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OK Go confirmed for Dillo By tyler pager
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OK Go, an alternative rock band, will open Dillo Day on Saturday, Mayfest announced Tuesday night. Mayfest teased OK Go on its website Monday night by posting a picture of the treadmills from the band’s Grammy award-winning music video, “Here It Goes Again.” Michael Bass, Mayfest’s director of concerts, said bringing a band to Dillo Day is always a priority. “We want a band that everyone knows the name of it, but what we don’t want to do is back down and get kind of a one-hit wonder throwback,” the Communication junior said. “While those definitely have their ups and downs, like Smash Mouth was a very popular act, we wanted someone with a little more perhaps musical legitimacy. OK Go is just about as good as it gets.” The band, which is originally from Chicago but is now based in Los Angeles, is known for their creative music videos. Some of their famous videos include “This Too Shall Pass,” which features an elaborate Rube Goldberg Machine, and “A Million Ways,” which became the most downloaded music video in 2006. OK Go’s performance is also in advance of their upcoming national tour, which will accompany the release of their new album, “Hungry Ghosts” in October. “Hungry Ghosts” is the band’s first new
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READY SET GO OK Go, an alternative rock band, will open Dillo Day on Saturday. The band, which is known for their elaborate music videos, will be releasing a new album in October.
album in four years. Because Dillo Day will be the band’s precursor to their tour, Bass said he does not know what the show will look like. “Every tour brings something different to the table, but I can assure you that it’s going to be interesting, creative and something different than four guys on stage playing instruments,” he said. “I think creative is what their MO is. They just love to think outside the box, and I
think you’ll see that on stage.” Mayfest spokesman Ian Robinson added that someone involved in the booking process from the band’s end is a Northwestern alum and attended Dillo Day as a student. Robinson said the connection has added to the band’s excitement for the performance. “They are practicing before, » See ok go, page 6
The work of two Northwestern researchers was influential in a recent policy change by the National Institutes of Health, which will require that researchers include their plans for balancing male and female cells and animals in preclinical studies with few exceptions. The new policy will be put into practice beginning in October, and researchers seeking grants from NIH will be able to bypass the new requirements with only “rigorously defined exceptions.” Teresa Woodruff and Dr. Melina Kibbe worked with the NIH to institute the change, which Francis Collins, NIH director, announced on May 14. “While it’s a step in the right direction, still more needs to be done,” said Kibbe, a professor of surgery and vice chair of research in the Feinberg School of Medicine. “Simply requiring researchers to ‘describe their plans’ is not quite there.” Woodruff, vice chair for research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, began advocating for gender inclusion in preclinical studies in 2008 and 2009. She said she realized that many studies excluded examples with female components, normally only using male subjects. “I realized that there are so many
discoveries that could be made by Simply including requiring both sexes,” researchers to Woodruff said. “I ‘describe their thought this plans’ is not was an area that needed quite there. to be advoDr. Melina Kibbe, cated for.” professor of These surgery in the ideas culFeinberg School minated in of Medicine a paper by Woodruff and two colleagues, published in 2010 in Nature, an interdisciplinary science journal. The paper, “Sex bias in trials and treatment must end,” called for journals, funding agencies and researchers to give women and men equal attention in both studies and in the clinic. “60 Minutes” picked up the story in February and filmed Kibbe and Woodruff over a two-day period. The pair said the show’s national platform was very helpful in increasing awareness about the issue. The two researchers began working together when Kibbe told Woodruff about a breakthrough she had made in her research. When Woodruff asked if there were
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Methane in city parks harmless Students, admins object to Angels site By paige leskin
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After a website ranking Northwestern women based on their physical appearance spurred multiple student complaints, administrators and student leaders responded this week commending the NU community for the way they addressed the issue and asking students to continue taking steps to foster a safe campus environment. The website, Morty’s Angels, was live from Friday to Saturday and asked people to choose “who is hotter,” to create a top 50 list. Currently, the University is still not aware of who created the website, said Joan Slavin, director of NU’s Sexual Harassment Prevention Office and Title IX coordinator, in an email to The Daily. She noted her office is encouraging anyone to share any information they know about who is behind its existence, however she added the University is unsure if the creators are affiliated with the NU community at all. During the time the site was active, multiple students filed complaints with the Department of Campus Inclusion and Community about the website’s existence. Students indicated the website
was “objectifying, humiliating and demeaning to women,” among other issues in emails to Slavin’s office, she said. She noted the website may be in violation of the University’s sexual harassment policy. “The University’s Policy on Sexual Harassment provides that sexual harassment can include any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature that creates a hostile or offensive environment for others,” Slavin wrote. “Comments about students’ attractiveness (including ranking people based on how ‘hot’ they are) could create a sexually hostile environment in violation of this policy.” Slavin said students also stated their photos and names were misused without their consent. Lesley-Ann Brown, executive director for Campus Inclusion and Community, responded to student complaints Tuesday, noting the website was not affiliated with the University. The site, mortysangels.nu, was registered through the .nu domain, which is not owned by the University, Brown said. She added that Slavin had emailed the site requesting it be taken down and thanked individuals for voicing their concerns. “Thank you for making us aware » See angels, page 6
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Testing of the ground underneath a south Evanston park where a landfill once stood revealed methane levels were minimal and harmless, Evanston fire department Chief Greg Klaiber said in a presentation to City Council on Tuesday night. After testing of the area around James Park revealed high concentrations of methane gas, the city hired a firm to conduct tests in March 2014 at sites 50 feet below the surface at indoor and outdoor locations around the parks, including Dawes Elementary School, 440 Dodge Ave., the Levy Senior Center, 300 Dodge Ave., and some businesses on Howard Street. Klaiber told council the testing found methane levels to be minimal. “What we have found were zero or negligible levels of methane gas inside the facilities, as well as outside,” he said. “We’re nowhere near (explosive levels). I believe there’s no imminent threat to public safety in or around James Park and the facilities.” The city began monitoring the park and its surrounding neighborhood after testing of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago site at 3500 Howard St. in Skokie showed the presence of methane gas. “When I found out that there was high levels of methane gas below the
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I believe there’s no imminent threat to public safety in or around James Park and the facilities. Greg Klaiber, Chief of Evanston fire department
surface in this area, my number one concern, of course, is public safety,” Klaiber told the council. “Methane gas is a compressed gas. It is an asphyxiant, it’s colorless and odorless. So problems can occur in a confined
space.” He also updated the council on Evanston’s Lovelace Park, where testing showed similar low levels to James Park of methane gas. “Dependent upon what we find and the source of the methane at James Park, will kind of determine what action we’re going to take moving forward at Lovelace Park,” he said. Klaiber said he met on Monday with users of James Park, including sports teams, to deliver the same report on methane levels. The city will continue to ensure that the community is well informed on the matter, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said. However, Ald. Ann Rainey (8th), whose ward contains James Park, voiced her displeasure with the public outreach
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level check Evanston fire department Chief Greg Klaiber presents results of methane gas level testing to City Council. The tests revealed that methane levels near city parks were harmless.
