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PRODUCTIVE POINTS Students stand in line at the Foster-Walker East dining hall. Northwestern’s Points for a Purpose program faces a $2,000 cap and will work to collect additional leftover Wildcat Points from students.

Points for a Purpose faces cap

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Confronting a $2,000 cap, Northwestern’s Points for a Purpose program will push to collect additional leftover Wildcat Points from students.

Points for a Purpose first launched in 2013 for students to donate unused Wildcat Points from their meal plan to provide food to members of the Evanston community in need. The $2,000 cap, in place from the beginning, refers to the University-issued limit on the number of unused points that can be donated to Points for a Purpose, said Rachel Tilghman, director of communications and engagement for Sodexo.

At the end of Fall Quarter 2014, Points for a Purpose raised $5,500 through its points drive because NU Dining did not activate the cap due to a change in leadership and misunderstanding, said McCormick junior and Points for a Purpose co-chair Daniel Sosnovsky. Because the cap was not in place, Points for a Purpose received all the money but was told in Winter Quarter that the cap had been reactivated, Sosnovsky said.

Evanston man dies after falling from parking garage

An Evanston man fell to his death from a parking garage Wednesday morning near Northwestern’s campus.

The 35-year-old man fell from an unknown level of a parking garage in the 1600 block of Benson Avenue at about 11:45 a.m., Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. Police said the man was pronounced dead at the scene. All evidence indicates that the man took his own life, Dugan said.

Police said they do not suspect foul play but are interviewing witnesses and checking video surveillance in the garage.

Traffic on Benson Avenue was disrupted

Tilghman said because the money comes from students’ meal plan fees, the University has an expectation of how many of these points will be allocated to Points for a Purpose based on a preset budget.

“The program requires the university to make a donation — basically, they’re matching whatever the students say they’re going to donate, as Together, it’s actually coming from we’re looking the univerat every sity’s points opportunity, that you’ve paid them for,” including Tilghman said. extending the “There is a limit of $2,000 cap and ways per quarter around the cap. just because of operating costs Matt Faden, and the transsophomore lation of what food costs would be.”

Right now, Points for a Purpose is working with NU Dining to find ways to expand the program around the $2,000 cap, Sosnovsky said. The two groups have met several times per quarter, discussing solutions to expanding both the points

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for about two-and-a-half hours as police and investigators from the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office responded to the incident.

The deceased man was transported to the medical examiner’s office, where officials will determine the cause of death, Dugan said.

Following a two-month period in 2013 in which three people died after falling from Evanston buildings, city officials discussed installing fencing or netting on buildings to make it more difficult for individuals to jump from them. Aldermen rejected a proposal in June 2014 to install a fence around the perimeter of the roof of the 12-story parking garage at the downtown Sherman Plaza apartments.

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drive and NU Dining’s programs.

“Our relationship with NU Dining is overwhelmingly positive,” Sosnovsky said.

“We have very casual and friendly conversations with NU Dining, so we do like to maintain constant communication with them, especially during the points drive when they will give us updates on how we’re doing.”

Tilghman worked with the two students who co-founded Points for a Purpose from the beginning in 2013 to help them get the word out about the new program and communicate with the operations directors of NU Dining. Now, Tilghman said she serves as an adviser to the two co-chairs of Points for a Purpose: Sosnovsky and Communication sophomore Matt Faden.

“The Evanston community benefits greatly from Points for a Purpose because the community itself does have a high need for food, especially for the holiday season and summer months when school is out,” Tilghman said. “Students also find it meaningful to turn what would have been theirs into an item for the greater good.”

The money collected through Wildcat Points is placed into a budget through which Points for a Purpose can allocate » See POINTS, page 9

A new rule to increase the number of affordable housing units in Evanston was introduced to City Council on Monday after long deliberations in a city committee.

The Planning and Development Committee recommended council make developers increase the number of affordable housing units available to low-income residents. Aldermen will discussed the proposed rule further at future meetings.

The amendment would expand Evanston’s inclusionary housing ordinance to cover rental projects and developments with fewer than 25 units, as well as increase incentives for developers and landlords to create and renovate affordable housing options in Evanston, according to a presentation shown at the committee meeting Monday. The presentation also outlined different requirements and greater benefits for expanding housing near CTA and Metra stations.

Mark Muenzer, the city’s director of community development, told The Daily officials are estimating the creation of more than 1,000 new affordable housing units in the next five years under this plan.

“This is a long time coming,” Ald.

Mark Tendam (6th) said. “It is simply time to do this.”

Homelessness and lack of affordable housing options in Evanston has been a problem for years, said Joe Flint, a south Evanston resident, on Monday during the Council meeting.

He said he wanted to see more affordable housing options for young adults in the city.

“I want the city to be a place where my two daughters want to live here regardless of what they make,” Flint said. “What I’ve seen is the pendulum swing to the side of the developers in the city.”

Tendam said lack of compliance from the developers would be a potential barrier to the ordinance’s success while trying to create more affordable space. Some aldermen expressed concern about the amendment’s effectiveness, but Ald. Jane Grover (7th) said the amendment is still addressing an important issue in the community.

“It’s pretty clear that the inclusive housing ordinance can help but really can’t solve our affordable housing challenges,” Grover said. “But even if it only creates 150 units in the next five years, that’s 150 units we wouldn’t have had otherwise.”

However, some aldermen are concerned that the changes to the ordinance are more focused on helping » See HOUSING, page 9

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AMENDMENT PROGRESSES Sarah Flax, Evanston’s housing and grants administrator, fields questions as working groups discuss proposed amendments to the city’s inclusionary housing ordinance. After years of discussion in the Planning and Development Committee, the amendment finally moved to City Council on Monday night.

ASG blazes through weed vote

By SHANE MCKEON

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Associated Student Government Senate passed a resolution that asks administrators to allow students with medical marijuana cards to consume smokeless forms of the drug in University housing.

The resolution passed near-unanimously, with Senate skipping the normal pro-con debate period to vote.

Weinberg seniors Jonathan Kamel and Caroline Naughton introduced the resolution. Kamel, an

Interfraternity Council senator, said the resolution is narrowly focused.

“We’re not legalizing weed,” he said. “It’s very much targeted for this specific legislation, and we feel that it will help students in the long run.”

The resolution asks the University to allow students with state-issued medical marijuana cards to use nonsmokable forms of the drug — such as through a vaporizer or an edible — in on-campus housing.

Naughton, co-president of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, said no other school has made such a change, mostly due to a federal law that ties universities’ federal funding

to administrators’ ability to keep campus “drug-free.”

But Naughton said during last week’s Senate that the University already allows students to use other drugs such as Xanax and Adderall in NU housing.

“There are already other controlled substances that we allow on campus,” she said Wednesday. “This resolution is about letting students take their medicine.”

Senate’s decision comes as Illinois prepares to issue prescription cards to qualifying state residents. » See SENATE, page 9

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Around Town Evanston sees 27 new businesses open in 2015’s 3rd quarter

Evanston released its 2015 third-quarter economic report Wednesday, revealing the number of new businesses in the city doubled from the number from the same three-month period last year.

From July 1 to Sept. 30, 27 new Evanston businesses opened compared with 12 the year before.

Among the new ventures were two grocery stores, retail locations and several restaurants, which have accounted for much of the business growth during this period, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said.

“Service businesses continue to grow really well, with restaurants probably first among them,” Bobkiewicz said. “We’re seeing a lot of changes in what’s known as the fast casual category. …

We’re really happy that everyone in those markets, which are very hot nationally, seem to want to come to Evanston.”

Two of the largest openings in the third quarter were those of Valli Produce and Evanston’s third Whole Foods. The stores debuted on back-to-back weekends in July and filled storefronts formerly occupied by Dominick’s locations before the chain left the Chicagoland area at the end of 2013.

“The biggest change in the quarter were the grocery stores,” Bobkiewicz said. “We now have three Whole Foods serving different parts of our community, and with Valli Produce we were fortunate enough to get a really strong independent

Police Blotter Taxi driver charged with simple battery after punching another driver A 53-year-old taxi driver was arrested Tuesday morning in connection with punching another taxi driver in the face.

The 53-year-old taxi driver backed his taxi into the other driver’s vehicle that was parked in the 300 block of Howard Street at about 6:40 a.m. on Oct. 27 because he thought the

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BUSINESS BLOOMS Ald. Jane Grover (7th), Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl and employees at the Whole Foods at 2748 Green Bay Rd. celebrate the store’s opening at the end of July. Whole Foods, the chain’s third location in Evanston, was one of 27 businesses that recently opened in the city.

grocer.”

Office and retail vacancy rates in the city have dipped over the past year in the city, with a significant drop in retail vacancies during the third quarter of 2015.

“We don’t see a whole lot of empty retail

vacancies around Evanston, so that’s very positive,” Bobkiewicz said. “From an economic development perspective, we’re really pleased that we’re doing as well as we are.”

