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Court dismisses Title IX lawsuit Judge ruled NU acted adequately after a Medill senior claimed Ludlow sexually assaulted her By ally mutnick

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A federal judge dismissed Thursday a Medill senior’s Title IX lawsuit against Northwestern, ruling the University is not liable because it “took timely, reasonable, and successful measures” in the aftermath of her alleged sexual assault by philosophy Prof. Peter Ludlow. Citing a “laundry list of actions” the University took against Ludlow,

the court found NU is not culpable under the federal gender equity law Title IX. The student filed her suit in February, saying the University treated her claims of sexual assault with “deliberate indifference and retaliation.” She said Ludlow sexually assaulted her in February 2012 after the two attended an art show together in downtown Chicago. In her suit, the student said NU created a “hostile environment” by » See dismissal, page 11

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fighting for change Jasmine Rand, an attorney who represented Trayvon Martin’s family during George Zimmerman’s trial in summer 2013, speaks at Northwestern on Thursday. Rand discussed the trial, as well as her experiences as an attorney and professor.

Trayvon Martin family lawyer talks losing Zimmerman trial By olivia exstrum

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CLOSE CALL Fire trucks line up outside Kresge Hall on Thursday morning. A small fire that broke out in an electrical room was quickly contained.

Fire breaks out in Kresge construction area

A fire started Thursday morning on the second floor of Kresge Hall in the part of the building under construction, University spokesman Al Cubbage said. Cubbage said the fire was extinguished and no injuries were reported as construction workers evacuated the building. The fire began in a mechanical room. The fire broke out at about 9 a.m., Evanston fire Division Chief Dwight Hohl said. Sparks were produced while construction workers

were handling old water pipes on the third floor, Hohl said. The sparks fell to the second floor and caused the fire to start. Firefighters had the fire contained by 9:20 a.m., Hohl said. They were able to keep it confined to the northwest side of the building, he said. Multiple firetrucks responded to the incident, lining up in front of the McCormick Foundation Center. Construction workers re-entered the building shortly after 10 a.m. Kresge is in the midst of a twoyear renovation that began in August. Most classes previously held in the building have been relocated to accommodate the construction. — Paige Leskin and Tyler Pager

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An attorney who represented Trayvon Martin’s family spoke Thursday at Northwestern about the George Zimmerman trial and the not-guilty verdict. The event, titled “Hoodies and Hate Crimes,” was co-sponsored by Northwestern Community Development Corps and Peace Project. Jasmine Rand discussed her experiences as an attorney and professor, as well as the summer 2013 trial. “What does it feel like to go from being one of the ‘most successful’ attorneys in the world who fought for change … to

another year later standing in front of cameras and becoming one of the ‘biggest losers’ in the world?” Rand said. “How do you recover from that?” Rand began the talk by discussing her definition of a leader. She told the story of being rejected from some of the “worst law schools in the country” and how it helped her become the person she is today. “I submit to you that the most defining moments of my life are not the ones in which I performed well on CNN or did well on a case,” she said. “They were the moments when life attempted to hand me failure or tell me I wasn’t good enough.” » See Trayvon, page 11

NU adds students in dean search By olivia exstrum

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Northwestern faculty and administrators are involving more students in the search for the next dean of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences after students voiced concerns about their lack

of involvement in the process at an open forum in October. A student interview group, chosen by the Weinberg College Student Advisory Board, will assist in the selection of a new dean. The group will conduct an interview with candidates during the selection process. Students are also invited to attend focus groups being held next

week to give input about what they want in a candidate. The search to hire a replacement for Sarah Mangelsdorf has been underway since Spring Quarter, when Mangelsdorf announced she was chosen to be the new provost at the University of WisconsinMadison. With Chemistry Prof. » See DEAN Search, page 11

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City school officials criticize PARCC state testing By paige leskin

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As Illinois schools begin preparations for a new assessment that students will take in the spring, staff at both Evanston school districts expressed concerns last week about the test’s implementation. The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, commonly referred to as PARCC, will replace testing in many states, including Illinois, in the spring as a way to assess students’ college readiness. However, local officials raised questions about the features of the test at a joint meeting last week between the school boards of Evanston/ Skokie School District 65 and School District 202. “Students taking both PARCC mathematics and reading language arts tests will spend more time taking PARCC tests than aspiring lawyers will spend sitting for the Bar Exam with no payoff,� said Pete Bavis, District 202 assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, in a Nov. 3 memo to District 65 and District 202 superintendents. The computer-based assessment will be given to all students in the state from kindergarten to 12th grade. For Evanston Township High School students, the exam will require five school days devoted to taking the tests, Bavis told The Daily. The PARCC testing occurs in the same season that many high school juniors are taking ACT and Advanced Placement exams, which could result in student testing fatigue, Bavis said. “There’s nothing in it for a student except that

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lost instructional time. Colleges aren’t using it as an admission instrument. They’re not using it as a placement instrument,â€? Bavis said. “That’s a big problem when it starts to encroach upon instructional time. We’re talking days of testing for kids.â€? PARCC was established as a uniform way to measure students’ readiness from elementary to high school across state lines. Before PARCC, third through eighth grade students took the Illinois Standards Achievement Test, or ISAT, and the Prairie State Achievement Examination, or PSAE, was given to high school students. With the adoption of new Common Core standards in 2010 by more than 40 states, the Illinois State Board of Education wanted to find a sufficient way that more accurately readied students for college, ISBE spokesperson Mary Fergus said. “There was always this disconnect where kids did really well on the ISATs, but then their score plummeted statewide on the PSAEs,â€? she said. “It really is the only state assessment, the only assessment that we have developed to be aligned with the new learning standards ‌ It will be aligned for the first time and we’ve never had that.â€? PARCC is still in the process of finalizing its testing requirements and Illinois legislators can still choose to not administer the exam statewide, Bavis said. Although District 65 superintendent Paul Goren touted PARCC’s accomplishment in creating a uniform test across grades and raising the standards that students have to meet, he expressed the desire to hold off a year before staff had to implement the test.

A delay in implementing the test would allow test makers to work out any issues that arise, Goren said. “The opportunity is for us to have an assessment that can help us understand how well kids are faring in comparison to the rest of the country,� There’s Goren said. “Idenothing in it for a ally it works really well, but it’s all in student except that the implementalost instructional tion plan that we time. Colleges would have. We will be ready to do the aren’t using it as assessment when an admission it’s ready for us, but we’re also concerned instrument. about the glitches Pete Bavis, that might occur just District 202 assistant from any first year superintendent for implementation.� curriculum and A group of more instruction than 20 states first agreed to use PARCC as its statewide assessment when it was initially announced. However since then, many states have dropped out of both the test and the core standards, leaving 12 states and the District of Columbia left to participate. The attrition indicates that other states have found issues with the PARCC exam as well, Bavis said. To replace PARCC, Bavis suggested using the ACT in its place, which is already defined as an assessment of college readiness. Under federal law, states who have been granted a waiver from the

No Child Left Behind Act must implement a more rigorous system that measures college readiness of students. The ACT has an added benefit that it can be used for college applications, Bavis said. “It counts for college, kids take it seriously,� he said. “It’s four hours of testing, versus 15 hours and 45 minutes of testing (with PARCC). It’s very efficient and it counts for college and we are already doing it. Other states are using it for that purpose.� Fergus said Illinois would not be able to use the ACT as a replacement, as it does not abide by the new Common Core standards required under state law that the PARCC assessment will follow. The ACT, which Illinois pays for statewide, will be available in Illinois for students to take March 3, a month and a half earlier than the test was administered in the previous school year. The move could result in less time for students to prepare for the test and lower test scores, which could affect college admission statuses, Bavis said in his Nov. 3 memo. Bavis said school staff in Evanston are not alone in their opposition of PARCC. Officials have met with staff at New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, who expressed the same sentiment, Bavis said. Bavis called on Illinois legislators to work to keep schools informed and to do away with PARCC. Through meetings with state officials, Bavis said he remains hopeful that PARCC could be eliminated in Illinois before students have to take it in the spring.

Parrott said. A witness observed the man becoming irate when he saw a car parked with the rear bumper up against his car, Parrott said. The man kicked the car’s front driver side quarter panel and the driver side mirror, causing it to detach, police said. The 1998 Saturn belongs to a 53-year-old Evanston resident, Parrott said. The man left the scene in his vehicle, Parrott

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bullets in the clothing of a patient who was being treated at the hospital, police said. Police discovered the patient was a convicted felon and was prohibited from possessing such items, Parrott said. The man was arrested around 4:12 p.m. at the hospital and charged with one count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, Parrott said.

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Police arrested a man Tuesday in connection with the unlawful possession of a fireman by a felon, police said. Officers responded to an incident at Evanston Hospital, 2650 Ridge Ave., Parrott said. Hospital workers found three .38-caliber

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On Campus Schapiro, ETHS laud partnership

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CELEBRATING COLLABORATION University President Morton Schapiro speaks at the “Kits and Cats: Collaboration in the 21st Century� discussion Thursday evening. The talk highlighted growing cooperation between ETHS and the University.

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University President Morton Schapiro and Evanston Township High School administrators celebrated Thursday the partnership between the University and ETHS, touting their educational programs and events. “Kits and Cats: Collaboration in the 21st Century� took place at the James L. Allen Center, 2169 Campus Drive, with an audience of more than 50 ETHS and NU alumni, faculty and students. Evanston city officials and residents also attended. Schapiro, ETHS Superintendent Eric Witherspoon and Northwestern/ETHS project coordinator Kristen Perkins discussed ongoing projects between the two schools.

