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Northwestern students can bring just one guest to Dillo Day this year and guest wristbands will cost $10, Mayfest announced Monday night. All NU students are guaranteed to receive a wristband, but Mayfest’s new policy limits the number of available wristbands for students’ guests, NU graduate students, alumni, faculty and staff. Additionally, a small number of wristbands will be made available for Evanston residents for $25. Guests could previously attend Dillo Day for free. The wristband fee was implemented this year to reflect the cost NU students pay for Dillo
Day through the Student Activities Fund. “Dillo Day is an event for students and the wristband policy allows us to kind of ensure that students are the ones that are getting access to the Lakefill,” said Mayfest co-chair Justin Wolf, a Communication senior. After registering for Dillo Day, every student will be guaranteed a free wristband distributed through the Norris Box Office. Guest wristbands will be sold in waves so people have equal opportunity to purchase them. Mayfest co-chair Ian Robinson said the wristbands may sell out. However, each student has an opportunity to buy one online until they run out, he » See MAYFEST, page 7
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DIversity Debate Noah Star, Christina Kim, Chris Harlow and Haley Hinkle discuss issues of inclusion and identity at a Coalition of Colors-sponsored debate Monday night. Star and Kim are running together against and Hinkle and Harlow.
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PAYING TO PARTY Students dance at last year’s Dillo Day. This year, each student will only be able to bring one guest and will have to pay $10 for the guest wristband.
Hopefuls vie for school board spots By Marissa Page
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Residents will choose from among eight candidates to fill six open spots on local school boards in Tuesday’s election. Five people are running for the positions on the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education and four candidates are vying for spots on the School District 202 Board of Education, which oversees Evanston Township High School. Two of the four candidates on the ballot for the District 65 board are incumbents: Omar Brown, who could not be reached for comment, and Richard Rykhus, who declined to comment. The other two candidates are newcomer Jennifer Phillips and Adrian Dortch, who previously ran for both boards in 2007. Phillips, a mother of three District 65 students, has centered her campaign on fiscal responsibility and technology in classrooms, as well as hands-on education that includes strong programs in the arts and science, technology, engineering
and mathematics — known as STEM. “The fact that we don’t have an instructional technology plan that is really focused on how to advance instruction and student learning is problematic to me,” Phillips said. “Evanston as a community could do a lot better thinking forwardly about educational technology, the science of how children and humans learn.” Dortch, an alumnus of both District 65 schools and ETHS, is running for both boards and hopes to combine the two districts. He said he wants to streamline city education and narrow the racial achievement gap in the two districts. “We have had plenty of people on our school board with a lot of degrees, and I feel like degrees are not going to fix our situation, nor is money going to fix our situation,” Dortch said. “We really need to get some real creative people in there that are willing to think outside the box.” A large percentage of property tax dollars — around 65 percent in 2013, according to the city’s website — goes to fund Evanston schools, a number » See ELECTION, page 7
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The two tickets for ASG president and executive vice president squared off in a Coalition of Colors-sponsored debate Monday, fielding questions about issues of identity and inclusion. Medill junior Haley Hinkle and her running mate SESP junior Chris Harlow faced Weinberg junior Noah Star and his running mate McCormick junior Christina Kim. More than 75 students attended the debate in Harris Hall. Many posed questions on issues of race and class, including asking candidates to define terms such as intersectionality, structural racism and community. Weinberg junior Cinthya Rodriguez, one of the Coalition’s cochairs, opened the debate saying
past candidates haven’t always delivered on campaign goals. “We’ve seen how candidates, to be really honest, haven’t kept up all of their promises and all of the things they put in their platforms,” she said. “So we’re here to remind people that we’re watching.” The Coalition is a collection of student groups that advocate for marginalized students. Hinkle said students shouldn’t just discuss issues of race and identity but should take action to fix them. “We talk a lot about dialogue being the end game, and it’s not,” Hinkle said. “We have to turn it into action.” Star advocated for a “buddy system” that would include members of relevant student groups in Associated Student Government meetings with administrators. Using the topic of sexual assault as an example, Star said groups such as Sexual
Health and Assault Peer Educators should accompany ASG members to meetings with administrators, because that group likely has more expertise on the issue. “Sometimes administrators use us as their foray into the student voice,” Star said, “but if an administrator says, ‘We want to get what students think about this particular issue,’ then I think it’s our duty to find the student groups who are working (on that issue) day in and day out.” Star and Hinkle wouldn’t say whether they support the Northwestern Divest resolution that passed Senate in February asking the University to divest from six corporations the resolution’s authors say violate Palestinian human rights. Star, who formerly served as speaker of the Senate, stayed » See DEBATE, page 7
Police hold NU student at gunpoint By TYLER PAGER
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Police held a Northwestern student at gunpoint and briefly detained him Friday morning. Weinberg senior Daniel Ngai said he was riding in an Uber back to his apartment around 3 a.m. Friday when the car was pulled over by Wilmette police near the intersection of Sherman Avenue and Noyes Street, right outside of his apartment. Both Ngai and the driver were told to get out of the car and lie on the ground, he said. Ngai said he was handcuffed while multiple police officers stood less than 15 feet away pointing assault rifles at him. The police patted him down, took his cell phone and wallet, and put him in the back of a police car, Ngai said. Ngai said he spent at least 10 minutes in the police car before he was told why he was being detained. “What I don’t understand is that
they patted me down, they took everything from me, they handcuffed me behind my back so obviously I wasn’t a risk anymore,” he said. “I wasn’t going to do anything at that point so at that point, I was wondering why they couldn’t tell me in 10 words or less what was going on.” Officers followed standard protocol during the stop, Wilmette Deputy Police Chief Kyle Perkins said. He said officers stopped the car because it matched the description of a vehicle seen leaving the area in Wilmette where calls to police reported hearing shots fired. “This is the standard procedure because if the guns are not out and the person exits the car and starts shooting, then we are not protecting ourselves,” Perkins said. University Police responded to the incident, but Deputy Chief Daniel McAleer deferred comment to the Wilmette Police Department. Evanston police assisted Wilmette police in the stop, Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said, but he declined to comment
further on the incident. Ngai said the incident was particularly scary in light of the recent police brutality around the nation. “Being a person of color … obviously I couldn’t help but think of Ferguson and a lot of things where there are guns pointed at someone and they didn’t do anything wrong and they had their hands up and still got shot,” Ngai said. Ngai said that after police released him, a police officer said, “Well, at least now you have a good story.” Ngai said he’s not “anti-police,” but he wished officers had acknowledged that something traumatic happened. Perkins said he was not surprised by Ngai’s reaction. “Anytime you get anyone on a felony spot, especially a student, they’re probably going to be a bit freaked out,” Perkins said. “This isn’t a a game we’re playing. Our concern is the safety first, not about someone’s feelings.” tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu
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Animal Rescue Effort refused to cooperate with the city, officials said at the time, following concerns over the organization’s practices — especially its roughly 45-percent canine euthanasia rate in 2012. The board ultimately chose SAFE over the other organization that expressed interest, Tree House Humane Society, because of the work SAFE volunteers have shown while helping out at the shelter over the past 10 months, said Jill Cabot, the board’s vice chair. She added that Tree House did not provide details to city officials on its staffing and on-site management for the shelter. However, aldermen said Monday they want to continue to look for other organizations as potential options. Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) said he wants to explore other volunteer groups to partner with to
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people to leave, one of them hit him in the back of the head with an unknown object before everyone left, Dugan said. The man sustained a small laceration on the side of his head and was transported to the hospital for treatment, police said.
