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WHAT’S IN A NAME Doug Medin, faculty advisor to the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance, attends a panel on historical trauma within Native American communities. Medin and NAISA are pushing to have Northwestern founder John Evans’ name removed from campus buildings and faculty positions due to his involvement in a massacre of Native Americans.
John Evans petition persists NAISA reintroduces name removal demand By FATHMA RAHMAN
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The Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance reintroduced a petition to have John Evans’ name removed from campus buildings at
EPD violence reduction initiative recovers 41 guns
The Evanston Police Department announced Thursday that its violence reduction initiative resulted in the recovery of 25 firearms from September to December of 2015. The violence reduction strategy was conceptualized last September in response to community concern about gun violence in the city. Two members from EPD’s neighborhood enforcement team and tactical unit worked specifically on gun-related crimes in the community, according to a news release. Additionally, members from the department’s problem-solving team and foot patrol went door-to-door visiting private residences, businesses, schools, parks and places of worship to ask Evanston residents about issues they felt were important. The team also used a HEAT map to
a historical trauma panel Thursday. The petition already sported over 300 signatures prior to the event hosted by One Book One Northwestern, said NAISA co-president Forrest Bruce. It was originally introduced in November during the second annual commemoration of the Sand Creek Massacre, which recognized the 151st patrol areas that had been indicated in shots fired calls, according to the release. Other units of the police department that pursued separate initiatives, such as the department’s 24/7 gun buyback program, recovered 16 additional weapons, totaling 41 recovered guns between September and December, according to the release. Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan told The Daily that the active pursuit of community input inherent in the violence reduction initiative was unique to Evanston. “We have officers going out to concentrate specifically on recovering firearms, and we have officers going into neighborhoods, knocking on doors and talking to residents,” Dugan said. “Everybody has gun buybacks, and I don’t know if they do it all the time, but the violence reduction initiative is pretty specific to Evanston.”
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anniversary of a brutal attack against a Cheyenne and Arapaho encampment by U.S. soldiers. Although introducing the petition during the commemoration was appropriate because it linked the issue to its historical context, Bruce said, » See EVANS, page 5
Northwestern faculty, staff and graduate and professional students are expected to complete an online training related to Title IX by January 29. The course, “Preventing Sexual Misconduct and Sex Discrimination,” was released to faculty and staff during Fall Quarter 2015. The first-ever online training for all faculty and staff, it provides education on how to prevent sexual misconduct and respond in situations where they are notified by a student of sexual misconduct. “Completing the course is essential to fulfilling our commitment to creating a campus climate where people understand their responsibilities to help prevent sexual misconduct,” Title IX coordinator Joan Slavin told The Daily in an email. Under Title IX, faculty and staff are required to report issues of sexual misconduct. However, Erin Clark, assistant director of NU’s Center for Awareness, Response and Education, said faculty and staff in the past have not had training on how to do so. “This (training) is a big, exciting step to make sure those reports are consistent and done with
compassion, too,” Clark said. “It’s something that has been a long time coming, and having something that is supported by the University and disseminated so widely is really important.” Slavin, who led the effort for the training, said the course has been in the works for more than a year and is customized for NU. Despite the large scale of the project, its implementation has been smooth, she said. The course takes an average of 45 minutes to complete, and has generally received positive feedback, she added. Comments made by participants in an optional survey will be considered as the course continues to be revised. The course was announced to faculty and staff in December, and graduate and professional schools will announce the training to their students next week, Slavin said. As of Tuesday, nearly 4,000 staff and more than 2,000 faculty have completed the course, she said. In September, NU released results from its 2015 Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Misconduct, which found that, while at NU, nearly one in three women have been groped without consent. Slavin said the training is not a direct result of those findings. “Though the climate survey did » See TRAINING, page 5
PARC, Shepard change location By BENJAMIN DIN
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NO PLACE LIKE HOME Shepard Residential College has permanently moved into South Mid-Quads Hall. Shepard and Public Affairs Residential College’s former buildings will be turned into a residential community.
