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The Daily NorthwesternDAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM Find us online @thedailynuTuesday, January 20, 2015
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Former senator talks civil rights By MARIANA ALFAROthe daily northwestern @marianaa_alfaro
Former U.S. Senator Carol Mose-ley Braun joined members of the Northwestern community in hon-oring Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday night during a vigil at Alice Millar Chapel.
Moseley Braun, also a former U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and the first African-American woman to serve in the Senate, encouraged the audience to pass on knowledge to younger generations, in order to preserve history and to progress to a more understanding future.
“I am of the generation that formed the civil rights movement and I actually met and marched with Dr. Martin Luther King,” she said in her speech. “It is important that we take time to remember and recall the stories that may be familiar to us but foreign to the new generations.”
Moseley Braun spoke about the importance of empathy and courage
during the civil rights movement and their importance today.
“Each of us can find meaning in our own lives by doing what we can do to help others,” she said. “It is not enough to think of yourself as a good person. What matters is what you do.”
After quoting King’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Moseley Braun said she believes the civil rights movement “reflected the very best of America.”
“It made us all better people,” she said. “It reached for courage and community and truth … it called on each individual to take personal responsibility to defeat the forces of racism and hate.”
Moseley Braun referenced the recent demonstrations in France against terrorism, comparing them to the American civil rights move-ment of the 1960s. She also reflected on the importance of strength and union regarding the “Je Suis Charlie” movement that began in light of a
NU gathers for Paris attack victimsBy MARIANA ALFARO the daily northwestern @marianaa_alfaro
About 40 students, faculty and community members came together Friday to honor those affected by the acts of terrorism in Paris in the last two weeks.
“Je Suis _____” was a gathering at The Rock held by various Northwestern groups, including NU Hillel, University Christian Ministry, Alpha Epsilon Pi, the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israeli Studies, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Market-ing Communications and the Study Abroad Office.
The event mourned the victims and supported freedom of speech and religion.
During the gathering, students spoke in solidarity with France on the importance of freedom of speech and religion. NU Hillel executive direc-tor Michael Simon read the names of the victims, followed by a moment of silence.
On Jan. 7, masked gunmen broke into the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical weekly newspaper, and began firing, killing 12.
More terrorist attacks followed across the Ile-de-France region from Jan. 7-9, including a hostage crisis at
By STEPHANIE KELLYdaily senior staffer @StephanieKellyM
A performance from S.O.U.L. Cre-ations Inc. and a reading from an August Wilson play led the wrap-up celebra-tion of the Evanston Public Library’s African-American program series.
The program “11 Months of African American History” began in March. EPL offered at least one African-American history program or event each month, including speakers and book discus-sions. The series, which ended Sunday, had 34 events in total.
Lesley Williams, EPL’s head of adult services, originally had the idea for the “11 Months” series. Williams
said people always asked her about the library’s programming for February, which is African American History Month nationally.
“I thought, ‘Why is it that we’re tak-ing this wonderful, rich culture and try-ing to cram it into the shortest month in the year?’” she said.
The goals for the series included diversifying program attendance and encouraging community conversations around race, Williams said. From there, the library reached out to organizations in the community to become partners in the series and garnered support from organizations such as the YWCA Evan-ston/North Shore, Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre and Northwestern’s Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.
The Sunday event, which had about
70 attendees, was not only a celebra-tion of all the events from the past 11 months, but also a celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. S.O.U.L Creations, an Evanston-based nonprofit that works with youth, performed African dances, including the manjani, a dance that cel-ebrates an event.
“Let’s continue to move forward with that rhythm within ourselves because Dr. King talks about us being a drum major for justice and being a drum major for justice requires that we take leadership and take action,” said Gilo Kwesi Logan, S.O.U.L Creation’s founder and executive director.
During their performance, the group of seven from S.O.U.L Creations
EPL program ends after 11 months
Mariana Alfaro/The Daily Northwestern
HONORING VICTIMS Northwestern Hillel director Michael Simon reads the names of the victims of the recent attack in Paris. About 40 members of the NU community gathered at The Rock on Friday for the event.
Stephanie Kelly/Daily Senior Staffer
THAT’S A WRAP S.O.U.L. Creations Inc. performs at the “11 Months of African American History Wrap Up Celebration.” The Evanston Public Library’s 11-month series ended Sunday.
Nathan Richards/Daily Senior Staffer
REMEMBERING MLK Former U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun speaks during the candlelight vigil in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. She encouraged the audience to be courageous and to teach younger generations the importance of the civil rights movement.
» See 11 MONTHS, page 10
» See FRANCE, page 10
» See VIGIL, page 10
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New brewery creates charity goalBy EMILY CHINthe daily northwestern @emchin24
A local brewing company donated 5 per-cent of its December sales, which totaled $350, to the Evanston Community Founda-tion less than two months after the com-pany’s public opening.
Sketchbook Brewing Company, which opened in late November, decided to donate money to ECF, a foundation that distributes resources to local organizations. The brew-ery wanted to set up a regular tradition of philanthropy, Alice George, wife of co-owner Shawn Decker, said.
“I work in philanthropy and I’ve been working on the other side of the fence for a long time, trying to get companies to donate,” she said. “Plenty are civic-minded, but some aren’t.”
The company, located at 825 Chicago Ave., exceeded expectations for its first month in
business, selling 1,000 growlers (64-ounce jugs) and howlers (32-ounce jugs) combined. Their initial projections were around 700
to 800 total jugs, George said.
“It was amaz-ing,” she said. “It exceeded our expec-tations and we didn’t really know what to expect.”
George emailed Sara Schastok, the president and CEO of ECF, early in December about the donation. Sketch-book brewers gave back to Evanston because it was the Evanston commu-
nity that allowed Sketchbook to thrive, George said.
“Evanston has welcomed us, right from
the start, and we wanted to begin our phil-anthropic tradition with no delays,” Decker said in a news release. “Our community is vital but also facing serious challenges, and we are proud to support the great work of the Foundation, even in a small way.”
Schastok said she was pleased to see that Sketchbook recognized the foundation’s community-oriented business.
“It’s really exciting when an Evanston-based business really sees itself as the fab-ric of the community in this way,” she said. “To start off its business being philanthropi-cally active is exciting to us, and we applaud that.”
Sketchbook plans to make annual con-tributions to the community, but George said she isn’t sure the company can meet the amount they donated this month.
The funds Sketchbook donated will be added to the money ECF collects every year to support local grants and programs.
“It’s really exciting when an Evanston-based business really sees itself as the fabric of the community in this way.Sara Schastok,ECF president
Mercedes-Benz hood ornament stolen
Someone stole the hood ornament of a car in Evanston on Wednesday night, police said.
A 42-year-old man reported the emblem of his 1998 Mercedes-Benz was stolen as it was parked in the 1400 block of Oak Avenue, Evanston Deputy Police Chief Jay Parrott said.
The ornament is valued at about $50 and no other damage was done to the vehicle, police said.
Chicago resident arrested in connection with retail theft
A young man was arrested in connection with misdemeanor retail theft in south Evan-ston on Thursday evening.
The 18-year-old Chicago resident was observed taking a 750 mL bottle of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey whiskey as well as a 750 mL bottle of champagne and was stopped by a store security guard at Jewel Osco, 2485 Howard St., Parrott said. The total value of the items was about $68.63.
The young man was charged with mis-demeanor retail theft and is scheduled to appear in court Feb. 23.
— Julian Gerez
Police BlotterSetting therecord straight
In Friday’s print edition, the attribution for a featured quo-tation in “‘This Town’ author brings humor, insight to lecture” misstated the title of Mark Lei-bovich’s book. The book is “This Town.”
The Daily regrets the error.
On CampusWe’re preparing students to go to D.C. and lobby their representatives and lobby their senators.
— Kevin Harris, ASG VP of community relations
“ ” NU hosts delegates from Big Ten schools at conference Page 6
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Students selected for Clinton initiative summitBy EMILY CHINthe daily northwestern @emchin24
The Clinton Global Initiative University has accepted 12 Northwestern teams and individuals to share their projects at its annual summit. This is the first year Northwestern has partnered with CGI U.