The manager of Buffalo Joe’s, 812 Clark St., told police two of his female employees got into a verbal disagreement over a personal issue, Dugan said. The boyfriend of one of the women, a 29-year-old Evanston resident, then came into the restaurant and caused a disturbance. After being asked by the manager to leave the restaurant, he walked behind the counter with a knife in his hand, Dugan said. The man left the restaurant before police arrived, officials said.
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Someone pulled out a knife during a conflict at a downtown Evanston restaurant on Sunday afternoon, police said.
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Aldermen held off Monday night on selecting a volunteer animal organization to take over operations at the Evanston Animal Shelter. The additional time will allow city staff to sort out specifics for the shelter’s future, including plans for fundraising and animal care, Ald. Jane Grover (7th) said. Officials will also use the time to finalize the city’s terms of agreement for the volunteer organization it chooses, she said. When no clear fundraising plan was presented, the committee decided to hold off selecting an organization until city staff could create a set of fundraising guidelines. “While we are still animal lovers, we are still wearing our fiscal responsibility hats for the city of Evanston, and the fundraising is a huge part of this,” said Ald. Judy Fiske (1st). “When we have organizations out there willing to partner with us, I think we need to explore that.” The Human Services Committee will wait until its meeting next month to consider a recommendation from the Board of Animal Control, established to oversee reports on the animal shelter, to pick Saving Animals for Evanston — known as SAFE — as the new operator of the shelter at 2310 Oakton St. Evanston police and volunteers have been running the shelter since city officials cut ties with the shelter’s previous operator in April 2014. Community
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Star, Kim focus on accountability, accessibility By SHANE MCKEON
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Weinberg junior Noah Star was on the debate team in high school, a fact he shares reluctantly. “People make fun of me for that,� he said. Star’s experience in the club, though, made him value his voice. Through his time at Northwestern, he has learned to place more value in other’s voices, he said, and his campaign for Associated Student Government president is based on the slogan, “Listen Then Lead.� “What I’ve learned in ASG and at Northwestern is how to take myself out of the conversation in order to create a space where others can debate and participate,� Star said. “And I can create a culture of participation where people feel comfortable.� Star, who just finished a year as speaker of the Senate, and Christina Kim, ASG’s vice president for services, have launched a campaign for president and executive vice president focused on accountability, accessibility and opportunity, calling on ASG to better listen to the student body before making decisions. Like his evolution into someone who values others’ voices more than his, Star said he wants to “inject a healthy dose of humility into ASG.� “There’s an assumed authority that exists when one joins ASG, because you’re a student representative, because you speak on behalf of others,� Star said. “But the problem is we don’t feel ASG is putting in the due diligence to be qualified to speak on behalf of others.� As an example, Star described ASG’s sustainability committee, which meets with groups such as Students for Ecological and Environmental Development, Real Food at NU and Fossil Free NU, formerly known as Divest Northwestern, to shape the committee’s actions. Star said more of ASG should operate like that committee by valuing input from leaders outside student government.
