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2 NU scientists are researching a blood pressure treatment using new enzyme ACE2
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EditorialPolice ‘party car’ should be eliminated to save money
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3 New Block Museum Bloomsbury exhibition features mixture of visual art, literature and economics
5 Nearby friends and the large job market keep 75,000 NU alumni in the Chicagoland area
Men’s BasketballWildcats led most of the game, but lose battle of boards and game in second half
SidebarTrevon Hughes was cold in the first half, but his second-half surge propelled the Badgers
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By Emilia Barrosse The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/council
Evanston Community Media Cen-ter could lose $200,000 in cuts, enough to lay off several employees and diminish its services, if proposed cuts to the 2010-11 budget are ad-opted by the Evanston City Council in February.
City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz first suggested the cuts in his De-cember budget draft as part of an ef-fort to reduce the city's $9.5 million budget deficit.
“If there isn’t some modification or some way to work with us to find an alternative method, over 20 years of hard work is going to go down the drain,” said Steve Bartlebaugh, EC-
Cuts to cure the budget deficit may cripple center
MEDIA CENTER, page 6By Jessica Allen The Daily Northwestern www.dailynorthwestern.com/student-life
Northwestern students with iP-hones or iPod touches can now ac-cess the campus directory, explore World War II cartography and browse PlanIt Purple events via their mobile devices.
NU recently released a new ap-plication called Northwestern Mo-bile . Users of the software can ac-cess eight modules: news, events, maps, directory, library, images, videos and athletics. The full set of features will be available for BlackBerry sometime in February, said Bob Taylor , director for aca-demic and research technologies.
After updating the University Web site this summer, NU started discussing other avenues of com-munication, said University
spokesman Al Cubbage. It just took looking around campus to see the importance of mobile devices at NU, he said.
“Basically, in under three months, it went from being talked about to launching,” Cubbage said.
Input from students, such as Associated Student Government President Mike McGee , is one rea-son NU decided to create the mo-bile application, Taylor said.
“ (The administration has) been on the same page as far as the ini-tiatives, ” the Communication se-nior said. “I'm excited. I love the athletic app. ”
Teams from NU Information Technology , University Relations , the University Library and Black-board Mobile have worked on the project. In October, NU signed a contract with Blackboard Mobile, which also works with Stanford University and Duke University on mobile applications. On Oct. 21, Blackboard Mobile and NU had their kick-off meeting, Taylor said.
The entire process took nine weeks, said Harlan Wallach , NU digital media architect.
“The idea was to get this ver-sion out as is, and then move for-ward and bring to bear the more powerful tools,” Wallach said.
More than 10,000 images from the library’s database are now available for the mobile applica-tion, a figure that will grow in the future, said Stu Baker , an associate University librarian. Eventually, mobile users will be able to access online articles. In addition, a new search system, which will be avail-able on computers at a later date, is being unveiled via the mobile applications. The search system will allow users to find items more directly instead of going through the access points they currently do, Baker said.
Although the application was not formally announced until to-day, at least 10 people have already reviewed it on iTunes . The reac-tions are mainly positive, though sprinkled with suggestions for im-provement.
One reviewer, called “revap,”
Mobile app brings NU info on the go
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By Lilia Hargis The Daily Northwestern dailynorthwestern.com/asg
The Associated Student Government Senate passed emergency legislation in response to the recent earthquake in Haiti at its Wednesday night meeting.
The senators voted to create an ASG ad-hoc committee to raise awareness on the issue and coordinate fundraising on campus, said David Chase, residential college board district four senator.
The legislation was approved in the Executive Board meeting held prior to Senate. Chase, a Weinberg freshman, introduced the bill in Sen-ate and will head the committee. The bill passed unanimously.
Chase said he hopes to organize committee meetings in the next few days and accomplish “something big” on campus by Feb. 1.
“We need to use ASG resources to reach out to NU and find people who are willing to help out and donate,” he said, adding that he was looking for about 15 people to join the commit-
tee. The effort could include a clothing drive and
will involve students outside of ASG, Chase said. “I hope the whole campus will be aware and
empathetic,” he said. Senators also discussed a bill to enable wire-
less Internet in all classrooms. While the majority of Northwestern class-
rooms have wireless Internet access, there are certain places on campus, most notably in Fisk Hall and the Technological Institute , which lack wireless capabilities, according to ASG mem-bers.
Chase, who introduced the bill, said the rea-son some locations still don’t have wireless is that some instructors prefer to teach where stu-dents can’t get on Facebook or check e-mail dur-ing class. ASG members said they want to enable wireless access in all classrooms because it offers more benefits for instructors and students, such as opportunities to research online and access Blackboard during class.
