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Legal studies major added New major will begin in 2016-17 after passing faculty vote

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Legal studies, previously only offered as a minor and adjunct major, was approved Wednesday to be a stand-alone major beginning in the 2016-17 school year.

The major passed at the same Weinberg faculty meeting at which faculty members voted to create the Asian-American studies major. Applications for the inaugural class will close March 4.

A proposal for the major was written in 2015, said legal studies Prof. Joanna Grisinger, who also serves as director of undergraduate studies for the legal studies department. In addition to the new major, the curriculum of legal studies majors and minors will also be changed to allow students more choice in their classes, Grisinger said.

The new stand-alone major requires four core classes and allows students to choose electives in any category defined by the legal studies department, instead of taking at least one course in each of five different categories as the adjunct major requires.

“Instead of struggling to meet all of the internal area category requirements, it’ll allow students to shape the major more specifically toward their own interests,” Grisinger said.

Currently, the legal studies department limits the number of students accepted into the major to keep the class size of the Advanced Research Seminar at about 25 students, Grisinger said. The class, taken junior or senior year, is taught in a twoquarter sequence to allow students to research law within a special context and requires individual attention, she added.

The class, required for both the adjunct and standalone major, will continue to be capped at 25 students, Grisinger said.

Before students take the seminar class, students will now take a new class, Legal Studies 207, which focuses on research methods and is being created by sociology Prof. Robert Nelson. Nelson, who helped create the original version of the Advanced Research Seminar more than a decade ago, said he wants the class to be interdisciplinary, with influences from the social sciences and the humanities.

“Students aren’t just learning a cafe of different methods,” said Nelson, a member of the program’s faculty advisory board, “but at the same time, they’re learning interesting stuff about the law and the unique ways in which these methods can illuminate legal institutions … and lead to a better understanding of the phenomenon » See LEGAL STUDIES, page 5

SENATOR’S SPEECH Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) greets attendees at his speech at Evanston Township High School on Friday evening. Booker spoke to a packed auditorium as part of an event that also featured speeches from Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.).

Booker talks political cynicism, division

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Political divisions born from nationwide cynicism should be approached with renewed hope and love, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) told a crowd at Evanston

Township High School on Friday night.

Booker, who was at ETHS promoting his new book, “United,” told the auditorium that his unlikely rise from mayor of Newark, New Jersey to the Senate, was an example of the “conspiracy of love,” the idea that many people acting compassionately had come together and fostered his success. Booker said it was this same

love that must be called on today to unite the nation.

“We can’t give into cynicism,” Booker said. “I love the ideals of self-reliance … but rugged individualism didn’t get us to the moon.”

Booker said most nations were founded out of commonalities among its people, such as language or ethnicity, but

America was founded out of differences, and that original idea of coming together to solve problems was at the core of our democracy.

Although he said he understood that the Constitution had some flaws, namely its role in the preservation of slavery and » See BOOKER, page 5

Minhaj talks power Admins look to add inclusive food options of satire, solidarity

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The lack of widespread kosher options on campus forced Weinberg senior Romy Bareket to plan his course schedule around the location and hours of Allison dining hall, the only on-campus dining hall with a kosher station.

This challenge is being addressed by the Division of Student Affairs’ planned campus improvements to increase options across campus for students with dietary restrictions — including

for kosher students — as part of the Dining Master Plan, which is being developed in tandem with the Housing Master Plan.

Julie Payne-Kirchmeier, associate vice president for student affairs, said her department wants to be more inclusive by expanding options, such as for those with kosher and halal restrictions.

“One of the foundational, philosophical principles (of the plan) is inclusion,” she said. “We would love these options at every place on campus » See KOSHER, page 5

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT A Northwestern Dining staff member prepares food at the kosher station in Allison dining hall. Allison is currently the only location with a kosher station, though NU may add additional options for various dietary restrictions.

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Having love as a driving force motivates people to support those who are hurting, Hasan Minhaj, a senior correspondent on The Daily Show, told an audience of more than 200 on Friday night.

“A lot of times, people don’t know how to show their solidarity with other communities, and I feel like democracy as well as the entertainment industry will only grow if we reach out and are empathetic to the group next to us,” he said. “I believe that that’s going to start happening, because our generation is changing that.”

Minhaj, who joined The Daily Show — a late-night news satire program — after almost ten years of performing stand-up comedy, is also known for his viral web series, “The Truth with Hasan Minhaj.” He has appeared on a variety of television programs including “Arrested Development” on Netflix and HBO’s “Getting On.” The talk, held in Ryan Auditorium, was the annual co-sponsored event of the Muslim-cultural Student Association and the South Asian Student Alliance.

“We’re always looking for someone who’s not only Muslim but also of South-Asian descent like Hasan because

it allows our two student groups to combine and share a common bond and allow the person to speak on both of our behalfs,” said Rimsha Ganatra, Weinberg junior and public relations vice president for McSA. Minhaj discussed the power of satire in mainstream media and television and explained the creative process on The Daily Show. He said each morning, he and his team watch Fox News to generate story ideas in which they can flip the logic of an argument on its head, following a strategic model started by Jon Stewart, former host of The Daily Show.

As an example, he said they find a position or movement they agree with, like the “Black Lives Matter” movement, as well as the pushback, like the “All Lives Matter” countermovement.

They then take the pushback’s stance to clearly represent its argument, diffuse its logic and reveal the flaw in the position.

