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By Miranda Vigliettithe daily northwestern
A bright new Jimmy John’s sign began glowing on Sherman Avenue last week.
Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches, currently located at 824 Clark St., will move to a new location at 1729 Sherman Ave., , before the end of the month.
The sub shop’s new storefront offers a better location that will likely increase foot traffic, Jimmy John’s manager Caleb Granner said.
An official opening date for the relo-cated Jimmy John’s has yet to be deter-mined as construction wraps up, Granner said. The new Jimmy John’s is close to being ready and may move into its new storefront during Thanksgiving weekend, he said.
The restaurant’s effort to find a more convenient location has already paid off with at least one student. Weinberg fresh-man Trey Grant said though he and his dorm-mates in the Public Affairs Resi-dential College sometimes order Jimmy John’s for delivery, he had never visited the old storefront and did not know where it was. He recently passed the new shop and plans to go there in the future, he said.
“It’s better located because it’s near all the food shops,” Grant said.
Plans to move to a new location have been in effect for a year, after the Jimmy John’s corporate office told the Evanston location to remodel in order to add branding updates, owner Tom Ryan said.
In order to remodel the shop, Jimmy John’s would have needed to add public
restrooms to its current facility in com-pliance with the state plumbing code and the Evanston health department’s regulations, Ryan said. Rather than close the sub shop in order to add public rest-rooms and branding updates — and lose business in the meantime — the store decided to take the opportunity to move to a more central location in downtown Evanston by constructing a new shop with the necessary improvements, Ryan said.
“We didn’t want to deprive Northwest-ern students of our delicious sandwiches,” Ryan said jokingly. “We saw an opportu-nity for a much, much better location and jumped at it.”
Remodeling efforts normally do not pose as much of an issue for Evanston restaurants, Health Department division manager Carl Caneva said.
“Right now we have 400 licensed facilities and it’s not very common at all,”
Caneva said.A new food-serving facility could
move in to Jimmy John’s soon-to-be-va-cant storefront on Clark Street without adding public restrooms, as long as they specialized in carryout and do not have a seating area, Caneva said.
Jimmy John’s has been in its current location for close to 17 years — on Clark Street across the street from Quartet Cop-ies, Ryan said.
The new Jimmy John’s location, for-merly the site of Omni Salon and Day Spa, will offer approximately the same amount of indoor space as the old shop, with the addition of outdoor seating on a patio during warmer months, Ryan said.
“We’re obviously excited and we’re looking forward to what will happen,” Ryan said.
Two Northwestern scientists honored at the White House
Two Northwestern professors will soon travel to the White House to meet President Barack Obama and attend an awards ceremony.
Malcolm MacIver, associate pro-fessor of biomedical and mechani-cal engineering in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Emily Weiss, the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Chemistry in Weinberg, are among 100 scientists nationwide chosen by the Obama administration to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for 2010. The recipients were recognized this summer.
MacIver was recognized for his science outreach efforts, including Hollywood science-fiction advisory efforts, interactive art installations and his writing for a Discover magazine blog. His work on the bio-mechanical and neural basis of intelligence also contributed to his qualifications for the award.
The Obama administration chose to recognize Weiss because of her contributions to the science world regarding the dynamics of photoex-cited states of colloidal quantum dots, as well as her work employing nano-structures as solution-phase model systems for studying the interactions between solid-phase surfaces and organic models, a new approach in her field.
— Claire Brown
By Emma O’Connorthe daily northwestern
Though sweeping changes aren’t in the foreseeable future, Associated Student Government is looking to make incre-mental improvements to Northwestern’s advising program, according to its Aca-demic Vice President Gabby Daniels.
“We’re working on a few big things, but what we consider a big change is just something that the administration listens to and implements,” Daniels said.
This year, Daniels said she has been urging adjustments in the advising mod-els of each undergraduate school. ASG has been examining NU’s various advis-ing systems to distinguish areas that need improvement.
“We’re looking into every school indi-vidually to see what is good and what has worked and what we can implement across all schools,” Daniels said.
Daniels said she hopes to see the role of Student Advisory Boards expand, so that board members can act more like peer advisers by offering other students advice on specific majors. Daniels has
See Advising, page 7
Jimmy John’s shop makes a move
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Relocation: Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwich Shop may be ready to move into its new storefront on Sherman Avenue by Thanksgiving.
Psych tour hits Northwestern
Christian Wilson/The Daily Northwestern
Psych out: Tom Meltreger, the executive story editor of the TV show Psych, hosted the Psych College Tour’s stop at Northwestern Tuesday. Meltreger screened an episode, answered students’ questions and gave away swag. Read the full story about the event on page 3.
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Sandwich restaurant may move during Thanksgiving break
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State budget cuts and declines in phi-lanthropy and endowments helped push the cost of college tuition up much higher than general inflation across the country this year, amounting to an increase of 7.9 percent at public campuses and 4.5 percent at private ones, according to a study by the nonprofit College Board.
Tuition and fees for the current school year average $7,605 for state residents at public four-year colleges and $27,293 at private institutions, according to the report released Thursday.
