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Students help in final push for elections College Democrats, College Republicans members phone-bank, canvas for midterms By julia jacobs
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Campus organizations are increasing their efforts to mobilize voters as early voting continues before Tuesday’s midterm elections. Northwestern’s College Democrats held its second phone-banking session of the quarter Tuesday night, working with liberal political action committee MoveOn.org to answer people’s questions about registering and voting in different states. The first phone-banking session was held two weeks ago and assisted Gov. Pat Quinn’s campaign to rally voters. On weekends, students have also been canvassing in contested districts in Illinois for candidates such as Quinn and state Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Deerfield), said Allison Ortega, vice president of programming for College Democrats. “We have so many important local elections here, and so we’re making sure we’re really trying to
spread around what we’re doing … that we’re giving equal attention and dividing our resources,” the Weinberg senior said. Members of NU College Republicans will go door-to-door in neighborhoods where the race is tight this weekend, asking residents to vote for U.S. Rep. Bob Dold (R-Ill.), said College Republicans President Domonic Burke, a Weinberg junior. Burke said people seem more attentive to midterm elections than ever because Republicans may gain the majority of seats in the U.S. Senate this year. A recent Harvard Institute of Politics poll found that 24 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds surveyed will be voting in the upcoming elections, a seven-point drop from four years ago. Because younger voters tend to vote Democratic, this poses a problem for the midterms, said Weinberg junior Kevin Cheng, political director for Illinois College Democrats. “Oftentimes people just assume » See election, page 7
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LAST CALL SESP freshman Kevin Corkran speaks on the phone with a Democratic party supporter Tuesday evening. The phone-banking session was sponsored by NU College Democrats.
Ludlow sues Medill senior By tyler pager
daily senior staffer @tylerpager
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HELPING HAND Customers eat at Edzo’s Burger Shop on Tuesday afternoon. Owner Eddie Lakin is being honored by Curt’s Cafe on Saturday in recognition of the fact he employs five graduates of the program.
Edzo’s honored for helping Curt’s Cafe By Tori Latham
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The owner of Edzo’s Burger Shop will be honored Saturday for hiring at-risk youth who have graduated the Curt’s Cafe job training program. Eddie Lakin of Edzo’s, 1571 Sherman Ave., will receive the Life Changer Award at Curt’s Gratitude Bash for his work in changing young adults’ lives. Curt’s, 2922 Central St., provides employment and life-skills training
for at-risk youth through a program that Susan Trieschmann, the cafe’s executive director, helped start. Although he is glad to help out, Lakin said he is a little embarrassed to receive the award from Curt’s because he sees his decision to hire graduates as mostly self-motivated. “I’m really only doing what benefits my business,” he said. “I’m maybe willing to take a risk that other people aren’t willing to take. It’s beneficial for everyone involved, but I think the people who run » See edzos, page 7
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Philosophy Prof. Peter Ludlow filed a defamation lawsuit Tuesday against the Medill senior who said Ludlow sexually assaulted her in 2012, according to the Chicago Tribune. Ludlow’s suit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, alleges the student made false claims to the media and Northwestern professors after he rejected her sexual advances. This will be the third lawsuit to come in the aftermath of the Medill senior’s initial Title IX lawsuit. The senior first filed a federal lawsuit in February against NU, saying the University handled her
sexual assault complaint against Ludlow with “deliberate indifference and retaliation.” In the lawsuit, she claimed Ludlow sexually assaulted her after the two attended an art show in Chicago in February 2012. According to the suit, Ludlow provided the student with alcohol and brought her to his apartment, ignoring her repeated requests to return to Evanston. The student took a class with Ludlow in fall 2011. After an internal investigation, the University concluded in April 2012 that Ludlow made “unwelcome and inappropriate sexual advances” toward the student, according to investigation documents obtained by The Daily. The University denied mishandling the student’s complaint and “imposed several disciplinary
sanctions and corrective actions against Ludlow,” according to NU’s response. After the internal investigation, NU revoked Ludlow’s appointment to an endowed professorship, denied him a pay raise and banned him from contacting the student. In the suit against NU, the student asked the University for remedial action against Ludlow, reparation for emotional distress and payment for her education bills and past and future medical expenses. She also sued Ludlow for unspecified monetary damages later that month under the Illinois Gender Violence Act. Ludlow sued NU in June for defamation, gender discrimination and invasion of privacy. The » See defamation, page 7
Composers to teach master class By annie bruce
daily senior staffer @anniefb13
Two Tony-nominated songwriters are leading a master class at Northwestern on Wednesday. Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the pair behind the music for the musical adaptations of “Dogfight” and “A Christmas Story,” will participate in a question-and-answer session and master class at an event organized by Arts Alliance, the NU cast of “Dogfight” and NU’s Musical Theatre Program. “These are some of the hottest young writers in the country,” Communication Prof. Rives Collins said. “Their work is being done here. Anytime we can work with the artists who
were the creators and writers, it is an exciting time for us.” Collins, who is directing an upcoming NU production of “James and the Giant Peach,” which also features Pasek and Paul’s work, will moderate the event’s question-and-answer session. The cast of NU’s October production of “Dogfight” will also perform, followed by three students who will then receive feedback from Pasek and Paul. Collins said the opportunity to be coached by Pasek and Paul will help both performers and audience members learn. “These two writers are very, very dynamic,” he said. “I’ve seen them work with young writers before and they are very college-student friendly.” Alex Wolfe, who produced
“Dogfight” and helped coordinate the event, said she’s excited to hear from the composers behind the show. “The music is probably what people remember most from seeing the show,” the Communication junior said. “It kind of spans the entire spectrum of emotion, and we found that throughout the run of the performances, the audience really felt all the emotion. And I think Pasek and Paul are really great at doing that.” Myrna Conn, who played the role of Rose Fenny in “Dogfight,” said she is interested in both performing and writing and hopes to learn more about the process behind Pasek and Paul’s work and their journey through the business. “Watching them work with » See Theater, page 7
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Environmental professional talks transit development
oriented development Sunday night at a sustainability symposium. Scott Bernstein (Weinberg ’74) spoke at Farmhouse Evanston, 703 Church St., as part of the Citizens’ Greener Evanston’s Green Drinks symposia program, which is an effort to get city residents thinking about ways to live more sustainably.
