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Minimum wage talks reach city By STEPHANIE KELLY

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WOMAN IN POWER IBM president and CEO Virginia Rometty (McCormick ‘79) speaks at the Mobile World Congress in 2014. Rometty will give the 2015 main commencement address at Northwestern.

IBM exec Virginia Rometty to speak at commencement

Virginia Rometty, president and CEO of IBM, will be the Class of 2015’s main commencement speaker, Northwestern announced Thursday. Rometty (McCormick ’79) was named IBM’s president and CEO

at the beginning of 2012, becoming the first woman to head the company. She will be NU’s first female commencement speaker since Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Communication ’83) spoke in 2007. Rometty, who has topped Fortune’s “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” list for the last three years, will also receive an honorary degree from the University. She graduated from NU with a degree in computer science and

electrical engineering and now sits on the University’s Board of Trustees. While a student, she served as president of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Actress and singer Audra McDonald, scientist Dan Shechtman and psychologist Margaret Beale Spencer will also receive honorary degrees. Commencement will take place June 19 at Ryan Field. — Shane McKeon

Elliot Zashin, a retired Evanston resident and former job coach at Interfaith Action of Evanston, has been working on gathering information about low-wage employment in Evanston since the fall of 2013. After deciding to tackle low-wage employment, Zashin, along with members of Lake Street Church of Evanston, other congregations, local organizations and IIRON, an organizing network in the Chicago area, petitioned in front of stores, interviewed minimum wage workers and held workshops. Since this past fall, they have been meeting with City Council members to talk about their perspectives on the matter. They have met with all but two aldermen so far. “Our goal is to collect enough information so that the community and members of the council will realize that this is not a trivial or a minor thing in Evanston,” Zashin said. “Evanston does have a lot of low-wage employment and we think that the community ought to address that … We don’t think this is something to

ignore.” Efforts in Illinois municipalities and the state General Assembly this year have raised questions about what will happen to the minimum wage locally and statewide. A referendum on the Illinois ballot in the November midterm elections recommended that Illinois raise the minimum wage from $8.25 to $10 by 2015. The nonbinding advisory was passed by about two-thirds of Illinois voters. Although the Illinois Senate passed a bill in February that would raise the state minimum wage to $11 an hour by 2019, a different minimum wage bill has already stalled in the House of Representatives due to the end of the legislative session this January. In addition, in his first State of the State address on Feb. 4, Gov. Bruce Rauner proposed raising it to $10 over the next seven years. Illinois’ current minimum wage is $8.25. City staff in Evanston have not yet considered how to deal with a potential local increase in the minimum wage. “It’s better for Evanston I think if it’s done statewide or nationwide,” Evanston » See MINIMUM WAGE, page 8

DM 2015 adds gender- Student parents seek support open bathrooms By OLIVIA EXSTRUM

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Almost a year after 27 students signed a letter to the editor calling on Dance Marathon to be more inclusive, the 30-hour culminating event kicks off Friday evening with gender-open changing rooms and students participating through a “financial buddy system.” The letter, which The Daily published in April 2014, accused DM of privileging students “with racial and socio-economic advantages on campus, thereby leaving fewer opportunities for socially, socioeconomically and racially underprivileged students to participate or lead.” “NUDM has not yet earned campuswide support,” the letter stated. “We can say this confidently as leaders of multicultural, service, philanthropy, social justice and other campus organizations who regularly hear of members of our communities feeling marginalized by NUDM’s practices and its unearned reputation as a campus-wide tradition.”

David Ryan, one of DM’s executive cochairs, said the organization has started to address the problems presented in the letter. “We really worked hard this year to evaluate the different areas where we can reduce or eliminate barriers that would prevent any individual student from participating,” Ryan said. One new approach DM has used this year has been its “financial buddy system.” The system pairs older students who have done DM with newer students concerned with meeting DM’s $400 fundraising minimum, Ryan said. “We’ve heard some great individual stories about dancers who have met and become great friends through the financial buddy system,” he said. “It’s a first-year program, so we’re looking forward to building on it.” Ryan said the event will include genderopen bathrooms and changing rooms, a new addition from last year. Ryan also said DM is working, as it does every year, to accommodate dancers’ medical and » See DM, page 10

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Matilda Stubbs faces struggles that many single parents deal with. The 31-year-old juggles caring for her toddler son, working multiple jobs and managing a tight budget. Stubbs and her son qualify for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, which is similar to food stamps, and are currently searching for a good childcare program. But unlike other single parents, Stubbs is also a student in Northwestern’s doctoral program. A seventh-year anthropology student, Stubbs is on track to graduate in 2016. She has a host of jobs: consulting for the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching, mentoring as a graduate fellow in the Brady Scholars Program in Ethics and Civil Life, teaching a class through the School of Professional Studies and, on top of everything else, working on a dissertation. Last quarter, she said, she also taught classes at Loyola University Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

“I’m the only single parent that I’m aware of in my department currently,” she said. “Since I’ve been here I’m the only mother in my department that’s the provider or the breadwinner.” Being a student parent has a specific set of challenges, Stubbs said. Childcare, health insurance and spaces for breast pumping are “key” to providing adequate resources for pregnant or parenting students – all things, Stubbs said, many student parents feel the University does not do enough to change. A change in policy

In its 2011-2012 annual report, NU’s Graduate Leadership Council, a studentcomprised group, surveyed graduate students. Almost 14 percent of the survey’s respondents were parents or are planning to be parents during their time at the University. Starting Jan. 1, University leave benefits expanded to allow staff members whose partners have recently given birth 10 to 12 weeks of paid leave. Before the policy change, only mothers who had just given birth were allowed leave, which totaled only six to eight weeks. The new policy also gives four weeks of paid leave

to staff members who have recently adopted children. The University was recently awarded a Seal of Distinction from the WorldatWork Alliance for Work-Life Progress for improvement in its policy for supporting its employees and their families. “This honor is a ringing endorsement of what many of us already know about Northwestern: It’s a wonderful place to work,” said Pamela Beemer, vice president for human resources, in a news release Wednesday. “When talented individuals are supported in their work-life needs, they are more able to be fully productive and perform at their highest levels.” Currently, The Graduate School policy grants a six-week “academic accommodation period” — but only to graduate student mothers who have recently given birth. For women supported by funding like fellowships or teaching assistantships at the time of childbirth, the leave is paid. Stubbs said it isn’t enough. She referenced public universities that view graduate students as employees and said NU should follow suit.

