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EXTENDED WELCOME Northwestern Peer Advisers brandish their signs in the air as incoming students flood Deering Meadow for Wildcat Welcome. This year, the annual orientation program was extended to 10 days.

By JULIE FISHBACH

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Before arriving on campus, Medill freshman Rob Schaefer said he was skeptical about Wildcat Welcome.

Although he was excited to finally go to school after seeing all his friends leave home, Schaefer said he had doubts about the 10-day orientation program. Looking back on it, however, Schaefer said he appreciates the opportunities Wildcat Welcome provided.

“I had questions about the 10-day orientation, but I thought rather than (Wildcat Welcome) getting stale, as I got more acclimated, I enjoyed the

week more,” Schaefer said. “When it was over I felt ready to go to classes.”

New Student and Family Programs extended the orientation program from the usual seven or eight days for the Class of 2019 and transfer students due to Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah, which took place from sundown Sept.

13 to sundown Sept. 15, during Wildcat Welcome. No required activities could be held during this time until Tuesday evening, although optional programming was held beginning on Sunday night.

Communication junior Janie Dickerson, who served as a Peer Adviser this year and last year, said the twoday break in mandatory programing created a challenge to keep students engaged. If students did not observe

the holiday but their PAs did, they were able to pair up with another group to participate in optional activities, she said.

“It was important to make sure they still have the support even though there was no programming,” Dickerson said.

Patricia Hilkert, director of NSFP, said the holiday offered a lot of free time for those not observing. Many PA groups went into Chicago, sat at the Lakefill and spent time in Evanston, she said.

There will be less free time next year because the program will return to its usual length, but Hilkert said it was an interesting twist for students » See WELCOME, page 9

A new mental health organization has formed on campus with the intent of helping male students overcome the stigma against getting help.

MENtal Health, founded by Weinberg junior Jacob Swiatek late Spring Quarter 2015, was created when Swiatek noticed that various on-campus mental health resources were predominantly used by females.

“One of the largest demographics on campus that isn’t receiving attention are guys,” Swiatek said.

“As a guy I thought a lot about what kind of resources I would have liked and what kind of resources should be offered to my friends and fraternity brothers.”

To encourage men to speak out about their mental health issues, Swiatek said MENtal Health has two main goals: to reduce the stigma around men’s mental health and to get people to use available resources as well as provide resources of their own.

As the group is still in its developmental stages, Swiatek said he plans to focus on members of fraternities before extending to the rest of campus.

“We do want to branch out beyond just fraternities, but we figured it’s just an easier place to start because we’re very new and

a lot of us involved with the group know fraternities well,” said MENtal Health member Justin Shannin, a Communication senior and a member of Delta Chi. Currently, the group is all-male, with 10 of its 12 members affiliated with five different fraternities. As members of Greek life, they have all either experienced mental health issues or have seen their brothers go through difficult times, said Weinberg sophomore Grant MurphyHerndon, a member of Phi Delta Theta.

“I had a pretty tough Winter Quarter,” Murphy said. “I’m from the South, so winter was particularly hard for me and I had a number of friends who also had some trouble as well. Almost no one took advantage of anything that was on campus.”

To combat the lack of initiative in men to reach out for help, the group has come up with several ways to bring their services to fraternities. Swiatek said the organization’s programming will target men going through the stressful rush process. MENtal Health’s initiatives include helping new member educators develop mental health programming, giving presentations on mental health to fraternities, participating during rush firesides to new member groups and providing a safe space for anyone who needs to talk, Swiatek said.

Interfraternity Council President » See MENTAL HEALTH, page 9

The Daily to rename Ex-prof asks NU to apologize newsroom after donation

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As part of an ongoing campaign to fundraise for The Daily Northwestern, NU trustee John Madigan and his wife Holly Madigan, an NU alumna, have given a donation to the newspaper that includes a $250,000 challenge grant, Students Publishing Co., Inc. announced Thursday. As a result of the gift, the paper will rename its newsroom after the Madigans.

The Madigans’ gift will contribute to “The Campaign for the Future of The Daily Northwestern,” a five-year effort organized by SPC, the newspaper’s publisher. The campaign has now expanded its original $1 million goal to $2 million after the donation.

The SPC campaign has three primary objectives: ensuring technology is available for staff use, funding student stipends so no students are prevented from working at The Daily and securing a stable financial footing for the paper.

“It’s quite an endorsement when someone like Holly and John Madigan say that this cause is that worthy,” said Jeremy Mullman (Medill ’00), the campaign’s spokesperson and an SPC board member. “The need is there. It’s still a

tough environment for independent college campus newspapers as it is for newspapers of all forms.”

Started in 2014, the campaign has so far raised $1.25 million in gifts and commitments from more than 100 donors, including the Madigans, Mullman said.

John Madigan is the retired chairman and chief executive officer of The Tribune Company. He previously held positions with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the Commercial Club of Chicago. Holly Madigan (Education ’62) is a director and former chairwoman of NU’s Family Institute and is a trustee of the Ravinia Festival. She also is a member of the NU Women’s Board. “(The Daily) is a vital building block in journalism careers,” John Madigan said. “Working for a college newspaper is an incredibly important training ground for going into newspapers or other phases of journalism or communications or public relations.”

The challenge grant, which will match future donations dollar-for-dollar up to $250,000, will incentivize others to give as well, Mullman said.

The Madigan gift was donated to The Daily through NU’s fundraising campaign, “We Will. The Campaign for Northwestern,” Mullman said. Although » See DAILY, page 9

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Former Feinberg Prof. Alice Dreger, who resigned from her position after she said the University censored a faculty magazine, is calling for an official apology from the administration.

“They need to say that a mistake was made and that they apologize and that it won’t happen again,” Dreger told The Daily.

Speaking Wednesday evening to a gathering of about 30 students and community members at Bookends & Beginnings in Evanston, Dreger explained her decision to leave Northwestern in August, just six months after publishing “Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science,” a book on the ethics of medical research and academic freedom based on research made possible through support from the University.

“Northwestern’s name is going to come off the jacket, and that to me is really upsetting because this book was made possible by Northwestern,” Dreger said. “It’s an incredibly bizarre, ironic story at the end of this long book of strange, strange,

Daniel Tian/Daily Senior Staffer

ALLEGED CENSORSHIP Former Feinberg Prof. Alice Dreger speak to a group of Northwestern students and Evanston residents about her resignation in August. Dreger resigned over allegations that Feinberg censored a magazine she guest edited over a story involving a nurse performing oral sex on a recently-paralyzed man.

bizarre stories.”

Dreger said Feinberg professors were censored after Feinberg Dean Eric Neilson asked that all online issues of Atrium, a faculty-edited bioethics magazine, be removed in early 2014 over concerns about an essay that appeared in the Winter

2014 issue in which the author describes his experience of a nurse performing consensual oral sex on him after he was paralyzed at age 18.

Dreger was guest editor of the issue, titled “Bad Girls.” » See DREGER, page 9

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Ventra app nears launch amid delays

By DAVID FISHMAN

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After several delays, Chicago transit riders this fall will likely be able to navigate the city’s Ventra system via a mobile app.

Ventra — the Chicago Transit Authority’s $519 million fare payment system launched in 2013 — is developing a free app that will allow users to pay for transportation with their iOS or Android devices. But so far, the app’s developers have faced issues with user experience, technical glitches and a lack of a firm release date.

“We get one chance to make a first impression,” CTA spokeswoman Tammy Chase said.

“We vowed to the public that (the app) would not be launched until we had tested the heck out of it — not just kicking the tires, but kicking the tires hard.”

Despite delays, transit officials are “100 percent confident” the app will launch this fall, Pace spokesman Patrick Wilmot said.

Chase said the CTA realized in 2011 it needed a new fare payment system because the technology being used was outdated. That same year, a new state law was passed stipulating Metra, Pace and CTA collaborate on a universal payment system. Chicago eventually chose Cubic Transportation Systems to develop Ventra, the current fare payment system.

“The Ventra app has always been envisioned as the next step in a modern fare payment system,” she said. “It’s actually the first of its kind in the United States in terms of being multi-transit agency, accessible via one app.”

After a contract was drawn up, $2.5 million was allocated by the three transportation authorities in Chicago — CTA, Metra and Pace — for the app’s development.

When the developers began to build the app in 2014, they mapped out a three-phase process. Based on the plan, in late spring 2015,

riders would be able to add transit value to their cards, check account balances and view estimated arrival times. Later in the year, a trip-planning feature would be rolled out, and by early 2016 passengers would be able to pay for rides with their phones.

But five months later, the app is nowhere to be found, a release date has not been set and the project developer has not yet been paid.

“Until the app is launched, we will not make any payments,” Wilmot said. “That was established in the contract as a safeguard for the transit agencies in order to make sure we have an app that was fully developed.”

After its initial delay in May, officials partnered with 300 Chicago residents and the Smart Chicago Collaborative’s Civic User Testing Group, a technology consultant, to help improve the app.

Surveys released by the CUTGroup in September showed that about 92 percent of people who used the app liked it, citing usefulness, simplicity and clean design. Other riders were frustrated by password troubles, the tracking of nearby buses and trains and slow performance.

Northwestern students and local residents expressed a mixture of excitement and indifference about the app.

Weinberg freshman Sophie Anolick, who grew up in Evanston, thinks the app would further complicate an already confusing system.

