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Y.O.U. announces $15M campaign

By MARISSA PAGE

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Local youth development organization Youth & Opportunity United announced a $15 million fundraising campaign Saturday to expand programming and establish a new headquarters in Evanston.

Y.O.U., formerly known as Youth Organizations Umbrella, is looking to meet its fundraising goal by the end of June. The group has already reached more than 85 percent of its fundraising goal over the past two years, leaving $2.2 million left to raise.

“This is another example of the incredible generosity of our community to support expanding opportunity for youth and families,” Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said Saturday in a news release.

“I am personally inspired by the vision of this campaign and grateful to our community for rallying around it.”

First launched in 1971, Y.O.U. offers out-of-school programming for both students and families, such as tutoring, counseling and mentoring programs.

The upcoming expansion includes construction of a new Y.O.U. headquarters at 1911 Church St. to help accommodate the organization’s growth. Y.O.U., which served 450 children in 2010, has tripled in size in the past five years, now

serving 1,500 youths throughout Evanston and some surrounding suburbs.

Campaign co-Chair Chip Brady, a former history teacher at Evanston Township High School, said during Saturday’s public launch at the GibbsMorrison Cultural Center, 1823 Church St., that aldermen, city officials and representatives from School District 202 and Evanston/Skokie School District 65 are among the campaign’s current supporters. Although the program has grown substantially, the work at Y.O.U. is not yet done, Brady said.

“We have nearly tripled in size — that doesn’t just happen,” Brady said.

“That takes generosity and hard work.

So our first message is thank you, but our second is keep going. There are a lot of people we need to educate about the work we do.”

The new headquarters, to be located just across the street from ETHS, would help accommodate that growth.

“I have the pleasure of having (Y.O.U.) come to the fifth ward,” Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) said. “I’m excited, excited about the building… There are not a lot of opportunities for places where we can gather.”

The nonprofit has announced its expansion despite the dearth of funding for social services organizations in the state during the past three months » See Y.O.U., page 10

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CONFERENCE VICTORY Northwestern dominated Minnesota on Saturday, 27-0, for its first Big Ten win of the season and its first conference shutout since 1995. The victory propelled the Wildcats to No. 13 in the AP Poll and tied them with Iowa for first place in the West division, two weeks ahead of a critical showdown with the Hawkeyes.

US rep talks climate change Monthly stand-up

By DARBY HOPPER

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U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Evanston, addressed Northwestern students Friday, imploring them to fight against climate change during a rally on the

Norris East Lawn.

The event was part of the national Know Tomorrow climate change awareness campaign that hosted a national National Day of Action on 60 college campuses Friday. Schakowsky kicked off the event, which had about 50 attendees, as the first speaker.

“I’m sorry, but the action you’re

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CLIMATE CALL Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Evanston, speaks at an Evanston panel in 2013. The U.S. representative returned on Friday to vouch for climate justice at a Northwestern student rally.

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looking for will probably not, in the very near term, come from the Congress of the United States,” Schakowsky said. “It is much more likely to come from here on this campus at Northwestern University.”

In an interview with The Daily, Schakowsky reflected upon her experiences in the 60s and 70s advocating for supermarkets to put expiration dates on food. She said one of the best benefits of activism is how fun it is to “be a little subversive sometimes.”

“Voting is part of it, but the drumbeat, it has to be relentless,” Schakowsky told The Daily. “Change comes when people finally push hard enough for it, and it’s got to come from young people, it just does. The 21st century is your century.”

The congresswoman said at the event that Know Tomorrow fights for climate change awareness because “tomorrow is now.”

“I had participated in the first Earth Day in the 70s, and it initiated a wave of legislation,” Schakowsky said. “The second wave has to be now.”

The event also featured speeches from an NU student and professor, as well as Henry Henderson, the director of the National Resources Defense Council’s Midwest chapter, and Blu, a slam poet from Young Chicago Authors.

Each speaker focused on a different environmental issue. Chemistry Prof.

Dick Co spoke about building a greener world through innovation.

“I liked how he talked about green technology as a way to close the carbon loop, not only to provide people in less developed areas more opportunities and more human rights, but also as a way to » See SCHAKOWSKY, page 10

comedy show debuts

By MARGARET CORN

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Move over, Stephen Colbert — a new batch of comedians will set out to make names for themselves in Evanston.

The monthly Quipster Comedy show — a stand-up series open to audience members of all ages — debuted Sunday night at The Celtic Knot, 626 Church St., and will take place the first Sunday of every month moving forward.

Chicago comedian Elaine Phillips said she created the show to fill a void in the stand-up comedy scene in Evanston. Although Northwestern’s student-run stand-up shows create a comedic hub on the campus itself, Phillips said she wanted to establish a scene in downtown Evanston for student comics to establish new connections.

“One of the things that’s helped me a lot as a comedian is meeting more people,” Phillips said. “This is a good way to meet some people that are working on comedy.”

Phillips said although Chicago is known for its improv comedy through Second City and the iO Theater, it has pushed stand-up into the shadows.

“The stand-up scene plays second fiddle to improv,” she said.

Phillips also said the broader Chicago comedy scene has a gender imbalance, with more women

performers gravitating toward improv than stand-up.

“Women who are attracted to comedy seem to go more for improv than comedic acting,” she said. “Stand-up is a tradition that … has a reputation that to do it, you have to be tough to do it.”

With these ideas in mind, Phillips said she hopes to promote diversity in both the show’s content and its performers.

Elaine Kemna-Irish, executive director of the Evanston Chamber of Commerce, said this will likely be the first stand-up show in Evanston.

“We have a strong community with fine arts and painting,” she said.

“There’s just such a strong emphasis on music and the fine arts that the idea of having a stand-up comedian has probably never come up.”

Connor King, one of the comedians in the inaugural show, said the show can give NU students an academic break and a chance for them to explore comedy beyond the confines of the campus.

“It’s a great opportunity for NU students to see a stand-up opportunity for free,” he said.

Prateek Srivastava, who also performed Sunday, said the show will serve to expose Evanston to the Chicago comedy scene.

“Some of those people might not be aware of the scene, and by it being » See COMEDY, page 10

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Around Town New Kafein owner considers longer hours, more food options

The newest owner of Evanston cafe Kafein has tentative plans to expand the business by adding morning hours and a more extensive food menu.

Peter Abraham took over the property in mid-August when the previous I don’t think owner sold the cafe, the change said Paul Zalmezak, in ownership an Evanston economic development reflects coordinator. Abraham anything with is one of three owners to take over Kafein in the business the past four years, model.

Zalmezak said.

Abraham said he Paul Zalmezak, bought Kafein, 1621 Evanston Chicago Ave., thinkeconomic ing it would be a good development investment given the coordinator popularity of the cafe among Northwestern students and the Evanston community. Although Abraham said he considers Kafein’s late-night hours to be the

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Police Blotter Man found with marijuana, cocaine hidden in pants A 24-year-old man was arrested Wednesday evening in connection with possession of cocaine and marijuana.