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Evanston Township High School has garnered national recognition for the rapidly increasing success of its Advanced Placement program, following the release of a memorandum from the District 202 school board in February. According to the memorandum, the total number of ETHS students taking AP exams increased by 30 percent between 2011 and 2014, with black and African-American students increasing by 35 percent, Hispanic and Latino students by 78 percent and white students by 19 percent. Not only is the number of ETHS students sitting for AP exams rising, but their test scores have also climbed. The number of exam scores of 3 or higher increased by 47 percent, with black and African-American students increasing by 98 percent, Hispanic and Latino students by 116 percent and white students by 31 percent. The heightened interest and performance in AP curricula at ETHS are due in large part to initiatives sponsored by teamASAP, which stands for Access and Success in Advanced Placement, a group of students

Police Blotter Evanston woman’s purse stolen A woman’s purse was snatched Sunday as she was walking northbound in the 1200 block of Dewey Avenue on Monday afternoon, police said. The woman, a 67-year-old Evanston resident, told police someone ran up behind her and grabbed her purse, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. The purse

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Pete Bavis, ETHS assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction

coordinator. “Education can change at a glacial rate,” Arey said. “If we really want to impact what’s going on in students’ lives we need to do it faster, and teamASAP makes that possible. Students actually see their ideas come to contained $25, as well as the woman’s blood pressure medication. The woman reported the crime Wednesday morning, Dugan said. There is no description of the person.

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A Chicago man was arrested Tuesday in connection with distracted driving, driving with a revoked license and having no proof of auto insurance, police said.

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fruition … sometimes in a month, sometimes in a year, but it happens while they’re still at the school.” The group started about three years ago under the supervision of Arey and Dale Leibforth, ETHS AP recruitment and retention manager. It has sponsored forums, panels, programs and smaller groups geared toward educating and attracting ETHS students to AP courses. TeamASAP became more than just an academic support system for students, Bavis said. “Every two weeks, these kids get together and have lunch during the lunch periods, and it’s really a support group that they’ve developed,” Bavis told The Daily. “So the kids, they talk through their days, share their struggles and their successes in that group.” Despite the marked improvement in students’ AP involvement, Bavis remarked in a Feb. 27 news release he was not satisfied. “At the end of the day we’ll be thrilled when our to and through college data looks really good,” Bavis told The Daily. “We’re trying to prepare them for that level so that they can be successful in the classroom and not just get into college but persevere and graduate from college.” marissapage2018@u.northwestern.edu The man, 62, was stopped by police officers after they observed him driving while talking on his cell phone in the area of Oakton Street and Dewey Avenue, Dugan said. Upon checking his license, they discovered it had been revoked, Dugan said. A court date has not yet been set because driving with a revoked license is a felony. — Tori Latham

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Panel speaks in second interracial dating event By EMILY CHIN

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Jakara Hubbard said she has been told throughout her life that her race is a problem and must be difficult to deal with. Hubbard, who identifies as mixed race, spoke Thursday about different perspectives about mixed-race people during a panel on interracial dating at Northwestern. The panel, hosted by the Mixed Race Student Coalition, discussed how relationship dynamics differ in monoracial and interracial relationships before a room of more than 80 people. The panel was a celebration of Loving Days, a series of events that commemorate the Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia, which legalized interracial marriage. Panelists included Hubbard, a couple and family counselor, Cristina Ortiz, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, and Kai Green, a postdoctoral fellow at NU. People in interracial marriages primarily argue over child rearing and gender roles in the relationship, which are influenced by how someone was raised culturally or racially, Hubbard said. “Spanking and whooping is a huge one… those are specific things,” she said. “If I’m working with a minority family they’ll say, ‘I just whooped them,’ and I’ll get a Caucasian family and they’ll tell me something different about punishment because

Feinberg receives $92 million gift for biomedical research

Louis A. Simpson (Weinberg ’58) and Kimberly K. Querrey have made a $92 million gift to Northwestern in support of the Feinberg School of Medicine’s biomedical research programs, the University announced Thursday.

there are different things accepted in different cultures.” Weinberg junior Cassie Sham, academic events chair of MIXED, moderated the panel and asked about the perceptions of race. Ortiz said there is a certain hierarchy in the way people view different races. “The whole idea is you’re doing better or you’re advancing your groups, versus if it’s someone who your family member considered to lower the racial hierarchy, (someone’s family) would have an issue with it,” Ortiz said. Hubbard said she once dated a South Indian man whose mother identified her as black, and would therefore refuse to call her by her name. Hubbard is mixed race, yet in that particular situation, she said, she was immediately identified as black. She brought up the issue that people of mixed race often don’t fit into one particular category. When asked what race she is, she said she has the options of answering black or mixed. Similarly, Green said many view President Barack Obama as the first black president. However, Obama is mixed race, yet people attach him to certain stereotypes because of how he looks to the public, he said. “If you said that you’re just black then you’re excluding the other side, if you say you’re multiracial, you’re excluding the black side,” Ortiz said. “You can’t really make any categories because each side is going to feel left out.” Simpson, a University trustee and alumnus, and Querrey, his wife, made a $25 million donation to NU just last year to endow the Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine. The couple’s contributions to the University’s We Will fundraising campaign total $117.8 million. It is the largest total amount given by a single donor in the campaign, a University news release said. In light of the gift, NU’s new biomedical

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MIXING PERSPECTIVES Kai Green, post-doctoral fellow in sexuality and African American studies, speaks at a panel about interracial dating and mixed-race individuals. The Mixed Race Student Coalition held the panel Thursday as an early celebration of Loving Day, which commemorates the Supreme Court’s legalization of interracial marriage.

Sham said though the event didn’t have as high a turnout as she had hoped for because students were busy in the days leading up to Dance Marathon, she thought the panel turned out well and the panelists had interesting things to say. As a mixedrace person herself, she said she found much of the discussion applicable to her own life.

“I probably won’t be in a relationship with someone who’s the same mix as I am, but it was really important,” she said. “There are still people who aren’t going to date interracially but now there are fewer barriers to that.”

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Minority students should speak in bigger arenas ARIELLE CHASE

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Earlier in the quarter, I was finishing up in The Daily office and was about to head out for the night when a question crossed my mind to ask one of the editors. “Am I the only black columnist for The Daily?� The answer I received was disappointing but not surprising. “Now that I think of it, you might be the only African-American columnist who writes regularly.� Though I expected this answer, I left the office pondering what the editor had said. Obviously, the black population at Northwestern is not huge – about 5 percent, give or take — and we only average about 10 students per class in Medill, but there must be more black students that want to write for a campus publication like The Daily Northwestern, right? It would be absurd to believe there are only one or two black students with articulate opinions on this campus. NU’s minority population clearly has opinions and strong ones at that. But what are we doing with these opinions and where do we express them? We are having important dialogues in places where we feel safe.

