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THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2010
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2 NU scientists were involved in a new study showing diabetes can affect pregnant women
Time is only passing by faster
these days, so make the most of
your quarters
EditorialStart from scratch to build the new student center we need
Nate Carroll
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Men’s BasketballNU dominates Chicago State in last home matchup of season
ChappattaForget what the scoreboard said, NU not a winner
Women’s BasketballThe Cats prepare for Michigan in Big Ten Tournament
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3 Proponents of the Evanston branch libraries fight for funds
3 If the funding for the branch libraries is not met, some residents propose bookmobile
The Daily NorthwesternAmanpour to speak to grads
By Ali ElkinThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/speaker
Christiane Amanpour will speak at this year’s Commencement cere-mony in June, Northwestern admin-istrators said Wednesday.
“She is an incredibly distinguished journalist and re-porter,” said Uni-versity spokes-man Al Cubbage . “She’s had a remark-able career and really is someone who hope-fully our students would re-spect and enjoy hearing.”
Amanpour, CNN ’s chief interna-tional correspondent, currently hosts the interview show “Aman-pour.” Her first major international coverage was from the Persian Gulf War, after which she became famous for her reports on wars, disasters and genocide.
Amanpour will receive an honor-ary Doctor of Humane Letters de-gree at Commencement, according to a University statement.
A committee including University President Morton O. Schapiro de-cided on Amanpour as a top choice for Commencement speaker during Fall Quarter, said Jake Julia , associ-
ate vice provost for academic initia-tives.
“We try to get someone who re-ally fits with the University’s overall mission and goals,” Julia said.
He said the selection was based on a desire to emphasize NU’s global outlook.
“Certainly given her focus on in-ternational issues, her strong inter-national focus and Northwestern’s international focus, we just think it’s really great timing,” Julia said. “Last year’s speaker (Wynton Marsalis ) was fantastic. Given Northwestern’s focus on the arts, we think he was wonderful. This year we think this is a great speaker to focus on North-western’s international focus.”
By Claire BrownThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/academics
After a generous financial gift from Nicholas D. Chabraja (WCAS ’64), Northwestern’s Center for Historical Studies was renamed the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies last month.
The money was put toward the cen-ter’s endowment, Assistant Director Elz-bieta Foeller-Pituch said. It will be used to fund the center’s yearly activities, which include eight to 10 lectures featur-
ing eminent historians from around the world and several workshops on campus and abroad to engage graduate students in discussion, book launches, confer-ences and other lectures on campus, she said.
The center, established in 2006, is geared toward the department as a whole, Foeller-Pituch said. The History Department will return to its home in the renovated Harris Hall, 1881 Sheri-dan Rd. , next fall.
Dance Marathon receives extra funding from ASG
Gift from alumnus to fund center activities
Jai Broome/The Daily Northwestern
History: The newly renamed Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies will move to Harris Hall next year. The hall is being renovated now.
HISTORY, page 6
Approved $1,500 grant to Lending for Evanston and
Northwestern Development for its micro-lending
program
Introduced New Student Center Initiative to propose
options to better meet students’ needs
Endorsed Living Wage Campaign to raise wages for
all NU workers, including Sodexo staff
Reduced Art Alliance to B-Status funding pool
Established midterm evaluations for first-year
teaching assistants
ASG throughout the quarter
Launched Unofficial Student Guide for incoming students
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“She’s had a remarkable career and really is someone who hopefully our students would respect and enjoy hearing.
Al Cubbage,University spokesman
CNN international reporter to give 2010 Commencement speech
Photo Courtesy of Al Cubbage
Speaker: Christiane Amanpour has reported international events.
5 NU artists-in-residence at NU don’t just teach literature— they write it, too
5 City partners with the EPA on programs to help the environment
By Lilia Hargis The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/asg
Associated Student Government Sen-ate voted to allocate an additional $750 to $1,000 in funding to Dance Marathon at its Wednesday night meeting.
The event’s change in venue from the Norris University Center Louis Room to a tent on the East Lawn last year led to higher production, DM Executive Co-chair Ryan Farrell said. Increased over-head costs and a low ASG funding alloca-tion caused DM to face the possibility of running a budget deficit for the first time in its 36-year history, the McCormick se-nior said.
“We essentially cut production costs in every area but the tent this year,” Far-rell said. “With more dancers the tent got larger. We cut lighting and sound costs, but you can only cut so much before the actual integrity of the event is compro-mised.”
Without the additional funding from the Senate project pool, DM would have had to counter its deficit by taking money from the donations to its beneficiary, Far-rell said.
According to a statement from ASG’s DM group executive, who could not be present at the meeting, DM’s original an-
nual funding request was $12,000. ASG first decided to allocate $4,500 to the group but had to reduce the total to $3,200 because of limited funding in the B-Status pool.