CGI U is an international network of universities that focuses on student innovation and commitment to solving problems in education, the environment and climate change, peace and human rights, poverty alleviation and public health. Students working on long-term projects to address these issues submitted applications to attend CGI U’s annual conference at the University of Miami, held in March.
At the conference, students will be able to talk to experts about their projects and get advice, and many of these experts include people who are involved with nonprofits and the government. Students also
often try to get grant funding for their project at the conference.
Because of NU’s new relationship with the pro-gram, the Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern held information sessions to encour-age students to apply for CGI U.
“Because sustainability is so broad we thought it would be a really great way to engage students on campus and get them all in one place and talk-ing about their passions and different projects,” said Monika Wnuk, ISEN’s integrated marketing and communications manager.
In the past, students have applied for CGI U, but never with formal support from the University.
“I think this is a really great opportunity for students to add or be able to apply local ideas to global problems, to be able to address some of the world’s most pressing issues,” Wnuk said. “It gives you a more of a global perspective, more of a sense of what one individual can do to make a difference in the world.”
The projects students are working on range from
local initiatives in the Evanston community to solv-ing problems in the developing world. Weinberg senior Emery Weinstein is working on a project individually to increase health literacy in the Evan-ston and Skokie area.
One of Weinstein’s professors, who knew she was working on a research project, suggested that NU staff members involved in the program reach out to her. She learned about CGI U and started a project.
Weinstein hopes that in attending the CGI U sum-mit, she’ll get support for her project from experts. About 1,100 students are selected to attend.
“CGI U could make my project on a larger scale happen,” she said. “It’ll be shared on a national level and potentially inspire other students around the country to pursue similar projects.”
Wnuk agrees that the projects that students sub-mit to CGI can be “great and impactful,” she said.
She stressed the idea of interdisciplinary work, and encouraged people from different schools within NU to work on teams together. ISEN recommended
students who have similar passions work together so they could pursue the same issue in two different ways, Wnuk said.
“We thought (CGI U) would really well align with ISEN’s mission of supporting interdisciplinary work on campus,” Wnuk said. “It’s students from different schools with different passions looking to pursue the same thing.”
Three students in Project RISHI (Rural India Social and Health Improvement), which aims to find sustainable initiatives for villages in India, created a team and was accepted to the conference.
“A lot of people applied for CGI U independently, but we’re part of a larger organization that’s trying to make a sustainable impact,” said Vineet Aggarwal, who is on the RISHI team.
The Weinberg junior said he realized how helpful it is to have dedicated members that are specialized in what they do, instead of having to do all the work on his own.
By YAQOOB QASEEMthe daily northwestern @yaqoobqaseem
A Communication sophomore launched a web-site at Northwestern on Tuesday to help students find jobs with startup companies.
Zach Spohler co-founded LaunchQuad with David Greenstein, a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania. After undergoing a round of test-ing at Penn which began last fall, the website is now open to NU students.
“LaunchQuad aims to connect the entrepre-neurial community on campus and also provide resources for it,” Spohler said.
Spohler and Greenstein said the website has sev-eral features, including a board where startups post
about their projects and open positions, an internal messaging system that allows students to directly message founders and a jobs board with a variety of openings at university-affiliated companies — for example, those run by alumni.
“Think of it as an interactive bulletin board,” Greenstein said. “The startups post and you can see upvotes, you can see who’s upvoted it, you can give public feedback, comments. That’s one feature, the listing of all the startups.”
Both Spohler and Greenstein said they thought of the idea while facing difficulties in finding startup opportunities on their respective campuses.
“It was very hard to see who was working on what, and by the time it became big … it was already too late to get involved,” Greenstein said.
Spohler said LaunchQuad aims to include fea-tures for both the startups and the students. He
and Greenstein are currently building connections with venture capitalists to allow the website to be a space in which startups can present their compa-nies to investors. Spohler said they hope to expand involvement to allow startups to do the same with legal agencies and the press, although this aspect of LaunchQuad is still in development.
“Our goal is community building,” said Ben Strick, a Weinberg junior and new member of the LaunchQuad team.
Spohler also said LaunchQuad welcomes startups in any stage of development, including those in the idea stage.
“Anybody can submit,” Greenstein said. “You just need a short tagline, your name, a website URL if you have one and a longer description.”
Spohler and Greenstein plan to expand LaunchQuad in the future with the help of friends
at other universities, spreading across the northeast before moving west.
“We plan to up our user base here at Northwest-ern first and foremost,” Spohler said. “We want to perfect it at Northwestern, and then we plan to expand.”
Spohler and Greenstein said the testing at Penn went well, with LaunchQuad acquiring several hundred users and over 50 companies. During this testing, several minor issues with the website were also resolved.
“The Northwestern student body is really diverse, really smart, and I’m just really excited to see what they can do on this platform,” Spohler said. “To see people come together and really create great things.”
Sophomore launches site to link startups, students
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Confronting obstacles to self-love as a black woman
Basic scientific research is, often by its very nature, boring and confusing. There are many sci-entists in this country using public funds to study things so muddled in obscurity that many see it as a waste of money. For example, what good could there be in researching the non-disease-causing microorganisms that live in the soil?
However, a recent study discovered something amazing: an entirely new kind of antibiotic. Given the current scourge of antibiotic resistance, this is quite the momentous finding. And the keystone of this research was not the direct investigation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, but rather it began by digging around in the dirt for these unrelated microorganisms. Advances in medical treatments make the headlines, but the real breakthroughs are often hidden in the confusing, complex and incred-ible nuances of basic science.
Antibiotic resistance is an enormous problem. Perhaps the most infamous species is MRSA (Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus), which infects over 75,000 Americans annually.
The push for new antibiotics has been profound, but has remained incredibly challenging from the research perspective. Developing a drug that will kill bacteria but not the human host is already difficult enough, but these microorganisms have a much more powerful ally: rapid evolution. Many of these bacteria have reproductive cycles that are less than an hour, creating generations of bacteria capable of rapid evolutionary resistance. Clearly, a novel approach is needed.
In this new study, published Jan. 7, research-ers looked to nature for inspiration: the untapped ecosystem of microorganisms thriving in the soil. The prediction was that millions of years of evolu-tion have placed these organisms in a desperate fight for survival, and along the way one may have
developed a potent and novel chemical compound to destroy its bacterial competitors.
Through a rigorous screening of all of these organisms, they found what they were looking for. The authors called it teixobactin, which can block the growth of bacterial cell walls. Additionally, it was able to treat mouse models of infections with staphylococcus aureus and tuberculosis bacteria. The authors claim that because of its unique mech-anism of action within the bacteria not previously utilized by current antibiotics, resistance to this drug may be unlikely.
We are still far from seeing its use in patients — rigorous clinical trials are necessary to see if it is effective in humans. And even if such a treatment does work, only time will tell if bacteria develop resistance to it.
From dirt to drug, this research has given us hope. Although it serves as a charming poster child for scientists around the world, it also illustrates the expansive challenge of such research. This investigation ranged from an obscure soil culturing system to mouse models of disease. As research becomes more specialized, it is easy to remain a comfortable expert in a biochemical process totally removed from practical application. But without that push toward clinical relevance, much research may simply wallow in obscurity.
We need to know the basics of life. But the ultimate purpose behind incremental discoveries is the clinical trial, using this knowledge to create new and better drugs that ultimately help patients. This discovery of a new antibiotic may be a huge step forward in medicine, or it may crash as a bitter disappointment. Regardless of the outcome, this research represents the best of modern scientific investigation: a deep look into the obscure coupled with an unrelenting push toward improving patient care.
This column was published online on Jan. 14.
Sai Folmsbee is a Feinberg graduate student. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a letter to the editor to [email protected].
As the dust settled on Tuesday, the Wildcats shambled off the court towards their locker room, shoulders slumped and heads bowed in abject misery. Another tally has been marked in the right-hand column. They had fought bravely, imperfectly, in the heat of battle against the in-state rival, Uni-versity of Illinois, and had come agonizingly close – just beyond the tips of the fingers – to tying the score after a whole game of trailing their hot-shoot-ing opponents. With 20 seconds left, all the Illini had to do was miss one free throw, and the embers of hope would spring with great furor again.