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Schapiro said Evanston’s blessings “all go out the window if you don’t have the right level of investment in the K-12 education system.� “At the end of the day, you want to have a place where the kids can really thrive,� he said. ‘We have that, I’m proud that Northwestern plays a little role in that. It’s about the best investment you can make.� The celebration builds on the Good Neighbor, Great University program, which encourages ETHS and Chicagoland-area schools to pursue college and provides them scholarships if they attend NU. The program formally launched in 2012, Perkins said. Other university-high school partnerships only narrowly focus on an admissions pipeline, she said, whereas the NU-ETHS relationship promotes a collaborative sharing of resources and educational opportunities. Last month, ETHS students had several opportunities to visit campus. NU hosted the biannual Kits

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and Cats day, where 100 high school sophomores and juniors visit NU, a business mentoring program with Kellogg School of Management students and a program designed to support young women pursuing STEM education. Witherspoon said it was fortunate to have synergy between a nationally ranked high school and one of the best universities in the country. Physics Prof. Vicky Kalogera, director at the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics, is a leader in the partnership’s Reach for the Stars program. Reach for the Stars pairs NU graduate fellows with teachers at ETHS for a year. The graduate students introduce presentations, homework or long term projects to connect their research to the classroom. ETHS students benefit by meeting scientists and learning about graduate research. Graduate students learn from experienced teachers how to simplify complicated problems into terms high school students can understand, said Kalogera, who attended Thursday’s event. The graduate student and teacher will together develop material that can be used at ETHS in future years, she said, noting the initiative has impacted 1000 students at ETHS Bethany Hubbard, who works in NU’s Science in Society office, also tries to promote STEM education in the Evanston community. She is currently working on an initiative to bring NU graduate researchers to ETHS in order to assist with a fledging class where students alternate between biology and art, she said. Science in Society, an NU office promoting scientific outreach and public engagement, has hosted similar initiatives with ETHS students in the past. ETHS students also participated in collecting environmental samples to image under a microscope, similar to the annual Scientific Images Contest, which celebrates the artistic beauty of scientific data. According to Schapiro, 44 ETHS alumni are currently enrolled as undergraduates and 14 of them freshman.

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Northwestern’s architecture needs to be revamped heiwon shin

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There are two things I would like architecturally from Northwestern. On the macro-level, I would like to see the whole concept of a divide between North and South Campus gone. On the micro-level, I would like to see residence halls with good balance between social life and private space. Last year, the campus was plastered with slogans for “We Will,” NU’s fundraising campaign. One of the We Will campaign’s priorities is to “connect campus and community” by building a “vibrant, more diverse, and tight-knit community on our campuses” and nourishing “the traditions and shared passions that bind us together.” I like the idea very much in theory. But the online video about this particular goal talks a lot about wearing purple – literally, in clothes – and what it means to wear purple. But is the campus – the physical campus – embodying this purpleness in the figurative sense? I interpret being purple as being one,

uniting as one community while still embracing our rich diversity. But with a North-South dichotomy and with certain dorms having reputations for being social or anti-social, I’m not sure if we are living up to our potential of being purple. On the macro-level, our Evanston campus is more or less a polarized line. Although with the move of the Department of Art Theory and Practice to 640 Lincoln St. this has changed a bit, for the most part the North Campus is known to be the math and science part of NU, while South Campus is known as home to humanities and social sciences. Perhaps this is because it’s simply easier to divide than to integrate. I wonder if efficiency is always the best answer. College, after all, is about trying new things, meeting different people and getting out of the comfort zone. NU should move out of its architectural comfort zone, stop dividing up the campus according to traditional categorization and create a new model for this age and era by integrating different studies in the same building. Staying the same will not keep a good institution good. One way this could work is to integrate different departments. Computer science

could be paired with psychology, anthropology with industrial engineering, economics with astrology, religion with mathematics and so on. Architectural change can bring interdisciplinary buildings and layouts for programs. Especially I would with the newly revealed two-year like to see the campus live-in whole concept of requirement for future students, a divide between architecture on North and South the micro-level Campus gone ... I — the dorms — should balance would like to see the social and residence halls private lives of the students. with good balance I lived in Elder between social life Hall last year and and private space. this year I live in Allison Hall. In Elder, I knew everyone on my floor, but in Allison that’s not the case. I still don’t know the 20 or so people who live on my hall including my next door neighbors. Fellow Allison residents tell me that you have to make a conscious effort to get to know

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people. Architecture has a key role here. Elder lounges are open and it’s easy to drop by or see people, whereas Allison lounges, except for the main lounge on the first floor, are sealed off in a corner and you have to open the door to enter, making visits more intentional. Freshmen, in particular, should not be divided into such different dorm styles. At least the first year of college should be about forming a new culture. If people have difficulties getting to meet others, then that would not be possible. Of course, especially for the upperclassmen, some dorms could strengthen the solitary spaces for those who need it, but there could be a way to combine and balance the strengths of different dorms. Kind of like hardware and software for a computer, the architecture of the campus and NU’s programs and plan should work together to create harmony and to truly be effective. Heiwon Shin is a Medill sophomore. She can be contacted at heiwonshin2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

Current economic classes force normative perspectives coretta lemaitre

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As I was sitting in my Introduction to International Relations class last week, my professor began lecturing about different viable economic systems, most notably the German, American/British and Japanese models. Having grown up in America and having taken an introduction course in macroeconomics at Northwestern, naturally the American model was most familiar to me. As we discussed the German and Japanese models, I felt a sense of incredulity at the apparently accepted cooperation between companies, a concept that runs against a strong American fear of trusts. Indeed, the policies in German and Japanese systems seemed almost absurd. At that point, I realized that somehow in my life, I’ve become indoctrinated with an approach to economics that assigns negative value judgments to non-Western models.

Somehow, freedom, liberty, even happiness, have become associated in my mind with only the American free-market system. Unfair normative judgments about the culture, politics and economic systems of other countries A focus on only seem to arise without a truly the American open and unbiased free-market assessment of the economic policies system in our in question. media and So why do I feel educational uncomfortable system may limit with non-Western models? And our ability to where did those compromise with value judgments associations other countries. and with ideals like freedom and happiness come from? Given that my family rarely discusses politics, most of my exposure to political ideas and theories has come from the news and formal education. Most of my discussion of economics mentioned the

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American free market system in concurrence with democratic ideals and, in opposition to that, suppressive and ineffective communist threats. Never was the actual economic logic behind the communist worldview explained, and never was a non-free market system seriously discussed as a legitimate alternative. In addition, many American media outlets frequently portray the “Americans as savior” plot in international interventions while concurrently mentioning the free market system, democracy and prosperity. Even at NU, this bias towards the American system is relatively unchallenged. I appreciate the respect and non-judgmental manner of my international relations professor when he describes varying systems, but I hardly think one section of lecture is sufficient. A truly comprehensive education should offer students the ability to study a number of alternate economics policies free of value prescriptions. As many students at NU will participate in international politics and economics in the future, the lessons and attitudes imbued in them, especially in core introductory economics classes, will have

far-reaching effects. In an increasingly globalized world where economic systems overlap and sometimes clash, a focus on only the American freemarket system in our media and educational system may limit our ability to compromise with other countries. To only address these alternative economic models briefly restricts our creativity as future policy-makers and active participants in democracy. As a final concern, I return to the value judgments assigned to economic systems. Normative prescriptions, rather than positive ones, on both the national and international level, must be carefully scrutinized and weighed rather than naturally associated with a particular policy. Without this precaution, cultural and moral variances may inhibit rational and effective policy creation as well as intercultural cooperation. Coretta Lemaitre is a McCormick sophomore. She can be contacted at corettalemaitre2017@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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Art studio features tattoo artists, painters at 1st exhibit By tori latham

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A new art studio and gallery will hold its grand opening and present its inaugural exhibit Saturday, adding to Evanston’s fine art scene by displaying work from painters and tattoo artists. “Endless Days, Sleepless Nights” will be the first show staged at Sidetracked Studio, 707 Chicago Ave. It will feature work by artists David Allen, Mat Hurtado and Daniel Maidman. Allen and Hurtado are both tattoo artists and painters. Allen has performed tattoo work on studio owner Lauren Levato Coyne’s husband, Rory Coyne, who co-owns the studio with his wife, Levato Coyne said. The couple initially only knew Hurtado through Instagram, but they had enjoyed the pictures of his

Resident receives White House award for work with theatre company

An Evanston resident was honored Monday at the White House for her work with a theater company that brings Shakespeare’s plays to Chicago Public Schools. On behalf of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Evanston resident Marilyn Halperin accepted the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, given out to after-school programs that provide arts and humanities opportunities to youth. Called CPS Shakespeare!, the program brings together Chicago high school students and teachers to put on original productions of Shakespeare plays. Halperin, who currently serves as the CST director of education and communications, helped found the program that was recognized. “She conceived this program and has really been spearheading it over the last nine years,” CST spokeswoman Hannah Kennedy told The Daily on Thursday. The official awards ceremony took place on Monday, with First Lady Michelle Obama presenting the award to Halperin and Jennifer Gonzalez, a CPS Shakespeare! participant and junior at Prosser Career Academy in Chicago.