“ASG certainly is part of the glue that brings (those meetings) together, but it’s no different from any other group that’s there except in the fact that it has resources, it has access to other administrators,� Star said. “That’s exactly what we mean by listen then lead.� Star is the former vice president of Delta Tau Delta fraternity and a former Wildcat Welcome peer adviser. Kim, a Quest Scholar, said her experience within that group led her to run for executive vice president. “Northwestern doesn’t advocate for all communities as well as I think it could,� the McCormick junior said. “I’ve been a part of a lot of communities that aren’t featured as the traditional Northwestern face, and that’s why I wanted to run.� Kim is also a member of the Northwestern University Community for Human Rights. Star and Kim’s platform calls on NU to reform Counseling and Psychological Services to allow students more than 12 free CAPS sessions throughout their time as undergraduates. Kim said only having 12 free sessions suggests to students that CAPS can only help them so much, discouraging students from getting help. “We see CAPS as not inviting as it could be,� she said. “I think (only having 12 free sessions) sets the tone for students who really need to seek out help or want to seek out help that CAPS isn’t really the place you can get support.� Kim also said CAPS should offer better hours, as its 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. office hours often conflict with students’ schedules. In addition, Star said if elected, he and Kim would lobby for a more affordable cost of education. The two support “zero parental contribution� for families with incomes below $60,000. Kim said the University could be losing many students who would want to attend NU but can’t afford it. “So many of our peer institutions have had this in place for years, decades even,� Kim said. “Right now, when Northwestern doesn’t have this sort
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of policy ‌ we’re losing out on a lot of students who could see themselves at Northwestern.â€? Star and Kim also want to amend the ASG constitution so student groups elect the Student Activities Vice President instead of sitting senators. “We think the Student Activities Vice President is the representative of student groups on campus,â€? Star said, “so we don’t understand why the selection committee is responsible for that selection, and not individual student groups.â€? Weinberg junior Maroua Sallami, co-director of NUCHR and president of Model Arab League, said she endorsed Star and Kim because they’ve stressed allowing students outside ASG to provide leadership for on-campus issues. “As an international student, I’ve seen lots of
critical conversations going on around campus,� she said, “and a consistent thing with ASG has been they want to lead many of these discussions. But I don’t feel like they’re the experts in those areas. One of the main things with Noah and Christina’s campaign is to let the student experts lead those conversations instead.� Star and Kim are running against Medill junior Haley Hinkle and SESP junior Chris Harlow. The first debate between the two sets of candidates, which was sponsored by the Coalition of Colors, was held Monday. A second debate will be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Fisk Hall. Voting opens Thursday at 5 p.m. and ends Friday at 5 p.m.. ShaneM@u.northwestern.edu
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The real winner in mayoral runoff — Chicago Will Kirkland
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Today, Chicagoans from Englewood to Edgewater will vote in the runoff mayoral election between incumbent Rahm Emanuel and challenger Jesus “Chuy” Garcia. The runoff, triggered by Emanuel’s failure to win an outright majority in the February general election, was great for the city for reasons I will explain later. In February, I joined a group of Northwestern students on a trip to the North Lawndale neighborhood in Chicago organized by the Center for Civic Engagement. The purpose of the trip was to see the MLK Fair Housing Exhibit Center on the corner of West 16th and South Hamlin, where Martin Luther King, Jr. lived from 1966-67 during the Chicago Freedom Movement. What struck me most on the trip was the devastating reality of the neighborhood today. Where one of the great battles of the Civil Rights Movement was once fought now stands a struggling neighborhood. It has an unemployment rate three times Chicago’s and almost half of its families live below the poverty line. The fact that North Lawndale exists in the
same city as, say, the conspicuous consumption of the Magnificent Mile, is a devastating testament to the depth of inequality in Chicago. Chicago is in a tight spot. On one hand, it is home to egregious levels of inequality — all too easy to visualize on census maps that show how deeply segregated the city remains. On the other hand, it faces a serious fiscal crisis that limits the resources available to tackle inequality in the first place. As it stands, the city has a $20 billion heap of unfunded pension liabilities, a $300 million dollar current accounts deficit and an education deficit of $1.1 billion. Given the weight of these concerns, the election was bound to be an important one. The fact that it has come down to a runoff makes it all the more so. What is more, the runoff has actually been a huge positive for the city for two main reasons. The first is that the runoff elevates Jesus “Chuy” Garcia to the forefront of the political debate. In addition to bringing a necessary left-wing voice to a mayoral table that has veered too far right, Garcia forced the city establishment to turn toward the neighborhoods of the West and South sides that have too long languished in quiet negligence. He brought attention to the many communities like Lawndale, adjacent to Garcia’s own
Little Village, where unemployment rates are disproportionately high and where most of Emanuel’s school closings occurred. The runoff also forces Mayor Emanuel to wrestle with both his political platform and personal style. If there’s one thing the mayor is known for around the country, it’s his abrasive and confrontational personality. President Obama, for whom Emanuel served as chief of staff in his first term, once said, “people think Rahm is a bad guy, but he has a really soft side. He volunteers to teach profanity to underprivileged kids.” His opponent, Garcia, is one of the most likable politicians in the city. His easygoing, friendly manner and his commitment to Democratic populism has won hearts and minds across communities that have borne the brunt of Emanuel’s thundering reforms without any apologies from City Hall. Having to face-off against someone as well loved as Garcia has made Emanuel come to terms with his public perception and turn toward the communities most affected by his reforms. Even more important than tempering his abrasive public image, Emanuel has had to reconcile his actual policies with public perception, too. In his first term, the mayor closed 49 schools across the city and very publicly feuded with the city’s powerful teacher’s union
and its charismatic president, Karen Lewis. It may be that closing schools with dwindling student populations was the best policy for an education system in dire financial straits, but Emanuel was a poor salesman. At the height of the education battle, his approval rating dropped to 35 percent. That number has rebounded and, according to the most recent polling, it looks like he will win Tuesday’s runoff election with a comfortable margin. But in the process, Emanuel has had to figure out how to sell a center-left reform package to a cash-strapped, solidly Democrat city. In the end, the city will be better off because this election is so contentious. The runoff has forced the incumbent to clarify and adjust his political platform and personality — to the great benefit of the city — and it has raised the profile of his opponent, who gives voice to the many Chicagoans whose communities are affected by economic inequality and budgetary struggles. And regardless of what happens today, Chicago will be front-page national news tomorrow, right where it belongs. 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.
