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SPORTS Men’s Soccer Cats ‘look like zombies’ in 2-0 road loss at Loyola » PAGE 8

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Library expands lending

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Obama called for action in March to change police practices across the country in the aftermath of the deaths of two unarmed black men by white officers in Ferguson, Missouri, and Staten Island, New York. The president’s statement followed a report from a White House task force which recommended independent criminal investigations in use-of-force cases resulting in injury or death and data collection of shooting and deaths by police.

“When an individual officer does display bias or excessive force … we’ve got to have departments to honestly and fairly address it and not just simply close ranks or stand down,” Obama said at the conference. “I refuse to believe that the only choice we have is to either ignore circumstances of racial bias or make it impossible for police

Undergraduate students can now borrow electronics, including video production equipment, from the Northwestern University Library.

After internal reorganization of library departments a few months ago, all electronics can now be borrowed by undergraduate students, in addition to graduate students and faculty members, through the circulation desk in Main Library, said Kurt Munson, acting head of access services in an email interview with The Daily.

“The service desk in digital collections was closed so the equipment had to be moved to a new location,” Munson said. “As part of normal ongoing review of services whenever a change is made, the decision was made to expand access to undergraduates.”

Although this service has been in use for several years, it originally targeted faculty members and was not promoted widely due to the limited amount of technology, said Clare Roccaforte, the director of library public relations. The equipment available for borrowing includes Canon hand-held video cameras, Sennheiser microphones, tripods and two Canon DSLR cameras.

“The equipment was probably purchased originally with the view for faculty support and things that faculty might be trying to produce for classrooms and the teaching environment,” Roccaforte said. “I don’t think I would say we purchased it with the Medill program or arts students in mind.”

Although the library has not made any additions to their collection, the equipment has been moved to a “much more visible place,” Roccaforte said.

According to NU Information Technology’s rental terms, students can borrow any equipment using their

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Obama pushes for reform

The president speaks in favor of federal support for police at law enforcement conference in Chicago Lauren Duquette/The Daily Northwestern

SALUTING THE SERVICE President Barack Obama addresses the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Chicago on Tuesday. Obama defended police officers and their work amid the national debate surrounding officers’ use of force.

By JULIA JACOBS

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CHICAGO — President Barack Obama on Tuesday highlighted the need to restore trust between police officers and communities amid spikes of violent crime in many urban areas.

The president addressed a packed ballroom of law enforcement officials at an annual conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

He urged federal action on criminal justice and gun safety reform to better protect police officers and communities in the country.

“I reject any narrative that seeks to divide police and communities that they serve,” Obama said. “I reject a storyline that says when it comes to public safety, there’s an us and a them.”

Man freed with help from NU center files lawsuit

A man exonerated of a murder charge last year with the help of Northwestern’s Center on Wrongful Convictions has filed a lawsuit against those involved in the trial.

Jamie Lee Peterson was charged with the 1996 murder of Geraldine Montgomery after investigators manipulated and coerced him into confessing to a crime that he did not commit, Gretchen Helfrich, Peterson’s attorney, told The Daily. Peterson was exonerated of the charge after DNA tests taken in 2013 proved that he was not responsible for the rape or murder of Montgomery.

Jason Ryan, who had previously been cleared in 1996 of raping Montgomery, was arrested in December 2013 in connection with Montgomery’s death. Last week, he was found

In Evanston, two of this year’s three gun-related homicides occurred about two weeks apart, prompting concern in the community over violence in the city. Police responded to the shootings by launching an anti-violence program aimed at recovering firearms off the street by engaging officers with the community.

Evanston police deputy chief Jay Parrott, who attended the president’s address, said the city’s police engagement with the community has been bolstered in recent years, especially among officers and faith-based organizations as well as mentoring programs.

“If residents get to know officers on more personal basis, that is going to build trust between the community and the department,” Parrott told The Daily.

Obama pledged to the gathering of officers to continue to support them guilty of raping and murdering her.

Now, his attorneys are suing those who they say are responsible — Kalkaska County, the village of Kalkaska, the prosecutor and several law enforcement officers involved in the trial — on grounds of a flawed investigation. The lawsuit was filed last month.

Peterson, who has intellectual disabilities, spent almost 18 years of his life sentence in prison for the charge of murdering Montgomery before he was cleared of the crime last September.

“Investigators, police officers and prosecutors have an awful lot of power,” Helfrich said. “And when they exceed it, it’s particularly egregious. These are the people who we trust to maintain order and there has to be some accountability for them to abide by the rules, collectively, as a society, have put on them, including the rules in the constitution.”

