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Students petition Weinberg faculty

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Signees request U.S.-centric diversity curriculum item

By OLIVIA EXSTRUM

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Students have circulated a petition throughout the past week urging Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences faculty to support a Social Inequalities and Diversity curriculum requirement focused on the United States.

The petition launched after students heard that some professors would support a more internationally-focused requirement.

“We want students to critically engage with social inequalities that happen in their own backyard,” said SESP senior Austin Romero, ASG vice president of accessibility and inclusion.

The petition, which Romero launched Feb. 9, is co-sponsored by Associated Student Government and multiple student groups. As of Monday evening, Romero said it had 281 signatures. He plans to present the petition at a forum for student input on the requirement Feb. 23.

The requirement has been the topic of discussion among Northwestern faculty for two years.

The original proposal, rolled out in February 2013 by the University Diversity Council, called for all six undergraduate schools to adopt the Social Inequalities and Diversities curriculum requirement. If approved, the requirement would be the first University-wide undergraduate academic requirement.

The School of Education and Social Policy and the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications have already implemented the requirement in their curricula.

The requirement was first proposed

amid student activism responding to racially-charged incidents on campus.

The original proposal supported requiring students to take a course that would fit several learning goals, including the ability to “think critically about issues in political, social, scientific, economic and cultural life stemming from the diversity of experiences related to social inequalities and diversities.” The requirement, which the proposal suggested would be completed in a student’s first two years at NU, would also include an extracurricular component involving Sustained Dialogue discussion sessions.

The requirement’s goal is for students to interact and work with students of different life experiences and cultural backgrounds, Dona Cordero, former assistant provost for diversity and inclusion and head of the diversity requirement effort, told The Daily in February 2014.

In its proposal, the Academics/Education working group of the University Diversity Council said the focus of the requirement would be on the United States, “although it does not exclude global perspectives.”

Mary Finn, Weinberg associate dean for undergraduate academic affairs, told The Daily last week that 45 Weinberg faculty members attended a forum earlier this month to discuss the requirement.

She said there was a “very interesting” conversation about the focus of the requirement. She said although the requirement may not have a U.S. focus, she expects courses will have students self-reflect on their relation to the material.

Romero said he and Weinberg senior Anna Rennich, ASG vice president of » See DIVERSITY, page 6

Police: Bomb threat at local hotel likely a hoax

Evanston police officers responded Sunday afternoon to a bomb threat that officers now believe was a hoax.

A man called police and said he had a bomb and was staying at a hotel in downtown Evanston, police said. The man, who gave only his first name, placed the call to EPD’s front desk at 3:48 p.m. Sunday, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. The man said he had a bomb and he was going to start shooting people, Dugan said.

The man also said he was staying at the Best Western University Plaza hotel, 1501 Sherman Ave., and was distraught because a family member had died.

Officers went to the hotel and searched the building but found nothing suspicious. The hotel staff also told police there was no one there with the name the caller gave, Dugan said.

Detectives are currently trying to trace the call to locate its source. At this time, the call appears to be a hoax, Dugan said.

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PENSION POLICY State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) speaks with a student. Biss discussed state retirement policy on Monday with community members.

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State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) spoke Monday night on the state of retirement policy in Illinois, focusing on long term funding deficits, teacher pensions and looming decisions on retirement funding in the capital.

MidLife Ventures, a nonprofit that provides information and educational services for seniors, and the Merion, a luxury senior living home at 1611 Chicago Ave., cohosted the talk at the home.

Stacey Foisy, co-founder of Midlife Ventures, introduced the state senator and spoke about how imperative the discussion was.

“If our state was a person that came to us in crisis we’d have our work cut out for us,” she said.

Biss spoke in opposition to Gov. Bruce Rauner’s proposal to transition public workers’ pension plans to 401(k)s, which several states have attempted. The 401(k) proposal,

NU reserves funds for Indigenous Research Center Sean Su/Daily Senior Staffer

FALSE ALARM Officers responded to a call Sunday from a man who said he had a bomb at the Best Western University Plaza.

Police believe the call was a hoax, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said.

As of Monday afternoon, the hotel had no comment about the situation.

Serving the University and Evanston since 1881

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Northwestern funds have been reserved to create an Indigenous Research Center, the University announced this month.

The creation of the research center is among many recommendations that the Native American Outreach and Inclusion Task Force submitted to top University officials in November.

The Office of the Provost released an update on the recommendations last week.

“Conversations already have taken place with the WCAS Dean’s Office and with Professor Doug Medin to

which Rauner spoke about in his first State of the State address on Feb. 4, removes the assurance of collective power in public workers’ pensions and destabilizes retirement security, Biss said.

“The 401(k) experiment has gone on for years and the jury’s in: It doesn’t provide retirement security,” Biss said. “Let’s not intentionally replicate the errors of states that have done it wrong.”

The future of the Illinois pension system is uncertain, Biss said.

In March, the state Supreme Court will review the 2013 pension reform law that was deemed unconstitutional by a trial judge in November. Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed an appeal for the case.

The pension reform law seeks to restructure pension guidelines and ease the $110 billion pension debt that the state faces.

“For years the state didn’t pay what it needed to in order to pay for (pension) systems,” Biss said. “We haven’t built structures that make it easy to provide retirement.”

Biss sponsored a bill passed in December that created the Secure Choice Savings Program. The plan automatically provides each worker statewide with a retirement account if they do not already possess one.

It is the first of its kind in the country. The policy deducts 3 percent from employee’s incomes and puts it into their retirement accounts manually, unless they opt out.

“It’s a savings plan funded by the workers, but the state organizes it so that the state is sort of a conduit between the worker and the investment manager,” Biss told The Daily.

“Fundamentally it’s not a defined benefit system so it doesn’t have the same risk of creating a debt for the state that a defined benefit system would.”

Community members who attended the talk were specifically concerned about how teachers’ pensions would be managed.

The Illinois Teachers Retirement System is between $50 billion to $60 billion in debt, Biss said.

go forward with the planning process for such a center to determine specific areas of research and participants,” officials wrote in the update.

Several of the recommendations will be implemented once the center is created.

The center will serve as a place where Native Americans from tribal colleges can visit the University to do research, as well as a location to hold the annual Carlos Montezuma Conference on Ethics and Research, according to the update.

In addition, a database of about 450 Native American alumni has been created that will allow greater outreach. Discussions have begun to commission a Native American artist to create an exhibition at a University gallery.

The admissions office is also “reviewing how to enhance outreach to prospective Native American students.”