ASG Student Groups Vice President Bill Russell said DM is a “special case” student group. Though it is a permanent, popular group on campus with large funding needs, it is not an A-Status group because of the “75-25” rule, which stipu-lates that A-Status student groups are re-quired to give 75 percent of their pro-ceeds back to the University, the Wein-berg sophomore said.
At the meeting the Senate also voted on B-Status student group funding allo-cations. Each Winter Quarter, B-Status groups apply for funding, and the ASG Student Groups Committee makes fund-ing recommendations. This year a total of $31,828.92 was allocated to 42 groups.
In order for funds to be added to a group, it must first be cut from another group to avoid a deficit, Russell said. Sen-ators did not vote to add or cut any funds.
B-Status groups will receive this funding at the beginning of Spring Quar-ter, Russell said.
In response to ASG’s resolution to in-crease the Student Activities Fee earlier this quarter, NU’s Board of Trustees voted Saturday to increase the fee by
about 5 percent next year, ASG President Mike McGee said. The Communication senior said he did not know if the in-crease would be tied to tuition as the ASG resolution had stipulated.
Senators unanimously passed a reso-lution recommending members of the Academic Committee speak to the ad-ministration in efforts to hire more non-Western studies faculty members. This resolution aims to facilitate the develop-ment of more academic programs that do not focus on Western society at NU, said Residential Housing Association Senator Amalia Namath , who authored the reso-
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ASG: Clerk Brook Stanislawski tallies votes against funding for DM.
ASG, page 6
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Adverse pregnancy outcomes studied
By Ganesh Thippeswamy The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/science
A study linking high blood sugar levels with pregnancy complications will result in more women diagnosed with gestational dia-betes mellitus, a form of diabetes occurring only during pregnancy .
A multinational group of experts including three Northwestern scientists co-authored the Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy
Outcomes experi-ment. The study tested more than 25,000 pregnant women across nine countries.
“(The experiment) showed that existing diagnostic criteria may leave out many women and babies at risk of health compli-cations due to GDM,” said NU Prof. Lynn Lowe , the study’s project manager.
Elevated blood sugar levels during
pregnancy, a hallmark symptom of gesta-tional diabetes, present dangers to the mother and her unborn baby, said lead author Dr. Boyd Metzger , a professor of metabolism and nutrition at NU’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
These blood sugar levels don’t need to be
as high as once thought for complications to arise, Lynn Lowe said.
These results led the panel of scientists to recommend changes to the diagnostic crite-ria. Imposing stricter criteria is in the pa-tients’ best interests, and expectant females can seek treatment early to minimize risks to both themselves and their babies, Metzger said.
“Women with gestational diabetes are at increased risk of having a pregnancy compli-cated by high blood pressure or requiring a Cesarean section for delivery of their baby,” said Prof. Dr. William Lowe , a co-investigator on the study. “Women who are diagnosed with gestational diabetes are at increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes later in life.”
William Lowe added that mothers with gestational diabetes pass risks on to their ba-bies, such as an increased likelihood of the baby being overweight and developing type 2 diabetes later in life.
Environmental and genetic factors also play a part in the development of the disease.
“We have no control over our genetic make-up, but it is known that women who are overweight prior to pregnancy are at in-creased risk of developing gestational diabe-tes,” William Lowe said. “Maintaining a nor-mal body weight prior to pregnancy is one of the most important things that a woman can do to decrease her risk of developing the dis-ease.”
Women are diagnosed using an oral glu-cose-tolerance test , which measures a pa-tient’s blood sugar levels when fasting and one and two hours after drinking a sugary
glucose drink. Under the old requirements, patients who presented with higher-than-normal blood glucose levels at two or three of these checkpoints were diagnosed with GDM . The policy has been amended so pa-tients only need to exhibit heightened levels at one measurement.
These revised requirements could lead to a doubling or tripling of the number of cases in the future, Lynn Lowe said.
“ Whereas approximately 5 to 8 percent of pregnant women were previously diagnosed with GDM, 16 percent may now meet the cri-teria for GDM,” she said.
Complications of gestational diabetes
• birth defects
• increased rate of miscarriage
• over-nutrition and excess growth of baby
• early deliveries and cesarean sections
• preeclampsia (potentially life-threatening high blood pressure during pregnancy)
Source: http://diabetes.webmd.com/guide/gestational_diabetes
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“Women with gestational diabetes are at increased risk of having a pregnancy complicated.
William Lowe,Study investigator
NU scientists find high blood sugar levels and pregnancy complications lead to gestational diabetes mellitus
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By Emilia BarrosseThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/council
Evanston residents are banding together to raise funds in the next few months to keep the city’s branch libraries afloat.
The Evanston City Council initially voted to cut funding for the north and south branch li-braries during budget workshops this winter to help close a $9.5 million budget deficit. Before passing the final budget, the aldermen decided to give branch supporters until Aug. 31 to raise $160,000, the amount needed to fund the branches through March.