31-year-old driver had taken a customer from him, said Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan.

When the second driver got out of the car to inspect the damage, the 53-year-old taxi driver punched him in the face twice, police said.

The driver who was punched told police the woman who got in his taxi was not a customer, but a friend who wanted “to sit and have a smoke while he was waiting for a fare,” police said.

The taxi companies are unknown.

The 53-year-old driver was charged with a misdemeanor for simple battery and is

scheduled to appear in court Nov. 30.

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Evanston hair salon burglarized

A local hair salon was burglarized Tuesday night.

Police said the 65-year-old owner found the front glass door of the Robert Gold Salon and Spa in the 2900 block of Central Street broken and about $100 missing from the register on Oct. 27 at about 7:30 p.m.

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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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NorthShore University HealthSystem announced Monday it will donate $10,000 to Evanston’s Health and Human Services Department in support of a public education campaign against sugar-sweetened drinks.

The donation will mark the launch of the citywide “Rethink Your Drink” campaign, an initiative to educate residents about the amount of added sugar in popular drinks and encourage the consumption of healthier drink options.

“These beverages are key contributors to obesity,” said Gabrielle Hatley, senior vice president of NorthShore University HealthSystem. “Adults who drink at least one soda a day are 27 percent more likely to be overweight or obese regardless of income or ethnicity.”

The campaign’s goals include two phases to educate Evanston’s residents about sugary drinks, said Evonda Thomas-Smith, director of the Health and Human Services department. She said the first phase includes coordinating an awareness campaign to spread information about health risks of excess sugar at worksites and schools. The second phase involves advocating for policy changes that support Rethink Your Drink and help shift drink consumption to beverages like water.

“Our primary charge with Rethink Your Drink is to educate everyone about healthy drink options and make the link between sugary drinks and serious health issues,” Thomas-Smith said.

Dr. Lynn Chehab, a pediatrician at Evanston High School Health Center said children also need to know about the effects of added sugars. She said a new program by NorthShore for Evanston/ Skokie School District 65 will start in January to educate third through eighth graders about the extra sugar in their diets from sweetened drinks.

“The American Heart Association says you should only have up to four teaspoons of added sugars per day,” Chehab said. “A 20 oz. Mountain Dew has 19 teaspoons of sugar. That’s the equivalent of 19 pieces of Halloween candy.”

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Northwestern proteomics program receives $5.6M grant

Northwestern was part of a group of universities awarded a $5.6 million grant by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to work on biomedical projects.

The University’s program for top-down proteomics — an area that makes it possible to access a protein’s complete sequence as well as locate and describe post-translational modifications — will expand as part of the National Resource for Translational and Developmental Proteomics.

The resource will establish centers for

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Dance Marathon numbers increase amid changes to 2016 program

Dance Marathon registration numbers rose to more than 1,500 registrants this year, following a drop in DM 2015’s registration numbers.

“We’re right on track with past years to be just as successful,” said James Keane, DM’s marketing and media co-chair. “We’re super excited.”

The registration fee for the philanthropic event lowered from $50 to $35 this year, following Associated Student Government’s decision to classify DM as an A-status student group for the first time, the SESP senior said. All of DM’s ASG funding went toward lowering the registration fee, he said.

Despite the increased registration numbers, Keane said DM is not focusing on the numbers this year, but on its potential to create greater impact through a new community service activity with this year’s primary beneficiary, Blessings in a Backpack. This year, Northwestern students have the option to participate in weekly lunch-packing sessions. The lunches will go home with students at public schools in the Chicago area to make sure they are fed over the weekend.

The service opportunity allows students to participate in DM in ways outside of traditional fundraising, Keane said. He also said this is the first year DM is working with a beneficiary that fights hunger.

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REGISTRATION RISE Students dance during Block Two of Dance Marathon 2015. Registration numbers increased to more than 1,500 registrants this year after a drop in last year’s numbers.

“It’s a cool hands-on way to get physically connected to the beneficiary and have a different kind of impact beyond fundraising,” Keane said.

In addition, any student on financial aid again had the fee waived through the Office of the President.

This is the second consecutive year the office has sponsored the service.

Keane said new student groups are participating with teams in DM this year, including Multicultural Greek Council and National Pan-Hellenic Council organizations, Ski Team and Hillel.

“We’re thrilled to see more than 10 new student organizations participating this year,” he said.

The addition of new groups and the lowered fee are a part of DM’s continued efforts to make the event more inclusive for students on campus, Keane said.

“It’s an ongoing process,” he said. “We’re always working on it, and we’re really excited to continue that progress.”

Earlier this quarter, DM moved its trivia nights from the now-closed Buffalo Wild Wings to World of Beer.

Now in its 42nd year, DM will take place from March 4 to March 6.

biomedical projects at other institutions including Harvard University, Cornell University and the University of California, Los Angeles. At NU, the resource includes a program for scientists from other universities to visit NU in an effort to learn top-down proteomics before applying it in their own laboratories.

Of the grant’s eight biomedical projects, four involve principal investigators from Northwestern— Teresa Woodruff, Shuo Ma, Michael Abecassis and John Wilkins. The scientists’ work ranges from investigating reproductive health to identifying proteins involved in transplant rejection prior to organ failure.

Chemistry, molecular biosciences and medicine Prof. Neil Kelleher said the center will work on developing new technology and applying it to

biomedical projects.

“In testing and proving the value of top-down proteomics in clinical and basic research, we must also create a setting where early- and late-adopting labs can learn to be successful when conducting these high-value experiments,” Kelleher said in a news release.

Paul Thomas, associate director of the Proteomics Center of Excellence at NU, said proteomics is applicable to many fields of study.

“Where proteomics gains a handle is that while the genome of a liver, heart, or skin cell are all pretty much the same, the proteins within each act as the primary regulators of both the fate and function of cells,” Thomas said in a news release.

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Students can be more conscious about going green PIA BASU

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This October, Northwestern walked away with the 2015 Green Power Leadership Award, making our school the only institution of higher education to receive this honor from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this year. The award goes to institutions, often big companies, that have made a concerted and remarkable effort to be more sustainable. NU was recognized for its “continued and increased investment in green power, support for student-led initiatives, and exploration and adoption of on-site renewables and efficiency efforts,” according to the EPA. The university is certainly impressive in all that it has accomplished in terms of sustainability efforts. Fifty percent of NU’s annual electricity usage has been renewable since 2014. Seven Northwestern buildings are Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certified, and groups such as Engineers for a Sustainable World create sustainable solutions on campus, namely working to install a solar tree charging station in Norris.

Most students are familiar with some of the university’s initiatives to be more

sustainable, specifically sustainNU’s Green Cup, which is taking place right now and is in its second week. Many know about the solar panels on the roof of the Ford Center and the electronics recycling program.

NU can consider itself a successful example when it comes to being a sustainable university campus, especially in relation to our academic peers. That said, there To truly is always room for consider NU a improvement. Students should be aware university that of all the different initiatives and programs is ‘green’ in a the university has and holistic way, recognize that there it’s important are still ways for us to be better. for students NU should not to continue to sell bottled water in think critically. C-stores because we have readily available filtered water on campus and therefore should promote reusable bottles only. It’s already possible to receive a free water bottle from the Office of Sustainability, so students don’t even have to worry about this cost.

Additionally, according to the Office of Sustainability, compostable items are collected from the dining halls, the Allen Center

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and Norris University Center and taken to a local composting center.

If students are interested in composting at an NU event, they can reach out to the Office of Sustainability to coordinate the details and arrange a collection and compost delivery. If we were taking full advantage of that opportunity, we would see a lot less food in trash cans than we do right now.

If sustainability is measured by building design and programming, students aren’t always capable of affecting the environmental design of buildings or even the purchase of more renewable energy. However, we can have an effect on environmental operations in day-to-day life. We can and should be more conscious to turn off lights that aren’t being used and to take shorter showers, but to also work toward specific goals when it comes to food and recycling.

All members of the community should be involved in sustainability efforts, not only those who live in dorms. Greek houses can be much more sustainable than they are now.

All fraternity and sorority houses should recycle their used goods and compost their food waste, just like dorms a few feet away.

When food rots in landfills, it releases methane into our atmosphere, whereas composted food naturally replenishes soil, making it a chemical-free way to grow crops. When a large event, academic or philanthropic, takes place, there should be a way for the leftover

food waste to be composted.

Furthermore, not all plastic that students use is eligible for normal recycling pickup, namely No. 6 plastic which makes up red solo cups and other disposable cups and plates. It is straightforward to recycle No. 2, 4 and 5 plastics, but No. 6 plastic is actually polystyrene or Styrofoam, which is extremely hard to recycle because it releases toxins when heated. Students should consider working with the sustainability office to send these cups to a company such as TerraCycle which will accept No. 6 plastic for free.

Even if this program is already being used by a small number of students, it should be standardized.

To win a prestigious award in Washington, D.C. that sets us apart from all other universities is something that is emblematic of who we are as a school and who we want to be.

