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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2010
The Daily Northwestern
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2 NU wins grant to ease transition to electronic records, Feinberg study uncovering marker
Following the family name to my true calling
EditorialsLiving wage rally shows students care; job cuts tough but needed
Nate Carroll
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Men’s BasketballThe Wildcats’ recent losses have all but eliminated their NCAA hopes. But Northwestern could benefit from less postseason pressure
Women’s BasketballNo. 10 Ohio State could determine whether the Wildcats will grab a first-round bye in the Big Ten Tournament
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Watch NU students march from the arch to Rebecca Crown Center and listen to a speech from Wednesday’s Living Wage Rally
3 Angry drivers, cut-off padlocks, ISRC students ticketed for marijuana possession
By Alex Rudansky The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/evanston
The number of Cook County resi-dents who seek emergency food assis-tance each year has increased 36 per-cent since 2006, according to a recent report on hunger.
Hunger in America 2010 , released Feb. 2, stated 678,000 people nation-wide rely on supplemental and emer-gency food sources, including soup kitchens, food pantries and shelters.
At the Evanston Salvation Army Food Pantry , caseworker Jean Sapper said she has seen an increase in clients since June of last year. There has been a 25 to 50 percent increase in clients served, depending on the month, she said.
In response to this growth in de-mand, the pantry has raised the amount of food it stocks.
“We just keep ordering,” Sapper said.
Of the 121 people the pantry serves, “quite a few are on food stamps,” Sap-per said.
The report suggests many people who are eligible for food stamps may not be receiving them. In Cook County only 44 percent of residents who rely on emergency and supplemental food sources receive Supplemental Nutri-tion Assistance Program/Food Stamp benefits. Fourteen percent of people in need never applied for those benefits because they did not believe they were eligible, according to the report.
The Greater Chicago Food Deposi-tory has been working since July 2007 to increase access to food stamps for eligible clients.
“It’s a federal benefit, and we want to make sure that those who are eligi-ble for (the program) know about it and know how to apply for it,” said Meaghan Farno , the organization’s
public relations coordinator.The depository’s outreach program
works with local food pantries during their distribution times, providing cli-ents access to printers and scanners and assisting in the proper completion of paper work.
“We’re able to screen them and able to estimate what their benefit would be,” Farno said. “We found there were a lot of people that just assumed they weren’t eligible or just didn’t even know SNAP was a possibility for their family, so we were able to open that door and educate them.”
The program, Food Stamp Out-reach , also visits housing developments and apartment complexes known to house people in need of food assis-tance.
Farno said the Illinois Department of Human Services , the office respon-
Food pantries packed for hungrier America
FOOD STAMPS, page 5
Supporters ‘rally, rant and rage’
Wait starts early
Nicky Nicholson-Klingerman/The Daily Northwestern
Rally: Students chanted and carried signs as they marched toward University President Morton O. Schapiro’s office to show support for the Living Wage Campaign at NU. About 300 demonstrators attended the rally.
By Jessica Allen The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/academics
As students prepared to register this week, many departments’ course offer-ings had already filled and turned to waitlists.
Students hoping to take courses in economics, art, Spanish and Portuguese may have to wait until Spring Quarter begins to see if they’ll have their desired schedules.
“I know it’s going to be impossible for a lot of students to get into classes,” said Myriam Schroeter , a Communication ju-nior who is also majoring in Spanish. “I’m stuck because I need to take two Spanish courses this quarter, and I only signed up for one.”
This quarter, about 1,130 students took classes in Spanish and Portuguese and about 250 people are majoring or minoring in Spanish, said Josef Barton , chair of the department. This presents a strain in ensuring each student is able to take the courses they need, he said.
“It causes some sleepless nights, (but) it’s a good problem,” Barton said. “This spring we’re having to improvise.”
Heather Colburn , director of the De-partment of Spanish and Portuguese, said although many classes filled up by the beginning of registration week, she took into consideration majors and mi-nors who pre-registered.
“Every quarter we always accommo-date our majors and minors,” she said. “We have the largest enrollment of any language department on campus, and that’s a challenge.”
Schroeter said the fact that there are waitlists for classes prior to pre-registra-tion week proves course availability is an issue. Last year there was a quarter when she couldn’t take any of the Span-ish courses she needed, she said.
