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Fountain Square to be rebuilt By JULIA JACOBS
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PARK PRESERVED Ald. Jane Grover (7th) said the new plan to rehabilitate rather than demolish Penny Park presents a good balance between maintaining the park’s safety and the community’s desire for preservation. Aldermen voted Monday to terminate its contract with the current contractor.
Penny Park decision affirmed By JULIA JACOBS
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Aldermen approved Monday a plan to renovate rather than demolish Penny Park, ending the city’s contract with the current developers and affirming community inclusion in the park’s future design. City Council voted to terminate its contract with Leathers & Associates
— paying the firm $40,000 for completed work — and to open applications for contractors to rehabilitate the park with wooden materials. The move requires that applications include options for both traditional contractors as well as community organizations with an additional line ensuring involvement of interested residents in the planning process. The renovations are estimated to cost $500,000. The unanimous decision — about nine months in the making — prompted
applause and cheers from audience members who spoke to aldermen before the vote about the success of the plan after the community became involved. “It has been inspiring — not just to me, but to residents of all ages and backgrounds,” said Lauren Barski, who founded Preserve Penny Park, an organization advocating for keeping the park’s original layout. In January, City Council requested » See PENNY PARK, page 6
Aldermen Monday approved initial plans to renovate Evanston’s Fountain Square at an estimated cost of nearly $5 million and a completion deadline slated for the end of 2018. City Council voted unanimously to approve the project’s parameters and direct city staff to open an application for a firm to design the new plaza and likely renovate surrounding streets. The bulk of the cost, $3 million, would fund construction of the fountain area while $1.7 million would go toward street work. The project should be complete by the end of 2018 because funding will likely come from a federal bond fund that expires on that date, said Dave Stoneback, director of the city’s new Public Works Agency. The construction project — slated to start in 2017 — would fully renovate the deteriorating fountain and plaza, which includes Sherman Avenue between Church and Davis streets as well as the surrounding landscape areas. The first year of construction would be reserved for construction of the plaza and second year dedicated to street construction if funding is available, Stoneback said.
The city is considering installing a new fountain, a Veteran’s Memorial and planting a permanent holiday tree, he said. Renovations on the street level may include replacing the century-old water main, widen sidewalks on the east side of the street and resurface the road between Church and Davis. Last year the city hired an initial consulting firm to work with the public to begin redesigning the deteriorating square. Four plans presented to the community in July ranged in cost from $2.1 million to about $5.5 million and eliminated up to 45 parking spaces. The city found residents did not favor a plan that eliminated parking spaces, Stoneback said. However, he said members of the community did support a plaza with a fountain with a flexible design that could be used year-round. “A lot of their feedback is represented in this criteria,” Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) told The Daily. “People really care about the quality of life — they see a lot from their windows.” Fiske, who helped facilitate the community meeting in July, said the community also largely vetoed an idea for a restroom in the square. Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) added that residents mostly agreed that they wanted to preserve some sort of water » See FOUNTAIN SQUARE, page 6
Students analyze solutions to climate-related issues By RISHIKA DUGYALA
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Students will analyze solutions to “impossible” climate-related global issues under the Northwestern Impossible Challenge, which groups students into multidisciplinary teams to explore these problems. The Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern University, the Buffett Institute for Global Studies and the Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation are partnering on the new project, which will run from November to early May, said Jeffrey Strauss, NIC project manager and director of industry programs at the Buffett Institute. Strauss and David Paul, author of
Medill on the Hill students to cover 2016 campaign
Medill on the Hill is moving to Fall Quarter for the next academic year to trail the 2016 presidential campaign. The quarter-long program, which traditionally brings students to Medill’s Washington D.C. bureau during Winter Quarter, will now move from Winter 2017 to Fall 2016. The change applies to the 2016-2017 academic year, as that fall is election season. This is the first time the program has moved to accommodate the election, said Ellen Shearer, interim director of Medill’s Washington program. Students will report on the campaign
“Standards that Measure Solutions: A Guide to Solving 21st Century Problems,” developed the program based on the methodology of Paul’s book, which argues that people might go about solving complex global problems by breaking them down into phases. At NIC, students will pick one of the four projects’ target solutions, or pitch their own for this year’s chosen problem — climate change — and explore a solution that could work at a global scale, Paul said. Under the guidance of faculty and outside advisers, their job is to apply the methodology from Paul’s book to discern if their chosen solution is a good one. Monica Wnuk, ISEN’s integrated marketing and communications manager, said people have been focusing on climate change in a very isolated
manner. In reality, it is a deeply rooted, interconnected problem that requires many people with very diverse backgrounds to work together. For the pilot year, Wnuk said there will be six to eight teams with five students each from different fields of expertise. Students can apply in groups of no more than three people and once accepted, will choose the rest of the members of their team at the first training session, Wnuk said. Students will also work with NU faculty and outside mentors from different fields. The idea is to apply categories to a problem like climate change so people develop a standard way of talking about it, Wnuk said. This application gives people a sense of the intensity of the problem and motivates a reaction or action from them, she said.