Police approached the man at about 5:15 p.m. when he parked his car in a lot near Howard Street and Western Avenue, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. Police said they recognized the man, for whom they had an active arrest warrant for violating his probation, Dugan said. After observing the

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“bread and butter” of the establishment, he will likely attempt to open the cafe five to six hours in the morning, starting at 6 or 7 a.m. The cafe is currently open from noon to midnight on weekdays and until 1 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.

A longer-term goal for Kafein includes operating the cafe as a restaurant, incorporating a full-service kitchen and offering a more extensive menu, Abraham said. Kafein currently serves soups and sandwiches, but Abraham said he hopes to both enhance the quality of these items and add more full meals to the menu.

“We serve food now — but just soups and sandwiches — and I’ve worked on making that good-quality, wholesome food,” Abraham said. “If we were to open the kitchen, I would definitely open it in the morning as well. That would be a tall order, but it would be somewhat profitable.”

Zalmezak said the recent change of ownership was based on a personal business decision, and the frequency of changes to Kafein’s ownership does not reflect bad business practices.

“I don’t think the change in ownership reflects anything with the business model,” Zalmezak said. “(Kafein) did a decent business. They have good hours for students and studiers.”

In taking over the cafe, Abraham said he

man shoving something down his pants and noting a strong marijuana smell, police took the man into custody, he said.

Police found 16.8 grams of marijuana and 5.8 grams of what police suspect to be cocaine in the man’s pants, Dugan said.

The Evanston resident was charged with felonies for unlawful possession of a controlled substance with an intent to deliver, unlawful possession of cannabis and cannabis possession with an intent to deliver.

Flute worth $8,000 among stolen items in central Evanston burglary

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does not have any plans to make changes to the open mic nights Kafein is known for and encourages people to continue to attend on Monday nights.

“Open mic is not just playing instruments,” Abraham said. “It’s also poetry and it’s also anything that’s on your mind that you want to get out there.”

Any major changes to the cafe would take place in the next 12 to 18 months, Abraham said.

— Elena Sucharetza

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COFFEE CHAT People sit at a table at Kafein, 1621 Chicago Ave. New ownership at the Evanston cafe has tentative plans to add morning hours and a more extensive menu.

Thursday night to find almost $10,000 worth of possessions stolen.

One of the women returned to her house in the 2100 block of Wesley Avenue at about 9 p.m. to find her bedroom light on and window open, Dugan said. The woman reported hearing loud footsteps in the backyard, and police said there was a chair positioned under the window outside the house.

An $8,000 silver Miyazawa flute was among the stolen possessions. Other missing items included an Apple MacBook Pro, ASUS laptop and about $250 in cash, Dugan said.

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NU to host philanthropic Students advocate national climate change movement hockey tournament

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Several Northwestern fraternities will bring a hockey-based philanthropy to Evanston during Winter Quarter to raise funds for the Chicago-based American Brain Tumor Association.

Dropping the Puck on Cancer, primarily organized by Beta Theta Pi fraternity, is scheduled to begin Jan. 16, kicking off the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend. The fraternities We are will host the tournareally truly ment, which started at Indiana University excited to be at in 2011, for about two weeks during Winter Northwestern.

Quarter after InterTaking this fraternity Council and event there will Panhellenic Association recruitment have only make our ended. operation more Organizers expect prestigious. the event to be successful because it Carl Lamb provides a chance for Drop the Puck bonding among Greek founder organizations and is a cause all students can support, said Medill sophomore Joe Blackman, a Beta member who helped organize the event.

“All the new Greek members can get involved, (get to) know each other and build an interfraternal sense through this event,” he said.

They also expect the event’s novelty will help bring out students’ sense of volunteering and active participation at on-campus events.

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“We knew that it was something different, a market that wasn’t normally being reached by other events and thought it would be a great opportunity,” SESP sophomore and Beta member John Wylie said.

NU’s Beta, Sigma Chi, Phi Kappa Psi and Pi Kappa Alpha chapters are currently the only participants, but organizers said they are seeking more Greek organizations to collaborate with. They are also searching for sponsors and donors to subsidize equipment and transportation costs.

Beta members hope that this will mark the beginning of a new tradition at NU, Wylie said.

“The goal is to make this a game and an event that continues to be a huge success for the Northwestern Greek community and everyone else that’s involved,” Wylie said.

Last year, Indiana raised $51,000, which was donated to ABTA to fund medical student summer fellowships.

“This will be the first year that we’re involved in an expansion where our events are now all donating to the American Brain Tumor Association,” said Carl Lamb, president and founder of Drop the Puck. “(Drop the Puck) is also now something that I’m taking personally to nine other colleges around the country.”

In 2013, Lamb also founded Collegiate Charities, an association that assists nonprofit organizations with day-to-day tasks and fundraising events. Collegiate Charities has been reaching out to universities around the country to set up games similar to Drop the Puck.

Lamb said 70 percent of the profits made by the organization are also donated to charity.

“We are really truly excited to be at Northwestern,” Lamb said. “Taking this event there will only make our operation more prestigious.”

By DARBY HOPPER and RACHEL FRAZIN the daily northwestern @darby_hopper @RachelFrazin

Environmentalist Wendy Abrams (Kellogg ‘90) started the national organization “Know Tomorrow” with the hope of bringing millennials into the conversation about climate change.

Today, Know Tomorrow is a nonprofit campaign active in 60 college campuses across the nation. Northwestern joined the other 59 schools Friday as part of the national nonprofit’s day of action to raise climate change awareness.

“We want to start the year on the right foot of giving students an awareness about environmental and climate change issues,” Christina Cilento, a SESP junior and one of the organizers of Friday’s National Day of Action, said.

Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Evanston, and Henry Henderson, director of the National Resources Defense Council’s Midwest chapter, who both spoke at the event, have agreed to work with the student leaders throughout the year, Cilento said.

Abrams decided Oct. 2 should be the National Day of Action and created the event, which was run mainly through student-led campaigns in colleges across the nation. “(Millennials) care about what’s happening in the environment, but the campuses aren’t particularly active,” said Jim Abrams, Wendy Abrams’ husband. “There aren’t protests going on on campus like there were in the 60s. But it’s (the millennial) generation that will be the first generation that’s truly impacted by climate change.”

The Friday event was organized by three students involved in different environmental

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groups on campus, such as Fossil Free NU, Engineers for a Sustainable World and IIRON Student Network. Cilento worked alongside Communication senior Kate Gladstone, SESP senior Zane Waxman and graduate student Alex Ardagh.

Even without a formal student group to back the event, Cilento said the members of the organizing team consider the Oct. 2 event not as the culmination of their work but as a kickoff to a series of events that could lead to a stronger campus-wide movement.

“Because there’s no one group that has total ownership over it, it’s kind of a collaboration, or a coalition, of groups that are sponsoring it and so there have been a bunch of groups that were promoting it and turning out attendees,” Cilento said.

Know Tomorrow also offered students food from its national sponsors and the chance to add their names to petitions encouraging strong international action on climate change going into the UN’s conference in Paris from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11.

Thirty-six people signed the petition at the event.

“Our thought is that if we have this huge display of student support across the nation, that’ll kind of put pressure on political leaders,” Cilento said.

