The Daily Northwestern — November 10, 2015

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Balancing Without a Budget

Aldermen urge budget action

By JULIA JACOBS

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FILMMAKER Documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer gives a lecture on the production and experience of his most recent film, “The Look of Silence.” Oppenheimer discussed the political and psychological implications of his film, which explores the aftermath of the 1965 Indonesian genocide.

Indonesian genocide explored Joshua Oppenheimer shows documentary

By CYDNEY HAYES

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Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer visited Northwestern on Monday to screen and lecture on his most recent documentary, “The Look of Silence,” which continues his storytelling series on the Indonesian genocide that unfolded 50 years ago.

“The Look of Silence” follows Adi, an optometrist whose brother, Ramli, was killed in the 1965 Indonesian genocide of accused Communists. According to the documentary, more than a million civilians were killed, but many perpetrators and even relatives of the victims deny the scale of the genocide.

“The name Ramli had become synonymous with the genocide as a whole because he was one of the only victims with a marked grave,” Oppenheimer said.

“So even though we focus on a small

part of the story, it shows a much larger picture.”

“The Look of Silence” is a sequel to Oppenheimer’s previous film, “The Act of Killing,” which focused on the perpetrators of the 1965 genocide and their glorified status in much of Indonesian society. Although “The Act of Killing” was released first, Oppenheimer said the story told in “The Look of Silence” was the one he initially set out to make when » See SILENCE, page 11

In the state’s fifth month without a budget, aldermen unanimously passed a resolution Monday urging Illinois politicians to work toward the release of certain funds owed to local governments such as Evanston.

City Council passed the resolution a day before the Illinois House of Representatives is set to reconvene to consider legislation releasing the funds demanded in the council’s resolution, including revenue from state sales taxes, video gambling, casino gaming and funding for emergency service centers.

City Council also asked for release of motor fuel tax revenue — funds that help pay the salaries of some Evanston staff.

Since July, the state has withheld over $150 million in funds owed to local governments due to the lack of budget appropriations, leaving services such as road maintenance in financial danger.

However, the House bill does not currently have any Republican representatives as co-sponsors and is without Gov. Bruce Rauner’s support.

Additionally, Evanston’s share of state income taxes is likely to see substantial cuts following the passage of a budget to help balance Illinois’ growing debt, Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said at the meeting.

Although the state is currently making payments to the local government

distributive fund — which provides state income tax revenue to communities — Tisdahl said she anticipates the fund will be targeted to alleviate the state’s debts.

“Things are looking gloomy because the state will be 5 to 8 billion in debt even if Gov. Rauner agrees to a 1 percent increase in the income tax,” Tisdahl said.

“Our budget is looking all right at the moment, but what’s in the offing does not look good at all.”

Rauner initially proposed in February a 50 percent cut to local government distributive funds, which would cut about $3.75 million from Evanston.

In discussion of the city’s own proposed budget for 2016, Tisdahl suggested adding $100,000 to the city’s police and fire pension payments.

Aldermen unanimously approved the change to the proposed budget, which is scheduled for adoption on Nov. 23.

The city’s proposed 2016 budget includes an $800,000 property tax levy increase, the necessity of which Ald. Jane Grover (7th) questioned at a previous budget meeting last month. Although staff concocted budget scenarios that would reduce the property tax increase — including maintaining vacancies in the police and fire department — they continue to push for the 2 percent property tax levy increase in light of a potential property tax freeze at a statewide level.

City manager Wally Bobkiewicz told The Daily that although the cuts to state contributions to Evanston has been » See BUDGET, page 11

City dispensary passes inspection Rep. Gabel talks state budget impasse

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Evanston residents and community activists shared personal difficulties amid the state budget impasse — from the overcrowding of health service centers to withholding of funds for homelessness outreach programs — at a town hall meeting Monday night.

About 80 Evanston residents and local nonprofit leaders gathered at the Civic Center, 2100 Ridge Ave., to vent frustrations and tell stories regarding the state budget impasse that has been ongoing since July 1, when state legislators failed to reach an agreement on the state budget before the beginning of the new fiscal year.

The town hall meeting was organized by state Rep. Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston).

Gabel said the Illinois budget has remained in limbo because Gov. Bruce Rauner has shifted his focus from solving the budget crisis to addressing other legislation.

“Both liberal think tanks… and also conservative think tanks… have come up with pretty much the same solution to the budget,” Gabel said at the meeting. “If we could just sit down and actually work on

the budget itself, this could be resolved in a short period of time.”

The meeting featured testimony from Evanston residents and community workers who addressed issues of homelessness, education, mental health services and child care — areas that have seen their funding partially frozen due to the impasse.

Evanston resident Beatriz Cabrera spoke of how she had to quit her job to take care of her infant daughter because she could not afford child care with her current salary.

“I would love to go back to work, but I can’t afford childcare,” said Cabrera, who made $360 per week in her job. “Please help me and change the rules so I can get back on my feet.”

A silver lining for families in Cabrera’s situation came in an announcement from Rauner’s office Monday morning that set forth a partial solution to the effects of narrowed eligibility for the Child Care Assistance Program. Following “bipartisan discussions,” Rauner’s administration implemented an increase in the income eligibility for child care assistance.

“As a result of bipartisan discussions with legislators concerning the future of the Child Care Assistance Program… » See GABEL, page 11

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Medical marijuana provider Pharmacannis is preparing to open its Evanston dispensary over the next couple of weeks following an announcement by Illinois officials that state dispensaries were permitted to operate Monday.

Two Pharmacannis dispensaries in Ottawa and North Aurora will be operating Tuesday after initial shipments of their product arrived at the locations, company co-founder Norah Scott said Monday at an open house at the Evanston location, 1804 Maple Ave. Pharmacannis currently owns dispensaries at four different locations in Illinois.

Teddy Scott said the open house at the Evanston location was the last opportunity for the public to see the Evanston dispensary before it became restricted to medical cardholders. “(The Evanston location) had its final state inspection this morning,” said Teddy Scott, co-CEO of Pharmacannis. “We couldn’t even put in an order for product until that step was finished.”

Scott said there still has not been a specific date set for the location to open because of the necessity of these inspections, without which dispensaries are unable to even cue cultivators to stock

their specific products.

Once open, the Evanston location has a maximum capacity of 10 patients allowed in the waiting room at any given time, general manager Tana Francellno said. She said patients will have to be verified as cardholders at the door and then go through a second verification process to ensure they are licensed at that specific dispensary before product consultation is given.

“We have security measures in place to ensure the legitimacy of our business and product,” Francellno said. “Product is prepackaged in child-resistant, opaque packaging at our cultivation facilities and then packaged once more in a lockable

Pharmacannis bag that can be reused.”

Dispensaries are beginning to open nearly two years after the medical cannabis pilot program was passed in 2013 to run until December 2017. The law allows the use of cannabis as an alternate form of medical therapy for around 39 sanctioned illnesses, including cancer, glaucoma and multiple sclerosis. Dispensaries are only open to individuals holding medical marijuana cards with criteria including permanent residency in the state and a bonafide relationship with a doctor for more than a year. Patients are allowed up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana » See OPEN HOUSE, page 11

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COMING SOON Medical marijuana provider Pharmacannis hosted an open house at its Evanston location Monday. The dispensary, located at 1804 Maple Ave. passed its final state inspection.

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Around Town Council delays vote on inclusive housing ordinance

By ROBIN OPSAHL

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Despite requests from Evanston residents for aldermen to vote on amendments to Evanston’s inclusionary housing ordinance at Monday’s meeting, City Council motioned to postpone discussion on the ordinance due to concerns for the effects on residents.

The amended ordinance would require a minimum of 10 percent of sale and rental units in Evanston serve as affordable housing units. While many community members and city staff spoke in support of the ordinance during the meeting, Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) said there needs to be further discussion on the source of funding for the increase in affordable units.