To further this success and to truly consider NU a university that is “green” in a holistic way, it’s important for students to continue to think critically and innovatively about ways in which we aren’t doing all we can.

Pia Basu is a Medill sophomore. She can be reached at piabasu2018@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.

Asian-Americans face discrimination despite success TINA TANG

DAILY COLUMNIST

In early September, American poet Michael Derrick Hudson made headlines when his poem was published in the “Best American Poetry” anthology using an Asian pen name. In his bio for the anthology, Hudson admitted that his poem was rejected 40 times under his real name and only nine times under his pseudonym, causing him to claim, “I’m nothing if not persistent.” This blatant act of yellow-face was made even more offensive by the author’s audacity to take pride in his action. It is as if the literary world’s attempt to include more marginal voices is somehow to blame.

It’s easy to see how Hudson believed it was unfair that Asian-American voices were given more consideration in publishing poems. Asian-Americans are sometimes referred to as a “model minority,” and centuries of oppression and discrimination are often forgotten in the eyes of Americans. In many Americans’ minds, racism is no longer present at a time when Asian Americans have the highest median household income and the highest university degree attainment rate

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in the nation.

A couple weeks ago, The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof attempted to attribute Asian Americans’ success in America to Confucian values and its emphasis on education. This assumption is problematic because it overlooks the diverse identities and experiences of Asian Americans.

Although some East Asian groups have higher median household incomes than the national average, many Southeast Asian immigrant communities, such as Cambodian-Americans and Hmong-Americans, still live in poverty and struggle to even attain high school diplomas. The lack of data on Asian Americans makes it easier to make this type of assumption and to overlook the myriad of struggles facing Asian-American communities.

Being the “model minority” may mean doing well in school, but Asian-Americans are still a minority. In the workplace, AsianAmericans face the ever-present bamboo ceiling, a barrier similar to the glass ceiling that impedes their advancement in the workplace. Employers often exclude AsianAmericans from executive positions. In 2014, only 10 of the Fortune 500 CEOs were Asian-American.

Most importantly, Asian-Americans and

Asian-American issues have been noticeably absent in the political arena. Other than Jeb Bush’s comment on “anchor babies,” the 2016 presidential candidates have barely discussed Asian-American issues. Of the 535 members of the 114th American Congress, only 11 are Asians or Pacific In the Islanders. These workplace, politicians make up 2 percent of the U.S. AsianCongress, whereas Americans Asian-American and Pacific Islanders make face the up almost 6 percent of ever-present the American popubamboo ceiling, lation. Perhaps one reason for this lack of a barrier similar representation is that to the glass Asian-Americans, especially East Asians, ceiling that are often told not impedes their to “rock the boat” advancement even when they face discrimination and racism.

During my first quarter at Northwestern, I felt incredibly homesick. Despite having attended international schools all my life and being no stranger to American culture,

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“I'm glad to hear that the author has been able to settle into Northwestern and that the university feels like his home. I'm truly happy for him that he is having a positive experience. That being said, I'm a junior and I still don't feel "settled in" to this university, and in many ways it still doesn't feel like a home. In my opinion, there are many factors about Northwestern that make it impossible for it to give a feeling of home; I'm mainly thinking of the toxic levels of stress that seem to grow evermore present at the university. I know that this opinion is not just held by me, but it is a widely held belief across the student body. Like i said, I'm happy for the writer, but I think to tell us that we just need to give it time does a disservice to so many of the struggling students here and the institutional problems that are preventing so many students from feeling like they can call Northwestern home.”

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Wang: Parents should not be targets of donation requests Colin Wang October 25, 2015 “There may be a more persuasive case with parents who paid tuition themselves because they make just enough to not have gotten any aid. But seriously, you never know if someone got an inheritance or won the lottery. Everyone should be asked.”

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I struggled to adjust to living in a predominantly white society. At first, I would laugh along to comments about my home country in an attempt to fit in, but soon I began to feel funny in the pit of my stomach anytime a classmate made a dig about China. In my frequent Skype calls home, I often asked my mom how I could keep up with my American classmates. “Just keep your head down and work hard,” my mom would respond. “Ignore the comments. You don’t want to stand out.”

But I often wondered at what point I should speak up. At what point does a comment go too far? At what point do AsianAmericans stand up and fight for better representation in business, in politics, in media?

At what point do we rock the boat? AsianAmerican activists have been much more vocal with their demands in recent years, but discrimination and underrepresentation show that there is always more we can do.

Tina Tang is a Weinberg junior. She can be reached at tinatang2017@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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In a building less than five blocks from Northwestern, 11 performers swing from silks, balance on each other’s contorted bodies and swing hula hoops from their chins.

These performers are a group of contortionists, acrobats and dancers participating in The Actors Gymnasium’s first ever Professional Circus Training Program, where they receive nine months of training to become professional circus performers.

Through the program, students work with some of the best circus professionals in the Chicago area, then perform the skills they’ve learned in a showcase at the end of the program.

“Chicago is a great place to study circus because it is one of the greatest circus cities in the country,” said Michelle Higgins, marketing manager for The Actors Gymnasium. “That’s because there’s a lot of other training programs in the area and more shows that are happening, and there’s a greater awareness of circus as an art form.”

When The Actors Gymnasium first opened 20 years ago, it was intended to be a place for actors to learn circus skills to enhance their performances.

However, there was a gap between the experience that students received from The Actors Gymnasium and the competitiveness of the circus world.

The Professional Circus Training Program, which launched last month, is the company’s attempt to bridge that gap, Higgins said.

“It’s a really incredible opportunity for the students because a lot of students who want to pursue circus, they have to cobble lessons from this organization and this organization,” Higgins said. “It’s great that we house it in one place.”

After releasing information on the program last January, the company received a huge amount of interest, Higgins said. It received applications from all over the

world, but accepted fewer than half of the applicants, she said.

Joe Yonek, one of the students in the program, said the small number of participants adds to the program’s community. He has previously organized acroyoga programs, a combination of yoga and partner acrobatics, that have had up to 150 participants.

“The group becomes more tightly knit,” he said.

“Everyone mixes well together, everyone plays well together.”

The small group size also allows for more focused instruction for the performers and more collaboration. Rather than being grouped only with people focusing on the same apparatus, students can collaborate with others across disciplines to see how their skillsets fit together.

“The program’s emphasis on collaboration and mutual exploration is completely new to me,” said Brendan Lewis, another student in the program.

“The Actors Gymnasium tries to capitalize on the amalgamation of the different talents.”

Working with performers across disciplines also allows students to explore different types of apparatus.

Students have been able to try out different circus-related styles, including trapeze, silks, tumbling and unicycling. This provides them a strong foundation in a variety of circus skills, rather than just one specialty, Higgins said.

“We’re going to provide everyone with wellrounded circus skills,” Higgins said. “If you’re interested in trapeze, there might not be that many trapeze gigs. If you know many different things, you’re more likely to get hired.”

Yonek said he’s glad he has the opportunity to broaden his circus skillset, rather than focusing on just partner acrobatics, like he did in the past.

Had Yonek not done the circus training program, he never would have considered training tumbling and aerial skills, he said.

Similarly, Lewis has had the opportunity to work with contortionists, which contrasts his background in aerial straps and the gymnastics ring.

“If forces us to step outside of our comfort zone,” he said. “We’re trying to develop a skillset so the group as a whole has a great vocabulary. Those of us who focus on strength building may not

have a theater background. So when I’m called upon to act, I’m developing those theater muscles.”

The program provides dance and theater instruction. Instructors from the Lookingglass Theater ensemble also teach students to add theater and acting to their circus performance.

Yonek wanted to learn more about circus beyond the tricks.

“I signed up for this program because it’s not just about doing the tricks,” Yonek said. “A big part of the program is you use circus skills to tell a narrative. When I get onstage, it’s usually about doing tricks, but I want to do something more creative.”

Once students develop a strong foundation in circus and performance, they will choose a specific apparatus to major in within the program.

They will receive private instruction specific to their major to become professionals in that apparatus.

Students also receive instruction on how to market themselves in the competitive circus world, and learn the business of becoming a circus performer. After completion of the program, students will be able to audition for professional circus companies, such as Cirque du Soleil, Higgins said.

“There’s something physically challenging and creatively challenging about circus,” Higgins said. “You can tell stories through the physicality of circus that is hard to put into words.” emilychin2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Show brings ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ game to life

By YAQOOB QASEEM

the daily northwestern @yaqoobqaseem

Purple Crayon Players’ upcoming show “She Kills Monsters” brings a fantasy world to life with unique special effects including murderous fairies, a fiveheaded dragon and a gelatinous cube.

“It’s been a smash hit for audiences of all ages,” said Daniel Stompor, a Communication junior and director of the show. “There are a lot of crazy, fantastical fun things, and it doesn’t shy away from being a little bit crude sometimes, and a little bit crazy.”