“What we are looking at is whether students have the right to go on the Internet in class,” Chase said. “The benefits of wireless are vast. If
teachers don’t want them online, they can tell students not to bring laptops to class.”
ASG Academic Director Muhammad Safdari said he and ASG President Mike McGee have mentioned this issue to the administration be-fore, but no changes have been made. If this leg-islation is passed next week, ASG can present the demand to the administration as the will of the student body, Safdari said.
Also, following the resignation of former ASG Student Groups Director Miles Drummond, a Communication senior , last week, ASG members elected SESP senior Daniel Diorio to serve on the selection committee for a new director.
“There are lots of important things for stu-dent groups to work on, so we need to get some-one to fill in as quickly and efficiently as possi-ble,” McGee said.
At the end of the meeting, McGee, a Commu-nication senior, reminded senators that the zon-ing board meeting to decide the fate of the Great Room will be held 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Ev-anston Civic Center, 2100 Ridge Ave .
ASG to raise awareness in response to Haiti earthquake
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By Ganesh ThippeswamyThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/health
A research team from Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine is pioneering an alternative way for patients to effectively treat hypertension, a condition affecting about one in three American adults.
Hypertension, more commonly known as high blood pressure, contributes to a myriad of health problems like stroke, diabetes and heart failure. The current hypertension ther-apeutics, which also manage kidney disease and congestive heart failure, treat millions of people. But they may not be the ideal solution for a sizable portion of patients, said Jan Wysocki, lead author of the study and a Fein-berg postdoctoral fellow in nephrology.
The current therapeutics target a chemi-cal called Angiotensin-converting enzyme, or ACE, which produces a hormone, Angio-tensin II, that causes blood vessels to con-strict and blood pressure to spike. To counter-act these effects, current medications work to inhibit the enzyme and block the hormone to keep patients’ blood pressures in check, said Dr. Daniel Batlle, a Feinberg professor and chief of the division of nephrology and hyper-tension.
“One could conceptualize that ACE is a ‘bad’ enzyme in the sense that it promotes the formation of a hormone that may have undesirable effects,” he said.
Current treatments lose their effective-ness over time in some patients, Wysocki said.
“There is a response from some organisms to counter-regulate the effects of (ACE inhib-itors),” she said. “Through this, (the hormone) levels rise again.”
To provide another choice for hyperten-sive patients, Wysocki and his colleagues tested the effects of a different enzyme, ACE2, on a sample of laboratory mice. The current ACE-inhibitor drugs focus on pre-venting the hormone from forming. In this approach, the beneficial enzyme works to break down the hormone already in the body, said Minghao Ye, a research associate in
Feinberg’s Division of Nephrology.“This is a different therapy in the sense
that it tackles the same hormone but from a different angle,” Batlle said.
A combination of the current inhibitors and the new therapeutics could also be used in the future to deliver an even more effec-tive remedy for high blood pressure, Batlle said.
While it remains to be seen whether these new medications are more effective than the current interventions, the new research pro-vides an invaluable tool for patients to effec-tively handle hypertension, Battle said.
NU students pioneer new ACE2 treatment
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Research: A team from NU’s Feinberg School of Medicine is creating a new way for patients to treat high blood pressure. The medications could prove more effective.
New ACE-inhibitor drugs may break down harmful hormone Angiotensin II, lowering blood pressure
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The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art’s new exhibition opening Friday will not be confined to gallery walls.
“A Room of Their Own,” which focuses on the work of the Bloomsbury group of British visual artists, has inspired a range of pro-grams and events across NU organizations and academic departments.
From Jan. 15 through March 14 , the Block Museum will feature more than 150 paintings, works on paper , vintage small-press books and decorative objects by the group .
Members of the Bloomsbury group have been credited as key catalysts for introducing modern movements in art, literature, eco-nomics and domestic life to British culture . They include Virginia Woolf , Vanessa Bell , E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, John Maynard Keynes and Lytton Strachey .
The group is know as a literary circle, and the Block Museum’s exhibition will focus on the connection between visual arts and the work of the Bloomsbury writers, said Corinne Granof , the coordinating curator. Visual art connected to the Bloomsbury group is known for its spontaneity and vi-brant visual language, Granof said.
“A lot of the ideas are still very relevant and interesting and a springboard for discus-sions about society and art,” she said. “It’s an important exhibition, and it can bring a lot of exciting activity here to campus.”
Reflecting the interdisciplinary composi-tion of this early 20th century collection of
artists and writers, several different NU de-partments will hold events in conjunction with the exhibition, Museum Director David Alan Robertson said .