“If this is the first step, it is the worst first step,” Wilson said at the meeting. ”We should figure out how to pay for it first. We’re hurting the people that we’re trying to help.”

Wilson said he fears expanding affordable housing in Evanston with this ordinance would cause the cost of living for other building residents to increase. He said the program wasn’t inclusionary — as its name indicates — and wanted to consider broader funding sources.

Police Blotter Man charged with possession of heroin, marijuana

A 21-year-old man was arrested Friday night in connection with possession of heroin and marijuana.

Police stopped a vehicle at about 10 p.m. for a minor traffic violation in the 7500 block of N Western Avenue on the border of Chicago and Evanston, when they smelled unburned marijuana on the passenger, said Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan.

Police found a clear bag containing six individual baggies each containing 1.2 grams of what police think was heroin, Dugan said.

“If this is a value to community, it should be something the entire community should be involved in,” he said.

The 10 percent requirement covers small and large properties and encourages developers and landlords to create and renovate affordable housing options in Evanston with a fee for not complying. The amendment also outlined different requirements and greater benefits to developers for expanding housing near public transportation.

City staff predicts about 250 new affordable housing units will be developed over the next five years under the amended IHO. The estimation was a departure from officials’ original prediction of the creation of 1,000 new affordable housing units in the next five years after implementing the IHO amendment.

Ald. Brian Miller (9th) seconded Wilson’s motion to hold the vote, saying there were more imminent issues to discuss.

“Waiting a week won’t cause any problems,” Miller said. “I don’t know why we’re doing this tonight — we should be discussing the budget.”

However, community members who spoke on the amendment said the sooner Evanston’s IHO is amended, the better. Elliot Zashin, an Evanston resident who worked with groups such as Interfaith Action and the Good Jobs Campaign, said that the amendment has been discussed enough

and it is time for the city to act.

“Let’s vote and move on,” Zashin said at the meeting. “We need to do what we can to make sure the most livable city is also a welcoming community.”

Suzanne Calder, the chair of Evanston’s Housing and Homelessness commission, added that city staff is already working on finding strategies to expand affordable housing funds for Evanston.

However, Calder said these other ideas can be in addition to the proposed IHO amendment and does not need to preclude or replace it.

“This will not make up for the loss of 3,300 (affordable housing) units over the last 10 years, but it’s a start,” she said. “We know this is not going to solve the problem. It’s a small, but an important, step.”

Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) said aldermen and community members who haven’t been engaged in discussions of the ordinance amendments should come to the Housing and Homelessness Commission meeting, where the issue can be discussed at length.

“I’m not sure that I have faith of what we can do in the next two weeks,” Tendam said. “If you have concerns or ideas for this ordinance, air them at the committee level.”

When the man was arrested, police also found 2.9 grams of marijuana.

The man was charged with two felonies for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and a misdemeanor for possession of marijuana.

car and took off, he said. The car was last seen driving westbound on Greenwood Avenue.

Car stolen in central Evanston

A car was stolen Sunday morning after its owner left it unattended in central Evanston.

A 35-year-old Chicago resident parked her car and left the engine running in the 1400 block of Chicago Avenue at about 10:45 a.m., when it was stolen, Dugan said. Another car pulled up, and an unknown man got out of the passenger seat, jumped into her

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Small fire extinguished in park

A small fire broke out Saturday night at an Evanston park.

Police responded to the fire located near the sandlot of the Southwest Park in the 500 block of Wesley Avenue at about 8:15 p.m., Dugan said. Officers found on the scene the plastic edge of the sandbox melted, a bottle of lighter fluid, a burnt log and a burnt skateboard, he said. ­— Joanne Lee

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POSTPONED Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) attends a City Council meeting. After the vote for an amendment to the Inclusionary Housing Ordinance was put on hold, Tendam asked aldermen and citizens to voice their concerns to committees instead of at City Council.

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On Campus

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Topping off our new Global Hub is visible evidence of Kellogg’s progress against our strategic plan.

— Kellogg Dean Sally Blount

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Police: Shooter protocols reflect norm

By DREW GERBER

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After several recent shootings on school campuses nationwide, Northwestern continues to train students and faculty in how to respond in the event of an active shooter on campus.

There have been 156 school shootings since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, though this number also includes non-targeted incidences like suicides and misfires, according to gun safety advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety. Last month, 10 died during a shooting at Umpqua College in Oregon, and one died and two were wounded after a shooter opened fire at Tennessee State University.

NU runs an active shooter training program, featuring a video and a Q&A session to instruct the community on the police and individual response to an active shooter on campus, University Police Deputy Chief Daniel McAleer said.

Although no new protocols have been implemented in light of recent shootings on other campuses, McAleer said UP is being asked by more departments and schools across NU to do its active shooter training. He said he could not release information pertaining to which groups are requesting these trainings.

McAleer said the training outlines three steps for an individual faced with an active shooter.

“First, get out. If you have the option to leave the building where the subject is firing gunshots, leave that building immediately and seek shelter elsewhere,” he said. “Call 911.”

If you are unable to leave the building, then the second step would be to hide and barricade yourself in a room to prevent the shooter from entering, McAleer said. However, failing this, you may be forced to confront the shooter, he said.

“The last one is the hard one, it’s called takeout,” McAleer said. “That means you’re in a position where the gunman is already inside the classroom you are in and whether or not you have

the fortitude and the ability to take that gunman out — how do you do that?”

The protocols in place at NU are mostly standard across the country, McAleer said, including those for police response. UP responds and engages with the shooter as soon as at least two policemen arrive on the scene, a policy put into place following the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado in 1999. After the shootings at Columbine and at Virginia Tech in 2007, it became clear police need to respond immediately to emergencies even if it means only sending in a couple officers, McAleer said.

Armed with ballistic shields and rifles as well as equipment to break down barricades created by the shooter, UP’s main priority is to stop the shooter, McAleer said. Nearby, Loyola University Chicago has a contingent of armed police officers, while DePaul University does not have armed public safety officers.

“The officers are trained, as tough as it is, to keep walking whether they’re dealing with panicked students or they’re dealing with wounded,” McAleer said. “Their job, once they’re in the building, is to go after the shooter.”

UP trains in rapid deployment alongside the Evanston Police Department, which acts in a supportive role, now-Deputy Chief of EPD Jay Parrott told The Daily in 2014. In the case of a death resulting from an active shooter, EPD acts as the primary investigator, he said.

Gun violence has plagued the city, with between one and three homicides a year on average — often related to gang violence. Evanston police have responded to the trend of gun-related crimes in the city through gun violence discussions in the community, as well as the city’s gun buyback program established in 2012. The city has also been collaborating with NU to study and address gang violence.

UP similarly trains with the Chicago Police Department for NU’s Chicago Campus, McAleer said.

The Center for Personal Protection and Safety, which created the training video used by UP in

2007, tried to provide the most important information related to an individual’s options when responding to an active shooter, Steve Warren, a senior account executive with the center, said in an email statement to The Daily. He said the center’s training, which was listed as a reference in the Department of Homeland Security’s 2008 active shooter response booklet, is used by thousands of organizations.

In 2014, the center’s training was included in a study alongside DHS training to study the effects of active shooter training programs on student resilience, fear and perceptions of safety.

The study, conducted by George Snyder for his doctoral dissertation, found the center’s program appeared to significantly influence student resilience and perceptions of safety but not student fear.

“Validation from DHS is worthy of saying that the concepts contained within our program are best practices,” Warren said.

McAleer said the training video is available online to anyone in the NU community with a Net ID. drewgerber2018@u.northwestern.edu

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New Kellogg School of Management building halfway constructed

The Kellogg School of Management’s new Global Hub construction project reached its final height last month, which marks the halfway completion point for the building.