The executive board members of Shepard and Public Affairs residential colleges have decided to permanently stay in the sorority quads after moving into them last quarter. In Fall Quarter 2015, Shepard and PARC residents moved into South MidQuads Hall and North Mid-Quads Hall, respectively, when their former buildings began renovation as a part of Northwestern’s Master Housing Plan. Following the residential colleges’ decision, two new residential communities — one located on each end of campus — will launch in the fall of the 2016-17 year, said Paul Riel, executive director of Residential Services. » See HOUSING, page 5
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Evanston businesses have not experienced any major problems since the city’s plastic bag ban passed in July 2014, city officials said. Catherine Hurley, the city’s sustainability manager, said members of the Environment Board and city residents did not express any desire to amend the ordinance that required businesses larger than 10,000 square feet to completely eliminate plastic bag usage by August 1, 2015 at the city’s Environment Board meeting last month. Hurley said city officials and residents feel satisfied with the ordinance as it currently stands. “(The ordinance) is generally working,” Hurley said. “Everyone is complying with the ordinance as it is currently written.” The ordinance targets larger Evanston stores such as CVS Pharmacy, 1711 Sherman Ave., and Jewel-Osco, 1128 Chicago Ave., but some smaller stores such as Crossroads
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$3,950 worth of electronics was stolen from an Evanston home Jan. 4 between 8 p.m. and 9:45 p.m., police said. An Evanston resident returned to his home in the 800 block of Simpson Street to find a window forced open and his iPad missing, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. The 22-year-old also told police two MacBook Pros, a PlayStation 4 and two video game controllers were missing from the home’s living room, Dugan said.
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Trading Co., 1730 Sherman Ave., have also eliminated plastic bag usage. Meghan Bailey, the store’s manager, said it made sense to ban plastic bags after Chicago enacted a similar ban in August. “We just stopped using (plastic bags) a few weeks ago,” Bailey said. “Because all of our Chicago stores had to make the move and the change, we decided to do that as well.” Bailey said many Crossroads customers supported the move to reusable bags and paper bags, and the transition has been “very smooth.” CVS is one of the larger stores that had to eliminate plastic bag usage, said Mike DeAngelis, senior director of corporate communications at CVS Health, in an email to The Daily. “Our Evanston stores are complying with the city’s ordinance by offering customers paper or reusable bags,” DeAngelis said. Though no major problems have been brought up with the ordinance, Hurley said many stores have started giving out thicker plastic bags that are categorized as reusable bags to customers, and the ordinance did not intend to encourage the use of those bags.
Hurley said Chicago has considered an additional ban on the thick plastic reusable bags, and that Evanston officials have discussed a similar ban. “If Chicago moves forward with such a requirement, we would definitely follow suit,” Hurley said. Although large grocery stores in Evanston have stopped offering plastic bags, not all shoppers have started using reusable bags, said Eleanor Revelle, president of Citizens’ Greener Evanston, a local sustainability organization. Despite the change, she said she has been surprised at the amount of people leaving grocery stores with the store-provided brown paper bag, rather than using personal reusable bags. “It would seem that we, as a community, need to do some more public education about the value of bringing reusable bags as opposed to using the brown paper bags,” Revelle said. “The brown paper bags have an environmental impact as well.” williamkobin2018@u.northwestern.edu
Setting the record straight A story in Thursday’s paper titled “Class withdrawal deadline revised” misstated the last day students can withdraw from a course this quarter. The correct date is March 11. A story in Thursdays paper titled “Four NU alumni selected for Forbes’ ’30 under 30’ lists” misstated the number of NU alumni recognized in the lists. At least five alumni were recognized as “30 under 30” honorees.
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On Campus ASG shares findings from report on sexual assault By MADELINE FOX
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CARING ABOUT CARE The Center for Awareness, Response and Education is the focus of an ASG report about sexual assault prevention. The report identified gaps in student knowledge and university services about sexual assault awareness and prevention.