and results of the presidential race and the congressional race throughout the duration of the program, according to the email announcing the change. The program, which traditionally gives students standard press credentials, will also allow students to join professional political reporters in covering events such as presidential debates, campaign speeches and election night at campaign headquarters, the email said. The program will focus on issues, including health care, immigration, climate change, the Middle East and the economy, the announcement listed. The email also said the updated Medill on the Hill quarter is scheduled to begin on Sept. 20, 2016. Applications will be due earlier that year on March 4, instead of on the 2015-2016 year’s Jun. 5 deadline. The program will still enroll
its Medill students in two journalism classes and one political science course, for a total of four units. An informational session will be held next Winter quarter for more details, said Beth Bennett, Medill’s director of undergraduate journalism. The move is part of Medill’s push to expand its breadth in reporting opportunities for its students, Bennett said. “As we expand in San Francisco and other sites, including globally, we will continue to seek out unique opportunities for our students,” Bennett told The Daily in an email. “We will consider offering more quarter-based or short-term programs in the future for domestic and global sites, depending on undergraduate student demand.”
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Students will look at their solutions from six different dimensions: political feasibility, economic impact, business case, technological feasibility, social feasibility and net beneficial effect. For each dimension, they will produce a score from zero to five, with zero standing for very negative probability and five for very high positive probability, Paul said. “The public doesn’t have the time to understand the details of an argument,” Paul said. “But they can understand a classification, a grade. So it’s important to have something simple that everybody can understand if it’s done in a way that is unbiased and relatively accurate.” Each team will receive a stipend, paid in three installments, to compensate for their time commitment
to the program and to help launch their ideas in the world following the program, Wnuk said. “This should be a multiyear program,” Paul said. “This is just the first year, and we’re refining it, working on the rough edges. But hopefully this will lead to an incredible amount of spin-off projects and work over time at the University.” Strauss said the first information session on Oct. 8 generated a good response to the program, but hopefully the one on Tuesday, Oct. 20, will bring in even more people. “We immediately had folks submitting applications,” Wnuk said. “Students at the University are looking for opportunities like this to really make an impact on the world.” rishikadugyala2019@u.northwestern.edu
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CAMPAIGN CENTRAL President Barack Obama speaks in February to a room of reporters at a White House press conference, which Medill on the Hill students covered. Next year, the Washington, D.C., program will move to Fall Quarter to allow students to cover the 2016 presidential elections.
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Around Town Aldermanic library dedicated to former mayor By MARISSA PAGE
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Evanston honored the city’s first female mayor and alderman by dedicating the Civic Center’s aldermanic library to her memory at a ceremony and subsequent reception Monday night. Joan Barr-Smith was an alderman from 19771985 and then served as mayor until 1993 when she went to work for the state’s Department of Employment Security. She died in March following a bout with leukemia. “After her death, I received dozens of emails, cards, letters, phone calls from people she had helped in some way,” said Barr-Smith’s widower, Wayne Smith, at Monday’s ceremony. “Someone who was sick, someone needing transportation, someone dealing with sick family members, someone who just thanked her for love and kindness … Joan wasn’t the kind to boast about who she helped, she just did it.” The aldermanic library, located on the second floor of the Civic Center, 2100 Ridge Ave., will now bear Barr-Smith’s name. About 50 Evanston residents and city officials turned out to Monday’s dedication to honor the late former mayor. During Barr-Smith’s time as mayor, she oversaw
Police Blotter Elmwood Park man arrested for marijuana possession
A 24-year-old man was arrested Thursday night in connection with marijuana possession. The man was in the backseat of a car stopped by police on Oct. 15 at about 8:30 p.m. for a traffic violation near the intersection of Asbury Avenue and Howard Street, said Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan. Police said they smelled marijuana from the car and saw crumbs, seeds and stems on the man’s lap. Two other men were with him during this incident.