thus far and said she wasn’t aware of a meeting on the issue that Bobkiewicz said was scheduled for Thursday. Bobkiewicz also updated council on a meeting with members of Community Animal Rescue Effort to talk about the funds they raised when operating out of the Evanston Animal Shelter. Although the meeting with » See council, page 6
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Evanston community members convened Tuesday night to learn about resolving school-related conflicts through mediated dialogue with local nonprofit Restorative Justice Evanston. About 10 participants gathered at Curt’s Cafe, 2922 Central St., for the discussion. RJE’s director of training, Susan Trieschmann described the nonprofit’s philosophy of restorative justice, which involves bringing student victims and offenders together in discussion circles, free of charge, instead of going through judiciary proceedings. “What they’ve said to us is it’s the first time anyone has listened to them, and adults in particular have listened to them,” Trieschmann told The Daily. “It was really beautiful.” Started in 2007, the group’s loose forum-style discussions have helped students mutually agree on resolutions and avoid suspensions. Trieschmann, who helped found the community circle programs, said there is a 90 percent chance that participants in Evanston who go through the process will not be re-offenders. She said that too often a harsh punishment is dealt without mutual discussion of
City honors 4 campus buildings Deering Library, Chapin Hall, the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house and Swift Hall were recognized by Evanston’s Preservation Commission for its annual Preservation and Design Awards on Tuesday. The city awarded NU a “Proper Preservation/ Restoration” award for the renovation of the Deering west entrance, which included both a renovation of the stairs and ramps leading up to the main doors and a redesign of the interior entryway.
the actual crime, and that there are better solutions for youth than incarceration. Trieschmann is also the owner of Curt’s Cafe, a nonprofit that employs at-risk youth and gives them job skills. “If there is an issue in the neighborhood, people can come to these circles as volunteers building camaraderie,” RJE’s public relations director Lohra Vogel, who attended the gathering, told The Daily
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in an interview. After the overview of the program, the event conducted its own community circle. With a candle lit in the center, Trieschmann started the circle by reading an opening quote that acted as a conversation starter. The circle of attendees passed around a rock in a clockwise direction that acted as a “talking piece,” allowing people with the rock to speak while others remained silent. Attendees discussed topics such as which people made the biggest impact in their lives and the words they would use to “This project maintains the integrity of the building’s west facade and has been well integrated with the surrounding landscape,” said Preservation Commission coordinator Carlos Ruiz during the presentation of the awards at the City Council meeting Tuesday. “This is an exquisite project, and the Commission was thrilled to see it.” The western doors of Deering were reopened in 2012 after a partial renovation to the entrance. The doors had previously been closed for 42 years. NU’s renovation of Chapin was honored with an “Award for Innovative Solutions in Preservation” for the restoration of the building’s front facade. “Chapin Hall’s restoration is a very well done,
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describe them. “We were all restored today,” Trieschmann said after the circle concluded. “Just being here in a circle talking to each other.” In Evanston, RJE allows restorative justice circle services for community conflicts, family group conferencing, Evanston Township High School conflicts and truancy intervention. RJE’s initiatives aim to both help the victim feel safe and to help the offender reintegrate in the community. To lead a circle, RJE volunteers need to undergo training and master how to properly listen to participants. “We don’t judge,” Trieschmann said. “We’re not social workers; we’re here to give you space to tell your story.” The philosophy of restorative justice has been around for thousands of years. Its most recent popular usage was in Native American communities, Vogel said. “Eleanor Roosevelt said, ‘Never doubt what a small group of people can do to change the world,’” said Lina Cramer, an Evanston social worker who attended the event. “This is how it all started, and this is all good — people talking and stepping in to take on what they care about.” aliceyin2017@u.northwestern.edu sensitive design that incorporates new elements in order to incorporate mobility of impaired students and visitors,” Ruiz said. “The design, construction and ownership team went to great lengths to make sure this work matched the original design and characteristics of the building.” The restoration of windows in Swift and the renovation of the Kappa house veranda to incorporate a ramp also won awards. The Commission also recognized the Grosse Point Lighthouse, 2601 Sheridan Road, the Evanston History Center, 225 Greenwood St., and two private Evanston residences for their restoration efforts. — Sophia Bollag
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Darfur refugee shares story at NU By jordan harrison
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Guy Josif doesn’t know exactly how old he is, but he said he was probably 10 or 11 years old when a nomadic Arab militia attacked his village in Darfur, Sudan. The Fiedler Hillel Center, Challah for Hunger and the Northwestern University Community for Human Rights brought Josif, a Darfur genocide survivor, to speak in Annenberg Hall on Tuesday. Alix Sherman, a family friend of Josif ’s from Oak Park, Illinois, introduced Josif and talked about his experience applying for asylum. Josif said he escaped genocide in Darfur and fled to Khartoum, but was arrested and tortured by government security forces. He then decided to take refuge in Israel by crossing through Egypt. Currently, Josif attends the College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois, but until he is granted asylum in the United States, he cannot get a job and relies on fundraising efforts to pay for tuition. Josif said after arriving in the U.S., he heard his brother was alive and living in Israel. SESP junior Brian Lasman, vice president of Hillel, said Josif ’s sponsors contacted Hillel to share his story with the organization and to ask if Hillel would be interested in hosting Josif
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Armando Aguilar was tired of living in the shadow of his rap sheet. Six years removed from his last conviction — for second-degree commercial burglary, under influence of meth and possession of a stolen check — and after he cleaned up his life, Aguilar