At a final height of 103 feet, the Global Hub is intended to foster learning and collaboration for students and faculty. The building, slated to be completed in 2016, will house Kellogg faculty, staff and students, as well as the department of economics in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

“Topping off our new Global Hub is visible evidence of Kellogg’s progress against our strategic plan,” said Kellogg Dean Sally Blount in an October news release. “Thanks to the commitment and generosity of the entire Kellogg and Northwestern community, we’re just over a year away from our new home.”

Scheduled to open in the fall of 2017, the Global Hub will feature adaptive classrooms that can be reconfigured and adapted, as well as open communal spaces for collaboration. With an eco-friendly design, the new building is on track to receive LEED Gold certification, the second-highest LEED designation.

Construction of the Global Hub began in April 2014 following the presentation of design plans at a meeting of Evanston’s Site Plan and Appearance Review Committee. The building is designed by KPMB Architects to be flexible to the changing needs of the school.

“We’re building for Kellogg’s long term with a huge investment in education,” Bruce Kuwabara, lead design architect for KPMB Architects, said in a news release.

Having reached its final height, the building’s interior construction of spaces, such as its three-story atrium and 350-seat auditorium, can proceed. Over the next year, mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems will be installed, with final touches concluding by late 2016.

“There’s an excitement about this building and what it means for our students,” said Matt Merrick, associate dean of MBA programs, in the news release. “We’re creating a unique learning and community space that will allow us to adapt and grow far into the future.”

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NEW HEIGHTS The Kellogg School of Management’s Global Hub construction project reached its final height in October. The new building, scheduled to open in Fall 2017, is designed to be a collaborative space for Kellogg faculty and students.

Northwestern to host local round of Hult Prize competition on Dec. 4

The Kellogg School of Management was selected to host a local round of the Hult Prize competition, which offers a $1 million prize to a student team as funding for a social venture.

The Hult Prize Foundation, a start-up accelerator for social entrepreneurs, chose crowded urban spaces as this year’s competition topic. The competition is a collaboration of the Hult Prize Foundation and the Clinton Foundation.

The round at NU will be held Dec. 4. Its winner will advance to one of five regional finals — in Boston, Dubai, London, San Francisco and Shanghai.

Graduate student Roshni Khurana, the director of the competition at NU, said the regional finals will be held in March 2016.

“It’s not everyday that you have an opportunity to change the world,” Khurana said in a news release.

“This is our chance to show the world that our institution is dedicated to impact.”

Each of the five cities will select one team to participate in a business accelerator program in the summer of 2016. The teams will work with mentors as they prepare to launch a new social business.

In September 2016, the Clinton Global Initiative will host a final round of the competition, where representatives of the organization will select one team to receive the $1 million prize.

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Sophomores step into spotlight this season

By BOBBY PILLOTE

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Northwestern’s sophomore class, the first recruiting cohort of coach Chris Collins’ tenure, has high expectations to live up to.

There’s Bryant McIntosh, the starting point guard looking to improve on a freshman campaign that saw him average 11.4 points and 4.7 assists per game; forward Vic Law, the former top-100 recruit trying to make more of a name for himself; guard/forward Scottie Lindsey, the lanky wing developing into a key three-and-D player in the rotation; and forward Gavin Skelly, the surprise contributor in last season’s 2-3 zone searching for a permanent home.

The heat is on, but the Wildcat sophomores know they can handle it.

“Last year was tough because we threw a lot of freshmen into the fire,” Collins said. “They had to learn while they were going through some tough times. …

Vic, Scottie, Bryant, those guys played heavy minutes right away. And we lost JerShon Cobb, and it put even more on them.”

Collins isn’t exaggerating their workload. McIntosh made 30 starts and led the team in minutes per game with 33.3. Law posted 24.4 minutes per game, fourth most on the team, while Lindsey and Skelly each chipped in with 15.1 and 7.2 minutes per game, respectively.

McIntosh in particular struggled down the stretch last season, burned by the heavy minutes as well as illness.

“I just wanted to get stronger,” McIntosh said of his offseason focus. “Toward the end I got tired, I got sick, so I’m just taking care of my body and building it up for right now in anticipation for the grind.”

All four players said they focused on adding weight and improving conditioning over the offseason, with frontcourt players Law, Lindsey and Skelly emphasizing it the most. Lindsey said he put on 20 pounds of muscle, and Law believes he’s more prepared for the physicality of the Big Ten season.

The “grind,” as Law called it, is what surprised him most about adjusting to the college game. He had what he described as a “peaks-and-valleys” season last year — playing well during the nonconference schedule but disappearing during the start of conference play — but isn’t letting the weight of expectations get to his head as he strives for consistency in year two.

“I don’t think (being a big recruit) factors into my mind,” Law said. “It’s a little cool fact to know, but every

year we’re getting better players. … It’s good to know that I was able to set the standard for Northwestern, that it’s not a bad thing to come here. That’s really the only thing I think about.”

Lindsey, like Law, also struggled with the intensity of the college game at first. He began the year relatively anonymously but eventually made 10 starts, using his long defensive reach and shooting ability to carve out a spot in the rotation.

Lindsey said one of his main focuses before the season was getting ready for what he called the best conference in the country.

“The speed, the physicality, and just playing against the top talent every night is a huge deal. It’s tough,” Lindsey said. “Coming back for our second year, I think all the guys who are sophomores are going to be ready for that.”

With McIntosh running the offense, Law growing into a scoring wing and Lindsey furnishing shooting and defense, the one sophomore without a clearly defined future is Skelly. He saw time at center in the second half of last season as a backup to senior Alex Olah in a 2-3 zone. However, he has been squeezed out thanks to the additions of graduate transfer Joey van Zegeren and freshman Dererk Pardon as well as the transition back to a more man-based defensive system.

Skelly said he’s working on his offensive game and quickness as he transitions to playing forward and believes he’s still a key contributor on the team by bringing energy to the court even if he isn’t getting many minutes.

“My personality is so outgoing and so out there,” Skelly said. “It just relates to how I am on and off the court, just being a high-energy, high-motor guy.”

Beyond individual skill and conditioning improvements, each sophomore also cited the team’s international trip to Spain as a major source of team bonding they believe will help the team win this season.

“It’s a huge chemistry builder,” Law said. “It’s just a really good way to experience new basketball and see where the team is and what strengths and weaknesses need to be worked on.”

Lindsey echoed Law’s sentiments, saying he liked the trip because the team was able to spend more time together and learn about each other while practicing the new wrinkles Collins wants to deploy this season.

The entire team has grown closer, and the Cats’ sophomores remain at its core. That group came to NU with the promise of a brighter future at a historically destitute program, and as their second year together begins, they’re ready to start delivering results. bpillote@u.northwestern.edu

6’3” sophomore New Castle, Indiana

SG Tre Demps 6’3” senior Decatur, Georgia

SF Vic Law

6’7” sophomore South Holland, Indiana

PF Sanjay Lumpkin 6’6” junior Wayzata, Minnesota

C Alex Olah

7’0” junior Timisoara, Romania

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Centers Alex Olah (Sr) Joey van Zegeren (Gr) Derek Pardon (Fr)

Forwards Vic Law (So) Charlie Hall (Fr) Nathan Taphorn (Jr) Aaron Falzon (Fr) Sanjay Lumpkin (Jr) Gavin Skelly (So)

Guards Bryant McIntosh (So) Scottie Lindsey (So) Tre Demps (Sr) Jordan Ash (Fr)

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ALEX

16-15 (7-11 Big Ten)

Northwestern should improve moderately from last year’s 15-17 season. This team remains fairly young and still lacks scoring. An easy non-conference schedule will inflate the Cats’ record, but NU won’t hit .500 in conference play.

