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As University recruits more low-income students, expensive textbooks, supplies still present a barrier for many
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Lindsey Pape was eyeing a second major. Pape, then a freshman studying Radio, Television and Film, considered expanding her studies with environmental science: After all, she wants to make documentaries about the
environment. But then she started adding up the costs of General Chemistry and Math 220, the first two classes in the environmental science sequence: the textbooks, the online program subscriptions, a clicker for class. The total climbed above $300. She decided against it. Pape, who receives financial aid and is work-study eligible, said she didn’t feel comfortable asking her parents to pay that much money so she could
explore a new field. “I had no idea what I should do about it,” the Communication sophomore said. “It just seemed like, ‘Well, I can’t afford the books, so I can’t afford the major.’” Abby Issarraras, whose financial aid covers nearly all her cost of attendance, said she walked into Blick Art Materials and learned the supplies pack for her art class would cost more than $100. She’d need to pay for the supplies out
‘Broad City’ stars to speak at NU By EMILY CHIN
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A&O Productions and NU Hillel will be bringing the stars of “Broad City” to Northwestern, A&O and Fiedler Hillel announced Tuesday. “Broad City,” a sitcom that first aired on Comedy Central, follows the characters played by Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, the creators and lead actors of the show. The duo will speak about their friendship and work relationship, as well as their Jewish backgrounds. “Their show is about two people who are young and learning and doing things as things go,” said Communication senior Eytan Boclin, director of speakers for A&O. “It’s their friendship that we can all identify with and love to see on scene.” Organizers said they hope students will also be able to connect with the speakers’ Jewish background. They chose “Broad City” because the actresses serve as role models for the Jewish community on campus, said Weinberg senior Mitchell
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Caminer, Hillel co-president. “Every year when we’re planning our speaker events we brainstorm relevant Jewish artists who we think would appeal to the students at large,” said Communication senior Lauren Kandell, communications co-chair and speakers co-chair of Hillel. “When we were brainstorming, we thought it would be a really opportune time to bring ‘Broad City’ to campus.” Boclin said A&O and Hillel decided to work together because previous collaborations have been successful and Hillel wanted to work with an organization that
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has experience coordinating large-scale events. The event will be in the format of an interview, in which students will have the opportunity to submit questions through a Google form prior to the event. Communication Prof. Catherine Carrigan will moderate the event. Jacobson and Glazer will be performing on campus Thursday. Students can buy tickets from the Norris Box Office website. emilychin2018@u.northwestern.edu
of pocket, and if she did, she wouldn’t have the money to fly home for Thanksgiving. Forced to choose between seeing her family and exploring an interest, she chose the former and dropped Introduction to Painting. “I can’t afford to take a class just for fun,” the Communication junior said. “Isn’t that college? Doing things just for fun?” Expensive textbooks and supplies
CTA, Pace and Metra to launch new mobile app
Chicago transit riders will be able to access the city’s Ventra system via a new mobile app starting Thursday. Chicago Transit Authority, Metra and Pace announced Friday that the app would be available for free on Apple and Android devices later this week. The release — delayed by poor user experience and technical glitches — marks a significant step toward paperless payment. Metra passengers will be able to pay for train rides using virtual tickets on their smartphones, but Pace and CTA riders can initially only reload cards and view estimated arrival times. Later on, officials said, everyone will have the ability to pay for rides by tapping their smartphones on a Ventra reader. This technology — near-field communication — already exists in the some devices but has not yet
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can alarm students, prompting some to forgo a class or a major if the price is too high. But costs are often beyond the University’s control: The textbook market sets the price for books, and lowcost digital alternatives aren’t always available. The issue of textbook accessibility is primed to intensify as Northwestern aims for 20 percent of freshmen in fall » See IN FOCUS, page 4 been integrated onto buses and at train stations. “The Ventra app has always been envisioned as the next step in a modern fare payment system,” CTA spokeswoman Tammy Chase told The Daily last month. “It’s the first of its kind in the United States in terms of being multi-transit agency.” Developers began working on the app in 2014, a year after the implementation of Ventra, Chicago’s $519 million fare payment system. After its initial delay in May, officials partnered with a local technology consultant to help improve the app. Since then, more than 700 individuals have provided feedback on the technology. “We get one chance to make a first impression,” Chase said last month. “We vowed to the public that (the app) would not be launched until we had tested the heck out of it — not just kicking the tires, but kicking the tires hard.” — David Fishman
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Around Town City preps for fed housing fund delays By NORA SHELLY
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A city committee voted Tuesday to recommend a plan to allocate federal funding for housing and other urban improvements to City Council, despite concerns for a recurrence of delays in delivery of the funds. The Housing and Community Development Act Committee passed to council next year’s allocation of money aimed at improving living situations for lowand middle-income Evanston residents. The plan uses federal funding from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide decent housing, a suitable living environment and expanded economic opportunities for residents in need. The proposed 2016 plan includes funding for a new facility to provide services to low-income teens and infrastructure projects such as improved sidewalks and street lighting in low- and moderateincome neighborhoods. Sarah Flax, Evanston’s housing and grants administrator, said the committee doesn’t know when it will receive the federal funds this year considering 2015’s funds didn’t arrive until June. The funding delay could impact the work of Interfaith Action, an Evanston charity that provides warming centers and emergency overnight shelters to the city’s homeless during the winter months. The group, which is a coalition of several faith-based charities, is hoping to expand their overnight shelters this winter. “We are trying to work with them so they can still
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take care of the need in the cold weather,” Flax told The Daily. Before the city receives funds for 2016 from the federal government, city officials will continue to find alternative sources of money for projects such as Interfaith Action’s winter shelters until they received the reimbursement from HUD, Flax said. “We will work with the interfaith committee — we will see what their situation is,” she said. Although the plan is funded with federal dollars, the lack of an Illinois budget has impacted the social services organizations with which it works. Some of the nonprofits funded by the plan notified the city of increased funding need for next year as a result of missing checks due to the Illinois state budget impasse. “Virtually everybody we fund is also funded by the state,” Flax said. “The impact on those agencies is tremendous.” However, despite the potential state funding losses for the city itself, the action plan allocates the same amount of funding for its social services as last year. Several other projects have been considered under the plan, such as sustaining a service that provides loans for homeowners and renters to fund essential home improvements, funding for graffiti removal, summer youth employment programs and home meal delivery services. The plan allocates the majority of funding to improving public facilities, funding code enforcements and public services. Nora Holden-Corbett, a grants and compliance specialist with the city, said the two biggest public facility improvement projects in 2016 are a street resurfacing project and lighting renovations to the neighbor” rule provisions of the federal Clean Air Act, would replace the 2011 rule and further reduce power plant emissions of smog-producing pollutants that are carried on prevailing winds from one state to others. Those soot and smog emissions have been associated with increased asthma attacks, lung and heart disease and premature death. — Don Hopey (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS)
