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Noah Star and Christina Kim By SHANE MCKEON
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Medill junior Haley Hinkle and Weinberg junior Noah Star
announced their campaigns for Associated Student Government president Tuesday night, formally beginning the nine-day campaign period before voting opens April 9. Hi n k l e’s e x e c ut i v e v i c e
Haley Hinkle and Chris Harlow presidential nominee is SESP junior Chris Harlow and Star’s running mate is McCormick junior Christina Kim. Hinkle currently serves as ASG’s director for transportation and campus safety. Star just finished
his third quarter as Speaker of the Senate. Hinkle said her campaign, whose slogan is “Build Up,” will focus on student wellness, inclusive community and student groups. “We’ve already invested a lot
of time in these things,” she said. “We know that gives us the tools to hit the ground running on Day One and that there’s much less of a learning curve.” » See ELECTIONS, page 6
Northwestern falls short of Canvas transition goal By KIMBERLY GO
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Northwestern fell short of its goal to transition 75 percent of classes from Blackboard to Canvas by the end of Winter Quarter, but still hopes to have 90 to 100 percent of courses on Canvas by the end of Spring Quarter. The University aimed to have three in four courses on Canvas, but only about 70 percent were on the new course management system by the end of last quarter. Faculty members did not have enough time between Fall and Winter quarters to learn the new system because many were preoccupied with grading, the holidays and preparing for the new quarter, said Victoria Getis, NU Information Technology’s manager of faculty support services. However, she said NUIT could have done a better job reaching out
to faculty. “The hardest part of any switch like this is just being sure that you get the word out,” Getis said. Northwestern was ahead of schedule at the start of the school year with more than half of classes on Canvas, but each of the University’s 12 undergraduate and graduate schools are in different stages of transition. The School of Law and Feinberg School of Medicine have already fully transitioned to Canvas, but the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Professional Studies and The Graduate School have faced more difficulty moving courses. “Weinberg is hard because it’s the biggest school, it’s got very diverse faculty and they have varying levels of IT support and information,” Getis said. “Some areas have amazingly good
support and information right in their own departments and in others, people are pretty
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much fending for themselves.” German Prof. Katrin Voelkner, a member of the Canvas Transition Committee, said Weinberg has taken longer to transition because it has larger classes, which require more planning to move to Canvas. The School of Professional Studies, on the other hand, is moving to Canvas in a very “planned fashion” so whole programs move at the same time, Getis said. She added The Graduate School has certain programs where the faculty are not as tied to specific departments, making it tougher to coordinate. Getis and Voelkner both said students and professors have responded positively to the transition. “I’ve heard lots of students saying ‘thank you,’ which is really nice,” Getis said. “The faculty satisfaction with Canvas is pretty high, and I find
it’s a good indicator that people are getting used to it and getting more comfortable.” Weinberg sophomore Yining Zhang said although she feels Canvas and Blackboard serve the same purpose, Canvas looks better and is slightly more organized. Looking forward, Getis said she has no worries about completing the transition to Canvas. All schools are on track to have 90 to 100 percent of classes transitioned by the end of spring quarter, according to NUIT’s website. “I think we’ll be in great shape,” she said. “The idea is that this summer, Blackboard will be available for retrievable purposes only, not for teaching. So I expect that starting in the fall, once we’ve turned off Blackboard, there just won’t be any more Blackboard courses.” kimberlygo2018@u.northwestern.edu
Child care funds still vulnerable Parents, teachers talk PARCC testing cons By KEVIN MATHEW
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Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a bill Thursday to fix the 2015 funding deficit, which had disproportionally hurt low-income child care centers. The new law allocates $293 million for early childhood education by taking funding from other services and by cutting government functions 2.25 percent across the board. However, critics say child care centers for lowincome families will still face instability until new methods of revenue are proposed. Centers for low-income children tend to offer mainly state-subsidized
programs through the Child Care Assistance Program fund, and when that fund faces sudden changes, lowincome centers often do not have the reserve revenue to survive tough times. Sessy Nyman, vice president for policy and strategic partnerships at the child care advocacy group Illinois Action for Children, said centers most easily diversified their revenue sources by doing the same services they are trained for, while transitioning to a more private approach. “(Centers) might minimize the percentage of low income kids that they take to the percentage of full fee paying kids,” Nyman said. “That then provides them the stability that they would need from a business perspective to say, well if something
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Parents, teachers and community members met Tuesday evening to discuss the possibility of children enrolled in Evanston school districts opting out of future state-mandated PARCC testing. About 20 to 25 people gathered at the Levy Senior Center, 300 Dodge Ave., to attend the forum, which was organized by parents involved in the anti-standardized testing group Park the PARCC Evanston. Several of the parents in attendance had already opted their children out of the
first round of PARCC testing, which took place throughout March. PARCC testing, which stands for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, is required by the Illinois State Board of Education and is meant to gauge the effects of Common Core standards in language arts and math. The superintendents of both Evanston/Skokie School District 65 schools and Evanston Township High School said at a joint State of the Schools address in January that implementing PARCC testing requires a surplus of time, money and » See PARCC, page 6
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A record number of businesses attended the mayor’s summer job fair Saturday to bring employment opportunities to high school students in Evanston. The annual job fair drew its best turnout yet, said Porschia Davis, the city’s assistant youth and young adult program manager who was in charge of coordinating the event. “We had more private employers participate in the program than we’ve ever had before, and we again had over 600 kids attend,” Davis said. “The common feedback from our employers this year was that the kids really came with their A-game this year.” The event is held each year as part of the mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program and is designed to connect Evanston students ages 14 to 18 with summer jobs, according to the city’s website. The fair was put on in collaboration with the Evanston Youth Job Center and Evanston Township High School. The number of businesses present at the fair increased to more than 30, allowing for more than 600 job positions to become available to students, said Kevin Brown, the city’s youth and young adult program manager. Employers from Best Buy, Northwestern, Target, and local Evanston businesses presented available job openings and interviewed interested students. This year, Brown said the youth job