“It has a lot of moving parts to it,” Anolick said. “I liked the way it used to be, where you just put $2 in the machine and got your one pass. I thought it was easier and a lot simpler.”

However, some individuals thought the app would be useful in tracking information otherwise offered by third-party services, such as arrival and departure information.

“I’m addicted to checking when buses and trains are coming,” said SESP senior Jessica Baniamin, who currently uses a separate app called Transit Tracks.

Gurnee resident Larry Raymer, 71, who

takes the Pace bus regularly, said he hadn’t heard about the new app but expressed concern about its simplicity.

“I could see myself using the app,” Raymer said. “But I would like for it to be userfriendly, because I don’t know half of what my smartphone is capable of.” davidpkfishman@u.northwestern.edu

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On Campus

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SSDP defends drug legalization in kickoff event

By LELA JOHNSON

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Northwestern Students for Sensible Drug Policy hosted its introductory meeting Wednesday evening and discussed the organization’s central focus: the merits of drug legalization.

With a goal to advocate compassion rather than neglect toward drug users, the organization took its first steps toward welcoming fresh faces to the table.

Weinberg senior Caroline Naughton, NU’s SSDP chapter co-president, facilitated the discussion. She said she met major legalization activists and that inspired her to take on an executive

board role.

“I got really engaged with the whole movement,” Naughton said. “That’s what really motivated me to stay involved.”

Naughton also discussed drug use on campus, specifically how the university’s Responsible Action Protocol governs students dealing with drug- and alcohol-induced emergencies.

In August, the University expanded its amnesty policy to include drug-related incidents. SSDP had petitioned for such a change in May. She began the meeting with a question for attendees: Is it natural for humans to want to alter their consciousness? After all, she said, numerous cultures have historically utilized drugs for religious and ceremonial purposes, and some even

raise the point that drug use fosters creativity.

Throughout the discussion, members examined the idea of “managed use,” that there can be a happy medium between abstinence and drug abuse. Members who stand behind this philosophy argue that drug prohibition can actually be a more detrimental stance as it encourages underground markets, provides for little regulation and facilitates serious violence.

“On principle, our job in advocating for policy around drug use is that of harm reduction which gives education, resources and all the tools necessary to make the correct decision,” Weinberg junior Anna DiStefano, SSDP’s treasurer, told The Daily. “Ultimately, it’s up to the individual whether they want to use these tools or not.”

Much of the event, titled “Why We’ll Win the War on Drugs,” focused on efforts by the U.S. government to crack down on drug use and the increases in incarceration that have followed.

SSDP has about 200 student-run chapters across the U.S., all advocating for more lenient drug policy. NU’s chapter was relaunched in 2012 after discontinuing in 2009.

NU SSDP co-president Scott Metzger said students are bound to disagree with SSDP’s ideas, and it welcomes pushback.

“We’re welcoming a lot of different perspectives,” he said. “We’re not necessarily telling people that this is the way you need to think it should be.” lelajohnson2019@u.northwestern.edu

Real Food at NU begins placing banners in dining halls

By KARA STEVICK

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Real Food at Northwestern University has begun posting banners promoting “local, sustainable, humane or fair trade” food in all dining halls as part of an initiative approved by University President Morton Schapiro last June.

First posted in Sargent, these banners for NURF’s “Real Food Campus Challenge Commitment” are sponsored by Northwestern Dining and were developed by Real Food Challenge, a national organization aiming to unite students nationwide in an effort to promote sustainable and responsible food choices.

“The purpose of the signs is twofold,” Miranda Cawley, Medill senior and NURF co-president, said. “(They’re meant) to get conversation started … and also to advertise the efforts we are currently undertaking with Sodexo, which is to reach our goal of 20 percent ‘real food’ by 2020.”

NURF co-president Kara Rodby said NURF

plans to distribute these signs to the rest of NU’s dining halls throughout this quarter and hopes to put up additional banners featuring Northwestern’s progress by Winter Quarter.

“The signs that we have posted … (are) a really good way to introduce people to all facets of our food system and how they’re all interconnected,” the McCormick junior said.

SESP junior Christina Cilento, ASG Vice President for Sustainability, said NU is the first Big Ten school to sign off on the “Real Food Campus Challenge Commitment” and remains one of the largest universities nationwide to have done so.

“This is really indicative of the effective lobbying and relationship building NURF has with the university before them,” said Cilento. “It kind of presents NU as a leader amongst our peers in terms of sustainability and food justice.”

Regardless of this, the topics that NURF seeks to confront both on and off campus are ones that cannot be as easily promoted, Cawley said.

“The whole point of the food wheel, the whole point of this educational campaign is that this food system is so complex and encompasses so

many different parts of our lives,” said Cawley.

She went on to emphasize that NURF as a collective does not merely focus on one singular issue. Ultimately, NURF attempts to generate discourse and to educate the community on a variety of nuanced matters, such as those pertaining to the environment, economy and social justice, Cawley said.

“A challenge in our educational efforts is to really lay out what is going on here in a way that is powerful and easily packaged for public relations consumption,” Cawley said.

Cawley said students aren’t usually aware of the issues NURF targets until they have to start feeding themselves.

“This is an opportunity for these students to be able to really take charge of their eating power and get some real food in their dining halls,” she said.

As of now, students such as Cilento, who lives off-campus, are taking note of the collective changes NURF and NU Dining have made to their sustainability marketing platforms.

“It’s something that a lot of people can easily get behind … and everyone wants better quality

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BONFIRE GATHERING Students gather at the bonfire held by Real Food at NU on Wednesday evening.

dining hall food,” said Cilento. “Even if students don’t recognize them, the fact that (the signs) are still there is still a win in and of itself.” karastevick2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Keyboard Conversations: The Passionate Music of Robert Schumann, 7:30 p.m.

Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, $22/16 Jeffrey Siegel, piano If ever a composer’s music was inspired by love, that composer was Robert Schumann. Enjoy novelettes, romances, and variations on a melody by his beloved Clara Wieck in this “concert with commentary.”

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Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble: Evensong, 4 p.m.

Alice Millar Chapel, free Donald Nally, conductor; Eric Budzynski, organ The ensemble again explores this ancient liturgy through Renaissance and contemporary motets and anthems.

The program includes music of James MacMillian, John Sheppard, and Herbert Howells as well as chants and hymns.

Richard Boldrey and Guests, 2 p.m.

David and Carol McClintock Choral and Recital Room, $8/5 Richard Boldrey, piano; Celina Boldrey Casado, violin; Bienen School vocalists Richard Boldrey has served as assistant conductor at Lyric Opera of Chicago and Evanston’s Opera Midwest as well as maestro and assistant to Carlo Bergonzi at Italy’s Bel Canto Festival. With violinist Celina Boldrey Casado, he performs works by Ysaÿe, Schubert, vocalists in Beethoven’s settings of English and Irish folk songs for voice and piano trio.

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Approaching politics on campus Few people would deny Northwestern is a politically-minded campus. Even if most of our student body isn’t involved with a political club such as College Democrats or College Republicans, many of us at least read and have opinions about politics and current events. This campus hosts speakers on American politics, international

relations and everything in between. Not only do individuals want to educate themselves and be involved, but the University itself wants us to participate in political discussion.

To learn about political events on campus or find an article about some controversy, you just have to log into Facebook.

Many of those posting about politics are other NU students, especially now that election season is here.

We are incredibly proud to go to school where we can discuss issues and learn from one another. However, these conversations often are conducted in a counter-productive manner. Individuals leave large-group

conversations feeling like they just wasted a half an hour talking in circles and, many times, feeling as though they had been attacked or insulted. Many of us can relate to this sentiment, or have heard our peers echo it. The problem, in many cases, is the way in which we approach conversations about politics.

Meaningfully engage in political Think critically and seek growth through campus political discussion discourse with open mind ABIGAIL STRATTON

DAILY COLUMNIST

With election season upon us and the craziness starting to ensue, students are beginning to develop opinions about the presidential candidates. The majority of Northwestern students are of voting age, so it is fantastic that some of us are starting to focus more on politics. I am sure that as the election gets closer the focus on campus will shift more to the candidates and one big question: Who are you going to vote for?

This is productive. It is wonderful that college students are taking interest in politics and educating themselves to make informed decisions. However, when it comes to having political discussions with peers, there is a right and a wrong way to do it.

I have participated in or watched political conversations at NU and left thinking, “That was a gigantic waste of my time, and I just lost 45 minutes of studying for my midterm.” I have left other conversations thinking, “Wow, what a jerk, I feel really insulted and am going to avoid any controversial topics with this person from now on.” I have also had constructive, useful conversations that left me more informed.

Surprisingly, the conversation that left me feeling insulted was with someone whose opinion I agreed with. Meanwhile, a talk with someone I disagreed with was educational and made me think more critically about my own opinion. The difference between these scenarios was the way in which we approached the conversations.

We have to think critically about the strengths and weaknesses of any candidate we support or any issue we approach. Make an effort to have constructive conversations.

Letter to the Editor: To curb local gun violence, look at root causes

The city’s response to a recent shooting in Evanston reminds us of this parable: “Once upon a time there was a small village on the edge of a river. The people there were good and life in the village was good. One day a villager noticed a baby floating down the river. The villager quickly swam out to save the baby from drowning.