Ald. Coleen Burrus (9th), who consistently voted to remove funding to the libraries, said al-though supporters have to raise only $160,000 by the end of August, finding a sustainable fund-ing method over the years will be much harder.
“They need to prove that they can come up with a half a million dollars every year going for-ward,” Burrus said. “They need to show how they’re going to do that. That has not happened at this point.”
Former Third Ward alderman Emily Guth-rie, an organizer in the fundraising group Evan-ston Public Library Friends, said the branch li-braries are important to local businesses.
“People tend to walk and make several stops along the street when they’re going to the li-brary,” Guthrie said. “The merchants were not at all happy at the prospect of losing the branches.”
To comply with the city’s new fiscal budget, the branch libraries have cut back their operat-ing hours. They are now open only four days a week.
At EPLF’s meeting last Wednesday, nearly 100 people showed up to help brainstorm fund-
raising ideas, Guthrie said.Among the organization’s ideas is to create
lemonade stand kits for Evanston kids to raise money. Other ideas include book sales, hosting slam poetry contests and putting on concerts. Guthrie said famous Evanston novelists such as Joseph Epstein and Audrey Niffenegger, who wrote the “Time Traveler’s Wife,” also want to offer their services in live readings and book signings.
Connie Heneghan, branch manager of the Evanston Public Libraries, said although library staff may not be fundraising in their spare time, she has faith in the fundraising efforts of the EPLF.
“If (keeping the branches afloat) is possible, this is a group that will get it done because they bring a lot of energy and intelligence and effort to the cause,” Heneghan said.
But Burrus said she doesn’t think funding for
the libraries is sustainable through this process. She said supporters would have to find sustain-able models for not only the north and south branches but also the west and southwest branches.
“If the branch library people are saying that it is so important to have these branches, then they’ll need to fund them in those critical areas,” Burrus said. “And they’ll have to show how they’re going to do that.”
Guthrie said she and her group are also look-ing at grants as a method of sustaining the branches over the long-term.
“We can make this work,” she said. “We will at least by ourselves over the years keep the li-braries open, and in the meantime, there are other options for us to look at for long-term sus-tainability.”
Traveling bookmobile may be option if branch libraries can’t find funds
Branch library supporters face August fundraising deadline
By Brittney WongThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/evanston
In 1946 Evanston became one of the first cities in the United States to use a bookmo-bile, a traveling library-on-wheels that stopped in different areas throughout the city on a fixed schedule.
The program was discontinued in 1997, but the Evanston Public Library may now look into resurrecting it as a less expensive al-ternative to maintaining the branch libraries.
“We would consider it,” said Paul Gottschalk, EPL administrative services manager. “We need to find the best way to provide library services outside of the main library building, so we’re willing to consider any options.”
The branch libraries, recently given six months of safety from budget cuts, will be shut down permanently if after that time the community cannot fundraise the money nec-
essary to sustain the facilities.Former Third Ward alderman Emily
Guthrie, a member of a grassroots organiza-tion advocating for the branches called branchLove, said she would love to see the bookmobile brought back because of its “ver-satility” in serving people who don’t live within walking distance of the brick-and-mortar libraries.
“You’ve got a lot of under-served people in Evanston, and the bookmobile would give us that option without worrying about a lease and rent,” Guthrie said.
However, she doesn’t see it as a replace-ment for the branches but rather an addi-tional resource.
Skokie has operated a bookmobile since 1959, with Phil Carlsen as bookmobile librar-ian for the last 22 of those years. Carlsen said the bookmobile came to Skokie after there was a failed referendum to fund a new li-brary branch.
“We really are like a small branch library
or even in some ways like a bookstore on wheels,” Carlsen said.
The Skokie bookmobile circulates approx-imately 80,000 items annually.
Skokie is not the only bookmobile in the area: Carlsen estimates there are about 15 in the Chicago area. This past summer two other cities in Illinois implemented a book-mobile service for the first time.
“Our patrons are loving it,” said Bridget Roland, assistant director at the Markham Public Library in Markham, Ill. “We even have schools calling and requesting visits. There’s a great demand for it.”
Roland said starting up the bookmobile was really making a “dream come true,” espe-cially since the library system recently added a nearby city, Posen, under its patronage.
Joan Battley, director of the North Chi-cago Public Library in North Chicago, Ill., said her city began a bookmobile service for similar reasons.
“We wanted to continue to develop a city
of readers and to reach out to those who do not have access to the library,” she said.
Since the bookmobile is in its infant stages, she said it circulates about 10 to 15 items per visit. It’s especially popular among senior citizens and children who enjoy the mini-library when it stops at nursing homes and schools.
Marcia Mahoney, another branchLove member, said she loves that aspect of the bookmobile.
“It can be 10 branches,” she said. “And that is a wonderful thing.”
In spite of this, Mahoney said she worried people who use the branch libraries for Inter-net and computer use wouldn’t be able to get that service in a bookmobile.
But she doesn’t deny how much they’re loved.
