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Neerhof ’s campaign manager Mick Paskiewicz released a statement accusing Drury of responding with a lawsuit anytime he is challenged. “Scott Drury filed this lawsuit because he knows he’s an embattled incumbent,” Paskiewicz said. “Our campaign will carry We on with our posiknow ads like tive mesthis damage sage that people’s has gained traction reputations. throughout That’s why the district, and we do you’re not not and will not tell out- allowed to do it. side groups State Rep. Scott what to do Drury, and not to D-Highwood do.” Neerhof ’s advertisements state that Drury has plans to enact legislation that would take $7 million in state funding away from local schools, which Drury claims as false. He says in the suit that Neerhof ’s false portrayal of his position makes the sitting representative look immoral
The YWCA Evanston/North Shore has partnered with the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center to bring an exhibit about race and its origins to the museum starting Sunday. The exhibit, called RACE: Are We So Different?, focuses on the scientific, historic and cultural perspectives of race, said Eileen Hogan Heineman, the director of racial justice programs at the YWCA. The exhibit will last until Jan. 25. The American Anthropological Association, in collaboration with the Science Museum of Minnesota, created and first put on the exhibit in 2007. The exhibit looks at race as a social construct, Heineman said. Since its creation, the exhibit has been traveling the country to different interested communities. Heineman said the YWCA staff learned about the exhibit almost four years ago. They were interested in it because of the conversation it brought up and because the exhibit lined up with their mission as an organization, she said. “We really wanted to broaden the conversation about the impact of race and create partnerships in the community that would allow people to work on dismantling the effects that race has on our society,” Heineman said. When the YWCA staff spoke to the curators at the Science Museum of Minnesota, the curators told them that the IHMEC was also interested in bringing the exhibit to the area. So, the YWCA and the IHMEC partnered for the project. Because of the high demand across the country for the exhibit, it was not able to come to the area until now, Heineman said. Since staff began making arrangements for the exhibit to come, many events occurred around the world that make people question why race exists, she said. “Fortunately, (the exhibit) is a great vehicle for thinking about what those events mean,” Heineman said. “Why does one group of people experiencing an event view it very differently than another group of people?” This year, Northwestern chose “Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do” for its One Book One Northwestern project to go along with the exhibit, said Nancy Cunniff, the One Book One Northwestern project coordinator. NU is serving as a sponsor for
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A woman who was struck by a car Tuesday night has died due to accidentrelated injuries, police said. The Evanston woman, 60, was crossing the intersection of Oak Avenue and Lake Street at about 7 p.m. on Tuesday when she was hit by a car, police said. The Evanston fire department responded and found her unresponsive at the scene. Paramedics transported her in critical condition to Evanston Hospital, where she died Wednesday morning due to the injuries she had sustained in the accident, police said. Police have not filed any citations or charges against the driver of the car at this time, authorities said. Police said they saw no indication the driver, a 56-year-old woman from Skokie, was impaired or distracted at the time of the accident. The driver did not see the Evanston woman until she had hit her, police said. The accident is still under investigation to determine if the pedestrian was outside of the crosswalk at the time of the crash, police said. Police asked people via Twitter on Tuesday night to avoid the area around Oak Avenue and Lake Street as authorities investigated the accident. — Paige Leskin
for the Wild Ideas Fund, a pool of money that allows students and student groups to request funding for their projects. Funding requests less than $150 will be evaluated by the future Wild Ideas Fund committee without Senate approval. Requests between $150 and $500 will be presented to Senate without a
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State Rep. Scott Drury (D-Highwood) is suing his opponent in the upcoming election — an Evanston doctor — and others, claiming they advertised and published defamatory and false information about him to the public. Dr. Mark Neerhof and his campaign team distributed a television commercial and mailed out advertisements that misrepresented Drury’s stance on political issues, the state assemblyman said. “We filed a lawsuit to make sure that right is done in this situation,” Drury told The Daily. “We know ads like this damage people’s reputations. That’s why you’re not allowed to do it.” The suit, filed Sept. 6 with the clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, comes less than a month before the general election on Nov. 4 when voters will choose if Drury will return to his spot in the Illinois General Assembly. In the lawsuit, Drury calls for injunctive relief not only against Neerhof and his campaign, Neerhof
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for Illinois, but also against Liberty Principles PAC, the group who sponsored the mailer, and the company’s chairman Dan Proft (Weinberg ’94). The suit also names Comcast Corporation as a defendant for its role in allowing the advertisement to air on television. Drury alleges in the suit that the defendants wrongfully stated his position on an Illinois Senate bill, known as the School Funding Reform Act of 2014, that would cut state funding to the public schools in his voting district. “With defendant Neerhof trailing in the polls and supporting views unpopular with voters in the legislative district defendant Neerhof seeks to represent, defendants … disseminated false information about plaintiff and sitting State Representative Scott R. Drury,” the lawsuit says. The suit accuses Neerhof of circulating advertisements that have statements that are defamatory and present Drury in a false light. Neerhof and his campaign used Comcast’s cable network to televise the commercials and used the Liberty Principles PAC, ran by radio personality Dan Proft, to sponsor advertisements that Neerhof distributed in the mail to prospective voters, according to the lawsuit.