Bernstein co-founded the Center for Neighborhood Technology, an innovations laboratory for urban sustainability. CGE is working to bring Evanston’s greenhouse gas emissions down 20 percent by 2016, CGE board member Rory Nicholson said. “While we’ve gotten our emissions down by 13 percent through switching power sources to energy from renewable resources, the rest of it is going to come from behavior change,” Nicholson said. Bernstein, an Evanston resident, works closely with CGE to advocate for this behavior change through making sustainable, transit-oriented choices in urban spaces. “Transit-oriented development is built for people, not cars,” Bernstein said. “A lot of development is built for cars, though, and we need to start asking, ‘What does that cost us?’” Bernstein’s talk focused on parking in downtown Evanston. He said city laws call for between oneand-a-half and two parking spaces per housing unit, costing the contractor from $4,200 to $37,000 each, not including the spaces’ maintenance costs or the loss in revenue for the use of that space. Instead, Bernstein said, minimum parking space requirements should be waived. He praised a new system in San Francisco that made developers petition to have any parking spaces added to their projects, rather than requiring that they build a minimum number. “Evanston is still one of the most transit-friendly suburbs in the United States, but people are coming for the transit and still bringing their two cars,”
Bernstein said. “Evanston gets away with this progressive image, but it’s not, really.” Attendees, including members of CGE, local small business owners and other sustainability advocates from the Chicago area, said they were surprised by Bernstein’s figures. “I don’t think people realize the impact of all this wasted space,” said CGE board member Bill McDowell. “I was shocked by his numbers on parking costs.” Bernstein also talked about car- and bike-sharing programs, both nationally and in the Chicago area. He co-founded the car-sharing program IGO with another CGE board member, a program that grew to 15,000 cars shared by 250 members before selling it to Enterprise Rent-A-Car. “Eighty-seven to 95 percent of the time, cars are sitting around unused,” Bernstein said. “It’s kind of silly. It’s an idle asset.” By moving toward car- and bike-share programs, as well as public transportation, Bernstein said he hopes Evanston will be able to more effectively use its space and environmental resources. “We really need a level of coordination around transportation,” Bernstein said. “Cities only thrive if they use their assets.” The next Green Drinks event will take place Nov. 12 at Farmhouse, when Gail Schechter of Open Communities and Lin Ewing of the North ShoreBarrington Association of Realtors will discuss affordable housing.
Mulford Street, Evanston police spokesman Perry Polinski said. When police arrived at the scene, officers encountered a woman and a man arguing, with a third person present, officials said. Police arrested the 49-year-old man after asking for his identification and discovering he had a warrant out for his arrest in connection with an aggravated assault in North Dakota, Polinski said. When police tried to identify the third person, the man was unable to provide any identification
and gave officers an alias name, Polinski said. The man offered to bring officers to his apartment in the 200 block of Callan Avenue and show them his proper identification, police said. Police went to the residence with the man and encountered a 23-year-old woman, who also gave police an alias, Polinski said. While at the apartment, the man, 26, broke away from officers and led police on a short foot chase. Officers apprehended the DeKalb, Illinois resident
in the 200 block of Custer Avenue shortly after 4 a.m. on Sunday, police said. Police were able to correctly identify him and charged him with felony obstruction of justice, authorities said. Officers also arrested the 23-year-old woman inside the apartment and charged her with misdemeanor obstructing identification, police said.
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THINKING SUSTAINABLY Scott Bernstein, co-founder of the Center for Neighborhood Technology, speaks to Chicago area residents about transit-oriented development.
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A sustainability professional spoke to residents of Evanston and other suburbs about transit-
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Police arrested three people on Sunday, one in connection with obstruction of justice, authorities said. Officers responded around 3 a.m. to reports of a disturbance in an alley in the 600 block of
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Student starts cookie dough business By emily chin
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Michelle Schechter remembers the temptation of wanting to eat cookie dough when she was a kid but feeling guilty when she got caught. So she found a solution: eggless cookie dough. Schechter, a Communication senior, makes raw, eggless cookie dough and sells her products at the Paws ‘n’ Go C-Store in Norris University Center. She calls her business For Real Dough and currently sells packages of three scoops of cookie dough for $3.99. “I wanted to give back to the University while simultaneously jumpstarting this project,� she said. The dough is made without eggs, butter or dairy and has a “secret ingredient� that makes it taste like cookie dough, she said. Schechter makes the dough in three flavors: chocolate chip, cookies and cream and peanut butter heath. She said she is working on creating more flavors, and some ideas she has in mind are red velvet, Nutella, chipotle and pumpkin spice latte, she said. “I love her cookie dough,� said Rachel Tilghman, NU Dining marketing manager. “It’s so good. My favorite is the Oreo one, but I’m also a sucker for the old-fashioned chocolate chip cookie dough.� Tilghman works with Schechter to figure out the logistics and connect her to the right people for the business. “Sometimes food service can be a very bogged down, crazy business, and there’s a lot of moving
University hires head of Student Enrichment Services
Northwestern has hired the first director of the Center for Student Enrichment Services, a new office dedicated to supporting low-income and first-generation college students. The new director, Kourtney Cockrell, most recently served as NU’s associate director of
parts,� Tilghman said. “So it’s been my goal to help her and guide her.� Schechter came up with the idea to create her business through her industrial engineering entrepreneurship class during spring 2014. As a theater major, Schechter said she didn’t think she would have anything in common with the engineers in her class and was afraid to participate in group projects. However, she found they were more similar than they realized, and they bonded over baking, she said. “It was really awesome because cross-major collaboration is something that I think doesn’t happen often on this campus,� she said. “We have a lot of passionate, driven people that do one thing and then get a job in that one thing, but it’s really rare that people from varying majors come together to create something unique.� For the class’ final exam, her group pitched the For Real Dough idea to real investors, prompting Schechter to realize that her project had real potential. For the next few months, she met with University President Morton Schapiro, NU faculty members and NU Dining to make her idea a reality. “It’s awe-inspiring and eye-opening to see all the hoops she’s had to jump through just to get her dream going,� McCormick junior Ahren Alexander said. Alexander works with Schechter on marketing For Real Dough. He hopes to learn more about the startup culture, he said. “I’ve learned how challenging it can be to get people’s attention about anything,� he said. “How can I stand out against all these other ads?� talent management with the Office of Alumni Relations and Development where she focused on diversity and inclusion strategy. She spent more than seven years with the nonprofit Posse Foundation and has consulted with many companies and businesses on diversity recruitment and inclusion. The Center for Student Enrichment Services is housed within the Department of Campus Inclusion and Community. Lesley-Ann Brown, director of the Department of Campus Inclusion and Community,