The next day this same villager noticed two babies in the river. He called for help, and both babies were rescued from the swift waters. The following day four babies were seen caught in the turbulent current. And then eight, then more, and still more!

The villagers organized themselves quickly, setting up watchtowers and training teams of swimmers who could resist the swift waters and rescue babies.

Rescue squads were soon working 24 hours a day.

And each day the number of helpless babies floating down the river increased. One day, however, someone raised the question, ‘But where are all these babies coming from? Let’s head upstream to find out who’s throwing all of these babies into the river in the first place!’”

On Sept. 15, Cesario Cox Sr. — a beloved son, father and cousin — was shot in the head as he stood at the back entrance of a residence located on Evanston’s west side. Three days later, he died. Cox was the third person in the city to die from gunshot wounds this year.

To the community’s relief, authorities responded swiftly. The Evanston police department announced a violence reduction strategy including increased presence in areas affected by recent shootings. The department pledged to use community policing tactics by putting officers on foot in neighborhoods to talk with residents.

We should not pull a Donald Trump and insult someone over something superficial or irrelevant to the topic at hand. Everyone has a right to his or her own opinion and the right to be heard. However, there are times when event having a discussion is pointless. Conversations cease to be constructive when 1) someone is not listening, 2) one or multiple participants do not understand something, 3) one or multiple people are misinformed, 4) someone becomes upset or starts being aggressive.

Often in these situations, someone leaves the conversation feeling insulted. This does not help anyone.

I am not asking NU students to all agree with one another or stop having political conversations, but to think about the way we conduct them. I love that NU students are incredibly passionate, but you will not change everyone’s — or possibly anyone’s — mind in one conversation. Yelling, lecturing or tuning out other opinions because you disagree leads only to hurt feelings and divisions on our campus.

We can all help each other by being open to learning about all sides of an argument.

By changing the way we approach these conversations, we leave room for growth. In doing so, it is easier for everyone to learn facts they would not have otherwise known and be exposed to other ideas and opinions in a constructive manner. So, although it is important to have these discussions, it is equally important to do it in such a way that all parties leave feeling good about having had a constructive discussion instead of studying for their midterm.

Abigail Stratton is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be reached at abigailstratton2018@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

Additionally, as a safety measure, a heat map was released to the public. Color-coded areas on the map designate where shootings and homicides have occurred between Jan. 1 and Sept. 14, 2015. Most gunshots have been fired on the west and southeast sides of the city, with the three most recent homicides having occurred on Evanston’s historically black west side.

It’s easy to misread the map. Despite the best intentions, it sends the wrong message about the root causes of gun violence. Rather than protecting the public, it reinscribes racial stereotypes about the danger and criminality of African Americans.

Dr. Charles Johnson, a psychologist who grew up on the West side told us, “Most people who live in these ‘high-crime’ areas simply go to work and return home to feed themselves and their children, and never touch a drink, a smoke nor commit a crime along the way.

For Johnson, the map reflects an uneven distribution of resources in Evanston. The hot spots aren’t dangerous places but rather areas affected by economic and social redlining — a reference to government policies that stunted the growth of African-American wealth while subsidizing white homeownership. The map also reflects the intentionality of aggressive policing that may include stopping and searching people living in or passing through the hotspots.

Dr. Johnson’s brother Sam is the longtime owner of Church Street Barber Shop near where Cox was shot. He says he is not concerned about safety in light of escalating violence: “I not afraid of my own kids.” Sam doesn’t perceive these young men as “thugs;” instead, when he looks at them, he sees love.

Concentrated poverty, institutional racism and a culture of violence are some of the sociological causes behind deadly shootings.

For decades, civil rights activists challenged Evanston’s pervasive racial injustices: segregated

ASHA SAWHNEY

DAILY COLUMNIST

Although it’s true most Northwestern students don’t make it through their week without overhearing or participating in a political conversation, there is still a lot we can do as a student body to engage meaningfully in politics, particularly around election season.

Although we all have an image of NU as a politically active campus, there is an unhealthy tendency for students to silo themselves into either political or apolitical groups. Usually student activists are seen as the opinionated types with a stake in politics, and those who do not identify as activists feel they should stay away from the issues being discussed on campus. This phenomenon hurts both sides.

Student activists are hurt because they commit their time and energy to impactful movements, and their efforts are often brushed off by those who don’t feel they will gain anything from involving themselves with these issues. I am by no means saying everyone needs to become an activist, but I do encourage everyone to at least listen to the perspectives these groups provide or attend an event that they work hard to put on.

On the other hand, I believe those who shy from political movements on campus are hurt because nearly everyone on this campus holds political views, or has a movement they care about. We are in a unique setting where we have the resources to constantly learn, build on and evolve our worldview. Voter turnout statistics show millennials have ample room for improvement, with just 21.3 percent of 18- to 29-yearolds voting in the 2014 midterm election.

So how can NU students take advantage of the resources on campus this election season?

How can we make our engagement meaningful by maximizing its scope and taking it beyond schools and residential neighborhoods. Groups organized and people joined. After losing a critical School Board election in 1971 that would have ensured a meaningfully integrated school system, civil rights leader Bennett Johnson (no relation to the Johnson brothers) warned city residents, “The time to cry is tomorrow when we are at each other’s throats.”

Tomorrow is here and change has not come.

There continue to be racial disparities between blacks and whites in school achievement, income and wealth.These gaps can be traced back to 150 years of unequal access to services and resources.

We need to see the map for what it is and not what it pretends to be. It’s easy to cast the individuals who shot Cox as criminals and the red hotspots as dangerous areas to avoid. If we do that, we don’t have to grapple with the way we wouldn’t change or wouldn’t listen. It’s easier to frame the situation as regrettable and outside of our control than it is to

posts on social media?

The first step, if you haven’t already, is to register to vote. After 30 days on campus, students can register either in Illinois or their home state.

In Illinois, voters can register online, but this isn’t the case for all states. Students should check what the process and requirements are to vote in their home states and whether they would like to vote in Illinois or send in an absentee ballot. Remember, sending in an absentee ballot requires advanced planning.

If campaigning is of interest to you, College Democrats and College Republicans are great resources for getting involved in canvassing and fundraising. However, if your interests are more movement-specific, attending educational events put on by student groups is a great place to start.

Outside of formal events, simply conversing with peers about their work using the guidelines Abby mentions is an excellent way to stay engaged. Personally, as a member of Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators, I am thrilled when someone approaches me with a curiosity about the work we do, because I can use my training to inform others and make an impact on the campus culture.

Lastly, it is a big frustration for most that a single conversation usually cannot change someone’s mind. I suggest moving away from changing someone’s mind as the initial goal, and instead focus on the intrinsic value of active listening. Likewise, challenge yourself to have a difficult conversation more than once, or look into Sustained Dialogue as a resource to have deeper conversations. We have a wealth of resources on campus, and everyone has room to learn and grow as political issues are brought to the forefront this election season.

Asha Sawhney is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be reached at ashasawhney2018@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

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MUSICAL MOMENTS The cast rehearses for the opening of “Assassins,” a musical produced by Arts Alliance. The show will go up in Shanley Pavilion on Oct. 1 and run through Oct. 3.

Arts Alliance opens season with ‘Assassins’

By KIMBERLY GO

the daily northwestern @kimberlygo2018

Arts Alliance will put on a killer musical for its first show of the school year.

“Assassins,” a play that tells the stories of the men and women who tried, failed or succeeded in killing America’s presidents, opens Thursday for a three-day run at the Shanley Pavilion.

The musical, which takes place in vignettes, allows each assassin to come forward and tell their story in a unique theatrical medium, whether through song, dance or monologue, director Alex Gold said.

“The show takes place in this twisted carnival, where these assassins are invited into the story by this creepy proprietor,” the Communication senior said. “They’re handed a gun and they’re told to go shoot a president, so it turns into this twisted game for them.”

Gold said he first encountered the piece when he was 13 and was blown away.

“It’s dark and it’s happy and it’s beautiful and it’s violent,” he said. “And it doesn’t mix all of those colors together, it just paints them side by side.”

Gold and producer Caitlin Medina chose “Assassins” because they felt it was challenging and different. However, between June, when they casted the show, and September, when they started rehearsing, the musical’s relevance has changed.

“There have been shootings and gun violence all over the country,” he said. “It was scary at first to do a show with such violence in this climate, but after a while we realized that it was a gift and we got to use this story to say something unique about the state of gun violence in America.”

Gold and Medina reinterpreted several parts of the musical to reflect its relevance to today’s shootings.

“Typically the show is eight men and two

women,” said Medina, a Communication senior.

“Opening (the roles) up to any race and gender highlights how these assassins literally could be anyone.”

The character of John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Abraham Lincoln, for example, is played by Communication senior Alex Getlin.

“People think they know who John Wilkes Booth was,” Gold said. “But going into this space and seeing a woman walk out and play him immediately forces them to reconsider their expectations and be open to reconsidering what they think they know about any of these people.”

Getlin agrees and added that the show is important because it lets the audience empathize and sympathize with people normally cast off as “total monsters.”

“This show forces you take a second look at them and understand why they did the things they did,” she said.

Another artistic decision Gold and Medina made was to stage the musical in the rounds.

The stage is a big circle in the middle of the space, with the audience sitting all around it.

Not only will this staging create an increased sense of intimacy, Gold said, but it will also allow audience members to “watch other people watch the show.”

