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By lauren MogannamThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/performances

Sitting comfortably on a couch in the basement of Cahn Audito-rium, Andrea Hochkeppel just fin-ished singing a musical number she has rehearsed at least 60 times over the last three months for the 2010 Dolphin Show production of Parade. The Communication se-nior is waiting to return to the stage while other cast members sprint back and forth, run up and down stairs and hurry to get on-stage in time for their entrance.

In the past couple of weeks, the

building on the corner of Emerson and Sheridan has become home to Hochkeppel and about 150 other students who have been working in preparation for the 68th Annual Dolphin Show.

“It is just an amazing piece of student theater,” Hochkeppel said. “The product that you get is just something amazing.”

Although the Dolphin Show de-buted in 1940 as a carnival fund-raiser for the men’s swimming team, it has evolved into the larg-est student-produced musical in the nation. This year’s show will run for two weekends, opening Jan. 22.

Because last year’s production of The Wizard of Oz was so suc-cessful, this year’s director and producers chose a more obscure musical with a significant plot, said Jamie Lynn White, a Com-munication junior and one of the

show’s three executive producers.Parade, written by Alfred Uhry

and Jason Robert Brown, relates the true story of Leo Frank, a Jew-ish man wrongly accused of as-saulting and killing a factory em-ployee in Georgia in 1914. Suffer-ing a brief 85-performance run on Broadway from 1998 to 1999, Pa-rade was a surprising selection, said Leah Harris, assistant busi-ness producer.

“The choice is unique and not so obvious,” the Communication sophomore said. “It is not a recog-nized musical by 99 percent of the world.”

Even though the producers were confident in their selection, they hope the community is recep-tive to a musical with a darker theme, said Tom Casserly, one of

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Kelly Clarkson was a hit. Carrie Underwood followed in her foot-steps. Now, Weinberg junior John Park could be the next American Idol.

After making his way through three rounds of auditions and sing-ing in front of producers and the in-famous Simon Cowell, the North-western Purple Haze member has packed his bags for Hollywood to star on American Idol’s ninth season. The NU community may be able to catch a glimpse of the rising star when the Chicago auditions air Tues-day, Jan. 19 on FOX.

“America is going to fall in love

with him,” said Janelle Kroll (Comm. ‘09), former member of Purple Haze.

The show could launch Park’s ca-reer, said Richard Drews, NU voice professor and American Idol fan.

“If you have a good, solid tech-nique and a clear understanding of your voice’s limitations, you stand a very good chance of making an im-pact,” Drews said.

But it won’t be easy, he said.“The rigors of that particular

show are really difficult to with-stand because you have to be on your ‘A’ game at all times, you have to learn a tremendous amount of music in a very short time and you are literally put on the spot all the time to see if you will buckle,” Drews said.

Christian Gero, Park’s roommate and fellow member of Purple Haze, said he went to Park’s audition in Chicago. “He really impressed the judges,” the Bienen senior said. “He came out with the golden ticket and

Purple Haze junior continues American Idol journey to L.A.

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Northwestern’s graduate program in African history was ranked No. 1 by U.S. News & World Report.

African Studies thrives at NU because of its long-running history and campus resources, said Jeffrey Rice, NU history professor.

The Program of African Studies, founded by Melville J. Herskovits in 1948, was one of the first of its kind in the nation.

Rice, who received the first undergraduate certificate in African Studies in 1972, said student interest has allowed the program to grow since its inception.

“At the present time, I think that NU students are more interested in Africa than in the past, in part because there’s a very rich culture,” he said.

This culture is comple-mented by an extensive collec-tion of African material avail-able on campus, Rice said.

The Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies has achieved national recognition since it opened in 1954, said David Easterbrook, the library department head.

“The comprehensiveness of the library collections plays a prominent role on campus,” said Easterbrook, who added that the resources support graduate student research and attract distinguished scholars.

In addition to history, stu-dents have the opportunity to take African studies courses in departments like anthropology and political science. Engaged students allow the programs to prosper, Rice said.

“There’s a kind of energy that exists in African studies courses,” he said. “I put a large percentage—if not blame—of the success on the students.”

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Evanston officials were “thrilled” to hear the announcement Thursday morning that the city will receive more than $18 million in grant money as part of the Neighborhood Stabili-zation Program 2.

NSP2 is a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development program that provides funding for ef-forts to revitalize foreclosed or aban-doned property. The program distrib-uted almost $2 billion on a competi-tive basis to 60 cities nationwide, fi-nanced by the Recovery Act of 2009.

“It was an example of government working the way it’s supposed to,” Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said. “We had a compelling story to tell, we told it and it worked.”