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with federal resources, including funds to provide police departments with equipment such as bullet proof vests, new technology to detect crime patterns and a single radio network for departments across the country. The budget he released in February proposes dedicating nearly $1oo million to expand training and oversight for local law enforcement.

“It’s time more folks in Washington started to value our cops, not just give lip service to them,” he said.

Although the president cited media sensationalism as leading to negative perception of police in the U.S., he also said claims of racial bias in law enforcement are not unfounded. But Obama said eliminating bias is not something that falls on the police alone but requires officers to have the resources they need to ensure their force operates fairly.

Jerry the Bear now on pre-order

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A new version of Jerry the Bear, a stuffed animal originally created at Northwestern for children with Type 1 Diabetes, is now available online to pre-order for next summer.

Children will interact with Jerry the Bear in several ways, including squeezing its hands to listen to different responses, injecting it with insulin and checking its blood sugar levels. The new bear will include two more modules so children aged four to nine can learn about health and wellness as well as food allergies.

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UNBEARABLY CUTE The second version of Jerry the Bear ramps up interactive components, including a new module on food allergies. The improved toy can now be pre-ordered for next summer.

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Around Town City takes part in Oak Awareness Month

By JERRY LEE

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A declining oak population in Illinois has incited Evanston to work with other environmental organizations in a group effort to increase awareness of the issue during October, which Gov. Bruce Rauner has declared Oak Awareness Month.

Oak trees, which serve as an ecologically important species to the Illinois ecosystem, have fallen from comprising 60 percent of the state’s canopy in the 1880s to just 5 percent. As a result, Evanston held several events earlier this month to promote the issue including an “OAKday” celebration at the Ecology Center and a tree walk in Perkins Woods.

“A primary issue is that over the past decades, there’s been a decrease in the percentage and

City Council approves Beacon Academy move to larger space

Aldermen granted a private high school permission Monday to move its classrooms to a larger downtown Evanston location.

City Council voted unanimously to allow Beacon Academy, a Montessori-method school, to move from its current location at 622 Davis St. — just above Cheesie’s Pub & Grub — into an open space at Rotary

Police Blotter Woman charged with theft from Target in south Evanston

A 50-year-old woman was arrested Monday in connection with retail theft at a city Target.

A Target security guard saw the woman carry several hygiene items out of the store in the 2200 block of Howard Street without paying, said Evanston

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number of oaks in Evanston … due to development and also blight,” Evanston sustainability fellow Kumar Jensen said. “This is one of the reasons why it’s really important to emphasize the value and importance of oaks in the tree canopy.”

In addition, researchers from member organizations of the Chicago Region Trees Initiative are conducting surveys of trees around the area and making recommendations for the future as part of a comprehensive Oak Ecosystems Recovery Plan.

Lydia Scott, the director of the CRTI and the community trees program manager at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois, stressed the status of oaks as an Illinois keystone species that provide habitat and food sources for native animal species.

Scott also emphasized a lack of regeneration in the Illinois oak population, as the majority of oak trees in the area are 18 inches or taller because older and taller trees prevent younger trees from receiving sunlight. Furthermore, other species of

trees such as maples can tolerate partial sunlight and thus outcompete younger oaks necessary to recover the flagging oak population, Scott said.

“While species diversity is important, age diversity is also important for healthy ecosystems,” she said.

Evanston’s oak programs are the third speciesspecific conservation efforts the city has undertaken in recent years, Jensen said. Two other species, the elm and the ash, are also experiencing a decline due to Dutch Elm Disease and the Emerald Ash Borer respectively.

Scott noted that oaks can even be advantageous for homeowners and landscapers to plant.

“Oaks also do grow relatively fast, about a foot or two per year,” Scott added. “They’re also longlived, and so while we don’t live as long, you’re planting oaks for generations to follow.”

International’s world headquarters. The new location, at 1560 Sherman Ave., is double the size of the previous space, which will allow Beacon to fit fasterthan-expected growth.

Beacon’s current total enrollment is about 80 students, roughly two times the number of students the school opened with last fall. The school expects to outgrow the space by next school year, when it will likely reach full-capacity with about 200 students and 50 employees.

The Zoning Board of Appeals, which approved the expansion earlier this month, initially had concerns about ensuring available parking for the school’s

growing population. However, approximately 80 percent of students at Beacon take public transportation to and from school. Employees will be ensured parking in either Sherman Plaza or Church Street garage, according to the board’s conditions for approval of the special use permit.

Beacon will either keep its Davis Street space for office use or sublease it to other occupants. Based on the school’s mission to encourage learning in other city locations, a quarter of students’ time is spent outside the school in places such as the Evanston Public Library.