Minhaj showed clips from the show representing this method, including one critiquing Donald Trump’s stance on immigration and another challenging opposition to the “Ban the Box” campaign, which calls for the elimination of a question addressing prior criminal record on job applications.

Minhaj also discussed current social issues including anti-Muslim discrimination in America and police brutality, » See MINHAJ, page 5

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Around Town ETHS officials, residents discuss new school goals

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Members of the Evanston community met Saturday at Evanston Township High School to workshop the District 202 Board of Education’s proposed new goals, which were presented at a public meeting in October.

The workshop primarily focused on the language and intention of the goals. Once established, the goals are planned to be implemented in the fall and guide the district for the next five years — the school’s current six goals were implemented in 2012.

The board is revising three of the goals, while phasing out the sixth. Two of the goals are not up for revision, but were discussed at the meeting.

The workshop began with attendees breaking into small groups to discuss their values, as well as evaluate the school’s current mission statement and equity and excellence statement. Though these statements were not up for review, Barbara Toney, field services director at the Illinois Association of School Boards, said the point of the practice was to evaluate the district’s established priorities prior to reviewing the proposed goals, which were discussed in sessions throughout the morning and afternoon.

“We’ve identified what our roots are, and what we want to do in this journey,” said Toney, who facilitated the workshop.

Group members summarized their discussions in written notes and statements that were presented at the end of the workshop.

A major point of discussion was the language of the first goal, which currently reads “increase

Police Blotter Evanston resident arrested after hitting girlfriend

A 61-year-old Evanston resident was charged with domestic battery Wednesday after hitting his girlfriend in the face, police said.

The incident occurred at the 47-year-old victim’s

each student’s academic trajectory as demonstrated through multiple measures.” The board proposed that a clause be added to directly addresses “eliminating” the school’s racial achievement gap.

Both the morning and afternoon brainstorm groups for the first goal said they felt the addition was important — the morning group wrote in its discussion recap that the community has a “racial history that needs to be addressed.” Some participants, however, said the inclusion of race, while important, ignores other factors of academic predictability, such as gender, socioeconomic status and ability.

The fifth goal — which, along with goal three, is not undergoing any revision — was also subject to considerable discussion. The goal addresses District 202’s relationships with Evanston/Skokie School District 65 and the community as a whole, and both the morning and afternoon brainstorm groups said it was worth considering creating two separate goals, one to address District 65 relations and the other focused on community engagement.

Marybeth Schroeder, Evanston Community Foundation’s vice president for programs and parent of three ETHS grads, said she attended a brainstorm meeting for goal five because the goal aligns with her work at Evanston Cradle to Career, an ECF initiative that focuses on the future stability and productivity of Evanston youth.

“For too long, the community was too (segmented),” Schroeder said. “The way young people get to adulthood is through this (education) system that serves them and their families.”

The proposed update for goal two, as with the current structure of the goal, focuses on what the district will provide students to help with their residence in the 1400 block of Florence Avenue, Evanston Police Department spokesman Perry Polinski said. Police received a call at 9:30 a.m. reporting that the couple had gotten into an argument, and the man hit his girlfriend in the face several times, Polinski said.

Polinski said officers spotted and picked him up in the 1400 block of Asbury Avenue.

The man is due in court on March 9, police said.

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GOAL SETTING Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Superintendent Paul Goren (left) and Evanston Township High School District 202 Superintendent Eric Witherspoon speak at the second annual State of the Schools address last month. Both Superintendents attended a workshop at the high school Saturday in which school officials and community members addressed proposed updates to the school’s goals.

academic, social and emotional growth. Goal six, which focused on maximizing the reputation of ETHS, was eliminated completely following the recent implementation of a joint literacy goal with District 65 to ensure students are reading at or above grade level. The fourth goal focuses on school finances, which is complicated by the state’s current financial stalemate, District 202 Superintendent Eric Witherspoon said.

“This board has made it clear to me: We’re going to do everything we can and must do to stay on a sound (economic) footing,” Witherspoon said.

All of the information from the workshop will be posted on the board’s website, board president

Pat Savage-Williams said. Community input from the event will be presented to ETHS’ Board of Education, which will address that feedback at an upcoming meeting tentatively scheduled for April 11, she said.

Toney said the IASB encourages all districts to get community feedback when creating their goals.

“A board can sit in their little board room and write goals for the district, and that’s fine,” she told The Daily. “They have the right to do that. But we would prefer that goes out to its community and its staff and says, ‘What do you want?”

Caller reports hearing shots fired Thursday afternoon

resident who reported hearing two shots fired, but she said she thought the sound came from a few blocks south.

Polinski said police checked the area and found no evidence of the shots. EPD received no other calls about the incident, he said.

An anonymous 911 caller reported hearing shots fired in the area of the 2200 block of Darrow Avenue on Thursday afternoon, police said.

Police received the call around 2 p.m. Thursday, Polinski said. Once police arrived on the scene, Polinski said they spoke to a 44-year-old female

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NU among top Fulbright recipient-producing schools for 11th year

Northwestern is tied with Yale University as the school with the third-most recipients of Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants, according to a Chronicle of Higher Education.

NU, which has ranked among the top 10 producers of Fulbright recipients for 11 consecutive years, had 26 winners in the 20152016 cycle and trails only Harvard University at 31, and the University of Michigan at 29.

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, provides grants for individual study or research projects or for English teaching assistant programs abroad.

NU’s 2015-2016 class of Fulbright recipients are currently working in countries all over the world, from researching solar energy and hazardous medical waste to tutoring North Korean defectors.

Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as recent alumni, can apply for Fulbright grants through NU’s Office of Fellowships.

“Every Fulbright applicant receives guidance not only on this particular application/ competition but also on a myriad of other

Colorado visitors going to emergency room more, NU study finds

Marijuana-consuming visitors to Colorado are increasingly ending up in the emergency room, a new Feinberg School of Medicine study found.

Colorado has allowed sale of marijuana to individuals age 21 and older in retail dispensaries since 2014. It became one of the first states to legalize recreational marijuana use in 2012.

Dr. Howard Kim, a postdoctoral fellow in emergency medicine at Feinberg and the study’s lead investigator, said cannabis-related

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emergency room visits have seen a more dramatic increase among out-of-towners than among Colorado residents, which he said may indicate the former are unprepared for marijuana’s adverse effects.

“Anecdotally, we noticed that most out-oftowners were in Colorado for other reasons, such as visiting friends or on business,” Kim, who began the study when he was a resident at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, said in a news release. “They ended up in the ER because they decided to try some marijuana.”

In 2014, out-of-state visitors admitted for marijuana-related symptoms accounted for 163 emergency room visits per 10,000, as opposed to the 101 per 10,000 among

Colorado residents. This was an increase of 109 percent from 2012 for out-of-towners compared to an increase of 44 percent since 2012 for residents.

Dr. Andrew Monte, senior author of the study and an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, said the study’s findings made it clear that people need to be better informed about the side effects of marijuana use.

“These results underscore the importance of educating the public and especially any visitors to marijuana-legal states on safe and appropriate use of cannabis products,” Monte said in the release.

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Should Main Library Remain?

NU deserves a better Main Library than what it currently has

Main Library is fine just as it is, no need to make any changes to it

walking in circles in the towers between lofty shelves of books.

Main does not encourage its own use. Looking for books in Main is a nightmare, and Deering provides a brighter, cheerier studying atmosphere.

Given that NU is in the throes of construction and renovation to many of its buildings — including Mudd Library on North campus — why not take a serious look at rebuilding, or at least restructuring, Main Library?

Sure, it’s a massive project to take on. But rebuilding the whole darn thing to look and feel more like the building it is attached to would have a massive effect on the appearance and feel of mid-campus.

At the very least, adding another entrance and possibly a better dining option instead of just Cafe Bergson would be welcome improvements to the Main of today.

Either way, there’s plenty of room for improvements.

Main is unfriendly and gloomy. NU deserves a better main library.

gothic architecture that characterizes the rest of campus. Although I see the value in consistency in architecture, I think the eclectic buildings on campus make campus more interesting.

NU’s largest library is particularly aesthetically pleasing in the snow during the winter when it is frosted with a coat of Chicago’s snow and it provides a nice walkway to cut across to get from midcampus to Norris. The fortress provides protection from the cold midwestern weather and fierce winds coming off the lake.

Practically speaking, this brutalist castle contains a diverse array of study locations. Though Main Library’s numerous towers can become full during finals week and midterms, they’re great places to study in a quiet location. Core is a great place for group work as are the various classrooms sprawled throughout the towers. “The stacks” may seem lonely, but are an ideal location to crank out the last five pages of that paper or cram for that orgo midterm in peace. Periodicals provides a place to silently and secretly eat your Joy Yee’s takeout while you study for your Econ midterm.

The sheer size of the library alone is enough to make it difficult to navigate.

Nonetheless, being a political science major, I have written many papers using the resources available in Main and found that using the online catalog system and available map of the towers, it was not all that difficult to find anything I needed.

Not everyone likes Main on the inside and many people hate it on the outside.

Even still, the sheer amount of resources NU would have to pour into building a new library is reason alone to leave Main as is. I, for one, won’t complain.

TIM BALK

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You will have to forgive me, but I tend to get a little romantic about libraries.

Historian Shelby Foote once wrote that “A university is just a group of books gathered around a library,” and antiquated as that may sound, it still bears some truth.

I was extremely fortunate to grow up in a household where library trips were regular occurrences. I spent long hours of my childhood hidden between bookshelves, hunched over sports or superhero books. A love of libraries was born, and I carry it with me to this day.

Thus, I try to spend as much time at the library at Northwestern as I can, even if I rarely have time to check out a book and even if the wealth of knowledge housed on the bookshelves is comparatively small in relation to the sea of information accessible through my laptop.

I think NU students are lucky that the school’s main library is located right smack in the middle of campus, and it’s nice that Deering Library is one of the symbols of the school.

Plus, I love Deering Library. Its Hogwartsian staircases and tremendous reading room are beyond cool.

I just wish we could do something about that monstrosity behind it.

Although I appreciate both the size and location of Main Library, I cannot help but wonder each time I pass it who could possibly have thought that building it in brutalist style was a good idea.

Built in 1970, it is forbiddingly ugly on the outside, sterile on the inside and exceedingly challenging to navigate.

Main, the aesthetically unfortunate appendage of Deering Library, only has one entrance and is strangely divided into separate towers.

Each is confusing and frustrating to navigate, and the setting is generally disjointed and unsettling.

Anyone who has gone in search of texts for research papers knows the dizzying feeling of

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I remember my tour guide during Wildcat Days telling me Main Library was the ugliest building on campus. I see why people take issue with this massive building’s brutalist architecture being planted in the middle of campus. Nonetheless, I am a large fan of Main Library.

