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City launches open data site By BEN SCHAEFER
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Evanston launched OpenEvanston. org last week, a one-stop data portal for information on the activities of different government departments, in an effort to improve transparency and efficiency. The site launched Feb. 23 after months of development, digital services coordinator Luke Stowe said. The project is part of an open data movement that seeks to increase availability and access of government records and information to the public. Many big cities have implemented similar systems, but Evanston is early in the wave of smaller cities to do so, Stowe said. “This is an extraordinary project,” said Ald. Jane Grover (7th) during a presentation about the portal at City Council on Feb. 23. “It’s valuable information but it’s also public information. We’re way ahead of the trend in open government.” The development team’s primary focus for the project was consolidating and coordinating each department’s existing data presentation method into one open data platform, Stowe said. Before the portal’s creation, each department collected and distributed data sets independently. Methods vary by department and range from different software programs to PDFs, “where data go to die,” said Stowe. With the transfer of all this information to one easily usable hub, government information will become much more in the public domain, said Stowe. “We want to take it to the next step,” Stowe said. “With the portal we’ve made it so that you can search the data, download the data, embed the data on your
own site and build apps with it.” The site allows users to browse through crime reports, parks information, maps, permits, licenses, inspections and city employees’ salaries, as well as regularly updated reports from the parks and utilities departments. Until the launch of the portal, the department of utilities displayed its annual report using PDFs. The department’s hope is that the portal will help give people a better understanding of how its operations run and what its responsibilities entail, superintendent of utilities Lara Biggs said. “I think most people don’t know how to ask for information on what we do since so much is behind the scenes,” said Biggs. “We’re a very technical, datacentric organization, so many people get overwhelmed by the report because there’s not much explanation on there.” In addition, members of city government expect that the system will lead to increased interdepartmental efficiency. In the past, requests for large data sets had to be submitted through the Freedom of Information Act. Now, much of that information can be found on the portal. Although online and operational, the site is not completely finished. Because the information is for the public, the city is seeking to hear feedback from citizens on ways to improve the site. Additional functions based on community input are planned to be implemented on the site, according to Stowe. “We have a long way to go, this is a first step,” Stowe said. “This is a high priority for us; as much as we want data geeks to love it, we want it to be accessible to everyone that visits the site.” benjaminschaefer2017@u.northwestern.edu
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‘OITNB’ STAR “Orange is the New Black” star Natasha Lyonne speaks about her Jewish identity and acting background Friday as NU Hillel’s winter speaker. The actress plays Nicky Nichols on the Netflix show.
‘Orange’ actress talks career By EMILY CHIN
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Actress Natasha Lyonne said at 16, her plan was to go to college and make movies about the things she learned. That plan didn’t work out, as she was never able to graduate college. Lyonne, best known for her role as Nicky Nichols in the Netflix series, “Orange is the New Black,” visited Northwestern on Friday as NU Hillel’s winter speaker. She
Activist calls for forgiveness By RACHEL YANG
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Activist Rais Bhuiyan emphasized the importance of mercy, compassion and forgiveness to bridge religious and cultural divisions during a discussion co-hosted by the Muslim-cultural Students Association and the South Asian Student Alliance on Friday. About 50 people attended the event at the McCormick Foundation Center Forum. During the event, Bhuiyan shared his personal story. An immigrant to the United States from Bangladesh, Bhuiyan was working at a Texas convenience store a few weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks when a white supremacist Mark Stroman entered the store and shot Bhuiyan in the right side of his face. Tahera Ahmad, the University’s associate chaplain and moderator for the event, asked Bhuiyan how he was able to cope in the aftermath of the attack. Bhuiyan, who said he lost vision in one eye and a tooth which eventually was replaced, fell behind on his medical bills and to this day
spoke to an auditorium of more than 300 people about her Jewish identity and choosing acting over college. “As a young girl in Israel, for some reason we only really had ‘Rocky,’ ‘Scarface,’ ’The Godfather,’ ‘A Fish called Wanda’ and ‘It’s Alive,’” she said. “I watched all those movies on a loop constantly … I really liked those 70s tough guy kind of movies, and that was the kind of acting I wanted to do.” Hillel Rabbi Aaron Potek moderated the event. Potek asked Lyonne questions about her childhood and
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has more than 30 pellets lodged in the right side of his face. Instead of resenting his attacker, Bhuiyan said he chose to forgive Stroman and began a campaign to appeal his death sentence. Stroman was a “victim of society,”
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Bhuiyan said. He came from a poor family, wasn’t well-educated and “he thought every foreigner who earned money was taking it out of his pocket.” Bhuiyan said the » See BHUIYAN, page 5
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NU a top Peace Corps feeder again By MARIANA ALFARO
TALKING FORGIVENESS Rais Bhuiyan, who was shot in the face by a white supremacist in the wake of Sept. 11, speaks about forgiving his attacker Friday. The event was co-hosted by the Muslim-cultural Students Association and the South Asian Student Alliance.