“We really like to organize and bring the-matic traditions like this to the Block Mu-seum,” he said. “It’s a great opportunity for the museum to do what it does best, which is to serve as an interdisciplinary center on campus.”
Leah Culligan-Flack , visiting English professor, will lead book club discussions on Virginia Woolf ’s novel “A Room of One’s Own ” . The NU theater department will sponsor a performance of the play “Vita and Virginia .” In addition, a lecture entitled “The Iconoclastic Economist,” based on the work of John Maynard Keynes, will be presented by Robert Gordon, the Stanley G. Harris pro-fessor of the social sciences , and Lynne Kies-ling , senior lecturer of economics at NU.
The exhibition, “A Room of Their Own,” was previously organized at Duke University and Cornell University. At NU, more than
130 students have worked on the upcoming project at Block, from promoting the exhibit to assisting with curatorial work.
“Bringing a show that’s already been or-ganized gives us time to work on broad pro-gramming that enhances the exhibition,” Robertson said.
Block Cinema will also screen several films relevant to the lives and work of mem-bers of the Bloomsbury group. On Jan. 30 , the film venue will present an award-win-ning documentary on the life of Virginia Woolf .
Mimi Brody , the cinema’s film curator and director, said she anticipates this film and others will enhance the exhibition.
“We’re hoping to engage students, the ac-ademic community, other departments, pro-fessors and scholars from other universities,” Brody said. “The public programs we have should involve audiences both on and off campus.”
Person throws cinderblock through fraternity window
An unknown individual threw a cinder-block through the window of the Pi Kappa Alpha house Tuesday, University Police said.
The fraternity's president said he was watching a movie in the house, 2317 Sheri-dan Rd. , at 2 a.m. when he heard glass break, Deputy Chief of UP Dan McAleer said . A first floor window was damaged.
McAleer said the presidents of Chi Psi and Pi Kappa Alpha have discussed the in-cident. Security cameras did not provide useful evidence.
Student athlete suffers asthma attack at practice
A student athlete went to the hospital Tuesday due to an asthma attack, police said.
The student was at a team practice at McGaw Memorial Hall when she began suffering from asthma symptoms around 8 a.m., McAleer said. She was treated at the arena and then taken to the hospital.
Family finds Chevrolet's tires slashed on Custer
Someone slashed the tires of a family’s car Saturday or Sunday, police said.
The family parked their 2007 Chevrolet at their home, 338 Custer Ave ., Saturday night and found the tires slashed the next morning, Evanston Police Cmdr. Tom Guenther said.
A family member gave police informa-tion regarding potential suspects, Guen-ther said.
—REBECCA COHEN
Block exhibition connects visual arts, literature POLICE BLOTTER
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Multitalented: Artists in the Bloomsbury group contributed to literature, economics and domestic life. The Block Museum will show their work from Jan. 15 to March 14.
New exhibit at Block Museum features more than 150 pieces of art and a cinema series
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Today I awoke with a strangely potent desire to broadcast to as many peo-ple as possible what I would
be having for breakfast. “Oh no,” I thought to myself. “If
only there existed a medium whereby people could easily tell each other the scintillating details of their thrilling lives.” As I ascended to the roof of my apartment, megaphone in hand, I suddenly remembered this is 2010 and there are, in fact, several such mediums. As I always do, I chose the option that makes old peo-ple the most bemused: Twitter.
Despite condescendingly casting its users as baby birds, Twitter has transformed from an unknown In-ternet start-up—of which there are, the latest study estimates, 235,444,000,000—to the Web’s No. 1 destination for reading and writing tiny messages. A recent poll using a well-balanced sample of all the peo-ple in my bedroom as I’m writing
this found 100 percent of 14- to 58-year-olds use Twitter.
Cultural observers have put forth a number of theories to explain Twit-ter’s meteoric rise. Its simplicity is appealing to modern users, and, since the creation of MTV, no one can focus long enough to read more than 140 characters anyway.
Since I figure a weekly column with a readership of literally dozens is credential enough to be consid-ered a social media expert, I’ve come up with a theory of my own to ex-plain Twitter’s rise to prominence: Parents found out about Facebook. This explanation hit me like a ton of bricks, if one of the bricks was actu-ally a friend request from my mom.
The parent-Facebook dilemma is common today, but I think you’ll be surprised to hear its roots aren’t ex-actly modern. Recently discovered historical documents indicate the founders of 17th-century England’s Most Secrete and Distinguished High Guild of Blacksmythee were constantly plagued by family mem-bers trying to tag along to private meetings. “Forsooth!” the black-smiths would say. “Harken thee away ere I brandish my hammer!” This was, of course, the first thing I wrote on my mom’s wall, but it’s just
as ineffective now as it was then and significantly creepier.
