehicles were parked right next to each other in a residential area in the 1500 block of South Boulevard, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. Both cars did not

“They learn the soft skills that allow people to be successful at work,� Kroll said. “All the things that people take for granted.�

Kroll said she was inspired to help people with autism after learning of a friend’s struggles to keep a job after college.

Over the summer, Kroll worked with Have Dreams to create a pilot class with three people with autism for six weeks, she said. After the program was over, she offered them all seasonal employment at the bakery. “It’s a safe place to learn appropriate workplace behaviors, because we expect that there will be hiccups and we use those occasions to reinforce what is appropriate workplace behavior,� she said.

In a typical day, Kroll will go over her employees’ assignment, which lately has involved packaging. Kroll said she teaches participants how to set goals, solve problems, work by themselves and work effectively as part of a team.

Though it was initially difficult to incorporate the new employees into the pre-existing staff, her entire staff now has Friday team lunches and there is a level of camaraderie in the bakery, Kroll said. “Starting anything new can be challenging for everyone involved,� she said. “This was a pretty big shift for us.� emilychin2018@u.northwestern.edu show signs of forced entry or items missing, but their glove compartments were dumped out, he said.

One car was a 2009 Dodge belonging to a 56-year-old man and the other was a 1999 Pontiac belonging to a 78-year-old woman, who said the vehicle was locked at the time, Dugan said.

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Illinois confirms measles case in Cook County

The Illinois Department of Public Health director confirmed a case of measles in Illinois on Tuesday, the department announced.

A suburban Cook County resident became ill in mid-January and then tested positive for the highly contagious respiratory disease. The Cook County Department of Public Health is currently trying to trace other people the patient might have infected.

People can become infected with measles by being in the same room as someone with the disease, said Dr. Rachel Rubin, the CCDPH’s senior public health medical officer, in an IDPH news release.

There have been 10 cases reported in Illinois within the last five years, said Evanston’s Health & Human Services director Evonda Thomas-Smith in an Evanston news release.

Symptoms include a fever of 101 degrees Fahrenheit or more, a cough, a runny nose and red eyes with or without a rash. The IDPH said people exhibiting these symptoms should not go to a doctor’s office or an emergency room because they might infect others. Instead, they should call health services, including the Evanston Health & Human Services Department, the city said.

There has been a recent multi-state measles outbreak connected to Disneyland last month and this month. However, the IDPH said that at this time there is no identified connection between that outbreak and the case in Illinois.

Both the city and the state department stressed the importance of vaccinations. “Immunizations are vital to protect not only each child, but the community as a whole,� said IDPH director Nirav Shah in the news release. — Stephanie Kelly

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We believe hearing those stories in parents’ and siblings’ voices exercises the circuits in the brain responsible for long-term memories..

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— Theresa Pape, Feinberg researcher

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Election to be held for off-campus ASG senators

By OLIVIA EXSTRUM

daily senior staffer @olivesocean

Associated Student Government Senate voted at its Wednesday meeting to allow offcampus students to elect their ASG senators during elections in the spring.

Formerly, off-campus senators were chosen by a selection committee.

Additionally, Rainbow Alliance Senator Petros Karahalios proposed a resolution regarding active consent, inspired by the “yes means yes” law passed in September in California that requires college students to obtain active and explicit consent before engaging in sexual activity.

“Just because someone doesn’t say no, it doesn’t mean they say yes,” the Weinberg senior said. “I’m proposing that ASG urge the Illinois State Assembly to pass a similar law covering all students in the jurisdiction of its state and urge the University to pursue such efforts as well.”

Senators are scheduled to vote on the proposal next week.

Senate passed the resolution introduced last meeting calling for students to be included on Title IX conduct hearings. The legislation was discussed during the Association of Big Ten Students winter conference, held at Northwestern on Jan. 16-18. ASG delegates will lobby for

Schapiro recognized with award for support of student affairs

Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education recognized University President Morton Schapiro with the 2015 NASPA President’s Award, the group announced Tuesday.

“The award gives special recognition to a college

the proposal in Washington, D.C., at the ABTS conference in the spring.

Northwestern took students off its Title IX hearing committees after White House officials recommended in April students be removed from such hearings.

Senators also voted to allow candidates to start their petitions on March 30, the start of Spring Quarter classes, and submit them the Just because next day, compared to someone two days later in previdoesn’t say no, ous years. The election it doesn’t mean period was extended to end at 5 p.m. on April they say yes.

10 and rules about Petros Karahalios, campaign materials Rainbow Alliance were adjusted so candidates would receive senator 600 fliers rather than 800. Additionally, voting booths will only be run by the Election Commission.

Chief of Staff Andrew Green announced applications for student groups to have representation in Senate opened Wednesday night.

The applications were approved.

“This is a really important process,” the SESP senior said. “It’s a great way to represent students in the room and bring voices to the table that need to be heard. Why would having a senator seat help your group? How can you

help Senate by having this seat?”

Chris Harlow, vice president for student life, proposed amendments for both the Mental Health Working Group and the ASG Feedback Working Group to have their deadline to report back to Senate with their findings extended from Jan. 31 to March 11. The amendments were moved to old business and voted on later in the meeting. Both passed.

“Rather than rush this process and get you something now,” the SESP junior said, “we’re going to come to you at the end of the quarter so we can actually put in the time necessary to make sure these working groups will create a nice report that is tangible for Senate and other organizations.”

or university president who has, over a sustained period of time, advanced the quality of student life on campus by supporting student affairs staff and programs,” the group said in a news release.

Schapiro, Northwestern’s 16th president, was recognized for his continued success in both the economics and higher education. The group commended him for maintaining a successful relationship with students, highlighting his annual firesides and meetings in his office, as well as the fact that he invites more than 700 students to dine at his home

every year.

The organization also applauded Schapiro’s success in raising funds for financial aid and helping increase diversity at the University.

“In addition to fundraising dollars, Schapiro has made it a priority to dedicate additional institutional funds for financial aid. Since his arrival, the amount of available funds has increased from $94M to $133M,” the news release said. “This substantial increase has changed the demographics of the Northwestern student body.”

Schapiro’s colleagues commented on his success.

“Parents of students trust him and relate to his genuine and informal style, and our students feel as if ‘Morty’ is not just their president, but their advocate and champion,” said NU’s student affairs leadership team in the release.

Schapiro will be honored in March at the 2015 NASPA Annual Conference in New Orleans, which is organized by the higher education group.

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‘YES MEANS YES’ Weinberg senior Petros Karahalios speaks on a resolution about active consent at Senate on Wednesday. The resolution was inspired by California’s “yes means yes” law, which passed in September.

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Chamber of Commerce honors community members

By BILLY KOBIN

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An Evanston Chamber of Commerce annual event honored several community members Wednesday evening for their work with disaster response, homeless citizens and youth.

The 95th Annual Celebration & Awards at Evanston’s Hilton Orrington hotel, 1710 Orrington Ave., recognized outgoing and incoming members and officers of the Chamber of Commerce’s board of directors.

Elaine Kemna-Irish, executive director of the Evanston Chamber of Commerce, said past honorees nomiand voted for The past winners nated this year’s winners. of this award have Kemna-Irish introduced Michael demonstrated Corr, First Bank through their & Trust’s senior vice president of entire careers bankthat one person commercial ing and the newly can make a elected president of the Chamber, along difference. with other incoming Steve Hagerty, executive members. award recipient The dinner event, which had about 175 attendees, included a raffle drawing of gifts and prizes from local businesses.

Steve Hagerty, founder and CEO of Hagerty Consulting, received the Businessperson of the Year award, which goes to a person who

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Familiar stories speed coma recovery, Feinberg study finds

Family members’ voices can speed up coma patients’ recoveries, a Feinberg School of Medicine-sponsored study has found.

Patients who heard family members tell familiar stories four times a day for six weeks recovered consciousness faster than patients

displays outstanding business leadership.

“It means a lot, because the past winners of this award have demonstrated through their entire careers that one person can make a difference,” Hagerty told The Daily.

Hagerty Consulting works with clients to prepare for and recover from disasters. Hagerty Consulting has supported relief efforts nationwide and has also helped prepare emergency plans for local organizations including Northwestern, according to Hagerty.

“Evanston has a really big heart as a community,” Hagerty said.

Bill Logan, a lifelong Evanston resident, received the Community Leadership award for his involvement in several Evanston organizations. The Chamber recognized Logan for his work with the Chessmen Club of the North Shore, Inc., the Fellowship of African American Men (FAAM), the Evanston Community Foundation and the Rotary Club of Evanston.

