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IN MEMORIAM Students light candles before a vigil at The Rock on Wednesday. The vigil, hosted by the Muslim-cultural Students Association, was held in honor of three Muslim students who were fatally shot in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on Tuesday.
Vigil honors shooting victims By OLIVIA EXSTRUM
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More than 80 members of the Northwestern community gathered at The Rock on Wednesday night to commemorate the lives of the three Muslim students who were fatally shot Tuesday in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
The three students, Deah Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor AbuSalha, 21, and her sister Razan Abu-Salha, 19, were all shot in the head. Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, has been arrested in connection with the shooting. The vigil, hosted by the Muslim-cultural Students Association, began with a recitation and translation from the Quran. “The Quran signals that these
people are not dead,” said Tahera Ahmad, associate chaplain and director of interfaith engagement. “They are very much alive, and they are going to continue their legacy.” Ahmad highlighted Barakat’s work assisting Syrian refugees. “I think we need to start thinking about how we can make positive » See VIGIL, page 10
Connections for the Homeless has absorbed a new transitional housing program for young adults. Our House will provide housing, 24-hour supervision, tutoring and counseling services to young adults between ages 18 and 23 in Evanston. The Connections board voted to approve the addition at its Jan. 22 meeting, ultimately agreeing to take full responsibility for the program after its launch in the spring, said Sheryl Bartol, a founder of the program. The pilot of the program will take in five young men who currently work at Curt’s Cafe, a nonprofit that provides job and life skills training for at-risk Evanston youth, said Djorgy Leroy, the social services director at Curt’s Cafe. Leroy will be working with Our House to communicate with community members who are interested in supporting the program. “We’re giving them the tools that they need to find permanent employment and establish themselves in the community,” Leroy said. Bartol said Nehama Morton and Melissa Rooth, her co-founders, volunteered at Curt’s Cafe as social workers and recognized that the graduates of the program who were having the
Pet care company partners with shelter By JULIA JACOBS
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The Evanston Animal Shelter announced Feb. 5 a partnership with a pet care company that will provide discounted food for the shelter’s dogs and cats. Merrick Pet Care not only offered to sell pet food at a reduced price but also will include a free shipment of food every three months, said Meredith Rives, chair of the city’s Board of Animal Control. They will also offer a coupon for a free bag of food for every individual who adopts an animal from the shelter. The partnership begins amid a search for a volunteer animal organization to take over management of the shelter. “We wanted to be able to reduce that cost and simultaneously get the best food we could afford,” Rives said. “The aim was that we didn’t want to settle for grocery store food because we really wanted to move toward a higher level of nutrition for these animals, many of whom are in need.” Volunteers introduced the idea of a partnership with Merrick because it is currently the feeding partner of PAWS Chicago, a no-kill shelter, said Evanston’s animal warden David Rose. A Merrick sales representative
visited the shelter and served its food to one of the shelter’s dogs, he said. “She enjoyed the food, and she’s a picky eater,” Rose said. The shelter has been managed by the city’s animal control and police department after the City Council terminated its relationship with the nonprofit organization Community Animal Rescue Effort i n Apr i l . The Board We wanted of Animal to be able to Control was estabreduce that lished later cost and that month simultaneously to re vie w get the best food reports of the shelter we could afford. and animal control. Meredith Rives, The city Animal Control set aside Board chair $35,000 in the 2015 budget to pay for the entirety of the shelter’s expenses. Since May, the city has been in the process of finding a new volunteer organization to run the shelter, Rives said. During the initial stage of the
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INCREASING INCLUSION Dancers celebrate during Dance Marathon 2014. This year, almost three times more participants than last year received scholarships to cover DM’s registration fee.
DM increases registration fee scholarships Dance Marathon is working to increase inclusion and accessibility, including almost tripling the number of registration fee scholarships for participants, DM executive board
members said Monday. “We want every member of the Northwestern community to feel welcome, no matter their level of participation,” board members wrote in a statement. Gender-open changing rooms may be available for students to use during DM, said Ander Aretakis, DM executive co-chair. The Weinberg senior said he is currently in conversation with Norris University Center and the Center for Student
hardest time sustaining a job were those that did not have stable housing. Along with Leroy, the three met last August to discuss the idea of establishing an organization for at-risk youth that felt like a home instead of an instiI had been tution, she interested ... said. “I had in the issue of been interested … in youth housing and had the issue of youth hous- recognized it as ing and had kind of a hole recognized it as kind of in the social a hole in the social ser- service fabric of Evanston. vice fabric of Evanston,” Sheryl Bartol, Bartols said. Our House founder Seniors in Northwestern’s Brady Scholars Program, a three-year civic engagement program, collaborated with founders from the start to develop Our House as a community-specific way to combat youth homelessness. The students are involved in creating a curriculum to help the participants learn to manage a budget, Leroy said. “That is really what allows them to
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» See HOUSE, page 10 Involvement about the plausibility of creating such spaces. “It’s not 100 percent guaranteed … but it’s something we’re actively pursuing and putting a priority on,” he told The Daily. “If Northwestern students do identify they want to utilize a gender-neutral changing room, we’ll find a space for them.” Aretakis said more than 200 students received scholarships to cover the $50 registration fee this year, up from around 70 students last year. When registering for DM, students indicated whether they wanted to be considered for the scholarship. Undergraduate Financial Aid then provided University President Morton Schapiro’s office with a list of eligible students. Last year scholarships were funded by Associated Student Government’s Senate Project Pool, Aretakis said. He said DM worked with Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president of Student Affairs, and Burgwell Howard, assistant vice president of student engagement, who then discussed possible funding of the scholarship with the president’s office. “It was really meant for students who considered the fee a barrier to participation,” Aretakis said, “So that was the goal, to remove one of the barriers to participation in DM.” The statement also said a fundraising guide was made available to participants this year to provide ideas for fundraising. — Olivia Exstrum
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Around Town Residents discuss concerns over busy intersection By BILLY KOBIN
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A new landscape project aims to transform a busy intersection in Evanston, with plans underway to improve the landscape along the Green Bay Road corridor from Emerson Street to McCormick Boulevard. Evanston officials presented several landscape improvement options and received comments from an audience of about 40 people Wednesday evening during a public meeting at the Hilton Garden Inn, 1818 Maple Ave. The first phase of the Emerson-RidgeGreen Bay Improvements Project, which began December 2013, involved data collection, preliminary designs and public meetings, including Wednesday’s meeting. Construction on the intersection will begin in 2016, said Sat Nagar, Evanston’s senior engineer. Residents gave feedback via a survey on three options for the renovation of the intersection over a course of several months. The most popular option based on the results is the creation of a three-lane cross section at the Green Bay-Emerson intersection. The second most popular option is to make a oneway northbound lane on Green Bay Road.
Police Blotter Laptop burglarized from car repair shop Someone broke into a car repair shop in Evanston and stole a Sony laptop worth about $200 between Saturday and Monday, police said. A window pane in the garage door was broken at Pit Pros, 2402 Dempster St., through which the burglar gained entry into the business, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. The owner of the shop, a 59-year-old man, reported the burglary to the police.