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SECRET INGREDIENT For Real Dough, a student-created business, sells boxes of edible cookie dough in Norris University Center. Communication senior Michelle Schechter came up with the business idea in her industrial engineering entrepreneurship class. Alexander will help Schechter put on a grand opening for the company at Norris on Nov. 11. Schechter said by the grand opening, she hopes to have more flavors for students to sample. There will also be several performing groups and a guest appearance by Schapiro. “A lot’s going to be announced,� Schechter said. “A lot’s going to change.�
EmilyChin2018@u.northwestern.edu said Cockrell’s experience working with NU, Evanston and Chicago will be an asset. “We’re excited because she has a strong passion for working for all students, especially low-income students,� she said. Last month, before Cockrell was hired, Brown said the director of the office would focus on financial aid, leadership training and academic support for low-income and firstgeneration college students. — Tyler Pager
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NCAA needs to act on UNC academic scandal burak sekerci
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On Oct. 22, University of North Carolina released an investigation led by lawyer Kenneth Wainstein, which concluded that UNC has been offering fake classes and giving out fabricated grades to struggling students, half of them athletes, from the African and Afro-American studies department between 1993 and 2011. In a New York Times article last week, Sarah Lyall reported, “More than 3,100 students, 47.6 percent of them athletes, were enrolled in and received credit for the phantom classes, most of which were created and graded solely by a single employee, Deborah Crowder.” Lyall also reported that the scandal possibly includes coaches as well, who weren’t aware of the academic infractions but had their doubts over the years. The “shadow curriculum” would include independent study courses, which didn’t have any lectures or any other instruction, whose grades were determined by a paper to write for the end of the semester. By using these fake
classes, student athletes would increase their GPA to the minimum requirement so that they could gain and maintain eligibility to play. The classes were arranged by two employees, Crowder and chairman of the African and AfroAmerican studies department, Julius Nyang’oro, who graded students’ papers. They were in contact with counselors in the Academic Support Program for Student-Athletes, in which Crowder and Nyang’oro asked for ‘favors’ for students’ grades so that student-athletes can get the minimum required GPA to keep on playing. Lyall also discussed a report released by UNC that says,“The counselors convened a meeting of the university’s football coaches, using a PowerPoint presentation to drive home the notion that the classes ‘had played a large role in keeping underprepared and/or unmotivated players eligible to play.’” It is also interesting that, when these two employees retired from the university, UNC’s football team recorded its lowest GPA in ten years. The basketball team won its three championships during these eighteen years, and the team that won in 2005 had ten players who were African and Afro-American studies majors. There have been scandals about cheating on classes in many schools, like at Harvard University and University of Minnesota, but the UNC infractions are a new level of cheating. The fact
that both student-athletes and university officials were involved increases its relevance to the NCAA, UNC and the general public. College athletes often face lower academic requirements when seeking admission, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be on level with their classmates. Completely giving up on them like UNC did is pointless. There is a reason why they are called student-athletes; they are both students and athletes, meaning they have responsibilities as a student. They still have to graduate with a degree even if they are going to play professional sports. I don’t believe that those athletes in UNC wanted to be a part of the fake curriculum. I believe the counselors guided them in that direction so that they would remain eligible and UNC would keep its athletic reputation. UNC’s fault comes from the fact that it didn’t try to educate its own students, which is against the fundamentals of a university. A university’s purpose is to educate students, even if doing so will hurt its athletic reputation. The moral consequences are dire for UNC, which loses respect from colleges around the country. Think about how a player in a rival school would think of UNC players; they would assume UNC athletes are cheaters and should not be allowed to play. All of the athletes are affected by this, even those who did not cheat.
The actions of Crowder and Nyang’oro, the support counselors, the indifference of coaches and the failure of university officials to reveal the infractions has put a burden on all of the UNC athletes and their championships. The NCAA states in its core values, “The Association — through its member institutions, conferences and national office staff — shares a belief in and commitment to: The collegiate model of athletics in which students participate as an avocation, balancing their academic, social and athletics experiences and the pursuit of excellence in both academics and athletics.” These values focus on the fact that the athletes should take academics as seriously as they take athletics, which the NCAA asserts in its public relations campaign. What UNC did is against the core values of the NCAA. Ignoring education and giving up on its studentathletes is nowhere near what college sports are designed to achieve. The NCAA must take action immediately and look into the coaching staff ’s involvement with these academic violations. Burak Sekerci is a McCormick sophomore. He can be reached atburaksekerci2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Bradlee editorship left a positive mark on journalism ekin zeytinoglu Daily columnist
On a warm Summer day in 1971, an editor walked out of the Supreme Court with a cheeky smile on his face, indicating he got permission for a journey to change the course of American history. Later that month, the Washington Post, under his lead, published the rest of Pentagon Papers, with the result of radically changing public opinion on the Vietnam War and discrediting many presidents along the way. In the following year, two amateur journalists under his command shed light on what was perhaps the United States’ the biggest scandal, forcing a president to resign. His influence inspired others to pursue investigative journalism. Less than a week ago, news agencies from all over the globe published their pieces to announce the passing of that editor, Ben Bradlee, and the symbolic end of a journalism era.