as a speaker. Hillel then brought in Challah for Hunger and NUCHR. “It seemed really interesting,â€? he said. “It seemed like it aligned with our mission, so Hillel as an organization decided to take it on. And then in turn we reached out to two cosponsoring groups: Challah for Hunger ‌ their primary beneficiary is the American Jewish World Service which donates their proceeds to refugees in Darfur, so there was the connection there, and then there was also NUCHR — this is very much related to human rights.â€? Weinberg junior Iszy Licht said he was interested in Josif ’s story because he has been involved in STAND, an anti-genocide group. “I’ve been learning about Darfur and human rights abuses in that region of the world really since my sophomore year of high school,â€? he said. “It was really interesting not only to talk about it abstractly, but to really hear someone who’s actually lived what I’ve been learning about.â€? At the end of the event, Josif held a questionand-answer session where students asked questions about the refugee community in Israel, his education in the U.S. and his religious beliefs following the genocide. He said he enjoyed his American education and decided to convert to Christianity because of the violence he witnessed as a child. Josif said he hopes other refugees can access the education he has reeived. “There are a thousand people like me,â€? he graduated from San Jose City College in 2009 with a state certification to work as an alcohol and drug counselor. He soon found a job working with adults. But when he applied for a job counseling youth, his criminal history killed his chances. Soon after that, Aguilar heard about a free program at San Jose State that helps people who have turned their lives around remove certain misdemeanor and felony convictions from the public record.
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With the help of SJSU justice studies students, Aguilar’s criminal history was wiped clean by a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge. “The fact I got everything expunged was a relief for me,� said Aguilar, 38, who was hired in October to work with at-risk youth in the East Bay and has informed his employer about his past. “I was able to close a chapter on that part of my life.�
After initially refusing to take action, Facebook has removed a page glorifying Elliot Rodger, the man authorities say is behind the Isla Vista rampage that left six dead and several wounded Friday. The page listed Rodger as “an American Hero� who “made the ultimate sacrifice in the struggle against feminazi ideology,� according to a screen shot posted by the Guardian. Facebook removed the page after receiving complaints from multiple users and activists. One complaint said the page contained a credible threat of violence; others reported the page for harassment. Originally, Facebook told the users and activists that it did not plan to take the page down because it did not violate its community standards, but the company recanted and removed the page Monday. Authorities say Rodger, 22, killed six UC Santa Barbara students, stabbing his three roommates before setting off on a shooting rampage around the campus. Rodger then turned the gun on himself. Besides Facebook, annotation website Rap Genius also experienced fallout from the Isla Vista shooting. Mahbod Moghadam, one of the company’s co-founders, resigned from Rap Genius after posting insensitive annotations on a copy of a 137-page manifesto written by Rodger. Moghadam apologized for his actions and, according to a report by Re/Code that cites unnamed sources, was asked to leave the company and assented. “Mahbod Moghadam, one of my co-founders, annotated the piece with annotations that not only didn’t attempt to enhance anyone’s understanding of the text, but went beyond that into gleeful insensitivity and misogyny,� said Rap Genius Chief Executive Tom Lehman in a note posted on the site. “All of which is contrary to everything we’re trying to accomplish at Rap Genius.�
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said. “They are not getting their rights, and they deserve an education.� Through all his hardships, Josif said he is thankful to be able to pursue an education. “Together we may try to change something one day, provide a safe place for even one person or two, as much as we are able to do,� he said. jordanharrison2017@u.northwestern.edu
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Make housing placements painless for freshmen MATT GATES
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For the Northwestern class of 2018, choosing a college probably seemed like the biggest decision they would ever have to make. They made a great choice, but the thing about college is that the school is only the first in a long, long line of choices. Where to live is the next choice incoming freshman will have to make. My friends have all agreed that where they live has helped to define their freshman year experience. Your dorm determines who many of your friends will be, what dining hall you’ll eat in most of the time and whether or not getting to Tech will be a hike during Winter Quarter. But choosing a dorm as a freshman is no easy task. North Campus or South Campus? (What if I’m a Medill premed?) Res college or dorm? (What’s the difference?) Should I look for a roommate on Facebook or Roomsync? (How does Roomsync even match us?) The housing process is inherently a stressful one. But I was not alone in finding that the housing process for the class of 2017 was even more stressful than expected. The University needs to communicate more clearly with the class of 2018 about the housing process in order for the next generation of Wildcats to start their college experience off on the right paw. The class of 2017 Facebook page was left
filled with frantic comments from people searching for last-minute roommates after the University informed us shortly before the process started that those among us who had not chosen a roommate would automatically choose housing after anyone who had, regardless of priority number. By not making it clear earlier that “going random” – meaning that we would choose half of a room and be at the mercy of whoever chose the other half – would disadvantage us in getting into our desired dorm, NU made the housing process unnecessarily stressful. The desire for pairs to select rooms prior Providing clear to individuals for and complete logistical purposes understandable. instructions ... is While information could avoid the about the housing confusion that process is available online, efforts should surrounded the be made to make sure housing process it is directly given and explained to freshfor this year’s men, who by their freshman class. nature, lack experience with college housing. The process last year seemed to change each week, making the class of 2017 confused before it ever even made it to Tech auditorium. Providing clear and complete instructions as to how to navigate the housing process that are also consolidated to one location could avoid the confusion that surrounded the housing process for this year’s