how her childhood experiences affected her career. Although the two made some jokes, their conversation was serious. Lyonne said the Holocaust impacted her family dynamic growing up because there were Holocaust survivors on her mother’s side of the family. “There’s a whole generation of children of survivors who have this very specific experience of how to live in the world, how their own problems were supposed to be
Northwestern is once again among the top 25 medium-sized schools that enlisted volunteers for the Peace Corps, after failing to rank on the list last year. In 2014, 14 Northwestern students joined the Peace Corps after graduation, earning NU the 19th spot on the 2015 list, next to schools like Duke University and Northern Michigan University. NU wasn’t ranked in in 2014. Jessica Mayle (Medill ’04), a spokeswoman for the Peace Corps in the midwest region and a former volunteer with the organization, said it is common to see application fluctuations throughout the years, but she’s glad that Northwestern is “back on the horse this year.” “Northwestern is one of our consistent schools and we were disappointed last year that it wasn’t on the list,” Mayle told The Daily. “I don’t think there was any specific reason that it wasn’t on last year and it was this year. It was just the number of students who were serving at any
given time was just a few shy last year of making the list.” This year volunteers have more say in the countries to which they are assigned, which Mayle said could have influenced the number of 2014 volunteers. “Right now, you can actually choose the country where you want to serve,” Mayle said. “Maybe you’re really interested in agriculture work or maybe you want to teach English in China … you can go through all of our assignments and pick the assignment that most interests you.” The application was also shortened — it now takes one hour to complete instead of eight, Mayle said. Mayle said the new changes will hopefully inspire more students to apply because applicants can make their Peace Corps experience more applicable to the degree they studied for. Peace Corps volunteer Eric Cooper (Weinberg ’13), who majored in chemistry, currently works in Mozambique teaching chemistry and computers and founded a primary school that exposes » See PEACE CORPS, page 5
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Around Town Boltwood chef nominated for James Beard Award By JULIA JACOBS
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Above all else, Evanston chef Brian Huston values simplicity. Wearing a starched white-collared T-shirt, Huston opens his downtown Evanston restaurant Boltwood to the public just before noon. Boltwood is there to bring good food to the people, Huston said. Huston was nominated on Feb. 18 as a semifinalist for a James Beard Award in the Best Chef category of the Great Lakes region. The James Beard Award, which Huston called the Academy Awards of cooking, covers many aspects of the food world, including chefs, restaurateurs, food writers and restaurant designers. Huston has settled back in his hometown of Evanston after more than two decades as a traveling
chef, from San Francisco to Boulder, Colorado to Europe and back to Chicago. His intention was to gather unique experiences and techniques to bring back home, Huston said. Boltwood, located at 804 Davis St., the former site of LuLu’s Dim Sum & Then Some, opened last June. Huston named his restaurant after the freshman wing and cafeteria at his alma mater Evanston Township High School, which are also named Boltwood. “A lot of us cooks get into it because we like cooking for friends and family, and that’s what it’s been every night,” Huston said. “If it’s not my mom, it’s my sixth grade teacher. If it’s not her, it’s my wife’s good friends.” As an executive chef at the Publican in Chicago a couple of years ago, Huston shopped for ingredients at the Evanston Farmers Markets, where farmers encouraged him to open his own restaurant in Evanston. Huston initially dismissed the idea, until he joined his friend John Kim, co-owner of The
Brothers K Coffeehouse and Other Brother Coffeebar in Evanston, in the search for an Evanston space for a restaurant. Huston and Kim, who is a partner at Boltwood, both do anything they can to build community inside and outside the restaurant, Kim said. Huston often volunteers to cook at charity events, and Kim is a mentor at Youth Organizations Umbrella in Evanston, he added. “The exciting thing is in five years becoming an anchor in this area, and when people think about Evanston they’ll think about Boltwood,” Kim said. During the summer the ingredients at Boltwood are almost entirely locally-sourced, but when the season is not right Huston prioritizes good food over close food, he said. “If I can get a quality product that is local, that’s the home run,” Huston said. “But I’m not the chef that’s like, ‘I’m local, don’t mess with me.’ I don’t want to serve trout every day of the year. I like scallops and I like red snapper or oysters from Maine.”
What separates Boltwood from other local restaurants is that the menu is reprinted every day based on the best ingredients the cooks have at their fingertips, Kim said. Customers can’t expect to come back to the restaurant to order their favorite dish — they have to trust that whatever Huston puts together will taste good, he said. This year the awards gala in May will be held for the first time in Chicago, at the Lyric Opera, in celebration of the James Beard Awards’ 25th anniversary. Paul Kahan, Huston’s mentor and former colleague at the Publican, is one of the four winners from Chicago of the James Beard Award for Outstanding Chef. Not only would it be a personal honor for him to win an award, but it would help draw new customers, especially chefs, to Boltwood, Huston said. “It would put us in a tier that is seldom seen at the suburban restaurant level,” Kim said. juliajacobs2018@u.northwestern.edu
Evanston holds origami folding event to promote peace By STEPHANIE KELLY
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As part of an ongoing winter program series, the city held an event Sunday where attendees attempted to fold 1,000 origami paper cranes to promote a wish for peace. The Evanston Arts Council sponsored “Flight for Peace,” as part of the city’s Winter HeARTh series. Held at the Evanston Ecology Center, 2024 McCormick Blvd., from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., residents and non-residents could stop by and fold as many cranes as they wanted. The Winter HeARTh series attempts to bring people together through art during the winter months. The series, now in its second year, launched its 2015 programming with “SplatterDance” in February.
“Flight for Peace” was the second and final event for this year. The idea for the event came from a Japanese tradition called senbazuru which promises a person the fulfillment of one wish if he or she folds 1,000 paper cranes. “We shifted the tradition a little bit for our purposes to say that as a community we could come together to fold 1,000 cranes so that we as a community can make one wish towards peace,” said Jason Brown, the program assistant for the city’s cultural arts coordinator. There were minimal paper instructions at the event so that attendees would instead have to teach and learn from others there, Brown said. At around 1:30 p.m., there were about 15 people there. Jessica Iverson, an Evanston resident, said she attended the event because she thinks the message of peace is very important as she is a pacifist.
“I think that it’s a good reminder for anybody who is participating,” she said. “I think that when we take action in any way for a positive cause … it’s also a reminder for those participating to renew this commitment of seeking after more ways of building peace in this instance in our community.” Iverson attended last year’s Winter HeARTh series events and said the series tries to draw the community together in the season that least naturally does that. In addition, by having the event sponsored by the Arts Council as opposed to a smaller organization, more people are drawn in and attend, she said. Mary Jaminski, a Skokie resident, works in an office at the Ecology Center and went to the event because it was children-friendly. She said the event was a great way to build community while doing something productive. Iverson also liked the event for its not only
children-friendly environment, but its age-friendly environment, she said. “I really like that with these events, it’s multigenerational,” Iverson said. “You can have kids folding their very first origami. In an event for it to really be positive, everybody needs to feel that they have something to contribute.” The series partners with public spaces to foster the event. The partner for “Flight for Peace,” the Ecology Center, will house the cranes in a temporary installation and they will be hung in the center’s hallways for passersby to see. Brown said in the end the amount of cranes folded does not matter as much as the ultimate message. “I think that the wish that we had to get the community together making a craft has already been granted,” he said. stephaniekelly2017@u.northwestern.edu
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On Campus Residential Services removes sex restrictions in overnight guest policy
Residential Services has changed its overnight guest policy to remove restrictions on a guest’s sex. Students living in Northwestern housing will be allowed to host guests of any sex, as long as the guest doesn’t stay for more than three consecutive nights. The previous policy required guests to be “of the same sex as the residents assigned to the room/suite,” according to the 2013-14 Student Handbook. Rainbow Alliance, Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators, Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault, College Feminists and Panhellenic Association’s executive board all signed a joint letter to then-Director of Residential Life Mary Goldenberg last spring advocating for a change. Chris Harlow, Associated Student Government vice president for student life, said the groups notified ASG of the letter when they sent it, but that he wasn’t aware the policy had changed in the student handbook until January.
