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R&B artist Miguel to headline Dillo

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setting the scene Students participate in a mock Israeli checkpoint stop near the Rock on Tuesday. Students for Justice in Palestine organized the simulation.

SJP simulates border check

By Tyler Pager and Alice Yin daily senior staffers @tylerpager , @alice__yin

Students for Justice in Palestine held a mock checkpoint and border patrol event at The Rock on Tuesday, symbolizing the Israel-Palestine and United States-Mexico borders. One student said he filed a hate and bias incident report in response to the event.

The event, which was part of SJP’s Israeli Apartheid Week, featured demonstrators in camouflage gear acting as patrol agents. Depending on the scenario, the camouflage gear featured an Israeli or an American flag. Students acting as migrant workers carried water jugs and those acting as Palestinians wore a keffiyeh, a Palestinian scarf.

“Not only did we intend to show

City manager unveils plans for staff restructuring

City manager Wally Bobkiewicz announced a restructuring of his staff into groups focusing on a major realignment of city departments and invigoration of infrastructure projects.

With the uncertainty of the state’s 2016 budget and its likely negative impact on Evanston, Bobkiewicz sees this as an appropriate time to make changes to the city in order to best

the suffering that occurs, but we also intended to show the intersections of the two struggles,” Weinberg senior Imtisal Khokher told The Daily. “Both peoples are subject to the same surveillance, the same racial profiling both here and in the state of Israel.”

Khokher, an SJP member, also discussed how the event aimed to show how similar companies are involved in both patrols, namely Elbit Systems and HewlettPackard Co. The companies are two of the six corporations that Northwestern Divest called for the University to divest from in a resolution passed by Associated Student Government last quarter. The resolution’s sponsors say the companies are involved in the violation of Palestinians’ human rights.

SJP collaborated with MEChA de Northwestern on the event and Cinthya Rodriguez, a member of MECha de

Northwestern, said the event used performance art to further the conversation on how people’s movement is policed in the two locations.

“It’s really about making the connection between the systems of regulation that are happening there in both spaces and thinking about what this means for people in these two parts of the world,” the Weinberg junior said.

A Jewish male sophomore filed a harassment and verbal assault complaint through the Respect NU system for bias against race and religion in response to an incident at the event. In the report obtained by The Daily, the student said he was videotaping the mock checkpoint at around 2 p.m. Tuesday. He requested anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the bias report.

serve residents, he said. The temporary staffing will remain until the end of August.

“The city has made great strides in making Evanston the most livable community, but the city government structure is not aligned to make the kind of forward progress that the community desires,” Bobkiewicz said in a news release.

Bobkiewicz said that four of the city’s infrastructure projects must see major progress in 2016, including the Robert Crown Center, Howard Street Theater, Harley Clarke Mansion and Downtown Performing Arts Center.

Planning work for the projects must be submitted by August 14.

Bokiewicz has also asked assistant city manager Marty Lyons to examine the Public Works and Utilities departments to determine how to best serve Evanston’s need to conserve resources to the benefit of the city. It is likely that both departments will be eliminated and replaced with one or more new departments, Bobkiewicz said.

He turned to director of health and human services Evonda Thomas-Smith to improve her department, particularly in providing affordable housing and shelter for the homeless. He tasked

» See Checkpoint, page 11

Miguel will headline Dillo Day this year, Mayfest confirmed Tuesday night.

Mayfest teased the opening frame of the video for the artist’s Grammy Award-winning song “Adorn” and lyrics to his 2012 song “Do You…” on its website Monday night.

Mayfest co-chair Ian Robinson, a Medill senior, said he doesn’t think students were expecting Miguel, but the group has received positive feedback since the tease.

Miguel, who debuted in 2010 with his album “All I Want Is You,” is the third artist Mayfest has announced for Dillo Day 2015.

The other artists are electronic duo Odesza and pop singer Charli XCX. Miguel, a Grammy-winning R&B artist from Los Angeles, rose

to fame after releasing his second album, “Kaleidoscope Dream.”

He is also known for the singles “Adorn” and “#Beautiful.” Mayfest’s concerts chair Michael Bass said the survey the group sent out early in Winter Quarter showed students did not want an EDM or hip-hop headliner.

“We really try to take these factors into consideration and thought about what genre we’re missing and R&B was the obvious one, and R&B was actually the top ranked genre on the campus-wide poll,” the Communication senior said. “The name that immediately came to us was Miguel.”

Another response from the survey was 2 Chainz’s poor live performance skills. Miguel has a live performance that is more suited for Dillo Day, Bass said.

“Miguel plays with a large and amazingly electric live band and it » See Dillo, page 11

Source: Miguel on Facebook

Miguel

director of community development Mark Muenzer and sustainability manager Catherine Hurley with solving traffic problems between transportation vehicles and people, both walking and biking.

Another of Bobkiewicz’s announcements shifted oversight of the Evanston Animal Shelter from the police department to his own office. This decision, effective June 1, comes just over a week after aldermen chose the nonprofit organization Saving Animals for Evanston to run Evanston Animal Shelter.

The city manager has also assembled

a trio of staffers from the police department, fire department and city office to suggest improvements for planning and training for emergency responses as well as community relations.

“The staff of the city of Evanston has demonstrated many times in the past our ability to address challenges head on,” Bobkiewicz said in the news release. “The Evanston community expects the city to thrive despite challenges and in order to do so we must continue to be forward thinking and nimble in our approach to problems.

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Community organizer aids EPL in Latino outreach

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Jose Cruz became Evanston Public Library’s new Latino Outreach Coordinator last month after years as a librarian and community organizer in Chicago.

Cruz’s job includes acting as a librarian with an emphasis on serving Spanish-speaking residents. He is tasked with helping Latino visitors who are new to EPL feel more comfortable utilizing the library’s services. Cruz, 35, said his short-term goals include learning more about Evanston and the needs of its Latino families. He is meeting with different community groups to learn and receive more input, he said.

“They are my guide to everything that is going on here,” Cruz said. “It’s going to take a while to figure out what is really needed and to gain the trust of community members.”

EPL created the Latino Outreach Coordinator position in 2010, said Jill Schacter, EPL’s marketing and communications coordinator.

Cruz replaced Daylily Alvarez, who is now Chicago Public Library’s children and young adult services outreach librarian.

Cruz said in his job he meets and communicates with Latino families through the library.

Police Blotter Purse stolen from car early Sunday

Someone stole a purse from a car parked near Northwestern early Sunday, police said.