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A panel of local experts discussed youth violence in the community at a forum Wednesday. The two-hour-long discussion, which took place at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center, was interspersed with questions and remarks by the more than 25 audience members, who included social workers, teachers, parents, representatives from faith communities and about a dozen family service organizations. The event was sponsored by Metropolitan Family Services and the Youth Organizations Umbrella. Both organizations implement preventative measures in youth violence and provide support for survivors. Metropolitan Family Services program manager Heather Flett and Y.O.U. clinic coordinator Melody Rose represented the organizations on the three-person panel, along with Sally Christensen, the YWCA Evanston/North Shore violence prevention
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A woman found her car window broken Tuesday morning after parking it overnight, police said. The 25-year-old woman parked her car in the 600 block of Custer Avenue on the night of Oct 6. She discovered the car window broken the next morning, Evanston police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. Nothing in the car, which is a 2011 Honda,
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and outreach coordinator. Steve Bynum, senior producer at public radio station WBEZ and moderator of the discussion, opened the forum by referencing the recent shooting death of Maxwell Gadau, a high school senior from Skokie. “You have to have a sense of imagination, because if you focus on the harsh reality in front of you, you will fall prey to fear,” Bynum said. Flett stressed the importance of building “a critical mass of young people” who are informed and able to stand up against teen violence. All panel members discussed the role of technology in youth violence, expressing their personal unfamiliarity with social media and general distaste for how it distances interaction between children. “The rhetoric regarding social media needs to update from something that we see as a home for very bizarre interactions, something that we don’t understand,” said Anthony Betori, who identified himself as one of the younger members in the audience. “I think
it’s a very beautiful community that’s being created.” Discussion also centered on restorative justice as a better system of discipline rather than criminal justice. Restorative justice focuses on the needs of those involved in repairing the damage, as opposed to punishment that solely depends on the severity of the law broken. “It’s great in building empathy,” Christensen said. “It’s much harder to hurt someone that you know, that you care about.” Kimberly Frazier, an audience member who works with the Dajae Coleman Foundation, said she was concerned with the productivity of the forum. “The forum was very informative, and it’s great to see so many members of our community come together for this cause,” Frazier told The Daily. “But we hoped to see more action-related items that our foundation can use to advance our cause.”
was found moved or missing, Parrott said. The woman believes the incident may be domestically related, Parrott said.
man was pushing, Parrott said. Police then found the packaging of the laptop in the men’s restroom. The laptop was worth $299, Parrott said. The man is suspected of involvement in previous retail thefts, Parrott said. The man was charged with felony retail theft. A 2-year-old child was in the company of the man during the incident. The child was released to the police’s Juvenile Bureau following the arrest, Parrott said.
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A man was arrested Sunday in connection with retail theft in a Best Buy in Evanston, police said. Police were called to the Best Buy, 2301 Howard St., after the manager observed a suspicious person, Parrott said. Police discovered a Hewlett-Packard Co. notebook laptop computer in a stroller the
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SESP, YMCA team up on youth educational center By CHRISTINE FAROLAN
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Professors from the School of Education and Social Policy are collaborating with the McGaw YMCA of Evanston to create an innovative learning environment for underserved middle school students. Construction begins this month to build the new MetaMedia Youth Center at the YMCA, which received a $1 million donation from local nonprofit Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation in September. The YMCA will renovate a wing of its Grove Street building for the center, aimed at engaging youth in activities relating to STEAM topics — science, technology, engineering, arts and design and math.
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The center will offer a few different programs, including FUSE, a project developed by SESP Profs. Kemi Jona and Reed Stevens. FUSE seeks to create an “interest-driven learning environment” by allowing adolescents to choose from a variety of online challenges in areas like robotics, electronics, graphic design, app development and 3D printing. “The tricky thing is, how do you get a kid who doesn’t like math or science or maybe even doesn’t like school to change their mind about it?” Jona said. “So that’s really what we’ve set out to do with FUSE.” Since its inception three years ago, FUSE has been implemented in 30 schools and libraries in the Chicago area and reaches about 3,000 students. FUSE will provide the center with staffing support, but other “self-directed learning”
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Across Campuses Penn State appeals discovery ruling on Paterno suit Penn State is not taking a judge’s ruling without a fight. On Tuesday, attorneys for the university filed a notice of appeal in Centre County Court. The subject of the filing is the Sept. 11 ruling by Judge John Leete. The Potter County jurist is hearing arguments on the suit brought by the estate of late former football coach Joe Paterno, four members of Penn State’s board of trustees, former coaches Jay Paterno and Bill Kenney and nine former football players against the NCAA and the university. In May, the judge heard protests from Penn State over the discovery being requested by plaintiffs, including huge numbers of documents, many they claimed as privileged information. In his 39-page September ruling, Leete shot down some of Penn State’s arguments. He decided that the university cannot claim that all communications with Freeh Group International, hired to investigate
MetaMedia will connect adolescents to Northwestern student mentors. The center is also developing programming involving simple audio mixing and recording, photography and poetry and spoken word workshops, Jona said. “It’s really a range of things that kids are interested in that bring them in and make them feel productive and empowered,” Jona said. The center is a joint effort by NU, the YMCA and Youth Organizations Umbrella, a local youth development agency. The center has been planned for nearly a year. Parsons explained the project partners were brought together by Chuck Lewis of the Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation. MetaMedia is expected to open January 2015. christinefarolan2017@u.northwestern.edu
the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, are protected by the kind of privilege someone might share with the lawyer representing him in a case. “Further, the scope of an attorney-client privilege waiver applies to the subject matter of the privileged documents disclosed. Therefore, voluntary disclosure waives the privilege as to remaining documents of that same subject matter,” Leete said. Leete said any documents disclosed to the Big Ten or NCAA regarding failures in reporting, knowledge of allegations of sexual misconduct and handling of those allegations constitute waiver of privilege. The university disagreed. Attorneys from Reed Smith LLP are taking the case to the Superior Court. “Specifically, Penn State appeals the portions of the order that overruled Penn State’s assertion of the attorney-client privilege and the attorney work product doctrine,” the filing states. Penn State had no comment on the appeal. — Lori Falce (Centre Daily Times)
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Award-winning journalist Alex Kotlowitz spoke Wednesday to about 100 people about the detrimental effects of youth homelessness at a luncheon in Evanston organized by local nonprofit Connections for the Homeless. Drawing on more than two decades of experience working in Chicago’s inner city neighborhoods, Kotlowitz, also a Northwestern writer-in-residence, shared his views on the vicious cycle of poverty, homelessness and violence that keeps so many lower-class youth trapped in lower-class neighborhoods. “In communities that have broken down, the terrain becomes ripe for violence,” said Kotlowitz. “So in the end, we need to find a way to rebuild communities and fortify families. And I believe there’s a way to use housing as an entry point to do just that.” Donors, partners and various workers and representatives from the social work network within northern Cook County showed up at the Hilton Garden Inn, 1818 Maple Ave., to hear what he had to say. Attendee Katie Speth is a volunteer at Curt’s Cafe, an Evanston establishment that works with at-risk youth to give them tutoring, counseling, work experience and skills to serve them in the job market. “The homeless demographic is definitely someone that is coming to us as our students,” Speth said. “I thought this would help me get a better picture of them.” Connections for the Homeless is in its 30th year of serving struggling populations in the northern suburbs with housing, employment and other services. The organization’s primary
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LENDING SUPPORT Kotlowitz spoke at the Hilton Garden Inn on Wednesday about youth homelessness. An award-winning journalist, Kotlowitz is also a writer-in-residence at Northwestern.