A search for a new Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion is underway, and an open forum for students will be held Tuesday. The new provost will be the liaison between the University and the Native American community.

Other proposals that are currently under revision include being able to study an Indigenous language in order to satisfy a language requirement and including American tribes and tribal colleges as destinations in the study abroad program, according to the update.

» See BISS, page 6

— Mariana Alfaro

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Around Town City to host workshop on Ladd Arboretum trail renovation

The city will host a community workshop Tuesday to discuss potential improvements to a local arboretum.

The proposed plan would rebuild the multiuse trail at Edward R. Ladd Arboretum, 2024 McCormick Blvd., reconstructing the current gravel trail into a paved pathway.

The plan was originally suggested a year ago by the Public Works department. Since then, the department has met with the Ladd Arboretum committee, held one public meeting and two meetings with the council, Public Works director Suzette Robinson said at a Feb. 9 meeting. At the same council meeting, aldermen voted unanimously to delay action on the plan until after a public meeting to discuss the matter further.

The workshop will discus project background and need, project impact, proposed path layout and proposed path materials, costs and environmental impacts, according to the city.

“There’s a group of people who don’t think they’ve been heard and we should hear from them,�

Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) said at the Feb. 9 meeting.

In order to complete construction this year, the city would have to move on a plan before Feb. 23, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said at the meeting.

The meeting Tuesday will serve as a way for the city to gather community feedback for council’s consideration on Feb. 23.

The meeting will take place from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Civic Center.

20 the chance to become familiar with careers available in the fire service. Participants meet twice a month at one of the five fire stations in the city.

The program is designed to endorse responsibility, being safe, communication, cooperation, fitness and the development of leadership skills.

Professionals in the Evanston fire department teach explorers basic firefighting and emergency medical service skills, which they can use by responding to emergencies in the ride-along

program. Participants also partake in teambuilding exercises and public service projects and assist with daily tasks in the fire station, including community relations, fire prevention and equipment and station maintenance.

The open house is designed to provide an introduction to the program and will include a Q&A portion. It will take place at the Evanston fire department headquarters, 909 Lake St., at 7 p.m.

artists Feb. 28, the city announced last week.

The Noyes Cultural Arts Center, 927 Noyes St., will host the Open Studios event, which will last from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and be free to the public.

The center hosts the work of various artists and arts organizations, including The Actors Gymnasium and the Piven Theatre Workshop.

The event will feature the current exhibit on

view, “A Family’s Journey Home� by Evanston resident Jevoid Simmons, as well as artwork by local artists Jack and Elise Lerman. There will also be a performance of folk, pop and rock musical arrangements by etc. Choir, a vocal group composed of young artists based in Evanston.

resident said he had carpet installed in the room where he kept the safe Feb. 3, Dugan added.

The items that were missing from the safe included an antique Meylan open-face pocket watch worth about $10,000 and a Smith & Wesson six-shot revolver worth around $300.

said.

An officer was dispatched to A1 Auto Care, 1961 Dempster St., and saw an overhead window of the garage broken, but nothing was missing or out of place, Dugan said. The owner, 38, told police there is video evidence of the incident, and detectives will investigate, Dugan said.

A laptop was burglarized from a car shop about five blocks away between Feb. 7 and Feb. 9.

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Fire department to hold open house for student program

The Evanston fire department will hold an open house Thursday for its Evanston Fire Explorer program, the city announced Monday.

The program, which began in 2012, aims to give students between the ages of 14 and

Open Studios event to host artists, musical performances

Evanston residents will have the opportunity to view the work of both visual and performing

Police Blotter Pocket watch worth $10K stolen from Evanston home A safe containing more than $10,000 worth of items, including a loaded firearm, was stolen from an Evanston home, police said.

The owner of the safe, a 72-year-old man, said he kept it under his bed and last saw it Feb. 2, but did not notice it was missing until Saturday, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. The Evanston

Auto repair shop burglarized, nothing taken

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On Campus NU participates in national body image campaign

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Northwestern is participating in the national “You Are Beautiful” campaign as part of Body Acceptance Week, which started Monday.

This is the first time NU will be spreading the campaign, which sends students “You Are Beautiful” stickers and holds programming throughout the week.

The national campaign started in 2002 in Chicago with 100 stickers. It now sends more than 2 million stickers and has been translated into 81 languages.

“The power of the community has spread around the globe, to every major city, and even to Antarctica,” said Chicago designer Matthew Hoffman.

Hoffman created a model arch of silver and black that reads “You Are Beautiful” for NU’s campus. He said he meant for it to be symbolic of The Arch.

“We’re really excited about the ‘You Are Beautiful’ arch,” said Eileen Biagi, staff psychologist at Counseling and Psychological Services. “This is the first year that we are using something like artwork as a kind of way to encourage people to rethink their thoughts about beauty.”

University orders extra shuttles in upcoming extreme cold

Additional shuttles will run on Feb. 17 and 18 due to the severe cold, Northwestern announced in an email Monday night.

An additional Evanston frostbite shuttle will run approximately 20 minutes after regular service on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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OVERARCHING MESSAGE The You Are Beautiful arch, created by designer Matthew Hoffman, will be at the plaza in front of University Library until Friday. The arch is part of Northwestern’s celebration of Body Acceptance Week

The arch will be on display in the courtyard in front of University Library until Friday. Biagi is encouraging students to use the service.

An additional Campus Loop shuttle will run 15 minutes after the regular service schedule, while an additional Evanston Loop shuttle will be in service as well, in order to maintain the Evanston Loop schedule in place, the email said.

Temperatures are expected to fall as low as -7 degrees Fahrenheit on Wednesday.

— Mariana Alfaro

hashtag #NUbeautiful to support the movement through social media.

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Emergency alarms accidentally set off on campus Sunday

Northwestern’s emergency sirens accidentally went off Sunday morning at Allison Hall, Technological Institute, the Jacobs Center and the Burton Academic Advising Center.

The siren system, part of which was replaced Feb. 10, had been programmed by Whelan Security to go off at that time for monthly automated tests. The only

occurring in conjunction with Body Acceptance Week, which the National Eating Disorders Association promotes every February.

The association wants the campaign to be applicable to people with any kind of body image issues, Biagi said.

Body Acceptance Week has been prominent on college campuses around the country, Biagi said.

“We’re kind of swimming in this culture where we’re inundated with messages about how we don’t look just right by the folks that are selling us stuff,” she said. “It’s kind of refreshing to see something that reminds us that we’re beautiful just the way we are now.”

A Northwestern Dining dietitian and chef will be teaching students about healthy eating habits Tuesday in Norris University Center.