A 24-year-old female resident of Bartlett, Illinois, said she parked her car at Burger King, 1740 Orrington Ave., Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said.

“The challenge I’ve set for myself is I want to see more Latino families utilizing the space, utilizing the resources that we have,” Cruz said.

“Some families don’t know how to use a library because they have never really been in one.”

Cruz, who worked in the children’s services section at Oak Park Public Library before starting his current job, has a background in community organizing. He The has organized social challenge I’ve justice campaigns in southwest Chicago set for myself and has served as an is I want to adult educator with the Association House of see more Chicago in Humboldt Latino families Park, one of Chicautilizing the go’s oldest settlement houses. He has also space. worked at Segundo Jose Cruz, Ruiz Belvis Cultural EPL Latino Center, one of the oldOutreach est cultural institutions Coordinator in Chicago, located on the city’s northwest side.

As a community organizer, Cruz said he worked mostly with children and families. He also built connections between libraries and schools, a task he has continued to pursue at EPL.

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The woman said she went inside the restaurant to eat and when she came back, her Michael Kors purse worth about $55 was taken. The purse contained her driver’s license, credit cards and medication, Dugan said.

There were no signs of forced entry and detectives are following up with security camera images of the incident, Dugan added.

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“I’m working with the District 65 schools and different parent groups,” Cruz said. “I think that’s going to be fruitful.”

He said his experience in community organizing helps him work with different groups at EPL, but there is more flexibility doing outreach work at a library than in other institutions.

“Jose’s experience, his commitment to libraries and his enthusiasm for serving our residents will help welcome our Latino families to all of our libraries and the many engaging services and programs we produce in both English and Spanish,” EPL director Karen Danczak Lyons said in a news release.

Cruz said he developed his passion for helping others while growing up in Chicago.

“I grew up in a poor Latino community, and I saw a lot of services that weren’t there,” Cruz said. “I grew up with the mentality that I would like to help my community somehow and go to school and get an education to do that.”

Rory Parilac, the assistant manager of children’s services at Oak Park Public Library, said co-workers and children there miss “Mr. Jose” and his “extraordinary presence.” Cruz understands the importance of libraries in communities, Parilac said.

“He knows why people come to the library,” Parilac said. “He knows they come for that sense of community, not just resources. He’s just a great ambassador. Evanston is lucky to

Side of apartment building defaced

Someone defaced the side of an apartment building near the Evanston-Chicago border Monday afternoon, police said.

A resident reported the graffiti through the Evanston 311 service, Dugan said. The side wall of the building was spray-painted with purple writing that police were unable to decipher, Dugan added.

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REACHING OUT Evanston Public Library hired Jose Cruz, a long-time librarian and community organizer, as its new Latino Outreach Coordinator. Cruz’s main responsibility will be working with Spanishspeaking library visitors.

have him out in the community.”

Cruz said he is currently focused on Evanston’s growing Latino population.

“I commend the library for trying to connect with this population,” he said. williamkobin2018@u.northwestern.edu

Setting the record straight “NU halted by top seed in Michigan in Big Ten Tournament,” which ran in Monday’s print edition, misstated the date of Northwestern softball’s next game. The Wildcats will play May 15.

The Daily regrets the error.

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Law school debt relief faces criticism

By JOSH ROSENBLAT

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A new Northwestern School of Law program aimed at relieving some of its graduates’ debt faces uncertainty about its potential impact.

Announced in late April, NU’s Interest Freedom Plan calls for the school to pay the first year of law school loan interest payments for unemployed graduates and graduates making less than $85,000 per year in the private sector. The program will start with the class of 2015 and is guaranteed for the three subsequent graduating classes, said Don Rebstock, Law’s associate dean of enrollment management, career strategy and marketing.

NU estimates about 15 percent of each graduating class — about 40 individuals — will benefit from the IFP, Rebstock said. He said the changing legal marketplace has left fewer graduated with more lucrative job opportunities than were available in the past.

“This program hopefully gives people more freedom in being able to pursue (less lucrative) positions and diversify their options,” he said.

Rebstock said he expects most graduates to continue to take jobs closer to the median salary for a Law graduate — around $160,000 per year. The program would not cover interest payments for graduates who make more than $85,000.

NU scientists look to Nigeria healing practices for drug research

Inspired by traditional healing techniques used in Nigeria, Northwestern researchers synthesized new chemical compounds that might someday be used to treat people with psychiatric disorders.

The NU scientists synthesized two alkaloids, alstonine and serpentine, found in plants Nigerian healers have used to medicate people with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

“I don’t think it’s a big benefit,” Alex Holt, an education policy analyst at the New America think tank, said about the program. “There’s nothing wrong with it. It just seems a little bit more like a gimmick to me than anything else.”

Holt said the program doesn’t do much to solve the problem of the massive debt incurred by students because it has a “fairly limited benefit.”

NU Law graduates currently hold the third-highest average debt among law schools at more than $160,000, with 80 percent of students graduating with debt, according to U.S. News & World Report. Across the country, law school graduates have the secondhighest average debt among professional students at $140,616, according to a 2014 New America study.

“One of the reasons you’re willing to take on that debt is that you’re investing in something that has a relatively high return rate, even if you’re taking on a bigger amount of loans,” said Marco Minichiello, the president of NU’s Student Bar Association.

Although appreciative of the program, Minichiello, who just finished his first year at Law, doesn’t anticipate the program will majorly influence students and is skeptical about its impact on average debt. Minichiello said the policy would make taking a lower paying job a bit easier on students.

Holt and Rebstock said the Interest Freedom Plan is the first of its kind, so it is difficult to predict its overall impact.

Rebstock estimates the average borrowing levels

for students will fall “by at least $10,000 from where it is now per student” over the three-year duration of the program.

Holt, though, doesn’t see it as a step toward solving Law students’ debt issues.

“They’re saying, ‘Look, we know you’re going to borrow $150,000 in debt so here’s this tiny little benefit to make you feel better about your decision.’ They’re not really taking responsibility,” Holt said. “A step in the right direction would be for them to lower tuition.”

Minichiello agrees with Holt’s sentiment, saying the program does not solve the problem of student debt.

“I would just want that financial aid upfront — either across the board or on merit- or need-based for people — because not only is that more appealing for people coming in, but you’re not even accruing interest (on the financial aid) because the school’s paying for more of your education,” he said.

