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Kellogg student Benjamin Codjoe found dead
Benjamin Codjoe, a 28-year-old Kellogg student, was found dead Friday morning in the McManus Living-Learning Center. Codjoe, a first-year student in the Kellogg School of Management, was found unresponsive in his residence hall room and pronounced dead. Codjoe had a previous medical condition and there were no signs of foul play, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. Dean Sally Blount sent an email Saturday to Kellogg community members notifying them of Codjoe’s death and extending her sympathies to his fiancee and family. “Ben was a fantastic student who cared deeply about the quality and integrity of our community,” she wrote. “He always had a giant smile on his face and we will greatly miss his energy and forward-looking attitude.” Codjoe was from Accra, Ghana. He was vice president for professional development
Affordable housing discussed By Michelle Kim
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City Council discussed Monday whether to adopt changes to an ordinance that would require residential developments to provide a certain number of affordable housing units. The proposed amendments to the current Inclusionary Housing Ordinance would apply to new rental and for-sale properties, as well as planned developments with five or more units. Under the new ordinance, the percentage of affordable units offered by residential projects would increase to 20 percent through public funding that would help pay for the additional affordable units. As of now, the ordinance calls for planned developments with 25 or more units to make 10 percent of units affordable. Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd) said changing the ordinance to include smaller projects could be too burdensome, because those properties might not be able to bear the cost of providing more affordable units. “When we lower that number, we make it much more difficult for business to happen,” Wynne said. “We want smaller developments. We don’t want to rely entirely on the very large projects.” Developers in Evanston are not currently required to build affordable units on site, but instead they can pay a fee to fund affordable housing elsewhere in the city. A proposed amendment to the ordinance calls for a higher fee for these developers who decide against building on-site affordable units. Although aldermen recognized the need for affordable housing, they raised » See COUNCIL, page 5
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for the Africa Business Club. Kellogg held a vigil for Codjoe on Sunday evening outside the Donald P. Jacobs Center. — Tyler Pager
Weinberg junior Avantika Khatri died Monday, Dean of Students Todd Adams said in an email to the Northwestern community Monday night. “The University extends our condolences to Avantika’s family and friends,” Adams wrote in the email. “The loss of any one member of our community affects us all, and it does so in different ways.” Evanston police responded around 1:15 p.m. Monday to the 2000 block of Maple Avenue and discovered a 21-year-old female NU student, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said in an email to The Daily. The woman was found in her bedroom by her roommate and was pronounced dead at the scene, Dugan said. Police said there were no signs of foul play and are not releasing any other information at this time. Detectives were on scene and are handling the investigation, Dugan said. Khatri, who was from Columbia, Missouri, had recently transferred from Medill. She worked
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Accreditation team holds open forums By Madeline fox
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A team of higher education professionals heard student, staff and faculty concerns during a series of open meetings Monday as part of Northwestern’s decennial accreditation process. Seven representatives from the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, an independent corporation that accredits U.S. universities, arrived at NU on Monday for a two-day visit. During the commission’s time on campus, the HLC will follow up on the University’s report, referred to as its “assurance argument,” and will review that the University is meeting the criteria for accreditation.
