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NEW AND IMPROVED Lulu’s, pictured above, closed in February after 21 years. Owners plan to reopen the restaurnat along with Taco Diablo, which was destroyed by a fire in 2013.

proposal to demolish and reconstruct the building, Kelch said.

Both restaurants shuttered last academic year. Taco Diablo was destroyed by a fire in Decemeber 2013, and Kelch closed Lulu’s in February, saying it was profitable but only running on “cruise control.”

Kelch said he never intended for the businesses to leave Evanston permanently, mentioning in his closing announcement on the Lulu’s website that he hoped to rebuild Lulu’s with Taco Diablo.

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Former Evanston restaurants Taco Diablo and Lulu’s may be making a comeback.

Co-owners Daniel Kelch and Marty Cless plan to reopen both restaurants in June 2015 in the same building at 1026 Davis St. Construction could start as soon as next month depending on how fast City Council approves their

» See TACO DIABLO, page 9

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NU to hold memorial for Mihir Boddupalli

Northwestern will remember McCormick senior Mihirtej Boddupalli in a memorial service on Oct. 16.

Boddupalli was killed in a July drunk driving accident after a car he was riding in crashed into a waterfilled quarry. The driver, McCormick senior Michael Szot, was able to escape, but Boddupalli and fellow passenger Indiana University senior Sajaad Syed drowned.

McCormick senior Brad Winters is planning the memorial along with Dean of Students Todd Adams, Associated Student Government Executive Vice President Erik Zorn and the Chaplain’s Office. Winters and Boddupalli were fraternity brothers in Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity.

Winters said some University officials will speak at the memorial and Brown Sugar and Freshman Fifteen will perform. He also said students will have the opportunity to share memories.

“Mihir was somebody who had a really profound impact on people,” he said. “This is a time to celebrate his life and share stories about him.”

Winters added he wants as many members of the NU community

A year after its inception, leaders of Northwestern’s Sustained Dialogue tout the success of the student-facilitated discussion program, which drew an increasing number of participants this fall and inspired a plan to potentially include faculty in future quarters.

The program, which is on 30 campuses around the world through the Washington D.C.-based Sustained Dialogue Campus Network, brings about 10 students together each week for a quarter to share their experiences with issues such as race, class and gender.

More than 300 students participated last year in about 10 groups per quarter. This quarter, at least 12 groups are set to begin next week and sign-ups are still ongoing.

“I think a lot of Northwestern students find the campus fairly fractured,” said Weinberg senior Allie Rawson, co-director of Sustained Dialogue. “The goal is to create friendships between people who otherwise wouldn’t get a chance to know each other well.”

The group’s leadership team and the ASG Campus Inclusion and Community subcommittee hope to include faculty in some Sustained Dialogues in upcoming quarters.

“We want to keep the spaces relevant to the participants’ experiences,” SESP Senior Austin Romero, ASG vice president of diversity and inclusion, wrote in a message to The Daily. “We want faculty to engage in

dialogue around their experiences teaching in and around diversity.”

Rawson said the idea to bring Sustained Dialogue to NU was inspired by past instances of discrimination on campus, inlcuding the ski team’s “Racist Olympics” and the egging of two Asian students. In reaction to these incidents, Dialogue at Deering was created in Spring 2012 to increase understanding and respect between different groups at NU. About 300 students attended the first dialogue.

A pilot program for Sustained Dialogue launched after that spring, and the official program began in Fall 2013. The program, though funded by the University, is primarily student-driven.

Students who participated last year can apply to become moderators for this year’s groups. Sustained Dialogue leaders are currently working to make the moderator training more “tailored to Northwestern needs,” said Rawson.

Each group creates their own ground rules, although generally they have a policy of “what happens in the group, stays in the group,” said Rawson. Sometimes, groups have projects at the end of the quarter tackling a problem they want to address.

“The biggest different in Sustained Dialogue is that it’s not really about changing anyone’s minds,” Rawson said. “It’s about understanding how they came to the opinion they came to.”

Sustained Dialogue has sparked ideas for endeavors outside of the

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as possible to attend the service.

He emphasized that Boddupalli’s absence not only impacts his friends, but all of NU. At NU, Boddupalli was a manager at Campus Solutions and worked as a fellow at the Medill Justice Project during the summer of 2012.

The service will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on the Norris University Center East Lawn.

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A new matchmaking app that will match up interested students as “friends,” “hook-ups” or “dates” is launching at Northwestern on Sunday night.

Friendsy, an app designed by two Princeton University seniors, offers students a way to interact exclusively with other students at their school. Graham Derfner, a Friendsy campus representative for NU, said the app will be available for students to download on iPhone and Android phones on Sept. 28 at 8 p.m.

“We wanted to create a way for students on campuses to take more advantage of the amazing people that are around you and branch out of your social circles in a risk free way,” said Michael Pinsky, one of the founders of Friendsy.

Similar to apps like Tinder, Friendsy allows students to view other profiles and indicate whether they would like to “friend,” “hook-up” or “date” the user, depending on their level of interest. The user will only be notified of a match if another student

selects the same option.

“Everybody’s secrets are kept super safe,” Pinsky said. “It’s sort of a win-win way to put yourself out there.”

Derfner, a Weinberg sophomore, joined the Friendsy team after Pinsky reached out to him about expanding to NU. “The platform is made to connect people,” he said. “I think it’s a great thing to connect campus … and I love that it’s very inclusive to Northwestern only.”

Though the app has launched at 41 schools across the country, students log in using their school email addresses, making each Friendsy community unique and exclusive to that school. Pinsky said more than 20,000 users have signed up nationwide and the app has made almost 200,000 mutual matches since its launch.

Friendsy also features a Murmur feed, which is a constantly updated feed of compliments, overheard comments and pictures.

“One of the great things about us, that separates us from other apps like Yik Yak, for example, is that everything is moderated,” Pinsky said. “We monitor for negativity and anything that’s racist or homophobic or anything like that

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FRIENDS OR BENEFITS? Friendsy, a new matchmaking app created at Princeton University, will launch at Northwestern Sunday night.

Students can sign up with a University-issued email.

won’t go through. It’s a very positive process.”