The original grant application, sub-mitted July 15, requested about $40 mil-lion. In the application, city officials pro-posed to revamp and transform the ar-eas in western and southern Evanston most heavily hit by economic decline. They will develop these areas into af-fordable housing to buy or to rent. De-tails about the timeline and the exact terms of the grant will emerge after an orientation meeting for all 60 grant re-cipients on Jan. 22 in Washington, D.C.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), a key lob-byist for Evanston during the grant ap-plication process, said in a press re-

True story: Cast members rehearse a scene from the Dolphin Show’s 2010 production, Parade. The performances will run two weekends, opening Jan. 22. Following the success of last year’s show, the darker musical wwas chosen.

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In an article in Thursday’s Daily, “NU students pioneer new hypertension treatment,” Dr. Daniel Batlle’s name was misspelled. The headline referenced a group of “NU students,” but it was in fact a group of NU reasearchers. Jan Wysocki was referenced as “she,” but the article should have read “he.” Dr. Batlle was referred to as the chief of the division of nephrology and hypertension. He is no longer the chief, but a professor of medicine at Feinberg.

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Questia brings a library to students’ fingertipsBy Ganesh ThippeswamyThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/alumni

Northwestern alumnus Tim Harris (Kellogg ‘81) wants to help you study. His new iPhone application brings Questia, his 76,000-book digital library, within a finger’s touch. Harris now serves as direc-tor, president and CEO of Questia, after working at Texas Instruments and most recently at Compaq, where he served as vice president and general manager of the company’s $8 billion commercial desktop division. The NU grad recently spoke with The Daily about his Questia app and how it may revolutionize the way students learn inside and outside the classroom.

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Daily: What’s your iPhone app all about?Harris: Questia is a digital library, via the Web, for college students. And what we’ve done with this iPhone app is we’ve brought a complete 76,000-book research library to the palm of your hand. This includes com-plete, current and high-quality works in the liberal arts, so you can quickly explore subjects like history, literature, philosophy, business, music and so on.

Daily: Sounds expensive—How much does it cost?Harris: The app costs 99 cents, and you get the complete 76,000-book library for a week. Af-ter that, for $9.95, you get the 76,000-book collection for two weeks. You can’t buy a digi-tal e-book on Amazon for less than $9.95—so for the cost of a single book, you get 76,000 titles to do your research with.

Daily: In a vast sea of iPhone apps, what have

you done to ensure your product stands out from the crowd?Harris: When we launched the app, it was immediately very popular. When you go into the iTunes store and you do a search on ‘books,’ you’re going to find a lot of e-book reader apps, but you’re only going to find one library app, and that’s ours. We have tens of thousands of subscribers that use the library on the Web, so clearly there’s a large audience looking for the mobility and portability that the iPhone brings them.

Daily: Who in particular are you trying to reach through Questia’s iPhone app?Harris: Undergraduate and graduate stu-dents are our main focus, but our reach extends beyond there. We attract a lot of high school students, as well as a lot of educators, teachers, professors and li-brarians. But we focus on students be-cause when we build our library we don’t take any book we can. We build collec-tions of titles that provide a lot of depth and breadth in the very subjects that stu-dents need access to because of the classes they take.

Daily: Do you have any plans to expand your software to BlackBerry devices or other smartphones?Harris: Yes—over time, we do have plans to ex-pand beyond the iPhone platform. There is a large population of BlackBerry users on col-lege campuses, and there are a lot of smart-phones coming from Google and everyone else, so we’re going to be on these platforms.

Daily: How has your education at Kellogg shaped where you are today?Harris: It was critical. I went to Northwest-

ern for my business degree because I knew I wanted to help lead teams of peo-ple to create life-changing technologies. My M.B.A. was with a concentration in fi-nance, so my career started in the finan-cial side of businesses, and then I was able to shift over into mainstream management of the teams that were developing these life-changing technologies. And that’s what I’ve been able to do at Questia.

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With nearly 80 televisions f lashing in the background and customers arriving to try the 14 wing sauces, a new Evanston restaurant celebrated its grand opening Thursday night.

At the ceremony for Buffalo Wild Wings, 1741 W. Maple Ave., General Manager Nick Tabrizi and Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl cut a ribbon to signify the opening of the restau-

rant. Before the cer-emony, Tisdahl posed with the BWW mascot, a buf-falo, in a reclining chair the restaurant uses in its promo-tions.

“I’m tired, and they’re giving me the chance to sit in a chair and have a buffalo next to me,” Tisdahl said. “It’s a pretty good gig at the end of the day.”

Although BWW opened nearly two

months ago, Tabrizi said he wanted to hold the ceremony when students would be in town.

“Northwestern is important because it’s got a pretty big campus,” Tabrizi said. “With Evanston being so walkable, we want to hit them up as much as we can.”

In addition to weekly discounts, BWW

offers a 10 percent discount to students dur-ing away basketball games. During NU’s last road game at the University of Michi-gan, the restaurant was “packed with Northwestern fans,” Tabrizi said.

“There’s a big surge of power with every-body cheering for the same team,” he said. “It’s a good feeling.”