“We felt that (Kotlowitz) had such a strong understanding of how housing fits into the whole poverty picture that he would be a good one to get across the idea that housing really needs to be the foundation,” she said. “If people don’t have a place to live, those other programs won’t have a way to function.” Kotlowitz is the author of “There Are No Children Here,” an account of two boys growing up in an inner-city Chicago housing project, and the maker of “The Interrupters,” a documentary that follows a community group that works to curb the spread of violence in the same area. It was from what he did for the book and film, as well as for several of his other works, that he gained his expertise in the subject. “The schools are absolutely essential, there’s no question about it,” Kotlowitz told The Daily. “We’ve done a really miserable job of providing a good education for kids growing up in these neighborhoods. I think if we want to be really honest about reforming our schools we have to pay attention to the issues going on in these communities as well.” Connections for the Homeless plans to focus its energies on fighting chronic homelessness and finding families that need aid. It has teamed up with Evanston/Skokie School District 65 and District 202 to target the families that need aid and to get them the assistance they need. In Evanston, the child homeless rate doubled in the past year, Loellbach said. Speth said she is adamant about what is needed to help that demographic. “They need love, and they need someone to believe in them,” she said.
goal is rehousing — getting people off the street and into homes — which they were able to do
for 150 people last year, said Sue Loellbach, the organization’s director of development.
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Evanston, police said. The 15-year-old approached the teenager in an alley in the 1300 block of Dewey Avenue and showed a gun, police said. The 15-year-old demanded the teen turn over his bike and his cell phone, then hit him several times with the gun before fleeing the alley on the bike, police said. Police responded to the robbery around 4:45 p.m.
on Tuesday and were given a description of the robber, authorities said. Following a brief chase, officers found a 15-year-old matching the given description in the area near Crain Street and Dewey Avenue. Police caught the 15-year-old, who was then positively identified by the other teenager, police said. Officers recovered the bike and the starter pistol used by the 15-year-old.
The Evanston teen was charged with aggravated robbery and will appear in juvenile court, police said. The teenager who was attacked was not a Northwestern student, Evanston police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.
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The McCormick dean moderated a discussion Wednesday as part of a new speaker series launched by the school that aims to bring up thought-provoking questions about creativity across different fields of study. The series, titled “Conversations at the Intersection,” is organized by the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. It aims to bring interdisciplinary perspectives into the school and promote discussion about creativity and innovation, said Kyle Delaney, McCormick’s director of marketing and external communications. “Northwestern is known as a highly interdisciplinary place, and this is really taking that and trying to gain even more benefit from it,” Delaney said. “This is just making sure we’re breaking down any walls that may exist between schools or departments to try to generate conversation across the University.” At the first session of the speaker series, McCormick Dean Julio Ottino asked William Baker, a SOM Structural and Civil Engineering Partner, and Slavic languages and literature Prof. Gary Morson questions about how they perceive creativity. Ottino asked them whether or not they believed in epiphanies and if they thought constraints created creativity. Despite differences in academic backgrounds, Baker and Morson gave similar responses to Ottino’s questions. “They were in totally different fields, yet they didn’t seem to disagree on anything,” first-year Kellogg student David Lawrence, who attended the event, said. Lawrence said he enjoyed the conversation about constraints and their role in creativity. “I was interested in the topic, and they brought in people who were really interesting,” Lawrence
said. Ottino said after the event that he wished they had disagreed more, but he was pleased with the session. About 50 people attended the series held at Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center. Delaney explained that McCormick has a tradition of doing interdisciplinary work, but it had never run a program specifically focused on creativity before. We “I think our overall goal is to provoke thought creativity thought, for students to be able to think would be a thread that would cut about the role of creativity to them, across disciplines. to their lives, and Julio Ottino, how they see things McCormick dean and how they see the world compared to how others might see the world and where there are commonalities and where there are differences,” he said. He added that bringing in interdisciplinary panels allows McCormick to teach its students to be more “whole-brained,” meaning they use their right brains as opposed to only using their left, which are seen as focused on math and science. Ottino said that having interdisciplinary knowledge enables people to improve upon others’ ideas and solutions. “In a university, there are lots of interesting people around. We don’t do enough things that link people who are very different,” he said. “We thought creativity would be a thread that would cut across disciplines.” The next session of the series will be held Nov. 12. The panel will feature architect Larry Booth, philosophy Prof. Sandy Goldberg and artist and art Prof. Jeanne Dunning.