“I don’t think they know the reality that exists,” she said. “There’s just not a lot of options for us. It pushes us back.”
Students with two majors have a dif-ficult time enrolling in needed courses despite the pre-registration period be-cause they have to consider require-ments for both majors, Schroeter said. Students can only pre-register for two classes .
“There’s a disconnect between what the Spanish department offers each year and what student need to take to fulfill major, minor credit,” Schroeter said. “That’s sort of unfortunate. I feel like there aren’t many routes.”
Spanish major Margaret Truesdale said the department recognizes issues with course registration.
“They’re all talking about the changes they want to make next year,” the Wein-berg junior said. “They’re hiring now ... but at this point it’s sort of in a sad place.”
Barton said the department is at-tempting to deal with the “gratifying strong interest.”
“Last year we appointed three short-
Preregistration fills classes in popular majors early in the game
WAITLIST, page 5
By Vasiliki Mitrakos The Daily Northwestern dailynorthwestern.com/student-life
“We will rally, rant and rage, till we see a living wage,” chanted about 300 students, faculty and community members as they gathered by the Arch to support living wages for Northwest-ern’s sub-contract workers. Bracing 27-degree weather, demonstrators
gathered Wednesday afternoon, chanting and holding dozens of signs in support of establishing a living wage for NU workers. Just minutes after the rally began, protesters filled up nearly a block stretching from the Arch past Cahn Auditorium, 600 Emerson St .
“A lot of people don’t realize we
RALLY, page 3
Schapiro addresses NU diversity gap By Lilia Hargis The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/asg
University President Morton O. Schapiro attended Associated Student Government Senate on Wednesday
night to discuss diversity, community-building and the value of student in-volvement.
The first question Schapiro ad-dressed was about efforts to improve diversity and inclusion at NU. He ac-knowledged lack of diversity is still a
problem on campus.“Some of our numbers are pretty
embarrassing, particularly given where we are located, in an urban environ-
1 percentBY THE NUMBERS
The number of NU employees paid less than $13.23 per hour, the established“living wage,” without benefits
$3.3 to $4 million What it would cost the University to provide a living wage for all employees
$400 to $500Additional cost per year for all students in residence halls if theliving wage is implemented
Source: University spokesman Al Cubbage
Students and faculty brave cold to show support for living wage at NU
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e2NU wins government grant to ease doctors’ transition to electronic records
A multimillion-dollar governmental grant awarded to Northwestern last year may help increase the number of physicians who decide to adopt and effectively use electronic medical records.
The new initiative is funded by the Health Information Technology for Eco-nomic and Clinical Health Act, which will
work to encourage primary care clini-cians to phase out paper-based patient records from their medical practices. The new program is part of the even larger $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which was signed into law last February.
About $7.6 mil-lion was given to
both NU and Northern Illinois University to establish a number of regional extension centers that cover the state. Each of these centers will serve a specific geographic area and offer technical assistance, guidance and information to physicians in order to facili-tate the transition to an electronic health re-cords system.
The extension program is expected to roll out an estimated 70 regional centers and reach at least 100,000 physicians nationwide, said Dr. Abel Kho, an assistant professor at NU’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
Besides receiving technical support while moving toward electronic records, physicians will be compensated about
$44,000 over four years, provided they make meaningful use of the new system. The incentive was created to help lower the costs of switching over to electronic records, which deter many physicians from making the change, Kho said.
Only about 30 percent of Chicago-area doctors have chosen to implement electronic patient records in their practices. But Kho said electronic record systems are more effi-cient and confer a number of distinct bene-fits. These benefits include computerized clinical decision support systems, which can manage a patient’s entire medical history and give advice to physicians during times of uncertainty.
“Electronic health records have great po-tential to improve the quality, safety and value of clinical care in this country,” he said. “We’re excited to have the opportunity to help move this vision forward.”
—GaneshThippeswamy
Feinberg study uncovering neurological marker for hug-averse Fragile X patients
A new study from Northwestern’s Fein-berg School of Medicine is taking steps to further understand Fragile X syndrome, a genetic-linked defect that can cause mild learning problems or physical abnormalities and profound mental retardation. While a large proportion of Fragile X patients are clinically diagnosed with autism, a highly variable neurodevelopmental disorder, a majority of autistic individuals do not have Fragile X syndrome.