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police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan. She placed items totaling a little more than $300 in a white plastic bag and left the store, Dugan said.

She was charged with a misdemeanor for retail theft and is scheduled to appear in court Nov. 19.

stolen Monday afternoon from an Evanston Township High School student.

The 16-year-old boy told police he was in the high school’s weight room in the 1600 block of Dodge Avenue and left his jeans and wallet in his locker, Dugan said. His jeans, valued at about $90, belt and wallet containing $60 were stolen, he said.

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Items stolen from gym locker at Evanston Township High School About $150 worth of items were

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The Iranian Nuclear Deal and Middle Eastern Geopolitics How does the just-concluded deal over Iran’s nuclear program affect the geopolitics of the Middle East? In particular, how does it affect the United States’ two most important regional alliances, with Saudi Arabia and Israel, and the ongoing conflicts in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen?

Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University.

He is the author of, among other works, Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009); The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006); and Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004), which was awarded the Albert Hourani Prize of the Middle Eastern Studies Association.

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On Campus Australian politician talks artificial intelligence

By MUSTAFA ALIMUMAL

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A member of the Australian House of Representatives said Tuesday afternoon people should be aware of the changing marketplace as he spoke about rapid technological innovation and the economic impact of artificial intelligence.

Andrew Leigh, a member of Australia’s Parliament, visited Northwestern as part of the Distinguished Public Policy Lectures hosted by the Institute for Policy Research and the Buffett Institute for Global Studies. He began his lecture by referencing stereotype-induced fears of robots and artificial intelligence, focusing on singularity — a hypothetical point in time when artificial intelligence is capable of improving itself — and how humans would adapt if that point is reached.

“In almost all science fiction there is the singularity, the notion of a turning point where computers become capable of recursive self-improvement.”

Leigh spoke humorously about Google’s selfdriving cars and Jeopardy-playing robots. He also weighed in on what the market value of human labor is with all the remarkable new technology.

Previous examples Leigh referenced in his speech of humans adapting to technology include the global state of agriculture as well as the studies of John Maynard Keynes.

Astrophysicist awarded top prize from American Physical Society

Vicky Kalogera, the Erastus O. Haven professor of physics and astronomy, has been awarded a top-level prize from the American Physical Society for her work studying electromagnetic and gravitational wave radiation.

The 2016 Hans A. Bethe Prize recognizes outstanding work in the areas of nuclear physics,

IPR director David Figlio introduced the event, highlighting the influence of Leigh, who won the Economic Society of Australia’s 2011 Young Economist Award.

“We invited people once or twice a year to come to Northwestern who are not only scholars but have also made a big difference in the area of public policy,” Figlio said. “(These lectures are) rather special for academic scholars.”

McCormick junior Rui Zhou said he was interested in the lecture because of its alignment with both his industrial engineering and science and human culture classes.

“Very intuitively, it is linked with my second major, science and human culture, and in general I’m very interested in research,” Zhou said. “I try to go to a lot of research related seminars in order to get exposure to a lot of different areas though this one just happens to be in my concentration.”

Leigh ended with a reference to pop culture while cautioning the audience about the future direction of technology.

“In short, Back to the Future Part II is a movie that every overconfident futurologist is encouraged to watch,” Leigh said. “We can’t predict all of the challenges and opportunities in the coming decade but it’s worth thinking about how we can make a world more like Star Trek and less like Terminator.” mustafaalimumal2019@u.northwestern.edu astrophysics and nuclear astrophysics, with scientists working in these fields worldwide eligible for the award.

Kalogera studies the physics of compact objects, like neutron stars and black holes, and focuses on binary star systems where two stars orbit each other. She works to develop methods to detect theoretical “ripples” in spacetime first predicted by Albert Einstein in his theory of general relativity in 1915. In being awarded the Bethe prize, the APS is recognizing Kalogera’s “now-verified” prediction that merging neutron stars produce short gammaray bursts in all galaxy types.

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TECH FUTURE Andrew Leigh, a member of the Australian House of Representatives, speaks about the future of technological innovation and the economy. Leigh’s speech was part of the Distinguished Public Policy Lectures hosted by the Institute for Policy Research and the Buffett Institute for Global Studies.

“It’s a humbling honor to receive this award,” Kalogera said in a news release last week. “Many of the past recipients are giants in the field, people whose work I have admired and read about since I first started learning about astrophysics and nuclear physics.”