But the air was too calm. The squeaks of sneak-ers and the whispers from the players’ mouths were too loud in the absence of a din. There was a good crowd of students at Welsh-Ryan Arena that night, and they were treated to a close, exciting game with their Wildcats on the verge of a stunning come-back. But in the last waning seconds, when they were needed most, the students failed.
For inexplicable reasons, the student section did not raise their chins and shout with unbridled fury. They did not wave their arms like crazed men caught in the throes of euphoria. They stood and weakly clapped like someone had told a bad joke at a funeral.
It was heartbreaking to see the coaching staff on their feet, desperately imploring the students to do something, anything that might shake the confidence of the Illini at the free throw line. It was heartbreaking, infuriating and downright disgraceful.
Many have expressed opinions about North-western’s student enthusiasm, or lack thereof, for athletics. Attendance remains subpar at fall football games and winter basketball games, despite the added incentive of free tickets and clever promo-tions organized by Wildside. Attendance is virtually
nonexistent, from a student standpoint, at non-revenue sports. It is a topic that has roiled within my innermost core for the last few years. It is just like NU students to utterly disrespect their own athletic programs, to say it is okay to not show up because they are mere trappings of a superficial college culture.
We can get that disrespect from other schools. We can get it from the referees. We can get it from the media. We do not need any more of it.
NU students are ambitious. They have their studies to attend to. They have their extracurricu-lars. They have hopes and dreams of success in the corporate system. I get that. But where is the giant, flashing stop sign that urges them to stop and look around for just one moment? College athletics is one of the greatest phenomenon that exists, replete with undue capacity to bring together thousands of people who could not be more different. And yet somehow our students cast it by the wayside.
This isn’t to say, of course, that there are not those who do care and who take the time to show up early to Ryan Field for some quality face time with Pat Fitzgerald, who endured frigid weathers to support our baseball team when they played at Wrigley Field, who dress up in farm animals and are rowdy at basketball games. And of course, I always will be grateful for the dedicated members of Wildside for all that they do to support NU athletics.
But I am sick of it. I am sick of turning around and seeing two of three student sections in Ryan Field empty, sick of seeing a sparse crowd of non-students at tennis matches, sick of seeing alumni selling season tickets for a quick buck and sick of seeing students sitting with closed mouths in the silent cathedral of basketball games.
I love NU. It is why I do what I do, but its people are something else: a breed whose passion can only be found when it is convenient. I am ashamed of it.
Curtis Chou is a Communication senior. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
New antibiotic shows importance of basic science
Students’ lack of support for athletics shameful
This essay is part of The Spectrum, a weekly forum in our Opinion section for marginalized voices to share their perspectives. To submit a piece for The Spectrum or discuss story ideas, please email [email protected].
Until I came to college, I was the token black friend.
Like most Northwestern students, I was in advanced classes for about as long as I can remem-ber. I didn’t always like being in these classes although I came to appreciate them in due time.
However, I was the only black girl in these classes and it wasn’t until high school that I really began to notice my “fly in a bowl of milk” status. I participated in a number of sports and extracur-ricular activities. I was a part of the local travel soccer team, a youth group and numerous school sports and clubs. In all of these groups I was the only black girl.
At first, I didn’t really mind being the token black friend. I spent the majority of my time with these pretty white girls and we had fun together. They all had shiny hair that they could curl and straighten
effortlessly. They had light eyes with long eyelashes, thin pouty lips, narrow noses and slender builds. Now, insert adolescent Arielle Chase, this dark skinned black girl with full lips, a wide nose, long locked hair, short curly eyelashes and, of course, hips and thighs.
I didn’t look like them, but I wanted to.I would look at them and see my own charac-
teristics as inferior and unattractive. When I was a child I used to pray every night for hair that was naturally straight because I truly believed that my own hair was less beautiful.
The media does not help. Dark skinned actresses like Viola Davis now have a place in mainstream media but it has not come without unnecessary backlash. Though she played a sort of Mammy role in “The Help,” Davis is now the star of Shonda Rhimes’ production, “How to Get Away with Mur-der.” Many mainstream movies and shows have cast the black actress as the sassy and sexy sidekick but Davis has managed to overcome this stereotype.
But not everyone appreciated Davis’ accomplish-ment because some did not find Davis to be physi-cally attractive enough for the part.
“Ignoring the narrow beauty standards some African-American women are held to, Ms. Rhimes chose a performer who is older, darker-skinned and less classically beautiful than Ms. Washington, or for that matter Halle Berry,” New York Times writer,
Alessandra Stanley, wrote in a September article.How many times have you read a statement like
this about a white actress? When is the last time you read that a woman like Sandra Bullock was less classically beautiful than an actress like Anne Hathaway? Why is it that when a black woman with dark skin is cast, she is called less classically beauti-ful — according to what official source?
This comparison is typical of the black woman’s experience. Not only are black women often in situations where they are the only person of color, they are also expected to uphold certain European standards of beauty as well as serve as the prototype for what other black women “should” be like.
With the world telling black women that we are not beautiful or desirable enough for the broader (white) society and its standards, it is too easy to fall into the trap of not appreciating your own beauty. If you compare yourself to your white peers, you, as a person of color, will never understand what you specifically have to offer. At the end of the day you are still yourself. Don’t run from this; embrace it and enhance it.
It took some time, but I have since found a way to love myself so aggressively that it can make people uncomfortable. And there is nothing wrong with that. Here are some tips that helped me out:
Understand that the beauty of another woman does not mean the absence of your own.
The fuller your hair, the more versatile it is — trust me — so don’t get fed up too quickly.
If you have no friends of your same ethnicity, make some. Having to explain how often you wash your hair can be annoying and you won’t have to do this with friends who look like you.
Go on YouTube and look up videos of girls who look like you — their confidence is contagious and their ideas are amazing.
Remember that the dominant look is not always the best look.
W.E.B. DuBois once said, “I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.” Basically, black women have been through a lot but we’re coming out of it strong. Being black in America is hard and being a black woman in America can be even harder. As a black woman, I speak from personal experience but other women of color experience a similar struggle. European standards of beauty are unfortunately the most accepted, but that does not mean that you need to assimilate. You are a queen and your unique appearance is impor-tant, so shamelessly flaunt it.
Arielle Chase is a Medill sophomore. She can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
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PHA, IFC recruitment numbers remain steadyBy HAL JINthe daily northwestern @apricityhal
Northwestern’s Panhellenic Association and Inter-fraternity Council recruitment numbers remained largely the same this year, Greek group leaders said. PHA offered about 30 more bids during recruitment in 2015 while receiving the same number of registrants, according to PHA president Katherine Doyle.
PHA organizations extended bids to 473 students this year; 445 received bids last year, she said. IFC saw 368 students join its fraternities in 2015, two fewer than last year.
Doyle said that this year, PHA focused on drawing attention to positive effects NU sororities can have on campus. When reports about incidents in Greek life at other universities arise, the “good things that we do stand,” the Medill junior said.
PHA made changes to emphasize values and increase transparency on what chapters are looking for in potential new members, Doyle said.
“We revamped values training into a personal-ized program that’s particular to NU,” Doyle said. “It’s a guided activity that gets you to think about your personal values.”
Sarah Parker, PHA vice president of membership and a SESP senior, said the association also imple-mented a new requirement for set three of the recruit-ment process, informally known as “skit day,” that features an increased focus on values.
PHA now requires that the content of these skits must be “values-based” and demonstrate “chapter’s specific values, tenants or open mottos or the PHA values (social, scholarship, service, leadership, and/or sisterhood.),” according to a Recruitment Agreement that PHA required each sorority adhere to.
The number of students who joined each IFC fra-ternity varied. The fraternity with the largest incoming class is Phi Delta Theta with 35 new members, while the fraternity with the smallest is Phi Gamma Delta with seven.
“We haven’t set any firm goals in place yet to change the recruitment process, although some of the areas that we see for improvement are in trying to better educate newer members,” IFC president Kyle Sieber said.
Seiber, a Weinberg senior, said he is interested in how service opportunities can be better integrated into the recruitment process, and how recruits can be more exposed to that aspect of fraternity life.
Communication and Bienen freshman Chris Landy, who accepted a bid from Delta Chi, noted a
significant difference between fraternity recruitment and sorority recruitment.
“The rush process was very low-pressure, unlike the sorority thing where they seem to stress out over their minds,” he said.