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Students ask for more representation in dean search
Dear members of the Northwestern community, On Tuesday evening, the 17 members of the search committee tasked with selecting the new Dean of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences invited members of the NU community to voice their opinions about the selection process at a forum hosted at the Block Museum of Art. Sixteen of these members on the search committee are NU faculty, while one is an NU undergraduate student. This committee will begin reviewing applications for the dean position in the coming weeks. After interviewing candidates, they will make a recommendation to the Office of the Provost. This means that while the Provost will make the final decision of the candidate selected, this search committee makes vital judgments regarding who is considered a finalist in the process. To give context, Weinberg is NU’s largest school — over half of the undergraduate population is enrolled in its programs. Academically, Weinberg is the most diverse school, offering over 100 available majors, minors and areas of
study and special concentrations. The other five schools that make up NU — the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, the School of Communication, the School of Education and Social Policy and the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music — all offer academic programs in conjunction with Weinberg. It is safe to assume that all undergraduates at some point, regardless of the school they are enrolled in, will most likely interface with Weinberg, in the form of a course, professor, advisor, program, service or otherwise. The candidate chosen by the selection committee will shape the experience of every undergraduate student on this campus. Associated Student Government’s 2013 survey of over 3,000 students found that close to 40 percent of Weinberg students were unsatisfied or ambivalent with the experience offered to them through the Weinberg distribution requirements. Additionally, 50 percent of Weinberg students were unsatisfied or ambivalent about their freshman
advising experiences. These are just two of a multitude of student concerns that our next dean will need to resolve in order to continue our history of excellence. While the forum was a great way to ensure our future dean will be prepared to address these issues, such meetings cannot be the sole mechanism for including students in this process. We do not doubt that the faculty and administrators on the committee took the opinions expressed tonight seriously. We also recognize that everyone involved in the search process wants to find a dean that will continue Weinberg’s academic excellence. However, no matter how well-intentioned a faculty or administrator might be, they cannot adequately represent the needs of students. Only undergraduates can understand and communicate their lived realities. For this reason, we fear that the priorities of the committee’s 16 non-students will overshadow our contributions from that evening, as well as the opinions of the group’s one student representative. We want to acknowledge the efforts of the
selection committee thus far, but we also want to remind them of their responsibility to show the NU community how the selection process will change in order to incorporate student feedback. Hosting another forum or holding focus groups with student leaders will not adequately correct the absence of undergraduate voices in the formal process. We believe that the only solution to this issue is strengthening students’ formal roles in the selection decision. Whether this is through student interview groups, as are utilized by Student Affairs, or by adding more students to the selection committee, a fundamental change to incorporate student opinions into the hiring decision must be made. For a better Northwestern, Julia Watson, ASG president; Erik Zorn, executive vice president; Anna Rennich, VP for Academics; Austin Romero, VP for Diversity and Inclusion; the Associated Student Government Executive Board. Nine of the 16 members of the ASG executive board are Weinberg students, and all members have taken classes in Weinberg.
Enjoy college football while you still have the chance Bob Hayes
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In perhaps my favorite piece of writing ever to grace the pages of my favorite website, Grantland, Michael Weinreb beautifully labels us college football fans “sentimental nostalgists.” If this sounds like an inherently negative term, that’s because it is. In a literary or philosophical context, we call people “sentimental” if they trap themselves deeply within surface-level emotions while failing to act reasonably. A “nostalgist” melancholically remains stuck in an elusive past – one that we long to return to, though it too often does not exist. Sentimental nostalgists are flawed and unreasonable, just like the game itself – and this is why we love college football so profoundly. I cannot pretend to emulate Weinreb’s idyllic words on a frighteningly violent sport, but I would like to shed some light on what far too many of my Northwestern classmates have been missing every other autumn Saturday. Two of the most fundamental aspects of college culture are consuming alcohol and attending football games. Too often, students use the latter as yet another foolish excuse to do the former. The hours leading up to Wildcat home games are dominated by fraternity-run tailgates, which I can confidently and sadly say from experience are better attended than the football games themselves. It is standard practice to spend three hours pounding cans of Natty Light at a tailgate before returning home to sleep through or play video games during the football game. Later, groups gather again to drunkenly celebrate the win that they did not even attend. Anyone who attended or watched the Cats’ captivating 20-14 win over the No. 17 Wisconsin Badgers on Saturday saw the embarrassing number of empty bleachers throughout the student section. Want to blame it on the weather? The partiers didn’t seem to mind standing outside
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for hours, when, interestingly, there was worse weather than during the game itself. And because we know how climate works, the temperature will likely only depreciate from here. It is worth mentioning that I am very far from the anti-fun, anti-alcohol police. However, I feel strongly that students fail to understand that the college experience teems with opportunities to drink, sleep and play video games, while it offers a sparse number of chances to have an experience like we lucky Cats fans enjoyed on Saturday. The tailgates and parties exist because of the games, yet our rare fall Saturdays are too much about the drinking and not enough about something which, even for non-football fans, offers a distinct sense of community, school pride and passion that another few hours of drinking can never touch.
Those whom I am not-so-discreetly calling out will remember Saturday as another link in an endless chain of moderately enjoyable alcoholic experiences. I feel lucky to say that I will be a part of the small group that will remember Saturday with much more profundity and lasting value. “There’s something beautiful about college football’s imperfection, about the notion that the players themselves are works in progress … that they do cocky things and they do stupid things and they sometimes lose games they have no right to lose because they are too full of themselves to take their opponent seriously,” Weinreb writes. “They have weird throwing motions, and they run awkwardly, and they drop wide-open passes, and they fall in love with fake dead girlfriends; they are raw and young and they only have to get
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one foot inbounds instead of two and they give speeches that would sound idiotic in an actual workplace, but because this is college, and because that intangible spirit still persists, they become folk heroes.” My fellow Cats fans and I will forever remember Saturday as the day our football team – just weeks removed from a nightmare start as the laughingstock of the Big Ten – stifled the untouchable Melvin Gordon and his Badgers. I will remember the day not because of its perfection, but instead because of how such imperfection – the cold rain, Gordon’s impossible escape acts, the former Wisconsin safety trying to play quarterback and failing miserably, the game won by NU’s young guys, the one-third-full student section rushing the field with little clue of what to actually do – led to something so amazing. I will remember how the talented yet oft-criticized Trevor Siemian made all the magnificent throws while missing all the wide open ones, and then, excited as I’ve ever seen a man, gave me a hug on the field after the game. Siemian, the embodiment of the game’s imperfection, personified the perfection of the moment. College football, and the allure of college itself, is grounded in nostalgia. Fans like Weinreb and the alumni who joined students rushing the field on Saturday smile and enjoy the game but are limited to this “sentimental nostalgist” point of view. They look at us and wish they could go back to the days of walking into Ryan Field with the scan of a WildCARD, to the days of wishing the team’s starting linebacker “good luck” in a philosophy class, to the days of an imperfect football team from our private school topping the big state school. Thankfully, we don’t have to be “sentimental nostalgists” – the nostalgic past that we will melancholically return to in the future is right now. See you next Saturday.