The least popular option was creating a culde-sac at Emerson Street, but this option was eliminated. “It was unpopular and it was the least attractive from a traffic engineering perspective,” Suzette Robinson, the city’s public works director, told The Daily. Residents at the meeting expressed concern over turn signals at the intersection and
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They haven’t even addressed ... the number of accidents that happen in that area. It seems like they’re more concerned about the landscaping than they are about the traffic. Renee Paden, Evanston resident
whether businesses have been notified of intersection changes. Officials explained that the turn signal technology should improve with the intersection changes. Viaducts will be improved with landscape improvements, city officials said. The bridge near the busy intersection, along with the
intersections along the Green Bay Road corridor from Emerson Street to McCormick Boulevard, will be improved with numerous changes, including LED lighting and new plaza spaces. Ryan Kettelkamp of Kettelkamp & Kettelkamp Landscape Architecture explained plans to add a monument sign at McCormick Boulevard and Green Bay Road, which would welcome people to Evanston. The sign would also advertise city events for pedestrians and drivers passing by, Kettelkamp said. “We want to be sustainable, we want to be bold, we want to be refined,” he said. “This (area) is an important gateway (to the downtown).” Renee Paden, an Evanston resident, said she often sees traffic accidents at the intersection. “They haven’t even addressed, I don’t think, the number of accidents that happen in that area,” Paden said. “It seems like they’re more concerned about the landscaping than they are about the traffic.” Robinson said she would present data and community input at the City Council meeting Feb. 23. williamkobin2018@u.northwestern.edu
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INTERSECTION INTERJECTIONS The Emerson Street, Ridge Avenue and Green Bay Road intersection, shown in this graphic, will be improved through the Emerson-Ridge-Green Bay Improvements Project. Options for the project were discussed at a city meeting Wednesday.
Cash, CDs, tools stolen from car
Someone burglarized an unlocked car near Evanston Township High School overnight on Sunday, police said. A 69-year-old Evanston resident said she parked her car in the 1500 block of Fowler Avenue on Sunday afternoon, and when she returned at 7 a.m. Monday, the items, which included $20 in cash as well as 10 CDs and a bucket of miscellaneous hand tools, were missing, Dugan said. There were no signs of forced entry into the 2007 Acura, he added.
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NUDivest brings resolution to ASG By SHANE MCKEON
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Associated Student Government on Wednesday considered a Northwestern Divest-sponsored resolution calling for the University to divest from corporations the group says violate Palestinians’ human rights. Students crowded the room to hear four members of NUDivest, a student movement calling on NU to divest from six corporations the group believes the University is invested in, field questions about the resolution for about 25 minutes from ASG senators and attendees. Weinberg junior Noah Whinston did most of the speaking for the group. “Northwestern University is an institution that lags behind its peer schools when it comes to transparency in its investment policies,” Whinston said. He cited Yale University and Columbia University as schools that have committees comprising students, faculty and alumni that supervise investment. Other universities have social responsibility policies that discourage them from investing in corporations that the student body and administrators find “morally questionable,” which NU does not have, he said. “But, even if it did, that policy would be completely unenforceable because there is no transparency when it comes to how our endowment is invested,” Whinston said. “Northwestern University manages its endowment for the good of the students and the institution. So if we as students have moral problems with how that endowment is invested, we should be able to at least see how the University is using it.” A sub-committee within the Board of Trustees’ Investment Committee provides oversight on the University’s investment policy “with respect to social issues,” according to the Investment Office’s website. However, the office does
not release information on its investments, so it is unclear if it is actually invested in the six corporations NUDivest focuses on. Throughout the question and answer session, Whinston stressed that NUDivest does not have a stance on many of the political issues that define the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including whether a solution should include one or two states. “NUDivest has no organizational or official position on any sort of political nature to this conflict,” Whinston said. “We are a purely human rights-based campaign. We do not take a political stance Northwestern on anything.” senator University is an O n e expressed concern institution that that, if the resolution lags behind its passed, some students would feel uncomfortpeer schools able on campus, due when it comes to a clause in the resoto transparency lution that includes a reference to Palestinin its investment ian civil society’s call for “boycotts, divestpolicies ment and sanctions.” Noah Whinston, Weinberg freshman NUDivest member Yusuf Kudaimi, one of the four students who spoke in favor of the resolution, pushed back. “I highly doubt anyone’s discomfort from this resolution passing is in any way near the discomfort felt by a farmer who’s had his olive trees uprooted, or someone who’s had their home bulldozed by a Caterpillar bulldozer,” he said. No one formally spoke against the resolution during the question and answer session. Formal debate on the resolution will be held next week, after which senators will vote. After the Q-and-A, a student from Divest Northwestern spoke and apologized for the confusing nominal similarity. DivestNU is lobbying the University to divest from the coal
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ASG ACTION Weinberg junior Noah Whinston fields questions about NUDivest, which introduced a resolution in ASG asking Northwestern to divest from corporations the group says violate Palestinians’ human rights.
industry and will hold a “day of action” Friday, Weinberg sophomore Christina Cilento, ASG vice president of sustainability, said. Four students also spoke Wednesday in favor of a resolution that would compel NU to embrace the Real Food Campus Commitment, a national movement whose goal is “to shift $1 billion of existing university food budgets away from industrial farms and junk food and towards local/community-based, fair, ecologically sound and humane food sources —what we call ‘real food’ — by 2020,” according to its website. ShaneM@u.northwestern.edu
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Students talk hookups at SHAPE, Alpha Chi event
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Alpha Chi Omega partnered with Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators to host a panel on college hookup culture Wednesday night. About 30 people attended the panel, “Hooking Up 101,� including many Alpha Chi members and others from the Northwestern community. The program was an event for Healthy Relationships Week, an annual Alpha Chi campaign promoting sexual health and effective communication in relationships. “Alpha Chi Omega’s philanthropy is domestic violence awareness,� said Alpha Chi member and SESP senior Frances Fu. “I see our philanthropy as two sided — on the one hand, it is about promoting education about sexual assault, sexual violence and unhealthy relationships. On the other hand, it is about promoting healthy relationships and fostering communication about consent and healthy sexuality.� Fu, who helped organize the event and was one of the panelists, said Alpha Chi has frequently partnered with SHAPE to prompt conversations on sexual health and educate the student body about concrete methods for expressing one’s feelings and maintaining healthy, consensual relationships. The event began with conversations about “hookup culture,� which, according to organizers of the panel, creates relationships that may become ambiguous for the individuals involved. The audience members’ responses to the question, “What does ‘hook up’ mean to you?� ranged from physical contact to sex. Some members of the audience defined it as a one-time interaction, while others said it implied commitment for a long-term relationship. The general consensus was that it is an ambiguous term. “It is important to discuss with your partner what your boundaries are and communicate what you and your partner each wants,� said Communication senior Grace Gabel, a SHAPE executive member and organizer and panelist of the event. The discussion progressed to verbal and nonverbal cues of consent for sexual activity, including
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SEX TALK SESP senior Frances Fu and Communication senior Grace Gabel discuss “hookup culture� in a talk held by Alpha Chi Omega and Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators.