Fraternity chapters are able to get to know new
members over a longer period of time through events such as Sunday night dinners, which could attribute to the difference between fraternity and sorority recruit-ment, Landy said.
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SISTER SISTER Students react after receiving their bids on the last night of Panhellenic Association recruitment. Although recruitment registration numbers were similar to last year’s, about 30 more people received bids.
By TORI LATHAMthe daily northwestern @latham_tori
Evanston’s 6th Ward will host “Coffee with a Cop” Tuesday, allowing residents to chat with officers from the Evanston Police Department in a casual setting.
The city is participating in the national program, which started in 2011, as a way for community mem-bers to talk with police officers about any concerns or questions they have.
Officer Loyce Spells and 6th Ward Commu-nity Policing Officer Dan Kooi will be available at Starbucks, 2114 Central St., on Tuesday from 8 to 10 a.m. Spells said the event will be a way for the police department to build on its relationship with
the community.“We have been leaders in the area for years,” he
said. “We have a great rapport with the commu-nity and I hope this will make things even more transparent.”
Spells said citizens have the chance to discuss for-mal issues in aldermanic meetings, but this event will give them an informal chance to meet the officers.
“The meetings don’t really give citizens the oppor-tunity to know us,” he said. “This way they can ask who we are and we can do the same with them.”
Charliese Agnew, the city’s community engage-ment specialist, said this is the third time Evanston is holding a police meet-and-greet. The two previous events took place in June and September.
“We’re encouraging everyone and anyone to attend,” she said. “We want it to be a way to famil-iarize the people with the police. It’s not policing, but
just conversation.”Agnew said Tuesday’s event will be the first time
the Citizen Police Academy Alumni Association is sponsoring the event, allowing the city to offer free coffee to residents.
“We have had such a positive response from the community,” Agnew said. “The residents have voiced their want for an event like this, something they can be involved in. It’s not aimed toward just one group, but the whole city.”
Noting recent tensions between the police and civilians that have been spreading throughout the nation, Agnew noted how vital an event like this has become.
“It’s important to stay in the line of communica-tion with the police and the community,” said Agnew. “Even if it’s hard to hear, it’s important to have these conversations.”
Spells shared Agnew’s opinion and brought up former British Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel’s prin-ciples of law enforcement, which were created as a way to outline the actions of an ethical police force.
“One of them says something along the lines of the community is the police and the police is the community,” he said. “We want it to be seen as a we rather than an us and them.”
Spells said the conversations would allow for a different level of understanding and respect between the police department and the community.
“It will dispel preconceived notions people have of the police,” he said. “It’s imperative that people see officers as human beings. They forget that we are sons, daughters, husbands, wives, parents just doing a job.”
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EVA JEFFERSON DAYMonday, January 19, 2015 8:45 AM to 2:45 PMCPS students will come to Northwestern to enjoy a full day of arts, crafts and discussion about the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
STUDENT ORATORICAL CONTESTMonday, January 19, 2015 1:00 PMNorris University Center's McCormick Auditorium (1999 Campus Drive) Contest finalists will recite their orations inspired by MLK at this event. There will be a performance by Northwestern University a cappella group Soul 4 Real, along with spoken word pieces between orations. A small reception will follow. The contest winner will have the opportunity to recite their oration at the MLK commemoration keynote event on January 26th at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Please see the Oratorical Contest page for more information bit.ly/MLKOratorical
MLK STAGED READING OF "THE GIFT HORSE"Monday, January 19, 2015 2:00 PMPenned by Lydia R. Diamond (Broadway's Stick Fly and NU Alumna), The Gift Horse explores the complexities of human interaction in love, commitment and tragedy and celebrates the resilience of the soul. The event is free and open to the public. RSVP at bit.ly/MLKGiftHorse
CAMPUS OBSERVANCE: CANDLELIGHT VIGIL FEATURING CAROL MOSELEY BRAUNMonday, January 19, 2015 7:00 PMAlice Millar Chapel (1870 Sheridan Rd.)Join us as we hear from Carol Moseley Braun, first permanent female member of the Senate Finance Committee and president and founder of Good Food Organics™. There will be musical performances by Northwestern student groups and a reception to follow.
SCREENING AND DISCUSSION OF WHITE LIKE ME REFLECTIONS ON RACE FROM A PRIVILEGED SON BY TIM WISETuesday, January 20th, 4:30 PM to 6:30 PMThe Graduate Student Commons 2122 Sheridan Rd, 1st floor
CAMPUS OBSERVANCE: KEYNOTE SPEAK-ER MICHELLE ALEXANDERMonday, January 26, 2015 6:00 PMPick-Staiger Concert Hall (50 Arts Circle Drive)Join us for this University-wide observance featuring music and performances by Northwestern student groups and a keynote address delivered by Michelle Alexander.
HARAMBEEFriday, January 30, 2015 7:00 PM to 10:00 PMNorris Center, Louis RoomSwahili for “pull together.” It's co-sponsored by African American Student Affairs (AASA) and For Members Only: NU's Black Student Alliance. Come and enjoy free food, performances, and presentations. CLAUDE STEELE: ONE BOOK ONE NORTHWESTERN KEYNOTEWednesday, February 4th4:30 PM to 5:30 PMCahn Auditorium, 600 Emerson StreetIn Whistling Vivaldi, Steele looks back on his 30-year career investigating the impact of social biases and prejudices on everyday life. Finding that stereotypes can influence behavior and affect performance. He will share important strategies that may prove helpful in lessening their negative effects. There will be a book signing to follow lecture.
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NU hosts delegates from all Big Ten schoolsBy OLIVIA EXSTRUMdaily senior staffer @olivesocean
Northwestern hosted the Association of Big Ten Students winter conference over the week-end, drawing student delegates from Big Ten universities to discuss issues including mental health, sexual assault and campus inclusion. A record 92 delegates attended, with representa-tives from all 14 Big Ten schools.
Kevin Harris, vice president of community relations for Associated Student Government, said the schools are chosen to host based on the order they joined the Big Ten. He said NU was originally supposed to host the summer conference, but switched places with the Uni-versity of Nebraska-Lincoln because the August date didn’t work with the quarter system.
Last year was the first time NU attended the conference in a “number of years,” Har-ris said.
“Being the only private school in the Big Ten … made the topics not always totally relevant to us,” the Weinberg junior said. “We definitely don’t interact with state governments as much in terms of funding.”
Harris said NU plans to continue attending the conference. This was the second year all 14 schools have attended the conference.
“We’re working toward making a more col-laborative and inclusive environment and com-munity, and that’s what’s kind of grown over the past year,” said Teresa Bitner, executive director of ABTS and a junior at Michigan State University. “We’ve gotten to get all 14 schools together and focus on the networking.”
During the conference, delegates partici-pated in idea sharing workshops, attended breakout sessions and listened to keynote speakers, including U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Barbara McFadden Allen, execu-tive director of the Committee on Institu-tional Cooperation. Half of the delegates also toured the Big Ten Network studios, while
the other half visited Big Ten Conference headquarters.
In addition to the annual winter conference, there is a smaller summer conference and a conference in Washington, D.C., in April.
On the last day of the winter conference, delegates introduced, passed and voted on legislation they will present at the April con-ference — Big Ten on the Hill. Harris said the delegates discussed legislation regarding the college ratings system and educational resources and passed an official platform to take to the capital. Delegates will meet with their state legislators at the conference, as well as the U.S. Department of Education.
“Part of this is not only collaborating on campus issues or even student government and administration interactions, but the legislative aspect as well,” Harris said. “We’re preparing students to go to D.C. and lobby their repre-sentatives and lobby their senators.”
NU had 10 delegates at the conference, as well as a planning team of seven.
The other schools in attendance brought between four and eight students each. Because the University and ASG did not fund the conference, delegates had to pay a fee to attend. Schools are not required to attend the conference.
Medill sophomore Fai Nur is on ASG’s acces-sibility and inclusion committee and attended the conference. Nur said she enjoyed attending a breakout session with Lesley-Ann Brown-Henderson, director of Campus Inclusion and Community, because it related to what Nur does in ASG.
“She talked about trying to make campus more financially accessible for low-income students, first-generation students, minority students,” Nur said. “It was about how not to throw money at problems. … To fix problems, we need to be engaged with the community we’re trying to help.”
