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With the Oct. 30 drop deadline for Fall Quarter courses nearing, Northwestern’s undergraduate schools announced a uniform course withdrawal policy this week, including a provision that allows McCormick students to drop individual classes for the first time.

University Registrar Jacqualyn Casazza said the University is now ensuring all undergraduates who drop a course after the drop deadline will receive a withdrawal grade on their transcripts. In addition, there is now a defined period during which students can request to withdraw from a course, she said.

Previously, Casazza said, there was no uniform course withdrawal policy among the six undergraduate schools.

Joseph Holtgreive, assistant dean for student career development at McCormick, told The Daily that McCormick students prior to the policy clarification announcement could not withdraw from an individual class.

“After the drop deadline, if a student wanted to withdraw from a class, they had to withdraw from all of their classes,” Holtgreive said. “This change allows students that flexibility to request to withdraw from individual courses.”

Holtgreive said the change in interpretation is beneficial to students because it allows them to have more flexibility with courses.

“What I think is really important — and this is why students still have to request to withdraw — is that we don’t want students to simply panic,” he said. “We want to have a conversation and let them understand that they

do have options.”

Casazza said research examining other universities’ course withdrawal policies revealed NU was far outside the norm of its peer institutions.

“The norm is that there is a withdrawal period, and every student who withdraws in that period gets a W,” Casazza said. “We are aligned now with what our peers are doing.”

The interpretation change aims to give every student the same experience with dropping a course, Casazza said. “(Whether you would) get a W or not get a W kind of depended on who you talked to that day and what school you were in,” she said. “It should be a consistent experience for students.”

Previously, undergraduates were allowed to submit withdrawal requests until the end of the term, but the definition of the term’s end was not clear, Casazza said.

“Classes end at different times,” she said. “Some classes in the fall end before Thanksgiving … some classes end a week before exam week, and so we wanted to make sure that we weren’t allowing students to request a withdrawal after the course ended.”

In an email to Communication students, Sally Ewing, associate dean for advising and student affairs at the School of Communication, said students may request to withdraw from a class until the due date of the final exam, paper or project in that particular class.

Dorina Rasmussen, Medill’s director of the student life, said the due dates of Medill students’ final assignments will be confirmed with the students’ instructors.

Mary Finn, associate dean for undergraduate academic affairs, as well as Ewing and » See WITHDRAWAL, page 9

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PROJECT PUMPKIN A child eats candy after trick or treating at Project Pumpkin. More than 1,000 elementary and middle school children from the Chicago area came to Norris University Center on Thursday for Project Pumpkin, an annual event allowing children to play games and trick or treat in a safe environment. Sponsored by the Northwestern Community Development Corps, Project Pumpkin featured a haunted house and other activities.

City OKs gender-open signs

By ELENA SUCHARETZA

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All Evanston public facilities with only one single-occupancy restroom will now be required to have genderneutral signage under an ordinance approved by City Council on Monday.

If there are three or more restrooms in a facility, at least one of them must be labeled as gender-neutral.

The city’s Community Development Department authored the ordinance in order to accommodate Evanston’s transgender community, department director Mark Muenzer said. Under the ordinance, public single-occupancy restroom facilities must be designated for men, women or as gender-neutral.

Muenzer said after he was named the city’s LGBT liason last year, he worked

with city staff to come up with several different ways the community could be more welcoming toward the LGBTQ community.

“We are the sixth or seventh city in the entire nation to do an ordinance like this — there are none in Illinois or Chicago that we are aware of,” Muenzer said. “We did research on comparable communities and we went through different reviews of the ordinance and got to a point that we felt was acceptable to the transgender community.”

Muenzer said although there is no official count of how many residents favor the ordinance, he has received several phone calls expressing support.

Existing businesses with public restrooms will have 60 days to comply with the ordinance, and new businesses will be notified of its requirements.

Ald. Jane Grover (7th) said City Council suspended its rules designating

a two-week waiting period before an ordinance is given final approval and passed it unanimously in one meeting.

Grover said city staff consulted a transgender Evanston resident named Carly Lehwald about the requirements for the ordinance. Lehwald stars with her son, Ben Lehwald, an Evanston Township High School student, on the ABC Family series “Becoming Us.” The series documents their lives navigating a marginalized identity.

Grover said Lehwald was present at the council meeting Monday and offered her support for the ordinance.

“This ordinance was to update our building codes … to make them where they need to be in terms of inclusivity,” Grover said. “To make a transgender person feel welcome and included at something as simple as a restaurant.” elenasucharetza2018@u.northwestern.edu

NU patents, licensing profits down over 90 percent

By DREW GERBER

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Northwestern saw only $32 million in profits from its patents and licensing agreements this year, down from $357 million last year, according to a 2015 report from the NU Innovations and New Ventures Office.

In 2014, the University sold its remaining royalty interests in the fibromyalgia drug Lyrica, which largely contributed to the profits earned last year.

The patent for Lyrica is set to expire next year.

Pregabalin, the chemical name for Lyrica, was developed by NU chemistry Prof. Richard Silverman nearly 25 years ago. Ultimately licensed to pharmaceutical company Pfizer, the world’s

Serving the University and Evanston since 1881

second-largest drug and biotech company, the probability of having a success like Lyrica is like winning the lottery, said Alicia Loffler, executive director of INVO. NU sold off the initial portion of its royalty interests in Lyrica at the end of 2007 for $700 million, which has helped the University remain one of the topranked universities in terms of profits from patents and licensing for the past

seven years, Loffler said.

Generally producing 211 inventions and roughly 12 startups a year, the University’s mission is to move its research to the public and to the market as part of its responsibility to contribute to economic growth, Loffler said.

Additionally, because the University receives roughly $620 million in sponsored research, a large portion of which comes in the form of research grants

from various federal agencies, there is an obligation “to make every effort to convert that research into products that will help humanity,” she said.

Loffler said the number of inventions produced each year by NU has been growing, with Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, the Feinberg School of Medicine and the McCormick School » See INVO, page 9

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STORY TIME Brian Wilson, a children’s librarian, stands in the stacks at Evanston Public Library. Wilson will start work for the 2017 Caldecott Award Selection Committee in January.

of 2016.

Although most of the work and research will be done from home, Wilson noted the considerable time commitment that comes with selecting the next winner of the Caldecott medal.