Members of Northwestern’s Associated Student Government will meet with administrators and staff in the Center for Awareness, Response and Education to discuss student perceptions of sexual assault resources on campus, including the University’s policy on alcohol in sexual assault cases and the visibility of its programs. ASG’s findings, released in a report introduced during Wednesday’s Senate meeting, were compiled following November’s “It’s On Us” week, which focused on educating students about sexual assault awareness. A primary concern raised in the report was students’ lack of knowledge about CARE and other campus sexual assault resources. Weinberg senior Erik Baker, the ASG senator for SHAPE, MARS, College Feminists and Title IX at NU, highlighted this issue at the Senate
meeting. Recently, CARE formed a student advisory board to assist the Campus Coalition on Sexual Violence, a collection of student and administrative groups who assess campus policies on sexual misconduct. While students have advised the coalition since its inception, this is the first time there will be a permanent, institutionalized body, said Carrie Wachter, CARE’s coordinator of sexual violence response services and advocacy. Also highlighted in the ASG report was students’ misunderstanding of the University’s policy on alcohol in cases of sexual assault. During “It’s On Us” week programming, students expressed reservations about reporting sexual assault incidents involving underage drinking for fear of facing disciplinary action from the University, Baker said. The University updated its sexual assault policy to clarify that students who report sexual misconduct will not face disciplinary action for alcohol or drug consumption surrounding the
incident as long as no one else was put at risk by their behavior. The clarification came when the findings of the Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Misconduct were released in September, but because the changes were not widely publicized, many students are not aware of the change, Baker said. Another concern raised in ASG’s report was that the University does not have enough sexual assault awareness and prevention programming directed at LGBT communities or people of color. Clark said CARE has been working on a task force in cooperation with Multicultural Student Affairs to improve its outreach to minority students. The office has also been looking at queerness and relationship norms through a series of workshops called Real Talk. “We’re working really hard to engage students in those communities,” she said. foxm@u.northwestern.edu
Panel discusses healing tactics for historical trauma By FATHMA RAHMAN
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Faculty members from U.S. universities dissected the collective historical trauma of Native American communities in a Thursday afternoon panel as part of a two-part event. The panel, co-hosted by the Edith Kreeger Wolf Endowment in Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and One Book One Northwestern, was titled “Dynamics of Historical Trauma, Community Resistance, Resilience, and Living Sovereignty” and featured faculty members from the University of New Mexico, the University of Denver and the University of
Washington. The discussion highlighted various ways of coping with and healing from historical suffering such as talking about the trauma, as well as other intervention efforts — from the recognition of trauma responses including survivor guilt, depression and hypervigilance, to story and truth telling. The trauma process is initiated by a consciousness of the grief and trauma that one is carrying, said University of New Mexico professor Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart. “Trauma is transferred across generations through impairment of traditional parenting skills, identification and other complex processes,” Brave Heart said. “Our trauma originates from the genocide (of Native Americans).” The discussion was related to this year’s
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One Book One Northwestern selection, “The Inconvenient Indian,” which recounts relations between Native Americans and colonists after the arrival of Europeans in America. In the discussion about the impact of the intergenerational effects of historical trauma, the panelists also brought up descendants of Holocaust survivors and Japanese-American internment camps in addition to the particular focus on Native American genocides. “The panel is about how historical trauma has affected the Native American community, but that is not to say it doesn’t affect other groups of people that have had historical traumas in their lives,” said Nancy Cunniff, project coordinator of One Book One Northwestern. NU graduate student Kalonji Nzinga said the
panel’s topic resonated with him because of the broad impact of historical trauma across many populations. “Historical memory or historical trauma is something that affects all of us … but specifically in our indigenous peoples because of the way that power structures are still reminiscent of those atrocities of the past,” he said. “I think that it’s important for us to unpack that collective memory and think about the traumas that exist today. The second lecture in the series, titled “Living Relations: Dynamics in Cultivating WellBeing in Native Communities,” will take place Friday evening. fathmarahman2019@u.northwestern.edu
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An NU student’s guide to Winter Quarter apathy TIM BALK
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Winter Quarter is the most challenging time to be a Northwestern student for many of us: the air is cold, the sky is gray, the nights are long and added stresses rear their heads. Fraternity and sorority recruitment and pledging consume the time of some, while others take more intense course loads or partake in ambitious extracurriculars. The fervent energy of the start of school and Wildcat Welcome that lifts Fall Quarter has faded. There are no more football games, tailgates or sunsoaked autumn Sundays to pick up students after long weeks. Winter Quarter is bleak. School spirit craters. Some students struggle with seasonal depression. Plenty question what the heck they are doing at Northwestern — and what they were thinking when they chose a college in the Midwest Tundra of Evanston. Of course, there are plenty of solutions to