economic development of Evanston’s downtown and the construction of the Evanston Public Library. Additionally, she founded a blue ribbon panel on homelessness and served on a number of civic committees throughout her life in addition to holding public office. She also committed herself to improving the city’s town-gown relations with Northwestern. In 1990, Barr-Smith vetoed a bill that would make Evanston the first city in the country to impose a tuition tax on select tuition-based schools, most notably NU. “I’d say she’s best known for stopping the tuition tax on students at Northwestern,” Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl told The Daily. “It’s probably the most wellknown that she vetoed that measure.” In addition to her civic responsibilities, BarrSmith was an ordained deacon in the Episcopalian church, a position she served well into the later years of her life. While she traveled the world as a deacon, Smith said her “heart remained in Evanston.” “She loved this city — not so much because of the buildings, but because of the wonderful people who lived here,” he said. Elena Sucharetza contributed reporting. mpage@u.northwestern.edu Police said they found 14.4 grams of marijuana in the man’s pants’ pocket and what they suspected to be a Xanax tablet when they were searching him. The K9 officers found cigar wrappers under the front floorboard on the passenger’s side, several blue Ziploc baggies — one of which had a white pill police said they suspected to be Xanax — a scale and an automatic cigarette roller. Police also found the man in the passenger’s seat possessed an additional 4.4 grams of marijuana. Due to a related previous conviction, the man in the backseat was charged with a felony for possession of marijuana and a misdemeanor for
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RIBBON CUTTING Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl cuts the ribbon dedicating the Civic Center’s aldermanic library to former mayor Joan Barr-Smith. Barr-Smith, the city’s first female mayor, died last spring.
unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia. The driver was given a citation for failure to use a turn signal, and the front seat passenger was given a ticket for unlawful possession of marijuana. But both were released.
4 instances of gang-related graffiti spotted in Evanston
Four incidents of gang-related graffiti have been reported in Evanston over the span of about a week. Police said between Oct. 11 and Oct. 18, four separate areas — one in the 100 block of Hartrey Avenue, one in the 2100 block of Madison Place
and two residences in the 900 block of Brown Avenue — have been tagged with a gold or yellow crown and a downward-pointing pitchfork. Two areas reportedly also have the letters “GDK.” Police said they believe the crown to be the symbol of the Latin Kings gang, the pitchfork to represent the Gangster Disciples gang and “GDK” to stand for Gangster Disciples Killer. However, they are not sure who is behind the tags. “Any time we get something like that, we keep an eye out,” Dugan said. “Someone’s advertising that they’re out there.” — Joanne Lee
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On Campus Professor discusses childhood tantrums By JENNIFER HEPP
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A Feinberg professor said in a colloquium on Monday that though labeling young kids with behavioral disorders carries negative stigma, intervention after detecting abnormal behavior can help a child later on in life. Prof. Laurie Wakschlag, who also works in the School of Education and Social Policy, spoke to more than 70 students and faculty members at Chambers Hall on Monday to discuss disruptive behavior among young children. In her lecture, “Preschoolers Are Not Delinquent! A Science of When to Worry in Early Childhood,” Wakschlag argued, “Kids are not going bad,” but they can develop severe psychological disorders extremely early on in life that can develop into more harmful habits. “My specialization is bringing together what we know from developmental science and clinical mental health science to focus on how we can
Buffet Institute selects winner of new global leadership award
As a result of Roberta Buffett Elliott’s recent gift of more than $100 million to Northwestern, the Buffett Institute chose entrepreneur and activist Khalida Brohi as the winner of the inaugural Buffett Award for Emerging Global Leaders. The $10,000 award recognizes outstanding leadership among young people working in global health, social or economic development, human rights, climate change and food security. Brohi, 26, founded Sughar Empowerment Society, a nonprofit organization in Pakistan that provides socioeconomic opportunities for rural and tribal women. Sociology Prof. Bruce Carruthers, director of
chart the early pathways and guide people for earlier and earlier intervention,” Wakschlag said. The talk was part of a larger set of colloquiums sponsored by the Northwestern Institute for Policy Research, an interdisciplinary research institute focused on the social sciences. The lecture focused on Wakschlag’s research study investigating the Multidimensional Assessment of Preschool Disruptive Behavior, a spectrum for understanding normalcy in child behavior. Wakschlag specializes in the study of behavioral patterns in infancy and has conducted multiple studies in the hopes of diagnosing serious problems earlier in development. Wakschlag said the topic highlighted the importance of research that can make a difference in ordinary people’s lives. “We can do all the important, deep dive research there is, but if it doesn’t translate to people actually doing things, then what does it matter?” Wakschlag said. “It’s the importance of work that matters.” David Cella, chair of Feinberg’s Medical Social Sciences department, in which Wakschlag teaches,
said he hopes her research leads to change. “Hopefully, someday her information will be used to create either policy or mental health interventions early to prevent behaviors that are bad for people in society, like crime and drug abuse and mental health disorders,” he said. Wakschlag said she wants to transform how people perceive disruptive behavior in children and educate them on how they can prevent it early on. “I want to get people engaged about early development and about what we can do to improve the lives of young children at risk,” Wakschlag said. SESP Prof. Kirabo Jackson, an IPR fellow, said he enjoyed Wakschlag’s perspective on what true “problem” behaviors are. “I have a toddler myself so I was thinking, ‘Well is that something I see in him, and does he do this a lot? Does he do it daily?’” Jackson said. “It had a personal element because I can sort of relate to these things, and everyone with young kids probably had (a similar) experience.”
