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NU sends doctors to help HaitiFeinberg health care workers made their first trip MondayBy Kirsten salyerTheDailyNorthwesterndailynorthwestern.com/campus

Northwestern began sending doc-tors and health care workers to pro-vide medical relief to earthquake vic-tims in Haiti Monday.

NU medical workers from the Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital will volunteer in collaboration with the University of Chicago Medical Center, University of Illinois at Chi-cago, College of Medicine and Rush Medical College.

Dr. Martin Lucenti, an assistant professor of emergency medicine and a physician at Northwestern Memorial, was the first of the group of 45 volunteers to leave for Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

After the earthquake, there was an “incredible” outpouring of support by the NU medical staff and faculty, said Dr. Robert Murphy, director of the NU Center for Global Health.

“Although Northwestern doesn’t have any programs going on the ground in Haiti, we have a lot in de-veloping countries,” he said.

Physicians are selected for two-week trips, said Carolyn Baer, deputy director of the NU Center for Global Health. She said the center is evaluat-ing volunteers’ skill sets and their pro-

By Rebecca CohenTheDailyNorthwesterndailynorthwestern.com/council

Complications arose in the debate over budget cuts for the Evanston Community Media Center this week after it was discovered the center has $584,000 in cash reserves.

When the Evanston City Council proposed slicing $200,000 from its budget next year, ECMC supporters argued the cuts would force the Cen-ter to fire employees and reduce pro-gramming. But a member of the city manager’s office looked up the 990 tax form online and found the surplus,

By Jessica allenTheDailyNorthwesternwww.dailynorthwestern.edu/administration

Northwestern officials said they expect to spend more on financial aid this year, said Michael Mills, associ-ate provost for University enrollment.

“I do anticipate that we’ll have a needier incoming freshman class,” he said. “The president and the provost are prepared for that.”

This year NU received about 27,500 applications for admis-sion, a pool which is both larger and more socio-economically diverse than in previous years.

Accord-ing to a 2009 survey by the National

Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators , 61 percent of univer-sities saw an increase of 10 percent or more in financial aid applications.

NU constructs its financial aid budget from several sources, in-cluding tuition revenue, alumni gifts and endowment funds, Uni-versity spokesman Al Cubbage said. Endowment funds constitute a small percentage of the overall fi-

nancial aid budget. For the 2009-10 school year, 15 percent of the finan-cial aid budget came from the en-dowment, so it isn’t as vulnerable to economic fluctuations as those of other universities.

The Office of Undergraduate Financial Aid could not be reached for comment.

The University won’t have a clear picture of financial needs until financial aid applications for the incoming class have been turned in and processed several weeks from now, Mills said.

Although the financial aid ap-plications from this year’s early decision pool do not mark a signif-icant change from last year’s, Mills said it is too early to forecast the need of the entire class.

Last year NU increased tuition 3.6 percent and scholarship fund-ing 10 percent.

These numbers show NU rec-ognizes the importance of finan-cial aid, said Bradley Akubuiro, program coordinator for NU Am-bassadors, the student arm of ad-missions that works to increase di-versity in the student body.

“Financial aid is always a huge factor in anyone’s decision to en-roll in a university,” the Medill ju-nior said. “It’s not a recent phe-nomenon.”

Still, Akubuiro said he ques-tioned NU’s ability to meet every student’s financial needs.

The University’s goal should be

to mirror the levels of aid top schools like Harvard University provide, Akubuiro said. While meeting student financial needs, Harvard no longer requires fami-lies to take out loans.

Though NU isn’t able to give every needy student aid without loans, the University has contin-ued to expand financial aid.

In 2008, NU began a No-Loan Pledge program, providing com-prehensive aid without loans to the neediest students. The Univer-sity expanded its financial aid commitments last year, when it began a partnership with Quest-Bridge, Akubuiro said.