Room and board added an average of $8,535 at public campuses and $9,700 at private schools.
However, significant boosts in federal grant aid and the use of tax credits pro-vided so much relief that many families, particularly low-income households, were shielded from those price increases, the report found.
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Astronomers stumble on energy bubbles beyond galaxy
Startled astronomers said Tuesday they have discovered two massive bubbles of gamma-ray energy extending 25,000 light-years above and below the plane of the Milky Way galaxy like a squat hourglass.
“They’re big, they’re sharp-edged and they contain a lot of energy,” astrophysi-cist Douglas Finkbeiner of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said in a news conference.
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Quidditch � ies o� the page and onto campus sports � elds
By Michael VasquezMcClatchy Newspapers
MIAMI — Quidditch is part soccer, part bas-ketball, part dodgeball, and all fantasy — or at least it used to be. e hybrid game was invented by author J.K. Rowling and, until recently, only played by the imaginary broom- ying wizards of her popular Harry Potter novels.
ese days, a version for us lowly humans — or “muggles,” in Potter terms — is popping up at more than a dozen college campuses in Florida alone.
“I can’t tell you if there’s ying or not, that’s a secret,” joked University of Miami quidditch player Ally Levy.
Truth be told, there are brooms, but no gravity-defying co-eds. Instead, students run around with a broom tucked between their legs.
“You have to keep one hand on it at all times because we’re simulating ight,” explained Univer-sity of Miami quidditch organizer Alex Locust. “If you take both hands o� , you ‘fall.’” Potter fans have always been a fervent bunch. Five years ago, stu-dents at Vermont’s Middlebury College invented this new brand of quidditch, and the game took o� faster than, well, a real ying broomstick. ere are now more than 500 active quidditch teams worldwide — including teams in Brazil, New Zea-land and Colombia.
In Florida, most of the nearly 30 quidditch teams that have registered with the International Quidditch Association — a “magical nonpro� t organization” that governs this fast-growing sport — are colleges. But there’s also a smattering of high schools — including North Broward Prepara-tory School in Coconut Creek and Western High School in Davie.
“Now we’re starting to get adult teams who are interested in joining,” said the IQA’s Alicia Radford. “Whatever age groups want to play quid-ditch, we will adapt.”
Quidditch players typically grew up reading Harry Potter, and relish the experience of playing even a scaled-down version of a game they dreamt about as children.
“Look at how many books have been sold across America, there’s a lot of kids interested in it,” said Bob Belo� , whose 18-year-old son, Sean, plays quidditch at the University of Miami.
“ ey’re all in college now.”Muggle quidditch might not have any acrobatic
broom- ying, but that doesn’t mean it’s for sissies. ere’s plenty of bumping and other physical con-tact. Men and women play side-by side.
“I’ve found the girls are more vicious,” said Florida International University quidditch orga-nizer Chelsea Klaiber, adding that one team prac-tice featured a snapped broom caused by a female student tackling one of the guys.
Ah, the brooms. is detail is responsible for much of the challenge that comes with playing quidditch: there’s the predictable awkward run-ning, but holding the broom also takes one arm permanently out of play.
So far, the list of o� cial “recommended” equip-ment includes goggles, shin guards, and capes.
How exactly does the game work? For non-Pot-ter fans, try visualizing an oval-shaped, half-sized soccer � eld where each teams’ net is replaced by three basketball-hoop-like spheres. e underly-ing principle is the same — ball goes in, points get scored (with a goalie-type player standing in the way). In this case, the ball is a partially de ated volleyball known as a “qua� e.”
While teams’ o� ensive players scurry about on their brooms attempting to score goals, defensive players known as “beaters” work to sabotage any scoring attempt by knocking the qua� e-holder temporarily out of play. is is done through a method closely resembling dodgeball — beaters toss partially de ated dodgeballs at opponents who are “knocked out” for a moment if they get hit.
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Feinberg receives grant for children’s health study
Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medi-cine recently received a seven-year, 32 million dollar contract from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to conduct a study aiming to determine how to prevent the abundance of health problems that American children face. Asthma, premature births, autism, obesity and behavior disorders are among the health conditions that will be addressed in the study.
The National Children’s Study-Great Chi-cago Study Center is one of 105 National
Children’s Study locations nationwide. More than 100,000 children will be included in the national study.
Study administrators will follow these women, their children and the rest of their families from before birth until age 21, observ-ing what effect family history and physical and social environments have on their health.
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By Joshua Kopelthe daily northwestern
Northwestern got “Psyched” Tuesday when the Psych College Tour made a stop in Evan-ston to cap off their 10-college crawl. The USA Network show’s assorted cast and crew have been touring for weeks, beginning in Gainesville, Florida, and Eugene, Oregon.
“The college tour is a completely unique thing,” said Tim Meltreger , Psych’s executive story editor and the event’s host. “I don’t think any other show has done one. It’s a tremen-dous opportunity to get to know our fans, even to make fun of them and have them make fun of us.”