The research is uncovering a neurologi-cal marker of one of the disease’s curious symptoms—a severe disliking of being touched or hugged.
In order to investigate this hypersensitiv-
ity in Fragile X patients, NU Prof. and lead investigator Anis Contractor honed in on the sensory cortex, a part of the brain that processes a wide array of sensory experi-ences, including touch.
“We were really interested in this part of the brain because we knew that (these pa-tients) had issues with sensory perception,” Contractor said.
Individuals with Fragile X tend to shy away from physical contact with others, a characteristic known as tactile defensive-ness, but are also especially perturbed by auditory and visual stimuli, he said.
The research team observed the develop-ment of the sensory cortex in mice, which rely heavily on touch for navigating their environ-ments. Scientists found the sensory cortices in mice afflicted with Fragile X did not develop properly. Specifically synapses, the crucial structures that allow one brain cell to commu-nicate with another, developed more slowly than usual in these mice.
For brains to develop properly, there is a critical window of time during which synap-tic connections must be made rapidly in a coordinated manner. Then the brain’s plas-ticity begins to decline, as brain cell con-nections can no longer be changed.
“We found this critical period was shifted by a few days,” he said. “This may have a domino effect on other regions of the brain, as the whole system doesn’t wire up properly.”
Understanding how and when brain de-velopment goes awry in Fragile X patients may help scientists determine the most opti-mal time to deliver therapeutics and guide the brain along a normal course of develop-ment.
“This critical window of plasticity is where we need to be focusing on,” Contrac-tor said. “If we can target therapies during that period, maybe we can correct some of the problems that occur.”
—GaneshThippeswamy
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Woman gets cut off, detaches driver’s mirror once stopped
A woman ripped the mirror off a car Tuesday after the driver cut her off, Evanston police said.
The owner of the damaged car said she cut in front of the suspect at Main Street and Asbury Avenue at 1:35 p.m., Cmdr. Tom Guenther said.
The cars stopped at Oakton Street and Dodge Avenue, where the suspect jumped out of her car yelling and ripped off the park-
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Foreclosure fiend: padlock pried from boarded-up house
Someone cut the padlock on a foreclosed house Tuesday in the 1800 block of Hovland Court, police said.
Police have no suspects and are not sure if anything was taken, Guenther said. The
property probably will be reboarded, and the case will be closed, he said.
A field representative for a local realty com-pany reported the incident, Guenther said.
ISRC residents caught with smelly room, marijuana
Three Northwestern students received tickets for marijuana possession Tuesday, po-lice said.
A community assistant at the Interna-
tional Studies Residential College, 1861 Sheridan Rd., told officers at 8:30 p.m. he smelled smoke, University Police Deputy Chief Daniel McAleer said.
Officers traced the smell to a room on the third floor, McAleer said. Three students in the room admitted to having smoked mari-juana, and officers saw a small bag of the drug on a desk, he said.
Officers confiscated the marijuana, and the students received city ordinance tickets, McAleer said.
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have contracted workers on campus who don’t have the same benefits with people who work directly on campus,” said Natalie Furlett, NU’s coordinator for student com-munity service. “I’m really excited to see how many people came out and how many people are supporting our community as a whole.”
More than 1,300 students, faculty and com-munity members signed a petition demonstrat-ing concern for the establishment of living wages and benefits for NU sub-contract work-ers. According to the Self-Sufficiency Standard for Illinois, the living wage in Cook County is defined as $13.23 per hour without benefits.
Currently about 90 percent of all sub-con-tract workers in food and janitorial services at NU receive, on average, $9 to $11 per hour, according to the Living Wage Campaign. But according to University Spokesman Al Cub-bage, only 50 of NU’s employees receive less than $13.23.
Implementing living wages would cost the University between $3.3 and 4 million annually, according to a statement from Cubbage. But many demonstrators said they felt this was a trivial amount compared to NU’s nearly $6 bil-lion endowment. Cubbage, however, said fund-ing from the living wage would need to come
from room and board fees or tuition, which “cover the cost of operating Northwestern’s resi-dence halls and dining services.” According to Cubbage this would cost each student living on campus an additional $400 to $500 per year.
