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Fresh Faces Evanston/Skokie District 65 welcomed Jennifer Phillips, along with incumbents Omar Brown and Richard Rykhus. District 202 retained Mark Metz and Jonathan Baum, adding newcomer Monique Parsons. incumbents Mark Metz and JonaI loved meeting with some of the By Marissa Page than Baum will retain their seats, retirees in the district who are forthe daily northwestern with newcomer Monique Parsons mer teachers to hear their issues.” @marissahpage filling out the board. Board memThere were five total candidates bers will be sworn in next month. running for the District 202 spots, Residents on Tuesday elected six Philips said she looks forward and four running for District 65. candidates to local school boards to getting to know the district even Anne Sills ultimately lost the third in an election that saw just under 9 better through her future work on District 202 seat by 235 votes, the board. percent of registered Evanston votwhereas Adrian Dortch, who ran “It’s been an amazing process, for spots on both boards, trailed all ers cast their ballots. In Evanston/Skokie School Discampaigning,” Phillips said. “It’s candidates in the polls. trict 65, first-time candidate Jenbeen a phenomenal way to get to Although Dortch lost the race nifer Phillips will join incumbents know my community, get to know by a wide margin, he said he is still Omar Brown and Richard Rykhus on the schools across the districts, parthe board. For School District 202, ents, other community members. » See election, page 6
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CARE nonprofit gains funding By Julia Jacobs
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Like the animals it works to help, the Community Animal Rescue Effort does not yet have a home. In the year after the City Council voted to terminate CARE’s relationship with Evanston Animal Shelter, CARE has rebuilt itself as an independent foster home based organization without four walls in which to operate. But CARE did not leave the shelter last spring empty-handed. Along with a sum of money the volunteers had raised as part of the shelter, CARE brought with it corporate sponsors that continue to support the non-profit in its newest form. Last month, more than 10 of CARE’s volunteers were presented a check for $10,327 from Evanston Subaru through the company’s holiday sales event. Rob Paddor, the owner of the Skokie dealership, has been a partner of CARE’s for five years and agreed to stick with them when volunteers approached him last spring to tell him about the growing rift with the city, said Kari Kennedy, fundraising coordinator for CARE. “After going to him and discussing what was going on, he really let
Candidates share visions for ASG’s role
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With polls opening in less than 48 hours, the two tickets for Associated Student Government president and executive vice president faced off in the second of two debates Tuesday, providing their visions for next year’s student government. Weinberg junior Noah Star and his running mate, McCormick junior Christina Kim, faced Medill junior Haley Hinkle and her running mate, SESP junior Chris Harlow, in front of more than 60 students, many of whom are members of ASG. Hinkle said the most important project in her platform to complete
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with the U.S.-based inequalities distro requirement is creating a culture where we can fill this room when we hold forums,” Star said. “The reason why we did not fill it is because ASG as an organization is not doing its job meeting students where they are.” As they did in Monday’s debate, both Hinkle and Star wouldn’t say whether or not they support the NU Divest-sponsored resolution that passed the Senate in February asking the University to divest from six corporations the resolution’s authors say violate Palestinian human rights. Hinkle said she hasn’t decided which side she supports and that she wants to remain impartial for the time being. “To be entirely honest, I’m still grappling with my understanding of
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this entire discussion at an international level,” Hinkle said. “When it comes to what would I have voted for in that debate, I personally don’t want to answer that question. … It’s very important to maintain a sense of neutrality in order to work with both sides.” Star, who was Speaker of the Senate when the resolution passed, said he remained impartial to maintain the legitimacy of the debate. He said he studied other student governments where divestment resolutions were debated. “In schools where the speaker, the person directly responsible for moderating the debate, was publicly partial, those debates did not » See debate, page 6
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DEBATE Chris Harlow, Haley Hinkle, Noah Star and Christina Kim discuss the role of Associated Student Government on Tuesday night. The two tickets for president and executive vice president participated in their final debate before the polls open Thursday at 5 p.m.
as president is creating a U.S.-based Social Inequalities and Diversities requirement in all six schools. “We talk a lot about our campus culture of conversation,” Hinkle said. “A lot of students feel like this is a first step to ensuring that we give our students the language to talk about these things.” Star, though, said in order to accomplish something like such a requirement, the structure of ASG must change so students outside the organization are better incorporated into its projects, a common theme throughout his “Listen Then Lead” campaign. He alluded to a forum ASG held in February where students spoke in favor of the proposed requirement. “The first step behind the first step
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Another candidate has joined the race to take over the ninth ward alderman position that Coleen Burrus will vacate April 24. Schona Buranda, the fifth person vying for the position, is the program director of outreach and partnerships at Good News Partners, an affordable housing organization in Chicago. She was previously executive director at the Evanston Community Development Corporation. “I’ve lived in Evanston for over two decades and I raised my kids here,” Buranda told The Daily. “I’ve been very involved and the city needs someone who cares enough about its constituents in Evanston and at large. I want us to become the best city in the United States.” Buranda will join the four other candidates — Dan Coyne, Shawn Jones, Mary McAuley and Brian Miller — at a forum April 23 hosted by Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl at the Levy Senior Center, 300 Dodge Ave. Burrus, the current 9th Ward alderman, is leaving her position to take over as director of corporate and foundation relations at Princeton University. At a meeting earlier this month to hear community feedback on the replacement alderman, Tisdahl told The Daily she was not sure when the new alderman would be selected, but she said she hoped to have someone by the time Burrus leaves.