After Friendsy’s initial launch as a website at Princeton in May 2013, Pinsky and co-founder Vaidhy » See FRIENDSY, page 9

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Arts Council event to connect artists to Evanston community

The city’s Arts Council will host its second Open Studios Evanston art walk in October, opening studios and galleries for free to the public to view artwork and enjoy live performances.

The purpose of the event, scheduled for Oct. 11, is to have more people view artists’ work, and to give people opportunities to meet artists and buy their work directly from them, said Lisa Degliantoni, co-chair of the city’s Arts Council.

“I volunteer on the Evanston Arts Council, so I know firsthand what a lot of artists need in terms of community support and engagement,” she said.

In June, the council hosted a similar event, which drew about 65 artists, in an attempt for Evanston community members to familiarize themselves with local artists. Artists sold about $5,000 worth of art at the

Friday, september 26, 2014 event, Degliantoni said.

Open Studios Evanston organizers will provide a map of the different stops throughout the city, including the locations of live performances, demonstrations and talks on art collection. Each stop will highlight the developments happening in the city’s art community.

This event, which takes place during National Arts and Humanities Month, will act as an opportunity for artists to connect with each other and the community at large.

Participating business Bottle & Bottega will offer a free “painting party” for art walk guests to receive stepby-step instruction from artists on how to complete their own artwork.

“I’m just excited that it attracts more people into Evanston to see how vibrant and lively the art community is here,” owner Lynette Martin said.

Degliantoni said Northwestern students and faculty are being encouraged to participate in the event.

— Jennifer Ball

Across Campuses Veterans win in-state tuition benefit FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA — As president of the Collegiate Veterans Association at Florida State University, Abby Kinch often heard from veterans who ran into a stumbling block before they even started their college careers. Veterans new to the state who enrolled at Florida State soon discovered they had to pay out-of-state tuition for their first year –– an additional $15,000. (By the second year, they had lived in the state long enough to have established residency.) For some, that meant the difference between attending college or not. For many others, it meant the burden of student loans they hadn’t planned on. In May, however, Florida joined a growing list of states that have made it easier for veterans to qualify for in-state tuition. And starting next year, recent veterans in every state should be able take advantage of in-state tuition rates, thanks to a little-publicized provision in a $16 billion federal law signed by President Barack Obama this month. Aimed primarily at improving veterans’ access to health care, the law allows any veteran who has served at least 90 days of active service to pay resident tuition rates in any state within three years of leaving the military. The law also covers spouses and dependent children of veterans meeting certain criteria. Effective July 1, 2015, the law would apply to any public college or university receiving federal funding through the Post-9/11 GI Bill. In 2013-14, the average in-state published tuition and fees at public colleges was $8,893, compared with

$22,203 out of state. “I think that because student veterans spent their careers defending the United States, it’s important to welcome them back to the United States with an education wherever they would like to study, not just in their home of record,” said Kinch, who spent more than two years working for the passage of the Florida legislation. Veterans and veterans’ advocates applaud the measure, which will help alleviate the problem of veterans failing to qualify for in-state tuition after leaving the military because they have been required to move for their service.

But others wonder what the change will cost state colleges and universities, and what the effect might be on tuition or services, which may be impossible to know until veterans start taking advantage of the new law. More than 1 million people have attended college with the help of the Post-9/11 GI Bill, which covers most in-state tuition costs and fees in a veteran’s state of residency. In the next few years, 1.5 million more veterans will be discharged from the military, and about a third are expected to use GI Bill to attend college, according to Wayne Robinson, president of Student Veterans of America, a nonprofit coalition of student veterans groups on college campuses. Suzanne Hultin, a policy specialist with the National Conference of State Legislatures, said at least 32 states already offer veterans resident tuition rates. Many states have adopted legislation in recent years.

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Founded about two years ago, the franchise makes all products in-house and offers about 40 different toppings. Customers can build their own pizza with unlimited toppings for less than $8, Cummis said. Each pizza cooks within three minutes, producing the food faster than many other similar restaurants, he added. “A couple of the really big things that people get excited about is how quickly they can get their food because most times people order pizza, it takes 25 mins or as much as an hour if you’re ordering a Chicago-style pizza,â€? he said. “The fact that we can get you food so quickly ‌ the value, people find incredible.â€?

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Office for low-income students is a good addition Heiwon Shin

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Recently my friend has been struggling to cover her health insurance plan. Last year, the school covered it. This year, when she emailed the financial office, someone replied that the school ran out of grants and she was on her own. When she went to the office in person though, she learned about ways to use work-study or other options to cover it.

Long story short, talking to different people gave her different answers. This is just one of a few financial difficulties facing low-income students at Northwestern.

Colleges in the United States have notably high tuition compared to schools in other nations, if not the highest. And with an about

$61,000 sticker price, NU ranks as one of the most expensive in the nation.

I will not even pretend to know all the problems facing low-income students, but having heard such stories, I believe the Center for Student Enrichment Services is a needed addition in order for NU to truly serve low-income and first-generation students. But for the Center to make a difference, it needs to be effective, accessible and inclusive.

Hopefully with the center, bureaucratic problems – such as in my friend’s case – will no longer occur. NU has many decentralized offices. I personally experienced one person in one office telling me to visit someone else in another office who then referred me to another who told me to visit someone I had already seen. Communication is key to an effective organization that gives students the help they need when they need it.

The center also needs to make its presence

known. I know, as an international student, the International Office is there if I need it.

It should be the same for low-income and first-generation students too. Finances can be a touchy and a sensitive issue that many people might not want to talk about; all the more reason the school should take the initiative to approach the students. The University can do so using preexisting structures such as residence assistants or Wildcat Welcome programing.

Most importantly, this dialogue and service should include not only the main target group – the low-income and first-generation students – but should include all students. If inclusion is the goal, then the center needs to take a holistic approach.

As a freshman during Wildcat Welcome, the Diversity and Inclusion Essential NU made an impact on me. I remember everyone standing up for each of the different categories we identified ourselves with and noticing

who or how many students stood up for each category. This session made me more aware of how diverse NU is. I felt so moved that I thought going forward that I would actively discuss what such diversity meant in our community – the good and the bad and perhaps anything in between. But that momentum quickly died down. The ENU just became “that thing we did Welcome Week.”