QuestBridge serves as an inter-mediary between high-achieving, low-income students and top uni-versities. Schools agree to offer admitted QuestBridge students full four-year scholarships.

“Our first class of QuestBridge stu-dents are on campus, and they’re do-ing extremely well,” Akubuiro said.

NU’s response to financial need echoes that of many universities around the country. Despite econ-omy woes, many are maintaining or increasing financial aid bud-gets, said Haley Chitty, director of communications for NASFAA.

“A lot of (universities) are try-ing to shield their financial aid budget,” he said.

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Hillel’s ECO grant availability expanded to all student groupsBy Vasiliki MitrakosThe Daily Northwestern dailynorthwestern.com/student-life

Fiedler Hillel’s Environmental Campus Outreach is expanding its grant program this year, one ink cartridge at a time.

Initially limited to theater groups, ECO expanded its Bright Ideas Grant last quarter to include all student groups. A selected group has to demonstrate a concerted effort to make its student programming and activi-ties more eco-friendly. The program, founded in 2008, is funded entirely by recycling ink cartridges collected on campus.

In the last four quarters, ECO has given away about $1,500 in small grants. Sit & Spin Productions received a grant from ECO last quarter when the program was targeted to-ward theater groups.

“We used some of the ECO grant money to move from disposable materials, things like carving foam to biodegradable (foam),” said Jeffrey Glass, Sit & Spin’s business manager. “We made a lot of our scenery out of things like flour and water that will biodegrade later.”

After receiving the grant, the Communica-tion junior said they were able to spend some of the money on more sustainable initiatives.

“We were able to contact other groups and use the money to rent some of their old lum-ber instead of buying new things,” he said.

The grant is awarded to two or three stu-dent groups each quarter. Along with Sit & Spin Productions, last quarter’s recipients were the Jewish Theatre Ensemble and “Pulse Electric,” a student film.

Benjamin Singer, ECO’s president, said the organization has also established what it calls the “Greener Task Force” in collabora-tion with students from various green groups, including SEED and Engineers for a Sustain-able World. The task force wants to use NU’s open space for initiatives like installing solar panels, planting gardens or creating compost mounds.

“We’ve made a big difference in the amount of waste we produce and the amount of consciousness people have about their en-vironmental decisions,” said Singer, a Com-munication senior.

ECO also gives away energy efficient products, organizes fireside events at dorms and collaborates with other green groups.

Singer said he hopes to continue to pro-mote sustainability on campus with ECO.

“We are revamping the way the campus operates,” he said. “It’s rewarding and fulfill-ing, and it’s exciting to be part of real change.”

ECO has set up ink cartridge and battery collection bins at Norris University Center, the Sports Pavilion and Aquatic Center and Hillel. In the past 18 months, ECO has col-lected roughly 1,500 pounds of cartridges and batteries. The money raised from recycling the cartridges goes toward the grants.

Rachel Zinn, Hillel’s sustainability direc-tor, said ECO has “exploded” since last spring.

“We’ve given people another way to make a difference,” the SESP junior said. “That’s really what it’s about.”

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Evanston school districts manage without state aidBy Brittney WongThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/d65

Despite the Illinois State Board of Educa-tion’s $613 million statewide payment shortfall, Evanston’s school districts have maintained healthy financial conditions, officials said.

“We have a pretty conservative policy here as far as how much money we like to keep on hand in reserves,” said Mary Rodino, deputy chief fi-nancial officer for District 202, adding that Dis-trict 202 retains about 33 percent of its annual budget for situations like this. “We’re able to handle it without going out and borrowing.”

The state owes District 202 more than $900,000 and Evanston/Skokie School District 65 about $1.5 million in categorical state aid, which covers program-specific expenses like special education or transportation.

“There’s a statewide backup of payments,” said Mary Fergus, a spokesperson for the Illinois State Board of Education. “We’re in a financial meltdown.”