“She Kills Monsters” tells the story of the character Agnes following the death of her younger sister Tilly, said Anna Backer, a Communication sophomore in charge of the show’s publicity. Agnes never completely understood Tilly before her death, but she ultimately gains a new perspective of her sister in the show when she embarks on a “Dungeons & Dragons” story written by Tilly.

In the role-playing game “Dungeons & Dragons,” players are typically guided through a fantasy story by a Dungeon Master’s narration. The play “She Kills Monsters” brings Tilly’s quest to life.

“It sounds very serious when I describe it, but it’s so humorous, and there are so many moments of snarky side comments and little sarcastic snippets,” Backer said. “It’s easily digestible as well, which I think is really important.”

Props used in the show include bedazzled swords, realistic armor and an artificial heart ripped from one of the actors, said Connor Scott, a Communication junior and the show’s producer.

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FANTASY MEETS REALITY Cast members rehearse for “She Kills Monsters.” The show, produced by Purple Crayon Players opens on Oct. 29 in McCormick Auditorium.

“We are having live-action ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ in a pretty unique way,” Scott said. “We’ve really married technical elements with live production elements.”

The production involves many lights, sounds and puppets, among other elements, Scott said. At the end of the show, the actors create a five-headed dragon with different props.

Stompor said monsters featured in the show were

developed using fan art and images from “Dungeons & Dragons” manuals. In the production, the monsters are made of objects within Tilly’s bedroom, the location where most of the scenes are set.

“We straddled the two ideas of realism and the imagination that it takes to write a ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ module,” Scott said. “Having the monsters come from the clutter of her room grounds the imagination in the reality of the situation.”

The show also has a large soundscape with sound effects and music throughout, an element normally reserved for musicals, Scott said. The soundtrack balances “Lord of the Rings”-style music with retro electronic music.

Brett Warner, a Communication senior who plays the Dungeon Master Chuck Biggs in the show, said the interplay of the props and the acting is enjoyable.

“You’re taking normally what you would describe and you’re making a physical manifestation of it on the stage, which is really cool for me as a Dungeon Master,” said Warner, who also plays “Dungeons & Dragons” in real life.

Stompor said he chose the show partly to allow the Purple Crayon Players’ audience to interact with issues such as sexuality and violence, which many believe young people are not prepared to deal with.

Stompor also said he wanted to target middle school and high school audiences, as he believes this age range is not addressed enough by theater.

“This show never talks down to its audience,” Stompor said. “Young people, regardless of their age, really can handle complex issues in much the same way as adults can.”

Scott said he is excited to see everything come together in the production.

“We wanted something that was a spectacle,” Scott said. “At the same time though we wanted depth. We wanted to touch people’s hearts. We wanted it to be an intimate show that said something very poignant, and I think this show covers all grounds.”

“She Kills Monsters” will run from Oct. 29 to Oct. 31 in McCormick Auditorium. yaqoobqaseem2018@u.northwestern.edu

Evanston artist wins award for pop art, portrait work

By DANIEL FERNANDEZ

the daily northwestern @DanielAaron1007

It was a quiet night in Bay City, Michigan, but for second grader Randal Huiskens, it was also a night of triumph. After years of making errant scribbles, he assembled his first portfolio, a series of sketches and drawings equal parts imitation and imagination.

The next day, Huiskens brought the book to school eager to show off his talents. To his surprise, his sales pitch was met with enthusiasm.

His classmates loved his artwork, so much that they offered to buy copies. So, Huiskens went home, diligently recreated the drawings and traded them the next day for two or three cents.

Now an adult, the Evanston-based pop artist submits his work to smaller competitions to create publicity. Last Friday, Huiskens won two American Art Awards, making this the third consecutive year he’s received an award in the online competition, which received submissions from 35 countries.

Although he did not receive a monetary prize, Huiskens said these events are important because they allow him to showcase his work to people who buy and sell art.

“I’m still relatively unknown as an artist,” Huiskens said. “I’m always looking for places where I think my art will work well.”

Huiskens grew up in Bay City, a small town located at the edge of Lake Huron, where his father owned a local auto body shop. He sold small pictures like those in the book during most of his childhood, updating his work regularly to include the latest images from the Sunday

comics, Reader’s Digest and Mad Magazine.

Huiskens said his father encouraged him to pursue art as a way to get out of Bay City.

“In high school, I decided that I really wanted to take a French class instead of an art class, but my parents closed that down and said, ‘No you’re taking art,’” he said.

He later studied art at Michigan State University, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts focused on painting.

Shortly after graduating, though, Huiskens made a choice he said he still regrets. Rather than establishing his own studio, he joined a punk band and toured the country for five years, playing in college bars and releasing small records.

“I didn’t know how to make a living in art,” Huiskens said. “I didn’t see how I could make that jump.”

Pete Downes toured with Huiskens and was later his roommate. Downes said that Huiskens painted often while the band was on tour.

Downes admired his friend’s work so much that he commissioned him to paint a wall mural.

“He’s done some great pop art,” Downes said.

“The contrast jumps out and makes it almost three-dimensional … It’s perfectly accurate but also part impressionist.”

Even after the tour ended, Huiskens painted mostly on the side. At this time, his work was influenced by the post-impressionist artists he studied in school like Paul Cezanne and Henri Matisse.

However, as time progressed, his work began to take on a more pop-art feel, a style which was pioneered by Andy Warhol in the 1960s and depicts common household objects, media and consumer products with a visual twist.

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CHANNELLING WARHOL Randal Huiskens sits with some of his works of pop art. The Evanston artist recently won two first place awards in the American Art Awards.

“I never really thought of myself as a pop artist,” Huiskens said. “Until one day I woke up looking at the work that I had been doing and I realized: ‘Well, that’s pop art.’”

Outside of the art awards, Huiskens’ work was recently featured at The Brothers K Coffeehouse in Evanston.

Emma Stieber, a barista at Brothers K, helps to choose art to hang in the coffee shop. She said Huiskens was one of the most popular artists the shop has featured.

“I especially loved his grumpy cat,” Steiber

said. “If I had money, I would have totally bought it.”

Since embracing pop art, Huiskens’ work has been featured in a few smaller venues, as well as an annual art exhibition in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

More than anything, he says he is grateful to be doing the work that he loves full-time.

“I’m doing the art that I love to do and I’m doing it in a way that I want to do it,” he said. danielfernandez@u.northwestern.edu

Northshore Concert Band celebrates 60th anniversary

By JENNIFER HEPP

the daily northwestern @jenniferhepp97

Source: Todd Rosenberg

Chris Martin

Northshore Concert Band is kicking off its 60th anniversary season with a concert on Nov. 1 that includes both a world premiere of a piece and a “sibling rivalry” between two professional trumpet players.

The concert will begin with the world premiere of “Zero to Sixty!”, a piece written by Michael Martin (Bienen ‘07,’08). Martin currently plays trumpet in the Boston Symphony Orchestra and was commissioned by Mallory Thompson, NCB artistic director and Bienen professor, to write a piece for the 60th anniversary season.

Martin said he has been close with Thompson for many years and was flattered when she commissioned him to write a piece for NCB. “The NCB is made up of extremely good players and great musicians, and with Thompson at the helm, it was an easy piece to write,” Martin said. “Hopefully it’s very objectively exciting, a bit

of a crowd pleaser and a good concert opener.”

Martin will be present Sunday to talk to the audience about his piece, Thompson said. Martin will be joined by his brother, Chris Martin, principal trumpet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

As part of the concert, the brothers will be featured trumpet soloists in “Carmen Fantasia for Two Solo Trumpets and Wind Ensemble.”

This piece was originally written for Charles Geyer and Barbara Butler, both previous trumpet professors at Northwestern. Chris and Michael Martin both studied with Geyer and Butler.

NCB board chair and Scott Golinkin (Bienen ‘74, ‘75) said the piece is like a competitive duet between the two trumpet players.

“This is a group that is dedicated to wanting to perform at the highest possible level,” Thompson said. “That’s maybe the thing I appreciate most about them. These are very busy adults who still have music as a major priority as demonstrated by their willingness to sacrifice other things because it’s so important to them.”

Thompson said an extra pleasure for her is that about a dozen of them are former members

of the Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble, which she conducts.

“It’s especially nice when former students become a part of the group, and I get to continue to interact with them and make music with them,” Thompson said.

Golinkin said under Thompson’s leadership, the group is able put together a challenging concert and perform at a very high level.

“During the course of our rehearsals, we not only learn to play the piece better, but we learn the music so well because she is so good at teaching us the music,” Golinkin said. “I always walk away at the end of a concert cycle feeling enriched by how much I’ve learned about the music.”

The concert will be at 3 p.m. on Nov. 1 at PickStaiger Concert Hall.

“This is just a real celebration for me because I’m doing all this music I love,” Thompson said.