“It’s probably going to be the equivalent of another full-time job,” Wilson said, laughing. “I’m expecting it to be a lot of work. It’s a dream come true.”

EPL assistant director Paul Gottschalk said Wilson has strong connections with picture books’ authors and illustrators, often putting the library in contact with them to organize events.

“It’s great to see children’s reactions with him,” Gottschalk said. “He’s very personable with children.

He’s a national expert in picture books.”

Ralph Holcomb is a stay-at-home Evanston father who has attended many of Wilson’s story times with his 18-month-old and five-year-old daughters. Wilson switches up the books, keeping both the kids and the parents engaged, he said.

Holcomb said although his five-year-old daughter clearly loved Wilson’s performance, he found himself

enjoying it too.

“It was the highlight of the week when we could go to the library,” he said. “He puts emotion into it.

It’s very much like watching a theatrical show.”

Wilson said it’s an exciting time to read children’s literature because there are hundreds of books for all age levels. Picture books are especially important to promote early literacy, he said.

“Kids are very sharp,” Wilson said. “They see things in the art and see things in the story that the adults don’t see.”

The library often holds parent-child workshops to promote toddlers playing and experiencing storytelling. During a workshop, Wilson described a mother approaching him and telling him how welcome she felt with her two-year-old son after recently moving to Evanston.

“She said, ‘This is our favorite thing in the world,’ and ‘I think he’s going to love libraries,’” Wilson said.

“That’s when you realize you’re doing a good job.” ericasnow2019@u.northwestern.edu

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For some, picture books may be a tenant only of early childhood, but for Evanston librarian Brian Wilson, the illustrations and prose of books like “Kitten’s First Full Moon” and “Where the Wild Things Are” still have emotional pull.

Wilson, a children’s librarian at the Evanston Public Library, was elected in May to be on the 2017 Caldecott Award Selection Committee to choose the best children’s picture book of the year, an honor which has been awarded to books such as “The Polar Express” and “The Invention of Hugo Cabret.”

At EPL, Wilson reads books during story-time sessions for children and their families and selects books to stock the shelves of the children’s section.

“Evanston is a community that loves books,” Wilson said. “Kids are carrying armfuls of books out of here all the time. It’s a blast being a children’s librarian.”

Wilson started at the library 14 years ago after working at a public library in upstate New York and another in Oak Park, Illinois, more than 15 miles away from Evanston.

This year, two decades after Wilson received his masters degree in library science, he said his election to the Caldecott committee was an honor.

“It’s my 20th anniversary of receiving my MLS,” Wilson said. “It’s a nice anniversary present.”

EPL’s youth services supervisor Jan Bojda hired Wilson more than a decade ago and nominated him to the committee. She said his devotion to children’s literature — and to the children who visit the library — made him an easy candidate for the job and the committee.

“Someone who stood up for kids as patrons was somebody that I wanted to work with,” Bojda said.

Wilson, who will sit on the committee with about a dozen other picture book experts, said he didn’t expect to be selected. He said to be considered among such qualified people was an honor in and of itself. The committee will have its first meeting in Boston in January to discuss the best picture books

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CARE, Women’s Center to start new support group

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A student support group for survivors of sexual violence will open its doors for the first time early next quarter.

The group, From Surviving to Thriving, aims to give students a place to grieve and heal safely.

Carrie Wachter, the Center for Awareness, Response and Education’s coordinator of sexual violence response services and advocacy, is one of the group’s facilitators. She said the group also aims to build empathy, restore social connections, integrate goals of the past and present and validate members’ experiences with sexual violence.

Wachter said she started the group with Sara Walz, a counselor at the Women’s Center. CARE and the Women’s Center have collaborated on interpersonal issues for a long time, she said.

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It’s a great way for survivors to talk about their experiences. Even just telling the story is helpful.

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“In this work that we’ve been doing, we recognized that there’s a gap for survivors on campus,” Wachter said. “They don’t have a place to come

together. They have a place to go individually.”

In her experience as a counselor, Walz said she has seen people go months or even years without talking about their experiences, often because of early unsupportive responses.

“What we know is that people who have experienced trauma will often feel a sense of isolation, shame, even a sense of self doubt,” Wachter said. “A support group like this can really help survivors feel less alone.”

To join the group, Wachter said, students must be survivors themselves. Although From Surviving to Thriving is closed to people who have not been directly affected by sexual violence, Walz said counseling services are available for students who have questions or concerns about their own relationships.

Walz, who has worked at the Women’s Center

for about 10 years, said she has referred many to outside support in her career and has long wanted to start this kind of group on campus.

Walz said increased advocacy of the issue, as well as the right staffing, allowed the Women’s Center and CARE to develop the program.

SESP junior Kendall Speer, co-chair of College Feminists’ Take Back the Night event during Northwestern’s Sexual Assault Awareness Week, said the new group is great to have on campus.

“For Take Back the Night, we have a speakout for survivors to tell their stories,” Speer said.

“But that’s only once a year, and I’m sure it’s needed more than that. It’s a great way for survivors to talk about their experiences. Even just telling the story is helpful.” darbyhopper@u.northwestern.edu

Sodexo, students team up for food advisory board

By KELLEY CZAJKA

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Northwestern and Sodexo are creating a new Food Advisory Board for students to provide input about changes they would like to see in the University’s dining program.

McCormick junior Sandeep Bharadwaj, who serves as Associated Student Government’s director of dining initiatives, said he met with Ken Field, NU’s dining director, and Rachel Tilghman, Sodexo’s director of communications and engagement, last year to discuss potential improvements to the campus dining system. The three of them decided to form the Food Advisory Board to figure out what changes needed to be made, Bharadwaj said.

“The idea behind starting it was to get a wider student base of opinions about the food and how we can improve it,” Bharadwaj said.

Bharadwaj said a lot of the changes revolve around meal plan options and students with dietary restrictions, such as vegetarians, vegans and people who follow a gluten-free diet.

In past years, NU had a joint board between Sodexo and ASG that comprised eight people and met two or three times per quarter to discuss programs and events for Sodexo to do with students, said Aaron Zelikovich (Weinberg ’14).

The former board was implemented primarily

by Zelikovich with the help of Tilghman, then an undergraduate at Chapman University in California, as well as other fellow members of Sodexo’s National Student Board of Directors.