Gladstone said that she was happy with the event turnout considering the weather, but that she hopes to see the issue of climate change go beyond “just a conversation” on campus.

“What I would like to see is more action,” Gladstone said. “I want to see people getting angry and channeling that anger in a really productive way.” darbyhopper@u.northwestern.edu rachelfrazin2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Alumnus featured on Fortune’s ‘40 Under 40’ list Steinberg, a co-founder of ACG, was working for a different company when he first met Nelson.

They shared office space and eventually became friends.

“Trevor is one of the most intelligent people I met,” Steinberg said. “He has a great instinct for great people and great brands.”

Nelson said his time We will at NU benefitted him continue to tremendously, not only because he met his try to become wife at the University, smarter about but also because of the academic experience what we are and reputation. Dur- doing and help ing his junior year, Nelson, with a few other the brands grow classmates and faculty and succeed. members, created the Trevor Nelson, Undergraduate Budget Priorities Committee, Alliance Consumer which served as an Growth co-founder independent voice for undergraduates in the University’s budgeting process.

“They really started something that was a wonderful relationship between the students and the senior administration that lasted all through my tenure,” said Eugene Sunshine,

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A Northwestern alumnus who co-founded an investment firm was named to Fortune’s “40 Under 40,” an annual ranking of the most influential young people in business, released Sept. 24.

Trevor Nelson (Weinberg ‘00), with his friends Julian Steinberg and Josh Goldin, founded Alliance Consumer Growth LLC, a private equity firm for early-stage consumer retail brands. The firm invested in Shake Shack before the chain became public and remains the fourth-largest shareholder, according to Fortune.

“It was very exciting to launch a company to address those businesses and the unmet capital need,” said Nelson, who is currently a managing partner of the company.

ACG currently invests in food and beverage, personal care and beauty, pet product brands, specialty retail and restaurants.

Nelson said he looks for brands that have a large market size, excellent revenue momentum and strong and sustainable gross profit margins.

“When consumers try the product, they need to have some sort of a profound response and

ETHS one of 2 school districts in Illinois to win budget award this year

School District 202 is one of two school districts in Illinois this year to receive a national award for its 2014-15 budget, the school announced.

The Government Finance Officers Association announced the recipients of the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award based on nationally recognized criteria for effective budgeting and money management. The organization established the awards program to encourage institutions to practice responsible budgeting techniques.

Professionals from the association as well as from outside officials with experience in public-sector budgeting reviewed budget documents to qualify organizations — including school districts, counties and municipalities — for the award. Within these categories, budget documents from award recipients must have received a “proficient” or “outstanding” rating.

Including this most recent recognition, ETHS is now a seven-time recipient of the award. School officials said good fiscal management is one of their main goals.

“At ETHS we strive to achieve the highest financial practices and the best fiscal management,” superintendent Eric Witherspoon said in a news release. “This prestigious award affirms our commitment and our ongoing accomplishments.”

ETHS is one of 1,492 organizations in the nation to win the budget award for its 2014 budget.

The Budget Awards Program was created to provide an incentive to state and local governments to be fiscally responsible and produce budget documents that meet criteria put out by GFOA and the National Advisory Council on State and Local Budgeting.

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emotional connection to the product they just tried,” Nelson said.

After graduating from NU, Nelson worked at several different companies. When he met his current partners and shared ideas with them about the changing consumer group, they began to invest in consumer companies, Nelson said.

former senior vice president for business and finance at NU. UBPC was recently integrated into Associated Student Government’s analytics committee, said Serendi Lau, a McCormick senior and vice president of the analytics committee at ASG. She said because the newly formed analytics committee at ASG shared the same goals with UBPC, discussing policy-related and budgetary issues, the committee’s role is now covered

by ASG. During his time at NU, Nelson was also a varsity soccer captain, a member of ASG and a board member at the Student Publishing Company, which publishes The Daily Northwestern and Syllabus yearbook.

He also participated in Greek life and in student film productions.

Over the next decade, Nelson hopes to continue to partner with a similar quality of entrepreneurs and brands, which he said are leaving a profound impact in the large industry they are in.

“We will continue to try to become smarter about what we are doing and help the brands grow and succeed, more than we do today,” Nelson said. jeelee2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Understanding our individual definitions of home MEGAN ANGELL

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“And no matter where we go, we always find our way back home.”

Andy Grammer’s lyric echoes a sentiment questioned by many of us at the start of the new school year, whether we are freshmen adjusting to college, students beginning our study abroad experience or seniors considering where to work and live next year. Should we always want to eventually find a way back “home?” Is that really what is best for us? Does returning “home” mean going backward, erasing how we have developed as people?

These questions are especially apropos for students at a university with a global student body. As high school seniors, we were pressured to find a school with the “right fit” so it could become our “home away from home.”

During Wildcat Welcome, the question of “where are you from?” is ubiquitous before every icebreaker, evoking a list of our classmates’ cities that we struggle to remember, pressing each other to choose a single place of origin. Later, we may find out the real stories.

“I grew up in Shanghai, but I went to an international high school in Switzerland,” or “I am from Chicago, Paris, England and India” or “I have lived in Evanston my whole life, but I am from Pakistan.”

We’re connected with our family and friends on our smartphones and laptops, we have everything we’ve written stored on our iClouds and we have everything we’ve done documented on our online calendars. A scroll through our Facebook timelines reminds us of the people we once were. When we can carry these remnants of “home” with us through technology, it is perhaps easier for our generation to identify home as a set of people and ideas rather than a place. This is not to discount the sentimental or motivational value

of objects and places — “home” is the purest connection between the tangibles and the abstracts, between material objects and their associations. However, such distinction is crucial to defining ourselves and who we want to become. We must be able to equate “home” with people and ideas in order to create an environment for ourselves, wherever our ambitions may take us.

This is not to pretend that we should prefer “home” to anything else. We discover what we like and dislike largely through contrasts: a restaurant is better or worse compared to another; a class is more or less interesting than last quarter’s; a job is fulfilling in comparison to a different one. By being cognizant of how our current situation relates to “home,” we can identify our preferences. Maintaining a realistic image of this “home” also helps prevents nostalgia’s ultimate companion, disappointment.

At the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences welcome for new students, the freshman class was challenged with the conflicting advice to

both be open to new ideas and to be steadfast in our beliefs. We can reconcile the two, I think, if we remember “our roots,” both literally and intellectually, as our opinions change.

In the early days of nautical navigation, ship captains would plot their place of origin, their speed and their general direction to find their current location. Our lives are much the same way. If we do not know our starting point, we cannot know where we are now; we cannot aim at a future destination if we do not know from where we set out. We may never actually “find a way back home,” but we must at least understand from where we came so that we know where we are going.

Megan Angell is a Weinberg freshman. She can be reached at meganangell2019@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern. com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

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I don’t quite know what Jeb Bush had in mind when he said that “stuff happens” in response to the mass shooting at an Oregon community college that left nine dead and several injured, after a gunman who had legally acquired 14 firearms, six of which he kept at Umpqua Community College, unleashed fire.

But what happens when the president takes to the podium for the 15th time in his presidency to address gun violence? As The Washington Post reported, if we define a “mass shooting” as an incident in which four or more people are killed, there hasn’t been a calendar week free of mass shootings in Obama’s second term.