Last year, a dialogue aware of socioeconomic background differences emerged with NU Class Confessions. More dialogues like those should follow and, with it, tangible actions to make a difference.

One of the core values NU states is inclusion. I hope it’s not just an abstract concept.

Heiwon Shin is a Medill sophomore. She can be reached at heiwonshin2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a letter to the editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

Find comfort in ambiguity, embrace the unknown angela lin

Daily columnist

Like many Wildcats this past week, I left home to begin the academic year at Northwestern. I took off from Seattle with the words of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros serenading me over and over, “Home is wherever I’m with you.” Whimsical songs are excellent catalysts for nostalgia, especially when paired with a classic airplane panorama of (insert your hometown here). Still, I had to question the novelty of this moment. Going back for my second year at NU, I wondered if I was finally happier to go than I was sad to leave.

My room back in Olympia, Washington is what you expect from a out-of-state student: a mess – an echo of teenage years ridden with wrinkled clothes pitched from a 29-by-14 suitcase. My belongings were everywhere. I had my bedding stored with UPS, a box with a friend in an off-campus apartment and a suitcase with another friend. I donated one-third of my things – clothes, furniture, things that did not make the shortlist of candidates for dust-collection – to Goodwill and gave another third to friends. My life, at least that quantified by sentimental possession, was downsized to the confines of a sparse wardrobe and a memory foam pillow.

The routine of moving out and going to school is uncomplicated, but the process is startling. Everything that is supposedly stable, from actual physicality to personal conception of home, is suddenly

uprooted. In some respects this is exciting, but inevitably it’s disconcerting to have such chaos inflicted upon your life for the sake of a higher education. I spent my summer split between Evanston, Olympia and Seattle, so this idea is too familiar to me.

However, flying from one skyline at SeaTac to another at O’Hare, I realized that the conception of “home” as something that’s new, different and begging to be redefined, was hollow. Home is fluid and begs to be defined not by places or things, but with memories, ideas and people. While the latter entities are much more difficult to acquire than the former, it’s necessary to force yourself to embrace fluidity rather than definition.

The hustle of college is similarly familiar, from the pursuit of friends, home, and major, to the occasional existential crisis. It’s inevitable to yearn for stability and assurance – assurance that NU is home,

that journalism is the right major – but it’s easy to let a yearning for definition deviate into a fear of ambiguity. After all, at the end of the day, your suitcases are still packed, friends and family gone. So, external or internal, it’s oftentimes the case that we’re pressured to be satisfied and secure. However, it’s important to embrace the unknown – even the possibility of dissatisfaction – by ignoring the need to fill the suddenly blank slates of friends, home and identity.

Although a floppy pillow and the contents of a cardboard box are less reassuring than a house and a city, in the long run, comfort in ambiguity is more sustainable and satisfying than empty definition.

Angela Lin is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be reached at angelalin2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

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The 2013 Gator Bowl win was the watershed moment of Pat Fitzgerald’s coaching career. Not only did he erase Northwestern’s embarrassing bowl-win drought that dated to 1949, he also tied the school’s single-season record for wins with 10, and became the school’s alltime winningest coach in one fell swoop.

The postgame press conference was more of an extension of the celebration than an actual journalistic mission. The media, myself included, mostly lobbed softballs at Fitzgerald, culling joyous answers for our stories on the arrival of NU football. Just about everyone had a smile on their face. Fitzgerald himself basked in the enormity of his accomplishment, with the company-man, aw-shucks aplomb he always employs. In one instance, he noted that Chicago’s Big Ten Team would return as Chicago’s Big Ten Champions (he left out the Gator Bowl part), and then quickly joked that season tickets would be going on sale immediately. » See FITZ, page 8

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Penn State’s Hackenberg poses tough task for NU

By BOBBY PILLOTE

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Listed at 6 feet 4 inches and 234 pounds, Penn State’s Christian Hackenberg is the kind of quarterback prospective that coaches dream of having.

But Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald and the Wildcats’ defense may find Hackenberg to be the stuff of nightmares instead.

“I think he’s a very good athlete watching him on tape,” Fitzgerald said. “They’re not an option team but he’s a very good athlete for a big guy …

There’s not a throw he can’t make. He always has his eyes down the field, and he has really talented weapons on the perimeter.”

Fitz paints the picture of a player who is hard to scheme against and even harder to make plays on come game There’s not day. Hackenberg isn’t unstoppable, but he a throw he certainly has been a can’t make. headache for opposing He always has defenses thus far.

Some of his tradieyes down the tional stats don’t look field, and he has stellar, like the pedesreally talented trian 60.7 percent completion rate or the weapons. four-to-five touchdownto-interception ratio, Pat Fitzgerald, but fixating on these coach limited figures belies his tremendous ability.

Hackenberg is throwing for a healthy 8.4 yards per attempt, which ranks ninth among all NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision quarterbacks with at least 100 passing attempts. His efforts have helped make the Nittany Lions the 10th-ranked passing offense in the country, sandwiched between juggernauts like Oregon and Baylor.

Penn State by all accounts is a team that has underachieved this season, but in spite of that they enter Saturday with an undefeated record, and the presence of Hackenberg has them poised to make a run through a weak Big Ten. It remains to be seen if NU is up to the challenge of halting that advance.

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BIG ARM Penn State’s Christian Hackenberg throws a pass against Rutgers on Sept. 13.

Northwestern’s defense will have its hands full with the multi-talented quarterback Saturday.

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NU’s maligned secondary surrendered 300 passing yards to Cal and its second-year quarterback Jared Goff in the season opener. While notorious as an offense that simply piles up yardage as a result of volume and not efficiency, the Golden Bears actually mustered a respectable 7.69 yards per attempt.

There was a respite against run-heavy Northern Illinois before the back four was gashed for 292 yards against much less notable Western Illinois.

Junior cornerback Nick VanHoose drew praise for his play in that game, but again that’s likely a result of volume rather than efficiency. The best defensive backs don’t even have the ball thrown their way; VanHoose made some good looking plays but any corner will if the ball is thrown his way often enough.