These safe places, however, are not typically at The Daily Northwestern or the other large campus publications that have the most prominent — but not necessarily the most important — voices on campus. Instead, they are often at campus publications with a smaller readership and niche interest, like Pulse Magazine. (Full disclosure: I am the Opinion Editor at Pulse Magazine.) Choosing to write for smaller publications is not a problem; you have more fluidity with what you talk about and you can spend less time explaining certain terms and more time discussing implications. But there is still an issue with these publications and student organizations. Because of their smaller and more niche readership, they are often preaching to the choir. It is way too easy to go to the Black House and talk transparently about the problematic statement a white classmate mentioned in lecture. It is all too simple to get in your circle of Palestinian friends and speak about why NUDivest was a necessary and successful movement. But who is enlightened by these conversations? Who is learning new ways of thinking about the world and the experiences of students on campus? This comfort level is dangerous. We go into our corners and have conversations in private, reiterating and affirming our feelings with others we relate to. This is cathartic but not always constructive. Of course, it is not only black students who go to the Black House and it is not only South Asian students

who participate in SASA events but the number of students participating in these cultural organizations and places is smaller than it has to be. To foster progress throughout the whole NU community, minority students need to occupy more space in majority white organizations in larger We need to step numbers; a handful outside of our of black writers on The Daily staff is not safe corners and enough — we have take a chance more stories to tell one writer can at being a voice than handle. This is not to and presence in say that it is solely our different spaces job to educate others, but we do have some that need more important things to say. We need to step color. outside of our safe corners and take a chance at being a voice and presence in different spaces that need more color. Putting yourself out there can be daunting but, never fear, I have some tips: 1. There’s strength in numbers. Permeate these student organizations with a group of friends, it will heighten your comfort level and the impact you can have. 2. Do not feel pressured to be the representative for your racial/ethnic group. Your presence is enough of a different perspective. 3. Listen patiently and respond constructively. Part of your purpose in these groups

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The danger of indifference to violence HEIWON SHIN

DAILY COLUMNIST

While giving a speech in Seoul on Thursday, Mark Lippert, the U.S. ambassador to South Korea, was injured after an assailant slashed him with a knife. Media reports have said the attacker was opposed to U.S. military involvement in Korea. The assailant, who identified himself asKim Ki-jong, blamed the United States for interrupting Korean reunification. He already has records of attacks on foreign ambassadors: In 2010, Kim threw a concrete block at the Japanese ambassador to Korea. When I first saw the news, I was caught by surprise because I live so close to the political district of Seoul, where the closest we usually get to “violence� is active but peaceful protest. Although these protests are hardly ever dangerous, Thursday’s terrorist act happened at Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, which I pass by several times a day back home. I just couldn’t believe it. In light of all the recent terrorism and violence around the world, I started wondering whether beliefs have become more violent or if the manifestations of beliefs have become more violent — or a combination of both. I thought about this for a minute or two. Then I went back to Facebook, YouTube and my homework and returning to my own business. That’s when it occurred to me that perhaps the structure of modern information consumption and expression could be a potentially overlooked source and platform of violence — the type we don’t frame as

“violence� per se. We now live in the culture of “the instant� — instantaneous fame, instantaneous news and because of all the numbing provocations, instantaneous indifference or forgetfulness. I initially thought that maybe people’s short attention spans cause people to express more extreme opinions in an effort to grasp on longer to the attentions of less publicly opinionated people and actually change other people’s thoughts or behaviors. Then I considered the possibility

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The recent attack made me realize how instantly blinded I have become to all the violence around me ... I don’t know what’s more violent: the actual violence itself or the subconscious acceptance, anticipation and ignoring of the violence.

that because people who bother to voice their opinions visibly and audibly are the extremely opinionated, we naturally become surrounded by more poignant sets of views that in turn influence us. Although we may think that the extremely opinionated are dangerous because we can clearly see their thoughts and actions, the extremely nonopinionated can too be dangerous — if not more — because they are not visible. They are bystanders who may not only propel extremism from the extremely opinionated but also stand aside, watching and not

caring about anything. I wonder if the most dangerous of all is the instantaneous indifference or forgetfulness. Consuming the news — the instantaneous kind — and quickly consuming other things could be a key cause of such instantaneous indifference or forgetfulness. We try to find patterns in the news and look for the absolute newest content because the moment we consume the “news,� it quickly becomes not new any more. The content of the news becomes almost secondary and soon negligible because my act is focused more on constant newness of the consumption. I hate to admit it, but deep down I know I have pre-construed notions of what patterns of news I will encounter. I expect suicide bombers, ISIS terrorist acts, people suffering in places that seem “foreign� to me. The more we see events that fit into the templates we have created, we merely reaffirm our templates and move on. The reason I spent more time on the news of the attack on the U.S. ambassador to Korea is that it was a little out of that template because Korea to me is not where I expect such terrorist violence. The recent attack made me realize how instantly blinded I have become to all the violence around me. I may be one of the many who quickly drift onto the next new headline. I don’t know what’s more violent: the actual violence itself or the subconscious acceptance, anticipation and ignoring of the violence. 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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is to make friends outside of your comfort zone so realize that their opinions are valid, though sometimes problematic. To be clear, minority students have done amazing things within our student groups. We have hosted informational discussions and call-to-action seminars that appeal to a large portion of the student body. These accomplishments should not go unappreciated, but there is still more work to be done. I am aware of the distaste toward certain campus publications and student groups, but joining them does not mean that you are abandoning part of your identity; it means you are acting as a catalyst for improvement within these organizations. Many of NU’s minority students are misrepresented, ignored or insulted by parts of student life at NU. We feel so irritated by certain publications that we do not even pay them any mind; we assume they will distort our narratives and then complain when they fulfill our expectations. What if we took more control of our own stories and experiences and offered a different perspective to the large readership of publications like The Daily? Our numbers are small but our impact could be huge if we left our comfort zones, occupied more space and forced conversations in more arenas. Arielle Chase is a Medill sophomore. She can be reached at ariellechase2017@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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Redeeming Laura Kipnis