“We think that at a school that has so many resources, we shouldn’t have workers living in poverty,” SESP junior Emily Petrie said. “The phrase that the University keeps using is, ‘This is not a priority,’ and having students come out on a day like this, because it is cold and gray and people have lots of homework, shows that this is a priority for the students.”
Despite the cold, a large crowd continued to rally toward University President Morton O. Schapiro’s office, 633 Clark St., half an hour into the rally, chanting “Schapiro, be a hero” along the way. While student groups have had several meetings with Schapiro since the fall, deliberation on the issue of liv-ing wages has been slow.
“When we can actually talk to President Schapiro about it, he seems fairly supportive, but when he leaves the room, we find a lot more push-back,” Weinberg freshman Wil-liam Bloom said. “Hopefully by bringing all these people to his doorstep, he’ll be forced to confront the issue.”
During the ASG Capital Senate meeting Wednesday night, Schapiro told students he supports social justice movements like the
Living Wage Campaign, but NU’s sub-con-tract workers are unionized, which means they sacrifice wages in return for benefits like job security and pensions.
“We have 5,000 workers who work di-rectly with NU, and they’re very well com-pensated,” he said. “The vast majority of peo-ple who work under the people with whom we contract are unionized. They’re doing col-lective bargaining over a lot of things.”
At the Rebecca Crown Plaza, demonstrators listened to several speakers representing the unionized workers on campus who receive minimum benefits and low wages. Rafael Mar-quez, lead cook at 1835 Hinman and union or-ganizer, emphasized the importance of digni-fied wages and labor equality in his speech.
“I’m overwhelmed, and I feel proud of the students taking on the responsibility of bring-ing awareness to the administration and to take on the task at hand,” Marquez said. “I feel better inside that the students don’t over-look us just as help, and that they know and
feel our needs of economic justice. I wanted to let them know that we don’t feel alone any-more or in a redundant struggle, that we are having progress with the help of the students.”
Campus efforts to establish living wages began in early November, and student orga-nizations plan to continue the effort through-out Spring Quarter.
“People who work in the kitchens and in the dorms, they definitely deserve a living wage,” Sociology Prof. Elder Morris said. “There is no reason why such an enlightened university would not be aware of what it means for a fam-ily to live on $20,000. The administrators and the professors would never even consider or think about living at that level.”
After the speeches, students began to dis-perse, but several supporters continued to chant loudly and dance while the song “Party in the U.S.A.” played in the background.
“We are really amazed and excited that hundreds of students came out in the freez-ing cold to show that they demand that Northwestern, our university that we are so proud of, pay our workers a living wage and do it now,” said Weinberg junior Adam Yalowitz, a Living Wage Campaign coordina-tor. “We’re not going to accept injustice, and we will continue fighting.”
Demonstrators arrive at Schapiro’s doorstep, rally for changeRALLY, page 1
”“I feel proud of the students taking on the responsibility of bringing awareness.
Rafael Marquez,Lead cook, 1835 Hinman
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A friend of mine recently told me she saw someone wearing a sweatshirt with the words “Carroll Univer-
sity.” This is interesting for two rea-sons. Firstly, the friend in question is currently teaching English at an ele-mentary school in South Korea, and the sweatshirt-wearer was one of her students. Secondly—and I don’t mean to jump to conclusions inap-propriately here—it seems to imply the existence of a school of higher education called Carroll University.
As a proud Carroll, this is excit-ing news to me. I only wish I knew about CU when I was applying for schools. Without meaning any of-fense to Northwestern, tuition here is way too expensive, classes are al-ternately boring and difficult, the food service guy at Norris put too much orange-ginger sauce in my stir-fry, and now my rice is drown-ing and it’s gross. I have to imagine
I’d be much happier at a school filled with like-minded Carrolls.
The real mystery is why my high school guidance counselor didn’t mention it to me. Don’t try to tell me she hadn’t heard of it. Even people in South Korea know about Carroll!
Due to some gross oversight, the president of CU is a man named Douglas Hastad. I can’t imagine why any institution would sink to the level of a Hastad when there is an abundance of fine, upstanding Carrolls willing to take on leader-ship positions.