Because Evanston districts rely mostly on lo-cal taxes for funding and also keep a substantial amount of money in reserves, their budgets have not been affected.

At the beginning of this fiscal year, the state paid District 65 the last two payments for the previous fiscal year, and just this month District 65 received the first categorical aid payment for the current school year.

“There are still about five months left in this fiscal year, so we are hopeful that we can still get the money,” said Kathy Zalewski, comptroller for District 65.

The state is up-to-date with their general state aid, another set of funds that makes up about 3 percent of District 202’s budget and about 4 percent of District 65’s annual spending.

Well over three-quarters of their budgets consist of local property taxes. Last fall, property taxes came in later than expected.

“They were late because the tax bills went out late, but we did get by without having to borrow,” said Mary Brown, District 65’s chief financial of-ficer . “I just received a note with my personal property tax bill that said the tax bills may be go-ing out late in the fall of 2010, so we’ll just have to wait and see how late those taxes come in.”

Administrators said they are remaining cautious.

“It is causing a much more close monitoring of the budget day by day,” said Pat Markham, communications director for District 65.

Markham said District 65 had about $19 mil-lion in reserves at the time of the last budget, a fairly substantial amount, because they can’t af-ford huge changes in spending.

“Eighty percent of our expenditures are for salaries and benefits, so there isn’t a lot of room to move expenses out,” she said.

Rodino said that while District 202 as a whole continues relatively unchanged by the state’s economic situation, parents in the district aren’t immune to financial problems. Because District 202 does not provide buses for its stu-dents, parents in the district can apply to the state for reimbursement for transportation costs.

Normally the state gives parents about $150 per child each year. This year the funding was withheld.

“There are some situations like that where the state just says, ‘We cannot afford to pay it,’” Rodino said.

In spite of payment delays, both districts are optimistic the state will get back on schedule.

“These are unusual times,” Rodino said. “We just hope that they will get better soon.”

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Cat colony discovered at deceased man’s residence

Police discovered a colony of feral cats Sunday, according to a city press release.

Around 100 cats were found in an Evan-ston residence on the 1900-block of Grant Street, where police were investigating a recent death, according to the release.

Police determined the man living in the house had died of natural causes and left

behind the stray cats. The relatives of the man were unable to care for the cats.

Owners of domesticated cats in the neighborhood have been told to watch their pets carefully, the press release said.

The Evanston Animal Control Bureau is “conducting an on-going animal control abatement process,” the press release said. Evanston Police could not be reached im-mediately for comment.

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Scott Brown, the newest member of the United States Senate, was elected last Tuesday in one of the most

liberal states in the union, Massa-chusetts, which went for President Barack Obama by 26 points in 2008.

Brown’s victory makes him the vaunted 41st Republican vote against Obama’s health care reform initia-tive, proving even Massachusetts voters disapprove of Obama’s han-dling of health care.

Or do they? A two-day poll con-ducted last week by The Washington Post and Harvard University found only 28 percent of Bay State voters wanted to “stop Obamacare.” Even Brown voters were split on this ques-tion, with 50 percent opposed and 48 percent in favor. Seventy percent of voters surveyed wanted Brown to work with the Democrats to pass meaningful health care reform legis-lation. So the real answer to why Brown emerged victorious seems more complicated than some pundits would have us believe.

Brown placed great emphasis on

his ability to halt health care reform, but voters clearly cared more about other issues. According to a poll I just made up, 95 percent of Massachu-setts voters strongly approved of Scott Brown’s well-traveled truck. An addi-tional 43.5 percent and 110 percent of all males reportedly voted for Brown because they thought it might give them a shot at his two daughters, who Brown joked were “available.”

Thirty-five percent of Massachu-sians found themselves so incredibly attracted to Brown, who was named America’s Sexiest Man by Cosmopol-itan Magazine in 1982, that they were forced to vote for him. This was mediated, however, by the 25 per-cent of voters who did not find the happy trail in Brown’s almost com-pletely nude Cosmopolitan center-fold shot to be “happy enough.”