“It’s definitely a very unique production of the show,” Gold said. “As people who are both making and watching theater, I think this is the time to be taking risks. The show has become an American classic and I think it’s our turn as a new generation to put our spin on it.”

Gold and Medina said they hope the show gives the audience the space and tools to more productively talk about gun violence in America.

“We see throughout the show whenever a presidential assassination is committed, people always say, ‘How could someone do that?’ The show begins to attempt to answer that question,” Gold said. kimberlygo2018@u.northwestern.edu

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HISTORY MEETS THEATER “Assassins,” explores the stories of people who tried, both successfully and unsuccessfully, to assassinate American presidents.

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City, agency celebrates month for arts

By AMANDA SVACHULA

the daily northwestern @amandasvachula

Evanston joins the Illinois Arts Council Agency in celebrating Arts & Humanities Month this October. Through this initiative, the city hopes to promote awareness for local arts and humanities.

“The arts will enrich (people’s) lives,” said Martha Logan, the city’s community engagement manager.

In recognition of Arts & Humanities Month, The Daily has compiled a guide to organizations that foster culture and the arts in Evanston.

Noyes Cultural Art Center: The Noyes Cultural Art Center, 927 Noyes St., is Home to more than 20 artists and arts organizations.

The center was originally designed as an elementary school in 1892 by architect Daniel Burnham, who directed the famous World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Evanston turned the building into an

arts center in 1980. Since this transformation, resident artists have performed onstage and shown their work in two galleries at the center.

“There are programs in place from various arts organizations,” Logan said. “An upcoming exhibit is from the artist Peggy Lipschutz, who is 96 years old.

She’s quite an impressive artist.”

SPACE: SPACE, 1245 Chicago Ave., is an ambient music venue, serving music enthusiasts who are looking for a rustic, intimate concert setting. Since opening in 2008, SPACE has brought thousands of performances to its stage.

Artists including Joshua Radin, Howie Day, and Vanessa Carlton will be at SPACE in the upcoming months.

The Actors Gymnasium: Located at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center, The Actors Gymnasium aims to bring physicality to American theater by teaching circus tricks, acrobatics and other skills. Founded in 1995, the organization has

seen thousands of students and produced hundreds of performances. There are classes for all ages, and the gymnasium presents original works of circus theater.

In the upcoming season, the gymnasium will present “Circus in Progress: An Evening of Daring New Work” at the arts center. Professionals from the Chicago circus community as well as advanced students from the gymnasium will perform.

Piven Theatre Workshop: For more than 40 years, the Piven Theatre Workshop, 927 Noyes St., has been a staple in Evanston theater. The organization pursues its mission of creative exploration through a training center, scholarship outreach and a professional theater.

In the 2015-2016 season, the workshop will present a conversation involving “The Quality of Mercy.” This conversation will be developed throughout the year with a combination of improvisational and adapted theater works. amandasvachula2018@u.northwestern.edu

Meet this year’s StuCo co-chairs

By RACHEL DAVISON

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Source: Sam Douglas

SUPER SAM Northwestern Student Theatre Coalition Co-Chair Sam Douglas acts onstage.

Douglas, a Communication senior, previously served as an Associated Student Government senator, representing StuCo.

Sam Douglas Sam Douglas is a Communication senior from Nashville, Tennessee. This is his second year as a Student Theater Coalition executive representative. He is not only a co-chair but is also a representative of his theatre board, Sit & Spin Productions.

Last year he sat on the StuCo executive board as the Associated Student Government senator to represent the organization and the student theater community to senate and the wider student body.

“I was interested in expanding a perspective of Northwestern of how students operate, because the theater community can seem pretty exclusive and internalized,” Douglas said. “I wanted to say, ‘Student theater’s not so exclusive as people think it is,’ and also to be able to broaden that audience base and participatory base.”

He became involved in the StuCo community his freshman year by joining Sit & Spin Productions as a freshman board representative, then served in different positions and is now the board’s executive director. The

board produces “risk taking” theater.

“It has given me a newer perspective on what it means to be a theater artist and how art and theater are created at school here and also in the world,” Douglas said. “I am most passionate about work that can further people’s perceptions of what art can be.”

As StuCo Co-Chair, Douglas said he wants to give StuCo directors who are also theater majors academic credit outside of their show and make the student theater community feel better represented through StuCo, he said.

“As an actor, I had a very limited view of so many of the different things that go on in theater,” he said. “I’m interested in making sure that everybody in the student theater community feels accepted and important.”

Because the representatives on StuCo Exec change every year, it is rare to have someone who is spending a second year working on the board, said 2014-15 StuCo Co-Chair Olivia Probetts (Communication ’15).

“It’s really cool that we have someone that has been part of the conversations that we had last year and knows a lot of the long-term planning projects that we have going on,” Probetts said. “He really will help the StuCo community and StuCo Exec and enact positive change.”

Source: Tristan Chiruvolu

TIP-TOP TRISTAN School of Communication senior and Northwestern Student Theatre Coalition Co-Chair Tristan Chiruvolu performs.

He has been involved in WAVE Productions since his freshman year and is now the theater board’s University Relations Chair.

Tristan Chiruvolu Communication senior Tristan Chiruvolu came to last year’s StuCo Co-Chairs, Probetts and A.J. Roy (Communication ’15) about starting open forums for the theater community to discuss issues and topics like auditioning, directing and petitioning.

“He’s always just shown a great compassion and care for the StuCo community,” Probetts said.

Chiruvolu also started conversations and has seen what people have to say about “social politics” within the student theater community.

“The way StuCo is structured creates a lot of social hierarchy stuff, which we don’t like,” Chiruvolu said. “We’re focusing on ways to work around that.”

He wants to continue this dialogue and include the perspectives of those who are not members of theater boards.

“I was super interested in what they had to say,” Chiruvolu said. “A lot of these people I talked to weren’t on boards. Student theater works so closely, but it’s also so separate. It’s very trickled down and trickling up — it’s very hard to hear from people who aren’t on boards.

As StuCo co-chair, Chiruvolu wants to make sure students, especially freshmen, are aware of opportunities to get involved in student theater.

“We’ve done a good job showing all the ways to get involved and making sure people know what petitioning for a board means, and that they know they are so many other ways to get involved in theater,” he said. “I’m excited for the freshmen to get involved with the theater community.”

In his first year, Chiruvolu became a freshman board representative for WAVE Productions and is now the board’s university relations chair after acting as production manager last year.

“Being on WAVE opened my eyes to different types of theater,” he said. “It taught me a lot about ensemble collaboration and how amazing and important it is to work with a group of artists that you really trust.”

Throughout his time at NU, Chiruvolu has worked in StuCo productions outside of WAVE Productions in different capacities.

“He knows a lot of what’s going on so that places in him in a great position,” Probetts said. racheldavison2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Dittmar exhibit portrays massacre Workshop

By RACHEL YANG

daily senior staffer @_RachelYang

A new exhibit in the Dittmar Gallery portrays scenes from a massacre marring Northwestern’s history.

The exhibit, which opened at Dittmar on Sept.

17 and runs through Oct. 25, features more than 30 works of three American-Indian artists. Their artwork depicts scenes from Nov. 29, 1864, when a U.S. soldiers slaughtered more than 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, most of whom were women and children, in Sand Creek, Colorado. John Evans, a co-founder of the University, was the governor of the Colorado Territory at the time.

George Curtis Levi, a Cheyenne and Arapaho artist, used ledger art, narrative drawings or paintings done on paper or cloth, to capture events leading up to the massacre. Levi said he was inspired to start organizing the exhibit last February, as 2014 marked the 150th anniversary of the massacre, and said he wanted to personally honor his ancestors.

“The history has always been told about Sand Creek from somebody else’s standpoint, from an outsider standpoint,” Levi said. “As a Cheyenne, hearing stories growing up, stories about Sand Creek … about what our people endured, that’s why I wanted to do this.”

For Levi, art is not only a way to pay his respects to his elders and preserve his culture’s history, but it is an important part of Cheyenne life in general.

“The Cheyenne didn’t have a written language,” Levi said. “It was all primarily oral history … painting things on buffalo hides. That’s how they kept their stories alive.”

Brent Learned, another Cheyenne Arapaho artist whose acrylic paintings are also displayed at Dittmar, said he hopes people will leave the exhibit and learn about a tragedy not many people know enough about, especially Evans’ role in the tragedy.

Although some of the paintings are graphic, such as one depicting a cavalryman’s attack on a Cheyenne woman, Learned said he hopes the startling images will help the NU community realize the extent of the massacre’s brutality.

“John Evans, any time his name is brought up, he’s the founder of Northwestern, the founder of the University of Denver, he was the governor of Colorado,” Learned said. “But do you ever really hear about him mentioned with the Sand Creek Massacre? Very rarely.”

NU has taken recent efforts to address Evans’ role in the massacre and strengthen the University’s relationship with American-Indian communities, such as the formation of the Native American Outreach and Inclusion Task Force last year and the group’s subsequent report recommending specific actions to improve these relationships.

Following suggestions from the report, NU’s One Book One Northwestern selection is an account of American-Indian and white relations throughout history, and there are numerous programs — such as the exhibit — scheduled this year to support the theme of the book.