Bradlee was a true skeptic and idealist in pursuit of news. He believed that “the truth sets man free” and always “looked for the truth after hearing the official version.” For him, reporters were “the best lie detectors” and therefore “as long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and in fairness, it is not his job to worry about the consequences.” When he first took charge, the Washington Post was a second-tier newspaper competing with local rivals. But Bradlee turned the Post into a state-ofthe-art academy for investigative journalism and managed to create trends rather than following them. The Post’s “Style” section was the first to appear in a newspaper, a direction many of his competitors followed in the upcoming years. It was often said that if someone wanted anything printed in the next day’s paper, they just had to tell Bradlee not to run it. Given the high level of patriotism he experienced during his time in the Navy, he sometimes avoided publishing stories when he thought his nation’s interests were at stake. However, if he believed that the public should know, despite all the possible outcomes, those pieces were published. Naturally, that understanding led him to many of his
most-known stories. By any means Bradlee wasn’t perfect either. Journalist Janet Cooke, won a Pulitzer by fabricating a story of an 8-year-old drug addict while working for him. However, Bradlee also knew how to bring positives out of such situations. When Cooke was exposed, Bradlee was extremely transparent to the public, returned the Pulitzer and ordered a full-scale in-house investigation from Bill Green, the Post ombudsman – a position he created. According to the piece his former newspaper published, what made him so successful was “his patrician good looks, gravelly voice, profane vocabulary and zest for journalism and for life all which contributed to his charismatic personality.” And perhaps because of that, Bradlee became so well known, even among those from a different culture and living through another era of journalism. Ironically, on the same day of his passing, Pew published a report saying that the nation is at an extremely politically polarized state and that people tend to pick the news they want to read, rather than the news that reflects the truth best. As a result of that polarization, newspapers naturally navigated
towards establishing a basis of readers through publishing the news their audience would like to see – a complete reversal of Bradlee’s journalism. Not many editors of our time get to cause a change at all and even the ones who manage to make a difference tend to be remembered only for the pieces they published and not the novelties they brought to the industry. Undoubtedly, Bradlee will be remembered with a reputation any journalist would covet. The “candid story of a daring young man who made his way to the heights of American journalism,” the autobiography “A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures,” starts with an anecdote of David Halberstam telling Bradlee, “You’ve had a good life, why not call it that.” I can confidently say that Ben Bradlee has lived a good life, reporting the truth the public seeks and changing many people’s lives for good along the way. Ekin Zeytinoglu is a McCormick sophomore. He can be reached at ekinzeytinoglu2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Instead of TV, we should pursue authentic interactions tom cui
Daily columnist
Let me start this column with a confession: I cannot remember the last time I followed a television show. It may have been the summer of 2008, when 15-year-old me tried to watch “Lost” and lost interest after a blob of smoke turned into the main antagonist. Once college started, I gave up watching anything on the small screen. I cannot tell my Lenas from my Leas and see nothing special about winter coming. I also think that choice ranks among the best I have made. We are, apparently, blessed by a “golden age of television.” With network television facing a war on two fronts against cable television and online streaming, producers face the pressure and design better shows. Yet, although some love talking about fictional drug dealers and remakes of 1980s British dramas, I care very little. If I cannot convince you to stop watching TV, I hope to at least sketch a better life once purged of television. One way to argue my position is with arithmetic. Imagine a Northwestern student with enough free time to marathon a TV show a friend recommended to her. Over a quarter she watches every episode of the sitcom “How I Met Your Mother,” for example, amounting to three days and two hours spent watching the show. That equals 74 hours spent over the quarter or an average of seven
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Why not listen to the stories of real people with lives more fleshed out than those on the screen?
hours per week. That is more time needed each week than to take a fifth class in Bioethics or Introduction to Hinduism, two distribution requirements in ethics and values. Less cheekily, think of the time spent watching TV that could be spent around campus. Each week, seven hours is enough time to watch a student-produced play, two 90-minute lecture events, an hour-long student group meeting and enough left over for a workout session. With more than 100 departments and more than 500 student groups scheduling events, attending them in place of a Netflix binge would provide a wider range of entertainment with fewer flat plot arcs to boot. Another argument targets more casual TV watchers. There is a way that talking mostly about television with your friends is conversation that can be better applied. Instead of gossiping over the hypothetical lives of invented characters, why not listen to the stories of real people with lives more fleshed out than those on the screen? When someone relates to the human condition in terms of “The Big Bang Theory” stereotypes, you have to imagine if it would not be more productive to meet real scientists, who, incidentally, are easy to find on a college
campus. Time spent perusing over whether that “Game of Thrones” scene was rape can be better spent understanding testimony by real rape survivors and following reactions to sexual assault on campuses nationwide. With those arguments in mind, it is not my or anyone else’s problem if someone really likes watching a certain show. Nor am I saying everyone is better off as ascetics who consume no media at all. I do not watch TV, but I listen to music nonstop, read widely and watch French movies on library computers. TV’s defining feature is the commitment it requires. It wants to envelope you in narrative as well as audio visual sensation, ensnaring you into the wasteland and relieving you of effort. The American series, whose advertisers want continual engagement and who employ a sty of writers for content, take this strategy to the extreme. The least bit of resistance is to brainstorm what else 48 minutes of college life can buy you. I have one last argument: As a collective of overworked NU students, we should reflect on the worthiness of every activity that consumes our time. There has been enough advocacy for taking fewer classes and being in fewer student groups, but there will always be undergraduates feeling compelled to have packed major requirements along with student group leadership. In the interests of leaving no stone unturned, consider swearing off TV as a way to free up your schedule. That may decompress stress enough to again enjoy the big things in life.