Logan focuses on serving Evanston youth and the North Shore through his work with the Chessmen Club, a civic organization that serves both the youth and elderly, and FAAM, a youth basketball program.

Logan expressed appreciation for having the support of so many people who are working together to make Evanston a great city.

Paul Selden received the Public Service/ Non-Profit award for his work with Connections for the Homeless, an organization working to support homeless citizens.

Selden, who is retiring from Connections after eight years as executive director, told The Daily the people at Connections should receive who did not, the University said in a news release.

“It could be a family wedding or a special road trip together such as going to visit colleges,” lead author Theresa Pape said in the news release. “It had to be something they’d remember, and we needed to bring the stories to life with sensations, temperature and movement.

Families would describe the air rushing past the patient as he rode in the Corvette with the top down or the cold air on his face as he skied down a mountain slope.”

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LEADERSHIP RECOGNIZED Elaine Kemna-Irish, executive director of the Evanston Chamber of Commerce, stands with Paul Selden, Bill Logan, Steve Hagerty and Michael Corr. Selden, Logan and Hagerty received awards for their leadership and service in Evanston.

credit as well.

“I’m not a big one on awards,” Selden said.

“Evanston has been a good place to work and

to do this work.”

Researchers viewed increased neural activity using an MRI. When patients heard familiar stories, the machine showed yellow and red patches of light in areas of the brain used for language and long-term memory.

Pape said the sped-up recovery comes from the parts of the brain the stories excite.

“We believe hearing those stories in parents’ and siblings’ voices exercises the circuits in the brain responsible for long-term memories,” Pape said in the news release. “That stimulation helped trigger the first glimmer of awareness.”

The study was conducted with Hines VA Hospital.

Pape also alluded to the stress coma patients’ families feel during the long recovery process.

“Families feel helpless and out of control when a loved one is in a coma,” Pape said in the news release. “It’s a terrible feeling for them. This gives them a sense of control over the patient’s recovery and the chance to be part of the treatment.”

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CHEERS Mary Ann Thebus (right) performs in “Rapture, Blister, Burn” which opened at the Goodman Theatre on Jan. 26. Thebus plays Alice, a woman with a traditional view of love.

Mother-daughter duo takes on theater world

By HAYLEY GLATTER

daily senior staffer @heyhay94

At 6 a.m. the sun had not yet risen, but Jessica Thebus was having a birthday party.

Surrounded by her mother, father and sister, an adolescent Jessica opened gifts in the wee hours of the morning because her mother, actress Mary Ann Thebus, was in the middle of tech week for a show.

“We had gifts, we had a big elaborate meal … we had a great time.

It was wild, just wonderful!” said Mary Ann Thebus who is starring in the newly opened “Rapture, Blister, Burn” at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.

And this early birthday wake-up call wasn’t the only way Mary Ann Thebus’ career affected her daughter. Now the director of Northwestern’s MFA directing program, Jessica Thebus grew up with her mother’s atypical schedule and watched her mom take on a menagerie of roles on stage.

“I remember it being fun and it feeling like all these grown-ups were having as much fun as kids had when

they played,” Jessica Thebus said.

“It seemed like you could just keep doing that as an adult if you were in the theater.”

Jessica and Mary Ann Thebus interact in that quintessential mother-daughter way — finishing each other’s sentences and constantly exchanging sarcastic quips. In “Rapture, Blister, Burn,” which focuses on the age-old question, “What do women really want?”, Mary Ann takes on the role of Alice, the eldest voice on stage with a more traditional approach to navigating the waters of love.

“Here’s the thing, which is kind of interesting for me, is that the woman I’m representing is more like my mother than me,” Mary Ann Thebus said. “I was much more eccentric and not particularly traditional, but my mother was traditional about malefemale type things.”

The show follows two women, Catherine and Gwen, as they come to terms with what they’ve accomplished in their respective professional and personal lives. The show centers around whether or not it’s better to be married to your job or to your spouse, and Jessica Thebus said when her mother approached

her with this question, she was certain of her answer: She is married to her husband and family.

“I think for all of us who have families, and there are a lot of female directors in Chicago who have families, and males too, but I think it still tends to be a little bit more unexpected for women to be able to work … you’re always trying to find time,” Jessica Thebus said.

But before Mary Ann Thebus made her debut in “Rapture, Blister, Burn,” Jessica Thebus watched her mother act in theaters across the world. Mary Ann Thebus began acting overseas in English-speaking theater companies in places like Iran and Turkey, and then the Thebus family returned stateside. Mary Ann Thebus, who has also spent time teaching acting, decided to try her hand at professional acting in Chicago.

“Jessica was more aware of some of the challenges because overseas, it had been, as you described, kind of fun and all this lark,” Mary Ann Thebus said. “But then, when I started pursuing it professionally here in Chicago, you had to audition. Nobody knew me, I didn’t have a resume that included anything in this country.”

Mary Ann Thebus said her daughter would see how upset she would get if she wasn’t cast and suspected that her disappointment may have pushed Jessica into the directing, rather than acting world.

However, though Jessica Thebus said she loves directing, she truly got her start as an actress.

“I loved acting, actually, and I loved improvising, but I had some stage fright specifically connected to being able to memorize,” Jessica Thebus said. “Then I directed my first thing and I had a great time.

And what I say about that is that I just remember when I was directing this piece in college … I forgot what I was wearing. Like I became utterly unselfconscious of myself and just became involved in the task. I also love stories, I love reading and writing stories, and as the director you get to make the story. And that’s exciting to me.”

Since then, Jessica Thebus, whose 10-year-old daughter Willa Marie also loves acting, has directed more than a dozen shows in Chicago and across the country. On two occasions, she even directed a show her mother acted in.

“Now, the more interesting thing

is the first time we worked together, whether or not to call me Mom or Mary Ann,” Mary Ann Thebus said.

“Because she doesn’t call me Mary Ann, she calls me Mom, but everybody is called by their first name. So I remember the first day … it was Mary Ann, and then the second day it was Mom. And that was the end of that.”

That show, “Morning’s at Seven,” and “Inherit the Wind” are the two shows Jessica Thebus has directed and Mary Ann Thebus has acted in.

The two also co-directed “Collected Stories” at American Blues Theater.

They collaborated more when Jessica Thebus was younger, but retain a high degree of professional respect for one another.

“I also find it very exciting that Jessie and I share the same profession,” Mary Ann Thebus said.

After Mary Ann Thebus said this, her daughter interjected, patting her mom’s arm and telling her not to cry.

Mary Ann Thebus shook her daughter off and continued.

“I mean, it’s nice, and it’s interesting,” she said. “It’s comforting … I like it. I like it a lot.” hayleyglatter2016@u.northwestern.edu

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LIKE MOTHER LIKE DAUGHTER Mary Ann and Jessica Thebus pose alongside Jessica’s daughter Willa Marie. Like Jessica Thebus, Willa Marie is also growing up with her mother involved in theater.

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January 30 kicks off 14 days of delicious food deals — it’s Chicago Restaurant Week.

For eight years, Choose Chicago, the city’s official tourism organization, has gathered more than 250 of the best restaurants in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs to participate for two weeks in special deals for lunch and dinner, enticing both locals and tourists alike.

Korean barbecue, French cuisine, classic American — just make a reservation at any of the participating Restaurant Week spots and you can partake in the deals, including prixe fixe lunch and dinner menus, set across the board at $22 for lunch and $33 or $44 for dinner, excluding drinks and tax and gratuity.

By SOPHIE MANN

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This weekend, Native American fashion will head down the runway at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian in Evanston.

The museum, founded in 1977, prides itself on being one of the few of its kind in North America. It showcases Native American culture for the Chicagoland community, the Midwest and North America as a whole. The exhibit, titled “Native Haute Couture,” has been long anticipated by the museum and the greater community.

“We have a phenomenal collection of native regalia and clothing, and it has been in our sights to do an exhibit like this for quite some time,” executive director Kathleen McDonald said.

On display will be clothing with items commonly carried by Native Americans, including prized dyed quills, dried cut shells and copper.

Communication freshman Claire Bara said she hopes people “learn the history” of these tribes, especially because their clothing depicts their connections to nature and traditions.

Tristan Metzner, an Evanston resident with Lakota heritage, agreed with Bara.

He emphasized that these fashions depict deep-rooted connections to these tribes’ traditions and the environments around them. He said he also hopes the greater community will develop a new appreciation for these people’s heritage.