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NU Medicine to add 1,600 employees next month By JEREMY MARGOLIS
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Northwestern Medicine is set to expand by more than 1,600 employees next month, following state approval of a merger with KishHealth System on Tuesday. The agreement, which was approved by the Illinois Health Facility and Services Review Board in an 8-0 vote, will add two hospitals and about 20 medical locations to the Northwestern Medicine system. KishHealth, a community-owned health system based in DeKalb, Illinois, operates facilities in eight cities in the state. Northwestern Medicine and KishHealth still need to finalize a contract before the agreement is official, and that is expected to happen by the end of the year, said Northwestern Medicine media
relations director Christopher King. The partnership will help KishHealth System fill gaps in neurology, pulmonology, cardiol-
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By being part of Northwestern we will have a single partner and that will help enhance the quality of service for the patient. Theresa Komitas, KishHealth marketing, PR director
ogy and behavioral health, Tom Matya, chair of KishHealth System’s board of directors, wrote in a statement presented at a September public hearing. “In a unique synergy of community-based
providers practicing as part of an academic health system, the community will see an expansion of resources and services,” Matya wrote. Northwestern Medicine will grow to more than 90 locations, including six hospitals and will employ 26,500 people, according to an August news release by Northwestern Medicine and KishHealth. Once the deal is finalized, the integration process will be gradual and could take several years to complete, said Theresa Komitas, KishHealth’s marketing and public relations director. “It’s nothing that will seem like an overnight process,” Komitas said. “We’ll just begin to introduce the Northwestern brand and we’ll begin to see that name out in the community – advertising and signage. Then representatives from both sides will begin to sit down and see where gaps exist, finding service areas where we can partner to provide a higher level of care that is not currently
available in a community health setting.” Talks between the healthcare providers began last May when KishHealth signed a letter of intent to explore an affiliation with Northwestern Medicine. In August, KishHealth signed a definitive agreement to join Northwestern Medicine. The collaboration is attractive to KishHealth because it will consolidate their many existing partnerships, Komitas said. “We are currently a community health system, so obviously in some areas we have limitations as to the services that we can provide, so we work with a number of various healthcare partners at this time to help fill those clinical gaps,” Komitas said. “By being part of Northwestern we will have a single partner and that will help to enhance the quality of service for the patient.” jeremymargolis2019@u.northwestern.edu
Medill Justice Project opens DC bureau this quarter By JULIE FISHBACH
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The Medill Justice Project has expanded to Washington, D.C., with a new bureau that opened this quarter. The investigative reporting project covers potentially wrongful convictions and criminal justice issues. Julie Woon, who applied for a Medill Justice Project fellowship last December, said she expected her experience to be just like those before her, operating out of the Evanston headquarters for national investigations. MJP director Alec Klein, however, had a different path in mind, instead offering her the opportunity to extend Medill’s reach and help bring the program to Washington, D.C. “It was interesting because I hadn’t done any reporting in D.C. before, so to just get thrown into is a little bit intimidating,” Woon (MSJ ’15) said. “You’re speaking
with major players and to set up office and just walk over to the capital and start reporting was crazy. It was really cool to be breaking ground.” Woon, who worked for MJP from June to November this year, was the first fellow to operate out of the D.C. bureau, which opened in September, Klein said. Although she was unable to relocate to Washington for the duration of the fellowship, Woon flew out for a short time to set up the office and report. “The idea of the bureau was to look at the connection between criminal justice issues and public policy,” Klein said. “Washington, D.C., is of course the center of public policy in the United States, so it seemed like a natural fit as part of our expansion.” Woon was sent to Washington to work on an examination of the lack of federal government oversight of shaken baby syndrome, a collection of symptoms indicating severe head injuries in children. A story on the investigation, the first to be published from the Washington bureau, was released last week.
Woon said working in Washington allowed her to attend meetings with congressional staffers, representatives and heads of federal agencies to investigate the story. As the first fellow to go to Washington, Woon said she found some difficulty establishing a presence. “It’s the same obstacles you see with any reporting in D.C., which is just getting those people to talk to you and finding that in, and making the contacts and building those relationships,” Woon said. Amanda Westrich, MJP’s director of operations, said Woon’s story has been in the works for at least a year by various fellows. Klein said much of the research was completed after the D.C. bureau opened. “We weren’t even quite sure if we could even execute the story, but once we opened the bureau that kind of gave us extra momentum to get the story done,” Klein said. “The D.C. bureau is hopefully helping us when it comes to the public policy aspect of these issues.”
The current D.C. fellow, who began working this month fully out of the bureau, is working to produce a documentary on shaken baby syndrome, Klein said. Although only one fellow works out of D.C. at a time, there has not been much trouble coordinating between fellows and staff working out of different locations due to technology like Skype, Klein said. Depending on the success of the current fellowship program, Klein said he sees potential for the bureau to grow and expand its options, perhaps one day becoming a site for the MJP internship program. Beyond Washington, Klein said the program could potentially expand to San Francisco, where a new Medill program will open later this academic year. “The Medill Justice Project is only limited by imagination,” he said. “There is so much we can do and should do, and we have been able to grow and have had so much success over the last several years.” juliefishbach2018@u.northwestern.edu
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TEXTBOOK EXAMPLES Textbook and supplies costs can vary widely across majors and schools. Three students reflect on their experiences accessing course materials.
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2020 to be Pell Grant recipients, the “20 by 2020” initiative. With that shift already underway, and with a new office supporting low-income students looking to expand, faculty and administrators are working to make textbooks and other course materials more attainable. “It’s so important for these students to have the same educational opportunities as everyone else,” said Amanda Walsh, president of NU’s chapter of the Quest Scholars Network. “If at the end of the day, you bring these students to campus and you do not allow them to access these opportunities, you are not following up on the promise you made as an institution.”