There will be a physical activity program that will teach yoga and Zumba to promote physical activity in moderation, led by the Athletics Department. Medill graduate student Colleen Daly will be one of the instructors for the class.

“We want to ensure that the gym is a safe space that (students) are not having triggering contact with,” she said. “We want to ensure that everyone feels welcome and included.” emilychin2018@u.northwestern.edu automated tests that University Police allow are daily midnight and noon tests that are silent. Police don’t know why Whelan scheduled the test for 6 a.m. on a Sunday, said deputy chief of police Daniel McAleer.

UP has removed the automated tests, and no other alarms have gone off since.

The siren system is used to give out rapid warnings. If they need to be activated, dispatchers open up the system and send out pre-written messages. The sirens have mostly been used in the case of tornado warnings.

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Why I cannot remain silent on divestment issue ERIC ZORN

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Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been debating whether or not it would be appropriate for me to write this for the past two weeks. I am conscious of what it means to speak out because I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want my voice to silence others. However, after seeing how our campus has handled the conversation over the NUDivest resolution, I feel socially responsible to speak up in solidarity with NUDivest, a voice thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s consistently misrepresented and silenced despite its clear efforts to expose human suffering.

I feel compelled to speak on this because I know how it feels to be silenced.

As a gay male, there is nothing I hate more than feeling like my voice has been taken away from me. I know what that misery feels like. Growing up in the Bible Belt in Roanoke, Virginia, I never felt comfortable sharing my sexuality. Every week at church I knew there was no way I could come out when we had read passages in Sunday school condemning homosexuality. The pastor who baptized me uses the pulpit to preach conversion therapy.

It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until I came to Northwestern and began sleeping in on Sundays instead of going to church that I became comfortable enough

to come out to my closest friends. Yet, as I came out to more of my friends, I noticed that some people naturally made â&#x20AC;&#x153;gayâ&#x20AC;? synonymous with â&#x20AC;&#x153;unprofessionalâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;sassy.â&#x20AC;?

Although I had learned to be more open about my sexuality in my (limited) personal life, I could never express it in my work in Associated Student Government as Executive Vice President for fear of being treated differently, and so I remained silent and continued to clarify that, â&#x20AC;&#x153;No, Julia and I are not dating.â&#x20AC;? I felt in my expectations to be a truly representative student, I had to ignore my own experiences in application to the student body.

I also felt like I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t speak out about anything political either as I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be truly representative of student interests if I took a side. When Darren Wilson was not indicted, I was disappointed in myself for not standing in solidarity with my friends who were affected. Why didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t I speak out? There was controversy over whether we should be saying #alllivesmatter or #blacklivesmatter, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;the facts were ambiguousâ&#x20AC;? about the case. I put on a veil of impartiality because I had forgotten that I was elected for my values along with my ability to be a representative of the student body.

My experience and struggle with sharing my sexuality relates to NUDivest and its cause because none of us live single-issue lives. There are several similarities between

my experiences and those of NUDivest. The organizers of NUDivest standing up against human rights violations are incredibly brave for going against an institution that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t support them, and instead actively marginalizes them through the status quo. Those that oppose NUDivest often silence them by saying they are simply being angry or misrepresentative of their motives by creating fear that, if we support BDS, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll begin rolling down the slippery slope to moral catastrophe. NUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s investment in companies complicit in human rights violations makes many students feel unsupported, as I felt similarly when swarms of people in Roanoke flooded Chick-fil-A restaurants because of their public anti-LGBT views in 2012. Oppression uses the same argument over and over again, and we have to recognize it each time the status quo is challenged.

There is a bitter irony when those against divestment suddenly feel uncomfortable that this issue has been brought to light, while those who are continually marginalized have felt discomfort from the start. Yes, it is uncomfortable to change the status quo, but through this lack of comfort we can grow to support those who the status quo doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t support. We should all take time and effort to understand how we may be marginalized at one time, and complicit in the marginalization of others at another time.

I cannot in good conscience seek support for my own struggles while simultaneously denying others who are actively oppressed.

Not supporting NUDivest is the same as denying my own experience, and I refuse to be silenced anymore.

What are the less controversial issues that you support? Many students donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think twice about enacting initiatives to support sexual assault survivors or to advocate for gender equality and higher education affordability.

We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mind protesting to change the status quo in these cases, and whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the difference in this situation?

Divestment has worked in the past to correct problematic institutions, and I believe it has potential to work here as well. The action called for in NUDivestâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resolution does not seek to punish Israel or even imply the dissolution of its state (if it was, I would be writing something completely different). Rather, it calls for the immediate end of an oppression resulting from settlements in Palestine so that Palestinians might have an equal voice in creating a peaceful solution. If we are comfortable standing up against other types of oppression, we shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let this be the exception.

Erik Zorn is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at erikzorn2015@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

Money is not as important as passions, ambitions PEDRO ACOSTA

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Money has become the common and overarching goal in our society, causing personality to be extracted from the person. Money has such a blurring effect for the vision of humanity, evident by the mindset that puts money as the most important thing to gain.

I know this because at times, money haunts me. The fury that builds within me when I lose money, whether that be by misplacing it or spending too much, stirs around my brain like a boiling pot of tar, bubbling and allowing smoke to roll out of my ears. And as my anger amplifies, I ask myself a question: Why do I let pieces of paper make me this mad?

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen countless incidents where monetary conflicts have been overblown. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been in legitimate fights with some of my good friends over petty bills and coins. But does money really deserve all this aggressive attention? The hands of our society try to grasp capital with such force that their own fingers stab themselves. Sometimes I feel that when oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relationship with money becomes more serious, all other relationships seem to fall to the wayside. I would love to be successful and have a lot of money, but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think that is all that there is to life.

I have no idea what I want to be when I grow up but if I had to make the choice right now, I would rap and make beats. If our education system and the overarching pursuit of monetary success wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so embedded in our society, I probably would have rapped out of high school and seen where life took me.

But there is no way my parents would have allowed me to do that and in reality, I think I would have been too scared to follow my dreams. However, I knew I liked to write and I felt that journalism is the most professional side of writing. So here I am, sort of following my dreams, choosing money over what I really want. Even so, my dad was mad at me for even going into journalism, Medill graduates usually â&#x20AC;&#x153;onlyâ&#x20AC;? make $36,394 per year. I understood his distress because I knew some of my fellow alumni would be making much closer to six figures or more. At this point I had to ask myself if I was going to follow the green paper trail or the trail of my sort of dreams.