Nur said although NU is private and smaller than the other schools in the Big Ten, the schools all face similar problems, such
as providing scholarships for students doing unpaid internships.
Weinberg freshman Archit Baskaran, who attended the conference and is on ASG’s com-munity relations committee, said the con-ference allows students to learn from other schools and take those ideas back to their own campuses.
“It allows us to discuss issues we’re taking part in,” he said. “We can see exactly the steps we’re doing to address them, feed off each oth-er’s ideas and create a community between all of us, so that we don’t have individual bubbles that we exist in.”
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Cats fi ght back, split matches on Big Ten road tripBy ALEX LEDERMANdaily senior staffer
Th e Wildcats returned to Evanston on Sunday with their heads held high, even with a disap-pointing start to the weekend’s road trip.
Aft er a close 22-17 loss Friday at No. 23 Pur-due (8-5, 1-3 Big Ten), No. 17 Northwestern (9-4, 1-3) rebounded with a 37-9 victory at Indiana (2-5, 0-4).
“I’m proud of the team the way that we came back,” coach Drew Pariano said. “Some teams hang their heads aft er a tough loss, but for us, the coaching staff and the team, we had a big heart-to-heart aft er the loss. It was probably uncom-fortable for some guys, but for other guys it was motivation, and we went out there and fi nished on a win.”
No. 7 senior Pierce Harger was particularly impressive. On Friday, the 165-pounder pinned his opponent in less than a minute — 54 seconds to be exact — and Sunday, Harger beat one of his biggest rivals, No. 4 Taylor Walsh.
And Harger didn’t just defeat Walsh — he dominated. He won 15-0 by technical fall, a victory that felt extra sweet against the wres-tler who beat him twice this year at the fi nals of both the Keystone Classic and the Midlands Championships.
“We’ve really prepared and had a game plan for him,” Harger said of Walsh. “He’s a big move kind of guy, that’s what he does. He throws head-locks and tries to pin everyone, and he’s pretty good at it. We really looked to make sure that he didn’t get to his A-game. I think I stunned him a little bit.”
Pariano called Harger ‘s performance
“dynamic” and said he was particularly proud of the senior.
“(Walsh) beat us twice this season, including in our gym, and then we go into his gym and win 15-0 and were really, really close to getting a fall,” Pariano said. “You can’t get any more convincing in our sport than that. Th at shows that there’s progress. Th at shows that there’s maturity.”
No. 1 sophomore Jason Tsirtsis also turned heads. Th e reigning NCAA Champion at 149-pounds advanced to 24-0 this season and extended his win-streak to 40 with two more W’s on the weekend. Although he only won 4-1 on Friday, he turned up the heat Sunday with a 23-9 major decision thrashing.
“We talk about some of the technical improve-ments he can make,” Pariano said. “It’s amaz-ing. He’s a national champ as a freshman, but he knows he can widen the gap on people, and he did that Sunday. People do wrestle him a little tentatively and they wrestle to keep the match close and that frustrates him a little bit.”
And how does Tsirtsis handle the burden of
carrying such a striking streak?“Th ere’s some pressure there with the streak,”
Pariano said. “But he’s the type of kid that he’s always had pressure in his life. He’s a four-time big champ in high school and junior national champ. Pressure is part of his life.”
No. 4 senior heavyweight Mike McMullan and 141-pound junior Jameson Oster also had weekends to remember, with two major decision wins for McMullan and a fall and major decision victory for Oster.
At Indiana, 184-pound redshirt NU freshman Mitch Sliga came away with his fi rst career Big
Ten triumph.Th e signs are bright for the Cats, but it doesn’t
get any easier from here on out. Next weekend, NU is back on the road at No. 2 Iowa and at home against No. 9 Illinois.
“Th ere’s ups and downs, but I like where we’re heading,” Pariano said. “We’re a resilient team. We went on the road and lost to somebody we really thought we had a good shot at beating, but then we regrouped on Sunday and had a great performance. We need to build on that.”
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Professor using pop culture to teach psychology to med students
HACKENSACK, N.J. _ Th e shower scene from “Psycho” elicits many responses. Th ey typically don’t include commentary on dissociative identity disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder, however. But that’s exactly what went on at a lecture hall at Rutgers.
Dr. Anthony Tobia uses pop culture _ from comics
to “Seinfeld” to “Psycho” and the other fi lms screened in his recent course creation “Film Depictions to Learn Mental Disease” _ to engage students in his fi eld.
“Most of our students do not come to medical school believing they are future psychiatrists,” said Tobia, associate program director of psychiatry at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. “Even those that show an interest, the vast majority go on to pursue other disciplines other than psychiatry. I direct courses that are the last chance for my non-
psychiatry future residents to learn and therefore be able to employ psychiatry.”
Th is idea is vital at a time when the country is struggling with the ability to meet the needs of the mentally ill. Th e key to this education is getting medi-cal students enthusiastic about learning psychiatry.
“We’re not going to be able to allow our family practitioners, our internists, our surgeons to uncover and then treat mental illness unless it’s learned,” Tobia said. “And it won’t be learned unless our students are engaged.”
It is important for general practitioners and spe-cialists in other medical fi elds to identify mental ill-ness and know how to care for a patient.
“Th e fi rst resource that most people who either are personally aff ected by mental illness, or have a loved one with a mental illness, reach out to is a pri-mary care provider,” Aruna Rao, associate director of National Alliance on Mental Illness of New Jersey, said in a statement.
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By TYLER KENDALLthe daily northwestern@tylerskendall
Northwestern seniors ended the last home meet of their careers with a bang Friday when the team beat Milwaukee 137-98. Th e Wildcats (7-3, 0-2 Big Ten) won every event in the com-petition and secured a winning season with the overall victory.
Th e senior day win against the Panthers (2-5, 0-3 Horizon League) allowed the Cats to go unde-feated at home for dual meet competitions this season. Coach Jarod Schroeder highlighted the importance of that legacy in honoring the six seniors on the team and sending them off on a high note.
“Prior to the meet we always do a pre-meet talk, and this one was all about the seniors,” Schroeder said. “We talked to them about how far the pro-gram has come the last four years and I thanked them for buying into... the overall vision of the program that we as coaches and staff have.”
Th e competition was the last time the seniors will race at the Norris Aquatics Center.
Senior Mark Ferguson swam his season-best time of 1.51.77 in the 200 back, winning the event.
“It’s a surreal experience because you don’t even realize it’s happening, it just feels like a normal meet,” Ferguson said. “But I think as soon as I get to the dinner aft erwards tonight, it’s going to hit me that I’m never going to get to do this again.”
Schroeder changed the lineup slightly in order to accommodate an all-senior relay team. Seniors Uula Auren, Ferguson, Aaron Sears and William Rosler — a rare combination — won the 400 medley relay.
Because relay teams can only include four athletes, one of NU’s fi ve senior swimmers was left off the all-senior relay squad. Th at standalone was Andrew Seitz, who was placed on a diff erent medley team and thus took part in some friendly competition against his fellow seniors.
Auren said he noticed a “nice duel” between Rosler and Seitz in the butterfl y leg of the relay. Seitz did, however, have his chance at relay victory when he was the anchor in the 200 free relay and helped secure the NU win.
Th e all-senior relay was not the only change in the lineup, and Schroeder felt his team responded well to the adjustments made.
“Overall I thought it was a good meet for us,” Schroeder said. “A lot of our guys didn’t swim their primary events, they swam their secondary or even their third event and they still approached their races the way I wanted.”
In addition to the fi ve senior swimmers, John Andrade is the sixth senior athlete on the team and a diver — adding nice depth to that portion of the squad. Andrade transferred from Notre Dame two years ago and had his season best on the 3-meter on Friday.
Despite it being the last home meet for the seniors, there are still more competitions left in the season, including a tough one Saturday against Iowa — a team the Cats beat 151-149 last year.
“It hasn’t hit yet, there’s still a lot of season left ,” Auren said. “It just kind of feels like a normal dual meet, although it was nice to see all the parents here. It was a lot of fun, but I guess I just haven’t thought about it yet.”
Focusing on this most recent meet though, the seniors feel good about the legacy they will be leaving here in Evanston.