Police Blotter Chicago man’s car hit with bat Someone damaged the car of an Chicago man Monday in south Evanston, police said. The 18-year-old man was driving Monday afternoon when a car pulled up next to him at an intersection and repeatedly honked its horn, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. When the Chicago resident lowered his
program extended its employer choices to include businesses outside of Evanston, such as Six Flags Great America located in Gurnee, Illinois, and privately-owned McDonald’s locations in Skokie. NU increased its participation significantly this year by offering about 27 job opportunities ranging from research positions to clerical jobs, spread throughout 13 departments at the school, said Javier Hernandez, NU’s human resources interim staffing manager. “Each department had a vested interest in possibly having additional help over the summer,” Hernandez said, “So it’s a mutual benefit for both (parties) since the student comes in and gets additional exposure and experience in a field they’re interested in.” The event exceeded expectations this year, continuing the growth observed in recent years, Brown said. “Under Mayor Tisdahl, the program has grown exponentially,” Brown said. “In 2012, there were only 160 jobs available. In 2013, it increased to 350 jobs and in 2014, there were around 500 jobs obtained. The job fair just keeps getting bigger and better every year.” Three weeks prior to the fair, participants were encouraged to attend at least one of three job readiness training programs run by volunteers from the Youth Job Center, the Kellogg School of Management and local businesses, Brown said. During these trainings, students developed their resumes, practiced interview etiquette and learned about possible career options. window, the other driver threw a can of AriZona iced tea into the car through the open window, Dugan added. The man then followed the car in an attempt to obtain the license plate information. When the cars reached the traffic light at the corner of Howard Street and Asbury Avenue, the man who threw the tea got out of his car and hit the Chicago man’s car with a bat, before fleeing northbound on Asbury Avenue, Dugan said.
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Someone broke into a convenience store in downtown Evanston early Tuesday morning and stole several lottery tickets, police said. A rock was used to break open the window of Open Pantry, 821 Dempster St., at around 3:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Dugan said. The owner of the store, a 59-year-old Evanston man, said a display filled with lottery tickets, ranging in price from $5 to $30, was taken. — Julian Gerez
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Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses need for reparations By ALICE YIN
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CHICAGO — Ta-Nehisi Coates, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, spoke about institutionalized racism against black Americans on Tuesday at Loyola University Chicago. Several Northwestern students traveled to hear Coates speak at the Rogers Park campus. Echoing his award-winning piece “The Case for Reparations,â€? Coates discussed his proposal for reparations, the idea that the United States should give compensation to the black community because of America’s history of oppression. He analyzed how racist power structures throughout U.S. history have led to present-day issues such as education inequality and police brutality. “I would rather have a conversation where you say ‌ ‘Yes I excluded you from X, Y and Z, and I can never pay it back and I’m so sorry,’â€? Coates said. “I would much rather have that than a conversation over and over again where every single racist incident has people hold up their hands and say ‘why is this happening?’ We know why this is happening. This is happening because of our history.â€?
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A recent federal audit found Northwestern Memorial Hospital owes Medicare an estimated $6.4 million for alleged billing errors. A report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General says the primary teaching hospital for the Feinberg School of Medicine incorrectly billed Medicare. The report, released earlier this month, says the hospital charged Medicare Part A, which handles inpatient stays, for visits that should have been billed as outpatient services.
Coates served as the keynote speaker for the Loyola Center for Urban Research and Learning’s event, “The Case for Reparations: A University Response.â€? The event also touched on local issues in the Chicago neighborhood. The North Lawndale community, where black people were excluded from housing, was highlighted in a video played at the start of the event. After World War II, people exploited neighborhoods such as Lawndale by buying houses from white people and reselling to black people after price increases, Coates wrote in his award-winning article. With the Federal Housing Administration’s refusal to lend to black people, Chicago’s black community was confined to overpriced housing. “The government effectively went out and incentivized racism, which needed no incentives to begin with,â€? Coates said. “In Ferguson, Missouri, you can have an entire system of government pillage on the people ‌ This is a ritual for us.â€? SESP sophomore Matthew Herndon said the event was particularly relevant in light of recent race-related issues such as the Michael Brown shooting and the Northwestern Divest campaign dominating campus dialogue. Herndon said he’s observed that NU students can be “reactionary,â€? but often “don’t want to be uncomfortable.â€? “There’s definitely an extent to which people abuse
dialogue and abuse trying to analyze things at a deeper meaning when there’s a clear injustice that’s happening,â€? Herndon said. “Saying that these people are being too extreme, they’re being too in your face, that’s such a big part of Northwestern ‌ which is frustrating but I think a lot of recent activism on campus is really making people uncomfortable in a good way.â€? SESP sophomore Jacob Rosenblum, who read Coates’ reparations story for a SESP class, said the story made him think more critically about systemic racism versus isolated incidents of racism. “It’s not just the actions of one person or saying a racist joke,â€? Rosenblum said. “It’s actual systems that affect people’s actual lives that we need to start acknowledging.â€? Coates told The Daily after the event that he has been giving talks since his article came out last year. However, he said he is reaching the end of it with about two more weeks until he needs “to go and be quiet for a little while.â€? “Be selfish,â€? he told The Daily regarding student activism on college campuses. “Be selfish. Pursue, you know, that thing that you know keeps you up at night. You can’t do anything on behalf of other people until you get it straight in your heart.â€?