the Buffett Institute, said the award was established to recognize the accomplishments of young global leaders like Brohi. “In honoring her achievements, we want to encourage her and other young leaders like her to continue their important work,” Carruthers said in a news release. Brohi was chosen by members of the Buffett Institute’s undergraduate affiliate program — open to all NU undergraduates — at the beginning of Fall Quarter. Emory Erker-Lynch, manager of undergraduate initiatives at the Buffett Institute, said Brohi received significant support from the undergraduate affiliate voters. “Khalida’s courage and approach to empowering the confidence and skills of Pakistani women through socio-economic development and education in enterprise clearly resonates with the Northwestern community,” Erker-Lynch said in the release.
Brohi will visit NU in April 2016 to accept her award, participate in a workshop with students and address the University community. The event will be a great opportunity for students interested in social issues and international development, Carruthers said. “In bringing Buffett Award winners like Khalida to campus, we will build links between the Northwestern community and a group of very special people who are still at the earliest, and in some ways most exciting, stages of their careers,” Carruthers said. Brohi launched Sughar Empowerment Society in 2009 to provide tribal and rural women opportunities to grow their skills as well as learn leadership skills. She was named to Newsweek’s “25 under 25 Women of Impact” list as well as the news magazine’s “100 Women Who Matter in Pakistan” list.
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Let’s retire the ‘state school’ chant at football games TIM BALK
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On Saturday at Ryan Field, sometime before the Wildcats’ game with Iowa got out of hand, Willie the Wildcat turned to the student section from his spot near the sideline and held up a big poster board with the words “State School” scrawled on it. The students took note and a “state school” chant began to shower down from the Homecoming crowd, directed at the Hawkeyes and their fans. What an embarrassment. The state school chant is an old standard at Northwestern football games. It is just one of the various “we’re better than you” chants NU students use at sporting events — when there are enough of us to actually get a chant going. Much like the jangling of the key chains,
“safety school” chants and the like, the state school chant is intended to assert an air of dominance, if not in sport than in academics and life. Given NU’s football history, it makes sense that students might favor such traditions, and they can be charming, endearing and fun. The state school chant, though, is different from others in a critical way. It does not merely suggest NU students’ superiority; it implies that NU is better because it is a private institution. What an elitist, nonsensical crock. Putting the merit of academic boasting aside and recognizing NU is a fantastic school, the idea that NU is fantastic because it is private and that our Big Ten peers are inferior because they’re public is total nonsense. There are plenty of great public colleges and universities across the country, from UCLA to Michigan to Virginia, and many in between. There are also many less-than-great private colleges. Public and private schools both offer their own advantages and disadvantages. There is
no basis that I am aware of for being proud of attending a private or public school per se. I attended a public high school. It was a great school. I attend a private college. It is a great school. Truly, the chant is a thinly veiled declaration that, “We’re better than you because our college has a higher price tag.” Or, put more bluntly, “We’re better because we’re richer.” Which sounds bad because it is. I hate the chant and have always hated the chant. But what really bothered me at the Iowa game was that it was, to some degree, school-sponsored snobbery. Willie should never have been leading the chant. I would be the last person to be confused for the fun police. NU students generally show a dearth of creativity in game-day chanting and cheers. I wish the student section was more active and engaged. At the Minnesota game, I worked, mostly unsuccessfully, to start a “Leidner sucks” chant directed at Minnesota’s quarterback — sorry Mitch, I didn’t mean it — and a “we want ‘Bama” chant as the
Cats took over the game. I love yelling at refs. I would storm the field after every win if it were socially acceptable. Most of all, I wish we had more puns, more fun and more creativity in the student section. Still, we can be creative without socioeconomic snobbery. We can have fun without being uppity. If I had been an Iowa student at the game on Saturday, I would have left thinking NU students are jerks. The state school chant is obnoxious and dumb. After the 40-10 beatdown, we can probably kiss any hope of a 2015 Big Ten title goodbye. We should say goodbye and good riddance to the “state school” chant along with it. It needs to be retired. 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.