The forums, divided among three sections — one for students, one for faculty and one for staff, consisted of open-ended questions about the University and how members of the community interact with it. The HLC has been compiling its report since last summer. “Our goal here is to talk face-toface with the people this assurance argument is written about,” said Jim Bundschuh, former president of Marymount University and a member of the accreditation team who co-facilitated the student forum. Bundschuh and Freddie Wills, a Washington University in St. Louis administrator, spoke with four students at the student forum: one fifth-year Ph.D. candidate, two members of the higher education and administration policy master’s
degree program and an online student in the predictive analytics master’s program who called into the meeting. The two administrators asked students questions about their thoughts on the University’s efforts to engage and inform students, its career services, what students like about NU and their perceptions of the University’s community engagement, among other issues. NU is one of 57 other schools piloting the “Open Pathway” program, a new accreditation initiative from the HLC that intends to create a more efficient and effective assessment process. The program has universities choose a “Quality Initiative,” a major improvement it wants to focus on before its next accreditation. The program also uses existing institutional data for assessments, checks that
data annually and conducts assurance reviews twice in the 10-year cycle. “This is a little bit different because this is a new pilot process, so it’s a little bit more of a condensed visit than they had the last time,” said Jake Julia, NU’s associate provost for academic initiatives and associate vice president for change management. “It’s also a little bit of a smaller team than they had the last time.” The accreditation team consists of higher education professionals in student affairs, central administration, finance, academic programs, student learning and other areas. “The idea is that we’re in the same business, and we know the business of higher education, so all » See FORUM, page 5
Norris reduces spaces for theater groups By Jee Young LEE
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The Northwestern Student Theatre Coalition will again receive fewer performance spaces at Norris University Center next year. The number of spaces has been decreasing since 2013. For the 2015-2016 academic year, StuCo will receive eight week-long Norris reservations. Five reservations are for McCormick Auditorium and three are for the Louis Room. This year, the group had 11 reservations and 14 the year before, said StuCo cochair A.J. Roy, a Communication senior. Roy said the 10 different theater and dance groups that make up StuCo each have different space requirements and Norris is often the
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ideal space for performances. He said McCormick Auditorium is the only space that can support both the set and the size of the audience for shows such as Mee-Ow. Next year will be the first time Mee-Ow will have both its shows in Shanley Pavilion, said StuCo cochair Olivia Probetts, a Communication senior. In the past, the group has held one show in McCormick and one in Shanley. “Our options are a little limited as to where our alternate spaces are, and even this year, we filled Shanley to the brim with StuCo shows.” Roy said. “It is difficult to continue to move shows to Shanley.” The fewer Norris spaces allocated for StuCo are due to the increase in other groups requesting Norris space, said Amy White, director of » See THEATER, page 5
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room reduction The cast of “Next to Normal” performs in the Louis Room in winter 2014.
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Illinois politicians on both sides of the aisle must compromise to lift the state from the “dire shape” it’s in, the top Republican in the state Senate said Monday in Evanston. Sen. Christine Radogno (R-Lemont) updated the Republican Club of Evanston on key legislation and matters the General Assembly is working on in Springfield. She broke down the changes Gov. Bruce Rauner has implemented since he was elected in November to help mitigate the state’s problems. “Obviously a lot’s changed since the election,” Radogno said at The Mather, 425 Davis St. “Everyone agrees that we have to do something difficult.” As part of the new state budget, the governor has proposed cutting funding for resources in order to help the state in its financial crisis. These savings are being made from areas of the budget that can afford to be trimmed down, like Medicaid and pensions, Radogno said. Radogno warned the cuts could hurt people and would seem “terrible” at first. However, the senator
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Evanston man charged with aggravated assault Police arrested a 23-year-old Sunday in connection with pointing a gun at a driver who wanted his parking spot. Officers responded around 4:50 p.m. Sunday to a dispute over a parking spot in the 800 block of Hinman Avenue, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. A 32-year-old Evanston resident told police that a man in a white SUV had pointed a firearm at him, Dugan said. Police saw a car matching the description leaving the area and stopped it, Dugan said. The driver told officers he had a firearm on his belt, for which he had an Illinois concealed carry license, Dugan said. Through an investigation, police concluded the 32-year-old was waiting for a parking spot on Hinman Avenue, but the 23-year-old refused to move his car from the spot. When the 32-year-old got out of his car and walked up to the spot, the two men got
said, they are needed to prevent more taxpayers from leaving the state. With a Republican in the governor’s office and a Democratic majority in the state legislature, Illinois has a bipartisan government for the first time in many years. Instead of this resulting in a standstill, Radogno said she hopes the state’s urgent concerns will force politicians to work together and find solutions. “It’s a slow climb out of the hole,” she said. “But the silver lining … is it’s additional leverage to get people to the table.” Don Schollenberger, the president of the Republican Club of Evanston, commended the senator for coming to Evanston and speaking about important pieces of legislation. It’s important for the city’s Republicans, he said, to be informed about the financial status of the state. “Everybody here is looking for answers,” Schollenberger said. Radogno also took the opportunity Monday to voice her support for the controversial PARCC testing in schools and discouraged parents from opting their children out of the state-mandated assessments. “We need a nation standard to be competitive in into a verbal altercation, police said. The 23-year-old pointed his gun at the other man, who then ran back to his car. Police charged the 23-year-old Evanston resident with misdemeanor aggravated assault, Dugan said. The man is scheduled to appear in court on May 27.