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us know that he was in our corner and that he was going to continue to do whatever he could to help us continue our mission,” Kennedy told The Daily. During Subaru’s “Share the Love” event, which ran from Nov. 20 to Jan. 2, Subaru donated $250 to a selected charity for each new car sold. Evanston Subaru customers chose between four national charities and two local charities, including CARE, which received $7,291 from last year’s fundraiser. In addition to the annual holiday sales event and a summer dog wash hosted at the dealership, Paddor has worked with CARE to help find its “forever home,” Kennedy said. As CARE volunteers search north Chicago and the North Shore suburbs for a space to turn into a shelter, Paddor has helped the organization navigate unfamiliar territory, including writing letters of recommendation to supplement CARE’s applications to municipalities, Kennedy said. “We’re proud and happy to be a partner of CARE,” Paddor told The Daily. Whole Foods Market and Mary Summerville of Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty, who has been donating to CARE for 20 years, have
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Around Town Y.O.U. plans for new headquarters By benjamin din
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Youth Organizations Umbrella will relocate its headquarters to a new facility across the street from Evanston Township High School. The local youth development agency is currently working on the design for its new facility, which will be located at 1911 Church St., said Seth Green, the agency’s executive director. The expected completion date for the project is September 2016. Tawani Enterprises, an investment group led by local billionaire Jennifer Pritzker, donated the lot on Church Street as well as a separate parking lot to Y.O.U., Green said. Tawani Enterprises and the Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation both contributed funds to the project, he said. The planned two-story facility will span 10,000 to 12,000 square feet, Green said. Although the building will have office space for each staff member, he said there will still be Y.O.U. staff embedded at school sites throughout the city. Green said Y.O.U. began exploring the possibility of a new facility in the fall of 2012 with the two main goals of providing a gathering space for its staff and engaging its students in hands-on learning.
Police Blotter Evanston resident’s clothes intentionally damaged An Evanston woman told police someone poured bleach on her clothing and left the clothes in her backyard Monday. The 32-year-old woman, who lives in the 1500 block of McDaniel Avenue near Evanston Township High School, had a previous personal “incident” with a neighbor in her building, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said.
“The core idea of Y.O.U. is empowerment through opportunity and experiential learning,” he said. “The building will really be a gateway to that kind of transformative learning that happens beyond school.” There will be three main spaces in the facility for youth programming: a maker lab, a demonstration kitchen and an outdoor garden. Modeled on YOUmedia, a digital youth center in Chicago, the maker lab will feature state-ofthe-art technology and engaged learning opportunities. Y.O.U. is also involved in the MetaMedia Youth Center, a similar space that recently opened at the McGaw YMCA, 1000 Grove St. “We see our space as a level playing field for youth in Evanston,” Jesse Chatz, the outreach specialist at the YMCA, told The Daily in February. “Any middle school kid that comes into our space we’ll welcome with open arms.” Because the MetaMedia Youth Center is focused on middle school youth, the maker lab will focus more on high school students, Green said. However, the space will still house youth programming for all ages. “It will be a place for hands-on learning in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics,” said Ellen Muench, Y.O.U.’s manager of program innovation. “It’ll be the same kind of space (as MetaMedia) where kids can tinker and learn while doing.”
The demonstration kitchen will be used for a culinary therapy program, where youth can cook and share a meal while reflecting and coming to terms with past traumas, Green said. “What we’ve learned is there’s a lot of learning – social, emotional and academic – that can happen in a really well-designed kitchen,” Green said. Youth will also have the opportunity to harvest their own vegetables and fruits in the facility’s outdoor garden, Muench said. The garden, which will be directly connected to the kitchen, will allow students to explore the outdoors and learn about science. The process for the project has been “highly collaborative,” with Y.O.U. working with outside organizations like the McGaw YMCA and Northwestern, Muench said. The youth, Y.O.U.’s community partners, the neighborhood around the facility and Y.O.U.’s staff are all invited to be involved in developing the new space as well, Green said. Ultimately, Green said he hopes the new facility will be seen as a community space. “Our goal is square-foot impact, he said. “We want every square foot of this new building to be impacting as many people in our community as positively as possible.”
She left some of her clothing in the communal laundry room Monday afternoon and later found the clothing items scattered throughout the backyard with bleach poured on them, Dugan added.
2300 block of Oakton Street and when he returned discovered damage to the top of the vehicle, hood and windshield, Dugan said. On Monday afternoon, someone damaged the second car, a 1999 Toyota owned by a 52-year-old Chicago man. The car, which was parked in the same lot as the Saturn, had a cracked windshield. Police found numerous rocks on the ground around the vehicle, Dugan said.
Cars damaged near Evanston Park
Two cars were damaged with rocks in the same block in south Evanston on Saturday and Monday, police said. The first car, a 2003 Saturn, was damaged Saturday evening. The owner, a 57-year-old Villa Park resident, left his car parked in a lot in the
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Women, as a gender and as a group of people in the world, are meticulously marginalized ... It is very much still a global issue.
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Students react to Emanuel’s mayoral re-election By tyler pager
daily senior staffer @tylerpager
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel won his re-election bid Tuesday night, defeating Jesus “Chuy” Garcia in the first mayoral runoff in the city’s history. Northwestern students had mixed reactions to the results, with Emanuel (Communication ’85) winning 56 percent of the votes and Garcia receiving 44 percent with 99 percent precincts reporting as of 12:35 a.m. Wednesday. Emanuel won his first term in 2011 after serving as President Barack Obama’s chief of staff. Garcia is the Cook County commissioner and previously served as a state senator and Chicago alderman. Quentin Heilbroner, deputy communications director for College Democrats of Illinois, said he is a big fan of Emanuel, but thought Garcia’s challenge helped force Emanuel to better explain his policies, particularly the more controversial ones such as public school closings. “Primaries make better candidates,” the Weinberg junior said. “Having to fight this battle has
helped and will continue to help Rahm refine his message.” In his first term, Emanuel oversaw the closing of almost 50 public schools that were deemed underused or underperforming. Most of the schools were located in black or Latino communities and the closings sparked outrage from teachers and families. SESP junior Zane Waxman, who worked on
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Garcia’s election campaign, said he was disappointed with the results, though he still hopes Emanuel will get the message that many Chicago residents are unhappy with his polices. “There’s still huge parts of the city that deserve the attention and support of the mayor’s office,” Waxman said. “The Loop has gotten its fair
share of development and it’s time to expand that development outward.” Waxman said the south and west parts of the city have been particularly neglected under Emanuel’s tenure. He also said the mayor’s reelection showed how important money is becoming, even in an election with two Democrats. “I’m somewhat frightened that this re-election will give his office the impression that if they can raise enough campaign money then it doesn’t really matter how they treat the rest of the city,” Waxman said. The success of Garcia’s grassroots campaign is important for NU students involved in political activism, said Communication sophomore Matt Fulle. Though he worked in the mayor’s office and supported Emanuel, Fulle said Garcia’s campaign provides a context for students such as those who worked on the NUDivest campaign. “I think that even though Chuy lost, it does speak to the power of grassroots organizing,” Fulle said. “With such a focus on that at Northwestern, the power of grassroots organizing can still have an effect on Chicago politics even though that candidate may not win.” tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu
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ON TO THE NEXT ONE Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks at Northwestern in 2012. Emanuel was re-elected to a second term Tuesday after a runoff race against Cook County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia.