“People believe that Native Americans just wear loin cloths,” Metzner said. “People need to learn that these clothes have importance.”

According to McDonald, the museum aspires to infuse these cultural pieces into the community, because the museum is such a staple in the Native American community, as a learning tool and a place to showcase these cultures.

“We are part of the American Indian community, but we also serve all people in Evanston, Midwest and We have United St ates,” McDonald said. a phenomenal “We get visitors collection of who come here to native regalia learn about native cultures.” and clothing, The museum and it has been works with the Chicago American in our sights to Indian Commudo an exhibit nity Collaborative, like this for which was established in response quite some to Native Ameritime. can relocation as a result of the Indian Kathleen Relocation Acts of McDonald, the 1950s to sup- Mitchell Museum port the influx of executive director Native Americans moving to Chicago.

The museum, as well as the AIC, seeks to touch the greater community with this exhibit, including native people and nonnative people seeking to learn about native cultures.

“We are looking to share these pieces with everyone and each group will experience it a little bit differently,” McDonald said. “Native people may be excited to see things their grandparents have worn and that natives appreciate as part of their own culture. I think that people who are nonNatives will appreciate how exquisite some of these ensembles are.”

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Check out a few of the unique restaurants participating in this year’s CRW and find out more about what is in store for restaurant goers.

Oceanique offers discounted pricing

By HELEN LEE

the daily northwestern

Typically, Oceanique’s prices are a bit daunting for students on a budget, but from Jan. 30 to Feb. 12, Oceanique will offer its three-course menu at a generously reduced price as part of Chicago Restaurant Week. Located in Downtown Evanston at 505 Main St., the restaurant is owned by Mark Grosz, who also serves as the main chef.

Oceanique is a restaurant of fine dining with a warm atmosphere, a haven for wine connoisseurs and a go-to for seafood lovers. It is the place to visit for those looking for a FrenchAmerican experience, and your next stop if you are looking to try out the tasting menu in a beautiful, modern space.

Chef Grosz has been with Oceanique since day one. He learned his trade in France and Hong Kong and opened Oceanique in 1989.

Now in its 26th year, the restaurant has grown to become one of the North Shore’s premiere seafood restaurants. Ranked highly on culinary

guides like Zagat and Yelp by food experts and visitors alike, Oceanique is the ideal place to eat for a date, special event or any reason at all.

Oceanique has been participating in Chicago Restaurant Week for about five years now, Grosz said. For the two week event, Oceanique offers a $44 three-course dinner menu. The first course is complimentary with appetizers, main courses and a dessert course included in the price. For Northwestern students on a budget looking for a nicer restaurant, Chicago Restaurant Week is the perfect time to visit Oceanique.

“It’s substantially reduced as far as our normal pricing,” Chef Grosz said. “Normally, it would cost around $75, and so for $44, it’s a great value.”

Even when Oceanique is not participating in events like Chicago Restaurant Week, Northwestern students enjoy a 15 percent discount with their WildCARD. The most coveted dish is the lobster, but other popular dishes include prime beef, filet mignon and sea scallops and kimchi, Grosz said. Options like these and high prices can discourage students from eating at this fine dining location.

“When people read fine dining, they can get a little intimidated, but it’s really not like that,” Grosz said.

Oceanique maintains an inviting atmosphere that offers comfort and ease to its customers.

The modern look, with large 20th century Muro paintings, welcomes any and all in.

Grosz said he has fresh food and ingredients delivered from Europe. The food he uses is always organic and from sustainable sources, adding an eco-friendly feel to the modern-style restaurant.

“The flavors, the beautiful freshness of the fish, all of it (matters),” he said. “Quality is our trademark. If you go to a restaurant one day and you go back the next time and it’s not good, you’re probably never going back again, so we have to be consistent with our quality.”

Grosz says he hopes every customer leaves satisfied.

“We have to provide good service every night,” he said. “We approach it like life, theater.

Every night we have to be on.” helenlee2018@u.northwestern.edu

Blackfinn: an ecofriendly dining spot

By MADELINE BURG

the daily northwestern @Madelineburg

Not only does Blackfinn Ameripub keep its regular menu moderately-priced with most entrees at about $15, but it is also the only restaurant participating in this year’s Chicago Restaurant Week that has a Green Restaurant Certification as well as a LEED certified building.

The Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design program, or LEED, is a function of the U.S. Green Building Council dedicated to promoting green buildings and clean energy practices. Any building can try to earn credit for a LEED certification, with different credit systems for different types of buildings, such as schools,

hotels, stores, private homes and restaurants.

When Blackfinn Ameripub moved into its River North space, 353 N. Clark Street, the building had already been LEED certified — one of the LEED credit systems is for Building Design and Construction, or BD+C. “We were asked by the good folks at 353 to move in, actually,” said Christopher Funaro, operations partner at the River North location. “But we do a bunch of stuff to stay green ourselves.”

Blackfinn recycles assiduously, has its own special hood system — a kitchen requirement that reduces emissions from cooking — and also recycles grease, a major energy-saving tactic.

All of this has gotten the restaurant its Green Certificate.

Not only does Blackfinn’s eco-friendliness

set the restaurant apart, but it’s also known for its contemporary American food. After participating in the event last year, the restaurant is coming back this year with a bigger and better fixed-price menu.

The selection mixes high-end gourmet entrees like Hong Kong-style Chilean sea bass with refreshingly eclectic fairground fare like a soft pretzel starter or funnel fries for dessert.

Choose a draft of beer from the extensive array or indulge in one of the restaurant’s signature cocktails, something new this year that Funaro was excited about.

“With a year under our belt, we’re really excited for this year’s menu,” Funaro said. madelineburg@u.northwestern.edu

Restaurant Week social media strategies

By PETER KOTECKI

the daily northwestern @Peterkotecki

Putting photos of food on Instagram isn’t exactly revolutionary, but the chance to win prizes for delicious pictures is a new feature of Chicago Restaurant Week. Ranging from concert tickets to wine baskets and OpenTable gift cards, winners of the weekly CRW Instagram Contest have the chance to take home a variety of items. Though contestants can submit multiple photos of their dining experience, they can only win the contest once.

The Daily spoke with Nycole Hampton, the social media and branding specialist for Choose Chicago, about the contest, which began Jan. 5 and runs for

six weeks.

On the origin of the Instagram contest: “The Chicago Restaurant Week Instagram Contest is a new contest, four weeks leading up to Chicago Restaurant Week and two weeks during.

The point of the contest is really just to get people really excited about Restaurant Week.”

On the purpose of the contest: “We all go out to dinner weekly anyways, for the most part, so it’s just a really fun way to tie in Restaurant Week and starting promotions early with getting people to take photos of their food and sharing their experiences in advance. Also, it’s just a great way to promote all the Chicago restaurants and the culinary themes here.”

On using Instagram to promote Chicago restaurants:

“It’s something that people are definitely kind of learning, and as each week goes by, you see more and more participation. And I’m sure that it will pick up significantly, obviously, during actual Restaurant Week. It’s definitely been great getting people thinking about Restaurant Week and kind of more toward social conversations as well.”

On the contest affecting Restaurant Week, which runs Jan. 30-Feb. 12: “Before, you would see the occasional tweet about Restaurant Week and where people are going, but now there is just a lot of conversations happening about where people are going. And they want to enter the contest and things of that nature, so it’s been great.” peterkotecki2018@u.northwestern.edu

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February brings Evanston restaurant deals

The stars of Oxygen’s “All the Right Moves” have danced their way off the screen and back onto the stage. Shaping Sound, a primarily contemporary dance company, was founded in 2012 by Teddy Forance, Kyle Robinson and “So You Think You Can Dance” veterans Travis Wall and Nick Lazzarini. Now on their second national tour, Shaping Sound will be stopping at Skokie’s North Shore Center for the Performing Arts on Feb. 3. The performance is an updated version of their first show, a dream love story based on a “Peter Pan” quote: “You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.” The show features Jaimie Goodwin from SYTYCD Season 2 as the main character. The Daily spoke to Forance, Shaping Sound choreographer and co-founder, about the company and its current tour.

The Daily: What is the story behind the show?

By AMANDA SVACHULA

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Chicago’s North Shore Restaurant Month kicks off Feb. 1 with a variety of deals for foodies at 22 different Evanston restaurants.