Rebstock said Law has been at the forefront of top law schools in terms of tempering its tuition increases.

“There’s not necessarily a tradeoff between whether funds are allocated at the front end, like financial aid, or back end, like IFP,” Rebstock said.

Students who take less lucrative positions will be specifically targeted by the Interest Freedom Plan “to even things out,” he said.

Chemistry Prof. Karl Scheidt was the lead author of a paper on the study.

“After billions of years of evolution, nature has given us a great starting point for generating new types of molecules that could end up being used as innovative drugs,” Scheidt said in a news release.

“We’ve learned how to make these natural products in the lab and can now evaluate what are the most effective parts of these natural products for potential therapies.”

Scheidt also teaches classes in pharmacology at the Feinberg School of Medicine.

Feinberg Prof. Herbert Meltzer, who has researched drug treatments for psychiatric

disorders, also helped author the study.

“The synthesis of these alkaloids, which we have now just achieved, was exceedingly difficult,” Meltzer said in the release. “Karl Scheidt’s expertise in the synthesis of natural products was crucial to the success of this project and is the first step in getting a new drug ready for clinical trials.”

In animal trials, Scheidt has begun to study how these compounds affect brain function.

The paper was published in April in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

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Bluegrass group to headline Philfest By tyler pager

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Grammy-nominated bluegrass band Della Mae will headline Philfest on Saturday, A&O Productions announced Tuesday.

The all-female bluegrass, folk and rock band’s album, “This World Oft Can Be,â€? was nominated for the Best Bluegrass Album at the 2013 Grammy Awards. The opener for the event has not yet been announced. “This is a cool opportunity for Philfest. It’s typically several smaller bands,â€? said A&O spokeswoman Emily Howell, a Communication senior. “It’s exciting that this year we do have a band, though it isn’t mainstream‌ we have someone that has gotten that kind of recognition.â€?

Philfest is an annual collaboration between A&O and Students for Ecological and Environmental Development. The concert is held in honor for former Northwestern student Phil Semmer, who died in August 2000.

There will also be multiple student groups at Philfest running different booths such as tie-dye, plant potting, face painting and a used bicycle collection. “It’s great way to bring the whole Northwestern community together ‌ to celebrate the environment and really make sustainability

Student to play in cello competition

By Madeline Fox

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Bienen sophomore cellist Brannon Cho was selected to participate in this year’s International Tchaikovsky Competition, making him one of only 51 cellists invited to the prestigious contest this summer.

The competition, held every four years, has students compete in cello, piano, violin and voice.

Contestants must apply to the competition and, once there, go through three qualifying rounds to select the 25 individuals who will advance to the final round. “It’s been a very big dream of mine for It’s really difficult the past several years because, as a classical to reach that musician, everyone standard and knows about this compull it off at such petition,� Cho said. “It’s huge deal to have been a high pressure ainvited to participate.� international Cho has been studying under Bienen Prof. stage.

Hans Jorgen Jensen Brannon Cho, since he was 11 years Bienen sophomore old, and says the proand cellist fessor was the deciding factor in his choosing to attend NU. Two of Jensen’s private students, one from the United States and one from China, will also be competing in the cello competition. “He has been fantastic,� Cho said of Jensen. “You’ll never see another teacher quite as dedicated as he is to his students.�

Cho will be performing with his unique cello, a rare instrument made by renowned Italian violin and cello maker Antonio Casini in 1668.

Cho’s parents bought him the cello in October after he spent months searching for the right instrument, and moved into a smaller house to pay for the cello. “They constantly have made huge sacrifices for me,� Cho said. “As an instrumentalist, it can get really expensive if you seriously pursue a career.�

The music performance major will hold two recitals in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall prior to the competition to showcase the music he has been learning, which he said is the most he’s had to learn in such a short period of time. The competition runs from June 10 to July 3. “It’s really difficult to reach that standard and pull it off at such a high pressure international stage,� Cho said. “But me and Mr. Jensen have been working really hard, and everything’s coming along really well, so I think once my preparation here is done, I’ll feel very confident.�

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A&O spokeswoman Abiola Aderonmu, a Communication senior. “It’s really cool that they have that mission and we are able to help them out with that.�

The concert will be held on Norris University Center’s East Lawn. In the event of bad weather, it will be moved inside Norris.

Evanston police will be cracking down on drivers and passengers this week who fail to wear their seat belt for a statewide “Click It or Ticket� campaign, the city announced.

The Illinois Department of Transportation, the Illinois State Police and hundreds of local law enforcement departments in the state will participate in the campaign, which started Monday. In January 2012, an Illinois law mandated people wear seatbelts while sitting in all positions of the car, not just the front seat.

While nearly 95 percent of drivers and front seat passengers buckle up, only 84 percent of rear seat passengers use seatbelts, according to a 2014 statewide survey by IDOT. The campaign lasts until May 25, encompassing Memorial Day weekend, during which there were 12 vehicle-related deaths in 2014. “Memorial Day weekend kicks off the busy summer driving season, and we want to ensure that everyone arrives at their destination safe and sound, � Evanston traffic bureau sergeant Tracy Williams said in a news release. “Our officers are prepared to ticket anyone, front or back seat who is not wearing a seat belt.�

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a fun thing that everyone can enjoy,� said SEED’s Philfest chair Roshanne Malekmadani, a McCormick sophomore.

The event is free for all students, but attendees can make a donation to The Rocky Mountain Institute, which aims to promote the use of sustainable resources. “We get to spread awareness about sustainability and raise money for the beneficiary, said

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The danger of pseudoscience gone viral Sai Folmsbee

Daily columnist

Over the past few weeks, the Internet has united in fear and anger over the latest and greatest scourge of our time: beards. But the revolt wasn’t over the diminishing returns of the iconic and ironic facial hair of hipsters.

Rather, as we so often do when our world descends into chaos, we turned to the scientific experts at the ABC’s KOAT Action 7 News – Albuquerque. Only they could have broken the story that “some beards are as dirty as toilets.”

This news of the dangers of beards was picked up by other outlets across the country, including the New York Post’s headline of “Bearded men have poop on their faces” and NBC News’ much more measured “Your Beard May Be Filled With Poop Particles.”

Should our hirsute countenances be cleansed of these deadly bacterial reservoirs? Are toilet beards going to kill us all? Probably not.

But this viral tidbit of scientific journalism is an insult to both science and journalism.