Bill Nye to speak at NU as College Democrats’ spring speaker
Bill Nye will speak at Northwestern later this month about his career and recent activism efforts as College Democrats’ spring speaker. Nye is well known for his educational science program, “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” which aimed to teach students about natural science topics. Nye made 100 episodes of the show. Most recently, Nye has become active in advocating for the importance of science education. He has also been a staunch supporter of addressing climate change. Quentin Heilbroner, the former president of College Democrats, said the group selected Nye because of his appeal to a college audience. “It’s really wonderful seeing someone who is such a cultural icon,” the Weinberg junior said. “He’s a household name. I don’t think people are quite aware of what he’s being doing recently with activism and environmentalism.” Nye will speak April 17 at 6:30 p.m. in PickStaiger Concert Hall. Tickets are free and students will be able to pick them up at the Norris Box Office next week. — Tyler Pager
Researchers show promise for new cancer screening technique
Northwestern researchers have developed a technology that may allow physicians to identify when prostate cancer has the potential to become life-threatening and when it will be nonaggressive. This study in the field of nanocytology could help men make better decisions about what treatments to take when combating prostate cancer. “If we can predict a prognosis with our technology, then men will know if their cancer is dangerous and if they should seek treatment,” said Vadim Backman, senior author of the study and professor of biomedical engineering at McCormick, in a news release. “Right now there is no perfect tool to predict a prognosis for prostate cancer. Our research is preliminary, but it is promising and proves that the concept works.” Backman pioneered an optical technique called partial wave spectroscopic and has used it to study cell abnormalities in many different types of cancers. The technique detects cell features as small as 20 nanometers which would otherwise go unnoticed. The study used Backman’s technique to analyze prostate tissue biopsies from almost 40 patients with different stages of prostate cancer. Researchers were blinded about the clinical status of the patients. “This study has high quality data because it was done in a blinded fashion,” Backman said in the news release. “Given that even in the unblinded dataset the investigator responsible for data acquisition was unaware of the clinical status, there is no possibility of bias.” — Mariana Alfaro
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Julia and Erik endorse Noah and Christina for ASG president, EVP
This past week, campus has been inundated with catchy slogans, slick graphics and staged photos of students posing with whiteboards. This means it’s campaign season for Associated Student Government’s President and Executive Vice President positions. In the midst of this marketing ‘arms race,’ we’re encouraging you to look past the gimmicks to make informed decisions about who will actually represent your best interests. As the current President and Executive Vice President of ASG, we wish to express which ticket truly stands for its values. While both tickets utilize buzzwords like ‘inclusion,’ ‘diversity’ and ‘accessibility,’ only one ticket has begun to think critically about these terms and how they are used at Northwestern. Separating the rhetoric and rehearsed answers from genuine thoughtfulness and courageous leadership is critical in distinguishing the two campaigns. After doing just this, we are strongly supporting Noah Star and Christina Kim for ASG President and Executive Vice President. Over the past year in ASG, we have worked extensively with all four candidates.
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While we do not contest the work ethic or commitment of any candidate, we believe Noah and Christina’s leadership style and experience have shown that they will actually take a stand for students. In their time on the ASG Executive Board, the ‘complexity’ or ‘divisiveness’ of an issue has not prevented Noah and Christina from amplifying the voices of students. Instead of existing in the comfortable outskirts of an issue for the sake of a potential bid to our Executive Office, Noah and Christina both engaged in challenging conversations. The leaders of ASG should not pick or choose what issues they address while in office. Students on this campus, whether they are unjustly targeted by police or unable to participate in student programming due to limited finances, do not have the luxury or privilege of choosing to deal with racism or classism in their everyday lives. In order to be truly committed to working on the hardest issues at Northwestern, ASG’s future leaders must, at bare minimum, be aware that having the ‘choice of engagement’ signifies power and privilege. Noah and Christina understand this, and are committed to continuously engaging in these issues. As Winston Churchill once said, “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” Going further, we greatly respect Noah and Christina’s acknowledgment of their personal limitations and their understanding
of how and when to defer to other community leaders. Their humility and respect for the work being done outside of ASG reaffirms that these partnerships would not be burdensome or exploitative in nature. In addition to their commitment to listening to others, Noah and Christina have made sustainable accountability a tenet of their platform. This is where we believe ASG has failed over the past year. While we have centered our term’s initiatives around the core values of accessibility and equality, we realize that we need to do better in transparently communicating our projects and their progress. Students should have the ability to call out ASG when it fails to represent them and feel that they are being heard. Noah and Christina are the only ticket that openly calls for critique by community members and offers channels to measure their progress on their platform. As the current ASG President and Executive Vice President, we support Noah and Christina because we have seen that their words align with their actions. After listening to their mission, platform and experiences, we believe Noah and Christina have the genuine thoughtfulness required to lead with courage and integrity. We are voting for Noah and Christina because they don’t shirk away from standing up for student voices. Julia Watson, ASG President Erik Zorn, ASG Executive Vice President
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Is change in Cuba in our near future? This January in his annual State of the Union address, President Barack Obama announced Washington’s strategy on Cuba was “long past its expiration date.” Obama then ordered Congress to begin the hard work to lift the embargo, and a State Department official said the department wants more diplomats in Cuba, fewer travel restrictions, more U.S. supplies in Havana and embassy access to Cubans. Companies such as Netflix and Airbnb have announced
expansion into the Cuban market. However, there are many obstacles that will make this process of re-establishing diplomatic ties a long one, the largest being that Cuba is still officially considered a terrorist threat, which prohibits aid, arms sales, trade and credit from global institutions. Even assuming the success of removing these barriers, it is still unclear whether Cuba and Cubans will be effectively helped or hurt by the United States’ lifting its embargo. Although