The appearance of books flying off of shelves makes Northwestern’s library unique. This stands out from the traditional architecture I saw visiting liberal arts colleges in New England or the more conventional buildings in the schools I looked at close to home in New Jersey.

NU’s library definitely does not look like the quintessential college library one might find at a school like Columbia University or The College of New Jersey. I remember one of my friends who visited NU in high school telling me the building is how they remembered the school. Main makes NU stand out and makes it memorable to anyone who visits campus.

Main Library is not only unique to NU, but it is also not consistent with the

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Students should consider themselves resources for others CAR0LINE VAKIL

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Until recently, I saw Northwestern as a competitive landscape where students worked only for their best interests and saw the college experience as a race to the top. I had also cultivated a negative perspective concerning my classmates. I saw the students in my classes as unreliable and unhelpful rather than people to reach out to if I was struggling with a concept or problem. I believed I worked better by myself and I would get my homework or project done the right way if I did it alone. I used to pride myself on this trait because I equated my individualistic way of thinking with self-sufficiency.

I had no clue this way of thinking is incredibly toxic.

For one, group collaboration is so important because it allows you to share ideas in different ways — ways that may cater better to how you personally learn. Some students learn better visually, others through listening and others by doing. Your professor might teach you one way to learn a concept when there are many ways to learn that same subject. Students supplement the learning process by demonstrating how to rethink the material taught in class to make the information easier to understand.

Think about things you’ve learned throughout your life like writing, riding a bicycle, driving a car or calculating equations. Most of these things were not self-taught, but required someone to teach you.

And although not everyone in your course may understand all of the material taught, you can use different classmates to “fill in the gaps” where you need the most help.

To be fair, there is a merit in learning material on your own. Obviously people don’t learn the material for you, because the bulk of the learning process

requires you to put in the effort for learning the material. Also, when you work a problem out by yourself, it’s OK to be proud of the fact you were able to do most of the legwork on your own. However, learning is not solely a do-it-yourself event nor is it an excuse to rely completely on your peers. Learning requires a good balance between the two.

Let’s also not forget that we need to see ourselves as resources for other students as well. Just as we should reach out to students when we need help, we should also provide the same kind of time, patience and assistance other students have offered us. Not only do we help others, but we can also help ourselves. When we practice explaining ideas to someone else, it also helps us exercise our own comprehension skills and indicates if we understand the subject as well as we think we do.

Most importantly, we are not competing among one another. Even though NU and other colleges sometimes foster this competitive atmosphere through curved classes, the difference you make

helping one student is not enough to drastically affect a class’ curve. More importantly, college is not a zero sum game where only some people succeed and some lose it all — we succeed together when we work together. This can only be accomplished if we rethink the way we see our peers.

With Reading Period and finals just around the corner, I encourage you to reset the way you see your classmates and peers. We were not meant to be self-learning robots who refuse to ask for help. We need each other and we can only succeed if we reach out to others when we need it, and at the same, we need to be an open channel for students we see struggling in their classes.

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Booker

From page 1 the exclusion of women from voting, Booker said the “beauty of the American spirit” is that our political system is constantly evolving to update the founding document.

During his time as a politician, Booker said he constantly heard from his constituents who said they were tired of the divisive nature of today’s politics.

“They wonder what has happened to a country where there is such commonalities but yet we don’t manifest them in our world,” he said. “I’m not one of these people who wants homogenize or whitewash and make pretty our history, I’m one of these guys who wants to talk about the wretchedness and imperfections of our history.”

The senator shared his backstory with the audience of hundreds, starting with the story of his father, who was born to a single mother in rural North Carolina and became a first-generation college graduate. His father eventually became one of the first black executives at the technology and consulting company IBM, a success story Booker said was only possible because of progress made during the Civil Rights era.

Booker’s parents then moved to New Jersey, where

they were among the first black people to move into their town with the help of a volunteer lawyer and the area’s fair housing commission. Booker says it was his parents’ story that allowed him to have such success, but his father kept him humble by saying, “Boy, don’t walk around this house like you hit a triple. You were born on third base.”

Booker eventually became mayor of Newark, where he chose to live in some of the city’s most crime-ridden public housing. It was in Newark where Booker said he learned today’s criminal justice system functioned as a “war on poor people,” as he said he observed that poor people and minorities were disproportionately imprisoned. Booker is currently working on a criminal justice reform bill with Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.).

“When Cory Booker arrived, the whole scene changed,” Durbin, who introduced Booker, said. “I want to thank you for making criminal justice reform a top priority.”

Durbin praised Booker in his introduction, saying that some of the only common ground senators from both parties shared is their affection for Booker.

Also in attendance was Rep. Jan Schakowsky, (D-Ill.), who introduced Durbin.

“To get the affirmation of Dick Durbin and Congresswoman Schakowsky, that’s a big deal for us,”

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and said the millennial generation has the power to start fixing these issues if people realize that “we’re all in this together.”

“I’m an angry optimist,” he said. “I’m mad at the wage gap. I’m mad that certain communities are being treated in unfair ways. I’m mad that cops aren’t getting indicted for killing black people in the street.

I’m mad at all those things — but I’m optimistic in our power to change them.”

Minhaj said every culture that has come to this country has contributed in a meaningful way to the American experience, and that he tries to stay true to his identity as a Muslim-American of South Asian descent in order to share the narrative of this group.

Meghna Katta, vice president of education affairs for SASA, said she finds Minhaj’s satire entertaining but also connects to the deeper topics he addresses, including his discussion of cultural identity.