“We’re celebrating the band’s 60th anniversary, Mike and Chris are going to be here, we’re doing this world premiere by Mike, I mean for heaven’s sake … what could be better?” jenniferhepp2020@u.northwestern.edu

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American Muslim comedian to perform Thursday

By KIMBERLY GO

the daily northwestern @kimberlygo2018

In February, Azhar Usman, a nationally recognized American Muslim comedian, received an unannounced visit at his house from the FBI. They didn’t tell him why they were there — only that they wanted to talk to him and ask him some questions. A first-generation American, Usman was shocked and surprised.

“It was a confirmation for me of feelings I had for a while,” Usman said. “There is a certain percentage of our country that presumes somebody who is a Muslim is somehow unpatriotic, un-American and anti-American.”

After sitting with these feelings for a long time, Usman created a comedic show that explores the tensions and paradoxes surrounding national, cultural and religious identity this past spring. On Thursday, Usman will perform this show, “Un-American,” at the McCormick Foundation Center as part of Northwestern’s Muslim Cultural Students Association’s annual fall entertainment event.

The show will be emceed by comic Tucker Millett, a student at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, and opened by Prateek Srivastava, a non-Muslim Indian comedian based

in Chicago.

McSA President Dania Atallah said they chose to bring Usman to campus because he understands what many American Muslims experience.

“Sometimes the way media portrays Muslims, especially abroad, is very negative,” the Weinberg senior said. “Someone like Azhar shows a different side.”

Born and raised in Chicago, Usman was born to Indian immigrants. Before becoming a comedian, he practiced law as an attorney, thinking he could not make a career out of comedy.

However, a few years after his first open mic, Usman started receiving booking requests from Muslim communities in the U.S., U.K. and Australia who found him online. In 2004, he quit his job to pursue comedy full time.

As a comedian, Usman has been called “America’s Funniest Muslim” by CNN and identified as “one of the 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World” by Georgetown University. He is the co-founder of the international comedy showcase “Allah Made Me Funny” and has toured in more than 20 countries.

Usman said he is motivated to bring an underrepresented voice into the stream of public discourse because the point of view of American Muslims is “virtually absent” in media.

“Muslims are almost everyday on the front

page of CNN, BBC and Fox News,” he said. “It almost seems like everybody’s talking about Muslims, but Muslims don’t really ever talk about themselves.”

Usman is aware that his comedy might offend, but said good stand-up is sometimes offensive.

“The question is who does it offend, why does it offend and the intent of the artist,” he said. “I try to speak my truths and share my point of view. If somebody finds it offensive, then I’m OK with that because the point of it is free expression. The point of it is to be an artist.”

Rimsha Ganatra, vice president of public relations for McSA, said she hopes “Un-American” will contribute to McSA’s mission to provide a safe place for Muslims on campus, and also show non-Muslims what Islam is about.

“If (the audience) gets laughs, and if they learn something they didn’t know before or get a new viewpoint of Islam, that is enough for us,” the Weinberg junior said.

Similarly, at the end of the day, Usman just wants people to have a good time.

“My belief is great comedy makes you laugh but it also makes you think,” he said. “That’s certainly what I’m trying to aspire toward.” kimberlygo2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Noyes exhibit explores importance of bird conservation

Source: Sarah Kaiser

CONSERVATION COLLABORATION “Tenebrous Flight” by Kristina Knowski is a part of “Birds in Jeopardy,” a new exhibit at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center. The exhibit opens on Nov. 1.

By RACHEL YANG

daily senior staffer @_RachelYang

To artist Sarah Kaiser-Amaral, the preservation of birds involves more than just local habitats — their lives affect the stability of the entire ecosystem.

This connection is just one of many reasons Kaiser-Amaral chose to curate the “Birds in Jeopardy” exhibit at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center. The exhibit’s aim is to raise awareness

about endangered and extinct birds.

The exhibit, which will run Nov. 1 through Dec. 1, includes about 15 art pieces, most of which are watercolor paintings, created by about seven artists. The artwork in the exhibit depicts scenes involving endangered or extinct birds, said Kaiser-Amaral, whose own work will be on display.

To be featured in the exhibit, artists had to contribute a painting about an endangered or extinct bird and donate part of their art sales to an organization that focuses on bird conservation

Kristina Knowski’s watercolor paintings, featured in the exhibit, portray birds such as the extinct passenger pigeon, which was once the most common bird in the United States. The Chicago-based artist said the exhibit is a way to explore the relationship between humans and birds and show how human activity played a role in the animals’ extinction. “(The passenger pigeon) was such a huge part of American history, and to have lost it and not know about it, I think it’s a real tragic loss,” Knowski said. “We already made our impact with the species by causing its extinction. I

CALENDAR thursday

“Un-American” Starring Azhar Usman at 7 p.m. in the McCormick Tribune Center Concentric: A Struble Project at 8 p.m. at the Mussetter-Struble Theater Lawrence Brownlee Vocal Master Class at 7 p.m. in Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall Chamber Orchestra: A Celebration of Beginnings at 7:30 p.m. at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall “Boomer’s Story” at 8 p.m. at Shanley Pavilion “She Kills Monsters” at 7 p.m. in the McCormick Auditorium Griffin’s Tale Presents: Stories from the Vault at 11 p.m. in the Jones Great Room

friday Concentric: A Struble Project at 8 p.m. at the Mussetter-Struble Theater Homage: Northwestern’s Symphonic Band at 7:30 p.m. at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall “Boomer’s Story” at 7 and 10 p.m. at Shanley Pavilion “She Kills Monsters” at 7 and 10 p.m. in the McCormick Auditorium

saturday Concentric: A Struble Project at 8 p.m. at the Mussetter-Struble Theater SEED Halloween Farmer’s Market Trip at 10 a.m. at Evanston Farmer’s Market “Boomer’s Story” at 2 and 8 p.m. at Shanley Pavilion “She Kills Monsters” at 1 and 4 p.m. in the McCormick Auditorium

think the least we can do is understand what we are doing to other species at the moment.”

Maggie Weiss, an Evanston-based artist who uses cloth and quilts in her work, said her piece at the exhibit was inspired by actual events: In Arkansas in 2010, New Year’s Eve fireworks likely contributed to the death of up to 5000 red-winged blackbirds.

Kaiser-Amaral also said hazards against birds have increased in recent years. For instance, there are more high-rise buildings with reflective surfaces and birds, unaware of their own reflections, can slam into these exteriors.

She also said Evanston has seen a lot of property development in recent years that can increase habitat loss.

She added that even Northwestern’s actions, like cutting down trees by the lakefront to build the new visitor’s center and parking garage, have had effects on the bird population in the area.

Kaiser-Amaral said she hopes the exhibit will make people realize they have a responsibility to help preserve the bird population, because without it, the entire ecosystem is thrown off-balance. Much like bees, birds are pollinators and help carry pollen from one source to another.

“It’s like a ripple effect. If (birds) are depleted, other species are also going to be affected,“ Kaiser-Amaral said. “They eat mosquitoes, so less birds would mean more mosquitoes, and mosquitoes carry viruses. It’s like the domino effect.”

Besides their role in the ecosystem, Weiss said birds should be valued for the vivacity they bring to everyday life.

“It would be much quieter and much less interesting to be in nature or just in your house,” she said. “You won’t hear bird songs (when you) wake you up or hear the birds in the evening to just round out your day.” weizheyang2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Across Campuses Is the University of California spending too little on teaching and too much on administration?

LOS ANGELES — Fifty years ago, the University of California basked in a golden moment: With the state booming, the system opened two new campuses in 1965, one on the old Irvine Ranch in the middle of Orange County, the other in the hills above Santa Cruz and the Pacific Ocean.

It was a crowning achievement for then-Gov. Pat Brown, who made expanding the system a top priority.

Today, UC has 10 campuses across the state and a $27 billion budget. But there is a persistent debate about how the university spends that money and whether students are being shortchanged.

Weeks after an announced increase in state funding staved off a tuition hike, the Board of Regents riled spending critics this summer by handing 3 percent raises to some of UC’s highest-paid employees. The number of those making at least $500,000 annually grew by 14 percent in the last year, to 445, and the system’s administrative ranks have swelled by 60 percent over the last decade — far outpacing tenure-track faculty.

Administrative growth and executive compensation are perennial hot-button issues for students, labor leaders and fiscal watchdogs, who say they are emblematic of the system’s free-spending ways. UC officials counter that the costs are necessary to compete with other world-class institutions and keep up with advancing technology and growing enrollment.

They also say the budget numbers can give the wrong impression.

Only about a quarter of the UC system’s budget is made up of “core fund” spending on the educational mission, they point out. The remainder encompasses everything else, including five medical centers that are more than self-supporting and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which helps bring in the billions of dollars in government grants and contracts that UC researchers attract each year.

Indeed, UC’s budget — larger than those of some 25 states — is so big and so complex that it can be puzzling even for experts.