I never really liked green, not on paper at least, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m beginning to become sickened by the idea of money. Really, money isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as important as everyone makes it out to be. If all I had in my life was a pen, paper, musical

instruments and good friends, I think I would be content. The allotment of money definitely may seem like the foundation of happiness, but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think this is always true. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not bashing successful people, because there are countless millionaires I have great respect for, but I just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think money should be seen as necessary, as it blinds us to other possibilities of genuine happiness. I often imagine the complete failure of my professional life and ending up on the street, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not scared by it. I only think of all the time I could be working on my real passion and following my dreams instead of doing something Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not passionate about.

Pedro Acosta is a Medill freshman. He can be reached at pedroacosta2018@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

NU should support non-econ, non-STEM students more HEIWON SHIN

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Northwestern has so many economics and engineering majors and students on the pre-med track. It also has an incredible support system for such students in the form of career fairs, professional fraternities and many information sessions to provide students with advice and opportunities to network and find internships or mentors. But what about other majors?

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a journalism and art theory and practice double major and a French minor, so I can only speak for those particular fields in the humanities. But from my experience so far, there is a considerable difference in organized efforts for professional opportunities, at least for art and French: There are interesting speaker and social events, as well as movie screenings and on-campus support systems like Northwestern Career Advancement and respective school and department advisers.

However, there arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as many occasions or platforms like the career fairs, professional fraternities and info sessions that fields like consulting have.

Not all students are completely devoted to one particular field and have everything planned out. For the most part, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re here to explore, so NU should implement a schoolwide support system to help all students in this process. Of course, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the individual studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s responsibility to find opportunities on his or her own, but the entire university can also benefit from large-scale efforts to bring in

outside parties or alumni to NU. First, there should be more non-businessrelated info sessions for those who are still exploring different fields. Because most info sessions are business-oriented, many humanities majors like myself and my friends can only find out whether we like business or not.

We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know enough about the non-business careers, so academic departments and NCA should encourage a more diverse range of industry representatives to come to NU. There should also be more peer support groups, like pre-professional fraternities, to nurture diverse non-business and engineering interests. Groups like the Medill Undergraduate Student Advisory Council or the Block Student Advisory Board can, to an extent, help interested individuals, but strictly speaking, they serve Medill and Block Museum of Art, respectively, and are limited in creating strong mentorship programs that pre-professional societies have.

Finally, there should be more non-business career fairs to allow students to actually meet recruiters. Many students, myself included, apply to internships that are not strictly in the business and consulting arena. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get the advantage business-oriented students get. I visit NCA and Medill Career Services at least once a week. I get wonderful advice about how to fix my resume and cover letters, but this cannot be the same as talking to actual recruiters. Oftentimes job descriptions are vague and, at best, we can only guess what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for and what the work atmosphere will be.

Even non-pre-professional fields can benefit from school-organized opportunities such as Northwestern Career Advancementâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual externship program. The Northwestern

Externship Program allows students to shadow alumni for a day in professional work places all over the US and abroad. Not only can students experience the industry first hand, they can network with alumni and develop lasting mentor-mentee relationships. Plus, recent or established graduates can offer insight professors canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

For some subject areas, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really make much sense to have such formalized and standardized forms of networking or careeradvancing opportunities. Some majors may lend themselves to post-college academia, so internships may not be the norm. Students might find themselves happy with the on-campus opportunities to research with NU faculty.

Even if this is the case, however, it never hurts to meet more people outside of NU. To make all this happen, students and

faculty have to work together to strengthen and see the full potential of all disciplines and interests on campus. NUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decentralized organization structure allows freedom but it also poses a challenge to connect different entities. If we connect the dots, however, we can be a stronger and better school. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to provide mostly business-centric career support on campus just because there are so many students and established company-school relationships, but that is no reason to underestimate the professional potential of humanities majors.

This article was originally published online Feb. 13.

Heiwon Shin is a Medill sophomore. She can be contacted at heiwonshin2017@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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Across Campuses New Voices Act: Bill would give student journalists more freedom to excercise right to free speech

A proposed bill in the North Dakota House that would give student journalists in public high schools and public and private colleges more freedom to exercise their right to free speech will be heard by the House Education Committee Tuesday.

House Bill 1471, also known as the John Wall New Voices Act, was introduced to the House by its primary sponsor Rep. Alex Looysen, R-Jamestown, and is co-sponsored by Reps. Jessica Haak, D-Jamestown, Corey Mock, D-Grand Forks, and Rick Becker, R-Bismarck. In the state Senate Larry Luick, R-Fairmount, and John Grabinger, D-Jamestown, are co-sponsors as well.

Looysen said Sunday he decided to be the primary sponsor of the bill after talking with fellow Jamestown-area representative Haak about the bill. A group of University of Jamestown students presented the idea for the bill to Haak and Mock toward the end of the 2013 legislative session.

“I like this legislation because it tries to fix somewhat of an injustice in student journalism,” he said.

Looysen is a member of the House Education Committee.

Haak said she remembers when the group of UJ students presented their idea for the bill to herself and Mock. She said she had worked at the university’s newspaper, The Collegian, in the advertising department.

“I’ve seen the value student journalism can bring,” she said.

Grabinger said he talked with Looysen and Haak about the bill, and he sees the need for what the bill is trying to accomplish.

“I think they (college and high school students) have to have the freedom of expression within reason,” he said. “Right now they truly don’t have the ability to express themselves and do good journalism.”

The idea for the bill came about after a group of Jamestown College, now University of Jamestown, students attended a conference about student press issues in 2004. Steve Listopad, who was then assistant professor of journalism and mass communication at Jamestown College, worked with the college students to come up with the ideas that formed the proposed

New Voices Act. The UJ students at the 2004 conference learned there has been a history of conflict over student speech in high schools and colleges. Listopad is now an assistant professor of journalism and student media director for Valley City State University. Those rights have changed over time, Listopad said.

Another group of UJ students presented the idea for the bill to Haak and Mock in 2013.

The bill The proposed bill has three parts, according to Listopad. The first part would restore the Tinker standard for high schools. The Tinker case refers to the landmark case Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District in 1969 when students tried to wear black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War. The case ended with the U.S. Supreme Court determining that the First Amendment applies to public schools and students retain their rights to free speech.

Listopad said later Supreme Court cases like Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier in 1988 and Hosty v. Carter in 2005 chipped away at freedom of speech for student journalists in high school and college.

In Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, the Supreme Court ruled in cases of curricular activities, teachers and administrators have free rein to censor students.

“Journalism programs in high schools are connected to curricular activity,” Listopad said.