The event was held in the McCormick Auditorium in Norris University Center Tuesday night and featured a sneak-preview of Wednesday’s episode, entitled “Extradi-tion II: The Actual Extradition Part,” with special guest star Cary Elwes of “Princess Bride” fame.
Elwes will once again be playing the part of thief Pierre Despereaux, attempting to impress Shawn (James Roday ) and Gus (Dulé Hill ) by pulling off the perfect crime — from behind bars.
After the episode, Meltreger answered stu-dents’ questions and gave away swag, or “psy-wag” as he called it, including mugs, Magic 8-Balls, bobbleheads and pineapple foam fin-gers — a reference to the show’s practice of hiding a pineapple in each episode.
Some students were so excited at the pros-pect of seeing the show and getting swag that they arrived at 9 a.m. for the 7 p.m. event.
“I’ve been here since nine. It’s been a long day,” said Communication freshman Maggie Fish . “But my world is about to be rocked.”
Freshman Michael Ferguson , agreed. “We brought pineapples for this,” he said.Even some non-students made an appear-
ance to the supposedly student-only event, including 41-year- old Milwaukee native Lynda Arndt .
“I’m a huge fan of Psych, and I heard about the college tour, so I decided to crash the party,” Arndt said.
And though Roday and Hill were unable to attend, they sent a video greeting NU students while wearing NU gear.
Medill junior Simone Slykhous was disap-pointed that the duo was absent but said she was still excited to see the sneak preview.
“There’s free swag. You can’t go wrong with that,” Slykhous said.
Toward the end of the event Meltreger began reading student’s Twitter posts regard-ing the showing, rewarding those whose tweets were funny enough to earn his approval. He also gave Psych merchandise to students able to answer trivia questions about the show, ranging from “Where is the show filmed?” to “How many of the words in the theme song are passive verbs?”
Meltreger also gave away an iPad and two $100 iTunes gift certificates to a lucky audi-ence member, Weinberg graduate student Scott Mayle .
Meltreger said actually seeing people enjoy their work makes the process more worthwhile.
“We write these episodes in a closed room and film it on a closed set,” he said. “To see people enjoy our work and laugh at it, that’s a great thing. And it teaches us what people think is funny, and we learn from that.”
NU students ‘get psyched’ for Psych College Tour
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 page 4
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ONLINEWatch columnist J.D. Bryant discuss
the results of the midterm election at www.dailynorthwestern.com
Last week national Democrats woke up to the a� ermath of a Republican invasion — a Red Dawn. Democrats felt the full force of an elec-toral recoil four years in the making. A� er
� ipping a total of 52 House and 14 Senate seats since 2006, a huge number of Dems found themselves in vulnerable positions, running for reelection in red-dish areas that never really felt like their own. Many of them confusedly bumbled from message to message, running away from their caucus’s accomplishments and attempting to triangulate themselves back into Congress in a red year. Republicans, to their credit, successfully coupled popular unrest over the economy with simple, repudiating messaging to storm back this year. � e result was, in President Obama’s own words, a “shellacking:” the GOP recaptured the House and nearly erased the historic Democratic advantage in the Senate.
Republicans like to argue that the American people sent Washington a message last week, that the results in this one election represent a sweeping validation of conservative principles. � e truth is a little messier than that: this year it wasn’t just a perfect cross-section of “the American people” sending the message, it was the Republicans’ dream electorate. 2010 voters were markedly older and whiter than those who came to the polls in 2008. Apathetic Democratic sympathizers (I’m looking at you, students) sat home on Election Day, allowing a very di� erent electorate to make its voice heard. By delivering a new majority in only the House and failing to recapture the Senate, the older and whiter voters who showed up to the polls gave Republicans a strange sort of blessing. Mad Republican scientists can now play around in their Congressional lab and shove through the House any wacky piece of legislation they want — and then moan about how Washington is bro-ken when Democrats try to slow it down in the Senate.
But it’s becoming clear that the GOP isn’t satis� ed with just legislating from its current position. Republi-cans have made no secret that their goals are political, rather than policy-oriented. Sarah Palin says she can see 2012 from her house, and it seems like Republicans who actually have government jobs are just as � red up about pressing their political advantage. When asked just days before his party was poised to take back Con-gress’s lower chamber, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell told � e National Journal that, come Janu-ary, the number one priority for the again-powerful Republican conference would have nothing to do with immigration reform, climate legislation, tax policy, or creating jobs. “� e single most important thing we want to achieve,” he said, “is for President Obama to be a one-term President.” Several days later, the man who in January will be the Speaker of the House echoed his colleague’s combative tone. A cocky Representative John Boehner told Fox News pundit Sean Hannity that “� is is not a time for compromise.” If you’re disturbed by the idea of two of our country’s most powerful leg-islators promising to place their responsibility to work with all parts of government secondary to their politi-cal ambitions, then you’re not alone.