At Northwestern, Kalogera leads the University’s collaboration with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, a large-scale physics experiment operated by the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to try and detect the sources of gravitational waves and broaden the

field of gravitational-wave astronomy. Kalogera also heads the NU Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics, which emphasizes interdisciplinary research in the field of astrophysics.

The recipient of numerous awards for her research in astrophysics, Kalogera was named one of Astronomy Magazine’s Top 10 Rising Stars of Astronomy in 2008.

Kalogera will receive the prize at the APS meeting in Salt Lake City in April.

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How students can curtail political polarization ALEXI STOCKER

DAILY COLUMNIST

Few would argue with the notion that political polarization has grown over the past few decades in the United States. The Brookings Institution, one of America’s oldest and most reputable think tanks, labels political polarization “damaging to the political process,” and warns America’s growing ideological gulf is now embedded in our society. When discussing political polarization, most analysts and commentators use terms like “gridlock,” “filibusters” or the omnipresent fear of another “government shutdown.” Political polarization is not the product of Sen. Ted Cruz’s marathon filibuster against the Affordable Care Act — more commonly known as “Obamacare” — or the October 2013 battle over the debt ceiling that resulted in a 16-day government shutdown. Rather, political polarization comes from the American people. A study by the Pew Research Center found that Americans self-segregate politically, clustering geographically by ideology, and read, watch and listen to news with a bias toward their beliefs.

Political polarization can appear to be an unsolvable problem largely because of its sheer scale. The actions and motivations of politicians like Cruz, former Gov. Mike

Huckabee, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders or Republican candidates Dr. Ben Carson and Donald Trump may appear outside our control. There is nothing we, as Northwestern students, can do to address political polarization to any effect leading into the 2016 elections.”It is easy to become cynical, disavowing politics and turning toward other pursuits, ignoring the 2016 primaries in favor of more satisfying, less distressing activities.

Despite the seemingly hopeless political landscape of the early 21st century, we cannot abandon our responsibility as young Americans — and future political leaders — to address our nation’s problems. Tackling political polarization can never be a top-down project. Ultimately, addressing political polarization is a bottom-up project, a task best approached by those of us in the best position to engage with individuals of differing views: college students.

Ending political polarization requires understanding and empathy. The first step in countering political polarization is understanding what people of differing ideologies actually believe. More often than not, I have found that liberals and conservatives fundamentally do not understand each other’s views and often make little effort to do so. Upon arrival at NU, I joined non-partisan political organizations, such as the NU Political Union and Politics & Policy, partially with the hope of engaging with students of differing political perspectives. The Political Union’s weekly

debates definitely expanded my understanding of conservatives’ political perspectives.

Over the past few years, Political Union members have discussed similar experiences with me, how listening to debates changed their understanding of others’ beliefs.

More importantly, the friendships I developed with Republican, libertarian, centrist and even more radically liberal students than myself through the Political Union and my freshman and sophomore residential hall, deepened my understanding of differing viewpoints on a personal level. The second step to ending political polarization is reaching a point of empathy, where students’ differing views are understandable on an emotional and experiential level. Developing strong friendships with people of differing ideologies gives a glimpse into how fellow students’ experiences have shaped their political beliefs.

Empathy counteracts the most insidious element of political polarization, the notion that your opposition is inherently bad, or even evil. From my friendships with members of the College Republicans, conservatives within the Political Union and other conservatives on campus, I have found empathy for my political opposites.

Political polarization goes beyond the Democrat-Republican divide. It touches overarching campus debates, such as the struggle over political correctness, to issues deeply sensitive and personal to so many students on campus, such as Israel-Palestine. For many of those students most involved in discussions

of these issues, politics are integral to identity. Discussing ongoing regional conflicts or what constitutes offensiveness is undoubtedly difficult for those most directly affected. It is, nonetheless, important. The first step is spending time with one’s ideological opposites; social psychological research shows that intergroup contact reduces animosity, even between groups on the opposite sides of enduring, deeply entrenched conflict.

College is the single best opportunity to bridge the ideological divide. Before social mores prohibit discussion of politics in work and various social settings, sit down with fellow NU students and talk politics. Establish boundaries — no personal attacks, a la Donald Trump, for example — pick a topic, and go. When politics are too sensitive to start with, build trust and establish a bond with fellow students before touching on the more difficult issues. It is time we, as future voters and political leaders, took steps to end political polarization and self-segregation on our own campus, reached out and built friendships with those who disagree with us. With each discussion, empathy builds, and political polarization, at least on a micro-scale, subsides.

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.