work and decided to reach out to him to be part of the exhibit, she said. Maidman, who paints, is a personal friend of the couple and Levato Coyne said she thought he would also be a good fit for the show. “These are artists we have always wanted to work with,” Levato Coyne said. “We have been following their work and they were some of the first people we thought of.” Levato Coyne and her husband have had the idea of opening Sidetracked Studio for about four years. Once they were able to raise enough money for the studio, the project came together quickly, she said. The couple decided to open in Evanston, where they live. The studio officially opened Oct. 11, but “Endless Days, Sleepless Nights,” which is opening Saturday, is its first exhibit, according to a news release. The couple brought on art collector Michele Mahon Jahelka as a consultant to help with the studio The annual program runs in both the summer and fall and puts on a different Shakespeare play with CPS participants each year, Kennedy said. In its ninth year, CPS Shakespeare! chose “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” “It’s really just an amazing national recognition for a program that’s so near and dear to our hearts and something that the entire theater works on tirelessly throughout the year,” Kennedy said. As part of the award, which is the signature program of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, CPS Shakespeare! will receive a $10,000 grant. CST plans to keep the money within the CPS program to expand it even more, Kennedy said. Kennedy emphasized the importance of Shakespeare as part of a student’s education. CPS Shakespeare! helps Chicago students to develop understanding of Shakespearean text and to make friendships with other participants, she said. “All students across Chicago encounter Shakespeare in school in their English classes and it’s one of the hardest and most challenging texts that those students will encounter in their school careers, especially in high school,” Kennedy said. “We find that in unlocking that difficult text, students not only are developing those literacy skills to be able to read and interpret the text and really connect with it. They’re also gaining confidence.” — Paige Leskin

and upcoming exhibits. Mahon Jahelka said she hopes the current exhibit will allow the studio to gain a lot of attention in these first few months, she said. “We decided to make a broad sweep and include artists from all over the country,” Mahon Jahelka said. “Mat (Hurtado) is from Los Angeles, Daniel (Maidman) is from New York and David (Allen) is from Chicago, right in the middle. We’re hoping that this will introduce the gallery across the country. ” Mark Muenzer, the city’s community development director, said he thinks the studio will draw people to Evanston. “It’s great to see commercial spaces filling up in that part of the city,” he said. “It will definitely draw people to the Chicago-Main area and add to the success of that part of the community.” Levato Coyne said she hopes Sidetracked Studio will be able to fill a gap in the Chicago art world, in which she said she does not see a lot of the work she

personally would like to. “We want to show more stuff that you might see in Los Angeles, a lot from artists that are emerging,” she said. “We’re trying to be engaging and relevant in contemporary life. You won’t see pictures of vases, but you will see people who are telling stories.” Mahon Jahelka agreed with Levato Coyne and said she hopes that the gallery will be able to expose artists and make them more well-known, rather than just highlight their work. “It’s more about the artist and their method and the finished product, which should be beautiful and touch your soul,” she said. “We want to give artists who do this a place to get a start in the art world and boost interesting art into Chicago.” “Endless Days, Sleepless Night” will continue through Feb. 28, 2015. torilatham2017@u.northwestern.edu

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National News GOP united behind McConnell as new Senate leader; divided Dems elect Reid WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Thursday elected Mitch McConnell of Kentucky to be majority leader of the new Senate in January, putting the longtime lawmaker in place as the party’s chief adversary to President Barack Obama. The second Kentuckian to serve as majority leader after Democrat Alben Barkley in the 1930s and 1940s, McConnell offered a possible preview of what Obama can expect from him over the next two years. “I had maybe naively hoped the president would look at the results of the election and decide to come to the political center and do some business with us,” McConnell told reporters. “I still hope he does at some point, but the early signs are not good.” While McConnell’s ascension to majority leader was a unanimous coronation, Senate Democrats voted for Harry Reid of Nevada to be minority leader in a tense, four-hour closed-door meeting in the Old Senate Chamber. Several Democrats refused to support his re-election. A chastened Reid emerged from the meeting and announced he had expanded his leadership team by adding Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a liberal favorite, to the party’s messaging operation. “What do I expect her to do?” Reid said. “I expect her to be Elizabeth Warren.” The Democratic meeting was a venting session over what went wrong in the Nov. 4 elections and what direction the party will take in the Senate in the future. “One of the reasons it was one of the longer caucuses we’ve ever had was that we were honest with each other, straightforward and clear about the message the voters sent,” said Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii. Before finally getting the nod from his party in a secret ballot, Reid heard blunt comments from his fellow Democrats. Twenty-eight of the current Senate’s 53 Democrats and two independents spoke during the meeting. At least five senators — Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Joe Manchin of West Virginia,

Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Mark Warner of Virginia and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota — declined to vote for Reid, who was running unopposed. “To me, when you have an election like this, common sense tells me you need to change things,” McCaskill said. “I think we’re going to have a process of introspection.” Manchin and other unidentified Democrats asked colleagues for a one-week delay in the leadership vote to assess why the party was so soundly defeated in last week’s elections but were rebuffed in a voice vote. “I do not vote to accept the leadership team we have now,” Manchin told reporters after the meeting. “We asked for a week to have an open discussion on everything that went wrong, evaluate what went wrong — messaging, the lack of messaging — and move forward. Harry Reid is a good man, and I have all the respect for him. I just voted for different leadership.” Despite the drama, the Senate leadership elections went as expected. Republicans chose to elevate the current minority leadership team when the party becomes the majority in January. John Cornyn of Texas becomes majority whip; John Thune of South Dakota will be Republican Conference chair; John Barrasso of Wyoming will be Senate Republican Policy chair; Roy Blunt of Missouri will be Senate Republican Conference vice chair; and Roger Wicker of Mississippi will be chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. “We hope that the president and Democrats will work with us,” Blunt said. “Frankly, the president is going to engage one way or another. He’ll either have to engage the day when the bill arrives on his desk (by using a veto) or he’ll have to engage earlier in the process and work with Republicans.” While retaining Reid as their leader, Democrats also re-elected their core leadership team, with Richard Durbin of Illinois as whip; Charles Schumer of New York as Senate Democratic Conference vice chair; and Patty Murray of Washington as conference secretary. — William Douglas and Lindsay Wise (McClatchy Washington Bureau)

Dempsey again cites possibility of sending US troops into Iraq combat WASHINGTON — Less than a week after the Obama administration announced that it would double the U.S. troop presence in Iraq, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told Congress Thursday that U.S. troops might eventually accompany Iraqi troops to the front lines in their battle to reclaim ground from the Islamic State. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey’s comments, made during testimony before the House Armed Services Committee, further fueled fears that the U.S. mission in Iraq is creeping toward a combat role for American troops, a prospect President Barack Obama repeatedly has ruled out. There are currently 1,400 U.S. troops in Baghdad and northern Iraq, relatively calm parts of the country. But some of the 1,500 additional troops who are to arrive by year’s end will be deployed in areas of fierce combat, including Anbar province, 80 percent of which is controlled by the Islamic State. Dempsey said Thursday that it would take 80,000 Iraqi troops to reclaim the areas of country that the Islamic State controls, which, in addition to most of Anbar, includes the Syrian-Iraqi border and the city of Mosul, northern Iraq’s largest. “I’m not predicting they’ll need to be accompanied by U.S. forces, but we’re certainly considering it,” Dempsey said. Last month, deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes rejected U.S. combat forces in Iraq, even if Dempsey recommended it. “The president’s view is that we do not need to do this with U.S. combat forces on the ground,” Rhodes told the “Frontline” news program on PBS. “I can’t anticipate every hypothetical scenario, but in terms of the strategy itself, the president is very confident and comfortable with a limiting principle as it relates to combat forces on the ground.” Pentagon officials, seeking to avoid wading into a political debate about the U.S. effort in Iraq, stressed that such a plan was months if not years away, and that any U.S. troops would not be “trigger pullers” but advisers offering their Iraqi counterparts ideas on how to best

coordinate air support. “We are not going on the offense,” said Air Force Col. Ed Thomas, Dempsey’s spokesman. “If (the Iraqi security forces) were to go after a complex objective such as Mosul, our small numbers of advisers could accompany them more closely. But we haven’t needed that yet.” Dempsey first suggested that U.S. advisers might accompany Iraqi troops six weeks ago before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Dempsey and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel sought throughout the three-hour hearing Thursday to assure the House Armed Services Committee that the additional $5.6 billion the Pentagon had requested for the dispatch of additional troops would fund an effective campaign. They noted that since the U.S. air campaign began Aug. 8, the Islamic State has not been able to expand at the pace it once did, and that the United States and its coalition members had avoided civilian casualties. But they said that ending the Islamic State’s grip on Sunni Muslim areas of Iraq could not be solved by U.S. involvement alone. The effort would require the Iraqi government to win the support of Sunnis who currently are neutral in the battle or have sided with the Islamic State. “We, the United States, cannot assure a stable Iraq. The Iraqi people will have to do that,” Hagel told the committee. The most hostile questioning came from Republican members of the committee who were openly skeptical that the U.S. could accomplish its goal of destroying the Islamic State without a larger ground presence. Others said they were frustrated that there appeared to be no clear point at which the United States could leave. “My fundamental question is: How can you successfully execute the mission you’ve been given — to ‘degrade and ultimately destroy’ ISIL — when some of your best options are taken off the table?” asked Chairman Buck McKeon, R-Calif., using an acronym for the Islamic State. — Nancy A. Youssef (McClatchy Washington Bureau)

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Northwestern hasn’t seen anything like Everett Golson this season. No. 18 Notre Dame’s dynamic quarterback is the key cog in the Fighting Irish’s offense and one of the top passers in the country, ranking 22nd nationally in yards per attempt with 8.3, 12th in touchdown passes with 24 and 13th in yards with 2,757. Golson is a dangerous threat, but he’s also demonstrated he isn’t infallible in Notre Dame’s 55-31 loss to Arizona State on Saturday, a game in which he threw four interceptions. “(The Sun Devils) created a lot of

turnovers early,” NU coach Pat Fitzgerald said this week. “14 points off of picksixes was huge, and they had a couple other scores off those turnovers. That’s big. That’s always going to be critical in big games.” Turning turnovers into points is something a stingy Wildcats passing defense, tied for 22nd nationally in interceptions with 11, will have to spark for NU to pull off an improbable upset. Catching the plurality of the passes for Notre Dame is William Fuller, an imposing 6-foot-1 target who leads the team with 52 receptions and has grabbed 10 of Golson’s touchdown tosses. Stopping Fuller will be a tall order for cornerbacks sophomore Matthew Harris and junior Nick VanHoose, but after last week’s performance against Michigan, the

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CORNERED Sophomore cornerback Matthew Harris hits a Nebraska defender during Northwestern’s Oct. 18 game. Harris and fellow-corner Nick VanHoose will face a new challenge this weekend against pass-happy Notre Dame.