consideration of alcoholic influence. A majority of the audience said that an “enthusiastic yes� was an acceptable expression of consent. When under the influence of alcohol, the cue could be vague, but there must be consent before sexual activity, some audience members said. The program included voluntary activities to encourage audience participation, such as holding signs that displayed methods for using a condom. Some activities also aimed to survey students’ opinions on certain issues, such as contrasting perceptions toward female and male students who have “hooked up,� suggesting that stigma is attached to female students who have done so. Yet, a student acknowledged that because most of the audience was female, there is lack of information about the male experience. In addition to spurring discussions about “hookup culture,� Fu and Gabel broached the topic of sexually transmitted infections, a risk of sexual intercourse. They also informed the audience of resources available at Northwestern University Health Service. “It was interesting to see what people think about Northwestern’s ‘hookup culture,’ and what kind of concerns other people have, so that I know of the concerns my friends might have and what questions are asked regarding this issue,� Medill junior Caroline Picard said. jeelee2018@u.northwestern.edu
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‘The Wild Party’ brings Roaring ‘20s to life By HAYLEY GLATTER
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Jealousy, sex, addiction and music are on tap at The Barber Theatre, and all of Northwestern is invited to the celebration. “The Wild Party,” a Roaring ‘20s musical inspired by a poem of the same name, premieres Friday, and the show’s director and choreographer, Tommy Rapley, is looking forward to sharing the experience with an audience. “They can expect to feel like they are at a great party with the actors and they should expect lots of beautiful things, and ugly things and scary things and amazing sound and beautiful light,” Rapley said. “It’s a visual feast.” The show, which Rapley said is a tragedy, unfolds around Queenie, a woman who falls in love with two men and eventually loses them both. “It’s based on a 1920s poem, kind of about
the underbelly of society — prostitutes and Vaudeville performers and the like,” Rapley said. “And so there’s plenty of sin and hedonism in the play. There’s a lot of what I think of people who are good people in dire circumstances who don’t always make the right choice.” One aspect of the show is unique is its large cast, Rapley said. The 22-person company is always occupying the stage in its entirety, an effect the show’s composer Andrew Lippa said leaves no room for characters to hide. “It was always important to me that the characters feel trapped, claustrophobic, in the room,” Lippa said. “That the environment doesn’t make it easy for them to be secretive from one another. What they’re doing in private is done in public.” Lippa, whose works have earned critical acclaim including Grammy and Tony award nominations, has a working relationship with NU and will be attending opening night of the show. He has returned to Evanston nearly
every summer, and his musical “Asphalt Beach” premiered on campus nearly 10 years ago. Lippa’s impressive pedigree adds some additional pressure to opening night. “It’s terrifying frankly,” actor Zachary Freier-Harrison said. “I think we all wish he would come on the second or third weekend so we have a little more time to lay back into the show. It makes me pretty nervous because he’s one of the foremost composers in musical theater right now. … From his perspective, I’m sure he doesn’t have particularly high expectations from college students, but there’s the dream in the back of your head that he’ll be awe-inspired and he’ll hire you for his next show.” In the show, Freier-Harrison portrays Mr. Black, a character who works at a nightclub. For the School of Communication junior, the part has not always been easy. Because of the large ensemble, Freier-Harrison said he has enjoyed and struggled with the liberty of making a lot of character decisions.
“I’ve played other characters who are closer to myself or much farther from myself instead of a different version of myself,” Freier-Harrison said. “So I can either be me saying the lines or just someone completely different. This is basically a cooler version of myself, which is challenging.” Though Freier-Harrison is anxious about performing for Lippa, the composer is looking forward to seeing the show. Not only are the actors closer in age to the characters, but also, he said, the freshness college students bring to the performance is captivating. “Many people start to explore their sexuality in college, and this is about sexuality gone incredibly rancid,” Lippa said. “It’s an opportunity in a safe environment to explore chaotic sexual and emotional relationships. I think college students bring a certain recklessness and abandon to ‘The Wild Party’ that is infectious.” hayleyglatter2016@u.northwestern.edu
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‘Circuscope’ to portray microscopic world
Bienen student wins major composition prize
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TINY ACROBAT Actors Gymnasium’s new show, “Circuscope,” opens Saturday. The production is an acrobatic twist on microscopic life.
By MADELNE BURG
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“Circuscope,” the winter circus show at the Actors Gymnasium, 927 Noyes St., opens this Friday, and this year they’ve gone microscopic. Performers will attempt to portray the world as seen through the lens of a microscope, through acrobatic feats, mime and live music. They will wear unique costumes that mimic the physical appearance of real microscopic organisms. Michelle Higgins, marketing and development coordinator at the Actors Gymnasium, partially credits show headliner, Dean Evans, a Chicago clown, with the idea for this year’s theme. “(Evans) is always part of the creativity that drives these winter circuses,” Higgins said. “He’s been part of it for the last three years.” For “Circuscope,” a very specific organism became the basis of show. “This thing called a tardigrade, it’s also known as a ‘waterbear,’” Higgins said. “They’re these really crazy creatures that can exist
anywhere, in any environment, even in outer space. (Evans) really wanted to play around with playing a character like that, with all the different environments it could be in, maybe playing around with the idea that, ‘Is that how life came to Earth?’” A tardigrade is an aquatic invertebrate that can indeed live in conditions that would seem to be unliveable — but the waterbear simply adapts to live without water, oxygen or even while being bombarded with UV rays. Though the premise seems academic, the concept of tiny, colorful, alien-like creatures provides a playground for acrobats and clowns, as well as a chance to further interpret this alien world through imaginative sets and costumes. Higgins was enthusiastic about not only the visual potential of the theme but about the existential questions it could raise. “It’s this fascinating world of just microorganisms,” she said. “There’s two main characters … and they’re sort of the clowns to lead you through this universe, exploring and questioning our perspectives as humans about what’s little and what’s big, and the importance of the little and the big in our universe.” madelineburg2015@u.northwestern.edu
Out of nearly 500 applicants, one student in the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music rose above the rest to take home top honors in the 2015 American Composers Forum National Composition Contest. Alex Temple, a doctoral candidate, was one of three individuals chosen to receive $2,500 to write a piece, which will be workshopped and performed in September. Temple, who studied music at Yale University and the University of Michigan before coming to Northwestern, became interested in music at age 10 when she heard her father play piano around their house. “(My dad) was a piano minor in college,” Temple said. “Some pieces just appealed to me, so I started messing around on the piano. They asked if I wanted to take lessons, and I said sure.” When her family would participate in house exchanges, a program similar to Airbnb, she recalled encountering a family’s home with an extensive collection of records. Then she began figuring out how music is composed and began doing it herself. “I began listening to classical CDs and listening to certain pieces over and over again and starting to understand how they were put together,” Temple said. “I started actually consistently writing things then, and I just kept doing it.” After an undergraduate career, a master’s
degree and a year in New York, Temple decided to return to academia and applied to NU. “Living in New York was not a pleasant experience, and it made me miss academia, access to performance spaces, access to funding and that sort of thing,” Temple said. “I really liked the fact that Northwestern had a more stylistically diverse composition program.” During her gap year between high school and college, Temple worked with the late Lee Hyla, a decorated composer and the former chair of music composition at Bienen. Her connection to him and his work drew her to NU. “He was very interested in combining things in different musical worlds,” Temple said. “In my work, there will often be sharp differences between styles, and the contrast is what’s interesting to me. The ingredients are more finely ground and blended together (in his work). I had an artistic affinity to him.” Temple said sending in pieces to various competitions is like applying for research grants. This competition, though higher profile than others to which she has applied, was no different. “I apply to many things and forget them as soon as I hit submit,” Temple said. “I assume I’m not going to get things. This was something that came across my radar, so I submitted to it.” The status of this particular contest gets Temple’s name out to the composition community, a necessity for musicians to gain recognition. In addition, this competition, based in Los Angeles, opened up some pathways to LA, a musical frontier for Temple. “Just because it’s a high profile competition, it’ll make people know about me that didn’t before,” Temple said. “I don’t have a lot of connections to the California scene, so working with a group in LA is a nice opportunity.” Since the competition ended, Temple has been working on her piece, which will be performed later this year by the ensemble wild Up. She will use eight to 10 different instruments. She said her interest in instrumentation helped fuel this project. “The opportunity to include some things you might not hear in a chamber ensemble intrigued me,” Temple said. “When I was 17, I discovered these experimental bands that were influenced by modern classical music. It was just a revelatory moment because two sides of my music world were joined together. This instrumentation would be a great time to revisit those sounds.” sophiemann2018@u.northwestern.edu