Across from him, sophomore cornerback

Matthew Harris has shown few signs of progress from last season. Repeatedly picked on by opposing quarterbacks through the first quarter of the season, Harris has been a liability in coverage.

Even when he makes a good play, it’s often the result of him using his athleticism to recover for a mental or schematic mistake.

Safeties senior Ibraheim Campbell and junior Traveon Henry are above-average Big Ten starters, but their job is to be the last line of defense, not the first. If relief is to come, it needs to come from the defensive line.

The Cats’ salvation against Western Illinois was the breakout play of defensive end and pass-rush specialist Ifeadi Odenigbo, but it remains to be seen if the diminutive sophomore can produce the same results against a more talented Penn State offensive line and the mobile Hackenberg.

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What’s telling is that of NU’s eight sacks this season, only 1.5 have come from players that aren’t defensive lineman. In other words, the defense isn’t blitzing. A team doesn’t have to rush extra defenders to be successful, but generating pressure on the opposing quarterback is the best remedy for a leaky secondary.

The best way to contain Hackenberg is to keep him on his back, a result that would require some aggressive scheming by the defense.

But when pressed for how he would go after the Penn State offense, Fitzgerald provided a trademark one-word answer: “carefully.”

Going up against a quarterback as skilled as Hackenberg, taking care likely will not be enough.

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Newcomers grabbing big roles in Cats’ offense

By JOSEPH DIEBOLD

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As coach Pat Fitzgerald and his staff are quickly learning, Northwestern’s kids are all right.

Some of the Wildcats’ biggest contributors on offense this season have been true freshmen, who have transitioned from playing high school football just nine months ago to taking the field as part of a Big Ten offense. But thanks to injuries or poor play from veterans at key spots on the offense, the kids have had their shot. And a few have taken it.

Leading the class of 2018 has been running back Justin Jackson. Last year’s state player of the year in Illinois, Jackson has quickly supplanted senior Treyvon Green as NU’s most relied-upon and electric running back. Jackson had his coming-out party Saturday against Western Illinois, carrying the ball 21 times for 92 yards and a When they put touchdown.

“I just expected to me in, I just go come in and compete out and play my and be ready to play if game. I’m here I needed to,” Jackson said about shoulderfor a reason, ing the load on the they recruited ground. “When they me for a reason put me in, I just go out and play my game.

Justin Jackson, I’m here for a reason, runningback they recruited me for a reason and I just try to go out there and play hard for my teammates and my school.”

Fellow freshman Solomon Vault also exploded against the Leathernecks, scoring NU’s first two touchdowns. A third member of Fitzgerald’s most recent — and most heralded — recruiting class, tight end Garrett

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Dickerson, hasn’t yet found the end zone but has played frequently in power sets and made one of the offense’s few big plays last week, a 21-yard catch from senior quarterback Trevor Siemian.

Jackson, Vault and Dickerson are a rare breed: Fitzgerald’s tendency has been to redshirt nearly all of his incoming freshmen. But as NU’s recruiting continues to improve, it will become harder and harder for the coaches to justify sitting talented players for their rookie seasons.

Another new face, one who has already had a year to acclimate to Evanston, is wide receiver Miles Shuler. Shuler sat out last season after transferring from Rutgers but has stepped immediately into his new role, attempting to replace the do-it-all nature of departed running back Venric Mark.

Shuler said even without games to look forward to, he used his time off to improve.

“Being used to playing my first two years in college, it was a humbling experience to sit on the sideline. But I took the time and became a better player,” Shuler said. “You just take everything in so I was just ready to play this year.”

Through three games, Shuler is third on the team in receptions and has also been returning kicks and punts.

But as well as NU’s new faces have played, they will face their biggest test yet this weekend as the Cats go on the road for the first time in front of more than 100,000 fans at Penn State’s Beaver Stadium. NU has been good in season road openers under Fitzgerald, racking up a 6-2 record. But those games are generally against weaker non-conference opponents, not conference powerhouses. The Cats have lost their last five games against the Nittany Lions by double digits and are just 3-5 during Fitzgerald’s tenure in conference road openers.

Fitzgerald said he is looking forward to seeing how the team responds to the difficulties of a hostile environment. During practice this

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FRESH MEAT Freshman running back Justin Jackson is part of a group of newcomers, three freshmen and a transfer, making a difference for Northwestern this season.

week, the coaches piped in noise to simulate the cheers and crowds the team will hear in Happy Valley.

“Playing a team that’s undefeated, on the road, (it will be) a great challenge to just find out where we’re at and just handle a road trip like we do at home,” the coach said. “It’ll be good to go on the road. I think it’ll be really good, to get away, to go and have to only be 70 on the road and really see how we’re going to fight through that.”

Asked about the challenge posed by 100,000 screaming fans, Jackson was as unfazed as he has looked on the field for the first three weeks

of his career.

“It’ll be a new experience, but going to play a great team … we have to be better than we were the past three weeks,” he said. “It’s definitely going to take a lot to beat them, but I think we’re up for the challenge.”

For NU to get its conference season off on the right foot, its leaders — the ones who have played in road openers before — might have to take a couple cues from the ones who haven’t.

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FITZ-FIVE Pat Fitzgerald’s coaching tactics, including conservative play-calling have come under fire during Northwestern’s current down period.

It was the new era before Chris Collins’ “NU Era.” It was the coronation for a coach so beloved, he could flirt with the Michigan head-coach job before 2011 and many fans would have been happy he got it.

Tucked in that celebratory presser was a small reminder of the program’s place around the country. An SEC reporter, first mistakenly referring to Fitzgerald as “Coach Fitzpatrick,” asked the coach something along the lines of what it meant for a lowly Big Ten team to win a bowl game against someone from the vaunted SEC. You could see in Fitzgerald’s eyes how utterly ridiculous he thought the question was.

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Fitzgerald isn’t just a victim of his own expectations — he’s a victim of his own likability.

The Northwestern media exchanged glances of incredulousness. Then-senior linebacker David Nwabuisi, sitting next to Fitzgerald, whispered to his coach, trying to make sure he wouldn’t blow up on the bumbling reporter.