Harlow said the groups’ complaints included the policy’s subtext. “It was a very heteronormative process,” Harlow said. “By (the policy’s language) including someone of the ‘opposite sex,’ you’re inferring that if you have someone of the opposite sex, you’ll be having sex with them. Which is an entirely OK thing, but this policy implies that the University wants to control what it is you as an individual can do and who you can or can’t have sex with.” Director of Residential Life Deb Schmidt-Rogers, who succeeded Goldenberg in August 2014, said she was not aware a letter had been written until a few months after the policy had changed. Schmidt-Rogers said her department takes suggestions on how it can improve its policies. “I feel strongly that Residential Services works hard to create communities that are inclusive and respectful of students of different backgrounds,” she told The Daily in an email. “Suggestions are always welcome and the Residence Hall Association is the perfect avenue to filter those concerns and bring them forward.” — Shane McKeon
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SLEEPING OVER A policy requiring overnight guests to be of “the same sex” as the students hosting them was amended over the summer to remove reference to sex or gender. The new policy allows students to host a guest of any sex for three days or fewer.
Across Campuses UC Santa Cruz LGBTQ community calls for change after attack on gay student
Feb. 28 — SANTA CRUZ – Members of the UC Santa Cruz lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community launched a petition demanding the university enact changes in the wake of an attack on a gay student thought to be a hate crime by police. The petition comes roughly three weeks after two men — one, a UC Santa Cruz student — were arrested after allegedly attacking others during a party because of one victim’s sexual orientation. One of the victim’s, a gay male student, suffered broken knuckles, a fractured jaw, a dislocated hip, a concussion and had his wrist broken in three places and shattered in another spot, according to the petition. The attack is being investigated as a hate crime. “A member of our community was brutally beaten and injured and we are livid,” according to a statement on the petition’s website, which has garnered more than 1,300 signatures since its launch Wednesday. The initial release drew anger from the university’s LGBTQ community because it lacked details, said Jamie Epstein, a queer student and a facilitator behind the petition. “It had a lack of transparency and they called it a fight when it was an attack,” Epstein said. “I think language is important in these matters. To call it a fight is not really shedding light on the hate and violence.” Among the demands in the petition are implementation of multistall, all-gender bathrooms throughout the campus, creation of a free self-defense class to all university students, creation of universitywide workshops on LGBTQ issues and hiring multiple staff members to implement and enforce the demands. — Calvin Men (Santa Cruz Sentinel, Calif./TNS)
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State budget cuts threaten our public universities WILLIAM KIRKLAND
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Universities are among the most invaluable of our institutions. They are the center of research, of new ideas, the place where we endeavor to understand the past and shape the future. They are a moral place – a breeding ground of activism and truth-seeking – of religious study and of secular scientific discovery, of radical ideas and of unifying values. Universities are where free speech is celebrated, where free conscience is most freely practiced. They are living, breathing monuments to the promise of humanity. These unique values are only heightened in the case of public universities, where education and truth are democratized and collectivized for the public good. State universities pool the resources of communities to further the pursuit of knowledge and open doors to all who seek it. But public universities are under attack from a new wave of “fiscally responsible� governors right here in the Midwest, the latest budget-balancing warriors in the war on “Big Government.� In Wisconsin, Republican governor Scott Walker recently unveiled a new budget proposal that cuts state funding for Wisconsin universities by $300 million over two years. The cut is a massive blow to the state’s university system and a direct assault on the university as an institution of knowledge and truth. The scale is unfathomable; the $20 million cut from UWMilwaukee, for instance, is the equivalent of wiping out its schools of public health, information studies and social welfare combined. But Walker’s proposal doesn’t only target university finances; it also goes after an intellectual mission. The University of Wisconsin is one the state’s crown jewels, with the world-renowned flagship campus in Madison one of its most potent symbols. At its core is what Badgers fans call the “Wisconsin Idea,� which takes the public utility of the university a step further. The Wisconsin Idea, which functions as the university’s mission statement, holds that “the boundaries of the University are the boundaries of the state.� It maintains that “basic to every purpose of the system is the search for truth,� and that its academic pursuits are a “public
Wisconsin state spending on University of Wisconsin system
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service designed to educate people and improve the human condition.� A lofty mission statement, no doubt, and one that only a university can make a legitimate claim to. Walker’s attack on the university goes farther than spending cuts to invaluable programs; it seeks to undermine the entire purpose of the university itself. Walker’s original budget proposal edited the noble Wisconsin Idea and added a new mission, “to meet the state’s workforce needs.� Amid national political pressure and predictably bad press, Walker eventually reinstated the original language of the Idea, but not before his designs against the university were made clear. Unfortunately, the full-court press on institutions of higher learning has extended into Illinois, where understandable concern over the state’s fiscal situation has ballooned into an assault on the Illinois university system. Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, who campaigned both on balancing the state budget and strengthening the commitment of the state to public universities, recently announced almost $400 million in cuts to state funding for the university system. The timing of Rauner’s cuts could not be worse. Only last month, the University of Illinois Board of Trustees enacted a tuition freeze to stem the exploding costs of tuition. Now, a dramatic cut to revenue will force the difficult decision between raising tuition and digging
into the worn pockets of the Illinois middle class, and cutting programs and undermining the quality and output of the university. The cuts to these public universities are part and parcel of a new wave of conservative ideological purification that sees an existential threat in all things deemed “liberal� — including colleges and universities where ideas are supposed to be liberated from political realities, where academic pursuits and data-backed facts are always supposed to trump confirmation-
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Public universities are under attack from a new wave of “fiscally responsible� governors right here in the Midwest.
biased ideology. It is an ideology that often shirks the truth, and in some cases even disdains it. The case studies of the latter are numerous. Take Oklahoma, for instance. Facebook newsfeeds were filled last week with posts about the Oklahoma legislature’s delusional attempts to sugarcoat American history in order to foster an image of America — morally incorruptible, ordained with a God-given destiny — that so many modern conservatives pine after.