Lifting embargo is step in right direction to progress for Cubans abigail Stratton In President Obama’s announcement last month, it is important to note that the United States is attempting to “normalise relations,” not end the embargo. However, it may be the beginning of a movement toward updating the nation’s attitude and strategy on Cuba which, as Obama stated, is “long past its expiration date.” In his State of the Union address, the president acknowledged the potential for positive change in these new policy decisions: “Our shift in Cuba policy has the potential to end a legacy of mistrust in our hemisphere; removes a phony excuse for restrictions in Cuba; stands up for democratic values; and extends the hand of friendship to the Cuban people… Congress should begin the work of ending the embargo.” The acknowledgement of the problem is the easy part. A meeting last month between U.S. assistant secretary of state Roberta Jacobson and Cuban foreign ministry’s chief of U.S. affairs Josefina Vidal was the highest level meeting of American and Cuban diplomats for the last 38 years. Implementation of new policies and attempts to ameliorate the relationship will be difficult. In particular, it is difficult to determine how exactly the conversation between the two governments will go. As Kirby Jones, the president of the U.S.-Cuba trade consultancy Alamar Associates, mentions, “there are 50 years of regulations to rewrite.” Despite the obvious hurdles involved in opening up U.S.-Cuban relations, companies such as Netflix and Airbnb, a company that allows locals to rent rooms in their homes to tourists or foreigners, are attempting to expand their markets to include the Cuban population. While there are many obstacles to Netflix becoming a success, mainly the lack of internet access, credit card use and low incomes in Cuba, Netflix wants to introduce its product
into Cuban markets now “with the hope that Internet service will improve, household incomes will rise and diplomatic relations with the United States will continue to thaw.” These are, of course, hopes. Airbnb has a similar stance in that it is making decisions that could improve diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States. If the companies are successful, however, it could help usher Cuba into the modern technological era, expanding Internet access to the public and opening the country’s economy to credit card companies, tourism and other forms of income for the Cuban people. For now, attempting to break into the Cuban market is in many ways symbolic. Until the embargo is For now, dismantled further attempting to and U.S.-Cuban relations are more break into a stable, little will be Cuban market accomplished. The United States has is in many ways improved its relations symbolic. with other countries such as Vietnam and Myanmar, but the laws aimed at “staunching money-flows” to Cuba make this case particularly challenging. Raul Castro has also warned against lofty expectations, saying, “We must not expect that in order for relations with the United States to improve, Cuba will abandon the ideas that it has struggled for.” So while these changes in the influx of U.S. companies and President Obama’s statements are encouraging, there is a long road ahead before any significant change can be accomplished.
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Abigail Stratton is a Weinberg freshman. She can be reached at abigailstratton2018@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
66 percent of Americans oppose the embargo, according to the Pew Research Center, the Cuban-American community is equally split. Opponents of the policy shift claim the United States is simply handing power to the Castros as they throw political dissidents in jail, and Raul Castro himself has said that in no way will lifting the embargo alter the political climate Cuba has worked so hard for. However, if the Castros agree to the expansion of U.S.
companies and technology on the island, lifting the embargo could help bring Cuba into the age of the Internet and increase access to information, which could arguably provide Cubans with greater freedom. The big question then is, is dismantling the trade embargo a step in the right direction that will produce tangible results, or is it a self-congratulatory move on the United States’ part that will not actually uplift the living conditions of Cuban citizens?
Path to strong relationship will take much more than embargo action Asha Sawhney It is important to note when discussing the U.S. embargo on Cuba that it is impossible to undo 50 years of policy with a single, unilateral action. Each individual restriction that will be removed will require dozens of policies to be altered. For example, although United Airlines has announced they will begin direct flights to Havana pending government approval, this announcement is a bit premature considering 10 to 15 doors will have to be opened to make this possible, according to Jones. Likewise, Cubans will not be immediately brought back to freedom if the United States lifts the embargo, since restrictions on behalf of the Cuban government will largely remain unchanged. The Castro brothers have warned the Obama administration and the U.S. government as a whole to leave behind any hope of reforming communism in the island nation. This staunch opposition to internal economic reform makes it likely that the average Cuban will continue to earn almost nothing by U.S. standards, which turns U.S. expansion in Cuba into a largely symbolic move. Airbnb and Netflix cannot expect to profit in a market where high-speed Internet and credit card usage is virtually nonexistent. Nor is there expected to be greater access to these services if Cuba maintains its own state restrictions. The U.S. embargo does not completely prevent Mexican telecommunications giant Carlos Slim, Spanish company Telefonica, Ireland’s Digicell or numerous other foreign companies from doing business. In these cases companies cannot provide Internet access in homes because the Cuban state prohibits it. Loosening trade restrictions also seems like it will do nothing to
uplift the living conditions of the average Cuban, since 90 percent of the business in the nation is state-owned. If foreign businesses were to set up shop, the state would also interfere with any possible benefits for citizens by requiring they hire through the state, which means they would have the power to devalue wages, which would turn a $500 dollar paycheck into a $21 one. According to Jennifer Harris, an economist at the Council on Foreign Relations, the real beneficiaries of the upcoming policy shifts will be U.S. farmers who will export fish, grain, poultry, etc. Although many of the policies that will keep Cubans from having the same quality of life as citizens of other nations Cubans come from the will not be Cuban government itself, it is critical immediately that the United brought back to States remembers its role in devasfreedom if the tating the Cuban United States economy through lifts the embargo. the embargo, with an estimated $116.8 billion of damages that harmed innocent citizens. Even if lifting the embargo might eventually give average Cubans tangible, positive results, as of now we have only made announcements and small steps towards this end. After 55 years of intentional damage, words and speeches are definitely not enough to make the United States a savior and Cuba the villain. We should be cautious before adopting a selfcongratulatory attitude.
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Asha Sawhney is a Weinberg freshman. She can be reached at ashasawhney2018@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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Comedian discusses catcalls for Sex Week event By Mariana alfaro
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Comedian Amanda Seales, known for speaking out against catcalling and street harassment in a now-viral CNN appearance, discussed everyday sexism Tuesday night as the headliner of College Feminists’ Sex Week. Seales, who injected humor throughout her talk, discussed the daily limitations and restrictions women face from sexual objectification in the media to catcalls and harassment when walking down the street. “Women, as a gender and as a group of people in the world, are meticulously marginalized,” Seales said. “It is very much still a global issue women being marginalized, as well as being objectified, as well as being victimized for simply being women.” When asked by CNN last November to give her opinion about the viral video that featured a woman being harassed and catcalled while walking down the streets of New York, Seales did not expect to debate the situation with author Steve Santagati, who argued women should be flattered by the catcalls. “I was so shocked at what this man was saying,” she said. “I was also more so shocked by how many guys agreed with him and how many women did as well.”