Fitzgerald handled the question eloquently, and with class. He easily deflected what could have been a contentious moment. And yet, it should have been a small reminder, the program hadn’t arrived because of that one game.

The rest of the press conference adopted a light tone. And of course, Fitzgerald ended the affair with his verbal signature: “Go Cats.”

It’s easy to see why Fitzgerald is so likable, and why he is the kind of personality that not only serves as an ambassador for his football program but even serves as a face of a top academic university as a whole. Fitzgerald bursts with an all-American quality, a bluecollar guy with a million-dollar smile. He’s the ’90s sitcom dad who may not be able to solve a difficult math problem (or understand when it’s beneficial to go for it on fourth down) but has the intangibles that make him lovable anyway. Fitzgerald is the platonic ideal of a man’s man. In an alternate universe in which you were dating his daughter, he would greet you at the door for your first date with a crushing handshake and a mandate to be out no later than 11. You’d bring her home by 10.

Fitzgerald’s peers speak of him in glowing platitudes that are as inoffensive as the man himself. Steve Schnur, the quarterback of NU’s back-to-back Big Ten champion teams in the mid ’90s, recently described Fitzgerald the player as “regimented, organized and a good leader,” which, according to Schnur, is “just like how we see him today.”

A former player said Fitzgerald’s

best quality was that he’s “100 percent loyal,” and Fitzgerald earned this trust because he himself went to NU. Current players love him just as much. After a tough week of practice, in which Fitzgerald challenged his team physically after back-to-back losses, defensive end Dean Lowry still insisted Fitzgerald was a “player’s coach,” noting that he wouldn’t put the team through strenuous practices if it wasn’t what the team’s leaders wanted.

To Fitzgerald’s credit, he earned this credibility. It started when he took over the program in incredibly tragic circumstances after the death of Randy Walker. At 31, Fitzgerald went from a linebackers coach to running the entire program. At home, he had a 20 month-old son and a pregnant wife. From that moment in July 2006 to the end of the 2008 season, Fitzgerald turned the Wildcats into a nine-win team. By the end of the 2012 season, he finally delivered a bowl win.

In m i d - 2 0 1 4 , Fitzgerald is questioned more than ever. His on-field decisions, his recruiting style and yes, even his likability, are now the subject of more scrutiny than ever.

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GAME FACE Pat Fitzgerald faces increasing scrutiny as Northwestern struggled through the last year and a half. The Wildcats lost seven straight games last year and have begun 2014 1-2.

Fitzgerald’s past accomplishments are being fashion each week, Fitzgerald’s “here to stay” observed critically. Is his team closer to the quote became cringe-worthy. The only way it 10-win, Big Ten contender it was coming off could have been worse is if it were said in front the Gator Bowl? Or is the program actually of a giant “Mission Accomplished” banner. in decline? Was the bowl-win potentially an The praise of Fitzgerald after that Gator outlier season amidst a nine-win to five-win Bowl, however, was just as cringe-worthy. It’s unfair to say that “we” failed. Maybe you were slide from 2008 through 2013?

It’s hard to know for sure if the extra atten- the skeptical one. But a lot of us failed. There tion is actually bothering Fitzgerald. We can was a failure to challenge the assertion that get on him for flip-flopping, for labeling the NU was here to stay. After that day, few people team an embarrassment to fans one day and wanted to believe anything else. then asking every one to “chill out” on another.

Now, Fitzgerald is a victim of his own But that’s no different than the media writ- expectations. The expectations very, very few ing the program is falling apart one week and thought to assume were too high. Coaches coming back with “everything is going to be often publicly believe their team is at least okay” the next. We can criticize Fitzgerald for a contender for a conference championship, often sparring with the media, and clinging to even if just to give fans hope, even if privately an annoying secrecy pledge that labels they feel completely different. a player obviously blowing out NU’s on-field product has a host of probhis knee with a “lower body lems, obviously. Schematically, it’s a spread injury.” offense that bizarrely enters power sets at But the crux of how times. The team plays conservatively. It’s we view Fitzgerald unclear where they’ll have an advantage on goes back to that Gator the field against Big Ten opponents. Frankly, Bowl win. While lift- the team is boring and has a shocking lack ing up the trophy, he of identity for a coach with a big personality. proudly proclaimed If you described the team in one word, what that Northwestern would it be besides underwhelming? was “here to stay.”

Off-the-field, however, Fitzgerald remains The next year, intriguing. His likability has taken a hit. And after a season in it will be fascinating to watch him deal with which the team growing adversity. He must decide where to lost seven games, compromise. He can move the bar lower and in seemingly try to convince everybody the hype he placed increasingly on the team after 2012 was premature. Or he can continue to raise the expectation levels ridicuand risk another embarrassment if this season lous goes down in flames.

It might seem silly to ponder Fitzgerald’s likability so much. Nick Saban isn’t exactly a teddy bear, but few care if he’s the devil as long as he keeps bringing championships to Alabama. NU’s football program, however, is intrinsically tied to Fitzgerald’s personality.

What the team lacks in on-field success, they make up for in Fitzgerald’s bluster.

This program is Pat Fitzgerald. He has the kind of personality that brings the University the kind of attention it desperately craves.

Fitzgerald isn’t just a victim of his own expectations — he’s a victim of his own likability. He drew this attention on himself, the eyeballs NU needs to be relevant.

But that means he’s also drawn the scrutiny of a fan base and media contingent expecting more than ever before from this program.

And we’re here to stay.

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“We’ve been here for a long time, so we’re members of this community,” he said. “Our first desire was always to stay in downtown Evanston, where we’ve always been.”

Both restaurants will reside in the new space, which is right across the street from Taco Diablo’s old location. Lulu’s, which opened 22 years ago, will get a design upgrade, but keep most of its popular dishes, Kelch said. Taco Diablo will keep a similar menu and appearance, he said.

The building will also consist of a second floor that has an entire new concept, he said.

“There will be food up there, but it’s going to have a flavor of more of a bar,” Kelch said. “It’ll be kind of a place where we hope people will come and just hang out, have a drink, spend an afternoon. We think that will help drive more revenue to help keep us a viable entity.”