“When they come up, it’s kind of like the ice cream truck visiting,” Mahoney said.
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Lately I’ve noticed the days aren’t quite as long as they used to be. When mid-night rolls around, I get
the feeling I’ve come up a millisec-ond or two short. Of course the ef-fect could be purely mental; they say time flies when you’re having Funyuns, and I’ve definitely been putting down a lot of those. But a little research shows NASA officials share my suspicions. Scientist Richard Gross estimated the recent earthquake in Chile may have al-tered the rotation of the Earth, making days on our planet 1.26 milliseconds shorter.
Obviously 1.26 milliseconds is not a substantial amount of time. In a year, however, it amounts to nearly half a second. Going a step further, if we assume most NU students are 20 years old and will live out the average U.S. life ex-pectancy of 78, we’re talking about
26.7 seconds over the course of a lifetime! And that’s not even ac-counting for the fact that lifespan as measured in years will increase now that years are shorter. To fig-ure it out properly, you’d need cal-culus, which I’ve sworn off ever since Isaac Newton stole the framework for it from a status up-date I made on Facebook and pub-lished it as his own invention.
Aside from the morning groggi-ness I get when I miss out on sev-eral hundred thousand nanosec-onds of sleep (doesn’t it sound more impressive that way?), there’s an-other reason I suspected time is moving faster: Winter Quarter is almost over. It seems like only yes-terday I was cracking open my new textbooks for the first time—hang on, that was only yesterday.
Regardless, I think we can all agree quarters go by quickly. Now that we’re nearly at the end of this one, I’ve decided to summarize a few of the things I learned.n Sometimes a picture is worth
more than 1,000 words. This be-came apparent after being assigned a six-page art history paper—roughly 1,600 words—on a single painting. Although it may still be a
little early to say I’ve learned this lesson: The paper is due tomorrow, and I haven’t started yet. To be fair it’s only because I’m writing this instead. Which brings me to lesson No. 2. . .n Spend your time on whatever
earns you the big bucks. Oh wait, I don’t get paid to write this col-umn. And I’m pretty sure no one gets paid to write about art his-tory. Let’s try. . .n Snow biking is so much bet-
ter than regular biking. This one is both true and useful.
Well, OK, so maybe this quar-ter was a bit of a bust, life lessons-wise. Fortunately I’m not the type to dwell on the past, unless you count that business with Newton. In fact I’m already looking for-ward to Spring Quarter. Of course it has its downsides (rain, regular biking), but I’m also counting on it to deliver some of my favorite things (baseball, Dillo Day, girls in miniskirts).
Because of an earthquake in Chile, it’ll be here before you know it.
Journalistic responsibility to cover student’s death
Some of our readers have ex-pressed concern regarding The Dai-ly’s coverage this week of Weinberg sophomore Rebecca Quint’s death. We hope the following will clarify our editorial decisions and the journalis-tic nuances of this story. We want to maintain a transparent conversation out of respect for Quint’s memory.
As the publication of record for Northwestern and Evanston, we carry the responsibility to inform our readers, act as the watchdog for the University and city and build a sense of community on and off campus. We take this role seriously and attempt to consider the interests of our readers with every decision. In covering any story, we abide by The Daily’s Code of Ethics, which is based on the stan-dards set forth by the Society of Pro-fessional Journalists. Both feature four principles highlighting the basics of gathering news: Seek Truth and Report It, Minimize Harm, Act Inde-pendently, and Be Accountable.
Some media outlets with larger audiences discontinue coverage of a death after learning the incident was a suicide. This line of thought considers the story to be outside public interest when it becomes clear there is no threat to public safety. But on a small college cam-pus, a more focused circumstance, any student death is of grave con-cern to the tightly knit community.
When dealing with tragedies, there is a fine line between releas-ing all pertinent information and being needlessly gruesome. One commenter on our Web site wrote
certain elements of our reporting were “clearly irrelevant” and “just pandering to the morbid curiosity of readers.”
Including these details was not an act of exploitation. Consistent with our Code of Ethics, we were aiming to report truth and minimize harm.
Regarding the former there were widespread rumors about Quint’s death. None of the accounts we en-countered aligned with the findings of the Cook County medical examin-er’s office. Given the vast circulation of misinformation, we felt compelled to publish the truth. Failing to do so, in our view, would be compromising our responsibility as journalists.
As for the latter, a suicide car-ries societal implications. Address-ing sensitive topics brings them into the public sphere to be dis-cussed openly. An uninhibited con-versation allows friends, family members and the community to move forward constructively.
Aligning with our goal of foster-ing community, we hoped telling the complete story would raise awareness and bring students closer together, which could prevent simi-lar situations from happening in the future. Furthermore we included information about how members of the NU community can seek help during these rough times.