Tom Cui is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at tianfangcui2015@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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Nonprofit hosts fundraiser in city for Nepali school A nonprofit with ties to the Heartwood Center, an Evanston holistic health center, kicked off an Indiegogo campaign Sunday for a Nepali medical school, earning half of their 30-day goal in the first day. Acupuncturist Mark Sobralske of the Heartwood Center, along with fellow Heartwood acupuncturist Lori Howell and other professionals in the Chicago area, started The Himalaya Project in 2011. They created it to build the Dolpo School of Tibetan Medicine in Dolpo, Nepal. Sobralske and the rest of the Himalaya Project board launched the Indiegogo campaign to raise $30,000, half of their total goal, in 30 days. If they succeed, they will be able to open the school within two years, Sobralske said. “There’s a real problem because there wasn’t a new generation of doctors of Tibetan
medicine being trained in the [Dolpo] region,” Sobralske said. “There’s a gap left, and the public healthcare needs are not being met.” The proposed school will consist of a fiveyear intensive program in Tibetan medicine for students from seven mountain villages in Nepal. With their total goal of $60,000, the project can cover all the costs of the school, from teachers’ salaries to food and housing, Sobralske said. “With a comparatively little bit of money here, you can do a lot of good in a place like Nepal,” he said. The Heartwood Center and its founder, Nancy Floy, are supportive of the project, offering up Heartwood after hours for the Himalaya Project to film their campaign video. Many members of the Heartwood attended a kickoff party on Sunday, with some volunteering at the event. “For Heartwood, we believe that the work that we do includes giving back locally and internationally,” Floy said. “We this community of working together, and giving back is always
a part of our work because it creates a climate here of generosity and compassion.” The Heartwood Center also works to give back through local programs, including free acupuncture through the clinic for low-income cancer victims as well as their advocacy for Curt’s With a Cafe, a local restaucomparatively rant employing formerly incarcerated little bit of money youths. here, you can do Sobralske said he credits the supporta lot of good in a ive environment place like Nepal! of the Heartwood Center for helping Mark Sobralske, him get his project founder of The off the ground. Himalaya Project “B eing surrounded by so many like-minded and idealistic individuals was a great initial sounding board,” Sobralske said.
Lori Howell, a former instructor of Sobralske’s who helped him draft his proposal and later joined the board of the Himalaya Project, also attended the event. Howell said the school fills a lot of gaps in the Dolpo region. “In Nepal, education should be provided by the Nepalese government, and in theory it is, but when you get to these remote regions, it doesn’t really happen,” Howell said. “With healthcare, it’s the same story.” The Dolpo School would extend education and a livelihood to its 14 five-year students while also providing traditional healthcare to their communities, which Howell said would be better suited to the region than Western medicine. “The type of healthcare that we want to provide is the type of healthcare that they know, that they trust,” Howell said. “Since it’s based on their culture and their traditions, it would be cost effective and well-utilized.”
Age Friendly Evanston! committee discusses action plan
respect and social inclusion, civic participation and employment, and communication and information. Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl also signed a pledge at the beginning of October promising to make Evanston more age friendly and expand
resources. Christina Ferraro, assistant director for Evanston community services, said at the meeting they wanted to send the message that residents can grow up and grow old in Evanston. City officials said they planned to have
roundtable discussions with seniors throughout the plan-creation process to gauge their opinions. Resident Beverly Shearer, 66, told The Daily in October 2013 she wished the city would have started earlier on the initiative so they could have more completed. Susan Cherco, chairman of the task force, said Tuesday they had about 15 focus groups so far. “In general, people think age-friendly initiatives are a good thing,” Cherco said. She added that the initiative needs more promotion because it is not widely known. Ferraro said at the meeting the question the committee needs to ask is what it means to create the most livable city. About 12 percent of Evanston’s population is 65 years and older, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The plan was spurred in response to the “Baby Boomer” generation and the increasing older population, according to a survey report for the initiative. Ferraro said the hub of the Age Friendly movement is Portland, Oregon.
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The chairs of Age Friendly Evanston! presented their individual action plans Tuesday regarding how they hope to make the city a more age-friendly community. The individual action plans presented will be combined into a more comprehensive plan in the future. The plan will seek to improve areas of Evanston, such as housing and infrastructure, to make the city more accessible to residents of all ages. The five-year process began in October 2013 and will include a three-year implementation of the action plan. The plan will use a World Health Organization template to make Evanston more livable for both young and old residents. The eight domains of the plan will include: community and health care, transportation, housing, social participation, outdoor spaces and buildings,
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aging gracefully The city’s Age Friendly Task Force met Tuesday at the Levy Senior Center to discuss ways to make Evanston more livable for older residents. The task force is made of volunteers from the community.
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Kellogg, ETHS partner for mentoring program By ben schaefer
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A group of Kellogg School of Management students are helping launch a mentoring program for local high school students to provide them with preprofessional experience and personal guidance. Martin Green, a Kellogg graduate student, conceived the idea for “Kellogg Connections @ ETHS” in the spring following the school’s first annual business case competition in which a group of Evanston Township High School students competed. The program emerged from a collaboration among Green, Kristen Perkins, the Northwestern/ ETHS partnership coordinator, and Darlene Gordon, a teacher in the high school’s applied sciences and technologies department. Through one-on-one interactions between
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students and mentors, the organizers hope the students will gain business skills, exposure to working environments and a connection to someone who can provide guidance as they begin to consider plans for life after high school, Green said. “A lot of people in Kellogg have had an opportunity to be mentored and the opportunity to serve a group of kids in the local community that could use their input and guidance was really appealing to this group,” Green said. ETHS is holding information sessions and releasing the application this week. Green said they are seeking 10 students, ideally juniors, who are committed to the project. The structure of the program is based around biweekly meetings between mentors and students, where they will discuss different aspects of business or fields in which the students can pursue jobs. The program will include field trips to 1871, an entrepreneurial hub for digital startups in Chicago, running for the Senate is the answer. What will she do on Election Day? Not sure. “It’s iffy,” she said. In Hispanic neighborhoods all over Colorado, Latino voters feel strongly that Washington has ignored them, and many warn they won’t vote _ a choice likely to make a big difference in this state’s pivotal U.S. Senate race between Sen. Mark Udall, the Democrat, and Cory Gardner, the Republican. Democrats disappoint Latino voters, who see little progress in revamping immigration or education policy, issues that resonate deeply in Hispanic communities. And they’re just plain angry at Republicans, whom they see as intent on keeping Mexicans and Central Americans out of this country. They had high hopes for President Barack Obama, who got 71 percent of the Latino vote nationally in 2012. Today it’s easy to find many of those same voters thinking the same way as hair salon owner Connie Martinez in this swing area of Colorado. “People feel let down,” she said. “There were so many promises and no action.” Fourteen percent of Colorado voters are Latino. They went 3-to-1 for Obama in Colorado in 2012 and are expected to back Udall in November. But Udall needs a big turnout. Colorado is the only state with a close Senate race this year that has a large Hispanic voting bloc. While nationally Latino influence is growing, 2014 is an anomaly. In eight states with tight Senate races, Hispanics are 4.7 percent of eligible voters, compared with 10.7 percent nationwide.