“So, student journalists are more censored than the student walking the hall wearing a T-shirt.”

The Hosty v. Carter decision extended Hazelwood’s limitations to college newspapers.

The second and third parts of the New Voices Act would restore the Tinker standard to public and private universities. Listopad said the third part of the act, which would only apply to private universities in North Dakota, protects a student’s right to free speech but only to the point that it doesn’t conflict with the religious mission of the institution.

— Chris Olson (The Jamestown Sun/TNS)

Four in 10 Hispanics favor ending U.S. trade embargo against Cuba, new FAU poll shows

More than four in 10 Hispanic Americans favor lifting the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba and more than seven in 10 support reestablishing diplomatic relations, according to a

new poll aimed at gauging reaction to President Barack Obama’s upending of five decades of U.S. policy toward the island nation.

The numbers show nuances in just how much of a thaw Hispanics would like to see.

More than 73 percent favor diplomatic relations and 68 percent favor expanding trade. But a much smaller 43 percent oppose the embargo, which is the obstacle to trade.

“I think what that illustrates is that there’s a large portion of the Hispanic community that’s open to starting to fix the relations. Diplomatic relations is sort of a first step,” said Kevin Wagner, a Florida Atlantic University political scientist who reviewed the data. “I think they just want to take it one step at a time.”

The Florida Atlantic University Business and Economics Polling Initiative, which conducted the survey in January, plans to release it Tuesday.

In mid-December, Obama announced a new U.S. relationship with Cuba, with the objective of normalization of relations between the two countries.

FAU surveyed 500 Hispanics in English and Spanish using a combination of automated telephone calls and online surveys to produce a survey it said has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

Monica Escaleras, director of the polling initiative, said wished she had enough data to allow analysts to extensively slice and dice the data.

But the survey was conducted nationwide and Escaleras said it doesn’t have enough responses to assess how Hispanics living in Florida feel compared with the rest of the nation or to examine differences among Cuban-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans and others.

Available breakdowns showed: — On several questions, Hispanics in the South, which includes Florida, were generally more skeptical of the benefits of improving relations with Cuba than the nation as a whole.

In the South, 32 percent said lifting the U.S. embargo would lead to regime change in Cuba, 22 percent said it wouldn’t and 46 percent said it might. Nationwide, 37 percent said it would lead to regime change, 18 percent said it wouldn’t and 45 percent said it might.

In the South, 60 percent favored expanding trade with Cuba, 32 percent said trade should remain the same, and 8 percent said trade should be stopped. Nationwide, 68 percent favored expanding trade with Cuba, 27 percent said it should be kept the same, and 5 percent said it

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— Republican Hispanics are much more likely to indicate a willingness to visit Cuba than Democrats. Among Republicans, 57 percent said they would visit the island; 39 percent of Democrats said they’d likely visit.

Overall, 49 percent of Hispanics said they’d visit Cuba. Many more — 61 percent — said they favor unrestricted travel to Cuba.

There’s also a regional difference on willingness to travel to Cuba. Among Hispanics in southern states, 37 percent said they might visit Cuba, 43 percent said they wouldn’t and 21 percent weren’t sure. Nationwide, 49 percent said they’d be open to visiting Cuba, 28 percent said they wouldn’t, and 23 percent weren’t sure.

— Hispanics with lower incomes most likely to favor the embargo and those with the highest incomes are least likely to support it.

Among Hispanics earning more than $75,000, the embargo is opposed by 68 percent. For people earning $25,000 to $75,000, 42 percent oppose the embargo. Among those with incomes less than $25,000, just 24 percent oppose the embargo.

Escaleras said she suspects people with higher incomes may be more interested in the economic opportunities that could come from lifting the embargo. She thinks they see “a huge, huge opportunity for business.”

— Anthony Man (Sun Sentinel/TNS)

UMN faculty group rallies to support student protesters

University of Minnesota faculty members led a rally Monday in support of student protesters who were arrested last week while pressing for greater diversity on campus.

Thirteen people, most of them students, were arrested Feb. 9 for refusing to leave President Eric Kaler’s office at Morrill Hall.

A faculty group that assembled Monday outside Morrill Hall wants administrators to move to withdraw the trespassing charges and refrain from any academic sanctions for the arrested students.

They also want Kaler’s administration to take concrete steps to meet the students’ demands, which include hiring more faculty of color, keeping open the Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning, and removing racial descriptors from campus crime alerts.

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academics, met with Finn on Friday to discuss the “impact of the petition.”

“I explained to her that it was really to show faculty of Weinberg that this is really something that students are passionate about and believe in,” he said.

Romero said he heard that at the forum, faculty were in favor of an internationally-focused requirement. He said if the requirement is not United Statescentric, it will lose its original focus.

Weinberg senior Xiaowen Chen, one of the two undergraduates on Weinberg’s Curricular Policies Committee, said there was a concern that the petition did not include input from international students who may have a different perspective.

“The main point is the student input is only from students who have the opinion that the course should be U.S.-focused … even though seven percent of students on this campus are international,” she said.

National News As Cuba policy moves forward, chief critic Rubio faces stiff odds reversing it WASHINGTON — In December, just hours after the White House abruptly changed course in the nation’s relationship with Cuba, Sen. Marco Rubio laid down his marker.

“I intend to use every tool at our disposal in the majority to unravel as many of these changes as possible,” he said Dec. 17.

It’s now February — and despite congressional hearings and ongoing pressure on the administration, it’s not clear that Rubio and other opponents can undo what the president already did.

Rubio is perhaps the nation’s most prominent lawmaker on the Cuba issue. He’s a Cuban-American, a member of the Senate’s Republican majority and a potential presidential candidate. And he represents Florida, Cuba’s closest U.S. neighbor.

But according to Cuba experts, Rubio might have little ability to reverse Obama’s changes.

And Rubio might have realized that.

That doesn’t mean Congress — and Rubio — can’t curtail the administration’s long-term plans. Congress clearly has authority over some aspects of the new Cuba policy, and congressional leaders beyond Rubio are skeptical of the president’s plans.

For his part, Rubio is letting the administration make its case—and also watching as Cuba makes demands that he said could make normalization untenable.

In an interview with McClatchy this week, Rubio said President Barack Obama has “exceeded his authority” with already-announced moves.

“I think many of the changes that he’s made

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“What’s important is to get everyone to let us know what they think.”

Despite this concern, Romero said most international students he has spoken with are in support of the petition.

“This is a requirement that benefits everyone,” he said. “While international students certainly have different perspectives, during the four years they’re on the campus the United States is their lived reality.”