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I arrived at Northwestern wanting to go to graduate school in economics. It is helpful to unpack how weird a desire that is. Economics may be the most popular major at NU, but to our aspiring consultants and salespeople it is only a means to employment. Substantial discussion of economics is sparse among undergraduates; the Undergraduate Economics Society has a thousand-strong listserv readership, but mostly sends out news about networking panels. The result is that enough students attend NU for its prestigious economics program, but they have no idea what gives it prestige in the first place. Our economics program, we can expect, has loftier goals than merely aiding students to find jobs. The goal in introductory economics courses is to show each student a way of seeing the world that is helpful and beneficial. But the idea of economics as a useful discipline is also weird. Economics does not produce blockbuster drugs nor technology that lifts mankind from a dismal future. Economists cannot even agree among themselves. Recall how people made fun of two of the three recipients of last year’s Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences: a theorist and an economist who lashed out at him. Is this dispiriting to me? Of course – but it does not matter. The reason why I pursue economics is a moral one — and I do mean “economics” in the utility-optimizing manner taught in intro classes. First we have to accept that economic analysis has great power. The assumption economics makes at its heart is “people consistently choose what they most want.” From there we can conceive an agent maximizing utility, which can be used to model the causes of social problems. This is a big assumption, and some question whether the “consistent” part is true. But the assumption is also humanizing; instead of dismissing people we disagree with as “idiots,” we trust that they follow the same principle we do when making sense of the world. This trust is important. We want to hope for an idea of the good on which we can all
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agree. If there were not, we would be trapped in a cycle of blame and inaction. Activists blame leaders, who blame onlookers, who blame activists and so forth. The fear here is that we think we are solving problems through our criticism when we are only doing what we feel like or what we find the easiest. Economic analysis is not the final word, but it provides reasons that do not implicate blame. The key is to understand what an economic equilibrium entails. Under this interpretation of the world, problems exist in our society never because some group deserves blame. Problems persist because everyone has reasons to maintain the status quo, since it serves her well. Then we can move toward a solution by offering incentives—in money, prestige or praise—to change those reasons. In response to the engineer this week who hacked the Morty’s Angels site, we should seize the moment and praise better, less murky ways that engineers have worked for extracurricular causes. Incentivizing the act encourages them, an underrepresented group, to remain working for what we think is right. Even if groups agreed to take action to do good, there is the additional problem of maintenance. Take our campus as an example. We have made progress, though not reached a conclusion satisfactory to all, on issues of discrimination and mental health. Progress ought to be made further, but what reasons can we give to keep the pressure on a campus into the future? The students of tomorrow should not have to wait for another tragedy to revive the conversation. This is where the idea of incentives is powerful: If our campus ensures people are sufficiently rewarded for continuing the conversation, we will never risk no one taking up the challenge and letting previous work wilt away. And solutions like these get at the heart of the problem. It is easy for a community to fall away from the good, but it is hard to climb back up. This concern is why I try to be an economist. The discipline does not deal out miracle cures but represents an effort to wholly convince everyone why we must climb the path to goodness. Tom Cui is a Weinberg junior. He can be reached at tianfangcui2015@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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freshman class. But the class of 2018 should know that no matter where they end up living, their freshman experience at NU will be great. Allison might be quite the hike to Tech, but friendships are forged by trudging through the snow after the shuttle fills up. Bobb might never be quiet, but at least it will encourage you to put your work down for a bit. Willard may be off the map, but Fran’s is a great
place to meet up with friends. Getting placed in a dorm you didn’t want won’t ruin your freshman experience, but having a housing process that is easy to navigate will start the class of 2018 out on the right foot. Matt Gates is a Weinberg freshman. He can be reached at matthewgates2017@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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Prof talks role of theology in Israel-Palestine conflict Visiting religious studies prof. Englander discusses Palestinian right of return, polarized campus opinions By annie mcdonough
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A visiting religious studies professor gave a talk Wednesday on challenging traditional perspectives and sparking dialogue on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yakir Englander spoke to a crowd of about 70 people in Fisk Hall at the event, “New Paths in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Politics, Actions, Dialogue and Theology.” Students in Englander’s class this quarter, Theology in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, organized the event, which included members from Students for Justice in Palestine, Wildcats for Israel and J Street U. Nida Bajwa, one of the organizers, said Englander offers his class of about 30 students the chance to learn how theology operates in the conflict. “It’s been a very transformative experience for a lot of students in the class, and I wanted to bring that transformative thinking to a bigger stage,” the Medill freshman said. Englander is a specialist in modern Jewish philosophy and has a Ph.D. from The Hebrew
Police Blotter 3 teens rob 12-year-old Evanston resident at knifepoint
Three teenagers used a knife to rob a 12-year-old boy near the Evanston-Chicago border Sunday afternoon. The teenagers approached the boy, an Evanston resident, near the corner of Dobson Street and Elmwood Avenue at about 5 p.m., Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.