Ted Cruz a danger to progressive social changes TREVOR STOIMENOFF Daily Columnist
In a recent video, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who announced he will run for President in the 2016 election, compared himself to Galileo and likened today’s climate change activists to people of the 1500s who believed the Earth was flat. Cruz also voiced his strong support of gun rights, denounced gay marriage and openly opposed net neutrality and marijuana legalization. Additionally, he voted against the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. I have strong beliefs about social issues, all of which revolve around personal rights. I believe everybody should be free to marry whomever they please, that the war on drugs
is a waste of resources, that women should be equal to men and that climate change is one of the biggest concerns facing our world. Policies regarding these beliefs have made large steps forward in the past decade and Ted Cruz would effectively destroy these steps entirely. I am not saying Cruz’s beliefs are inherently wrong. However, in the past decade, we have made significant social progress in health care, human rights and environmental protection. If somebody like Ted Cruz with radical views that oppose all the progress we have made in these respects is elected in 2016, we will essentially move backwards in history and reverse the success of recent social movements. Cruz is the chair of the Senate subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness, which oversees NASA. An article from the
National Journal explains that Cruz believes NASA should stop focusing on the environment and spend its energy solely on space exploration. Because NASA is so involved in climate change research, putting Cruz in charge of the country could massively halt progress on this front. Climate change is real. It is happening at an alarmingly fast rate and — to be frank — you should remove yourself from political office if you believe otherwise. Change is inevitable and it is widely accepted that we as a nation will have our economic and societal ups and downs. However, it is plain to see that in terms of human rights, environmental policy and research, among various other social issues, we consistently progress forward. The feminist movement grows stronger by the day, we continue to address the racism that is still present
in the United States and experts consistently prove global warming is, in fact, a serious problem. Ted Cruz is notoriously radical in all the wrong ways. Sometimes being radical is necessary if the goal of doing so is to make progress and challenge the status quo. Ted Cruz would not continue our progress. His opposition to feminism and human rights and his blatant disregard for the obviousness of climate change, are signs he is bigoted and close-minded — two qualities that would be detrimental in a president. Trevor Stoimenoff is a Weinberg junior. He can be reached at trevorstoimenoff2016@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Moralizing remarks on domestic abuse don’t help NAOMI JOHNSON
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There were just a few instances during my time at Northwestern when I was stunned into silence, if only for a moment. One of those moments happened last quarter when I heard a professor jokingly tell a student to get involved in an abusive relationship so that she could later tell all of us why women stayed with violent men. He then punctuated that “joke” with this statement: “If I were the woman (in an abusive relationship) I would have nothing to do with the man.” I’ll let that sink in. I firmly believe that the immediate — and alarmed — responses from the faculty and other students around this professor’s joke are more representative of the NU community. However, thinking about this “joke” as an outlier that can be dismissed is also problematic. It would be easy to criticize this particular professor’s words and beliefs, but I don’t think doing so would solve anything. Instead, I think it is more pressing to discuss domestic violence as a social problem and to understand the need for perspective and context in conversations about this topic. First, domestic violence, although previously viewed as a private, individual problem, is a social problem because it is a reality for a disturbingly large number of individuals in the United States. The United States Department of Justice released a report on domestic violence, which included
data from 1993 to 2010, and recorded an overall decrease in domestic violence in America. What is telling about this data, however, is not the downward trend that the data shows but rather the people that this data represents. These statistics only included nonfatal instances of “intimate partner violence,” meaning the department did not scrutinize homicide or suicide records in this report. This is significant because Jacquelyn Campbell, a prolific researcher currently at Johns Hopkins University, has published numerous studies on the heightened risk of homicide and suicide that victims of domestic violence face. Homicide and suicide are recurring themes that cannot be extricated from domestic violence. Although the official data shows a decrease in nonfatal domestic violence, it tells us nothing about the prevalence and persistence of the most violent and deadly forms of domestic violence in this country. Using the same statistics from the Department of Justice shows that domestic violence affects people — over the age of 12 — at a rate of 3.6 per 1000. This is staggering, and not a subject fit for a jest. That is why I do not hesitate to describe domestic violence as a social problem. A social problem, at its most basic definition, is an issue that negatively affects a significant number of people in a community and warrants a response to change the circumstances of those people. Conceptualizing domestic violence as a social — and not just an individual — problem compels all of us to think about the perspectives of those whose actions and situations are difficult to understand. In a recent interview about her career and
work with abused women, Campbell summarized one of the most common reasons women “choose” to stay in abusive relationships — regardless of whether that decision was conscious or not — is because there is an “absolutely normal tendency” for these women to not think about the “scary stuff ” in order to take care of their children and function as a member of society. This means that in the point of view of these women — the women that Campbell interviewed and studied — their actions made the most “sense” to them given their circumstances. It also means that as a society, we need to put less emphasis on scrutinizing the victims who stay with their abusive partners and direct more energy toward understanding how structures in communities can support these victims.
This is not to minimize the importance of scholarly work and research done on studying victims of domestic violence. However, we as a community have a responsibility to recognize the stories embedded in the statistics and research without getting absorbed into moralistic questioning of the victims. In the end, the casual observation that “people choose to stay in abusive relationships” is unhelpful and moralizing, and is more illuminating of those who make these statements. Naomi Johnson is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be reached at naomijohnson2017@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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Pace to provide fast bus service between city, O’Hare By Michelle Kim
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Pace has selected Dempster Street as the second route for its new Arterial Bus Rapid Transit system, Pulse, which will provide express bus service between Evanston and O’Hare International Airport. The suburban bus company has so far begun planning for the first line on Milwaukee Avenue, scheduled to begin service in 2017, Pace spokesman Patrick Wilmot said. “Right now, we are putting all of our energy in the design and implementation of the Milwaukee line,” Wilmot said. “Our next step is to take what we learned from the Milwaukee project and apply it to the Dempster line, but we don’t have a timeline just yet.” The routes are part of Pace’s planned Rapid Transit Network, which proposes 24 Arterial bus rapid transit routes operating in regular traffic that will provide high-speed and frequent bus
service for northeastern Illinois, according to the company website. The proposed network incorporates timesaving elements, including an express service which reduces the frequency of stops to approximately every half-mile, Wilmot said. He also said a series of design elements such as digital countdown signs and heating in stations during the winter, as well as elevated platforms on the buses, will provide more efficient transportation for passengers. Pace also plans to implement an onboard technology in Pulse buses that sends requests to traffic signals to adjust light times if the buses are running behind schedule, Wilmot said. Although the plans for the Pulse Dempster line have not yet been outlined, Evanston community members have responded favorably to news of the potential route. Ylda Capriccioso, the city’s intergovernmental affairs coordinator, said it made sense that Pace prioritized the Dempster transit line because the route to O’Hare is highly traveled.
“The Dempster/Dodge intersection is an area that’s getting a lot of economic redevelopment and attention, so we’re hoping that once this (service) comes into play, it will provide more opportunities to get to and from areas in that business district,” Capriccioso said. “We think it’s a great program. We’re just waiting for it to get installed.” Evanston sustainability fellow Kumar Jensen said he thought the potential Pace line would be a boon to Evanston commuters. “It’s pretty exciting that there are going to be expanded transit opportunities for the community,” Jensen said. “It will definitely help the daily commuters, especially people who don’t have direct access to the Metra line or CTA.” Pace has submitted an application to the federal Department of Transportation to receive a designation in the federal transportation program, which Wilmot said could secure federal funds to speed construction. yeareekim2018@u.northwestern.edu
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SPEEDY SERVICE Pace buses wait at the Davis Street CTA station. Pace has plans to create a rapid transit line that runs between Evanston and O’Hare International Airport along Dempster Street.