The board at NU was a more streamlined way to voice student concerns and opinions about Sodexo, Zelikovich said.

“We were very well aware this was a new thing that we were trying out and feeling out,” he said.

“But I definitely know that without it, there wouldn’t be a committee today.”

After Zelikovich graduated, Tilghman said she

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Food is such a source of community, and to be able to have students who are actually involved in shaping their community is really powerful..

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and Field took more freedom to explore possible structures for the new board.

“We have a new director of dining who would also like to source ideas and feedback from students,” Tilghman said. “So we said, ‘Hey, this really worked, we would just need to revamp it a little bit,’ and that’s where we came up with the food advisory committee.”

Rather than having members devote themselves to specific areas such as sustainability or

vegetarian diets as the previous board did, the Food Advisory Board will likely comprise nine to 12 students with various backgrounds and allow them to discuss potential changes.

“We’re kind of going to get all of the students in the room and see what the students want to make of it,” Tilghman said. “It’s really up to them.

We’re just providing the forum and the resources for them to be doing that.”

The application for the Food Advisory Board will be open until midnight on Oct. 31, and the first meeting will be held on Nov. 10, Tilghman said.

“I’m really excited about the opportunity to further engage students with this program,” she said. “Food is such a source of community and to be able to have students who are actually involved in shaping their community is really powerful, so I’m really looking forward to working with this board.” kelleyczajka2019@u.northwestern.edu

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DMK restaurateurs to open fried chicken eatery

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After DMK Burger & Fish shut down last May, Noyes Street was left without one of its most popular eateries for Northwestern students. But DMK owners David Morton and Michael Kornick were not done with Evanston yet.

Morton and Kornick, partners in the restaurant industry since 2009, are opening a new restaurant early next month at 815 Noyes St., the site that used to house DMK. Arlen’s, their new project named after one of their chefs, will be a fried chicken, sweet tea and tater tots hub aimed at both students and Evanston residents.

The concept for Arlen’s was developed after Kornick and Morton held a contest among chefs who work for their different Chicago area restaurants to determine which direction they should head with their next restaurant endeavor.

“The funny thing about chefs is that they all tell you they make the best fried chicken,” Morton said.

“So we thought to settle the score.”

In the chefs’ competition, Britt Arlen of the Fish Bar in Chicago was the unanimous victor, Morton said. As a result, both his name and recipes will now be featured in the new restaurant.

Among Arlen’s menu choices are chicken nuggets, root beer floats, chicken sandwiches, biscuits and an all-day breakfast sandwich. Morton said the restaurant — by popular demand — will also offer five different DMK milkshakes.

Kornick, who lived in Evanston for 15 years, said there are only a few options in Evanston for

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fried chicken, leaving room in the city’s marketplace for innovation.

“The folks who live around the area and especially the Northwestern students are always looking for something new and delicious and fun,” he said. “We have proven in many neighborhoods where we operate … that we’re capable of creating (great) flavors at reasonable prices in a fun atmosphere.”

Kornick said although the pair is not trying to imitate southern-style fried chicken recipes at Arlen’s, they are hoping the sense of hospitality present in several southern restaurants he has visited can be cultivated in the new restaurant.

As for flavor, he said what differentiates Arlen’s fried chicken from southern-style fried chicken is its mix of spices and buttermilk-soaked breading.

“To some degree, fried chicken seems to have gravitated more to the South than the North,” he said. “Our version is more reminiscent of Asian and southwestern or South American spices.”

Although visitors can choose to eat at the restaurant, all orders at Arlen’s will be packaged to go. Morton said this was planned with students’ fast-paced lifestyles in mind — which means they can order, pay, throw their food in their backpacks and head to class in minutes.

Morton said he spoke with Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications students last school year regarding the new project. From them, he said he heard about the success of models such as Chipotle or Blaze Pizza, which offer customers the chance to customize their meals. Morton said he was mindful of this feedback when creating Arlen’s.

As part of the initial competition, Morton

the station, the woman began yelling at them and spit at an officer, Dugan said.

A CTA employee told police the woman had been previously kicked out of the station for making a disturbance and stealing from the station’s Dunkin’ Donuts.

The woman was charged with a misdemeanor for battery. She is scheduled to appear in court Dec. 10.

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FRESH GRUB A new fried chicken restaurant is coming to Evanston early next month. Arlen’s will open in DMK’s former location at 815 Noyes St.

and Kornick also worked with NU student focus groups to better understand the student perspective regarding not only menu choices and flavor, but also price and portion sizes.

Morton, an Evanston resident, said he and Kornick decided to open Arlen’s in the city because of their ties to the community and the opportunity to work near NU. “We think Northwestern is an ideal place in the sense that it has a very diverse population,” he said.

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“It has great potential to be really popular among students,” she said. “It has an offering that really fits the college lifestyle.” alfaro@u.northwestern.edu

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Wildcat Welcome fails to address gay sex education JOE MADDEN COLUMNIST

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Walking into the sexual education night of Wildcat Welcome, I thought that, because I was at college, gay sex-ed might be on the table. I had learned from previous Essential NUs to expect a few provocative jokes from speakers and to leave without learning anything but feeling OK with having sat through the session if it meant somebody else had learned something. My high school experience with sexual education had been an uncomfortable slideshow of unilateral

demands for abstinence and extreme cases of herpes without mention of gay sex. Like most kids, I wasn’t super excited for the ENU, but I still wanted to learn more of what most of my friends’ high schools taught them: how to have safe sex.

Unfortunately, the most I learned about gay sex-ed that night came from a particularly racy episode of ABC’s “How to Get Away with Murder.” The ENU presented a scenario in which two guys started flirting with one another at a frat party and one, the straight-acting one, tells the other pre-intercourse that he identifies as a woman. Everybody I talked to thought the play was daring, provocative and well-done for including the LGBT community. I walked out noting the skit devoted to the LGBT community hit the heavy topics of sexual orientation and gender identity in the span of a few minutes.

That was the problem with the ENU: It hit the L and the G and the B and the T. It did not educate its audience about them. In fact, it confused them. Sexual orientation and gender identity are separate, and the character who identified as a woman had no reason to bring up her gender identity to hook up

with the gay one.