Why Asian Americans should support affirmative action HENRY CAO

DAILY COLUMNIST

A century ago, Asian Americans were lowskilled laborers who were crowded into ghettos and endured de jure racial discrimination. In recent years, Asian Americans have become the highest-earning, most educated ethnic group in the country. Furthermore, Asian Americans have overtaken Hispanics as the largest group of new immigrants to the United States. Twentyfirst century prospects could not seem more auspicious for Asian Americans.

Nevertheless, Asian Americans face various forms of de facto discrimination, among which is affirmative action. College admissions has often put Asian-American students at a disadvantage. Asian-American enrollment at Ivy League universities has been especially perplexing, as the percentages of students there that are Asian American have plateaued despite the rising population of Asian-American students.

In spite of these claims, Asian Americans should support affirmative action because opposing it undermines the economic and social advancement of other minorities.

Although removing affirmative action would benefit Asian Americans, these benefits are significantly less than those that lower-income minorities receive through affirmative action programs.

The debate in the Asian-American community over whether Asian Americans should support affirmative action is far from over.

Opponents of affirmative action prefer to replace the system with a meritocracy. Conversely, supporters of affirmative action praise the holistic admissions criteria and its benefits for historically underprivileged minorities. Both sides have compelling points; it is important for universities to increase social mobility for disadvantaged groups in light of admitting the most qualified students. Unfortunately, due to a scarcity of high-level college education,

universities are under constant pressure to create the most socially optimal distribution of admissions.

This begs the question of what the fairest outcome is. No one can answer this question, since there is a plethora of factors that determine a student’s success as a professional. Despite this, it is reasonable to conclude that a college degree leads to better employment and income prospects. In 2014, a person with a bachelor’s degree typically earned $1,101 per week; a person with only a high school diploma typically earned $668 per week. However, when racial ethnicity is factored in, Caucasian Americans and Asian Americans earn the highest income at each education level, followed by Black or African Americans, and Hispanics or Latinos. Moreover, the disparity of income between races increases when education level rises. Nonetheless, income level rises for all ethnic groups when education attainment rises too.

Underprivileged minorities stand the most to gain from affirmative action, because they have the largest benefits from higher levels of education. Simply speaking, these groups have the lowest average incomes and college education, so even a small increase in income can greatly increase their standards of living. Society should look for ways to get more socially disadvantaged students to apply to college and also improve our public education system so that students are more prepared for college.

Social mobility is heavily tied to education, so incentivizing universities to admit economically disadvantaged groups helps our society reach a more equitable state.

The main issue of repealing affirmative action for Asian Americans is that increasing the percentage of Asian Americans with higher education will eventually encounter diminishing returns. Fifty percent of Asian Americans already have bachelor degrees or higher. If affirmative action skeptics are correct about their assertions on racial quotas, then this number should be a miracle. How will increasing this figure combat hiring discrimination, underrepresentation in fields outside of STEM or even common racial stereotypes? The desired

Source: US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics Graphic by Jacob Swan/Daily Senior Staffer

outcome is that Asian Americans will integrate better with American society. College education is a necessary factor in the pursuit, but it alone is not sufficient.

Asian Americans have been conditioned to think in terms of a house of cards. If you are missing a college education, extracurricular achievements, a prestigious job and so on, then your life is a shadow of what your true potential is. Ironically, our preoccupation with college education blinds us to the truth that education is not the panacea for all the challenges our community faces. Conversely, higher education

would profoundly benefit underprivileged minorities, including poorer Asian-American groups such as Vietnamese Americans. At least from the perspective of higher education, Asian Americans need to help others before they help themselves.

Henry Cao is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be reached at henrycao2018@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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Despite jabs at Congress for inaction on gun safety reform, Obama applauded the Senate for moving forward a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill last week that includes provisions to reduce mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders.

Obama said law enforcement too often gets scapegoated for increasing crime rates in some cities, when issues that perpetuate such crime — such as substandard education and a lack of job opportunities — are out of their control.

“We can’t expect you to contain and control problems that the rest of us aren’t willing to face or do anything about,” Obama said. “If we’re serious about protecting our communities and protecting our police departments, then let’s invest in more opportunities, let’s try to stop more crime before it starts.”

The president said violent crime is also preventable with stricter gun laws ensuring weapons don’t get in the hands of criminals. Having met with families Tuesday afternoon of police officers killed on duty, Obama urged his audience to understand that gun restrictions can help keep police safer.

“Fewer gun safety laws don’t mean more freedom, they mean more danger — certainly more danger to police,” he said.

As an example of cooperation between police and the community, Obama cited the story of an Alabama police officer who responded to a woman’s theft of three eggs to feed her grandchildren by buying her a carton of eggs using his own money.