Winter Quarter sadness and malaise, but one I strongly endorse is a consistent reminder that all that seems so important in Winter Quarter, well, isn’t. Warm weather will eventually return. The sky is not falling. Moreover, we’re all just tiny ants on an enormous rock rotating around a star. In the big picture, it’s of no great importance if you wind up in your dream fraternity or sorority, whether you ace your psychology midterm or if you flub some random last name on a story in JOUR 201-1 and earn a Medill F. That all sounds nice and is easy to say, but convincing yourself that your Winter Quarter struggles are molehills, not mountains, is no small task. So I am offering some tools that might put you in a relaxed, insouciant attitude. I call it Tim’s de-stress plan. First: Watch Woody Allen’s “Whatever Works.” This film is nihilism 101, but manages to make its nihilistic message feel so good. Its protagonist, the kvetching Boris Yellnikoff, played to grumpy perfection by Larry David, says things like “What the hell does it all mean anyhow? Nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nothing comes to anything. And yet, there’s no shortage of
idiots to babble.” And “I happen to hate New Year’s celebrations. Everybody desperate to have fun. Trying to celebrate in some pathetic little way. Celebrate what? A step closer to the grave?” Step two: Listen to Warm weather Billy Joel’s “Prelude/ will eventually Angry Young Man,” return. The sky the Piano Man’s classic ode to apathy. “I found is not falling. that just surviving was a noble fight,” Joel sings. True that. Step three: Play. Yes, play. It’s alright, you can afford to miss a class or a meeting. Sure, if you’re swamped with work, and feel like the world is ending, a good solution might be to get some of the work done and out of the way. Indeed, that’s often the best course of action. But stress overload should sometimes be matched with a little bit of escape. Go for a run. Head to Blomquist Recreation Center (pour one out for the SPAC basketball courts) and shoot some hoops. Watch a couple
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of episodes of a sitcom. Heck, even play a board game. Take short breaks that allow you to get your mind off the stress. Playing is a fantastic tool of distraction, and physical activity reduces stress and assists in the maintenance of mental alertness and cognitive function, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. A little play might go a long way, not only in getting your mind off things, but also for reducing general anxiety and fatigue. Steps one and two are optional in my plan. But step three—the act of play—is the real key to the whole formula. Taking a deep breath and swallowing a big gulp of soothing apathy is my prescription to mild winter quarter stress. If you care about yourself and your mental health, the best solution might be to, at least for a moment, stop caring at all. Tim Balk is a Medill sophomore. He can be contacted at timothybalk2018@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
The significance of X-Men to the LGBT community JOE MADDEN
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The notion that the mutant world in the X-Men franchise is an allegory for the real-life LGBT community has become a popular one. Publications ranging from traditional LGBT news outlets The Advocate and The Gay & Lesbian Review to the mainstream Huffington Post and Slate have taken note of the presence of LGBT issues in the popular superhero universe. According to a BuzzFeed article, Sir Ian McKellen, who shares the role of the mutant Magneto with Michael Fassbender, said he signed on to the series when “director Bryan Singer explained … that the mutant superheroes serve as an allegory for the gay community.” But what these news outlets are missing is the importance behind the allegory and the presence of LGBT stars in the franchise: they explain, rather than preach, the correct stances on LGBT issues. First, some background as to why the fictional X-Men are seen as allegorical to
the real-life LGBT community. Mutants are incredibly diverse, often develop their powers around puberty, have powers that are either entirely internal (Storm, the Professor X , Jean Grey) or can be easily concealed (Wolverine, Mystique) and often decide to keep those powers concealed because of persecution from non-mutants. These super-humans, consequently, face the struggle of deciding whether or not to conceal their uniqueness from society – at one of the most vulnerable times of their lives – in the same way LGBT people do. The film series has furthered this interpretation of mutants as analogous to the LGBT community by drawing from its current cultural phenomena. Mystique, played by Jennifer Lawrence, struggles with whether or not she is as beautiful in her mutant form as she is in her human one throughout “X-Men: First Class.” After seeking recognition of beauty from her friends in both forms, she ultimately declares herself to be “mutant and proud.” Proud. If that did not ring any rainbow-colored bells, the primary conflict of “X-Men: The Last Stand” is the development of a supposed “cure” for being a mutant. In one of the opening scenes of the movie, a father bursts in on his curly blond-haired son in the bathroom, and sighs “Oh, God … not you” upon
discovering his boy attempting to saw off his mutation: angel wings. When daddy dearest later develops a cure for his son’s condition at his pharmaceutical company, his beautiful boy quite literally decides to spread his wings and fly away. Notably, though the angel boy has very little screen time, he has a prominent place on the movie’s promotional poster. It seems then, that the mantra “mutant and proud” and the cure for mutanthood are fictionalized versions of the LGBT pride movements and sexual orientation change efforts, respectively. The presence of LGBT issues in the X-Men series, however, is not nearly as important as the way the series handles them. Each movie emphasizes that being a mutant is a genetic condition; many opening sequences are simply visuals of DNA. When the aforementioned father of the year announces the development of a cure for being a mutant on television, Storm argues that there cannot be a cure for being a mutant because what is not broken cannot be fixed. In short, the films do not tell viewers what to think, but they show them how to think. The series does not preach that people should not be persecuted for being LGBT. It
Founding Fathers don’t have the answers JOSEPH LAMPS