At best, the ENU was tentative in treating gay issues. Sex was not nearly as explicitly discussed as it was during the heterosexual skits. I am also sure that I was not the only member of the audience who noticed how the heterosexual and even lesbian couples kissed, grinded and groped one another and how the gay couple had no physical contact whatsoever.

Most importantly, I would argue that only a very small portion of Northwestern’s gay student population has ever had to deal with hitting on a guy for a few minutes, finding out he identifies as a woman and deciding to have sex with him anyway at a fraternity party. A much larger portion of NU’s gay student population is probably having anal sex.

Why did the necessity of gay men wearing condoms before having anal sex to prevent the contraction of HIV go unmentioned?

Why did I learn about the existence of the HIV-preventative medication, PrEP, from the aforementioned episode of “How to Get Away with Murder” rather than from NU? Why didn’t the play stress that saying antihomosexual slurs to a gay couple at a bar or

in a fraternity, as I have already seen happen here, is not OK? Overall, why did the writers of the skit think talking about LGBT communities was more important than teaching them?

Going forward, the writers of the sexual education ENU should focus on the substantive issues facing the LGBT community: discrimination, sexual confusion and increased susceptibility to HIV. That night of Wildcat Welcome would have had a much more positive influence on the incoming gay freshmen particularly if it had mentioned the existence of HIV-preventative medication, written the fictional gay couple as being as physical and sexual as they did the others and advised against the expression of anti-homosexuality seen far too frequently at fraternities and bars.

Joseph Madden is a Weinberg freshman. He can be contacted at josephmadden2019@u.northwestern.edu.

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Millennials’ ‘sensitivity’ more nuanced than it seems SARA HALLORAN

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Lately a movement has emerged blaming “helicopter parenting,” parents who are overinvolved with and overprotective of children, for the struggles of new college students to assimilate to university life. These critics claim over-parenting has effectively crippled young adults emotionally, leaving them hapless in the face of increased independence in college.

While over-parenting definitely exists — and is definitely irritating — the need to find a scapegoat for higher rates of mental illness and increased “political correctness” in college students is based more in fear of social change than genuine concern. There are larger factors contributing to these higher rates — the pressure-cooker environment at high schools and colleges, often inadequate mental health support systems at universities, a higher cultural sensitivity in newer generations — that these critics have chosen to downplay or outright ignore. The image of weak, ineffectual kids with egos stroked by their obsessive parents is simply easier to embrace than the reality that it is the system, not the character of college students, that

has changed so dramatically over the past decades.

The notion of the oversensitive, completely helpless college student is a fallacy. It’s true that many college students are constantly overwhelmed, and some struggle with mental illness. It only takes one look at the high school landscape in which these students are raised to understand why. To keep up with their peers, students at or near the top are forced to stretch themselves thin — join as many extracurriculars as possible and take as many AP classes as they can fit into their schedules. Any one misstep could mean the difference between receiving an acceptance letter for which they had worked their whole lives and rejection. With this background, it’s no wonder that so many students have such a crippling fear of failure. Yet it’s important to remember that the students who come out of high school like this — burnt out, anxious and too emotionally exhausted to socialize — are the same students who kept themselves at an elite level for four years. They might be broken, but if they possessed the savvy to get into a so-called “good” school, they are far from helpless.

This is where “helicopter parents” come into the equation. I believe many of these social critics overestimate just how much parents are even able to be involved in students’ live by the time they reach high school. It is likely true that, most of the time,

behind a successful student is an involved parent. However, these parents, for the most part, are likely trying to fill in the cracks they see forming in their stressed-out children. The parents who harass their children’s teachers to change their grades and intervene in every aspect of their children’s lives are, from what I have seen, definite outliers. Besides, the children of these parents are usually embarrassed by this behavior, as teenagers are wont to be.

Increasing rates of depression and anxiety are also blamed on the lack of mental fortitude of my generation and our parents, as if mental illness is a form of weakness.

Although the high-pressure environment is certainly a breeding ground for mental illness, the uptick in mentally ill students can also be attributed to greater awareness for depression and anxiety — students whose grades are dropping may now be recognized as suffering from depression, whereas 30 years ago, they might have been marked “problem children.”

Despite what some critics might think, this is a decidedly positive development. Greater cultural sensitivity, i.e. a lack of patience for intolerant language and a greater compassion for those who have a mental illness, is an indicator that society is actually moving in the right direction.

The entire theory that children are goaded into believing they’re special by a constant

Police in schools hurt more than they help SANJANA LAKSHMI

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For some children, school is a refuge from pressures and complications in other parts of their lives. Others, however, are never given the opportunity to experience school as a safe haven for learning. Recently, a video of a white police officer at Spring Valley High School in South Carolina assaulting a young black girl and throwing her across the classroom went viral. The girl was allegedly treated so violently for disturbing the class. Though I was appalled and disgusted when I heard the news, I wasn’t entirely surprised.

Cops and security officers — who carry arms and weapons — are normal presences on school and university campuses. We even have them at Northwestern. Although their purpose is to keep the school safe, there are no national standards to train officers who work in schools, and arrests and punishment for minor offenses are more likely to occur with police presence than without it. This over-policing and zero-tolerance policy for children has resulted in a school-to-prison pipeline — school troubles are often students’ first interaction with the United States’ criminal justice system, resulting in more and more

altercations. More often than not, these students are black.

Black students are three times more likely to be suspended than white students, and black girls are suspended at higher rates than most males. Children are suspended and arrested for vague offenses such as “profanity” and “willful defiance” (or essentially, talking back).

The black population is criminalized from such a young age, and black children are made to understand nobody is going to help them when the state assaults and brutalizes them while pretending to “protect.”

At Spring Valley High, one of the girl’s classmates spoke up for her rights, and she, in turn, was arrested as well. The officer in question, Ben Fields, has subsequently been fired, but he is only one out of the thousands of police officers stationed in schools across the country.

And firing Fields is not enough — he hasn’t been arrested, and the structure of police brutality in the United States has not changed.

How many black students have been dragged off their chairs to the floor by cops with no video evidence? How many children are sent to the juvenile justice system for minor offenses?

This cannot continue — this cannot be the way the United States treats people, much less our children.