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ERECTING WALLS Students observe a mock wall erected near University Hall on Wednesday by members of Students for Justice in Palestine and MechA de Northwestern. The group members built the structure in protest of policies at the U.S. border with Mexico and of the wall constructed by Israel at its borders with Palestine. In a letter to the editor published in The Daily, organizers said the mock wall “represents our collectivity and determination to end global apartheid and work toward a world with no borders.”
National News First Ebola patient diagnosed in US dies; second case discounted
DALLAS — Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States, died Wednesday more than a week after he was hospitalized in Dallas, officials announced. Separately, Texas officials announced there was a second patient with possible symptoms. A spokesman for the city of Frisco said emergency crews had picked up someone “exhibiting signs and symptoms of Ebola” and was transporting the patient to the hospital. “The patient claims to have had contact with the Dallas ‘patient zero,’” Dana Baird, communications director for Frisco, said in a statement. “Patient zero” is Duncan. But Frisco Fire Chief Mark Piland said at a subsequent news conference that the patient was not one of those who had contact with Duncan. “This patient is not one of the 48 under monitoring” in Dallas, Piland said.
“This patient had reported that they had been in the apartment of the initial Ebola patient in Dallas,” Piland said. “They had not had contact with the patient, but (with) family members.” Nevertheless, firefighters and paramedics are “currently being decontaminated” with advice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to be safe, Piland said. The patient did not have all the symptoms of Ebola, he said. Health officials are interviewing the patient about his contacts, Piland said, but “right now they’re treating this as a low-risk event.” Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, which treated Duncan, confirmed that the patient had been “admitted to the emergency room after reporting possible exposure to the Ebola virus. Right now, there are more questions than answers about this case.” CDC Director Tom Frieden called for perspective. So far, he said, the person “had neither definite contact (with Duncan) nor definite symptoms” of Ebola. Duncan, 42, had become a human face of
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Ebola for many Americans who were unaware of the disease that has ravaged parts of West Africa and killed more than 3,400 people there. “It is with profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment that we must inform you of the death of Thomas Eric Duncan this morning at 7:51 a.m.,” Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas said in a statement. Duncan will be cremated to kill any virus in the body so the remains can be returned to the family, the state announced. Duncan left Liberia on Sept. 19 to visit Louise Troh, with whom he was reconciling and planned to marry in Dallas. They were planning to live as a family with their son. “His suffering is over,” Troh said in a statement. “My family is in deep sadness and grief, but we leave him in the hands of God. Our deepest sympathies go out to his father and family in Liberia and here in America.” “I trust a thorough examination will take place regarding all aspects of his care,” she said. “I am now dealing with the sorrow and anger that his son was not able to see him before he
One person is in custody following a shooting Tuesday night in southwest Evanston that resulted in a car crashing into a gas line. Police responded a little after 9 p.m. on Tuesday to multiple calls of shots fired in the area of Greenleaf Street and Florence Avenue, Evanston police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. People from two separate cars were shooting at each other, causing one of the vehicles to crash into a house in the 900 block of Florence Avenue and hit a gas line, police said. Authorities held one man in custody in connection with the shooting. He does not appear to be the shooter, however, and police do not have enough evidence to charge him, Parrott said. No gunshot victims have been located, and no injuries were reported, police said. The crash caused the gas line to break off and resulted in a major gas leak, fire Division Chief Dwight Hohl said. Officials evacuated the house that was hit and two other area residences, he said. Nicor Gas Company workers arrived at the scene around 11 p.m. to turn off the gas, Hohl said. Fire officials were then able to move the car and let gas company employees cap the gas leak, he said. The investigation is still ongoing, although police believe the incident was gang related, police said. — Paige Leskin
died. This will take some time, but in the end, I believe in a merciful God.” Duncan told his fiancee the day he was diagnosed last week that he regretted exposing her to the deadly virus and had he known he was carrying Ebola, he would have “preferred to stay in Liberia and died than bring this to you,” Saymendy Lloyd, a close friend of Troh said Wednesday. “He apologized to Louise the day they told him what he had,” Lloyd said. “He told her, ‘I’m so sorry all of this is happening. ... I would not put the love of my life in danger.’” Family members gathered in Dallas and were able to see Duncan on Monday via a laptop camera in his hospital room, she said. He is not responsive at all. They said he was drugged and they put him in deep sleep,” said Lloyd, who said she was driving Wednesday to see Duncan’s son, Karsiah Duncan, 19, a student at Angelo State University. — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Matt Pearce and Michael Muskal (Los Angeles Times)
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Cats lose to defending national champion Nittany Lions By Max Gelman
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Looking to add another win to a 3-1 record in Big Ten play, Northwestern came up short Wednesday against Penn State. With its first top 25 ranking since November 2010, No. 24 NU (13-3, 3-2 Big Ten) came into the game looking to upset defending national champion No. 5 Penn State (16-2, 4-1). The Wildcats were fresh off their first win against a ranked opponent this season after defeating Minnesota last Sunday, while the Nittany Lions surprisingly fell to No. 8 Nebraska last Friday, their first loss in Big Ten play. The first set of the match was tightly contested. Penn State took an early lead, but NU never fell more than five points behind. Senior outside hitter Yewande Akanbi had some excellent kills; however freshman outside hitter Symone Abbott, who had a career game against Minnesota, struggled as she found most of her kills blocked at the net. The Nittany Lions’ timing was extraordinary this set, and Abbott wasn’t able to get much going. She finished the set with only two kills. Near the end of the set, Penn State began pulling away and eventually won 25-20. Beginning the second set, Abbott’s struggles looked like they had vanished, as she killed three of the Cats’ first five points. The Nittany Lions then put their foot on the gas pedal, moving way out in front, at one point going on a 12-4 run. During this set there was a bit of a scary moment as a Penn State kill slammed sophomore defensive specialist Candice Yager in the face and gave her a bloody nose. Playing tough, Yager took a few moments to get herself cleaned up and came right back out on the court without