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Jolie conflates naturopaths, doctors sai folmsbee
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Last week, actress and director Angelina Jolie Pitt penned an editorial in The New York Times called “Diary of a Surgery,” in which she reflects upon her decision to surgically remove her ovaries as a prophylactic measure to reduce her risk of cancer. Ovarian cancer is terrifying, deadly and overlooked by the public, and Jolie admirably provides an important evaluation of the medical and personal implications of such surgical interventions to prevent cancer. But she also makes a crucial error in her discussion — equating her team of medically trained and scientifically minded surgeons with the non-evidence-based practitioners of so-called alternative medicine. This is not the first time Jolie has waded into the thorny arena of surgery to prevent cancer. In 2013, she wrote a column explaining she has a genetic mutation that places her at a higher risk for breast cancer and her decision to have a double mastectomy. This kind of advocacy to promote the issue of women’s health on such a deep level is an absolute necessity, and her follow-up piece concerning ovarian cancer is just as essential. Although breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, ovarian cancer can be much more deadly. Despite the fact that it is only the 8th most common cancer, ovarian cancer has an incredibly high mortality rate and is responsible for nearly 15,000 deaths per year. For too long, awareness of ovarian cancer has languished in the pink shadow of breast cancer advocacy, and Jolie’s latest writing clearly demonstrates that women’s health cannot and should not be pigeonholed into
a single illness. Because mastectomy and oophorectomy, the surgical removal of ovaries, are so effective in reducing cancer risk in such genetically susceptible individuals, Jolie does an excellent job in promoting their application. Furthermore, she also provides a frank and much-needed discussion on the nature of women’s health and femininity. Her insight showcases how women need not be defined by their secondary sex characteristics or ability to reproduce, both of which deserve to be buried with all other such constructs of an oppressive patriarchy. Jolie should be praised for placing importance on her own well-being, weighing the balance of the value of her children, spouse, and parents, as well as being thoughtful about such an important decision. But alarmingly, she also, perhaps unwittingly, legitimizes so-called alternative medicine practitioners. While discussing the complex medical decision making required for such an invasive procedure, she states that she has “spoken to many doctors, surgeons and naturopaths.” In that one sentence, she incorrectly equates those professions. Doctors and surgeons have spent a formidable chunk of their lives training to be healthcare professionals — four years of medical school, years of residency training and specialty training and passing rigorous licensing exams and continuing medical educational requirements. All of this is done to ensure these people, whose jobs are to keep us alive, are held to a high standard of quality. Naturopaths, on the other hand, do not attend medical school, practice a form of clinical care not based in science or evidence and do not have the same formalized residency or specialty training programs. However, a disturbingly high number of states are beginning to license them as “naturopathic physicians.” Doctors and surgeons are required to
understand the scientific nature of the genetic mutations present in their patients, the clinical studies showing the risks and benefits of ovarian surgery, and the importance of the individual patient’s physical and psychological well-being. Do naturopaths even need to know where the ovaries are? And Jolie follows this notion with an even more upsetting idea. She writes that, in regards to choosing alternatives to surgery, “Some women take birth control pills or rely on alternative medicines combined with frequent checks. There is more than one way to deal with any health issue.” She argues that the very real and very science-based way of treating hormonal therapy with birth control pills, which is still less effective than oophorectomy, could be easily exchanged with “alternative medicines,” a term that she does not define. Unfortunately, the delicate and nuanced real discussion of weighing surgery and medical intervention in these individuals has been muddled by the presence of non-science-based healthcare. Jolie provided a great service in showing that women’s health is complex, worthy of discussion and absolutely necessary to advance better decision-making in an increasingly science-based medical practice. She also demonstrated that the surgical removal of her ovaries and breasts can be a part of a normal, healthy, full and feminine life. But she also endorses the normalcy of so-called alternative medicine, a dangerous idea that is counterproductive to our ability to use the best sciencebased medicine to prevent these very kinds of cancers in women. Sai Folmsbee is a Feinberg graduate student. He can be reached at sai@fsm.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Assisted suicide laws have their place Yaqoob Qaseem
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On March 22, Valentina Maureira, a 14-year-old Chilean girl suffering from cystic fibrosis, changed her mind about her desire for euthanasia. A mere month after pleading for permission to die, the girl completely reversed her decision. A young life was saved and revitalized as a result of laws forbidding euthanasia. The story screams outrage against the right-to-die movement. Despite the potential peril of euthanasia revealed by Maureira’s story, euthanasia and assisted suicide movements have gradually gained traction around the world in recent decades. The French Parliament recently passed a bill approving the deep sedation of terminally ill patients, a practice with clear connections to euthanasia. Euthanasia is legal in both the Netherlands and Belgium, and assisted suicide is legal in Germany, Switzerland and five U.S. states. Brittany Maynard, a terminally ill brain cancer patient who moved from California to Oregon to legally end her life, spoke out in support of California’s End of Life Option Act posthumously last Wednesday. The wide range of laws assisting patients in ending their lives may seem truly alarming in light of Maureira’s story. Euthanasia and assisted suicide both have the immensely evil power to end dark lives that may yet turn bright. Nonetheless, when carefully crafted, certain forms of right-to-die laws undoubtedly have their place in society. Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act allows
patients who have been given less than six months to live to end their lives. According to the National Institutes of Health, the average age of survival of patients with cystic fibrosis who live to adulthood is 37. With the specific case previously mentioned, doctors expected the girl had about three and a half more years of life. The difference of three years is substantial, although determining an exact cutoff for such laws is admittedly challenging. More significantly, Oregon’s law requires the patient to be capable of making the decision to die. Specifically, the patient must be at least 18 years of age and psychologically sound. The patient must also make two discrete requests for the prescription of life-ending drugs separated by at least 15 days. In the process, the patient is educated on all alternatives to the assisted suicide, including a range of palliative care options. Two witnesses must be present for the decision, and the diagnosis and prognosis of the patient must be confirmed by both the prescribing physician and another physician independently. In the case of Maureira, Oregon’s law would not have allowed assisted suicide to take place due to age restrictions. Nonetheless, the arsenal of protective measures incorporated into the law may still not be sufficient to avoid tragedies in other cases. The characteristics of patients with only fleeting moments of despair rather than a persistent yearning for eternal silence must be closely scrutinized to ensure assisted suicide is allocated appropriately. For instance, the legalization of child euthanasia in Belgium is certainly concerning based on the reversal of Maureira’s decision. Moreover, parental
consent is clearly an insufficient safeguard, as Maureira’s father supported her petition for euthanasia. Of course, some argue assisted suicide has no place in the world even for suffering individuals with an adamant desire for death. Such an argument, however, goes deeply against one of the core principles of medical ethics: autonomy. Patients have a right to make their own individual decisions regarding their lives and healthcare procedures. Exceptions encompass patients below the age of 18 and mentally ill patients, both of whom are thus also rightfully excluded from Oregon’s law. In the case of autonomous, terminally ill patients, who are we to deny them the right to die? The law in Oregon allows physicians to choose not to participate to ensure caretakers are not forced to take actions contrasting with their personal beliefs. The patients, once deemed capable and subjected to the various lines of defense, are merely given pills they may choose to take or leave on their side tables. These patients are firmly convinced of the unbearable anguish of their lives and wish to depart the world in what they view as a dignified and peaceful manner. Each patient was born with the control of his own life, and society should not be allowed to pry away this autonomy due to the beliefs of specific individuals. Yaqoob Qaseem is a Weinberg freshman. He can be reached at yaqoobqaseem2018@u.northwestern. edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@ dailynorthwestern.com.