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The American Founding Fathers were a remarkable group of leaders and thinkers, to whom we owe much wisdom. However, there is a tendency in modern political discourse to treat them as infallible and to debate modern policy based off of their supposed views. For example, last year in an article for The Washington Post, Newt Gingrich argued against a wall of separation between church and state by invoking the views of the collective Founding Fathers. Such argument lacks merit and should not be taken seriously. Although it may be more common on the right, this fallacy is visible across the political spectrum. Obviously, the Founding Fathers were not infallible. They held views any decent person in the modern world considers abhorrent, such as support for slavery. Furthermore, placed in today’s modern political discourse, they would likely be as partisan and controversial as the next person. The founders’ achievements were almost unbelievably great, but were achieved in spite of their differences in opinion. Fundamental human nature has not changed in the past 250 years so there is no reason to think they were inherently superior or more cooperative than modern politicians given similar circumstances. Rather, their
achievements were likely the result of circumstances and rallying behind a common cause. The Founding Fathers also cannot be relied upon for modern advice for the simple fact that they lived in the 1700s. Because a welfare state was not feasible in 1790 and Keynesian economics had yet to be invented, the Founding Fathers didn’t speak in praise of them. This does not mean the welfare state or Keynesian economics are against their principles. Rather, it means they were not informed enough to have an opinion on them. The Founding Fathers have been left in the dust by the passage of history on many modern issues, and therefore ought not be appealed to. It is impossible to speak of the Founding Fathers as a collective. They were a group of people with different religions, political ideologies and cultural backgrounds. Their achievement is heroic specifically because they united people with diverse and clashing viewpoints. The Constitutional Convention, for example, was not a place of passive agreement. It was as heated as any modern political debate. Later, the election of 1800 was as contested as any modern election. This is important because in a democracy such as in the United States, leaders are elected by presenting arguments to the voters, and many politicians are attempting to and succeeding at swinging voters with fallacious appeals to the wishes of the Founding Fathers. Raising our collective consciousness regarding this fallacy would be one positive step towards achieving a more enlightened electorate and political system.
A valid argument is that it is imperative to take into consideration the original intentions of the framers of the Constitution when interpreting it, instead of purely using the Constitution out of context. The Constitution is clear and carefully written in order to be timeless, and is not a document where we can claim unlimited discretion over interpretation. However, this is different from claiming a Founding Father would oppose certain positions in modern politics today as a legitimate argument. This attributes ungrounded power to the fathers — what they would want in the 21st century is irrelevant because the Constitution is followed by 230 years of intervening history to guide our policy. Power that is wrongly attributed to the founders actually resides in the Constitution, which is clear and legally binding, unlike the opinions of its writers. None of this denigrates the founders or their achievements. I think the founders ought to be highly admired and studied for succeeding in creating a republic. The problem only arises when they are taken out of historical context to have their views used as arguments in modern discourse. Joseph Lamps is a Weinberg freshman. He can be reached at josephlamps2019@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.
shows how unfair it is that mutants are persecuted for their biology. “X-Men: The Last Stand” does not preach that LGBT conversion therapy is wrong. It shows that efforts to change harmless, genetic differences are merely expressions of insecurity and prejudice, and they yield temporary results at best. Mystique’s struggle with her self-image does not tell people to be proud of being LGBT. It shows that fighting what should not be fought is self-destructive, and that embracing who you are is the only way to love yourself. X-Men does not tell its target audience — children and teenagers — the answers to moral questions. It shows them the solutions. It does not tell kids what is right, but gives them the tools to find out what is right for themselves. For that reason, director Bryan Singer should be credited with giving political meaning to the chronicles of some blue misfits who can control metal and read minds. Joseph Madden is a Weinberg freshman. He can be contacted at josephmadden2019@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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institution people should be educated,” Schapiro told The Daily in December. “I think the worst thing would be is you expunge names, so I think either you keep a name and tell honestly the history, good and bad, or you take off a name but say this used to be called (something else).” Bruce said NAISA has been working with Bethany Hughes of NU’s Colloquium on Indigeneity and Native American Studies, a graduate student organization promoting conversation on American indigeneity and indigenous populations, to help write a more formalized letter he hopes will be more accessible for Schapiro and the rest of administration. Despite resistance from administration to move forward with removing Evans’ name, NAISA will continue to collect signatures for the petition and already has more expansive plans in mind, said Doug Medin, a psychology professor and NAISA faculty adviser.
“I’m hoping that we’ll plan for what’s next at (Friday’s panel) discussion,” he said. “But another name that I’d like to also change is Sheridan Road, named after (Gen. Phillip Sheridan), who is famous for saying ‘The only good Indian I ever met is dead.’ As it turns out that, this would require a lot of levels of legislation.” In reintroducing the petition at the panel, which featured faculty from other universities, Bruce said he hoped to use the speakers’ support to expand its reach. “Having outside professors who are knowledgeable on the topic will give us some leverage as a source of credibility, because having Evans’ name on buildings is incredibly relevant to historical trauma,” Bruce said. “We’re hoping that these outside professors will bring the issue to the light a little more.”