For Republican presidential hopefuls, little, if anything, has changed when it comes to gun control. Donald Trump promoted his own unique brand of “guns, no guns — it doesn’t matter” approach, telling ABC News, “This isn’t guns this is about really mental illness.” Ben Carson similarly said, “The issue is the mentality of these people,” during an interview with conservative radio show host Hugh Hewitt.

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Mike Huckabee argued, “It was a cop with a gun that stopped him” about a day before a medical examiner ruled that the gunman had killed himself (incidentally, Huckabee criticized Obama’s “political pronouncement” as “at best premature and at worst ignorantly inflammatory”).

Attempts have been made, including two bills that failed to pass the Senate following the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, where a gunman killed 20 children and six adults in December 2012. Manchin-Toomey attempted to expand background checks. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, attempted to renew the assaults-weapon ban. Both failed in Congress, falling victim to familiar rhetoric best embodied by Senator Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, who told The New York Times in 2013, “Criminals do not submit to background checks now,” and, “They will not submit to expanded background checks.”

The narrative in days following the Oregon tragedy has taken a familiar tone, mostly in which politicians attempt to orient the issue away from gun control and toward mental illness (a justification that usually accompanies a white shooter). But this contradicts reviews of academic literature correlating gun ownership and homicide and reports suggesting a misguided localization of gun violence on mental illness.

In polls conducted after the Newtown

shooting, the American public was generally more sympathetic to gun-control measures.

But as the headlines faded away, so too did the public’s support for political measures against gun violence. This is exactly what Obama had in mind when he castigated Congress and the entire American political system for numbness toward mass shootings. We turn a blind eye to the well-known loopholes in gun ownership laws that allow the mentally ill to acquire firearms, like the one that allowed one man to shoot up a black church in Charleston and another to murder two women at a Louisiana movie theater.

The United States passes through this cycle every few months while the American fetishization of the firearm remains as unchanged as the sanctity of the Second Amendment. If you recall how some people in Newtown, Connecticut, reacted to the shooting at Sandy Hook, it was to buy more guns for protection in a panic over future regulations. The Oregon sheriff, now catapulted to national attention, once wrote a letter to Joe Biden pushing against gun control with all of the familiar arguments. In it he quotes a statement made by Sheriff Tim Mueller, writing: “We are Americans. We must not allow, nor shall we tolerate, the actions of criminals, no matter how heinous the crimes, to prompt politicians to enact laws that will infringe upon the liberties of

responsible citizens who have broken no laws.”

This fetishization is deep, and the issue is not always partisan. The ban on federal research into gun violence has been renewed for nearly 20 years under both Democratic and Republican majorities. All the while, the gun industry channels tens of millions of dollars into the NRA each year, while the NRA and its affiliates spent nearly $1 million on political contributions and more than $3 million on lobbying in 2014. The NRA is also the organization that said eight victims of the Charleston shooting “might be alive” if they were allowed to carry handguns.

The issues are deep, and all of this talk unfortunately ignores inner-city gun violence and cyclical systems of poverty and mass incarceration that perpetuate violent crime. With all of these factors at play, we should look ahead to the next election for candidates willing to work toward a comprehensive approach to gun violence. “Our prayers are not enough,” Obama cautioned. “This is something we should politicize.” It’s certainly been long enough.

bravery he showed in starting a group like MENtal Health. As a male who suffered with mental illness while I was a student at Northwestern, this group would have been an invaluable resource to someone like myself.

Swiatek is correct that the stigma surrounding mental health is exponentially worse for men than it is for women due in large part to the societal notion that men need to be tough, macho humans.

I know plenty of men who can fit into that box, but would love a chance to express their feelings and not have to bottle them up.

Men’s mental health is unique because the problems we face in the world are difficult to comprehend. While I was in a group therapy through CAPS, I felt more connected with most of the men in my group because we all had different versions of the same issues. A group consisting of all men

would do wonders for the participants for that very reason.

I wish Mr. Swiatek much success in his endeavor, and I hope it brings more attention to the issue of men’s mental health while becoming another step to breaking down the stigma that surrounds mental health throughout our society.

Alex Daly is a Weinberg junior. He can be reached at alexdaly2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

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A Northwestern Law School professor lectured on the nuances of the relationship between the World Health Organization and World Trade Organization at an event Friday.

Hosted by the Buffett Institute for Global Studies, the lecture presented Prof. Laura Pedraza-Fariña’s research on the subject as well as how it extends to international patent law.

The event kicked off the Buffett Institute’s Faculty and Fellows Colloquium series for the year.

Pedraza-Fariña started her lecture with a background on intellectual property, focusing on the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement.

Following the finalization of TRIPS in 1994,

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Schiller, who will be leading the program for

intellectual property was brought under the trade umbrella and primary authority was shifted for interpreting intellectual property to the WTO. “Prior the the TRIPS agreement, pretty much most of intellectual property was domestic,” Pedraza-Fariña said. “Every country would issue their own patents, which is still the case.

But every country could decide the level of patent protection that they wanted to give.

However, there was a huge discrepancy in pharmaceutical distribution.”

Pedraza-Fariña delved into the strained relationship between the WHO and WTO, brought about by the TRIPS agreement. She talked about the power struggle and distrust that started after private documents were accidentally leaked by WHO. Following the lecture, the floor was opened for a Q&A, during which audience members

asked about black market pharmaceuticals in developing parts of the world, as well as debated the importance of essential medicine versus personalized medicines.

Weinberg junior Odette Zero came to the event because of her interest in learning about health topics and controversies, she said. Prior to the event, she said she was not well-versed in the relationship between international organizations and access to medicine.

“The joint lectures are one of the really awesome things that Northwestern has,” Zero said.

“There’s really cool dialogue between undergrads and graduate students as well as faculty.

Leaving this lecture, I can bring these things to my global health classes.”

The Buffett Institute’s director of research programs and strategic planning, Brian Hanson, spoke about the goal of the series, which will host events every Friday for the remainder

of the academic year.

“The purpose of this colloquium is to widen the opportunity for faculty as well as visiting scholars and fellows to present their work in progress to the broad community,” he said.

Hanson said he was satisfied with the event’s turnout and proud of how the Buffett Institute brings together members of different interdisciplinary groups who aren’t often “in the same room together.”

“Talks like this … are extremely valuable to drive those conversations across disciplines because one of the core commitments of the Buffett Institute is the value of bringing people together from different backgrounds, different ideas and different disciplines to address common problems,” he said.

his 38th season this year, started as head coach in 1978 and has led the Cats to more than 1,200 wins and 16 consecutive top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championships.

“Laurie Schiller is one of the most accomplished coaches in college athletics history, regardless of sport, gender or division,” said Athletic Director Jim Phillips in a news release. “We owe a tremendous debt of gratitude for his immense contributions to this institution.”

Schiller was also the head coach for the men’s fencing team from 1978 until the program dissolved in 1994. He has been named the Midwest Fencing Conference Coach of the Year 10 times during his career.

Assistant coach Zach Moss, who started last fall, will succeed Schiller.