One man, who murdered nine black people in a South Carolina church in cold blood, was given Burger King by police officers after they

safely arrested him, but countless black folks are violently assaulted — or even killed — by police officers. There is undeniably a double standard when it comes to the criminal justice system. Black children must be treated with respect and understanding, just as their peers are. Children are vulnerable and still developing, so they need to understand they are worth something. Being suspended or arrested for minor offenses sends these children the opposite message.

Over-policing in schools harms students.

Rather than learning how to effectively deal with children who talk back or have their cellphones out in class, teachers are now given the option to simply call school police officers who can deal with the problem as they see fit.

School should be a place where children feel safe. Instead, so many feel constantly threatened and criminalized. This criminalization facilitates the culture of police brutality and over-imprisonment of black folks that exists throughout the United States, and we need to organize against it.

Sanjana Lakshmi is a Weinberg junior. She can be contacted at sanjanalakshmi2017@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.

influx of praise and participation medals is insulting to their intelligence. Children are perceptive enough to know that if everyone in the room has a trophy, they’re not special for having one too. Fear of failure comes from the high-pressure environment in which failure is not an option, not because children’s heads are filled with empty praise from their teachers and parents. In the end, you can’t have it both ways — if you don’t want a classroom full of college kids flooding their professor with questions concerning minutia about their essay assignment, you can’t make it such a big deal in high school that every essay return an “A.” If you don’t want parents to intrude in their children’s lives, make their children’s lives possible to handle on their own. Every generation loves to believe it is better than its children — mentally tougher, more capable, more ambitious. It’s easier to believe that “millennials” and those who reared them are inferior to previous parent-child pairings than to actually confront the systems that emotionally drain students before they even enter college.

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In the two-hour show in McCormick Auditorium, titled “UnAmerican,” Usman I learned spoke to a group of approximately that all people are 120 students about faith, race and iden- pretty much the tity in America. The same and that show was emceed you can change

by Indian-American the way you do stand-up comedian Rishika Murthy and things by the opened by Tucker way you orient Millett, host of the Shicago show at the yourself.

CiC Theater, and Prateek Srivastava, Muhammad Yousaf, Weinberg senior an Indian comedian and Chicago-based producer.

After a light comedy performance by Millett, Srivastava addressed racial identity with anecdotes of discrimination that he faced throughout his life.

His words paved the way for Usman’s own stories about his Muslim-American identity and Islamophobia.

Usman recollected experiences of prejudice at airports and being subject to insensitive questions about his religion and race.

“We are a racialized community,” Usman said.

“The term Muslim has become simultaneously

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overinclusive and underinclusive … if you look anything like a Muslim in America, you are forced to play that role of an ambassador.”

Usman, who is also an actor, writer and producer, was born in Chicago and brought up in Skokie, Illinois. However, both his parents are Muslim immigrants from India. After graduating from law school, Usman performed stand-up comedy as a hobby in addition to his career. As his popularity began to increase, Usman ended his law career and began performing full time.

Usman has since toured more than 20 countries and has been named “America’s Funniest Muslim” by CNN. Although Usman addressed sensitive topics in a comical way, students said his performance examined important aspects of racial and religious tensions.

Weinberg junior Rimsha Ganatra, McSA’s vice president of public relations, said Usman’s performance has the potential to affect how the Muslim community is viewed by non-Muslims on campus.

“Everything is lighter when it becomes funny,” Ganatra said. “His performances add a comedic relief to all the tensions there are with Muslims and Islamophobia.”

Weinberg senior Muhammad Yousaf said comedy helped Usman tackle and offer solutions to serious problems in society.

“I was surprised that he tackled serious racial issues,” Yousaf said. “I learned that all people are pretty much the same and that you can change the way you do things by the way you orient yourself and by keeping an open mind.”

Usman closed his show with a positive message about identity and race in America.

“I have come to find a profound truth: All of us are exactly the same,” he said. ishabhutada2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Susan Olson, assistant dean for students affairs at the School of Education and Social Policy, announced the same process in emails to their respective schools.

In an email to SESP students, Olson said the new interpretation of the course withdrawal policy was already in place at SESP but is new to some of the other undergraduate schools. From now on, all schools will adhere to the policy in the same way, she said.

Weinberg senior Riko Ohashi, Associated Student Government’s vice president for academics, said some undergraduates were previously not aware of their ability to withdraw from courses past the drop deadline. The policy clarification has a positive impact on students from a health perspective, she added.

“It’s good for everyone that we are all on the same page, everything is clear, and that both students and faculty members, advisers and alike, know that you can drop a class after the deadline if you have good reasons for it,” Ohashi said.

of Engineering producing the largest number of inventions and innovations. The inventions, mostly medical and biomedical, usually stem from federally funded research and reflect the ratio — 7 to 1 medical and biomedical to other — of federal investment into those fields.

However, Loffler said the best inventions come from the intersection of many disciplines. Narrative Science, a company that uses software to transform data into readable news, originated as a collaboration between students in the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications and the department of computer science in Weinberg. Using an artificial intelligence platform called Quill, Narrative Science generates stories it says are “indistinguishable” from those written by humans.

INVO works to nurture a culture of innovation and create structures to support entrepreneurship through educational programs like residencies for entrepreneurs, fellowships and internships for

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National News Nintendo finally pulls the trigger on first mobile game WASHINGTON — Nintendo is finally making the move into smartphone gaming, figuring it’s better late than never.

The Japanese electronics maker _ one of the world’s biggest video game companies but a virtual nonentity in the rapidly growing mobile games industry _ unveiled its first title for smartphones Thursday in Tokyo.

“Miitomo,” which is set to be released in the spring of next year, is a game that allows players to create avatars to interact with one another socially. The game is the first of five mobile apps Nintendo plans to launch

by March 2017, including one that may feature the iconic “Super Mario,” the company said at an investor briefing in Tokyo.

The long-overdue move is an effort to tap into the lucrative and cutthroat world of mobile games that has exploded with the proliferation of smartphones and tablets. Chances are, at one time or another, you were secretly obsessed with “Angry Birds” or “Candy Crush.” Even Kim Kardashian scored big when she launched “Kim Kardashian: Hollywood” last year, with the addictive mobile game raking in $1.6 million in its first five days.

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This year marks the first time mobile gaming revenue will exceed console gaming revenue globally, at $30 billion versus $27 billion, according to video game market research firm Newzoo.