missing a play. This brief stoppage didn’t halt Penn State’s momentum, and they were able to take advantage of some costly NU mistakes. The Nittany Lions won the second set handily 25-17. In order to win, the Cats would have to fight tooth and nail to comeThe back and upset the Nittany Lions on the road. Wildcats were Cleaning up their game fresh off their would prove vital for the first win against Cats, as they concluded the second with 14 a ranked errors compared to the opponent Nitanny Lions’ seven. Furthermore, NU’s hitthis season ting percentage was after defeating more than .200 points lower than that of Penn Minnesota last State. NU would need to Sunday. be more efficient on the ground if it wanted to emerge victorious. At the start of the third set, NU and Penn State played evenly, resembling the first set, by splitting the first 12 points. The Cats looked like they had made some adjustments after that disappointing second set. However, Penn State again capitalized on NU’s mistakes, going on a 9-1 run and taking a commanding lead. The Cats started to rally at the end but it was too little too late. Penn State won the set 25-17, sweeping the Cats in straight sets. Up next on the schedule for the Cats, who have now lost two out of their last three, is a road game against the Ohio State Buckeyes. NU will look to rebound against a Buckeye team that has won its past three and is tied with the Cats in conference play at 3-2. maxgelman2018@u.northwestern.edu
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From page 1 the exhibit, and its staff will be publicizing and providing transportation to talks presented by the YWCA and the museum, she said. On Nov. 11 and Jan. 10, NU students will be able to sign up to go to the exhibit, Cunniff said. Some residential colleges will be visiting it on Oct. 26. In addition, students are offered free general admission on weekday afternoons and a reduced admission at all other times because of the University’s sponsorship. “There are lots of different ways that people are approaching it,” Heineman said.
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exhibit’s themes. Sara Schastok, the president and CEO of the Evanston Community Foundation, said the exhibit will blend well into Evanston’s atmosphere. The foundation will also be a sponsor of the event. Schastok said people in Evanston are interested in these conversations, and she hopes the exhibit will continue the conversation of race in society. “This is a very important question in our country,” Schastok said. “The issue of how you assign meaning to how people look is a very profound question.” stephaniekelly2017@u.northwestern.edu
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RAMPING UP THE RULES Dana Leinbach, Associated Student Government senator for Alpha Phi Omega and Delta Sigma Pi, discusses vacant positions on the rules committee. Senate voted to approve four new members to the committee Wednesday.
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From page 1 Project Pool, applications for funding from the Wild Ideas Fund does not need to be associated with an official student group. Senate voted to pass the fund’s approval process after lengthy debate about what the required monetary amount would be to bring a request before Senate. “It shouldn’t be that complicated for (requests) to come We want to through the commitminimize the tee and Senate,” said McCormick sophored tape for more Wendy Roldan, individuals and Panhellenic Association student groups senator. “I think $500 is reasonable. (The comwho want to mittee) knows what apply for this they’re doing because they’ll be going through fund. these proposals.” Serene Darwish, College Democrats vice president of Senator Siddhant Goel student activities proposed the required monetary amounts that were ultimately passed. Different from other student funding initiatives such as the Senate Project Pool and 10K initiative, the Wild Ideas Fund will be more “accessible and flexible,” said Weinberg senior Serene Darwish, vice president of student activities. “We want to minimize the red tape for individuals and student groups who want to apply for this fund,” Darwish said. “We want to focus on creating something new.” Last spring, ASG approved $20,000 in its budget for the fund. The fund’s committee will allocate $10,000 to be used Fall Quarter and $10,000 to be used Winter Quarter, and $5,000 will be allocated for Spring Quarter, Darwish said. ASG also discussed creating a committee for a $10,000 student leadership stipend program, which was also approved last spring. The program would grant funds to student leaders who demonstrate higher financial need, said executive vice president Erik Zorn, who would head the committee. Zorn said the committee would not be permanent and would include members from the entire student body. Zorn said that next year, ASG would transfer the committee and its responsibilities to the Center for Student Enrichment Services, a new office that will serve low-income and first generation students at NU. Legislation about the leadership stipend will be further discussed at next week’s meeting on Oct. 15. Ylda Capriccioso, intergovernmental affairs coordinator for the City of Evanston, spoke at the beginning of Senate about potential changes to Evanston and Chicago’s public transportation systems. Capriccioso encouraged students to fill out a citywide survey about Evanston transit and said the city is looking to work with NU and partners in the community to develop a campaign focused on bike safety. “We have a great biking community, but we’re having some conflict with biking lanes,” Capriccioso said. “One objective is to start working on outreach, and we’re asking the University to continue to talk to us and stay aware and active about what the city is working on.” New ASG residential and student group senators were also sworn in, and members of the rules committee were chosen during the meeting.
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solely in his ability to come up with effective game plans. Rather, some credit must rest with his skill in attracting quality talent to the program and his willingness to build his scheme around his players. “We recruit ‘who’ first,” Lenahan said, “and then figure out ‘what’. We don’t play in the same system every year, we don’t play in the same style every year.” No one is more indicative of that than freshman forward Sam Forsgren, They don’t who has instantly stepped into the lineup this season have to be to contribute six starts, a defense first; goal and an assist through they have to 10 games. “It’s like a 4-5-1 or a 4-2be team first. 3-1,” he said earlier this Tim Lenahan, season when discussing the team’s formation. “I’m up coach and down, wide and inside, everywhere really.” Forsgren exemplifies the kind of adjustments that Lenahan makes. By prominently inserting Forsgren into the lineup and giving him freedom to roam the field, Lenahan has allowed him to quickly grow into the Robin for junior forward Joey Calistri’s Batman. That Batman, a tremendously talented striker up front, is in another role Lenahan has done an excellent job of developing in his time at NU. “We’ve had a defensive identity,” Lenahan said, “but we’ve also had an All Big Ten forward the whole time, which is six different players (including) Calistri.” Calistri had 21 goals in his first two seasons and leads the team with four this year, in part thanks to the extra help he’s received up front. It’s certainly a strategy that works. Lenahan has 10 consecutive winning seasons under his belt and he’s poised for 10 more, even if that means plenty of scoreless draws and 1-0 decisions along the way. “Every team that’s successful doesn’t give up goals,” he said. “Everybody wants to be Barcelona, everybody wants to be Spain 2010 or Bayern Munich 2013, but we’re going to find a way where we can be successful.”