and professional services firm Deloitte LLP. “We want a teaching element, but also a very experiential element,” Green said. Toward the end of the second semester, students will begin consulting for The Fitness Matrix, an expanding chain of gyms in Evanston. “I’m hoping that they’ll be able to put themselves in the place of a small business owner and be able to look at the minutiae,” said Albert Ferguson, founder of The Fitness Matrix. “It’s one thing to advise a business, but it’s another as an entrepreneur to implement and to find the time and resources to bring that to task.” The program is a product of the strengthened relationship between the University and the high school, which became closer with the appointment of Perkins as the liaison position between the two groups. It emerged as a part of NU’s “Good Neighbor, Great University” initiative. “We’re focused on sharing resources,” Perkins
said. “We have other programs that are ongoing and in-depth, but this one will be very intense and very immersive.” After graduation, many ETHS students go on to college and professional tracks, but the students who don’t attend college could benefit just as strongly, Gordon said. “We want a diverse and motivated group of students,” Green said. “We don’t necessarily want all AP students. We want the diversity that you see at ETHS to be reflected in the group.” Although the case competition last year was the first of its sort for ETHS students, a chapter of DECA, an international entrepreneurial business organization, has existed at ETHS for years. Last year, one of the students who competed at the Kellogg competition went on to take first place at a DECA international conference. benjaminschaefer2017@u.northwestern.edu
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Dance Marathon finds new trivia location at 27 Live
Dance Marathon will hold its weekly trivia event at new venue 27 Live for the first time on Wednesday night. The trivia nights, in which students can raise money for their DM teams, were previously held at Buffalo Wild Wings, 1741 Maple Ave. The restaurant has been planning since July to relocate to Skokie. 27 Live, 1012 Church St., will allow DM to hold trivia in a separate room designed for concerts and special events, venue owner John Tasiopoulos said.
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“We’re very excited to host this,” Tasiopoulos said. “When we locked the deal we were very pleased, it was a perfect fit for them and for us.” DM spokesman Ross Gordon said 27 Live gives the philanthropy a bigger room and a projector. “We fell in love with the location,” the Medill senior said. DM held its “Farewell to Bdubs” trivia event at Buffalo Wild Wings earlier this month. “The location has been a fantastic partner throughout the last couple of years,” Gordon said. “We’re sad to see Buffalo Wild Wings go for sure, but we’re really excited about opening up this new trivia chapter in NUDM’s life.” — Jeanne Kuang
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Wednesday, october 29, 2014 soccer, men’s tennis, volleyball, women’s golf, women’s swimming and diving and women’s tennis — received perfect GSR scores of 100 percent for the most recent set of data, which tracked student-athletes who began school in 2004-07. The football team received a score of 97 percent for the third consecutive year, a mark that leads all other schools in the Big Ten by 10 percentage points and is second among all Football Bowl Subdivision teams. NU’s was the only men’s soccer program in the Big Ten to score a perfect 100 percent, and wrestling tied with Minnesota for the best score in the conference with a GSR of 95 percent
Northwestern athletes’ graduation rates rank among nation’s best
New data released by the NCAA on Tuesday showed the Wildcats posted a 96 percent overall Graduation Success Rate in the latest data collection period, making Northwestern one of the top-performing institutions in the nation. The GSR is a metric that tracks the success of student-athletes in earning their undergraduate degrees. Athletes are given six years to complete a degree from the time they enroll as freshmen. Ten of NU’s varsity sports — cross country, field hockey, lacrosse, men’s golf, men’s
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students and (seeing) how they approach material will not only help me approach material in the future as a performer, but know how a writer looks at a song,” the Communication junior said. Pasek and Paul are graduates of the University of Michigan and recipients of a number of different awards in the musical theater community, including a 2011 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theatre and a 2007 Jonathan Larson Award. They received a 2013 Tony nomination for Best Score for “A Christmas Story.” The class will be held at McCormick Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. and is open to the public.
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“They’re gonna be one of the huge names that musical theater history classes look back on,” Conn said. “And it’s kind of cool to be part of that history.”
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that Illinois is a blue state because in presidential years we generally almost always go blue,” Cheng said. “During state-wide elections it’s right down the middle.” Cheng said young voters often “don’t realize the enormity of the election” when it comes to midterm years. The gubernatorial race between Quinn and businessman Bruce Rauner could be a defining campaign for Illinois, Burke said. Although Burke said most NU students won’t influence Illinois elections because their votes will count in their home states, College Republicans have other goals in engaging the student body. “We always say our number one goal at Northwestern is that we want to create a diversity of opinion,” Burke said. “We really think what we have to offer is that we bring opinions and ideas that aren’t necessarily always heard on this campus.” However, Ortega said the gubernatorial race is directly applicable to students because the issue of student loans is one of Quinn’s main campaign issues. Other issues relevant to young voters include a higher minimum wage, reproductive rights, marriage equality and environmental regulations, Cheng said.