The president said in an effort to reduce crime and violence, officers must build trust with the community before a crisis erupts.

“Police officers so often see America at its worst,” he said. “In you, we often see America at its best.” juliajacobs2018@u.northwestern.edu

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From page 1 Aaron Horowitz (McCormick ’12), co-creator of Jerry the Bear and CEO of Sproutel, the company behind the toy.

Hannah Chung (McCormick ’12), Sproutel chief creative officer and another one of the toy’s creators, said the new bear is more interactive than the original. Although the previous version featured an integrated touchscreen, the removable components of the new bear makes it washable, which appeals to parents more, she said.

Chung said the price dropped from $300 to $149 for a bear with the Type 1 Diabetes module or food allergy module, due to a decrease in production cost.

Another version with the health and wellness module costs $99. She also said though the team is taking pre-orders now, shipping will not start until next summer.

Through different interactive storylines, children can learn more about diet, exercise, emotions and diabetes-related vocabulary. Such engagement empowers kids to be more conscious of health choices, Chung said.

“A four-year-old kid went to her parents to ask if there’s (carbohydrates) in her food after she played with Jerry,” Chung said.

Chung and Horowitz first conceived of the idea of a teddy bear to help diabetic children in 2009 with Northwestern Design for America.

Chung said that since then the team modified the fur, shape and electronic interface many times while also asking professional pediatricians and parents for advice on story scripts and guidance about what and how children learn. She also said the team has interviewed and tested the new version of Jerry with 350 children.

“I love testing with kids,” she said. “Their stories and reactions to our products encouraged me to continue doing more. Seeing the impact the products have on the family means all the world and is worth of all hard work and difficulties we have gone through.”

Horowitz said they had created 29 prototypes for Jerry before they got the first version of the commercial product.

After they graduated from Northwestern in 2012, Chung and Horowitz started Sproutel to bring Jerry the Bear to life.

In 2014, the company sold 500 Jerry the Bear products, Horowitz said. The team also put Jerry the Bear in 25 percent of pediatric waiting rooms.

Jenny Wang, a McCormick junior, had a chance to interact with the bear one-and-a-half years ago.

“It’s pretty solid in terms of both design and technology perspectives,” she said. “It benefits society.”

In the next year, Horowitz is planning to do further work on hardware, software, manufacturing and shipping.

“I hope we can be the Disney in health care and Jerry will be our Mickey Mouse one day,” he said. hangdazhang2018@u.northwestern.edu

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By allowing access to this technology, students in media related classes have the opportunity to use high-quality equipment and produce better work, said Medill lecturer Katie Prentiss.

“It’s a great program,” said Prentiss, who teaches multimedia journalism. “It definitely makes more of an equal opportunity for all students on campus. Speaking from a Medill perspective, we’re all about students producing quality media. This helps students in class and outside class when they want to do their own projects.”

Communication junior Alye Miller, a Radio, Television and Film major, said having this service will give film students access to equipment

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(6 goals). We have enough dangerous players, and when the moment comes, we will execute.”

NU’s most dangerous scoring threats include Sebo and junior forward Addie Steiner who have netted 11 of the team’s 23 goals.

On defense, the Cats will need to shut down midfielders Rose Lavelle and McKenna Meuer, who lead the Badgers with six goals apiece and account for 12 out of the 25 goals Wisconsin scored this season.

The Badgers’ offense will be tested against NU’s sophomore goalkeeper Lauren Clem. On Tuesday, Clem was named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week, which comes as no surprise after helping the team achieve the most shutouts in a season in school history (11), and her being four shutouts shy of tying NU’s all-time record.

This game should be an indicator of how the Cats will fare in the Big Ten Tournament, Steiner said.

“Coming into Wednesday’s game, if we win, we have a big chance of reaching our teams season goals: being the top four in the Big Ten and making the NCAA tournament,” she said. “This season I believe has been a season that has shown how hard we’ve worked the past couple years by finally getting the results and success we deserve.”

Kirchheimer eventually lost to the second seed, Ohio State’s Chris Diaz, in two close sets.

But even after a hard-fought match and an otherwise successful run in the singles bracket, Kirchheimer was left unsatisfied.

“I was pretty disappointed with (the last match),” he said. “I had my opportunities there and that would have been a really good one to get because he’s a tough player.”

Although Kirchheimer’s success marked an improvement over his disappointing campaign at the All-Americans, junior teammate Sam Shropshire — who was the runner-up in the latter tournament’s consolation bracket — was the NU star who suffered an early exit.

