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Changes in place for commencement schedule.
Campus 3
Et cetera 8ClassifiedsCrosswordSudoku
Men’s soccer looks to keep playoff hopes alive heading into big weekend.
Blotter 2Wallet stolen from hospital room, window of parked car smashed.
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Emily AlvaradoThe
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Serving the University and Evanston Since 1881 Friday, October 29, 2010
By Anna Bisarothe daily northwestern
Northwestern’s reunion gifts this year were the second-largest in school history, a spokesperson for the NU Annual Fund announced at the Homecoming football game Oct. 23.
Combined, the Reunion Class Gifts donation totaled $29,616,732. Even the youngest reunion class helped drive up the sum: the class of 2005 donated the most a five-year reunion ever has, said Jerome Pandell, Weinberg ’05, the 2005 reunion class committee co-chair.
“We really do care about every dollar,” said Jessica Ticus, senior director of reunion programs.
Last year’s donation was the highest in NU history, totaling about $32 million. That was due in large part to a $10 million dona-tion from one alum, Ticus said.
Returning for their 50th reunion, the class of 1960 made the largest contribution to the fund this year, donating $10.7 mil-lion, Ticus said. The smallest reunion class contribution came from the class of 2005, which donated $65,764.
Ticus said it is common for the younger classes to donate the least of all reunion classes of the year, as they have less to give. No donation is too small, she said.
Alumni in reunion years usually donate more than others, Ticus said.
Pandell, a former Daily staffer, said he found the class of 2005’s participation
particularly impressive because it lacked any significantly large donations. Pandell said the substantial contribution came from about 420 different donors.
The 2005 reunion class used Facebook as a fundraising tool this year, which proved to be very effective, Pandell said. A Face-book page generated excitement about the reunion weekend and proved to be much more efficient than traditional mailing forms of solicitation.
The most effective strategy is still per-sonal contact made with alumni on the phone or in person, Pandell said.
Members of the 25th-year reunion class also made a significant donation, Ticus said.
An anonymous 1985 alum promised a $1 million contribution to the fund if 40
percent of the class made a donation, no matter the monetary value.
About a week before Homecoming, 36 percent of the class had donated, and the donor agreed to follow through on the promise, confident that the goal would be reached, Ticus said.
“It’s the fact that people are stepping up and saying that they care,” said Charles Katzenmeyer, Weinberg ’85, president of the Northwestern Alumni Association.
Donations are just one way alumni stay involved in campus life, Katzenmeyer said. Thousands of alumni currently volunteer for NU, but most volunteers are from the youngest and oldest classes because they
Alumni reunion gifts total nearly $30 million
See GIFTS, page 9
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Halloween heaven: Area children find a safe alternative to door-to-door trick-or-treating in Norris’s Louis Room on Thursday afternoon. Read the full story on page 3.
Mackenzie McCluer/The Daily Northwestern
City comes to campus: Ald. Jane Grover (7th) and attendees of a joint ward meeting held on Northwestern’s campus discussed neighborhood and off-campus issues Thursday night. Only five students attended.
Groups fight for ASG funds
By Peter Larsonthe daily northwestern
The fight for ASG funding will intensify at the Nov. 3 Senate meeting when student groups petition the Student Activities Finance Committee’s supplemental funding recom-mendations released Wednesday.
The recommendations have left some student groups wanting more.
Leaders from the 22 student groups requesting extra funding will have the oppor-tunity during next Wednesday’s Senate meet-ing to appeal the recommendations made by the SAFC before final amounts are set.
NU students should pay attention because the money being allocated comes out of their pockets via the Student Activities Fee, said Emma Kerr, Associated Student Government financial vice president.
“That’s why students should care — it’s their money,” the Weinberg senior said.
The committee made recommendations for $205,494 of appropriations from a pool of $230,000. The total initial requests totaled $386,789.
ASG President Claire Lew said the process can be difficult because funds are limited.
The gap didn’t affect everyone. The Asian Pacific American Coalition, the Dolphin Show, WAVE Productions and Rainbow Alliance were among the student groups recommended for all or close to all of what they requested.
In contrast, Northwestern Alternative Stu-dent Breaks was one of four groups recom-mended for no supplemental funding. ASB requested $1,620 to cover an honorarium for the speakers it brings to campus.
“That doesn’t surprise me, but we still have the chance to fight for it next week,” said Kyrsten Brown, program director for ASB.
A&O Productions Chairman Barry McCardel said the target set by student groups was purposefully overestimated. The Communication senior said A&O’s request represented what would be a best-case sce-nario for their winter programming.
The group received $100,542, less than half of the $203,926 in supplemental funding they had asked for.
Kerr said she agreed with McCardel about the reality of funding.
“It’s next to impossible to fund everyone at their highest tier because you’re dealing with a finite amount of funds,” she said.
But McCardel said he was less concerned with how much they were given and more bothered by the SAFC’s rejection of a key structural modification the group had proposed.
For the last four years A&O has hosted two comedians, said Drew Deitch, A&O’s director of speakers and special events. McCardel said that marks a precedent in student interests.
See SaFc, page 9
Ward meeting poorly attended by students
Project Pumpkin
By Alan Yuthe daily northwestern
Despite city efforts to engage students in neighborhood issues, only five students attended a joint ward meeting held by Evan-ston officials on Northwestern’s campus Thursday night.
Many Evanston residents attended the meeting, held by Ald. Jane Grover (7th) and Ald. Delores Holmes (5th), whose wards include parts of campus and nearby off-campus housing.
“Rather than expect the students to come to me, I thought I would take my meet-ing to the students,” Grover said. “I try to remember all the time that students are residents too.”
The meeting addressed neighborhood and off-campus housing issues such as announcing plans for the construction on Sheridan Road and explaining typical off-campus housing violations.
Jeff Murphy, assistant director of prop-erty standards and housing rehabilitation, said not many students know they can call the Property Standards Division of the City of Evanston with problems such as heating
or poor sanitary conditions. Many students also do not fully under-
stand the city codes and what rights they have, Murphy said, citing a case two years ago where a student was living in a base-ment with a sewage pipe. It broke during the Thanksgiving break, and the landlord did some minor repairs but asked the stu-dent to clean up the raw sewage herself. A week later, the pipe broke again. Because the student never called city officials, they did not have the right to enter the apartment and resolve the issue.
Until the city establishes its 3-1-1 infor-mation call center in March, students expe-riencing housing problems can call the Evanston Police Department and request an inspection. If it is an emergency, NU will arrange short-term housing for the residents.
University officials will create a central-ized website for off-campus housing issues to be released tentatively at the end of the year, Associated Student Government Presi-dent Claire Lew said. The website will list what rights off-campus residents have, what
See ward meeTInG, page 9
Norris got festive for NCDC’s annual Project Pumpkin event.
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Patient’s wallet stolen from Saint Francis Hospital room
Somebody stole a wallet from a hospital room at Saint Francis Hospital on Wednesday, police said.
A patient at the hospital, 355 Ridge Ave., told police that when she was out of the room a per-son came in at approximately 2 p.m. and stole her wallet from a cabinet, Evanston Police Cmdr. Tom Guenther said.
There were miscellaneous IDs and about $22 in the wallet, the patient said. Guenther said there is no suspect and most likely will be no additional follow-up.
Window of parked car smashed on Orrington Avenue
An unidentified person broke the rear wind-shield of a 2003 Kia parked on the 2600 block of
Orrington Avenue on Wednesday.At about 4:33 p.m., officers responded to a call
reporting the car had been damaged around 7:45 a.m., Guenther said. Nothing was reported stolen.
Police do not know what object, if any, was used to smash the window, Guenther said. There are cur-rently no suspects.