In her article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Communication Prof. Laura Kipnis got carried away. Her ignorant comments about the “melodramatic� Peter Ludlow affair as well as slights against former students and current staff may have gotten many of us carried away too. But Kipnis had a point beyond all this, in fact, a few points that deserve our attention. Kipnis is right to question the trope of the all-mighty professor versus the powerless student. Is there a power differential? In many cases, certainly. Is that omnipresent or without exception? No. There are cases when students harangue and even harass professors due to the power that students wield. Such cases are made possible, in part, by the fact that people have different dimensions of their identities. We are not just teachers and students, but also male and female, gender-conforming and not, white and nonwhite, of the 1 percent and less well-off. When different dimensions of identity intersect, some professors are, on the whole, less empowered than some students “in their charge.� We overlook this fact by focusing too narrowly on the all-powerful professor trope. Kipnis is also right to question colleges’ attempts to insulate students from anything offensive, disturbing or inappropriate. Kipnis emphasizes that this manner of educating young adults inaptly prepares them for the world beyond college. She is not saying because the world is unfair, colleges should follow suit. Instead, she urges administrations to treat students like the rational, self-determining people they are. Finally, Kipnis is right about a point she made in passing. The problem of sexual assault is decidedly more prevalent among students than between students and their professors. The point in raising this is not to belittle instances of student-professor sexual assault; rather, the point is to suggest that administrations that develop policies about student-professor sex but do little about rampant sexual assault in, say, fraternities are being disingenuous. Deeply enough, this point made in passing might be the most significant of all. In crafting certain new prohibitions, we’re throwing water on a Bunsen burner while the city around us goes up in flames. The professor-student power difference is not the most significant power difference facing students. Professor-student sexual assault is not the biggest threat to students’ safety. And inappropriateness is not the biggest barrier to students’ education. Raff Donelson J.D. candidate ’16, School of Law Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy ’16, The Graduate School

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Tisdahl hosts ‘town hall’ on new Twitter account By JULIA JACOBS

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Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl broke in her new Twitter account with an hourlong virtual town hall meeting Thursday evening, responding to questions that focused largely on state debt, the city’s economy and public works. In the Civic Center, Tisdahl dictated responses to two city officials, who answered around 20 presubmitted and live questions through the account @EvanstonMayor. In response to a question about what Evanston is doing to fight Gov. Bruce Rauner’s funding cuts for local governments and social services, Tisdahl said the city is lobbying state representatives to find a different solution. “I will do my best to encourage the legislator to balance the budget by reinstating the income tax or finding cuts that don’t impact the most vulnerable citizens,� the response tweet read. Patrick Deignan and Charliese Agnew, both community engagement specialists for the city, whittled Tisdahl’s longer answers about poverty and store closings into responses adhering to Twitter’s 140-character limit. “The poverty rate in #Evanston is going up but unemployment going down. Hopefully that will decrease poverty rate,� the tweet read in response to a question about the city’s homeless population.

Twitter users also asked more specific questions about public works issues such as “excessive parking requirements� and a proposal for a bike path in north Evanston. Responding to a question about an icy street, the team tagged the public works department’s Twitter account to pass along the message. “That’s kind of cool, you can actually resolve problems during this,� Tisdahl said during the meeting. Tisdahl created the Twitter account at the beginning of February when two fake accounts under Tisdahl’s name began receiving tweets from officials in other cities. Evanston officials also introduced the idea of creating @EvanstonMayor so Tisdahl could promote the city’s campaign to become a finalist for the World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour City Challenge, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz told The Daily before the meeting. On Wednesday afternoon Tisdahl’s account varied from its usual promotion of the competition with a tweet criticizing the depiction of Evanston in an episode of “The Good Wife� that aired Sunday on CBS. The show depicted Evanston as conservative, according to a tweet from Tisdahl. “@GoodWifeWriters #Evanston is not the conservative place ref. in Sunday episode. We welcome all, even uninformed TV writers #TheGoodWife,� Tisdahl’s tweet read. Tisdahl seemed pleased at the recognition her tweet garnered, Bobkiewicz said. “Perhaps she’s found a medium that really suits her,� he said.

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TISDAHL TWEETS Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl dictates answers during the Twitter Town Hall Meeting to Charliese Agnew and Patrick Deignan, both community engagement specialists for Evanston. Tisdahl launched her personal Twitter handle @EvanstonMayor last month.

Without Twitter as an outlet she wouldn’t have been able to reach the right people with her opinion on the episode, Tisdahl said. “I would have vented and yelled and screamed or something, but I wouldn’t have done anything that was productive,� Tisdahl told The Daily. As for the technical side of Twitter, Tisdahl said she doesn’t understand the technology any more than she did during the first Twitter town hall meeting in 2012 when city officials responded to questions through the city’s Twitter account, @CityofEvanston. At one point

on Thursday, Agnew explained to Tisdahl the different functions of the “@� symbol and the hashtag. But using Twitter as a platform for town hall meetings allows her to respond to many more questions in one hour than two hours in person, Tisdahl said, adding that she reaches a different demographic online. “Twitter reaches a younger group of people that I don’t reach otherwise,� Tisdahl told The Daily. “I think that’s important, so I’m trying.�

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TAKEDOWN Northwestern fights hard against Wisconsin on Jan. 9. The Wildcats often forfeited at least one weight class during the winter, aiding NU’s tumble to a 9-8 record before winning its last three contests. Daily file photo bySean Su

RECORD SETTER Northwestern recognizes Roberta Buffett Elliott (Weinberg ‘54) for her record-setting donation to the University on Jan. 28. The younger sister of financier Warren Buffett gave more than $100 million toward a new Global Studies Institute.

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CIVIL RIGHTS Michelle Alexander, a law professor and civil rights lawyer, speaks to a packed Pick-Staiger Concert Hall about modern racial inequalities in America on Jan. 26. Alexander’s speech, which focused particularly on disparities in the criminal justice system, concluded Northwestern’s annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.

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BREATHE Students silently hold signs displaying quotes during a teach-in hosted by the Black People Making History Committee on Feb. 10. The packed event featured discussions about the Black Lives Matter movement.

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ABOVE AND BEYOND Christine Brennan (Medill ’80, ’81), Cassidy Hubbarth (Medill ’07), Pam Oliver and Rachel Nichols (Medill ’95) discuss women in sports media at a Feb. 17 panel. The panel was the fifth installment of the “Beyond the Box Score� lecture series hosted by Medill.

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SNOWY SKIES February’s blizzard resulted in about 20 inches of snow and was the fifth largest snowstorm in the city’s history. Northwestern classes were held as usual.