Nintendo’s popular franchises, which include “Super Mario” and “Zelda,” “have the potential to be a billion-dollar business on mobile alone,” said Peter Warman, Newzoo’s co-founder and chief executive.

“Unbelievable that it has taken so long for Nintendo,” he said. “They had to see Apple, Google, King and Supercell surpass them in terms of 2014 game revenues to take action towards mobile. However, it never is too late because smartphone and tablet gaming is here to stay.”

Nintendo first announced its entry into smartphone games in March, partnering with Tokyo Internet firm DeNA. “Both companies will develop and operate new game apps based on Nintendo’s (intellectual property), including its iconic game characters, for smart devices,” DeNA said in a statement at the time. “The alliance is intended to complement Nintendo’s dedicated video game systems business and extend Nintendo’s reach into the vast market of smart device users worldwide.”

Once the unequivocal leader in video games, Nintendo today is facing threats from several directions.

Its troubles began when casual gamers who enjoyed Nintendo’s family friendly titles migrated from home and hand-held game consoles to mobile devices, where

students, Loffler said. She said Chicago lacks the vibrant ecosystem for innovation that universities like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University have because of their locations and access to venture capital.

“In places like MIT and Stanford, because they live in such a vibrant ecosystem, their office is very transactional,” Loffler said. “They have a much longer history than we do… so the office doesn’t do any outreach or any education. …

They don’t do many collaborations with the community.”

The Garage, a new NU startup incubator that launched in June, aims to help students develop their ideas and transform them into startup companies. Loffler told The Daily in September that The Garage is a place for students from across the University to come and collaborate.

In terms of investment, the general rule of thumb is that it takes $1 billion of research funding to get one company or product that will secure more than $100 million in revenue, Loffler said. Given this, the best that can be done is to increase this probability of success by creating the they found similar games made by rival developers, often available free.

At the same time, consoles like the PlayStation and Xbox started serving hardcore gamers with graphically rich titles, many highlighted by heart-pounding violence.

Complicating matters for Nintendo was the saturation of the global console market. It didn’t help that consoles never made inroads in China and other regions.

As such, the Kyoto company has experienced steep declines in console sales in recent years.

In 2008, no home video game console was more popular than the Nintendo Wii, with 24.19 million units sold. By 2014, only 530,000 of them were sold, fewer than the Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, according to data website Statista.

Nintendo’s latest console, the Wii U, was a dud, selling about 10 million units its first three years. Even its hand-held 3DS has seen sales dip from 12.56 million units in 2011, its launch year, to 9.97 million in 2014.

Meanwhile, sales of Sony’s PlayStation 4, a more powerful gaming console, nearly doubled to 13.92 million units in 2014 from 2013.

By turning its focus to smartphones, Nintendo is relying less on its console business while capitalizing on the near ubiquity of smartphones.

But unlike Sega, which ditched its Genesis console to focus on games, Nintendo isn’t abandoning

supporting infrastructure, she said.

Loffler said INVO’s strategy is already showing some success, with Naurex, an antidepressant company, being purchased by pharmaceutical giant Allergan in July for an initial $560 million.

Joseph Moskal, Naurex founder and McCormick professor, believes the drugs Naurex produces offer something new.

“We are in a new space entirely,” Moskal told The Daily at the beginning of October. “This isn’t your grandma’s antidepressant. This is a new class of compounds that work by a new mechanism.

And that mechanism is just beginning to be explored.”

Although INVO is happy with the sale of Naurex, the real revenues will come when the drug hits the market — potentially within three years — though the drug has yet to go through clinical trials, Loffler said.

“A lot has been happening in the past five years and it has been driven by students and faculty,” she said. “It has been a great ride.” drewgerber2018@u.northwestern.edu consoles.

Ideally, the move into mobile games satisfies longtime customers while enticing new ones to the Nintendo brand, which might in turn lead them to buy Nintendo’s consoles. The company also is working on a secretive new platform code-named NX. The problem with chasing its target audience to mobile is that the smartphone gaming market has become crowded with competitors, and Nintendo is relegated to playing catch-up.

Warman said the annual growth rate for mobile games in the U.S. has slipped over the last few years from more than 60 percent to just over 10 percent. The good news for Nintendo is that emerging markets are embracing mobile games.

“Top global game franchises generate $1 billionplus per year. Examples being ‘Candy Crush,’ ‘Clash of Clans,’ ‘Call of Duty,’ ‘GTA.’ ‘Mario’ is in the same league and has the potential to generate $500 millionplus on mobile alone,” he said. “I am very happy that Nintendo has woken up to the real world.”

All of Nintendo’s intellectual property would be eligible for development under the alliance, and that only new, original games optimized for smartphones would be created, “rather than porting games created specifically for the Wii U home console or the Nintendo 3DS portable system,” DeNA said.

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the game will end in our favor.”

The Cats endured early losses to ranked teams — Connecticut, Duke and Maryland — but the team has shown steady progression since.

Fuchs said she admires how the players did not give up on the season and how they continued to

Cats open season ranked No. 24 in USA Today Coaches Poll

Northwestern came out of nowhere last year to take the Big Ten by storm and finish tied for fourth in the conference en route to earning a spot in the NCAA Tournament. This year, the Wildcats will be taking nobody by surprise.

NU earned the No. 24 spot in the USA Today Coaches Poll preseason rankings, which came out on Thursday. Last season, the Cats didn’t crack the Top 25 in the Coaches Poll until the last week of the regular season, although they did gain recognition in the AP Poll two weeks prior.

NU started and finished its season strong last year. It won 11-straight contests to start the season

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015 fight in every game.

“We’ve shown a lot of resilience in character,” Fuchs said. “We were down in some games and came back. They’ve done everything I ask. They work tremendously hard, and most of all they are really great people. So I’m looking forward to tomorrow.” danielwaldman2019@u.northwestern.edu and won eight consecutive games to go undefeated in February before falling to Maryland in its regular season finale.

The team is returning four of its starters from the 2014-2015 campaign in junior guards Ashley Deary and Christen Inman, junior forward Nia Coffey and senior guard Maggie Lyon. Senior forward Lauren Douglas, who was a key contributor off the bench last year, is also returning, meaning the team brings back its top five scorers from the previous season.