For those readers who were of-fended by our reporting, we apologize wholeheartedly. We did not mean to cause distress. We would like to ex-tend our deepest condolences to Quint’s friends and family.
millennials “keepyourfriendsclose” By Steven A. Berger
It’s an accepted fact: Norris is no longer enough. Fif-teen years of surveys out-lined Norris’ failings as a
student center, and in response the Associated Student Government New Student Center Initiative de-tailed four alternatives. From cheapest to most expensive, ASG’s proposal compares the costs and benefits of renovating Norris, con-verting the Jacobs Center into a new student center, adding on to Norris, and constructing a new student center near Garrett-Evan-gelical Theological Seminary on Sheridan Road.
The Daily supports building a new center near Garrett be-cause we think it best encapsu-lates our needs: A brand-new center would allow us the flexi-bility to choose the facilities we need, and the central location would make it the campus hub Norris can never be. A 2005 as-sessment estimated it will cost about $95 million, but the in-vestment is worth it—especially since the least expensive sug-gestion isn’t exactly cheap at $45 million.
Building a new center is a
long-term investment that will make for happier students and help NU keep its edge as it mar-kets itself to future students. Nor-ris’ lakefront location is one of its main selling points, but its incon-venience for students is its biggest detractor and limits its ability to serve as a bustling core.
The most important aspect of a new student center is students must love it. As much as the Uni-versity looks ahead to making NU a lakefront campus, Sheridan Road is the central landmark for stu-dents, most of whom live closer to the main thoroughfare than the lake. A center near Garrett might not boast a beautiful view of Lake Michigan, but a modern facility with broader offerings will better meet students’ needs.
Jacobs is adaptable, but if we’re going through the trouble, starting from scratch can produce a new stu-dent center that can be a landmark of University President Morton O. Schapiro’s tenure here—much as his student union project at Williams College left his mark there.
NU should also support Scha-piro’s concentration on acting in the present. “You work with what
you have,” Schapiro told The Daily last week, emphasizing the necessity of improvements to ben-efit current students.
Schapiro’s short-term priorities include adding more “third spaces”—locations for students to meet on campus like The Great Room or Lisa’s Cafe that aren’t classrooms or dorms.
A South Campus third space may not bring all students together under one roof, but it will fill a cur-rent void in satisfying student needs. And rather than becoming irrelevant after a new student cen-ter is built, third spaces would still be more natural for certain uses on our polarized campus.
We should not see these local-ized facilities as glossing over the need for a new student center, but rather as an easy fix as a new cen-ter is put into the works.
A student center is as symbolic as it is practical. As NU competes with other top universities for the best incoming classes and tries to offer the best student experience it can, the lack of a modern student center stands out as a blemish on its student life.
Sorry, Norris. It’s time to go.
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Evanston joins EPA efficiency programs to fight climate change
Evanston joined the Environmental Protection Agency’s Community Climate Change Initiative, the city announced this week.
The city recently decided to participate in two EPA programs: the Energy Star Chal-lenge and the WaterSense program. Energy Star advocates for energy efficient appliances, while WaterSense, a new program, promotes water efficient fixtures.
Evanston is now one of only 35 Midwest-ern communities taking part in the Commu-nity Climate Change Initiative.
“The decision was just that it was the right thing for us to do,” said David Stoneback, su-
perintendent of the city’s water and sewer di-vision. “We are concerned about having suffi-cient water supply for the next generation.”
Stoneback, along with the water and sewer department, plans to promote the program with an informational campaign involving booths at the farmer’s market and ecology center, he said.
There is a lot of confusion about water effi-cient fixtures, Stoneback said.
“When the low-volume toilets first came
out they weren’t very good and needed to be flushed three or four times to work,” he said. “But these products are now strictly tested and will work with a low quantity of water. This is one misconception out there we have to correct.”
Evanston will be sending in annual reports about the program’s progress to the EPA, Stoneback said.
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Artists-in-residence teach literature writing from experienceBy Lorraine Ma The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/academics
Northwestern’s artists-in-residence work with aspiring students in their fields.
Non-fiction writer Eula Biss became a finalist for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award in the criticism cate-gory for “Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays”, a book that explores ra-cial issues in the United States, in early February. The author was serving as one of the five artists-in-residence for North-western’s department of english at the time.
The department is one of many at NU that brings prominent people to campus to benefit students. The department’s art-ists-in-residence include Biss, writer and documentary filmmaker John Bresland and poet Averill Curdy.
While English professors usually write about literature, artists-in-residence write literature, said Prof. Mary Kinzie, director of the English Major in Writing.
“Artists-in-residence are supposed to be doing their work and be moderately available to students and other faculty,” Kinzie said.
Classes taught by artists-in-residence usually cap at about 15 students, a size that benefits students, she said.
“These are classes which you can’t hide, and you can’t be passive,” Kinzie
said. “Part of your activity as opposed to passivity is working on your writing all the time.”
The Center for the Writing Arts’ resi-dency program began in the early 1990’s, said Stacy Oliver, assistant director. At the time they noticed a “cohesive theme” on
campus—a passion for writing, she said. The goal of the program was to not only attract writers but to create classes open to students across majors, she said.