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By Susan Ducontributing writer
If health disparities had been eradicated in the last century, 84,500 African American lives could have been saved, the 16th Surgeon General of the United States said Thursday night. Speaking at the Feinberg School of Medicine’s 2010 John H. Hol-lister Lecture, David Satcher sought to reach out to
potential leaders in the medical field.“In order to eliminate disparities in health, we
need leaders who care enough, know enough, will do enough and are persistent enough,” Satcher said.
As head of the Department of Health and Human Services, Satcher’s initiative to reduce inequalities in health care was incorporated as one of the two main goals in Healthy People 2010, a government framework for national health objectives.
“Dr. Satcher was chosen as the John H. Hollister Lecturer and Visiting Professor of Minority Health because he is a leader in the area of health dispari-ties, and his mission is to make public health work for all groups in America.,” said Arlene Hankinson, the event’s organizer.
Hankinson noted Satcher’s visit to Northwestern is particularly relevant because of the community’s inequalities. Chicago has experienced widening dis-parities in several indicators of health status between black and whites from 1990-2005, according to a 2010 study from the Sinai Urban Health Institute. These indicators include heart disease, cancer and stroke mortality.
Third-year Feinberg student Bruce Henschen attended the lecture to hear about the reality of health disparities — a moral, social and political issue, he said.
“It’s important in understanding public health and therefore the health of individuals,” Henschen said.
In his lecture, Satcher highlighted the efforts of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute and Center of Excellence on Health Disparities. The institute trains future leaders in public health policy. He tied the story of the institute to the issue of global health equity as it stands today.
“The need for leaders today is truly great.… To eliminate disparities in health, we’re going to trans-form communities,” Satcher said.
If leaders were only born and not made, he joked, there would be a lot of people out there who aren’t doing what they were born to do.
Satcher then explained how health is mainly contingent upon lifestyle choices, and the choices people make are influenced by their childhood experiences. Poverty and the lack of basic com-munity resources, such as playgrounds and grocery stores, in inner-city neighborhoods can determine the course of people’s lives and the quality of their health from childhood onward.
Henschen agreed individual health depends upon access to those facilities.
“The point of the lecture was that everyone needs access to health, not just health insurance or visits to the clinic,” he said. “I could help maybe one person at a time in a clinic, but I could help a hundred people by putting a grocery store in a neighborhood or making vaccinations available to communities.”
Surgeon general talks health gap between races
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Northwestern’s Commencement 2011 cer-emony will be held at 10:30 a.m. instead of 6 p.m. as previously scheduled, according to an
announcement from University spokesman Al Cubbage .
� e approximately two-hour long ceremony will be held outside at Ryan Field, rain or shine, on June 17, according to the University’s website.
� e time change allows NU to hold convocation ceremonies for individual schools on the day of commencement. � e School of Continuing Stud-ies , School of Education and Social Policy and
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By Sharon ReshefContributing Writer
Cowboys, princesses and Power Rangers were just a few of the many characters roaming the oors of Norris University Center � ursday.
Project Pumpkin , an annual event organized by the Northwestern Community Development Corps , brought nearly 1,000 local children to Norris for a Halloween fun. Costumed kids were guided by stu-dent chaperones as they played games and visited booths run by student groups.
“It’s so much fun for everyone involved,” said Man-isha Taparia , a Communication and Weinberg senior who helped organize the event. “Tons of kids come for a night of candy and fun, and they have a great time, so we keep doing this every year.”
Project Pumpkin provides a venue for Evanston children to enjoy themselves in a safe environment.
“Some of the kids come from communities that aren’t necessarily safe, and they might not have opportunities to trick-or-treat,” Taparia said. “NCDC is reaching out to the Evanston community and try-ing to build mutually bene� cial relationships.”
Volunteers for Project Pumpkin included repre-sentatives from about 70 student groups who ran the booths and handed out the bulk of the candy. Wein-berg sophomore Maeve Wall helped run the Jump-start booth, which involved kids sticking their hands into spaghetti “brains” and other sensory tricks.
“Project Pumpkin is a really cool idea,” Wall said. “� is is great for the kids, and I’m also having a good time.”
About 100 other students led the groups of kids around Norris. SESP sophomore Tori Romba said she volunteered to chaperone because she thought Project Pumpkin is “a great event to be a part of.”
“It’s a great cause, and it’s an experience that kids love and keep coming back for,” she said. “It’s an awe-some example of community outreach.”
Shawnice Reid, a social work intern for the How-ard Area Community Center , brought some of the kids she mentors to � ursday’s event.
“We come here every year,” Reid said. “We’ve got third to eighth graders. � ey always really enjoy themselves, and it looks like they’re having a great time so far.”
Activities ranged from fortune-telling and � sh-ing for candy to throwing beanbags in buckets and coloring printed-out pumpkins. � e longest lines were for the pumpkin-shaped bounce house and the haunted house, from which kids emerged wide-eyed and arguing with one another about whether or not it was scary. Children walked out of Norris with their parents and chaperones, smiling and clutching bags full of Hershey’s chocolate bars and Reese’s cups .
“I’ve got a lot of candy, and I’m gonna eat it all!” said one little girl in a gypsy costume.
Project Pumpkin provides local children with a treat
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Project ScArE: McCormick senior George Renaldi frightens visitors to the SAE and A Phi haunted house, which benefi ts the International Rett’s Syndrome Foundation.
As we get through the first wave of midterms I am reminded of what this felt like a year ago, when Northwestern had only
been a part of my life for about a month.My freshman year, I lived in a single on
the first floor of 1835 Hinman. In other words, I was in the most anti-social room on an extremely quiet floor — though I lived in of one of the most social dorms. Making the transition even more difficult was the fact that I am also an introvert.
If you’re a new student and you’re any-thing like me, you may feel like at this point in the quarter you haven’t made enough friends and that maybe you’re at the wrong school. (This is made especially difficult to deal with when you look at all the friends your semester school friends have). This is a feeling I know that I acutely experienced, but one that I now can hardly remember. I figured out that I have the ability to change the way I inter-act with others, even if it doesn’t come naturally.
A lot of times, those on the outgoing side of the spectrum think that qui-eter people are disinterested or have nothing to say. From my own experience, I’d say that most of the time this isn’t a true. However, if indifference is conveyed by your body language, you can’t blame other people for concluding that you don’t care.
A mentor of mine once explained that there are fewer introverts than extroverts in the world, and often times the former group thinks that there is something wrong with themselves. Being an intro-vert isn’t any more wrong than being a brunette. Like hair color, introversion and extroversion are mere differences. But also like hair color, personality is something that can be changed. Though the change cannot replace the original characteris-tic, you can certainly achieve a different appearance.
The main difference between extroverts and introverts is that, while being sur-rounded by people energizes extroverts, introverts are energized by time alone. Usually this means that it’s natural for extroverts to be sociable and introverts to be more uncomfortable in social situa-tions, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be true.
I’m not any kind of counselor or certi-fied advice-giver, but based on recur-ring experiences in my life, I’ve noticed that it’s really easy to hide behind the “I’m shy” mentality, but it’s really hard when you miss out because of it. The fact is, you are missing out because you’ve made a decision — either consciously or unconsciously — to stick to what is most comfortable. I’ve done it, and I’ve come to realize that life is more fully experienced when you let other people in.
You can work on social skills just like you can work on athletic skills. Practice makes perfect … or at least better. School is pretty much in full swing at this point, so it might seem like you missed the win-dow for finding your group of friends, but even as a sophomore I’ve found that there are so many people who are open to meeting someone new. It’s a two way street, as they say. Don’t sit around waiting for people to notice you. There are tons a great people and it’s totally worth the effort to get to know them.
Emily Alvarado is a Medill sophomore. She can be reached at [email protected].