missed a shot in the 46th minute. Forsgren doubled NU’s lead in the 80th minute. The goal was the first of his career, after good hold up play and a pass from fellow freshman Ozumba. Forsgren roofed it into the top of the net from a difficult angle. I thought we “It was a relief after played pretty missing major chances,” Forsgren said of his well and goal. “Elo (Ozumba) generated did a really good job of making something some really out of nothing. … He good chances. worked it in for me and I ended up being oneTim Lenahan, on-one with the goalie coach and I decided to shoot it near post.” The game itself was a relatively scrappy affair, with each team picking up 13 fouls in the match. No cautions were shown by the referee until the 74th minute, with NIU receiving the first yellow card. Just a minute later, Cats sophomore midfielder Brandon Medina and NIU’s tall, powerful senior forward Isaac Kannah both received yellow cards.
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there is more competition among the team’s forwards this season. With his improved body, he hopes to be a more versatile player so that he can better fit into NU’s offense. “Guys close out on me really hard since they know I’m a shooter,” Taphorn said. “One of the things coach has emphasized was I needed to drive more and pump fake, use that weapon as a decoy and go to the rim.” Taphorn attempted only 13 2-pointers last season. Sobolewski tried 2-pointers and 3-pointers last year, and nothing was working. He had the secondworst offensive rating in the Big Ten and the worst
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dogpile Cole Missimo gets mobbed after scoring the game-winning goal against Maryland. The junior midfielder is having a breakout season with four goals and two assists.
of any player used in at least 20 percent of his team’s possessions, according to Kenpom.com. Sobolewski was named a team captain, along with senior guard JerShon Cobb and junior guard Tre Demps, in September. But as Collins said, that does not give him any special deal into the starting lineup. Sobolewski started 21 of his 27 games at point guard last season, but there wasn’t much competition since Cobb and Demps are more naturally scorers than distributors. With two-time Indiana state champion McIntosh on the roster, there is now a battle for that starting spot. “Your role is developed through practice, playing hard and just trying to earn time,” McIntosh said. “ (There are) a lot of new guys who want to play, as
well as the old guys. Everybody’s fighting for time and a position.” McIntosh said he thinks his winning experience and understanding of late-game scenarios can add a lot to the team. But he also understands that transitioning to the college game presents challenges. He thanked Sobolewski for guiding him through the process even though they are competing for the same job. “Sobo is a great leader,” McIntosh said. “He’s helped me understand some of the small things you wouldn’t think are a big deal but are, like footwork and getting your shot off quicker. We understand we both want to play. Off the court we’re teammates, and on the court we’re battling for a position.” jessekramer2017@u.northwestern.edu
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No one else has 10 straight winning seasons. — Tim Lenahan, men’s soccer coach
Thursday, October 9, 2014
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Lenahan cultivates success, one goal at a time By bobby pillote
daily senior staffer @BobbyPillote
The familiar sounds of Lake Michigan echoed across the silence of Lakeside Field. Sullen fans turned their faces from the wind and filed out of the cold bleachers, the scoreboard glowering at them from afar: “Bradley 3, Northwestern 2.” The Wildcats were out in the first round of the 2013 NCAA Tournament. For followers of the program the loss was a bitter end to a disappointing season, one in which the Wildcats failed to capture what would be a third consecutive Big Ten title. For players of the team the loss was a harsh defeat suffered at the hands of a squad that had already beaten them once that year. For coach Tim Lenahan the loss was certainly a setback, but it was also another step in the long climb to lasting success for men’s soccer at NU. ‘Nobody has been better than us’ Lenahan might not strike the average observer as one of the top soccer coaches in the country. His sideline demeanor is exceptionally calm, belying his intense nature but also representing his levelheaded approach to the game. It also masks the brilliant coaching mind that lies beneath, a deception that lends itself to success. He sounds like any coach does when discussing his or her program: humble yet laudatory. Except when Lenahan claims soccer to be the
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A STEADY HAND Coach Tim Lenahan has quietly built up men’s soccer into what he said he believes is the best men’s sports program at Northwestern. Under his leadership, the team has recorded 10 consecutive winning regular seasons and also won the Big Ten Championship in 2011 and 2012.
best men’s team at NU, he’s actually right. “There have been very few men’s sports (at Northwestern),” Lenahan said, “that have accomplished what we’ve accomplished: two Elite Eight finishes, two Sweet Sixteens, three Big Ten championships and 10 straight winning seasons.”