Wildcat Welcome will not involve Millennium Park By Matthew Choi
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CIAO CHICAGO The class of 2017 sits atop Millenium Park’s grass field as part of 2013’s Wildcat Welcome programming. The excursion to Chicago has been cut from this year’s orientation.
Wildcat Welcome will not hold an event at Millennium Park in the fall, as the Chicago mayor’s office booked the space the planned weekend. For the past two years, Wildcat Welcome has brought new students to Chicago for Purple Pride, where they learn about Chicago and Northwestern traditions. This year, the venue will not be available and a new location is yet to be determined, said Patricia Hilkert, NU director of new student and family programs. The Office for New Student and Family Programs had planned to use the park on Saturday or Sunday of Wildcat Welcome, Hilkert said. However, the park is booked for the weekend by the mayor’s office to rehearse for the Fifth Star Awards, which honors Chicago artists, and the
World Music Festival Chicago, which showcases musicians from around the world. This is not the first time Wildcat Welcome has faced scheduling conflicts for Millennium Park, Hilkert said. The mayor’s office contacted Hilkert’s office a week before Wildcat Welcome last year requesting the space for the Fifth Star Awards, Hilkert said, but NU still took students to the park. Weinberg sophomore Matthew Hacker Teper, a returning peer adviser for 2015, said it’s unfortunate the event is being relocated, but he is confident NU will organize an effective alternative. “It introduces the idea that Northwestern and Chicago have a partnership, so in that sense, I’m disappointed that it’s not continuing on,” Hacker Teper said. “For a lot of students it was a positive experience, but I also don’t feel like it’s absolutely a prerequisite to a positive experience during Wildcat Welcome.” A new location for Purple Pride has not yet been decided, Hilkert said. Many details concerning Wildcat Welcome’s schedule — including when
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National News Brain knows how to stop thinking, start learning
Anyone who’s ever learned music probably remembers reaching a point when they just played without “thinking” about the notes. It turns out that a little bit of disconnect goes a long way in learning motor tasks, according to a study published online Monday in the journal Nature Neuroscience. The findings could lend insight into why children learn some tasks faster than adults, and could point toward ways to help adults learn faster and to make classrooms more conducive to learning, according to the authors. Brain researchers at UC Santa Barbara repeatedly scanned the brains of volunteers as they spent several weeks practicing and learning six 10-note sequences. Then they looked at the evolution of how certain “modules” appeared to work together or became disengaged from each other. Not surprisingly, motor and visual modules did a lot of talking to each other, as slow sightreading eventually became speed-playing. Subjects recruited other regions of the brain to work out the problem too. That was true for fast learners and slow learners, according to the study. But what appeared to set the fast learners apart from the slow learners was how soon they let go of those other parts of the brain, particularly areas that have to do with strategies and problem solving. “Any athlete will tell you this: If you’re competent at something and you start thinking about it, especially at a detailed level, you’re just dead in the water,” said UC Santa Barbara systems neuroscientist Scott Grafton, who has puzzled over motor learning for two decades. “Golfers talk about this all the time. It’s OK for practice, but not for performance conditions.” This time, Grafton collaborated with a physicist — and now a MacArthur Fellow —— who specializes in complex systems theory. Danielle Bassett, now at the University of Pennsylvania’s bioengineering department, broke up the brain images into 112 nodes and reorganized them into complicated matrices to reveal the equivalent of social networks. Then she analyzed how these evolved over time, and how that predicted differences in learning. That reshuffling revealed a more dynamic map of the brain, characterized by recruitment, integration and shifting allegiances over time. “If people are learning and changing their behavior, then there must be something that’s changing in their brain,” Bassett said. “The brain can’t be constant. It has to be changing in some way.”
tuesday, april 7, 2015 Motor and visual modules, they found, were well integrated across all subjects and for much of the early practice sessions. But soon, they became more autonomous. “That actually makes a lot of sense,” Bassett said. “The task required motor-visual integration at the beginning, because you see a set of musical notes and then you have to play them with your fingers.... But then, as people learned the sequences over and over again, they seemed to not necessarily need that coupling anymore.” Still, that change in integration didn’t explain differences in learning among the volunteers. “It’s just consistently seen across everybody,” said Bassett. “But this disconnection of the rest of the brain is very strong in good learners and very weak in poor learners. That seems to be really important.” The disconnection that appeared to be driving the difference in learning came mainly from the frontal and anterior cingulate cortex. Those are associated with cognitive control — such as identifying strategies. “These are important probably early on in learning, but you actually need to get them offline and disconnected if you want to complete learning,” Bassett said. That result might offer an explanation for why children consistently learn certain tasks faster _ music among them. Areas of the brain involved in executive function are not fully developed and integrated in children, research has shown. Bassett said she would like to extend the research to younger subjects —— the UC Santa Barbara volunteers were college-aged —— and to other types of learning that are more complex. And among adults, it could be possible to force these areas to disengage, through such tools as magnetic stimulation, Bassett said. Eventually, the study’s techniques could help figure out what kind of classroom environment encourages children to learn faster, she added. Even more fundamentally, the mathematical modeling used in the study could transform the way neuroscientists map the brain. “What complex systems theory does is it allows you to look at the entire data set, the entire system — all of its parts and all of its connections — at once, and look for a salient feature,” Bassett said. — Geoffrey Mohan(Los Angeles Times/TNS)
Sanctions relief for Iran still in dispute, Obama spokesman says
WASHINGTON – Iran hasn’t agreed to the U.S. insistence that economic sanctions be phased out gradually in a deal to curb that country’s nuclear program, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Monday. While the U.S. “will insist upon” sanctions relief tied to Iran meeting its commitments
under an accord, Earnest told reporters in Washington on Monday, the timing “still needs to be negotiated” in further talks. The comments, days after last week’s framework agreement in Switzerland between Iran and six world powers, raise questions about the original U.S. account of the accord. An American “fact sheet,” immediately disputed by Iran, said that sanctions would be suspended only after international inspectors verified Iran’s compliance and may “snap back” into place if the terms are violated. Secretary of State John Kerry predicted that Iran would need four months to a year just to complete the steps required under the agreement before any sanctions relief, which he said would be provided “in phases.” Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif cited a joint statement by his country and the European Union saying that the EU will “terminate the implementation” of nuclear-related sanctions and the U.S. “will cease the application” of them “simultaneously” with the verification. “It has never been our position that all of the sanctions against Iran should be removed on Day One,” Earnest said on Monday. “That is their position.” The framework announced on April 2 in Lausanne, Switzerland, sets the parameters for further negotiations needed to complete a signed, comprehensive agreement by a June 30 deadline. On provisions to restrict Iran’s nuclear program, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz downplayed differences between the U.S. and Iran. “There’s no doubt that right now there is a different narrative, but not in conflict with what’s written down, just selective,” he told reporters at the same White House briefing. Moniz said the provisions of the framework, if converted into a final agreement, would block all of Iran’s pathways to nuclear weapons and would provide at least a one-year warning time if Iran tries to break out and race to produce a nuclear device. The framework would allow for “unprecedented” inspection powers for the International Atomic Energy Agency, he said. An envisioned dispute resolution procedure, if Iran balked at a particular inspection demand, would be empowered to resolve the dispute quickly, he said. (With assistance from Toluse Olorunnipa and Justin Sink in Washington.) – Terry Atlas and David Lerman(Bloomberg News/TNS) feature,” Bassett said.