The Cats have already made it known that the success from last year was not enough, and they are hungry for more.

NU was recently projected the third best team in the Big Ten by media rankings, and was pegged No. 12 in the country in Athlon Sports Magazine’s preseason rankings.

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“We need to get away from anything other than being who we are and working our butts off,” Chan said. “If we do that, the opportunity to become consistent will arrive.”

The Cats have plenty of potential with players like redshirt senior libero Carks Niedospial, who currently leads the Big Ten in digs per set.

Niedospial brings aggression from the service line and across the court, and that’s exactly what she feels the team needs this weekend against the Wolverines and the Spartans, she said.

“It’s really important for us to come out, balls out every single play,” Niedospial said. “We definitely need to stay aggressive on all aspects of the game.”

Aside from being aggressive and upping their game, as a whole, the team has to keep its eye

Cross Country

NU set to host Big Ten Championships on Sunday

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The Wildcats will race for the first time on the Sydney Marovitz Golf Course in Chicago this Sunday as they host the 2015 Big Ten Championships.

Under new guidance by coach ‘A Havahla Haynes, Northwestern has experienced steady growth this season, working on a solid team racing strategy and seeing several freshmen women adjust successfully to Division I college training.

As they head into Big Tens, the Cats have lost a top scorer, junior Jena Pianin, due to injury, but they still anticipate reaching their goal of finishing in the top 10 in a field of 14 competitive teams.

“Obviously Jena getting hurt is unfortunate. But the rest of the women’s training has gone well, and the progression leading up to Big Tens has been great,” Haynes said. “All the women have seen those improvements, and we’re healthier than we were at the beginning of the season, which is huge.”

In order to be successful in this meet, Haynes said her team is going to need to be competitive with Iowa. NU surpassed Iowa in a close race earlier in the season at the Joe Piane Notre Dame Cross Country Invitational, but the Cats will need to have strong performances by their top five runners to secure that one victory at the meet.

In addition to Iowa, NU will chase some of the faster teams as a way to gauge its competitiveness in the race and stay aggressive. Though the Cats may not be able to compete with Indiana and Ohio State’s No. 1 runners, Haynes said she thinks her athletes should make contact with the second through fifth runners from these teams so they can score crucial points.

Though they are hosting the meet, NU’s homecourse advantage is unique. No runners competing on Sunday, including the Cats, have stepped foot on the course before. It will be a brand new course in a brand new setting, but senior Renee Wellman on Michigan’s junior middle blocker Abby Cole.

Cole has been outside hitting for the past three games, accruing double digit kills every game.

NU junior outside hitter Kayla Morin said the team needs to work together to succeed against a player like Cole.

“If we can work together with the blockers and the defense, we can slow her down,” Morin said. “We’re looking for a team mindset in coming together, as a team.”

said it doesn’t matter.

Wellman will not be competing Sunday, but she said she will be in attendance to cheer on her team.

When the Big Ten Championships are hosted elsewhere, it’s difficult for women not competing to travel and support the squad. Hosting the Big Ten Championships in Chicago, which the Cats haven’t done before, could attract more NU fans, which means the runners will get some helpful support.

“It’s a really, really great feeling to see purple and to hear your name called,” Wellman said.

“When the energy is toward you, it It’s a really, really directed can only help.” great feeling In Haynes’ eyes, her athletes are ready to to see purple compete on the new and to hear turf. With a roster of nine women, includyour name ing two freshmen, two called. When sophomores, one junior the energy is and four seniors, sevdirected toward eral have raced in Big Ten Championship you, it can only races before. For those who haven’t, Haynes help. said the race will be Renee Wellman, an experience that will senior turn them into smarter runners for future seasons, especially freshmen Mary Orders and Hannah Anderson.

“I think experiencing Big Ten cross country makes you better,” said Haynes, who competed for Wisconsin during her undergraduate career.

“The experience helps. I don’t think being on a course before or not changes much about what a cross country runner does. The fact that it’s a new course is irrelevant.”

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“This is great chance for us to move forward in our Big Ten play and start the second round off strong against two teams that we have a history of competing against and have a strong rivalry against,” Morin said. sophiemann2018@u.northwestern.edu

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For crucial Big Ten matchup Sunday, NU heads to State College Northwestern vs. Penn State State College, Pennsylvania Noon Sunday

After a zombie-like performance earlier this week, Northwestern must quickly change costumes before traveling to Penn State for a crucial game Sunday morning.

Tuesday’s 2-0 defeat to Loyola shouldn’t be too difficult to mentally move past: The Wildcats remain 3-3-0 in the Big Ten (6-7-2 overall), within reach of the regular season title and 35th in the national RPI rankings NU will travel outside the Chicago area for the first time since Oct. 2, when it beat Maryland 2-1 in overtime. A win during this weekend’s trip to State College, Pennsylvania could potentially move them into a tie with Rutgers for first place in the conference.

Penn State (6-6-3, 2-3-2) heads into the matchup against the Cats seeking to reignite their fading NCAA Tournament hopes and end a skid of poor form.

The Nittany Lions have won just two of their last eight matches and lost five of six between Sept. 26 and Oct. 19. They earned a muchneeded 3-0 victory over Loyola Marymount in their last home outing, but then tied 2-2 against a last-place Wisconsin team this past Saturday.

The Cats could enjoy an opportunity to jump-start their offense, which has not scored more than two goals in any game this year, as Penn State has conceded 11 goals in its last five contests.

Last season, junior forward Mike Roberge ended the meeting with the Nittany Lions — the second-to-last game of NU’s 2014 campaign — with a double-overtime game-winner. It was the third consecutive year the two foes went to overtime.

On this Halloween weekend, Roberge will likely hope to again put on a cape and fill the Superman role, as the Cats look for an immensely important win.

— Ben Pope

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COME TOGETHER A group of Wildcats celebrate a goal. The Cats are looking to brush off a loss to Loyola in their last game as they travel to face Penn State on Sunday.

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Cats start Big Tens with rematch versus Michigan Michigan vs. Northwestern

By MAX SCHUMAN

daily senior staffer

When the final whistle blew in Northwestern’s dramatic double overtime victory over Wisconsin on Wednesday, ensuring the Wildcats would finish fourth in the Big Ten, NU fans had the right to be thrilled with the accomplishment — and the right to be a little nervous for the tournament game to come.