“It’s always a good way to go out,” Ferguson said. “Winning a couple of events, then winning the whole competition, it’s how you want to end your last home meet. It was a great experience.”
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Senior day triumph
By TYLER KENDALLthe daily northwestern@tylerskendall
Northwestern honored two swimmers on its annual senior day Friday, as the Wildcats (6-4, 1-2 Big Ten) beat Milwaukee 153-81 in their last home meet of the season.
Th e Panthers (4-3, 2-1 Horizon League) were no match for the Cats on Friday, never really threaten-ing to compete on NU’s home turf.
Despite a high scoring meet for the Cats overall, coach Jimmy Tierney noted a progression in per-formance throughout the competition.
“I thought that some of the girls were a little fl at earlier on and that the energy built a little bit,” Tierney said. “Our opening relay was pretty solid so I was pleased with that, and then there was sort of spotty performances in the next few events. I felt like we kind of picked it up a little bit more aft er the fi rst break.”
Madeleine Klichowski and Valerie
Nubbe, the only seniors on the team, were recog-nized Friday for their four years of work at NU.
Tierney was proud of the pair of soon-departing swimmers, complimenting their execution, energy and eff ort.
A highlight of the meet was the last event, the 200 free relay, which included the NU team of junior Julia Pratt, sophomore Annika Winsnes, freshmen Anna Keane and Mary Warren. Th e relay swimmers came in fi rst with a time of 1:31:07.
“We knew that the last relay was going to be something we all got really revved up about and tried to get the energy really high,” Tierney said. “Obviously they did that and the relay came
through spectacularly.”Underclassmen were big contributors to more
than one event on senior day. In the 400 medley relay, the team of junior Julianne Kurke, sopho-mores Lacey Locke and Winsnes and freshman Maddy Sims pulled away with a victory in the fi rst event.
Sophomore Lauren Abruzzo won the 200 free-style and Locke won the 200 backstroke. Sopho-more Ellen Stello also had impressive victories in the 200 fl y and 500 free. Junior Ellen Anderson won her fi rst dual-meet event this year, when she placed fi rst in the 1,000 free with a time of 10:15:05.
Yet the younger NU swimmers made sure the spotlight was on their eldest counterparts.
“Th is whole week we did senior week, where we dropped off little gift s at their lockers so there was a huge build up to this meet,” Pratt said. “It was really nice to just honor them. It’s cool because we only have a couple of seniors so a lot of the spotlight was on them.”
NU will be on the road against Iowa on Sat-urday, in hopes of getting back to .500 in Big Ten competition.
Plenty of meets remain for the two seniors, but the reality of completing their fi nal home meet of their careers certainly hit them hard.
“Going in, I guess I was kind of just thinking it was going to be a normal meet and it was going to be fun because it’s really a low key meet and I was only swimming three events,” Nubbe said. “So I was excited about it, but I guess at the end, it kind of just all hit me at once and it was emotional, but it feels good.”
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NU blows by competition at Western InvitationalBy KEVIN CASEYdaily senior staffer @KevinCasey19
Northwestern travelled to Colorado this weekend looking for no big surprises, and the team got its wish. But the Wildcats’ perfor-mance was far from flawless.
NU entered Saturday’s Western Invitational in Colorado Springs, Colorado, 12-0 in dual matches for the season and kept its undefeated streak alive, taking down all seven of its oppo-nents on the way to the event crown.
In the process, coach Laurie Schiller cap-tured his 1,200th career win at Northwestern.
Schiller was appreciative of the honor but said doesn’t take too much stock in numbers. His team, though, puts a great deal of value on his success.
“We are really glad to be a part of that,” junior foil and Daily columnist Jen Yamin said. “We are proud of all of his accomplishments. His 1200-plus wins is truly remarkable.”
At the Western Invitational, the Cats never experienced any real thoughts of losing. Against
a solid yet underwhelming slate of Brandeis, UC San Diego, Air Force, Florida, Stanford, Caltech and Duke, NU’s closest matches were 18-9, 19-8 and 20-7 victories. The Cats didn’t shut out anybody but did pummel two oppo-nents by the score of 26-1. There was no doubt throughout who the best team in the building was.
But Schiller anticipated all of this. His expec-tations remain high for his squad, which means this weekend’s performance was serviceable yet worthy of improvement.
“I felt we exposed a few things that we need to improve on a little bit. I think there was some bouts that we could’ve won that we didn’t win,” he said. “We will have to fence at a little higher level next week if we want to beat some of those top 10 teams we’re going to have to fence.”
Schiller has spoken about maintaining bal-ance between the epee, foil and sabre depart-ments of the team, and all three did show pretty well out west. The holes the coach pointed to had to do with some sloppiness in certain matches. The Cats lost 5-4 in epee in their 19-8 victory over UC San Diego, and narrowly won 5-4 in both epee and sabre in an 18-9 win over
Duke.The foil department, while not perfect, may
have been the most impressive of the three. This group suffered no serious disappoint-ments and came up big with 7 points against UC San Diego.
The most important contribution came against Duke. The Blue Devils were the Cats’ toughest competition and final opponent on a long day, and foil showed up with an 8-1 dem-onstration in subduing Duke right away.
“The foil squad definitely performed really well,” Yamin said. “Going into Duke we knew we had to come out strong and get the most wins because Duke’s epee and sabre squads are really strong. So we did what we had to do.”
Aside from foil success, NU could revel in its ability to have its athletes in prime shape so early in the winter season.
Staying in shape can be a difficult task with a long break in competition — the Cats had last competed in November before Saturday’s event — but apparently NU has mastered the potential pratfalls of that gap.
And it served as an advantage this weekend.
“I think everybody but Air Force was affected with the altitude a little bit,” Schiller said. “We’re pretty well-conditioned. We still had energy going into the Duke match, I still think our conditioning is working well.”
Schiller and others noted that they will look back over the film from the event to figure out potential improvements to help NU to stack up with some of the country’s best squads in the Cats’ next set of events this upcoming weekend.
But NU isn’t fretting. It was a fruitful open-ing weekend and the Western Invitational played its role perfectly: a set up for bigger and better things.
“It’s pretty lucky to have the Western Invi-tational come (first),” junior epee Juliana Bar-rett said. “It allows our fencers to work against some good but not impossible teams and get us prepared for the most challenging squads next week. It helped us get back into the per-formance mindset and get us more prepared for taking on teams that are more difficult for us.”
Fencing
By MIKE MARUTdaily senior staffer @mikeonthemic93
Opening the season against three top-30 teams proved to be a good measure of where No. 17 North-western stands.
Facing off against No. 18 Georgia Tech, No. 8 Ala-bama and No. 30 Florida State is a tall order to ask of any team, even for an exhibition invitational. Coming off a strong first day, tough second day and fair third day, coach Claire Pollard was happy with her team’s performance given how much she was asking of her players.
“I’m optimistic, pleased after the weekend,” Pol-lard said. “Where I was really concerned, I thought we looked really good. Where I thought perhaps we were okay, maybe we could’ve played better. We’ve just lost so much from last year’s team … We’re asking players to play roles that they thought they might play eventually, but not so quickly.”
Graduated players Veronica Corning, Nida Ham-ilton and Belinda Niu left a big void, so for the Wild-cats to step up against the teams they played over the weekend speaks volumes for the strength and cohesiveness of this new squad. No doubles tandem is returning whole, and Pollard needs to fill the No. 1 and 2 spots for singles.
On day one of the Mal Moore Invitational, NU
played its best tennis against the Yellow Jackets, win-ning six of seven singles matches and two of four doubles duels. One of each of those wins came from sophomore Manon Peri, who Pollard described as “the best player on the court” during her matches over the weekend. Peri did not lose any singles matches throughout the invitational.
“The energy and attitude that I brought, every-one brought, (that) really helped,” Peri said. “Even if somebody was not playing great at times, everyone was really pumped and energized. I think that got a lot of us through the matches, competing and stay-ing focused.”
The team routinely takes pride in its energy and chemistry at each match. Throughout the season, fans
can find Cats players cheering on their teammates when they have finished their matches or are not in the rotation that day.
Day two proved to be a tougher matchup for NU. The Crimson Tide has nearly all its stars returning, not to mention the 2014 NCAA Doubles Champion duo. Overall, the Cats could only win three of ten singles matches and two of four doubles. The disappointing win column could not phase Pollard, as numbers do not truly tell the full story.