Friday, october 29, 2010 page 4
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DStudents not attending off-campus town hall
This week, The Daily was pleased to see Dean of Students Burgwell Howard take the proactive step of holding an off-campus town hall meeting for students discus concerns about off-campus life in light of the recent student conduct issues and accusations. However, in spite of the buzz generated among the student body when Howard sent his now-famous e-mail about the off-campus partying that occurred before the Purdue game, only 25 students attended. The Daily believes that the administration ought to play a role in working with students to improve rela-tions with Evanston neighbors, but when students fail to attend an event like this, it sends the message that we aren’t willing to meet the university halfway on improving off-campus life.
DHarry Potter sells out in Evanston
The first installation of the seventh movie in the Harry Potter series, due to release on November 19th, marks the beginning of the end of one of the most popular, most successful movie franchises ever — and many of NU’s most devoted Harry Potter fans won’t be able to attend the midnight premiere unless they drive20 minutes to Skokie. For the thousands of young adults on campus who have grown up waiting for the next Harry Potter book or movie at midnight events, Evanston’s Century 12 theater’s decision to have only three mid-night showings makes little sense. The cin-ematic powers-that-be should realize that they could open all 12 screens for Deathly Hallows Part 1 showings and still be sold-out two weeks before the premiere.
CEvanston holding a combined ward
meeting on campusThursday night, Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) and Ald. Jane Grover (7th) held a combined ward meeting in Tech with a somewhat student-centric agenda. We appreciate this effort by the city to engage NU students in dialogue and decision making by holding the meeting on our campus. But once again, it would have
been nice to see a greater effort from stu-dents — only five showed up.
CNU Police Department Advisory Board holds
meetingOn a campus that prides itself on its racial and ethnic diversity, it is only appropri-ate that representatives of the student body, University Police and the University administration meet occasionally to ensure that racial profiling and harassment don’t taint the environment of acceptance. The Coalition of Colors and the UP have admi-rably maintained the momentum follow-ing the creation of the board last year in response to allegations of racial profiling.
CJohn Park placing second in Korean
singing showFormer American Idol contestant and Weinberg senior John Park was named the runner-up in a Idol-esque South Korean competition, demonstrating impressive dedication and determination over the course of seven months. After putting Northwestern on the map with a run to the top-20 in American Idol earlier this year, Park hit the ground running by entering in “Superstar K2,” where he sang mostly Korean songs to appeal to the audience. While we would love to see Park back on campus — he said he might return eventually — we’re even more excited to see where his passion for singing takes him next.
CJack Hillgard for kicking YouTube
sensation-worthy goalFour minutes into overtime in Saturday’s soccer game against the men of Wiscon-sin, the Weinberg senior kicked the ball 70 yards into the net to score NU’s fourth goal, pushing NU to a 4-3 victory. Given that a regulation NCAA soccer field is anywhere between 110 and 120 yards, Hill-gard’s shot can only be described as bizarre fluke; that it happened in overtime makes the shot even more epic, to put it simply.
Introverts: Don’t let shyness hold
you back
Harry Potter, John Park and Soccer
At a blustery Wednesday morning press conference in front the concrete jungle that doubles as the Cook County jail, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart abruptly ended his short-lived bid for Mayor of
Chicago.While Dart never officially entered the campaign — he
cancelled a rally to announced his candidacy last week — he posed the most formidable threat to former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. After 22 years of the Daley-ocracy, Dart’s posturing and subsequent departure leaves this race lacking excitement. Rahm Emanuel needs only to conquer a residency challenge to ensure he makes it to a runoff where he’ll summarily defeat any challenger. It’ll be as easy as it was telling mutinous conservative Democrats to go screw themselves was in his last job.
There’s no denying Dart’s unofficial campaign didn’t kick off with the same well-executed triple salchow Emanuel’s did. The cancelled rally married with a Cook County employee passing out fliers weeks after Dart’s sheriffs mis-takenly invaded a couple’s Southwest-side home isn’t the perfect backdrop to launch a campaign to replace Chicago political royalty.
But with Joe Trippi on his side — no matter what the initial polling said — Dart could’ve beaten Rahm if he wanted to. His term as sheriff and his stand against foreclos-ing homes owned by irresponsible leaches (banks) endeared him to the Hispanic and black communities of the South and West sides. Now that black officials snubbed Rev. James Meeks, Dart certainly could’ve carried the non-white vote, making him a more-than-formidable adversary to Rahm’s fundraising machine.
It made sense to run too. Dart will never be a kin maker like Rev. Meeks unless he pulls off a coup himself. Two weeks ago the field offered a wealth of political riches. The possibilities were endless. But like neatly organized dominos the names started dropping one-by-one and as each con-tender elected to stay out of the ring, Dart looked like he had a real shot at the title.
Instead Dart fled the arena because he couldn’t recon-cile “running for mayor and being a father and husband.” There is no doubt family concerns aren’t his main reason for bowing out before the starter’s gun fires. But I have serious doubts Dart saw some internal polls Trippi and Co. compiled and decided his numbers were so miserly low his eventually electoral number would embarrass his office and beleaguer his personal reputation. And even if he didn’t poll well among African-Americans and Latinos, are they really excited about Rahm Emanuel running for mayor? If they are, someone should send a press release to let someone know.
In the final analysis, Dart simply didn’t have the drive.All great men share a singular purpose that causes them
to obsess about and reorganize their lives around their goals. To their detriment sometimes, these men will do anything to win no matter how badly the odds are stacked against them. Clinton did it in ’92, Bush did in ’00 and Obama did it in ’08.
But for Dart, being mayor was a casual infatuation. It was the seemingly untouchable girl you walk by on campus every once in a while. You think about talking to her and maybe asking her out for coffee but in your heart-of-hearts you know you will never date her.
That press conference Wednesday morning was so riffled with angst and self-indignation, the peppery Dart revealed our expectations for him were misplaced. We should always applaud a man for putting his family before his politics. Yet, the normally touchy-feely good-guy sheriff the city swooned over seemed disgruntled. Like Jake Lamotta, Dart had a shot to be a contender. But he threw the fight and turned himself into a never-was and never-will-be.
Jason Seher is a Medill senior. He can be reached at [email protected].
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By Claire Brownthe daily northwestern
Spending too much time with friends on Face-book may leave you feeling lonely and depressed.
A study conducted in September by MTV’s 24-hour college network mtvU, The Jed Founda-tion and The Associated Press suggests a correlation between active participation on social networking sites and loneliness, depression and mental illness.
“There are definitely people who chronically have a really emotional or dramatic status,” Wein-berg freshman Abigail Gary said. “You just hope they would find a friend they could tell that to instead of posting it on the Internet.”
The study, released Oct. 7, found one in seven col-lege students says social networking sites increase feel-ings of isolation. That makes sense in today’s virtual world, said social psychology Prof. Wendi Gardner.
“The more time we spend in computer-medi-ated communication, the less time, by and large, we’re spending in face-to-face communication,” she said. “Humans were built for face-to-face communication.”
The study surveyed more than 2,000 undergradu-ates aged 18-24 attending four-year colleges across the country. One-third of the students said they spend more than six hours online every day, and 90 percent said they had visited a social networking site in the past week.
Balancing social networking sites with personal social interaction is difficult, especially for college freshmen, Gardner said.
“You have this big circle of friends from high school, and now Facebook makes it easy to check in on them,” she said. “But the hours you’re spend-ing doing that are hours you’re not out making new friends on campus.”
The study also found students use social network-ing sites to express feelings of depression and loneli-ness, with nearly 70 percent of students reporting they have read posts from someone close to them that seemed like a cry for emotional help.