“I am so grateful to Northwestern for providing me the opportunity and resources to create a topnotch fencing program,” Schiller said in the release.

“Together we have accomplished something truly

great and I am confident that I am leaving it in good hands.”

He will be the fourth NU coach to retire in the past two years, following the retirements of former cross country coach April Likhite, former baseball coach Paul Stevens and former women’s swimming and diving coach Jimmy Tierney in the 2014-15 academic year.

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National News Troy Wolverton: Chip-based credit cards part of bigger change in payment system You may have gotten some new credit cards in the mail lately that look a bit different from your old ones.

That’s no accident, but instead part of a big shift in how we make card-based payments.

The new cards, notable for the gold-colored chips embedded in them, are designed to eliminate the most common form of payment-card fraud. But the move to the new cards may hasten the day when we don’t use physical cards for payments at all.

The new cards store their account number and expiration date on their chips. When you make a payment with them, the chips transfer your account information and generate a onetime-use code to confirm that the card and account are legitimate. That one-time-use code is part of what makes the cards more secure than their predecessors, the ones that depend solely on the magnetic stripes on their back to store information including a fixed security code. If the card’s account information is compromised, criminals can easily create a counterfeit card by storing the stolen information on a blank or erased magnetic strip. Because the security code is always the same, the counterfeit card appears to be just as legitimate as the original.

Chip cards have been used in Europe for more than a decade. What has spurred their adoption in the United States has been the rise in fraudulent transactions due largely to largescale hacking attacks that have compromised millions of payment cards at a time.

In order to accept a payment made with a chip card, merchants need to put in place new card readers that can accept them. More than half of all merchants likely won’t have the new systems in place by the beginning of next month, according to Jason Oxman, who is CEO of the Electronic Transactions Association, the payment industry’s trade group.

That date is important, because it’s when responsibility for fraud starts to shift. Up to

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2015 this point, the financial institution that issued the payment cards has been solely responsible for losses due to fraud. If a thief, after stealing your credit card or creating a counterfeit version of it, starts charging things or getting cash advances, the bank that issued your card is responsible for the charges.

Starting next month, the party responsible for swallowing losses will depend on who is using the more advanced technology. If a merchant can accept a chip card payment, but a consumer only has a magnetic stripe card because their bank hasn’t sent them a new chip card, the bank will be responsible for fraud losses. If a bank has issued a chip card, but the merchant hasn’t upgraded its card readers to accept chip cards, the merchant will now be responsible for fraud losses.

As before, we consumers won’t be responsible at all for losses caused by fraud.

The shift in liability has been spurring merchants to upgrade their terminals. While many small retailers and restaurants don’t yet have the new card readers, most of the largest retailers, who represent the vast majority of all payment card transactions, have already upgraded their systems, according to Oxman.

For you and me, the most obvious change the new cards will bring _ other than their new look _ is in how we use them to make payments. Instead of swiping a card’s magnetic stripe through a payment terminal reader, we’ll generally have to insert the cards, chip first, into a slot.

The new cards will generally have a magnetic strip you can use at older payment terminals.

However, if you try to swipe the magnetic stripe on a chip card at a terminal that can read the chips, don’t be surprised if terminal prompts you to insert the card into its chip reader instead.

But the cards will likely entail two other changes that could affect us consumers. For one, they’re expected to significantly cut down on fraud. According to Oxman, some two-thirds of all payment card fraud in physical stores was made using counterfeit cards.

Because of the one-time-use codes they generate, the new cards are going to be much more difficult to duplicate.

Reduced losses due to fraud could be passed on to consumers in the form of lower prices.

Even if that doesn’t happen, the new chip cards should mean that consumers don’t have to spend as much time scrutinizing their statements each month for fraudulent charges.

But the chip cards could have an even more significant effect on the way we purchase things. The same basic standard underlying chip cards also underlies mobile payment systems like Apple Pay and Android Pay. Because the technologies are so related, some 80 percent of all the new terminals that merchants are installing to accept chip-card payments will

also accept mobile phone payments, according to Jordan McKee, a senior analyst who covers that payments industry for 451 Research.

The biggest problem with Apple Pay and its rivals to date has been the relatively few number of merchants that accepted them. Because of the move to chip cards, you’ve likely already seen a bunch of new places start to accept mobile payments in recent months. And you’ll soon see a lot more. So it could well be that the technology designed to make payment cards more secure could help end the era of using physical cards at all.

— Troy Wolverton (San Jose Mercury News/TNS)

Supreme Court faces tough choices, familiar problems in new term

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices will face tough choices and political potshots from both left and right when they reclaim their seats Monday.

Over the next nine months, they could restrict affirmative action, alter congressional districts and weaken public service unions. And though Republican presidential candidates have been lashing the court’s GOP-appointed chief justice, conservatives still hold the upper hand.

“This term, I would expect a return to the norm in which the right side of the court wins a majority of cases,” said Irv Gornstein, executive director of the Supreme Court Institute at the Georgetown University Law Center.

California teacher Harlan Elrich hopes so; at least, in part.

The 52-year-old Elrich teaches math at Sanger High School near Fresno in the state’s San Joaquin Valley. Unhappy with paying fees to an affiliate of the California Teachers Association, though he is not a member, Elrich joined a lawsuit conceived by attorney Terry Pell and the Center for Individual Rights.

The lawsuit called Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association is one of the most closely watched cases of the 50 or so currently pending on the court’s 2015-16 argument calendar. If Pell, Elrich and their allies win, public service unions like those representing teachers and municipal workers could lose their ability to compel non-union members to pay agency fees.

“I’m not saying we need to get rid of unions; far from it,” Elrich said in an interview. “I’m saying we should have a choice. A lot of money is being taken from me to support bills and candidates I don’t support.”

The dissident teachers are directly challenging a 1997 Supreme Court decision that allowed compulsory fees to pay for employee-support activities like collective bargaining. If the mandatory fees are struck down, or made harder to collect by requiring workers to affirmatively agree to pay them, unions will take a hit.

“This case has a real potential to be a

watershed in labor law,” said attorney John Elwood, a frequent advocate before the high court.

A different kind of watershed, with even more explicit political consequences, could arise in a legislative redistricting case that comes out of Texas.

The case, called Evenwel v. Abbott, follows up on the court’s one-man, one-vote doctrine that’s supposed to equalize voting power across state legislative and congressional districts.

Broadly speaking, this has meant district populations are roughly equivalent. The question now is what “population” means.

Texas residents Sue Evenwel of Titus County and Edward Pfenninger of Montgomery County, and other challengers, want the Supreme Court to require states to draw districts based on the population of eligible voters. Texas and some other states use the total population, which includes immigrants, children and felons.

“The distinction didn’t matter so much in the 1960s when the number of immigrant residents was low,” noted Gail Heriot, a professor at the University of San Diego Law School. “It matters a great deal now in Texas and many other states.”

In particular, Tennessee legislators argued in an amicus brief, “the use of total population alone in redistricting over-weights the votes from urban areas to the detriment of those from rural areas.”

Conservative groups have lined up a battery of amicus briefs challenging how Texas handles redistricting, leaving the Southern state in the uncharacteristic position of defending what can be cast as the liberal position.