Sliding up to the fourth seed ensured that the Cats (13-4-2, 7-3-1 Big Ten) would be on a collision course with fifthseeded Michigan (11-6-2, 6-3-2), a team that thoroughly dominated NU in an Oct. 8 game that was much more lopsided than the 1-0 scoreline in favor of the Wolverines. The teams will play Sunday at New Trier High School in Northfield, Illinois.

“They were a very aggressive and difficult opponent for us,” coach Michael Moynihan said. “We had a lot of trouble playing them.”

Michigan’s athleticism and energy had the Cats on their heels all game. Their relentless high pressure forced countless NU turnovers in the midfield and the Wolverines found gaping holes in NU’s back line in a way few teams have this season.

The Cats’ hapless showing on that evening, so out of character in what has been a banner season for the team, could be a sign that NU just can’t match up with the Wolverines’ power and pace. But Wednesday’s win over Wisconsin, the Cats’ fourth win in their last five games, showed how much has changed since that night in Ann

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For one, NU’s defense, its bread and butter this season, has stabilized since the Michigan game, yielding two goals in its last five games. The back line’s return to form has coincided with a few tactical tweaks: Moynihan experimented with a back three in a dominant Oct. 18 showing against Iowa and pushed sophomore and natural outside back Kassidy Gorman into the midfield against Wisconsin to get another capable defender on the field.

Meanwhile, sophomore forward Michelle Manning’s return from injury will boost the offense. Manning, who missed the previous matchup with Michigan and made the All-Big Ten Tournament team last season, displayed on-ball composure and was an able outlet for her defense against Wisconsin, skills that could come in handy to break the Wolverines’ press.

And in a game that should be close, NU’s good form to end the regular season pays immediate dividends by giving the Cats home field advantage in this tournament matchup — a boost against a Michigan team that is 1-5-2 on the road this season.

The key to the game will be the Cats’ performance in the midfield, where NU will lean on senior captains Niki Sebo and Nandi Mehta to be accurate with their distribution. If they can avoid turnovers deep

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MEHTA IN THE MIDDLE Senior midfielder Nandi Mehta battles for the ball. Mehta and her fellow midfielders will look to break down Michigan’s press in their Big Ten Tournament first-round matchup with the Wolverines.

in the Cats’ half and link up with junior forward Addie Steiner, NU’s leader in goals and a scorer in three consecutive games, it will go a long way toward a victory.

But control of the midfield might be a tall task, if the first matchup was any indication. Gorman, who scored the golden goal that won the game against Wisconsin,

NU hosts Wolverines, Spartans

By SOPHIE MANN

daily senior staffer @sophiemmann

No. 25 Michigan vs. Northwestern Evanston, Illinois 7 p.m. Friday

Michigan State vs. Northwestern Evanston, Illinois 6 p.m. Saturday

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GET PUMPED Senior libero Carks Niedospial celebrates. Niedospial, who leads the Big Ten in digs per set, will be looking to lead NU to much needed wins against Michigan and Michigan State this weekend.

Northwestern enters a homestand this weekend looking to reverse a disappointing stretch.

The Wildcats (12-9, 4-6 Big Ten) lost two straight games last weekend on the road, and they are hoping to rally this weekend against No. 25 Michigan (15-6, 5-5) and Michigan State (14-7, 6-4).

Although neither opponent leads the Big Ten or NCAA in any particular aspects of play, the Wolverines’ and Spartans’ superior — and more consistent — records in and out of conference play has NU on its toes.

Coach Keylor Chan talked this week about how the key to breaking this streak of inconsistency is hard work.

This potential showed itself during the team’s recent match against Penn State but hasn’t resurfaced since then. » See VOLLEYBALL, page 10

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has no doubt the Cats will need their best to beat Michigan.

“It’s super great … that we got fourth now,” she said, “but we need to come out Sunday and be super prepared and motivated and just focus on this game.”

Moynihan said the regular season meeting with the Wolverines proves

nothing will be easy for NU in this battle for a Big Ten semifinal berth.

“We’re in for a challenge,” Moynihan said. “Hopefully we learned from the first time we played them and can put in a bit better effort.” maxschuman2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Wildcats looking for big Senior Day win Penn State vs. No. 16 Northwestern

By DAN WALDMAN

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Evanston, Illinois 3 p.m. Friday

In what could be the most sentimental game of the year, the Wildcats will face Penn State on Friday in their regularseason finale.

No. 16 Northwestern (12-6, 4-3 Big Ten) will honor its seniors for their last regular-season game at Lakeside Field, setting up an emotional match against Penn State (7-9, 3-4). Coach Tracey Fuchs said the seniors showed tremendous leadership this season.

“This is a very special senior class for me,” Fuchs said. “I mean across the board leadership-wise, they have changed the culture of our team. I think it will be a little bit emotional for them and for their families who will be here. But once the game starts, they’ll settle in and play good Wildcat hockey.”

Last weekend, the Cats left Ohio with a pair of wins over Ohio State and Ohio.

Now NU has a chance to go into the Big Ten tournament riding a three-game win streak.

The Cats shut out the Buckeyes (9-8, 4-3) last Friday and held them to only two shots the entire game. Meanwhile, NU took 29 shots during the game and put 19 of them on goal. But Penn State put up similar numbers to the Cats when the Nittany Lions played Ohio State, attempting

25 shots.

Sophomore back Sophia Miller said the team wants to limit Penn State’s offensive opportunities.

“Penn State has a really solid midfield and really skilled forwards,” Miller said.

“So we are looking to break them down early and often, especially before the 50 and the 25 — the crucial areas of the field — so that they can’t take advantage of their opportunities.”

NU has had an up-and-down season plagued with close losses — five of its six losses were by one goal — but the Cats remain optimistic for their game against the Nittany Lions and the Big Ten Tournament.

Junior forward and leading scorer Isabel Flens said the team has come a long way since the beginning of the season and that its newly found confidence will be critical in the upcoming games.

“We’ve been a lot more confident than when we started,” Flens said. “We had some losses that were really close, and we could have won maybe. But I feel like as we have become more mature, we will be able to fight to the last minute, and hopefully » See FIELD HOCKEY, page 10

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