Clark said she hopes faculty and staff will continue to gain knowledge on the issue by taking advantage of Support Starts Here, a training program CARE launched in the fall. The program focuses on training faculty, staff and students in how to support survivors by developing skills, asking questions and role-playing, she said. University President Morton Schapiro, who has completed the online course, said a section
of the course focused on how to maintain a student’s trust while following the law to report sexual misconduct particularly interested him. “You’re not trained as a faculty member about that, so I feel much better positioned now as a professor on what to do if things happen,” Schapiro told The Daily in December. “I thought it was very, very well done.” benjamindin@u.northwestern.edu
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Former men’s basketball coach Bill Foster died Thursday
Former Northwestern men’s basketball coach Bill Foster died Thursday. Foster coached the Wildcats for seven seasons, from 1986-87 to 1992-93, compiling a 54-141 total record and 13-113 record in the Big Ten. NU was Foster’s last coaching job, as he stepped down before the 1993-94 season. He served as interim athletic director from April 1993 to January 1994. Foster spent time coaching at Bloomsburg University, Rutgers, Utah, Duke and South Carolina, and led the Blue Devils to the 1978 National Championship game. He was the first coach in NCAA history to lead four different Division I schools to 20-win seasons. He was 85 years old. — Max Gelman
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anything else,” McKeown said. Statistically, McKeown is correct that this game was very unlike NU. At 1.71, NU is thirdbest team in the country in assist/TO, but finished with a ratio of 0.71 against Purdue. The Cats also posted only seven steals of their own, below their season average of 12.4. However, the only number that mattered in the loss was 21 turnovers — the high count ultimately was the deciding factor Thursday. williamragatz2019@u.northwestern.edu
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NU to face Iowa in toughest match yet By DAN WALDMAN
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The new year will not bring any easier competition for Northwestern, who will host undefeated Iowa on Sunday. The Wildcats (1-5, 0-1 Big Ten) will face the No. 2 Hawkeyes (8-0, 2-0) in a dual meet less than two weeks after Iowa won the 53rd annual Ken Kraft Midlands Championships held at Welsh-Ryan Arena. The Hawkeyes dominated the tournament, racking up an impressive 152 points — 91 more points than NU. After watching Iowa compete at the Midlands, interim coach Matt Storniolo said NU isn’t treating this meet any differently. “We will do some specific drills to try to emulate some of the things Iowa is notorious for — they are a physical team, they like to push around a lot,” Storniolo said. “But it’s business as usual. Yes, they’re a good team but they’re still just another team.” Despite Iowa’s prestigious reputation thanks to its 23 national titles, and the Cats’ disappointing record to start the season, the dual will feature highly touted matchups between some of the top wrestlers in the country. The 149-pound match will pit NU junior and No. 3 overall wrestler Jason Tsirtsis against the No. 2 wrestler in the country and reigning Midlands champion, Brandon Sorensen. Tsirtsis and Sorensen will face off again after battling each other in overtime in last month’s Midlands championship match. The two wrestlers have now met four times and the series is split 2-2, but three of the matches were decided in overtime. “He’s got good defense, and it’s going to be a tough match,” Tsirtsis said of Sorensen. “But I’m going to go out there for seven minutes and try to break through and get my offense going to where I’m scoring points.” In addition to Sorensen, the Hawkeyes have
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RED ROVER, TURNOVER Pallas KunaiyiAkpanah fights for the rebound. The freshman forward committed two of Northwestern’s 21 turnovers in just 12 minutes on Thursday.
now, provide energy, be a great presence on the boards,” Pardon said. “Anything that helps the team win.” But offensive rebounding hasn’t been enough to get wins for the Cats, who’ve shot just 17.8
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HUNTING HAWKEYES A Northwestern wrestler pins his opponent. The Wildcats will look to turn around their disappointing season Sunday against Iowa.