BOBBY

19-12 (8-10 Big Ten)

This is the year for Tre Demps and Alex Olah… to lead Northwestern to a solid NIT bid. The team will be good, but the roster still isn’t NCAA Tournament caliber. There’s simply no room to move up in a stacked Big Ten.

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19-12 (8-10 Big Ten)

The return of all of Northwestern’s major contributors combined with its cupcake-filled non-conference schedule should result in an improvement from last year’s 15-win season.

SAM

20-11 (9-9 Big Ten)

With the core starters returning and the addition of Aaron Falzon, Northwestern should feel optimistic. If Vic Law and Bryant McIntosh take the next step this year, expect the Cats to be on the bubble for the NCAA Tournament.

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An easy non-conference schedule might give Northwestern good momentum going into conference play, and if the sophomores build off what they did last season, the team should see solid improvement.

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When senior guard Tre Demps took Heather John to be his lawfully wedded wife last June, he made sure to invite his teammates to the ceremony. Senior center Alex Olah, who attended the reception, said he took pride in watching his teammate take the next step in his adult life.

“It meant a lot to Tre for us to be there,” Olah said. “It was a big day for him and for us. It was so good to be there and support him.”

The pressure surrounding coach Chris Collins and his team to make the NCAA tournament has brought the Wildcats closer than ever before. All the players and Collins wear wristbands with just one word: family.

After Demps’ wedding and later in the summer, the team boarded a flight on Aug. 22 to Madrid where it would spend the next 10 days traveling through Spain playing five exhibition games against professional teams and visiting historical landmarks like La Sagrada Familia.

Olah said the Spain trip was important for the integration of freshmen both on and off the court.

“When I was a freshman, I didn’t have that chance to go overseas and I just jumped into the season and I was scared,” Olah said. “We learned how to play together and we were able to integrate the freshman and they did great.”

Collins said the Spain trip was a chance to experiment with lineups. He was able to test various defensive and offensive sets as well as get a better feel for in-game situations. Collins also alluded to the camaraderie, which he said has been a work in progress since he took the head coaching job three years ago.

After three years, Collins said the team is finally getting an identity. The players are starting to buy into his philosophy and take ownership on and off the court, he said. Once he saw Olah speak up in the locker room or see Demps show leadership on the court, he knew good things were in motion, he said.

The seniors, who Collins inherited prior to

the 2013-2014 season, welcomed the coach right from the start. It was important, Collins said, to create close ties with existing players in the program to foster a sense of family.

“I’m very lucky that they embraced me,” Collins said. “It was very important for the first order of business to gain relationships with them. Recruiting in the future was obviously going to be a big part of everything, but it wasn’t going to mean anything if I didn’t lock arms with the guys who were already in the program.”

But even with Collins eager to build a relationship with the guys in Evanston, he said the team needed to play in close games to build camaraderie and gain valuable experience.

Collins said the type of adversity NU faced in games last January will be an important experience going into this season. During a two-week stretch in January last season, the Cats lost five games in a row to Michigan State, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio State and Maryland.

All games were decided by eight points or fewer including an overtime loss to Michigan State.

The family mentality will hopefully pay off when times get rough, Demps said.

“We have a lot of different personalities and guys from different backgrounds,” Demps said.

“But we are really starting to buy into winning and being together. Everybody can approach anyone or talk to anybody. It’s going to pay dividends in the season.”

One thing is for sure: whether or not the season ends when the Cats’ run in the Big Ten Tournament is over, or in the NCAA tournament, Collins said the seniors are going to be the guys that he talks about with future teams as he builds the program.

He said he has taken pride in watching their development. Over the past three years, the players have connected not just to their teammates but also to their school.

“There is going to be no one who is more upset about leaving Northwestern than (Alex Olah),” Collins said. “He loves Northwestern.” samkrevlin2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Three incoming freshmen are set to make an immediate impact on the men’s basketball team this upcoming season.

A college basketball team’s foundation is built mid-November of the previous year when the early signing period begins for recruits. Last November, coach Chris Collins signed three high school seniors: Aaron Falzon, Jordan Ash and Dererk Pardon. Collins said he is hoping his second recruiting class will follow in the footsteps of the talented quartet of sophomores on the team.

The highest-ranked recruit of the new bunch is Falzon, the soft-spoken stretch four from Newton, Massachusetts.

A notable asset he brings to the team is his three-point shooting, displayed after he went 4-of-5 from deep in an exhibition game against Quincy last Thursday.

“He is as good a catch-and-shoot player coming into college as there is in the country,” Collins said at NU Media Day. Rare for a shooter of his caliber, Falzon is 6 feett 8 inches and also has the ability to take advantage of matchups against shorter, quicker players often assigned to keep up with him.

“If I get a smaller guy on me, I can take him down low, post him up and use my size as an

advantage,” Falzon said.

This combination could lead to Falzon receiving big minutes or possibly earning a starting spot in the lineup. A potential limit to Falzon’s playing time could be difficulties he may face trying to defend against stronger Big Ten power forwards. One of the biggest adjustments all of the freshmen will face will be getting used to the faster and more physical college game.

Joining Falzon in the Cats’ recruiting class is Ash, a local talent from Bolingbrook, Illinois.

Ash’s recruiting is part of a broader focus the program has in tapping into the wealth of talent in the Chicago area.

Ash is a combination point and shooting guard who is looking to back up senior Tre Demps and

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sophomore Bryant McIntosh. However, it appears sophomore Scottie Lindsey may be more likely to occupy this role on the team.

Ash excels on the defensive end of the ball and will look to use his tenacity to bother opposing guards.

“I want to be the guy that can get them off their games, get in their heads and make it difficult for them on the offensive end,” Ash said.

Although his calling card is certainly defense, Ash will also look to put in open shots and has been focusing on improving his ball handling in the offseason.

Rounding out the scholarship players in the class of 2019 is Pardon, a three-star center from Cleveland. It jumps out that Pardon is “only” six feet eight inches, relatively short for the Big Ten where most centers are 6 feet 10 inches and above. However, Collins said Pardon has a tremendous wingspan of 7 feet 3 inches, and is listed at a sturdy 230 pounds. In Pardon’s opinion, his wingspan allows him to compete with opposing centers with more height.

Pardon’s job on the team will be to fill in the gap on the court while the other centers, senior Alex Olah and graduate Joey Van Zegeren, are resting on the bench. He will be asked to use his length to bother opponents on defense, but he is also looking to contribute on offense as well.

“When I came here, I was more defensiveminded,” Pardon said during Media Day. “I’ve been trying to develop my post-game more.”

With both of the other centers on the team in their final year, Pardon may not see much playing time this season, but next year will be particularly important for him when he is expected to be the lone veteran big man on the team.

Another freshman joining the team this year is walk-on forward Charlie Hall, son of actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Communication ‘83).

Each freshman echoed Pardon’s sentiment when he said what he was looking forward to this season.

“Playing with my teammates … it would be good to play against someone other than ourselves for once,” Pardon said. benjaminapelbaum2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Maybe NU football has its second-best team ever TIM BALK

DAILY COLUMNIST

Maybe Saturday was a perfect day for football. And maybe, in the early November chill, with the sun beating down on a Family Weekend crowd and the Cats facing off against a Big Ten rival with a prestigious history and a formidable defense, a kid sat in the bleachers and discovered that college football truly is a special thing.

Maybe, for that boy or girl, the seeds of a lifelong love for the sport were born in those few hours at Ryan Field while leaves sat in piles outside the stadium on Central, on Ashland, on Lincoln.

Maybe the fate of the game really never was in doubt. Maybe NU’s 23-21 victory over Penn State was little more than fait accompli.