Skokie man arrested in connection with retail theft
Police charged a Skokie resident Saturday with retail theft of an Evanston Best Buy, Dugan said. The 19-year-old man was arrested at Best Buy, 2301 Howard St., after officers were dispatched there by the store’s loss prevention officer, Dugan said. The employee said the man had taken a cell phone case and another accessory — totaling around $80 — from a shelf, and tried to walk out of the store without paying, Dugan said. Police charged the 19-year-old with misdemeanor retail theft, Dugan said.
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The Republican Party fuels hyper-partisanship will Kirkland
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Last Thursday, the Contemporary Thought Speaker Series brought Vox Editor-in-chief Ezra Klein to campus to speak about partisanship in American politics. His talk, like much of his writing for Vox since he started the site a year ago, was smart, funny, frank and hard-hitting. We knew he wasn’t going to pull any punches when he began his talk by saying all the political news we devour as college students makes us, in his words, “very stupid.” His point was simple and well taken: hyperpartisanship in American politics has both led and followed a trend of hyper-partisanship in American political media, resulting in a heaping partisan pile of information to support either side of any argument. The more people read, research and engage in politics, the more convinced they become of their original ideological preconceptions and the less willing they are to take in new information that doesn’t conform with them. Take a quick glance at the headlines of the Huffington Post and Drudge Report, or Breitbart and the Daily Kos, if you don’t agree. Charts of the political ideologies in Congress over the past few decades show distinct red
and blue clumps migrating further and further from a depopulated center. “Congress is now more polarized than at any time since the end of Reconstruction,” political scientists Christopher Hare, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal wrote in The Washington Post last February. Driving the point home, they take their analysis of partisan polarization to the individual level. When first elected to the House in 1982, now-Senator John McCain was solidly to the right of the ideological mean of the Republican Party. Today, McCain is widely considered a moderate in the party. Herein lies the crux of the issue: The Republican Party is more to blame for partisanship and polarization than the Democrats. In previous columns, I’ve written about the need for cross-party dialogue and cooperation as both a matter of ending partisan chaos and a matter of respect and civic decency. Liberalism and conservatism, after all, are both legitimate political philosophies. And yet as I listened to Klein speak last week, diplomatically adding the phrase “and liberals too” to his sentences about partisan conspiracy theories and politically motivated media coverage, I couldn’t fight the feeling that his politesse was masking an important truth. Influential liberals like Klein and others keep coming back to the idea that both sides are equally to blame, that both Republicans and Democrats have
veered toward the extreme poles of their conservative and liberal ideologies. But that’s simply not the case. John McCain’s journey from the right wing of the Republican Party to its shrinking moderate wing has very little do with John McCain. His policies and political views haven’t changed much on big issues, from immigration to hawkish foreign policy. It’s the Republican Party that’s changed, dragged to the right by the Reagan Revolution in the 1980s and, more recently, by the vociferous opposition to the Obama administration. On issue after issue, you can trace the Republican Party’s evolution from center-right to farright. Reagan signed the Immigration Reform Act in 1986, which granted legal status to 2.7 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. Now, Congressional Republicans compete over who can use the word “amnesty” more times on the House floor. Gov. Mitt Romney signed a Massachusetts health care reform act in 2006 that served as the structural inspiration for the Affordable Care Act. Today, repealing the ACA is an official Republican Party platform plank. The list goes on. I realize this column could be seen as hypocritical: Here’s a liberal talking about the problem of partisanship and the need for reconciliation, and then saying it’s all Republicans’ fault. In truth, particularly when it comes to