Kelch said he and Cless, who owns the plot at 1026 Davis St., understand that the undertaking of such a large project will be taxing, especially financially. But Kelch said the pair hopes their previous success in the Evanston restaurant scene will prove to be an asset.

“There’s more stress financially because it is a more expensive project than what we’ve done before,” Kelch said. “We have a history that we think we can rely upon, that we can replicate … We’re just local guys trying to do business, that’s all.”

Taco Diablo’s original storefront, 1029 Davis St., burned down in an early morning fire on Dec. 29, 2013. The fire, which started in Pine Yard Restaurant, destroyed both Pine Yard and TechniColour Nail & Day Spa. Evanston officials have tried to do whatever they can to help the businesses that burned down in the fire, said Mark Muenzer, the city’s community development director.

“We want to encourage locally owned, independent restaurants in our commercial district downtown,” he said. “Both of the restaurants that he is bringing back represent that. It’s great he’s able to do that.”

Kelch said he is planning on a June 2015 opening date for the new building, but that it could be delayed depending on the severity of the upcoming winter.

discussion as well. One example is NU Threads, which was created by a past participant and focuses on hosting clothing drives and communal closets.

“That was the starting point where I got more involved in social justice on campus and different groups,” said Weinberg senior Bisola Sosan, who participated in the program and is now a moderator. “We learned a lot about how to listen to other people who have differing opinions and not jumping to disagree, and hearing them out.”

At times, Sustained Dialogue hosts groups that include members of a specific population. Examples include NU InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and a student athlete group in the summer. Student leaders can approach Sustained Dialogue to host a discussion series for their organization.

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Murti traveled to Dartmouth College over the summer and knocked on 750 doors to sign up an additional 400 users. Over the past year, the partners have continued to update and improve Friendsy and launched the iPhone and Android app versions over the summer.

“The reason we keep doing this and keep working so hard to make it happen is because we actually feel like we’re making a very real difference,” Pinsky said.

Over the next year, Pinksy and Murti hope to reach 100,000 users and continue to launch at colleges across the world.

“People have written to us and told us that Friendsy has really changed the way they interact with people,” Pinksy said. “Somebody wrote to us a couple months ago and said they thought they found their soulmate through Friendsy, which I think is unbelievable. What more could you really want from an app?” annebruce2015@u.northwestern.edu

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NUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest books to enter online database By ciara mccarthy

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The oldest books on Northwesternâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campus, some dating back to the 15th century, are about to enter an international database, allowing scholars around the world to locate them in NUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s libraries.

Graduate student Andrew Keener has launched a project to report the historic works to the English Short Title Catalogue, There are lots a database that lists materials published of old books between 1473 and in Midwestern 1800.

The project, Keener university said, will allow schollibraries and ars across the countheyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re under- try to know which consulted and texts are located at NU, and will ensure under-studied. the database is more complete.

Andrew Keener, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scholars always graduate student go to Harvard and Yale,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know there are a lot of books there â&#x20AC;Ś but often people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sitting on these smaller and often quite good collections of old books.â&#x20AC;?

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at prominent universities in the Northeast, such as Harvard and Yale universities, and found that they reported many more texts in the English Short Title Catalogue than did universities in the Midwest.

This initiative is one of the Global Midwest Projects within the larger Humanities Without Walls consortium. The project seeks to make the resources that Midwestern universities have to offer readily apparent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are lots of old books in Midwestern university libraries and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re under-consulted and under-studied,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The initiative is spreading to the University of Wisconsin and the University of Iowa, both of which will begin to report their oldest tomes to the database this fall.

With more texts listed in the database, scholars will be able to access specific information about different works and where in the world they are located, explained library assistant Sigrid Perry. Books published in this time period often varied significantly by copy because of the available printing technology, so the ability to study different versions of the same text can give scholars a window into the publishing process, Perry said.

Once the tomes in NUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s library are added to the database, more non-NU scholars will likely reach out to learn about the resources in Evanston, Perry explained. Keener said that NU could be home to several thousands of items that are not currently in the database.

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renaissancE READS Many of the oldest books in Northwesternâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Special Collections library are being added to the English Short Title Catalogue. The catalog, which is an international database of books published between 1473 and 1800, will allow academics to locate historic texts at NU.

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National News Holder says he plans to step down WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., the first black to fill the nation’s top law enforcement post, announced Thursday he was stepping down, ending a nearly six-year tenure as one of the Obama administration’s most progressive voices and polarizing figures.

Holder, 63, leaves an impressive legacy on civil rights and criminal justice reforms, but one that took shape relatively late in his tumultuous term, which was initially dominated by political battles and a contempt citation from Congress. The former federal prosecutor and close friend of President Barack Obama becomes one of the last original members of the Cabinet to resign.

At an emotional gathering in the White House State Dining Room, Holder, who came of age during the 1960s civil rights struggle, invoked his boyhood hero, former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and called his time at the Justice Department the “greatest honor of my professional life.”

“I hope I have done honor to your legacy, Mr. President,” Holder said, choking up while recalling the support of his parents. “I will leave the Department of Justice, but I will never, ever leave the work.”

A formal announcement about Holder’s replacement is not expected until early next week. Holder has agreed to stay on until a nominee is confirmed.

Names already being tossed around inside the White House and the halls of Congress include Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr.; Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney in New York who handles bank fraud and terrorism cases; Janet Napolitano, former Homeland Security secretary; former White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler; Deputy Attorney General James Cole, the No. 2 official in the Justice Department; and Mary Jo White, a former U.S. attorney in New York who now leads the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Two other potential successors, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and California Attorney General Kamala Harris, said Thursday they had no plans to take the job.

The likely battle over Holder’s replacement sets the stage for a partisan power struggle that is likely to extend into the post-election lame-duck session of Congress or beyond. The administration hopes to win a quick confirmation from the Democraticcontrolled Senate in the coming months, but some Republicans—who are betting they will seize control of the Senate in the November election—are already calling for the confirmation to be pushed into next year.