Northwestern Art Review brings art discussion to campus By RACHEL DAVISON
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Dingy dorm life and artistic expression come together in “Ramen & Renoir: The Art of Living in College,” a blog column run through the Northwestern Art Review’s website. Medill freshman Clare Varellas, who writes the column, was on an NU-sponsored art tour of Chicago in the fall when she met and first spoke to NAR President Aileen McGraw. Later in Fall Quarter, Varellas joined the web team and started blogging. “I had always loved visiting museums and seeing these great works here, and being with other Northwestern students that were also inspired by them kind of made me realize that I wanted to dig into that passion further while I was here,” Varellas said. “(The blog) is a series that highlights ways in which college students can easily incorporate artistic style
into their lives, because I feel like art is something that should be appreciated everyday, even if you’re not always going to a museum.” Northwestern Art Review brings art commentary, student events, group collaborations and web content to NU’s campus. The organization publishes a journal of student written essays and examinations of art twice a year, in Fall and Spring Quarter, and maintains a website with original student content. The journal’s editorial staff takes submissions from students at universities all over the country. “Northwestern Art Review is NU’s hub for the creation, examination and discussion of visual arts” McGraw said. “We biannually publish an art review, which I think is amazing because it spotlights undergraduate work beyond Northwestern and undergraduate thinking about art, which sometimes can seem esoteric.” The most recent issue of the journal included many types of work, including visual work and
creative essays. NAR takes submissions from students of all majors, not just art history and art theory and practice. “In the journal this past fall, (journal Editor-inChief) Kathryn Watts and I were so excited to expand what exactly an art essay meant,” McGraw said. “I am really excited to see us sort of pushing boundaries on what people talk about.” During Fall Quarter, art history Prof. S. Hollis Clayson moderated an NAR career panel which included graphic designers, people working at auction houses, advertisers and others as panelists. The career panel was one of the yearly events hosted by NAR, the others including the Abandoned Art Market, where can students buy work by art theory and practice students, and GalleREAD, happening on March 5. GalleREAD is being put on in collaboration with Helicon Literary Magazine, PROMPT Literary Magazine and The Slam Society at the Dittmar Gallery in Norris University Center. NAR is accepting prose,
poetry and artwork submissions until Feb. 26. NAR recently received applications to add members to their staff’s different teams, which include design, web, street and editorial. Though applications are now closed, McGraw believes that NAR does a great job of bringing in new members who are interested and excited about learning new skills. When the executive board members change Spring Quarter, Varellas will become the next web Editor-in-Chief. She hopes to continue to combine her passions for multimedia journalism and art and continue to improve the website and its content. “I want to make it an online hub for artistic style,” she said. “Our publication that comes out twice a year is nationally known for its incredible student essays about art and such. I want to make the website something that is continually updated with creative content about art so it can supplement the regular publication and match it in quality.” racheldavison2018@u.northwestern.edu
Top 10 all-purpose activites to try out this Valentine’s Day By HAYLEY GLATTER
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Whether you’re riding solo, in a relationship or caught in the unfortunate state of not knowing whether that guy you hooked up with a few times and study with in the library is your valentine, you need something to do on Saturday night. There are a lot of love-filled specials sprinkled throughout Evanston’s restaurants, but those feel like commitment, which you hate because you’re a millennial. Good thing The Daily has you covered with these 10 activities that are equally excellent no matter what your relationship status is.
1. Binge-watch Netflix Lucas Scott and Peyton Sawyer can teach you and your bae a thing or two about making love last through hardships; Olivia Pope is the queen of complicated relationships; and no one knows how to live the single life to the fullest quite like Joey Tribbiani. 2. Eat Andy’s Frozen Custard Drown your tragically lonely sorrows in hot fudge. Drown your lovey-dovey coupleness in hot fudge. Basically just drown yourself in hot fudge. 3. Scroll through Instagram in your bed Ten-out-of-10, swipe right on pajamas and nonuncomfortable silence. 4. Eat Chipotle Nothing says, “I love you” quite like the hug
Chipotle’s tinfoil gives to the burrito treasure inside. 5. Creepily eavesdrop on every high school student who takes his or her valentine to Starbucks Because you know one or both of them ordered a Frappuccino and their conversations remind you of the days when you weren’t elderly and jaded. 6. Complain about the weather “Ugh the weather sucks, why didn’t I go to Stanford!” said every Northwestern student lamenting the dream school they still can’t let go of and seeking to talk about the cold for the seventh time in three hours. 7. Judge every hot mess you went to high school with on their Valentine’s Day Facebook posts Everyone needs a confidence boost on Valentine’s
Day, and Penny from Mrs. Brown’s freshman year bio class is your ticket to self-assurance. 8. Wait until Dunkin’ Donuts starts giving out free donuts at the end of the night Get a munchkin with your munchkin, and if you don’t have a munchkin because that is a terrible pet name, just enjoy the French Cruller as a party of one. 9. Eat literally anything Can’t stop, won’t stop, shouldn’t have to stop. 10. Go to University Library Because you know you really should go anyway. hayleyglatter2016@u.northwestern.edu
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Mardi Gras madness
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How Bennison’s makes its Mardi Gras king cakes By AMANDA SVACHULA
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It is 7 a.m., and while most Northwestern students are still dreaming sweet dreams or perhaps nightmares about their midterms, the
workers at Bennison’s Bakery are up and about, baking paczkis, macaroons, danishes, coffee cakes and, during this season, king cakes. In anticipation of Mardi Gras on Feb. 17, Bennison’s has been making king cakes for the past two weeks. The bakery also made the cakes in the beginning of January for the Epiphany which is celebrated by Christians on
Jan. 6 in honor of the three wise men visiting Jesus. “We make two different kinds (of king cakes),” bakery owner Jory Downer said. “(We make) the French kind which is called Galette de Rois. We also make them in the more northern (American) style.” The French king cake is created by layering
pastry with almond frangipane, an almond paste. It is then glazed with sugar and topped with a crown. Bennison’s gave The Daily an inside look at the creation of the American version of king cake. amandasvachula2018@u.northwestern.edu
1. The first step in the process is the creation of the dough. After made, the dough must sit for about 24 hours.
2.Once the dough is chilled, it is stretched out with a machine. Arturo Okana, a Bennison’s worker, guides the dough through the machine.
3. Once the dough is stretched out, Okana spreads on a cinnamon paste. This paste is the filling for the cake.
4. The dough is put through a machine which cuts it into strips. Okana braids the strips.
5. The braided strips are twisted into ovals. The dough then takes about two hours to rise before it is baked.
6. After the dough is baked, Filemon Vega, a Bennison’s worker, cuts a hole in the cake. He places a plastic baby, which is a symbol for good luck, in each cake.
7. Vega continues to prepare cake by spreading on frosting. Bennison’s offers five different topping flavors.
8. Vega decorates the cakes with Mardi Gras-colored sprinkles. Each color symbolizes a different value.
9. The finished cakes are ready to be packaged. Bennison’s sells these cakes specifically at this time of year.
10. The French type of king cake is different than the American kind because it is filled with almond frangipane instead of cinnamon paste. It is topped with a crown.
New Orleans Suspects bring jazz concert to Evanston By HELEN LEE
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Jazzy rhythms and smooth tunes filled the air Thursday night when the New Orleans Suspects welcomed Evanston and Chicago area music-lovers to share a night of New Orleans funk at Evanston SPACE. The dimly lit venue was full of cheer and a shared appreciation for jazz as concertgoers sipped drinks and swayed to the music. The Suspects came together in New Orleans in 2009 and have been touring fulltime since 2011. They’ve released three CDs and established themselves as one of New Orleans’ most prominent jazz bands. The band is comprised of five men:
drummer ‘Mean’ Willie Green, bassist Reggie Scanlan, lead guitarist Jake Eckert, pianist C.R. Gruver and saxophonist Jeff Watkins. With their jazzy riffs, Scanlan said the Suspects work from “the traditional platform” and are influenced by the music from the late 60s and 70s. “A lot of bands these days are doing the next generation sound,” Scanlan said. “But we’re a little more into the earlier traditions. We sound more old school.” The Suspects have a peculiar character to them. They’re personable and know how to draw in crowds with their homey feel and easy talk. They also don’t come off as stiff professionals or as polished personalities. Scanlan described the band as something else entirely.