the polarization of the media, both sides are to blame. I understand how Fox News and MSNBC can be seen as part of the same problem. But it is simply false and disingenuous to say that both sides have polarized equally or that both are equally guilty of politically motivated misrepresentations in the media. Human-caused climate change, for example, is not a debate: nine of the 10 hottest years on record have occurred since 1998, California has mandated the restriction of water and Tuvalu may soon be under water. Meanwhile, the Republican head of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee brings a snowball onto the Senate floor to refute global warming. Hyper-partisanship in American politics and media is a problem, one that both sides of the equation need to address. Solving it, which is unlikely, would require Democrats and Republicans to compromise and accommodate opposing viewpoints. But when it comes to analyzing why and how things got to be this way, the blame is not equally shared. Addressing the issue in any serious way will require the Republican Party to come to terms with how much it has contributed to the current state of affairs. William Kirkland is a Weinberg junior. He can be reached at williamkirkland2016@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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Vaccine hesitancy — a perspective we can change Albert Song
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The anti-vaccine movement is unacceptable, but as a recent study by Dan Kahan, a professor of law at Yale, points out, the understanding of a scientific fact — in the case of his study, climate change — is unrelated to public acceptance of the fact. As much as we wish it were not the case, we have very little power to change the staunch opinions of anti-vaccine proponents. However, we can positively influence public perspective and public health by addressing vaccine hesitancy. The basis for vaccine hesitancy stems from those who think vaccines are useless, or those who fear that the vaccine will give the vaccinated a disease. The propagation of the antivaccine movement in the media further damages public confidence in vaccines. Even currently-vaccinated individuals express doubts and concerns about vaccines. In a recent Canadian survey, 50 percent of surveyed parents were concerned newer vaccines were not as safe as older vaccines, and one-third think children receive too many vaccines. As a result of vaccine success, we have forgotten vaccines are one of our greatest medical achievements. We have forgotten the devastating and crippling effect of Poliovirus and the lethal nature of measles virus. Instead of embracing vaccines, some of us have tricked ourselves into believing they are useless or they are the enemy. Individuals can typically get away with not getting vaccinated for a virus because of a concept known as herd immunity. With herd immunity, most members of a community are protected from the spread of an infection because the infection does not have a chain of individuals to propagate through. For a virus like measles with a high R0 value (R0 can be thought of as a measure of the number of
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people a single contagious person can infect), herd immunity is functional when 95 percent of the population is immunized. But when a threshold number of individuals choose not to get vaccinated, the result can be devastating. Vaccines are critical not only for individual health, but also for the health of the general population. For example, vaccine hesitancy is perennially relevant with the seasonal influenza vaccine. When we are too busy to value and receive the influenza vaccine, we not only risk our own health, but also the health
of those around us. By selfishly passing on a vaccine, we pose a threat to those unable to receive vaccines, such as infants, pregnant women or immunocompromised individuals, who rely on the functionality of herd immunity. By selfishly choosing not to be vaccinated, we can pose a threat to these individuals; for example, 90 percent of influenza-related deaths occur in individuals age 65 and older. Although logical arguments and evidence in support of vaccinations cannot convince anti-vaccine proponents, such evidence can
convince vaccine-hesitant individuals. We all have a responsibility to clarify vaccine hesitance and a duty to educate not only ourselves, but also those around us to maintain regular booster shots and receive even the mildly annoying seasonal influenza vaccine. Albert Song is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at albertsong2015@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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of us have different experience,” said Celestino Fernandez, the chair of the accreditation team and a sociology professor at the University of Arizona. Fernandez was a member of the team that accredited NU in 1995. He said one of the places he has seen improvements in the past 20 years was in NU’s relationship with the Evanston community. “Twenty years ago there was some conflict between the city and the University, and today the city and the University are working hand in hand,” Fernandez said. “It’s really nice to see the city and the community are working together, and that the community recognizes the value of this great university.”
Loyola University Chicago’s Wellness Center, will begin the job May 26. He’s worked at Loyola since 2010. His hire was announced via Facebook on Monday, and his starting date is “just in time for Dillo Day,” the post said. The new position at HPaW follows new hires at the Center for Awareness, Response and Education earlier this month.