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Minimum Wage From page 1

Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said. “But if its stalls there, then I’m sure we will address it at some point.” State Rep. Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston) supports a minimum wage hike. She noted that the minimum wage is lower now in real dollars than it was in the 1970s, and has not kept up with inflation. “For minimum wage workers, any increase in their salary is money that immediately goes back to the economy,” she said. “I think it is a great way to grow the economy, by giving low-income folks a little bit more money.” The Chicago City Council and Mayor Rahm Emanuel approved a plan on Dec. 2 to raise the minimum wage to $13 per hour by 2019. Although Chicago chose to address the issue locally, it is unlikely that Evanston will follow suit soon. Tisdahl said she thinks an increase in minimum wage would have a huge impact on low-wage employment workers, but could be unfair for Evanston’s businesses. If Evanston were to raise the minimum wage, business owners could decide to move to surrounding

Student parents From page 1

“I pay employment taxes to Northwestern,” she said. “I pay the IRS. I get sent a W-2 from Northwestern. They contend that we are this hybrid category and that we’re not employees … If I have to pay taxes then I’m not exempt from the political and economic responsibilities of being a staff member.” Taking change into their own hands Frustrated with unchanging policies and a lack of resources, a group of graduate student parents decided to take action and form the NU Student Parent Alliance last year. A fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the School of Communication, Robin Hoecker said she and others created the group to lobby the University, rather than just their individual departments, for more support for student parents. Although the group is happy the University is being recognized for its progress with policies for faculty and staff, “we remain disappointed that these benefits are not being extended to all members of the Northwestern community,” the alliance said in a news release Thursday. Hoecker, 34, has a six-month-old daughter and an employed spouse. She said the group met with Graduate School officials in December, but to no avail. The group comprises a variety of students. Some are single, in relationships or married. Others are international students who face additional financial difficulty when deciding whether to bring their children to the United States. Still others are not even parents yet, Hoecker said, but “recognize it’s a problem.” “They are thinking about kids and recognize that it may not affect them now, but it may in the future,” she said. “It’s been a learning experience for me, hearing their stories and seeing the issues they face, a lot of things I never would have thought about.”

municipalities. Many Chicago activists believe $13 per hour by 2019 is still too little. Ed Shurna, the executive director of Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, said the raise is not high enough to make a living. The coalition has pushed for a statewide minimum wage hike for years, and Shurna said the bill would not have passed in Chicago without activists. In order for any such legislation to pass in Evanston, he said groups must advocate for it. Addressing legislation is not the only way organizations have tried to increase wages. Fight for $15 is an organization that pushes for corporations like McDonald’s to increase wages to $15 per hour. Deivid Rojas, Fight for $15’s communications director at Workers Organizing Committee of Chicago, thinks that Chicago’s bill will increase wages too slowly. Thousands of workers are involved in Fight for $15 to demand higher wages from corporations. Adriana Alvarez, a crew member at a McDonald’s in Chicago, said she did not get a raise for two years, and when she did, it was 10 cents. Alvarez, who is a single mom, said she cannot

wait for four years for the complete raise in the minimum wage, and said she needs a wage of $15 per hour now. “There’s rent, there’s bills, daycare, gas, there’s a lot of stuff, clothes for him,” she said. “When I was at $8.75, it was hard. Now I’m at $9.75 all because of the other movements that we’ve done with Fight for $15.” Evanston Ald. Jane Grover (7th) liked Chicago’s decision and said it makes it easier for neighboring municipalities to do the same. Grover met with Zashin and others recently for a discussion on income inequality in Evanston and what role municipalities can play in lessening its effects. Evanston’s unemployment rate sits low at 4.2 percent compared to the state’s rate of 5.7 percent. Grover said she would not want to leave more people unemployed as an unintended side effect of a minimum wage increase. “There was worry about very localized backlash,” Grover said. “We wouldn’t want it to harm people who are already employed or employers.” As of Jan. 13, the city government employs three minimum wage workers, all under the age of 20, said

Jennifer Lin, the city’s human resources division manager, in an email to The Daily. However, during the summer, the city hires more and had about 70 minimum wage workers last summer. City staff are anticipating a similar number this summer, Lin said. But for Zashin, minimum wage workers in Evanston that are not employed by the city end up going unnoticed. Zashin and other community members have not decided what steps they will take next, he said. Whether they will draft an ordinance, present a report or take other steps, Zashin said they are not ready to make those decisions. Tisdahl said if the new minimum wage bill stalls again in the House, which had its first reading of the bill on Feb. 9, Evanston staff could decide to address the issue in some way. “I don’t want our prices to go up in comparison to surrounding communities,” she said. “But I do want everybody, including our people, to be paid enough when they work a full-time job to be able to live. You should not be homeless and working full-time.”

The main issues student parents are concerned with are well-documented on the Student Parent Alliance’s website, which features anonymous testimonies by student parents about their experiences. Hoecker has also written on the subject, most recently in an article in The Huffington Post. Currently, Hoecker said, the University has five advertised lactation spaces on the Evanston Campus and two on the Chicago Campus available for nursing mothers to pump breast milk, although there are other unofficial locations. Nursing mothers have to pump at least a few times during the workday, and Hoecker said the relative lack of rooms is inconvenient at best and embarrassing at worst, when inability to reach a room results in leakage. In contrast, Stanford University, of comparable size to NU, has 27 advertised lactation spaces. Although finding lactation rooms wasn’t a huge problem for her, Stubbs said her health insurance company would not approve a breast pump for her and she was forced to use a hand-me-down. Stubbs’ situation brings up additional issues of insurance. According to the Student Parent Alliance website, the cost to add a dependent to a plan under Aetna Student Health, the NU-sponsored student health insurance, coverage can be difficult for student parents to shoulder. “When I had my son, I was forced to have medical coverage go through Aetna … just to physically birth my son,” Stubbs said. “Of course since my income is very inconsistent, I have to redistribute, I have to budget, I have to predict, ‘I’m going to make this much.’” Finally, Hoecker said, the difficulty to find quality, affordable childcare has been an obstacle. NU currently recommends several childcare facilities in Evanston for parenting students, but does not have an on-campus childcare option on either campus. Often, student parents rely on others within their own community to watch their children while they’re attending

class or working. “The amount of stress that people are under … I think it is a major problem just wondering about how you can afford childcare in Illinois, one of the most childcare expensive states,” she said. “There’s a major lack of childcare in Evanston. It’s really expensive and if you’re living on a very small stipend it’s very hard to make ends meet.”

of graduate school, she said. “You’re not supposed to talk about parenting,” she said. “We’re here to focus on research … If you’re

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Not ‘part of the culture’ Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, and under the 1972 federal law this includes pregnant and parenting students. In an email to The Daily, Title IX Coordinator Joan Slavin said NU’s Policy on Discrimination and Harassment, which includes similar guidelines to Title IX, is publicly available to all members of the NU community. On behalf of Lori Anne Henderson, director of work and life resources in the human resources department, Slavin said the University has “invested significant resources in making quality, affordable childcare available to students, staff and faculty.” According to Slavin, 60 graduate students use the University’s recommended childcare programs near both campuses, and one-third of them receive childcare subsidies from NU. “At present, there are mothers’ rooms throughout the campus, and there is a plan to incorporate them into any new construction on campus,” Slavin wrote on Henderson’s behalf. As of Thursday evening, a Graduate School representative could not be reached for comment. Beyond the obvious physical challenges of being a student parent, Hoecker said, there lies a deeper problem: a lack of institutional understanding or support. That, coupled with women’s fear they won’t be taken as seriously within academia if they have children, makes discussing parenthood not “part of the culture”

Source: Matilda Stubbs

STUDENT PARENTS Graduate student Matilda Stubbs holds her son, Cosmos. Stubbs, a single mother, has had difficulty finding childcare for her son and said Northwestern needs to provide better resources for student parents.