seven other wrestlers who are ranked by Intermat Wrestling in their respective weight classes. Cats’ senior Dominick Malone will face No. 2 Cory Clark in the 133-pound match. Clark is 11-0 this season but he had to medically forfeit at the Midlands, where he was set to wrestle Malone in the fifth-place match before he got injured. Clark will get his chance to avenge his forfeit on Sunday, but Malone said he is ready for the challenge. “I’m excited for it definitely,” Malone said. “Obviously at Midlands I was kind of on a roll, so I was pretty confident going into it. It was a
shame that I didn’t get to (wrestle Clark) but I’m definitely looking forward to the match.” The Cats dropped their only Big Ten match of the season to Ohio State, and a win against Iowa would be crucial for a struggling NU program. “It’s a little bit of a grind here with the schedule coming up,” Storniolo said. “This is probably the toughest schedule that Northwestern wrestling has ever had, and we’re a little beat up so it’s going to be big for individuals to pick up a win here and there.”
percent from 3 in their last two games. With a suddenly important trip to Minnesota (6-9, 0-3) looming on Saturday, NU will be looking for a way to create good shots without Olah’s unseen contributions of smart post passing and spacing. Collins said his injured center is doubtful to play Saturday but is getting closer to a return that can’t come a moment too soon for the
now-struggling Cats. “Not having a guy like Alex to be able to just drop it into the post … has really put a lot of pressure on our two guards,” Collins said. “It’s hard to loosen the defense when you can’t drop the ball into the post.”
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In the first segment of a challenging four-game stretch, Northwestern failed. The No. 16 Wildcats (12-3, 1-2 Big Ten) committed 21 turnovers, offsetting two 20-plus point performances, as Purdue (12-2, 3-0) handily defeated NU 85-71 Thursday night at Welsh-Ryan Arena. The contest marked the start of a difficult stretch for the Cats, who play their next three games against ranked opponents. “Number one, (I’m) just really disappointed in the way we played tonight,” coach Joe McKeown said. “I’m really surprised too, because we played great Sunday against Nebraska.” Instead of beginning the span with a home victory, NU looked sloppy in defeat. The Cats’ 21 turnovers marked a season-high and they allowed 14 offensive rebounds. The Boilermakers took advantage of the extra opportunities and scored 13 second chance points. In the first half, the contest was equal. Purdue scored the game’s opening 7 points, but the Cats used an 13-4 run to take a 13-11 lead later in the period. NU’s only lead of the night was short lived, however, as the visitors regained the advantage just a minute later. Senior guard Maggie Lyon temporarily leveled the score at 21 in the second quarter, but Purdue then regained a lead it would not relinquish. “We weren’t as focused on defense as we needed to be,” junior guard Christen Inman said. Purdue’s a good team, and
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they exploited that.” Besides a lack of focus, NU also had to play extended minutes without junior star forward Nia Coffey. She picked up two fouls in the first quarter and a third midway through the second. As a result, Coffey played only 12 minutes in the half and she scored just 7 points and grabbed only two rebounds. “It’s really hard for us. We need her on the floor,” McKeown said of Coffey’s foul trouble. “We need her scoring, we need her presence. She creates double teams. You can’t afford to have her sit down.” A strong fourth quarter push was not enough to pull NU out of a deep hole. Although the Cats pulled within 9 on two occasions in the final 3:23, NU could claw no further into a Purdue lead that at one point reached 20 points. The Boilermakers parlayed a 7 point halftime advantage into a 13 point lead after three quarters. In a run that lasted just over four minutes between the third and fourth quarters, the Boilermakers extended their 8 point lead to a 20 point cushion. “We fought back. I’m proud of that,” McKeown said of the late run. “I thought we had a couple chances in the last three minutes maybe…we just couldn’t finish that out.” The Cats were not without
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THE SHALLOW END Ashley Deary dribbles around a defender in the paint. Deary and the Wildcats have struggled with depth this season, evidenced by Northwestern’s 2 bench points on Thursday.
impressive individual scoring performances. Lyon led all scorers with 24 points, and Coffey added 22 of her own. NU’s four primary scorers — Coffey, junior guard Ashley Deary, Inman and Lyon — scored 69 of the Cats’ 71 points. Positive results elsewhere on the box score were hard to come by. Deary, who averages nearly five steals per game,
recorded just three. Coffey, NU’s leading rebounder at 11.6 per game going into Thursday, had just six. The road for the Cats will get tougher before it eases. NU will travel to No. 23 Michigan State on Sunday before playing host to No. 5 Ohio State and visiting No. 8 Maryland. Although those three games will take place in an eight day
span, McKeown still believes that his team is in a good spot. “We’re sitting here 12-3, and we’ve positioned ourselves to have a great year, and we’re going to focus on that too,” he said. “Tough night. Just a tough night.” colepaxton2019@u.northwestern.edu
Deary commits 10 of Wildcats’ season-high 21 turnovers in Thursday loss to Purdue By WILL RAGATZ
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Facing a talented Purdue team on Thursday night, Northwestern needed to elevate its level of play. Instead, the Wildcats played their sloppiest game of the season. NU (12-3, 1-2 Big Ten) set a season high with 21 turnovers in an 85-71 loss to the Boilermakers (122, 3-0). Purdue, which collected a
season-high 15 steals, turned those mistakes into 19 points, essentially the difference in the game. “We just made bad decisions, we turned the ball over, we did a lot of things that are not like us,” coach Joe McKeown said after the game. “All of our wounds were selfinflicted tonight…we’re much better than that.” The Cats came into the game averaging 10.9 turnovers per game, second best in the NCAA, and NU’s turnover margin of 9.8 was fifth in
the nation. Both of those stats were blown out of the water, as the team lost the turnover battle by six on Thursday. Point guard Ashley Deary was the face of NU’s struggles, as she finished with 10 turnovers, well over her season average of 2.3. Despite the performance, McKeown said he hasn’t lost faith in Deary. “She’s a great player,” McKeown said. “She’ll bounce back, I have no doubt about that. I have tremendous confidence in her.”