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restaurant’s booth was placed next to Trieschmann’s booth, where he was introduced to the young men at Curt’s. “I was watching the guys she had brought with and was really impressed by how professional they were,” he said. “A couple months later, we needed to hire a whole bunch of new people. So we called them up, and they said we have two or three guys we can give you and those guys are still with us.” One such employee at Edzo’s is Justin McClure. At a time when McClure was unemployed, he said he got into “some trouble” and first learned about program at Curt’s. “It was very helpful,” he said. “We would
During state-wide elections it’s right down the middle. Kevin Cheng, political director for Illinois College Democrats.
NU Votes, the Center for Civic Engagement’s non-partisan voter registration initiative, sent an email to the student body Monday informing them about the voting process, including how to register the day of the election. Weinberg senior Larry Svabek, student coordinator for the organization, said although NU Votes’ main goal is to get as many students to vote as possible, he hopes to put additional focus on educating students about candidates in the future. In the next few days, NU Votes will work on providing transportation for students to the Evanston Civic Center, where same-day registration will be available, Svabek said. “We’re definitely looking into making it as easy as possible for students to vote if they want to vote,” Svabek said. juliajacobs2018@u.northwestern.edu The Medill senior’s initial lawsuit resulted in multiple protests of NU’s sexual assault policies. Ludlow did not finish teaching his 300level philosophy course Winter Quarter and did not teach in the spring or fall.
come in from 7 (a.m.) to 3 (p.m.) every day and start working. Around mid-noon, we would have group classes on how to write resumes and search for jobs.” After the three-month program, McClure said he found the job at Edzo’s and began working as a dishwasher. “Now I’m a full-time employee, and Eddie has been great,” he said. “It’s so cool to work events with him and see everything going on behind the scenes.” Lakin said he values his employees who come from Curt’s as much as they value the jobs he has given them. “These guys are more or less the same as
tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu regular people we hire off the street, except they have a much stronger appreciation for having a job because they’ve been through a bad place and they’ve come out on the other side,” Lakin said. Trieschmann shared Lakin’s sentiments, saying these employees have a great work ethic. “They do harder work than I’ve ever done in my life,” she said. “They are constantly working through these obstacles, and it’s amazing to see them inspired to succeed and making these huge strides in their life. Every day, I walk away gratified.” torilatham2017@u.northwestern.edu
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(Mike Roberge) is playing well, he has a goalscoerer’s knack, and he’s made big progress from last year. — Tim Lenahan, men’s soccer coach
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Writers discuss football team’s freshmen talent By alex putterman and rohan nadkarni daily senior staffers @AlexPutt02, @MiamiRohan
The Daily’s Alex Putterman and Rohan Nadkarni exchange emails about the Northwestern football team as it concludes its bye week and prepares to play Iowa on Saturday. PUTTERMAN: Rohan, a lot has happened with Northwestern football since we last did this five weeks ago. That was near rock bottom, when the team was 1-2 entering Big Ten play and had beaten exactly one FBS opponent in the last year. Since then, the Wildcats have upset Penn State and Wisconsin to give us hope, then lost to Minnesota and Nebraska to take it away. With five games left, and three more wins necessary for bowl qualification, I can’t figure out whether we’re on an upward trend, a downward one or a holding pattern. Thoughts? NADKARNI: This team certainly seems to be in some sort of weird holding pattern. I think it’s time for us to recalibrate expectations a little bit. I expect NU to be a Big Ten contender going into each season, but when you look at the last few years, that goal may be a little bit unrealistic. There’s also just not much to say about this team anymore. The defense is good but can’t be counted on to take away a team’s best player. The offense is extremely nondescript. Special teams are a minus. I’m not sure 6-6 with a bowl game is anything to write home about. Is there anything you’re excited about at this point? PUTTERMAN: Yeah, as a matter of fact, there is. We’ve written and spoken about this before, but there’s a group of freshmen who’ve really played well and offered hope that the future is bright. Solomon Vault scored two touchdowns against Western Illinois, Anthony Walker had eight tackles and a pick-six against Penn
State, Godwin Igwebuike had three interceptions against Wisconsin and then, of course, Justin Jackson has been an absolute stud. I hate to extrapolate too much from a freshman season because there’s so much that can go wrong in a four-year college career, but Jackson looks like he could become one of NU’s best players … ever. He’s on pace for more than 1,000 yards rushing and has handled a huge workload without issue. Coach Pat Fitzgerald says Jackson needs to improve in pass blocking, but as far as running the ball goes, this guy is a stud and has three more years to improve. NADKARNI: Controversial opinion: I’m a little over the Justin Jackson hype. Not saying he’s not great, but I want to see two seasons of him playing well before we anoint him as the savior. Haven’t we learned our lesson with running backs after Venric Mark? I did see JJ at Naf Naf Grill the other day, so at least the fame isn’t preventing him from mingling with the common folk. Meanwhile, the emergence of freshmen as injury replacements reminded me, what’s with Fitz playing up the injury excuse this year? I don’t think the Cats are any worse off than any other team at this point in the season. But it seems like every press conference Fitz is hammering home how banged up the Cats are. Do you buy this reasoning at all? I’m kind of dubious it’s the injuries killing NU this year. I’d say more, but I get easily bored thinking about the Cats’ on-field product. PUTTERMAN: Someone’s sassy today. Interesting to know that Jackson likes Mediterranean. The injury talk always comes off like an excuse, especially because NU hasn’t actually been hit that hard by injuries this year, unlike last year when it seemed like half the team — including its two more dynamic offensive players — missed time. There’s another side of that though. When Fitzgerald and company don’t talk about injuries, we don’t like the secrecy. In fact, Trevor Siemian has pretty consistently downplayed his ankle problems (despite Fitz playing them up), and
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can’t look Freshman linebacker Anthony Walker and Northwestern have seen better days. The Wildcats have lost two straight games entering their matchup with Iowa this weekend.