In response to emotional posts, most students involved in the study said they would offer some form of support, but less than half would personally visit the friend.
Weinberg sophomore Michael Kurtz said he wouldn’t reach out to someone apparently suffering online unless he saw behavior that indicated mental illness directly.
“People over-share all the time on those websites: emotional, personal things that I feel uncomfortable seeing,” he said. “Anything you saw on a profile would have to be corroborated by behavior.”
For most people, Facebook can be a healthy com-plement to their social lives, Gardner said. But some students use the website in place of spending time with friends or spend so much time communicating with friends from home on Facebook they don’t make friends on campus.
“If people are feeling depressed, they should get help first,” Gardner said. “The second step should be to make more meaningful connections because
the connections on Facebook are real, but they’re not face-to-face.”.
Dr. Wei-Jen Huang, a clinical psychologist and assistant director for Counseling and Psychological Services, said in an e-mail that by nature humans need something to live for, so relationships are extremely important. Eye contact, touch and verbal contact are necessary for humans to thrive, and those needs cannot be met by virtual relationships.
Huang said she has encountered many cases of NU students struggling with a sense of isolation, though not necessarily due to the use of social net-working sites.
CAPS held a three-part workshop this fall on how to minimize feelings of isolation and establish mean-ingful relationships. More than 70 students attended, according to Huang.
Deep interpersonal connections and feelings of belonging are very important to happiness, Gardner said.
“If belonging works like a hunger, then Facebook can be kind of like junk food,” she said. “It’s easy, it’s quick, but it’s not as good as actual face-to-face, deep, rich connections.”
By Fabiano Lealthe daily northwestern
Weinberg sophomore John Rossiter, co-vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Young Jesus, said he was skeptical when his band was invited via Myspace to audition for a new reality television show.
But the production company was persistent: first on MySpace and then via e-mail. Now the quartet is gearing up and getting ready to start filming a show called “Red Bull Rock the Route” on Oct. 29.
The show, produced by Poya Pictures for Red Bull, will feature a competition between Young Jesus and another local indie rock band, Brighton, MA, as they take a six-day road trip from Chicago to Los Angeles on Route 66. The two bands were selected after audi-tions at the Metro, 3730 N Clark St. on Sept. 27.
“I feel like the luckiest person in the world right now,” Rossiter said. “We’ve never been on tour. Just to be able to do this, see the country and play music we love, is very rewarding in itself. I’m just looking to have a really amazing time.”
The bands will play 30- to 45-minute live sets in dif-ferent locations every night throughout the trip, Ros-siter said. They will be judged after each performance by a different panel, including the band Plain White T’s, for the free kickoff show Friday at The Kinetic Play-ground, 1113 W. Lawrence Ave., according to Adrian Fulle, Poya Pictures’ producer and director.
Between shows, the bands will also be performing challenges on Route 66 to compete for a chance to ride in a more comfortable tour van than the other band for the following day, Fulle said.
The grand prize is the chance to record an album in the Red Bull recording studio in Santa Monica, Calif., where artists like Eminem and 50 Cent have recorded, he said.
“Our team spent three months listening to music from bands from all over the Chicagoland area,” Fulle said. “We eventually came up with a list of 20 bands and narrowed them down to 10 for auditions.”
Playing at the Metro was an overwhelming experi-ence, Rossiter said.
“We had no expectations going in. We were think-ing, ‘Why don’t we go and have fun, and maybe they’ll put some of our audition on TV?’”
Each band played for two minutes, interviewed for the show and left. A week and a half later, Rossiter was notified Young Jesus had been selected for the show, and all members were invited to meet Red Bull execu-tives in the company’s office in Chicago.
Brighton, MA’s manager was only contacted about the band’s acceptance Oct. 20, said Matthew Kerstein, the band’s composer, vocalist and guitarist.
“We didn’t seem to have gotten it,” he said. “We hadn’t put a lot of talking into it. We just went and auditioned and had fun with it.”
Currently, the show is planned for European televi-sion. Red Bull is still negotiating domestic cable rights. Fulle said there are also plans to possibly repackage the show as a ten-episode series for Red Bull Web TV.
“We go out on weekend for long drives, but it’s our first time going out there to LA,” Kerstein said. “Having the cameras around is always going to add some intensity.”
While Rossiter said he wants to take in as much as he can from the experience, he is still focusing on his studies, including reading and writing poetry classes that have been particularly useful to him.
“Right now, I’m a student more than anything else,” he said. “I’ve seen my education help me a lot.”
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Young Jesus: The indie rock band, including Weinberg sophomore John Rossiter, will star in a Red Bull reality show.
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BuRNINg QuESTIONSCan either secondary step up? With the Big Ten’s top two passers lining up opposite each other, both facing mediocre pass defenses, each is expected to amass hundreds of yards and several touchdowns. If either sec-ondary manages to step up, it will significantly shift the balance of this matchup. Chappell av-erages 305.3 yards passing per game, best in the Big Ten by over 40 yards, with Persa filling that No. 2 role. Still, Persa has been more accurate with a 75.7 completion percentage and three picks to Chappell’s six. It may only take a few defensive stops to give either team a blow-out win. Is either secondary up to the task?
KEy MATcHupSMATcHupSPersa has been the biggest, and sometimes only productive asset to Northwestern’s offense. After looking slightly off at times against Michi-gan State, he should have an easier time with the Indiana secondary, which has given up the fourth-most passing yards in the Big Ten. Evans represents one of the few standouts on the Hoo-siers’ defense with three interceptions on the sea-son. He’ll have a tough time improving on that number as Persa has thrown just three picks all year and leads the Football Bowl Subdivision in completion percentage.
Chappell has had little trouble moving the ball through the air while avoiding interceptions — except when he’s been put under pressure. Chap-pell has six interceptions on the season, with five of them coming versus Ohio State and Illinois, both defenses that forced him to get rid of the ball quickly. Given the NU secondary’s inability to stop Kirk Cousins and the Michigan State passing attack, it will need the help of the defensive line to avoid getting picked apart again. Browne is second in the Big Ten in sacks with six, including five of the Wildcats’ last six sacks.
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Indiana Offense Has NU finally found its running back combo?With six different running backs recording carries this season, NU hasn’t exactly figured out its running back situation. Last week, the ground game seemed to take a major leap forward with the duo of redshirt freshman Mike Trumpy and freshman Adonis Smith. Trumpy tallied 10 carries for 50 yards, while Smith gained 44 yards on 10 carries. Junior Jacob Schmidt is questionable for the game with an ankle injury and even if he’s healthy, he’ll still likely be punished for his fumble on the one-yard line against Michigan State. So while Schmidt remains the first stringer on the depth chart, Trumpy and Smith should have a chance to prove they belong with the first team offense.
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Northwestern (5-2, 1-2) vs.Indiana (4-3, 0-3)
The Daily NorthwesternFRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2010
By Colin Bechtthe daily northwestern
Going along with Indiana’s offensive formation, Northwestern’s matchup with the Hoosiers on Satur-day should be a shootout.
Utilizing Indiana’s pistol offense, quarterback Ben Chappell has the seventh-most passing yards in the Football Bowl Subdivision. The Wildcats have their own star quarterback in junior Dan Persa, the FBS’s ninth-most efficient passer.
Combine these cannon-like arms with the Big Ten’s second-worst (NU) and fourth-worst (Indiana) passing defenses, and it wouldn’t be unreasonable to expect points.
Persa said he’s not concerned about the prospect of a shootout and is only focusing on the scoring he can affect.
“I’m not playing defense against Ben, and he’s not doing the same against me,” Persa said. “I’m going to worry about what I can control on offense and let the defense do its job.”
After giving up 352 passing yards to Michigan State last week, NU’s secondary will once again be tested.