Greenpeace activists board Shell oil rig headed to Seattle
SEATTLE – Six Greenpeace activists on Monday morning made a high-seas boarding of the Polar Pioneer drilling rig, which is being transported to Seattle in preparation for Shell’s summer exploration season off Alaska’s
North Slope. The six activists approached the rig aboard an inflatable, then used climbing lines to get aboard. They created a camp with tarps and hammocks on a tiny catwalk under the main deck. “It’s chilly and a bit windy but not terrible,” said Aliyah Field, a 27-year-old U.S. activist who spoke Monday to The Seattle Times from the rig. “It is rather beautiful.” The drill rig is being taken to Seattle atop a heavy-lift vessel –– the Blue Marlin. In a written statement, Greenpeace says the six activists – from Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden, Austria and the U.S. –– made their boarding about 750 miles northwest off Hawaii. Field said the group intends to stay “as long as it takes for Shell to get our message loud and clear that drilling in the Arctic is entirely unacceptable.” A Shell official on Monday confirmed the activists were on the rig in an action they say jeopardized the safety of both the contractor’s crew on the Blue Marlin and the activists themselves. “Shell has met with organizations and individuals who oppose energy exploration offshore (of ) Alaska,” said a written statement released by Shell. “We respect their views and value the dialogue. We will not, however, condone, the illegal tactics employed by Greenpeace. Nor will we allow those stunts to distract from preparations underway to execute a safe and responsible exploration program.” The U.S. Coast Guard is aware of the boarding, and is monitoring the situation, according to a Coast Guard spokesman in Honolulu. Shell plans to drill this summer in Chukchi Sea, where the U.S. Geological Survey estimates geological formations beneath the ocean bottom may hold more than 15 billion barrels of oil. Environmentalists have opposed the Chukchi exploration as posing too great a risk of oil spills, and setting the stage for development of major new reserves of fossil fuels that would help escalate climate change. In Seattle, environmental groups have sued to try to block Shell from using the Port of Seattle as a hub. Sunday, activists organized a protest, with marchers in West Seattle holding signs saying: “Shell No.” “We have been in communication with folks in Seattle and feel very encouraged and affirmed,” Field said. Shell leaders have often acknowledged that climate change driven by fossil-fuel combustion is a major 21st-century challenge. But they also have made a major bet that Arctic exploration off Alaska will lead to substantial new oil production in the decades ahead. — Hal Bernton(The Seattle Times/TNS)
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said. The times guest wristbands will be sold will be announced later. “Before we had a wristband policy, the entrance policy was very confusing and people had to carry multiple IDs with them,” the Medill senior said. “There were literally flowcharts for understanding because there was so much going on. This year we’ve
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resolution in the context of NU’s recent fundraising campaign. “Especially with how We Will is set up now, money is coming in,” Harlow said. “Why shouldn’t we be able to know where it’s being funneled?” Harlow also said his and Hinkle’s experience with “pushing back” against administrators will help ensure the resolution’s aims are carried out. Kim also said she supports divestment, saying ASG members should be informed about
these issues. “It’s on us as student leaders to pay attention and to be aware of these issues,” she said. Plugging part of her and Star’s platform, Kim also spoke about issues of socioeconomic status, endorsing “zero parental contribution” for families with incomes below $60,000. A second debate, which is sponsored by ASG, will be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Fisk Hall.
kind of simplified the entire process such that you don’t have students waiting in long lines.” The wristband policy implemented last year makes entering the Lakefill easier and faster and creates a safer Dillo Day, Wolf said. The wristbands will also have barcodes that will allow Mayfest to see not only how many people are on the Lakefill, but who specifically is there, Wolf said. Mayfest’s University Relations co-chair J.P.
Bowgen, a SESP senior, said last year guests had serialized wristbands. With better technology this year, the wristbands allow for more accountability. Charli XCX was the first performer to be announced for this year’s festival. The full lineup for the May 30 event has not yet been released.
What Erdely thought she found at the University of Virginia — when she interviewed a student named Jackie — was not just traumatic, but horrific. Erdely’s explosive story, published in Rolling Stone in November, said Jackie had been attacked and gang-raped for hours by seven men at a fraternity house as one of her fellow lifeguards from the university pool cheered them on. The story got 2.7 million page views, the most of any noncelebrity story in Rolling Stone’s online history. But instead of drawing fresh scrutiny to sexual violence on college campuses, the story instead became a parable in how not to report — the kind likely to be taught in journalism classes, and a mark of shame for one of America’s most respected magazines. The Columbia Journalism Review report uncovered multiple lapses of reporting and factchecking in Rolling Stone’s dubious account of the rape, whose basic details could not be corroborated. The Columbia report was hardly the first to find fault with the story. Other media quickly uncovered discrepancies, and in March, Charlottesville, Va., police announced that they could find no evidence that the attack happened.