The discounts will be available the entire month of February, excluding Valentine’s Day. This is the sixth year Chicago’s North Shore Convention & Visitor’s Bureau has held this monthlong event encouraging people to explore restaurants and become tourists in their own town.

“It’s a great way to encourage people to visit their favorite local restaurants – or try a place they have never been to, “ said Flat Top Grill manager Derek Templeton. “Getting people engaged in the community is always a good thing, and offering them a deal makes their experience even better, so everyone’s happy!”

Evanston businesses will offer small perks to their customers. For example, Edzo’s Burger shop will offer a free soft drink with a burger purchase, and Flat Top Grill is offering 15 percent off of a guest check.

“February is traditionally the slowest month for restaurants,” said Edzo’s owner Eddie Lakin.

“So basically we’re trying to drum up a little business because it’s so yucky out. No one wants to go outside and there are really no holidays in February except for Valentine’s Day.” Besides basic deals, several restaurants will feature Prix Fixe menus. In Evanston, Farmhouse Evanston, Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge, Boltwood and The Stained Glass will offer meals at fixed prices. The month is heavily promoted from social media which results in many people taking advantage of the deals.

“I think they reach a good amount of people with their Twitter,” Lakin said. “I would say we get five or six (customers using the deals) a day during the month of February.”

In order to receive the promotions, one must print out a certificate which can be found at the Visitor’s Bureau website.

Teddy Forance: So it’s the idea of a re-occurring dream that you are falling in love in your dream with somebody and then you wake up in real life and you’re in this other whole relationship. It’s that place of being so alive in your dreams that you turn it into your reality, and, I don’t want to give away the show, but it comes full circle because I think in the last show, it kind of ended unknowing of what was going to happen. In this show you see Jaimie happy at the end of the show and going through the whole process of feeling insecure and scared and unhappy and really internal to this growth and this process of love and finding love.

The Daily: What is different about this tour from your first tour?

Forance: The first tour that we did, we were still developing the story, and the difference between the last show and this show is I feel like you get to know the characters a little bit deeper. We dive more into my role, the guy that Jaimie falls in love with, but really Jaimie’s role, the main character, the dreamer. You really get to know her story better and you get to see her in real life and then in the dream world. I feel like it’s much easier to understand and follow for dancers and non-dancers that come to the show. To be able to impact all different types of people with this kind of show is really a wonderful blessing for us. We’re so proud of the show. I think it’s really going to change a lot of people’s mindsets on more than just dance.

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The Daily: How has Shaping Sound continued to grow and change as a company since the first tour?

Forance: I think we just understand each other. Every project, we keep growing and shifting and changing. You keep discovering what works and what doesn’t work. We have three new company members, Justine Lutz, Kate Harpootlian, and we have Amy Yakima (SYTYCD Season 10 winner). I think overall, our synergy onstage and understanding the more we dance, the more we’re interacting with our peers, the more were inspired, the more we push each other, the more we’re comfortable to make decisions on the spot together. We’re growing up together as

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The Daily: What do you think brands Shaping Sound as a company and distinguishes you guys in the dance world?

Forance: We grew up in the dance convention/competition world and we’re connected with thousands and thousands and thousands of teachers, studios, dancers. We’re trained in ballet and jazz, hip hop, contemporary, modern. All of our dancers come from all across the country. We’re very aware of what makes a tour happen is people who come, and we’re very connected with our fans and our marketing. I think what’s different about our show is, like I said, a father that doesn’t know dance that well, he’s just paying for his daughter’s ticket and showing up to the show and being shocked that he was emotionally connected to the show and feeling so much. We get the respect from those fans as well as the young dancers who want to see some of the contemporary stuff and more the physical movement. But really it’s a theatrical dance show, and it’s the type of music that gets you to dance. I think we are aware of the energy that we bring together and we just hope to continue to amplify that as we become stronger choreographers and dancers at the same time.

The Daily: What was it like to have the formation of Shaping Sound shown on TV in Oxygen’s “All the Right Moves”?

Forance: The dancing was fun. We had a blast choreographing for the show and dancing on the show. It was all the other stuff that was not us, making it over the top and dramatic. In the long run, we got what we wanted out of it. It was the hardest thing I think any of us have been through. You can’t even prepare yourself for what the show is going to be like. Instead of growing apart, we became closer, better friends. It just made us closer. We realized how much we do care about each other. The show got us to where we are now. We’re so thankful we’ve been through what we’ve been through. We’re just having a good time.

The Daily: What are you most excited about for this tour?

Forance: It’s an honor. Our company’s only three to four years old. We couldn’t be more excited to be together. Everybody’s on so many different directions when we’re not on Shaping Sound. We all created something that’s going to last for a long time. I can’t even imagine the potential of this company. I would never have even dreamed about it. It’s all been amazing surprises. It’s all come so fast and with such open arms from all of our fans and people that have seen us grow up through the dance world.

The Daily: What are you most excited about for coming to the Skokie/North Shore area?

Forance: When we were in Chicago, everyone ate so much good food. We went around the city, went to different museums. We all love to be together, be ourselves. We just have a blast being on tour together, being at all the places, see the cities. Every spot is unique. racheldavison2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Socialist traditions pervade ‘American’ football NOAH KANE

DAILY COLUMNIST

The Super Bowl is a quintessentially American event. Collectively, we will eat 1.25 billion chicken wings during this year’s contest. With wing prices at their current levels and estimating 12 wings per pound, this feat of feasting will cost around $180 million, greater than the daily cost of the 2013 U.S. government shutdown, according to USA Today. This Sunday, the most powerful government in the world could take a day off for the amount of money it would take to fill the distended stomachs of its constituents.

According to many of our politicians, the only thing more American than football is capitalism. Government officials are often tentative to reach across the aisle, but their love of capitalism is a bipartisan affair.

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a man so unabashedly patriotic he has advocated cutting off foreign aid to countries in which demonstrators burn U.S. flags, said at the

2012 Republic National Convention, “The great and abiding lesson of American history ‌ is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.â€? In a 2011 speech in Kansas, President Obama proudly declared, “The free market is the greatest force for economic progress in human history.â€?

This relationship among America, football and capitalism, however, is not transitive.

Few American organizations are more socialist than the National Football League. For one, NFL players are unionized and negotiate their contracts through collective bargaining. Furthermore, the league’s salary cap is a binding wage ceiling that prevents teams from pooling too much talent, ensuring competitiveness but certainly not capitalist competition. The Jacksonville Jaguars still exist, despite years of conspicuous failure. If the team were a person, I suspect many American politicians would have long ago decried the Jaguars’ reliance on the NFL’s welfare.

Perhaps the most Marxian aspect of America’s beloved game is its draft procedure.

Each year, the worst-performing teams get the first pick of the litter of promising college

players.

It is difficult to imagine an American institution that more closely echoes Marx’s famous adage: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!�

The NFL draft is socialism at work in a country struggling to find politically palatable reasons to give poor people health insurance.

In the United Kingdom, however, health care is just as free as the market for soccer players. Every single Barclays Premier League team has a corporate sponsor prominently displayed on the front of its uniform. Player salaries have only just begun to be restricted.

League rules instituted in 2013 mandate that no team that doles out more than ÂŁ52 million ($79 million) to its players in a given year can increase that amount by more than ÂŁ4 million ($6 million) in the following year. These so-called “Financial Fair Playâ€? regulations aren’t designed to cap salaries so much as to prevent teams from spending themselves into debt in order to monopolize talent.

Premier League footballers, who are not unionized, are treated much more like

commodities than their NFL counterparts.

Soccer players cannot only be bought and sold on the open market, they can also be loaned.

In September of last year, Chelsea was renting more players to other teams than it had on its active roster.

As a Massachusetts native, I am well aware that sports fans often value players’ loyalty to their teams. I can hardly fathom the number of cups of Sam Adams that Patriots fans would throw at Tom Brady upon his return from a brief stint with the Jets, even if the loan had been in the Patriots’ financial best interest.

So, as you gnaw on fried chicken, watch corporate advertisements that cost $4 million each and inexplicably chant “USA!� when your conversations stagnate, don’t forget about the socialist legacy you are upholding. Our politicians might enthusiastically praise capitalism, but in all likelihood they, too, will be munching on wings this Sunday.