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ASG hosted a town hall Thursday to hear student concerns about the current student group funding system, as part of larger funding reform efforts. Associated Student Government’s funding steering committee led the forum, which drew about 15 people from several student groups including A&O Productions, Northwestern Community Development Corps and NU Relay for Life. “There have been micro-efforts to adjust the funding system in the past,� said SESP senior Andrew Green, ASG chief of staff and co-facilitator of the funding reform committee. “A lot of it happened within the A-status finance committee or within the B-status finance committee. In the last four years, this is the first time that a I thought steering committee has the groups been created to look at potential changes to the that were funding system.� represented The forum allowed for the funding steerwere great ing committee to hear a because it was diverse range of opinions the perfect and learn what resources range of groups it could offer to help student groups receive that we do fund the funding they need, Weinberg senior Julia Julia Watson, Watson, ASG president ASG president and co-facilitator of the funding reform committee, told The Daily. The event began with an overview of how student groups get funding from ASG and an explanation of the difference between A-status groups with high funding needs versus B-status groups with lower funding needs. Students were invited to share their personal experiences and concerns with the funding system. Some concerns brought up were funding based on projected attendance, difficulties with

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people you will ever meet,” Meghan McKeown (Medill ’14) said. “What man would give away his successful career for his son?” From D.C. to Chicago After 19 years at GW, McKeown and his family packed their bags and prepared to swap views of the National Mall for the Chicago skyline when he was offered the head coaching position at NU. “It was really hard, I’m not going to lie,” he said. “It’s where you raise your family, your kids were born there, and you’re saying we’re going to move to Chicago. Especially after we did it, we got to Chicago and were like, ‘What did we just do?’” The state of the NU women’s basketball program when McKeown arrived was, in his words, “a mess,” and from a personal perspective, the move was hard on McKeown’s family. His eldest daughter, Meghan, was right in the throes of high school. The change of environment was also a challenge for McKeown’s son. And, for the first time in his life, McKeown had a losing season. His 2008-2009 squad went 7-23, and didn’t win a single game on the road that year. For a coach used to Sweet 16s and Elite 8s, it was a step — more like a leap — backward. Yet,

FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2015 in the same measured breath that McKeown used to describe his struggles, he praised that first NU team he lead. “I gotta tell you it was hard when I got here. It was just very surreal more than anything else,” McKeown said. “But that first team we had here, I give them a lot of credit. We laid a lot of bricks.” Family matters McKeown is the first to admit that he couldn’t have done this alone. “I think that any coach will tell you that you have to be lucky, and to be successful you have to have a family that supports you,” McKeown said. “(My wife) is so selfless. When we lose it hurts her as much as it hurts me.” If the McKeown family wasn’t invested enough in the first place, his daughter Meghan decided to attend and play for NU from 2010-2014, something McKeown said helped him balance everything. Meghan said that her father did a good job of keeping “work at work” and being Dad at home. “He’ll dance to Taylor Swift, Springsteen, he’s a Sinatra fan,” Meghan said of her father’s demeanor outside of the gym. “There’s never a dull moment.” McKeown said it was really important to him and his wife that their children felt “connected,”

as if Chicago was their home. McKeown said if anyone were to ask them these days, his kids will say they’re from Chicago.

bothering you too much.”

Brick by brick

Numbers don’t mean everything to McKeown, but his players do. As a coach who willingly took on two struggling teams and committed to building them up, it’s evident his priorities lie beyond the stats sheet. For McKeown, it’s all about legacy, and not the kind that you can see on paper. “Most important are just your players, that they appreciate what you’re doing for them,” McKeown said. “Maybe not so much when you’re going through it because that’s hard, but maybe two, three years later they realize you’re trying so hard every day to help them. Sometimes tough love is a hard thing.” Yet, somewhere in the middle of that tough love is consistent encouragement. And although his grey hair reveals the long years he’s dedicated to basketball, McKeown isn’t nearly ready to permanently sit on the bench. “I feel like I’m at a school where we can get really high character people and that’s who you want to coach. As long as I can do that, I feel like I have a lot in the tank still,” McKeown said. “We have a lot of unfinished business here.”

McKeown’s Cats have come a long way since that first 7-23 season. In his seventh regular season at NU, the women’s basketball squad is 22-7. The Cats are ranked No. 24 in the nation, the first time NU has cracked the top 25 in the AP poll since 1996. It’s safe to say McKeown has slowly but successfully built the NU program into a nationally recognized entity, but he said the numbers don’t mean much to him. “I think coaches that would be honest with you would tell you that the numbers themselves are less important than the way you’re playing, the way you’re building, the way you compete,” McKeown said. McKeown, who garnered his 600th career win earlier this season, is a hands-on coach, his players said, always giving individualized attention and critique, something that can make all the difference. “He always has something to say in practice whether it’s something you need to work on or something you’re doing well,” senior Karly Roser said. “Just keeping your confidence up that way and making sure that external stimuli aren’t

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can get better as a team.” After this mid-season finale against Ohio State and Indiana, NU will have an idea of where it stands as one. As the quarter winds down, the Cats are in full swing and will have to use their spring break to prepare for the gauntlet that is the rest of the Big Ten, starting with Illinois on March 20. “We’re very hungry because we want to get back on track to where we want to be,” Gurden said. “This will be a pretty good test, going on the road, playing pretty tough Big Ten teams. They’re hungry, we’re hungry. We have a young team, and the players have been stepping up and doing a great job. We’re really excited to see what we can do this weekend, and we’re looking to bring out the best in ourselves.”

dietary needs. SESP sophomore Matt Herndon, who sits on ASG’s accessibility and inclusion committee and chaired its subcommittee on socioeconomic status before it was dissolved, said members from DM met with the committee last spring after the letter was published. Herndon is also a member of Relay for Life, whose co-chairs signed the letter. He said DM has become more inclusive since the letter, but addressing the full scope of the problems takes time. “I think they’re making strides,” he said, “but I do think it’ll take a long-term commitment to make this even more inclusive. It’ll take people who aren’t at Northwestern yet to change some of these things. It’s something we’re going to have to work on for years to come.”

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Students, parents — but not employees However, NU’s student parents have developed a camaraderie. Brooke Foucault Welles, who graduated with a Ph.D. from the School of Communication in 2012, said she and other student parents took turns looking after one another’s children. Through programs organized by The Graduate School, such as monthly outings for student parents and their families, she said it was easier to find a network to share information that is often not made clear to students.