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Presidential races should not dominate news MATT GATES
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Last week, Ted Cruz became the first major party candidate to announce his bid for the 2016 presidential election. A full 594 days before Americans decide who the next president will be, they can identify at least one contender. Election season seems like the holiday season: It gets longer each time it comes around. The media begins to focus on politicians that are rumored to be in the running for future candidacy long before politicians announce any intentions of becoming president. Speculation that Hillary Clinton will one day sit in the Oval Office has existed for most of my lifetime. Presidential elections manage to fascinate not only experts in the political field and political junkies outside of it, but also a broad portion of the American public. Just as Dillo Day dominates Northwestern students’ attention during Spring Quarter, elections consume America for more than a year before an election happens. Presidential elections are a vital component of our nation’s political system, but their eminence in mainstream media and public attention detracts from other important parts of the political process. The presidential election manages to overwhelm the media while congressional elections, despite being at least as important, receive far less attention. Many experts believe that the legislature has the most influence in a three-branch system of government because it makes the laws, while the executive merely executes them. Yet America remains fixated on the presidency. Politico reported only 18 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 can name even one of their U.S. senators. Meanwhile, after President Barack Obama’s election, some people, like The World Post’s Dee Dee Myers, speculated Obama was not only the most famous person alive, but perhaps the most famous living ever. Even Sasha Obama’s yawn at her father’s second inaugural address received widespread media coverage. The president’s family members have virtual celebrity status while senators who play a crucial role in the political process are ignored. Perhaps America’s addiction to celebrity news plays a role in its fascination with the Oval Office. The focus of the American public and the media it consumes correlates with the disparity in voter turnout between presidential and midterm elections. Voter turnout is always significantly greater during a presidential election than during a midterm election, with the difference hovering at or above 10 percent of the voting age population over the last 70 years, according to the Pew Research Center. The media speculates about the identity of the next president of the United States long before we even know who will run. Despite the long-standing speculation that Hillary Clinton would become the Democratic candidate in 2008, Obama surprised many Americans by winning the nomination. Despite the relative unpredictability of each major party’s presidential candidate, there were already 2014 polls trying to determine the potential results of the 2016 general election. Meanwhile, immediately after Ted Cruz declared he will run, publications already began speculating he could not gain the support of Wall Street, which would instead go to Clinton if she opposed him in the general election. Isn’t it too early to speculate about potential matchups more than a year away? Presidential elections have a large effect on Americans, but so do congressional elections and numerous other events. As the beginning of the lengthy process of determining who will next hold the Oval Office arrives, daily political events and other happenings should not be overshadowed by speculation about who will be our next president. Matt Gates is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be reached at matthewgates2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
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Experts discuss local fixes for global water crisis By JULIA JACOBS
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A panel of water experts Tuesday discussed ways to better use Great Lakes water, from cleaning up toxic hotspots to using conservation techniques in beer production. Around 100 people attended the Rotary International event, called “Tap Into Lake Michigan,” which centered on localizing the global water crisis to the Midwest. The four panelists stressed the importance of conserving and improving Great Lakes water, which provides 95 percent of the country’s fresh surface water. “We have to stop assuming we can throw anything at them and they’ll be just fine because they’re that big,” said panelist Cameron Davis, senior adviser to the administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. “How we treat the Great Lakes truly is a reflection of how we treat ourselves.” Davis said despite the “150 years of abuse” inflicted on the Great Lakes, the federal government has begun to overcome challenges, such as pollution and invasive species, with the help of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative passed five years ago. The bill has helped fund efforts to revive wetlands, prevent the proliferation of invasive species and clean up highly polluted areas, Davis said. Beer was served at a reception prior to the panel discussion — a unique but effective move to stress the water’s key role in the brewing process, said
Chicago burger chain intends to expand to Evanston this summer
Epic Burger hopes to expand to Evanston this summer pending a City Council vote on April 13. The Chicago-based burger chain, which plans to open at 1622 Sherman Ave., advertises a simple menu built around a “more mindful burger” made of fresh ingredients from sustainable sources, CEO Scott Norrick said. “The whole purpose behind Epic Burger was really more than just starting a restaurant, but really
panelist Ian Hughes, assistant brewery manager at Goose Island Beer Co. His beer company, founded and currently headquartered in Chicago, provided beer, along with other local breweries, to garner interest in the water crisis. “Beer is over 90 percent water in the finished product,” Hughes said. “We’re quite literally putting Lake Michigan into our beer every time we make it.” Because of its reliance on water, Goose Island has tried to conserve water in the brewing process, such as sanitizing barrels with steam and organizing community efforts, like an annual beach cleanup. Rotary International chose panelists to represent a range of sectors, including private, public, academic and civil society, said Erica Gwynn, area focus manager for water and sanitation at the organization. She said it was important to include a civil society panelist like Andy Stuart from Rotary in Toledo, Ohio, to remind the audience that the water crisis is not removed from the average community member. Rotary International, which hosted the event at its global headquarters at 1560 Sherman Ave., devotes $14 million per year to to water and sanitation. J Poulos, a 25-year-old Chicago resident and audience member, questioned what individuals could do in their daily lives to conserve water. “There are a lot of people out there who are actually jazzed about this stuff and there’s still time,” Poulos said. “We can make a difference. The resources are still there.” Individuals have a range of options to help stimulating thought around how food is raised, grown, processed, prepared, packaged,” he said. “We very much spend a lot of time thinking about the whole food chain.” Norrick (Kellogg ’91) said that the straightforward menu keeps costs down and allows the restaurant to offer better food and spend more on employees than similarly priced fast food burger chains. Mark Muenzer, the city’s director of community development, said the sustainable goals of Epic Burger aligned well with the efforts of the city. He said the company’s expansion efforts also reflect growing demand for the food the restaurant offers. Epic Burger currently has six locations in Chicago and one at the Westfield Old Orchard mall
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WATER WAYS A panel of experts dicuss local water conservation. Rotary International hosted an event Tuesday to discuss diverse ways to improve and conserve Great Lakes water.