that’s frustrating because we don’t know whether to blame his poor play on his health or his ability. Most people seem to agree Siemian’s play is a problem, but after taking a wildly contrarian stance on Justin Jackson, are you going to do the same with the quarterback? NADKARNI: Well, you know how I feel about the secrecy. It’s not so much that I’m complaining about the current openness, I just wonder what Fitz’s agenda is when he goes from labeling injuries to upper/lower body to now specifying Siemian’s ankle problem. Seems like a pretty big departure from last year when Fitz “hid” Siemian’s heel injury to protect him from opponents. It seems to be open season on the ankle. Would wildly contrarian mean I’m proSiemian? I guess I am, though. I still think
he’s the best option. I mean, we’ve seen him make big-time throws in some pretty crazy situations. The 2012 opener against Syracuse comes to mind. The injury mystery is what looms here. Because I think Siemian has proved in the past he has enough arm talent to move the ball downfield and make all the throws. I don’t think it would be a bad idea for Fitz to introduce some kind of package for redshirt freshman Matt Alviti. Perhaps he could add some athleticism to the backfield and bring back a bit of an option threat with Jackson. Then again, it seems silly when we make suggestions. For all the Fitz criticism, he obviously knows what he’s doing. But if it’s his insane need to be risk averse preventing Fitz from trying something new, then that whole schtick is really becoming a problem and holding the
team back. PUTTERMAN: You’re such an old man, citing a game in 2012 as evidence of we should trust Siemian today. I think we’ve seen enough this season to conclude that injury or no injury, Siemian is not good enough to lead a Big Ten contender. The way he’s played, the defense has scarily little room for error. I’m also always hesitant to criticize Fitz on personnel matter because he sees these guys play in practice so much more than we do. That said, he does tend to be a bit risk averse, and you do wonder whether experimenting a little bit with the quarterback position could hurt too much. Let’s end with a question of Fitz. I consider you a bit of a Pat Fitzgerald scholar, so I’m curious how you view him these days. NADKARNI: There is no question to me that he’s the right person to lead this program. As a recruiter, as a leader, by most accounts I’ve heard, players really appreciate playing for him. I think the risk problem is what we need to observe going forward, at least the rest of the season. The Cats are certainly accumulating more talent. But on the field, they don’t do enough to tilt the scales in their favor. Fitz is still relatively young. He has plenty of time to grow and plenty of room for improvement. Perhaps this is the latest bit of his evolution. He can joke about the stats and stuff as much as he wants, but NU’s spread offense is no longer ahead of the curve. Whether it’s a larger problem of the old, stodgy Big Ten or Fitz’s stubbornness, it’s time for his coaching style to catch up to the current trends. PUTTERMAN: Being a great recruiter and a great leader is great, but if he doesn’t figure out the in-game stuff, the team won’t win or won’t win as much as it can. But the play-calling and fourthdown decision-making hasn’t been as troubling as it was last year. Maybe that’s progress? It would be really nice for Fitzgerald and for the program to end this season strong and sneak into a bowl game. We will see. asputt@u.northwestern.edu rohannadkarni2015@u.northwestern.edu
NU enters final stretch with game at Loyola Chicago No. 20 Cats hope to deal Ramblers first home loss in final non-conference match
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No. 20 Northwestern vs. Loyola Chicago 7 p.m. Wednesday
By julian gerez
daily senior staffer @JulianEGerez
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BOXED IN Senior defender Nikko Boxall, an essential cog in Northwestern’s defensive machine, will look to subdue his fellow New Zealander, Ramblers forward Elliot Collier.
No. 20 Northwestern begins its final stretch of regular season matches with its last non-conference game Wednesday, as the team takes a short bus trip down south to take on Loyola Chicago, which is undefeated at home this season. The Wildcats (7-2-5, 2-1-3 Big Ten) will look to gain momentum going into the last two conference games of the season against the Ramblers (5-4-5, 1-1-2 Missouri Valley Conference) on Wednesday night. Sophomore forward Mike Roberge notched 2 goals in his last two games, first against Rutgers and then an impressive equalizer against Michigan State on Sunday. “He’s playing well, he has a goalscorer’s knack, and he’s made big progress from last year as a player,” coach Tim Lenahan said. “Certainly he’s done a good job. We can start to count on him as a player that can give us that burst when we need it.” Having the sophomore step up is a warm welcome for Lenahan’s team,
whose top two goal-scorers have 9 goals combined between them, but Roberge is the only other player who has scored more than one goal this season. The Pennsylvania native attributed his improved form to becoming more cohesive with his teammates. “I’m feeling a lot more comfortable on the field,” Roberge said. “Everyday in practice everybody is working hard pushing each other to get better. It definitely helps playing with a great group of guys every day.” One of Loyola’s younger players is making crucial contributions to his team as well. Forward Elliot Collier was recently named the MVC offensive player of the week after scoring the game-winning goal in their 3-2 match against University of IllinoisChicago on Oct. 28. It was the freshman’s first game-winner in his career. After that match, Loyola faced Central Arkansas, where two periods of overtime were not enough to separate the two teams. Collier is the Ramblers’ most potent goal-scoring threat. The New Zealand native has scored a team-leading 3 goals this season in only 828 minutes of playing time. Cats senior defender Nikko Boxall, another New Zealander, will be looking to shut down his fellow countryman and prevent him from improving his impressive first-year
goal scoring record. NU gave away yet another penalty at East Lansing, a game in which Lenahan described his players as ending up “exhausted.” The penalty the team gave up was the fifth the Cats conceded this season out of their 8 total goals allowed. Despite that, Everybody NU is ranked in practice is ninth in the nat ion in working hard goals against pushing each average and is second best other to get in the Big better. Ten in that category. Mike Roberge, Much of sophomore the credit for forward these defensive performances must be given to senior goalkeeper Tyler Miller, who has made an impressive 47 saves this season and has a save percentage of 85.5 percent. Miller and the defense will be looking to shut down a Loyola attack, which has scored 13 total goals this season with 6 coming in the first half of matches, 6 in the second half of their matches and a lone goal in overtime.
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