On affirmative action, too, Texas is back at the Supreme Court, to defend the state flagship university’s use of race as a factor in admissions. The seemingly endless case is still called Fisher v. University of Texas, reflecting the legal battle begun in 2008 by Abigail Noel Fisher following her rejection by the university.

The return fight, and the replacement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor by the stricter conservative Samuel Alito Jr., leaves in some doubt the future of racial considerations in college admissions.

“I think it’s a very tough case for the university,” acknowledged Neal Katyal, a former acting solicitor general in the Obama administration.

The cases granted so far amount to about two-thirds of the 75 or so typically heard by the Supreme Court during the term, which runs through June 30. Several incendiary issues, including abortion access and religious exceptions to the mandates of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, could yet arise in cases still bubbling up from lower courts.

— Michael Doyle (McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS)

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Across Campuses

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UC Berkeley requests letters of teacher recommendations from applicants, and sparks a debate In a significant break from tradition, the University of California, Berkeley will ask some freshman applicants to submit letters of recommendation from teachers and mentors this fall. And the UC system is studying whether all of its nine undergraduate campuses should do the same in future years as another way to choose among the avalanche of students seeking admission.

The new policy at UC Berkeley, while optional and limited this year, has triggered much debate at other UC campuses and high schools around the state about the value of such letters and whether they hurt or help the chances of public school students.

Adding even optional recommendations to all UC applications “would be a sea change,” said Stephen Handel, University of California’s associate vice president for undergraduate admissions. Upcoming deliberation will have to measure the usefulness in admissions decisions against concerns that a change might “inadvertently disenfranchise certain students from even applying,” he said.

Unlike most private universities and some public schools, UC generally has not asked for recommendations in its main undergraduate applications. It relies instead on high school grades, standardized test scores, personal essays and a review of students’ accomplishments and personal challenges.

Only a few specialized UC programs currently require such letters, and some campuses seek extra information about a very small number of students months after the original application deadline,

— Larry Gordon (Los Angeles Times / TNS)

Obama’s tuition-free community college plan stalled in Congress

WASHINGTON — On a bitterly cold afternoon in January, President Barack Obama stood in the warmth of a jam-packed college auditorium in Knoxville and proposed two years of free community college for millions of students across the country.

But nine months after Obama previewed “America’s College Promise” at Pellissippi State Community College, the proposal is stalled in a Republicancontrolled Congress that has no appetite for creating another government program and no desire to hand Obama a significant legislative victory in the twilight of his presidency.

“I’ve gotten a little resistance from members of Congress — that will shock you,” Obama conceded last month, drawing laughter from a crowd at Macomb Community College just outside Detroit, the first of several recent appearances intended to promote college affordability and spark national interest in the proposal.

In Washington, Democrats in the House and Senate introduced bills in July that closely mirror Obama’s free community college plan, which is projected to cost $60 billion over the next 10 years.

Not one Republican signed on as co-sponsor of either piece of legislation. Neither bill has even gotten a committee hearing, although aides to U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, who chairs the Senate panel with jurisdiction over education issues, suggested the proposal could be considered later this year as part

of a broader higher education package.

Alexander remains opposed to Obama’s community college proposal, even though it was patterned after Gov. Bill Haslam’s Tennessee Promise scholarship program, which Alexander supports.

“The right way to make community college tuition-free is the way Tennessee, Oregon and Chicago have done it for themselves,” said Alexander, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. “This is only possible for states because of the federal funding that already exists for community college students who need help.”

Nearly 40 percent of community college students are eligible for a Pell grant they don’t have to pay back, Alexander said, and for most of them, the average Pell grant makes the average $3,300 tuition free.

Instead of creating a new federal program, Alexander said, the federal government can help students in other ways — first, by reducing federal paperwork for the 108-question student aid application form, which Alexander says discourages Americans from applying for federal Pell grants that already are available to help pay community college tuition; and second, by paying for millions of new Pell grants that will be awarded if other states emulate Tennessee Promise and if Congress reduces federal paperwork and allows students to use Pell grants year-round.

“This isn’t something that’s going to happen in one huge step,” said James Kvaal, deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. “What we have done is try to lay out a vision for where the country needs to get to. We’re trying to make concrete progress toward that vision.”

— Michael Collins (Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn./MCT)

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A shutout is always impressive, but especially so when it comes against a conference opponent and one of the Wildcats’ closest competitors for a division title. Add in losses by Nebraska and Wisconsin, and NU is suddenly tied with Iowa for the West division lead. The Cats are firmly in control by virtue of getting to play the Hawkeyes at home on Oct. 17, in what could be a big game with major implications for the rest of the season.

And, scheduling aside, NU looked like the most dominant team Saturday. The Hawkeyes and Badgers slugged each other into submission during their matchup, with neither team looking terribly impressive in the sloppy 10-6 victory for Iowa. Nebraska continued to struggle under first-year coach Mike Riley, blowing a 13-point fourth quarter lead over Illinois. Minnesota seems unlikely to rebound after looking mediocre all season. The Cats are good, and it’s appropriate to update expectations.

2. Good luck throwing against the Wildcats

NU’s “Sky Team” lived up to the hype against the Golden Gophers. Sophomore safety Godwin Igwebuike led the defense with nine The tackles. Cornerbacks senior Nick secondary has Va n Ho o s e a n d figured out junior Matthe w how to secure Harris each had three pass breakups. the airspace Harris added one no matter interception but let another bobble out what kind of of his hands. Even quarterback it junior linebacker faces.

Jaylen Prater got in on the action, s n a g g i n g w h at might have been a pick if the play had been reviewed.

The secondary has figured out how to secure the airspace no matter what kind of quarterback it faces, be it a drop-back thrower like Stanford’s Kevin Hogan or a powerful runner like Minnesota’s Mitch Leidner. It’s going to take a very good quarterback to beat NU’s defense, and the Cats have nothing but mediocre to occasionallyabove-average Big Ten signal callers left on their schedule.

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Redshirt freshman quarterback Clayton Thorson didn’t exactly star Saturday, completing 14 of 19 passes for just 128 yards, but solid and unspectacular is exactly what NU needs. Thorson ran well, scoring twice on the ground, didn’t turn the ball over and made key throws for first-down conversions when he had to. It may not sound like much, but it powered the Cats to 20 offensive points.

And amid the boring, Thorson again showed a flash of brilliance. His touchdown pass to sophomore running back Solomon Vault — ruled not a catch after replay — was a thing of beauty, arching over the defensive and hitting Vault in the perfect spot as he dove into the end zone. The Cats haven’t yet needed Thorson to throw their way out of a late deficit, but given what we saw against Minnesota, the quarterback’s results may not be so bad going forward.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2015 gap on a local and national scale. Y.O.U.’s executive director Seth Green said disparities in outof-school learning play a main role in that gap.

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“That opportunity gap is occurring during out of school time … Everyone is trying to do more because they know their kids need more out-ofschool time learning in order to be part of what is our current economy and world.” mpage@u.northwestern.edu

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affect climate change,” Weinberg senior Laila Hayani told The Daily after the event. “People often see climate change and human rights as two different, totally exclusive things from each other, but they’re really interrelated.”