McConnell’s and Boehner’s words paint a bleak post-election landscape. � e tone of this past cycle eviscerated the illusion that we ever even came close to the bipartisan harmony candidate Obama preached on the campaign trail. Republicans aren’t even bothering to pay lip service to the value of bipartisanship. Instead, the GOP has doubled down on its commitment to extreme non-cooperation. � at promise ensures that under the new red reality, the shi� ing of blame and shu� ing of feet in the legislative process is going to be just as hyperpolitical as it has always been.
J.D. Bryant is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at [email protected].
Red Dawn
We attend college for a lot of di� erent reasons. And while most people agree that college is a good idea, it is also very
expensive — especially in England.� e British government has proposed an
education spending reduction and subsequent tuition increase have raised the ire of students. With increasing frequency, students are protest-ing and voicing their concerns over proposed changes to education funding in England. I witnessed a � ash mob � rst-hand on Friday.
� e students held a "funeral for education" on University College London’s main quad, complete with a black casket that read “RIP Education,” � owers and black clothing. It was raining, but the students didn't mind; it was � t-ting to have dreary weather for such an event.
In light of the recession, the British govern-ment is making comprehensive spending cuts. � is includes a minimum 80 percent increase in tuition at elite schools, making it 2.5 times more expensive. Yep, 2.5 times. How many American students could a� ord to stay in school if that happened in the US? At Northwestern, that would mean an increase to almost $110,000 in annual tuition alone.
� is is a misleading statistic in some ways because the current tuition in England is only about $5500. However, � nancial aid is rela-tively non-existent in England and students are expected to defray the costs with little help from their parents. Almost all students pay the "sticker-price" no matter their personal eco-nomic situation. Additionally, almost all English colleges and universities are public and charge the same fees. � ere is no low-cost option like community college.
I'm not directly a� ected by the fee increases that face English students, but I will support their protest on principle. Students in house-holds making less than $45,000 will have less access to non-tuition related loans which helped cover miscellaneous expenses as well as books, meals, and school trips. � is education main-tenance allowance, which provides students with up to about $45 a week, will end; instead, schools will administer discretionary aid only and there will be less total aid available. Stud-ies by BBC and the National Foundation for Educational Research show that low-income students will be less likely to continue their education because they won’t have access to such loans.
Greater tuition costs will also serve as a deterrent to prospective students unsure about how they can a� ord to pay back their loans. Many American students know about the prohibitive aspects of a high debt load. Life shouldn't revolve around how you're going to repay your loans, but more students will � nd themselves in this situation.
� e changes in tuition will have the greatest impact on those who are currently struggling to � nd a way to pay for college — many of them will simply not be able to continue their educa-tion. Lower levels of education in the public will lead to less social diversity and mobility. Getting more people going to college should be the goal, because a well-educated population is good for society; for example, the correlation between lower crime and higher education is well-docu-mented. � e private sector — and the economy as a whole — bene� ts from a better-educated workforce.
Ray Whitehouse is a Medill junior cur-rently studying abroad in London. He can be reached at [email protected].
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High Price: Protesters gathered in the main quad of University College London on Friday to protest the increase in student tuition at English universities.
Costs of education
Moving forward: a message � om the Living Wage Campaign
For the past year, the Living Wage Cam-paign has been changing the culture of Northwestern’s campus, challenging the divide that has long existed between students and service workers here. We’ve been chang-ing the culture by listening, by learning, not only from our professors but from the people who cook our meals and clean our dorms.
What we’ve learned motivates us to con-tinue to � ght for change. The Daily editorial board is not going to dampen our resolve.
When The Daily criticizes us for relying on the emotional, we assume that they refer to the stories of workers’ lives. � e indisput-able facts are found in the conditions campus workers live in every day. It’s the facts that make us emotional, that indeed make us angry. � ere is poverty on our campus and the University could end it. � is isn’t a theo-retical problem in class, it’s real life. It’s our campus, it’s the person who just made our lunch.
From listening to workers we know that they don’t want to be dependent on food stamps — we � nd The Daily’s notion that workers shouldn’t get a living wage because then they wouldn’t qualify for food stamps to be insensitive at best. � e suggestion to focus on getting workers better skills ignores other key facts — the workers have skills, and even if they had the time to learn others while struggling to pay the bills and o� en working multiple jobs, there will always be workers feeding students on campus. We believe those workers should not live in poverty.
Certainly the kinds of service programs The Daily discusses are important, but Northwestern can do more. Connecting workers to bene� ts and programs goes hand in hand with paying workers a living wage. In fact, our living wage number, from the Heart-land Alliance’s 2009 Self Su ciency Report, “Getting By and Getting Ahead,” includes government assistance. � ere are great pro-grams that help disadvantaged communities, but these services are band-aids that simply treat symptoms of poverty.
The Daily advises us to reorient our goals towards bene� ts like those we won last spring. Bene� ts have been central to our mission from the beginning. But we have always argued that a two-pronged approach is crucial to addressing this culture of invisibil-ity on campus: community building coupled with fair wages. While we won discounted tickets and educational grants, it won’t make a di� erence for someone who works two jobs and has no time to take advantage of these bene� ts.