Don’t get me wrong—I love my parents. I’ll happily share with them details of my life at Northwestern, es-pecially the ones that involve getting “A”s and writing for The Daily. But you have to draw a line somewhere, and I draw it at pictorial evidence that I celebrated the first weekend of the quarter at a party with a strict “pantless pirate” dress code.
I’ve been told recent changes to the privacy settings on Facebook al-low you to set zones of access and re-strict some of your content from cer-tain people. I assume this is so founder Mark Zuckerberg can post about pregaming board meetings without fear of investor pullout. If he had instituted this change sooner, in-stances of swears in my status up-dates might not have had to drop precipitously close to zero. The way things played out, he was too late: I’m already committed to Twitter. Once you unironically use the word “tweet,” it’s too late to go back.
Oh, and by the way, for breakfast today I had a bowl of Frosted Mini Wheats and a banana.
millennials “careerfair” By Steven A. Berger
With Evanston trim-ming its budget to shrink a $9.5 million deficit, the party
may be over. But maybe that’s not such a bad thing.
A special unit staffed by both Northwestern and Evanston po-lice officers, the “party car” pa-trols off campus at party o’clock—nights, weekends and whenever students are likely to be throwing parties. By getting rid of the patrol unit, the city would save $20,000 in the coming fiscal year.
The party car was originally conceived as a way to deter stu-dents from partying off campus, but it’s ineffective. The specially designated unit operated with the double threat of being simultane-ously punished by Evanston and NU police. But unless you’ve ei-ther fashioned yourself an expert on every detail of the Evanston police beats or been cited yourself by the party car, you probably didn’t even know it existed. How can the car be a deterrent if no one knows about it?
Safety should not be sacrificed to save money, but the party car is
supplemental to the Evanston Po-lice Department’s responses to regular calls. The extra car allows the rest of the police to focus on general safety instead of getting called to noise violations. But two officers driving around with the primary objective of finding col-lege parties is not an efficient use of resources.
Without the party car, more re-sponsibility falls on students as well as police. If we want to stay safe off campus, we should ac-knowledge that loud parties shift patrols away from more pressing issues. By keeping parties in check, we can eliminate the need for the party car and let the cops focus on keeping us safe.
The party-car cut is one of sev-eral proposals to slim down the police budget. The city is also con-sidering reducing the number of traffic officers at NU football games, but fewer police around the busy streets near Ryan Field could be dangerous. Gameday traffic poses logistical concerns and haz-ards for both drivers and pedestri-ans—enough to merit the presence of Evanston police to direct cars,
help fans cross streets and ensure safety amid the crowds.
As the city continues to search for ways to trim fat out of the bud-get, officials should thoroughly evaluate whether the cost is worth the consequences. Saving money should not be done at the expense of maintaining security. While the party car seems to be an unneces-sary expenditure, keeping control of the streets during football games should remain a priority for EPD.
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Sensational headlines distort online stories
In the age of the soundbite, the partial quote and the misrepre-sented statement, facts are few, and distorted reality is the norm.
In search of hits, news sites are becoming ever more willing to bend the news, to turn a fairly in-nocuous statement into a partisan abomination. The confrontational framework of the Drudge Report precludes thought or dialogue; an-ger and excitement don’t translate into discussion. Legitimate topics of conversation—how history helps create the hero and villain, to what degree environment influences ac-tions—are narrowed into partisan rhetoric that resists analysis. Sarah Palin’s “death panels” didn’t foster communication; they quickly nixed the public option.
If bloggers want to be consid-ered journalists and Web sites such as the Drudge Report want to be treated as credible sources of news, they must accept what might be a nostalgic view of news reporting. As Joseph Pulitzer said, “Accuracy! Accuracy! Accuracy!”
— scott rosenfield
20 years, still going with ‘The Simpsons’
Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Mag-gie. These are five names that will forever remind us of “The Simpsons.”
“The Simpsons” has made us laugh for the past 20 years. FOX aired “The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special” Sunday to commemorate the occasion. The special explored the history of “The Simpsons,” the show’s controversies and why America fell in love with such an outrageously dys-functional family.