Kellogg School of Management program assistant Brian Coleman (Comm. ‘08) said he eats at BWW several days a week. Al-though Coleman has never been to Evan-ston’s BWW during a basketball game, he said eating at other BWW locations during a game “was like being at a sporting event.”

“Buffalo Wild Wings is interesting,” Coleman said. “It provides a very state-school, athletic-driven atmosphere you don’t often find at Northwestern.”

The restaurant even offers an NU beer, Cap’n Sig’s Northwestern Ale, Tabrizi said.

“It’s actually called Northwestern Ale and has a purple handle,” he said. “It’s just a coincidence, but people are buying it.”

Evanston resident Nick Lawson, who said he is a “big wings fan” and often eats at

Buffalo Joe’s, 812 Clark St., said he enjoyed BWW on his first visit. Lawson called the restaurant “multi-layered.”

“I will come here to eat by myself,” the 39-year-old construction business owner said. “I’d come here for a drink, I’d come here to watch TV and I’d come to do all three.”

Because of NU’s international student population, BWW could devote more televi-sion time to other sports, Lawson said.

“There’s a world of sports you could tap into,” said Lawson, who is from Australia. “If they varied that up, I would definitely come back and watch a lot.”

Lawson joked that the restaurant needed more televisions since the restaurant al-

ready has 77 televisions, including two in each bathroom.

While other wings restaurants in Evan-ston offer tasty food, Tabrizi said BWW’s advantage is its atmosphere.

“We’ve got more than 70 TVs, trivia, any-thing you want at your fingertips,” Tabrizi said. “That’s what sets us apart.”

Coleman said he is glad BWW opened in Evanston since it was not around while he was an NU student.

“I hope that Northwestern bites and that students take advantage of it,” he said.

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B-Dubs: Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl and Buffalo Wild Wings General Manager Nick Tabrizi cut a ribbon at the grand opening of the Evanston location (top). Tisdahl takes a break with the BWW buffalo in a reclining chair used for promotions (right).

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McGaw YMCA will celebrate its 125th birthday in a way its Northwestern neigh-bors know well—a theme party.

Later this month, the YMCA, 1000 Grove St., will host a “Back (And) to the Future” party. Guests will wear costumes from any of the eras between the YMCA’s 1885 founding and today.

A documentary about the YMCA featur-ing archival photographs and interviews with members from the 1930s and 40s will also premiere Jan. 23.

YMCA employees said NU has been a major partner throughout its history. Most recently, NU hosted the YMCA’s first youth triathlon last July, an event they said they hope to repeat.

Many NU students are involved in Proj-ect SOAR (Serving Our Adolescents Re-sponsibly), a program that serves roughly 70 local students between the ages of nine and 14. About two-thirds of the mentors are NU students who volunteer or partici-pate for work study.

“That’s been an amazing relationship that has worked for both sides,” said Mat-thew Johnson, vice president of marketing and development at the YMCA. “Some Northwestern students who are now alumni have come back. We’ve been ex-tremely grateful to these students.”

Some NU students dedicated to volun-teering outside the YMCA still find them-selves linked to the organization.

Kimberly Nelson, publicity chair and swim coach for Northwestern University to Benefit Special Olympics, said none of the athletes or coaches from NU’s group hold membership at the YMCA, but they have been able to practice in their facili-ties regularly.

“They’re very accommodating to Spe-cial Olympics, which is one of the reasons we use the Y instead of SPAC—they have a chair lift for people who can’t use a lad-der,” the Communication sophomore said.

Other NU students said they use the YMCA’s recreational facilities.

Eric English, a Weinberg junior, said it was “easy to sign up” and start a soccer team at the YMCA last January, even without a membership, so he and his friends could play indoors. Despite losing in last year’s playoffs, English said he is planning on playing in the league again this year.

Since its inception, one of the greatest changes to the YMCA has been in its membership demographics, Johnson said. He said the YMCA’s members and staff ref lect the diversity of the Evanston com-munity, which contributes to keeping res-idents involved in the organization, mem-bers said.

“Our family is very diverse in that our kids were adopted transracially, so it’s great to go there and see different faces,” said Martha King, an Evanston resident who has three children on swim teams at the YMCA.

The YMCA also recently adopted a “Membership for All” program, which ar-ranges membership rates based on in-come level if participants are unable to pay regular fees, YMCA representatives said.

Hard work in fundraising has allowed the YMCA to continue offering opportuni-ties for community involvement, even in difficult economic times, said Jan Hazlett, a YMCA board member and co-chair of the 125th anniversary.

“No program is in jeopardy of being cut … and part of that is that we have such a strong support base,” Hazlett said.

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By Lorraine MaThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern/performances

“Isn’t everybody a 5-foot-2 tattooed Asian female?” asked spoken word artist Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai to an audience of about 120 Northwestern and Chicago commu-nity members Thursday night in the Mc-Cormick Auditorium.