“He is a very honest person and he creates a very comfortable environment so the way he engages helps people open up more and it helps people feel closer to him,” the Weinberg sophomore said.

that serves food.”

Bareket, a pre-med student who has taken many classes in the Technological Institute located on the opposite side of campus from Allison, said he was forced to carefully schedule his classes to ensure he could eat lunch every day.

One quarter during his junior year, he needed to have food delivered to Tech Express cafe when he had only a short break between classes in Technological Institute.

The station in Allison is open Sunday through Thursday for lunch and dinner and for lunch on Fridays. During Shabbat, each Friday evening to Saturday evening, the Tannenbaum Chabad House, Fiedler Hillel and campus Jewish organization Meor step in and provide students with meals.

Rachel Tilghman, Sodexo’s director of communications and engagement for Sodexo, said the university does not currently have the capacity to offer kosher food throughout campus dining halls as a kosher kitchen must be separate from a regular dining hall kitchen, with all its food prepared separately from the non-kosher food prepared in the dining hall.

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ETHS principal Marcus Campbell told The Daily. “It was such a privilege and a treat to have Cory Booker here.”

Booker spoke at ETHS as part of the nonprofit Family Action Network speaker series. FAN hosts several speakers a year throughout the North Shore.

Saul Lieberman, the chair of FAN’s Evanston branch, told The Daily they were excited to bring Booker to ETHS, and his message of unity was perfect for the Evanston community. He added that Booker’s prominence in the national political scene and the current election cycle made him an especially interesting speaker.

Evanston resident Dawn Borchardt, told The Daily she had seen Booker on television and was inspired by his talk.

“His main thing really is that you get out of life what you put into it,” she said.

In a Q&A session at the end of the event, Booker offered advice to a high school student who asked about getting into politics.

“Life is brilliantly designed to distract you from what your calling is ,” he said. “Life is about purpose and not position.” norashelly2019@u.northwestern.edu She said when Associated Student Government and the University worked together on an initiative to create the kosher kitchen, Allison was specifically identified as the preferred location. Tilghman said the station has not seen a significant increase in production and has been sufficient in meeting the needs of kosher students.

Bareket, who requested to live in Allison his freshman year so he could have convenient access to the kosher station, was placed in 1835 Hinman and told the location was close enough, he said.

Roger Becks, director of administrative services at Northwestern Residential Services, said this was in line with the University’s housing placement policy, which does not factor in religious dietary restrictions because dining halls can be accessed from anywhere on campus, he said. His office has not had complaints about the process, he added.

Bareket said even though NU’s kosher options are limited, the availability of even one option factored into his college choice “I wouldn’t have come here if there wasn’t kosher food,” he said. “One advantage to NU is that I can go eat with my other friends that aren’t keeping kosher.” juliefishbach2019@u.northwestern.edu

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they’re trying to understand and analyze.”

The minor’s curriculum will also change with more flexibility in elective choice, Grisinger said.

Last year, 25 minors and 35 adjunct majors graduated from the legal studies department, she said, but she said more people may be attracted to the minor as now only six classes, instead of eight, are required to complete it.

Though freshmen and sophomores can choose which structure they prefer to complete the adjunct or standalone major, juniors and seniors in the Legal Studies program are not eligible to take classes within the new structure. The department is transitioning from the adjunct to the standalone major, with students who began in fall 2015 being the last class eligible to pursue the adjunct.

Despite the department being only a small group of students, the learning environment can be very beneficial, said legal studies Prof. Shana Bernstein. The scholarly approach to legal institutions with other intelligent peers allows students and professor to learn from each other, she added.

“When students build trust with each other in a classroom, they become collaborative,” Bernstein said. “One of the most valuable things about going to school at Northwestern is your peer group. Big classes you almost never get to use that and work with that and learn to think in context of these other smart, interesting people.” ericasnow2019@u.northwestern.edu

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MAJOR UPDATES The Center for Legal Studies, 620 Lincoln St., shares a building with Northwestern Career Advancement and Safe Ride. The proposal for a standalone legal studies major — previously only available as an adjunct major — ­ passed at a Weinberg faculty meeting Wednesday.

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Few would consider a top-5 finish against some of the best teams in the country a disappointment, but No. 7 Northwestern is looking for a bounceback performance this week after shooting 22-over-par and tying for fifth in the Lady Puerto Rico Classic.

The past two years the Wildcats have come back from similar well-over-par top-5 finishes in Puerto Rico to take first place in the following tournament, the Hurricane Invitational, and this year they’re looking to continue their success in Miami.

“I’m looking for us to make a few more birdies, and just being a little tidier around the greens,” coach Emily Fletcher said.

NU’s main concern throughout the 13-day break has been the putting game, and the Cats will look to improve their play near the pin in Miami.

Junior Kacie Komoto, who shot 3-over-par and led NU in Puerto Rico, will be a key part of that effort this weekend.

“I worked on a lot of putting,” Komoto said. “In Puerto Rico I missed out on some opportunities to make birdies, and I think that hurt me. I also worked on my swing because in Puerto Rico it wasn’t as good as I would like it to be, and I think that cost me a couple strokes here and there.”

Komoto led the team in Puerto Rico, but she hasn’t been the only one looking to improve on the greens heading into Miami.

Sophomore Hannah Kim’s main focus has also been her putting as she looks to improve on the 5-over 221 she posted in Puerto Rico.