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Not too long ago, cornerback was a problem position for Northwestern. Last season — when the Wildcats allowed

256.2 passing yards per game, 102nd out of 124 Football Bowl Subdivision teams — NU’s corners often let opposing receivers behind them for long gains. Problems with pass defense were a major contributor to the team’s sevengame losing streak to start Big Ten play. Entering this season, incumbent starters Matthew Harris and Nick VanHoose had to

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myself to make the next play. The anger doesn’t carry off the field.” This season, Gibson missed time after a collision with teammate Ifeadi Odenigbo. “It’s tough, man,” Gibson said. “In the offseason, I focused on doing everything I could to stay healthy, doing extra rehab, extra conditioning. For something like a weird play to happen to me and to lose a couple games, it was hard at first.” Fitzgerald agreed that the physical toll has added to the degree of difficulty for Gibson’s

season. “It’s been another hard year for him. He missed quite a bit of time,” Fitzgerald said. “He played really well about a week ago, probably his best week of the year. He’s done a really good job for us, both on the field and off the field. He’s really emerged as a leader. A month from now, two months from, he’s going to play a critical role in getting us back to a championship program.” rohannadkarni2015@u.northwestern.edu

“As a DB you have to have a short memory,” VanHoose said Wednesday. “If I would’ve come out the next game thinking about Iowa, I probably wouldn’t have had as good a game as I did (against Michigan).” Harris, who became a starter last year midway through his true freshman season, has been nearly as good as VanHoose, a threeyear starter. Though Harris was exposed against Minnesota for failing to react Matt (Harris), for quickly enough on hitch routes, he’s a younger player, rarely allowed receiv- a sophomore, is ers to beat him deep a really special and ripped an interplayer. I’ve ception from a Wolverines receiver’s said it a lot, he hands. reminds me a Fitzgerald went as far as to compare the lot of (Sherrick) sophomore to one McManis. of the best defensive Pat Fitzgerald players in recent NU coach history: current Chicago Bears cornerback Sherrick McManis. “Matt, for a younger player, a sophomore, is a really special player,” Fitzgerald said. “I’ve said it a lot, he reminds me a lot of McManis. A lot of Sherrick. A lot of pride in the way he plays. He does it every rep.” Notre Dame presents a new challenge for the cornerback duo. Unlike most of the Cats’ Big Ten opponents, the Fighting Irish offense passes better than it runs, meaning VanHoose and Harris will need to make adjustments in preparation and prepare to stay busy. “Game plan-wise, it’s different,” VanHoose said. “But you’ve got to come to play either way.”

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D-END DEONTE Junior defensive end Deonte Gibson lunges at a Michigan ballhandler. When not battling injuries, Gibson has provided steady play on the defensive line during his three years on the field for.

to knee and elbow injuries. As his head coach Pat Fitzgerald said, “he’s been through a lot of battles.” One of the battles Gibson has faced this year is increasing responsibilities as a leader. Gibson said he tries to lead by action and helps bring the young guys along. He also has to make sure he keeps his emotions in check, because he admits to having a tiny anger problem. “It’s nothing too crazy,” Gibson said, only somewhat assuringly. “When I feel like I’m not playing to my capability, I like to challenge

earn their roles. “Last year we weren’t very good,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said this week. “We had competition. We go through basically most of the summer with really good competition. I think it helped Matt and Nick.” A season later, the Cats start the same two cornerbacks but have had dramatically fewer problems in pass coverage. This year NU ranks 42nd in the country in passing yards allowed per game. Harris, a sophomore, and VanHoose, a junior, have combined for three interceptions this season after none last year. The duo has played almost every defensive snap this season, a result of sudden lack of depth at their position. Daniel Jones, who started NU’s opener last year before suffering a season-ending knee injury, retired before the 2014 season due to setbacks in his recovery. Dwight White, who replaced Jones as starter for the first half of 2013, called it quits this October shortly after learning he has only one kidney. At times this year, the Cats have been down to three healthy cornerbacks, Fitzgerald said. With NU’s defense battered across the field, VanHoose and Harris’ consistent health (with the exception of the second half against Penn State, when Harris suffered a scary-looking but ultimately innocuous neck stinger) has been a blessing for the Cats. And besides NU’s 48-7 loss to Iowa on Nov. 1, when just about everyone in purple played poorly, VanHoose and Harris have held their own this season. Fitzgerald said VanHoose has played “really well” outside of the Iowa game, in which the Cats allowed five completions of 20 yards or more. Coach praised the junior’s ability to bounce back from the poor performance against the Hawkeyes to help shut down Michigan’s offense last Saturday.

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Deonte Gibson needed a change. After wearing No. 98 for his first two seasons on the field at Northwestern, he switched to No. 13 this year in part to move on from a five-win season and in part to forget a season where he lost some time due to an injury. The junior wanted a fresh start. So it was difficult for Gibson to miss most of two games because of an injury and find his team in the middle of a four-game losing streak. Although a jersey switch couldn’t cure all of his problems, Gibson still believes the simple things are the key to turning the Wildcats’ season around. “You resort to what you’re taught, your fundamentals,” Gibson said. “When things get hard, you just have to When I feel keep carrying through. like I’m not Your fundamentals will playing to my carry you no matter what the situation is.” capability, I like It makes sense that Gibson is focused to challenge on the fundamyself to make more mentals than the flash. the next play. Although his talent has always been apparent, The anger Gibson is known more doesn’t carry off for his consistent, reliable effort as opposed the field. to eye-catching play. Deonte Gibson, Gibson is an everydefensive end man, one of the glue guys of the Cats’ defensive line, which has often been a bright spot in a dull season. Gibson especially excels at making plays in the backfield. After seven tackles for loss last season, Gibson continues to rack up tackles and notched his first career recovery against Western Illinois. Gibson’s consistent, reliable play takes its toll. It’s not uncommon to see Gibson wearing garishly big braces on his arms or legs while playing, as he’s missed time in his career due

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of usual starter senior Trevor Siemian. Alviti made his NU debut against the Wolverines in a special option package but to little effect, running only three plays. “There were some times where he got in the game a little bit, and that was good for him,” offensive coordinator Mick McCall said. “We were trying to get him in a couple other times, but field position and stuff like that didn’t allude to doing so.” Despite the limited reversion to a two-quarterback system, McCall insists the offense has not fundamentally changed over the course of the season and execution, not scheming, has been the Cats’ greatest difficulty. “We just need to go out and execute,” he said. “I don’t know that we’ve changed that much. We’ve got to get the guys in position to do the things they need to do, and go make some plays.” Regardless of where fingers are pointed, NU will need everything it can squeeze out of its offense to put up points against a tough Fighting Irish defense. Notre Dame looks lackluster in traditional defensive statistics because of the team’s tendency to get in high-scoring shootouts, but the Fighting Irish rank a healthy 24th in Football Outsider’s Defensive F/+, an all-encompassing metric that measures defensive efficiency. “They’re athletic, they’re well coached,” Vitabile said. “They consistently get some of the top guys out of high school in the country. They’re going to play hard, and they have a lot of different packages that they bring out there.” The biggest standout on Notre Dame’s defense

The Daily Northwestern is linebacker Jaylon Smith, a top recruit from 2012 who started every game in 2013 as a true freshman. Smith leads the defense with 67 tackles, 6.5 for loss and also has two sacks to his name. Behind him is defensive back Matthias Farley, who has terrorized opposing quarterbacks this season. The rangy Farley is tied for the team lead in sacks with 3.5 and in interceptions with three. Perhaps the only consolation for Siemian is

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Farley’s inability to blitz and play pass coverage simultaneously. NU has a shot to win this game using the same formula Arizona State employed: force turnovers, take advantage of short fields and limit mistakes on offense. But even that may not be enough against a squad as talented as the Fighting Irish. robertpillote2017@u.northwestern.edu

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TO: The third phase of the game hasn’t done much during the Kelly regime, though kickoff specialist (and punter, and placekicker) Kyle Brindza is outstanding. But punt returns have been a laughingstock for the better part of five seasons and the kick return unit has been subpar save for a standout effort by then-freshman speedster George Atkinson in 2011. You won’t see a less impressive punt return team this fall and kick return has enjoyed but a spark or two over the nine games. Of note in that regard though: senior Amir Carlisle appears healthy after missing or hobbling through Games 4-8 with a sprained knee. He made an impact as a runner after the catch Saturday in Tempe.