Darien Wendell, a Dittmar student curator, said she believes this exhibit will help increase awareness about American-Indian issues at NU. “We don’t have a lot of indigenous students, American-Indian students, on campus,” the Communication senior said. “It’s less than 1 percent.”

Levi and Learned said there are even more ways NU can improve its relationship with AmericanIndian communities in the future, such as creating a scholarship for people of Cheyenne or Arapaho descent and establishing mandatory classes on American-Indian issues.

Levi said there are tentative plans to show the exhibit at other locations to keep raising awareness about the struggles of his ancestors and other American-Indian groups and to further promote his people’s endurance and rich culture. “(Cheyennes), whatever happened to us 150 years ago, we’re still here,” Levi said. “We’re using the Sand Creek Massacre as fuel to better ourselves, make ourselves stronger, because if we can endure that, we can endure anything.” weizheyang2018@u.northwestern.edu

Q&A: Ryan Simpson, NU spirit leader

By RACHEL HOLTZMAN

the daily northwestern @rachelholtzman

With his cheeriness, wit and love for all things Northwestern, McCormick senior Ryan Simpson, a trumpet player and the spirit leader for the Northwestern University Marching Band, keeps up the gameday enthusiasm of everyone at Ryan Field, from NUMB to the spectators. The Daily spoke with Simpson about the position, his experiences in NUMB and the University’s unique gameday culture.

For those who don’t know, what is the spirit team, and what do you like about it?

Our job is really to keep the band pumped up during games, and that role has also really expanded to making sure that everyone else stays pumped up. I love making people laugh.

I love that what I do helps people enjoy band more. During the games, it makes people more excited. Even people outside of the band might look at me and say, “Who’s that kid in the hat?

He looks like he’s having a great time, so we can also have a great time.”

What does a typical Saturday football game look like?

When there’s a lot going on in the game, we’re dancing around. When there’s a lull in the action but the moment’s still intense, we’ll get a “Go U NU” chant going on. Otherwise, it’s just about keeping the energy up. One thing I’ve realized while I’m up there is that I can never really slack off in terms of energy. If I’m not into it, why should anyone else care what’s going on?

What do you think Northwestern’s spirit style is like compared to the rest of the Big Ten?

Source: Ryan Simpson

SO MUCH SPIRIT Ryan Simpson, the spirit leader of Northwestern University Marching Band, prepares to excite the crowd at Ryan Field. Simpson, a McCormick senior, enjoys the marching band’s traditions and keeping everyone energized during football games.

I don’t know if any other band has anything like our spirit team. Most bands have a drum major, but that’s the only person really on the ladder and doing spirit, not really counting cheerleaders. We’re just a different school altogether. … We’re this small private school that, for a while, in the 70s and 80s, was not good at football, so the spirit team’s job was kind of different. The band may have had the only students at the games sometimes. It’s something that’s always evolving, but I guess our idea of spirit within the band is having a quirkier idea of spirit. We couldn’t always just have a “Ra, ra, we’re going to beat you!” kind of experience — we had to just have fun with it ourselves for a while. Of course, I’m really

excited that we’re doing well this season so far.

What are some of your favorite band and spirit traditions?

Some of them are really cool and weird — I’m still trying to figure out where they came from, but they’ve been passed down to us for years. One thing that’s cool is that the things that we do are things that have stuck around for 20 years, and I think it’s cool that something I do now may stick with people 20 years down the line. rachelholtzman2018@u.northwestern.edu

aims to help writers

By YAQOOB QASEEM

the daily northwestern @yaqoobqaseem

A new collaboration between The Dolphin Show and Vertigo Productions will give student writers the opportunity to workshop their musicals.

[Insert Musical Here] will allow writers to develop their skills by focusing on the process of creating a musical. Each writer will receive a cast and director for the week-long workshop, which will culminate in performances of ten-minute segments of each musical in mid-November.

“What we want to see is what individual theater makers are proud of and what they’re composing on their own time,” said said Alex Kramer, co-director of special events for The Dolphin Show and co-producer of [Insert Musical Here]. “We want to enable those stories and those writers.”

Both Kramer and Reed Lancaster, co-producer of [Insert Musical Here], said there are few opportunities on campus for composing musical theater and seeing the written works in action. Kramer said the new push for providing these opportunities began last spring with Vertigo Productions’ New Songwriters’ Cabaret, which revealed the large numbers of students writing musicals relative to the lacking outlets to show these works.

“You have to be able to workshop a musical to realize the problems with it,” said Lancaster, who also serves as New Music Development Chair for Vertigo Productions. “This is how we’re giving people a chance to do that.”

The workshop week will provide feedback to writers during four days of rehearsals and revisions. Writers will then go through the work a final time in a dress rehearsal the day before the performances. Kramer and Alex Wolfe, business producer for The Dolphin Show, said [Insert Musical Here] aims to provide undergraduate students with the same opportunities as NU’s American Music Theatre Project, which allows professional artists to workshop musical theater in a similar manner.

Kramer said the event also provides exciting opportunities for both directors and actors. All of the submitted works are new and thus allow participants to mold their own roles. Additionally, Kramer said the number of directing opportunities at Northwestern is small compared to the number of students interested.

“You can make your own choices and your own character with the guidance of the writers and your director,” she said. “It’s an exciting opportunity for all involved.”

Kramer and Wolfe agree that [Insert Musical Here] represents the The Dolphin Show’s goal to integrate with other theater organizations and be more inclusive on campus.

[Insert Musical Here] will open applications in the first week of October. The event is the first collaboration between Vertigo Productions and The Dolphin Show, and the workshop will ideally be annual, Wolfe said.

The partnership is exciting and valuable due to shared interests and resources, said Kramer and Lancaster. Kramer said she hopes such partnerships will continue in the future.

Wolfe said she heard that one of her friends who had never written songs or musicals before decided to begin writing after learning about [Insert Musical Here].

“I think that’s really cool that it’s motivating people to step outside of their comfort zone and follow new paths and new passions,” she said. yaqoobqaseem2018@u.northwestern.edu

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UIUC professor addresses Zimbabwean crises

By ISABELLA JIAO

the daily northwestern @JiaoYawen

University of Illinois sociology Prof. Assata Zerai drew from her latest book on Zimbabwean humanitarian crises to address solutions to children’s health problems at an event at Northwestern on Wednesday.

During the talk, Zerai, who also serves as director of the Center for African Studies and associate dean of the Graduate College at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign examined how both environmental factors and hypermasculinity manifested through military control debilitate early childhood health in the country. She drew upon the empowerment of women in improving the unfortunate circumstances children in Zimbabwe experience.

Hosted by the NU African Studies Program, the talk attracted an audience of NU students and faculty.

Across Campuses Free-speech clashes rise on campuses At Montclair State University, a student group was fined and sanctioned for handing out proPalestine brochures. At Rutgers University, officials faced a federal complaint alleging they didn’t do enough to protect students who were bullied over their support for Israel.

The complaints, both dismissed or repealed, are among the efforts at suppressing criticism of Israel on college campuses, claim Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights in a report released Wednesday.

The cases reflect the climate on many college campuses that have become political battlegrounds over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Activists for the Palestinian side claim they are losing academic freedom and free speech amid “baseless” complaints and punitive actions.

“The tactics being used across the country to silence one side of a debate undermine both the First Amendment and democratic principles,” said Dima Khalidi, director of Palestine Legal, a civil rights legal group.

But pro-Israel groups counter that activism is sometimes accompanied by anti-Semitism and that

During the presentation, Zerai highlighted how climate variability creates unsafe and unpredictable water resources, which, exacerbated by unsanitary conditions, contributes to high child morbidity in Zimbabwe.

The findings mainly come from her second book “Hypermasculinity, State Violence, and Family WellBeing in Zimbabwe.” Speaking on why a feminist perspective especially appeals to her, she explained that as both a woman and a humanist — one who values human life as a philosophy — she believes women and children, whose needs are a last priority in Zimbabwe, should be given more attention.

“You have to challenge social norms to make social changes,” she said.

Martha Wilfahrt, a post-doctoral fellow in political science commented after the presentation.

“It’s a very important topic,” Martha Wilfahrt, a post-doctoral fellow in political science, said after the presentation. “And because I’m working on

something similar, it’s interesting to hear about her insights on the issue.”

Despite her knowledge of this topic in Zimbabwe, Zerai had never been to the country before, she said.

Her research was mainly secondary by analyzing data sets. Because information wasn’t as available as it is today, when she first worked on the dissertation at the University of Chicago, Africana feminism was hardly heard of. She couldn’t even find sufficient information about the political background in Zimbabwe, such as Gukurahundi, the suppression of Zimbabwe civilians.

“I didn’t even know what that was.” she said.

Many questions about hypermasculinity in Zimbabwe were also raised during the Q&A session as the audience pressed about the relationship between the military regime and child morbidity in the country. Zerai noted that, because of ethnic cleansing and persistent violence in the country, civilian resources were inevitably diverted to other uses.

“To the state, military is only a means for political gains,” Zerai said. “And it’s for politicians’ personal gains. The people couldn’t benefit at all.”

Pricilla Marimo, a Zimbabwean research manager at the Center for the Study of Development Economics, said she agreed with Zerai. Growing up in Zimbabwe, she said corruption and violence was deep-rooted in the country. This resulted in misplacement of resources essential for the people, such as basic sanitary facilities and water distribution infrastructures.

“There were no clean and stable water sources even in the cities,” Marimo said.