Seales said her experience on CNN showed her the importance of discussing everyday examples of sexism. The appearance went viral because of the “side eye” she gave in response to Santagati’s comments. She had the audience practice their side eyes and eye rolls at sexist comments she’d heard before, which she called ‘bulls–t.’ After showing a remixed version of her CNN clip, Seales said catcalling and street harassment aren’t ways to compliment women. “I don’t take being sexually objectified as a compliment,” she said. “And there’s this thought process that says ‘Okay, you know, if you give a woman a compliment, there shouldn’t be anything wrong with that,’” she said. “There shouldn’t be. What’s wrong is when you get angry if she doesn’t thank you. That’s the problem.” She also challenged multiple stereotypes women face daily, including the idea that women are crazy during their periods or weaker than men. “The same guy who is bench pressing 250 pounds, have you ever seen him get a cold? It’s a struggle,” Seales said. “There are thousands of women right now, pushing a watermelon sized person out of a quarter sized hole … That’s a level of physical strength that you can’t overlook.” Equality, she said, is not about sameness but about accepting everyone’s uniqueness
and differences. She argued women have been forced to be strong in ways that are different than physical prowess and that historically, patriarchal mentalities have forced women to do things they didn’t want to do just because other opportunities weren’t available to them. “So there’s still this culture of faux progress that says ‘Oh, they can’t handle it. You know, they’re not strong enough to make their own decisions,’” she said. “And we see that in the reproductive decisions that are made for us by men who … or don’t even communicate with the people who the decisions are made of.” Michelle Lega, co-director of Sex Week, said she first heard about Seales when she saw a Tumblr post of the CNN interview and thought she would be a perfect Sex Week headliner. “She’s able to combine humor with such insightful commentary about things. and it really keeps people engaged,” the Weinberg sophomore said. Alyse Slaughter, a Medill sophomore, said listening to Seales was empowering. “It definitely exceeded my expectations,” she said. “I felt really empowered to stand up for myself and know what to do in certain situations and kinda just combat sexism in my daily life.” marianaalfaro2018@u.northwestern.edu
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No Joke Comedian Amanda Seales discusses catcalling and everyday sexism at College Feminists’ Sex Week headliner event Tuesday. Seales, whose CNN appearance went viral after she challenged the notion that women should accept catcalling, approached the subject with humor.
Childhood cancer survivors experience chronic health issues
The Missing Beat: A Reading from Beneath the Lion's Gaze with Author Maaza Mengiste Wednesday, April 15, 2015 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM University Hall, 201 1897 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208 Q&A and book-signing to follow This event is FREE and open to the public Maaza Mengiste is the Spring Quarter 2015 Visiting-Writer-in-Residence for the Center for the Writing Arts teaching The Art of Fiction. She is a Fulbright Scholar and the award-winning author of Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books. The novel was named one of the best books of 2010 by Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Publishers Weekly and other publications. Her fiction and nonfiction writing can be found in the Guardian, the New York Times, BBC Radio 4, Granta, and Lettre International, among other places. Her second novel, The Shadow King, is forthcoming.
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A majority of children who have survived childhood cancer for five or more years following their diagnosis live with chronic health problems related to their treatment, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published last week. The study found that although there were about 400,000 childhood cancer survivors in 2011 — nearly 60,000 more survivors than in 2005 — about 70 percent of the childhood survivors live with a mild or moderate chronic condition and 32 percent with a severe, disabling or life-threatening condition. “We’ve been able to increase the number of survivors of pediatric cancer, but simply curing their disease isn’t enough,” said lead author Siobhan Phillips, assistant professor of preventive medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine, in a news release. About 35 percent of survivors, ages 20 to 49, had neurocognitive dysfunction and 13 to 17 percent of those had self-reported functional impairment, activity limitations, impaired mental health, pain or anxiety/fear, according to the study’s findings. “These facts should challenge all of us in the field not to be content simply with improving life span, but to dedicate the future of this field to improving the ‘health span’ of our survivors,” said Dr. Greg Armstrong, principal investigator of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study and a pediatrician at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, in the release. — Rebecca Savransky
City seeks proposals for Gibbs-Morrison Cultural Center
Evanston announced it is accepting proposals from businesses or organizations to “lease, equip and fully operate” the Gibbs-Morrison Cultural Center’s recording studio and cafe, the city announced. The recording studio, which includes a control room, studio and isolation booth, makes up about 400 of the 5,000-square-foot facility, and the cafe kitchen spans about 200 square feet. Organizations and businesses interested in the space are invited to a walk-through and question-and-answer session at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 9, at the center, according to the city. Letters of intent are due by noon on Friday, April 17. Formerly known as the Boocoo Cultural Center, the Gibbs-Morrison Cultural Center, 1823 Church St., is currently under construction. The Center has been closed since it was foreclosed upon in October. Currently city property, the center was renamed in February after two entrepreneurs, Thomas Gibbs and William H. “Doc” Morrison, who formerly operated businesses on that block. The space is scheduled to open in June and will be operated by the City’s Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department to provide “programs focused on culture, education, health/wellness and outreach,” according to a city news release. — Marissa Page
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pleased with the outcome. “We have some great constituents that are on the board now,” Dortch said. “Omar is great, Mrs. Parsons is great. These are all community people who live in our community and love our community.” Metz, who has served on the ETHS board for six years, said he was impressed with his competitors’ showings throughout the campaign process. These are all “The other four candidates really did some community hard work,” he said. “I people who thought their efforts and commitment to the live in our school were incredible. community Now, I just look forand love our ward to getting back to work.” community. Only 8.9 percent of Adrian Dortch, registered Evanston school board voters turned out for candidate the election. Entering his second four-year term on the District 202 school board, Baum said he was grateful to the Evanston community for affirming his service and electing him to continue working to improve ETHS. “I expect it will continue to be a good, hardworking, collegial board,” Baum said. “I’m looking forward to working with everybody.” Phillips said she believes that the new District 65 board will be capable of affecting positive
change in Evanston schools. “(My kids and I) have been talking a lot about how when you put yourself out there and try hard, change is possible,” Phillips said. “I love that they now can really believe that change is possible, though I think they’re just hoping that
I can double the length of recess.” The other candidates could not be reached for comment. marissapage2018@u.northwestern.edu
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From page 1 also stuck with the organization after it splintered from the city, Kennedy said. Last April, City Council decided to end its relationship with CARE after months of heated debate over concerns such as its past canine euthanasia rate of 45 percent. After CARE was voted out, the controversy continued when the organization left with more than $500,000 it raised for the purpose of renovating the shelter. But the day after the May 9 deadline to leave the shelter, CARE had its largest adoption event of the year called “Strut for Strays,” a dog-walk event in Evanston’s Ladd Arboretum. CARE also continued to receive calls from people looking to give up their animals or people who had found, for instance, a box of kittens under a porch, Kennedy said. “Right off the bat we just had to keep going,” she said. “We couldn’t slow down and we couldn’t stop, and that was never our intention to close up shop because we believe in the
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casting a ballot Voting for the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 and Evanston Township High School District 202 School Board elections took place April 7. Three candidates were elected to each board.