Feeling the Bern? You may want to proceed with caution GRANT PAPASTEFAN DAILY COLUMNIST
Bernie Sanders is on fire. Not really, as he still trails Hillary Clinton by about 20 points in most national polls, but there is no denying that Sanders’ campaign is sparking national interest, thanks to a small minority with a very big voice. It’s hard to scroll through any social media or news site for more than a few minutes without coming across a post or article praising the 74-yearold senator from Vermont, either for his bold, progressive stances, unwillingness to play the political game or general carelessness toward societal norms. The problem with Bernie Sanders is none of the things I mentioned above — the boldness, the nonconformity, the uniqueness — because why would those be problems? The problem with Bernie Sanders is that all of those things are projections that, in the heat of a very vocal grassroots movement, are doing an excellent job of covering up the real Bernie Sanders. I’ll start with the progressivism because frankly, a person’s character does not necessarily reflect his or her ability to be a good president. Bernie Sanders claims he is a democratic socialist, but that is not actually true. The policies Sanders advocates for are much more in line with those of a social democrat
than a democratic socialist. Whereas a democratic socialist would seek to impose policies geared toward eliminating the competitive marketplace, a social democrat (Bernie Sanders) supports expanding social services and government involvement in the marketplace without eliminating it. There are official democratic socialists in the United States, but Sanders stands far right of them. Not only is Sanders not a democratic socialist by definition, but also it is questionable whether he is even a social democrat. History shows that Sanders’ actions are not quite as progressive as his words. In spite of recently speaking out against the Iraq War and voicing support for military intervention only as a last resort, Sanders supported President Bill Clinton’s military actions in the 1999 Kosovo War. Additionally, after supporting the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, he supported resolutions funding U.S. involvement in Iraq in 2003. While Sanders has voted consistently on some issues like abortion and veterans’ rights, he has failed to stay consistent with progressive values on a number of occasions. Sanders voted five times against the Brady Bill, which sought to impose background checks and waiting periods for gun ownership. When first voting against the bill in May of 1991, he cited the need for instant background checks, a technology not available at the time, instead of the suggested seven-day waiting period. But he still voted against the bill in 1993, which proposed an even shorter five-day waiting period temporarily until
technology for instant checks was developed. Sanders has frequently, and recently, alluded to Vermont being a big hunting state as justification, but congressmen from many other hunting-oriented states, such as Iowa, Kentucky and Indiana, voted in favor of the bill. While Sanders recently said he would support background checks, his voting record suggests such statements are more of an effort to appeal to progressive voters and not his true stance. Contradictions like these should raise questions about the extent of his progressivism. Sanders’ legislative history is not the only concerning aspect of his candidacy. On a personal level, Sanders has portrayed himself in a manner that is also highly questionable. Most recently, a story about Sanders meeting with Sandra Bland’s mother and telling no one about it was used to perpetuate the narrative that he acts out of genuine humanity and not political interests. It’s comical to think that an interaction between the most vocally progressive presidential candidate and Bland’s mother would go unnoticed, and it should take a lot less than nearly three decades in politics to see how that story would manifest itself. The questionable behavior doesn’t end there. At the recent democratic debate, Sanders abandoned political strategy, or so he said, by saying that the American people were sick of hearing about Hillary Clinton’s “damn emails.” Sanders may have sounded genuine, but it’s difficult to see how a man with so many years of experience could not know about playing to the room,
Weed-out classes serve an important role ALEX KOH
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Northwestern students often complain about the “weed-out” culture that many intro-level classes perpetuate. Such courses are derided as difficult for no reason other than to discourage those who initially struggle with a subject from pursuing it further. Some elements of these accusations certainly ring true. The “NU Dropped Classes” Tumblr account, a place for students to share their thoughts on dropping classes partway into the quarter, was created in large part because many students struggle to manage the rigorous workloads of weed-out courses. I’ve certainly experienced my own share of frustration at classes that seem needlessly difficult. However, I’d propose that we stop thinking so negatively about challenging courses and instead consider their benefits. A significant part of what appeals to employers and graduate schools about Northwestern students is the knowledge that they have been challenged and have excelled in spite of it. Without rigor, academic success is significantly less impressive. South Medford High School in Oregon recently had 21 valedictorians, ultimately
causing college admissions departments to be more “critical and skeptical” of their ostensibly stellar academic records. Easy coursework cheapened the value of their education, while Northwestern maintains its strong academic reputation through its difficult classes. An argument against weed-out classes is that students with strong skills for given professions are sometimes derailed or discouraged by poor performance in introductory classes. For example, I know many former pre-med students who demonstrate skills that would serve them well as future doctors but have decided to pursue other professions due to academic struggles early in their undergraduate careers. Such roadblocks can be especially frustrating when they occur in courses like physics, which have little relation to the clinical practice of medicine. Despite its flaws, the system of challenging coursework is effective. Students need to demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative abilities necessary to succeed in the classroom so that employers and graduate programs have an accurate sense of their abilities. To extend the pre-med example, medical schools utilize the same type of classroom learning we see as undergraduates; if some students are not successful at it now, what should compel medical schools to admit those applicants? Consulting jobs are some of the most highly coveted postgraduate positions and they
certainly involve more communication skills than are required for classes. However, firms universally search for applicants who have excelled in economics or other similarly quantitative fields, and our “weed-out” coursework generates such applicants. The “weed-out” concept implies that the aim of courses is to get students to fail. I haven’t found this to be the case. NU professors are open to working with students, and fellow students are generally collaborative if you seek them out. Furthermore, I don’t like the term “weed-out” because its connotations are far too negative. When students are “weeded-out” of a class, assumptions of academic inadequacy are unfairly placed on them. My goal is not to denigrate those who struggled in intro-level courses. In fact, I am optimistic that these students are guided into tracks that better fit their skillsets. Instead, I’m here to argue that Northwestern is inherently a pre-professional institution, and its difficult coursework is effective in preparing students for successful careers. Alex Koh is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at alexanderkoh2016@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.