Many of this season’s episodes show this conflict of old versus new. I’m sure this is just a coincidence, but in a way, “The Simpsons” has been battling these ideas for years. Some people may feel “The Simp-sons” is not at the level of comedy it used to be. Some may think it’s not funny, it’s trying too hard, and it’s past its prime. But for an audience that has been through two wars, two Bushes, terrorist attacks, political scandals and economic woes, “The Simpsons” has still managed to re-main on the American zeitgeist. And because of that, I think it is doing just fine.
— laura rosenfeld
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Katherine Nylander always imagined living in New York City after college. Now, as she ap-proaches graduation, the Weinberg senior said she plans to stay local.
“I really want to stay close to my friends,” she said. “I always wanted to live in New York City, but I have fallen in love with Chicago. I am in the Northwestern University Marching Band also, so I want to be able to attend a lot of the football games next fall and continue to support the band.”
Many current seniors and recent alumni said they prefer to stay in the Chicago area af-ter graduation to maintain a proximity to friends and to deal with the availability of job opportunities.
About 75,000 NU alumni live in the Evan-ston and Chicago area, said Jonathan Cum-mings, program assistant at the Northwestern Alumni Association. On the Alumni Associa-tion’s Web site, about 1,000 people are identi-fied as Evanston residents.
Cheryl Soohoo, originally from California, said she has lived in Evanston since completing her master’s degree at NU in 1986.
“My sister lived here, so I had a place to stay,” she said. “I went to Medill, and it’s known in the area, so I thought it might be easier to get a job. I never expected to stay here.”
Soohoo said she had originally planned on moving away from Evanston and would have preferred to move back to her native stomping grounds.
“Being from California, I always had stereo-types about the Midwest,” she said. “I thought
Evanston was an OK place. It’s near the water, so it reminds me of California.”
Soohoo said she would not return to the West Coast because it would be too difficult to uproot her life.
Annie Beserra, NU Communication profes-sor and choreographer, said she lived in Chi-cago after graduating from NU until 2002. She then opted to move back to Evanston.
“I was teaching in a studio here in Chicago,” she said. “But my husband and I wanted to buy a house, so we moved out of the city into Evan-ston. It’s much more affordable to own (a house) here.”
During college, Beserra said she was decid-ing between New York City and Chicago.
“Chicago is more of a working-artist city than New York,” she said. “Here, you can make a living by playing or choreographing. You don’t have to wait tables on the side.”
As current seniors continue their job searches, many said they hope to either set up roots in Chicago or live there temporarily be-fore graduate school.
Erin Staab, a Weinberg senior, said she does not want to move back home because her fam-ily recently relocated.
“If I moved near my parents, they would be the only two people I know,” she said. “I feel like here is where I know the most peo-ple.”
Staab said she is looking to find a temporary job before applying to graduate school.
“This is where my friends are,” she said. “I’m finally going into the real world. It’s a big move. I want to be around people who are sup-portive.”
Students find jobs, homes in Chicago area after graduatingThe attractions of nearby friends and a large job market keep 75,000 alumni living in Chicagoland
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This year ECMC is asking for about 44 percent of those franchise fees, Bartlebaugh said. He added that the organization re-
ceived 75 percent in 2000.
Four full-time ECMC employees could lose their jobs if the cuts are ap-proved, Bartlebaugh said. Because they are not government employees, the city will only attempt to find them new jobs after city employees have been taken care of, Assistant City Manager Mar-tin Lyons said.
Several Evanston residents spoke out
against the cuts at Saturday’s budget workshop. The council is set to pass a budget by the end of February.
“I still don’t think we have enough infor-mation for me to be able to say one way or
another whether or not (the council) sup-ports the proposed budget or would want to restore the funding,” Ald. Jane Grover (7th) said.
Susan Hope-Engel, a local film producer, has been working at ECMC to produce a film commemorating the 125th anniversary of the YMCA. She said the cuts could have a negative impact on the community.
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Although ECMC could see major cuts, Lyons said spending reductions are being made across the board.
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Media Center not ‘singled out' in budget cutmedia center, page 1
applauded NU for catching up to other top-tier schools in releasing mobile appli-cations, but stressed that several additions need to be made, such as GPS tracking for shuttles.
Wallach said there’s a difference between giving information and providing the instant live updates GPS tracking requires.
“This was a rapid development,” he said. “The current eight apps are not rep-resentative of the full feature of apps. But it’s going to be iterative.”
NU’s contract with Blackboard Mobile is for three years, and users should expect regular updates of the application, Wal-lach said.
Wallach added that he expects a Black-board feature to be available by the end of the year. Other features in production for the mobile application include the ability to access the course catalogue, drop and add classes and manage student accounts via a WildCARD feature, he said.
“We’re without a doubt moving aggres-sively toward live feedback,” Wallach said. “In a year, we hope to be in a very differ-ent place.”