“You’ve got a fifth-year quarterback who’s one of the most prolific passers in the country, and then you’ve got not only three receivers, but their tight ends are playing very well,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “They’ve been throwing the ball with a lot of efficiency.”
Crucial to slowing Indiana’s passing attack, ranked sixth in the FBS with 313.6 yards per game, will be making Chappell uncomfortable in the pocket. In losses to Illinois and Ohio State, Chappell threw five picks in total due largely to tremendous pressure that forced him to rush his throws.
“You’ve got to get to the quarterback and put pres-sure on him,” defensive coordinator Mike Hankwitz said. “(Illinois) got themselves in position, and they made some plays. We have to make plays when we get in position.”
However, simply getting pressure on Chappell may not be enough to cause him to panic and make mistakes.
“Chappell’s actually a tough guy,” senior cornerback Justan Vaughn said. “He’ll sit in the pocket despite whatever pressure is coming at him or whatever hit they lay on him.”
Hankwitz said Chappell manages to complete a lot of passes despite being under pressure because he doesn’t adjust his mechanics to get a pass off quickly.
“He doesn’t chuck and duck,” Hankwitz said. “I’ve been real impressed with him.”
Along with Chappell’s success, wide receivers Damarlo Belcher and Tandon Doss have excelled as well, combining for more than 1,000 yards receiving and six touchdowns.
“They’ve got a great core of receivers that are big, athletic,” Hankwitz said. “They’ve got speed and size.”
The two receivers certainly will have a height advantage as Belcher stands at 6 foot 5 and Doss at 6 foot 3.
Indiana presents the unique challenge of the pistol offense, in which the quarterback stands in shortened shotgun, with the running back a few yards behind him.
“It’s a little bit different because the quarterback’s back is turned to the line of scrimmage so the ball is hidden, and they’ve done some nice deceptive things out of it,” Fitzgerald said.
The Cats and Hoosiers have a history of playing games that come down to the wire. The past six con-tests, of which NU won five, have been decided by just 23 points combined. The Cats trailed Indiana 28-3 in the first half last year before completing the largest comeback in school history to win 29-28.
“If past history is any indication of where this one’s going to go, you better buckle it up and be ready for a wild ride,” Fitzgerald said.
The Cats enter the game in what Fitzgerald called “a foul mood” after losing their last two games despite leading both in the fourth quarter.
Persa said the team feels under pressure to return to its winning ways.
“We’re all sick of losing,” he said. “It’s been three weeks since we’ve won, and it feels like forever.”
The sickness of dropping the past two games only motivates the Cats, senior defensive tackle Corbin Bryant said.
“With the bad taste that we have in our mouth from the weekend, we’re just going to go down to Bloom-ington and take it out on them,” he said.
By Jonah L. Rosenblumthe daily northwestern
When Northwestern returns to Memorial Stadium this Saturday, it will be a different venue than the one it slumped off of in 2008 after a crushing 21-19 defeat to Indiana.
After the Wildcats left, the Hoosiers
embarked on a massive renovation project, echoing changes NU made in the mid-1990s to help turn around its program. Indiana hopes a new stadium will help reverse its fortunes, after compiling a 11-48 record in Big Ten play since 2003.
The project included the construction of a student-athlete development center in the
north end zone, connecting the stadium’s east and west stands.
In addition to giving the stadium its horse-shoe shape, the facility houses a state-of-the-art strength and conditioning center, new foot-ball offices, staff and administrative offices and a team auditorium.
“It showed a great commitment to football
in Indiana, which has paid off with our cur-rent players,” Indiana coach Bill Lynch said. “Certainly in our recruiting, they’ve seen that kind of commitment.”
The team also constructed a brand-new scoreboard.
“We feel like Memorial Stadium is a dif-ferent place than it’s been in the past,” Lynch
said. “The game-day experience in Bloomington is different.”
The Hoosiers are hardly alone when it comes to costly stadium renovations. A number of Big Ten teams have launched critical renovation projects in the past decade.
Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium under-went a four-year, $109.5 million project begin-ning in 2001. Iowa’s $89 million renovation of Kinnick Stadium was completed in 2006, and Minnesota went even further, spending $288.5
million on a sparkling new home, TCF Bank Stadium.
Now, NU is explor-ing how to rejoin its Big Ten brethren.
On Thursday, the University revealed it will begin a master study in November of how the school can improve its athletic facilities. They have hired the services of Populous, an inter-national design com-
pany that helped develop master plans for many universities, including Indiana, in the past.
“We can’t express our enthusiasm enough about this athletic facilities master plan,” athletic director Jim Phillips said in the news release. “This is a monumental milestone for Northwest-ern’s department of athletics and recreation as well as our entire campus, as this study affects not only our intercollegiate athletic program but also the recreation program for our students, faculty and staff.”
NU’s last major athletics renovation project took place from 1996 to 1997, and Shon Morris, director of development at NU, is well-aware of the advances the school’s Big Ten foes have made.
“When we did it in the 1996-1997 timeline, it really moved up the chain of command within the league, and people came to see what we did,” Morris said. “People have taken that and taken it to another level, so we’re at a point now where we need to reinvest.”
From a lightbulb to a palaceNU’s football facilities have come a long
way in the past several decades. When coach Pat Fitzgerald met with former coach Ara Parseghian, who led the Wildcats from 1956 to 1963, over spring break, Parseghian described
to the young coach how bare bones the program was when he arrived.
“He told me some great stories from the day he showed up in the training room, and there was a light bulb hanging from a wire,” Fitzgerald said. “That was how they lit their training room. He saw some things that needed to be improved, and he went about that plan.”
Yet, when Fitzgerald arrived on campus in the mid-1990s, NU’s facilities were still lack-ing compared to other schools. In fact, when the team made the Rose Bowl in 1995, the Cats had to travel to California two weeks early just to find a place they could practice because NU didn’t have an indoor practice facility.
“The needs were significant,” Morris said. “(The stadium) was in a position where it was probably close to being borderline condemned, to be honest with you. That facility had really fallen into a state of disrepair.”
Fortunately for the Cats, they put up several impressive seasons in the mid-’90s after decades of losing, and the team’s resurgence helped build support for much-needed renovations.
“I actually feel like we’re part of the brick and mortar,” Fitzgerald said. “We were able to get the program turned in the right direction, and that kind of success led to a University-wide decision to make some upgrades. I actually take a lot of pride it in when I walk in. I feel like I played a part in that happening.”
In 1996, NU embarked on a $30 million reno-vation program. The first step was building a new indoor practice facility, named Trienens Hall after the school’s former board of trustees chairman, which opened that fall.
Then, immediately after the final game of the 1996 season, NU began work on its home turf, then called Dyche Stadium. The team made a number of changes, from building a new press box to changing the playing surface from arti-ficial turf to grass.
The team’s decision to switch to natural grass received multiple accolades. Ryan Field was named the 2000 College Football “Field of the Year” by the Sports Turf Managers Asso-ciation, and Recreation Management Magazine named Ryan Field one of the “Country’s Best” in 2004.
NU also constructed the facility behind the north end zone, which houses the team’s training room, equipment room and locker rooms. When the work was done, the stadium was renamed Ryan Field after Patrick Ryan, the former chair of the University’s Board of Trustees.
When Fitzgerald came back to coach at NU, he noticed the differences immediately.
“It’s night and day,” Fitzgerald said. “We’ve come a long way, but the good news is we’re far from being complete and done, so that’s excit-ing for me.”
And the players have noticed changes as well, even over the past couple years.
“The facilities are getting better and better,” senior defensive tackle Corbin Bryant said. “It assists us a lot. The better the stuff we have, the more we can get our bodies right and the more we can prepare for games.”