We are shocked that The Daily argued that it's � ne for these pro� table companies to pay low wages because the federal govern-ment provides Medicaid and food stamps. As taxpayers, we are subsidizing a low wage economy. � e fact that Northwestern workers
are eligible for food stamps means they can-not a� ord food. � at’s proof that we are not paying a su cient wage.
� e editorial shows ignorance and basic confusion. Medicaid exists as a safety net for poor people, not as a way to subsidize or enable corporations and universities to underpay their workers. It's appalling that The Daily assumes that this is the function and the role of these government programs.
It is not the responsibility of students to manage the Northwestern budget, in fact, the university keeps the budget con� den-tial. What we know is that Northwestern is wealthy, that we have a large endowment and that Northwestern is launching a multi-billion dollar capital campaign. It is indisputable that it is within Northwestern’s means to pay workers a living wage: $3-4 million is clearly doable. We are saying that to the community, treating workers as equals is important. We compared the costs of a living wage policy to the costs of one tenure-line professorship (not an endowed chair) not to say replace faculty, but to illustrate how feasible this is.
The Daily’s argument that implementing a living wage policy at Northwestern would lead to layo� s re� ects a lack of research. Stud-ies have shown that in Santa Monica, Boston, New Haven and Hartford, living wage policies did not prompt a� ected � rms to cut jobs or even reduce employees’ hours. � e conten-tion that the Stanford living wage policy forced layo� s is correct, but this occurred because resistant administrators diluted the proposal by allowing certain contractors to bypass its mandates. We can avoid diluting our living wage policy by following models like that of Georgetown, which avoided layo� s through committee oversight.
Just last month, our neighbors at DePaul University raised worker wages from $9.25 to a minimum of between $11.80 and $14.30 per hour. If DePaul can accomplish this with a $245.6 million endowment, Northwest-ern can do the same using its $6.3 billion endowment.
� ere are people who have worked on campus since before any current undergradu-ate was born who make $9.54 an hour, and more recent hires making $8.40. � at is not enough to support yourself, let alone a family.
We challenge Northwestern as we have challenged ourselves: to really get to know the workers on campus. When you do that, see if you still could look any one of them in the eye and say: “I think you shouldn’t get a living wage.” � is is about looking at campus work-ers as equals, and treating them and paying them accordingly.
—Adam YalowitzLWC co-director, Weinberg senior
—Kellyn LewisLWC co-director, Weinberg junior
—Maggie BirkelLWC co-director, Weinberg junior
On behalf of the NU Living Wage Campaign
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Weinberg junior Suzanne Chang never would have guessed her freshman seminar � nal paper would even-tually become the basis for the essay that would earn her the chance to meet the president of Taiwan.
� is summer she received the top recognition for her submission to the 2010 Global Initiatives Sympo-sium in Taiwan essay contest, a competition held by the National Taiwan University. � e award ceremony was part of a three-day academic conference in Taipei . Chang applied last spring a er urging from her father and found out she was one of 100 � nalists who would attend the conference at the beginning of the sum-mer. Her six-page essay, on the economic bene� ts of adopting green technology in China, came out of her Economics of Energy freshman seminar � nal project,
she said.It wasn’t until she was
already at the conference that Chang found out her essay had won first place and President Ma Ying-jeou would present her with a certi� cate.
Chang said although it wasn’t like meeting Presi-dent Barack Obama, it was an honor to meet the Taiwanese president.
“He was there for about 10 minutes,” she said. “But my parents were really excited for
me and proud. It was a great opportunity.”Ph.D. students as well as other graduate and under-
graduate students from all over the world were chosen as � nalists to attend the conference. Chang won a $400 grant in the form of a subsidy to her airplane ticket.
“It was really humbling,” she said. “You realize how passionate some people are. To think my essay was picked out of all these essays was very shocking.”
Weinberg junior Stacy Chow said Chang spent weeks writing the essay and working on the presentation.
“� e award is a re ection of the work she put in,” she said. “She deserved the award, and I’m glad they
gave it to her.”� e presentation consisted of a 15-minute Pow-
erPoint demonstration and a summary of the main points in the essay to the 100 � nalists, Chang said. She said the mental preparation for giving the presentation was the most di� cult.
“Having to put myself in that situation and give a presentation in front of a big group of people was intimidating, but I � gured out it was possible,” she said.
Chang, whose parents are from Taiwan and are both college professors, plans to graduate a year early and is already applying to graduate schools and research assistant positions. She said she hopes to be a professor of either economics or � nance at a top university.
Weinberg junior � ea Klein-Mayer was Chang’s roommate during the summer while she prepared for the conference presentation. She said she expects big things from Chang.
“She’s hardworking; she works until she succeeds,” she said. “It’s very admirable.”
NU student’s essay wins her a visit with Taiwan’s president
Photo courtesy of Suzanne Chang
First place: Weinberg junior Suzanne Chang won an essay contest and got to meet President Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan. “To think
my essay was picked out of all these essays was very shocking.”Suzanne Chang,Contest winner
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Bike stolen outside KresgeSomeone stole a student’s bike outside Kresge
Hall on Sunday, police said.University Police responded to a the� call about
a stolen bike outside Kresge Hall, 1880 Campus Drive, at 9:30 p.m., Deputy Chief Dan McAleer said. A student had locked his Schwinn bike on the bike racks outside the building at approximately 2:30 p.m., and when he checked on it four hours later, he saw the bike cable lock was cut and his bike was missing.