Tsai spoke about race, identity and cul-ture for the performance, which was jointly hosted by The Slam Society, Kai-bigan, Taiwanese American Students Club and other student groups.

“There is poem meant for the page and poem meant for the stage,” said Zack Moy, co-president of The Slam Society, a new poetry group on campus.

Spoken word is an art form meant for the stage that should capture the audi-ence’s attention and inspire them, the Weinberg junior said.

Organizers started planning in October, said AJ Aguado, co-president of Kaibigan.

“We want people to see how influential spoken word can be,” the Communication senior said.

The audience responded enthusiastically to Tsai’s poems, which included lines like: “I’m supposed to have a color in America” and “I know there is no you without me; I know there is no me without you.”

“Her work is really important on cam-pus because it’s a different way of tackling diversity issues beyond race,” said 30-year-old Vanessa DeGuia, a teacher from Chicago.

Tsai held a question-and-answer session with audience members following her per-formance.

She said she developed a passion for spoken word at the Uptown Poetry Slam in Chicago, the birthplace of the international poetry slam. Her experience growing up as a minority in the Midwest inspired her po-etry, she said.

“In this culture, people expect Asian American females to be quiet and not have much to say,” Tsai told The Daily. “I do a lot not just for myself but for breaking a stereotype about what people think an Asian American female looks, talks and be-haves like.”

After getting involved with poetry slam groups in college, she auditioned for the

HBO show Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry in 2006. She has been featured in three seasons of the show and has per-formed at more than 375 venues worldwide.

“It was really interesting to see someone who I see on YouTube and TV shows right in front of me,” said Stanley Gutiontov, a Wein-berg junior and co-president of The Slam Society.

Tsai said she hoped audience members would be inspired by her performance and ask questions about the world.

She did just that, said Weinberg junior Andrew Loveridge.

“It gave me a new perspective on life,” he said.

Many audience members said they could relate to Tsai ’s words.

“She really connected with the audi-ence with her experiences as an Asian American,” McCormick freshman Teresa Chen said.

Tsai will hold a spoken word workshop 3:30 p.m. Friday in the Norris Lake Room.

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Word: Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai (left and top) performs Thursday night at the spoken word poetry performance, hosted by The Slam Society, Kaibigani, Taiwanese American Students Club and other campus groups. Weinberg Junior Stan Gutiontov (right) gave a performance as well, adding a pelvic thrust “for good measure,” he said.

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On a drunken Friday night while browsing the public library, I got to thinking, “Is Tyler

Perry a film genius or a regular guy being dared to make the same movie over and over again?” After a few minutes of asking some locals what they thought (answers largely depended on race), I got to think-ing about another famous Perry—Rick Perry.

Rick Perry is not only my favor-ite governor but also the only one I know.

I admire his bravado for publi-cizing our future plan to secede. Last April, he vocalized the senti-ments of all true Texans when he said, “When we came into the union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would be able to leave if we decided to do that.” Nailed it.

Short, yet shocking.Which reminds me of execution.Rick Perry understands execu-

tion better than anyone I know. Not only does execution deter other lowlife criminals from mur-dering, raping and committing ar-son to kill their own children (re-member Cameron Willingham?), but it also spends public money which would otherwise be used for socialist welfare programs. I, for one, would rather have my hard-earned tax dollars be spent ridding the streets of crime instead of giv-ing it to poor people who are too lazy to work, thus making them more likely to commit crimes with all their free time.

I think I’ve made my point.Some days ago, I was walking

through campus when I noticed a group of students protesting. They were saying words like, “inhu-mane” and “racist.” Although I didn’t quite understand their lan-guage, I was able to infer these stu-dents were protesting the death penalty. I marched up to them and asked if they believed in protecting innocent people. At that point, they

started talking about something called the Innocence Project. I re-alized we were both confused, so I cut my losses and walked away.

It was only later when I got home and tried to find “the Inno-cence Project,” “inhumane,” and “racist” on Conservapedia, that I realized they were making every-thing up!

You people who think execution is wrong have only two flimsy rea-sons why: First, you empathize with minority criminals (I bet you also thought Judge Sotomayor was qualified), or second, you don’t be-lieve in justice.

And when it comes to justice, there’s only one legitimate source.

That’s right, Leviticus 24:17 tells us, “Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to death.” In fact, in October 2009, a Texas jury consulted the Bible during de-liberations before handing out a death sentence to death row in-mate, Khristian Oliver. Nailed it.

I think I’ve made my point.

Starting lineup shows promise for NU hoops

In previous years, I used to gNash my teeth over the sluggish play of Northwestern’s basketball team. But this year’s squad sure has the Juice. Luka how well they are playing. The coach Drew a starting lineup of five solid players. I’m Shurna gonna miss the rest of this season. Go Cats!