“We wanted to give all students—engi-neers, pre-med, communication majors—a neutral territory to have a wonderful ex-
perience in writing,” Oliver said.Alex Kotlowitz, an award-winning au-
thor of non-fiction, including “The Other Side of the River,” has been a writer-in-residence since 2001.
Kotlowitz, who is also a Medill profes-sor, teaches one writing class for the cen-ter each winter. He said his writing classes are composed of a very diverse group of students.
“My best all-time writer was an eco-nomics major,” he said.
Though Kotlowitz said being a writer-in-residence made him more self-con-scious of his work, he said it has been re-warding to connect with students. Kot-lowitz met with about 20 residential col-lege students at the John Evans Alumni Center for hot chocolate, tea, cookies and conversations about his work Tuesday.
He said he tries to keep personal work on hand even during teaching.
“It acts as a reminder of what students are going through,” he said. “I feel more collegial.”
Weinberg sophomore Anna Wang said she studied one of Kotlowitz’s more re-nowned books, “There Are No Children Here,” during her freshman seminar, “America’s Invisible Children.”
NU offers students a unique opportu-nity to have close contact with artists and writers, Wang said.
Lorraine Ma/The Daily Northwestern
Insight: Residential College students have tea with Alex Kotlowitz, writer-in-residence of the Center for Writing Arts. Several other prominent authors teach writing at NU.
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One program that will benefit from the do-nation is Leopold Fellowships, which is geared toward undergraduates, Foeller-Pituch said. Leopold Fellows are paid to work with a faculty member conducting his or her research. While most history research assistants examine sec-ondary sources, Leopold Fellows study primary sources, which may include government reports, letters and interview transcripts, Foeller-Pituch said.
Medill junior Sisi Tang, a Leopold Fellow, is currently researching suicide in urban China in the early 20th century with history Prof. Peter
Carroll. Her work involves looking through old newspapers to find editorial content on suicide and analyzing suicide rates and statistics to re-late the data to the modern world and sociologi-cal studies, she said.
“I’ve definitely enjoyed it,” Tang said. “Even when I look through the newspapers, it’s not confined to what I’m researching. I’m also able to look around, and there’s a lot of interesting advertising, editorials and histori-cal content. It kind of puts you in the time period.”
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Leopold Fellowships let professors give stu-dents an idea of what their life is like, said Fis-cher, who serves on the faculty advisory board of the Chabraja Center.
Student response to the program has been very positive, Foeller-Pituch said. This year 40 students applied for nine spots, she said.
Another program the Chabraja donation will fund is the international doctorate workshop se-ries, Foeller-Pituch said.
For these workshops a small group of doc-toral students from the history department travel outside the United States for a history con-
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Former University president Henry Bienen initially established the center using funds from Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and in-come from research patent revenue, Foeller-Pituch said.
“Now the Chabraja gift has gone into the endowment to make sure these funds are maintained,” she said.
Donation will fund fellowships, lectures at history studies centerHistory, page 1
ASG Academic Committee to address Weinberg weekend exam policy
lution.The senators also unanimously passed a res-
olution to allow the Academic Committee to hold meetings with administrators to establish a
policy prohibiting the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences from holding exams on the week-end, which was defined as 5 p.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Monday.
Senator for Full-Scale Programming Groups Austin Young, a Weinberg sopho-more, spoke in favor of a resolution in
which ASG would request NU require all patrons of the University Library to regis-ter in order to gain entrance, even during public hours, to ensure greater safety. This resolution was also passed unani-mously.
At the end of the meeting, Speaker of the
Senate Samir Pendse thanked senators for their work during the quarter.
“We had a lot to get accomplished,” the Weinberg senior said. “This quarter has been really productive.”
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one into the seats. So I just wanted to make sure he heard me.”
That was as close as Chicago State came, as NU scored the next five points to pull away from the Cougars. The Cats stumbled through the rest of the first half, turning the ball over eight times and allowing Chicago State to cut its deficit to within two points multiple times.
“We tried to put some emphasis by push-ing the ball,” Nash said. “But we didn’t do a good job taking care of it.”
The Cougars’ 2-3 zone troubled the Cats, and NU had to overpass around Chicago State’s defense.
With a 25-23 lead and 3:35 left in the half, the Cats were able to muster some momen-tum. A loose ball squirted away to Shurna, who found Nash ahead of the pack. The se-
nior threw it down for an emphatic dunk.“I started off kind of sluggish,” Nash said.
“I was like ‘I hope this doesn’t keep up the whole night.’ And then I got a dunk, and that kind of opened me up a little bit.”
The Cats extended their lead to 10 by in-termission, and they put together a 12-3 run to open the second half. NU spent the last 11 minutes of the game with at least a 20-point lead.
“There were less turnovers,” Nash said. “The second half speaks for itself.”