Importantly, this “study” was conducted

by John Golobic, a microbiologist at Quest Diagnostics, at the request of the local news team. Beards from a number of volunteers were swabbed and grown in culture to identify the resident bacteria. From the amount and type of bacteria he was able to grow from them, Golobic describes this “uncleanliness” as “disturbing.” Because of this, he argues these men should have a “thorough beard scrubbing.” Ultimately, the fearmongering peaks with this final statement from the piece: “If the city were to find similar samples in the water system, Golobic said it would need to be shut down for disinfecting.” Clearly, the bearded are the pestilent

spawn of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, ready to level civilizations with their facial petri dishes.

However, the first and most fundamental error of this study is it was not actually performed by bona fide scientific researchers.

Quest Diagnostics is neither an academic nor industry research institution, but rather primarily provides diagnostic testing services for physicians and hospitals.

This difference is very, very critical.

Everyone seems to see this as a true scientific investigation of beards, but they are confusing science with the tools We need of science. Any lab universal technician can swab something and find scientific This is not literacy, because bacteria. science. Science is it’s also not clear testing a hypothesis, and a good scientist who really is would have an experto blame for iment with proper such a fumble controls, perhaps comparing the bacof science teria found in beards journalism. to those from clean shaven faces.

But even if this were performed by the best scientists as a controlled experiment, it still would have been recognized as a pointless exercise. Finding bacteria on faces is certainly not groundbreaking, since bacteria occupy every surface of your body, not to mention the entirety of the planet. Finding bacteria in beards has no scientific impact, no research applicability and zero medical value. After all, it is not as though emergency rooms around the country are riddled with patients admitted for beard-transmitted diseases.

As seemingly harmless as this kind of fluff story may be, it does reflect a real lack of

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respect towards true scientific investigation.

There is a big difference between career scientists and the so-called scientists of these viral stories. The former are entrusted with billions of dollars to investigate the fundamental forces of life, discover new treatments for disease and explore the cosmos.

The latter simply go through the motions, using shoddy work to snatch up easy headlines. In a world where we can’t tell the difference between the faux science of poop beards and real microbiology, it is clear why federal support of scientific research continues to dwindle.

Ultimately, we need universal scientific literacy, because it’s also not clear who really is to blame for such a fumble of science journalism. If the journalists involved had proper training in reporting scientific findings, they would have known to contact professional microbiologists to confirm the accuracy and applicability of the findings.

But the professionals at Quest Diagnostics should also bear some of the responsibility.

They have a deep understanding of these kinds of assays, but they should also understand their limitations. But more importantly, they should have the scientific training to recommend a more thorough kind of experimentation, with proper controls and context for analysis of the ultimate results.

In this case, everyone involved should have understood how science needs to be performed, and also how it deserves to be reported.

The viral success of this bacterial beard narrative is embarrassing and serves as another nail in the coffin of scientific journalism.

Sai Folmsbee is a Feinberg graduate student. He can be reached at sai@fsm.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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Kylie Jenner’s lip fillers hint at a bigger problem Sara Halloran

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It almost pains me to give the Kardashian family press, especially since I’m not discussing Bruce Jenner, the only member of the Kardashian and Jenner clan making a positive impact these days. On April 24, the former Olympian announced in an interview with Diane Sawyer he is transgender, but will be using male pronouns to describe himself for the time being.

Jenner’s brave and very public transition instantly made him a face of the American transgender movement, and so far he has proven to be a stellar spokesperson. Plenty has been written on what he means to trans people, but as a cis (non-trans) person, I don’t feel I’m qualified to add my perspective or that my opinion is really needed.

As a teenage girl, however, I understand the societal pressure that motivated the decision of Jenner’s daughter, Kylie Jenner, to get lip fillers, despite previously declining

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SJP’s ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’ is slander

At Northwestern, anti-Israel rhetoric has continued to escalate well beyond reasonable discussion and is beneath the decorum and dignity of a top university. It shouldn’t take The New York Times to write as they did Sunday that “some of the talk (at Northwestern) was openly hostile, with charges of racism and colonialism.”

This week, Students for Justice in Palestine is hosting “Israeli Apartheid Week” in an effort “to build support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.” Their use of the word “apartheid” to presumably describe Israel’s society is a particularly pernicious slander of Israel. Translated from Afrikaans,

to address rumors that her full-looking lips weren’t natural.

Although some people might find the idea of a 17-year-old getting (temporary) lip injections taboo, it’s something I can stomach, especially coming from the Kardashians, whose matriarch Kris has undergone much more extreme plastic surgery procedures.

This is a family whose entire worth is based heavily on public appearance. I try to withhold judgment on cosmetic procedures, but I don’t belong to the school of thought that claims they’re empowering, either. I see excessive plastic surgery as an unfortunate result of a society that pushes women to focus on and obsess over their flaws. It’s sad that a beautiful young woman like Kylie Jenner felt insecure enough about her lips to take cosmetic action, but it is not exactly bewildering. As the average age at which girls start wearing makeup goes down, it only makes sense that more extreme procedures will follow the same trend.

In fact, more concerning than anything Kylie Jenner or the other members of the family have done to their bodies is the way the female members of the family are treated by the public. Jenner’s older half-sister Kim

Kardashian seems to be the most popular target of misogynistic ire, as the world refuses to let go of her infamous sex tape.

It may be true that Kardashian has made a career off her love of herself and her sexuality, most recently publishing a book of her own selfies, but it seems like she, her sisters and their mother can’t win either way.

If they take pride in the effort they put Hopefully the into their appearances, they are called actuality of narcissistic and teenage girls shallow, but if they resorting to don’t — well, we’ve plastic surgery all seen the intrusive paparazzi shots of to be more celebrities without makeup. The Kardesirable will women have make an impact. dashian built an empire by exploiting our society’s obsession with beauty with a drive that would be labeled “ambitious” if they were in a traditionally more “respected” field. Instead, their efforts have just earned them the title of fame-

hungry.

I don’t quite feel sorry for the KardashianJenners — Kylie Jenner, not even a legal adult, just purchased a $2.7 million home.

I’m more concerned for the young girl somewhere in the world whose 17-year-old style icon just admitted cosmetic surgery was part of her beauty regimen. Again, I don’t blame Jenner or her family, as they are only working within the unfair standards society has set for women. My wish is that Jenner’s admission will lead people closer to the realization that by sexualizing all female bodies, you’re also sexualizing young girls, which leads to unpleasantness like child beauty pageants and middle-schoolers being banned from wearing “distracting” leggings.