one of the oldest political ploys, which his statement executed perfectly. It’s especially hard to see how that could be the case when his campaign sent out an email to supporters about the topic just minutes later — seems like great strategy to me. Bernie Sanders is just another politician. What sets him apart from other politicians is not his progressive record and policies, which are inconsistent at best, but his ability to convey a sense of trustworthiness and honesty to voters. While he has managed to convince voters he is the progressive, socialist voice for them, his voting record shows otherwise. While his supporters will bombard your Facebook newsfeed with story after “Berning” story of his integrity, a little digging shows otherwise. I’m not saying Bernie Sanders is a bad guy or he doesn’t have some truly progressive policies. All I’m saying is the contradictions between his actions and his public image should bring people to examine his candidacy with a more critical eye. If Bernie Sanders is elected president, his economic policies will probably get us all fired, so the least we can do is make sure we’re actually feeling the Bern, and not just getting burned. Grant Papastefan is a Bienen freshman. He can be contacted at grantpapastefan2019@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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feature, such as a fountain, in the square. Wilson said the feedback from the community could ultimately save the city money in designing the final renovations. “It helped narrow it into a finite area, which will
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game. The turnovers proved especially deadly against Iowa as the Hawkeyes were able to score on all three. “We’ve got to play cleaner together, we’ve got to take care of the ball better, and we’ve got to get the ball back,” Fitzgerald said. “The turnover ratio, we’ve got to get that fixed — real fast.” Senior defensive lineman Max Chapman, who also spoke at the news conference Monday, attributed the past two losses to a lack of fundamentals — fundamentals that will be key against Nebraska’s big playmakers and “stout” defense. “I don’t think we have to do anything extraordinary, we just need to do our fundamentals well,” Chapman said. “The coaches give us a great game plan, we just need to execute better.” Execution is something that has historically slipped for Northwestern in the month of October, particularly due to the barrage of midterms and papers that come for NU students in the middle of the month. Though Vitale pointed out that this historic slump coincides with the start of more competitive Big Ten play, and is therefore somewhat explainable, he also said that the team is both mentally and physically tired. Getting over that hump will dictate the outcome of the rest of the season. “We’ve got to regroup, refocus and recommit,” Vitale said.
said of Tuesday’s matchup. “You know you’re going to have to bring your best stuff. (Fortunately), we know (Notre Dame) inside and out.”
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National News New credit card fraud protection creates confusion — even for FBI
WASHINGTON — The FBI took a step backward over the past week in the effort to combat credit card fraud. First, the agency told consumers a week ago that new microchip-installed credit and debit cards designed to better thwart fraud might still be vulnerable. Don’t just sign your receipt, was the message of its initial warning. Use your PIN with the new chip cards because “these cards can still be targeted by fraud.” But the FBI had to reverse field a bit this past week: It turns out that most of the new chip cards in the U.S. don’t use PINs. The newly designed chips cards are known as EMV, a partnership of Europay—a European credit card company—MasterCard and Visa to establish an international security system for detecting credit card fraud. The technology in the cards enables it to block information about a person’s credit card account, if hacked, from being used to replicate a counterfeit card for more purchases.
Lenahan performed a symbolic gesture after last Friday’s loss, handing literal keys to the team to the eight seniors on the roster. He knows the team must rely on the leadership of seniors such as forward Joey Calistri (who is tied for the second-most career goals in program history), stalwart defenders Henry
Herrill and Nati Schnitman and starting goalkeeper Zak Allen to carry the team to a crucial strong finish. “Now it’s our time to drive the team,” Missimo said.