conserve water locally, from buying a low-flow showerhead to replacing their lawn with native plants that do not need extra watering, said panelist Debra Shore, commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. “Our challenge, as people lucky enough to live
near the Great Lakes, is we need to bust the notion of infinitude,” Shore said. “The Great Lakes look infinite … and though water is a renewable resource, it’s a finite resource.”
in Skokie. Norrick said Evanston’s residential and employment sectors made it a natural choice for the new restaurant. Epic Burger wants to expand to the city even if aldermen do not approve the Sherman Avenue location, Norrick said. Paul Zalmezak, the city’s economic development coordinator, said Epic Burger will contribute to the growing number of fast-casual restaurants opening in the city. “We have this new grouping … you would expect to see in downtown Chicago because of the office environment,” Zalmezak said. “But we also have the additional bonus of having all of these students, faculty and staff working at the University.”
Although the city is primarily working to attract more local retail, Zalmezak said Epic Burger can survive competition against many Evanston restaurants because the market has recently demanded healthy food and rewards businesses that adapt to the community. Norrick emphasized Epic Burger’s focus on engagement and said they will likely host fundraisers and events with Northwestern student groups. The restaurant plans to offer on-foot delivery to nearby locations and will not serve alcohol. City Council approval on April 13 will be the last step before Epic Burger can sign a lease.
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She added a “differentiating factor” for her ticket is her and Harlow’s experience. Hinkle, an ASG member since her first quarter as a Northwestern freshman, oversaw ASG’s “It’s On Us” campaign and the expansion of NU’s shuttle system. Harlow, ASG’s vice president for student life, most recently spearheaded ASG’s mental wellness campaign, organizing end-of-quarter therapy dogs and coordinating with groups including NU Active Minds and NUListens. Hinkle and Harlow spent much of Winter Quarter meeting with students “in as many different communities as possible,” Harlow said. “We averaged 12 groups per week and over 200 hours of conversations with students,” Harlow said. “And that might be one-on-one with executive boards, that might be holding small focus groups.” Star balked at the suggestion that his ticket is less experienced, pointing to his three quarters as Speaker of the Senate and his leadership experience outside of ASG. He is former vice president of Delta Tau Delta fraternity and a former Wildcat Welcome
Northwestern trustee Donald Perkins dies at 88, University says
Northwestern Trustee Donald Perkins died March 25 at his home in Northfield, Illinois, the school announced Tuesday. He was 88. Perkins, who joined the Board of Trustees in 1970 and was elected a Life Trustee in 2003, was the former CEO and chairman of Jewel Companies and also served as a trustee of the Ford Foundation, the Brookings Institution and the International Council of Morgan Bank, among other organizations.
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From page 1 enough money for the CCAP at the beginning of the fiscal year, and the unexpected increase in services used this year made the existing burden even worse, she said. “There’s no way that they can do justice by those kids and have any money at the end of the month,” she said. “So the state never shut down the Child Care Assistance Program, but individual programs have stopped receiving subsidy kids because they have no sense for if and when they would get paid for the care that they provided for the kids.” Child care can “push liability,” meaning if costs
Wednesday, april 1, 2015 peer adviser. During his speakership, Star said he tried to make Senate “more democratic.” He oversaw an increase in advocacy groups introducing legislation, including the controversial Northwestern Divest resolution that passed in February. “I’ve tried to inject more externally-focused legislation into Senate,” Star said. “ASG can sometimes lose track of how it is accountable to the students that it’s representing.” To that end, Star’s campaign, whose slogan is “Listen then Lead,” will focus on keeping ASG responsive to students’ wants and needs. Star and Kim have also been meeting with students, which they began in late February. Kim, ASG’s vice president for services, helped develop CourseDJ, a website that allows students to plan class schedules using NU course data. Weinberg senior Dana Leinbach, ASG’s election commissioner, said the candidates will participate in a debate at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Fisk Hall. Harlow and Kim will debate for the first hour, and Hinkle and Star will square off from 9 to 10 p.m. ShaneM@u.northwestern.edu
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From page 1 manpower. A bill has been presented to the Illinois General Assembly that aims to facilitate the process for students to opt out of taking the test. However, most parents at the meeting said they have run into little resistance in opting their children out of PARCC. “It was not a big deal opting my kids out,” said Sophie Degener, a former District 65 teacher with children at Washington Elementary School, 914 Ashland Ave., and Nichols Middle School, 800 Greenleaf St. “We were treated very respectfully in the process.” Julie Fain, a Chicago-area activist and Chicago Public Schools parent involved with anti-standardized testing group More Than a Score Chicago, presented background at the meeting on the fight against PARCC in the Chicago area. “We found instructional time was being taken away for testing,” Fain said. “We saw a lot of money going into developing testing, purchasing Chromebooks, testing materials and booklets. They are creating a culture in the school where the test is a measure of how kids are doing, instead of what they’re doing in the classrooms.” A major area of concern for Evanston parents was the possibility that, if there was not a high enough