The biggest difference between the halves was defense. After a mediocre first period, the Cougars hit only 5-of-29 shots from the field in the second. Chicago State didn’t shoot a field goal until the 11:41 mark of the period.
“We were just more active,” Carmody said. “They didn’t shoot well.”
On the other side of the court, the Cats faced little defensive resistance. NU shot
49 percent for the game, nailing 13 shots from downtown.
The leader of the barrage was Marcotul-lio, who made 5-of-7 attempts from beyond the arc. The freshman guard had been an important part of the Cats’ rotation in the beginning of the year, hitting double-digits five times through NU’s first 13 games. On Jan. 2 against Michigan State, Marcotullio netted a career-high 16 points. After that he disappeared, not connecting on multiple attempts from downtown until Wednesday.
“We’re just waiting for him,” Carmody said. “It’s got to come from within. You’ve got to break out of slumps on your own unless
there’s something technical involved, and there’s nothing there.”
Marcotullio was back to his old self against Chicago State, as his five 3s were the most he had connected on all year.
“I got the looks tonight and fortunately I knocked them down,” Marcotullio said. “I’ve been working, waiting my turn. Coach has counted on me to make shots and that’s what I’ve got to do.”
Marcotullio also delivered three assists and forced a steal from his position at the head of NU’s 1-3-1 zone.
“He’s been getting his minutes,” Carmody said. “And tonight he delivered.”
The win was the 57th since Nash arrived at NU, allowing him to tie a record for most wins by a senior class.
“It was the last home game,” Nash said. “And you want to go out with a bang.”
So much for a huge fan turnout to witness the winningest team in school history.
Can anyone blame them for not coming? This monumental win should have come weeks ago. Instead the Cats went 1-3 against Iowa and Penn State, teams that would be at the bottom of the Big Ten if wins over NU hadn’t boosted their rankings.
Against the Cougars, the Cats showed why they were topped by the Big Ten’s cellar-dwellers. There is no reason it should have been a two-point game at 27-25 with less than four minutes to go in the first half. NU proved earlier in the year against Texas-Pan American it’s not good enough to blow out in-ferior teams with a minimal effort.
The final score indicates a lopsided vic-
tory, but the contest sure didn’t feel like one. It was painful to watch NU—the same team that fought tooth-and-nail to topple then-No. 6 Purdue—lackadaisically rain 3-pointers on lowly Chicago State in an overall sloppy af-fair. The Cats seemed to have no energy or will to play the best they could. And fortu-nately for them they didn’t need to.
This NU squad may have set the school re-cord for wins, but it’s clear it overachieved this season, and as a result the fans feel let down. Never mind Kevin Coble and Jeff Ryan were knocked out for the season—NU was ranked No. 25 and went toe-to-toe with the conference’s cream of the crop through the first half of the Big Ten campaign. And that was with youngsters John Shurna and Crawford leading the charge.
But the starters have been asked to carry the load all year long, and recently the bur-
den seems to have caught up to them. Craw-ford is battling a hip flexor injury and scored only two points in 23 minutes of action. In addition to the missed alley-oops, Chicago State rejected a few of the dunks that he would have thrown down earlier in the sea-son.
This tells me one thing: This once youth-ful team no longer has the same spring in its step. It wasn’t as clear-cut in Big Ten match-ups because the opposition is quick too. But when the Cats are jumping in the air to pass and turning the ball over 17 times against a team that’s not even close to NU in talent, something is wrong.
In fact, the most exciting part of the night came with a kid won the Harris Bank Shots competition. Not kidding—Welsh-Ryan Arena erupted more when his last shot went in than when senior Jeremy Nash dunked on a fast-
break.The Cats still have a chance to give their
fans something to get excited about. This re-cord-breaking group has the potential to play a lot more games this season. It could start by figuring out its road woes this weekend against Indiana.
If NU starts playing the way it did earlier in the season, anything is possible. Perhaps a blowout win was just what this squad needed heading into postseason play. Imagine if the Cats were able to pull a few upsets in the Big Ten Tournament and then make some noise in the NIT.
Then when next year’s team eclipses the current record for wins, you can bet the fan turnout will be plentiful, not pitiful.
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Overachieving Cats can make up for sloppy finish with tournament run
”“It’s got to come from within, you’ve got to break out of slumps on your own.
Bill CarmodyNU Coach
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By Robbie LevinThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/womens-basketball
After Northwestern’s best sea-son in the past decade, one in which it won more conference games than in the past three years combined, the Wildcats find them-selves in a familiar place heading
into the Big Ten Tourna-ment—near the bottom. With a 7-11 con-ference record, NU fin-ished in a three-way tie for eighth
place with Illinois and Indiana. Be-cause the Illini and the Hoosiers own tiebreakers over the Cats, NU dropped to the 10th seed in the Big Ten Tournament.
For the Cats that may be a bless-ing in disguise.