Noah Kane is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at noahkane2015@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

Congress should vote on Stand in solidarity with marginalized people science more often SAI FOLMSBEE

DAILY COLUMNIST

Last week on Jan. 21, the U.S. Senate voted on science. This was not a vote on the federal funding of scientific research, not on some new environmental policy based on science and not a new law regarding any federal scientific institution. Rather, during the debate over the Keystone XL pipeline, the 100 elected representatives of the U.S. Senate voted on an amendment to the Keystone bill asserting “climate change is real and is not a hoax,� and then voted on a second measure whether human activity has “significantly� contributed to it. This political sideshow of voting on scientific facts was remarkably juvenile, was a catalyst for partisan bickering and stands as an embarrassing metaphor for the collective inaction of congress. But after seeing its results, it is painfully clear that voting on science needs to happen more often.

Naturally, science is never something that should be established by a vote. Science is a cruelly straightforward process, a harsh and unforgiving meritocracy where the truth is slowly whittled away by the painstaking efforts of meticulous research, refined experiments and collaboration of data among experts. Scientific fact-finding is a marathon, not a beauty contest.

Politics, though, is something else entirely.

Although it has the poor reputation of a tenuous relationship with facts, the truth is that the best governing needs science. In its most basic form, one could make the argument that politics is simply making the best decisions based on a synthesis of science and ethics. Therefore, politicians should make their decisions with the best information possible.

And what better way of measuring our senators’ facts than forcing them to vote on it? Although the climate change “not a hoax� amendment passed at an overwhelming 98-1, a vote on whether humanity “significantly contributed� failed to surpass the 60-vote threshold. In this absurdity of voting on global warming, there emerged a rare and honest glimpse into the perspectives of the senators. Although most of the votes followed a classic interpretation of partisan policy stances, with the Democrats accepting humanity’s role in changing the global climate and the Republicans denying it, the trends in the vote weaved a more complex, enlightening picture.

Take U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), for instance. In the past, his views on climate change have been muddled at best. In 2009, he supported enforcing carbon dioxide limits, but in 2011 voted to bar the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse

gases. But with this seemingly pointless vote on human-driven climate change in the Senate, he was forced to form an official stance. To his credit, he was one of only five Republicans willing to break ranks, accept the scientific evidence, and vote that human activities have contributed to climate change. While this may make him a target for climate-change deniers, he has undoubtedly earned himself some respect from the scienAlthough it tific community.

There are other has the poor scientific questions reputation our elected representatives should answer of a tenuous to make their political relationship stances more transparwith facts, the ent. Is the Earth 4.5 truth is that the billion years old? Did life on Earth develop best governing through evolution and needs science. natural selection? And importantly, we need to question them on medical science.

The prime example of politics and scientific illiteracy colliding is the continued existence of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), formerly the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). This agency, which funds research into so-called alternative medicine, has had a budget of over $120 million per year over the past decade, making the federal government a billion-dollar investor into pseudoscientific medicine. The kinds of nonscientific “research� funded by NCCIH ranges from implausible to ludicrous, including using aromas to heal wounds, prayer to treat AIDS and acupuncture, which has been thoroughly debunked by rigorous scientific investigation.

By dedicating an entire national center to medical modalities inherently outside of a science-based medical paradigm, the NCCIH represents an affront to the foundation of scientific inquiry. This is an instance where our politicians’ scientific knowledge, or more appropriately its absence, has siphoned research funds away from deserving scientists.

So, here is a scientific resolution for congress to ponder: Should science-based medicine be our paradigm for health care? By forcing individual representatives to take the time to build an official stance on the issue, the importance of scientific literacy can be better brought to the forefront of American politics. And future voters need only look to the record to see if their representative understands the facts of reality, from the world’s changing climate to non-evidence-based medical practices.

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Sai Folmsbee is a Feinberg graduate student. He can be reached at sai@fsm.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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Social justice activism often characterizes university atmospheres. Such efforts have resurged in recent years on our own campus, from NU Divest and the Fight for Freedom Project to police brutality protests. Although it may be easy to ignore these campaigns or even devote oneself to a familiar issue, it is important to stand in solidarity with these issues as global citizens.

But before delving into what solidarity means, we must be cognizant of two main ways in which solidarity is often derailed.

The first is framing social justice issues as political. In every case of marginalized people, a power dynamic exists that must be acknowledged. Whether in Palestine or Ferguson, there is no simple two-sided conflict.

To refer to these situations as political is to erase the serious issues of marginalization that make them so important to actively stand with in solidarity.

The second is to destructively compare issues of social justice and attempt to create an environment of competition. To ask why someone cares about a certain issue when something just as bad or worse is happening somewhere else in the world — connoting a sort of hierarchy of these issues — attempts to distract from real action. By this logic, though, we shouldn’t act on any issues because it’s unrealistic to solve all of them at once. To pit connected struggles against each other does not benefit justice but benefits those who are committing injustices.

The foundation upon which solidarity rests is respect. In our effort to stand in solidarity, listening is the first and most important action.

To stand in solidarity is not to define a course of action based upon our standards but to listen to those in marginalized positions and assist them.

As activist Audre As Lorde said, “There global citizens, is no such thing as a I implore single-issue struggle because we do not you to stand live single-issue in solidarity, lives.�

The purpose take action of solidarity is to and confirm a understand the differences in every better existence struggle yet find for the intersectionality in marginalized the oppressive forces at work in each. It people of the is to understand world. that our struggles are intertwined, that our fight for freedom is not complete without the freedom of others.

It’s easy to embrace inaction in our state of comfort, but this is irresponsible. We must shed our comfort and feel the discomfort that comes with knowing that fellow human beings are experiencing injustice beyond mere discomfort.

As global citizens, I implore you to stand in solidarity, take action and confirm a better existence for the marginalized people of the world.

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Naib Mian is a Medill sophomore. He can be reached at naibmian2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

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about her research on religious tolerance and how grant money could break down interdisciplinary and geographic barriers to studying this area.

NU will hire new faculty members with appointments across departments to specialize on international issues. It also will finance faculty-led research projects that focus on global issues.

Up to $20 million could be used as a grant to challenge donors to match it to sponsor scholarships for international students. Schapiro said his goal is to raise at least $50 million in scholarships for these students. Currently the University offers limited need-based financial aid to international students but warns the admissions rate is less favorable to international students requesting aid.

Schapiro told The Daily that creating scholarships for international students is a personal passion of his. During his tenure as president of Williams College, the school became need-blind to international applicants. Since he left, the school has since reversed its policy, but he said he hopes to one day create the same policy at NU. “The most brilliant international students aren’t just in the most affluent families,” Schapiro told The Daily. “They’re spread across the income distribution, just like they are here in the U.S.” The funding also will create a visiting scholars program, provide funding for graduate student

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From page 1 according to Cockrell. Many members of Quest Scholars came together over the past couple years to work with the administration and ask for support from the University to ensure that they have a positive experience on campus and are prepared to succeed here and in the future, she said.

“It was a long road,” said Kellogg student Daniel Flores, founder and former president of NU’s chapter of the Quest Scholars. “Much of the conversation focused on identity in terms of racial and ethnic issues. Educational history and socioeconomic history were left out of the picture.”

According to Flores (Communication ’14) many students struggle to feel safe on

fellowships and establish a postdoctoral fellows program.

Elliott, who graduated Phi Beta Kappa and once served on The Daily’s staff, has made many donations to NU, enabling the expansion of the Center for International and Comparative Studies, now called the Roberta Buffett Center. Two of her grandchildren are NU graduates, and one is a current student. Including previous donations, she and her husband have given $110 million to NU. The University has long had its sights on expanding international programming, with much of Schapiro’s tenure marked by visits to other countries to introduce international students to NU. The University opened its first school outside the United States in Qatar in 2008, and global expansion was a major focus of the strategic plan Schapiro created at the start of his presidency.

Throughout Wednesday’s event, the panelists emphasized the increasing need for students to be global leaders, no matter what their area of study is. Slavic languages and literature Prof. Gary Saul Morson spoke about the importance of literature in building a global perspective.

“They’re called humanities because they have the possibility of teaching us something about humanity, and my priority, people who are different from ourselves,” he said. “It’s very hard to imagine that there are people who think differently.” czak15@u.northwestern.edu campus and there needed to be one centralized office to deal with this population. The issue of socioeconomic background had often been a taboo subject, but many people were passionate and excited to share their stories, Flores said.

Dozens of students attended the event, some of whom are receiving financial support through scholarships such as the Quest Scholars and the NU Ryan Scholars program.

Walsh commended the center’s efforts to gain the attention of students.

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TEACH IN Weinberg senior Serene Darwish speaks at “Palestine 101,” an event Friday hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine. The event kicked off NU Divest, a student campaign that seeks the divestment of University funds from corporations allegedly involved in human rights violations in Palestine.