— Jim CarperMedill ’79

NU men’s basketball season ticket holder Former Daily staffer

Keenan-Devlin relates to concerns of college kids

When was the last time you looked at a candidate running for office and really related to him or her? When was the last time you felt like you could visit the office of your elected repre-sentative and have him or her truly lis-ten to your concerns?

Because we know he will listen to us and represent us with sincerity, we support Patrick Keenan-Devlin for 18th District State Representative. We Northwestern students have trusted him to represent us before—Patrick, Weinberg and Bienen ’06, served as our ASG president in 2005. He under-stands our community and the issues we care about.

We are tutoring children. We are serving meals to the homeless. We are engaging people living with disabili-ties. We are organizing for a living wage. We are fighting for gender

equality. We are building a greener world. We are obtaining higher educa-tion.

We are college students.Patrick may be young, but we know

age does not necessarily equate to level of experience or depth of passion. He has been fighting alongside us on our issues at the state level for years. While the Illinois budget crisis has threat-ened funding for organizations like Mary Lou’s Place, a shelter for battered women and their children, and pro-grams like state-funded financial aid for low-income students, Patrick has been advocating for a new tax struc-ture that would protect vital human services and access to higher educa-tion.

Patrick Keenan-Devlin is a com-mitted advocate of social justice. He will champion the causes we care about. Beyond that, we trust Patrick to be responsive to our concerns and rep-resent us well in Springfield. We urge you to join us in supporting Patrick—visit his Web site and cast your vote now at the Evanston Civic Center!

— Samantha ReedSESP junior

Student coordinator, Patrick for Illinois

— Adam YalowitzWeinberg junior

Education co-chair, Northwestern Community Development Corps

— Maddie OrensteinSESP ’09

Former co-chair, Freshman Urban Program Patrick for Illinois volunteer

This letter was also signed by 20 other Northwestern students

MIllENNIalS “bucketlist:gotolibrary” By Steven A. Berger

to the development of the Northwestern Mobile app for the iPhone.

The new app will make it easier to stay updated and informed on the go. The project re-flects NU’s commitment to student needs and responding to them quickly—the app was developed and launched in just nine weeks. Northwestern Mobile brings the campus to students’ fingertips and also helps NU match the technolog-ical efforts of top-tier institutions like Stanford and Duke Universi-ties, which have launched similar mobile applications.

to the City of Evanston receiving more than $18 million in grant money as part of the Neighborhood

Stabilization Program 2.The grant from the U.S. Depart-

ment of Housing and Urban Devel-opment will revamp areas affected by the economic downturn with projects that city officials say will reduce Evanston crime rates.

to the revisions of the Graduate Record Exami-nation for the 2011 exam.

Replacing analogy and antonym questions with reading

comprehension questions in the new GRE could make the test easier for international students and test-tak-ers without a strong English vocabu-lary. The option to skip questions in a section and return to them later could relieve some pressure on harder questions. The challenge of a more rigid grading scale may be a small price to pay for a more enjoy-able test-taking experience.

to the Evanston City Council proposal to ban talking on cell phones without a hands-free

device while driving.The city is taking steps to make

our streets safer and to keep up with other cities and states that have al-ready passed similar laws on top of the Illinois prohibition of texting, surfing the Web or playing games while driving. Still, we’re not sure if hands-free devices effectively re-move the distraction of phone calls or if it’s possible to effectively legis-late cell phone use while driving.

to the city of Evanston for its “government 2.0” initiative, which communicates with

residents through social networking.Over the past few months, Ev-

anston has started using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other Web sites to elicit feedback. Evanston keeps pace with the social net-working revolution, which allows more residents to have a say in their city. People will stay in-formed, share concerns and under-stand the governing of Evanston—three valuable capabilities that come at a low cost.

to the $2.4 million federal grant NU received for developing nanoelectronic devices.

NU is a leading institution in nanotechnology and nanoelectronic research, and the funding will al-low the University to strengthen its programs and contribute state-of-the-art devices to the U.S. military and intelligence agencies.

to the 1800 Club, commonly known as “Hundo,” finally closing its doors.

We knew the end was coming, but it’s sad to see the bar at 1800 Sherman Ave. shutting down for good this time after rebounding from so many previous threats to close. Too bad NU, which owns the conveniently located space, doesn’t intend to lease to another bar.

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“The dramatic increase of foreclosures in cities and towns across America is at the heart of the economic crisis,” Durbin said. “Funding this initiative will help revitalize areas of a community hit hard by foreclo-sures and put Evanston on the path toward long-term economic growth.”

Tisdahl said she was concerned about the economic state of the wards and the grant would help regenerate growth in these areas.

“The impact is that Evanston will remain a wonderfully diverse community,” she said. “The foreclosures were primarily in the fifth and second ward, and that was tremendously troublesome to me.”

The grant money will also help reduce the city’s crime rate, Tisdahl said.

“There will be less crime because vacant buildings attract crime, and now those build-ings will be bought, rehabbed and sold as af-fordable housing or rented as affordable hous-ing,” Tisdahl said.