Or take the case of James Inhofe, senator from the Sooner state, who just last week brought an actual snowball to the Senate floor as evidence against global warming, while postulating, “It’s very cold out. Very unseasonable.� Inhofe, the author of a science-less book on climate change called “The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future,� is the Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee. The Republican chairman of the Senate committee that oversees environmental policy literally used a snowball as a scientific argument on the Senate floor. This new wave of conservative ideological purification would be merely laughable if it were harmless, but its not. It wields the potential to inflict serious, long-term damage on the institutions that matter most, like our universities and colleges. Budget cuts and changes to mission statements undermine the university’s basic premise and its ability to educate, to research, to call into question and to enact change. These attacks must not go unchallenged; the university is too important and its value to society too great. William Kirkland is a Weinberg junior. He can be reached at williamkirkland2016@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Political views should not trump personal relationships TIM BALK
DAILY COLUMNIST
Politics can be divisive by nature. People often categorize and define themselves by their political opinions and perspectives, pitting them against each other. At Northwestern, students care deeply about political issues. This is super cool. However, NU students sometimes let their political views become too dominant. Some students tend to think of people as walking embodiments of political parties. I’ve heard NU students say that they wouldn’t even want to live with a member of another political party. I find such statements somewhat disturbing. It is important to distinguish an idea from the person espousing it. Folks’ opinions are just their opinions. Nothing more, nothing less. You cannot
derive much knowledge about someone’s personality from what that person thinks about the Keystone XL pipeline bill. You cannot find out whether people are shy or outgoing from their opinions on whether the minimum wage should be increased. You cannot infer whether people Politics are compassionate are a social based on how they feel about net neutrality. construct too. Yet, NU students still And people seem to conflate peoare more than ple and their political opinions. their political This is not just allegiances and a problem at NU. A January column ideas. in The New York Times by Thomas B. Edsall noted politics have become intensely personal in America. It cited a study that showed, as of 2010, 49 percent of Republicans and 33 percent of Democrats would be
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“somewhat or very unhappy� if their children married someone from the opposite party. These numbers are discouraging. It was not always this way. In 1960, only 4 percent of Democrats and 5 percent of Republicans felt this way. The idea that political affiliation or ideology should have an impact on the people you associate with is illogical. Political ideology comes from circumstances as much as anything. Our environment is the greatest producer of our opinions — we believe that which we have been taught. A note to liberals (I’m picking on liberals — my tribe — because there are far more liberals at NU than conservatives): you can still be smart and believe that trickle-down economics works; you can still be a kind, generous person and believe that affirmative action is unfair. Moving beyond the fact that political ideologies are so frequently little more than the products of socialization, saying outright that people with opinions that clash with
yours should be avoided is impractical. The key to open discourse is the willingness of both sides to participate. You can’t change anybody’s opinion if you refuse to hear it. NU students should listen to and assume the best intent from their peers rather than antagonize them. All of us, hopefully, came here to learn — not just from our professors but also from each other. I understand certain issues are especially important to people. I’m not trying to say they shouldn’t be. But our political ideologies should not define the way we interact with others. NU students often use the phrase “social construct� as a sort of pejorative. Well, politics are a social construct too. And people are more than their political allegiances and ideas. So lighten up. Politics should never get in the way of personal relationships. Tim Balk is a Medill freshman. He can be contacted at timothybalk2018@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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or white or Chinese or Korean. I see them as a human being.”“More respectful dialogue” is key to initiating progress, Bhuiyan said. “No matter how bad the situation,” as demonstrated by the recent Chapel Hill shootings, Bhuiyan said, “There is always room for discussion and dialogue.”Bhuiyan told the audience it’s important to break barriers and make connections, which means learning about and accepting other cultures.“If you’re a Muslim, I would say, please visit churches, go to temple,” Bhuiyan said. “If you’re non-Muslim, go and see what is happening in the mosques.” To combat hate and ignorance, people have to ask themselves how they can contribute, instead of pinning responsibility or blame on others, Bhuiyan said. Sara Fadlalla, a Communication senior and a member of McSA, said she had heard of Bhuiyan’s story before, but “having him actually come and share it was really powerful.” However, she said she disagreed with Bhuiyan’s idea that there is always room for dialogue, especially in the case where different groups operate on uneven playing fields. “If one group is oppressed, and one is in a seat of oppressing,” Fadlalla said, “I don’t think necessarily dialogue would work in that case.” For Weinberg freshman and co-president elect of McSA, Anna Radakrishnan, who played a big role in organizing the discussion, events “like this one today, are really going to help educate the community … from tolerance to acceptance.”
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events of Sept. 11 only added fuel to Stroman’s resentment. Bhuiyan said by allowing Stroman to live, he “could learn from his mistakes and contribute to society in a positive way.” Stroman did change. After hearing that Bhuiyan forgave him and started a campaign to appeal his death sentence, Stroman “was reduced to tears,” Bhuiyan said. “He couldn’t believe Muslims would react in that way.” Stroman went on to denounce his previous beliefs and apologized to Bhuiyan. Even though his appeal was denied, Bhuiyan said, shortly before Stroman was executed in 2011 they spoke on the phone and he was surprised to hear Stroman tell him, “I love you, bro.” Bhuiyan said Stroman’s change of heart demonstrated how much people can grow. “This is the same man, 10 years back, shot me in the face and put me through unbelievable pain and suffering,” Bhuiyan said, “and it’s the same man, 10 years after, who’s calling me his brother.” Bhuiyan, who is now a peace activist and the founder of the organization World Without Hate, said it wasn’t easy to restart his life after his attack. Bhuiyan said besides his strong religious beliefs, his faith in humanity was instrumental in helping him put his life back together and forgive Stroman. After the discussion, Bhuiyan told The Daily that he does not see people “as Muslims or Christian,
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reasonable in the face of what their own parents had been through,” she said. Despite the horrors of the Holocaust, Lyonne said she believes it added depth and color to the modern Jewish experience and gave her a stronger sense of morality because she grew up with a “Hitler shadow.” Potek pointed out that remembering the Holocaust is a large part of being Jewish. “I didn’t realize she grew up with so much Holocaust in her background,” he told The Daily. “There were a bunch of things that were surprising that isn’t on screen.”