Maybe, when the Nittany Lions had the ball with three minutes left and an

opportunity to run out the clock, the Cats had Penn State right where they wanted them. Maybe NU’s rugged defense was always going to force a three-and-out. Maybe Jack Mitchell was sure to put his missed extra point and two missed field goals behind him and ice the game-winning field goal like it was 2014 and he was in frigid South Bend, Indiana.

Maybe Clayton Thorson’s injury was never going to stop this NU team from taking down Penn State. And maybe everything along the way — the pick six from Nick VanHoose that would have been, if he’d only kept his balance and stayed up, or the countless penalties and missed blocks by the offensive line — only made the victory that much sweeter.

Maybe more students should have come to the game and flushed out all of that empty space in the student section with purple.

Maybe they wasted their mornings sleeping in or hitting the books in the library or stressing out over math homework.

Maybe those who were at the game had fun

without them.

Maybe they watched a special NU team. A gritty NU team. An NU team that, for all its dropped passes and missed tackles and inexperience under center, has nonetheless pulled out close wins over quality teams all year.

Maybe the Stanford, Duke and Penn State games weren’t flukes. Maybe they were manifestations of toughness and will to win.

Maybe records don’t lie. Maybe teams are as good as their records. Maybe NU’s 7-2 record is pretty darn good.

Maybe NU is ranked for a reason, too.

Maybe the team that sits at 21st in the College Football Playoff Ranking and 24th in the AP and Coaches Poll is, in fact, one of the nation’s best teams.

Maybe, for a program that has made only 11 bowls in its history and won double-digit games in a season only three times, this year’s team is, in our modern texting vernacular, a BFD. Maybe this team is better than two of those 10-game winners. Maybe they are better than

the 10-1-3 1903 team that played in an inferior football era.

Maybe they are better than the 2012 team that went 10-3 and set the stage for the 2013 College GameDay visit. Maybe that team’s best wins, bowl win over a Mississippi State team that lost five of its final six games and opening-week victory over a Syracuse team that lost three of its first four games, pale in comparison to this team’s greatest conquests.

Maybe only the 1995 NU team that made the Rose Bowl was better than the Wildcat squad that beat Penn State on Saturday.

Maybe this is a fantastic, feisty, historic team. Maybe it is the second best in school history.

Maybe, just maybe, maybe isn’t so crazy.

Tim Balk is a Medill sophomore. He can be contacted at timothybalk2018@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

Make a conscious effort not to oversimplify others JOSEPH LAMPS

DAILY COLUMNIST

Think of your close friends. Did it take you a while to become friends with some of them because you assumed they were more simple and boring than they actually were? For me, this describes almost all of my friendships. My first impressions of others are rarely complete.

All people think of themselves as complex.

We all spend 24 hours a day in our own minds, so we understand our own complexity. Unfortunately, people often treat others as if they lack that complexity, diminishing the quality of social interaction.

This oversimplification happens all the time, but it was particularly apparent to me during Wildcat Welcome when the new freshmen, including myself, were meeting at least a dozen new people daily. Oftentimes people would

Letter to the Editor

The real meaning of the “It’s On Us” campaign against sexual assault

What does it mean to say that “It’s On Us” to stop sexual assault at Northwestern? That phrase certainly sounds true, but when it comes to sexual violence, empty words are all too common. Too often, if we were to peer past the platitudes that pervade the rhetoric on this issue, we’d find that when we say “It’s On Us,” we do not acknowledge our complicit role in shaping campus culture, or our power to change it.

Take the national campaign’s latest video. The premise of the video is that Johnson’s man cave is home to a bear that kills one in five of his guests — the point being that we should react towards sexual assault, which affects one in five college-aged women, with the same outrage that Johnson receives from his friends as they are attacked by the bear.

It seems ridiculous to have to point out, but there are a number of important disanalogies between campus sexual assault and bear attacks.

Bear attacks are, by and large, out of the bear’s control. They have a sort of randomness to

learn the simple facts about me, like that I went on the PWild trip and like science and cranberries. Then, they appeared to make a judgement and decide I was boring or that they knew everything there was to know about me.

As one gets to I also noticed myself know another doing this to other person better, people and being surprised when others one’s mental failed to conform to model of my simplified mental models. I found myself that person dismissing people as becomes more superficial and vapid accurate. based on their mentioning of alcohol use or use of excessive profanity, categorizing people as not interesting because they were into sports, assuming people in non-science related majors were scientifically illiterate, and coming to many other unjustified conclusions. I did all of this despite the

knowledge that people are often more complex than they appear.

When people meet, they immediately categorize, label and form mental models of each other. This is not necessarily bad; the brain needs to simplify, label and categorize information to stay organized. However, it is important to draw a sharp line between making a mental model of a person and acting toward them as if the mental model is complete or accurate.

As one gets to know another person better, one’s mental model of that person becomes more accurate. Therefore, when we say we “know” somebody, we mean we have an accurate mental model of that person. This is the only connection we actually have to other people’s minds. Models can never describe a person perfectly.

It is offensive to create a simplified mental model of a person based on what you know about them and act as if this model is the real person. If people would remind themselves that their peers are much more complex than mental models, the quality of social interaction would

be dramatically improved. People would be less likely to judge others based on incomplete information and would be less likely to dismiss them. Oversimplification surely causes people to miss out on countless potential friendships.

To be sure, it’s not practical or even desirable to be friends with everybody. However, this does not negate the fact that placing too much trust in simplified mental models of others damages the quality of social interaction.

Although it is obvious that all people are complex, it still takes a conscious effort to remember this. Next time you interact with somebody, keep in mind that your knowledge of them is incomplete. It should not be a surprise when they differ from your mental model.

them: while potentially tragic, they are rarely anyone’s fault, except for maybe the hiker who got between a mother and her cubs. There is certainly no such thing as a “bear culture” that enables them.

Sexual assault is not a force of nature. While perpetrated by a small subset of the population, those assailants are human beings, not wild animals. They act with intention and have control over their actions. Over half of undergraduate men at Northwestern who responded to the recently conducted Campus Climate Survey said they believe that rape and sexual assault can happen unintentionally, but research shows that serial offenders commit the vast majority of assaults. If this is startling information, take some time to critically rethink your preconceptions about what sexual violence looks like. It’s on us to refuse to accept excuses for failing to seek active and enthusiastic consent every time.

It’s on us to treat acts of emotional and physical coercion, no matter how subtle, as violence, instead of “mistakes.”

It’s also on us to recognize that sexual assault does not take place in a vacuum. Rapists are made, not born, and their actions are enabled by a society that stacks the deck in their favor every day through violent jokes, belittling questions aimed at survivors, an unfair legal system and misleading narratives that paint a selective

and exclusionary picture of what sexual assault actually looks like. The language we use and the stories we tell can trap individual desires beneath the weight of collective expectation.

Agreeing to “Netflix and chill” doesn’t obligate anyone to have sex they don’t want to have, but the assumptions around this phrase, It seems and others, can perniciously affect our culridiculous to ture around consent. have to point By constantly holdout, but there ing ourselves and each other accountable, we are a number all have a part to play of disanalogies in dismantling rapesupportive cultures in between community. campus sexual ourThat’s why this assault and bear year, during the It’s On Us National Week attacks. of Action from Nov. 8-14, we are pushing the Northwestern community to move beyond awareness to action. We want to identify a set of concrete recommendations for students, faculty and administrators to address the problem of sexual assault as it actually exists at Northwestern in our various communities.

We urge the NU community to acknowledge that the problem isn’t just white men assaulting white women: People of color and members of the LGBTQ community are assaulted at a higher rate than their straight, white peers. Rather than trying to impose one-size-fits-all solutions from the top down, we want to hear from as many students as possible about what you think can and should be done to end sexual assault at Northwestern.