Tisdahl traveled to Washington, D.C., in Oc-tober to meet with Sen. Durbin and HUD rep-resentatives to discuss the proposal. Tisdahl’s trip gained the political momentum needed to obtain the grant.

“The mayor came out here to talk to Sen. Durbin and other members of Congress about

the project,” said Christina Mulka, press secre-tary for Durbin. “When people reached out to us, we then would reach out to HUD to make sure the application was going smoothly and to talk to them about the project.”

In fact, Tisdahl first learned of their success from Durbin after the announcement Thursday morning.

Brinshore Development LLC, the city’s pri-vate partner in the grant application, will con-struct the project’s housing units, intended for families with incomes at or below 120 percent of the area’s median income. One-quarter of the resources will target households at or below 50 percent of the area’s median income, according to a press release from the City of Evanston.

“We hope to do what we stated we would do in the proposal, which is to use the grant funds to address existing vacant and foreclosed properties to be able to acquire, rehabilitate them and to have new families and new house-holds occupy them,” said Dennis Marino, plan-ning director for the City of Evanston.

Until construction can begin, Evanston offi-cials are celebrating this victory for the city and the grant’s potential for progress.

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Kroll said she is sure Park will make it through to the next round, but students and faculty can help by adding his name to their Facebook and Twitter statuses.

“His voice just oozes soul,” Kroll said. “He’s the full package. He needs to be a superstar.”

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When Northwestern competes in this week-end’s USFA North American Cup, it will have one objective: Improve its performance in the clutch.

At last weekend’s Philadelphia Invitational, the Wildcats lost a number of bouts that came down to the last touch.

Associate head coach Ed Kaihatsu said NU’s sabre squad lost 3-of04 one-touch battles to Temple. Although the sabre squad ultimately won 5-4 and the Cats beat the Owls 16-11, the performance was far from perfect.

“There were a lot of things we could have done to improve how that turned out,” Kaihatsu said. “Our sabre team really needed to step it up. We had a couple of close bouts that we didn’t end up converting.”

In team practices, one-touch duels have been a point of emphasis, along with mental condi-tioning. This year’s team has stressed an inside-out philosophy, concentrating more on the men-tal aspect of fencing.

“This season, we have lost a few fights that have gone into overtime,” senior epeeist Joanna Niklinska said. “During practices, we really want to focus on situation bouting. Hopefully in the next one, we won’t lose any 5-4 bouts, and we won’t even allow the score to be that close.”

About half of NU’s fencers will get to com-pete this weekend in San Jose, Calif., as a certain ranking is needed to qualify.

Seniors Christa and Kayley French will lead a team of 10 epée fencers in the Division-I com-petition, while sophomore stars Devynn Patter-son and Camille Provencal will lead a group of six foilists.

Four sabreists will travel to San Jose as well, including freshman standouts Chloe Grainger and Alicia Gurrieri, whowill compete in both the Division-I and junior sabre competitions.

Last season, NU had mixed success at the

USFA North American Cup, led by then-senior Sam Nemecek and current senior Christa French. The foil team was by far the strongest in last year’s tournament. In addition to Nemecek’s powerful fifth-place finish, Patterson and Provencal placed 10th and 29th, respectively.

On the other hand, the sabre team struggled. No NU sabreist finished higher than 86th in last year’s event.

Individually, the stakes are high. Fencers who finish in the top 32 of their weapon group earn national points that could lead to a spot on the national team.

“For the athletes, this could be a confidence builder or a reality check of where they are and what they need to work on,” Kaihatsu said.

For Patterson, it’s a chance to work on her game. Although she finished 10-4 last weekend, she said she was not pleased.

“I was actually quite disappointed with my-self,” Patterson said. “Against the competition we faced, I hoped to go undefeated and was def-initely capable of doing that. But I think it was mostly a mental thing, and I will certainly work on that for future competition.”

Even though fencing is mostly an individual sport, NU has plenty to gain as a team. The Cats have a chance to showcase their program for younger fencers participating in the event who might be interested in coming to NU. Once the competition is over, the coaches can try to re-cruit prospective athletes.

The North American Cup also debuts a new junior fencing team competition. NU is cur-rently the top seed in the junior women’s sabre and foil and third in the junior women’s epée.

“I’m really looking forward to it,” Kaihatsu said. “This year, I hope, is different than all the other years. We’ve been plateauing, we’ve been hitting the glass ceiling, and it has to be a mental thing. We’ve been working very hard on that ev-ery day, every single day, and it’s started to make a difference.”

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“But I know Oklahoma is real good and is strong every year. That will be a real tough matchup.”

NU will have to fill the void left by heavy-weight Ben Kuhar, who had season-ending sur-gery on his shoulder last week after what Cy-sewski called a “fluke” injury. The Cats had to forfeit the heavyweight class in last weekend’s matches against Missouri and Central Michigan.