That success is even more impressive considering the program Lenahan took over when he was hired as coach in 2001. Every Cats team has had its historic dark age, but few are as ugly as the decade endured by men’s soccer. Under previous coach Michael Kunert, NU suffered 12 consecutive
losing seasons from 1989 to 2000. In that span, the team had just four Big Ten wins and had two campaigns, 1991 and 2000, which were entirely winless. Lenahan has raised a program from the ashes, and part of that has been coming to dominate the Big Ten. “In the (conference), we’ve been arguably the most consistent program over the past decade,” Lenahan said. “No one else has 10 straight winning seasons.” In that stretch the Cats earned eight NCAA tournament appearances, captured the Big Ten regular season title in 2011 and 2012 and won the Big Ten Tournament in 2011. Most impressively, that success was garnered against some of the toughest competition in the country. The Big Ten hosts the winners of 5 of the last 11 NCAA Championships, and Lenahan consistently schedules tough non-conference games for his team. “We have three teams on our schedule – Maryland, Indiana and Notre Dame – that have all won national championships in the last five years or so,” Lenahan said. “Throw in Santa Barbara (which won in 2006) on the schedule, we’re playing against teams that are going to contend … but we’re very competitive with that group.” ‘It’s a model that’s proved to be consistent’ The key to maintaining that competitiveness has been Lenahan’s ability to recruit and scheme effectively. NU is best described as a team
that tries to defend well and counterattack efficiently. When that works it’s a thing of beauty, but when it doesn’t the result is something like last season: a team that slogged through three ties and three overtime losses. Despite the Cats’ knack for lowscoring games, Lenahan insists that winning comes not from recruiting players who are good for a defenseoriented scheme, but from recruiting players who are a good fit for the program. “Now we’ve got a culture established, and we recruit kids based on that culture,” he said. “They don’t have to be defense first; they have to be team first.” One such player is senior defender Nikko Boxall, an import from Auckland, New Zealand, who now captains NU’s back line. “Coming from New Zealand, I didn’t hear a whole lot (about Northwestern),” he said. “Talking with (former assistant) Neil Jones, he said it was a great staff. He guaranteed that I would love it here, and he wasn’t wrong.” The hard-nosed center back has come forward to contribute one goal and two assists this season, revealing some of the subtleties of Lenahan’s scheming, but Boxall believes the team is still fundamentally grounded in playing defense. “It shows with our results statistically,” he said. “As a team we like to be defensively organized and that’s the mindset we start with.” Defense is a common thread, but Lenahan’s genius doesn’t seem to lie » See sideline, page 11
Men’s Basketball
Cats prepare for new season
Men’s Soccer
By jesse kramer
the daily northwestern @Jesse_Kramer
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Eyes Ahead Sam Forsgren stays ready for action in Northwestern’s most recent home game against Maryland. The freshman forward tallied a goal against Northern Illinois, the first of his career.
Cats defeat Huskies on the road By Julian Gerez and Tim Balk
the daily northwestern @JulianEGerez and @TimBalk
Northwestern’s men’s soccer team avenged their football counterparts with a 2-0 victory over Northern Illinois on Wednesday. No. 24 NU (6-1-4, 1-1-2 Big Ten), which is now undefeated in its last six appearances, beat NIU (2-5-4, 0-0-0 MAC) away from home ahead of a series of tough matches that include a game against reigning National Champion Notre Dame. “I thought we played pretty well and generated some really good chances. All in all I was pretty pleased with the performance tonight,” coach Tim Lenahan said. “It’s tough to go on the road midweek and play these
games out of conference … it’s every coach’s nightmare.” Senior midfielder Eric Weberman broke the deadlock for the Wildcats with a shot from outside of the box in the 43rd minute, and freshman forward Sam Forsgren doubled the lead for NU with 10 minutes to go in the match, scoring the first goal of his college career. “A lot of the times with some of these mid-week games you need somebody to step up a little bit,” Lenahan added. “It was good to see two guys get their first goal of the year.” The Huskies started as the brighter of the two teams, quickly forcing a save from senior goalkeeper Tyler Miller within the first three minutes of the match. Miller made three more saves in the rest of the game to earn his seventh shutout of the season.
NU was able to put some pressure onto the NIU goal after that first save with a couple of headers by junior midfielder Cole Missimo. One was blocked, and the other missed above the goal. The Dallas native was honored as Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week for his performance in the Cats’ last match against Maryland, but was unable to get on the score sheet against the Huskies. The game remained relatively even. It wasn’t until the the 43rd minute when Weberman, who came in off of the bench, skillfully curled a shot into the top corner to put NU ahead. The Cats came out of the halftime team talk boosted by their lead, and pushed forward on the offensive. Freshman forward Elo Ozumba » See msoccer, page 11
Less than a week into the preseason, Northwestern’s freshman class is already snagging most of the attention. At Wednesday’s practice, freshmen Vic Law, Scottie Lindsey, Gavin Skelly and Bryant McIntosh flashed some thunderous dunks and alley-oops while media recorded the action on phones and cameras. Meanwhile, the rest of the Wildcats sat on the bleachers behind the basket. And attention is not the only thing the group of newcomers could be taking from the upperclassmen. There are plenty of minutes available, and coach Chris Collins has said many times that class and experience will not matter when he eventually has to make a starting lineup for the Cats’ season opener on Nov. 7. “There’s no deals with any of our players,” Collins said. “I’ve never known a coach that didn’t play the guys he thought could help him win. … (The freshmen) all can play, and I think they’re all going to be called upon this year to help us.” Two veterans that could see some minutes taken away are sophomore forward Nathan Taphorn and senior guard Dave Sobolewski. Taphorn struggled in his freshman season, averaging just 2.5 points in 10.3 minutes per game. The 6-foot-7-inch forward’s reputation is as a shooter, but he drained only 27.8 percent of his 3-pointers. To become more effective, Taphorn said he started making changes to his body once the offseason began.
“I wasn’t expecting as much bang to my body,” he said. “In high school, you’re playing one or two games a week. But college, it’s almost like playing five games a week because of practice, and practice is more enduring than high school. It was a big adjustment.” Taphorn bulked up this offseason, putting on 25 pounds. He is now listed at 215. Between Law and Lindsey, the Cats have two players who could be upgraded versions of Taphorn. Law, a top-100 recruit, already has the skill set to be an effective player in the Big Ten. Collins said he sees Law as someone who will “stuff the stat sheet” because of his versatility. “I like to play with versatile guys,” Collins said. “(Law’s) game really is to be a jack of all trades and bring a lot of different things to the table.” Law can put the ball on the floor, rebound and shoot with some 3-point range. Collins said Law’s passing ability has also impressed him. Lindsey, like Taphorn, is known as a shooter. The 6-foot-5-inch wing was draining triples from out of bounds in practice, and his leaping ability displays athleticism that Taphorn has not shown he can match. “Scottie Lindsey, to me, has the opportunity to be a tremendous player,” Collins said. “The kid can just score. He’s got almost a 7-foot wingspan. As he continues to get stronger, he’s got a huge upside to his career.” Taphorn said that he will continue trying to earn a starting spot even though » See mbasketball, page 11