He was a co-chairman of Campaign Northwestern in 1998 and was a member of the NU presidential search committees in 1984 and 1994. Former University President Henry Bienen said in a news release that Perkins was an “exceptional Northwestern trustee.” “Don was straightforward, honest and fairminded,” Bienen said. “He deserved all the deep respect and admiration that he received from his many friends, fellow trustees and civic leaders. All those who knew Don will miss him.” — Mariana Alfaro
fluctuate too high for a month, funds can be pulled from the next month for a temporary fix. This helps some of the inherent instability of day-to-day operations, but when centers rely on one source of funding, which then changes in an already uncertain environment, crises become too much for low-income centers, Nyman said. State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) voted against the new law. Biss said in an online statement this fix was not sustainable and did not address the state’s deep fiscal instability. “I voted against these bills even though I appreciate that they were the outcome of a sincere bipartisan negotiation, and even though I recognize that it was essential to address our child care crisis,” he
turnout for PARCC testing in District 65 schools, the district’s Title I federal funding could be cut. The state has threatened to withhold funds from districts that refuse to administer PARCC. Fain wrote off the threat that low enrollment numbers could lead to funding deficits as “fearmongering,” saying nothing of the sort has occurred at any of the Chicago schools with lower PARCC turnouts. “Even if they did take the money away, I would still think we’re doing the right thing,” District 65 parent Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar said. Still, some parents, such as Marjorie Fujara, expressed some trepidation about opting out. “As a parent with a special needs child entering kindergarten, I am petrified that we might lose that funding,” Fujura said. “In these cases, special education funding is one of the first things to be cut, along with the arts and physical education. Although the intention of PARCC testing, according to its website, is to establish whether students are on track to succeed in college, Fain said she believes standardized testing simply wastes time and money on gathering redundant information. “Ask your teachers: did this test tell you anything you didn’t already know?” Fain pressed. “And it’s no.” marissapage2018@u.northwestern.edu
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parking parcc Julie Fain, an activist involved with More Than a Score Chicago, speaks to a group of Evanston parents and teachers Tuesday about opting out of PARCC testing.
said in the statement. “I will push for budgets that truly demand shared sacrifice, instead of relying on sacrifices from poor and working families and our state’s most vulnerable.” Childcare Network of Evanston executive director Andrea Densham said it should not be forgotten that these cuts were achieved with cuts to services. She said although CNE did not shut its doors while lawmakers debated how to fix the funding issues, most of that is because of the hard effort of CNE staff and community activism in Evanston. Densham said the economic impact of child care on current and future generations cannot be ignored, and that the businesses and residents who
came together for political activism in response to the funding issues made it clear to representatives that child care is an important issue for the northern suburbs. “While I’m very relieved that we’ll be able to ensure continuity of services for our children and families in the northern suburbs, we have to attend to a thoughtful revenue-balanced budget moving forward,” she said. “I think advocacy work is always a challenge. I think what’s most important is that we talk about the issues and that it’s not seen as a campaign but seen as a long-term discourse about what matters in our community.” kevinmathew2015@u.northwestern.edu
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NU battles challenging opponents, hard course By Kevin Casey
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Northwestern fought tough conditions and an even tougher field at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic, ultimately battling to a fourth-place finish at the 12-team affair Sunday. “It was a good experience,” coach Emily Fletcher said. “It was a bit of a struggle, but it was a struggle for everybody out there. We saw some good stuff.” Played in Athens, Georgia, the Liz Murphey offered a rare format — one qualifying stroke play round followed by a match play tournament — which is key for the postseason. The NCAA Championships introduces its new structure in 2015 resembling the Liz Murphey, with four rounds of qualifying stroke play leading into a match play bracket. That May event allows the top eight teams from stroke play into the match play tournament, just like the Liz Murphey, in which top-eight stroke play finishers make it to the championship bracket. With the event mirroring the NCAA Championships’ format, it was good practice for the Wildcats, and five of the top seven teams in the country followed suit and showed up at the nightmare University of Georgia golf course. Only one player bettered par in Friday’s stroke play round, and more golfers shot in the 80s than the 70s. Then-No. 9 NU’s lot never sniffed red numbers, as freshman Hannah Kim paced the squad with a 5-over 77 — good for a 15th place tie — and junior Kaitlin Park’s and senior Hana Lee’s 79s were the only other Cats scores that beat 80.