The Cats aim to build on their encouraging performances against the two nationally ranked opponents in last weekend’s ultra-competitive NWCA duals. Before defaulting the heavyweight class, NU held an 18-17 lead over Missouri.

“We lost both matches, but we did improve a lot,” Nadhir said. “Some of those losses we could win another week down the road. We’ve had a good start to the New Year, and guys realized there is still a lot of time left to wrestle.”

NU has not wrestled in the Lone Star Duals since 2003 and is making its first trip outside of the Midwest region this season. Cysewski said he was concerned about the climate affecting his team’s focus, especially after he thought his team underperformed at Stanford last year.

“We haven’t been down (to Texas) in a while,” he said. “Hopefully the weather isn’t too nice. We don’t want to be distracted and get out there and forget what we’re there for.”

Nadhir said he is looking forward to playing three teams he has never wrestled against. And after experiencing Evanston’s winters, a little sunshine won’t hurt, either.

“I don’t think the guys will wrestle any differ-ently,” Nadhir said. “It should be really cool and a nice change of scenery, and hopefully we’ll go 3-0 and then go back home. We’re hoping to go make the most of it.”

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Kuhar injury sets cloud over match in sunny Texas Purdue held on after that for a 63-61 victory.

“(NU) hit big shots against us and bur-ied us early there,” Purdue guard Chris Kramer said. “We fought back to win the game. Those wins that you get late can make or break the season.”

The second matchup between the teams was another close one, as the Cats broke a seven-game home winning streak for the Boilermakers and left West Lafay-ette, Ind., with a 64-61 win.

In the two games combined, only one point separated a team that ended up in the Sweet 16 from a squad that didn’t make the top half of the NIT bracket.

But NU’s strategy always causes issues for Purdue, regardless of the records. Carmody is the only coach in the confer-

ence that runs the Princeton offense and is one of two (along with Michigan) that employs the 1-3-1 zone. Those schemes frustrate many teams, but Purdue strug-gles more than most others.

“Playing Northwestern is different than playing anybody else in the Big Ten,” said Kramer, a former Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year. “The way we play, get-ting out and denying the ball and not let-ting it get to the wings, no easy catches—if you play against them and you do that, it’s just layups all day on backdoors.”

The Boilermakers’ consistent defense, along with a potent offense featuring for-ward Robbie Hummel, was good enough for second in the conference last year. With the team losing only one rotation player—backup forward Nemanja Cala-san—its experience could lead to an even higher finish.

“Being able to play with the same core group for three years straight really gives you an advantage,” forward-center JaJuan Johnson said. “You know what to expect.”

Despite a Sweet 16 run that many teams would envy, the veterans return with a bad taste from last year’s season-ending loss to Connecticut.

“It lets us know what we did last year,” junior guard E’Twaun Moore said. “We can go a step farther.”

The Boilermakers won their first 14 games this season, but their bid to go un-defeated ended with losses in their last two conference games. And now they have to face one of the last teams they’d like to play.

“I’m a big fan,” Painter said of the Cats. “This could be their year.”

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from its offensive attack, one way to take pressure off her is to create more options if the defense collapses.

“We do not give up on trying to give her the ball,” said junior point guard Beth Marshall, who leads the Cats in 3-pointers with 30. “We know she’s our biggest threat. But what we’ve been working on is, once we get her the ball, to get a better angle—get her an outlet or dive into the basket. I’d most likely stay out on the 3-point line, but for the other guards to dive on the weak side or come behind her.”

Ballhandling was another problem against Purdue, as NU committed 13 first-half turnovers—with Jaeschke, Dia-

mant and Hackney contributing 11 of them. The wasted possessions resulted in only 15 points for the Cats before inter-mission.

While McKeown admitted NU’s turn-overs come “in all shapes and sizes,” poor passing has been the biggest culprit. Giv-ing substantial playing time to two fresh-men explains some of the mistakes.

“The people we have, they’re finish-ers,” McKeown said. “This happens a lot in college basketball, women’s basketball especially. A lot of our players that were really good high school players aren’t used to passing the ball—they’re used to getting it and scoring. The transition into college, where you have to become a feeder, takes time.”

Fortunately for the Cats, they have had plenty of time to work on the changes. Due to the mid-week bye, NU

didn’t play Thursday and used the week to prepare for one opponent.

“You probably couldn’t have timed the bye any better,” McKeown said. “It’s a perfect time for this team to regroup.”

And the Cats still have pleasant mem-ories from the last time the Gophers vis-ited Welsh-Ryan Arena. Riding a string of 10 losses in its last 11 games, NU knocked off NCAA Tournament-bound Minnesota 62-53 in its most impressive performance of last season.

The Cats are searching for a similar effort to snap their current slump.

“That was a huge win for us last year,” Jaeschke said. “We really match up well with this team, so it’s a great team for us to sort of get our feet back under us and get more confidence.”