Because society can’t seem to process the message that adult women are more than their appearances, hopefully the actuality of teenage girls resorting to plastic surgery to be more desirable will make an impact.

apartheid means “apart-hood.” Its use is meant to draw comparisons to the situation in pre-1994 South Africa.

In apartheid South Africa, a minority of whites subjected the majority black population to severe discrimination: separate restaurants, separate toilets and drinking fountains, separate houses, separate hospitals and separate schools. Blacks critically injured in car accidents were left to die if no “black” ambulance was available to rush them to a “black” hospital. Blacks could not vote.

In Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, nothing comes close to apartheid.

Israel’s Declaration of Independence adheres to the same democratic principles the United States adheres to, including “complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex … (and) freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture.”

Israeli Arabs not only have the right to

vote, but are active participants and leaders in their democracy, serving in the Knesset and on the Supreme Court. All minorities in Israel have full access to health care.

Adversaries of Israel have repeatedly pointed to checkpoints and the security barrier — of which only a small percentage is actually a wall — between Israel and the West Bank as somehow physical evidence of apartheid. However, these vital counterterrorism tools were only instituted after relentless terrorist attacks emanating from the West Bank targeting Israeli civilians during the second Intifada.

The claim that there are “over 50 laws in Israel that discriminate against its Palestinian citizens” is completely false and meant to mislead. This fabricated statistic can be linked back to a list that is made up of fringe legislative proposals not approved by the Knesset and includes laws such as the one stating institutions of higher learning

must use the Hebrew calendar even though exceptions are made for residents where the majority is not Jewish or if the language of the institution is not Hebrew.

Many authoritarian regimes not far from Israel’s borders brutally repress minorities including Palestinians. Where was the outcry from SJP when Barshar Assad’s security forces cut off water and electricity to the 160,000 Palestinians of Yarmouk? If it is not Israel’s fault, is it not worth attention?

The situation in Israel and Palestine is clearly complicated, and Israel is by no means perfect. But to equate Israel with an apartheid state is intellectually dishonest and morally slanderous. The belief that occupation of Palestinian land began in 1948 denies the historical and physical connection Jews have had to the land of Israel for millennia.

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Sara Halloran is a Weinberg freshman. She can be reached at sarahalloran2018@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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Rice University psychology professor Mikki Hebl spoke at Northwestern on Tuesday night about the prevalence of unconscious biases and the impact they have on the lives of social minorities.

Hebl presented studies showing discrimination in society and discussed how institutions and individuals can prevent the negative consequences of unconscious biases. More than 50 people attended the event in Harris Hall.

Hebl predominately focused on people of color, women and the LGBT community and discussed a range of discrimination from the interpersonal to the organizational level.

“Even good-intentioned people, you and me, still show biases toward others,” Hebl told The Daily. “These biases are often manifested in subtle forms.”

People associated with negative stereotypes receive less eye contact and people are are not as friendly toward them. Conversations are also cut short. She said the implicit forms of discrimination are dangerous because they negatively affect performance of the affected individuals.

“Over time, these small amounts of disadvantage become very significant,” Hebl said.

Hebl discussed her own research that showed

Across Campuses University of Virginia dean sues Rolling Stone over botched rape story A University of Virginia official, vowing to hold Rolling Stone accountable for one of the most prominent journalism scandals in recent memory, Tuesday sued the magazine and one of its writers for defamation stemming from a now-discredited story about an alleged campus rape.

Rolling Stone’s November 2014 article by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, “A Rape On Campus: A Brutal Assault and a Struggle for Justice at UVA” — which was retracted and taken off the magazine’s website in April — portrayed a lackadaisical response to the alleged incident by the university, particularly by associate dean of students Nicole Eramo.

“The Rolling Stone article has caused so much damage and reputational harm, both to me and also to so many others,” Eramo said in a statement Tuesday. “I am filing this defamation lawsuit to set the record straight — and to hold the magazine and the author of the article accountable for their actions in a way they have refused to do themselves.”

when writing letters of recommendation for jobs, both male and female writers tended to recommend female subjects for their kindness, sensitivity and friendliness as a colleague. Men were recommended for their leadership and independence, Hebl said. She said the types of letters commonly written for female applicants were viewed more negatively.

Although recognizing the prevalence of bias is important, people are less likely to take responsibility for their biases when they know most people also have them, she said to The Daily.

“It’s not just the identification, but it’s working to hold yourself accountable, hold other people accountable and confront other people and remediate,” Hebl told The Daily.

She said targeted individuals can prevent bias and discrimination by emphasizing qualities that make them different from their stereotypes and disproving stereotypes others may associate with them.

Meanwhile, organizations can prevent bias from affecting their hiring processes by establishing diversity training based on empirical research and ensuring job interviews have a specific structure and criteria and do not allow bias.

“We are subject to effects of unconscious bias and without awareness, we may contribute to the problem,” Hebl said. “What I hope you do is identify that bias and try to work on remediating it.”

Eramo’s fiery, 76-page lawsuit calls Rolling Stone’s story a “monumental hoax” and accuses the magazine of “actual malice” in running a story by “a wanton journalist who was more concerned with writing an article that fulfilled her preconceived narrative about the victimization of women on American college campuses and a malicious publisher who was more concerned about selling magazines to boost the economic bottom line for its faltering magazine.”

Eramo’s lawsuit takes particular aim at Erdely’s career of journalism about sexual assault and victimized women, accusing Erdely of habitual inaccuracy in her “sensationalist narrative journalism.”

A spokeswoman for Rolling Stone declined to comment on the lawsuit. A representative for Erdely said she also would have no comment.

Eramo also claimed in the lawsuit that Erdely defamed her in interviews the writer gave after the story’s publication. Eramo is asking for more than $7.5 million in damages, including attorney’s fees.

Rolling Stone’s article sent shock waves through the University of Virginia community in November, after it reported a student’s claims that she’d been gang-raped for hours at a fraternity and that

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EVERYDAY BIASES Mikki Hebl, a psychology professor at Rice University, speaks to students in Harris Hall. Hebl discussed how unconscious bias can influence treatment of minority groups.

Alecia Wartowski, director of programs at the Women’s Center, one of the groups that sponsored the event, said microaggressions and unconscious biases at universities impact both the hiring process and experience of students and faculty members.

Lam-Kiu Fong, a chemistry graduate student, said she was drawn to the event because

she works in a STEM field.