University of Jerusalem. He also serves as the vice president of Kids4Peace International, a global peace organization that aims to educate children of all faiths on religious and cultural tolerance through summer camps and leadership programs. Englander spoke about his involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by sharing his experiences of fear and violence while growing up in a Hasidic Jewish family. “I grew up in a family with a lot of love and a lot of love for God, but in that same family, we never wanted to meet anyone who was not Hasidic,” he said. “I grew up with a lot of fear for Jews.” Englander said when he was 15, two Palestinians were killed by a bomb they had placed next to his synagogue. “It made me, of course, hate more and fear more,” he said. However, Englander said his perspective changed when he left his Hasidic community at 22 and was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces, where he had the job of collecting both Israeli and Palestinian dead bodies while fighting was going on. “What changed was a slap in my face because for the first time I understood what it means to be with my enemy and to understand that my enemy looks exactly like me,” he said. “What do you do when you are under fire and you need to decide how many parts of the body you are going to take time to pick up to bring home to Palestine or to Israel?” Englander said his experience in the middle of the fighting was a moment where “all the
narratives just changed,” and insight into a second narrative began to grow for him very slowly. He said it will It’s hard. take years to reconcile Life is hard. But the differences. He continued his that’s what the talk by speaking of his rabbis have work with Kids4Peace in Israel, where he been telling us brings both Israeli for hundreds of and Palestinian chilyears. You want dren together to do an “internal critique,” to live in the which he described as a holy land? Live dialogue in which individuals critique themholy. selves in an effort to Yakir Englander, understand where their visiting religious hatred stems from. studies professor “Internal critique means that something in my story changes, from the time I start working with Palestinians and I listen to them and they listen to me because it means that they sacrificed something to listen to me,” he said. Englander addressed the Palestinian issue of right of return and said he is partly responsible, as a Jewish man who grew up in Israel, for the Palestinians who were displaced from their homes. “I, Yakir, don’t have any right to continue to live my life until this problem is healed,” he said. “I don’t have safety and peace when my Palestinian brothers and sisters don’t have
safety and peace.” Englander did not take any particular position about solutions to the conflict and pledged at the beginning of his talk to not critique the Palestinian side. “There is an assumption in the debate about Israel and Palestine that Jews need a Jewish state,” he said. “As a son of a father from the Holocaust, I totally understand it. But when you are collecting bodies, you raise the question: What is more important – life or anything else? We must wake up in the morning and ask ourselves this everyday. Choose life.” Englander said the role of NU students on campus must be to bring their opinions to pro-Israel and pro-Palestine events and just listen. Bajwa, who spoke at the beginning of the event, said campus discourse on the issue that has “traditionally been very polarized.” She said Englander’s talk exceeded her expectations. “I think it really challenged people’s perceptions of the conflict,” she said. “At the end of the day, that was the goal.” Englander spoke of the complexities in the justifications made by both sides of the conflict but urged the audience to understand the responsibility and price that goes along with every proposed solution, including the Jewish belief in their right to the holy land. “It’s hard. Life is hard,” he said. “But that’s what rabbis have been telling us for hundreds of years. You want to live in the holy land? Live holy.”
One of the teens displayed a knife and demanded that the 12-year-old surrender his cell phone. After the boy gave them his phone, the three teenagers grabbed another Evanston resident, 11, from behind, and one of them said he had a gun, police said. The juveniles then fled southbound on Elmwood Avenue toward Howard Street, Parrott said. No medical attention was required for the two boys, and police are reviewing video camera evidence in their investigation of the case, Parrott added.
7 vehicles damaged in 4 blocks on Saturday and Sunday
a Toyota and a Ford. Parrott said the damages to these five vehicles appear to be related, but the cause of the broken windows was not discernible. Three cars were damaged in a single block in west Evanston on May 17, but Parrott said these incidents were probably not related to the ones that happened overnight Saturday. “They were in a completely different part of town,” he said. “At this point, there’s no correlation between the two (incidents).”
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Seven vehicles in just four blocks in south Evanston were damaged overnight Saturday. Two of the vehicles, a Toyota and a Subaru, were damaged in the 1300 block of Wesley Avenue and the 1300 block of Greenwood Street respectively, Parrott said. These two vehicles had their rear driver’s side windows damaged by a BB or pellet gun, he added. The other five vehicles were damaged in the 1500 block of Wilder Street and the 1100 and 1200 blocks of Florence Avenue, police said. The cars that had some windows broken included a BMW, two Chevrolets,
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CARE didn’t result in a definite answer on what to do with the money, Bobkiewicz said he was hopeful the dialogue would continue in the future. “I really bring no firm decisions or firm commitments from CARE,” he said. “However, I think the atmosphere of the meeting indicated that there was some willingness on their part to have additional discussions.” CARE’s relationship with Evanston ended following a vote by aldermen at an April 8 council meeting. The decision followed a series of negotiations between CARE and the city, in which aldermen put forward revised policies that CARE would have to follow in order to stay in Evanston. When those failed, City Council ordered the organization to stop its work at the shelter and vacate the premises by early May.
any differences in how male and female rats responded to a drug, Kibbe said she had only used male rats in the study. Woodruff convinced her to study the drug in both genders, and she found the effects of the drug in male and females produced different results. A grant from the Women’s Health Research Institute at NU allowed Kibbe to complete the study. “During my research, I was surprised to see there was a difference, a pretty significant one,” Kibbe said. “That research was really what opened my eyes up to this issue.” Kibbe said she examined five of the top surgery journals to learn what percentage of published papers studied males and females. She said of the papers she studied, about a third didn’t state the sex of the subjects being studied, and for those that did, about 80 percent of them studied males only. Currently, Kibbe
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RHA’s co-presidents James Pisano and Andy Niederschulte said they were pleased to partner with Mayfest again. “We’re excited to be able to contribute to a campus tradition that is so integral to the Northwestern experience for RHA students. Many thanks go to Mayfest for being great collaborators and for making this awesome event a reality. We’ll see you on Dillo Day, and we hope you enjoy OK Go!”