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From page 1 senior said. “We want to end our complicity in this occupation of Palestinians, and that’s obviously not happening this quarter. … It’s going to continue no matter what happens with the resolution.”

Gomaa said NU Divest began organizing midFall Quarter. She said NU has participated in similar campaigns in the past, including one to divest from companies involved in apartheid in South Africa.

In 2005, the University agreed to divest from four companies that did business in Sudan in response to genocide in the country’s Darfur region.

Gomaa said NU Divest was also inspired by student activists at other universities across the country participating in comparable movements.

Darwish said NU Divest is not affiliated with a specific student group.

“What I love about this campaign is that we’re really looking beyond organizational boundaries,” she said.“It’s a cause-driven campaign. We see ourselves as part of a team.”

Coalition for Peace, Umanskiy said, is mainly focused on activism through social media, sharing several articles each week relating to its cause. It also promotes related events, such as NU Hillel’s Monday evening event featuring Israeli journalist and author Ari Shavit. The main goal of the page’s outreach is to educate students, Umanskiy said.

“I think (NU Divest is) really interested in grabbing attention of students who are not educated on the conflict but are interested in advocacy and

human rights,” Umanskiy said. “But there is a lot of history and this conflict does not happen inside a vacuum.”

NU Divest stressed in its letter to the editor that students do not need to support a political opinion to agree with its goals. However, Umanskiy said “there is a second part of the movement that is political that we strongly oppose.” Coalition for Peace disagrees with BDS’ intention to cut off Israel-affiliated companies and to only blame Israel in the conflict, she said.

“The BDS movement in its entirety wants to weaken the Israeli economy and the state of Israel,” Umanskiy said. “There are a lot of consequences with that and they entail the weakening of the state of Israel.”

Similar campaigns have successfully been executed already, with student government resolutions supporting divestment passed at universities such as Wesleyan University, DePaul University and six University of California campuses.

In response to Coalition for Peace, Darwish said NU Divest is not focused on finding a political solution. NU Divest’s next event is a lecture featuring Rabbi Brant Rosen, a religious leader who supports divestment.

“We don’t have any power in Palestine-Israel, but what we do have is our status as students at Northwestern,” she said. “The conversation they’re trying to have has nothing to do with the conversation NU Divest is trying to push forward. It’s simply derailing it.” oliviaexstrum2017@u.northwestern.edu aliceyin2017@u.northwestern.edu

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Fairfield hires former NU men’s basketball coach Bill Carmody

Nearly two years after Northwestern fired Bill Carmody from his post as men’s basketball head coach, the mastermind of the Princeton offense has finally resurfaced.

Fairfield hired Carmody to its basketball staff earlier this week, adding on the veteran head coach as a special assistant/advisor.

According to Andrew Garda for NJ Advance Media, Carmody joined the Stags’ operation on Monday.

In his new position, Carmody will be an aid in game preparation and strategy for coach Sydney Johnson and will not be coaching players during practices or games.

Across Campuses Suspended Florida student fights to return to school after sexual assault allegations

ORLANDO, Fla. — A University of Central Florida student accused of sexually assaulting a woman during a drunken threesome is fighting to get reinstated after he was suspended from school.

The woman said she felt helpless and violated after a night of drinking in the UCF dormitory. The man, identified as Daniel Caskey of Delray Beach in court documents, said he thought the sex was consensual.

Caskey, a freshman, has not been charged with a crime stemming from the October incident, according to the state attorney’s office. UCF ruled he violated university policies on sexual misconduct and alcohol.

Caskey’s punishment included being suspended through the spring 2016 semester and writing a “reflection” paper, documents filed in Orange Circuit Court showed.

UCF spokeswoman Zenaida Gonzalez Kotala declined to comment on the case, citing student privacy. But in general, the university cannot report sexual assaults to law enforcement if the victim is an adult and doesn’t want to press criminal charges, she said, adding there are several places on campus where victims can report assaults.

At UCF and other Florida campuses, allegations of sexual assault rarely lead to arrests, an Orlando Sentinel investigation found last year. In two years, there were 16 rape reports to UCF police, but only four arrests and no convictions.

Because of privacy laws, it is unclear how many sexual assault reports have been handled solely through student-conduct hearings.

Caskey, a freshman in the honors college studying electrical engineering, has retained attorneyWarren Lindsey, who earlier this month filed a petition asking the court to overturn UCF’s decision to punish him.

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Johnson played for Carmody while he coached at Princeton.

Carmody had previously been off the radar entirely for two years following a long career in the coaching ranks. The Union College graduate joined the Princeton staff in 1982 and served as an assistant for the legendary Pete Carril, before he took over as Princeton head coach prior to the 1996-97 season. Carmody would spend four years in that post, netting the Tigers two NCAA Tournament appearances.

Carmody joined on as the Wildcats’ head coach in 2000, and held that distinction until his firing in 2013. In the meantime, Carmody got the Cats to four NITs, and nearly broke NU’s streak of never making the NCAA Tournament in 2011-2012.

From page 1 of the 600 cookbooks, Garrett said.

“It was like having a fairy godmother,” Barrett said. “It was always a part of my plan for this store that the cookbook section just be a destination for other food-lovers.”

To thank Mollenhauer for his donation, Barrett and Garrett decided to give 10 percent of the proceeds from the sales of Ida Mollenhauer’s cookbooks to the Evanston hospital’s Music Therapy Internship Program, a program Mollenhauer financially supports..

“Literally to her final day, the Music Therapy interns were always there for us,” Mollenhauer said.

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Caskey, whose age was not given, and Lindsey did not return messages seeking comment Wednesday.

The incident occurred in the early-morning hours of Oct. 12 after a group of about nine people played drinking games at a gathering in the residence hall.

Details emerged from the court file, which contained a transcript from a November administrative hearing at UCF and other records.

Eventually Caskey, a friend of his and the woman, whose age was not listed in the court records, ended up alone in her room.

Caskey kissed the woman, which she said “surprised her but she didn’t mind. She began to alternate kissing the two men, which quickly progressed to three-way sex.

The university would not comment on whether the second man, who is identified only as John in the court documents, was punished.

Caskey denied he had done anything wrong and said there were no warning signs the woman was upset.

“There was no verbal or physical indication that she was not OK with this,” Caskey said at the hearing.

But in a UCF incident report submitted Oct. 22, the woman said she panicked.

“I felt like I was a frozen,” the woman wrote. “I just felt like I was helpless and like I should give up, thought maybe it was just easier to along with it and hope it would be over soon.”

John also testified at the hearing. “At some point, she began to get rather weak,” he said. “And then I believe she blacked out. And then he kept going.”

The two men, who shared classes, discussed sports for about 15 minutes on the woman’s bed until Caskey left.

The next morning, when the woman woke up, “I realized what happened, how I didn’t want it to happen, how drunk I had been, and how serious it was that this happened,” she wrote in the incident report.

She sat on the floor and began to cry. John was still there.

“He didn’t seem to realize that anything was wrong, he asked what the matter was, said don’t worry about it, that it was fine, that it meant nothing and we were having a good time,” the woman testified in the hearing.

She told him to leave.

Later, she would tell officials she was “scared of crossing paths” with the two men and that that night had hurt her emotionally, mentally and academically.

After the woman filed the complaint, the university ruled Caskey should be suspended for three semesters and put on probation for the rest of his time at UCF if he returned.

“Given the victim’s state of inebriation, she was unable to provide consent during this sexual encounter,” a report said. “(Consent) is not the lack of resistance.”

Caskey said he never intended to harm the woman, as he appealed the university’s decision in a Nov. 24 letter. He, too, had suffered, Caskey wrote.

“If she had ever given any indication that something was wrong, I would have stopped instantly,” his letter said. “I too have been traumatized by this event … because I have this constantly hanging over my head. I have been very depressed and feel wrongly accused of something I did not do.”

On Dec. 19, the university rejected his appeal.

— Gabrielle Russon (Orlando Sentinel/TNS)

Professor using pop culture to teach psychology to med students

HACKENSACK, N.J. — The shower scene from “Psycho” elicits many responses. They typically don’t include commentary on dissociative identity disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder, however.

But that’s exactly what went on at a lecture hall at Rutgers.

Dr. Anthony Tobia uses pop culture — from comics to “Seinfeld” to “Psycho” and the other films screened in his recent course creation “Film

Bookends & Beginnings will provide increased compensation for the interns in the program as well as more funding for services and possibly research.