Northwestern’s academics have long been a safety net for the football program. It’s one I’ve used several times. When our team isn’t performing on the field, I think, at least these players are succeeding in the classroom. When I’m arguing with someone who goes to a school with a great football program, I can point out with self-righteousness that our football team could be good too — if we didn’t care so much about education. Academics are more than just a safety net, however. They’re a smoke screen, a confidence trick or the magician’s attractive assistant. While we at academically oriented schools — like NU and this week’s opponent Notre Dame — focus on the grades and feel better about ourselves, college football programs, even NU, continue to profit greatly off the backs of players who are unfairly treated. The romanticism of NU football and academics goes hand in hand with the ethos of its head coach, the hard-nosed, stats-are-for-losers Pat Fitzgerald. He is a symbol of the old school, the traditional — the purity of college football. He was an unheralded recruit who made the College Football Hallof-Fame and has dedicated his life to the sport. This romanticism, however, is blinding. NU — and to an extent its Saturday opponent Notre Dame — could be doing things “the right way,” as their defenders love to point out. I know I felt better in the past thinking that the NCAA’s problems don’t extend to this school, because our players are required to perform in the classroom. But that reasoning is becoming increasingly flawed. Romanticizing NU’s commitment to academics, whatever level that commitment may be, is not a good enough reason to ignore the school’s association with the worst deal in sports. Notre Dame faced its own issue this year when four players were dismissed from the team due to academic fraud. This dismissal one year after Saturday’s starter at quarterback Everett Golson was suspended for cheating on an exam. But it’s hard to blame these players when the culture at schools, even at Notre Dame, especially at Notre Dame, prioritizes athletic success. Players aren’t getting a free education, not when the pressure to perform on the field is so great. Ask yourself the last time a star quarterback missed a game because he wanted to study for a big test. The fact that this notion still exists, the idea that players aren’t pouring in blood, sweat and tears to earn those scholarships, is embarrassing. As the NCAA makes television deals in the billions, coaches make salaries in the millions and NU collects its revenue-sharing check from the Big Ten, don’t let anyone convince you this is about anything other than money. The academics argument is a con, one that has pulled on fans’ — especially NU fans’ — heartstrings for much too long. In an ideal world, the NCAA doesn’t exist, and the power is in the hands of the players, the people we actually watch college football for. In the real world? It’s time for colleges to at least offer the basics. That means post-graduate pensions, comprehensive medical coverage for every player and the right to profit off your likeness. Those are just a few ideas, but those are less important right now. It’s more important who is going to actually push for the rights of athletes. And it needs to start here. If NU prides itself on doing the right thing, prides itself on being a forward-thinking institution, then it should be the University taking the proper steps in fighting for the rights of its student-athletes. NU needs to prove it can do what’s right, and not just be another institution that reinforces systems of racism, classism and, yes, the exploitation of college athletes. Change is coming to the NCAA, sooner rather than later, and it needs to come to NU. The parallel is on the field. The Cats’ once-revolutionary spread offense used to inspire coaches at different schools to include the elements into their offenses. Now, schools like Oregon and Baylor have turned themselves into perennial contenders with sophisticated schemes. NU will continue to fall behind what’s right if it clings to academics as a justification for being complicit in the NCAA’s con.

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TOUGH TEST Senior quarterback Trevor Siemian (13) and the Northwestern offense will need to seize every opportunity against the Fighting Irish. No. 18 Notre Dame is the toughest team on the Wildcats’ schedule.

Insight from a Notre Dame expert To preview Northwestern’s trip to South Bend, Ind., we quizzed Tim O’Malley, the publisher of Notre Dame site IrishEyes.com, on all thing Fighting Irish By BOBBY PILLOTE

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The Daily Northwestern: When this series was announced in 2011, it looked like the 2014 game might be a winnable one for Northwestern. Since then, Notre Dame has a BCS Championship appearance and NU is in danger of missing a bowl game for the second straight year. What’s the general feeling around South Bend about what Brian Kelly has done with the program and the direction it is headed? Tim O’Malley: The start of 2014 (through FSU) cemented it for most realists: Kelly is one of the best coaches in the country and more important, he’s the best Notre Dame can get given recruiting restrictions and everything else that accompanies the position. Quibbles include his love of the pass, a headshaking loss each season with the exception of 2012, and, well, how the 2012 BCS Championship game played out. And, for the faint of heart, his occasionally volatile sideline demeanor. But he’s more successful than the previous three coaches by a wide margin and if his eventual successor matches or surpasses Kelly’s final win total and accomplishments, it will be in part because of the foundation Kelly laid for him. The ASU game surprised most ND fans, but a 3-0 finish in November would all but erase its memory; it’s not like they lost to Navy and/or Tulsa as was the case at the outset of the Kelly era. The Daily: The Fighting Irish are coming off a

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tough loss that almost surely knocked them out of playoff contention. Will we see any hangover effects from that game on Saturday? TO: I think so, in fact, my co-worker Anna Hickey marked it (months ago) as the trap game of the season. The only caveat for me is the way the team finished the ASU game, fighting and believing it would win. But I can’t imagine this week of practice will be on par with that of a championship contender, and Northwestern’s slotting is a bit of a sandwich on this schedule after big games (FSU, Navy — usually an issue these days — and ASU over the last three) and prior to Senior Day vs. surging Louisville and then, rival USC. As well, the Irish are young, with just five key players among their top 25-26 competitors set to exhaust eligibility at season’s end. November can be rough on a collection of freshmen and sophomores, but they pride themselves on the motto, “You don’t rise to the occasion, you sink to your level of preparation.” Being out of the running for the playoffs after being a mere play away from a No. 1 or No. 2 ranking as they left Tallahassee will test that approach. The Daily: Defensively, Northwestern plays a soft cover-4 scheme that has mostly prevented big plays but leaves vulnerabilities underneath. How adept has Everett Golson been at methodically picking apart a zone defense? TO: I think if the Irish can run the ball, Golson will find success in the intermediate game. His best work underneath has come in the screen game as the Irish

used bubble screens to beat Syracuse (he completed 25 consecutive passes) and the tunnel screen to wide receiver Will Fuller has been a weapon throughout the season. Golson has the arm to complete hitch after hitch and out after out — patience will be the tested virtue. He does, however, pride himself on getting through his reads. Golson’s not much of a talker, but when it’s pointed out he hit his fourth or fifth progression on a play, he lights up. It’s still Advantage Northwestern, in this regard, because Golson and the Irish offense is most dangerous when he’s making plays far downfield. Additionally, with Golson’s penchant for the turnover, the more Northwestern’s defense can make him work, the better chances they have of finding advantageous field position or killing a long ND drive in the red zone. The Daily: On the flip side, the Wildcats are dead last in the FBS in plays of 30 or more yards. Is there any hope of that changing on Saturday? TO: The Irish defense hasn’t allowed many big plays this season but they have faltered overall of late. Arizona State’s 55 didn’t come from an offensive show (two defensive touchdowns, two drives of 13 and 6 yards, respectively) but Navy hit the Irish in chunks as did Florida State and North Carolina. It’s worth noting that FSU hits everyone for chunks and Carolina’s offense was pretty impressive in person on Oct. 11 in South Bend. What’s worked best against Notre Dame is the use of an up-tempo attack as it limits the much-needed situational substitution favored by first-year defensive coordinator Brian VanGorder on a youth-filled defense. Both Arizona State and North Carolina worked over the Irish defense when they played at a fast tempo. The Daily: Northwestern’s special teams have been mostly a disaster in Big Ten play (fumbled punts, long kickoff returns allowed, missed extra points). Do you expect Notre Dame be able to exploit that to give their offense short fields?

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GO GO GOLSON Notre Dame quarterback drops back to pass during the team’s Nov. 1 game against Navy. The senior has completed 61.7 percent of his passes for 8.25 yards per attempt this season.

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Rand then recounted her time as an adjunct professor at Florida A&M University. She was teaching a class while she was representing the Martin family, and encouraged her students to draft a press release and lead a press conference about the case. Her students’ efforts culminated in an “I am Trayvon Martin” video. “My students had the brilliant foresight to encapsulate what this case, this movement means in four words,” Rand said. “Those words went from students’ lips to Obama’s ears in less than a week,” she said, referencing the President’s statement July 19, 2013 that “Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.” The trial started a debate about Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which allows an individual to use deadly force if they reasonably feel they are at great risk in a confrontation. Rand explained how these laws stem from a narrower, more sensible law that permitted deadly force against a home intruder. Rand concluded with a question-and-answer session. When a question was raised about the jury’s decision, Rand said she thinks it was the “biases of the jurors” that led to the decision. “Maybe it’s the best system, maybe it’s a good system, maybe it’s an okay system, but it’s flawed and leads to what I perceive as a lot of flawed outcomes,” she said. Lakin Davis, Weinberg senior and co-chair of NCDC, said the organization decided to co-sponsor the event during the summer. The event happened a little over a week after Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton spoke at the State of the Black Union. “(This summer) was the time Ferguson was blowing up, so we decided we’d like to focus on the issues of police brutality and hate crimes and race and how those three things interact,” Davis said. “We found Jasmine (Rand) and thought she was a great fit.” Airickca Gordon-Taylor, founding director of the Mamie Till Mobley Memorial Foundation and a friend of Rand, said she attended the event because she wanted to support her. Gordon-Taylor, a cousin of Emmett Till, a black teenager who was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955, said with the 60th anniversary of Till’s death coming up, there are distinct parallels between Martin’s death and Till’s. “It’s sad when the same thing is happening so many years down the road,” she said. “If we don’t do something about it now, our children and grandchildren and great grandchildren could be confronted with the same types of situations.”

allowing Ludlow to remain on campus. Her suit asked the University for reparations for emotional distress and appropriate remedial actions, as well as payment of past and future education and medical bills. The ruling, by Judge Harry D. Leinenweber, cited a 1999 U.S. Supreme Court decision specifying that Title IX does not allow a victim of sexual harassment to request specific remedial demands. Leinenweber wrote the student’s argument “flies in the face” of the Supreme Court precedent. The student’s attorney Kevin O’Connor said, despite the ruling, he was “not done yet.” “We are disappointed but undeterred,” O’Connor wrote in a message to The Daily. NU denied wrongdoing in the Title IX suit in February, citing corrective actions it took against Ludlow after an internal investigation found he had violated the University’s sexual harassment policy.