“I worked a lot on my short game and putting just because we have a really good indoor facility, so that’s what I took advantage of,” Kim said. “I

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Even the railing in front of the student section, where small posters reading “3” are hung for every 3-pointer the team makes, wasn’t long enough to fit them all.

The Cats operated with an aura of confidence and a standard of spotless execution they have often lacked over the past few months, thrashing through Rutgers’ defense to set up wideopen threes and physically assertive lay-ups.

As the game wore on, coach Chris Collins spread plentiful playing time among every player on the team. Junior forward Nathan Taphorn scored a season-high 13 points, freshman guard Jordan Ash scored his first points

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PUTTING IN WORK A Northwestern golfer follows through on her putt. The Wildcats are looking to improve upon their 22-over par finish two weeks ago.

try just to stay patient and just focus on one shot at a time, not to get too far ahead of myself, and play consistently.”

While the team’s main focus during the break has been on its short game, the Cats haven’t neglected other key elements despite being limited to indoor practice.

Last year in Miami, as well as this year in Puerto Rico, NU has taken advantage of par-5s, shooting 17-under-par as a team on such holes at last year’s tournament, six shots better than the next best since Jan. 31 and freshman walk-on forward Charlie Hall played almost three minutes, his career high in Big Ten play.

It was the play of the team’s two seniors, Olah and Demps, who nevertheless stole the show. With two games remaining and a chance to earn a first-round bye in the Big Ten Tournament on the line, the pair of veterans began the regular season’s final week in convincing fashion.

“Alex and I had talked about how, for the rest of the season, we just wanted to try to set the tone,” Demps said. “I wanted to be aggressive offensively … and it just happened that the shots went in.” benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu

team, Purdue. Fletcher said the team’s domination of par-5s is due to a number of factors.

“Some of it has been putting fundamentals, some of it’s been getting a little more speed back, trying to stay aggressive and create more clubhead speed,” Fletcher said. “Overall it’s just been more of the same, good short game work, wedge work, that sort of thing.”

That aggression has been a crucial part of the team’s success the past two years in Miami, and the Cats will need it against a field that includes

two top-25 teams in addition to NU. One of those teams is No. 16 Iowa State, who beat NU by two strokes in Puerto Rico.

Even with the team’s success in the past, Fletcher says the team isn’t feeling any extra pressure to defend its title.

“We just have to go out thinking new day, new year, new group of kids,” Fletcher said. “We’re just going to go out and do our best.”

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goal. NU missed two particularly wide-open shots early in the game, both shots flying feet above the crossbar.

Yet when the shots were there, they were artful — bounce shots, off-handed goals and quick sticks were all seen in Sunday’s game.

Junior midfielder Sheila Nesselbush notched an impressive 4 goals against the Orange defense while Esposito tallied a hat trick.

Weisse contributed a handful of crucial saves, including on point-blank range shots late in the second half. The freshman recorded seven saves against the notoriously powerful Syracuse offense.

NU takes on No. 17 Louisville next in Kentucky on Thursday.

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“It definitely affected us a little bit, but I think it was more on our end on execution,” Esposito said. “They were aggressive, but everyday in practice and we’ve seen that the past two games we’ve played. So I don’t think it was them being aggressive but a matter of us playing calm and executing a certain way.”

Syracuse’s foul-heavy defense did prove to be fruitful to the Cats in some respects, as NU earned eight free position shots, three of which they capitalized on.

Shooting, too, became a deciding factor in the game. Syracuse narrowly edged NU in shots 28 to 27. However, only 16 of NU’s shots were on

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At long last, Northwestern’s nightmare Big Ten season is over. The final game went much like the majority of the others, with the Wildcats unable to find a way to win Sunday.

Nebraska (18-11, 9-9 Big Ten) shot 50 percent on its way to a 76-67 victory over NU (15-15, 4-14). Four Cornhuskers scored in double figures, led by guard Maddie Simon with 16 points. Guard Natalie Romeo put up 12 points, 10 rebounds and 9 assists for Nebraska.

Junior guard Christen Inman led NU with 27 points and junior forward Nia Coffey added 19, but it wasn’t enough as the Cats fell for sixth time in their past seven games.

“Just a hard fought game, a hard fought regular season for us,” said coach Joe McKeown. “Nebraska

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just made a couple plays … they hit a couple threes and really hurt us inside, which to me was the difference in the game.”

Neither team could buy a shot in the first quarter — NU made just 3-of-17 attempts, but Nebraska wasn’t much better. The Huskers made 4 shots on 18 tries and led just 10-8 after 10 minutes.

After the extremely slow first period, the teams picked up a bit of offensive rhythm in the second.

Nebraska made nine straight field goals and went on a 10-0 run to gain some separation from the Cats before the break.

Inman was a major factor in keeping NU in the game. In the first quarter, she intercepted a

Nebraska pass and went all the way to the basket for an easy layup. With time running out in the half, she knocked down the Cats’ first 3-pointer to halt the Huskers’ run and keep NU within striking distance at the half, 31-23.

“We played really hard, but we had some lapses (and) we didn’t do enough to win this game,” Inman said. “That kind of sums it up.”

Nebraska’s lead grew to as many as 15 in the third quarter, as it continued its hot shooting. NU kept battling, but trailed by 12 heading into the final quarter.

The Cats would get within 9 points early in the fourth on a 3-pointer by senior guard Maggie Lyon, who was playing in her last regular season game, but would close the gap to no less than 7 in the loss.

“Maggie Lyon … is just playing on sheer guts right now,” McKeown said. “Really proud of her this year.”