Sure, football coach Pete Carroll is a little busy with the Seattle Sea-hawks, author Lewis Carroll is a lit-tle deceased, and actor Steve Car-roll of “The Office” continues to misspell his own name and deny he’s one of us, but the university board of directors hasn’t even ap-proached my sister, my dad or me. And given the two of them are oth-erwise occupied with running a children’s science museum and do-ing something with supercomputers I’ve never quite understood, I figure it’s only a matter of time before I wind up with the top job at CU.
My biggest change as president of the university would be to make
tuition free for all Carrolls. I always assumed every college and univer-sity had a functionally equivalent policy in place. In fact, I strongly considered legally changing my name to Nate Northwestern before I applied here just to save money.
However, after a lengthy conver-sation with the financial aid office at CU (the number for which—I’m not making this up—is 1-800-CAR-ROLL), it became clear it doesn’t give free tuition to eponymous ap-plicants. Also, whoever they’ve got running the phones down there is pretty rude and not at all receptive to helpful suggestions.
Hopefully the university board doesn’t ask about my qualifications beyond being a Carroll. My previous leadership experience is negligible, unless you’re generously giving credit for a brief stint as patrol leader in my Boy Scout troop. Just in case CU does turn down my bid for the presidency, I’ve made a backup plan: According to my research, there are 13 Carroll Counties in the U.S. At least one of those counties must be in need of a king, right?
Schapiro’s unsettling comments on religion
I must admit, I felt rather uneasy as I read Wednesday’s article in The Daily, “Schapiro talks religion in universities at Sheil.” Although every indication until now has been that our University is being led by the most capable of hands, I believe some of University President Morton O. Schapiro’s comments are cause for concern.
Regarding his faith at a secular university, Schapiro said, “I’m not going to hide it or keep it separate because I don’t think that makes for happy human beings.” No one is sug-gesting Schapiro hide his faith. Noth-ing is more important on a college campus, and in the world at large, than tolerance and embracement of religious diversity.
However, I am curious what he is suggesting when he said he will not “keep it separate.” Does he mean to say his faith will influence decisions that he makes as president? Schapiro said further, “People of faith have something in common … We’re all privileged and blessed to have a faith. We should be together. We should be the biggest allies for one another.” Here again the implica-tions are disconcerting. Does he in-tend to provide greater administra-tive access to religious groups or peo-ple of faith?
Religious groups are certainly at no disadvantage at Northwestern. ASG’s Web site lists 28 religious stu-dent groups! And we all know how active they are. There is only one secular group: SHIFT (Secular Hu-
manists for Inquiry & Freethought). Perhaps Schapiro did not mean
what he said to be taken too seriously, or perhaps the quotes are simply out of context. Nonetheless, explanation is wanting. I would like to invite Schapiro to come speak to SHIFT and clarify his comments. I welcome a president who happens to be reli-gious. I am terrified of a religious man who happens to be president.
— Avi EmanuelWeinberg senior
Exec board member, NU SHIFT
Booking Blagojevich new low for NU events
So the College Democrats are bringing in Rod Blagojevich to talk about “Ethics in Politics.”
Man. What’s next from the Col-lege Dems, I wonder?
“Preventing Bank Robberies: A Conversation with Bonnie and Clyde.”
“How to Win the Presidency: A Special Panel with George McGov-ern, Walter Mondale, and John Mc-Cain.”
“The Virtues of Calm Centrism: Presented by Randi Rhodes and Ann Coulter.”
Finally, after Blago reports to federal prison, maybe we can bring him back for a special lecture on how to stay out of trouble.
— David KohnSecond-year School of Law student
WCAS ’03Former Daily columnist
mILLENNIALS “Kittypity” By Steven A. Berger
Good rally turnout shows students care
The Northwestern student body is often character-ized—by students, fac-ulty, staff and observers—
as both divided and apathetic. But you wouldn’t know it if you were at Wednesday’s living wage rally.
More than 250 people joined the Wednesday afternoon rally to show their support. If you looked at the abysmal student turnout in Evanston for the Feb. 2 primary election, you might come to the conclusion NU students just don’t care about their community. And low student attendance at zoning board hearings on the future of the Great Room showed students will sign petitions and join Face-book groups, but that doesn’t mean they’ll show up.