However, she disagreed with how Zerai categorized different ethnicities in Zimbabwe.

“Still, I think her findings on the general health care problems in Zimbabwe are largely true,” Marimo said.

some campuses have become uncomfortable and even hostile places for Jewish students.

“We don’t advocate for protected speech to be censored or suppressed. But there are steps that colleges and universities can and should be taking to address anti-Semitic speech and conduct on campus, in the same way that they address the targeting of other groups,” said Susan Tuchman, director of the Center for Law and Justice at the Zionist Organization of America, one of the organizations accused in the report of trying to censor speech.

The fight over free speech _ and when that speech goes to far _ has taken center stage on campuses that have seen protests of controversial speakers, bans on offensive books and dedicated zones for student activism. Often, the issue is taken up by legal groups.

In this case, Palestine Legal, which provides support for Palestinian activists, partnered with the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit organization that has defended individuals and groups in national civil rights cases on discrimination, surveillance and torture and other civil rights issues.

In the report, Palestine Legal said it has responded to nearly 300 incidents over an 18-month period that include legal complaints, disciplinary actions, firings, harassment, threats and false accusations of terrorism and anti-Semitism

levied against students and teachers over pro-Palestine activity.

They cited a case last year in which Montclair State University’s student government sanctioned and fined a campus club, claiming it was not supposed to take political stances. The club had given out brochures with information about Israeli settlements and home demolitions, a map showing Palestinian loss of land and information about how students could get involved.

The student body repealed the sanctions two weeks later. A university spokeswoman said at the time that the decision was made by students and not administrators, but they were glad it was resolved after the repeal.

There were several incidents at Rutgers cited in the report. In 2010, organizations claimed that students raising money for a flotilla to deliver aid to Gaza could potentially be supporting “illegal” actions of boats trying to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Rutgers prevented the money from being donated for that purpose.

The following year, the Zionist Organization of America filed the complaints with the U.S. Department of Education alleging that the university failed to respond appropriately to alleged harassment of students because of their national origin. They noted comments a student posted on Facebook insulting a Jewish student as a “Zionist pig.” The

department dismissed the complaint, finding no wrongdoing on Rutgers’ part.

In 2013, a Rutgers club was accused of targeting Jewish students when it posted mock eviction notices on student dorm doors to draw attention to Palestinian home demolitions. The university found that while the students violated a housing policy on posting fliers, they did not target Jewish students.

Asked about the climate at Rutgers and the university’s inclusion in the report, spokesman Greg Trevor replied: “Rutgers is one of the most diverse universities in the nation and has a long and proud history of being a welcoming institution for people of all faiths. The university is committed to addressing any allegations of bias while maintaining an educational environment that encourages freedom of expression and civil discourse.”

Roz Rothstein, CEO of the group StandWithUs, an international Israel education organization, said they are responding to threats and intimidation of Jewish students on college campuses that distract from students’ education. They also want to counter actions that seek to demonize Israel, she said.

“The reports are an attempt to cry victim by perpetrators of harassment,” she said. “It’s not about free speech. They have been harassing the pro-Israel community.”

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to explore campus and spend time in Evanston.

NSFP is hoping to leave the entire day prior to classes starting free for students to enjoy time on campus next year, she added.

Although Schaefer chose to attend some of the optional programming, he said there was sufficient time to relax due to the Rosh Hashanah break.

“I enjoyed the programs, but it was nice to have a break and not feel pressured to always be doing something and to have more of a laid-back experience,” Schaefer said.

In the future, Schaefer said he recommends NSFP eliminate unnecessary activities to make all of Wildcat Welcome more like the two optional days. Schaefer said he would have valued being able to spend more time with people outside his PA group.

“You’re meeting a lot of people, but it wasn’t always in the most organic ways,” Schaefer said.

“It’s nice that you get comfortable with a PA group, but I was looking forward to meeting people in dining halls, in my lounge or in class.”

Although Dickerson enjoyed the two days of optional activities and a break from a hectic schedule, she said the free time opened the door for more students to attend off-campus parties, both during the day and at night.

“Wildcat Welcome is structured in a way to keep students engaged so that they have excuses not to go to some of the off-campus parties that go on that week,” Dickerson said. “The parties and darties were definitely an issue. The

schedule opened up more avenues for partying, which is always discouraged.”

The opportunities for students to attend parties during the day provided a big challenge — both during Wildcat Welcome and its aftermath — for administrators, Hilkert said.

Administrators knew the free time would pose a problem but do not expect it to be an ongoing issue, she said.

Another big change to Wildcat Welcome this year included the removal of a trip to Millennium Park. For the past two years, Northwestern students went to Chicago for Purple Pride following March Through the Arch, where they learned about NU traditions and Chicago, and bonded with their PA groups for the first time.

The event took place at Welsh-Ryan Arena this year because Millennium Park was unavailable.

Hilkert said it was refreshing to do Purple Pride on campus.

“It’s about school spirit and tradition so that made sense to us, and we thought it was a good change,” she said.

For the first time, students also had the opportunity to attend the Field Museum, which was rented out to NU for the evening.

Despite initial fears about how the program would play out, NSFP has received many positive survey results about Wildcat Welcome from students, Hilkert said.

“We’ve gotten so many compliments from parents and family members, more so than ever before,” she said. “We’re excited to see what the rest of the survey data shows.”

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“First and foremost, the board is extremely committed to the independence of The Daily, and we would never put the paper in any situation we felt compromised its editorial integrity or independence in the slightest,” he said.

“That’s the starting point for everything.”

The University has been supportive of The Daily’s fundraising campaign, board member Ed Bryant (Medill ’63, School of Law ’67) said.

Bryant, who has been on the board since 1972, has himself included a $200,000 bequest commitment to the campaign.

Medill senior Sophia Bollag, The Daily’s editor in chief, said she is grateful for the Madigans’ and Bryant’s donations.

The donations will allow, through student stipends, all staff members to participate fully in The Daily, regardless of their financial situation, Bollag said. Additionally, The Daily will be able to acquire high quality photography and design equipment so staffers will not need to purchase such equipment themselves, she said.

“I’m so glad that so many donors are supporting us in what I think is a very important mission not only for informing the community but also in training the next generation of journalists,” she said.

Mark Nelson said he supports the group and wishes it had been around when he was rushing.

“I’m excited about it,” Nelson, a Weinberg senior, said. “This is a great program for people who are like me who don’t necessarily feel comfortable just opening up to others.”

In addition to developing its own programming, Swiatek said he wants MENtal Health to work closely with existing mental health organizations — both student- and University-run — such as Counseling and Psychological Services, NU Active Minds and NU Listens.

“I do truly believe that given the opportunity, guys do want to open up and talk about these issues,” Swiatek said. “It’s just that with the current way things are done, guys have to go out of their way in order to go to these spaces and we want to bring it to them.”

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Dreger said Neilson told her the article “violates a branding agreement” between the medical school and the corporation that owns the Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

“This may be one of the first known cases of explicit reference to a brand resulting in censorship,” Dreger said. “This was already published and then withdrawn… so it really was censorship.”

Although all issues were eventually restored, the issue was only allowed to be put back online after Dreger threatened to go public, she said. Upset that the University would not admit to having censored then faculty, Dreger submitted a four-page resignation letter in August.

“You’re not supposed to censor my academic freedom,” Dreger said. “You’re supposed to defend it when people try to censor me.”

Dreger particularly criticized the corporatization of the medical school and warned against the dangers of trying to “brand” an academic institution, which she said directly contradicts the idea of free expression.

“The type of academic censorship that went down at the medical school is untenable,” Weinberg graduate student Francisco Maravilla, who attended the event, told The Daily. “It’s absolutely unacceptable, and I think that the University and the medical school in particular needs to think about how it wants to represent itself as an academic institution and not as a corporate entity.”

Maravilla and other graduate students brought genitalia-shaped cake and alcoholinfused jello to the event. Other students asked Dreger for autographs and photos.

John Wilson, an Evanston resident who helped organize the event and co-editor of The Academe Blog, which published Dreger’s letter of resignation, said the Dreger controversy should trouble students, faculty and community members alike.

“Historically, Northwestern has been one of the strongest supporters of academic freedom and really is a model for other universities,” Wilson said. “Now there’s been a series of threats to academic freedom that makes it one of the worst universities when it comes to academic freedom, and that’s been a really alarming transformation.”

Last spring, NU made headlines while investigating a Title IX complaint filed against Communication Prof. Laura Kipnis over a series of passages in an article published in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The relevant passages discussed an ongoing investigation of alleged sexual misconduct involving philosophy Prof. Peter Ludlow.

Dreger said she has yet to see the University administration make any kind of acknowledgment of the alleged censorship she said she encountered.

“They should tell (Feinberg Dean) Neilson openly that the censorship was inappropriate,” she said. “It was not in keeping with the faculty handbook’s claims of the protection of academic freedom. They should apologize. They should say it’s not gonna happen again.” kellygonsalves@u.northwestern.edu

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Evanston takes action against growing rat problem

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An increased number of complaints from residents regarding rat sightings has led Evanston officials to reach out to private pest control companies.

An increase in 311 calls in the city regarding rodent sightings in residential areas has prompted the Health and Human Services Department to seek private rodent control services, said Carl Caneva, assistant director for health and human services.