Inman scored 18 of her 27 points in the second

half, but couldn’t quite pull NU back into the game.

The Cats were unable to deal with Nebraska’s size advantage for much of the game. The Huskers finished with a massive 54-32 advantage in rebounding, and did much of their scoring on post-ups in the paint. 6-foot-4-inch forward Jessica Shepard scored 9 of her 13 points in the second half as the Huskers closed out the game. “(We) just couldn’t keep them off the glass like we needed to to win the game here,” McKeown said.

The result was very different from the last time the two teams faced. Back in early January, NU routed Nebraska 85-62 in Evanston.

NU opens Big Ten Tournament play in Indianapolis against Wisconsin on Wednesday.

“The only thing that really matters now, and we talked about this as soon as the game was over, is everybody’s 0-0 (again),” McKeown said. williamragatz2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Inman shines in Northwestern’s loss to Cornhuskers

By COLE PAXTON

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Christen Inman swished a 3-pointer for Northwestern’s final points of the first half. Less than a minute later, she sunk a layup for the first bucket of the second half.

Those were just 2 of 10 made field goals for the junior guard, a rare consistent offensive presence in NU’s (15-15, 4-14 Big Ten) 76-67 loss to Nebraska (18-11, 9-9) on Sunday. Inman finished with 27 points as the only player for either team to reach 20.

Inman finished 10-of-19 from the field, a more efficient line than junior forward Nia Coffey, who scored 19 points on 7-of-19 shooting.

The Texas native hit two of NU’s four 3-pointers on the day and went a perfect 5-of-5 at the free throw line to become the only Cats player unblemished from the line.

“I knew we were trying to claw back, so just to really be aggressive. Every time I got the ball that was just my mindset,” Inman said. “Take it to the basket to try to get fouled, try to do anything to get our team points.”

Inman did as much as she could to steal the win for NU. After Nebraska extended its lead to 15 and the crowd rose to its feet, Inman hit a layup, got fouled and completed the 3-point play.

She also scored NU’s last 7 points, all in the last 90 seconds as the Cats tried to make a final run.

This was the second time this season Inman had a good game against the Cornhuskers. In NU’s 85-62 win in early January, Inman scored

25 points thanks in part to 5-of-8 shooting from 3-point range.

Sunday’s showcase was unlike recent games for Inman, who had not scored more than 15 points in six straight games and reached 20 points just once in February. After averaging 15.6 points per game following the first Nebraska game, Inman’s per game average dropped to 14.3, her lowest since the season was just two games old.

Inman led the Cats in scoring for the fifth time this season but for the first time since the initial Nebraska meeting in early January. Her 27 points were one shy of tying her season high, set against Eastern Washington in late November.

“Christen Inman is capable of taking over games,” coach Joe McKeown said. “She’s quiet about it but just goes about her business.”

Inman’s performance almost made up for struggles of other NU players. Senior guard Maggie Lyon, who entered Sunday averaging 16.7 points per game, finished with 12, many of which came late in the fourth quarter.

Junior guard Ashley Deary scored just 6 points, far below her 12.2 per game average.

On Sunday it was Inman’s turn to put up big numbers in a losing effort. As the Cats limp into the Big Ten Tournament, McKeown said he was impressed how NU’s big four — Coffey, Deary, Inman and Lyon — have handled the conference season.

“They’ve logged a lot of minutes … so I’m just really proud of the way they’ve battled through the Big Ten this year,” McKeown said. colepaxton2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Three minutes into Saturday’s game at WelshRyan Arena, Rutgers had committed three turnovers, Sanjay Lumpkin was less than a point away from his season scoring average and Northwestern held an 8-2 lead.

All 7,833 in attendance could already tell what kind of game it was going to be.

Thirty-seven minutes later, a school record 33 assists and a whopping 45-25 rebounding advantage had helped the Wildcats (18-11, 6-10 Big Ten) cruise to a 98-59 win over the still-winless in conference Scarlet Knights (6-23, 0-16).

“Certainly, this was a feel-good day for us,” coach Chris Collins said. “I was really pleased with how our guys approached the start of the game … our energy, especially defensively, was great.”

Senior guard Tre Demps led the way with 24 points on 8-of-13 shooting while senior center Alex Olah added 14 points and 10 rebounds.

Sophomore guard Bryant McIntosh set a career high with 13 assists, but fell one assist short of current assistant coach Patrick Baldwin’s program record.

McIntosh said he came out of halftime with his eyes on the record and was rightly called out

by Collins for passing up some open shots in favor of passing. Collins said he was persuaded

by Baldwin himself to give McIntosh a few more minutes to try to match the record, but a 14th assist proved not in the cards.

Demps, however, praised his teammate’s

playmaking even without the record.

“When you get a paint touch to a kick-out 3, those are the easiest ones to shoot,” Demps said.

“Bryant did a really good job sharing the ball … and we were ready to play.”

The contest was perhaps best emblemized by a sequence midway through the first half in which Rutgers missed a fast-break layup, then smashed the put-back attempt off the back of the rim, leading to a fast-break the other way that was ended by Tre Demps pulling up and draining a 3-pointer.

Or perhaps it was even better emblemized by a sequence midway through the second half in which Rutgers’ Bishop Daniels airballed a free throw — so badly it didn’t even skim the outside of the net – and, after Daniels made the second, freshman center Dererk Pardon slammed down an alley-oop play from sophomore guard Scottie Lindsey at the other end.