“I’m not returning any intact doubles teams, (but) I’m returning some good players,” Pollard said. “We have some huge shoes to fill, and it’s going to take
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brought up about 20 volunteers to learn basic dance moves and drum beats.
Heather Sweeney, an Evanston resident, brought her children to the event in part because of the qual-ity of the program, including the dance aspect of it.
“We talk a lot about racial justice issues, and I think for them to come to something like this and see other people in the community supporting it as well is important,” Sweeney said.
After S.O.U.L Creations, actress Nicholia Aguirre performed a monologue from Wilson’s play “Fences,” which explores issues of race.
With the end of the “11 Months” series, Wil-liams told The Daily she hopes this kind of diverse programming gets integrated into the other events offered at EPL. Upcoming events at the library include events focused around Asian, Mexican and LGBT culture, she said.
Williams said she thought the series as a whole was successful. Not only did it include events inside the library, but also it led to greater community involvement outside of the library because of the organizations that EPL partnered with, she said.
“This has been truly the most wonderful year of my life here at the Evanston Public Library,” Williams said during the event.
Eleven MonthsFrom page 1
deadly attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo’s offices.
“’Je Suis Charlie’ stands for defeating terrorism not with the spirit of revenge, or anti-Islam, or anti-Semitism, but with non-violence and unity and brotherhood,” she said. “’Je Suis Charlie’ became the anthem of the non-violent … in much the same way as ‘We Shall Overcome’ became the anthem of the civil rights movement.”
Encouraging audience members to recog-nize the power of their own actions, Moseley Braun reflected on all the individuals that participated in the civil rights movement whose names are unknown, yet were key to the end result.
“It was ordinary people who collectively formed the movement,” she said. “It was the activities of those people as individuals that created the macro force that historians and all of us will remember.”
After her speech, Moseley Braun told The Daily she is inspired by younger generations’ political actions.
“People came out tonight for this, people are marching for an end to police brutality, for an end to income inequality, they are focusing in on asking the right questions to their government,” she said.
Courage, Moseley Braun said, is one key characteristic of King that she’d like to see in today’s generations.
“He had courage to take on the status quo,” she said. “He had courage to give of himself and stand up against horrible, horrible odds to make a difference for good, and that’s the most important part.”
The vigil, hosted by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and NU’s MLK Day Planning Committee, included various musical per-formances by the Northwestern Com-munity Ensemble and a capella group Soul4Real.
Among the audience members were Uni-versity President Morton Schapiro and Evan-ston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl. Schapiro said it was an honor to have Moseley Braun speak at the vigil and encouraged the NU community to follow Moseley Braun’s advice.
“As she said, we should take it on to our-selves every day to try to do something more just and humane,” he told The Daily.
After the speech, Alpha Phi Alpha mem-bers helped audience members light their candles as member Joshua Wright read an excerpt from King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail.
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a HyperCacher kosher supermarket, where one of the perpetrators of the initial attack killed four more and took several hostages before police gunned him down.
More than 50 anti-Muslim incidents have been reported in France since the shootings, according to the Union of Islamic Organizations.
Jim Alrutz, a Bienen junior and a member of UCM, condemned “the idea that because a cou-ple of extremists did a very violent action means there’s something wrong with everyone.”
“It’s very sad that the immediate reaction to
violence is more violence,” he said.Tannenbaum Chabad House Rabbi Dov Hil-
lel Klein said he was paying his respects at the event. Klein, who knew one of the victims of the HyperCacher supermarket hostage crisis, said he was deeply saddened by the tragedies, yet remains positive that good will prevail.
“In one hand, (we came to) mourn those who have perished, but I hope it leads to a commitment to be able to open up those dialogues we need to have as a campus community,” he said, “to be able to learn to embrace each other and care about each other.”
FranceFrom page 1
some time for that to eventually happen. Considering what we had going up against Alabama, I thought we handled it really well. Had it been a true team competi-tion, the score would’ve been a lot closer.”
As Pollard noted, the Mal Moore Invitational does not count toward NU’s record. Because the event is an exhibition invite, no added pressure exists for the play-ers. The lack of an official result and stakes makes the showing a bit less important to predicting the regular season.
On day three, NU won three of its five singles matches, but only one of its three doubles matches against the Seminoles. Although not finishing the weekend with a majority of victories, the Cats still feel good about starting the record-keeping season this coming weekend.
“We brought energy and enthusiasm to this week-end and worked on our mentality during the matches,” junior Alicia Barnett said. “We focused on getting better this weekend … and preparing for the (Intercol-legiate Tennis Association) Kickoff Weekend.”
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Pope plans to visit US, South America, Africa this year
In addition to a three-city tour in the United States this year, Pope Francis will visit South America and Africa, it was reported on Monday.
The pontiff outlined his 2015 travel plans during an in-flight news conference on his way back to Rome from the Philippines.
The pope said he will visit Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay as well as the Central African Republic and Uganda. Details on the trip were still pending.
In the United States, Pope Francis is plan-ning on visiting New York, Washington and Philadelphia.
Francis said he planned to canonize the 17th-century missionary Junipero Serra, who established nine missions in California, dur-ing the Washington leg of the U.S. trip.
More details about the pope’s U.S. visit were reported over the weekend by the Cath-olic News Agency, which attributed plans
to Archbishop Bernardito Auza, one of the organizers.
The pope will arrive in Washington on Sept. 22 and meet with President Barack Obama at the White House the next morning, Auza told the CNA. The pontiff is expected to say Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and speak at a special joint session of Congress.
The pope will then travel to New York on Sept. 25 and speak before the United Nations, the archbishop said. He could celebrate Mass at Madison Square Garden and visit ground zero as well.
From Sept. 25 to 27, the pope will take part in the World Meeting of Families con-ference and will say Sunday Mass on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, events expected to draw 2 million people to the city.
The U.S. visit will be Pope Francis’ first since being chosen to lead the Catholic Church in 2013.
— Michael Muskal (Los Angeles Times/TNS)
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3 — and had Kirchheimer beaming — setting the stage for Horoz’s clinching match.
Doubles play proved to be a glaring weakness for the Cats. With a team point awarded to the winner of two of three one-set doubles contests at the outset of the match, doubles play can set the tone for the rest of the points to come. This is why NU’s defeats in doubles in both matches was on Swan’s mind.
“We’ve got to do a lot of work on doubles, con-tinue to improve,” Swan said.
Shropshire echoed his coach’s sentiment.“You’re always tweaking things, trying new
teams and what have you, to try to get that doubles point,” he said.
Although Sunday’s exciting win over the Commodores gives the Cats some momentum going forward, Swan was careful to put things in perspective.
“There was a big step up in play from Friday to Sunday,” he said. “But the schedule we play is just brutally tough. We’ve just got to continue seeing improvement.”
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ON DECK ON THE RECORDWomen’s BasketballNU at Illinois, 7 p.m. Thursday
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JAN. 22SPORTS
By JESSE KRAMERdaily senior staffer@Jesse_Kramer
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Junior cen-ter Alex Olah, who has faced criticism all season, shouldered the load Wednes-day at Michigan with his best perfor-mance of the season, but the Wildcats (10-8, 1-4 Big Ten) fell 56-54 to the Michigan Wolverines (11-7, 4-2).
Olah scored a season-high and kept the Cats in the game until the fi nal buzzer. Th ey had a chance to force overtime on the game’s fi nal posses-sion, but freshman point guard Bryant McIntosh missed an open fl oater.
“Th at kid is going to deliver a lot in his career. He just didn’t tonight,” coach Chris Collins said of McIntosh. “Th at’s who I want to have the ball. Th at kid’s going to have the ball in that situation a lot of times in his career, and he’s going to deliver a lot more than he doesn’t. Th ere’s no one who cares more than that kid.”
Much like in Wednesday’s loss to Illinois, NU showed some resilience. Th e Cats faced a 53-49 defi cit in the fi nal two minutes, but a 3-pointer by freshman wing Scottie Lindsey and a layup by Olah kept the team alive. Th e Cats also trailed 25-11 in the fi rst period aft er allowing an 18-0 run but fought back to take a 32-31 halft ime lead.