Beyond the scoreboard

khadricerollins2017@u.northwestern.edu clairehansen2018@u.northwestern.edu Looking forward, Hoecker said the Student Parent Alliance plans to hold meetings with relevant departments, including Human Resources, the Office of the Provost, the Women’s Center and the Division of Student Affairs. She said student parents will give a presentation that addresses the group’s grievances and propose solutions. Ultimately, Stubbs said, the issues come down to a dissonance between many graduate students’ status as employees of the University and the resources accessible to them. “It’s disappointing to feel I’m a partial member of the campus community,” she said. “We’re not treated 100 percent like students or 100 percent like employees. I think that blurs a lot of lines, including what we should have access to when we’re in our childbearing years.” oliviaexstrum2017@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern begins a monthlong home stand at Lakeside Field on Saturday, heading outside just as the weather warms above freezing in Evanston. The No. 7 Wildcats (3-2) face a year-old Colorado team (2-1) in the first of four games they will play at Lakeside Field throughout March. Former NU players Ann Elliot, Colleen Magarity

Colorado vs. No. 7 Northwestern Evanston 12 p.m. Saturday

and Tewaaraton Trophy-winner Hannah Nielsen head up the burgeoning program. Colorado boasts sophomore Johnna Fusco, tied for 10th in the nation for most goals scored per game (NU’s Selena Lasota sits just ahead of her at eighth). It enters Saturday’s matchup riding high off two straight wins against Presbyterian and Marquette. The Cats last saw the Buffs in a fall scrimmage.

NU showed steps in the right direction and started clicking offensively in its past two games, a 13-6 win against Marquette and a 12-11 loss to No. 2 North Carolina. Freshman Corinne Wessels was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week after her two-goal, two-assist performance against the Tar Heels. The Cats now own three of the five Freshman of the Week honors from the Big Ten, following Lasota’s honors for the weeks of Feb. 9 and 23. Wessels, Lacrosse Magazine’s No. 17-ranked freshman in the nation, improved ball movement on offense against North Carolina after sitting out the first four games of the season with an injury.

“We had a great vibe and team chemistry,” Wessels said of her first collegiate game. “On the sideline we were all positive.” Games against ACC opponents No. 6 Syracuse and No. 12 Louisville as well as a highly anticipated matchup against No. 1 Maryland on March 26 make up the rest of the Cats’ March series. The Maryland game, a rematch of last year’s NCAA semifinal, also marks the beginning of Big Ten play. — Ava Wallace

Conference season heats up for streaking NU squad No. 21 Northwestern vs. No. 27 Indiana

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The grind never stops for No. 21 Northwestern as the Wildcats prepare to go up against two formidable conference opponents this weekend. NU (8-5, 0-1 Big Ten) will travel to No. 27 Indiana on Friday before returning home for a doubleheader against Purdue and Western Illinois on Sunday. The Cats have had mixed conference success in recent years. Last season, the team went 7-4 in Big Ten play, good for fourth in the conference. The year before, the Cats were 6-5, but both times, the team beat Indiana and Purdue. Teams like the Hoosiers (9-3, 0-1) and the Boilermakers (4-6, 0-1) are exactly the type of mid-tier conference opponents NU is trying to leapfrog. All three teams will be looking for redemption after starting the conference season with a misstep against Big Ten leader Illinois (13-2, 3-0). If NU is truly going to be the transcendent conference power it aspires to be, a pair of conference wins this weekend will go a long way. The Cats aren’t taking anything for granted. “Every year is different,” sophomore Sam Shropshire said. “All three of these teams have gotten better since last year. We’ve gotten better (too).” Indiana will be NU’s biggest challenge this weekend. Although the Hoosiers don’t have any ranked singles players in their lineup, a balanced attack has the team looking like a tough out. But the Cats are playing exceptional tennis of late,

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winning six of their last seven matches by a combined score of 33-12. Last weekend was an especially dominant affair, as NU was able to dismantle an overmatched Middle Tennessee State squad en route to a 6-1 victory. “It’s about having the same performance we had against Middle Tennessee, where I thought we played a complete match,” coach Arvid Swan said. “That’s what’s important for these three matches, to play a complete match. You need to do that in the Big Ten. The teams are too good otherwise.” A complete match involves playing effective doubles and singles throughout the entire lineup. Swan said the lineup is still fluid and will be constantly tinkered with as specific players rise and fall throughout the season. Senior Alex Pasareanu has been pivotal to NU’s

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RISING UP The Wildcats are looking to get back on track in the Big Ten after a conference season opening loss against Illinois. Sophomore Sam Shropshire doesn’t believe the team is in line for a letdown this weekend.

doubles attack this season. He has been used almost exclusively for doubles this year after playing extensive singles his first three years. Although Pasareanu has gone 57-36 in singles play during his collegiate career, he is gracefully handling his diminished playing time. His pairing with Shropshire has been effective, with the duo winning three of its last four contests. “I think my doubles game has improved a tremendous amount,” Pasareanu said. “I actually started to enjoy it. Playing doubles is incredible. It’s a transition, and it’s good for the team that way.” Western Illinois (0-8) seems like an afterthought

in light of all the conference drama. The Leathernecks have yet to pick up more than one point in a game this season and have been shut out five times in eight contests. An NU loss against the lowly squad would be one of the biggest upsets of the season. The Cats aren’t expecting a let down. “This past weekend, winning the match was good physically for the weekend coming up,” Shropshire said. “Three pretty big matches. I think we’re ready.” davidlee2017@u.northwestern.edu

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Playing on the court to sitting on the sideline

Basketball has always been important for Joe McKeown. McKeown is now in his 28th season as a Division I women’s basketball coach, and his seventh at Northwestern. This year, McKeown has led the Wildcats to their first 20 win season since 1996 and they are expecting to play in the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1997. The Philadelphia native spent his younger years watching college basketball at one of the city’s famous arenas, The Palestra, with his younger brother and father who worked there. It was this time with his family and the area he lived in that pushed him out of the stands and onto the court. “Back in the sixties, the Big Five and The Palestra, everybody played there,” McKeown said. “That was everybody’s home court. So when you were a kid, to go to a game there, they had double-headers, Hall of Fame coaches. It was just a great atmosphere.” McKeown was able to master his own game at Father Judge High School in Philadelphia, and when he graduated, he played college basketball at nearby Mercer College in New Jersey. McKeown would later transfer to Kent State and as he approached his senior year, he thought he had his plans after college figured out. “I was going to be a part of their coaching staff, be a graduate assistant, and then try to pursue some opportunities overseas,” he said. “My coach got fired right in the middle of my senior year.” With his coach no longer there to take him under his wing, McKeown was forced to find a new way to keep basketball at the center of his universe. McKeown’s “big break” came when he was supposed to try out for the Detroit Pistons, and coach Dick Vitale. Before training camp, Vitale told McKeown the team would be going in a different direction, and