concerns about the harmful consequences of increasing fees for developers, such as raising prices for tenants. Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) said he would be interested to hear about the incentives other communities are using to reward projects for adding affordable housing. The discussion of the amendments came about after residents had brought up the lack of progress they had noticed with the city’s inclusionary housing efforts. Some public commenters said regulations under the proposed ordinance should be stronger. A “carrot-and-stick” approach could be implemented in which developers would be driven by punitive measures — like the increased fee — and by incentives such as lighter parking restrictions, said Brendan Saunders, director of advocacy and organizing for Open Communities, a nonprofit that advocates for more affordable housing. “These changes will help bring jobs into the community, bring more diversity and help fill the void that impacts the nation,” Saunders said. “The changes could also be used as a tool to further fair housing.” Real estate group representatives argued that the proposals would make new projects more expensive, hindering economic development. The amendments would make housing more costly and drive developers from Evanston, said Howard Handler, government affairs directors for the North Shore-Barrington Association of Realtors. He said the changes would place the burden on condominiums and rental units, which he considers more affordable than single-family homes. If the ordinance had been voted on Monday night, Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) said she would have voted against it, calling it “too objective and too unrealistic.” “What will we do if we pass this ordinance and no new projects are built?” Rainey said. “Then we won’t have any new affordable housing.” The council is scheduled to discuss the ordinance again in June.
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Norris event management. White said Norris has increased its transparency in reserving space, inviting anyone who needed space to apply for it. In the past, the reservation process was often dominated by the same student groups that held events in Norris each year. Since the application process has become more public, the number of organizations requesting the space has tripled, she said. “It’s important to understand that we are trying to accommodate particular groups’ needs in context with the whole community,” said Kelly Schaefer, Norris executive director. “So when we are a whole community, how do we make sure that we’re balanced … because we want to make sure that everyone can come in and have space at Norris.” White said Norris does not have the facilities to accommodate all of StuCo’s needs demonstrated over the past few years. “It’s a shame when people are limited to only designing, directing or working in such a small, confined space, and there won’t be opportunity to use the bigger spaces that Norris provides,” Probetts said. jeelee2018@u.northwestern.edu
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Northwestern trustee and former AT&T global marketing executive Cathy Coughlin (Weinberg ’79) died Thursday from pancreatic cancer. Coughlin, 57, launched AT&T’s 2013 “It Can Wait” campaign discouraging people from using their phones while driving, which now has the support of more than 1,500 organizations and more than 6 million people who have pledged not to text and drive. The former executive started her 35-year career in business, marketing and mobile technology at Southwestern Bell Telephone
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Northwestern Health Promotion and Wellness has hired a coordinator of alcohol and other drug education and outreach. Kevin Meier, who will leave his position at
Company, which later merged with several other Bell companies to become SBC Communications Inc. The company then bought AT&T and adopted its name. She was promoted to the top marketing position at AT&T shortly before the company partnered with Apple, Inc. and became the only provider of the iPhone in 2007. Coughlin served as senior executive vice president and global marketing officer for eight years before stepping down in April, when she was appointed to a position consulting for AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson. Coughlin also served on the boards of the American Film Institute and the Girl Scouts of the United States of America. — Madeline Fox
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Personal best times drop for Cats at Drake Relays By Max Schuman
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With the end of the season approaching quickly, Northwestern sophomores Andrea Ostenso and Jena Pianin and junior Elena Barham had another chance to qualify for the NCAA West regional championships against high-level competition at the prestigious Drake Relays. And with all three setting personal bests in their races, there isn’t much left for them to do but wait. Ostenso and Pianin took the line in the 5,000m Thursday and broke out to sixth and 10th-place finishes, respectively, out of 24 entrants. Ostenso’s time of 16:32.36 is good for the 48th-best time in the West region in the event this season, while Pianin’s time of 16:34.22 puts her 60th on the qualifying list. In the 10,000m, Barham put together a strong race to crack the top-20, finishing 17th in a field of 30 racers. Her time of 36:09.84 gives her the 72nd-best time in the West this outdoor season — another strong performance for the junior in the long 10K race. “The 10K is a big mental test, you’ve got to really be focused and on track for so long,� she said. “I’ve been trying to treat it as a good way to mentally prepare