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Name: Greg Bichai Year: Weinberg freshman Major: Undeclared, pre-med track Bichai said he pays “full sticker” price, meaning he receives no financial aid from the University. This quarter, he paid $80 for a clicker for chemistry class and $230 for a Spanish textbook. He said those costs are “ridiculous.” “I’m a little afraid to see what the prices will be for the next quarter,” he said. “But my parents like to say that your only job is to be a student, so if it’s going to help you with your educational career, it’s worth the investment.”
Her junior year, Walsh said she dropped an introductory statistics class because paying about $200 for the textbook would have required her to make sacrifices elsewhere in her life. Walsh, a Communication senior, is searching for a job and said she wished she took more math classes at NU. “I’m disqualified from so many things because I didn’t take those classes,” she said. “And that’s because textbooks were not accessible to me.” Students by and large must pay textbook and supply costs outof-pocket. In theory, students who can’t afford class materials can use money from a work-study job to cover those costs. But Walsh said students often need to use work-study pay to cover some living expenses as well. “If you have a limited income, you do have to make choices,” she said. “Do I want to pay for a lab coat? Or do I want to pay for electricity in my apartment?” Even if almost the entire cost of attendance is covered by financial aid, Walsh said, that doesn’t mean a student can afford class materials out of pocket. Students have found ways to deal with the costs. Communication junior Catherine Sobilo serves on the executive board of Quest, an organization that advocates for low-income and first-generation students. She said she leans on the Interlibrary Loan program, which lets students borrow books from other universities’ libraries. The service is helpful for her social science classes, she said, which rely more on shorter books. However, it’s not as helpful for textbooks, which are less accessible through the loan program. Walsh noted students find textbooks in other ways, too. They use course reserves, shop online and search the “Free and For Sale” Facebook page, where students sell their used books. But Walsh said too many students are “choosing not to take classes they should be able to take.” “Students don’t always know these resources exist,” she said. “It’s the University’s job to let students know — low-income students in particular — that those things are there.” Paying for class materials can have social costs as well, Issarraras said. Buying expensive textbooks can prevent her from going out to dinner or purchasing tickets for her friends’ shows. “It kind of makes you feel like a shitty friend,” she said.
‘Out of control’ costs
Name: Mira Staykova Year: SESP sophomore Major: Social policy Staykova said she spends 12 hours per week at her work-study job. Her financial aid covers most of her cost of attendance. Staykova said SESP keeps course costs low for students. Professors avoid selecting expensive textbooks, she said, and some assign TED Talks and online PDFs. “I’ve never had a class in SESP that cost more than $40,” she said. “Most of the readings are on Canvas.”
Name: Taryn Nobil Year: Medill sophomore Major: Journalism Nobil said her financial aid covers nearly her entire cost of attendance. During Fall Quarter and Winter Quarter of her freshman year, she said she didn’t know what Interlibrary Loan was, so she paid for all her books. “The school doesn’t make all the resources known,” she said. “It’s just assumed that everyone can afford these things. But it’s not true.” Design by Jacob Swan/Daily Senior Staffer Photos by Daniel Tian and Jacob Swan/Daily Senior Staffers
Few dispute that faculty should choose what supplies are used in their classes. “If I’m teaching a class, I want to use the best materials, the materials I think are most appropriate for what I’m going to teach,” said economics Prof. Ron Braeutigam, associate provost for undergraduate education. “What you want is that vehicle that will make learning most effective.” Mary Finn, associate dean for undergraduate academic affairs in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, said most faculty try to keep course costs low. “But they have to make sure they have what they need to teach the class,” she said. “I don’t think faculty members are selecting texts that are expensive for no good reason.” The price of textbooks in particular, though, is often out of faculty members’ hands: The textbook market is controlled by a small group of publishers who dictate prices. Ariel Diaz, CEO of Boundless, a low-cost textbook company, said the industry isn’t serving consumers well. “We have supercomputers in our pockets,” he said. “The sum of all human knowledge is one Google search away, and yet $200 textbooks are dominating the market.” He said even though accessing information is cheaper than ever, textbooks remain expensive. Since 1977, textbook costs have increased at more than three times the rate of inflation, according to an NBC News analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. An oligopoly dominates the industry, with a few major publishers controlling more than 80 percent of the market. Diaz said the textbook industry resembles the pharmaceutical industry. “Doctors are assigning prescriptions to patients, and (the doctors) aren’t the one paying,” he said. “The payer is not the decider, and as a result, the price itself continues to rise at an unsustainable rate ... and the people bearing the brunt of this are students.” But industry advocates say books are expensive to produce. A typical biology textbook, for example, requires a team of authors, researchers, editors, peer reviewers and graphic designers to spend around a collective 24,000 hours creating the text, said David Anderson, an executive director at the Association of American Publishers. Anderson said producing one textbook can cost as much as $3 million. “They are essential tools for students to learn,” he said. “And when you consider the price of tuition at a place like Northwestern, the price of textbooks is a small fraction.” In October, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced a bill that would create a grant program for universities to establish “open” textbooks, books available under an open license so students and faculty can access the information for free. The bill aims to pressure the traditional textbook industry to develop cheaper alternatives, Durbin said in a statement. OpenStax College, a nonprofit based out of Rice University, is one of the largest open-source textbook publishers. The textbooks are peer-reviewed and free online, and the nonprofit estimates the 260,000 students using its textbooks this school year will save a
combined $25 million, The Washington Post reported. The textbook industry, Anderson added, is moving toward offering more online and digital options for students, lowering prices in the process.