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near Northwestern, you’re exposing more people to that scene,” he said.

Srivastava said he fell in love with comedy after making a personal connection at a show

the impact of smog and pollution in her native country, China, told The Daily she wants to do everything she can to help her home. She said no matter where they’re from, all humans call Earth home.

“We’re all on the same ship,” she said.

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Hopson’s heroics help Wildcats upset Terrapins OT

By BEN POPE

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On a rainy and windy Friday afternoon in College Park , Jeffrey Hopson catalyzed two perfect plays at two perfect times to help Northwestern stun host No. 13 Maryland 2-1 in overtime.

With the Wildcats (4-4-1, 2-2-0 Big Ten) desperately needing a tying goal in the 83rd minute, Hopson timed his run on a beautifully designed set piece and played a pass into the goalfront to assist on freshman midfielder Camden Buescher’s first career goal.

Hopson, a junior midfielder, then lofted a long ball to catch senior forward Joey Calistri in stride behind the Maryland (4-3-3, 1-12) defense nine minutes into sudden death overtime. Calistri’s sliding pass across the box allowed junior forward Getenet Tuji to strike the ball into the wide-open goal and lifted NU, which was outshot 24-4 in the game, to a shocking victory.

“That was the greatest hit I’ve had in quite some time,” Hopson said of his play that led to the game-winning goal. “(This is) one of the best feelings you could ask for in this sport.”

Coach Tim Lenahan sought to figuratively “shorten” the game by holding the Cats in a defensive shell for the first half. His strategy proved effective, as his team took zero shots during the first 45 minutes but weathered Maryland’s pressure and entered the break tied 0-0.

“We played a really good team firing on all cylinders,” said Lenahan. “You’re not going to be able to play on the road toe-to-toe with Maryland for 90 minutes. We tried to survive the first half.”

NU was able to break forward more frequently in the second frame, aided by a steady wind at their backs, but Maryland continued to produce promising attacking opportunities.

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Senior goalkeeper Zak Allen made a sliding effort to force a ball out of bounds at the left post in the 55th minute, then barely tipped a scorching Diego Silva shot over the crossbar in the 69th.

The Terrapins finally caught a break in the 79th minute when Allen fumbled an attempted save along the endline and the ball squirted to Maryland forward Jorge Calix, who buried a quick shot from the right edge of the 18-yard box.

The Cats, however, answered in less than four minutes via Buescher’s goal, the culmination of a brilliantly deceptive play — one the team had worked on in Thursday’s practice — off a free kick by sophomore midfielder Sam Forsgren from roughly 30 yards out.

“Calistri split two defenders (with a decoy run) and I was in the right place at the right time,” said Buescher, who slotted the ball past Maryland goalkeeper Cody Niedermeier and just inside the right post.

“We executed it perfectly,” added a pleased Lenahan.

Entering overtime, NU hoped to take advantage of Maryland’s ceaseless offensive possession by jumping on any opportunity for an unexpected fast break in the other direction.

That strategy proved equally shrewd.

“Our defenders did a great job protecting the zone and blocking shots,” said Lenahan.

“Hopson made a great play to Calistri and we got out of here with a win.”

After outshooting an opponent for the first time in a 1-0 loss to Indiana last Sunday, the in each of the national rankings to No. 14 in the Coaches Poll and No. 13 in the AP Poll.

The AP ranking is a historic milestone for the Wildcats, who haven’t polled this highly since peaking at No. 12 in the AP Poll during the 2000 season. That year, the Cats finished

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UPSET MINDED A Wildcat goes after a 50-50 ball. NU’s grit and grind paid off Friday as it went on the road and knocked off No. 13 Maryland in overtime.

Cats suffered their second-largest shot deficit of the year on Friday yet converted two of their four total attempts into goals. They also continued their success in overtime, having drawn with Colgate and beaten Illinois-Chicago and now Maryland in games initially level at the end of regulation time.

“We didn’t have a lot of chances this game, but we’re being efficient and just getting the right players in the right spots,” said Hopson.

“Moving forward, (this win) definitely gives us a lot of confidence.”

with an 8-4 record and lost to Nebraska in the Alamo Bowl.

This year, NU first entered the rankings this season at No. 23 during Week 3 after beating Eastern Illinois.

The Cats’ next two opponents, Michigan and

Iowa, also shuffled up the rankings, with the Wolverines advancing to No. 18 in the AP Poll and the Hawkeyes debuting at No. 22.

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Conference Conquest Northwestern shuts out unranked Minnesota 27-0 in Big Ten opener

By STEPHANIE KELLY

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Steady play from both the offense and defense allowed No. 16 Northwestern (5-0, 1-0 Big Ten) to pull off a 27 shutout in the Cats’ first conference game of the season over a key Big Ten West competitor in Minnesota (3-2, 0-1).

The defense dominated against a lackluster Golden Gophers offense.

Sophomore linebacker Anthony Walker continued to star, scoring a defensive touchdown by scooping up and carrying a fumble in to the end zone to seal Minnesota’s fate in the fourth quarter.

The anchor of the defense contributed three total tackles, one for loss, in addition to the fumble recovery.

The secondary also impressed, with an interception by junior cornerback Matthew Harris snubbing Minnesota’s first drive of the second quarter. Harris combined with senior corner Nick VanHoose for six total pass deflections, and sophomore safety Godwin Igwebuike led the defense with 9 tackles.

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The back four benefited from a swarming defensive line, which sacked Minnesota’s quarterbacks three times and held the Golden Gophers’ rushing attack to just 74 yards.

On the other side of the ball, the offense awoke after a sleeper of a first half. NU opened the second frame with a drive that included a one-handed would-be touchdown catch by sophomore running back Solomon Vault.

Though the play was overturned after review, it revitalized the offense, with the Cats converting a fourth down and leaving Jack Mitchell to kick a field goal, making the game 13-0.

“That first drive of the third quarter was critically important in this game,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “That was big. That was really big with the way the weather was today.”

And despite limited scoring early on, redshirt freshman quarterback Clayton

Thorson’s play was consistent from the start of the game. Instead of taking the first half to warm up like during last week’s game against Ball State, Thorson looked confident in the pocket from the first minute of play.

His passing game in particular looked significantly better, as he completed 14 of 19 attempts for 128 yards with no interceptions. Thorson also rushed for two touchdowns, keeping the Cats’ in the driver’s seat through the game.

“Clayton showed a lot of amazing growth,” senior wide receiver Christian Jones said. “I think Clayton could be one of the greatest to play here.”

Sophomore running back Justin Jackson also quietly turned in another great performance, totaling 120 yards on 20 carries. One drive alone in the third quarter saw Jackson rush a total of 51 yards, allowing Thorson to sneak into the end zone and bring the score to 20-0.

The offense in general kept up its play, relying less on the defense to win the game, and it showed with the 27-0 result. NU powered its way to 312 total yards of offense at a healthy clip of 4.5

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SPECIAL TEAM Senior wide receiver Miles Shuler returns a punt. The Wildcats’ ability to make timely plays helped propel them to a 27-0 win.

yards per play. One of the few negatives was a lack of sustained drives, as only three went for 40 or more yards.