“I’m pretty interested in these kinds of issues especially because unconscious bias is much more prevalent in STEM fields,” she said.

“I wish more people in my department had seen this talk.”

university officials had brushed off her claims. It became the magazine’s most widely read non-celebrity story in its online history, reportedly attracting 2.7 million page views.

the special victims unit,” Cotter said. “I would rather have those cases investigated by the (unit).”

Cotter’s comments to the local paper, the South Bend Tribune, come as Vice President Joe Biden makes the rounds at college campuses to promote the Obama administration’s “It’s On Us” initiative, which asks college administrators and others to stand up against sexual violence. It’s part of a push to give victims more rights and hold colleges and universities accountable for how they respond to sexual attacks.

According to a White House task force on sexual assault, 1 in 5 women are sexually attacked in college, most often by someone the woman knows. Twelve percent of those assaults are reported, and charges are only brought in a fraction of those cases.

Tom Seeberg, whose daughter Elizabeth “Lizzy” Seeberg reported in 2010 that a Notre Dame football player sexually attacked her, said Monday he is convinced the special victims unit would have done a more thorough investigation.

“These cases should be investigated not just for independence and transparency, but also for competence,” Seeberg said.

— Matt Pearce (Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Prosecutor has message for victims of sexual assault at Notre Dame The prosecutor on the University of Notre Dame’s home turf has a message for victims of campus sexual attacks: Rather than go to university police, they should directly report sex crimes to a county special victims unit.

Amid a growing national discussion of campus sex assault, St. Joseph County (Ind.) Prosecutor Ken Cotter said he would prefer that all campus sex assaults be handled by the county’s special victims unit rather than the campus police, which the university recommends.

Notre Dame has declined to participate in the unit, although Cotter and his predecessor have previously asked it to join.

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ETHS rises in US News & World Report high school rankings Evanston Township High School on Tuesday was ranked 15th in the state and 456th in the nation on the U.S. News & World Report’s 2015 Best High Schools list.

ETHS rose on the list from 21st in the state and 585th out of 21,150 schools in the nation last year, the school’s communications office announced.

U.S. News and World Report’s ranking is

National News Obama library likely to set off a fundraising frenzy WASHINGTON — The announcement Tuesday that Barack Obama will build his presidential library in Chicago did more than excite the South Side of the city. It also kicked off what’s likely to become a fundraising frenzy.

Even if Obama doesn’t raise any money himself — as he pledged not to do while in office — independent analysts fear that fundraising on his behalf still might create conflicts of interest in his final two years in the White House.

“Is this a problem? Absolutely,” said Meredith McGehee, policy director at the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization.

“Even if he doesn’t solicit himself, (donors) are seeing all kinds of signals that this is a priority for him. It’s all a wink and a nod. ... It buys access.”

The Barack Obama Foundation — a group composed of his longtime friends and supporters, including his former campaign manager and fundraiser — is expected to collect hundreds of millions of dollars, perhaps rivaling the $700 million Obama raised to win the White House in the first place.

Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist at Public Citizen, a government watchdog group, said presidents should wait until they leave office to raise money for their libraries. But most contributions come while a president is in office and most donations, he said, come from those who have issues pending before the administration.

“He’s doing this while he’s in office because he

determined by how a school stacks up against state proficiency standards, as well as college readiness among students.

District 202 Superintendent Eric Witherspoon said the improved ranking is due largely to ETHS students exceeding performance expectations.

“This is an outstanding school that keeps making needed improvements,” Witherspoon said in a news release. “We are committed to equity and excellence for all students, and that work is resulting in higher student achievement and increased national recognition for ETHS.” — Marissa Page

knows that will pull in the money,” Holman said.

“It is very problematic. The conflict of interest is ever present.”

Donations will pay for the construction of the facility, which will be much more than a library: part museum, part education center and part archive, as well as a gift shop and restaurant. It will house enough unclassified documents to fill four 18-wheelers and enough artifacts to fill a swimming pool. Private contributions and taxpayers’ dollars will share the cost of maintenance after the doors open in 2020 or 2021.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Tuesday that the foundation had taken a number of steps to alleviate any potential fundraising problems, though he wasn’t aware of whether the White House had spoken to the foundation about that.

“Certainly the foundation was interested in living up to the very high standard that the president himself established,” he said.

The president and first lady Michelle Obama had considered two other states, Hawaii, where Obama was born, and New York, where he graduated from college. They settled on the University of Chicago, in the city where he launched his political career and met his wife, and they started their family.

“All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago,” Obama said in a statement. “That’s where I was able to apply that early idealism to try to work in communities in public service. That’s where I met my wife. That’s where my children were born.”

In the last 24 hours surrounding the announcement, at least three emails were sent to previous Obama supporters about the library. “Over the

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achieving excellence Evanston Township High School received a gold medal ranking in U.S. News & World Report’s Best High Schools 2015 list.

next two years, you and I have the unique opportunity to help lay the groundwork for the foundation while the president is still in office,” said one from former senior adviser David Axelrod.

Coming up next from the foundation: an onslaught of phone solicitations, small-donor Internet appeals and discreet one-on-one conversations with the wealthiest of donors.

Foundation officials say they won’t accept donations from organizations that aren’t nonprofits, from individuals who are foreign nationals or from federal lobbyists.

James “Skip” Rutherford, dean of the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas, who played an influential role in the creation of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum in Little Rock, said most library donors were past supporters of presidents or those who lived in the areas where the facilities were to be built.

Under current law, there are no fundraising restrictions for presidential libraries. Money can be raised while the president is still in office and contributors don’t need to be disclosed.

Obama’s foundation has pledged to release the names of those who contribute more than $200 on its website on a quarterly basis, though only with donation ranges and no further identifying information.

Since the foundation was created last year, several wealthy supporters have donated a total of roughly $3 million to $6 million. Many of them raised money for Obama during one of his campaigns or were appointed by him to various boards.

For years, lawmakers on Capitol Hill have considered whether presidential libraries should

be required to disclose their donors. A pair of bipartisan bills is pending that would require the disclosure of contributions of more than $200 in an online searchable and downloadable format.

Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del., said his bill would “bring sunlight to the presidential library fundraising process, helping to eliminate even the appearance of impropriety.”

As a senator and a candidate for president, Obama backed the disclosure of contributors and bundlers to presidential foundations.

Government watchdog groups say his foundation’s current disclosures don’t go far enough.