On Wednesday students did show up. Building on the grass-roots activism we saw on campus from Barack Obama supporters prior to the 2008 election, the Living Wage Campaign success-fully tapped into the student ac-tivism and unity that lie beneath our veneer of apathy. Last spring’s 23rd-annual “Take Back the Night” rally, which is consistently
one of the best-attended rallies on campus, successfully attracted more than 100 students. But more than twice that number braved the Evanston winter to show sup-port for the living wage.
Mobilizing support for causes can require people to step out of their own shoes and think about the big picture; it’s not easy work. But students showed Wednesday they do care, and they made sure they would be heard.
Cutting city jobs is responsible choice
In order to make ends meet, the City of Evanston had to find places to save money in the budget for the 2010-11
fiscal year. As with all decisions surrounding the budget, firing more than 30 city employees is not an easy call. But the move makes sense. With every city de-partment looking for ways to save money, employees without whom the city thinks it can survive are out of luck.
People like Jackie Brownlee, who will lose her job after almost 21 years as a city employee, are rightfully hurt. But if the city did not hire efficiently in the first
place—in Brownlee’s case, she said, “There never should have been two executive secretaries here”—now’s the time to look for areas where cuts can be made.
If the city was not making good use of its money by employ-ing people it did not need, it makes sense to stop wasting money now rather than never. The employees hurt by this will take the decision personally, but their feelings should not sway the important process of cutting waste.
Necessary positions should not be sacrificed, but when the city can confidently assert a position is superfluous, cutting it is the right choice. Of more than 1,000 tem-porary and permanent city em-ployees, the budget calls only to remove about 30. By also cutting several currently vacant positions, which add up to more than 40 po-sitions being eliminated, the city is showing it’s trying to avoid fir-ing current employees wherever possible.
The Evanston government is accountable to its citizens; if it can save money and balance the bud-get without sacrificing vital ser-vices, the city is doing the job that needs to be done.
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sible for processing SNAP applications and dis-tributing food stamps, operates from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. This makes it difficult for some people to visit the DHS without jeopardizing their jobs, she said.
“If you’re lucky enough to have a job, you might not be able to make it down to those office hours,” Farno said.
Food Stamp Outreach’s efforts at residential areas are intended to give increased food stamp access to those who are employed.
Seventy-nine percent of those who receive food assistance are unemployed, according to Hunger in America 2010. This widespread drop in income has caused many Cook County resi-dents to choose between food and heat, housing, medicine or transportation.
Even people who are employed seek regular food assistance. One in three households served by the Chicago Food Depository and its member
agencies had at least one or more adults work-ing, according to the hunger report.
Sandy T. Williams, the program director of Family Focus in Evanston, said the number of clients her pantry serves has doubled in the past year, causing the organization to streamline the process.
“Before someone could just pop in,” Wil-liams said. “Now it’s two days a week, and we have pre-sorted bags already made. It’s easier for us to track that way, and then we’re also help-ing the families by trying to put a balanced meal in the bag.”
The Cook County community has responded to the increased need as well, said Sapper, from the Evanston Salvation Army. Much of the food the Salvation Army distributes is donated by the community.
“When the community knows that people are hurting, they’re more gracious and they’re more giving,” she said. “We’re always stocked.”
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Spanish department considers raising course enrollment capsterm people to teach in the spring,” he said. “Like all departments in Weinberg, we like to have our own faculty, whom we’ve hired. So this year and next year, that’s what we’re planning to do.”
The department is in the process of inter-viewing four candidates and hopes to hire a new faculty member for next year, he said. It plans to expand from 27 to 33 Spanish literature classes
next year, and if there’s a new faculty member, four additional courses will be offered, he said. To accommodate students this spring, the de-partment plans to create new sections of courses or raise enrollments caps.
As one of many students on a waitlist, Trues-dale said she recognizes the department’s efforts but is still stuck in a state of limbo.
“I’m just sitting around hoping, crossing my fingers,” she said.
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likely include “sweetening” existing financial aid packages and launching a pilot program to at-tract students from Evanston and Chicago . The other aspect of this goal is to make students feel they belong once they arrive on campus and to make NU a more appealing option for prospec-tive students.