Columbia’s report reached a similar conclusion, calling the story a failure of journalism. “The failure encompassed reporting, editing, editorial supervision and fact-checking,” wrote the Columbia authors — Sheila Coronel, dean of academic affairs at Columbia Journalism School; Steve Coll, the journalism school dean; and Derek Kravitz, a postgraduate research scholar at the journalism school. “The magazine set aside or rationalized as unnecessary essential practices of reporting that, if pursued, would likely have led the magazine’s editors to reconsider publishing Jackie’s narrative so prominently, if at all.” The Columbia authors suggested several policy changes that might prevent similar mistakes in the future — including a ban on pseudonyms, which can be a crutch for weak reporting. Rolling Stone editors saw no need “to change their editorial systems,” the Columbia report said. But Sunday night, Rolling Stone’s editor’s note on the report said, “We are also committing ourselves to a series of recommendations about journalistic practices that are spelled out in the report.”
Dortch said could be diminished under one unified district board. “I believe if (the districts) consolidate that it’d be easier for the taxpayers and easier for the constituents that live in Evanston,” he said. “There’s a lot of constituents that don’t have kids that are in the schools, and the schools don’t give anything back to the community.” Incumbent Jonathan Baum, who has served on the ETHS board for four years, echoed Dortch’s desire to make the student transition from District 65 to District 202 more cohesive. However, Baum emphasized collaboration between the districts instead of combining them. “The issue that I have devoted the most attention to, and that I find also is the one that resonates the most with the voters, is bringing District 65 and 202 together,” he said. “Four years ago, I ran saying that I’d like to see us provide a seamless educational experience for the students in District 65 and 202, and people said that I was crazy.” Baum said he hoped to further strengthen the relationship between the two districts. “We have made such tremendous strides over the past four years in terms of the two districts collaborating closely together and that’s the work that I would most like to continue in the next four years,” he said. Mark Metz, an incumbent running with six years experience on the District 202 board, highlighted the need for board members to understand the financial constraints that both districts face. “I think the public needs to recognize … we are going to face difficult financial times mostly because of the condition of the state of Illinois,” Metz said. “It’s really important to elect school board officials that have a good financial background and a good understanding of the budgeting process, and sort of help manage us through this.” The two other District 202 school board candidates, newcomers Anne Sills and Monique Parsons, could not be reached for comment. Early voting to elect the new school board members, which took place March 23 through April 4, resulted in 1,087 Evanston residents turning out to submit their ballots. Residents across Cook County will vote Tuesday to elect people to various public school boards. Evanston residents can vote Tuesday.
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Across Campus Rolling Stone retracts rape report, apologizes after ‘painful’ review Rolling Stone magazine retracted a discredited story about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia after a devastating independent review by Columbia University deemed it a “journalistic failure that was avoidable.” “The report was painful reading, to me personally and to all of us at Rolling Stone,” Will Dana, the magazine’s managing editor, said in an editor’s note appended to the outside review published on Rolling Stone’s website Sunday, and cross-published on the website of the Columbia Journalism Review magazine. “It is also, in its own way, a fascinating document — a piece of journalism ... about a failure of journalism.” By Sunday night, the original story had been replaced on Rolling Stone’s website with the Columbia Journalism Review report. The trouble began when Rolling Stone writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely set out to find a single story that would be “emblematic” of what rape and sexual harassment is like on American campuses, according to the Columbia report.
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We’ve played in really tough conditions these last couple of weeks and I think it’s beat us up. — Emily Fletcher, women’s golf coach
Women’s Tennis NU at Georgia Tech, 2 p.m. Wednesday
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NU rolls in weekend wins over Rutgers, Maryland By ALEX LEDERMAN
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CHATTING IT UP Sophomore Brooke Rischbieth and freshman Alex Chatt talk strategy during a doubles match. Each went undefeated during Northwestern’s weekend play.
The last three times Northwestern played two matches in one weekend, it split the pairs. Saturday and Sunday, the Wildcats broke that streak with convincing victories over Rutgers and Maryland. The team handled the Scarlet Knights (6-12, 0-9 Big Ten) and the No. 75 Terrapins (9-11, 2-7) easily with 6-1 and 5-2 wins, respectively. No. 21 NU (10-5, 5-2 Big Ten) has now won six of its past seven matchups. “We all just individually took care of what we’ve been working on,” sophomore Brooke Rieschbieth said. In fact, NU’s biggest challenge of the weekend didn’t come from either team, but from the weather. This was the first time since the fall the Cats played outdoors. “We’ve got to get outside and play as much tennis as possible outdoors,” coach Claire Pollard said. “The conditions really exploited some of the things we need to work on, with footwork being No. 1 on my list. We’ve still got a lot of growth to go.” Other areas Pollard said her team needs to improve are ball tolerance and managing errors. But even with imperfect execution, the windy couple of days at Vandy Cristie Tennis Center didn’t stop the Cats. In Sunday’s longest match,
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Rieschbieth actually used the wind to her advantage as much as possible to beat Maryland’s Olga Gaistruk 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. “The conditions weren’t great, and it was windy,” freshman Rheeya Doshi said. “We all just embraced the challenge and gave it our best.” Most importantly, NU won the doubles point in each of the matches. Doubles has been a burden for most of the season, but the duos seem to finally be hitting their strides — the Cats have now earned doubles victories in six straight contests. Pollard said the doubles teams impressed her most this weekend. All three of NU’s losses came in third-set tiebreakers, with freshman Erin Larner falling Saturday at No. 2 singles, and junior Alicia Barnett and senior Lok Sze Leung losing Sunday at No. 1 and No. 3 singles. The freshmen — Doshi, Larner and Alex Chatt — all played well, with Doshi and Chatt each cruising
to two easy two-set victories and Larner’s one loss coming in a nailbiter. The trio is 8-1 over the past three matches. The Cats return to action on little rest Wednesday with a non-conference road match against No. 36 Georgia Tech (9-7, 6-4 ACC). The Yellowjackets have two ranked The players, conditions Johnnise Renaud weren’t great and and Paige Hourigan, it was windy. We at first and all just embraced second the challenge singles and gave it our and have ranked best. pair HouRheeya Doshi, rigan and freshman Kendal Woodard at No. 1 doubles. Rieschbieth said each player has something different she must work on and has to take care of her own individual needs first. She said she plans to work on transitioning, playing aggressively and breaking down her opponent. “Getting better every day, that’s been the theme,” Doshi said. “We’ve just been working toward that as a team and individually giving our best all the time.”