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By Danny DalyThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/womens-basketball

Perimeter struggles. Turnover troubles. Double teams in the post. If the calendar didn’t say 2010, Northwestern might think it was last season all over again.

During the Wildcats’ four-game losing streak, junior center Amy Jaeschke has received an in-creasing amount of attention. Both Minnesota and Purdue held NU’s leading scorer to less than 10 points after she scored in dou-ble figures in the previous nine games.

“I felt like it was a little bit like last year,” coach Joe McKe-own said. “When you’re getting double teams, you’ve got to make shots out of that. It’s something we have to address because, until people do that, she’s going to get double-teamed.”

The problem was particularly apparent in Sunday’s 53-42 loss

to the Boilermakers. Three of Cats’ secondary scorers—senior guard Kristin Cartwright and freshman forwards Dannielle Diamant and Kendall Hackney—combined to shoot just 3-of-24 from the field. NU made one-fourth of its shots for the game.

That enabled Purdue to clamp down even more on Jaeschke, limiting her to eight points.

“Especially against Purdue, we noticed they doubled Amy ev-ery play—that was their goal,” Hackney said. “Amy is our best player and she’s strong in there,

so they know that if they stop her, it’s going to be harder.”

NU’s next chance to break its losing skid will come Saturday at home against Minnesota. The game is a rematch from less than two weeks ago, when the Go-phers prevailed 72-65 and over-came an 11-point halftime defi-cit.

Jaeschke took only five shots in that loss, her lowest total of the season. The Cats know they need to get their top offensive force more involved.

“We have to get her better shots,” McKeown said. “We have to get her the ball in better spots, we have to change some of our offensive structure a little bit to adjust to that. Not that we just want to completely junk what we’re doing, but she has to get more touches.”

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Pesky: Junior guard Michael Thompson drives to the basket as Purdue forward Robbie Hummel looks on. Thompson and NU gave Purdue headaches last year, and the Boilermakers came away with a hard-earned split.

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It's déjà vu all over again as Jaeschke faces double teams down low

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Double trouble: Center Amy Jaeschke deals with Michigan State’s physical defense last season. Teams have thrown similar looks at her lately.

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By Rodger ShermanThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/mens-basketball

Purdue may be the sixth-ranked team in the nation, but it has learned the hard way not to look past Northwestern—even if the Wildcats are unranked and 1-3 in conference play.

“We only play (NU) once this year,” Purdue coach Matt Painter said at Big Ten Media Day. “I was hoping (the schedule makers) didn’t let us play them at all.”

Two tough games against the Cats last year left Painter with a tremendous amount of respect for the Cats. When asked about the team, he spoke uninter-rupted for three-and-a-half min-utes, commending coach Bill Carmody and several of his play-

ers. Painter was espe-cially im-pressed with soph-omore for-ward John Shurna , who he coached this sum-mer at the FIBA U19 World Champi-

onships in New Zealand.“Man, I’m promoting North-

western here,” Painter said when he finished his speech. “I feel like I’m on staff or something.”

Last season the Boilermakers were ranked in the top 20 enter-ing both of their games against the Cats. Even though NU never came close to cracking the AP poll, Purdue had to fight to split the matchups.

“They should’ve beat us twice,” Painter said. “If they did, they could’ve been in the NCAA Tournament.”

The Cats jumped out to a 14-point lead in the first half at home, but the Boilermakers chipped away, taking the lead for the first time with only 1:10 left.

By Ian KellyThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/wrestling

After a shaky start to the season, a weekend trip to the Lone Star Duals in Texas might be exactly what North-western needs to smooth out its play.

The Wildcats (2-5-1) , who have dropped three of their last four matches, head to South Grand Prai-rie , Texas, knowing Saturday’s duals will be their last opportunity to build momentum before their typically brutal Big Ten schedule.

“We should do well and need to do well, but it’s not the end of the world if everything doesn’t go to plan,” junior An-drew Nadhir said. “After this weekend we go to Big Ten sea-son, where every dual is a shot at new life and a chance to knock off a top-ranked team.”

On Saturday the Cats will wake up early for an 8 a.m. contest against Air Force, followed by bouts with No. 11 Oklahoma and Brown at South Grand Prairie High School .

“Oklahoma is a top-ranked squad and is wrestling a lot better than they did last year,” coach Tim Cysewski said. “Can we win against them? Yes—if things go our way.”

Even if NU doesn’t pull off the up-set, it figures to be the favorite in its other two contests.

“At the very worst, I really think we should beat up on Air Force and Brown,” Nadhir said. “We’re the Big Ten team, we’re the team that should be feared.”

The Falcons are 1-3 on the season, while the Bears are 2-1 in their non-conference slate. But beating nation-ally ranked Oklahoma is the prize NU is most focused on.

“I don’t know anything about Brown or Air Force,” Nadhir said.

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