Mollenhauer also donated his wife’s catering equipment to an Evanston catering business, Feast & Imbibe, which will be providing food for the celebration.

“He gave us a lot,” sommelier and general manager of Feast & Imbibe Heather Bublick said. “It might have been a good month before we had opened our physical location so it was needed.”

Mollenhauer said that he chose to donate his wife’s possessions as a “proactive” way of honoring her legacy.

“There can be good that comes out of bad things,” Mollenhauer said. “It doesn’t mean they’re still not bad or they’re tragic, but it kind of gives some hope of why you persevere and keep pushing forward.” joannelee2017@u.northwestern.edu Depictions to Learn Mental Disease” — to engage students in his field.

“Most of our students do not come to medical school believing they are future psychiatrists,” said Tobia, associate program director of psychiatry at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

“Even those that show an interest, the vast majority go on to pursue other disciplines other than psychiatry.

I direct courses that are the last chance for my nonpsychiatry future residents to learn and therefore be able to employ psychiatry.”

This idea is vital at a time when the country is struggling with the ability to meet the needs of the mentally ill. The key to this education is getting medical students enthusiastic about learning psychiatry.

“We’re not going to be able to allow our family practitioners, our internists, our surgeons to uncover and then treat mental illness unless it’s learned,” Tobia said. “And it won’t be learned unless our students are engaged.”

It is important for general practitioners and specialists in other medical fields to identify mental illness and know how to care for a patient.

“The first resource that most people who either are personally affected by mental illness, or have a loved one with a mental illness, reach out to is a primary care provider,” Aruna Rao, associate director of National Alliance on Mental Illness of New Jersey, said in a statement. “It is relatively uncommon for people to reach out to a mental health provider first. Because of this, it is necessary for primary care physicians to be educated about mental health disorders, and to refer clients to mental health experts as needed.”

So Tobia taps into entertainment to help facilitate the education. Recently, Tobia received considerable attention for a class that uses “Seinfeld” episodes to teach psychiatry. Last year he started a different course that takes a step further out of the box and adds a social media component.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2015

Fencing

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NU continues gauntlet in Evanston

Cats travel for final dual meets

NU Duals II Evanston, Illinois 8 a.m. Saturday & 8 a.m. Sunday

By KEVIN CASEY

daily senior staffer @KevinCasey19

Northwestern returns home this weekend for the NU Duals II, but the Wildcats will be in for the fight of their lives.

Following an 11-match weekend that included matches against five top-10 teams, the No. 9 Cats (26-4) face five more top-10 teams in Evanston, for the home competition. And the event will be 13 matches over two days rather than 11.

With such a packed and daunting set of opponents, NU can only do one thing during the week: Keep control of the madness.

“It’s all about preparation,” coach Laurie Schiller said. “We’ve given the players some rest this week, and we looked at film. And the only thing we can do is hope that we’re ready to go when we start on Saturday morning.”

The Cats will face some familiar foes this weekend, taking on last week’s competitors in No. 10

Temple, No. 6 Penn, No. 5 Ohio State and No. 1 Notre Dame.

These are, of course, the four teams that NU cares most about, along with No. 3 Princeton.

Schiller has a strategy for success against this topnotch group.

“Fortunately I get to control the schedule this weekend,” Schiller said. “So we can warm our way up to the matches, that’s the setup and then we get into the tougher ones.”

Beating the Yet, as it stands now, Buckeyes again NU will begin its Saturday with Stanford (a team would be pretty getting votes in the polls), cool, because then Penn, Ohio State and Notre Dame, with I don’t think an innocuous Fairleigh it’s something Dickinson squad roundwe’ve done in a ing out the day.

Princeton headlines long time. on Sunday, but NU won’t have too much to worry Stephanie Chan, about in the other six sophomore foil bouts.

Matters didn’t work out that well last Saturday for the Cats, when the team came out a disappointing 3-2.

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Then again, NU lost those matches by the thinnest of margins, 14-13 each time. And the Cats roared back on Sunday, winning four of six contests, including an elusive win over the Buckeyes.

More than any opponent, NU is pumped up to try to take down Ohio State.

“Beating the Buckeyes (again) would be pretty cool, because I don’t think it’s something we’ve done in a long time,” sophomore foil Stephanie Chan said.

Junior epee Kaitlyn Wallace noted that the Cats must be extra attentive in her portion if they want the Buckeyes sweep.

“Ohio State has a really strong foil squad,” Wallace said. “So epee and sabre really have to come in for the win if we are to defeat the Buckeyes.”

Wallace also noted that the No. 1 Fighting Irish contain a similarly strong foil group, and the No. 3 Tigers may be the team’s greatest challenge in epee.

Still, everything circles back to the Buckeyes.

“We beat Ohio State in two of the three weapons last week,” Schiller said. “And if we can do that again, we’ll have a real good chance to win the conference, which we haven’t won in a while. By asserting dominance again, it shows we’re the dominant team here, and we want that feeling.” kevincasey2015@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern vs. No. 23 Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota 5 p.m. Friday & 12 p.m. Saturday

Northwestern vs. Purdue Minneapolis, Minnesota 5 p.m. Friday & 12 p.m. Saturday

By TYLER KENDALL

the daily northwestern @tylerskendall

Northwestern will head to Minneapolis, Minnesota, this weekend for a two-day competition against Minnesota and Purdue. Coming off a recent loss to Iowa, the Wildcats are facing other troubles before the meet on the road.

“We’ve had a lot of sickness this week and the flu bug seems to be going around the team,” coach Jarod Schroeder said. “We have a couple of our top guys who have been out a few days of training and are just getting back into it so hopefully there’s enough time for them to recover before the weekend.”

Despite some illness, NU (7-4, 0-3 Big Ten) is ready to start racing in what will be the last meet before Big Ten Championships in late February.

“Minnesota and Purdue are usually somewhere in the top and middle of the pack at Big Tens, so they are two really good teams,” Schroeder said. “It’s a fast pool and it is a great setting for our guys and the competition is going to be high.”

The rankings back this up, as Minnesota (4-3, 1-1) is No. 23 in the country. Then-No. 22 Purdue beat NU last season 231-69, proving this weekend will be no easy competition for the Cats.

NU can take solace in its most recent We’ve performance though.

While a 171-129 loss had a lot of to No. 19 Iowa didn’t sickness this appear all that memweek and the orable, junior Jordan Wilimovsky noted flu bug seems that the meet was a lot to be going closer than it seemed.

The competition was around the on the road, and the team. team felt many of the competitors swam Jarod Schroeder, admirably in the head coach contest.

Another factor in NU’s favor is the longer, two-day structure of this weekend’s meet with competition starting at 5 p.m. on Friday and noon on Saturday.

“It will be good for us to swim in a two-day format because it gives us a little more rest,” Schroeder said. “We’re a small team so when you do the 16-event order all in one session, a lot of our top guys are pretty tired by the end of it. By spreading out the events, hopefully they are a little more fresh on Saturday.”

NU is also relying on top performances from the diving and freestyle events, since both did well last weekend and pulled in crucial points for the Cats against the Hawkeyes. Included in this is Wilimovsky, who will go into this weekend’s races as No. 1 in the Big Ten and No. 3 in the nation for the 1650-yard freestyle.

Wilimovsky was one of the swimmers who came down with the team flu, as he missed practice — for the first time Schroeder can remember — earlier this week fighting off the illness.

He seems just as prepared as ever though, for Minnesota and Purdue. “(This meet) is another opportunity to race and I’m still in heavy training right now,” Wilimovsky said. “So I’ll go out there and see if I can get a season best and execute on the stuff I’ve been working on in practice.”

While Big Tens titles might be the ultimate goal, NU is still focusing on the meet this weekend.

“We’re trying to keep our eyes on the prize at the end of the season certainly,” junior captain Van Donkersgoed said. “In this time we have between this last dual meet and Iowa and Big Tens, we don’t want to get unfocused and what not and get lazy.”

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ON THE RECORD

Women’s Basketball 29 Iowa at NU 7 p.m. Thursday

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In this time we have between this last dual meet and Iowa and Big Tens, we don’t want to get unfocused.

— Van Donkersgoed, junior

Thursday, January 29, 2015

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NU returns home, looking to escape rough patch

By KHADRICE ROLLINS

the daily northwestern @KhadriceRollins

Northwestern (14-5, 4-4 Big Ten) will look to rely on the comfort of home as it hosts No. 20 Iowa (16-3, 7-1) on Thursday.