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“When you look at it, the Media Center cut is 3 percent of total cuts, so they were hardly singled out.
Martin Lyons,Evanston Assistant City Manager
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Wisconsin 60, NU 50
TPA FG-A 3P-A FT-A Reb PF Pts A TO Blk S MinJarmusz 1-3 1-3 0-1 1-4-5 1 3 2 0 1 0 33Nankivil 2-6 0-3 4-4 3-2-5 3 8 0 1 1 1 32Taylor 3-11 1-5 3-4 4-1-5 1 10 7 0 0 0 37Bohannon 7-12 1-5 4-4 1-4-5 2 19 1 0 0 1 40Hughes 5-15 4-10 2-4 2-5-7 2 16 3 3 1 0 40Bruesewitz 1-2 0-0 0-0 4-0-4 2 2 1 0 0 0 9Wilson 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0-0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3Evans 1-3 0-0 0-0 0-3-3 2 2 0 0 0 0 6
Totals 20-52 7-26 13-1715-23-3815 60 14 5 3 2 200
Percentages: FG.385,3P.269, FT.765.
NU FG-A 3P-A FT-A Reb PF Pts A TO Blk S MinCrawford 3-9 2-4 2-6 3-4-7 4 10 1 0 0 0 36Shurna 5-11 1-3 4-4 0-5-5 0 15 1 0 2 0 40Mirkovic 3-7 1-2 1-3 3-7-10 2 8 6 0 0 1 34Thompson 2-8 0-2 0-1 0-1-1 4 4 4 2 0 0 40Nash 5-10 1-1 2-2 1-0-1 2 13 1 1 1 0 38Marcotullio 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0-0 2 0 0 1 0 0 6Rowley 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-2-2 3 0 0 2 0 0 6
Totals 18-45 5-12 9-169-20-2917 50 13 6 3 1 200
Percentages: FG.400,3P.417,FT.563.
Wisconsin 1st:27 2nd:33 Total:60
NU 1st:27 2nd:23 Total:50
off to Hughes to drain another 3-pointer. John Shurna has become the Big Ten’s
worst-kept secret, and the Badgers keyed in on making his life difficult throughout the game. Though he recorded a respectable 15 points and five rebounds, Shurna’s ineffec-tiveness in the final minutes of the game put the Cats in a tough spot.
At the 6:13 mark, a Shurna layup put NU back in the lead, 45-44. But after that basket, he disappeared until 1:38 remained, when he wildly spun in the lane and lucked out by drawing a foul on Hughes. Shurna knocked down both free throws to cut the Badgers’
lead to five, but the late-game damage was done. Shurna missed two more jumpers, and the game was over.
The loss is not all Shurna’s fault. Michael Thompson had a poor outing and Drew Craw-ford missed two-thirds of his free throws.
But with the game on the line, there has to be someone who takes charge. There has
to be some fight. There has to be a sense of urgency, an awareness that this is a game NU can’t afford to let slip away.
Instead, NU watched Wisconsin grab the last 11 rebounds as Hughes caught fire. Mean-while the Cats played hot potato with the bas-ketball before realizing they should probably give the ball to their best player. Wonder if Hughes’ performance gave them a clue?
This is the second close conference game NU could not close out. Against Illinois on Dec. 30, NU lost in overtime, again due to a strong performance by an elite opposing player. Illini center Mike Tisdale paced his team in overtime and finished with 31 points. While Shurna scored 27 of his own, he did not score until overtime was more than half over.
By then, Illinois had taken a five-point lead.Shurna is only a sophomore, and he’s ex-
pected to be the star of this team in senior Kevin Coble’s absence. It’s a lot to ask, but it’s not hard to give him the opportunity. Why he gets the ball when the game is already out of hand is beyond me. When the contest is in its final stage, you put the ball in the hands of your best player. Period.
Shurna is ready to be that guy. But until he can produce when the game is still within reach, NU will lack the final piece it needs to earn an NCAA Tournament berth.
points and four rebounds in the opening pe-riod.
But after intermission, both options dried up. Mirkovic’s low-post advantage disappeared, as Wisconsin stuck with cen-ter Keaton Nankivil for most of the half rather than depending on shorter alterna-tives like 6-foot-6 guard-forward Ryan Ev-ans. Tighter defense stopped Nash from getting open looks.
“Jason Bohannon was guarding me most of the game,” Nash said. “He started being more aggressive, pushing up on my hip as I came off the screen, so I think they did make an adjust-ment to start guarding me more aggressively.”