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today, and we just encouraged each other to go for it and score.� The Cats did come out firing, with four players shooting par or better on the opening nine holes. By the back nine, NU had caught and surpassed the Buckeyes for the lead. The fast start was precipitated by that well of energy the team was waiting to unleash. “I knew right from the beginning, our kids brought an energy and intensity Sunday morning that was palpable,� Fletcher said. “The
for cross country.� With only one meet left on the schedule this season, NU is looking toward May 17, when the field for regionals will be set. Only Ostenso, who also holds the 40th-best time in the West in the 10K this outdoor season, is currently in position to claim top-48 qualifying spots in either event on the team. But with some athletes sure to drop out of competition in each event, Pianin and Barham could climb into qualifying positions. Wildcats head coach April Likhite is confident that Ostenso will hold on to her qualifying positions as the season winds down, but isn’t certain Pianin will be able to make the climb without a slightly better time in the team’s final meet. “She’s kind of on-the-fence, it’s a wait-and-see,� she said. “You’d like for her to run a little bit faster just so we aren’t at the beck-and-call of other people.� Pianin, for one, remains confident she’ll make the grade. “My goal is obviously to qualify for regionals, and I completely believe in and trust my coaches when they say I can do that,� she said. Freshman Isabel Seidel competed Saturday at Drake in the 3,000m steeplechase, completing her first race in the event but finishing last in the field of
24 with a time of 11:40.16. The rest of the team competed Friday at the local Benedictine Twilight Invitational in Lisle, Illinois. Junior Rachel Weathered starred for the team at the meet, winning the 800m in 2:17.33 and taking second in the 1,500m in 4:36.73 after being passed in the final straight. Even if qualifying luck doesn’t fall in the Cats’ favor, the mere opportunity for that prize at the end of the season is indicative of the growth of the program.
Likhite said that she can see it energizing her veteran runners as the season tapers to a close. “They’re really appreciating the opportunity,� she said. “It just gives us a better way to complete the track season and be really excited going into the cross country season.� The Cats will close their outdoor track regular season at the Dr. Keeler Invitational, May 7-8.
intensity and determination they had, when they hit a poor shot and then a decent pitch, they willed themselves to make the putt. They were like bulldogs out there, and they weren’t going to let go of this.� The fighting spirit remained throughout the day as a small cadre of Cats fans cheered on the squad. Sophomore Kacie Komoto parlayed three early birdies into a 2-under 70 that left her in a tie for 16th, Tangkamolprasert shot 71 to tie for ninth with freshman Hannah Kim, who threw away her recent struggles and fired a final-round 72. Junior Kaitlin Park and senior Hana Lee, the
veterans of the squad, finished tied for 25th and didn’t have counting scores on the final day, but Fletcher noted that their late birdies proved a key positive visual to keep the others motivated. Cho bogeyed her last two holes but it was still enough for the win. Her surprising performance was keyed in by her putter. She also had assistant coach Beth Miller walking with her the entire round and most of the first two days. Fletcher said her colleague was instrumental in Cho’s course management and keeping the freshman the right mix of relaxed and focused.
The Cats will next compete at the NCAA Raleigh Regional, where the team is the No. 4 seed. The top six finishers there advance to NCAA Championships. Ahead of heightened competition, it’s a good thing NU has found its footings. “It was that little spark that we had been missing,� Fletcher said. “We talked about it after the round, and the girls said the energy was different Sunday morning, and that is what we have to bring. This will give us a nice little shot of adrenaline.�
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Running Through the six NU runners compete in the fall cross country season. A trio of Wildcats made strong pushes for NCAA qualifying times at the Drake Relays on Thursday.
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Cho, Northwestern crowned Big Ten Champions Women’s Golf
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LEADING THE PACK Kaitlin Park chips onto the green. The junior shot a team-best 70 in the opening round of the Big Ten.