U.S. banks were supposed to issue new chipinstalled cards by Oct. 1 to avoid fraud liability. The microchip has already been in use in Europe and elsewhere around the world. The recent hacks of Target, Neiman Marcus and other big retailers have drawn attention to how widespread credit card fraud has become. In 2012, of 23.8 billion credit card transactions, less than 1 percent—13.5 million, or about .057 percent—were fraudulent, according to a study by the Federal Reserve System. Likewise, less than one percent—.027 percent—of debit, prepaid and ATM transactions, which require PINs, were fraudulent. The Federal Reserve found that fraud was more pronounced among signature and prepaid transactions than among those that used PIN numbers. “The percentage of signature transactions that were fraudulent was more than seven times that of PIN transactions in 2011,” it stated. The “chip-and-PIN” method is the best security technology available, according to Brian Dodge, executive vice president of the Retail Industry Leaders Association, a trade group. He said banks that issue credit cards do not issue PINs with them, and card networks do
not require PINs because there is no incentive for them to do so. One of the two main card networks, MasterCard, allows, but does not require, consumers to choose between signing or entering a PIN when using the EMV chip, said Carolyn Balfany, a MasterCard senior vice president. “Ultimately, it’s up to the issuing bank to decide,” Balfany said in an email. “Chip transactions protect consumers from counterfeit which is, hands down, the prevalent form of fraud in the U.S. PIN also protects against lost and stolen card fraud.” While merchants realize PINs add extra security, the new method could result in consumer confusion, said Al Pascual, director of fraud and security at Javelin Strategy and Research, a financial consulting firm. Because swiping cards is more natural for users, a new maneuver and an extra step could cause “friction in checkout lines.” “I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of merchants wait to turn on the new terminals until after Christmas,” he said.
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Cats send off seniors with blowout win over Iowa By MAX SCHUMAN
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As Northwestern welcomed Iowa for Sunday’s Senior Day, revenge was on the team’s mind. A season after the Wildcats unceremoniously crashed out of the Big Ten Tournament at the hands of the Hawkeyes and days after a crushing loss due to a late missed penalty against Nebraska, No. 24 NU (11-4-2, 5-3-1 Big Ten) put both of those bad memories to bed by dominating in all facets against Iowa (7-8-1, 1-7-1) en route to a 4-0 victory. The Cats’ four goals were the most the team has scored in a game all season and the most that this year’s seniors have seen the team score against a Big Ten opponent in their four-year run. And yet the final score understates how dialed-in a typically lackluster NU offense was in this game. It took 20 shots and put 11 of them on goal, creating dangerous chances throughout the match after managing only one goal across its last four games. Junior forward Maria Grygleski said the Cats played with a different attacking intensity today in an effort to wash away the sour taste of Thursday’s heartbreaking 1-0 defeat. “We went through a sort of slump recently where our mentality wasn’t there. We really turned on an attacking mindset in this game,” she said. Grygleski got NU on the board in the 42nd minute off a long set-piece, giving the Cats a well-deserved 1-0
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lead at halftime after they dominated possession throughout the first half but squandered numerous chances. But with the lid finally off the Iowa goal, the dam broke in the second half on the way to three NU goals that resoundingly put away the Hawkeyes. True to form, the defensive-minded Cats didn’t let their suddenly highflying offense take all the credit by playing perhaps their most dominant defensive game of the season, allowing only two Iowa shots on the day, neither of which were on goal. Freshman center back Hannah Davison credited the return of sophomore outside back Kassidy Gorman from injury and great communication for the stifling defensive effort. “We just kept focused,” Davison said. “It’s one thing to score four goals, but to keep that zero, that’s a pride thing.” Davison also contributed offensively, finding the ball in a scramble in front of the Iowa goal off an NU corner, and finishing her chance for the first goal of her collegiate career and the Cats’ third goal of the day. Her goal was bookended by secondhalf goals from NU’s usual suspects, as the team’s leading scorers, junior forward Addie Steiner and senior midfielder Niki Sebo, notched their fifth
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AGILE ADDIE Junior forward Addie Steiner wrestles with a defender for the ball. Steiner helped send NU’s seniors out in style in Sunday’s Senior Day game by nabbing a goal and an assist in the 4-0 victory.
and fourth goals of the season, respectively. Steiner fed Sebo for a one-touch blast from the top of the box to grab a 2-0 lead in the 58th minute, while Steiner finished near-post for a 72ndminute goal that pushed the Cats’ lead to four. NU was dominant and impressive in all ways on Senior Day, a symbol of the growth of the program and its eldest
players, who began their NU careers at the same coach Michael Moynihan arrived in Evanston. Sitting at sixth currently in the Big Ten standings, the Cats are not safely qualified for the eight-team Big Ten tournament yet with two games to play, but their win goes a long way towards securing that spot. And if his team can return to the
postseason, Moynihan thinks their scintillating showing proves they’re a force to be reckoned with. “I thought we came out with a fantastic mentality, dominated from the very beginning,” he said. “It’s an exciting time. I think we’re positioned very well.” maxschuman2018@u.northwestern.edu
NU to focus on fundamentals with Nebraska up next By CLAIRE HANSEN
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BREAKDOWNS Iowa running back Akrum Wadley sprints away from the NU defense. With Nebraska up next, the Cats are trying to fix the little mistakes that contributed to their two consecutive defeats.