Sparkling new facilities serve multiple pur-poses. One of the primary benefits of new build-ings can be seen in recruiting efforts.
“Kids want to play in things that are state-of-the-art and that give them an opportunity to be developed the right way,” Fitzgerald said. “It shows commitment that we’ll give them all the resources that they need to be successful.”
And on a practical level, the facilities help NU compete on the field.
“I don’t think there’s any question that it cer-tainly leveled the playing field with the people we compete against and suit up against on Sat-urdays,” Morris said. “Doing what you need to do with facilities is critical to maintaining that success.”
New facilities?Fourteen years after two bowl appearances
spurred the Cats’ first renovation project, mul-tiple winning seasons once again coincide with new renovation discussions.
According to Morris, NU has no choice but to look at renovations, especially seeing the way college football has advanced in the past decade.
“It’s kind of like any other business,” Morris
Looking to level the playing field
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Name game: NU’s last major upgrade to its athletic facilities came in the mid-1990s, when Ryan Field — then known as Dyche Stadium —underwent a number of improvements.
“I actually feel like we’re part of the brick and mortar. ... I actually take a lot of pride when I walk in.”Pat Fitzgerald,coach
NU to critically assess athletic facilities for the first time in school history
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38-31 Northwestern Cats pull out a shoot-out on Persa’s biggest
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30-27 Northwestern Persa gets mad, and the Cats finally win a
close game.
44-10 Northwestern Venric Mark returns 2 punts for TDs in rare
NU blowout.
41-30 Northwestern My mother could score
35 on the Hoosiers’ defense.
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Hoosiers like Burr be droppin’ Hamiliton.
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Purdue vs. Illinois 30-14 Illinois 24-14 Illinois 17-7 Illinois 24-21 Illinois 17-9 Penn State 31-10 Illinois
(5) Michigan State vs. (18) Iowa 24-21 Michigan State 24-23 Iowa 21-20 Michigan State 17-14 Iowa 24-14 Michigan State 13-10 Michigan State
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said. “You need to reinvest in the infrastructure. It’s hard to believe it’s been 13 years since that last renovation. It was a great addition, and now we need to go back in there and see what’s fea-sible, what’s possible to update it again.”
Talks of renovations seem strange considering the previous project was completed little over a decade ago, but Morris said it is necessary to keep NU competitive.
“What was cutting edge and state-of-the-art,
forget a decade ago but five years ago, almost becomes passé,” Morris said.
And while some may wonder about million-dollar price tags on what, at the end of the day, is supposedly just a game and rue the days of simple smash-mouth football, Fitzgerald argues such advancements are simply a fact of life.
“We have telephones now too,” Fitzgerald said. “At the end of the day, it is what it is. I don’t control it. It’s just part of modern sports.”
Morris: Less than ‘state-of-the-art’ facilities hurt NUFrom FACILITIES, page 7
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Currently, however, they receive a lump sum amount, requiring self-budgeting to have enough money left over to put back in the funding pool for a second event.
Revising the process to split the appropriation in two would help A&O meet three important goals, McCardel said. Programming could be improved by moving one speaker to Winter Quarter to avoid an already event-busy Spring Quarter, he said. Agent negotiations could also begin earlier, resulting in better acts at lower prices.
“It’s going to be the same amount of money, just more time,” he said.
Despite his disagreements with SAFC’s recom-mendations, McCardel said the group’s relationship with ASG was by no means contentious. He said it was the committee’s job to be fiscally restrained, and now is the time to go straight to the students.
“Senate gets what Senate wants,” McCardel said. “They’re in charge of appointing SAFC.”
If a majority of the Senate votes in favor of the group’s petition, the recommendation will be overturned.
Lew said the process is “a healthy part of what keeps funding accountable.”
“The whole point is to do what’s in the best interest of the students,” Lew said. “And it’s really students that are ultimately in control.”
Whether the Senate votes for or against A&O’s proposed procedural change and the petitions of other student groups, McCardel said they will con-tinue working to best represent the student body.
“We take pride in representing student interests,” McCardel said. “If we can do so by saving money, then that’s what we’ll do.”
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By Alan Yuthe daily northwestern
A local architect is proposing what he considers to be a grand solution to Evanston’s budget prob-lems: building a fine arts and performing arts district along the lakefront.
After attending community budget workshops and City Council meetings, Michael Vasilko, owner of Vasilko Architects, proposed building an arts district that would “make Evanston the Santa Fe of the Midwest,” according to his proposal. The Economic Development Committee voted earlier this fall to form a subcommittee to investigate his suggestion.
“I want to take the burden off the little guy, the taxpayers,” Vasilko said. “The theory is that if you are going to build a performing arts facility, and your intention is to build it as a world-class facility of the highest caliber, then you will attract the best performers and the best orchestras.”
For the past two years, Evanston has reported a budget deficit, and at recent community budget workshops, members of the community strongly opposed reducing this year’s $3.1 million deficit by eliminating services such as library branches.
Evanston needs a new source of revenue other than property taxes, Vasilko said. Although North-western hosts local groups such as the Evanston Symphony Orchestra, none of those performances generates tax revenue for the city.
A world-class facility of the scale and quality of Boston’s Symphony Hall would benefit NU as well as draw in visitors from around the nation, he said. Vasilko presented his plans to Toni-Marie Mont-gomery, dean of the Bienen School of Music, in addi-tion to the Economic Development Committee.
But Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd) said residents oppose the proposal because any commercial development goes against the Lakefront Master Plan developed two and a half years ago, which emphasizes using the lakefront for light, “passive” development, such as parks and beaches, Wynne said.
“Mr. Vasilko’s plan is an antithesis of the entire
discussion and the final document, so of course (residents) would be opposed to it,” Wynne said. “I don’t think there’s much interest in the council in pursuing this. Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) called it ‘Dubai on the Lake.’”
Although the arts district has its merits, Evanston does not have a huge demand for more artistic and cultural activities at the moment, said Samuel Nor-dlund, Bienen ’06, assistant director of performance activities at the Music Institute of Chicago. Nord-lund said he has performed at venues at NU and in Chicago, but Nichols Concert Hall at the institute is the best acoustic space available.
“There’s a lot of terrific classical and jazz per-formers that come through here, and we don’t fill the house very often,” Nordlund said. “It’s kind of a shame because it’s a high quality product.”
The existing performing arts groups in Evan-ston still need additional performing spaces because existing venues cannot accommodate some types of performances, said Jeff Cory, cultural arts coun-cil director for the City of Evanston. Cory cited
Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago and Northlight Theatre as examples of Evanston groups forced to perform elsewhere.
“We would love the opportunity to perform in Evanston in a venue that is commensurate with our status and with our professional artistic product,” said Michael McStraw, executive director of Gior-dano Jazz Dance Chicago.
Nevertheless, a performing arts center in Evan-ston would have to compete with well-established venues in Chicago, and decision-makers should be very cautious when considering the feasibility of this proposal, said Richard Van Kleeck, director of concert Activities at Bienen.
“A performance center of any kind is a serious business, and it needs to be treated with a real busi-ness plan, not hopes and dreams or romantic ideas,” Van Kleeck said. “I’ve seen too many places where people are better at whipping up enthusiasm in building it but not laying out the realities.”
Evanston considers art district proposal Some groups will petition ASG allocationFrom safc, page 1
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Lakefront arts district?: A new proposal for a “world-class” arts facility in Evanston has met with some opposition and criticism from residents and aldermen.
they should be wary of and what they can ask a landlord to address.
“Information is one of the key things that stu-dents lack about what their rights are as a tenant,” Lew said.
Weinberg senior Anil Wadhwani, who lives off campus, said he came to the meeting because it was accessible and a good opportunity to meet his repre-sentatives. He said he had an idea what the housing standards were but did not have any details.