‘Putting your money where your mouth is’ For students struggling with textbook or supply costs, the Office of Financial Aid can help, said Brian Drabik, the associate director of undergraduate financial aid. “Any educational cost they are having difficulty with,” he said, “we should be the first stop for them.” Drabik said his office can offer a student struggling with textbook costs a “cash advance,” a no-interest loan the student repays, usually at the end of the quarter. The office’s full-time financial aid counselors can also help students find ways to manage those costs. Some low-income students can also cover textbook costs with their “refund,” Drabik said, the leftover funds on a student’s account when the financial aid received exceeds the amount due on their bills. Drabik said refund values vary widely. But students who qualify for a refund don’t automatically receive it. They must request it each quarter from the Financial Aid Office. Some students — especially new students — don’t realize they have a refund available and don’t request it, said Kourtney Cockrell, director of Student Enrichment Services. SES is a centralized office focused on low-income and first-generation students’ needs. In 2012, a group of students approached Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president for student affairs, and asked her to create an office to support low-income students. Student Affairs launched SES during Fall Quarter 2014. The office’s first academic quarters come as the University works toward its “20 by 2020” initiative. Currently, roughly 14 percent of NU students are Pell-eligible, up from 6.5 percent in 2008. Cockrell said the initiative will entail increasing the number of Pell-eligible students from about 1,100 to about 1,700. “It’s exciting to have a truly reflective demographic, but it requires resources, and it’s expensive,” she said. “It’s all about putting your money where your mouth is.” Cockrell said she acts primarily as a liaison between students and University departments. Due to federal regulations, her office can’t simply give students money, she said, but she can refer them to financial aid officers, professors and other administrators who can help them access class materials. The office also sponsors a council of faculty and administrators who aim to integrate support for low-income and first-generation students across the university. Cockrell said the council has begun an “audit” of the University’s departments to determine NU’s most expensive classes. She said they hope to have all the data compiled by the end of Spring Quarter. Cockrell said her office currently only has “one and a half ” employees: herself and a part-time administrative assistant. The lack of staffing, Cockrell said, makes it harder for SES to create institutional change. “I’m spending so much time one-on-one with students,” she said, “which means the strategic coordination, to try to move policy ... You can only do so much in one day.” Cockrell said she submitted SES’ budget proposal for next fall to Telles-Irvin, asking for two additional staffers: an assistant director and a full-time assistant. Telles-Irvin oversees the Campus Inclusion and Community office, under which SES is housed. She said new offices often start small so administrators can get a sense of students’ needs. A year in, though, she said it seems the SES office will need to grow to better serve students. “It’s very clear to me that there’s a need there,” Telles-Irvin said. “It looks like it’s been successful so far, so we’ll be looking in the future to see how we can continue to enhance that office.”
Work in progress Administrators, faculty and students are working to improve access to textbooks and supplies. Weinberg senior Riko Ohashi, Associated Student Government’s vice president for academics, said ASG is pushing for a “cost estimate” feature for students when they register for courses on CAESAR. Currently, course descriptions on CAESAR include a section for course materials, but sometimes information about required textbooks or supplies isn’t provided. “Students should know and have that information on hand when they register,” she said. “They should know what they’re signing up for. It shouldn’t be an additional layer of stress on the first day of class.” Ohashi and her committee have worked primarily with the Registrar’s Office on this proposal, but University Registrar Jaci Casazza said she hesitates to support an estimated-cost system. “Average cost is hard to determine, because what does that mean?” she said. “Is it average cost for new materials or used materials?” What’s more likely to happen, she said, is a more detailed materials list within a course’s description on CAESAR. She also said descriptions could include “course-particular” links that lead students to the Norris Bookstore’s listing of required class materials. The earliest this change could be in place is February, when students register for Spring 2016 classes. But Casazza said changes are more likely by May for Fall 2016 registration. In Weinberg, Finn said the college will work with SES to support low-income chemistry students taking the department’s initial sequence. The textbooks and supplies cost students roughly $600 over the three quarters, Finn said. “We are spending a great deal of time in all of our meetings talking about the ways in which we are welcoming with great excitement more students who are low-income than in the past,” she said. “Faculty members are really excited about that.” Walsh said the University has “made great strides” in terms of helping low-income students but still has room for improvement. “Northwestern does work very hard to make sure all students are supported,” she said. “But there still are students who struggle to afford materials, or they don’t know where to go for help. And that’s a problem.” ShaneM@u.northwestern.edu
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NU library system aims to boost digital archives By PETER KOTECKI
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To ensure that it can archive all digital information stored on items received from donors, the Northwestern library system began a campaign for collecting cords and chargers that belong to donated cell phones. The campaign, coordinated by digital curation assistant Laura Alagna and digital curation librarian Nicole Finzer, was created because many donations arrived at the University without their corresponding cables, Alagna said. “These things come to us, and they don’t come with any kind of cord or charger,” she said. “If the donor wants us to archive whatever data is on here, we can’t do that unless we have the peripherals for it.” In 2013, Finzer said, the NU library system tested its digital archiving procedures on a computer and an email account. “It hadn’t really gone anywhere because no one claimed to have devoted time to it,” she said.
To make the digital archiving program more efficient, NU hired Alagna, the University’s first specialist in digital archiving, in February 2015, Finzer said. “When she showed up and we allotted specific time to her job for doing this sort of work, then it seemed like … we were suddenly being handed (donations),” she said. Finzer and Alagna said they work with items created in a digital environment, such as emails and Word documents. This definition excludes materials like scanned books and film reels, Alagna said. Although the University’s peer institutions work on digital archiving, Alagna said NU is one of the first to incorporate cell phones into an archiving program. “In terms of the mobile devices, what we are doing with this campaign is pretty new,” she said. University archivist Kevin Leonard said the majority of the University’s archived materials are handwritten or printed documents. However, the library is receiving more and more material in digital form, he said. “We have to come up with a protocol to acquire and secure those materials, and a platform which we can
store them and eventually share them,” Leonard said. Currently, Finzer said, the library does not have a workflow for deciding which donations to archive first. “The order for how we prioritize doing this stuff currently is whatever is handed to us,” she said. Finzer said the challenges of digital archiving include figuring out how to work with data after it is accessed and allocating an appropriate amount of digital storage for the data. “The nice thing about the flip phones and the BlackBerry is that none of the files are that big, so we don’t need to ask for terabytes of storage space right now,” she said. Despite digital information being difficult to work with, Alagna said the NU library system is doing its best to preserve the knowledge stored in the donations received. “Our whole purpose is to make sure that this knowledge and information is preserved for thousands of years,” she said. peterkotecki2018@u.northwestern.edu
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University adds ‘green,’ electric vehicles to its fleet By KELLI NGUYEN