“The challenge is to sort of get your arms around everything that they’re doing and all of their funding sources and how they spend their money,” Paul Golaszewski, principal fiscal and policy analyst with the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office, told an Assembly panel examining UC spending earlier this

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The budget drew increased scrutiny this spring, when Gov. Jerry Brown squared off with UC President Janet Napolitano over her bid to raise tuition by as much as 28 percent over five years to cover payroll and retirement costs, hire more faculty and enroll more California undergrads. Brown opposed the hikes, calling instead for cost-cutting efforts such as more online courses and shorter graduation trajectories.

The two struck a deal in May that boosted state funding, froze in-state undergraduate tuition for two years and required UC to reform its pension plan for future participants.

For two decades starting in 1990, the regents allowed the system and its employees alike to stop contributing to the plan, which was overfunded at the time but now has a $12 billion unfunded liability, according to UC’s latest operating budget. Despite warning signs as early as 2005 that the fund was headed for trouble, it was not until 2009 that the regents acted to resume contributions the following year.

UC now must spend about $1.3 billion a year to cover its pension costs — and it will take decades to fill the gap. That draws money away from other uses, said Adam Tatum, until recently the research director of California Common Sense, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank.

“Now, it is not going to salaries; it is going to retirement benefits that should have already been paid for, or at least set aside for,” said Tatum, who now works for a financial services firm. “It is not going to UC campuses, but to past debts that should have been paid and would have been paid if UC had not participated in that pension contribution holiday.”

Despite its immensity, the pension problem has attracted relatively little public attention compared with administrative growth and the big salaries and perks that often come with it.

Some UC students contend that, even as the administration has grown, their educational experience has declined.

“Class sizes are ridiculous and desks are broken,” said Rebecca Ora, a doctoral candidate in film and digital media at UC Santa Cruz and treasurer of the University of California Student Association. “Where is the spending on education?”

UC officials flatly reject any contention that they have drifted from that core mission. They note that enrollment has grown by 77,000 in the last 15 years and that UC has kept its commitment to find a spot on one of its campuses for all California high school students graduating in the top 9 percent statewide or within their own classes.

“We have doubled down on our mission,” said UC spokeswoman Dianne Klein. “The fact that UC still manages to be among the very best public or private universities in the world — despite the dramatic cutbacks in state support — speaks to the dedication of our faculty, students and staff.”

Tuition has been a contentious issue in the state since 1960, when the California Master Plan for Higher Education called for the state’s public community colleges and universities to be affordable and accessible to residents.

In 1980, UC’s in-state undergrads paid $719 a year in tuition and fees. By 1994, the figure had grown to $3,800, but stayed relatively flat for most of the next decade. By the mid-2000s, on the heels of a state budget crisis, tuition had jumped by more than 40 percent, topping $5,000.

It has since more than doubled, to about $12,200, while state funding in real dollars is less than its 2000 level. Out-of-state students, whose numbers have risen in recent years, pay about $23,000 more per year and have helped offset state funding cuts.

As total enrollment has grown, from about 126,000 in 1980 to more than 246,000 now, UC’s spending has likewise ticked upward. Even the Great Recession didn’t stop the growth. Overall spending grew by 40 percent from 2007-08 to 2014-15, a state Assembly subcommittee report noted, from $19.2 billion to $26.9 billion. Core fund expenditures rose 27 percent during the same period, from $5.4 billion to $6.9 billion.

The “lion’s share” of increased spending since 2007 has been due to growth in the university’s health sciences system, which includes the revenue-generating medical centers and is self-supporting, said Nathan Brostrom, UC’s chief financial officer.

The rise of non-teaching and non-research jobs at private and public universities has become a hot topic on campuses from coast to coast.

Efficiency experts brought in to assess the UC Berkeley bureaucracy a few years ago concluded it was top-heavy. Bain & Co. consultants tallied 11 layers of management between the chancellor and frontline employees, suggesting that the organization had too many bosses. More than half of all managers — about 1,000 — had three or fewer direct reports, and 471 were in charge of exactly one person each.

Depending on the work involved, and compared to similar organizations in private industry, the consultants said, the average number of direct reports per supervisor should have been in the range of six to 11.

Too few direct reports per manager and too many administrative layers resulted in slower decisionmaking, excessive costs and lower employee morale, Bain experts concluded.

UC responded to that and other findings with a broad — and controversial — multiyear effort to cut costs by about $75 million annually by streamlining operations and administration.

Other UC campuses have launched similar efforts, even as the number of high-paying jobs has grown.

More than 900 UC employees are paid at least $400,000 a year, nearly twice as many as in 2010 and more than six times as many as in 2004.

UC officials say that well-paid administrative positions are essential to meet rising information and technology demands, the increasingly complex requirements of government funding and regulation and other 21st century needs. Many of those jobs are IT managers, architects, engineers and fiscal analysts, officials say.

They also note that only about 3 percent of UC’s 195,000 employees earn more than $200,000 a year.

Most of those are faculty members in health sciences who work at teaching hospitals and are paid largely from clinical revenue and research money, not state funds, they say.

While big paychecks for those in UC’s senior management group — including the president, the chancellors and other top administrators — attract the most attention, they comprise less than 1 percent of the $27 billion budget, officials say.

It is the next layer of well-paid administrators that has grown most significantly over the last two decades. From 2004 to 2014, the management and senior professionals ranks swelled by 60 percent, to about 10,000, UC data show.

“There is a huge cadre of middle managers and upper middle managers, and that is where the bloat is,” said Charles Schwartz, a UC Berkeley physics professor who retired in 1993 and has spent much of his time since then crunching the budget and issuing a series of sharp critiques.

Administrators now outnumber tenure-track faculty members, whose ranks, over the same decade, grew by just 8 percent, from 8,067 to 8,722, and have not kept pace with rising enrollment.

As more of the teaching burden has shifted to adjunct and part-time instructors, students say their face time with tenured professors has shrunk and their class sizes have grown.

Brostrom, UC’s chief financial officer, acknowledged such problems but said student-faculty ratios and crowded classes are not a function of increased spending on administration but rather of declining state funding over the last 15 years.

“During that time we’ve added 80,000-plus students and a new campus,” he said, referring to UC Merced.

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Cellist places second in competition

By JENNIFER HEPP

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Bienen junior and cello performance major Brannon Cho tied for second place at the Naumburg International Cello Competition, one of the most prestigious cello competitions in the world.

The competition took place Oct. 20 at the Manhattan School of Music in New York and was open to anyone between the ages of 17 and 31.

“It felt really good,” Cho said of finishing second in the competition. “A lot of really famous people have won prizes at this competition, so I definitely didn’t expect to get this far. It was very rewarding and it really gave me an idea of where I am right now with my career.”

Cho said he sent in his application for the competition in April and was one of 58 cellists selected to perform in New York. From there, 12 semifinalists were picked, followed by five finalists. Cho earned a $7,500 cash prize for his second place finish.

He performed a total of 10 pieces for the competition, including works by Schubert, Prokofiev, Bernstein and Bach.

Applicants were required to prepare two fulllength recitals’ worth of music as well as two concertos. Cho performed all pieces but one from memory.

“This was definitely the most repertoire I’ve had to prepare for a single competition,” Cho said.

Cho began playing the cello at 7 and has been

studying with his current teacher, Bienen professor Hans Jensen, for nine years.

“Brannon has grown into a really mature artist,” Jensen said. “He has the whole package: really good command of the instrument, communication, and he can play many different styles. There is always room to grow but it’s amazing to have seen his improvement over the years.”

Shortly after beginning to study with Jensen, Cho said he became very serious about music.

“I just knew that it was going to be something that I pursued for my whole life and I couldn’t see myself doing anything else,” Cho said. “It’s very comforting to know that I have something that I’m very ambitious about.”

Jensen said Cho was able to manage sports, cello and academics very well in high school and said he thinks having the ability to handle many commitments is a great quality.

“It develops your intelligence,” Jensen said. “It’s just fantastic. I root for it all the way. Brannon exemplifies the ultimate for what a Northwestern student should and can be.”

Cho has been participating regularly in competitions since the end of middle school, but recently competed in the International Tchaikovsky Competition this past June in Russia. He added that the Tchaikovsky and Naumburg competitions are probably the two most prestigious cello competitions in the world.

Russell Houston, a Bienen senior in the cello studio, said he wasn’t surprised when he heard about Cho’s second-place finish.

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SOUND STORM Brannon Cho plays his cello on stage during Minnesota Orchestra Young Artists Competition finals earlier this May. This month, the Bienen junior took second place in the Naumburg International Cello Competition.

“Brannon’s a great musician,” Houston said. “He has such a variety of balance and colors in his playing. He always sounds great and he’s so consistent.”

Cho’s future plans include possibly recording an album within the next year. He also said he is looking at attending graduate school in Germany.

“I would just love to go study in Germany because I’d say Berlin is probably the center right now for the cello world,” Cho said. “It’d be great to be immersed in that community.”

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From page 1 funding for different programs. They place food orders through NU Dining, which buys the food at cost for the amount that was donated. Funds are distributed to campus programs and the greater Evanston community, Faden said.