Shropshire, seeded third, dropped his second-round matchup in three sets to Julian Childers, an unseeded and unranked opponent. Though he recognized he could have

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Northwestern goalkeepers, sophomore Lauren Clem and senior Zak Allen, were both named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week on Tuesday.

Clem was awarded for her performance in the

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played better, Shropshire ultimately decided there was nothing he would do differently.

“It was just a rough day in general,” Shropshire said. “Nothing too specific that I need to change.”

Swan, too, remained unmoved by his superstar’s less-than-ideal finish.

Shropshire, ranked 34th nationally, was a unanimous All-Big Ten selection last year.

After an offseason to improve, Swan remains confident that Shropshire is again headed for success, regardless of his recent performance.

“There’s no concern with Sam,” Swan said.

“The guy’s a proven player. (He) had a tremendous year last year and he’ll have a tremendous year this year, so no concern at all.”

Outside of NU’s top-two singles players, other Cats enjoyed success. Senior Fedor Baev, freshman Ben Vandixhorn and junior Alp Horoz all made it to the round of 32.

Vandixhorn’s success in his first collegiate tournament stands out, especially considering

his only loss came against Ohio State’s Herkko Pollanen, the eventual champion.

NU’s other freshmen, Michael Lorenzini and Jason Seidman, also took a big step forward according to their coach.

“I think it was a good first step for all three guys,” Swan said.

With Regionals in the rearview window, the Cats will next be represented by the freshman trio in the Big Ten Singles and Doubles Championships, which begin Nov. 6 in Iowa.

Though they will be the only three participating, Swan said, the entire squad is looking ahead in preparation for the upcoming season.

“We just have to get better every day,” Kirchheimer said, “Everything was pretty good (at Regionals). For the freshmen, it was their first college tournament so it was nice to see some of them go and pick up some wins … and hopefully they’ll continue that at the Big Tens.”

Wildcats’ 2-0 win against Illinois on Saturday, where she matched her season-high with seven saves and helped the team clinch a spot in the Big Ten Tournament. It was the 11th shutout Clem recorded this year, which is an NU record, topping the mark she tied last season, with nine. Clem previously earned this same honor last September.

Allen is being recognized for his efforts against Notre Dame and Michigan State. In the Cats’ 1-1 draw against the then-No. 8 Fighting Irish last Tuesday, Allen saved a career-high 12 shots versus a Notre Dame opponent that tallied 39 attempts on

the night. To follow up that stellar performance, Allen notched his second shutout of the season thanks to seven saves in NU’s 1-0 victory over Michigan State on Saturday. Allen saved a total of 19 shots over the week and is an important reason why the team is right back in the conversation to get a bid to the NCAA Tournament. Allen is also the first Cat to earn Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week since his predecessor, Tyler Miller, won it last season.

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With Halloween just days away, it was a fittingly dark and dreary night of horrors for Northwestern.

From the sideways rain to hounding defenders, it was not a good night for the Wildcats as they lost to Loyola 2-0 on Tuesday.

The Wildcats (6-7-2, 2-3-0 Big Ten) came into the game fresh off an impressive 1-0 victory over Michigan State, and it showed through the first 10 minutes.

Keeping possession and pressing Loyola (9-3-3, 2-1-1 Missouri Valley Conference) up the entire length of the field, the Cats appeared well on their way to another positive result.

Entering the evening 35th in the NCAA RPI, NU was playing at the level expected of top teams.

This came to a screeching halt in the 10th minute. A nice save by the Cats’ senior keeper and reigning Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week, Zak Allen kept the Ramblers off the board, but NU no longer maintained possession outside its defensive third.

Cats sophomore forward Elo Ozumba attributed some of the shift in play to both the playing conditions and Loyola’s intensity.

“We had good ball movement in the early minutes, but as the game wore on I don’t know what it was,” Ozumba said. “The weather, tired legs — we didn’t look good out there.”

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minute, when NU allowed the Ramblers to pass the ball freely in and out of the box. After a string of four short passes left Allen out of place, the ball found the back of the net courtesy of a slow roller from Loyola midfielder Brody Kraussel.

From there on out the Ramblers had their way with the Cats.

Although Loyola would only find the back of the net once more, in the 32nd minute off a 30-yard screamer from midfielder Kyle Thomson, there was no doubt the Ramblers were in control.

NU managed only one shot on target all night, appeared out-matched

by Loyola’s size and speed, and seemed listless save for the occasional counter-attack. The ball rarely left the Cats’ half, and many of its players looked to the ground in frustration and disappointment.

Cats coach Tim Lenahan agreed.

“The team we played was better than us, they executed better than us, they did everything better than us,” he said. “I went and sat down for the last 15 minutes because there was no effort.”