The goal of It’s On Us for Northwestern this year is to make sure your voices and recommendations are heard. At the end of the week, we’ll incorporate the community’s recommendations into a video and a report for administrators and student leaders.

We hope that you’ll join us in building a safer, healthier, more supportive Northwestern together.

— Noah Star, ASG President Christina Kim, ASG Executive VP Wendy Roldan, ASG VP of Student Life Erik Baker, ASG Senator Haley Hinkle, Medill ‘16 Sydney Selix, President of College Feminists Jacob Kerr, President of MARS Fei Wang, ASG Senator for Rainbow Alliance at NU Bo Suh, Co-President of Rainbow Alliance Amanda Odasz, SHAPE Communications Chair Mollie Cahillane, Director of SHAPE

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Joseph Lamps is a McCormick freshman. He can be reached at josephlamps2019@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern. com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

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Across Campuses University of Missouri president, chancellor resign over racial turmoil

COLUMBIA — University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe resigned Monday morning, forced out of office by student protests alleging he had not done enough to address racism and other issues on campus.

Hours later, the university’s governing body said Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin would resign at the end of the year and transition to research.

Wolfe, a businessman who took charge of Missouri’s public university system in 2012, had become the focal point of demonstrators’ demands that he do something about the campus climate.

“The frustration and anger that I see is clear, real, and I don’t doubt it for a second,” Wolfe said at a meeting of the university’s governing body, called over the weekend after the football team said it would strike in support of a hunger striker who was demanding Wolfe’s ouster.

Students have highlighted a series of disturbing racist incidents on campus, including being called racial epithets, and accused Wolfe of not acting decisively to address race issues.

“We stopped listening to each other,” Wolfe told a packed room of reporters at an open meeting of the system’s board of curators. “This is not the way change should come about.”

“I take full responsibility for this frustration and I take full responsibility for the inaction that has occurred,” Wolfe said, adding: “Use my resignation to heal and start talking again.”

Missouri’s curators then voted to go to closed session.

The resignations of Wolfe and Loftin, a physicist, came after a series of protests on campus.

The school’s football team had gone on strike, and some professors were staging a walkout from their classes. A tent city had sprouted on a campus quad. A graduate student had gone on a hunger strike.

Some state legislators also joined in calls for Wolfe’s removal. The university’s student government called for the president to resign Monday.

Wolfe was holed up in university offices past 1 a.m. Monday morning — seen through windows talking on a cellphone and meeting with other officials — having become the latest Missouri public figure caught in a maelstrom of radical protest as pressure on campus built for a year, incident after incident.

There was the anonymous threat University of Missouri students spotted on social media app Yik Yak in December, after riots in Ferguson, Mo.: “Let’s burn down the black culture center & give them a taste of their own medicine.”

This September, the president of the Missouri Student Association, Payton Head, who is black, said he was walking through campus when a man in a pickup truck shouted a racial epithet at him.

“I’ve experienced moments like this multiple

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2015 times at THIS university, making me not feel included here,” Head said in a Facebook post that went viral, with other students echoing his account with versions of their own.

Last month someone drew a swastika on a residence hall wall, using human feces.

The campus has since been increasingly roiled by protest, and campus observers say the dissatisfaction isn’t just limited to racial incidents.

Students also have accused university administrators of a lack of decisiveness in protecting graduate students’ health insurance plans from elimination and defending the university’s relationship with Planned Parenthood against attacks from conservative state lawmakers.

But race appears to have become the most volatile issue on a campus where racial unease has long simmered among black students and staff.

In 2010, two white students scattered white cotton balls on the lawn of the campus’ black culture center in what black students saw as a racist attack. They were convicted of littering.

Cynthia Frisby, a journalism professor, wrote in the Missourian newspaper this week that in her 18 years at the university, “I have been called the N-word too many times to count.”

Kim English, a black former player on the university’s basketball team, wrote on Twitter this weekend that “Oppression at my alma mater and in the state of my alma mater occurred LONG before the tenure of this System President.”

“If U were black at my alma mater, and ur name was not Maclin, Denmon, Pressey, English, Weatherspoon, Carroll, etc. You didn’t feel welcome,” English said, listing the names of some of the university’s most prominent black athletes over the last decade.

But campus activists appear to have been emboldened by the protests they watched last year in Ferguson, about a two-hour drive away.

“A lot of Mizzou students traveled to Ferguson,” and those who didn’t “wanted to stand up and make a change,” said Ayanna Poole, a 22-year-old senior from Tyler, Texas, who is one of the founding members of the black campus activist group Concerned Student 1950. “I do believe it’s been a domino effect.”

The campus coalition’s name reflects the year the university began accepting black students.

Today, more than 75 percent of the university’s 35,000 students are white.

Several black students have said some white students use the N-word or otherwise discriminated against them.

Poole recalled how she was kicked out of a fraternity party her freshman year after a man used the N-word and said, “All you … girls have to leave.”

Andrea Fulgiam, 21, a junior studying psychology and sociology, said when she sat down in a lecture class freshman year, the student next to her muttered, “I’m not about to sit next to this black girl.”

Fulgiam said a professor once told her she

was at the university only because of affirmative action.

Parnell said when she transferred to the university last year, other black students warned her, “Don’t walk through Greektown,” the cluster of fraternities and sororities just off campus.

Wolfe, a former businessman, became president of the University of Missouri system in 2012 and has been targeted by students who accuse him of a lack of empathy for racial minorities.

Campus tensions reached a boiling point during the Oct. 10 homecoming parade, when student protesters blocked the parade route by standing in front of a car containing Wolfe. The car inched forward and, according to communications professor Melissa Click, bumped into a protester. Wolfe did not speak to the protesters, and police took them off the street, threatening arrest.

Wolfe “allowed his driver to try to drive around us, even hit one of us,” said Parnell, who participated in the demonstration. She said police threatened protesters with pepper spray and pushed them, and Wolfe “did not intervene whatsoever.”

Students also confronted Wolfe on Friday night outside a fundraiser in Kansas City, Mo., and challenged him to define “systematic oppression.”

A video clip shows him replying, “Systematic oppression is because you don’t believe that you have the equal opportunity for success,” before he is cut off by a chorus of people upset that he characterized oppression as a perception rather than a reality.

“Did you just blame us for systematic oppression, Tim Wolfe?” someone off-camera shouts as Wolfe walks away. “Did you just blame black students?”

Wolfe has issued a series of statements in recent days, including one Sunday in which he said, “It is clear to all of us that change is needed.”

He did not indicate any intention to resign at that time, but added that his administration is reflecting on how to address the situation and said that the university had been working on a “systemwide diversity and inclusion strategy” due out by April.

In interviews with members of Concerned Student 1950 on Sunday night, they said the time for dialogue was over and that it was time for the campus to systematically address racism.

“I’m sick of it,” Fulgiam said. “I don’t want to graduate and come back and see students still doing this.”

— Matt Pearce and Lauren Raab (Los Angeles Times/ TNS)

UC system seeks to boost Californians’ enrollment by 10,000 by 2018

LOS ANGELES — University of California President Janet Napolitano wants to expand

enrollment of undergraduates from California by 5,000 next year and another 5,000 by the 2018-19 school year, according to a proposal released Monday.

The plan to boost in-state enrollment by a total of 10,000 students is partly a reaction to public and legislative unhappiness over rising numbers of undergraduates from other states and countries at the UC system, particularly at UCLA and UC Berkeley.

Some of the funding for the new proposal would come from phasing out UC and state aid for low-income students from outside the state; the very existence of such aid has riled some legislators.

The UC regents are scheduled to discuss and vote next week on the matter, which was part of the budget included in the agenda posted online Monday for the San Francisco meeting.