Democratic opponent Martha Coakley’s campaign unfortunately failed to capitalize on this sentiment. Coakley must have been too focused on misspelling Massachusetts in a campaign ad, calling former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling a New York Yankees fan and asking voters if she was actually supposed to shake their hands on the campaign trail. In her defense, Masachoosuts es relly hurd ta spull, the Yankees are far superior to the Red Sox, and it is really frig-ging cold in New England.

Or maybe, as Obama suggested,

Massachusetts voters got Coakley confused with former President George W. Bush. In an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Obama said Brown won “not just be-cause of what’s happened in the last year or two years, but what’s hap-pened over the last eight years.”

I agree with Obama: The resem-blance between Bush and Coakley is striking. Both are male Republicans who served as president for eight years, went to Ivy League schools and added more to the national debt than any president in American his-tory—$4 trillion, according to CBS News. And they both probably can’t spell Massachusetts.

Regardless of which polls you pay attention to, real or imagined, Brown’s victory will have a signifi-cant impact on health care, climate change and other legislation vitally important to Obama’s agenda.

Democrats cannot use the loss of their filibuster-proof majority as an excuse for failing to pass health care or other legislation. Like him or not, Bush knew how to achieve his policy goals. Obama should take a page out of Bush’s book (not “My Pet Goat,” but the other one) and make good on the campaign promises that inspired a nation.

Don’t be afraid to spend time with yourself, too

We are too seldom alone.In the scramble to accumulate ac-

quaintances and cultivate friend-ships, we neglect our most important relationships—those with ourselves.

There is so much noise in the world, in our lives. Incessant chatter with others drowns out the conver-sations we could be having with our-selves, and I don’t just mean verbal chatter. Texts, BBM, Facebook, mul-tiple e-mail accounts and all of the other myriad ways we “stay in touch” interfere with our ability to listen to ourselves.

Part of the problem is the unjusti-fied stigma attached to being alone. People seem to confuse “being alone” with “being lonely.” But this assumption sells solitude short. I’m not supporting being anti-social or passing judgment on any of the glori-ous modern apparatuses of commu-nication our generation makes such exuberant use of. But I do support cutting down on distractions and learning it is not only acceptable but necessary to spend time alone, away from the noise, away from the crowd.

But people are scared of being alone—why? I think this comes from a fear of being forced to listen to what’s inside and possibly finding it doesn’t meet expectations. But the only way to know, the only way to realize if this is the case—and, if it is, to start becoming whom we want to be—is to sit quietly, tune out the noise and turn inward.

— Hayley MacMillen

Big, bad America shows a lot of heart for Haiti

It is an understatement to call Americans an unpopular breed abroad. In many areas of the world, Americans are considered to be ar-rogant, stupid, gluttonous and greedy. We’re fighting a war that has earned us a lot of negative attention, though there are those governmen-tal regimes that agree with what we’re up to in the Middle East.

We’re a big country (the third larg-est) and a powerful one. And we’ve got guns that we’ve proved we’re not afraid to use. But that doesn’t always make us the bully on the block.

Tragedy struck in Haiti with a catastrophic earthquake on Tuesday, Jan. 12. The country, trapped by its devastated infrastructure, is still in need of supplies. And while other countries have been quick to give, the U.S. has played an active role in helping re-establish order in a coun-try that chaos has claimed.

President Barack Obama sent troops and $100 million in aid, for-mer presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush are spearheading a bi-partisan effort to raise funds for Haiti and average Americans are tacking money onto their cell phone bills in order to donate cash.

So feel free to hate on America, but don’t ever call us cheap and heartless. We lend resources on the ground and send people to relieve the devastation. I guess you could say that in many cases, our hearts are as big as our wallets.