The Cats lost the game on the defensive glass. After shooting 50 percent in the first 20 minutes, Wisconsin converted only 8-of-26 shots in the second half despite earning multi-ple open looks against NU’s 1-3-1 zone. But the Badgers’ shots came from deeper range led to longer rebounds, and an outsized Wisconsin
team grabbed the misses.“They would miss a shot, rebound, miss a
shot, rebound,” coach Bill Carmody said. “You know, two, three, four rebounds.”
Jordan Taylor, Jason Bohannon and Hughes combined to collect 11 rebounds in the final period. With NU up 48-46, two con-secutive Wisconsin possessions featured a missed 3, a long rebound to Taylor and an easy assist to Hughes for a trey. Hughes drained four 3-pointers—three off of offensive re-bounds—in a two-minute span near the end of the game. He followed each make by emphati-cally pretending to roll dice.
“We just didn’t get a hand up,” Nash said. “We ran out there with our hands down and not in his face, and he knocked them down.”
After an even board battle in the first half, the Badgers dominated the glass in the sec-ond, outrebounding the Cats 25-14. Wisconsin snagged each of the last 11 caroms.
“Early on we seemed to do a decent job with rebounding,” Shurna said. “And then there was that stretch there the last five minutes or so when they really started crashing the glass.”
With an increasing number of hustle plays toward the end of the game, the Cats lack of depth started hurting them. In a game that re-mained within two possessions most of the way, Carmody used only seven players. Alex Marcotullio and Kyle Rowley entered the game for 12 combined minutes, registering no shot attempts and no points but picking up five fouls.
“Both teams were hustling,” Ryan said. “Bodies were flying into one another, the ball was getting tipped. But we seemed to win what we call skirmishes a little more tonight.”
NU loses rebounding edge, allows Wisconsin to climb backMen’s BasketBall, page 8
With game in doubt, Cats need to get ball in hands of star earlierChappatta, page 8
Sports editor Brian Chappatta is a Medill junior. He can be reached at [email protected]
“Whenthecontestisinitsfinalstage,youputtheballinthehandsofyourbestplayer.Period.
”Brian Chappatta, Sports editor
“Theywouldmissashot,rebound,missashot,rebound.Youknow,two,three,fourrebounds.
”Bill Carmody, NU coach
By Danny DalyThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/mens-basketball
Going into Wednesday’s game against a disciplined Northwestern team, Wisconsin knew it needed to be patient. That mindset paid divi-dends down the stretch—it just wasn’t necessarily in the way the Badgers expected.
During the media timeout with 7:40 left and Wisconsin trailing 40-37, Trevon Hughes told himself to stop shooting. It didn’t seem to be Hughes’ night, as he had missed his first nine shots from the field and made only 2-of-4 free throws.
Then Hughes heard some words
of encouragement in the huddle.“My teammates kept telling me
to keep shooting,” he said. “If it wasn’t for them, I don’t think I would have taken another shot.”
But Hughes listened, and he fi-nally heated up after that. The Bad-gers’ leading scorer hit all but one of his last six tries, including four 3-pointers. He scored 14 of his 16 points in the final seven minutes, propelling Wisconsin to a 60-50 vic-tory at Welsh-Ryan Arena.
Even though nothing was fall-ing for Hughes, Badgers coach Bo Ryan wasn’t going to give up on his struggling star.
“Jokingly, I told Trevon that one of the assistants said, ‘Make Hughes stop shooting, he’s like 0-for-whatever,’” Ryan said. “My comeback was, ‘But Trevon, I stuck with you, now. You go ahead and keep shooting.’”
Hughes broke out of his slump with a trey that pulled Wisconsin even for the first time since the opening minute of the second half.
He added a layup one minute later to give the Badgers a one-point lead, though it evaporated after Wildcats forward Drew Crawford connected from long range on the other end.
Trying to respond, Hughes’ first attempt from the perimeter clanged off the rim. But Wisconsin guard Jordan Taylor grabbed the rebound and immediately found Hughes again. He didn’t miss the second time.
“That’s when I felt good,” Hughes said. “That’s the one that gave me my confidence.”
He sank 3-pointers on the Bad-gers’ next two possessions as well, putting Wisconsin comfortably ahead 55-48. In five minutes, Hughes had transformed from the coldest shooter on the floor into the hottest one.
And Ryan gave Hughes the chance to do so because of his fa-miliarity with NU.
“If he’s a freshman and he’s go-ing through that, then maybe he’s
not on the floor as much,” Ryan said. “But you can’t take Trevon Hughes and not have him on the floor in a tight game in a hostile en-vironment against a system like Bill (Carmody) runs, because he has experience with it.”