“I think meetings would be more useful if we had an opportunity to have a civil discussion — less talk-ing to you, more talking with you,” Wadhwani said. “There was more discussion after the meeting.”
More students might have attended if the meet-ing had been better publicized, Wadhwani said. He said he found out from an e-mail sent to off-campus students from Dean of Students Burgwell Howard.
The aldermen have expressed interest in holding such meetings frequently to improve town-gown relations, ASG External Relations Vice President Ethan Merel said.
“It should be the beginning of closer community relations between permanent and student residents,” Merel said. “It’s an ongoing conversation that needs to take place and will take place in order to improve relations.”
have the most time to give, he said.“For some, the best they can do is write a
check,” Katzenmeyer said.All donations made 14 months prior to a class
reunion are counted toward the Reunion Class Gift total, Ticus said. Donors can choose what they want the money to be used for.
“I think that was a key selling point,” Pandell said.
Especially for the younger alumni, donors like to know their contributions are going toward something they care about, he said.
Katzenmeyer said most alumni give where the University need is greatest or to aspects of campus they have a strong connection to, like their school, major, student groups, sorority or fraternity.
Most donations are given to scholarships, especially by alumni that received scholarships as undergraduates, he said.
In comparison to other top schools in the coun-try, NU falls short in percentage of alumni giving donations. In non-reunion years, alumni partici-pation averages 31 percent, Ticus said, while at some schools the average is 60.
Despite this year’s success, Ticus said the fund needs to keep growing.
“We have a long way to go,” she said.
NU alumni ‘stay involved’ by donatingFrom GIfTs, page 1
Lew: Most students lack info on rights as tenantsFrom ward meeTInG, page 1
“For some, the best they
can do is write a check.”Charles
Katzenmeyer,NAA president
10 Sports The Daily Northwestern Friday, October 29, 2010
By Minjae Parkthe daily northwestern
The first senior class to call Lakeside Athletic Field home for four years will play their last game in Evanston on Friday against Minnesota.
Seniors Carolyn Edwards, Jennifer Baumann, Colleen Antas, Alison Schneeman, Ally Arca and Sam Greene along with fifth-year senior Leigh Jakes helped to inaugurate the new facility for Northwestern (6-7-3, 2-4-1 Big Ten) three years ago.
“It’s going to be pretty bittersweet,” Baumann said. “My hope for us is that every single one of us just puts it all out on the field and gets a good result.”
The seven seniors have 224 combined starts and 32 career wins among them. This season, they have 83 combined starts, and coach Stephanie Foster said the number would rise against Minnesota (10-5-3, 2-4-2).
“We plan to start all the seniors who are done with our program, which I think is a first for us to have them all legitimately earn a start on senior night,” Foster said. “I’m really proud of them for that.”
A few members of the senior class have cer-tainly made their mark on the school record book. Greene is tied for fourth in school history for career assists. Goalkeeper Edwards ranks third for career shutouts and is almost certain to surpass Whitney Jones for third on the all-time career saves list — her 212 is five saves short of Jones’ 217.
If she plays 90 minutes against the Gophers, Edwards will also have played more minutes in her career than assistant coach and former goalie Erin Ekeberg, who is third on that list. Most notably, with a 0.96 goals against average so far this season, Edwards is on course to record the lowest goals-against-average in a season in school history.
“This senior class is amazing,” freshman for-ward Kate Allen said. “Our leadership coming from them is awesome. It’s going to be really hard because our team is really close, and they’re the core of that.”
The Cats enter Friday night’s game eight days after a much-needed 3-0 win against Iowa. The Cats hadn’t won a game since its Big Ten opener at Indiana.
“It was great, especially for our confidence,” Baumann said. “In the attack, we haven’t been
scoring that many goals this season, so to put three away and to close out a game with our shutout was really good for our confidence going into the match against Minnesota.”
After starting the season with an 8-1-2 record, Minnesota comes to NU with a record of 1-4-1 in their last six games. The Gophers still have hopes of an NCAA Tournament berth, which will give them plenty of motivation against the Cats, Foster said.
While focused on the win, Edwards said she is expecting an emotional night for the seniors.
“We started the Lakeside Field legacy,” Edwards said. “It’s going to be really sad, but I know the group will carry on. They’ll do a great job with-out us.”
By Josh Walfishthe daily northwestern
The last time Northwestern made the NCAA Tournament, they lost 1-0 to James Madison in the Final Four.
Unfortunately for the Wildcats, that was all the way back in 1994, which was also the last year NU won the Big Ten regular season title. Both streaks could end this season as the Cats head into a pair of crucial games this weekend.
On Friday, the Cats (11-6, 3-1 Big Ten) host No. 9 Penn State (12-4, 3-2) and will again go up against No.11 Michigan State (13-4, 2-3) on Sunday.
The Spartans and Cats met on Oct. 17 in East Lansing in a game that did not count towards the Big Ten standings. Although the Cats were winning
1-0 at the half, the Spartans prevailed 2-1, scor-ing the winning goal with just over two minutes left. In that game, sophomore midfielder Chelsea Armstrong, the team’s leader in goals, points and assists, was out with an injury.
“Watching tape of a team is different than actu-ally playing a team,” senior defender Sarah Marcin-cin said. “We got to understand their true strengths and weaknesses and realized what we needed to do better next time around.”
Penn State has historically had the Cats number, as NU is 4-24-1 against the Nittany Lions all-time, but the Cats won the teams’ last meeting 3-2 in University Park last season. Armstrong scored the winning goal with seven minutes left in a game in which Penn State fought back from two different one-goal deficits.
“It is going to be a really great match,” coach Tracey Fuchs said. “This is a top 10 team, and I’m hoping we can get another big win over a top 10 team this season.” The Cats beat then-No. 6 Ohio State 3-2 in Columbus on Sept. 24.
NU sits second in the Big Ten with a record of 3-1, a half-game behind No. 5 Ohio State and No.12 Michigan, both of whom are 4-1 in conference. The last time the Cats won multiple Big Ten games was in 2000, and this year is the first time they will finish at least .500 in Big Ten play since 1995.
From 2004 to 2008 under former coach Kelly
McCollum, NU went 32-63 and won only three games in the Big Ten. In just under two seasons, Fuchs’ teams have won 23 games and four in conference.
Much of the credit for this turnaround lies with Fuchs and Armstrong. When this duo walked onto the Evanston campus, the Cats hadn’t had a win-ning season since 1995. Now they are poised to lead NU to its first back-to-back winning seasons since 1994-95.
Last season, Armstrong took the conference by storm, leading the Big Ten with 56 points and finishing second in goals and assists with 22 and 12 respectively. At the time, those marks put her second all-time in NU history in terms of goals and points in one season. In her encore perfor-mance this season, Armstrong has broken both of her totals from last year while playing in four fewer games so far.
“The top kids are interested in the program,” Fuchs said. “Players know we are at a top-notch academic institution, and now we are showing them we can be competitive as well.”
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By Dan Ryanthe daily northwestern
Oct. 10 marked a high point of the season for Northwestern. Coming off a solid four-set win over then-No. 16 Minnesota, the Wildcats were 15-2, which was the best start in program history. Their performance up until that point earned them the No. 20 spot in the coaches’ poll.
The more wins they piled up, the more the team seemed like a surprise Big Ten contender after entering the season unranked.
As Penn State recorded the final kill last Saturday, however, the No. 24 Wildcats (15-6, 5-5 Big Ten) found themselves on a four-game losing streak, tied for fifth in the confer-ence standings and 0-1 to start the second half of their Big Ten slate.