Staff member receives multiple disturbing e-mails, phone calls
Police are investigating a case involving dis-turbing phone calls and e-mails sent to a NU sta� member, police said.
� e phone calls and e-mails are not threaten-ing in nature but are very strange, McAleer said. He said he could not give any more details on the incident because police are still investigating.
Woman arrested after throwing a rock at a car’s mirror
Police arrested a woman who attacked another woman’s car Sunday, police said.
Nancy Wharton approached the car at the 2000 block of Darrow Avenue on Sunday around 11:50 p.m., Evanston Police Cmdr. Tom Guenther said. Wharton began pounding on the window with her � sts while the owner was inside the car, Guenther said.
� e victim locked her door, and the suspect threw a rock at the driver’s side mirror before walk-ing away. Police arrived at the scene and found Wharton, whom the victim identi� ed as the woman who threw the rock at her car.
GPS receiver stolen from a cabSomeone stole a GPS and power chargers from
a cab Monday, police said.� e cab driver called the police a� er he found
that someone had broken out the two windows on the passenger side of his purple 2004 Ford Crown Victoria vehicle parked at the 1800 block of Darrow Avenue, Guenther said. � e suspects took a Garmin GPS receiver valued at $300, a cell phone charger valued at $30 and an AC adapter of unknown value.
TV stolen from house on EmersonSomeone stole a television from a house on
Monday, police said.� e suspect broke into a house on the 1800
block of Emerson Street through the back door on Monday morning and stole a 32-inch Sony Bravia television, Guenther said.
Police are investigating the description of a man who knocked on the victim’s door a few hours ear-lier asking for a man named “Chris,” because that is the modus operandi of a known local criminal, Guenther said.
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Northwestern will host a dialogue between Evanston residents and members of the NU com-munity including representatives of Student A� airs, Community Relations and University Police on Tuesday, Nov. 16. � e meeting will start at 7:30 p.m. in the Seabury Library, 600 Haven St.
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advice on specific majors. Daniels has been looking most closely at the School of Education and Social Policy’s advising program, which she said receives the most positive feedback from students.
SESP’s Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Susan Olson said all of SESP’s advisers are professional academic advisers who are asso-ciated with a concentration or major but who do not have teaching responsibilities. Each SESP student is assigned to an adviser based on his or her academic concentration and then works with the same adviser for all four years of undergraduate study. SESP’s advising model works well because of the small size of the school, which has around 400 under-graduates, Olson said.
“The small size of SESP is a contributing factor to the success of the advising model because advisors are with their advisees the whole time and get to know them really well,” Olson said.
Still, Olson said the advising program that works for SESP may not be practical for other schools, especially the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, which boasts over 4,000 undergraduate students.
Weinberg’s Associate Dean for Undergradu-ate Academic Affairs Mary Finn said that rather than trying to copy the advising models of other schools, Weinberg administrators are instead discussing possible improvements within their own model.
“SESP does a great job, but it’s not a viable model for the number of students that we have,” Finn said. “We’re always looking to see what we should improve. We have a fairly complex advising operation, and we try to do well by our students as individuals as much as possible.”
Weinberg sophomore Aimee Peng trans-ferred from Weinberg to SESP — and then back to Weinberg — within a matter of months. She said there were noticeable advis-ing differences.
“It seemed like the SESP advisers have an easier time contacting students, which is prob-ably because they have way fewer students,” Peng said. “The SESP advising programs is really per-sonal and really helpful. It seems like you have to seek out your adviser more in Weinberg.”
Weinberg has a three-part advising program. Freshman advisers are first linked to freshmen seminars. Then Weinberg college advisers work with students from their sophomore year until graduation, and major advisers in all depart-ments help students navigate programs and requirements.
After collecting feedback from a student focus group, the Weinberg Dean’s Office decided to focus on improving coordination between the three areas, Finn said.
“We’re doing a lot more of what we call inte-gration of the three parts,” Finn said. “This year we’re working on having the Weinberg advis-ers work more with the freshman advisers and work more with the directors of undergraduate studies.”
Finn said one of the aims of increased inter-action is to provide Weinberg’s freshman advis-ers with more resources and more access to the Weinberg college advisers. Moreover, Weinberg has been “really ramping up orientation” in the last couple of years, Finn said.
“This year and last year we held breakfast meetings for freshman advisers,” Finn said. “We had a session on writing, we’ve had a session on CAPS, and we’re having more sessions. We will continue the training of these advisers past the first week of freshman advising.”
Daniels said even small changes to advis-ing models are important, as long as there is increased understanding between faculty and students.
“It’s a symbiotic, mutual relationship,” Dan-iels said. “You can’t be a good adviser if you have a bad advisee.”