Holder, who had hinted for months that he was planning to leave, came to the Justice Department in the winter of 2009 as the 82nd attorney general, a figure well-versed in the difficult, sometimes delicate, task of running a sprawling law enforcement agency after earlier serving as deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration.

He pleased Democrats by reinvigorating the Justice Department’s efforts on civil rights, same-sex marriage, voting protections and prosecution of abusive police officers.

“When the history books are written he will absolutely go down as one of the best attorney generals when it comes to civil rights, up there next to (Robert) Kennedy” said Leslie Proll, director of the Washington office of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.”It was not only his policies but his talking about race that was important.”

Yet Holder also disappointed some progressives who expected more from the nation’s first black attorney general. For much of Obama’s first term, Holder was rarely seen or heard, and many thought his leadership style was lacking.

“We’ve had profound disagreements with the attorney general on national security issues,” said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero, after praising Holder’s civil rights record. “During his tenure, DOJ approved the drone killing of an American far away from any battlefield, approved the NSA’s mass surveillance programs, failed to prosecute any of the Bush administration torturers, and presided over more leak prosecutions than all previous Justice Departments combined.”

But in the last two years he seemed to find a new energy and purpose, mounting investigations into abusive police departments, moving to shorten prison sentences for some drug offenders, and championing civil rights, gay rights and protections for minority voters.

“His dedication to defending Americans’ voting rights, at a time when these constitutional rights are under attack, has been supremely important,” said Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., a staunch supporter and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Conservatives were united in their animosity toward Holder, almost from the start. In his first major speech, Holder enraged many when he said the U.S. had become a “nation of cowards” for not dealing with lingering racial tensions.

—Richard A. Serrano, Timothy M. Phelps and Lisa Mascaro (Tribune Washington Bureau)

Police Blotter Juvenile put in headlock during attempted robbery Three young men attempted to rob a juvenile Wednesday in the 600 block of Sheridan Road, police said.

The boy had previously planned to meet up with one of the offenders to hang out after they had talked over Facebook, Evanston police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.

The subject showed up with three other men and proceeded to put the victim in a headlock and punch him several times while searching for the victim’s new iPhone, he said.

Detectives are currently investigating the identities of the suspects.

Man robbed at knifepoint A man was robbed Wednesday when suspects placed a sharp object against his back and demanded his belongings, police said.

Three offenders approached the victim at the corner of South Boulevard and Callan Avenue early Wednesday morning. They threatened him with a sharp object and asked for the victim’s property, Parrott said.

When the man could not produce anything, the offenders fled westbound into an alley, police said. The theft is under investigation by police. ­— Paige Leskin

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(Indiana is) the most storied team in college soccer history.

— Tim Lenahan, men’s soccer coach

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Cats set to play powerhouse Indiana

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king Cole Junior Cole Missimo is off to a hot start in 2014. The midfielder’s 3 goals — including the sole score in Northwestern’s win over DePaul — tie him for the team lead.

By julian gerez

daily senior staffer @JulianeGerez

On the back of a derby victory and solid defensive performances, Northwestern (4-1-3, 0-1-1 Big Ten) travels to perennial contender and No. 17 Indiana (5-1-2, 1-1 Big Ten) for a tough conference matchup Sunday.

The Cats will look to pick up their first Big Ten win of the season against the Hoosiers. NU’s defense has held its opponents to just three goals this season, but they’ll have to be at their best to stop a dangerous Indiana attack.

Northwestern vs. No. 17 Indiana Bloomington, Indiana 1:30 p.m. Sunday

The last time the two teams met was in Evanston last season on Nov. 8, with the Hoosiers winning convincingly, 3-0. NU coach Tim Lenahan is not taking the challenge lightly.

“Obviously this is a very difficult opponent for us,” he said after Wednesday’s match against DePaul.

“Indiana at Indiana is like (playing Manchester United) at Man U. There’s eight stars across the top of their shirt for a reason. That’s because they’re the

most storied team in college soccer history.”

The Hoosiers defeated Central Florida 4-2 at home Wednesday, finally finding their true rhythm on offense, scoring more than two goals for the first time this season. Indiana doesn’t have a true conduit by which their attack flows, with three players tied for the team-lead with 2 goals apiece.

The Cats will look to find an offensive rhythm of their own Sunday. Joint-top scorer for NU, junior Joey Calistri, will be hoping to find the back of the net for the first time since the second match of the season

against Hofstra. However, junior midfielder Cole Missimo has really hit his stride, scoring game winners in the match against Valparaiso and the match Wednesday against DePaul.

The Texan has three goals this season, after previously only scoring once in his college career.

“I’ve struggled my first two years of putting goals in the net,” he said after the match Wednesday. “It’s finally feeling like my year. It’s good to get a couple goals to help our team win.”

In terms of cautions, the Hoosiers have been well-disciplined, picking up only six yellow cards and no red cards in their eight matches this season while forcing their opponents to receive 15 yellow cards and one red card. NU on the other hand, has received nine cautions and a single red card, so they’ll need to play carefully to avoid being a man down.

Another showdown to keep an eye on is the battle between the two goalies. Cats senior goalkeeper Tyler Miller holds the all-time NU record for shutouts and has three consecutive clean sheets this season. He is tied for the lead in the Big Ten for shutouts this season with a total of six and has made 24 saves in the eight matches he has played, earning himself the honor of Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week twice this season. Hoosiers sophomore goalkeeper Colin Webb earned the same award earlier this month and has made 20 saves this season, keeping four clean sheets.

Lenahan compared the Cats to Chelsea in their victory against DePaul on Wednesday and likened Indiana to the historic Manchester United. If these two college teams are anything like their Premier League counterparts, we should be in for a great match. juliangerez2017@u.northwestern.edu

NU looks to move on from tough losses Northwestern vs. Ohio State Columbus, Ohio 1 p.m. Sunday

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Northwestern isn’t playing poorly, but the team is still searching for its first win in conference play, following two heartbreaking double-overtime losses against Indiana and Purdue.

The Wildcats have a chance to turn it around Friday when they travel to University Park, Pennsylvania to battle No. 8 Penn State.