Meanwhile, faculty are developing courses that would fit the requirement.

The original proposal for the requirement for all six schools was recommended for implementation in Fall 2015, and Finn told The Daily in November it would be added to Weinberg no earlier than Fall 2016.

However, Finn said on Thursday that when former Weinberg dean Sarah Mangelsdorf left the University in August, the search for the new dean caused a delay.

Although a revised proposal for Weinberg’s

Curricular Policies Committee is still being drafted, Finn said this year has been focused on developing and piloting courses that will fit the requirement.

Next year, she said, the proposal will go through a three-stage process: First, a meeting with the Curricular Policies Committee, then to a faculty meeting for discussion and then to another faculty meeting for a vote if a consensus is reached.

The goal for implementation of the requirement in Weinberg is the 2017-18 academic year. The requirement would only affect incoming freshmen that year.

“I think we’ve had some really good conversations, we have some great courses that are being piloted, so I think that we will have something very concrete and really high quality and we will be able to say we talked to a lot of faculty,” Finn said.

This year, 12 faculty members have been piloting courses, Finn said. She said by next year she hopes 20 more faculty members will pilot a course.

Teachers could face increased pension cuts if reforms are not made.

“Teachers in schools today feel attacked,” Biss said. “I’m terrified of what will happen. I’m worried about the mandates on teachers and I’m worried about the cultural attitude toward them and what we’re doing for them.”

Nan Anderson, a chairperson for the AgeOptions Advisory Council, works with the Illinois senior population and spoke hesitantly about the future of retirement funding. “(Biss) has done a good job of putting forth reasonable legislation,” she said. “But we’re handicapped by the constitution which doesn’t allow for a graduated income tax.”

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run counter to existing legislation, which I believe makes it illegal,” Rubio said. “We’ve made that case, but obviously this is a case we want to prove. But ultimately it’s going to wind up in the court system.”

Those changes really are just the first step in the Cuban opening. Up next will be the establishment of an embassy in Havana, as well as the confirmation of an ambassador.

Asked whether there were enough votes in the Senate to deny confirmation to an ambassador, Rubio said, “Well, there are multiple ways to stop an ambassador nomination, and I reserve the right to use all of them. ... I can tell you for certain that no matter who they nominate I will not be supportive of and will do everything I can to try to stop the nomination of an ambassador to an embassy that’s not a real embassy.”

The opening to Cuba is a complicated, multipronged effort. Already, the Treasury and Commerce departments have relaxed rules on some travel to Cuba, loosened restrictions on financial transactions between the United States and the island nation, and allowed for U.S. exports of certain products.

Rubio said some of those changes — such as increased telecommunications exports to Cuba — are specifically prohibited under current statutes and will not withstand legal challenges.

The White House disagreed. National Security Council spokesman Patrick Ventrell said that all changes were “looked at closely by administration lawyers and all actions were taken in the context of what could legally be done.”

According to experts on Cuba, stopping the actions the administration already has taken will be difficult, even with the Republicans in control of both sides of Congress.

“I think he’s in a bit of a bind,” said Phil Peters, president of the Cuba Research Center in Alexandria, Va. “I think he knows there’s not a legislative means to reverse what President Obama did.”

Rubio might be “planting a flag,” Peters added. “But in terms of action, I don’t think there’s anything he can do about it. President Obama acted clearly within his authority, and Congress can’t stop it.”

Last week, Rubio kicked off a trio of hearings — one in the Senate, two in the House of Representatives — in which opponents of the president’s plans laid out a case that the Obama administration was taken advantage of in negotiating its new policy. Rubio emphasized ongoing human rights abuses and political detentions on the island, as well as demands Cuban President Raul Castro has made as a condition for normalization.

Rubio’s hearing, experts said, helped frame the upcoming debate and could slow the administration’s plans.

“There was this level of irrational exuberance from proponents of the new policy, but Congress hadn’t had a say yet,” said Jason I. Poblete, a former Republican congressional staffer and an international regulatory lawyer with Poblete Tamargo LLP who supports the sanctions on Cuba but said he has been critical of both parties and prior administrations for their Cuba policies. “Now they are having a say.”

But having a say and reversing the policy are two different things — although Rubio will have an outsized role in the debate.

“People take what he has to say very seriously,” said Darrell M. West, vice president and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.

But the president has substantial executive

power on his side. “He can open an embassy, he can liberalize travel restrictions, he can increase the amount of money that people living in America can send to Cuba,” West said.

“There’s very little Sen. Rubio can do about those things.”

Rubio “has the ability to stop the parts of the initiative that require congressional approval, like ending the embargo,” West said. “What he can’t block is opening an embassy.”

Beyond that are the big issues of freeing travel between the two countries and ending the embargo that has cut off Cuba from most trade with the United States. Legislation already has been introduced in Congress to accomplish both of those goals, though experts say Rubio and his allies have significant ability to sway the debate.

In an interview with the CBS News program “60 Minutes,” House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., expressed opposition to the president’s plans, and Boehner was skeptical that the most ambitious of them — such as repealing the trade embargo with Cuba — would go anywhere. Asked whether the trade embargo would stay in place, Boehner said, “I would think so.”

Carl Meacham, a former senior Republican aide on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who’s now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, said that while support for the trade embargo is on the decline nationally, Rubio’s position as a voice for the Cuban exile community means its voice will be heard. A recent national poll by the Pew Research Center found two-thirds of respondents favored ending the embargo.

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Cats drop three of four in Las Vegas tournament

By MICHAEL SALIK

the daily northwestern @MikeySalesNYC

Vegas was no vacation for Northwestern.

The Wildcats (3-6) had a tough weekend at the Wilson/DeMarini Desert Classic in Las Vegas, Nevada, losing its first three games to No. 12 UCLA, BYU and UNLV before finishing out the event with a win over Long Beach State.

NU began the tournament with a contest against the elite UCLA squad. After taking a quick 3-0 lead in the first inning on a double into left-center from junior infielder Andrea Filler, the Cats allowed 4 runs in the third inning. NU never recovered after facing a barrage of 6 runs, largely thanks to two errors, in the fifth inning of the ballgame.

“The big inning has killed us this year,” coach Kate Drohan said. “We have to be a little bit tougher on the mound and defensively to prevent that.”

In the second game of the tournament, NU took on BYU (6-4). The contest was a defensive battle into

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Tough times The Michigan State upset was a seminal moment for NU basketball. It wasn’t the only time NU had beaten a top-10 team — actually the program accomplished a similar feat against Purdue just two years before. And it wasn’t even the most jaw-dropping victory against the Spartans— the Wildcats beat a Magic Johnson-led Michigan State in 1979.