— Cally Trautwein

millennials “gettingdasmalefitz:part3” By Steven A. Berger

Want to have an input in how Northwestern spends your tuition? This is your chance.

The Undergraduate Budget Pri-orities Committee, a student group that develops and submits funding proposals to the NU administration, wants to hear what students have to say about their undergraduate expe-riences—and how they would change them. So before you com-plain about the SafeRide wait or the exercise equipment at Blomquist, take a minute to answer the survey.

The group was formed as an op-portunity to have a formal exchange of ideas with the administration af-ter students failed to get a seat on the Board of Trustees in the past. The committee has one shot each year to present top student priori-ties and make funding suggestions to the University Budget Commit-tee, which includes the University president, provost and vice presi-dents of finance and student affairs.

Last year the University applied proposals from the UBPC to fund improvements to Norris University Center and residence halls and cre-ate the Saturday Intercampus shut-tle to Chicago.

This year, committee members

“beefed up” the survey, said Sand-eep Kini, UBPC chair.

Students can weigh on a scale of one to five how they feel about a va-riety of hot topics on campus, com-piled from the UBPC’s outreach poll in the fall, other surveys and input from student leaders and Associated Student Government members.

The extensive survey will offer first-year University President Mor-ton O. Schapiro an “encompassing look at students needs on campus to get big-picture perspective for the next five to 10 years,” Kini said.

Mentioning your concern to Schapiro during one of his many student dinners may catch his at-tention. But lending weight to the UBPC proposals by answering the survey will make him take note.

Improving Norris has been on the survey consistently in past years and will probably be on it in the fu-ture, Kini said. The renovations to the student center over the summer clearly haven’t been enough.

Transportation to Chicago also gets a nod, with questions about amping up shuttles and offering a $70-per-quarter, much-talked-about Chicago Transit Authority UPass.

Safety on campus and police presence is also a continued and

immediate student concern. UBPC asks first how much you care and follows up with suggested im-provements, from increasing po-lice presence near residences to adding WildCARD readers to aca-demic buildings.

The focus on academic program-ming for environmental studies and Islamic studies reflects two of the most talked about issues in the fall.

A tech-savvy campus wants to hear how NU is going to make stu-dents’ lives easier, too. Making more electronic textbooks and course packets available would cut down the cost of books in a way no book buyback system could offer. And videotaped lectures online seem to bethe next logical step to posting PowerPoints on Black-board (although the survey does ask if streaming your lectures on-line would make you more likely to skip classes).

Committee members will pres-ent their funding suggestions in the beginning of March. Weighing costs and benefits is a concept economist Schapiro is sure to understand.

So let’s pick our benefits.

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Award-winning author talks violence on Chicago streetsBy Lilia HargisThe Daily Northwesternwww.dailynorthwestern.com/speaker

About 30 people gathered in University Hall’s intimate Hagstrum Room to listen to award-win-ning author Alex Kotlowitz read from his works about Chicago street violence Tuesday night.

Kotlowitz is the Winter Quarter Writer in Residence for the Northwestern University Cen-ter for the Writing Arts. The author is currently teaching two courses, a writing workshop and a course in the Medill School of Journalism.

Kotlowitz’s books include “There Are No Children Here”, “The Other Side of the River” and “Never a City So Real.” He has also written for several publications such as “The New York Times Magazine” and public radio and is cur-rently working on two films.

“What makes all of this the career of one writer rather than of several is a certain steady vision in Alex’s work,” said Reginald Gibbons, CWA director. “(He has) a tremendous interest in and sympathy for ordinary people caught in unusually difficult circumstances. He also writes about people who have wit and grace and the vi-tal energy to survive such struggles, and he has a deep curiosity about and affection for the urban realities of Chicago.”

Kotlowitz read from his creative essay “Kha-lid,” which told the true story of a Sudanese im-migrant in Chicago who recently lost her teen-age son to street violence. The piece was pub-lished last summer in an issue of British literary magazine Granta, devoted to Chicago.