“We look like a complete train wreck at first because everybody comes from such different fields of music,” he said. “Willy and I are the only two in the band born and raised in New Orleans, and even the two of us come from completely different backgrounds.” Even so, the Suspects have a certain chemistry that makes the band work. “For some funny reason, our styles just seem to fit together when we start playing,” he said. “I don’t know how, but it all falls into place.” Thus far, the Suspects have been successful with their “never-ending (three-year) tour.” Recently, they’ve seen bigger audiences as more people take interest in the band. In fact, spokeswoman Michelle Roche said all of their shows are expected to sell out.
“We had a hump to get over when we first started,” Scanlan said. “People kind of blew us off and thought this band was a side project kind of thing. It took a long time for people to get that this was our priority, but once they did, it started a nice progression for the band.” Despite some of the personal challenges being on tour presents, the Suspects have big plans for the future. By day they plan to continue to work on their next album, and by night they’ll continue performing in shows. For their next album, they’re adding a twist with old school fun and collaborations from old members and friends, singers and songwriters. helenlee2018@u.northwestern.edu
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NCA’s focus on consulting misguided NOAH KANE DAILY COLUMNIST
In 2013, the Northwestern Division of Student Affairs conducted a joint study with Northwestern Career Advancement to find out what NU students do after graduation. Fifty-nine percent of respondents indicated that they had found jobs. Sixteen percent of this group now works at consulting firms. Despite the fact that, in my experience, the conventional wisdom at this school is that “everybody goes into consulting,� this number represents less than 10 percent of the overall 2013 graduating class. NCA’s automated emails, however, tell a different story. Nearly every email I’ve received from NCA (and its predecessor, University Career Services) features consulting opportunities prominently — and sometimes exclusively. Consulting booths are ubiquitous at NU’s career fairs. It is disheartening that the institution charged with supporting students in their search for work disproportionately promotes jobs in which those students have little or no interest. To be sure, consulting recruitment is an intense and cutthroat process. It is certainly possible that students are interested in the industry but are simply unable to secure highly coveted jobs in it when they graduate. Assuming that this were true, though, NCA’s emphasis on consulting would be superfluous at best for two reasons.
First, if students are already biting at the bit to secure a particular job opportunity, there isn’t a great need to disseminate information about it. (I have two friends who are going through consulting recruitment right now, and their inability to talk about much besides various firms’ application deadlines is staggering.) Second, it is disingenuous to perpetuate the illusion that there are a plethora of consulting opportunities available in the face of the truth that there aren’t. It doesn’t put students on the path to a career; it gives them false hope in one that only a select few NU graduates attain. The unfortunate reality is that student demand for a particular job or job industry is not the only variable in NCA’s decision to promote certain opportunities. NCA Corporate Sponsors receive substantial tiered benefits in return for cash gifts ranging from $2,500 to $15,000. These perks include preferred placement at career fairs and “increased exposure to students through social media and marketing.� The majority of NCA’s Corporate Sponsors are firms that provide consulting services, helping to explain why students’ inboxes are so saturated with their job offers. (Of the five non-consulting companies, three are in the financial services sector.) The number of graduating seniors who go on to work in media, finance and engineering — individually, not collectively — is roughly equivalent to the number who land consulting jobs. However, not a single media or engineering
firm is an NCA sponsor. ALDI, a grocery store, and Sodexo, NU’s dining contractor, are present among the highest-paying sponsors, but to my knowledge NU is not known for its propensity to produce gastronomically inclined graduates. My goal here is not to argue that consulting firms not be allowed to donate money to NCA, or that NCA not be allowed to incentivize such gifts by promoting certain opportunities to students. At the end of the day, regardless of how it is currently being used, funding is synonymous with potential impact. I believe that, given better priorities, NCA can be a valuable resource for the 90% of students who will not become consultants — even if that means reaping the benefits of consulting firms’ war chests along the way. To this end, I propose that NCA proactively seek additional sponsorship funding from companies in industries that are currently underrepresented in its promotional materials. There is an abundance of companies outside of the consulting industry with a few thousand dollars to spend on a cash gift. The opportunities NCA promotes should reflect both the interests and eventual careers of NU students, not just the priorities of the easiest funders to find. Our career services department should be advancing our careers, not merely its own financial interests. 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.
Jon Stewart’s departure a sad loss for TV MAX GELMAN DAILY COLUMNIST
Late Tuesday afternoon, reports on Twitter surfaced that Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart� since 1999, will retire sometime later this year. Comedy Central confirmed the reports a short while later, and Stewart announced his retirement at the end of Tuesday night’s show. TV will be losing more than just an admired comedian. TV will be losing an icon. In today’s age of increasingly political polarization, cable news shouting matches and the constant demeaning of millennials, most young Americans find it difficult to relate to or be interested in politics. There’s so much crap out there that sometimes we just don’t bother trying to make sense of it all. Everything is presented in black and white — or, maybe more accurately, blue and red — and if you don’t agree with something you are automatically painted as a traitor. Jon Stewart gave viewers a way to cut through all the idiocy and to focus on what really mattered when it came to current events. From criticism of Fox News’s conservative ideologies to the Keystone XL Pipeline, from CNN’s fear-mongering to President Obama’s ambassadorships, Stewart always had something to say. And, somewhat surprisingly, people would listen. According to his biography on Comedy Central’s website, “the overwhelming majority of men and women under the age of 35 list ‘The Daily Show’ as their primary source of television news.� I say it’s surprising that people take Stewart seriously because, by nature, he is a comedian. Doesn’t millions of Americans watching a comedy show for news seem a little strange? Ever since television began expanding in the 1980s, when channels like MTV and ESPN started to become mainstream, viewership of news programs has been on the decline. People choose what
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FAREWELL STEWART Jon Stewart announced on Tuesday he will leave his job as host of “The Daily Show,� after 16 years at the helm of the satirical news program.