“We are undersold in the market,” Schapiro said. “It’s hard to explain, given how prestigious this university is. There is the perception that we don’t have a good sense of community.”
He said the “north-south divide,” the rela-tively low percentage of undergraduates living on campus and the fact that NU has six under-graduate schools all contribute to the perceived lack of community.
“My first impression arriving here in Sep-tember is that we need to do more things like Dance Marathon and Dillo Day ,” Schapiro said. “We need to figure out funding; we need the right spaces. … That is why we did the Great Room ; that is why we are doing another version (of the Great Room) this summer.”
Throughout the discussion, Schapiro urged students to approach him and his administration with their opinions.
“Without student input, we would be in the dark,” he said. “You will always find my door open. I am not always convinced, but I am al-ways open, and my whole administration is go-ing to be open.”
Later in the meeting, Senators unanimously passed a bill to grant $1,500 from the Senate amendment pool to fund a new University-rec-ognized student group, Lending for Evanston and Northwestern Development. LEND identi-fies “low-income Evanston borrowers” with sound business ideas and provides them with small loans to finance their businesses, said Sen-ator Ravi Umarji , who authored the legislation.
Off-campus Senator Jeff Cao spoke in favor of the bill.
“The pool exists to fund unique projects like this that would not be funded otherwise,” the Weinberg senior said.
Senators also passed a bill requiring the ASG president to give an annual State of the Union address during Fall Quarter “to an-nounce his or her vision for ASG” and en-hance ASG’s relationship with the student body. Senator Austin Young , a Weinberg sophomore, presented the bill.
This week senators received the Student Groups Committee’s funding recommendations. Next Wednesday ASG will vote on funding for B-status student groups.
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By Robbie LevinThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/womens-basketball
No one on Northwestern has been in this position before. The Wildcats are 16-11, sitting in sev-enth place in the Big Ten and jock-eying for a first-round bye in the Big Ten Tournament.
While NU is having its best sea-son in the past decade, it is also benefiting from an unusual season in the Big Ten.
“It’s kind of a bizarre year,” coach Joe McKeown said. “On a given night, everybody can beat everybody.”
Last year four teams had at least 14 conference wins. With two Big Ten matchups remaining for most teams in 2010, only two squads have reached 10 victories.
“It’s the way programs work,” junior center Amy Jaeschke said. “They go through their ups and downs. This particular year every-body is meeting at this one point
where everybody is pretty even.”The razor-thin margin separat-
ing NU and the other mid-level Big Ten squads has become evident in the Cats’ schedule: Eleven of the
Cats’ 16 conference contests have been decided by 10 points or fewer. With its 7-9 Big Ten re-cord, NU is two games out of third place and one game ahead of 10th place.
“There are one or two teams that have pulled away,” senior for-ward Kristin Cartwright said. “But when you look further down the list, everyone is so jumbled with their wins and losses that these next two games are so critical for
everyone.”The Cats’ opponent tonight, No. 10
Ohio State, is one of those teams that has separated itself. Led by junior center Jantel Lavender, the two-time Big Ten Player of the Year, the Buck-eyes have already clinched the Big Ten Title and the top spot in March’s conference tournament. Lavender guided Ohio State past NU in De-cember, taking a game-high 16 shots and pouring in 14 points.
“When (Lavender) gets the ball she’s going to score,” Jaeschke said. “So a lot of our defense is about not letting her catch the ball on the blocks.”
Still the Cats may have the mo-mentum going into the game. NU is riding a season-high two-game conference winning streak, while Ohio State is coming off a heart-breaking overtime loss on Sunday.
“It’s huge,” Jaeschke said of the Cats’ recent surge. “Playing against Ohio State, we’ve got to go into the game with a lot of confidence.”
NU has been forced to go with
smaller lineups in the past, but McKeown said the Cats’ size should help them against the Buck-eyes, one of the biggest teams in the Big Ten.
“A lot of our league is matchups and style of play,” he said. “This year we have more size, more expe-rience, everybody’s a year better.”