Campus Kitchens, one of the programs that receives donations from Points for a Purpose, benefits greatly from the charity, putting 100 percent of donations toward operations to feed those in need in the Evanston community, said Samantha Warren, coordinator of NU Campus Kitchens.

“A lot of the things we buy, we wouldn’t be able to source from anywhere else, so Points for a Purpose is really helpful for us to be able to make meals that are not only filling, but also healthy and well-balanced, which is sometimes hard to do with recovered food,” Warren said.

Though the cap on the points drive is already activated for this quarter, Faden and Sosnovsky look forward to implementing new solutions in upcoming quarters. “(NU Dining) has been helping us look at grants and other ways of raising even more money,” Faden said. “Together, we’re looking at every opportunity, including expanding the cap and ways around the cap, so that we can have as great of an impact as we possibly can.” fathmarahman2019@u.northwestern.edu

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lower-middle income residents than Evanston’s low-income residents. Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) said the plan would affect people making between $45,000 and $60,000 a year, not people living on minimum wage or the city’s general assistance program.

“There’s a whole boatload of people who aren’t going to be affected in any way, shape or form by this,” Rainey said.

Discussion about the amendment needs to continue in future meetings, but the proposal is a good first step, Ald. Dolores Holmes (5th) said.

“We have talked about this for so long and we have not done anything,” Holmes said. “I don’t think this is going to be hurtful but more helpful.” robinopsahl2018@u.northwestern.edu

Senate

From page 1 Kamel acknowledged that it’s unlikely administrators will act on the resolution. Still, he said Senate should pass it even if it’s unlikely it will change policy.

“The symbolic notion that we’re paying attention to this issue is very important,” he said. “I don’t think it’s fair that just because the University won’t adopt this policy we shouldn’t pass this bill, because we should stand up for what we believe as students.”

A dispensary is scheduled to open in Evanston in November.

Earlier in the meeting, Weinberg senior Scott Spicer was elected parliamentarian. Spicer was the only candidate nominated for the position.

Spicer’s background as a linguistics major qualifies him for the job, he said.

“That gives me a real good feel for the formalities of language,” he said. “Especially with technical writing, which is what legislation is.”

The parliamentarian, first in line to the speaker, calls roll and chairs the rules committee, the group of students who help develop language for proposed legislation.

McCormick sophomore Eliott Sassouni, SESP freshman Ben Powell and Weinberg freshmen Joanne Huang and Justine Kim were elected to the rules committee. They were the only nominees for the four committee seats.

Senate also approved more than $2,500 in Wild Ideas funding for three student groups.

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POT PASSES Weinberg senior Jonathan Kamel speaks in favor of a resolution that asks administrators to allow students with medical marijuana cards to consume smokeless forms of the drug in University housing. The resolution passed Senate nearly unanimously.

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New dietitian looks to promote healthy eating

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Karen Sechowski sat behind a clothed table that displayed “Mindful by Sodexo,” handing out free samples of quinoa salad and greeting students.

Sechowski, the newly hired campus dietitian, ran the booth for a “Meet Your Dietitian” session, a chance for students to chat with the Sodexo employee tasked with advising them on their dining options.

“The biggest thing that I do is work with kids who have food allergies to make sure they can eat safely on campus,” Sechowski said.

Sechowski, who started work in June, said she uses software that contains all of Sodexo’s recipes and compares them to the daily dining hall menus to figure out what to serve students with allergies each day. She said she provides free consultations for students with gastrointestinal issues, as well as students looking to lose weight, gain weight or build muscle.

In addition, Sechowski works with Counseling and Psychological Services to assist students struggling with eating disorders. Sechowski, who started college in 2007 as an English education major, decided to train to be a dietitian after taking a nutrition class her freshman year.

As a dietitian, Sechowski also encourages “mindful eating” among students, a recommendation echoed this week when the World Health Organization announced Monday that processed meats — including hot dogs, bacon and sausage — cause cancer. In addition, WHO also said red meat “probably” causes cancer, too.

Sodexo serves all of the above in campus dining halls.

Although she hopes students will make healthful decisions, Sechowski said offering “not-so-healthy” options in dining halls lets students form habits they’ll use after they graduate.

“At some point in your life, you need to learn how to make these choices,” she said. “If you hear something like that from a reputable source like the World Health Organization, students should make good choices accordingly.”

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a gluten-free lifestyle, said the new program is very beneficial to her.

“Having a campus dietitian would benefit me because it would help guide me to the healthy gluten-free options in the dining hall,” Dolowich said. “It would prevent me from accidentally eating something that was made with gluten.”

Sechowski said Sodexo will hold more sessions of Meet the Dietitian during Winter and Spring Quarters.

Rachel Tilghman, director of communications and engagement for Sodexo, said the group launched the Meet the Dietitian program to inform students of Sechowski and the services she offers.

“First, the purpose is to raise awareness — most people don’t know that we have a campus dietitian,” Tilghman said. “The other part is educational awareness. We use Meet the Dietitian as an opportunity to be part of the student learning initiative.” alanafarkas2019@u.northwestern.edu

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2015

With big expectations, NU looking to stay healthy Players on the team competed in matchups last weekend in Ann Arbor

By MIKE MARUT

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Fall is a time for apple pies, pumpkin picking, raking leaves and, for Northwestern, hard training.

“We spend a lot of time on what we saw, what we learned, what things we need to be aware of,” coach Claire Pollard said. “I love the commitment from the girls, the focus and emphasis on fitness.”

That commitment and focus translates directly onto the court, where the Wildcats are getting a first glimpse at conference opponents. This past weekend in Ann Arbor, six of nine players on the team competed in the Midwest Regional Championships. Redshirt sophomore Maddie Lipp had another “exceptional” outing, reaching the singles final. Even though Lipp was defeated, she’s gotten her old swagger back.

“She’s really committed to working on her game at a higher, more intense level,” Pollard said.

“If you do that, you almost always get positive results. The commitment is at a slightly higher level than most college tennis players. She’s got herself back into the mindset … that she had before she got injured.”

Lipp suffered a season-long injury that kept

National News Buzzsaw of opposition fells plans for lumber promotion program WASHINGTON — A controversial plan to promote U.S. hardwood lumber is now sawdust, at least for the time being.

Following a fierce and extended debate, the Agriculture Department on Wednesday formally unplugged the proposal for a new industry-funded program touting the nation’s hardwood lumber and plywood.

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her off the court through her true sophomore year. In her freshman season, Lipp had a winning record across the board in overall singles and doubles play. With her performance this fall, she’s on track to dominate with deep runs into tournaments against some of the best competition college tennis can offer.

This fall season gives We get 100 NU a good look at conpercent healthy, ference competition too. Over the weekend, I think we’ll the Cats saw opponents have one of the from Michigan, Illinois, greatest teams Ohio State and other Big Ten schools. TraditionI’ve ever had ally, the conference is highly competitive in here. women’s tennis and the Claire Pollard, end-of-season tournacoach ment is anybody’s to take.

One major factor in keeping up with competition is health. Pollard recognizes the importance of keeping players healthy, especially after going through last season with only six to seven players at any given time instead of all nine on the roster. With the full lineup ready this year, Pollard is excited about

NU’s future.

“It’s an opportunity,” Pollard said. “All of those teams are very good. We get 100 percent healthy, I think we’ll have one of the greatest teams I’ve ever had here.”

The fall is about individual development as well.

Many tournaments will have singles and doubles competitions where scoring is among the athletes, not between teams. Sophomore Erin Larner is a prime example.

Last year, Larner jumped out of the gate and competed at the No. 2 singles spot. Pollard said Larner has not gotten a great amount of exposure so far this fall, but she still did well in Ann Arbor.

“The bar was really high (this weekend),” Pollard said. “I think Erin for having played such little tennis this fall, for her first competition, it was good.”

With players like Lipp and Larner on the rise within Pollard’s program, the Cats will be in position to take back their Big Ten title.

“I thought it was interesting to see all the competition,” Larner said. “It was a way to see that everyone else is working hard, as hard as us.

There’s a lot of good players out there. It was good to get back out there and get playing again too.”

and promotion program similar to the ones serving the milk, beef and cotton industries, among others.

“We were disappointed that the checkoff opponents were not willing to have the industry take a vote on a more streamlined ... proposal, leaving (the Agriculture Department) little choice but to terminate (the proposal),” said Grace Terpstra, the proposal’s project manager.

But the proposal’s withdrawal heartens opponents, who flooded the Agriculture Department with hundreds of criticisms and objections over the past several years.

“I was pleased to see the system works,” Jeff Hanks, owner of a lumber operation near Danbury, N.C., said in an interview Wednesday.

“There has been significant opposition to this

from the start.”

In its Federal Register notice Wednesday, the USDA noted that a “significant majority” of the 1,300-plus public comments about the proposed hardwood lumber program voiced opposition. Officials further noted “outstanding substantive questions” remained, as well as numerous proposed changes to the original idea.