But the win put the Cats back in the NCAA Tournament conversation in a year where more fans than ever believed in the team’s ability to qualify for the biggest postseason tournament in college basketball.

But it didn’t faze the players.

“At that point we had been to the NIT for three consecutive years and we had heard the same talk,” said John Shurna, the star senior forward. “We were so accustomed to hearing it that I don’t think it changed anyone’s mindset.”

Nonetheless, the roof quickly caved in. Following the upset, NU lost three consecutive contests, two of them by blowout margins — an unusual occurrence

the fifth innings, as neither team was able to put a run on the board and Cats junior pitcher Kristen Wood was in the midst of throwing a no-hitter. However, in the sixth frame Filler lifted a sacrifice fly into center field, scoring freshman infielder Marissa Panko and giving the Cats a 1-0 lead. The lead did not last long though, as the Cougars stormed back to put 5 runs on the board in the bottom half of the inning, eventually winning the game 5-1.

Drohan said she was not worried about the team’s play on the defensive side of the ball, but she did note that the Cats have room for improvement.

“It’s all about us playing a complete game,” Drohan said. “I think all aspects of our game could be better.”

After losing an 8-7 heartbreaker to UNLV (5-4), with NU coming up just short after allowing 6 firstinning runs, the Cats took on Long Beach State desperate to salvage a win over the weekend. Behind a strong pitching performance from Wood, the team was able to do just that. Wood allowed just 2 runs on three hits over seven innings on Sunday, taking a no-hitter into the fifth inning for the second time that weekend. Wood’s performance was more than enough

in a game in which NU smoked two home runs, one from senior infielder Andrea DiPrima, her second of the season, and another from freshman infielder Brooke Marquez, the first of her collegiate career.

“We played a complete game. We had moments throughout the first two weekends where we played great softball and really played at a high level,” Drohan said. “Kristen Wood had a strong finish to the game and I think our offense kept the pressure on throughout the game.”

Over the course of the weekend, DiPrima and Filler kept up their hot hitting, accumulating a combined 9 RBI over the weekend. DiPrima is now batting .348 with an impressive .516 on-base percentage, while Filler is also batting .348 with a .739 slugging percentage.

But on the mound, the play of the team’s pitching staff has been a bit inconsistent. While Wood demonstrated stretches of dominance over the weekend and has emerged as the early season ace, the big inning against BYU proved costly. Junior Amy Letourneau struggled mightily at the Wilson/DeMarini Desert Classic, allowing 19 runs, 13 earned, over the course of 8.1 innings, driving her season ERA up to 6.73.

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Regardless, Drohan recognized the positivity that came out of the tournament’s final game and is optimistic about the team’s outlook going forward.

“We got our act together (Sunday). It’s good to see our team do that,” Drohan said. “I also have a lot of faith in our team’s ability. I really believe the execution will come.” michaelsalik2015@u.northwestern.edu

in a season riddled with nail-biting contests.

This was at a time when Mirkovic’s injuries continued to limit him, and he would soon miss the rest of the season.

Shurna, the heart of the team’s offensive firepower but not considered as potent a defender, was forced out of position into center duties during this streak.

Adding onto the mountain of problems were complications with Curletti’s health.

“I had food poisoning or something either a night or two after Michigan State,” Curletti said. “I was vomiting like crazy, from 10 to 5 in the morning, and I even needed to have two IVs put in to get some fluids back in me. I think I lost 4 to 10 pounds or something. I still played the next game, but I was basically dead.”

Tack on tough road environments and 1-3-1 buster Wisconsin, and the losing streak and subsequent move off the bubble seemed inevitable.

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CARMODY’S COURT Bill Carmody coaches up his players during a timeout. The former Northwestern coach had a 13 year tenure but never brought the Wildcats to the NCAA Tournament.

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Recalling NU’s run at the NCAA Tournament

By KEVIN CASEY

daily senior staffer @KevinCasey19

Northwestern has a bit of a tortured basketball history.

The Wildcats have never made the NCAA Tournament. Never. Every single Power 5 conference team besides NU has qualified for the Big Dance at least once. To add salt to the wound, the Cats actually hosted the first NCAA Tournament at the old Patten Gym in 1939, but they were not invited.

But under head coach Bill Carmody, an offensive virtuoso hired away from Princeton in 2000, the long-suffering program was getting close to the holy land.

“There was quite a bit of NCAA talk for the 2011-2012 season,” Matthew Snow, who has a website about NU basketball statistical analysis, said in an email. “It was the third year in a row that NU was still in contention for an at-large bid in February. That had never happened before in NU history.

The elevation of the program in that 2008-2009 to 2012-2013 period made the NCAA tournament seem tantalizingly within reach for the first time, if not ever then certainly in a very long time.”

The Wildcats were selected for the NIT (the second-most prestigious postseason tournament), for three consecutive seasons from 2008-2009 to 2010-2011.

The next step appeared to be an impending first NCAA tournament trip, and many felt the 2011-2012 squad would be the team to get it done.

Injuries hit the Cats early on, but the team weathered the storm, partially due to the surprising emergence of a former walk-on named Reggie Hearn who had just recently received a scholarship ahead of his junior season.

NU put together a good 10-2 nonconference season — with a noticeable blip in an embarrassing 69-41 whipping at home at the hands of then-No. 7 Baylor — but succumbed to a 1-3 start in conference play.

Then came Michigan State.

Upset city and the rise of Curletti

The Spartans, who traveled to Evanston to face off with the Wildcats on Saturday, Jan. 14, in some ways were not

a likely opponent for NU to upset.

Michigan State was ranked No. 6 in the country ahead of the contest, and was on a preposterous 15-game winning streak.

Head coach Tom Izzo was (and still is) a legend of the sport, and the Spartans had an emerging frontcourt — future NBA player Draymond Green started at forward — right where the Cats were weakest.

“They were stronger, more physical and more athletic,” said Ivan Vujic, an NU assistant coach at the time. “It was a complete size mismatch.”

Compounding the problem was the near-absense of 6-foot-11 center Luka Mirkovic, who was limited to four minutes in the contest as he struggled with injuries.

Mirkovic had been splitting time all season with fellow senior Davide Curletti, but the forward would get the full start on this night, all 6-foot-9 of him trying to take down the Spartans.

Curletti found out about his temporary full-time role just minutes before tip-off, but the Michigan native was ready.

Actually, it had been a long shot that the forward would make his way to NU at all. Curletti had been courted by a cadre of big schools early in the recruiting process only for a fractured back and his subsequent absence in the all-too-crucial summer AAU period before his senior season to remove his scholarship offers.