Rather than playing in the 8-9 matchup, where NU would go up against Illinois or Indiana—who own a combined 3-1 record against the Cats—NU will face Michigan. The Cats swept the Wolverines this season, the only time NU has beaten a Big Ten team twice in the
same year since 1998-99.Still, in the one-and-done Big
Ten Tournament, the Cats know what is at stake.
“We’re confident that we can handle (Michigan) because we have in the past,” junior guard Beth Marshall said. “But we also know that in tournaments it’s a whole new season. We can’t take that for granted. It’s hard to beat someone more than once and three times is extremely hard.”
The Wolverines are known for their perimeter play—Michigan has jacked up 195 shots from beyond the arc, second-most in the Big Ten. Meanwhile NU has struggled to de-fend opposing shooters, allowing opponents to take a conference-most 558 3-pointers. If the Cats are going to take down the Wolverines, they are going to have to clamp down on defense.
“They have a great perimeter shooting team,” Marshall said. “A lot of (defending them) is just con-testing shots … That’s a big factor—beating them to the spot on de-fense, knowing their plays and be-ing able to anticipate what happens next so that we’re not running our girls through stagger screen after double screen.”
In their two matchups, NU beat Michigan at its own game. On Dec. 28 in Ann Arbor, Mich., both teams took 18 shots from beyond the arc—the Wolverines made just five while the Cats sunk seven. On Feb. 2 in
Evanston, Michigan shot 40 per-cent from downtown. But again it was bested by NU—the Cats nailed nine 3s and shot 47 percent from beyond the arc.
NU’s strong perimeter shooting begins in the paint. One of the Cats’ strengths is a formidable in-side-out game. If first-team All-Big Ten center Amy Jaeschke can’t get the job done near the basket, she can kick the ball out to one of NU’s guards or forwards on the perime-ter. Marshall and sophomore for-ward Brittany Orban have become threats from beyond the arc, both ranking in the top 11 in the confer-ence in 3-point field goal percent-age.
“We’ll attack teams on the in-side and try to expose them there,” Jaeschke said. “And then if they start packing it in on defense around our post players it gives our guards more open shots.”
For coach Joe McKeown, a sea-soned veteran with 19 postseason appearances, the playoffs are not about who a team plays, rather they are about how a team plays.
“Whoever you’re playing is irrel-evant; you’ve got to play with the same sense of urgency,” he said. “Teams step up in March, they want to put a stamp on their sea-son, and this is the time to do it. Nobody cares what you did in No-vember and December.”
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Few positives to take away in ugly win
NU looks to sweep Michigan, win first tournament game since ’00
TOMORROW IN SPORTSWomen’s BaksetballSee if NU was able to pull off an upset in the Big Ten Tournament LacrosseRead about how the Cats are preparing for No. 5 Georgetown
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By Rodger ShermanThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/mens-basketball
It might have been senior night at Welsh-Ryan Arena, but the Wildcats were led by a freshman on Wednesday.
Freshman guard Alex Marcotul-lio had his first game in double-dig-its since the second Big Ten contest of the season, and Northwestern coasted to a 72-49 victory over Chi-cago State.
It was the Cats’ 19th victory of the season, setting a school record for wins in their final home game of the year.
“It’s been a good sea-son thus far,” senior guard Jer-emy Nash said. “But there’s still more to come.”
NU (19-11) needed some time before taking a commanding lead. After scoring the game’s first five points, the Cats got overconfi-dent, as sophomore forward John Shurna tried to connect with freshman forward Drew Craw-ford on a pair of alley-oops. Two failed attempts earned Shurna nothing more than a trip to the bench as the Cougars (8-22) ral-lied to tie the game.
“That’s never a good idea,” coach Bill Carmody said. “So in the timeout I said, ‘I don’t want to see anymore.’ And after that he throws
Northwestern’s 72-49 rout of Chicago State had all the makings of a great win. NU’s seniors were honored with their families prior to tipoff. The victory was the Wild-cats’ 19th on the season, setting a school record. The lacrosse team was awarded rings for notching its fifth straight National Champion-ship at halftime to add to the win-ning atmosphere.
Yet the actual scene at Welsh-Ryan Arena was far from perfect. In fact it was almost pitiful.
No offense to Chicago State, but this game was basically a scrim-mage for the Cats. And NU treated it like one. The Cats botched two alley-oops to freshman Drew Crawford early in the game, hot-dogging their way to a 5-5 tie.
If the show on the court was bad, the audience watching it was worse. The stands were barren, and so few students showed up to the home finale that half the student section was allocated to kids who were 10 years too young to be going to NU.Daily File Photo by Jai Broome
Special senior: In his last regular season game at Welsh-Ryan Arena, guard Jeremy Nash scored seven points while leading NU with four steals. Nash ranks eigth in school history with 122 takeaways.
Daily File Photo by Jai Broome
Centerpiece: The Cats’ offense runs through Amy Jaeshcke, but strong perimeter shooting has taken pressure off the junior center.
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