Correcting the turnover issue will be extremely important if NU wants to pull out a victory in its next game, a trip to East Lansing to face No. 23 Michigan State. The Spartans are averaging 78.3 points per contest this season and the Cats will have a tough time beating them with a repeat of Thursday’s performance. “(Turnovers are) definitely something we can’t let become a trend,” said junior guard Christen Inman. “It’s uncharacteristic of us as we’ve
been focusing on keeping those down throughout the year. We’re going to bounce back.” McKeown said the team will review the game film to find out what caused the mistakes so it can come up with a plan to correct them in Sunday’s game and going forward. “We’ve gotta see where (the turnovers) came from and what the decision-making was, more than » See TURNOVERS, page 6
Minus Olah, Wildcats offensive problems magnified By MAX SCHUMAN
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STRESSED OUT Alex Olah goes for the basket. Ever since the senior center was sidelined with a stress fracture in his foot, Northwestern has struggled on offense.
A look at the box score seems to show that Northwestern doesn’t miss senior center Alex Olah. With Olah sidelined with a foot injury, freshman center Dererk Pardon snared 14 rebounds in the Wildcats’ (13-3, 1-2 Big Ten) 65-56 loss Wednesday to Ohio State. In the team’s conference opener at Nebraska, which was just Pardon’s second collegiate game, he dropped 28 points and 12 rebounds. Pardon and graduate center Joey van Zegeren have combined to average 18.5 points and 12.5 rebounds per game in the four games since Olah’s injury, seemingly more than compensating for Olah’s average 12.8 points and 6.5 rebounds per game on the year. But it’s how Olah put up those numbers that was so valuable to NU and so missed in the Cats’ two straight defeats. Olah’s presence in the post demands respect from opposing defenses in a way his replacements haven’t been able to match, forcing perimeter players to help in the paint and opening spaces for NU’s shooters. Olah is also a skilled enough passer to make defenses pay
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for over-committing to defending him, with his 1.2 assists per game leading all centers in the Big Ten. Meanwhile, Pardon and van Zegeren have done good work scoring inside, but their vision and ability to set up shooters from the paint is not at Olah’s level. The duo has combined for just two assists in the last four games. Coach Chris Collins acknowledged that there’s a dropoff in skill and defensive respect from Olah to his replacements. “Joey’s an activity guy and right now Dererk is more of an energy guy as well,” Collins said. “Alex commands double teams with everybody we play.” Olah’s ability to shoot from midrange also takes pressure off the other parts of the Cats’ offense. With Pardon and van Zegeren both non-entities on the perimeter, opposing big men have been able to sit back on screens with no fear of either popping free for a jumpshot, clogging the lane for NU’s drivers and cutters. It makes things all the more difficult for the team’s guards, sophomore
Bryant McIntosh and senior Tre Demps, to get into the paint and kick to open shooters. McIntosh said Olah’s absence has forced him and Demps to shoulder a larger load. “Without Olah, we just don’t have that inside presence,” McIntosh said. “(Pardon and van Zegeren) have done (Pardon a great job, and van but Olah’s an All-Big Ten Zegeren) have center.” Wit h a done a great job, de ar t h of but Olah’s an Allopen shots Big Ten center. for the Cats leading to Bryant McIntosh, more misses sophomore i n re c e nt point guard games, NU has compensated with a strong offensive rebounding effort. Pardon is averaging 4.3 offensive rebounds per game, up from Olah’s 1.8 per game. Pardon said that he accepts his role as an “energy” player at this point in his career. “That’s my role on the team right
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