Weinberg freshman Sara Halloran, who attended the talk because she is both Jewish and an “Orange is the New Black” fan, said she enjoyed the event because she was able to connect with Lyonne’s Jewish background. Potek said he enjoyed being able to have the conversation with Lyonne because he was able to ask meaningful questions about her life. In the predominantly female cast of “Orange is the New Black,” Lyonne plays a gay character but said she doesn’t think either of these things should say anything specific about her role as an actor or her character. “It would be nice if it wasn’t just women’s issues or gay issues,” she said. “It would just be nice if it just were, ‘These are the issues’ and ‘This is this person,’ and less about, ‘This
National News Fate of health care law is in justices’ hands — again WASHINGTON — Four little words will make a world of difference when the Supreme Court considers a potentially disabling challenge to President Barack Obama’s signature health care law Wednesday. In a case that concerns language and politics more than the Constitution, the ideologically divided court must divine the meaning of one crucial but arguably ambiguous phrase in the 906-page law. Its future, and insurance coverage for millions of people, might hang in the balance, for neither the first nor the last time. “We will be seeing Affordable Care Act cases before the Supreme Court for decades to come,” predicted Jonathan H. Adler, a Case Western Reserve University School of Law professor who’s a leading critic of the law. The oral argument Wednesday morning in King v. Burwell marks the latest return of the Affordable Care Act to the Supreme Court since 2012. Then, in a 5-4 decision authored by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., the court upheld the law’s “individual mandate” requiring people to buy health insurance or pay a penalty. This time, too, Roberts might play an important swing role, as the self-appointed protector of the court’s reputation. And, as in 2012, the case has drawn an unusual number of kibitzers. Twenty-one amicus — friend of the court — briefs, some more trenchant than others, were filed supporting the challengers, and 31 defending the Obama administration’s actions.
The Supreme Court’s task this time is different from that in 2012 or in 2014, when a 5-4 majority ruled corporations could claim a religious exemption from a mandate to provide contraceptive coverage. Now, instead of determining whether Congress exceeded its constitutional authority in writing the health care law, the nine justices must interpret the statute’s meaning. Under the health care law, states are encouraged, but not required, to establish exchanges to offer onestop shopping for insurance coverage. Obama has likened the exchanges to an online site such as Amazon, a place where consumers can compare plans. As inducement, the law offers tax credits to those qualified by income who buy insurance through an exchange “established by the State.” The challenge turns on this phrase. Driven primarily by Republican resistance, several dozen states declined to establish health insurance exchanges. Nevertheless, the Internal Revenue Service has extended tax-credit subsidies to residents in these states who buy insurance through the federal exchange, HealthCare.gov. “More than 5 million of the people who obtained coverage through exchanges in 2014 lived in one of the 34 states with an exchange operated by the federal government,” the legal team headed by U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. said in a Jan. 21 brief, “and the overwhelming majority of these people relied on tax credits to pay their premiums each month.” The remaining states — including California, Kentucky, Idaho and Washington — as well as the District of Columbia have established their own exchanges. — Michael Doyle (McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS)
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is this female filmmaker’ or ‘This is this queer filmmaker,’ and that’s something that I would like to see happen as soon as possible.” For students looking to go into acting like Lyonne, she suggested they find a community of like-minded people and tell stories their own way. However, she warned, it is hard to make a living out of acting, and only the top 1 percent are making the money. “There’s got to be a real inner fire for going the distance, and it’s got to be okay not to make it and you’re really enjoying what you’re doing,” she said. “It’s not about winning at life, it’s about having a life.”
young students to English, according to a Peace Corps press release. “Northwestern, first and foremost, taught me patience and commitment,” Cooper said in the press release. “My four years at Northwestern have taught me how to continue through thick and thin, the good and the bad. Living abroad, especially with the Peace Corps, can be a tough experience that requires a level head and an open mind. After graduating from Northwestern, I was prepared to jump into a new community, culture, and environment with confidence and the determination to make a difference.”
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Men’s Golf
NU gunning for Illinois in final event before break Louisiana Classics
By KEVIN CASEY
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Lafayette, Louisiana All Day Monday & Tuesday
For the first time this season, Northwestern will have the same starting five for consecutive events, and the course this week will be of the same short, tight variety that proved fruitful for the Wildcats in a third-place finish at the Jones Invitational. The forecast also calls for bad weather, which is a boon for an NU program that prides itself on performing under adverse conditions. So the team is in pretty good spirits as they head off to the Louisiana Classics, which begins on Monday. “I think everyone is feeling better about their games,” coach David Inglis said. “There were so many good things we did in California, a lot of birdies. And everyone contributed to the team score.” A third place showing could actually register as a disappointment this week, considering the upbeat attitude and the field that awaits at Oakbourne Country Club. Fourteen teams will be on hand for the event,
and only two rank ahead of the No. 58 Cats. Those would be No. 52 Southeastern Louisiana and No. 1 Illinois. Inglis said that the Fighting Illini will be a big focus for NU in Lafayette, Louisiana. Not only is Illinois the nation’s top program, but the team also represents a Cats rival, along with the main target NU has to shoot for if it has any dreams of a Big Ten title. One key will be for the Cats to start out fast over the first 18 holes, as a team of Illinois’ caliber is extremely difficult to catch from behind. NU also had major struggles in that department earlier in the season, with poor first rounds in two of its first three events. “I’m not exactly sure what caused the fall problems, but at Valencia we got off to a good start,” senior Bennett Lavin said. Lavin is the roster’s key pivot point, as the solid No. 3 whose downfall could mean the demise of the