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Heading into the final round of Big Ten Championships 6 shots behind, the Wildcats took on a fighting spirit
and it paid massive dividends. NU captured its second Big Ten title in three seasons Sunday, slowly gnawing at the deficit to Ohio State and erasing it entirely by the end, as the No. 15 Cats and the No. 40 Buckeyes were crowned co-champions at The Fort Golf Resort in
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Wildcats fight to 7th place at Big Tens By TYLER VANDERMOLEN
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As has been the case on numerous occasions this spring, Northwestern has once again been left to ponder what could have been after narrowly missing out on a top-notch finish. The Wildcats finished seventh in a 14-team field at the Big Ten Championships in Newburgh, Indiana, over the weekend, a mere 4 shots out of third place and 2 shots out of fifth. The slim defeat was difficult to swallow for several members of the team, who had high hopes after a stellar topthree showing at The Boilermaker last week. “Just sitting there on Sunday and watching all those scores roll in and realizing that we were only going to be four shots out was really crazy,” junior Josh Jamieson said. “It’s difficult to even put into words how close four shots is over the course of four rounds.” The Cats’ season-long penchant for starting slow cropped up again this week as the team dug itself into a hole on Friday morning, posting a round of 15-over 303. As they have done so often, though, the squad found a way to bounce back. Friday afternoon saw four of NU’s five competitors come out red-hot, and a flurry of birdies quickly vaulted the team from 11th place to fifth before play was suspended for the day due to darkness. The fact that the stoppage came in the midst of the Cats’ charge up the leaderboard proved to be a stroke of misfortune and would ultimately stall their rally. “Having to leave the course when four of our guys were under par really just kinda hurt our momentum, especially because we had to start the next morning on the hardest stretch of holes on the course,” freshman Dylan Wu said. “It’s no excuse, but it’s kinda too bad.” The final five holes at the host Victoria National Golf Club are a notoriously treacherous stretch, and NU was far from the only team to fall victim to them on the weekend. But Jamieson believes that an inability to manage this part of the course ultimately came back to haunt the team. “Dylan and I have been the top two players of our team for most of the year, and I’m not sure you could play those holes any more poorly than
we did,” he said. “I know for me it was just a lot of dumb mistakes, which is definitely disappointing.” While freshman Charles Wang and Wu led the way for the Cats, finishing at 6-over (T13) and 8-over (T18), respectively, the rest of the team’s usual contributors struggled to post their typical solid scores. Jamieson finished at 12-over (T29) while seniors Bennett Lavin and Matthew Negri ended up at 16-over (T39) and 20-over (T49), respectively. Head coach David Inglis’ team knew that this week would be a critical one for their postseason chances. Now their middling result has left them in limbo for the foreseeable future. Teams seeking to compete the in the NCAA Championships must first qualify for one of six Regional Championships held throughout the country. Teams winning their conference tournaments receive automatic bids to these events, while all other teams must hope to receive at-large bids based on their season-long national ranking. Typically teams ranked between 65-67 nationally are considered to be those competing for the postseason’s final spots. NU currently sits at 72 in the most recent Golfstat poll, while Golfweek has the team at 63. “It’s really out of our hands at this point, and we’ve done all that we can do,” Inglis said. “It would probably take a jump into the high 60s to get it done for us, so all we can do is hope for the best.” To fall short of a postseason berth would be a significant disappointment for the Cats, who garnered high expectations after a strong fall season. The team’s youth showed at times this spring, but its vast potential was frequently on display as well, as evidenced by hot streaks like the one it displayed on Friday. Runs like those have made team members confident that they could compete if given the chance to continue their season, and until Monday’s announcement of the postseason field, they will continue to prepare as if there are more holes to be played this year. “We don’t have any control over what is going to happen, so we are going to go out and work every day like we’re still competing for a championship,” Wu said. “We have to be ready if our name is called.” tylervandermolen2018@u.northwestern.edu
Indianapolis. The sharing didn’t extend to individual honors. Freshman Sarah Cho produced a 3-under total in Indianapolis for the individual title, piecing together nine birdies over the final 36 holes to win by 1 shot. Although Cho had the credentials for the victory as the No. 4 recruit of the 2014 class, the newcomer was left on the bench for team competition the entire fall and had lackluster showings of tied-for-53rd and tiedfor-39th and zero subpar rounds in her two previous spring starts. She even admitted in the aftermath she didn’t see this performance coming. Still, it appeared her slow immersion into the lineup held a large role in her performance this week. “For the whole year, it was a motivating factor to get my game down and figure it all out,” Cho said. “My coaches and teammates were supportive of me throughout the year, even though I was struggling. This performance was kind of unexpected but definitely something I was really