Tonight’s contest pits McKeown against a mentor and a friend in Ohio State coach Jim Foster. McK-eown first faced Foster when McKeown was in high school and Foster was an opposing prep coach in Philadelphia. The former St. Joseph’s and Vanderbilt coach has racked up 711 wins, four trips to the Elite Eight and one Final Four appearance.
“He’s somebody that sees the big picture of college athletics—there’s a lot more to him than just being a winning basketball coach,” McKeown said. “But I want to beat him.”
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NU jockeying for postseason position in ‘bizarre’ Big Ten year
Tomorrow in SporTSMen’s BasketballFind out if NU was able to get revenge on Iowa on its home courtLacrosseThe Cats prepare for a West Coast trip to to take on Stanford and CalSportsSports
By Danny DalyThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/mens-basketball
For three-and-a-half games, the Wildcats were one of the worst de-fensive teams in the country. Northwestern gave up more than 70 points to three straight oppo-nents, lost to two teams with losing records and allowed Wisconsin to shoot 75 percent from the field in the first half Sunday.
Then something clicked for the Cats.
“In the second half, we were more ag-gressive,” coach Bill Carmody said. “Maybe our backs were to the wall or some-
thing like that.”Whatever the reason, NU
snapped out of its week-and-a-half-long funk, rallying from a 14-point halftime deficit to crawl within one. The Badgers made only 26 percent of their shots after inter-mission and struggled against the Cats’ pressure.
Ultimately, NU couldn’t over-take Wisconsin, missing a couple of close looks late and losing 70-63 af-ter being forced to foul. But the Cats regained the sense of urgency they played with earlier this year, and the result reminded them of their capabilities.
“We felt that we didn’t have any-thing to lose,” sophomore center Luka Mirkovic said. “People tended to start doubting us when we lost at Iowa, and especially against Penn State. “We know that we can com-pete against every single team in the league. That (comeback) kind of shows us we can do this.”
Now Mirkovic and his team-mates have a second chance to knock off Iowa and Penn State af-ter the crippling losses earlier this month, beginning with the Hawkeyes’ trip to Evanston to-night. Before the game at Iowa, which Carmody called “the start of
this malaise,” NU seemed poised to make its first-ever NCAA Tourna-ment appearance—as long as it beat its lesser opponents.
That’s when the Cats’ defense collapsed. From the 78-65 loss in Iowa City, Iowa, through the first half of the Wisconsin game, NU let up an average of 1.23 points per possession.
To put that number in perspec-tive, the least-efficient defensive team in a major conference (a tie between Providence and Rutgers) has allowed 1.14 points per posses-sion against league foes. Plus Iowa and Penn State are two of the worst offensive squads in the Big Ten, and their output against NU was their third-highest of the season.
“I don’t think we’ve been com-ing out with that same aggression,” senior guard Jeremy Nash said. “We’ve been laid-back, waiting to see how the game is going to play out, and that has hurt us.”
The Hawkeyes and the Nittany Lions exposed the Cats’ 1-3-1 de-fense in different ways. Whereas Iowa’s outside shooting put NU be-hind for good, Penn State passed the ball into the post with regular-ity and took advantage of the mis-match with junior point guard Mi-chael Thompson on the baseline.
Neither strategy was new to the Cats, so fixing those problems is a matter of execution rather than a problem with the scheme.
“We’ve looked at the tape and seen what they’ve done,” Carmody said. “I don’t think they did any un-usual things, but they were pre-pared and they executed. They weren’t indecisive, and we have to get them to the point where they’re uncomfortable. Iowa and Penn State got the shots they wanted.”
The recent defeats have all but ended NU’s chance for an at-large NCAA Tournament bid, meaning it has to win the Big Ten Tournament to make the field of 65. But the Cats might benefit with less post-season pressure.
“The skeleton’s not on our back now,” Nash said. “Guys aren’t like, ‘OK, we’ve got to win this to make the NCAA Tournament.’ Now we can just go out and play and let our fate take us where it’s going to take us.”
Cats playing with nothing to lose
Daily File photo by Jai Broome
Going all-out: Senior guard Jeremy Nash drives to the basket against Minnesota. After dropping three of their last four games, the Cats are no longer playing for their NCAA Tournament lives in the regular season.
Daily File photo by robbie Levin
Moving up: Amy Jaeschke and NU are fighting for a first-round bye.
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