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security is at stake” in the outcome there. That led to a deployment of additional U.S. troops that for a time brought the total to 100,000. In his remarks Tuesday announcing the withdrawal of most of the 32,000 who remain, he suggested the U.S. had achieved the major goals that justified the war: “We have struck significant blows against alQaida’s leadership, we have eliminated Osama bin Laden, and we’ve prevented Afghanistan from being used to launch attacks against our homeland. “It’s time to turn the page on more than a decade in which so much of our foreign policy was focused on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,” he said. Starting next year, Obama said, the U.S. will end its combat missions in Afghanistan and while 9,800 American troops will remain, as well as some from NATO allies, Afghans will be “fully responsible” for securing their country, with the U.S. no longer patrolling “Afghan cities or towns, mountains or valleys.” The remaining U.S. troops will train Afghan units, protect U.S. diplomats and intelligence agents and take part in counterterrorism efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan, officials said. Obama plans to return to West Point on Wednesday for what aides are billing as a major
foreign policy speech, albeit one designed to lay out a broad vision rather than to revisit a difficult war. More than 2,300 U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan and thousands more have been injured since the war began in 2001. The death toll this year _ just over 20 _ is far lower than in the past, reflecting the decline in U.S. combat. The president’s decision gave the military fewer American troops than it had requested for next year and for significantly less time than it had sought. Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the commander in Afghanistan, had requested at least 10,000 troops and had pushed for months to keep them at least through 2015. The White House accepted much of that plan, including Dunford’s call to array forces around the country, especially in the south and east where the insurgency is strongest. But Obama and his advisers, who had been skeptical that further time would significantly change the situation on the ground, opted for a relatively quick drawdown. The force will be down to 5,000 by the end of 2015, based solely in Kabul and at Bagram air base, north of the capital.
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National News US to keep only 9,800 troops in Afghanistan by year’s end WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s plan to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan to fewer than 10,000 by year’s end seeks to balance fears that a speedier withdrawal could push Afghan forces to collapse against his desire to end more than a decade of war. The result is to keep some U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan until the end of his presidency but potentially leave the final outcome of the war to his successor. After the experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, “I think Americans have learned that it’s harder to end wars than it is to begin them,” Obama said Tuesday in a brief statement in the White House Rose Garden, where he announced the decision on troop levels. But, he said, “we have to recognize Afghanistan will not be a perfect place, and it is not America’s responsibility to make it one.” Four years ago, in a major speech at West Point announcing a surge of troops into Afghanistan, Obama said that he was “convinced that our
is advocating for journals to be required to publish a subject’s sex in studies. “My part in this is to get all journals, not just surgical journals, to change their policies,” she said. “There’s the NIH, the FDA, the industry and the journals, and all four of these entities could be working to create a more sex-balanced research environment.” Kibbe has completed her study testing a particular drug in both male and female rats and submitted the manuscript, which will come out in the next couple of weeks. Woodruff said she hopes the NIH’s policy change will get more people talking about the importance of studying both genders. “Studying both males and females is not just duplicating results,” Woodruff said. “We can actually discover things that are fundamental about biology. As our discoveries go forward from bench to bedside, we have an opportunity to help health overall.” oliviaexstrum2017@u.northwestern.edu
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Baseball
Player Dan Tyson
IP 57
ERA 3.47
ERA+ 110
FIP 4.13
WHIP 1.67
BABIP .325
Reed Mason
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90
4.07
1.56
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Nick Friar
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3.96
1.48
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Just like OPS+, ERA+ puts individual ERAs against league average. It was a rough year for NU pitching, and the numbers reflect that. Other than Hoscheit, who posted a 438 ERA+ in only 10 1/3 innings, and sophomore Jake Stolley, whose 144 ERA+ came in 17 innings, only one Cats pitcher was even above league average in 2014. That lone hurler was senior Dan Tyson, whose 3.47 ERA and 110 ERA+ were team bests among pitchers who threw at least 20 innings.
Brandon Magallones
77.2
5.33
71
4.72
1.64
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Joe Hoscheit
10.1
0.87
438
2.36
0.68
.176
Jake Stolley
17
2.65
144
7.53
2.06
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Jack Quigley
37.1
4.58
83
4.65
1.61
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Matt Portland
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4.72
81
3.71
1.53
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Matt Hopfner
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4.91
78
4.78
1.27
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Jack Livingston
19.2
6.41
59
4.51
1.93
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WHIP
Ethan Bramschreiber
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7.53
51
5.12
1.95
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Joe Schindler
15
8.4
45
2.90
1.67
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1.4
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minimum 10 innings pitched unless otherwise noted):
ERA+
WHIP (walks plus hits per innings pitched) measures how many base runners a pitcher allows. This year, every NU pitcher but Hoscheit averaged more than 1.25 per inning, and no one who threw more than 20 innings bested the Big Ten average of 1.4o. WHIP is especially useful in evaluating relievers, whose ERAs can be distorted by inherited runners. The Cats had bullpen struggles all season, and WHIP illustrates why: Even trusted closer senior Jack Quigley allowed 1.61 base runners per inning. Senior Nick Friar was NU’s best starting pitcher by WHIP, finishing at 1.48, while Tyson, despite his solid ERA, came in last on the starting staff at 1.67.