Olah scored his 22 points on 9-of-12 shooting, along with 7 rebounds. Th e 7-footer took over late in the fi rst half, scoring 11 points in a fi ve-minute span as NU turned its 14-point defi cit into a slim lead.
Despite his strong performance, Olah was dejected aft er the game.
“It stinks,” Olah said. “We played our hearts out. Th e eff ort was there.”
NU continued to feed Olah to start the second half. Th e senior scored his 20th point of the night with more than 10 minutes remaining, and the Cats held a 45-41 lead.
Th en their off ense stalled as they failed to get Olah post touches. Michi-gan used a 7-1 spurt capped by a Der-rick Walton Jr. trey to grab their fi rst lead of the second half.
Senior guard JerShon Cobb, who started for the fi rst time since Dec. 6, quieted the Crisler Center crowd with a corner 3-pointer. Michigan responded again though, this time with a 5-0 burst.
Cobb fi nished with 13 points and six rebounds.
Th e Cats defense took a step for-ward, holding the Wolverines to 0.98 points per possession aft er struggling against Illinois and Michigan State.
Michigan leading scorer Caris LeVert recorded 18 points, but shot just 7-of-19 from the fi eld. LeVert also had seven assists to just one turnover.
“If you can make a guy like that take more shots then he gets points, you’ve done a good job on him,” Col-lins said.
Losing four straight conference
games, and three straight by no more than 5 points or in overtime, could weaken a team’s confi dence.
But Collins said he feels the Cats’ ability to stay close in these games is actually building confi dence.
“I keep telling my guys I feel like they’re being tested,” he said. “Th ey keep getting their hearts ripped out.
You’ve got to keep fi ghting. … You felt it from all the kids on the fl oor. Cer-tainly I felt it from all of my guys. My guys are playing their tails off . Th ey’re fi ghting.”
Olah, who has seen more ups and downs his career than any other current NU player, shared that sentiment.
“It’s tough, but we’ll look at the
positives,” Olah said. “We played against really good teams on the road and we played them to the end, the last second. Of course we want to win, but that gives us confi dence too. We know we can play against anybody. Nobody’s going to be safe against us.”
ON DECK ON THE RECORD
Olah thrives, but Cats fall short at buzzer
Source: Luna Anna Archey/The Michigan Daily
ELUSIVE VICTORY Michigan guard Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman drives against center Alex Olah. The Northwestern junior was a dominant force on both ends against the Wolverines, especially with 22 points on 9-12 FG on offense, but it wasn’t enough to stop another debilitating Wildcats defeat.
Men’s BasketballNorthwestern
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Poor second half buries Cats
By KHADRICE ROLLINSthe daily northwestern@KhadriceRollins
It was a tale of two halves for North-western (13-4, 3-3 Big Ten) on Satur-day, as the Wildcats came out strong but fl oundered thereaft er in a 73-66 home loss to Michigan (12-5, 4-2).
Th e loss marks the fi rst time all season the Cats have dropped back-to-back games. It was also their fi rst defeat at home.
Aft er an impressive 9-0 run to start the game, NU seemed ready to walk away with the victory. Th e Cats only appeared emboldened from there, jumping out to a 26-13 mark with eight minutes left in the fi rst half aft er a 3-pointer from senior Alex Cohen.
“We were just taking good shots,” junior Lauren Douglas said.
NU was fi ring on all cylinders at the start, but Michigan would not back off . Th e Wolverines were able to push their way back into the game and the Cats clung to a 31-27 lead at the break.
“It felt like in the fi rst half we were in control in the game,” coach Joe McKeown said. “We shared the ball, we defended well and we were able to rebound and get out.”
Th e Cats shot 50 percent from the fi eld in the fi rst half and held Michi-gan to a dismal 33 percent. NU, how-ever, took 12 fewer shots than the Wolverines in the opening period, allowed eight off ensive rebounds and committed four more turnovers than Michigan. Th ese aspects of the game
came back to bite the Cats in the sec-ond half.
Michigan shot out strong to open the second and would take its fi rst lead of the game with 16 minutes remain-ing. Th e Wolverines never backed off from there, and despite their best eff orts, the Cats could not catch up.
NU shot 50 percent for the game and only lost the rebounding battle by one. Th e Cats’ downfall arose from those troubling fi rst-half signs creep-ing into the fi nal period. In the second half, NU took seven fewer shots than the Wolverines, gave up six off ensive rebounds and had fi ve more turnovers than Michigan.
“(Th ose) turnovers plagued us when we needed buck-ets,” McK-eown said.
While NU was throwing away posses-sions, Mich-igan was fighting to get more. Th e Wolverines pulled down 14 off ensive rebounds
for the game, which led to 14 second chance points.
“It’s something that I need to improve on,” Cohen said. “Allowing a team to have 14 off ensive rebounds is not what we need to do in order to win, and we know that.”
Michigan did almost exactly what its season averages said it would do on the rebounding end, and that looked like one of its keys to victory. NU, on the other hand, had an anomaly of a night in the turnover department.
Following Wednesday night’s
contest at Iowa, where the Cats only gave the ball away nine times, NU couldn’t keep its grips on the rock against Michigan, falling into a whop-ping 21 turnovers.
NU has the second best turnover margin in the conference, averaging 4.71 fewer turnovers than opponents each game. But on Saturday, NU had nine more turnovers than the visitors.
Still, with 13 wins by mid-January, there is no need to dwell on this defeat.
“We’re in the best league in the country, so you can’t feel sorry for yourselves,” McKeown said. “We got a real positive energy this year about our team and I want to keep that.”
Sean Su/Daily Senior Staffer
TRAPPED Nia Coffey is double teamed on the perimeter. The sophomore forward had more turnovers (7) than points (6) against Michigan in a 73-66 Northwestern loss.
Michigan
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NU’s strong singles produce 1-1 weekend
Men’s TennisWomen’s Basketball
By MAX SCHUMANthe daily northwestern
Sophomore Alp Horoz was down 3-0 in the third and fi nal set of his sin-gles match Sunday, with a team victory against No. 19 Vanderbilt (3-1) on the line, when he picked up on something that could give him the edge.
“My opponent was kind of tired, and the coaches and I noticed that,” he said.
Horoz pressed the advantage and won six straight games to win the set and his match, 7-6 (7-4), 6-7 (8-6), 6-3,
clinching an impressive 4-3 road upset over the Com-modores.
The No. 34 Wildcats (1-1) had a tough slate lined up this week-end, fall-ing on the road to No. 28 North Carolina State (3-0),
4-3 on Friday before bouncing back against Vanderbilt.
“It was all about being more aggressive,” head coach Arvid Swan said about his team’s focus between the two matches. “Starting matches quickly, starting sets quickly. It was a team eff ort.”
And clearly Swan’s troops were in need of a pep talk aft er a heart breaker against the Wolfpack. In that match, NU actually took a 3-2 lead before dropping the fi nal two singles
contests to fall a point short.“Friday was tough,” sophomore
Sam Shropshire said, “but if you get through those you have days like (Sunday). Th at’s why we play.”
Shropshire, the Cats’ No. 1 singles player, split his two singles matches over the weekend, winning in straight sets against NC State’s senior Robbie Mudge, the No. 123 singles player in the nation, before taking 10th-ranked Vanderbilt senior Gonzales Austin to three sets and eventually falling, 4-6, 6-3, 3-6.
Fellow sophomore and 108th-ranked Strong Kirchheimer played well on the road trip, notching a victory over 39th-ranked NC State sophomore Nick Horton, 7-5, 6-4, to give the Cats that 3-2 lead. Junior Fedor Baev and senior Alex Pasareanu lost their singles matches to hand over the victory to NC State.
With NU down 3-2 against Van-derbilt, it was Kirchheimer who shook off a bad second set to take the third against junior Kris Yee and win his singles match, 6-4, 0-6, 7-6 (7-2). Th e win knotted the team point totals at
“It was all about being more aggressive. Starting matches quickly, starting sets quickly. It was a team eff ort.Arvid Swan,head coach
No. 34 Northwestern
3No. 28 NC State
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4No. 19 Vanderbilt
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“Allowing a team to have 14 off ensive rebounds is not what we need to do in order to win, and we know that.Alex Cohen,senior center