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Mark Ratner serving as the temporary dean for the 2014-15 academic year, the search is on schedule to finalize a selection for the position by the end of Winter Quarter 2015. Student representatives from the SAB met with Jake Julia, associate provost of academic initiatives, and the Provost’s Office after the October forum to talk about strategies to increase student participation. “We think that we had a very good discussion regarding student engagement in the search and mutually agreed that having a group of students to talk to final candidates and interview them would be good for candidates and student representation as well,” Julia said. “From my perspective, it was a very engaging and positive dialogue.” Julia said the office originally met with these students last spring, but at the time did not want to change the makeup of the search committee. The 17-member committee comprises faculty members from different departments within Weinberg, one alumna and one student, a Weinberg senior.

Ludlow lost an appointment to an endowed professorship and was denied a pay raise for the 2012-13 academic year, among other sanctions. The University prohibited Ludlow Northwestern from having conis strongly tact with the stucommitted to dent and Ludlow complied, accordresponding ing to Thursday’s appropriately ruling. Besides the “occasional glimpse to complaints of him on campus,” of sexual the student does not harassment claim to have had any other contact, Al Cubbage, the judge wrote. University The ruling spokesman acknowledged the student’s claims that Ludlow’s presence gave her “considerable grief ” but found it was not actionable under Title IX.

The judge also rejected the student’s claim that NU retaliated against her suit by rejecting her for a fellowship and denying her refund for a study abroad program deposit. In her original suit, the student admits an outside company rather than the University denied the refund, the judge noted in the ruling. The judge also said the student did not allege her fellowship rejection was “causally related to her threats to bring suit.” University spokesman Al Cubbage released a statement Thursday, saying NU was “pleased” with the dismissal. “Northwestern is strongly committed to responding appropriately to complaints of sexual harassment and sexual assault,” he said, “as the court ruled today, the University did so in this case.” Ludlow did not finish teaching his Winter 2014 class, following student protests that took place in March. He has not taught any classes since then. Cubbage told The Daily last week Ludlow will not teach next quarter.

“The students will be talking with the Provost’s Office about what the dean does, which is a good thing because it’ll make sure students know what to look for in a candidate, as well as see which candidate will fit their needs,” said WeinWe think berg senior Anna Rennich, Associ- that we had a very ated Student Govgood discussion ernment academic regarding student vice president. The student engagement in interview group the search ... it was will include four a very engaging undergraduate students and will and positive be chosen from dialogue. the SAB, Rennich said. Jake Julia, T he b o ard’s associate provost of executive members r e c e n t l y academic initiatives released the application, and executive members and the Dean’s Office will conduct interviews. Two graduate students will be chosen by Julia’s office to be a part of the group as well.

In addition to the interview group, focus groups run by the SAB’s executive board will meet over the course of four days next week, said Weinberg senior Hannah Springer, SAB co-chair. She said any student, but particularly those in Weinberg, is welcome to attend the focus groups. The groups will give input on what they are looking for in a potential dean, and this feedback will be compiled and given to English Prof. Wendy Wall, chair of the search committee. “After going to (the forum), it was clear students wanted their voices heard and that the open forum wasn’t sufficient,” said Weinberg senior Lindsay Jagla, SAB co-chair. “We wanted something student-driven.” Jagla said she was pleased with how the faculty have responded to students’ desire to be more involved in the search. “Prior to the open search forum, the faculty didn’t realize how passionate students were about this and how much we wanted to be involved,” she said. “Once we made it clear that we wanted a larger voice, they were very receptive.”

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Across Campuses For-profit colleges reap rewards, controversy under new GI Bill For-profit colleges have been remarkably successful pitching their academic programs to veterans in the post-9/11 era. During the academic year that ended in 2013, they claimed $1.7?billion in GI Bill tuition and fee payments, more than a fourfold increase from just four years earlier, according to a Democratic staff report released in July by the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Along with this gusher of veterans education money has come plenty of controversy. The Senate staff report notes concerns about aggressive recruiting tactics, misleading marketing and higher overall student dropout rates. The report also found that seven of the

Study: Eczema linked to greater occurrence of physical injury

A recent Northwestern study found a direct link between eczema and a greater risk of accidental injuries. Adult eczema, a skin condition that causes severe itching and dry skin, comes with increased instances of bone fractures and other injuries, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published Oct. 29 in the journal JAMA Dermatology. It is the first study to find such a connection. These conditions could be a side effect of steroids and sedatives prescribed to treat the disorder, or the under-treatment of more

FRIday, NOVEMBER 14, 2014 eight top-grossing for-profit universities were under investigation for possible violations of state and federal law. “Taxpayers are paying twice as much on average to send a veteran to a for-profit college for a year compared to the cost of a public university college,” the report said in an executive summary. For-profits’ advocates say they have an important role to play in educating veterans, and have had considerable success. Gary Heafey, an Air Force veteran in Spokane diagnosed with PTSD and depression, praises the education he is receiving at Carrington College, a for-profit he enrolled in after falling behind in his studies and withdrawing from a public school, Eastern Washington University. At Carrington, Heafey is enrolled in a ninemonth program that leads to a certificate in medical technology. Four months into his course work, he is happy with the school,

which he says offers lots of hands-on training and a “family” atmosphere. “Everything has just clicked,” Heafey said. “They pretty much walked me through all the paperwork. And instead of waiting weeks to get things done, it gets done in days.” During the four academic years that ended in summer 2013, Washington for-profits claimed 32 percent of the post-9/11 benefits paid out by the federal Department of Veterans Affairs. The top-grossing for-profit school — The Art Institute of Seattle — pulled in nearly $18.5?million during that period, a sum topped only by the University of Washington, according to an analysis of Department of Veterans Affairs data by The Seattle Times. The Art Institute of Seattle currently has some 236 veterans enrolled in courses, accounting for more than 17 percent of its total student population, according to a statement from the institute. The culinary program

is most popular among veterans, followed by photography and by media arts and animation, according to the statement. The Seattle Art Institute is part of Education Management Corp., a major for-profit that has been battling misconduct charges in court. A federal lawsuit alleges that recruiter payments were illegally based on the numbers of students they enrolled. Those charges, in court filings, have been denied by the corporation. Some state attorneys general also are looking into recruitment, financial aid and student outcomes for Education Management Corp., according to the U.S. Senate staff report. In Washington, the state campuses of the for-profit Everest College collected more than $9 million in VA education money in the fouryear period ending in 2013.

severe cases. Dr. Jonathan Silverberg, a professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine and employee at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, was the senior author of the study. “Many eczema patients who are prescribed medication for itch are often given sedating antihistamines or steroids, but those medications may come at a price,” Silverberg said in a news release. “Sedatives cause fatigue, and steroids can lead to bone density problems and osteoporosis.” The study used a sample of more than 27,000 adults from around the nation. Participants with recent cases of eczema reported a 44 percent higher chance of injuries. In those older than 50, the odds more than doubled. In addition to the chronic itching, participants reported symptoms of fatigue and

insomnia — a possible liability for greater clumsiness and injury. The sleeplessness is attributed to under-treatment of the condition, which hinders patients from falling asleep. “It makes it almost impossible to function normally at work and to take care of the activities of daily living,” Silverberg said in a news release. “The itch is waking patients up from their sleep at night, much in the way that chronic pain patients have difficulties sleeping.” Eczema afflicts more than 10 percent of the adult population, and one-third of those with the disease suffer from a moderate to severe form. Silverberg said he sees evidence of the study’s results regularly at the Northwestern Multidisciplinary Center for Eczema. “Last month three of my patients with

eczema cancelled at the last minute because of injuries,” Silverberg said in a news release. “One fell and almost got hit by a bus, another was hit by a car and then another missed her appointment because she was in a car accident. You can’t make this stuff up.” Although the findings needs to be confirmed with additional studies, Silverberg said the study’s results mean doctors need to be more cautious. “Until better options are developed to manage eczema and itch, doctors should remind patients of the side effects of their medication and encourage them to use caution when out and about and avoid situations like driving while using sedating antihistamines,” he said.

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McMullan, Brill enter year with championship hopes By alex lederman

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After a successful opening meet against Stanford, No. 18 Northwestern returns to action Saturday in Ypsilanti, Michigan, to take on three teams at the Eastern Michigan University Duals. “We’re gonna get three more W’s,” senior heavyweight Mike McMullan said. First, the Wildcats battle Eastern Michigan at 9 a.m. before squaring off against Clarion at 10:30 a.m. NU takes on Central Michigan at 1:30 p.m. Although the Cats performed well against the Cardinal last weekend, coach Drew Pariano said his team didn’t dominate the way it could have. “We’re not gonna mince our words,” he said. “If we’re happy about something, we’ll say it. If we’re not happy about it, we’ll be very upfront. We want to see improvement from last weekend to this weekend, meaning better technique, a little better shape, opening the gap on our opponents.” Pariano said this weekend is a good barometer to see where his team is. “The duals happen pretty quickly, so shape will be a key component,” he said. “We feel like we’re in pretty good shape as a team.” NU will need to be in good shape if the team plans to meet its season goals. Pariano, McMullan and freshman Bryce Brill set the bar high for their

Men’s Soccer

Wildcats take home numerous awards after strong season

After a successful regular season which saw Northwestern finish third in an ultra-competitive Big Ten, several Wildcats players were awarded postseason honors Wednesday. Two of the highest awards were given to senior goalkeeper Tyler Miller and senior defender Nikko Boxall, who won goalkeeper of the year and defensive player of the year, respectively. Miller led the conference in goals against average with .56 per game and in save percentage with a .853 mark while recording nine shutouts.