team’s shot at Illinois. That doesn’t appear likely to happen, as Lavin said he feels confident about his game, especially the ballstriking and short game components. Putting is where Lavin still feels he can improve. The lefty senior switched to right-handed putting 16 months ago, a big change that could have caused major growing pains. Despite his current flatstick woes, Lavin said that the transformation has been successful. Aside from Lavin, if NU wants to challenge Illinois, it will need to see more of the sharp play it got from the back end of the lineup at the Jones, and get its 1-2 punch revving into full gear. Junior Josh Jamieson did his job last week, but star freshman Dylan Wu faltered to 27th place, only fourth-best on the team. Wu chalked up his less-than-stellar play last week to letting some shots get away, including back-to-back double bogeys in the first round, and felt he gave away those strokes because he lost his composure. The team as a whole suffered from that in a way as well, with too many high scores marring a barrage of birdies and eagles. Wu admitted the results in California were a
setback, but he is ready to return to his top dog role. “All offseason I think my game was progressing well and I didn’t play to my potential at the Jones,” Wu said. “I’m still motivated though to work on those things, I want to incorporate them this week and I’m still confident I can play well.” Patience will be at a premium for NU this week, with Inglis saying that inaccurate drives on a few holes could leave players totally blocked out. Fatigue would seem like a potential issue, with this being the third tournament in three weeks. But the Cats aren’t biting. NU only had one practice between the Jones and traveling to Louisiana. And with a 24-day break following this event, the Cats want to make sure they are relaxed and ready to go in this pivotal moment in the spring season. “We did a lot of recovery work with the trainers, so they should all be fit and ready to go,” Inglis said. “We just really wanted to manage our rest between two events. This is really the last push in the Winter Quarter.” kevincasey2015@u.northwestern.edu
Women’s Golf
Cats hungry, in line for first win of spring in Florida Hurricane Invitational
By KEVIN CASEY
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Coral Gables, Florida All Day Monday-Wednesday
Victory eluded the Wildcats in the first event of the spring season, but Northwestern looks poised to make the second time the charm. The Cats will head to Coral Gables, Florida, on Monday to take part in the 54-hole Hurricane Invitational, an event NU won last year. Along with the promising recent history, the Cats are also by far the top-ranked team in the field, as NU currently holds the No. 7 spot in the country, with the next closest in the field clocking in at 25. Against such a favorable group, it wouldn’t be surprising for NU to be chomping at the bit. And indeed, coach Emily Fletcher said her team is ready to get back into action, but it’s more for the course they will be playing. “We’re excited to compete again,” Fletcher said. “It’s a good golf course at the Biltmore, and a good opportunity at birdies if it’s not too windy. If we putt a little better (that’ll be good). We’re doing well with birdies, we just have to minimize mistakes.” Nothing is a foregone conclusion in golf though.
The field, although not daunting at the top, is a deep group. And NU already lost to No. 25 Iowa State in the Lady Puerto Rico Classic, the Cats’ first event of the spring. The team is also making some changes to their starting lineup, with freshman Sarah Cho moving into the individual slot and sophomore Kacie Komoto finding herself back among the starting five. The shake-up, though, is not born out of a poor play controversy. “Sarah played well in Puerto Rico and is doing a nice job, and is continuing to learn and manage her way around a golf course,” Fletcher said. “But Kacie played well for us here last year and she’s a good player for us, so we’re looking for some nice contributions from her this week.” Indeed, Komoto distinguished herself with a 12thplace showing at the Lady Puerto Rico. Fletcher iterated that having Cho as an individual this week will also help the team when it can use six players in a
six-count-four format, and that the ebb-and-flow of the lineup isn’t likely to halt anytime soon because of supreme depth. Among the other starters, Hana Lee stood out in Puerto Rico with three rounds of 75 or better that netted her 15th place. senior struggled in (Kacie’s) a good theThe fall with high scores, player for us, so as rounds of 78, 81 and 82 marred her final totals we’re looking in three separate fall for some nice tournaments. Lee said she has worked contributions to alleviate that problem, from her this and the results are starting week. to come around. “What I’m working on Emily Fletcher, is staying in the present head coach and not focusing ahead,” Lee said. “After Puerto Rico, it’s a bit of a confidence booster. Patience is key out here, and I did that well at Puerto Rico.” Star freshman Hannah Kim shined at Puerto Rico with a runner-up finish, but another fall standout,
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Suchaya Tangkamolprasert, came down to Earth with three mediocre rounds. The junior pointed to her putter as the main culprit in facilitating her struggles, but there was nothing to worry about long term. “The greens were really tough, and the ball just didn’t really go in for me at Puerto Rico,” she said. “It was just a little bit of this here or there, it wasn’t anything major.” Fletcher says short game continues to be a team focus, and that ball striking appears to be getting better and better each week as the team continues to shake off the rust from indoor play over the winter. Tangkamolprasert concurred that team morale is still at a high point, and with one event under NU’s belt, the bad side effects of indoor practice will subside. “We had to transfer a lot of what we learned from an indoor facility,” she said. “It was kind of tough for me to do that in Puerto Rico, but after the first tournament, I’m sure the results will be better this week.” If the junior is right, NU may be marking off its first win of the spring and second victory of the 20142015 campaign. kevincasey2015@u.northwestern.edu
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Despite its most balanced offensive outing of the season Saturday, Northwestern couldn’t overcome a tough North Carolina squad in its third down-to-the-wire game this year. No. 6 NU (3-2) started five freshmen against No. 2 North Carolina (4-1) in Chapel Hill on Saturday and kept pace with the Tar Heels throughout a high-energy, back-and-forth contest. Ultimately, though, midfield turnovers and draw controls did the Cats in for a
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12-11 loss. Saturday’s game was NU’s third contest decided by one goal this season, and the team’s first one-goal loss. The Cats are now 1-2 against Atlantic Coast Conference opponents with three programs left to play. After falling behind 2-0 less than four minutes into the game, the Cats got rolling behind goals from freshman Selena Lasota that put NU on even ground. The Cats and Tar Heels traded goals until NU had its first, short-lived lead with 14
minutes to go in the second half. Then North Carolina’s Maggie Bill beat sophomore Sheila Nesselbush twice to score two goals in under one minute, giving the Tar Heels back the edge. Late-game goals from freshmen Corinne Wessels and Nesselbush, who put in significant time at both ends of the field and paced NU’s offense with a hat trick, weren’t enough to keep the Cats alive. It was Bill, one of two North Carolina players to end the day with a hat trick, who scored the game-winner with four minutes left to play. In her collegiate debut, Wessels was one of two players to notch their first goals of the season Saturday. She recorded two goals, two assists, a draw control and a ground ball on Navy Field.