FIP FIP (fielding independent pitching) relies on the controversial but research-backed assumption that over the long run, pitchers have no control
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over the result of a ball in play, only strikeouts, walks, hit by pitches and home runs. While poor defenses (by missing tough plays that could have been fielded but are difficult enough not to count as errors) can hurt a pitcher’s ERA, they don’t affect his FIP, which estimates what a pitcher’s ERA would be with average defense behind him. Almost every NU pitcher posted an FIP better than his ERA, suggesting the Cats’ defense was lacking. (This is backed up by traditional stats: NU led the Big Ten in errors.) Four of the team’s five starters had FIPs better than their ERAs in 2014, including sophomore Matt Portland, whose FIP was a full run better than his ERA. His 3.71 FIP was best among Cats pitchers who threw at
least 20 innings, with Friar next at 3.96.
“I started sobbing alone in an empty hotel room, packing up my travel bag for the last time,” Allard said. “Everything Northwestern meant to me came crashing down through my eyeballs. I’m still sad about it. I will never get another game back in a purple uniform, and that really bothers me.” Allard is still trying to convince herself that
every senior feels the way she does now that her collegiate career is over. However, she does have one thing to look forward to – her new career with the Chicago Bandits of National Pro Fastpitch. No matter how long her career with the Bandits lasts, she said she will always be grateful to NU and all it has given her. She said she leaves
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BABIP Besides being the most fun acronym in the sabermetric vernacular, BABIP (batting average on balls in play) is valuable in assessing the degree to which a pitcher benefits from good luck. As explained above, the results once a ball is put in play tend to even out over time, so if a pitcher allows an especially high BABIP, he’s probably unlucky — and vice versa. It makes sense, then, that NU’s three worst pitchers this season by ERA — Livingston, senior Ethan Bramschreiber and freshman Joe Schindler — all allowed high averages on balls in play. This
means all three were likely victimized by poor batted-ball luck: dribblers sneaking through the infield, line drives finding gaps instead of gloves, infield hits, etc. In small sample sizes, Hopfner and Hoscheit both allowed low BABIPs, which helps explain the success they (especially Hoscheit) had on the mound late in the season. BABIP for batters is more prone to variation, but numbers far from league average (.318 in the Big Ten this season) can raise eyebrows. Expect some regression next season from single-hitting Hopfner (.393 BABIP) and perhaps a hike in batting average from Hoscheit (.271 BABIP). asputt@u.northwestern.edu with no regrets even though she wished the Cats could have accomplished more as a team. “I would love one more opportunity, but I gave it everything I had this year — our team gave it everything we had this year,” Allard said. “Everything happens for a reason. I have no regrets.” joshwalfish2014@u.northwestern.edu
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It’s just not the same. The stakes aren’t as high. — Emily Allard, senior outfielder, on practicing versus playing
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Few things can slow down Emily Allard. Not a catcher’s futile throw to second base. Not a pitcher’s hardest fastball. Not even a centerfielder playing on the dirt to cover second base, as Wisconsin once tried. Allard’s aggressiveness made her Northwestern’s all-time leader in stolen bases with 154. Every time she stood on first base, she would stare down coach Kate Drohan waiting for the sign, which slowly changed from a full-blown hand motion to a quick tilt of the head. She ended her career having converted on almost 93 percent of her stolen-base attempts. The Big Ten could not slow her down on the base paths, but her own coach found a way to tame her – practice. Allard, a former Daily columnist, recalls a conversation she had with Drohan during her freshman year about why Allard does not practice like she plays. The outfielder says she finds an extra level on game day. “It’s just not the same,” Allard said. “The stakes aren’t as high. (Kate and I) talked over the years about how, for me, we could make practice game-like, and then it got the point toward the end of my career where it was just a joke.” Even though practice slows Allard down, it didn’t halt her career like the injury she suffered before the 2013 season that cost her her true senior season. Despite trying to tough it out, Allard elected to seek a medical hardship waiver last season after six games in order to come back fully healthy for the 2014 season. “It was emotionally draining,” Allard said. “To play every game of my career and then know the opportunity
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Need for Speed After setting the Northwestern program record for stolen bases with 154, senior outfielder Emily Allard was drafted into National Pro Fastpitch this year. In 2014, Allard led the team with a .394 batting average, 52 runs scored and 37 steals.
for me to step on the field was taken away — that was hard to deal with. “It got to the point where it wasn’t going to change … and from there I had to adjust. It took me a while, and I don’t know if I ever fully got there.”
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Northwestern and was playing in a high school tournament when she met her best friend. She was in the on-deck circle preparing for a game when a random girl ran up to her and introduced herself. That random girl was Kristin Jensen, who had also committed to NU at the time. “I honestly don’t know what came
over me, but I just walked up to her and said, ‘Hi, I’m Kristin Scharkey, we’re both going to Northwestern next year and we’re going to be best friends,’” said Jensen, who recently married former NU wide receiver Mike Jensen. “I really don’t know why that came out of my mouth, but it did. We hugged and the rest is history.” “I was thinking, ‘Oh my God, who is this girl?’” Allard said of the encounter. “Her smile was so big, and what she said was so enthusiastic. And there was not a doubt in her mind that her and I would be best friends.” The two have shared many special moments since that day, but one sticks out in Jensen’s mind that showcases the type of friend and teammate Allard is. Jensen had broken her wrist during a play at first base during the first game of the 2012 regional final in Austin, Texas, and Allard would not allow her friend to miss the winner-take-all final game. Allard and Jensen spent the 30 minutes between games throwing the ball, even though Jensen’s throws were going barely more than five feet. “It’s so representative of who she is as a player, as a person and a teammate because Emily Allard cares more about the win column than the stat line,” Jensen said. “That is what drives her and what makes her such a special teammate for me.” However, the most difficult day the two shared may have been April 28, 2013, senior day for Allard’s classmates. She asked Drohan if she could be the one handing out the flowers to each of her teammates that day. Jensen was one of those seniors and said it was bittersweet for her to receive her flowers from Allard. “I gave Kate a hug, looked up and saw Emily walking toward me with my flowers,” Jensen said. “That was hard. We gave each other the longest hug, me on one side of the first baseline, her
on the other, when we had been on the same side for three years.”