good work that we do.” CARE’s solution to their lack of a physical space in which to host potential adopters was to ramp up their community events, Kennedy said. Around 100 active volunteers from the organization showcase adoptable animals at local venues two to three times per week, interviewing potential adopters on the spot and scheduling future “meet-and-greets” with families and their current pets. CARE has established relationships with local pet stores, such as Thee Fish Bowl in south Evanston, that allow them to host these events on a regular basis, Kennedy added. Although the organization works closely with some Evanston stores, CARE’s ties with the city itself have been cleanly cut. This year’s “Strut for Strays” will not be held in Evanston but in a Morton Grove forest preserve. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said the city has had no contact with CARE since last May when the organization rejected his request to discuss the money they left the shelter with — which he says is in excess of one million dollars.
“I have no idea what they do, I have no idea what money is being raised,” Bobkiewicz told The Daily. “It’s curious as to what they’re doing with the money raised and why people continue to donate to them when it’s unclear as to what that money’s going towards.”
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That was never our intention to close up shop because we believe in the good work that we do. Kari Kennedy, CARE fundraising coordinator
Kennedy said that the money CARE raises funds animals’ medical needs after they are adopted, like vaccines and microchipping, as well as all the food and resources the animals might need in foster care. The $10,327 from Evanston Subaru will go to those needs as well as help refit the organization’s future space to operate as an animal shelter, she said. “The last thing CARE needs is more money,
Debate
From page 1 go well,” Star said. “To give my perspective on the debate would invalidate the legislative decision and would put attention on me that’s completely unnecessary.” Before Star and Hinkle squared off, Kim and Harlow fielded questions for about 45 minutes. Harlow said his and Hinkle’s platform is rooted in achievable, tangible goals, goals that might appear underwhelming to some. “Some people have told us that our platform kind of seems bland,” Harlow said, “but that’s because we know that we can get it all done.” Kim, like Star, reiterated her campaign’s “Listen Then Lead” philosophy, a call to refocus ASG on individual “student experts” and student groups rather than try to provide leadership for every on-campus issue. She said ASG is sometimes too insular and needs to engage with students outside student government in order to accomplish its goals. “We feel like ASG isn’t providing as many opportunities as it should be,” Kim said. “Instead, it’s focused too internally. We really want to focus ASG more externally.” The debate was sponsored by ASG’s Election Commission. The first debate was held Monday night and sponsored by Coalition of Colors. Online voting begins Thursday at 5 p.m. and will be open for 24 hours. Results will be announced Friday night. ShaneM@u.northwestern.edu since they walked off with over $1 million that belonged to the Evanston shelter,” Karen Straus, a former CARE volunteer and current volunteer at the Evanston Animal Shelter, said in an email to The Daily. CARE volunteer Karey Uhler said that CARE was justified in keeping the money. “The way that the money was raised, it was raised for our operating funds,” said Uhler, a CARE volunteer since 2008. “We’re volunteers part of a private non-profit organization. We raised that money.” Following CARE’s negative publicity in the past year, the organization is working hard to gain exposure in the community through frequent adoption events and word-of-mouth from new pet owners it has paired with the “loves of their lives,” Uhler said. “I just would love to see the animosity go away,” she said. “No matter what, we’re another organization in the North Shore helping animals find a home. And I think that should be the biggest concern.” juliajacobs2018@u.northwestern.edu
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From page 8 financially and with his time, I don’t think there’s a Tour player who does more for his alma mater than Luke does for Northwestern. Obviously with his game, I stepped back and worked purely on his short game with him. I was disappointed, but I always understood that it was the nature of the business. I was shocked to get the call to reunite, I didn’t anticipate it. I thought we’d already been there and done that, and it was time for him to move on. Daily: You are back together now, though, and Luke said in the past that maybe he wanted a major too much, how much are you guys focusing on that now, or what is the main focus? PG: The main focus now is strictly getting him back to his strengths. The hard part with Luke, and we see it out on Tour a lot with players, Luke Donald got to No. 1 in the world through some very solid strengths, he was a great iron player, a great putter, great short game, arguably the best in the world in those three. But he had hit a point in 2012 or even when he was No. 1 in 2011 where he became very consumed with winning a major and became more and more consumed with the idea that he didn’t drive it well enough to win a major championship. And the more he pursued fixing that weakness, he didn’t get better at the weakness and he actually lost his strengths. Daily: How do you think these changes back to the norm are sinking in? PG: It’s been slow, for sure. We’re seeing a lot of progress at home, we’re just not seeing it on the road yet. Putting is the big one. His putting has looked phenomenal at home, as good as I’ve ever seen it
Women’s Swimming
Tierney won’t return as head coach next season
Jimmy Tierney, the coach of Northwestern’s women’s swimming and diving team, will not return next season, athletic director Jim Phillips said Tuesday. Tierney has been with the program for 27 years, having spent the first six as an assistant before being promoted to the head coaching job in 1994. “I am so thankful for my time as a member of the
in the whole time I’ve coached him. Every time I go and spend a few days with Luke, I tell Inglis that you can’t believe how good Luke’s putting is. And then he’ll go play competitively and not putt at that level. And I think it’s mainly confidence. Just like any athlete, he played poorly for too long and it has sunk in to his psyche. Fundamentally, he can do exactly what he wants to do consistently, but that ball’s just not going in. And at that point, you start questioning your reads, his speed’s been inconsistent which is something we’ve never really dealt with. That’s an innate thing that Luke works very hard at. Daily: So you, Luke and the guys who wrote “Freakonomics” were planning on writing a book, what’s the progress there? PG: It’s slow, but we’ve done a lot of golf research. Something we’ve found in our research is that we have empirical evidence that David Inglis is the best at course management. We did some amateur golf research where we caddied for them, and it’s incredible to see how much David helped these guys. We’ve made a lot of progress, we’ve been held up internally with their having to write other books for Harper Collins. 2016 is what they’re telling us. Daily: What’s your relationship with Emily Fletcher and Beth Miller like with the women’s golf program? PG: My biggest role with the women’s program is to make sure that they are supported and they have the resources necessary to do what they need to do. When we took this over and Emily and I started working together, we really had to improve the schedule, we had to get better practice facilities, we started hosting a tournament that really helped us improve out schedule. My role is in the Wildcats’ Family,” Tierney said in a news release. “I have been blessed to have worked with many wonderful people who have a true passion and spirit for excellence.” The athletic department did not give a reason for Tierney’s departure. The coach had a 126-94-1 career record in dual meets and his swimmers amassed 146 combined All-America honors during his tenure, but the program struggled in 2014-2015 under his leadership. NU limped to a 2-4 record in conference dual meets and finished 10th out of 13 teams at the Big Ten Championships. A national search will be conducted for the Cats’ next coach, the department said. — Bobby Pillote