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To reduce Northwestern’s carbon footprint, the University has added four Polaris Global Electric Motorcars to its motor fleet. The electric vehicles, currently in use by Facilities Management, are part of a sustainNU initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The price tag on a GEM can range anywhere from $1,200 to $1,600, depending on what it is equipped with, said Rob Whittier, director of the Office of Sustainability. The NU units were customized with tool shelves built into locking rear cabs, as well as University branding on the exterior. To accompany the GEMs, Schneider Electric, an NU research partner, donated four charging stations to the University. “We basically paid nothing for the stations themselves,” Whittier said. “We just had to install
them.” The stations are split between the North Campus and Segal Visitors Center parking structures. Each station has the capacity to charge two vehicles simultaneously for free. The GEMs are cheaper, quieter and less intrusive than traditional trucks and vans, Whittier said. They also serve as a visual reminder of Northwestern’s efforts to promote sustainability, he said. Transportation represents Northwestern’s third largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and is separated into two categories: those produced by University-owned and operated vehicles and those produced by commuters. “We’re responsible for trying to help commuters find more efficient ways to travel,” Whittier said. “In terms of our own fleet, we’re piloting a set of electric vehicles and basically the idea is that those will start to replace the trucks and vans that we have traditionally used in the campus fleet.” One misconception about electric vehicles is that they are always neutral or carbon-free,
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Whittier said. In reality, their emissions stem from the electricity they use. The electricity that the University purchases to charge these vehicles is not completely carbon neutral, but NU purchases wind energy credits to offset about 50 percent of that electricity, he said. “The vehicles have no emissions at the source, but electric vehicles do have an impact,” Whittier said. ASG vice president of sustainability Christina Cilento said she has mixed feelings on the GEMs, pointing out that current technology does not allow electric vehicles to be completely emission-free. “They are a great emblem of sustainability because they are more sustainable than gas,” the SESP junior said. “But the downside is that unless the electricity is from wind or something, they aren’t necessarily super, super sustainable.” Whittier heads the transportation working group that proposed the idea for campus electric vehicles. The group comprises faculty, staff and
students whose role it is to explore programs to decrease transportation emissions. Along with the GEMs, the committee is investigating ways to promote public transportation, make the campus more bicycle and electric vehicle friendly and integrate carbon-reducing technology, said McCormick Prof. Mark Werwath, a member of the transportation working-group. “We looked at things like how to get more people to use public transit,” Werwath said. “That was the motivation behind the 201 buses becoming free to WildCARD holders, which didn’t exist prior to this fall.” As for the future, the purchase of another shipment of GEMs remains unclear. “I’m relatively confident we will move forward with another batch of them,” Whittier said. “We just want to get a few more months of testing in and then maybe other groups like athletics and Student Affairs might jump on board at that point.” kellinguyen2019@u.northwestern.edu
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How to decide between an M.D. and a Ph.D., or both SAI FOLMSBEE
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Nearly all undergraduates studying the biosciences, from neuroscience to biomedical engineering, face the same conundrum. After graduation, is it better to apply for graduate school to get a Ph.D., or to apply to medical school to get an M.D.? Complicating things further, there is even the possibility of trying to matriculate into a combined M.D./Ph.D. program. Although these career paths all begin with taking basic biology and chemistry courses in college, graduate and medical could not be more different. Research and medicine require entirely unique skill sets for success. Importantly, both are big commitments, so the best action you can take right now to prepare yourself is to simply take the time to really consider what sort of work life you want to have, and sincerely reflect on what skills you can rely on. Many NU students in scientific disciplines will have to decide between a future in science or medicine. In either cases, it is clear that pursuing an M.D. and/or a Ph.D. can be either a dream or a
nightmare. I am currently starting my sixth year in the Northwestern M.D./Ph.D. program, so I have had the chance to observe the challenges of both graduate and medical school. During my time, I have seen students build the beginnings of a successful medical and research career, with both clinical skills and scientific prowess. But I have also witnessed the struggles and failures of many within the program. Some are woefully unprepared for the rigors of medical school, and others unwilling to commit to the tedium of graduate school research. In many ways, getting both an M.D. and a Ph.D. can certainly be tempting. Most programs cover the entirety of medical and graduate school tuition, along with a livable stipend over the course of the entire program. Graduating with two degrees with no debt is a rare benefit, but these programs are an intensive commitment, often taking up to eight years to complete. And if you don’t absolutely love both science and medicine, it is easy to find yourself trapped in it. From a medical perspective, graduate school and research can appear an easy addition. But getting a Ph.D. can be brutish, tedious and demoralizing. Often, it is not enough to simply have an interest in science; you must also have the skills to
adapt to new experimental plans and build working collaborations. Even with those goals complete, communication skills are a necessity for any progress in academia. The best scientists spend a great deal of time politicking, networking with the leaders in their field and hoping they will favorably review their next grant or manuscript. And the same goes toward overcoming the smaller interpersonal hurdles of graduate school. Similarly, from a research perspective, medical school is a deceptively straightforward endeavor. Classes are, for the most part, similar in structure to those taken at an undergraduate level, albeit much more difficult. But in medical school, it is often not enough to just work hard to get good grades. It is about rising above your competition on a national level. Medical school is just the stepping stone to a medical residency position, which is simultaneously much more competitive and much more important for the progression of your career. Your score on your first medical school board exam is not like any exam in college and is not even like the MCAT. It is a grueling test of all your medical knowledge boiled down to a single score that ultimately governs what medical specialties are available to you. Furthermore, medicine is a team sport, and I’ve seen even the smartest students crushed under the
weight of having to interact successfully with the dozens of people in a clinical setting. Being a doctor is not just diagnosis of disease and identifying the best treatment. It’s really about telling a patient they have a terminal illness, then talking to their family, then discussing the prognosis with the consulting physicians, then engaging day with the nurses on day-to-day management, then contacting social workers and then explaining to your next patient that you are sorry that you are late. Medicine isn’t for everyone, and neither is research. Both represent vastly different careers, with separate benefits and challenges. A physician can find satisfaction in working with others to improve individuals’ lives. A scientist can find purpose in discovering something never before understood. Choosing between them takes time, and it should. And if you truly love these both, even when at their worst, and you know that you have the skills to excel at both, only then an M.D./ Ph.D. may be your best option. Sai Folmsbee is a Feinberg graduate student. He can be reached at sai@fsm.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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A closer look at the pitfalls of viral Internet ‘activism’ VICKY HO and RITIKA RASTOGI GUEST COLUMNISTS
Over the past week, hashtags #ConcernedStudent1950 and #InSolidarityWithMizzou have become viral on a variety of social media platforms, tacked on to the end of some variation of the following statement: “To the students of color at Mizzou, we, student allies at Northwestern University, stand with you in solidarity. To those who would threaten their sense of safety, we are watching.” Looking through all of our Facebook friends, we noticed three kinds of reactions to what was happening at Mizzou: There were people who blindly posted the above statement, people who actively shared and expressed their views and people who remained silent about the events recently brought to light at universities around the country. While it’s great that this status is being shared and raising awareness, something that many are failing to do — and something that needs to be reiterated — is that activism cannot and must not start and end with a status.