The Wildcats have been on a bit of a skid lately that can be traced back to their first contest with Iowa, an 83-70 defeat on the road.

NU has lost three of its last four games with the most recent defeat coming at the hands of Penn State.

“You’re going to have some tough weeks,” coach Joe McKeown said.

“You’ve got to bounce back.”

Bouncing back will not be easy for the Cats. The Hawkeyes are currently second in the Big Ten and are coming into Evanston on a five-game winning-streak. It also looks like NU will be playing its third-straight game without junior forward Lauren Douglas, whom McKeown said is day-to-day.

Douglas is fourth on the team in points per game and tied for third in rebounds per game despite averaging only 20 minutes per night. Although the Cats were able to escape against Illinois with a win, it was easy to see how much the team missed Douglas’ impact when foul trouble plagued them against Penn State.

“It’s like at any program where you have opportunities for other people to step up and in our case, you can play different positions,” McKeown said. “The one thing that

No. 20 Iowa vs. Northwestern Evanston, Illinois 7 p.m. Thursday

we have, we have some versatility in our players.”

NU has an offense that relies mostly on shooting and penetration, which allows for the four-guard lineups it ran on Sunday to work We try to well.

However, practice all of it would the positions. not b e good for Whatever situation comes defense if the during games, we Cats are forced just have to deal to play with it. junior guard Maggie Lyon, Maggie junior guard Lyon at center on Thursday like they did at the end of the Penn State contest.

Lyon said the team will be more prepared if it has to have people play out of position this game.

“Foul trouble was unfortunate,” Lyon said. “In practice, we try to practice all of the positions. Whatever situation comes during games, we just have to deal with it.”

Although the players should be more comfortable if forced to play

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at new spots on the court, an experienced inside presence will be needed to pick up a win.

In NU’s previous contest against Iowa, Hawkeyes center Bethany Doolittle had her way versus the Cats’ interior defense. She posted 29 points on 13-of-20 shooting to go along with 12 rebounds.

Sophomore forward Nia Coffey and senior center Alex Cohen cannot afford to foul out like they did on Sunday, with a presence like Doolittle ready to feast on any smaller lineup the Cats would have to employ.

Still, none of this will matter if the Cats do not put the ball in the basket. NU shot 34.7 percent from the field in Iowa City, Iowa, two weeks ago, while allowing the Hawkeyes to connect on 50.8 percent of their shots.

NU actually took 10 more shots than the Hawkeyes on that night, but when the buckets didn’t drop, the final margin went against the road underdogs.

With any luck, the home rims will be a little friendlier to the Cats.

“We’re playing on our home court, that’s kind of an advantage for us,” sophomore guard Christen Inman said. “We’re just going to keep sharing the ball and keep pumping each other up, and hopefully those shots will go down.” khadricerollins2017@u.northwestern. edu

Cats prepare for Blue Devils

By MIKE MARUT

daily senior staffer @mikeonthemic93

No. 22 Northwestern (1-1) faces another tough test this weekend against No. 4 Duke (3-0), the third top-20 team it’s faced in three weeks.

Having battled Alabama and Georgia Tech, coach Claire Pollard and her players believe they have gotten good practice against strong teams. Getting into the swing of playing top competition will be important as the Wildcats have an extremely difficult regular season schedule with a combination of Big Ten, SEC and ACC teams. All three conferences cultivate strong tennis programs historically.

No. 22 Northwestern vs. No. 4 Duke Durham, North Carolina 10 a.m. Sunday

“Both our matches this weekend were pretty competitive, ASU more so than Rice a little bit,” sophomore Jillian Rooney said.

“Having really tough matches and all of us having to play our hardest plus the more matches we can play at that level (at ASU, Rice and Alabama Invite) are really going to help us through the season.”

Rooney has been playing strong tennis so far this season, posting wins against Georgia Tech, Rice and Arizona State. The sophomore is the only one still in a similar role on the team as last year, Pollard said.

Every other player has changed her singles

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FRESHMAN STREAK Alex Chatt readies herself to return a serve. The freshman has won her last three singles matches.

positionor joined the doubles squads. The players are growing into their new roles, but still have some work to do before the Cats are a well-oiled machine.

“Slowly, slowly, they’re getting their feet wet in it, it still needs to come quicker,” Pollard said. “Some things just take time; you wish they didn’t, but they do.”

The Blue Devils won both their games in their ITA Kickoff Weekend by blanking their opponents 4-0. All Duke wins have come against teams that did not break into the top 50, whereas the matches NU has fought in have all been against opponents in the top 50. Because of the Cats’ preparation through past games and practice, Pollard and the players feel they have a shot at upsetting the Blue Devils.

“Confidence comes through preparation,” Pollard said. “We’re preparing well, preparing better. Our kids need to play those roles to really get it. It’s just going to take some time for that to happen.”

Despite the loss on Saturday to Arizona State, NU was able to feel more confident at the end of the weekend because of the convincing win over Rice on Sunday. To have a chance against Duke, the win on Sunday was necessary. Because all the players are in different roles, the quicker they can get more comfortable in them, the better. With a higher level of confidence overall, the team can play more relaxed and because of that, have a clear mind to focus on the opponent.

“Going in there with a … hunger to beat a top team like (Duke), the past two teams we played have both been really good teams,” freshman Erin Larner, who won the first Big Ten Player of the Week award of the season, said.

With a raised level of confidence and a couple weeks experience under their belt, the Cats are ready to compete at an even higher level than last weekend.

“Duke is renowned to be quite strong, but any team is beatable,” junior Alicia Barnett said. “We’re just going to go out and play. We’re getting better and better.

Anything can happen.” michaelmarut2016@u.northwestern.edu

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INTERIOR PRESENCE Nia Coffey goes up for the shot. In spite of the sophomore forward’s recent shooting struggles, Northwestern can’t afford to have her foul out as she did against Penn State.

Men’s Basketball

NU faltering with late conservatism BOBBY PILLOTE

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Northwestern blew an easy victory late in its game against Maryland.

A jumper by freshman point guard Bryant McIntosh put the Wildcats up 11 with 3:46 to play.

It should have been smooth sailing from there, but NU systematically squandered its lead down the stretch.

Most of it happened on the press break. Notoriously bad at escaping backcourt pressure last year, the Cats actually did a good job against the Terrapins thanks to the combination of McIntosh and senior guard Dave Sobolewski. But as soon as NU beat the press, it pulled up offensively in an effort to run time off the clock.

This isn’t inherently a bad strategy, but it is conservative and the Cats executed it poorly by holding onto the ball too long and being forced to take bad shots to beat an expiring shot clock. The more aggressive alternative, taking the easy baskets afforded by beating the press, probably would have been better, but that’s a view clearly swayed by hindsight.

Regardless, in the waning minutes of the Maryland contest, NU looked like a team that didn’t know how to protect a lead or play in a close game, a recurrent theme in Big Ten play.

Against Michigan State the Cats actually took a lead with 28 seconds to play but allowed the Spartans to tie it up on a pair of free throws after a defensive foul. Coach Chris Collins turned to junior guard Tre Demps — who actually becomes a

worse shooter in crunch time — to take a long, contested jumper as time expired. Not surprisingly, it clanged off the rim.

It was deflating, but the team can’t expect every shot to go in. Still, NU proceeded to completely fall apart in overtime, scoring just 5 points to Michigan State’s 12.

The Cats’ efforts against Illinois and Ohio State were better, with the team simply unable to fully claw its way back from second-half deficits.

For its final possession of the Michigan game NU actually turned to its best offensive player, McIntosh, to take a high-percentage runner that simply didn’t fall.

One missed shot is forgivable, especially a good one. The Cats’ total collapse of coordination against Maryland is not.

Yes, NU would have won if senior guard JerShon Cobb had boxed out or if the Terrapins’ Dez Wells hadn’t made an incredibly challenging shot.

But the Cats had an opportunity to completely avoid such a game-deciding situation and didn’t.

Expectations were low coming into the season, and it’s easy to brush off the close losses by saying this year’s results don’t matter. But NU has to learn how to win tight games to become the successful team it has the potential to be.

Maybe it’s the inexperience of Collins or the six freshmen on the roster, but the Cats have yet to find that killer instinct for finishing in the final five minutes. Giving the ball to McIntosh instead of Demps was the first step, and NU staying aggressive is the next.

If results aren’t important, then the Cats should be playing like they have nothing to lose. bpillote@u.northwestern.edu