Hughes’ memory of the 66-63 loss in Evanston last year was espe-cially fresh. In that contest, the Badgers had 13 turnovers and al-lowed the Cats to shoot better than 57 percent.
Wisconsin displayed what it learned from the defeat Wednes-day, cutting its turnovers by more than half and holding NU to 40 percent shooting.
“Going against Northwestern, you have to show patience,” Hughes said. “You can’t overextend your defense because they exploit that. And in our offensive end, we’ve got to stay patient because those guys jump passing lanes.”
Considering the Badgers were without their second-leading scorer, Hughes’ veteran leadership
was especially valuable. Forward Jon Leuer broke his wrist in a win over Purdue last weekend and is out indefinitely.
After gaining momentum from beating the Boilermakers, the Bad-gers didn’t want the injury to dis-tract them.
“As I jokingly said in Madison, we put a tissue on each guy’s chair, had everyone get their tear out and console Jon—and he’s sitting in the back laughing,” Ryan said. “We knew that we were going to be missing him for a while.”
Still, the absence of the 6-foot-10 Leuer put pressure on the guards to step up, and they came through. While Hughes sparked Wisconsin in the second half, se-nior Jason Bohannon carried the team with 10 points in the first half and 19 total.
“Our senior guards made the difference,” Ryan said. “That ma-turity was huge.”
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He’s hot, and he’s cold: Wisconsin senior guard Trevon Hughes attempts a 3-pointer over the outstretched hand of Drew Crawford. Hughes scored two points through 33 minutes of Wednesday’s game but finished on a tear, making five of his last six shots to lead the Badgers to a come-from-behind victory.
Next step for Shurna is to score in clutch
From one extreme to the other: Hughes gets hot in final minutes
DAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM/mens-basketballCheck out what Northwestern players and coaches had to say after Wednesday’s tough loss to Wisconsin at their postgame press conference
MEN’S BASKETBALL, page 7
By Rodger ShermanThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/mens-basketball
For seven minutes, the rims at Welsh-Ryan Arena got a workout.
After sophomore forward John Shurna hit a layup to put North-western ahead 37-36 with a little less than 15 minutes left in the game, both teams went cold. They combined to miss their next 18 field goals, including 13 straight by Wis-consin.
Then Trevon Hughes remem-bered how to score, guiding the 13th-ranked Badgers to a 60-50 vic-tory.
“We fi-nally found what it looked like to move the net,” Wis-consin coach Bo Ryan said. “It didn’t look like it was moving very much.”
After going 0-for-9 from the field to start the game, Hughes drilled four of his last five 3-point attempts to finish with 16 points. The long-distance barrage turned a game the Wildcats led with five minutes re-maining into a double-digit Badgers victory.
“It’s obviously frustrating,” Shurna said. “Once it gets down to crunch time, we’re going to have to step up, instead of just hanging with them for 35 minutes and letting it slip away.”
The Cats came out strong, scor-ing seven straight points to go ahead 7-2 in the opening minutes. But the five-point lead was NU’s largest of the game.
The Cats entered the half tied 27-27 due to contributions from two unlikely sources. Senior guard Jer-emy Nash topped his season average for points per game (8.3) in the first half with nine on a variety of pull-up jumpers. And sophomore center Luka Mirkovic took advan-tage of an injury to Wisconsin for-ward Jon Leuer, recording seven
I apologize, Northwestern. I jin-xed the game against Wisconsin.
With about 10 minutes left in the contest, I commented to my fel-low DAILY staffers on how amazing it was that the Wildcats were able to hold the Badgers’ Trevon Hughes, their leading scorer com-ing into the game, to only one point.
The Wisconsin senior guard proceeded to score 15 of the Bad-gers’ next 19 points, extending their lead to 55-48 with three minutes to play and putting the game out of reach.
Compared to NU’s effort against Texas-Pan American, this perfor-mance was spectacular. But I have higher standards for this team. The loss against the Badgers showed me the Cats are close to becoming a team to be reckoned with in the Big Ten. But they are missing one crucial element—a closer.
As a Chicago Bulls fan, I hated Ben Gordon. I thought he was a cancer, hurting the team with his one-on-one play and lack of ball movement. But I could never dis-pute his performance in the clutch. He was willing and able to take shots that would make him either a hero or a scapegoat.
Trevon Hughes did the same thing in Wisconsin’s win. Despite a horrendous shooting day by his standards, he drove to the basket and fired 3-pointers when the game was even. Sure enough, he caught fire, so much that teammate Jordan Taylor just handed the ball
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