From there, he gave coaching a try. McKeown’s interest in coaching women instead of men was sparked during his time at Kent State, where he watched the school’s women’s program in the early stages. “When I was at Kent State, when I was playing, we were just starting our women’s program,” he said. “I was a gym rat, so a lot of them were in the gym and I was like, ‘Wow, this is pretty cool.’” McKeown became the coach at Burlington County College and from the second he got there, he learned what types of challenges he would face as a women’s basketball coach. “They didn’t win a game the year before,” McKeown said. “So we had five players. I got another one, but then a girl eloped on me, so I’m back down to five … We’d finish the game with three players sometimes. So it taught you how to be creative.” Where the legacy blossomed McKeown would become an assistant coach first at Kent State, and then at the University of Oklahoma. He got a chance to run things at New Mexico State, and led the team to the NCAA tournament, but after his third year, he was forced to deal with the harsh reality of college athletic financial troubles. “At the time, New Mexico State was having a lot of budget issues and crunches,” he said. “We only had eight scholarships and they were going to reduce it to mostly in-state.” McKeown was looking for a new job with a kinder budget and an east coast location. In came George Washington University. GW was in a transition period with both its men’s and women’s basketball programs and was looking to make to make a splash in the D.C. basketball world.

McKeown knew he was in for an uphill battle when he arrived at GW, but he also was in for a surprise. “By the time I got there, school had already started, so it was really late,” he said. “And she was there and I walked in, and I was like, ‘Hey that’s Jennifer Shasky. What are you doing here?’” Jennifer Shasky Calvery was Miss Basketball for the state of Michigan, and when GW changed coaches before her freshman year, McKeown was not expecting her to be there. What McKeown did not know, however, was that GW was the perfect fit for top recruit Shasky Calvery, no matter who was coaching. “I was interested in being a part of a program that was going to be building and turn from kind of not a great program into what I thought could be an excellent program,” Shasky Calvery said. And build they did. After failing to finish above .500 for the first time in his coaching career in his first year at GW, McKeown took the program to new heights. He would win 20 or more games in 17 of his next 18 years at GW, and the team played in 15 NCAA tournaments. During his tenure, McKeown racked up 441 wins and picked up his 500th career victory during his final year at GW. Although the numbers look great, they tell only part of McKeown’s story at GW. Shasky Calvery said she remembers McKeown being an active member in the surrounding community during his time there. Whether it was inviting homeless people in the community to games and assuring them food and a warm seat, or having the team “adopt” a young girl from a single parent home when the parent was sick. He took care of the people in the community when he could. From practices to games, McKeown was a mentor to his players and he taught his group about much more than the X’s and O’s of basketball. “(He taught) focus and intensity and passion, but mixed it up with his joy,” Shasky Calvery said. “I think the intensity and focus is something that I have been able to hold on and take

Women’s Basketball Sean Su/Daily Senior Staffer

SLOW BUILD Joe McKeown offers some instructions for his team. The head coach has built Northwestern from a 7-23 outfit to a Big Ten contender in just seven years.

with me in my professional career, but I like the good times, the goofy times, just having fun.” In the 1996-97 season, GW went 28-6 and had a five seed in the NCAA Tournament. After advancing to the Sweet 16, GW was set to play the top seed in their region, North Carolina. In a game McKeown said was the best moment of his coaching career, his team upset UNC and advanced to the Elite 8 thanks to a 55-46 win. His team was one win from making the Final Four, a place it felt like it was destined for all season, but Notre Dame beat GW 62-52, and the season was over. “You’re going from one extreme to

the other,” he said. “You got this great momentum, and then to get beat, you’re still down there, you’re still in the gym, you’re like, ‘Our season’s over. It can’t be over. We’re going to win the national championship.’” Fans wore “In Joe We Trust” shirts. It looked like GW was on the verge of reaching new heights, especially after back-to-back Sweet 16s in 2007 and 2008. But McKeown was forced to make a tough decision and decided to leave GW to find better care for his then14-year-old son Joey, who had been diagnosed with autism. “My dad is one of the most selfless » See McKEOWN, page 10

Cats gear up for final tests ahead of 2-week break By MIKE MARUT

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JUNIOR ACE Alicia Barnett follows through on a serve. The junior is the team’s No. 1 in singles, and has won three of her last four matches from the spot.

The Wildcats look to continue their winning streak against conference competition this weekend, this time trying their hands on the road. After coming off a 1-1 weekend against non-conference foes Baylor and Texas, No. 28 Northwestern (4-3, 1-0 Big Ten) turns its attention back to the Big Ten as the team faces opponents No. 22 Ohio State (6-4, 0-0) and No. 42 Indiana (9-2, 0-0) on Friday and Saturday, respectively. The Cats have been on a roll since their rough beginning at 1-2, winning three of their last four matches — two of them against Big Ten opponents Penn State and Purdue. Ohio State is traditionally a tough opponent for NU. Despite the highscoring wins of the Cats, the Buckeyes keep things competitive. “They’re known as great competitors and it’s always a tough place to play,” assistant coach Rob Gurden said. “We’re not trying to put too much emphasis on this match as long as we do the things we know how to do — compete hard, fight for every ball, have a good attitude

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No. 28 Northwestern vs. No. 42 Indiana Bloomington, Indiana 12:30 p.m. Saturday

— we’ll be in a good place at the end of the weekend.” With head coach Claire Pollard taking her second leave of absence of the season, Gurden will be leading the charge again. Last time Gurden took the reins, NU came out with its wins over the Nittany Lions and Boilermakers. In a similar situation, this weekend Ohio State counts toward the conference record while Indiana does not. After turning around a tough loss against Baylor into a dominant win over Texas, the Cats know they have to bring their A-game against the Buckeyes and Hoosiers. Something in particular NU needs to improve coming into the weekend is the doubles point. The Cats have lost the doubles point three times, and they fell in all of these matches. “We’ve been working a lot more on doubles, especially this week,”

senior Lok Sze Leung said. “Doubles has always been something we want to work harder in. With (freshman Rheeya Doshi) coming back, it’s all going to pay off.” Other than working on doubles, NU develop e d and prepared We just their indifocused on vidual games a f t e r t h e ourselves ... We weekend. conditioned a On the indilot. It was very vidual level, the Cats still personally have room to oriented. grow because of the youth We have to of the team. get better The young individually. squad is still Alicia searching Barnett, for a way to junior tennis execute at player the highest level. “After the Baylor match, we just focused on ourselves,” junior Alicia Barnett said. “We conditioned a lot. It was very personally oriented. We have to get better individually. If we can get better individually then we

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