National News Deal or no deal, Congress primed to act on Iran WASHINGTON — Whenever a deal is announced on Iran’s nuclear program, President Barack Obama faces a tough slog in Congress, where skepticism abounds about the ability of the administration and five world powers to curb Tehran’s nuclear program. With Congress out of town on vacation Tuesday, there was little commentary about the administration’s decision to extend talks past a midnight deadline that had been set for finding a framework
Cold weather and high winds were major contributors to the ballooning totals, but the course set up was downright sadistic. “The toughest part (on) Day One were pin placements,” said junior Suchaya Tangkamolprasert, who shot 81. “The greens were tricky and hilly, and then they put the pins next to the hills so that if you missed a little bit, they rolled right back down sometimes 30 to 50 yards.” Despite the obstacles, the Cats trudged through and placed sixth in stroke play to reach the championship match play bracket. A stomach bug passed through the squad Friday night, but the players battled through to win Saturday’s quarterfinal match against then-No. 7 Arkansas 4-1. Later in the day, a semifinal match against host Georgia came down to the wire. The Cats and Bulldogs halved two matches and split the other two for a showdown in the final group between Tangkamolprasert and Georgia sophomore Sammi Lee. With the score 2-2, Tangkamolprasert 1-up through 17 and the Bulldogs holding the tiebreaker, the junior needed to halve the hole to move the Cats to the finals. But she was purposely left unaware of the full situation. “The coaches didn’t come up to me and talk about the scores at all,” Tangkamolprasert said. “But I knew that because I was in the last group that this point meant something.” Alas, Tangkamolprasert came up just yards short of a ridge, and her ball rolled 30 yards off the green, leading to a bogey that lost the junior the hole and allowed Georgia to move on. The Cats finished off the tournament Sunday in the third-place match against then-No. 5 Duke, faltering to a 4-1 loss to drop to fourth. agreement. If no deal is struck, the House of Representatives and the Senate may move quickly to impose new sanctions on Iran. If a deal is struck, both chambers, Republican controlled, are expected to move quickly to pass legislation requiring Congress to pass judgment on the agreement. “Congress will make its skepticism clear, its disapproval clear,” said Jon Alterman, director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Middle East Program. But whether Congress could stop a deal remains to be seen. “I have a hard time seeing how it will be an insurmountable obstacle,” he said. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has signaled his intentions, telling Prime Minister
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EAGLE EYE Sarah Cho eyes an angle for her putt. The freshman aided Northwestern’s efforts at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic on Sunday.
The Cats dropped to No. 16 in the rankings after the event, but saw key performances from several players. Lee set the tone against Arkansas with a dominant 6 & 5 win in the first match and Kim came back from 3-down in one match to halve. The biggest performance, though, came from junior Kacie Komoto, who won each of her first two matches 3 & 2. “I’ve always loved the format of match play,” Komoto said. “You always know where you stand, and you know what you have to do and what it takes to win.”
Despite NU’s rankings dip, Fletcher felt the team earned important experience in match play. After this brutal test, the Cats have a quick turnaround, leaving Wednesday afternoon for the Bryan National Collegiate. In the meantime, rest is in the cards. “The thing is getting everybody healthy, getting them back and their strength up that they haven’t had the last couple of days,” Fletcher said. “That’ll be top of the list.”
Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday in Israel that he shares the prime minister’s concerns that whatever is negotiated in Lausanne, Switzerland, will be tilted in Tehran’s favor. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who also is making his way to Israel during Congress’s twoweek spring recess, told CNN on Sunday that “sanctions are going to come, and they’re going to come quick.” But it’s not just Republicans who have doubts about dealing with Iran. The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee is preparing to act on April 14 on a bill co-authored by Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and ranking Democrat Bob Menendez of New Jersey.
The bill would require Obama to submit text of a nuclear agreement to Congress and would prohibit the administration from lifting sanctions against Iran for 60 days while lawmakers conduct a review. The bill has 21 co-sponsors, including eight Democrats and independent Angus King of Maine. Bipartisan distrust toward Iran was evident Thursday when lawmakers voted 100-0 for a nonbinding amendment to impose new sanctions on Iran if it violates the interim nuclear deal or any future agreement.
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Cats win one, lose one versus Michigan teams By Alex Lederman
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Northwestern crossed Lake Michigan this weekend to take on the Wolverines and Spartans, splitting a pair of results. First, the No. 27 Wildcats (8-5, 3-2 Big Ten) fell 6-1 on Saturday to No. 12 Michigan (15-3, 6-0), the team NU beat in the Big Ten Championship last year. The Cats’ only point came in surprising fashion — from the doubles point. All season, NU has struggled to gain an early lead with doubles. But this weekend, its top two pairs — junior Alicia Barnett with freshman Erin Larner and freshman Rheeya Doshi with sophomore Brooke Rischbieth — each beat ranked foes. “Michigan relies heavily on their doubles point, and I was hoping that was going to unnerve them a little bit because they play excellent doubles,” coach Claire Pollard said. “But in all credit to them, we took it to them in doubles and then they took it right back to us in singles.” Pollard said the team has finally stabilized its doubles lineup after playing with different combinations all winter, which she hopes will lead to more consistent results. The third doubles team is freshman Alex Chatt
and senior Lok Sze Leung. Still, the Wolverines won all six singles matchups. Barnett took the first set 6-3 against No. 23 Emina Bektas at No. 1 singles, but dropped the next two 6-3, 6-0. No other NU player won a set. “We played our best doubles point in the whole season against Michigan,” Leung said. “But in singles, we definitely all have something to work on.” Leung said she specifically needs to work on her forehand. She called it her weapon, but said she hasn’t
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been using it as much as she can. The Cats bounced back Sunday against No. 37 Michigan State (16-3, 5-1), delivering the Spartans’ first conference defeat with a 5-2 victory. Again NU won the doubles point — although Pollard said NU’s teams didn’t play as well as on Saturday — but this time the Cats breezed
through singles. Barnett and sophomore Jillian Rooney were the only players to lose, with Rooney falling 7-6 (5) in the third set. All three freshmen — Larner, Chatt and Doshi — won their matches. Larner bounced back from one set down to come away with the victory. “The poor sophomore class is depleted at the moment,” Pollard said. “They’re all suffering from some sort of injury. The freshmen have really done a nice job stepping up and are getting some great experience.” NU is looking to leave its winter struggles in the past, just like the cold weather. The Cats already have almost as many losses as they did all of last season — only two fewer — and an extra conference loss. With injuries, instability in lineups, its top two players from last season graduating and Pollard taking a leave of absence for four matches, NU did not have the winter it desired. But that doesn’t discourage the Cats. “We haven’t really been thinking about the first half,” Leung said. “We’ve been talking about having a new season, so right now we’re 2-1 and are trying to forget about the winter.” alexanderlederman2017@u.northwestern.edu
NU earns 16th at tournament By Tyler Vandermolen
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Facing a field highlighted by a number of the nation’s perennially elite golf programs, Northwestern struggled to gain traction at The Goodwin hosted by Stanford. The Wildcats finished 16th out of 24 teams. Although the result was far from embarrassing given the strong level of competition, head coach David Inglis has high expectations for his young team and was a bit disappointed in the Wildcats’ finish. “We all felt that we should have been able to close a little stronger,” Inglis said. “Anytime you’re in a tournament like that with so many good teams you want to be at your best and show that you can compete with anyone.” The three-day tournament in Palo Alto, California, ran from March 26 to 28. After a tough opening round that saw the Cats post a score of an 8-over 288, the team was able to rally a bit on its second day, firing a 3-over 283 to move from 18th place
to 15th. But NU was unable to continue its charge on the tournament’s final day, posting a 9-over 289 and sliding down the tightly packed leaderboard one spot. Although the result may not have been what NU wanted out of the tournament named for former Cats and Cardinal coach Wally Goodwin, head coach David Inglis believes his team is not far from where it needs to be as the heart of its season approaches. “It was just a couple mistakes here and there that hurt our guys in some spots, and in a field with that many good teams those handful of shots can make a big difference in where you finish,” Inglis said. “But those mistakes are correctable, and we got some great prep out in California over spring break, so we feel good heading into the most important part of our season.” The tournament was not without its bright spots for the Cats. Among them was yet another solid performance from freshman Dylan Wu, who said he has seen improvement in his game over the winter after a
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steady shot Dylan Wu lines up for a putt. The freshman helped Northwestern battle through a difficult field of opponents.