The author said violence has been a theme that appears throughout his work. Although he has been accused by friends of finding himself in “very dark places,” Kotlowitz said he finds light in the people who manage to go on after being affected by violence.

Meriwether Clarke, a student in Kotlowitz’s writing class, said she attended the event be-cause she has enjoyed his work.

“He is an amazing human being,” the Wein-

berg senior said. While most of the event’s attendees were NU

students or faculty, Chicago residents Kelli We-fenstette and Jimmy Thomas came to hear Kot-lowitz read. They said they heard about the event in “Time Out Chicago” and attended be-cause they’d both read and loved “There Are No Children Here.”

Wefenstette said Kotlowitz’s work is “enlight-ening,” and Thomas said he likes the “thick de-scriptions of individuals.”

Following the reading, Kotlowitz showed a 12-minute clip from his documentary about the “violence interrupters” from the CeaseFire cam-paign.

The CeaseFire campaign uses “credible mes-sengers,” men with ties to the streets of Chicago who have “decided that there is a second act in life” to prevent shootings, Kotlowitz said. He knew many of the men by reputation from his previous work, he added.

The documentary will air spring 2011 on the PBS investigative journalism series “Frontline.”

The common theme between his works is the struggle to understand violence, Kotlowitz said.

“(Murder) is the most extreme act that one hu-man can commit against another,” he said. “What interests me is that somehow, whether they are the family member of a victim, a friend of a vic-tim, or the perpetrator, they manage to go on.”

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Assistant City Manager Marty Lyons said.“It would indicate that perhaps they

haven’t been needing all the money we’ve been giving them,” City Manager Wally Bob-kiewicz said.

But Steve Bartlebaugh, ECMC’s executive director, said no new money had surfaced. Of the apparent $584,000 surplus, $283,000 is restricted for equipment purchase, he said. It can’t be used to pay rent or salaries.

“There’s a little bit of confusion about what’s real money and can actually be spent,” he said. “The difference was that there wasn’t a clear view of what funds were in place.”

Now that it’s clear exactly how many funds ECMC has, the Center has decided it can afford $100,000 in budget cuts, Bar-tlebaugh said. With the money in re-serves, the Center will not have to fire any employees for at least another 10 months, he said. But the $200,000 reduction the city proposed is still too much, Bartle-baugh said.

“After a year, there’s nothing that’s going to replenish those funds,” he said.

City Clerk Rodney Greene said he agreed the

cuts planned for ECMC were too great.“If the cuts do go through for the ECMC,

we’re going to lose a voice for the commu-nity,” he said.

But if the center does have a surplus, the money should be used to keep it afloat, Greene said.

The city is still trying to determine where ECMC’s reserves came from, Bob-kiewicz said. City officials are working with the group to get a copy of its audits for this year, he said.

“It certainly should make it easier for them to look for solutions,” he said.

One of the solutions ECMC and the council are considering is moving the cen-ter to Evanston Township High School, 1600 Dodge Ave., to avoid high rents, Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) said.

Rent for the Center at its current loca-tion, 1285 Hartrey Ave., is $100,000 a year, Bobkiewicz said.

Bartlebaugh said the Center is open to the move. He has three goals for ECMC, he said: get the city to restore $100,000 to its budget, cut long-term costs and find a way to generate revenue.

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ficiency in Creole and French.The first wave of medical workers in-

cludes people with experience in orthope-dics, trauma, anesthesia and technical sup-port, and a second wave of more specialized support will follow, Murphy said.

“It’s a very fluid situation,” he said. “We have a list of people ready to go, and we’re sending them as the opportunity rises.”

Dr. Joseph Weistroffer, a Feinberg assis-tant professor of orthopaedic surgery, will

leave for Haiti Friday.“It’s hard for anyone who’s watched what’s

unfolded in the last weeks not to be devas-tated by this act of Mother Nature,” he said. “I felt compelled to help in any way. I was lucky that I have skills that are really needed down there.”