The Legislature last spring allocated an additional $25 million to UC to increase the number of in-state undergraduates by 5,000 no later than 2016-17. Napolitano said that would pay for only half the cost and that the university would come up with another $25 million needed for next year. The university would then seek rising amounts from the Legislature and governor for an additional 2,500 California students in 2017-18 and another 2,500 the following school year.

UC officials are assuming that the Legislature will “continue to support access for California students,” Napolitano said in a telephone interview.

Details of how many extra students each campus can accommodate still are being studied. UC officials are “now working through the logistics of housing, laboratory availability and classroom sizes,” she said.

While boosting Californians, the plan also would continue to increase the ranks of students from other states and nations, but at a slower rate than in recent years. It projects an increase of 1,200 for next fall, compared with about 1,660 more this fall.

Students from outside the state pay tuition that is about triple the $12,200 amount Californians pay, and out-of-state tuition will be hiked each year even as it remains frozen for Californians through at least the 2016-17 school year.

Low-income students from outside the state who are currently enrolled will not be affected by the plan to phase out UC grants, but future students will no longer receive them. The new budget proposal estimates that will save UC about $14 million next year, with the money put toward expanding California enrollment.

In addition, UC is seeking to enroll 600 more graduate students by 2016-17, in part so there will be enough teaching assistants to help lead discussion groups and lab sessions for the extra undergraduates.

— Larry Gordon (Los Angeles Times/TNS)

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Silence

Open House

Oppenheimer said it was a very dangerous film to make because Adi confronts the men who killed his brother, and those men are still in power.

“Imagine if an African-American man whose brother was lynched in the South during segregation confronted the people who lynched him while segregation was still very much alive,” Oppenheimer said. “It would be life-threatening, and that scenario is very similar to what we experienced.”

The only reason Oppenheimer and his team were able to complete the film was that the murderers knew Oppenheimer had worked with the Indonesian vice president, military leaders and other high-ranking officers while making “The Act of Killing,” Oppenheimer said.

“The Look of Silence” was initially released in September 2014 in Italy and gained critical acclaim as it was released around the world in the following months. The film is heralded as a masterpiece of aesthetic and storytelling by the Washington Post, the New York Post, Variety and other publications.

“The Act of Killing” was nominated for the “Best Documentary” Oscar in 2014, and Winters predicted “The Look of Silence” will be nominated in the coming awards season as well.

From page 1 he traveled to Indonesia with his team.

The event was organized by Equality Development and Globalization Studies in the Ryan Auditorium and was followed by a Q&A. EDGS has featured Oppenheimer’s work at NU before, screening “The Act of Killing” in 2013.

Jeffrey Winters, a political science professor and the director of EDGS, said he found that the films are not only beautiful but also have significant academic benefits.

“An evening like this opens up parts of students’ minds and consciousnesses in a way that we simply can’t do in the classroom,” Winters said.

Oppenheimer’s visit to NU and other universities this week, including Stanford University and University of Chicago, coincides with the 50th anniversary of the 1965 genocide. Like Winters, the students who attended recognized the value of Oppenheimer’s films.

“When we see films like this, we have to confront the fear of acknowledging our own faults,” said Communication sophomore Jesse Simmons.

“That’s a lesson we can’t be taught by someone else.

We have to realize it ourselves.”

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every 14 days.

However, Teddy Scott said Pharmacannis dispensaries will initially cap product allotments to patients due to the shortage of product available at the start of operation. He added that initial product will most likely only include smokable forms of cannabis as other forms involve longer processing times.

“The patient database is very small at the moment — we only have about 3,300 registered patients so far in the state,” he said. “Even with that number, our dispensaries don’t have enough product to give patients the maximum amount stated … but in a few weeks that won’t be the case.”

He said product pricing will also likely be variable because the company must strike a balance between keeping prices competitive above the black market and maintaining a feasible range for patients.

Gabel

From page 1 income eligibility will rise to 162 percent of the federal poverty level while current co-pays will remain intact,” Rauner’s office said in a news release.

Still, several Evanston social services institutions — such as Connections for the Homeless, Oakton Community College and Family Focus — have been forced to cut back on vital programming and fire longstanding employees. Sue Loellbach, acting executive director for Connections, said their homeless prevention program, which helps people on the brink of eviction pay their outstanding rent, was one such sacrifice.

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year if the budget stalemate continues.

“While the courts are saying, ‘Pay what you owe,’ the bills are piling up and the state is incurring more and more debt,” Tisdahl told The Daily. “Eventually it has to all blow up.”

From page 1 brought up in the past, the exact reductions are still up in the air. However, Illinois Comptroller Leslie Munger estimated in September that the state bill backlog will grow to $8.5 billion by the end of the

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“I’m not sure how pricing will work just because 2.5 ounces of marijuana illegally would be around $600,” said Alan George, an Evanston resident with cerebral palsy who attended the open house.

George said he has been keeping up with the progress of medical marijuana in Evanston for weeks but has not been able to consider applying for a card due to cerebral palsy not being a sanctioned condition by the Illinois Department of Public Health. Recently, 11 recommended conditions including PTSD were presented by the medical cannabis advisory board to IDPH to be approved, but IDPH officials stated in early September that no additional conditions would be added at the time, Norah Scott said. The state of Illinois currently accepts petitions only twice annually.

“As of now I don’t see myself getting a card just because Gov. Rauner keeps rejecting petitions for conditions to be added,” George said. elenasucharetza2018@u.northwestern.edu “(This program) is the single most effective program we have,” Loellbach said. “Without that assistance people get evicted and become homeless. With an eviction they can’t get another apartment, and that starts a cycle that affects them for the rest of their lives.”

Susan Resko, president of the mental health facility Josselyn Center in Northfield, said the budget indecision has put lives at risk by making it difficult for mentally ill people to get the treatment they need.

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Thorson ready to go heading into Senior Week

By HUZAIFA PATEL

daily senior staffer @HuzaifaPatel95

Wildcats fans can breathe a sigh of relief: Redshirt freshman quarterback Clayton Thorson is healthy and ready for Saturday’s contest against Purdue.

“He’s doing fine and we expect him to play,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said Monday.

Northwestern underwent quite the scare when its young signal-caller limped into the locker room. But despite his early struggles, senior quarterback Zack Oliver delivered on the final drive, particularly on a clutch 23 yard throw to junior wide receiver Austin Carr.

“I’m really proud of Zack,” Fitzgerald said. “He’s persevered…He’s kind of been the two for about 28 years around here — I said that in jest. He’s been a great teammate, a team player. He’s given everything he’s got to be prepared and help our team. He’ll be ready to go if he’s called upon again.”

Oliver’s resilience has been characteristic of the team as a whole. After tough losses against Michigan and Iowa, the Cats rebounded with two close Big Ten wins. According to Fitzgerald, the leadership of the seniors, particularly a players-only meeting following the Iowa game, has been a big factor in putting the Cats back on track.

Another huge factor is the resurgence of running back Justin Jackson and the

NU run game. Although he was held to just 40 yards against Nebraska, Jackson and the Cats’ offensive line showed up in a big way against Penn State’s heralded defensive line.

“We couldn’t move anybody,” Fitzgerald said regarding the running game.

“Even when we had angles we weren’t successful. Saturday, I thought we were pretty good at the point of attack. I thought Justin was able to get going early, which I think helped his confidence. Our offensive line finished more blocks than we had in the previous five to six games.”

Another factor in the running game’s improvement has been Thorson’s increasing involvement in the running game. After making several explosive plays against Nebraska, Thorson continued to be successful against Penn State but did suffer some big hits in the process.

Fitzgerald said he is looking for Thorson to start sliding or heading to the sideline more than he has as of late, specifically citing a play in the first quarter in which Thorson took a big hit and fumbled.

“He’s got to be smarter than he was,” Fitzgerald said. “But he’s a freshman, and freshmen do freshmen things. You get your lips knocked off a couple of times, it changes your demeanor.”