“The volume of calls got to be in excess of what our staff could handle,” Caneva said. “The best solution was to combine the benefits of public and private services into one program.”

The 311 program is an outlet for residents to call the local government or local police about non-emergency issues. These calls have

National News Congress avoids shutdown, but more budget troubles are ahead WASHINGTON — Congress has avoided one shutdown crisis but potentially set the stage for another.

Now that lawmakers in the House of Representatives and the Senate have approved a continuing resolution to keep the government flush with cash until Dec. 11, the Obama administration and Republican and Democratic congressional leaders have launched efforts to forge a two-year budget deal in order to avoid shutdown showdowns that the nation has endured over the past few years.

There’s trouble ahead. “It’s going to be a very messy December, not a very merry Christmas,” said Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a bipartisan budget watchdog group.

That quest for a big deal could lead to shutdown drama in December. That’s because congressional Democrats and the White House have insisted that any deal must include lifting the mandatory spending caps on domestic and defense spending known as sequestration.

Republicans, mainly in the House, also could

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both alerted city officials to the rat issue in general and have helped them pinpoint the most affected parts of the city, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said.

Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) said the problem seems to be evenly distributed in the city.

Before the city began seeking help from private firms, the protocol for public pest control was putting bait boxes in alleyways to catch the rats, Caneva said.

If residents saw rats anywhere but alleyways, they would have to hire a private company themselves, he said.

Braithwaite said each alderman is also working to bring more awareness about pest prevention to the residents in their respective wards. In the second ward, Braithwaite said he includes rodent control strategies in weekly newsletters as well as addresses residents directly about the issue at community meetings.

Caneva said the city has been seeking aid

from private pest control companies for about three years as the rat population peaks each fall.

The city will begin working with the chosen private firm at the end of October.

Until then, residents must take care to avoid unintentionally giving rats a new home, Caneva said.

“Keep as much food, water and shelter on your property to a minimum,” he said. “For as much as we can do, we can’t monitor every house at all times, so some of it is on the residents.”

The city uses a rat control strategy that avoids using chemical pesticides and focuses on long-term pest prevention such as behavior manipulation or aversion techniques. The city does not ban use of chemical pesticides, but avenues for pest management like bait boxes or other traps will more likely be used, Caneva said.

Bobkiewicz said the city’s rat population typically grows significantly in the fall. Due

to late-summer breeding patterns and prehibernation food collection, not only does the volume of rats increase but visible rodent activity increases as well, he said.

The substantial growth in 311 calls for rat sightings is most likely a combination of the seasonal influx of rats, the increased awareness of the 311 system in the community as well as multiple people calling about a single rodent sighting, Bobkiewicz said.

However, even if there are not as many rats as the 311 calls indicate, people are never happy with rats on their porches or in the alleys behind their homes, he said.

“Zero is what people want to see,” Bobkiewicz said. “Anything over zero is unacceptable, but that’s tough to accomplish, so we’re spending more dollars and deploying more resources to get as close as we can to zero.”

foil budget talks. The forces that helped push Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to surrender his gavel and quit Congress on Oct. 30 are objecting to his role in negotiating a deal that he won’t be around to live with.

Even before lawmakers passed Wednesday’s continuing resolution, all sides were bracing for the new budget fight. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., indicated that Democrats won’t surrender ground on sequestration.

Senate Democrats already are playing hardball by filibustering spending bills in attempts to pressure Republicans to renegotiate lifting the budget caps that began in 2013 as part of the 2011 Budget Control Act. “Lifting the sequester has been one of my top priorities for years,” Reid said on the Senate floor Wednesday. “I hope we can finally achieve this key Democratic goal.”

Republicans have voiced support for lifting sequester caps as well. But while Democrats have focused their attention on lifting them for more spending, most Republicans are interested in boosting the defense budget.

“We have to,” said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

“The outgoing chief of staff of the United States

Army said that we can no longer defend the nation adequately. That should be sufficient to most members of Congress.”

Hawkish Republicans who oppose increasing domestic spending could balk at easing sequestration, knowing that they can boost the Pentagon’s budget by circumventing the mandatory spending caps.

Republicans did just that over the summer when they added $38 billion in a defense bill by directing it to the so-called Overseas Contingency Operations account, or OCO, a fund that pays for counterterrorism activities in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.

The contingency fund isn’t subject to sequester caps.

“Republicans are perfectly happy to keep the sequestration level for the non-defense spending,” Bixby said. “They can get around the defense cap through OCO.” House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said Obama and congressional Democrats intend to “go pretty hard” on sequestration in the budget talks but hedged on whether they are willing to go to the brink of a shutdown.

“So the answer to your question is, you know, we hope that doesn’t happen,” Hoyer said.

When asked about the prospect of easing sequestration, Sen. Orrin Hatch, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, said Wednesday, “I don’t think so. I think we’re going to keep them, but I don’t know.”

“We’ll have to see,” said Hatch, R-Utah. “We do have the tumult in the House that we have to deal with, which is not going to be easy.”

Several House Republicans, like House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., have said they want to “end the meat-ax” approach of sequestration.

But GOP House members who have railed against Boehner’s leadership might not be in a negotiating mood.

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., a Boehner critic, theorized that Wednesday’s budget vote was part of a grand plan by the current congressional Republican leadership aimed at obliterating sequestration.

“The ‘adults in the room,’ John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, are creating the next crisis today, and they’re going to have it the day before Christmas,” Massie said. “They’re using the leverage of Christmas break to compel members to vote to bust the budget caps. It’s always about sequester.”

influence of ecstasy as well as possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Police said they discovered the man in his car at 12:30 a.m. while he was stopped at a green light at an intersection in the 2400 block of Green Bay Road.

The man appeared to be incoherent and told

police he had just taken the drug, said Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan.

After paramedics took the man to get medical attention, police found in the man’s car a glass pipe and a clear plastic bag with what they suspect to be marijuana, Dugan said.

The man was charged with two

misdemeanors for driving under the influence and possession of marijuana under 2.5 grams and drug paraphernalia. He is scheduled to appear in court Nov. 4.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2015

Group holds violence discussion prior to musical

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

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Northwestern Arts Alliance led a discussion on experiences of violence Wednesday.

The dialogue took place prior to “Assassins,” a musical examining people who attempted to assassinate U.S. presidents. Communication senior Alex Gold, who directed the musical, said the theater board wanted to have a discussion prior to the show to address how violence has changed since President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981 — the most recent assassination attempt of a president.

“Many of the characters in the show tried to shoot a president to make themselves heard and to make someone listen to them,” Gold told The Daily. “Nowadays, we have people who shoot up a school, or who shoot up a college campus, or who shoot up a church for many of the same reasons.”

Communication senior Talia Weingarten, Arts Alliance’s artistic director, began the discussion by asking the group of about 30 people how they directly and indirectly experience violence.

After framing the discussion, Weingarten asked the group to list traits students, faculty and staff identify with, such as race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status. She noted the University stresses a motto of “One Northwestern” but that in reality people’s identities and experiences are quite varied.

The group then split into three smaller sections to discuss how people experienced violence.

Communication sophomore Mary Kate Goss, Arts Alliance’s community engagement director, also helped organize the event. She described her high school cafeteria, which had racially segregated itself.

The two sides of the cafeteria tended to divide by race into what was referred to as the “Black Market” and the “White House,” Goss said. She said that two groups ranged greatly in terms of their socioeconomic status and range of violence experienced.

“That made me think about how that happens on a greater scale in cities, in countries and how that affects our mentality and how that mentality becomes a weird self-fulfilling prophecy,” Goss said. “What if we changed our vocabulary and what if we talked about it in a different way? What changes would that make?”

The discussion ranged from how media coverage affects perceptions of violence to opinions about human empathy, both toward perpetrators and toward victims of violence.

Weingarten explained how New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof realized that when he wrote about large groups of people facing atrocities, readers often had a hard time empathizing.

“He started telling individual stories to try to reawaken people to themes that are obviously relevant and urgent but felt dormant and far away from us,” Weingarten said. “The show tries to do

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OPEN DIALOGUE Students discuss violence during an Arts Alliance-sponsored event Wednesday. The board hosted the talk before opening night of the musical, “Assassins.”

the exact same thing. It tries to reawaken a sense of empathy towards people who we may feel are distinctly other than us by showing strains of similarity.”

Gold agreed.

“People who enact violence are us,” Gold said.

“They are humans. They are Americans and they have many of the same passions, desires and needs that we do but they just pursue them in a much more violent and extreme fashion.” jeremymargolis2019@u.northwestern.edu 75004

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During a night when Northwestern’s offense was mostly held in check by No. 16 Minnesota, freshman Rachael Fara was the biggest bright spot.

Starting her first match of the season, Fara tallied nine kills Wednesday night — tied for second most on the team — and led the Wildcats (10-4, 2-1 Big Ten) in attack percentage with .375 — by far the best of the night. Junior Kayla Morin was the only The close other NU player to post plays are the a percentage difference higher than between .200.

Despite winning and Fara’s career losing on the night, she wasn’t comroad. pletely happy Keylor Chan, with her pervolleyball coach formance.

Fara said a better effort from her could have swung a few extra points in NU’s favor. She said she would improve upon Wednesday’s performance.

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“I definitely got better throughout this match,” Fara said. “At the beginning I was a little rough, but I hope that I’ll continue to increase my shot range and become a go-to player. That’s (the goal) I set for myself, but I understand I have to be patient with it and it’s not going to happen overnight.”