The Wildcats know that they have something to prove this Saturday. After falling out of the top 25 following crushing losses to then-No. 18 Michigan and then-No. 17 Iowa, Northwestern (5-2, 1-2 Big Ten) will need to focus on preparation and fundamentals in order to get a win against Nebraska (3-4, 1-2) on Saturday. “We’re going to need to have a great week, put it together and go out and play consistently,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said in a news conference Monday. “When we’ve done it, we’ve won five games; when we haven’t, we’ve been on the short end.” At first glance, Nebraska seems like an easily conquerable opponent,
dropping games to unranked opponents like Brigham Young and Miami (FL). Yet, in their two losses to Big Ten opponents, Illinois and Wisconsin, the Cornhuskers have fallen short by a combined 3 points. And last week, they beat what Fitzgerald labeled a “very good” Minnesota team by a sizeable 23 points. Fitzgerald said he chalks Nebraska’s close losses up to a coaching transition this past offseason, reiterating that this is, indeed, a very competitive team. “They’ve had some heartbreaking losses, and I know how that feels, so I feel for them,” Fitzgerald said. “They’ve got playmakers all over the place offensively. Defensively…they’re very stout up front, they suffocate the run up front.” Though the team is attempting to look forward instead of backward,
senior superback Dan Vitale said it’s imperative that the Cats avoid the mistakes they made against Iowa last week. Vitale stressed the importance of offensive consistency and efficiency. “I think the last two games have been a lot of self-inflicted wounds — penalties, turnovers, dropped balls,” Vitale said. “We can’t expect the defense to bail us out.” Turnovers will be a large focus of not only the matchup with Nebraska, but also for the rest of the season, Fitzgerald said. NU recorded two fumbles and an interception against Iowa, as well as an interception against Michigan. By comparison, the Cats have only forced one turnover in the past two games — an interception in the Iowa » See FOOTBALL, page 7
Cats’ push for NCAA Tournament starts with Notre Dame By BENJAMIN POPE
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With five games left in the regular season, Northwestern is in danger of missing the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2010. The potential reality is something the team’s eight seniors are trying desperately to avoid. “It’s the last five games of my career possibly,” senior midfielder Cole Missimo said. “As seniors … we’ve got to lead as a group, work as hard as we can and try to get those results.” After back-to-back home losses, the Wildcats (5-6-1, 2-3-0 Big Ten) have slipped to 61st in the NCAA men’s soccer RPI rankings, as of Monday. Forty-eight teams at season’s end are invited to the tournament, with RPI being one of the most influential factors in the selection
No. 7 Notre Dame vs. Northwestern Bridgeview, Illinois 7 p.m. Tuesday
process. Not since an 8-10-3 campaign five years ago has NU finished a season outside of that group of 48. However, the Cats will enjoy a massive opportunity to make a major jump in the rankings on Tuesday night. A win over No. 7 Notre Dame (8-2-4, 3-1-2 ACC), a team that NU has beaten or tied six of the past seven years, could boost the team back into the thick of tournament contention. Coach Tim Lenahan, who has seen plenty of the Fighting Irish over the years, noted the excellence of Notre Dame’s program but also mentioned the Cats are highly familiar with their usual stars. “They’re a very experienced team,” he said. “Not too many freshmen ever get to play at Notre Dame, (so) it’s the
same guys that we’ve seen for three, four, sometimes even five years. I think we’ll have a good game with them.” The Fighting Irish have been ranked 12th in the nation or higher at the time of each of their last four meetings with NU but hadn’t successfully conquered the Cats until a 1-0 win last October. NU tied 1-1 with its South Bend rival in 2013, the year Notre Dame went on to win the national title, and won 2-1 in 2012, the year Notre Dame went on to enter the NCAA Tournament as the No. 1 overall seed. This autumn, Notre Dame has not dropped any of its last seven matches but have tied three of its last four, topping Duke while tying North Carolina State, Michigan and, most recently, Virginia Tech. The Cats are hoping to produce a similar result in a heavy underdog role that they did less than three weeks ago against Maryland, a game
in which they rallied for a stunning 2-1 OT win in arguably the most impressive accomplishment of their campaign to date.
“It’s kind of like taking on Maryland,” junior defender Nathan Dearth » See MEN’S SOCCER, page 7
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LEADING THE PACK Senior forward Joey Calistri readies to kick the ball. Calistri and his fellow seniors will be called upon to help carry the Cats back to the NCAA Tournament as the season winds down.