“It will be critically important that President Obama and his staff be completely transparent about their fundraising for the library over the next 19 months,” said Chris Gates, president of the Sunlight Foundation, which pushes for government openness. “The public has a right to know who is contributing to the library and what interests they may have with the federal government while he’s still in office.”

Thirteen presidential libraries operated by the National Archives and Records Administration are scattered across the nation, from Boston (John F. Kennedy) to Yorba Linda, Calif. (Richard Nixon).

Ronald Reagan’s library in Simi Valley, Calif., had been the most popular, with about 400,000 visitors annually. But the newest library, the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, drew nearly 500,000 people last year, its first full year.

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From page 12 struggles, and cites NU’s 5-2 finish to the 2014-15 regular season as evidence of the Cats’ resiliency.

And with that in mind, the coach is optimistic about next year but also careful to not look too far ahead.

“We can’t just fast-forward to March,” he said.

“You have to win in November and December, forget about the Big Ten.” Collins is excited about an overseas trip to Spain NU is taking in August, believing it will jump-start his third campaign at the helm, but his goal remains the same: build a successful program, not just one successful team.

Bringing the Cats to the promised land of the postseason, even just once, will enshrine Collins forever in the eyes of the NU faithful.

But the coach has his own sights set a little higher. And maybe someday he’ll have his name and 14-19 record unceremoniously displayed on another coach’s desk. bpillote@u.northwestern.edu

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He added the timing of Dillo Day was a big incentive to secure Miguel as the festival’s headliner.

Miguel will be releasing a third album, “Wildheart,” on June 30, and Dillo Day will be one of his first shows in preparation for the album, said Mayfest’s co-chair of promotions Steven Goldstein, a Medill senior.

“For us timing is everything, and we could not have been more excited about this opportunity and really jumped on it the second we found out he was available,” Bass said.

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A video obtained by The Daily shows two students involved in the event asking the sophomore if he wanted more information about the demonstration, to which he responded, “No, thank you.” After declining a pamphlet, he told the students he was sending the recording to his friend in the army, the video shows.

“Another girl right after got in my face and said, ‘You’re sending it to killers, great,’” he told The Daily.

The sophomore said he stopped recording 30 seconds in and was approached by a different student offering pamphlets. After declining and walking away toward The Arch, she allegedly pursued him and continued to offer him a pamphlet for about 15 feet, he said.

His friend is a 20-year-old female medical student in the Israel Defense Force, and he said she hopes to save civilians regardless of ethnicity. The student wanted to show her the video to inform her about developments happening on NU’s campus, he said.

“People think of her as a killer,” he told The Daily. “(She) just wants people to be safe and is no way a racist or hates Palestinians.”

The report alleges the student felt the act of calling his friend a killer was harassment and made him feel uncomfortable being Jewish on campus. He told The Daily that Jewish students are unfairly labeled as racist, even though many support a two-state solution, including himself.

“Me taking a video was a very non-partisan, observational thing,” he said.

Iszy Licht, a member of J Street U Northwestern, said he stopped by the demonstration. Licht said although he agrees with the idea of the event, it does not address solving the Israeli occupation itself.

“I do agree this is a very important issue. … There are inequalities in the treatments of Israelis and Palestinians at the checkpoint,” the Weinberg senior said.

“My issue with the event is that it doesn’t provide the checkpoints in the context of the larger problem.”

Khokher, the SJP member, said she was not surprised someone filed a complaint, but she said she could not comment on the specifics of the incident because she was unaware it occurred. She said students were only offered flyers once.

“When SJP or MEChA does actions, it is to make people uncomfortable,” she said. “It is not to fight with people.”

Khoker emphasized the event should not be viewed in isolation, but rather in the context of Israeli Apartheid Week. The week consists of various events aiming to educate students about Israel’s policies toward Palestinians and to build support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, according to the Facebook event page.

“I would encourage everyone to stop by and really listen to what we’re saying,” she said. tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu aliceyin2017@u.northwestern.edu

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We’re heading in the right direction, we absolutely have the right leadership here, he’s doing a great job.

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Collins pulls NU from ignominy

By Bobby Pillote

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A small, nondescript picture frame rests on men’s basketball coach Chris Collins’ desk. Instead of holding a photograph, it displays a list of names.

“It’s all Hall of Fame coaches in their first year of coaching,” Collins explained. “They were all under .500.”

The motivational memento serves as a reminder of the lofty ambitions the coach has for a program that has never made the NCAA Tournament.

Beyond scrubbing that claim to infamy from Northwestern’s name, Collins is committed to building a perennial winner in Evanston.

Fittingly, the frame also includes the record of Collins’ former coach and longtime mentor, the legendary Mike Krzyzewski. Coach K was 11-14 in his first year of coaching at Army, but went on to build Duke to a perennial powerhouse and five-time national champion.

Collins went 14-19 in his first season at Northwestern.

Rebuilding the Wildcats’ historically unaccomplished program isn’t easy, but so far everything is going according to plan for the Illinois native at the helm.

Local roots Collins hails from nearby Northbrook, Illinois, and attended Glenbrook North High School, which at the time was a doormat of Illinois high school basketball.

“When I went to high school at Glenbrook North, they had no basketball success,” Collins said. “People told me not to go there.”

Despite the challenges of playing on a historically unsuccessful team, Collins blossomed into a star. During his senior season, he led the state in scoring by averaging 32.1 points per game and was named the 1992 winner of the Mr. Basketball of Illinois award.

His performance and accolades were enough to make him a recruiting target for a Duke team that just won back-to-back national championships.

“It just felt comfortable to me,” Collins said on choosing the Blue Devils.

“The opportunity to play at a high level in the ACC with Coach K as my coach, I thought it was too good to refuse.”

And like many high school standouts, Collins took time to adjust to the rigors of a higher level of competition. His freshman season, playing on a talented team that included future seven-time NBA All-Star Grant Hill, Collins averaged just 12.7 minutes per game, an experience he calls his first exercise in adversity.

But Collins persevered and broke out his sophomore year, starting 30 games, averaging 10 points per contest and helping Duke all the way to the national championship game, where the Blue Devils lost against Arkansas.

The success didn’t last.

“The first day of practice my junior year, I broke my foot,” Collins said.

“That was the toughest year of my life in basketball.”

His minutes shrank to 16.1 per game, he posted a career-low shooting percentage and Duke slipped all the way to last in the ACC. Collins blames a poor attitude for his performance that year and still thinks there’s more he could have done to make the team better. But he also credits that harrowing season with building his character and helping define the rest of his life.