The finale Allard used the 2013 season to absorb as much as she could from the coaches before she returned to the field in 2014. Ironically, Allard said she learned from associate head coach Caryl Drohan how to make the game seem slower to her than it did. “One of the things that Caryl told me during my career is there’s a couple people where the game comes slow to them, and she told me I was one of those people,” Allard said. “I really tried to take that even further and see how much I could slow it down.” The tips seemingly worked in 2014. Allard led the team with a .394 batting average and 52 runs scored. She added 37 stolen bases to her total to break the record and then distance herself from second place. Kate Drohan said she loves to coach Allard because she is one of those players who thrives in the pressure moments and rises to the occasion. “The better the pitcher is, the better she is,” Drohan said. “When you have someone with her kind of athleticism and that kind of drive who steps up in those types of situations, that’s a lot of fun to coach.” Allard stepped to the plate in the fifth inning of the regional final against No. 12 seed Washington with the Huskies leading 9-0 and knew it would be her final at-bat. She calmly willed herself to hit a single and promptly stole second, a fitting end to her career. However, her emotions failed to catch up to her realization that her time at NU was over. After shaking hands with Washington, she was able to suppress her tears. When Kate » See ALLARD, page 7
Baseball
Sabermetrics: How the advanced stats rate the Cats By alex putterman
daily senior staffer @AlexPutt02
Traditional baseball statistics like batting average and ERA have survived more than a century for a reason: They’re intuitive and instructive in evaluating players. But in recent years, statisticians have improved upon those stats, creating “sabermetric” measures that provide more complete pictures of player performance. Using basic numbers offered by the
Player Matt Hopfner Scott Heelan Zach Jones Cody Stevens Joe Hoscheit Nick Linne Jack Livingston Reid Hunter Jack Straub Jack Mitchell Walker Moses Luke Dauch Jake Schieber Big Ten Average
NU Sports and Big Ten websites, The Daily dusted off its Microsoft Excel skills and calculated advanced stats for the 2014 Northwestern baseball season. Here are brief descriptions of the stats calculated, along with what they can tell us about the performances of individual Wildcats players this season. We’ll begin with offensive numbers (all team ranks minimum 75 at-bats, unless otherwise noted):
OPS and OPS+
AB 197 189 162 169 178 130 77 80 110 78 105 114 88 N/A
AVG .335 .317 .315 .278 .258 .215 .312 .300 .264 .256 .248 .246 .239 .270
OPS .761 .806 .715 .627 .720 .542 .879 .748 .611 .712 .657 .689 .610 .709
Most fans and analysts don’t quite consider OPS an advanced statistic, but it’s not listed on the official team or conference websites. So we’ll include it here. OPS simply adds up on-base percentage and slugging percentage to create a number fairly descriptive of a batter’s production. While batting average counts a single the same as a home run and entirely ignores walks, OPS weighs those actions. OPS+ presents OPS relative to league average (it also usually adjusts for park effects, but that is impractical to calculate here). An OPS at league
OPS+ 107 114 101 88 102 76 124 106 86 100 93 97 86 100
wOBA .340 .370 .316 .294 .332 .264 .388 .342 .286 .308 .318 .309 .284 .317
average means an OPS+ of 100, an OPS 10 percent higher than average is a 110 OPS+, 10 percent lower than average is a 90 OPS+ and on and on. Senior designated hitter Jack Livingston led NU in OPS (.879) and OPS+ (124), largely thanks to 11 extra-base hits in only 77 at-bats. Among players who saw everyday playing time, junior second baseman Scott Heelan paced the Cats with an .806 OPS and 114 OPS+. Freshman Matt Hopfner comfortably led the team in batting average. But 59 of the outfielder’s 66 hits were singles, so he came in only third in the
wRC+ 107 117 100 93 105 83 122 108 90 97 100 97 89 100
BABIP .393 .343 .362 .319 .271 .286 .411 .353 .305 .277 .338 .295 .368 .318
Chart by Lissey Barnett/The Daily Northwestern
team in OPS and OPS+.
wOBA and wRC+ wOBA (weighted on-base average) is a more advanced version of OPS, weighing walks, hit by pitches, singles, doubles, triples and home runs according to their respective values to a lineup. The weights fluctuate every year based on league production, and such data is obviously not available for the Big Ten. We’ll (somewhat arbitrarily) use the weights for Major League Baseball in 2010, as presented by FanGraphs.com. wRC+ is to wOBA as OPS+ is to OPS. It puts wOBA against league average, with 100 representing the mean. Again, by these formulas we see Livingston as the team’s best hitter (.388 wOBA, 122 wRC+) with Heelan second (.370, 117). Hopfner falls to fourth, narrowly behind junior utilityman Reid Hunter. Freshman outfielder Joe Hoscheit looks good by measures that account for extra-base power, thanks to 10 doubles and a team-high four home runs, posting a 102 OPS+ and 105 wRC+ despite only a .258 batting average. Junior outfielder Walker Moses also does well in advanced stats because he often walks and was hit by five pitches in 2014. Because wRC+ counts walks more heavily than OPS+, Moses’ wRC+ is 100, while his OPS+ is only 93. On to the pitchers (all team ranks » See Baseball, page 7