“It’s definitely frustrating to start losing,” senior middle blocker Naomi Johnsonsaid. “After such a good start, it is kind of a drag.... But it’s defi-nitely made us more motivated.”
While riding their winning streak to the top of the Big Ten standings, the Cats preached consistent, funda-mental play and a steady, game-by-game mindset.
NU has been unable to find that consistency as of late, however, sometimes looking like a team that deserves its ranking in the coaches’ poll, other times struggling mightily against inferior opponents.
“The past few weekends, we haven’t been servicing well or passing well,” sophomore libero Julie Chin said.
An added focus has been placed on these two areas during practices the last two weeks, Chin said.
Although it might be easy for the team to want to make drastic changes in the game plan, the Cats are not having a knee-jerk reaction to the losing streak.
“We really believe in what our strengths are,” Johnson said. “We haven’t changed a whole lot in prac-tice. We’re just trying to come out and play as consistently as we can.”
Sitting at 15-6 at the halfway mark in the season, the Cats are still in good position to make the NCAA tournament at season’s end.
NU travels to No. 20 Minnesota (16-7, 6-5) on Friday before taking on Iowa (6-14, 1-10) in a primetime matchup on Saturday.
The Cats enter the weekend series tied with the Golden Gophers in the loss column and with a chance to gain critical ground in the standings. The last time NU beat Minnesota, it lifted the program to its highest point in years. A second win against their conference foe would get the Cats back on track in the Big Ten.
Minnesota may be the marquee matchup of the weekend, but Iowa poses a serious threat to NU on Saturday.
Although the Hawkeyes sit last in the Big Ten, the Cats have had their struggles against Iowa in the past at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. The fact the game will be broadcast on TV should serve as even more motivation for a team looking to play spoiler down
the stretch.“I know we haven’t played our best
volleyball at Carver-Hawkeye Arena,” coach Keylor Chan said. “(The Hawkeyes) play very well there. We know we’re going to have to go out and play good volleyball and execute
a good game plan.”After finishing up the weekend’s
games, the Cats will return home for rematches against No. 6 Illinois and Wisconsin.
By Katherine Driessenthe daily northwestern
Senior forward Matt Eliason had every reason to overthink his penalty kick in Northwestern’s 4-3 win at Wis-consin last Saturday.
With less than two minutes left in regulation, a miss would almost certainly have sealed the Badgers’ 3-2 lead and shattered the Cats’ fragile NCAA tournament hopes.
Instead, he kept it simple.“I knew I had to score,” Eliason
said. “Of course it was nerve-wrack-ing. But I knew I just had to pick a corner and go with it. I’ve done it so many times before that I knew I could do it again and make it easy.”
It’s a situation NU is facing, meta-phorically speaking, in its last two regular season matchups. Both games, against impressive conference foes No. 25 Indiana and Michigan, might as well as be the last two minutes of that decisive game. NU can’t afford not to convert in the clutch, as it sits at a less-than prime No. 94 in this week’s RPI rankings.
But with the pressure on at Indiana (8-5-2, 3-0-1 Big Ten) on Sunday, NU (8-5-2, 2-1-1) could also use a little bit of Eliason’s ‘make it easy’ approach.
“You know how important these games are so it makes you play hard,” Eliason said. “But at the same time, you don’t want to be too uptight. Just as a senior knowing that these could be our last few games, you know you’ve got to balance that. We all do.”
Not that NU will be letting down its guard against Indiana, who sits comfortably at No. 8 in the RPI rankings.
The Hoosiers are coming off a 3-0 win over No. 23 Michigan State thanks to two goals and an assist from team-leading scorer Will Bruin.
“If he’s going to score, we’re going to make him earn it,” coach Tim Lena-han said. “Every time we turn over the ball, we’re going to need to kind of take roll of where he is. He can’t get free in the box.”
After conceding all three goals to Wisconsin’s freshman Chris Prince last weekend, NU’s back line knows all too well the importance of mark-ing up.
“What happened in last week’s game where we just kind of broke down was not good,” senior center back Cody Stanley said. “Frankly, that’s just unac-ceptable. It can’t happen again from here on out.”
NU’s defense has been in flux lately. With sophomore Jarrett Baughman still out thanks to a concussion against Ohio State in early October, senior Jack Hillgard has slotted in beside Stanley. Hillgard, or “Chillgard” to the Cats, has been a steadying presence, using his 6-foot-3 stature to defend in the air.
He also knocked down the 70-yard game winner in overtime against Wis-consin last weekend.
Still, NU will have to contend with more personnel changes after junior Drew Kotler and redshirt freshman Tommy Tombridge both suffered con-cussions against the Badgers.
Sophomore Jonathan Harris, who recorded his first collegiate win in overtime against Wisconsin, will start in net for the Cats.
“Certainly the older guys have some bigger games under their belts and maybe a little bit more on the line,” Lenahan said. “We just need the fresh-men to feed off that confidence level. Indiana has a great stadium, and there should be a big turnout. If you can’t play there, you can’t play anywhere.”
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Staying alive: Jack Hillgard (left) and Matt Eliason (center) have adapted to new roles on the field this season and will need to continue playing strongly in them to extend their collegiate careers into the playoffs.
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JUSTIN SCHECKEr
The secret is out. North-western has one of the top quarterbacks in college football.
Dan Persa, still the most accu-rate passer in the country after eight weeks, joined the likes of Auburn’s Cameron Newton and Michigan’s Denard Robinson on the watch list for the Manning Award, presented to the nation’s top signal caller.
Unfortunately, Persa’s receiving national attention has coincided with the Wildcats dropping their last two Big Ten home games.
Three Persa-rushing touchdowns against Michigan State are great individual stats in the box score. But that’s not what NU football needs to end its 61-year bowl drought. The 5-0 start will go to waste unless the rest of NU’s skill position players step up.
With the Spartans shutting down Jeremy Ebert, NU’s top wide out, Persa passed for less than 200 yards for the first time this year. Ebert shouldn’t be held to two recep-tions again, but opponents will copy the Spartans and try to limit his production.
The success of NU’s spread offense depends on the quarterback’s ability to spread the ball around. Yes, Persa can scramble, but even he said after the 35-27 loss that for the offense to click, he needs to stay in the pocket and throw the ball away more.
A shocking bright spot against the Spartans was that the Cats’ running backs had their best performance on the ground since Arby Fields’s anomaly of a game against Illinois State. This started up front with the offensive line having its best game run blocking against the stiffest com-petition it has faced.
Freshman Adonis Smith showed potential to become NU’s featured running back last weekend on the slick Ryan Field grass, where he slipped just as much as he was tack-led. As long as rain is not in the fore-cast in Bloomington, Smith may be primed for a breakout game.
What NU really needs this week-end is for the other true freshmen to become more involved in the offense. Coach Pat Fitzgerald didn’t burn Tony Jones and Rashad Lawrence’s redshirts for them to be decoys on the field.
Since Jones hauled in a 45-yard score against Minnesota, he has one catch for one yard. Lawrence has also shown the ability to make big plays at times, including a 44-yard grab against Michigan State. Persa needs to get the ball in the hands of these two highly-touted recruits more often.
In addition to the young wide receivers, Drake Dunsmore needs to snap out of his slump. The super-back went without a catch against the Spartans and hasn’t scored a touch-down since the Illinois State game. Everyone remembers in the Out-back Bowl when Dunsmore turned a routine screen pass into a 66-yard touchdown.
The Iron Cat may be able to bench press 375 pounds, but he cannot carry NU back to a bowl game by himself. The talent surrounding Persa on offense needs to step up starting this Saturday at Indiana if the Cats want to secure a trip back to the postseason.
Justin Schecker is a Medill junior. He can be reached at [email protected].
Cats face two conference foes in last two matches to help playoff chances