The storyline was the same all afternoon long: Rutgers consistently committed embarrassing mistakes while NU converted its own opportunities with ruthless efficiency.

Demps put together one of his best first halves of the season, scoring 17 points — including a perfect 5-for-5 accord from 3-point range — and adding eight rebounds in the opening frame as the Cats scored 40 of the game’s first 50 points and led 48-18 at halftime.

The final box score represented a home team domination across the board: NU pulled down more offensive rebounds (18) than Rutgers had defensive rebounds (17) and made more 3-pointers (17) than Rutgers made total field goals (16).

Cats come up short at Syracuse

By CLAIRE HANSEN

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In a high-energy game of controversial tactics and highlight-worthy goals, the Orange edged the Wildcats in Syracuse, New York, on Sunday.

No. 2 Syracuse (5-0) went on a lategame run to beat No. 5 Northwestern (1-2) 16-12, handing NU its secondconsecutive loss against a top-10 team.

Despite several lead changes, NU’s demise came in its sloppy end-game play and lack of possession.

“We just need to figure out how to step up and make plays when we need them,” coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said.

“This is hopefully going to be a good learning experience. We’ve had a tough schedule this portion of the season, and that’s not really going to stop. In games like this, you learn what it’s going to take.”

The deciding factor of possession was draw controls, helping the Orange to a 3-0 lead just three minutes into the first half. Over the course of the period, Syracuse nabbed seven of 11 draw controls.

The fight on the circle came to a head at halftime when NU asked the officials to examine Syracuse’s sticks — a valid request under NCAA rules. The officials determined the stick Syracuse attacker Kayla Treanor was using exclusively for draw controls was strung illegally.

Another Syracuse stick was also determined to be illegal, and the Orange were forced to start the second half two players down.

“The way it was strung on the back of the stick created a lip or a cupping, which was an advantage for (Treanor),” Amonte Hiller said. “That’s a clear attempt to circumvent the rules.”

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Despite Syracuse’s advantage on the circle, the Cats battled back from their early deficit, scoring 5 unanswered goals to regain the lead. After a series of runs by both teams, the Cats trailed the Orange by 2 at the half.

Though the play on the circle was far more equal after halftime — NU grabbed six draw controls to Syracuse’s nine — momentum remained with the Orange for the majority of the period.

Syracuse went on a 5-goal run in the beginning of the second half to set the tone of the period, and 3 unanswered goals in the last five minutes secured

the win.

Though the runs were interspersed with moments of brilliance from both NU’s offense and defense — particularly freshman goalie Mallory Weisse — the Cats’ breakdown in defense and sloppy possessions gave Syracuse opportunity, and eventually, the win.

“We just had some mistakes that we need to clean up,” senior midfielder Kaleigh Craig said. “We have a lot of talent on our team, but we need to focus on the technical stuff.”

Considerably influential in the Cats’ less-than-perfect possession was Syracuse’s overt aggression on defense, especially in the midfield and on the ride. However, junior attacker Christina Esposito said that is not an excuse for missed passes and ground balls. » See LACROSSE, page 6

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ORANGE YA SAD? Mallory Weisse attempts to save a shot from an opposing Syracuse player. The freshman goalie made 7 saves in Sunday’s loss.

Men’s Basketball

Stifling defense leads NU to victory

By GARRETT JOCHMAU

the daily northwestern @garrettjochmau

When Rutgers called a timeout 3 minutes into Saturday’s contest, the game was effectively over. Northwestern only led by 6, but back-toback turnovers prompted by a fullcourt press foretold the Wildcats’ eventual 98-59 victory.

Off the turnovers — the first an errant pass that sailed out of bounds and the second a desperation heave intercepted by junior forward Sanjay Lumpkin — the Cats scored twice, with sophomore guard Bryant McIntosh’s 3-pointer off the steal eliciting the Scarlet Knights’ timeout.

“The press really took them out of what they wanted to do,” McIntosh said. “It’s hard to run a Princeton offense when you only have about 18 seconds to … find a shot.

Because we were able to press them and run the shot clock down that way, it really helped our defense.”

Overall, Rutgers committed 12 turnovers, with guards Mike Williams and Bishop Daniels logging three apiece.

That the Scarlet Knights, already a Big Ten bottom-feeder, were without their best player in freshman point guard Corey Sanders deserves a share of blame for their inability to control the ball. But NU also played a sound defensive game, even if it was magnified tenfold by

Rutgers’ own flaws.

And the forced turnovers led to offensive production. NU scored 23 points — nearly a quarter of their total output — off Rutgers’ mistakes, giving it another boost in the lopsided contest.

“We knew, watching film, we were going to zone this team,” coach Chris Collins said. “Just the way they played, it set itself up to play our matchup (zone), and we felt really good about that. So I didn’t want to just start this game by running back and sitting in a zone. … More than anything, I wanted to use (the press) to juice our guys up.”

On the heels of a loss to Michigan in which the Cats’ strong defense nearly awarded them the win, the sound defensive performance is promising, especially with the Big Ten Tournament looming.

NU’s matchup zone defense has crumbled against many of the Big Ten’s top teams, and while Rutgers is hardly the quintessential conference opponent, Collins can rest easy knowing that his team’s defense is in a rhythm heading into the tournament.

And, if nothing else, he now has a full-court press in his back pocket to utilize in dire situations.

“I thought it was really effective for this game,” Collins said. “And it’s something we have if we want to be able to use it.” garrettjochnau2019@u.northwestern.edu