He had thought for a time afterward that he would enter school as a regular student, until some hot play in January and February of his senior year.

“Northwestern was the first team that talked to me after my injury,” Curletti said. “After they showed interest, a lot of other schools came back, including Michigan and Michigan State, but I felt a little shafted. I was like, ‘Oh now you want me because another school is showing interest?’”

Revenge wasn’t necessarily on his mind, but a little extra excitement was in the air for Curletti.

It wasn’t just the opponent either, the crowd was that electric.

“It was a blackout from the students and we packed the arena, which was nice because that wasn’t commonplace for Northwestern basketball,” Hearn said. “In the non-conference slate, we struggled to fill the lower part of the arena. And that was the third (home)

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A SHUR THING John Shurna battles his way through two defenders. The former Northwestern standout was instrumental in the Wildcats’ failed attempt at an NCAA Tournament bid in the 2011-2012 season.

game in the Big Ten, and literally every seat was filled.”

The noise didn’t dissipate when the contest began.

“Basically every play, the crowd was going crazy,” then-junior guard Alex Marcotullio said. “When you see a crowd like that, it makes you play harder.”

As for the game action, the plan was to neutralize Michigan State’s greater athleticism, especially by slowing the Spartans down by implementing the Cats’ patented ultra-pressure 1-3-1 zone — a defensive set up that required great discipline from all five players in order to facilitate proper trapping.

The game plan worked, especially with the physical play of Curletti.

“He was comfortable taking hits to the chest,” Vujic said. “And the more physical the game got, he performed better. He loved the contact. Defensively, he was just a machine.”

Curletti catapulted NU forward in

the first-half, with his 13 points contributing mightily to a 39-37 Cats halftime lead. He would only score 4 more in the second half, but his defense remained meaningful, and NU’s offense worked to near-perfect execution in an 81-point effort.

“They played a lot of man-to-man, and our offense was designed to beat those teams that were up in your face,” Curletti said. “We were just trying to take advantage of them overplaying us.

They were playing us tight, and we just cut backdoor.”

The young Spartans were befallen by such mistakes, one leading to an emphatic and memorable Curletti dunk.

“That dunk may have been one of the loudest noises I’ve ever heard at WelshRyan arena,” season ticket-holder Jon Davis (Weinberg ’06) said. “It was just the sheer shock of it, having such an athletic dunk from a Northwestern center. It was something that was rather

unheard of. ” In the end, NU captured the contest 81-74, culminating with a rare court rushing at Welsh-Ryan Arena.

The mood in the NU season had changed all of a sudden, as the Cats were now 2-3 in conference and had a signature win to hang their hats on.

The win catapulted them firmly into the bubble for the NCAA Tournament.

The players, while appreciative of the crowd that had gathered for the contest, were a bit underwhelmed by the precision of the court rushing.

“Because it happens at Northwestern so little, we’re not good at it and we need to learn,” Hearn said. “We can use some drills on rushing the court” Marcotullio piled on.

“You like to see a mad rush, a flood up the court, rather than people coming out of the crowd here or there,” he said.

“Overall, it was a B-minus.” » See BASKETBALL, page 7

Cats place fifth in Big Ten in Big Ten Match Play

By KEVIN CASEY

daily senior staffer @KevinCasey19

Tiebreakers went both ways for Northwestern, as the Wildcats

placed fifth in the Big Ten Match Play Championship on Monday.

Coach David Inglis had iterated prior to the tournament that it should serve as a nice warm-up for the spring stroke-play season.

On that point, he was correct.

Men’s Golf Daily file photo by Brian Lee

NO PERRY, NO PROBLEM Former Wildcat Jack Perry approaches the hole.

Northwestern’s team has recovered well from losing of one of its top golfers.

“It’s nice to play four really tight matches like that, where it comes down to the end,” Inglis said. “I was really pleased to see how my guys played under pressure on the last few holes.”

NU’s fifth-place showing exactly corresponded with its No. 5 seed, but the Cats did win three of their four matches.

The team was victorious in its opening-round match against Indiana, completing a tight 3-1-1 victory only after a serious fight to the finish. NU actually appeared on the verge of an upset loss until freshman Charles Wang, two-down with three to go, won the last three holes of his match.

Senior Bennett Lavin, also twodown with three to play, captured two holes on the way to a halve.

The Cats’ escape act continued in the quarterfinals against fourthseeded Maryland. In the second match of five, senior Matthew Negri stepped to the 17th tee 2-down and promptly birdied his last two holes for what he believed was a crucial halve.

“It was definitely a good feeling afterward because at the time I thought if I halved the match, we would advance to the next round,”

Negri said.

Alas, NU lost the match to the Terrapins 2-2-1 on a second tiebreaker. Moving into the consolation bracket, the Cats proceeded to defeat Minnesota 3-2 and Purdue 2-2-1 on a tiebreaker.

The latter came via a stellar par and 18th hole victory from Lavin to secure the halve for a team win.

Lavin’s game wasn’t always clicking throughout the week, but that play on pressure holes sufficed.

“My game was pretty spotty,” Lavin said. “Overall I’m pleased, though. I hit some big shots when I needed to, holed some big putts. That’s just as important going forward.”

As Inglis noted, this was a nice way to see how his players performed under pressure. In addition, it allowed the coach to see his entire roster’s progress.

Each team was allowed to bring down eight players to the event, with five of them making up a team in each match.

NU only has seven active golfers, and Inglis took them all down.

He tinkered with the lineups, never using the same quintet in any of the four matches.

And he let his top two golfers sit on the bench for the final

match against Purdue, but not as a punishment.

“The thinking behind that lineup was that we wanted to give Dylan (Wu) and Josh (Jamieson) a little bit of a break,” Inglis said. “We knew they were playing next week, we needed to check in on the rest of the lineup.”

Inglis did like some of what he saw from the rest.

Wang shot 6-under in 13 holes in windy conditions against Purdue to win 7 & 5. Freshman Sam Triplett and senior Scott Smith each had 1-up victories against Minnesota.

Negri, who shifted in and out of the lineup in the fall, had the key halve, obliterated his second opponent 7 & 5 and only lost to his third because he played 15 holes in a stunning 4-under.

The stroke play regular season begins next week at the Jones Sport Intercollegiate, but Negri isn’t convinced he has found his way back among the starting five.

“It’s tough because a lot of guys on the team are playing well,” Negri said. “I feel like my game is close to being good, it’s just whether or not I let things to fall in place.”

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