background, I have a strong intimate knowledge of their operation. But it’s theirs to go run. Daily: What are your thoughts on the future of both NU programs? PG: For the women, we’re going to have the deepest team we’ve ever had next year. We lose Hana Lee this year, but we have a whole bunch of good players behind her and a great recruiting class next year. They are right on the precipice of making themselves the clear best team in the Big Ten and a team that is one of the top 10 teams in the country. The men’s team, the future is very good. Our recruiting is the best it’s been and we’ve got three good players coming in and we have good players at home. We knew this was going to be a tricky year after Fitzpatrick left and Whalen redshirting. I have no doubt that our men’s program will be on the top of the Big Ten and a top 10 or 15 team again. Daily: What are you preparing Luke for at the Masters? PG: Putting. Luke took some time off because of a wrist nuisance, but a good thing is that he is a member at the Bear’s Club and they will take the one green for the Tour players there and speed it up. Basically, they make it ridiculous and it’ll get so fast, so he can really do a lot of great speed work and figure out how much break he has to play. And there’s some specific short game for Augusta we needed to work on. Daily: Do you have any long term goals when it comes to Luke? Or is it more day by day? PG: We really want to see daily improvements. A one percent improvement each day, stacking those improvements upon each other, build your confidence that way. We’ve talked at length about
Across Campuses Texas State University sends 450 mistaken acceptance brochures AUSTIN, Texas — More than 450 students received acceptance brochures to Texas State University last month only to be told it was a mistake. University spokesman Jayme Blaschke said that on March 27, an outside vendor accidentally mailed acceptance brochures to hundreds of students with incomplete admissions applications. Some of those students have completed their applications and received formal acceptance letters, but many applications are still incomplete.
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GOSS’ LAW Pat Goss gives a golfer guidance on a putt. The longtime mentor has stayed busy in his new role as director of golf and player development.
this, but Luke and I don’t really know what he can achieve. Our goal is do the things you need to do, be the player you can be and let the results take care of themselves. If that means winning five majors great, one major, great, if you don’t win any, you’ve had an amazing career. kevincasey2015@u.northwestern.edu The brochure contained orientation and residence hall information. The university plans on mailing out a letter this week to brochure recipients acknowledging the error and clarifying their status. Blaschke said that a mistake of this nature has not happened before at the San Marcos university. “Texas State is reviewing the process to understand how this happened and to ensure it does not happen again,” he said. In December, Johns Hopkins University accidentally sent 294 applicants a welcome message — even though most of them were denied admission or had been deferred. —Julie Chang (Austin American-Statesman/TNS)
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I thought I was just old, and my hip was locking up on me. Turns out I had hip impingements. — Auston Anderson, freshman running back
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Vault, Anderson jostle for carries behind Jackson By BOBBY pillote
daily senior staffer @BobbyPillote
As spring practice draws to a close for Northwestern, very little is clear about the Wildcats’ offense heading into next season. There still isn’t a starting quarterback, with true freshman Clayton Thorson, redshirt freshman Matt Alviti and junior Zack Oliver all alive in the competition for the job. The offensive line is still in flux, with competitive depth at all five positions likely to keep things shifting even through the first few games of next year. And the fight for playing time in a crowded NU backfield, once firmly controlled by Justin Jackson, has opened up thanks to a spring practice injury suffered by the star freshman. “In the backfield right now we’ve got very good depth and very good competition,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “It’s going to be really fun to watch (the running backs) continue to evolve.” The two other backs vying for carries are Solomon Vault and Auston Anderson, and both are hungry for playing time after injury-marred freshman campaigns. Vault tallied 20 rushing attempts for 81 yards and two touchdowns in 2014, and also spent time as the Cats’ primary kick returner, posting a
team-best 26.2 yards per return average and taking one to the house in the season finale against Illinois. But the speedy back also missed four contests with a muscle injury sustained against Penn State on Sept. 27, an ailment he says slowed him for the remainder of the season. “I never really got it back 100 percent,” Vault said. “I pulled it again the Thursday practice before Iowa. … It’s never really back healthy; you have to keep working at it.” Complicating matters is the fact that Vault was originally recruited as a wide receiver before moving to running back last year during training camp. Vault said a move back to receiver is a possibility, which isn’t necessarily negative for the number of carries he’ll get in 2015. Offensive coordinator Mick McCall is fond of calling five-wide sets that have a slot receiver shift into the backfield presnap. Anderson is much more of an unknown, having spent all of the 2014 season rehabbing from a hip surgery. “I thought I was just old, and my hip was locking up on me,” Anderson said. “Turns out I had hip impingements. … The ball was too big for the socket, so they had to shave it down.” The Plano, Texas, native was a well-regarded recruit — he ranked the No. 17 all-purpose running back in his class, according to Rivals.com — and seemed recovered Saturday
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GAINING AN EDGE Solomon Vault trots into the endzone for a touchdown. The freshman running back faces competition from classmate Auston Anderson in a crowded Northwestern backfield.
when he scored a touchdown in NU’s scrimmage. Fully healthy, he’s definitely a threat to push Vault for playing time, but the two teammates are keeping the competition friendly. The pair was joking after practice about who’s faster in the open field. “The weather has to be right, not too much wind,” Anderson said, holding back a laugh. “I’d say we’re even, but the world may never know.”