Weinberg plans to improve its advising model
From ADVISING, page 1
“We’re looking into every school
individually to see … what has
worked . ”Gabby Daniels,ASG academic
vice president
SESP advising receives best feedback of all NU undergraduate schools
”“ SPORTSSPORTSSPORTSWednesday, November 10 2010 page 8
Cardiac Cats break break
break our heartsNorthwestern is incapable of losing in
normal fashion.� is past week, they were up 21-0
against Penn State. � ey lost. � ree weeks ago, they were up 17-0
against Michigan State. � ey lost.Eleven months ago, the Outback
Bowl happened, and I’m not fully sure what went down because the events of that game caused me to spend the next 72 hours in a weeping-induced blackout where I’ve been told I spent more than $7,500 on Kleenex, prescription painkill-ers and, of course, black tar heroin.
I can keep going. Any Wildcats fan can. You might think that NU are heartbreakers, a.k.a. the Taio Cruzes of football. (Also, that it is like Dy-no-mite.) NU football has led or been tied in the fourth quarter in all 25 of their last con-tests. � ey are not 25-0. I would list all of them, but I only have a few hundred words to write and NU has blown comi-cally large leads in football and basketball several million billion times in only the 100 or so years that collegiate athletics have been contested.
NU fans are disheartened. Nobody wants to talk about what happened Saturday. I can probably guarantee that you don’t want to read about it.
But it’s these same people with their heads in the proverbial sand that are the quickest to point out NU’s knack for exciting victories. You know, the squeak-ers, whether they be against ranked opponents or against, let’s say, 0-12 Eastern Michigan, who would have had trouble beating my freshman year IM football team. � e Cardiac Cats wins. � e comebacks. In the same way I don’t have enough space to list NU’s heart-breakers and tearjerkers, I don’t have space to discuss all their nailbiters for wins. Of NU’s 12 victories against FBS schools in the past two seasons, ten came by a touchdown or less.
� e reason we pay attention to sports is because it’s unpredictable. � is is why the genius video game developers who were paid to take all the best aspects of basketball and put them in NBA Street Vol. 2 made it essentially impossible for either team to hold a lead of any amount of points, so that every single game gets decided on a last-second o� -the-back-board reverse tomahawk dunk.
I’m not telling people to be happy a� er their team blows a 21-point lead against a mediocre opponent. Like, uh, NU did last Saturday. I’m just saying to remember why sports is great a few days before a game where virtually nobody gives the � oundering Cats a chance.
Northwestern’s mini-rivalry against Iowa is a perfect example of why people shouldn’t go postal over a frustrating loss. Over the past four years, NU — normally the lesser team — has won three games against Iowa, all three on the road. NU trailed 17-3 before forcing � ve turnovers en route to a 22-17 victory two years ago, and went down 10 before running o� 17 straight and downing undefeated Iowa.
It’s not that NU has a jinx on Iowa, or that Pat Fitzgerald has voodoo dolls of Iowa’s running backs and quarterbacks. It’s that this is football. We watch it because it’s so unpredictable. Sometimes you feel great. Sometimes it makes you think that you and only you are doomed to su� er on this earth because of Stefan Demos.
NU plays No. 13 Iowa this weekend, and by all rights, they should get their nonsense smacked. But I won’t predict a loss. I also won’t tell you that they’re not going to break your heart, Taio-style.
Deputy sports editor Rodger Sherman is a Medill junior. He can be reached at [email protected]
By Dan Ryan the daily northwestern
Early in the fourth set during Northwestern’s match against Min-nesota two weeks ago, senior middle blocker Sabel Mo� ett took a pass from senior setter Elyse Glab and put the ball away for a kill like she’d done so many times before.
Nine-hundred ninety-nine times before, to be exact.
“At the time, I didn’t realize I’d got-ten my thousandth kill because we were in the mindset of beating Min-nesota,” Mo� ett said. “I honestly didn’t even know until (the next day).”
Despite her inattention to the mile-stone, Mo� ett’s � rst kill in the fourth set was more than just another point against conference foe Minnesota. It made her just the 19th player in NU history to reach the 1,000-kill mark.
“For a middle to get a thousand kills is impressive,” coach Keylor Chan said. “Most of the balls are going to outside hitters, and when a middle can go out and get a thousand kills, that says something.”
Before she recorded her � rst kill, however, Mo� ett had to adjust to the high level of college play. A� er the Temecula, Calif., native redshirted her freshman year, she looked to establish herself on the same court as players far more experienced than she was .
“It was a huge transition,” Mof-fett said. “High school to college volleyball is dramatically di� erent. I remember (my � rst game) was at Michigan, I’m only 5-foot-11 and I looked up and they were all like 6-foot-4, 6-foot-2.”
It didn’t take long for her to adjust.
Halfway through her � nal season of eligibility, Mo� ett has established herself in the NU record books, com-piling 1,050 kills, 469 blocks, and a .316 hitting percentage.
“She’s up there ,” Chan said. “She’s been able to lead our team to some things that the program hasn’t done.”