sensational fall season that saw him earn his first collegiate victory. Wu posted rounds of 72-68-71 at The Goodwin, good enough to finish in a tie for 33rd at 1-over. “It was definitely nice to see some of the stuff I worked on this winter start to pay off,” Wu said. “That second round was probably my best ball striking round of the year — I think I hit around 15 or 16 greens — so I definitely had some good things going. It’s just a matter of putting it all together at the right time.” Junior Josh Jamieson’s mettle was tested after a catastrophic stretch on the back nine of his first round that saw him card a quadruple-bogey on the day’s final hole. Battling back after an opening 7-over 77, Jamieson was able to post a pair of 1-under 69s on the event’s final two days to finish in a tie for 64th. “I think it was just a matter of staying positive, because I got a little bit down on myself that first day,” Jamieson said. “Those are the situations where you just have to be able to knuckle down for the team, and I was happy I was able to do that.” Inglis was impressed with the Scotland native’s resolve. “It just shows his maturity and how far he’s come that he was able to battle back from a start like that,” Inglis said. “That’s something we’ll need down the stretch here.” The Cats’ other competitors included seniors Bennett Lavin and Matthew Negri, both of whom finished the week at 11-over and tied for 90th. Freshman Charles Wang rounded out the squad by finishing tied for 112th at 17-over. Competing as individuals, freshman Sam Triplett and senior Scott Smith finished at 11-over (T90) and 21-over (T121), respectively. NU will next tee it up April 11 to 12 at Ohio State’s Kepler Intercollegiate. tylervandermolen2018@u.northwestern.edu
Women’s Tennis
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smooth swing Manon Peri returns a shot. The sophomore assisted the team in splitting a pair of weekend matches.
Men’s Tennis
Cats surge ahead after unsteady start Northwestern goes 2-2 during Spring Break play to move to fourth in Big Ten conference By Khadrice Rollins
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It was an eventful Spring Break for Northwestern, as the team split its four matches over the week. The No. 24 Wildcats (14-7, 3-2 Big Ten) started off shaky when they dropped their match March 25 at Rice (11-11, 0-2 C-USA), 4-1. The loss ended NU’s six-game winning streak, and it was the first time since Feb. 20 the team was defeated. Freshman Logan Staggs picked up the Cats’ only point of the match, winning in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4. The doubles pairing of junior Fedor Baev and sophomore Strong Kirchheimer also won its match, 6-2, but it meant nothing as NU came up short in the other two doubles contests. On March 27, the team lost once again, this time 5-2 to No. 11 Ohio State (16-7, 4-1 Big Ten). Sophomores Sam Shropshire and Konrad Zieba were bright spots for the Cats, as both won their matches, 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) and 6-3, 1-6, 7-6 (7-5) respectively. Baev kept his match close, but lost a heartbreaker, 7-6 (7-5), 6-7 (5-7), 1-0 (10-7). This was the first time NU lost back-to-back contests since it fell to Oklahoma, Notre Dame and Duke consecutively, with the last defeat coming Feb. 1. The tide changed for NU on March 29 when the team hosted No. 50 Penn State (9-12, 1-4 Big Ten) and IUPUI (7-13, 3-0 Summit League). The Cats walked away with a 7-0 victory in each match as they returned to their winning ways.
Against Penn State, the doubles pairings of Shropshire and senior Alex Pasareanu and Baev and Kirchheimer grabbed NU’s first point of the match with 8-3 and 8-4 triumphs. Shropshire, Kirchheimer, Staggs and sophomore Alp Horoz all won their singles matches in straight sets. Zieba won his match 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 while Baev dropped his first set and had to fight back to secure his point for NU, but was successful in coming up with a 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory. In the match with IUPUI, NU coasted to an easy victory. Baev and Kirchheimer won their doubles match 6-0 and Horoz and junior Mihir Kumar won 6-3 to earn the Cats the first point of the match. After that, Shropshire, Kirchheimer, Zieba, Staggs, Baev and Horoz all won in straight sets. Staggs had the most impressive victory of the bunch, as he did not allow his opponent to win a single game and won his match 6-0, 6-0. Horoz and Kirchheimer were also impressive in their victories as they won 6-0, 6-1 and 6-0, 6-2 respectively. The wins on Sunday were perfect for NU as they allowed the team to head into a four-day break on a positive note. The Cats now sit at fourth in the Big Ten with six conference games remaining before the Big Ten Tournament. The team has one game left against a conference foe currently ranked higher in the standings, so Sunday could mark the start of another long winning streak for NU. khadricerollins2017@u.northwestern.edu