To use a metaphor that has been circulating recently: Battling institutional oppression is like using a moving walkway at the airport. Taking a stance requires effort; if you are not actively speaking out against the issues facing marginalized identities then you are going with the flow and effectively upholding dangerous and life-threatening systems of power. Posting a viral status doesn’t mean that you can automatically claim your golden ticket for being an ally. So what, then, makes an ally? Recognize that what is happening at universities like Yale, Mizzou and Howard are not isolated incidents — these incidents happen at every institution around the country and have occurred for decades. A marginalized student doesn’t need a bomb threat to feel unsafe on this or any other campus. The hurt is in the everyday incidents that make your skin crawl. This fight doesn’t end when the media stops talking about it. This fight is ongoing. Be active. You don’t need a hashtag as an excuse to feel comfortable speaking out. Be honest with yourself about your privilege and recognize that it’s OK to not know everything as long as you are also willing to learn. But also recognize that your first resource when you
have a question should be Google. By asking friends from traditionally marginalized communities for answers, you turn them into representatives speaking on behalf of an entire group of people. Beyond that, understand that being active in a fight can look a lot of different ways and that you don’t have to be on the frontlines of a protest to be an ally. Educate yourself so that you can engage in conversation with peers. Share articles. Talk to friends. Be heartfelt. Not speaking out is being complicit, and if you aren’t making a stance and making your opinion be known, then you’re not forcing change. Of course, taking time to figure out what to say is important, but silence makes a statement. If you feel uneducated, make it a priority to learn. If you feel uncomfortable saying what you think, share an article and let the author do the talking for you. Causing change requires making people feel uncomfortable, even if that person is yourself. It is OK to feel uncomfortable, and those feelings are entirely valid, but understand the difference between feeling uncomfortable and feeling unsafe. As an ally, it is impossible to understand entirely what it feels like to be unsafe in a particular identity that you do not
We must prevent tragedy from dividing us ALEXI STOCKER
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Friday’s barbaric terrorist attacks in Paris struck mostly young adults, not much older than ourselves, who were out enjoying themselves in a beautiful, living city. Although many of the responses to the attacks demonstrated the love and resilience of much of the world, two divergent responses, on opposite ends of the political spectrum, drove me first to anger, then to revulsion. Conservatives like Ann Coulter called for bans on “Muslim immigration,” or in the case of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his supporters, rushed to capitalize on the attacks for political purposes. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich tweeted that the attacks could have been stopped had civilians in the Bataclan been armed. Right-leaning politicians across Europe demanded an end to the influx of Syrian refugees, and more than half of U.S. governors have now refused to accept Syrian refugees. From the United States to Eastern Europe, the political far right blamed the attacks on Islam and the left. On the other side, the far left quickly called out what they deemed hypocrisy in the global response to the Paris terrorist attacks. Commentators were quick to point out that President Obama did not make an official statement on deadly bombings in
Beirut, Lebanon, which occurred one day before the terrorist attacks in Paris. They were quick to criticize Facebook for creating a profile picture flag filter for the victims of Paris, but not of Beirut, or attacks in Iraq, Kenya or other countries. Comparisons were made between the scale of violence in Paris and Iraq, effectively downplaying the horror inflicted upon the French people. The theme of these messages was, simply put, why “pray for Paris” when violence rips through countries around the world every day? Why do we honor Paris? We, as Northwestern students and Americans, honor Paris because it is a global city. We honor Paris because our friends and fellow NU students are studying abroad there, because we have studied abroad or visited there, because we have friends, family and colleagues who live in the City of Light. Yes, we should honor the victims of bombings in Beirut, Baghdad and other cities; we should honor the victims of war and state brutality wherever it occurs. That fact does not give any of us the right to begrudge our fellow students, our fellow Americans, our fellow citizens of the world the right to honor the memory of their lost friends, family, colleagues and fellow humans. No ritual or means of grieving or commemoration is superior to another. No tragedy inherently deserves any more attention than another. In our world’s most trying times, we need love, patience and empathy. Giving in to anger and fear allows the terrorists to win. On both the far right and far left, politicization of the attacks contains two frightening themes. Talk of
guns is a form of victim blaming, as are declarations that the West “caused” this attack. Blaming all Muslims for the attacks, or drawing hasty connections between the lack of attention to the Beirut bombings and Islamophobia, are both different forms of the same “us and them” mentality. Victim blaming desecrates the memories of those who perished in the attacks, and the “us and them” mentality so frighteningly prevalent right now prevents a united response to the attacks in Paris, Beirut, Baghdad and around the world. ISIS has said it wants to divide the world. We cannot allow them to do so. We must resist the pull of demagogues on both the left and the right. As NU students, it is our responsibility to think critically and act respectfully. Instead of angrily accusing those who add a French flag filter to their profile picture of racism, ask them to include Beirut and Baghdad in their prayers; the initial omission was not intentional. Before rushing to condemn Islam for the attacks, remember that the Syrian refugees are fleeing ISIS, not fighting for them. We must stand in solidarity here at NU, because only then can we stand in solidarity with Paris, Beirut and the world at large. Alexi Stocker is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at alexistocker2016@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.