For Mo� ett, choosing to play for the program she would later de� ne came down to a desire for something di� erent.
“I decided that I really just wanted to get away from home,” Mo� ett said. “I checked out the Midwest, and I’d never lived here before so it was unique. And then (Northwestern) is just a great combination of athletics and academics.”
� is season, Mo� ett led the Cats to a 15-2 record out of the gate, the best start in program history. Although the team has had its struggles recently, dropping six of its last eight matches , NU remains ranked No. 24 in the coaches’ poll and in excellent posi-tion to earn an invitation to the NCAA Tournament come December, its � rst since advancing to the second round in 2006.
Making the tournament is what matters to Mo� ett. As the stats, mile-stones, and awards pile up largely unnoticed by the graduate student, the only focus has been winning.
And the team has been doing just that.
“I feel that I have become the player that I am now because we just compete in practice every day,” senior middle blocker Naomi Johnson said. “I have never had a relationship with someone who pushes me as hard as Sabel does. Our team would never be anywhere near as good as we are without her.”
As her last season at NU begins to draw to a close, Mo� ett would like nothing more than to lead her team to the postseason and beyond.
“� at’s what an athlete wants to do,” Mo� ett said. “� ey want to be the
best that they can be to help the team overall. Doing that, I think, has helped facilitate the kind of energy that our team needs to make the NCAA.”
Seniors pick Ryan Field send-o� over WrigleyBy Jonah L. Rosenblum
the daily northwestern
When Northwestern takes the � eld against Iowa this weekend, it will mark a special moment for the team’s 12 seniors, as they play their last game at Ryan Field.
Usually, Senior Day occurs on the last home game of the season, but with this year’s � nal home game being played at Wrigley Field , the seniors decided they would prefer to hold Senior Day at Ryan Field.
For senior guard Keegan Grant , the choice was a no-brainer.
“� e past � ve years, we’ve played here at Northwestern, at Ryan Field,” Grant said. “It just holds a lot of mem-ories for us. We � gure if we’re going to have our Senior Day, it’s going to be at the � eld where we played.”
For senior defensive tackle Corbin Bryant , celebrating his Senior Day at Ryan Field is a dream come true.
“I always wanted my Senior Day to be here,” Bryant said. “� is is where the foundation has been laid. I just want to leave one of my last legacies here on this � eld.”
And for senior linebacker Quentin Davie , there’s something special about knowing he can come back to Ryan Field anytime and look back on his � nal game there.
“We don’t know if we’ll have other games at Wrigley to come back to,” Davie said. “We de� nitely know we can come back to Ryan Field and say we played our last game at this stadium.”
� e seniors will receive a special welcome Saturday as part of the team’s Senior Day festivities.
“We’ll introduce all the guys with their families and take a picture with them on the � eld,” coach Pat Fitzger-ald said. “(It’s) something that they’ll have for the rest of their lives.”
� en, on Saturday night, Fitzgerald will host the seniors and their families at his house for a special reception.
It’s a lot for the seniors to deal with, but Davie said the key is letting emo-tion out at appropriate junctures.
“Obviously you show whatever emotions you have on the � eld for your parents when you thank them for being there for you,” Davie said. “� en, a� er that, you just have to lock it into the game and get ready to play and know that you have to leave every-thing out there because it’s the last time you’re going to be out there.”
With three losses in their last four games, the Wildcats know they are
running out of time to send their seniors o� the right way.
“We’ve really got to start winning some games for these guys,” sopho-more defensive end Quentin Williams said. “It’s always a big thing playing for the seniors. We talk about that a lot.”
For Williams, this game is particu-larly special, because it marks the last time he will play at Ryan Field with his brother, senior linebacker Nate Williams.
“� ese past three years have � own by really quick,” Quentin said. “I only have a couple more shots out there with my brother, and I’ve just got to make the best out of it.”
� is year’s senior class has a chance to make history. If they win Saturday, they will tie the school record for the most wins of any � ve-year period since the class that graduated in 1905.
“I think about all these guys and it’s a heck of a story, they’re all a chapter in a book,” Fitzgerald said. “We have three guaranteed (games) le� and hopefully a fourth. So we’ve got a lot of opportunities to kind of write their legacy as being the most successful class, arguably, in the history of North-western football.”
Moffett makes up middle
Gabriel Peal/The Daily Northwestern
Last trip home: For Nate Williams and 11 other seniors, Saturday’s game will mark the fi nal time they take the fi eld at home — even though their showdown with Illinois at Wrigley Field is technically a home game.
Daily fi le photo by Gabriel Peal
Little Miss Moffett: At 5-foot-11, Sabel Moffett is far from the largest to play at the middle blocker position in the Big Ten — but that hasn’t stopped her from compiling 1,000 kills at Northwestern.
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ON THE RECORDIf they need a tissue, I’ll have one
for them.—Coach Pat Fitzgerald, on his graduating
senior class at this week’s Senior Day.
ON DECKFootball
NU vs. Iowa ,Ryan Field, 11 a.m. SaturdayMen’s basketball
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