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Wildcats can’t master long game in North Carolina By KEVIN CASEY
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Although Northwestern seemed more prepared this year, the Wildcats faced a result in North Carolina alarmingly similar to last year’s. The highest ranked team on the field, No. 9 NU finished a lowly 11th in the 18-team Bryan National Collegiate in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Sunday, barely outpacing the team’s 14th place showing in 2014. Last year’s result proved to be a low outlier in a spring where the Cats otherwise placed no worse than third in any other regular season event. NU can only hope this week’s performance will prove to be the same. “I was disappointed with our finish this week, we never really got anything going,” coach Emily Fletcher said. “I think it’s been a challenging couple of weeks for us. We’ve seen some good that we haven’t been able to turn the corner on, and we got off to a poor start each day this week.” The adverse weather the Cats faced at the Bryan Park Champions Course was similar to that of last week’s Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic, where the
team had a solid showing. But familiarity didn’t prove advantageous. Instead, only two of the five Cats starters shot below 40 on their first nine holes of the tournament on Friday and just one bettered 75 for the day, leading to a ninth-place spot after 18 holes. The team’s struggles continued on Saturday, as NU retained ninth place with four rounds of 77 or higher. Sarah Cho fell victim to those conditions, as her 77-79 start bumped her to a tie for 47th through 36 holes. Unfamiliarity with this type of course and the exacting nature of the layout in these conditions proved to be a deadly duo for the freshman. “The greens were really firm but they didn’t really stop. We really weren’t used to that as much as compared to other tournaments,” Cho said. “The conditions were tough and my game was just a little bit off, so that combo made it easy to make bogeys out there.” Milder weather on Sunday did not abate the Cats’ fortunes, as the team actually sunk to 11th with less wind in the picture. In the end the Cats’ supreme depth faltered, with Cho and normal ace freshman Hannah Kim
finishing outside the top 50. No NU golfers placed in the top 20, as senior Hana Lee and sophomore Kacie Komoto each tied for 21st. The Cats were 12th in the field in par-five scoring average at 5.13 — coming after consecutive first place finishes in that category to start the spring. Lee noted that ample water combined with howling wind on long holes could either prove helpful or detrimental, and it was more of the latter for the Cats. NU also struggled mightily staving off the big numbers, recording 13 double bogeys or worse over the three days. The players succumbed to several streaks of bad holes. While that may have pointed to ball striking woes for the Cats, it was actually quite the opposite. “I think we did a pretty good job of missing the ball in the right place on our approaches,” Fletcher said. “But our short games let us down a little bit. We weren’t able to chip or pitch the ball close and you’re not going to make many 15- or 20-footers for par. We just didn’t give ourselves very good chances for saves.” Lee, an excellent ball-striker and the only NU player to shoot three solid rounds, was able to minimize her
Women’s Golf
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GOING THE DISTANCE A Northwestern golfer sizes up her shot. The team struggled with long holes over the weekend, placing 11th in the Bryan National Collegiate.
mistakes and produce birdies shortly after bad holes. “I just had the mindset to be more aggressive on the next hole (after a bogey or worse), and sometimes that paid off,” Lee said. The Cats have just one more event before Big Ten Championships, and are now coming off a season-worst finish. The longtime concern over short game is as potent as ever, and the presence of an ace has dissipated for the time
being too. The team’s confidence, though, isn’t shaken. “We’ve played in really tough conditions these last couple of weeks, and I think it’s beat us up a little bit,” Fletcher said. “I’ve got full faith and confidence in these girls … They are still in good spirits, so we’ll just look to get some new momentum going.”. kevincasey2015@u.northwestern.edu
Cross Country
3 Northwestern runners shine in San Francisco area meets By MAX SCHUMAN
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It was a busy and successful Easter weekend in the Bay Area for Northwestern. The Wildcats’ top runners split up to compete at the Stanford Invitational and San Francisco State Distance Carnival, and a trio of NU runners extended their seasons by qualifying for the West Preliminary Round of the NCAA Championships. Sophomore stars Andrea Ostenso
and Jena Pianin blasted through their personal records in the 10,000m and 5,000m, respectively, at Stanford against their stiffest competition of the outdoor season to date. Ostenso cut more than a minute from her best time to finish in 34:46.88, good for 61st out of 75 entrants in the event, while Pianin sliced more than 30 seconds from her record to take 57th out of 66 entrants with a time of 16:42.76. With many of the nation’s fastest women’s distance times of the year being run at Stanford, the meet provided an opportunity for the Cats’ sophomore
duo to put up fast times and solidify the women’s chance to qualify for the West Prelims at the end of the season. Ostenso’s effort was good for the 32nd-fastest time in the 10,000m in the West region this season, while Pianin’s time was the 37thbest in the 5,000m in the region this year. The top 48 runners in each event in the region will qualify for the regional championship meet. Another contingent of NU runners competed in the nearby San Francisco State Distance Carnival. Junior Elena Barham stole the show for the Cats at the meet, as her 36:10.99 showing in the
10,000m was good for eighth overall. She had the 42nd-fastest time in the West region this season, and qualified for the regional championships in the event. Junior Rachel Weathered and freshman Isabel Seidel led the way for NU in the 5,000m at the meet with personalbest times of 17:28.09 and 17:31.11, respectively. Weathered cut roughly 23 seconds from her previous best in the distance, while Seidel made her collegiate debut in the event. Junior Allison Jacobsen finished the race in 17:48.92, while classmates Renee Wellman and Mallory Abel crossed
the line in 17:51.11 and 18:24.68, respectively. Although three Cats are now in position to qualify for prelims in the first year of NU’s new NCAA sponsorship for track, the standings won’t be set until the end of the season, giving Ostenso, Pianin, Barham and the rest of NU’s squad plenty of time to boost their times and secure one more race in the season. NU will hit the track again this weekend for the Chicagoland Championships in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. maxschuman2018@u.northwestern.edu