“Termination of this proceeding,” the department stated, “will allow USDA to engage fully with all interested parties to discuss and consider the evolving needs of the industry going forward.”

A similar effort on behalf of the hardwood lumber industry also failed in the mid-1990s.

In both cases, skeptics questioned the alleged

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LIPP SERVICE Maddie Lipp takes aim for a return. After missing all of last season, the redshirt sophomore is now fully healthy and already turning in solid performances.

benefits of the promotion program, along with its costs and compulsory nature.

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Each is funded by industry fees, following a public comment period and approval in an industry referendum. Some of the marketing campaigns have since become classics, marked by catchphrases like “Got Milk?” and “Cotton, the Fabric of our Lives.”

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By WILL RAGATZ

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Nia Coffey used to dream about being a track star.

In a family that was all about basketball, she was the outlier. Her

father, Richard, played in college at Minnesota and professionally, and both of her siblings were on basketball teams as soon as they could pick up a ball.

Coffey, the middle child, took a bit longer.

Her innate athleticism made her an outstanding runner. As a seventh

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grader, Coffey ran for the varsity track team at Hopkins High School in Minneapolis. However, something just didn’t feel right about track, she said.

“I found it really lonely,” Coffey said. “I would always see my dad and brother and sister going to the gym and I wouldn’t go because I wasn’t a basketball player.”

Eventually, Coffey said, they were able to convince her to come with them. She hasn’t looked back since.

A humble star

Coffey, now a star forward heading into her junior season for Northwestern, has already had an incredibly successful basketball career. She received countless individual accolades while playing at Hopkins and was recently named to the 2015-16 Preseason All-Big Ten Team.

However, Coffey has never been one to brag about personal accomplishments. Her modesty is one of the first things coach Joe McKeown mentions when talking about her.

“She’s the most humble great player I’ve ever seen,” McKeown said.

Senior guard Maggie Lyon, Coffey’s teammate for the past two seasons, agrees.

“She sometimes doesn’t give herself enough credit,” Lyon said. “She’s always trying to make her teammates better. … I’m blessed that I get to play with her, not against her.”

Immediate success

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EXTRA CAFFEINE Nia Coffey goes up for a shot. The junior forward is looking to lead the Wildcats back to the NCAA Tournament, where they made their first appearance since 1997 last season.

Coffey’s athleticism transferred to basketball as soon as she started playing, helping her make Hopkins’ varsity team in eighth grade, her first year of playing seriously.

More than 1,400 points and three state championships later, the former sprinter found herself as the top ranked basketball recruit in Minnesota. The Golden Gophers, her dad’s alma mater, recruited her heavily, but Coffey said she felt like she had to leave home.

“For me to grow, I needed to go somewhere else,” she said.

Coffey wanted to go somewhere where she could not only star on the basketball court, but also get a great

education, she said. McKeown said he recruited her to come to Northwestern because of her team success, in addition to her natural talent.

“She knew how to win,” McKeown said. “She came from a program where, when you walk on the court, you expect to win. She brings that with her.”

When she first visited Evanston, Coffey said she was won over by how welcoming and loving the team was and how comfortable she felt. She also saw a team with a lot of talented young players.

“I understood that Northwestern was creating something special and I just wanted to be a part of that,” Coffey said.

Once Coffey got to NU, she didn’t waste any time making an impact.

Through the years

As a freshman, Coffey led NU in points and rebounds and became the first Wildcat freshman to ever be selected to the All-Big Ten First Team. Last year, she went a step further.

Averaging 15.2 points and 9.7 rebounds per game, Coffey led the Cats to a 23-9 season and their first NCAA tournament appearance since 1997. It was an incredible season for Coffey, but it ended in heartbreak.

In NU’s first round matchup against Arkansas, Coffey missed a potential game-winning shot in the final seconds, ending NU’s season.

Coffey described the tournament experience as bittersweet, but believes it will help the team in the long run.

“We know what to expect and how hard it is to advance in the tournament, and what we need to do to make sure we go further this time,” Coffey said.

Both McKeown and Lyon have seen huge improvements in Coffey’s game from her freshman year to now.

Naturally an unselfish player, Coffey is starting to realize she can dominate games, her coach said.

“Every now and then she’s like ‘Well, I gotta take this game over, let’s go,’” McKeown said. “She understands that she’s capable of that.”

“When a big play needs to happen, she’ll take it upon herself, and she’s really stepped up in that way,” Lyon said.

Coffey’s basketball IQ has expanded even more than just knowi ng w h e n she needs to make a play, her coach I understood said. McKethat own said he Northwestern sees a difference in was creating how Coffey tries to make something special and I just potentially game-changwanted to be a ing plays.

“She’s so part of that smart now,” Nia Coffey, he said. junior forward “She’s pulling up (for jump shots), blocking shots without fouling people, and she’s still a great rebounder, maybe the best in the conference. She’s a lot smarter about how teams are defending her, and that’s been her biggest growth to me.”

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Looking ahead

Sent with Lyon to represent NU at this year’s Big Ten Basketball Media Day, Coffey’s hunger for the season to start was undeniable.

“We’re not satisfied with what we did last year,” Coffey said. “What we did was great for Northwestern because we haven’t been to the tournament in forever, but that, at the end of the day, wasn’t enough for us.”

Expectations are high heading into this season. NU was recently ranked 12th in the country in Athlon Sports Magazine’s preseason poll. Coffey said the team’s goals are to win the Big Ten and make a deep NCAA tournament run.

“I feel like we can do whatever we put our minds to, I truly do.”

Although everyone on the team will contribute, how far NU goes will ultimately depend on how good its star player can be this season. Coffey is ready for the challenge. williamragatz2019@u.northwestern.edu

Cats take down Wisconsin 2-1 in double OT thriller

By MAX SCHUMAN

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Sophomore outside back Kassidy Gorman was put in an unfamiliar position Wednesday night.

“I haven’t played forward in college,” she said. “I used to play there in high school, but not in college.”

But when a cross fell to her at the far post with three minutes left in the second overtime against conferenceleading Wisconsin (11-5-3, 8-2-1 Big Ten), the defender-turned-winger didn’t look a bit out of place. Instead, she poked home a goal to lift Northwestern (13-4-2, 7-3-1) to a thrilling 2-1 victory in its regular season finale.

The first goal of Gorman’s collegiate career closes a historic season for the Wildcats, who finish the year with the most Big Ten wins in program history and a top-four conference finish that ensures a home game in the first round of the Big Ten tournament.

“It’s just great that we’re able to accomplish this goal that we’ve been working towards since last year,” junior forward Addie Steiner said, referring to the top-four finish.

Things looked bleak for the Cats

late in the second half, as Badgers star midfielder Rose Lavelle ran right by NU freshman defenders Kayla Sharples and Hannah Davison with the ball before powering a shot into the Cats’ net. The junior, who is in the United States national team picture, put Wisconsin up 1-0 in the 74th minute.

Searching for an equalizer, coach Michael Moynihan switched formations to apply more pressure on Wisconsin.

“We switched to a 3-4-3 from a 4-4-2,” he It’s just great s aid. “We that we’re able wanted to be to accomplish more aggressive, really this goal that get after it.”

NU had we’ve been been danworking gerous all towards since game despite the scoreline, last year. but the team Addie Steiner, needed some junior forward help from the Badgers to get on the board in the 81st minute.

The Wisconsin defense botched a pass back to the keeper, leaving it way short and allowing Steiner to intercept the pass. Evading onrushing Badger keeper Caitlyn Clem, Steiner finished into the empty net for her team-leading seventh goal of the season.

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The Cats stuck with their aggressive shape heading into overtime and outplayed Wisconsin, totaling four shots to the Badgers’ zero in the extra period. When senior winger Jennifer Korn whipped in a cross that found Gorman for the golden goal, NU’s relentless play paid off.

Wednesday’s win was no fluke.

Outside of Lavelle’s moment of brilliance, the Cats’ defense was stout again, holding a potent Wisconsin offense to three shots on goal for the night.

NU’s offense was able to do enough to pull out the victory and hit its highest gear when sophomore forward Michelle Manning was on the pitch, a great sign as postseason play looms. Manning, who has struggled with injuries this year, was a sparkplug on the left side for the Cats in her 55 minutes and almost got the team on the board with an incisive diagonal ball that freshman forward Brenna Lovera couldn’t finish.

Riding high on a three-game win streak, fourth-seeded NU will face fifth-seeded Michigan on Sunday in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament. Gorman said the Cats will be ready to chase their next goal of a conference title after the emotional victory.

“We’re a very humble team,” she said. “When it comes time to play and be motivated to reach our goal, we can do it.” maxschuman2018@u.northwestern.edu

Women’s Soccer

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STORMIN’ GORMAN Kassidy Gorman dribbles around a defender earlier this season. The sophomore defender scored the winning goal in double overtime against Wisconsin Wednesday.