objectives. “I’ve got to win nationals,” McMullan said. “I’ve gotten close, and that’s what I’ve got to do. I beat the guy who won nationals last year a couple weeks ago, so I know that I can get there. It’s just a matter of putting it together at the end of the year for me.” As for Pariano’s team plans, he said he wants to be a top-four program in the country. If the team progresses as he expects, with its young talent and senior leadership, he said it should improve after every meet and achieve its goals. “It’s a long season,” Pariano said. “March is a long way away, but our guys need to understand the process, and that process is getting better every week.” Brill, a three-time Illinois state champion in high school, just wrestled his first college bout ever: a 7-0 shutout over Stanford’s Maxwell Hvolbek. Even so, his expectations are set high. “I’m definitely looking to win a national title this year,” he said. “We’ll see how it goes, but I’ll just keep working hard, and if I do that then the winning and losing will take care of itself.” Still, Brill’s journey to the top won’t be easy. McMullan can relate to what the freshman will go through. “It’s a tough transition coming from high school,” McMullan said. “There, you’re a big fish, small pond kind of guy. Then you get into D1 wrestling where everyone’s kind of a success in high school, and Playing centerback in front of Miller, Boxall contributed to the goalie’s gaudy numbers and added two goals and three assists on offense this year. Several other NU players also brought home hardware. Junior forward Joey Calistri and junior midfielder Cole Missimo were named second team All-Big Ten at their respective positions after each player finished the season with 14 points. Freshman forwards Sam Forsgren and Elo Ozumba were both placed on the All-Freshman team. Forsgren started 10 games for the Cats and contributed 1 goal and two assists, while Ozumba saw action in 17 games as a super-sub and tallied four assists. Additionally, senior midfielder Connor Holloway was named a Sportsmanship Award honoree, recognizing his sportsmanship and ethical behavior. — Bobby Pillote

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iron mike Senior heavyweight Mike McMullan wrestles Bobby Telford of Iowa. McMullan said he has national championship aspirations after falling short his first three seasons.

now you’re wrestling tough guys every week.” Pariano is excited about the team’s newcomers. “We have an extremely talented freshman class,” he said. “Bryce (Brill) did a great job stepping into the starting lineup, but there are a couple of guys you might see do some great things in tournaments this year.” But the first meet was no cakewalk for Brill though. It was his teammates that helped him

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Collins announces commitments from Falzon, Ash

Northwestern officially has two members in its class of 2015 recruiting class. Forward Aaron Falzon and guard Jordan Ash signed their National Letters of Intent Wednesday, coach Chris Collins announced Wednesday. Falzon is this class’s headliner as a member of ESPN’s and Rivals’ top-100 recruiting rankings. He is 6-foot-7-inches tall and is a shooter with deep range. That combination could cause some mismatches when he gets to the collegiate

pull through. “At first I was pretty nervous going into it,” Brill said. “But I was talking to the guys before, and they were just telling me to relax, that it’s just like any other match and to just go out there and wrestle the same that I do in practice. It definitely helped. The guys were behind me and the coaches were behind me.” alexlederman2017@u.northwestern.edu level. “For us to be able to go to the east coast and get one of the premier shooters in the country is a great get for us,” Collins said Wednesday. “He’s going to fit in tremendously with what we’re trying to do and how we’re trying to play.” Ash is 6-foot-2-inch guard who can finish strong at the rim. He is a local talent, playing his high school ball at St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois. “That’s something that’s been important to us, to keep the local talent home,” Collins said. “He brings a great pedigree. He comes in as a winner.” Cleveland native Dererk Pardon, who gave NU a verbal commitment in June, has yet to sign his NLI. — Jesse Kramer

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Cats look to end skid in rematch with Boilermakers By KHADRICE ROLLINS

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Northwestern vs. No. 16 Purdue West Lafayette, Indiana 6 p.m. Saturday

Northwestern will look to right its losing ways, having lost nine of its last 11 games, in the team’s penultimate road match of the season on Saturday. The Wildcats (15-11, Big Ten 5-10) will be going on the road for the third consecutive game, this time in West Lafayette, Indiana, to take on No. 16 Purdue (20-7, 10-5). This will be the third time in four games that NU plays a top-25 opponent. The Cats took Purdue to five sets in the matchup on Oct. 24 at home, but were unable to get the win. In that game, NU jumped out to a 2-0 lead before surrendering the final three sets, 25-23, 28-26 and 15-11. In the first contest, freshman Taylor Tashima tallied 28 assists to go along with 20 digs and nine kills. Since then, Tashima has recorded a Big Ten-leading two triple doubles, including one in the Cats’ last game,

a 3-1 loss at Minnesota. Sophomore Kayla Morin leads the team with 22 kills in the previous game with Purdue, but she and Tashima are both focused on defense going into Saturday’s game. “I think the one thing we can improve on the most is blocking,” Morin said. “Making sure we know where to line up and just really focusing on our techniques.” Tashima added that Purdue, similar to Minnesota, is an offensive team, which is why blocking will be so important in the game. “We need to execute some things blocking-wise,” coach Keylor Chan said. “We blocked pretty poorly (Wednesday). Even though we generated some good blocks, we didn’t really control hitters like we needed to. In the Big Ten, you have to control them more, or you’re going to get the tough end of it.” The team had 14 blocks in the first game versus Purdue, but just eight against Minnesota. That contributed to them being in a hole they were unable to get out of. Between the most recent performance at the net, and the Cats 1-7 record on the road in the Big Ten, they understand that mental toughness will be key in trying to earn the win Saturday. “I think the second thing we can focus on the most is embracing the challenge when we’re down,” Morin said. “Just fighting our way out when we get

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MIGHTY MORIN Kayla Morin delivers a spike in the Wildcats’ first game against the Boilermakers. The sophomore outside hitter has started every match and is second on the team in kills.

in deficits.” NU is currently tied for 11th in the Big Ten with Iowa, and they are just one game behind Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan and Michigan State for the seventh spot. In this tightly contested conference, the team expects nothing less than a tense, hard-hitting

contest. “At home, it was a close match,” Tashima said. “It went to five and it came down to the last few points. It’s going to be a really aggressive match.” khadricerollins2017@u.northwestern.edu

NU prepares for scrimmage against rival Notre Dame By ALEX LEDERMAN

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No. 8 Northwestern vs. No. 4 Notre Dame South Bend, Indiana 6:30 p.m. Friday

Northwestern takes on one of its biggest rivals in a scrimmage Friday in South Bend, Indiana. “Notre Dame is one of our strongest competitors and we go against them more times throughout the season,” sophomore epee Mandeep Bhinder said. “This will be a good indicator of what we’re going against and who we should be putting in against them. Though coach Laurie Schiller would like to come

away with a win, he said that’s not his top priority. “Just like basketball does a preseason game, we’re doing a preseason match,” he said. “There’s a result that somebody wins or loses the match, but mostly we’re looking at it as an opportunity to have a really strong practice with a really strong team.” In the afternoon, the Wildcats and Fighting Irish will practice together and do a scrimmage. Then in the evening, there will be a team match that doesn’t count toward either team’s overall record. In fact, the meet is not even the usual collegiate format with five touch bouts. Instead, it will be done in the USA Fencing relay style, in which the first team to 60 touches total comes away victorious. “We’d sure love to win the team match,” Schiller said. “We didn’t last year, so it would be nice to win that, even though technically for qualifying purposes it doesn’t mean anything. It still would be a nice win

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winter,” he said. NU and Notre Dame are very familiar with each other in fencing. The two schools, along with Ohio State, battle for glory in the Midwest Fencing Conference year-in and year-out. After this weekend, the fall preseason is done for the most part. All that is left is one more United States Fencing Association Junior North American Cup that only a few fencers compete in. “We’re gonna be focusing the rest of the quarter on consolidating the gains that we’ve made and starting to work toward the teams that we’re gonna be fencing against in January,” Schiller said. “We’re starting to plan out for that, take a look at the kinds of bouts and the kinds of plans we’re gonna need to prepare for those kids.” alexanderlederman2017@u.northwestern.edu

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Documentary Media Production The person selected will join the faculty of the school’s Program in Communication. The ideal candidate will be a documentary filmmaker who has produced feature and/or short documentaries that have screened at noteworthy film festivals and/or been broadcast/cablecast/distributed. Candidates should have an MFA plus higher education teaching experience. Expertise in documentary cinematography and experience in editing (FCP X and Avid), production or post-production sound, and/or producing is desirable. The ability to also teach documentary history and theory is also desirable. Interest in the MENA region would be welcomed. Global Cinema History and Theory The person selected will join the faculty of the school’s Program in Communication. We desire candidates with research interests in non-Western film and the ability to teach undergraduate courses in global cinema, as well as more general film studies courses. The ideal candidate will have a strong command of postcolonial theory (or other appropriate framework) and history in order to give students a historically and culturally informed understanding of film and media in Africa, Asia, India, the MENA region, or other areas of the Global South. An emphasis on contemporary media, especially new media, would be welcomed, as would an expertise in gender and culture in the Arab world or in the global context. Earned Ph.D. preferred. Global Media Studies/Policy The person selected will join the faculty of the school’s Program in Communication. The ideal candidate will be able to examine media industries globally and in the Arab world from the perspective of communication policy and institutions. Candidates demonstrate interest in the economic, historical, legal, social, and cultural forces shaping the direction and organization of media implementation, use, and regulation, especially in the Middle East. Other areas of expertise might include, but are not limited to: global media history; media economics and industry study; communication technology and society; big data; social media; media, gender, and culture in the Arab world. Earned Ph.D. preferred. Sociology The appointment will be in the school’s Program in Liberal Arts. The ideal candidate will hold a Ph.D. in sociology and be prepared to teach undergraduate students in sociology in both introductory and advanced classes. Within the discipline of sociology, this is an “open-area” search in which an interest in the Middle East and/or media studies would be an asset.