Fitzgerald also addressed other injury situations around the team. Junior linebacker Jaylen Prater, who left Saturday’s game on the first play from scrimmage,

is considered out for the moment, with senior guard Geoff Mogus being given the same distinction.

Fitzgerald also discussed the play of freshman linebacker Nate Hall, who stepped up in Prater’s absence.

“He played really, really well from a standpoint of … at the start of the week, not expecting to be in as much as he was,” Fitzgerald said. “I think he prepared well. Fundamentally and technically, he’ll be much better this week than he was last week because he’ll go into the entire week operating as a starter.”

While the Cats are focused on Purdue, and as always, going 1-0 this week, they aren’t shying away from thinking big picture. Heading into the final three weeks of their season, the Cats do have some long term goals in mind. For seniors such as cornerback Nick VanHoose and guard Matt Frazier, the end of the season also means the end of their NU careers.

“Playing in a New Year’s Six bowl was addressed (in a team meeting),” Frazier said, adding that the team is more focused on the process. “It’s a little extra motivation.”

Meanwhile, VanHoose said while he is focused on the present, he wants to finish his senior season on a high note by winning out the rest of the season and being a part of the first Northwestern team to win 11 games.

But it is not just success that VanHoose is talking about. He also spoke

on how quickly his time at NU has gone and what it will be like to play with his teammates at home one last time.

“It’s gone (by) extremely fast,” VanHoose said regarding his NU career.

“Honestly, it’s hard to believe it’ll be my last time on Ryan Field, playing with my brothers.” huzaifapatel2017@u.northwestern.edu

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QUICK RECOVERY Clayton Thorson walks off the field after getting hurt. Although the redshirt freshman quarterback missed the majority of Saturday’s win over Penn State, he is expected to be ready to play in the team’s next game against Purdue.

Women’s Soccer

NU in the NCAA Tournament for first time since ‘98

By MAX SCHUMAN

daily senior staffer

After one of the most successful seasons in recent program history, Northwestern has earned a berth in the NCAA Tournament.

The Wildcats (13-5-2, 7-3-1 Big Ten) will travel west for a matchup with Washington State (14-5-0, 7-4-0 Pac12) Saturday at 8 p.m.

This marks the first time that NU will appear in the NCAA Tournament since

the 1998 season, when the team made a run to the Round of 16.

Junior forward Addie Steiner said the NCAA bid was a dream come true.

“We’ve been working for it for so long, and to finally have it in our hands, it’s incredible,” she said. “I couldn’t be more proud of our team and our coaches.”

With the tournament berth in hand, the Cats get a chance to extend what has been a historic season. NU won three games to start the season for the first time in school history and set a school

record for Big Ten victories with seven.

The national recognition of the Cats’ NCAA bid is yet another step forward for NU in a season full of them, said coach Michael Moynihan.

“This is a metric that’s out there for everybody — everybody sees the NCAA Tournament,” he said. “Immediately it gives the program some recognition, some credibility.”

The Cats required an at-large bid into the NCAAs after a Nov. 1 loss to Michigan in the Big Ten Tournament.

But a resume featuring wins over

tournament-bound Rutgers and Boston University squads and a top-four finish in the Big Ten was enough to secure NU’s place in the field.

Senior midfielder and team captain Niki Sebo said the road to national relevance has been a long but rewarding one for the Cats.

“This wasn’t even in our vision when (Moynihan) came in my sophomore year, and now to be in the NCAA tournament, it’s a really big deal for us,” she said.

Sebo said the Cats are inspired by

memories of the 1998 squad, whose record for conference victories they broke this season. To match its tournament run, NU will need to survive a road trip to play a Cougars team that finished third in the Pac-12.

Moynihan said he is confident his players will be ready to go for the firstround matchup.

“They’re hungry. I think they’re very strong in their belief,” he said. “We’re going to go out there and do well.” maxschuman2018@u.northwestern.edu

Big Ten players and coaches give opinions on the Wildcats

By BOBBY PILLOTE

daily senior staffer @BobbyPillote

Northwestern didn’t get the results it wanted on the court last season, finishing 15-17 overall and 6-12 in

the Big Ten, but the team began to turn some heads within the conference in the second season of coach Chris Collins’ tenure.

In a year that saw then-juniors, guard Tre Demps and center Alex Olah, emerge as the leaders of the team, the Wildcats endured a stretch

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Daily file photo by Nathan Richards

EVALUATED BY THE ENEMY Indiana guard Yogi Ferrell raises up for a jumpshot over Northwestern senior guard Tre Demps. Ferrell said when playing the Wildcats, Indiana focuses on stopping Demps and fellow senior, center Alex Olah.

of 10-straight losses before orchestrating a late-season turnaround thanks to the deployment of a 2-3 zone defense. Freshmen, such as guard Bryant McIntosh, stepped up around Demps and Olah and provided hope for the future.

Tim Miles, the coach at Nebraska who, similarly to Collins, is trying to build up a perennial contender, had high praise for how Collins is constructing the NU program going into his third year.

“Who’s coming down (in the conference standings)? Nobody,” Miles said at Big Ten Media Day in October. “So how do you build up when nobody is moving anywhere? And Chris has done a terrific job recruiting. … He’s right: It’s not if, but when, they’re going to make the NCAA tournament.”

Collins has made splashes in recruiting by landing key contributors like McIntosh and big names like former four-star recruits Vic Law and Aaron Falzon. While the latter two are expected to contribute significantly this season, it’s McIntosh who will continue to draw the most attention from opponents as the team’s starting point guard.

Michigan State forward Matt Costello included McIntosh with Demps and Olah as part of NU’s “big three” and admired the Cats’ tenacity in an overtime game against the

Spartans last season.

“They’ve got Olah, they’ve got Demps, they’ve got that little white guard (McIntosh) who was killing it last year,” Costello said. “They have that talent now, and putting that grit with that talent, it’s a tough team to beat. We’ve got to be ready every time we play them.”

Many players lauded NU for its resiliency, with Michigan guard Caris LeVert, who was injured in the Wolverines’ game against the Cats, calling the team “relentless” and Ohio State forward Marc Loving describing NU as “frustrating” and “playing very hard.” The Cats lost each of those games against the Wolverines and Buckeyes by two points, falling to Michigan on a McIntosh floater that refused to roll in and coming up short in a late rally against Ohio State.

Beyond toughness, players around the conference also agreed the 2-3 zone was a defining characteristic of NU last season.

“I think their 2-3 zone had us sideways,” Iowa guard Mike Gesell said.

“They were pushing us out to half court. And when you’re going against a 2-3, you want to take it inside, and I think we were taking too many jumpers.”

The Cats beat the Hawkeyes in overtime in the teams’ first meeting of the season before losing the rematch, in part because of how Iowa

adjusted to the zone defense, Gesell said. Indiana experienced similar results, losing its first game to NU in the regular season only to figure out how to best the zone and the Cats in the opening round of the Big Ten tournament.

And regardless of the result or date of the game, all players agreed Demps and Olah were far and away the primary threats for NU last season.

“Defensively we had to shut down their key players, Demps and Olah,” Indiana guard Yogi Ferrell said.

“That’s a big dude (Olah) right there, let me tell you. We felt like we had to shut those two key guys down because … they were going to go to them if they needed a bucket.”

Costello said Olah would make “a good NBA big” and praised his soft touch around the rim, and Maryland forward Jake Layman called Demps a top player in the country who’s poised for a big senior season.

All around the Big Ten, there’s a feeling that NU is ready to jump up in the conference pecking order.

“They have a really good team coming back,” LeVert said. “They had some young guys last year who got in the lineup and got a lot better. They were probably getting used to the system as well, so I definitely think they’ll be a lot better this year.” bpillote@u.northwestern.edu