A graduate of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Weistrof-fer has been trained to work with disasters, he said. Before coming to NU, he served in the military as a medical officer for sailors based in the Pacific Ocean and as a physician for refugees in Djibouti.

Weistroffer said he hopes he can apply his skills as an orthopaedic surgeon and his ex-perience with public health.

“I hope I can work as a surgeon,” he said. “But if they put me in some place to work as a general practitioner, I will. I’ll do whatever they need me to do.”

Six more medical workers will leave for Haiti next Wednesday, Murphy said.

“This isn’t going to end tomorrow,” he said. “We’ll be there at least a couple of months in a very substantial way.”

In addition to sending doctors, NU will also begin receiving patients from Haiti who

have bad spinal injuries, Murphy said. The first spinal injury patient will arrive in Chi-cago Wednesday, he said.

As he prepares to travel in Port-au-Prince, Weistroffer said he has to be ready for any-thing. He said his years in the military have taught him one thing: “Man plans and God laughs.”

“We can only plan so much,” he said. “Then you go and see what you’ve got and deal with the situation that we have there.”

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Entering Tuesday’s game, the Wildcats knew they couldn’t leave Blake Hoffarber open.

Time after time down the stretch, Northwestern still lost track of the junior guard, who scored 14 points in the final seven minutes to lead Minnesota to a 65-61 home victory.

“It’s real disappoint-ing to have the guy we didn’t want to beat us, beat us,” coach Bill Carmody said.

After coming out flat in their past two road games, the Cats hit

four of their first five 3-pointers to jump out to an 18-12 lead.

Then NU (14-6, 3-5 Big Ten) fell into an offensive torpor. The Cats’ poor shot selection and fail-ure to handle the Gophers’ full-court press allowed the hosts to end the half on a 21-7 run.

“The guys that were in the game looked like they hadn’t seen the press since 7th grade,” Carmody said. “And the guys that they had in were fresh.”

The Cats’ offense woke up after intermission—or at least John Shurna did. The sophomore forward opened the half with three straight 3s. With NU trailing by 12 a few minutes later, Shurna’s sharpshoot-ing sparked a 10-0 run while an op-portunistic defense out of the 1-3-1 zone forced Minnesota (13-7, 4-4) to commit multiple turnovers. Junior point guard Michael Thompson knotted the game at 48 with a 3 shortly after that.

“We have great spurts,” said Shurna, who tallied a team-high 19

points. “But then we have points where we’re not focused and not making the right play.”

Hoffarber capitalized on that lack of focus. The Gophers’ gunner came into the game shooting a con-ference-best 49 percent from out-side, but the guard continued to get open looks in the closing minutes.

“Our rotations on defense had a lot of mental lapses,” Thompson said. “We just kept losing sight of where he was.”

Hoffarber knocked down his fi-nal four tries from long range and drained 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions when he caught Shurna gambling on a steal and go-ing under a screen.

“I take responsibility for that,” Shurna said. “I left him open for a couple of big shots, and he came up with them.”

Despite Hoffarber’s hot hand, the Cats kept it close, pulling to within three with less than 15 seconds left. They fouled sophomore guard Devoe Joseph to put him at the line for the one-and-one, and the guard missed his first shot. If NU had brought down the rebound, it would have had a chance to tie. But Hoffarber snuck into the lane for the offensive board and nailed his two foul shots to put the game out of reach.

The Gophers had a significant height advantage, blocking 11 of the Cats’ 56 attempts. NU responded by relying on the 3, hitting more treys (12) than 2-pointers (10).

“We have to do a better job going through our offense, trying to get the best shot possible,” Thompson said. “A couple of times we rushed our shots and took some shots we normally don’t take.”

And despite outshooting the Go-phers for stretches, the Cats couldn’t contain the one player they had to.