Science and Technology Studies The appointment will be in the school’s Program in Liberal Arts. The ideal candidate will hold a Ph.D. in an appropriate discipline and will be prepared to teach undergraduate students in both introductory and advanced classes. Teaching and research emphasis will integrate science and technology with areas such as science policy, health, ethics, citizen science, history or philosophy of science and technology in the modern era. Expected educational background will be in science and technology studies well integrated with a disciplinary background in sociology, philosophy, political science, history, education, science, or another appropriate field. NU-Q faculty-in-residence receive a highly competitive salary and benefits including overseas allowances and travel as well as funds for research and faculty development. Candidates should be available to begin August 1, 2015. Rank for these non-tenured positions is based upon qualifications and experience. All NU-Q faculty are employees of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Applications received by December 15, 2014 will receive the highest priority. The search will continue and applications will be accepted until the position is filled. To apply, please send a letter of application, a CV, a sample of research, writing or creative work, a statement of teaching philosophy, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and the names of three references to: faculty-recruitment@qatar.northwestern.edu Northwestern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer of all protected classes including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in Qatar.

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ON DECK Men’s Basketball 14 Houston Baptist at NU, 7 p.m. Friday

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There’s higher expectations for me and the team. I’m ready to compete. — Nia Coffey, sophomore forward

Friday, November 14, 2014

Season begins at Chicago State By tim balk

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Northwestern vs. Chicago State Chicago, Illinois 7:05 p.m. Friday

Hampton University vs. Northwestern Evanston 2 p.m. Sunday

Northwestern will tip off its season this weekend, heading to Chicago State on Friday night and making their home opener on Sunday against Hampton University. The Wildcats enter the year looking to build off a 17-win campaign last winter that concluded with a trip to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament. They return with all five starters from that squad: sophomore forward Nia Coffey, junior guard Maggie Lyon, sophomore guard Christen Inman, senior center Alex Cohen and sophomore guard Ashley Deary. The Cats’ leading returning scorer and rebounder is Nia Coffey, who averaged more than 15 points and eight rebounds per game last winter. She was named to the coaches’ preseason All Big-Ten team. “There’s higher expectations for me and the team,” Coffey said. “I’m ready to compete.” Coffey logged 14 points and 11 rebounds in the Cats’ preseason exhibition against Wisconsin-Parkside on Nov. 9, a game NU won 78-47. The exhibition wrapped up a fruitful offseason for the Cats. “As a team, we really worked on our chemistry, just playing together,”

Coffey said last month. Also critical for a team that has set its eyes on a visit to the NCAA Tournament is Maggie Lyon, who led the Cats in minutes per game last year and was second in scoring. “I think I’ve gotten a lot stronger,” said Lyon, adding that she’s worked on being able to get up and down the court with greater ease. Coach Joe McKeown is entering his seventh year at the helm of NU’s program. The Cats have won 88 games under McKeown and earned three WNIT berths, but have yet to make a visit to the NCAA Tournament. They last visited the NCAAs in 1997. “It’s going to be fun,” McKeown said. “We’re a fun team to watch. Trying to score a lot of points. Defensively we’ve got to get a lot better or else we’ll give up a lot of points and really that’s how we’re looking at it this year. And we have some great young talent. Just an exciting team.” The Cats’ battle with Chicago State will be the teams’ eighth meeting. NU beat its interstate rival 64-33 last year and leads the all time series 5-2. Meanwhile, the Cats will face Hampton for just the second time ever on Sunday. NU holds a 1-0 lead in the series, having defeated Hampton 58-45 in 2003. The Cats will hope to parlay the increased chemistry and deep returning talent into a strong regular season campaign. “We’re really excited to have people see the team that we’ve become,” Lyon said. “We’re so much more supportive of each other. I think our chemistry is better. We’re excited going into the season; we want to get on the court and play some games.” Alex Putterman contributed reporting timbalk2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Cats draw Duke in first round By claire hansen

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No. 7 Northwestern vs. No. 9 Duke Chapel Hill, North Carolina 1 p.m. Saturday

It’s been 20 years since Northwestern has seen its name in the NCAA tournament bracket, and at the Big Ten championship game on Sunday, the Wildcats decided that it had been 20 years too long. No. 7 Northwestern (16-6, 7-2 Big Ten) defeated No. 2 Maryland (18-3, 7-1) by a score of 3-1 to win NU’s first ever Big Ten title and secure a place in the NCAA Tournament. On Saturday, the Cats will face No. 9 Duke in Chapel Hill in the first round of 16. “Duke’s a great team,” coach Tracey Fuchs said. “They’re very much like us. They have a lot of depth—maybe not a superstar, but a lot of good players.” This depth, the balance of skill and talent, has been the key to NU’s success this season. Three Cats have scored more than 10 goals this season and four players have tallied at least eight assists. An offensive star, Fuchs asserts, can be double-teamed or shut down. A balanced team, however, is much more threatening. Sophomore midfielder Dominique Masters predicts that this might pose a challenge to the Blue Devil defense. “It’s very hard when you have more than one person to look for and defend against,” Masters said. “They’ll be on their back foot a little because we have so much variety.” However, the attack isn’t the only balanced part of the team. The depth of the Cats’ defense, anchored by senior goalkeeper Maddy Carpenter, has been effective in stopping aggressive offenses. “Our defense has been really solid this past month. We haven’t given up a

lot of corners, and when we have, we’ve defended them well,” Fuchs said. “We just need to stop (Duke) outside the circle, hopefully outside the twenty five, and limit their opportunities.” The tenacity of both the offense and defense is reflected in NU’s statistics: The Cats have earned 161 penalty corners this season while limiting their opponents to just 113. Fuchs explained the consistency of the defense will allow the midfielders and the front line to attack more aggressively on Saturday. “It gives us the ability to really risk it … and take more chances, knowing that if we turn over the ball we can defend it,” Fuchs said. “We have Maddy (Carpenter) and Lisa (McCarthy) and Charlotte (Martin), and our side-backs and midfielders have really stepped up. Hopefully we can really attack and not worry about them sneaking on in behind us.” In keeping with consistency, the team has not focused on developing any new habits this week. Rather, they have continued to work on keeping possession out of the backfield and maintaining poise while attacking on offense. The Cats will, however, have to work to push the Blue Devils toward the sidelines and away from their strength in the middle of the field. NU

also aims to come out aggressively from the start of the game. “Sometimes we are on our back foot in the beginning of games,” Masters said. “We need to make sure we are putting something on.” The Cats need to maintain their balance off the field as well as on, Carpenter said. “We just have to do the right things. We have to prepare, to recuperate, recover, stretch, do everything we can,” she said. “We need to juggle end of the quarter, finals-coming-up type school work with some of the hardest hockey we’ve ever played.” Maintaining the balance could reap huge rewards for the team Saturday. It will be a particularly significant game for the seniors. “Oh man,” Carpenter said. “For the seniors, it’s everything. It’s a joy to be here and be part of this team. We all love the sport, and we love each other. Just kind of playing hockey, really.” If the Cats can stay balanced and just play hockey, they might walk away with another win. Mike Marut contributed reporting. clairehansen2018@u.northwestern.edu

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duking it out Isabel Flens maneuvers her way past a defender. The sophomore midfielder is the second-leading scorer on the team with 12 goals.

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youth rising Nia Coffey elevates for a shot over a defender. The sophomore forward averaged more than 15 points per game last year and is expected to lead the offense again this season.

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The NCAA Midwest Regional Championships, hosted by Bradley University on a 6K course, could be the last meet of the season for Northwestern. When the Wildcats take the starting gun on Friday, they’ll be attempting to climb into the top two in the team standings, securing an automatic qualifying position in the NCAA National Championships. They are currently ranked 12th in the Midwest Region and would have to surpass at least one of two nationallyranked squads in Iowa State and Minnesota to continue their season as a team. The top four individuals in the meet who are not on a qualifying team will qualify as well. “We haven’t had five girls all race well on one day, so we’re just looking at this as a great opportunity to do that,” NU coach April Likhite said. Even if the Cats are ultimately unable to extend their season, they can enter the offseason with hope for bigger and better

things after the season-long emergence of sophomore Jena Pianin. Pianin has starred for NU this season, finishing first on the team in a majority of the races she’s run. She burst onto the scene with a career day at the Notre Dame Invitational in October, dropping nearly 90 seconds from her previous 5K personal best and taking 20th individually. She’s continued her string of strong performances throughout the season, with a 33rd-place finish against a field of nearly 300 at the Pre-Nationals meet and a 22ndplace finish in the Big Ten Championships two weeks ago. “When we were recruiting her during her senior year in high school we knew we wanted her,” Likhite said. “She’s probably one of the most talented girls we’ve ever brought into our program.” Pianin showed flashes last year, breaking into the team’s top-seven by the end of the season to earn entry into the regional meet, but a stress fracture suffered in her senior year of high school limited her. “For her to not be able to do what our summer training entails, it affected her,” Likhite said. “She’s definitely a different

runner this season than she was last season but there were reasons for that.” With an offseason to get healthy and train, Pianin’s career has reached new heights and the runner now looks poised to star for the Cats going forward. “I think Jena has extremely high but very realistic goals,” Likhite said. “Having that mindset is what’s going to make her a great runner and let her do some amazing things for us too.” To move into one of the automatic qualifying spots as a team this season, NU will need runners beyond Pianin to step up in a major way, which is why the Big Ten Championships — where many Cats set personal bests in a 6K race — was so encouraging. “I think everybody’s really just trying to buy into the plans our coaches give us, because our coaches wouldn’t tell us to do something we can’t do,” junior Elena Barham said. “We’re really confident and excited about the meet.” The Cats will start at 12:00 p.m. on Friday in Peoria, Illinois. maxschuman2018@u.northwestern.edu

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