Senior Jess Carroll also scored her first goal of the season off the bench, rounding out a balanced attacking core of six goal scorers, tied with the Marquette game for the most NU has had in a single game this season. Carroll was the only senior to score and one of few on the pitch Saturday. Senior Kara Mupo did not play. At the other end of the field, senior goalkeeper Bridget Bianco did her class proud. Bianco made a season-high 13 saves out of 29 shots from a crafty Tar Heels’ offense, including four free-position shots. In an otherwise evenly matched contest, it was 14 turnovers under heavy midfield pressure and losing 15-10 on the draw control that cost NU the game. — Ava Wallace
Freshmen start to find themselves in weekend matchups No. 6 Baylor
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After some ups and downs, the Wildcats took some formative steps at home this weekend, as all three Northwestern freshmen found themselves on the court together for the first time this season. On Friday night, No. 33 NU (4-3, 1-0) tried its hand against No. 6 Baylor (12-2). The Cats fell far short of victory, losing 5-1. Freshman Erin Larner earned the lone win for NU while freshman Alex Chatt kept all her games close but lost in the end, 6-3, 6-2. “It wasn’t a good performance,â€? coach Claire Pollard said. “It’s hard for the girls because they’ve been preparing so well. ‌ They’ve been busting and doing everything we’ve asked of them. Maybe they wanted it so much that they let it get away from them — you can want something too much.â€? NU wanted to move on quickly after the loss, returning Sunday to win 6-1 over No. 35 Texas (2-5). Sunday marked the first time all three freshmen started on the singles courts. For Rheeya Doshi, Sunday also marked her return from shin splints and her first appearance in singles for the Cats. Despite losing her match, she was excited to get back on the court.
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“It felt good playing today, even though I haven’t been playing much,â€? Doshi said. “Coming out here today and constructing points, running, it felt different for me. I had fun.â€? The freshmen are also starting to find their identity as a unit on the team. Pollard noted after the contest against the Longhorns that Chatt and Larner are “veteransâ€? after playing seven matches. For Doshi to return from injury also helps to complete the trio. “It was fun to have Rheeya finally back out there,â€? Chatt said. “We’ve missed cheering for her and having her on the court with us. Even just playing next to each other ‌ having your best friends on the court, it motivates you to play better.â€? Chatt also commented that finding the unit’s
identity is a long process — not one that the freshmen are trying to rush either. “No, not even close (to finding our identity),â€? Chatt said. “Personally, I can lie and say that we did, but I think it’s going to take all four years to finally figure that out, but it’s so much fun to figure it out.â€? That motivation helped lead to the victory Sunday. Texas was unable to play with a full squad, so the Longhorns were forced to forfeit one doubles match as well as the No. 6 singles. After winning both doubles contests, the Cats made quick work of their opponent, clinching the match point after only an hour of singles play. The rapid contest boded well for NU after being plagued with so much adversity. With Doshi’s return, the Cats might be able to see light at the end of the tunnel. Sophomore Manon Peri is still out indefinitely with a knee injury, and sophomore Maddie Lipp is out for the season, but having only two injured teammates is better than three. NU just has to hope fate does not try and get even with the squad. “As things calm down a little bit and we don’t get hit with any more surprises, hopefully that will help us,â€? Pollard said. “It’s been hard to settle — we get something, then we lose someone. ‌ Hopefully we can just have some stability.â€?
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FUTILE EFFORT Alex Olah goes up for the layup. The junior center scored 18 points on 7-of-10 shooting, but was one of Northwestern’s few bright spots in an 86-60 beatdown Saturday at Illinois.
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Northwestern fell victim to a hot-shooting Illinois squad Saturday at the State Farm Center, as the team’s four-game winning streak came to an arresting close in an 86-60 defeat. The Fighting Illini, who entered on a three-game losing streak in which they had averaged 0.93 points per possession, got on an offensive roll from the opening minutes against the Wildcats’ 2-3 zone. The Cats never posed much of a threat in the blowout loss. “They had an amazing amount of energy, pop, fight and hunger,” coach Chris Collins said of the Fighting Illini on WGN Radio. “They were ready for a big time game, and they had the will. I just didn’t feel we had the same fight that they had.” Illinois made a 3-pointer on each of its first four possessions, opening up a 12-2 lead. Misses on the Fighting Illini’s next four attempts from long range made it seem as though the home team would come back down to earth. But another shooting barrage in
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86 the final minutes of the first half pushed Illinois’ lead to as many as 25 points in the opening period. “We were trying to initially trap that short corner,” Collins said on WGN. “I thought they did a great job of finding shooters out of it, and then we backed off. I thought we were just a step slow in our rotations, and I didn’t think we were as active as we had been defensively with our hands or feet, with our minds. Our talk wasn’t quite there.” NU made an early second half run to cut Illinois’ advantage down to 17 points, but that was the closest the Cats could get. The Fighting Illini finished with 1.37 points per possession as five players scored in double figures, led by Rayvonte Rice with 19 points. They also had an effective fieldgoal percentage of 59.6 percent as a team thanks to 14 triples. “Give them tremendous credit,” Collins said. “I thought they were
crisp, I thought they were fresh. They had energy, they brought the fight to us, and they deserve what they got tonight.” NU received 18 points on 7-of-10 shooting from junior center Alex Olah. Freshman guard Bryant McIntosh tallied 13 points and four assists while senior guard Dave Sobolewski added 11 points off the bench. NU now turns the page to Tuesday’s matchup with Michigan, the final home game of the regular season. The Cats are still in the running for a bye in the Big Ten Tournament, but they will have to win at least one of their final two games to jump ahead of the 10th place Minnesota Golden Gophers. After a thorough shellacking on the road, though, Collins was more than happy to focus on the road ahead. “These things happen from time to time,” Collins said on WGN. “They’re not fun, but they happen to everybody. It wasn’t there for us tonight. We’ve got to get back and get our legs back get ready for a good Michigan team Tuesday night.” jessekramer2017@u.northwestern.edu
Men’s Tennis
NU attains ‘complete’ match By DAVID LEE
daily senior staffer @davidylee95