they want to watch and tune out what they don’t want to hear. Instead of watching Walter Cronkite, who was famously nicknamed “The Most Trusted Man in America,� tell the news objectively each and every night, Americans listen to cable news commentators, pundits and analysts putting their own spin on the day’s events. There isn’t a Cronkitian presence on today’s television. Arguably the closest thing we had to Cronkite 2.0 was “NBC Nightly News� anchor Brian Williams, but NBC suspended him on Tuesday for his false comments about the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina. The lack of such a trustworthy newscaster results in people turning to the channels that broadcast the opinions they agree with, including the especially left-leaning “Daily Show.� However, Stewart has never been afraid to go after Democrats as well as Republicans. Leading up to the 2014 midterm elections, he skewered Democrats
for abandoning Obama and for acting like deer in headlights. Stewart’s mockery of the media, our elected officials and the election-buying Koch brothers helps Americans relate to the turmoil that exists in today’s political landscape. Without him, we’re left to fend off the inundation of cable news stupidity and sleazy politicians by ourselves. I’m not saying that Stewart aspired to be the voice for a generation, simply that his wit is so relevant to our everyday lives that we treat him like one. When Jon Stewart leaves “The Daily Show,� television will lose one of the best fake newscasters in history. Max Gelman is a Medill freshman. He can be reached at maxgelman2018@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
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We deserve a say: Why NU trustees should divest from coal
There’s a reason coal is for the naughty. It contaminates our air, pollutes our water and destroys our health. It is by far the worst offender of the fossil fuels causing climate change. The mission of the DivestNU movement is to ensure that our endowment — an $8 billion portfolio of stocks and other assets which exists to ensure that Northwestern can continue to provide high-quality education and research — is free of investments in these coal companies. We have been building support and meeting with administrators to push for action against this dirty fuel for over two years. Thousands of other students at schools across the planet have been doing the same. But what do you do when meetings and discussions hit a wall, while climate change continues to worsen and millions of people’s lives are threatened? You make some big noise. Tomorrow is Global Divestment Day, a worldwide day of action around fossil fuel divestment. As it approaches, DivestNU is reminded of the progress we’ve made so far in our mission to remove our investments in coal. We’ve passed resolutions through the Associated Student Government and Faculty Senate, have gained over 1,600 petition signatures and have had frequent contact with Will McLean, NU’s chief investment officer. We took a big step last quarter when we met in person for the first time with Mr. T. Bondurant French, a member of NU’s Board of Trustees (which controls our endowment), and had a productive conversation about climate change and the need for action. As a private university, NU usually prefers to keep its Board of Trustees meetings and its investments behind closed doors, meaning minimal access to key people and information. When DivestNU gained this meeting, we thought we had finally made real progress in opening a conversation with the Trustees. However, in January, we reached out to Mr. McLean to request a meeting with the Board’s Investment Subcommittee, hoping to continue discussing divestment. Mr. McLean responded by saying he and the Board are “exploring other approaches to this issue (climate change) than Divestment,� and that they “will certainly keep (us) abreast of where that takes (them).� We are writing this letter to say we cannot and do not accept this response. The Trustees did not give us the chance to present our argument to more than one member, did not communicate with us about their discussion and did not notify us of any vote on divestment. Given these facts, we can’t help but question the democracy of the Board’s decision. Without taking into consideration the values and beliefs of this University and its students, the Trustees have independently arrived at the decision not to divest, putting their own priorities before those of the NU community they are supposed to serve. Time and time again, students, faculty and staff have shown their support for divestment. President Morton Schapiro himself has told the Board he is in favor of it. We are the constituents of the Board of Trustees and the people who the endowment directly affects. We have made it clear that we do not want our education funded by investments in an industry that kills and pollutes. What is a priority to the NU community should be a priority to the Board of Trustees. Yet the Board continues to act without any indication that they are truly weighing our opinions and interests, and have continually failed to take climate change and our movement seriously. If they are not accountable to us, the NU community, then who are they accountable to? NU cannot claim leadership in sustainability while investing in coal companies that do more harm than good. While we encourage the Board to discuss approaches to addressing climate change besides divestment, holding on to coal investments is irresponsible and inconsistent with the values NU has set forth in its strategic plan, in which we commit to “contribute to solutions for renewable energy and a sustainable environment.� So, tomorrow, on Global Divestment Day, we will be educating NU about this problematic situation and call for transparency and cooperation from our Board. This is a call that we want the entire NU community — students, faculty and staff — to be a part of. Find us all day at Norris University Center, The Rock and Technological Institute to sign a letter to the Board of Trustees showing your support. The NU community can no longer sit back and let the Board disregard its values when it comes to coal divestment. We need to see action by the Board of Trustees and be a part of their decisions. Tomorrow, the entire globe will be behind us. We hope you will be too. Signed, The DivestNU Team
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From page 1 impact like Deah Barakat did, his wife and his sister-in-law as well,” she said. AbdelRahman Murphy, an imam, said when he was invited to NU to participate in programs with McSA, he didn’t expect to be attending a vigil. A friend of Barakat, Murphy said although the deaths were tragic, the pain the community feels is good because it means people have not grown apathetic. “This reminds me of the tradition of the Prophet Muhammad where he teaches us something very valuable,” he said during the event.
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From page 1 build up their financial literacy, their independence,” Weinberg senior Veronica Benduski, a Brady scholar, said. The young men will also take classes on cooking, maintaining an apartment and working to develop certain social skills and will have weekly one-on-one sessions with a mentor, Leroy added. The Brady Scholars helped provide the initial push to get the idea of Our House off the ground with its website design, fundraising and business plan, Benduski said. Their last contribution will be to connect with nonprofit organizations and community members interested in helping support the program to ensure its sustainability,
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2015 “Terrible events and tragic events can still cause and catalyze change … Their existence ending on this planet can catalyze positivity for the rest of humanity.” Medill sophomore Zahra Haider spoke about the similarities between herself and the victims. “When I look at Razan, I see myself,” Haider said. “She was 19 years old, bravely wearing hijab, passionate and ambitious. All three of them now lie dead at the hands of a 46-yearold white male.” As a journalism student, Haider said she was “disappointed” in how the media chose to report or not report at all on the attack. She said she added. The Our House staff and Brady Scholars are currently working to solidify logistics of the program, secure a location in Evanston to house the participants and raise an initial $25,000 to launch the program. After the program launches and applies for foundation and federal grants, it may be expanded to host young people outside of the Curt’s Cafe trainee program, Bartol said. “Homeless youth tend to fly under the radar screen,” Bartol said. “I’m just hoping that we can take it one house at a time, a few kids at a time, and try to help the kids who are out there who don’t have anyone else really out there advocating for them.”
Across Campuses Put Paterno’s statue back up, Pennsylvanians say The NCAA last month gave Joe Paterno his football wins back, but the large bronze statue of the coach that the university removed from outside Beaver Stadium two and a half years ago in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal remains in seclusion. And a lot of people think that’s wrong, if a new Quinnipiac University poll is any indication. Of the 1,023 Pennsylvania residents polled, 59 percent said the statue of Paterno with his finger in the air in victory should be restored to a prominent place on Pennsylvania State University’s campus, according to results released Wednesday morning. A quarter of those polled said it should not be restored. The poll began Jan. 22 — one
Evanston has won the bid to host a statewide arts conference in September, the city announced Monday in a newsletter. The conference, called One State Together in the Arts, will take place Sept. 27-29 and will have about 350 artists and art professionals in attendance, the city said. Held every other year, the last conference in 2013 was in the Quad Cities. One State conference is the only statewide, multidisciplinary art conference in Illinois, according to its website. The Illinois Arts Council Agency and Arts Alliance Illinois, which organize the event, will work with community arts leaders and form a “host committee,” the city said. The 2013 conference in Quad Cities focused on the engagement and interaction of arts and community, according to the website. More details will come about this year’s conference as plans move forward, the city said. — Stephanie Kelly
“Some days I’m scared, and I don’t understand it sometimes.” The vigil was then opened up for attendees to share their thoughts and feelings about the attack. Some became emotional when they told their own stories. “It hits really close to home that we don’t have any safe place here,” said Noor Ali, assistant director of Multicultural Student Affairs. “I didn’t know why I couldn’t stop crying today … and then I realized it could have been me, it could have been you. It could have been any of us.”
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said. The organization would be responsible for negotiating adoptions, caring for animals, marketing, fundraising and medical care. However, the city would still maintain ownership of the animals and have the power to determine whether to euthanize in the case of a terminally ill animal, Rives said. Because of its large core of volunteers who assist the city’s management, the shelter has been maintained at a consistent level since CARE’s departure, Pickett said. “If there’s not any interest in the animal organizations, then the shelter will continue to function as it has been,” he said.