The deluge of rain mirrored L oyol a’s cont inu a l of fensive onslaught up the field, and the final score of 2-0 was close despite Loyola’s

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NOT CLOSE ENOUGH A Wildcat sprints for a ball in the box. NU was unable to create chances similar to this in its 2-0 loss at Loyola.

high level of play.

Cats senior forward Henry Herrill echoed the sentiments of his coach.

“We didn’t position ourselves well, and we didn’t compete well,” he said.

NU does not have an abundance of time to make any necessary adjustments. Only two games remain in the regular season with road contests

against Big Ten foes. The Cats will look to rebound this Sunday at Penn State, and the Big Ten Tournament kicks off in less than two weeks.

NU still remains in the NCAA tournament conversation, but will not with performances similar to this in the future.

“We got out worked, you can’t even

talk about performance when you get out worked,” Lenahan said. “I don’t know what it was, maybe midterms, the weather … We didn’t look alive out there, we looked like zombies.

There is nothing positive we can take from this performance.” bradencouch2016@u.northwestern.edu

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RACING TO THE TOP Michelle Manning sprints up the pitch with the ball.

The sophomore forward will need to help the Cats produce some goals if they want to knock off Big Ten front-runner Wisconsin.

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The Wildcats need to keep their eyes on the ball.

Northwestern’s (12-4-2, 6-3-1 Big Ten) 2-0 victory against Illinois (9-53, 3-4-3) on Saturday in Champaign punched them a ticket for the Big Ten Tournament. However, as every

Northwestern vs. No. 25 Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin 7 p.m. Wednesday

NU student-athlete knows from the relentless quarter system, the work is never done.

“We qualified for the Big Ten Tournament,” coach Michael

Moynihan said. “But there’s still a lot on the line.”

The outcome against Wisconsin (11-4-3, 8-1-1) on Wednesday will be the largest variable in whether NU will edge into the top four of the conference. Being among the top four would set the Cats up for success in the tournament as they would be a host site and have an easier draw in the early rounds.

“We want to use this game against Wisconsin to finish as high as we can in the Big Ten, even though our seeding is somewhat contingent on other results,” Moynihan said. “We could finish as high as third and as low as sixth. The higher seed we can achieve, the better.”

The ideal hypothetical would be if NU (19 points in Big Ten standings) wins against Wisconsin (25 points) and both Rutgers (20 points) and Michigan (20 points) lose.

This would catapult the Cats to third. If that scenario doesn’t play out, the team could secure fourth place if they win and either Rutgers or Michigan loses.

With so much in the air, senior midfielder Niki Sebo is choosing to just focus on her team’s success.

“We can focus on ourselves and be successful just by playing the way our coaches have been teaching us these last few years,” Sebo said.

Cracking into the top four will not be an easy feat for the Cats, especially when lining up against Wisconsin, who hasn’t lost since Sept. 17 and clinched a share of the Big Ten regular season title this past weekend.

The Badgers’ eight-game winning streak is one of the longest winning streaks in school history. This is a testament to their steel defense that is spearheaded by goalkeeper, Caitlyn Clem. Clem has had eight shutouts in the past nine games and has a 0.779 save percentage.

“It’s going to be tough,” Moynihan said. “However, in the last two games, our scoring has been potent » See WOMEN’S SOCCER, page 7

Cat at Regionals

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Junior Strong Kirchheimer is known for his competitive edge on the court.

It came as no surprise to his team, then, when he spearheaded a strong collective performance by the Wildcats at the ITA Midwest Regional Championships this past week. Numerous members of the team found success over the course of the tournament at Notre Dame, but it was Kirchheimer’s appearance in the singles semifinal that stuck out for NU. “I think he competed like he usually does,” coach Arvid Swan said. “He’s a great competitor … In the semifinal matchup, he

put himself in a position to win, so overall I was pleased with his tournament. (He) works hard so it’s nice to see (a) positive performance from him.”

Kirchheimer, seeded eighth, opened strong with three commanding victories over unranked opponents before upsetting No. 4 Aron Hiltzik of Illinois in straight sets to earn a spot in the semifinals.

The junior entered the tournament with a better mindset than he did weeks earlier at the All-Americans, where he failed to qualify for the main draw.

“I was a lot better mentally,” he said. “I didn’t let matches go on longer than I needed to. I did a better job taking balls early instead of playing a lot of defense.” » See MEN’S TENNIS, page 7

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OUT OF REACH Sam Shropshire lunges to return a ball. The junior didn’t play his best at the ITA Midwest Regional Championships and was bounced in the second round.