“Coach went through the scout-ing report,” Shurna said. “We knew (Hoffarber) could shoot. We just need to stay mentally focused for the whole game.”

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From high to low: Sophomore forward John Shurna scored 19 points and kept the Cats close by making half of his first 10 shots. But he was 1-for-6 the rest of the way and allowed back-to-back 3-pointers on defense.

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Northwestern routed winless Southern Illinois -Edwardsville 28-15 Friday by winning all but one weight class. Two days later, No. 11 Indiana returned the favor by steamrolling the Wildcats 31-9 in their Big Ten opener.

The Cats’ conference opener gave them a first taste of what is a typically brutal Big Ten schedule. Indiana (12-1, 1-1) , who lost to No. 19 Wiscon-sin on Friday, sandwiched NU (5-7-1, 0-1 Big Ten) with the top 125-pound wrestler and the second-best heavy-weight wrestler in the nation.

“Any time it helps our confidence, that’s great,” coach Tim Cysewski said about playing an overmatched

opponent. “But we have to raise our intensity for a Big Ten opponent, when that intensity may not be there against a lesser team. I told the guys after the match on Friday that we couldn’t rest on our laurels.”

The scoreline from the match against SIU-Edwardsville (0-11) was misleading because NU won every weight class except for heavyweight. The Cats forfeited the 125- and 141-pound divisions, giving away 12 points.

Indiana was a different story. Hoosiers senior Angel Escobedo (125) pinned freshman Levi Mele in the first match to give Indiana a 6-0 lead at the start. Senior Eric Metzler (133) followed with a 7-4 win over Indiana’s Matt Ortega to keep NU within striking distance.

“It was nice to set the pace in sec-

ond matchup and get points on the board,” Metzler said. “Hopefully it’ll set the tone for the rest of the guys. At this time of year, every Big Ten match is important —it’s important for the Big Ten Tournament and na-tional qualifiers.”

Junior Andrew Nadhir (149) beat Indiana’s Matt Coughlin 7-4 in the next bout, though Nadhir and Metzler’s six combined points were offset by NU’s forfeit in the 141-pound weight class.

Despite being down only 12-6, NU’s chance to win quickly van-ished. After Indiana’s Kurt Kinser pinned NU freshman Kevin Bialka (157), redshirt sophomore Robert Kellogg (174) lost 10-4, junior Aaron Jones (184) fell 5-2, and sophomore John Schoen (197) dropped a 7-1 de-cision. Marcus Shrewsbury (285), wrestling up from his normal 184-pound weight class, was no match for Indiana’s Nate Everhart , who shutout the freshman 12-0.

“Going in, we had a good chance

to win four or five matchups, but we had to wrestle well to get that done,” Cysewski said. “We came up short in the 184 and 197, which I thought we could have won.”

NU’s one bright spot among the string of losses was redshirt fresh-man Brian Roddy, Jr. (174) , who con-tinued his strong run by winning a 6-4 decision against Indiana’s Trevor Perry. Roddy wrestled in only one dual prior to last weekend’s Lone Star Tournament, but he improved his duals record to 5-1 this season.

“I knew it was going to be a battle,” Roddy said. “College wres-tling is a funny sport because, if you make one mistake, the match can take a whole different swing. I knew I was going to have to be on my ‘A’ game to win it.”

Though Cysewski said he was ambivalent about the Cats’ perfor-mance against the Hoosiers, he was pleased with their final nonconfer-ence dual of the season two days earlier. Against SIU-Edwardsville,

all but one of NU’s wins was a four-point major decision or five-point technical fall. Then again, the win-less Cou-gars went 0-4 against other Big Ten oppo-nents, fail-ing to score a sin-gle point against any of them.

NU has a chance to even its conference record when Illi-nois visits Evanston on Sunday.

“We’ll build from this—we saw some good things today,” Cysewski said. “We need everybody to wres-tle their best next week.”

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