No. 20 Northwestern once again handily dispatched a lesser opponent, dropping Middle Tennessee State 6-1 in Evanston on Friday. NU (8-5) simply did what was expected heading into the bout: assert its dominance against the feisty but overmatched Blue Raiders (6-4). The Wildcats only beat the Conference USA squad 4-3 last year but put the visitors away with more ease this time around. NU dominated the doubles pairings, losing only three games and dictating the pace of play on all three courts. The Cats grabbed the lead early, taking 10 of the first 11 games. Senior Alex Pasareanu sealed the doubles victory for the Cats with an improbable drop shot against 6-foot-8 opponent Yannick Born. The Cats’ singles play was more than enough to score the victory. NU won the first three singles points, but the coaches decided to finish out the contest. “I thought we played a complete match,” coach Arvid Swan said. “Doubles was a big improvement from Cornell and we came out and played tough
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in singles. The focus is always trying to play a complete match, doubles and singles.” Middle Tennessee State’s Ben Davis also aggravated a right wrist injury at the No. 1 singles spot against sophomore Sam Shropshire. Davis was behind 5-3 in the first set but decided to retire when he noticed his injury flaring up. Davis initially sustained the injury two weeks ago in a match again South Carolina, and has been cautious about injuries following a medical redshirt season last year. Junior Mihir Kumar said he was hungry for a victory against the Blue Raiders after being denied the past two years. He shouted in frustration after blowing a lead in his super-breaker against Dima Zyhmantovich. Tied 6-6, Kumar dug deep and was able to win 4 of the last 6 points for a tough victory. Zyhmantovich openly protested several calls in the match, particularly a debatable ball called out on the last point of the match. “At the end I just kind of gritted it
out. I’m proud of myself that I did that, and at the end he just kind of gave it to me,” Kumar said. Kumar said he wasn’t fretting over the controversial calls in the aftermath, adding, “I mean, that last ball was out.” But most of NU’s singles matchups were clean victories. Strong Kirchheimer, Fedor Baev and Logan Staggs all won in straight sets. Staggs in particular bounced back strong after failing to take a set in two matches last weekend. He pressured opponent Victor Hoang with powerful groundstrokes and was able to keep the experienced senior from finding his rhythm. “I stayed aggressive the whole match,” Staggs said. “During the second set he came to my backhand because he was losing the forehand rallies, and I outgrinded him. In the second set he got frustrated and was going for ridiculous shots. He started to give up.” But Staggs, along with the rest of the squad, will need to find an even higher gear for NU to have a chance at the illustrious Big Ten title. Next week brings three more tough opponents, Indiana, Purdue and Western Illinois, and the uphill battle to a conference title. davidlee2017@u.northwestern.edu
For the second time in four days, Welsh-Ryan Arena hosted a matchup between two top 25 teams. But this game did not go in favor of the home team, and Senior Day was not too enjoyable for the Wildcats. No. 25 Northwestern (22-7, 12-6 Big Ten) watched its winning streak end at eight games on Sunday thanks to a 69-48 loss at the hands of No. 5 Maryland (27-2, 18-0). In the first half, NU put up a strong fight. The Cats never let Maryland push its lead beyond 7 points, and only trailed by 6 at the break. “I thought we played really well in the first half,” coach Joe McKeown said. “We had some things that didn’t go well at the end of the first half, went down 6. But really, a pretty even game I thought.” NU performed well in the turnover department, per the norm. In the first half, the Cats forced 10 Terrapins turnovers and had only six of their own. NU also outscored Maryland in the paint, on the fast break and had more points off turnovers in the opening period, but it was not enough. The difference between the two teams at the half was Maryland’s 3-point shooting. The Terrapins went 5-of-10 from deep while NU was just 2-of-7. This afforded Maryland a 32-26 lead into halftime. “They got hot,” McKeown said. “They hit five 3s in the first half. When you scout them, that’s not something they do a lot. They average four a game.” The second half did not start well for the Cats. They allowed the Terrapins to get three offensive rebounds on their first possession and the road squad’s lead extended to 8. Maryland then proceeded to use its size with sophomore center Brionna Jones, who proved to be an issue for NU’s interior defense. She had 7 points in the first 10 minutes of the second half and the Terrapins increased their lead to 14. “I think we lost a little bit of momentum when they went on that first initial run,” senior guard Karly Roser said. “Maybe we were a little gassed at times. I’m not sure.” In the game’s final 10 minutes, Jones and the Terrapins continued to assert their dominance on the inside. Maryland
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collected nine offensive rebounds in the second half, which led to 12 second chance points. Along with that, the Terrapins outscored the Cats in the paint 14-8 following the game’s halfway point. Maryland’s good interior play, combined with its continued success from beyond the perimeter, proved to be too much for NU to handle. The Cats witnessed the deficit grow to 21 as they were unable to match the Terrapins offensive production and suffered a tough defeat. “They do a lot of the little things well,” senior center Alex Cohen said. “I think They hit five 3s they’re an allaround really in the first half. good team When you scout and hopefully get to see them, that’s not we them in the something they tournament.” Sophodo a lot. They more forward average four a Nia Coffey was NU’s game. leading scorer Joe McKeown, with 14 points head coach and junior forward Lauren Douglas and junior guard Maggie Lyon had 11 and 10 points apiece for a Cats offense that shot just 29 percent for the game. Although the loss looks bad and was far from the desired result, NU is still in great position for the Big Ten Tournament. The Cats will likely still have a double bye in the tournament since this loss only dropped them one spot in the Big Ten rankings, down to fourth. NU will look to learn from this loss, but at the same time, get past it and move forward into the postseason as this promising season is still far from over. “Thursday night, we felt like we could beat anybody,” McKeown said. “We have to look at the positives we did today and take that into the tournament. We have a fearless team. I think they’re resilient and they’ll bounce back, so I’m excited about that.”
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Women’s Basketball
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SENIOR STRUGGLES Alex Cohen releases the shot. The senior center experienced a disappointing Senior Day, posting just 5 points and three rebounds in 29 minutes of play in a 69-48 beatdown from No. 5 Maryland.