NU looks to keep winning ways UIC vs. Northwestern Evanston 4 p.m. Wednesday
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Following an impressive threegame sweep over conference rival Purdue (24-14, 4-5 Big Ten) last weekend, Northwestern (20-11, 8-0) will host UIC (15-14, 6-2 Horizon League) for a midweek matchup Wednesday. The game against the visiting Flames wraps up the Wildcats’ first homestand of the season, where NU has already swept Wisconsin in addition to the Boilermakers. The Cats are riding a six-game winning streak and have won 17 of their last 19. NU improved its Big Ten record to an undefeated 8-0 over the weekend and sits atop the conference standings. The Cats are a game and a half ahead of Michigan and Rutgers. One huge factor in NU’s sweep over Purdue was the performances of freshmen outfielder Sabrina Rabin and catcher Sammy Nettling. Facing off against Boilermakers’ ace Lilly Fecho, who ranks fourth in the nation in strikeouts, Rabin collected four hits in the series, scoring three times, and Nettling knocked out two home runs. Even against Fecho, two Cats kept their hitting streaks alive going into Wednesday’s game. Senior outfielder Andrea DiPrima’s career-high hitting streak reached 15 games on Sunday after she blasted a 2-run home run in the third inning, and Rabin’s 1-for-4 performance extended her streak to 14. Rabin’s streak is also the longest of her brief career. Additionally, junior Kristen Wood, who was awarded Big Ten Pitcher of the Week honors for her performances against Purdue, totaled 27 strikeouts in the series. Wood set career highs in single-game strikeout numbers twice, with 13 on Friday and 14 on Sunday.
Wood’s Pitcher of the Week award was her second of the season. She won the award earlier in the year for the week of March 2-8 when she threw a no-hitter against Ball State. The junior is ranked 14th in the nation in strikeouts per seven innings with 9.9 and 27th in total strikeouts with 155. Meanwhile, UIC is coming off a weekend series sweep against the University of Detroit and a Horizon League doubleheader versus the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay on Tuesday afternoon. Flames’ freshman infielder Tiana Mack-Miller leads her team in most offensive categories, including doubles (10), onbase percentage (.400), and slugging percentage (.522) as of Monday.
The Cats also seek to maintain their momentum heading into an important weekend series against No. 11 Minnesota (30-7, 6-3). The Golden Gophers are fifth in the Big Ten standings, but that could change in a hurry this weekend. NU is 30-9 in its all-time series against UIC, and has won the last six matchups between the teams dating back to 2006. Under coach Kate Drohan, the Cats are 11-1 when playing the Flames, with their only defeat coming in a 4-3 loss on April 20, 2005. The contest against UIC begins at 4 p.m. at the Sharon J. Drysdale Field. maxgelman2018@u.northwestern.edu
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PRIMA TIME Andrea DiPrima watches the flight of a hit. The senior outfielder has launched a team-high-tying eight home runs this season.
The two backs are very similar, raising the stakes for capturing the No. 2 job behind Jackson. Sophomore running back Warren Long figures to receive more of a workload next season as a bruising complement to Jackson’s shiftiness, meaning there won’t be room for a redundant role player in the backfield. But whoever gets beaten out won’t be totally left behind. Vault enters 2015 as the presumptive
kick returner, and Anderson also has the ability to split out wide as a receiver and catch passes out of the backfield. Fitzgerald has expressed a commitment to “getting the best 11” players on the field, meaning one way or another the offense should see a generous dose of both athletes next season. bpillote@u.northwestern.edu
Golf
Goss keeps himself busy in new role By KEVIN CASEY
daily senior staffer @KevinCasey19
Pat Goss is a busy man. The Northwestern alum gave up his men’s golf head coaching role of 18 years in September to associate head coach David Inglis in order to move up in the program with the additional title of Director of Player Development. Goss remains NU’s Director of Golf, where he oversees both golf programs at the school. Goss is also back as the swing coach for Luke Donald, a former Wildcat as well and an ex-No. 1 player in the world. And he’s also in the midst of writing a book. The Daily sat down with Goss last week to talk about his role change, the state of the NU’s golf programs, the reunited partnership with Donald and some thoughts on Masters preparation. — Daily: So this head coaching change was announced in September, but when did you guys start thinking about it? Pat Goss: Last winter and spring. I had a 10-year contract that was up at the end of August, so we re-did that. But the biggest goal was that David Inglis has done a phenomenal job and is really somebody that I wanted us to be able to keep. We had already promoted him to associate head coach, so this was really the next step. Daily: Inglis was a national assistant of the year candidate a couple of times, was he getting any offers from other schools? PG: Yes, he was getting pursued for very high level assistant and associate head coaching jobs, he’s been called about for a few head coaching jobs. David’s incredibly well respected in the college golf world. He’s only been
in it five years and he might have more friends that are coaches than I do. This summer we were ultimately getting calls from Stanford, Alabama, Texas Tech, Arizona State, UCLA, were all places that tried to hire him. Daily: Did you feel it was also time for you to transition more into an instruction role? PG: Well, the other part for me was that fundraising has become more critical than ever. There have been some rule changes in college golf that ultimately will really help us, but they’ve made it expensive. We’re traveling more players, we’re taking more trips, we’re taking more nights away, all of that. For me, I need more office time to focus on those fundraising relationships and building that support system so that we can continue to compete at the highest level. Daily: What do you think David brings to the team that differs from yourself as head coach? PG: I’d say my biggest strength is individual player development, for sure. I think I really understand what it takes to be a professional golfer and what it takes to develop those skills at a very high level. David’s strengths are that he’s the best in course management I’ve ever been around. That’s a huge contribution, he’s teaching our players how to manage the game, and we’ve got some kids who’ve got to continue to learn to manage it better, he’s very good there. Daily: So you’re back to working with Luke Donald on his swing since the fall, what was that time like when he was with Chuck Cook and the emotions when he called you to say he wanted to reunite? PG: We stayed really closed during that year, and obviously he is an incredible ambassador for Northwestern golf. He’s incredibly generous » See GOSS, page 7