Wednesday’s match was an offensive slogfest for both teams, as the Cats and the Golden Gophers (10-3, 2-1) were each less efficient than normal. Coming into the game, Minnesota’s attack percentage ranked fifth in the Big Ten at .266, while NU sat ninth in the conference with .244. When the evening concluded, the teams managed only .180 and .145 for the match, respectively.

The Cats felt after the game that they played and matched up with the Gophers well but ultimately lost due to close plays and tough calls. Even though NU outblocked a great defensive team in Minnesota, the Cats couldn’t pull through with a win.

“We fought hard, but in the end we need to focus in those critical moments,” Morin said. “Minnesota was just really scrappy, and they did a great job attacking-wise, mixing up their shots, and then defensive-wise they were all over the court making it hard for us to put the ball down.”

A startling indicator of NU’s offensive ineffectiveness was that sophomore Symone Abbott totaled more errors than kills for only the third time in her career and the first time since Oct. 15, 2014 against Nebraska. In 30 attempts, Abbott, arguably the most talented Cats hitter, leveled seven kills with eight errors equaling a -0.33 attack percentage.

Coach Keylor Chan said Abbott and

setter Taylor Tashima weren’t completely in sync, which contributed to NU’s defeat. In hindsight, however, Chan wouldn’t have changed the game plan.

“We’ve been on the road forever and we couldn’t convert,” Chan said. “The close plays are the difference between

Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ son, Charlie Hall, has walked on to Northwestern’s men’s basketball team, the program announced Wednesday.

Hall, a Communication freshman, hails from Los Angeles, where he played for Crossroads School. The sixfoot-five forward averaged 15.3 points,

11 rebounds and five assists per game during his senior season. He helped the team to their best playoff finish since former NBA All-Star Baron Davis played for the school.

Louis-Dreyfus (Communication ’83) has won seven Emmy Awards while starring in television shows

winning and losing on the road. You don’t have the crowd and you know you’re not sleeping in your own beds, and I give Minnesota a lot of credit.” maxgelman2018@u.northwestern.edu

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As Northwestern’s men’s tennis team prepares for preseason tournament play, familiar faces look to propel the squad through another successful campaign.

Though the season doesn’t begin until Jan. 17, when NU visits Louisville, the Wildcats will first see competitive action Saturday, Oct. 3, when the All-American Championships kick off in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A six-player crew will represent Northwestern at the tournament, led by junior Sam Shropshire.

Shropshire, currently ranked No. 34 in the country, is fresh off an exciting campaign in which he qualified for the NCAA Singles Championship, though he lost in the first round. This year, the two-time

All-Big Ten selection is eyeing greater success.

“It was good to get there but it will be even better to win some matches,” Shropshire said. “[I’m] looking to do some more damage this year.”

His sentiment is echoed throughout the team and will be a running narrative over the course of the season. After advancing to both the Big Ten semifinals and the second round of the NCAA tournament, the bulk of last season’s roster is returning in 2016 with higher goals.

“We have a good team,” head coach Arvid Swan said. “For me, each year we try to get our program better. We’re trying to build a championship program—a program that wins Big Ten championships and competes for national championships.”

Last year’s Cats finished the regular season 21-10 and 8-3 in Big Ten play. With Shropshire leading a pack comprised

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TENNIS MENACE Junior Sam Shropshire after winning a point. One of Northwestern’s veterans, Shropshire hopes the team can rise to new heights in their upcoming season.

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CATS TAMED Sophomore hitter Symone Abbott and the Northwestern offense struggled against Minnesota, snapping a five game win streak.

Abbott had more errors than kills for only the third time in her career.

“Seinfeld,” “The New Adventures of Old Christine” and “Veep.” She and her husband, Brad Hall (Communication ’80), who is also an actor, both attended NU. — Tyler Pager

Veteran Shropshire returns an optimist

By GARRETT JOCHNAU

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largely of returning juniors and seniors, Swan is confident that his experienced team is up to the challenge.

“You watch them practice and they’re just better players,” he said. “Hopefully that will result in us being successful [against] the teams we play. We play a national schedule. It’s a challenging schedule but it’s something we’re ready for.”

Though Swan hasn’t finalized a lineup, Shropshire and junior Strong Kirchheimer — ranked No. 120 in the nation — are back after anchoring the team’s top two singles spots in 2015. Also returning are junior Konrad Zieba, senior Mihir Kumar, senior Fedor Baev and junior Alp Horoz, who spent the majority of their 2015 campaigns at the No. 3, 4, 5 and 6 singles spots, respectively.

The only featured singles player not returning is sophomore Logan Staggs, who transferred to UCLA after splitting time at third and fourth singles.

As for doubles, Shropshire saw his previous partner, Alex Pasareanu, graduate.

He’ll play with Horoz in the upcoming All-American tournament, while Kirchheimer and Baev will reunite after going 11-4 last season.

“I think it definitely helps a lot,” Shropshire said regarding the advantages of a veteran roster. “Even so far in practices, most of us know what to expect. We can help and push each other… It’ll be good to have a lot of guys going back who know what it takes to mentally stay there for the whole season and physically too.”

Swan agreed.

“The guys who have been here, they understand our system. The work ethic is outstanding. The sense of professionalism on how they approach each day is really good. (It’s a) very mature group.”

Swan, who has been the Cats’ head coach since 2007, also noted that the experienced veterans will serve as role models for the three freshmen, Jason Seidman, Ben Vandixhorn and Michael Lorenzini, who will join NU’s roster. The three were ranked as the No. 63, 69 and 82 prospects in the nation by TennisRecruiting.net.

With plenty of time to go before NU squares off against Louisville to open the season, Swan remains unsure as to how the new additions will be used.

“I don’t really have an expectation of who’s going to play and who’s not going to play,” he said. “Those guys earn it on a daily basis, so the freshmen are going to have to prove themselves.”

At the very least, Swan and his team know that a veteran core exists that already knows how to produce.

And, as Swan noted, that core will return an improved version of its 2015 self.

“I think last year we were right there in the mix for the Big Ten title,” Shropshire said. “Last year definitely taught us that we can take it.”

To get there, though, the Cats will have to leapfrog Ohio State, Illinois and Minnesota, last season’s top Big Ten finishers and the teams who handed NU its only conference losses.

Swan is aware that nothing will come easy for a squad with high aspirations, but shared Shropshire’s general sentiment.

“We have a lot to build on,” he said.

“Advancing in the NCAA tournament again was a good thing and we have a very motivated group who keep wanting to move the program forward. So a lot of positives from last year but still a lot more work ahead of us.” garrettjochnau2019@u.northwestern.edu

Putterman: QB play could sink the Cats Entering the season, one of the primary reasons the Wildcats were expected to lose as many games as they won was their inexperience at the quarterback position. And through four games, redshirt freshman Clayton Thorson has been about as good as expected, which is to say, not so great.

Thorson has shown he can run and throw, but decision-making has been a problem over the past two weeks. The quarterback is lucky his five turnovers against Duke and Ball State didn’t cost the Cats at least one game.

Thorson (and the rest of the offense) has again and again been bailed out by NU’s defense, which has often erased the offense’s miscues by stuffing opponents in the red zone. But relying on the defense to compensate is no reliable long-term blueprint for victories, as Pat Fitzgerald pointed out last week.

Maybe Thorson can get away with mistakes against Ball State, but if he turns the ball over three times against Minnesota on Saturday (or in any subsequent conference games) NU will not likely leave the stadium with a win.

Defense will win the Cats some games, but not even the ’85 Bears could pitch shutouts if the opponent is gaining possession on the wrong side of midfield.

It’s hard to blame Thorson, but his youthful inconsistency might not be the right fit for a team otherwise built to win.

Unless Thorson can prove his turnover-heavy stat lines of the last two weeks were an aberration, NU might struggle to maximize what has potential to be a special season.

Pillote: The QB won’t hold NU back Quarterback play won’t sink Northwestern in the Big Ten — it’s exactly the thing that will turn potential conference losses into conference wins.

Yes, the numbers for Thorson aren’t great right now. Statistically, he’s arguably the worst pass thrower in the Big Ten West, having completed just 53 percent of his passes for 583 yards and four touchdowns to go along with three interceptions.

But Thorson excels as a runner. He has game-changing speed and is actually averaging more yards per carry than sophomore running back Justin Jackson. That mobility has also helped compensate for Thorson’s still-developing pocket presence, as the quarterback has been able to elude defenders and take just three sacks this season.

Those offsetting skill sets have led to Thorson’s most important statistic: He’s 4-0 as NU’s starter. Quarterback wins can be a misleading number given how much of a team sport football is, but in every game the Cats have played so far, Thorson has managed to be good enough to earn a victory.

Despite going 12-for-24 against the Cardinal, Thorson scored the only touchdown of the game and succeeded in not turning the ball over. Against Duke, he failed to protect the ball, but it didn’t matter in a game where the defense and special teams did all the heavy lifting. And against Ball State, he rebounded from a disastrous first half to lead a 17-point rally in the third quarter thanks to some picture-perfect throws.

It wasn’t always pretty, but Thorson managed to get the job done. For a player as talented as he is, there’s no reason to think he won’t continue to do so. bpillote@u.northwestern.edu, asputt@u.northwestern.edu