From page 1 search, the city received responses from two organizations, The Anti-Cruelty Society in Chicago and SAFE Chicago, Rives said. Organizations must formally express interest by Feb. 27, after which a committee will be assembled to review the possibilities, said Evanston police Cmdr. James Pickett. “There may be no one who steps up, and if there is someone that steps up it doesn’t mean that we can come to an agreement with them,” Rives said. The role of the volunteer animal organization would include taking over the adoption and foster care portion of the facility, leaving animal control still in the city’s hands, Rives
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negative opinions of Islam in the United States cause an association of the religion with violent acts, like the January attack at the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. “Sorry to disappoint you, but we are not Charlie, we are not the faces you see on TV, we are not terrorists,” she said. “I’m sorry to say that you’re wrong, because we are Yusor, Deah and Razan. We are them and they are us.” Sofia Sami (Weinberg ’14) described learning about the attack and recounted her experiences growing up as Muslim. “I saw my childhood, I saw bits and pieces of my own identity, and I saw it being gunned down over and over and over again,” Sami said.
week after the NCAA in a lawsuit settlement agreed to restore 112 football victories to Penn State, 111 of them under Paterno. The NCAA had stripped the university of the wins as punishment for its role in the scandal. The wins dated to 1998, when, officials asserted, Paterno and others first saw signs of Sandusky’s misconduct and ignored them. “It appears time heals all wounds and legends get a second chance,” said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the poll. “JoePa’s tarnished image may never be totally repaired, but Pennsylvanians seem to be in a forgiving mood.” The university fired Paterno as head football coach days after Sandusky, a former assistant football coach, was indicted for abusing young boys on and off Penn State’s campus and the university’s top leaders including Paterno subsequently were accused of conspiring to cover up the abuse. But since
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then the report by Louis Freeh that blamed Penn State leaders for a cover up has been widely criticized, most recently by Penn State President Eric Barron. Still, the university hasn’t made any move to restore Paterno’s statue. Barron at a press conference last month declined to say when the time would be right to consider such a move. Leaders on the board of trustees have been reluctant to honor Paterno with criminal cases pending. Former Penn State President Graham Spanier and two former administrators await trial on perjury and conspiracy over allegations that they covered up Sandusky’s crimes. Paterno, who died in 2012 at age 85, about two months after being fired, was never charged. Alumni-elected trustee Anthony Lubrano, a long-time Paterno supporter, said the day the NCAA settlement was announced that he would like to see the statue restored
juliajacobs2018@u.northwestern.edu to its original perch. “As far as I’m concerned, that needs to happen. It needs to happen very quickly,” he said at the time. According to the poll results released Wednesday morning, support to restore the statue was equally strong among men, women and all age groups. Those polled also overwhelmingly supported the NCAA settlement that brought an end to a lawsuit filed by State Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman (R., Centre), and state Treasurer Rob McCord. In addition to restoring the football victories, the settlement called for the $60 million fine levied on Penn State to remain in Pennsylvania for child protection services. Nearly two-thirds of those polled backed the agreement, with 15 percent against it. — Susan Snyder (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
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NU to put practice to test at Big Ten Match Play
By KEVIN CASEY
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It might not be the greatest golf weather down in Florida this weekend, but the Wildcats will commence their season in the Sunshine State anyway. Northwestern will compete at the Big Ten Match Play Championship on Sunday and Monday in Palm Coast, Florida, opening the spring portion of its slate among the whole lot of its conference foes. Despite the southern location, temperatures on Sunday are expected to be in the 40s and Monday’s forecast is only marginally better. The Wildcats have never used the weather as an excuse, though. In fact, NU thrives on being immersed in a cold winter climate. “This is something Pat (Goss) has really developed as part of our program, we kind of pride ourselves on it. We’re really a developmental program, we work hard in the winter,” coach David Inglis said. “We come up with a plan for each guy to improve every area of their games, whether it be short game, putting, swing, fitness. These guys have really done a good job. They’ve all shown improvement and developed new skills.” All 14 Big Ten teams will be present at the event, which will move courses from previous years. However, the match play format ensures the Cats won’t have to face down every conference foe. Instead, NU, slated as the No. 5 seed, will face off in a first-round match against 12th-seeded Indiana on Sunday. If the Cats win, they will move on to the quarterfinals and keep on going in the winners’ bracket as long as they are victorious. If they lose before the finals, they will be put in some sort of losers’ or consolation bracket. The format has generally allowed teams to bring six players to rotate among the five-man match play groups. That number will be upped to eight this year, something that isn’t entirely useful to NU, a squad that only contains seven active players. Inglis iterated that it would take a couple of practice rounds to figure out the starting five for the Indiana match.
Of course some of the choices are obvious, with Dylan Wu being No. 1 in that category. The freshman acclimated quickly to the collegiate level in the fall, finishing first or second among his teammates in all four events, including an overall victory against a strong field at the Gifford Intercollegiate. Wu said he’s excited for the match play format, with its lack of emphasis on a score and the fact that good play doesn’t necessarily mean a successful result. The freshman also used his winter to train extensively. “What I improved on, and it’s something Pat (Goss) and Coach Inglis preaches, it’s just working on your fundamentals in the winter time,” Wu said. “One thing I really like about practicing indoors, is that you’re not really focusing on where the ball is going or the end result, I think it’s easier to make changes that way, which benefits you more in the future.” Others who seem poised to crack the five against the Hoosiers are junior Josh Jamieson, after his promising fall, and senior Bennett Lavin, who brought a steady presence in the middle of the lineup. Senior Matthew Negri and freshman Charles Wang were in NU’s No . 4 and 5 spots to end the fall, but their starting against Indiana is not guaranteed. A left-handed hitter, Lavin took a bold step late last fall in switching to a right-handed stroke with the putter. That change remains in place, and the veteran has as much belief in his play as ever. “I’m feeling really good about my game,” Lavin said. “I personally feel my game is in better shape than in past years and I think other guys are feeling the same way.” The match play is mostly a warm-up event for the Cats, as the results have little impact on the season rankings. However, NU did win the event three consecutive times from 2010-2012. Overall for the Cats, it’s the perfect icebreaker for the spring. “It’s great to play match play, you have pressure on every hole, you’re up against your conference rivals,” Inglis said. “It’s really a fun event.” kevincasey2015@u.northwestern.edu
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SEARCHING FOR OPPORTUNITY Scottie Lindsey searches around the key. The guard has been gaining minutes in recent contests, but some of his fellow freshmen contribute infrequently.
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COFFEY PRODUCTION Nia Coffey moves into position. The sophomore forward did not miss from the free throw line on Wednesday night and settled into a key 17-point, 11-rebound performance in a Wildcats win.