working hard to get.” As for the team title, that was a pretty sweet deal, too. “It was one of the best days of my life,” junior Suchaya Tangkamolprasert said. “We love each other so much, so to have another victory with these people is a great feeling.” The No. 15 Cats entered the field as the highest-ranked squad, and were naturally the favorites to win, but the triumph was satisfying for several reasons. NU already had two victories on the year coming in, but had produced less-than-inspiring performances in its previous two events. The Cats failed to win Big Tens from the same top-ranked position last year. The Cats learned from their 2014 mistakes and jumped out fast Friday, sitting in second place and 3 back after 18 holes. Stormier, windier conditions in Saturday’s second round didn’t seem to bother NU much as the team remained in virtually the same position before a rain delay halted actions for two hours in the
afternoon. Coming out of the break, though, NU dropped shots in a hurry and fell 6 behind and into third place. “We really gave away 3 to 4 shots on the par-3 17th,” coach Emily Fletcher said. “The tee was up, the hole was playing shorter and we just made so many bogeys coming in on that hole.” The Cats actually counted themselves lucky to be just 6 shots behind with one round to go as Fletcher noted the team had been sloppy with silly three-putts and bogeys on par-5s over the first 36 holes. The coach challenged her team Saturday night to step up and have all six starters ready to make noise early the next day. Apparently, her players were already prepared. “All along, Saturday night and Sunday morning, our mindset was that we should be more aggressive because we’re not the leaders,” Tangkamolprasert said. “So we were actually really pumped up going into » See WOMEN’S GOLF, page 6
NU falls to top-seeded Illinois Men’s Tennis
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GRAND SAM Sam Shropshire makes a return. The standout sophomore wasn’t enough to power Northwestern past top-seeded Illinois in the Big Ten Tournament.
By KHADRICE ROLLINS
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The Big Ten Tournament did not end the way the Wildcats would have liked. No. 4-seeded Northwestern (20-9, 8-3 Big Ten) was knocked out of the conference tournament in the semifinals on Saturday. After taking down No. 5-seeded Indiana (18-11, 6-5) on Friday, the Cats did not have enough to beat the host and eventual champion of the tournament, No. 1-seeded Illinois (25-4, 10-1). “Overall, it was pretty good,” sophomore Sam Shropshire said. “It was good to get the win over Indiana. Obviously against Illinois, it didn’t go how we wanted, but we’re going to learn from this experience definitely. Work on being a little better in the NCAAs.” The tournament started great for NU. In their first contest, the Cats were able to pick up a 4-1 win over Indiana. The Cats’ won the doubles’ point to start off the scoring for the day. Sophomore Strong Kirchheimer was able to get the match-winning point for the Cats thanks to a victory in a hard fought, three-set match that ended 6-3, 5-7, 6-1. “We played well against Indiana,”
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coach Arvid Swan said. “We played a really complete match.” On Saturday, however, NU was not as successful. The Fighting Illini proved to be too much for the Cats, and beat them 4-0 en route to the Big Ten Championship. Although the scores of the two games are almost opposites, there was no significant drop-off in the way NU played each match. The Cats did not play their ideal game against Illinois, but they performed at a level similar to what they did against Indiana. The difference between the two games had a lot to do with the level of competition. “It was definitely two different caliber teams,” Kirchheimer said. “Indiana is a good team obviously, but Illinois is obviously a little bit tougher.”
As NU goes forward, it now puts its focus on the NCAA Tournament. The Cats look to compete hard against the nation’s best teams, and plan to show they are one of them. One way for NU to demonstrate it is an elite team in the final competition of the year is to fix a problem noticed in the last match. “Against Illinois, we started off a little slow in doubles, which hurt us,” Swan said. The Cats are aware of what they can do to have immediate improvement. And with two weeks until the season’s final tournament, the team has time to make the needed adjustments. More running to make sure the team is ready to play in warmer temperatures and a focus on doubles play will be consistent themes in the upcoming weeks of practice for the Cats. For NU, a strong start to the match in the doubles competitions could be the difference in them making a deep run, or making a quick exit. “When we’re playing good doubles, we can beat pretty much anybody,” Shropshire said. “When we have that sharp, we have a good chance of doing a lot of damage.” khadricerollins2017@u.northwestern.edu