After a dominating shutout against a Big Ten West rival, the Cats look to be an early favorite to win the division.

NU will continue conference play next week, traveling to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for a cross-division match-up with the Wolverines. stephaniekelly2017@u.northwestern.edu

Wildcats defense continues to dominate in shutout conference victory

By CLAIRE HANSEN

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On a day when Northwestern’s offense played maybe its best game of the season, the Wildcats’ defense

was still the driving force behind their dominant 27-0 win against Minnesota at Ryan Field.

Saturday’s shutout was the first inconference shutout for the NU program since the famed 1995 season.

The Cats (5-0, 1-0 Big Ten) held the Golden Gophers (3-2, 0-1) to just 2.66

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NO FLY ZONE Junior cornerback Matthew Harris looks at the sideline for the play call. Harris and the rest of the Sky Team held Minnesota to just 99 pass yards while also grabbing an interception in NU’s shutout

yards per play while nabbing an interception, a fumble recovery, and a TD. The unit has allowed just three touchdowns in the opening five games of the season.

“Our confidence has grown each game,” senior defensive lineman Dean Lowry said. “We feel very confident we can play against anybody and any offensive scheme going forward.”

NU’s defensive line put substantial pressure on Minnesota’s quarterbacks, forcing hurried throws and tallying three sacks. Simultaneously, the Cats’ pass coverage was nearly impeccable, with senior cornerback Nick VanHoose and junior cornerback Matthew Harris breaking up three passes each.

As a unit, the Cats held Minnesota starting quarterback Mitch Leidner to 10 completions on 21 attempts before later limiting backup Demry Croft to an even worse 5-11 stat line. Minnesota recorded only 99 yards through the air.

Protection against the run game was equally as strong, as the defensive unit restricted the Golden Gophers to just 74 yards on the ground on 33

carries, an average of 2.24 yards per touch.

Sophomore safety Godwin Igwebuike led the defensive charge with 9 tackles, a career high for the safety.

Senior safety Traveon Henry, Lowry and Harris followed with five tackles apiece, with Lowry recording two tackles for loss.

Harris had a particularly standout game. In addition to his multiple tackles and pass deflections, he also nabbed the only interception of the game, beginning a drive that ended in a missed field goal attempt.

Perhaps the most important accomplishment of NU’s defensive unit was its effectiveness on third and fourth down conversion attempts.

NU only allowed the Golden Gophers 4-of-16 third-down conversions while remaining perfect on Minnesota’s four fourth-down attempts.

“If you include the third downs, they were four for 20. And that’s pretty dominant,” head coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “I know that Hank (defensive coordinator Mike Hankwitz) and the guys will be mad about the four they

got.”

Shutting out their first Big Ten opponent in 20 years is a landmark accomplishment for this squad, but Igwebuike said it’s just another day at the office for the unit.

“As always, that’s what we expect as a defense,” Igewbuike said. “It was a big game, opening up in the Big Ten, so obviously preparation was huge for us this week.”

The camaraderie between the defensive players is evident on the field, as the team has even become somewhat twitter-famous for dancing celebrations, with freshman defensive back Stephen Reese drawing attention weeks after defensive backs coach Jerry Brown’s dance moves went viral.

Fitzgerald said that it’s this camaraderie, coupled with their willingness to have fun that has propelled the defensive unit through the season, including Saturday’s win.

“I think they’re playing together, playing for each other,” Fitzgerald said. “They have a great synergy and they’re playing with a lot of passion.” clairehansen2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Cats climb back to .500 in Big Ten play with home win

By COLE PAXTON

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Home cooking was exactly what the Wildcats needed Friday as they improved their record in Evanston to 5-1 and grabbed their second win in Big Ten play on the season.

After No. 14 Northwestern (9-4, 2-2 Big Ten) failed to score on 11 penalty corners in last Sunday’s loss to Indiana, corner execution was a major point of emphasis in practice this week.

If Friday afternoon was any indication, it was a good week.

Senior midfielder Caroline Troncelliti scored two goals via penalty corners and sophomore goalkeeper Lindsay von der Luft made four saves en route to earning her third shutout of the season, and the Cats thoroughly defeated No. 18 Iowa (7-5, 1-2) in a 4-0 victory at Lakeside Field.

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the game,” coach Tracey Fuchs said.

“For us to execute and score on two of them today, I was really pleased with the effort.”

Despite playing without second-leading scorer and primary penalty shooter Dominique Masters after she suffered an injury this week, NU started strong and took advantage of 10 corners.

The Cats were on the attack from the outset. Junior midfielder Isabel Flens had an opportunity from point-blank just over six minutes in, and NU earned three penalty corners in the first seven minutes. The team would fail to capitalize on these initial chances though.

On their fourth corner, however, the Cats got their reward. Junior midfielder

Lauren Bernardi’s shot from distance was saved by Iowa goalkeeper Alexandra Pecora, but the rebound went directly to Troncelliti, who knocked the ball in from close range. The goal, which came at 11:08, was NU’s first via a penalty corner in over 144 minutes of game action.

“We’ve been practicing tipping a lot on corners, and (the ball) ping-ponged around,” Troncelliti said. “We were trying really hard to be aggressive this game, getting everything in front of the cage.”

The Cats had several opportunities to add to their lead in the first half, but could not convert on five additional corners. Freshman midfielder Puck Pentenga, making her first career start in place of Masters, had several good looks at goal, but Pecora stymied each opportunity. The Iowa goalkeepers made six saves in the half.

Six minutes into the second half, Troncelliti doubled NU’s advantage.

After senior back Lisa McCarthy’s penalty corner took several deflections, the ball fell to Troncelliti, who made no mistake in finding the goal.

“Caroline was able to get some rebounds and everybody pitched in today on corners,” Fuchs said. “To add some different looks this week, two or three days before we play a great team like Iowa, really paid off today.”

The Cats, though, were not finished scoring. Less than four minutes after Troncelliti’s second, Pentenga got the slightest of touches on senior midfielder Charlotte Martin’s long ball into the circle, moving NU’s advantage to 3-0.

As strong as the Cats were offensively, the defensive performance was just as strong.

“We did a great job of keeping them out of the circle,” Fuchs said. “In particular I thought Charlotte Martin was a vacuum cleaner in the middle. She didn’t let anything get by her today.”

Iowa recorded neither a shot on goal

nor a penalty corner in the first half, and the Hawkeyes struggled even to put the ball in dangerous positions. The visitors were significantly more aggressive in the second half, though NU clamped down defensively and kept Iowa off the board despite five penalty corners.

“We did a great job getting everyone back behind the ball,” von der Luft added. “Our work rate was really good today.”

Freshman midfielder Eva van Agt added the final tally for the Cats, knocking in a loose ball in front of the goal with less than four minutes remaining.

NU will resume Big Ten play in two weeks with home games against Michigan and Michigan State. Next Friday, however, the Cats will break from league action to host Stanford.

With the conference slate now halfway done, the Cats hope to emulate their Friday performance. colepaxton2019@u.northwestern.edu