claim. Accept those feelings as they are and don’t question them or ask for proof of any marginalized group’s experience, whether that is the black experience, the immigrant experience or the queer experience, among many others. Finally, in order to be an ally, we must recognize that self-education is an ongoing process. Activism does not start or end with posting a status or reading one article. Constantly be critical of yourself and your actions and how your identity plays into your role on this campus. If you make the decision to post that status and call yourself an ally to students of color, be intentional in that decision. As students on NU’s campus, we all have a vital part to play in improving the experiences of people with marginalized identities. It takes more than a hashtag or a status. Vicky Ho is a Weinberg senior. She can be reached at vickyho2016@u.northwestern.edu. Ritika Rastogi is a Weinberg senior. She can be reached at ritikarastogi2016@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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on NU’s team. “His knowledge from being a swimmer has helped him become a better coach in the sense that he’s able to relate to us.” Schroeder started coaching at Northwestern as a volunteer from 2000 to 2006. He left in 2007 to become interim head coach at Maryland before returning to NU as an assistant coach a year later. In 2009, Schroeder was named the head coach for Northwestern, taking over for Bob Groseth, who retired after 20 years at NU. Schroeder credits Groseth for being a positive influence on his swimming and coaching style. “Coaching — it’s my competitive outlet now,” Schroeder said. “I’m no longer the competitive swimmer, but now I’m competitive through the swimmers that I coach. When they get up for races I get nervous like they get nervous, I get excited when they get excited, I feel disappointed if they feel disappointed.” One swimmer Schroeder is especially proud of is Northwestern’s Jordan Wilimovsky, who won the FINA World Championship competition in Russia this past summer for the 10K open water race. The victory secured his star swimmer a spot on the Olympic team for next year. “I went to three Olympic Trials and I never achieved my goal,” Schroeder said. “I have no
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communicate,” Collins said. “It just messed (Olah) up from both ends, because he’d get frustrated, they’d pull him away from the basket, they’d drive by him. I thought (Friday) was one of his best games just for that.” Additionally, Olah won his first ever Big Ten Player of the Week award thanks to a 21-point, 12-rebound line against UMass Lowell. Friday was Olah’s third career 20-10 game. “I (came) into this year with the thought of having double-doubles every game,” Olah said. Olah is also the first Cat to win Big Ten Player of the Week since Drew Crawford in February 2014. With game number two on the horizon, McIntosh agreed with Collins that last Friday’s sluggish start could be attributed to openingnight “jitters.” However, he said he doesn’t think such nerves will carry over to Wednesday. “There’s always jitters any time you start off the year, just because you’ve worked so hard over the offseason and you just want to get going,” McIntosh said. “We didn’t hit shots (last Friday) and it hampered us a little bit with the fact that we just got out of character.” maxgelman2018@u.northwestern.edu
regrets about that, but that was my goal. As a coach, my hope was to produce an Olympic athlete, so that was what was so special about what Jordan did this year.” Schroeder describes Wilimovsky as humble and said that signing I him to the program really enjoy was like finding a diaswimming mond in the rough. Wilimovsky was not a under him. highly scouted recruit He knows and had to take a chance on Northwesthow to get the ern, because the Wildbest out of his cats couldn’t offer a big swimmers. scholarship at the time. Wilimovsky improved Jonathan rapidly though, with Blansfield, Schroeder cheering sophomore and pushing him on the entire way. Although Schroeder himself may never have reached the Olympics, having one of his athletes go satisfies a different but just as important goal, he said. “I’m kind of living vicariously through my athlete now that he has reached the highest level of our sport and I had a little hand in that,” Schroeder said. “The athlete has the biggest hand in that because they’re the ones who have to work their butts off day in and day out, but I
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helped guide him towards that Olympic dream of his. To have a swimmer of mine be able to go, I think that’s a pretty special thing.” Van Donkersgoed, former captain and now volunteer coach for the team, said Schroeder doesn’t take enough credit for training Wilimovsky. “It’s not that he treated him special or anything, but he knew what was at stake and he gave him what he needed when he didn’t have to do that,” Donkersgoed said. “He believed in Jordan.” Schroeder has always taken coaching seriously, but said he’s recently tried to take a step back and be less intense. He said he thinks he’s mellowed out over the past few years, but admits that if you asked his athletes, they’ll probably say he still gets more stressed than he needs to. Donkersgoed said Schroeder jokes with his athletes to lighten the mood and show he sees them as people, not just swimmers. The athletes Schroeder coaches get to see both sides of the man that they spend hours working with both in and out of the water. “I really enjoy swimming under him,” Blansfield said. “He knows how to get the best out of his swimmers. He’s tough and he demands a lot, but it’s only because he wants to see us succeed.” In recent years, Schroeder has been focusing on looking at the big picture, especially during regular season meets, emphasizing the
importance of working toward a goal but also the importance of the process. “As an athlete I had an awesome journey but I didn’t get to where I wanted to go,” Schroeder said. “But if the path that you’re taking is a worthwhile experience, then even if you don’t achieve the highest goal that you have for yourself, still, you had a good run, you had a great voyage so to speak.” Whether through swimming competitively or coaching, Schroeder said that he has been constantly learning from the sport over the years. “I’ve learned to kind of take things in stride a little bit better and to roll with the punches,” he said. “I’ve learned you have to enjoy it while you got it.” On Schroeder’s desk is a picture of his wife, Liz, and his two children Tate, 7, and Turner, 4. His family often comes to swim meets to cheer on the team and their favorite coach. Though his children are enrolled in swimming lessons, Schroeder doesn’t think he’ll coach them competitively any time soon. “The great thing about when I was swimming was that my parents knew nothing about the sport,” Schroeder said with a knowing smile. “It might be harder on my kids because I love swimming so much. I don’t know if I want them to have to deal with me.” tylerkendall2018@u.northwestern.edu
Cats looking for first November win in October needs to be in full effect at Jenison Fieldhouse. If not, the Cats can leave their post-season dreams in East Lansing. “It’s going to be really hard,” Chan said. “It’s all about winning right now.”