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It did not look good early for Northwestern, but the team was able to power through a bad start to come away with another hard-fought victory. The Wildcats (18-6, 8-5 Big Ten) pushed their winning streak to four games as they escaped from West Lafayette, Indiana, with a 73-65 overtime win over Purdue (10-14, 3-10). In the opening frame, it seemed like NU was ready to throw away another game against a Big Ten bottom dweller as it fell behind 28-14 with less than six minutes left in the first half. “We couldn’t make a shot the first 10, 12 minutes of the game,” coach Joe McKeown said. The Cats were shooting just 5-of-20 when they went down by 14 points, and the team struggled the whole night from the field, shooting just 36.2 percent for the game. But they were able to fight past it. NU would tighten the gap and only trailed 36-29 at the half. “We weren’t really playing our game,” sophomore forward Nia Coffey said. “So we decided to start playing together and start running our sets and start getting stops and start rebounding.” The Cats came out of the break playing like the team with the second best scoring margin in the Big Ten, and opened up the second half on an 11-4 run to tie the game at 40. NU and Purdue battled for the rest of regulation, with neither team pulling away from the other. The Cats had the ball late with a chance to take the lead, but a turnaround jump shot from junior forward Lauren Douglas could not find the bottom of the net. With six seconds left, Purdue looked to take the lead, but an offensive foul was called on Boilermakers’ senior forward Whitney Bays as she attempted to set a screen on sophomore guard Ashley Deary. Deary would then miss a shot as time
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expired, and the game would head to overtime. In the extra period, the Cats would show their grit and prove to be the better team. Coffey would put them ahead at the free throw line early in the period, and they would not look back. The Cats went 6-of-6 from the free throw line in overtime, part of a stellar 17-of-18 performance from the charity stripe for the contest. Junior guard Maggie Lyon hit a 3-pointer to extend NU’s lead to 6 with a little over two minutes left, and then Douglas added 4 more points in the final one minute and 15 seconds to cap off the win. With the victory, the Cats are tied with Minnesota for fifth in the conference and sit just one game out of third in the standings. And by winning in Purdue for the first time since 1996, NU is now 4-3 against Big Ten opponents on the road. “It just really showed our heart, and how we can play together and where we can go when we do that,” Coffey said. Deary led the Cats with 18 points and had a game-high six assists. Coffey picked up her eighth double-double in Big Ten play as she posted 17 points to go along with 11 rebounds. Lyon and Douglas cvhipped in with 14 and 13 points respectively. After a rough patch, NU has found its way back to the NCAA tournament path. But McKeown doesn’t see his team as glamorous, but a scrappy outfit that claws to the win. “We’re a blue collar team,” he said. “We have to grind things out. Sometimes when we can get up and down, we look like a highlight film, but really for us to be successful, we have to grind.” khadricerollins2017@u.northwestern.edu
Play the veterans Bobby Pillote: There’s no tanking in college basketball. Coach Chris Collins has a roster still populated with competent veterans, and he should be giving all of them playing time commensurate to their skill levels. It may be a rebuilding season for Northwestern, but that doesn’t mean each game should be treated as a lost cause. Junior guard Tre Demps, often criticized for his poor shot selection and over-dribbling, remains the Wildcats’ top scorer and one of just two players who can consistently create his own shot. For each poor performance, Demps also has a night like he did in NU’s last game against Michigan State, putting up 20 points on 8-of-12 shooting. Alex Olah is the starting big man by default, but the junior center is a defensive asset and ranks fourth in the Big Ten
in blocks with 1.7 per game and 13th in rebounds with 6.2 per game. The Cats would also be completely lost on offense without his incessant screening. Meanwhile, less heralded senior guards Dave Sobolewski and JerShon Cobb have both made valuable contributions this season. Sobolewski has regained his touch from the perimeter and is shooting 38 percent from beyond the arc. He has also found a role playing alongside freshman guard Bryant McIntosh when the team needs extra ball handling on the floor. Cobb has been limited by a foot injury all season long but has persevered to start 14 games and remains a valuable spot-up shooter and defender when active, averaging 5.8 points and 3.2 rebounds per game. The freshmen are undoubtedly the future of Collins’ team, but the coach needs to field a competitive roster in the present. Continue playing these upperclassmen now, and let the freshmen earn their spots in the rotation. Give it up to the freshmen Alex Putterman: At this point,
winning games has absolutely no value to NU. If the Cats go winless over their final seven regular-season contests, they’ll watch the postseason from home. If they go 5-2 in that stretch, they’ll still watch the postseason from home, barring a Big Ten Tournament miracle. Whatever vague value exists in “learning how to win” and “finding out what it takes” is more than canceled out by the potential experience NU youngsters can gain over the final month of the season. The Cats’ quintet of freshmen will all play bigger roles next year, and though McIntosh already contributes a full workload, the other four could benefit from more playing time. No one is suggesting the freshmen all play 30 minutes a game while the upperclassmen are vanquished to the bench, but Collins should lean a little more heavily on the young guys. Sobolewski has played newarly four times the minutes of freshman point guard Johnnie Vassar, even though Sobolewski will be gone in a month while Vassar sticks around afterward for three more years. Cobb deserves a dignified exit, but some of his playing time should be (and has been) shifted toward freshman Scottie Lindsey. Same for senior Jeremiah Kreisberg and freshman Gavin Skelly, who have played roughly equal minutes on the season. For every minute Vassar, Lindsey, Skelly and freshman forward Vic Law spend on the court, they’re learning the nuances of the college game against Big Ten competition. Whether the Cats win a lot of games this season won’t affect their future. Whether the freshmen learn how to play a solid zone defense or operate an effective pick-and-roll against the conference’s best players very well might. Let the kids play. bpillote@u.northwestern.edu asputt@u.northwestern.edu
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NU suspension before opener By ALEX PUTTERMAN
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Northwestern will begin its season Friday without its best player. Senior infielder Kyle Ruchim has been suspended six games by the NCAA for using an adviser to communicate with the St. Louis Cardinals, after the team drafted him last spring, Ruchim explained Wednesday. According to NCAA rules, only an agent or a player himself may negotiate with a professional team, but once a player hires an agent he is no longer eligible to play in college. If a player is drafted but does not sign with a team or hire an agent, he can return to college. For Ruchim, the adviser effectively acted as an agent, thus violating NCAA rules. Ruchim called the circumstances “unfortunate” but credited the University’s compliance staff with handling the situation appropriately to limit his punishment. “Luckily it’s only six games,” the fifth-year senior said. “A lot of people in my situation usually have stricter penalties.” Ruchim, whose offer from the Cardinals expired in July and will go through the draft process again following this season, said he is fully healthy after missing almost all last season with an arm injury. The big-hitting utility man led the Wildcats in hits, doubles, triples, total bases and slugging percentage in 2013, while placing second on the team in batting average, walks and third for on-base percentage. Despite the lost 2014, he was drafted by the Cardinals in the 39th round of the
Northwestern vs. Oregon State Surprise, Arizona 2 p.m. Friday
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Major League Baseball draft. Ruchim had already graduated from NU and said he considered signing a contract but wanted to be sure he could handle the professional schedule and wished to experience the senior season he missed last year. “It definitely crossed my mind,” he said of signing with the Cardinals. “I don’t think we would have had that much communication between the team and the adviser had I just decided to (return) right away.” Ruchim rejoins a team returning almost its entire core of a 19-33 team. The Cats begin their season Friday in Surprise, Arizona, for the Surprise College Baseball Classic, where the team will meet Oregon State, New Mexico and Michigan State in successive days. After a long offseason inside, complicated by renovations to Rocky Miller Park, coach Paul Stevens said he’ll be particularly glad to have his team return. “I’m elated to be starting,” Stevens said. “At this point we’re ready to get out and see where we’re at.”
In 2014, the Cats’ already-thin squad was hampered by injuries, and Stevens was forced to insert young players into major roles, at unfamiliar positions. Promising sophomore outfielders Matt Hopfner and Joe Hoscheit gained on-the-job experience last year, and juniors Zach Jones and Jack Mitchell (newly famous after some football heroics) hit well when healthy. But the team’s offense will depend on a trio of fifth-year seniors: catcher Scott Heelan, infielder Cody Stevens and — once his suspension is over — Ruchim. “You can never replace a guy like Kyle Ruchim,” said Heelan, who played out of position at second base during the second half of last season. “The kid does it all. He’s a stud. Having him back will be really nice and will help other people get back to their normal positions.” Positional flexibility will be important for Paul Stevens, who said he has 10 or 11 position players capable of contributing. Stevens said NU’s starting pitchers in Arizona will be senior Brandon Magallones and juniors Reed Mason and Matt Portland, with sophomore Joe Schindler and senior transfer Nate Walker in reserve. All of NU’s starters produced uneven seasons in 2014, but Stevens said the entire team can build off its past successes and failures “and give ourselves a really interesting spring into this year.” “How much we’ve grown, with the guys who were injured and the guys who were out there last year,” Stevens said, “I guess we get to put that all together this weekend, and that’s what’s going to be fun.” asputt@u.northwestern.edu