“That was the year I learned what I was made of,” he said.

And he recovered, surging back his senior season to post career highs in scoring, rebounding, assists, steals and shooting percentage. Collins was named an All-ACC player and had his eyes on the NBA, but that plan disintegrated when he reinjured his foot on Duke’s Senior Night.

Unable to participate in the predraft process critical for any NBA hopeful, Collins instead traveled overseas to play professionally in Finland.

“I was the leading scorer in the league, I had the ball in my hands,” Collins said of the experience. “It was kind of a rehab stint, really.”

He put up video game numbers in the Finnish Korisliiga, but found his time off the court to be a drain. Collins was far from home in an era before the convenience of digital communication and describes the experience as lonely.

He returned to the United States in 1997 and received a training camp invite from the Minnesota Timberwolves, making it all the way until the final day of camp before being cut from the roster. Collins was devastated. After missing his best shot at making an NBA team, he faced a difficult choice.

“I was at a crossroads,” he said.

“Do I want to continue my dream of playing, or do I want to move on to a career in coaching?

just the two of us watching games together,” Chris Collins said. “We were not just watching as fans. I was learning to see the game through the eyes of a coach.”

And even to this day, Collins’ father remains an active participant in his son’s life and coaching career.

Collins said his dad’s involvement is more about general philosophy than specific game strategy, and appreciates his players have a chance to know “one of the smartest guys in the game” who also understands the process of rebuilding a basketball team.

Doug Collins, now an analyst for ESPN, still finds time to attend his son’s games, and even made headlines in February with his dramatic reaction to Iowa forcing NU into overtime.

Given the close relationship he’s always shared with his father, it comes as no surprise the younger Collins was a natural fit for the sideline. After just a year in the WNBA, he received a call from Tommy Amaker, who coached Collins as an assistant at Duke and

Following his father Collins opted for the latter path, taking a job as an assistant with the WNBA’s Detroit Shock. At the time his father, Doug Collins, coached the NBA’s Detroit Pistons.

Chris Collins identifies his father as one of the two main mentors in his life — the other being Krzyzewski

— and said Doug Collins helped teach him the ins-and-outs of basketball growing up.

“The main way I learned from (my father) was just sitting on the couch,

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was then the head coach at Seton Hall, to join Amaker’s staff.

Not long after in 2000, Collins found his way back to his alma mater, and it was with the Blue Devils that he truly earned a name for himself as a coach.

Collins worked primarily with backcourt players as an assistant and tutored a litany of talented guards at Duke. One of his brightest pupils was Jon Scheyer.

Now an assistant on Krzyzewski’s staff himself, Scheyer blossomed as a player from 2007 to 2010 under Collins’ guidance. The two shared a close bond because of their similar backgrounds: Like Collins, Scheyer also attended Glenbrook North High School and was named Mr. Basketball of Illinois.

Scheyer credits Collins with much of his development as a player.

“I remember, many different times, having heart-to-heart meetings in (Collins’) office,” Scheyer said. “Some of it was tough love, some was encouraging, pick-me-up meetings, but it all really changed who I was as a player and helped me to really get a lot better.”

The impact of players like Scheyer, who was second team All-America his senior season, made Collins a rising star in the coaching world. Krzyzewski promoted Collins to associate head coach at Duke in the summer of 2008, which made Collins the heir-apparent for the Blue Devils if Krzyzewski decided to step down.

But the ageless Coach K never did and Collins became restless, so after the 2013 season Collins left Duke to take his first head coaching job.

A NU era He couldn’t have picked a harder place to start.

The Cats are notorious as the only school among the Power 5 conferences to have never been to an NCAA Tournament, and a tradition of losing is deeply ingrained in the program. Previous coach Bill Car-

mody stuck around for 13 seasons, long enough to compile a very underwhelming 192-210 record with the team.

Yet Collins embraces the challenge and draws extensively on his past experience as a reminder NU won’t be stuck in the cellar forever.

“By the time I was a senior (at Glenbrook North), we were a top-five team in the state,” Collins said. “That was a challenge I took on, and I view this as very similar.”

The coach has compiled a 29-36 record at NU so far, which is impressive considering the uphill battle Collins has faced in his first two seasons.

Scheyer said Collins is focusing on building a culture at the program first, and noted Collins’ grit and passion for basketball seem to be rubbing off on the team.

“This past year they had a few really tough losses in the Big Ten,” Scheyer said, “but you could see how hard the team was playing. They’re developing his personality.”

Collins wants rebuilding at NU to be a deliberate process, and he said he models his plan for the Cats based on teams like Virginia and Notre Dame, similar programs that have sustained annual success despite high academic standards.

The coach is able to take such an extended view because of the vote of confidence he has from his boss, athletic director Jim Phillips.

Phillips said Collins is laying a foundation for the program and told The Daily in March “there’s no question” the team is moving toward the goal of making the NCAA Tournament.

“I don’t know if it’s three years, I don’t know if it’s five years, I don’t know if it’s six years,” Phillips said of evaluating Collins’ progress. “I’m not going to box us in at, ‘it has to be done by a certain date.’ All I know is we’re heading in the right direction, we absolutely have the right leadership here, he’s doing a great job.”

And the signs of that progress are obvious. Collins improved NU’s winning percentage in his second season and led the Cats to finishing 10th out of 14 teams in the Big Ten in 2014-15, compared to 11th out of 12 teams in 2013-14.

He’s also blazed unprecedented success for NU on the recruiting trail, signing the No. 31 class in the country in 2014 according to ESPN and inking three more well-regarded recruits in 2015.

And the talent on the roster is showing improvement. Freshman guard Bryant McIntosh started the 2014-15 campaign in the shadow of classmate Vic Law but was named to the postseason Big Ten All-Freshman team. Juniors center Alex Olah and guard Tre Demps also each showed significant improvement this season, with the latter earning an All-Big Ten Honorable Mention, suggesting Collins brought his knack for player development to Evanston.

The coach also believes the team is primed for success after facing the adversity of two losing seasons. Collins points to overcoming his own hurdles in college as an important springboard during his playing days.

“When you look at my career, you think ‘Oh, you went to Duke,’” he said. “No, I had to go through the ups, the downs, and then back up and learn how to work through those things.”

Collins said he frequently draws on his personal experience when teaching his players about overcoming their own » See Collins, page 11