Northwestern vs. Michigan State
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After a week against some of the NCAA’s best, Northwestern is playing its first unranked opponent in November. The Wildcats (13-14, 5-11 Big Ten) will hit the road on Wednesday to take on Michigan State (14-13, 6-10), the last team NU defeated, back on Halloween night. Coming off four consecutive losses, the Cats are taking on a team they have proven they can beat. One of the most productive players in the previous match against the Spartans was junior outside hitter Kayla Morin who was in the top three in kills, blocks and assists for NU. Morin said that knowing Michigan State is ahead of the Cats in Big Ten standings will fuel their fire, especially with their post-season hopes on the line. Although she proved in the last game against the Spartans that she can hold her own, Morin said the team will play best if every hitter is on their game. “We work best when all of our hitters are on,”
Morin said. “If we’re all on that’s really going to give us a better chance for success, rather than have it just be on one certain person.” Sophomore setter Taylor Tashima also racked up assists, digs and the most aces for the Cats in their previous matchup against Michigan State. Her physicality in the last game, alongside Morin, is what she said the team will be bringing to its match on Wednesday night. “It’s really important to have an equal balance of offense in front of the setter and behind the setter,” Tashima said. “It’s important that I utilize (Morin) to keep their blockers guessing.” Even boasting players like Morin and Tashima, as well as a knowledge of how the Spartans operate, the Cats are going to need to fight to break their four-match losing streak. Coach Keylor Chan, Tashima and Morin all spoke to the fact that the team that stepped out on the court at Welsh-Ryan Arena to play the Spartans
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I can’t imagine if my (childhood) club coach hadn’t asked me to swim that summer. — Jarod Schroeder, men’s swimming coach
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
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Schroeder passes on his love for the sport By TYLER KENDALL
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Coach Jarod Schroeder’s eyes glisten when he talks about the sport he loves. That love, however, started late. Growing up, Schroeder, 43, did not intend to become a competitive swimmer. It was not until the summer before his freshman year of college, when his childhood swim coach encouraged him to take up racing again, that Schroeder began to think seriously about the sport. The two had kept in touch over the years because, as Schroeder describes it, his hometown of Morrison, Illinois, is a “little farming community where everyone knows everyone.” “For some reason when he asked me if I wanted to swim again, I said yes,” Schroeder said. “I don’t know why, but that was a life-changing event for me. I was 17, and I got back into the sport.” After adjusting to being in the water again, Schroeder decided he wanted to pursue the sport competitively. He approached the swim coach at Northern Illinois about being a walk-on. Once he arrived at school, Schroeder met the new head coach, who asked him his times in the water. However, the freshman hadn’t swum competitively since he was 10 years old and was told he had two weeks to prove himself. For those next two weeks Schroeder trained hard, showing up for practice every morning at 6 a.m., his competitive spirit driving him. It was there, at an optional practice one morning, when Schroeder beat a scholarship athlete in a race off the blocks and earned his place on the roster. “I can’t imagine if my (childhood)
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SUBMERGED Coach Jarod Schroeder looks over toward his athletes. Schroeder has been leading the way for Northwestern since 2009 when he was promoted after serving as an assistant coach for a year. He said since he no longer competes in the water, coaching is now his competitive outlet.
club coach hadn’t asked me to swim that summer,” Schroeder said. “I can’t imagine if the coach at Northern Illinois didn’t give me the opportunity of those two weeks to prove myself. My life would be totally different right now.” An athlete his entire life, Schroeder focused on football and basketball in high school. It was through participating in other sports and by being active that he found his work
ethic and determination. Schroeder also credits the techniques he learned when he swam competitively as a child for giving him a strong foundation to build from. “I had some really great coaching when I was a young kid so all I had to do was get back into shape,” Schroeder said. “Because I was an athlete, I think I picked things up better than the kids who had just
swum their entire lives. When my coach would tell me to do something I had good body awareness and could make that adjustment, so I improved very rapidly.” For Schroeder, getting back into the sport provided him with a goal to work toward. The coach said it was there practicing in the pool day to day, playing wall tag back and forth for hours, where he was able to have quiet time with himself to
just think and try to get better. Schroeder found motivation when he was in the water that he didn’t experience from other sports, which kept his passion growing. “What I loved about swimming was the challenges day to day,” he said. “You set goals for yourself and you try to achieve them in all sports. But in swimming, there’s a clock that’s ticking and you know whether or not you had success or failure every practice and every set. For me, I liked the challenge of every day going into the pool and trying to get better.” During his four years at Northern Illinois, Schroeder set multiple school records as a team captain. After only a year of training he qualified for United States Nationals and after three years he qualified for Olympic Trials. Schroeder made the U.S. team for the Goodwill Games in 1998. A year later, he earned a spot on the U.S. National Team and earned two silver medals for the United States during the 1999 Pan Am Games. Schroeder has also won three Mid-American Conference Swimmer of the Year Awards, two Illinois Collegiate Swimmer of the Year Honors and seven individual conference championships. “I got lucky,” Schroeder said. “If I had gone to any other school, I don’t think I would’ve been given the opportunity. Northern Illinois wasn’t a powerhouse swimming program and that worked in my favor.” Schroeder said the coaches at Northern Illinois gave him his appreciation of the sport and desire to pursue coaching as a career. He credits them as mentoring him on how to work with athletes both on and off the pool deck. “He was an elite swimmer,” said Jonathan Blansfield, a sophomore » See SCHROEDER, page 7
Wildcats prepare to host winless, but tough, opponent By MAX GELMAN
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Northwestern’s next game will come against a winless team, but that doesn’t mean it will be a cakewalk. The Fairfield Stags (0-2) will visit Welsh-Ryan Arena having lost to Yale and No. 1 North Carolina so far this season in two close matchups. Coach Chris Collins said because both of Fairfield’s tight losses came on the road, traveling to Evanston won’t faze them. “I thought for 30 minutes they went toe-to-toe with Carolina,” Collins said. “You look at their record and it says 0-2. Well one of the games they played the number one team in the country and the other game they played Yale which may end up being a top 25 team.”
Fairfield vs. Northwestern Evanston, Illinois 7 p.m. Wednesday
When the Wildcats (1-0) tip off at 7 p.m. Wednesday, they will begin a four-game stretch that takes place over a seven day span. Although on paper Fairfield may seem like the weakest of those four opponents, Collins said the Stags’ quality losses make them as tough as anybody this early on the schedule. For the Stags, senior forward Marcus Gilbert will be looking to follow up on his 25-point performance against the Tar Heels. Cats’ sophomore guard Bryant McIntosh said he thinks stopping Gilbert is going to be one of the biggest challenges come Wednesday. “Gilbert is a very capable scorer,”
McIntosh said. “To have 25 in the Dean Dome is really impressive, so we’re going to have to be ready to play … their record isn’t indicative of what kind of team they are.” As part of its nonconference schedule, NU will be competing against many teams with relatively shorter big men. For example, the Cats have five players on the roster listed at 6-foot-8 or taller, while Massachusetts Lowell’s tallest athlete is listed at 6-foot-8. Fairfield isn’t as small but only has two 6-foot-8 forwards and three 6-foot-9 players. Collins said earlier in his career, senior center Alex Olah would have had trouble guarding shorter opponents but has improved remarkably in that area. “They have more skill guys, more guards, and you have to really » See MEN’S BASKETBALL, page 7
Men’s Basketball
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DROPPING DIMES Bryant McIntosh looks to deliver a pass in the paint. The sophomore guard dished out eight assists in the Cats’ season-opening win.