Although some part of the recent losses can be attributed to simple bad luck, coach Michael Moynihan is looking for improvements from his team.

“We only have two goals in Big Ten play,” he said. “We scored a lot more prior, but we’re going against tougher defenses, more physical teams, so it’s a harder thing to do in the Big Ten.” Following Thursday’s early morning practice, Moynihan went into schematic depth on areas the Cats’ offense and defense needed to improve. He said NU needs to finish games better and has also spent a significant

Bast finalist for NCAA’s Woman of the Year

Former Northwestern softball player Marisa Bast was named one of nine finalists for the NCAA’s Woman of the Year award, the NCAA announced Thursday.

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Tough Losses Sophomore Maria Grygleski dribbles the ball in Northwestern’s game against Indiana. The Wildcats have lost three straight games by one goal, including the last two in double-overtime.

amount of time working on different set pieces in practice. This was not a coincidence.

“We have to defend our set pieces better,” Moynihan said. “We’ve only given up eight goals all season but five have come either directly off the set piece or related to it. And that’s something that we’re well aware of.”

He said the team’s struggles against set pieces can be attributed to a combination of factors, including tough

officiating, poor defense and, quite simply, stellar execution from the opposing team.

Despite the disappointment, Moynihan said there are a lot of positives to take from the recent losses. One was the play of freshman goalie Lauren Clem. He gave credit to NU’s defense, which has limited the opportunities of opposing offenses, but also pointed out some specific plays Clem has made.

“She’s made a great impact dealing

Bast, who batted .342 over four seasons with the Wildcats, launched an anti-bullying initiative, Reach Out and Reinforce Respect, last year.

The program paired more than 30 NU athletes with local elementary and middle school students in an effort to reduce bullying.

Bast told NCAA.com that her passion for anti-bullying

advocacy derived from personal experience.

“As I was building this program, I realized something was a catalyst for my passion,” Bast said. “I couldn’t figure it out because I had pushed it to the back of my mind and didn’t want to think about it.”

At NU, Bast was a slugging infielder.

She was named to the all-Big

with crosses and higher balls into the box,” Moynihan said. “She uses her height well. In the Nebraska game (T, 1-1) we saw her natural instincts were fantastic. She made some great saves in that game.”

Moynihan also mentioned an impressive save against St. Louis in which Clem covered the length of the crossbar, saying that there were few keepers that could make such a save.

Moynihan didn’t shy away from saying the close losses had an effect on his team’s psyche entering the next match “It’s three losses in a row where we’re coming away feeling like we were the better team,” Moynihan said. “We generated more opportunities and we were in a position to win. Three in a row starts to wear on you.”

How is the team addressing this?

“We have to stay together and we can’t point fingers,” Moynihan said.

“Those were all things we talked about, and it’s a resilient group. We didn’t start the season the way we wanted against Fairleigh Dickinson, but we turned around two weeks later and beat nationally ranked Marquette. So I know they have it in them.”

And the Wildcats will have their opportunity to show it Friday night. huzaifapatel2017@u.northwestern.edu Ten first-team twice and secondteam twice, finishing her career with a .451 on-base percentage a .597 slugging percentage and 194 runs batted in.

The Woman of the Year award winner will be announced Oct. 19 at a ceremony in Indianapolis.

— Alex Putterman

Volleyball

New Big Ten foes await NU Rutgers vs. Northwestern Evanston 7 p.m. Friday

Maryland vs. Northwestern Evanston 7 p.m. Saturday

By Zachary moore

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Northwestern (10-1) will begin its Big Ten schedule with back-to-back home games this weekend. NU will face off against Rutgers on Friday and Maryland on Saturday. The East Coast opponents will head west to WelshRyan arena to attempt to get their first conference wins as members of the Big Ten. “With Maryland and Rutgers coming in, it hasn’t changed what we want to do,” coach Keylor Chan said. “We still want to prepare for each opponent, we just don’t have a lot familiarity with those teams as other Big Ten teams.”

NU comes into Friday’s match winning five matches in a row. Rutgers (7-6) is led by Jeff “CJ” Werneke entering his seventh season as coach of the Scarlet Knights. On the court, the Scarlet Knights are anchored by Eden Frazier and Meme Fletcher. Frazier heads into the match boasting a .355 hitting percentage.

Fletcher leads the Scarlet Knights with 134 kills this year.

Unfortunately, Rutgers’ first game in the prestigious Big Ten comes against a hungry Wildcats team that continues to improve as the season goes along.

“Our expectations are to come out and be the best team we can be,” said senior Monica McGreal. “The Big Ten has some really good competition and starting this weekend we will have to bring our A game.”

Night in and night out, the Cats will be tested and pushed to reach their potential.

“There have been flashes of really good play, but we haven’t played an entire match or even a whole set at our best,” McGreal said. “And that’s what is super exciting about moving forward; we have a lot of room for improvement.”

The NU defense ranks second, only behind Penn State, in opponent hitting percentage, holding teams to a measly .151 hitting percentage.

“We have a pretty diverse offense, we have a lot of people who can score the ball for us and we play some really good defense,” Chan said.

“We have to work on taking care of some outof-system attacking opportunities and taking care of the ball in tough situations.”

The Cats have a quick turnaround as they face Maryland (7-4) Saturday. The Terrapins head into Saturday’s match coming off two tough losses against No. 5 Washington and No. 10 USC. The Cats will have the challenge of containing the two Terrapin standouts Ashleigh Crutcher and Adreene Elliott. Crutcher (123) and Elliott (118) combine for nearly half of the Maryland’s team kills (496).

It will be up to the NU team defense, especially libero Caroline Niedospial. Niedospial has accumulated 176 digs through 11 matches.

She is averaging 4.51 digs per set.

“I try and lead by example by being that player that is always consistent.” Niedospal said. “The whole defense has to stay aggressive and not be afraid to hit the floor.”

The keys to victory remain the same for the Cats, regardless of the opponent.

“Taking care our side of the net, making sure we are organized and run our system the way we want to run them,” Chan said.

As long as NU executes the game plan, a 2-0 start in the Big Ten will put NU at the top of the best women’s volleyball conference. zacharymoore2016@u.northwestern.edu