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The Daily NorthwesternServing the University and Evanston Since 1881 Friday, November 19, 2010
See how The Great Room transformed into the Great Hall from Hogwarts.
Purple invades the Friendly Con� nes.
Campus 3
GAMEDAY
Et cetera 6Classi� edsCrosswordSudoku
Men’s basketball opens up its home slate against Arkansas-Pine Blu� on Friday.
Blotter 2Robbery victim taken to hospital, man hit with baseball bat.
City 2
Sports 8
Weather
Forum 4
Campus Kitchens gears up for its annual Turkeypalooza.
Guest columnThe DAILY’s photo editor re� ects on sexism in college journalism.
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44Saturday
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Emily AlvaradoWhy it’s worth seeing Harry Potter on opening night.
J.D. BryantThe challenges that face conservative leadership in Washington.
By Rebecca Cohenthe daily northwestern
As Northwestern students with more than two housemates fretted over the possibility of kicking some out this week, Evanston o� cials issued this message: Fear not, at least until Spring Quarter.
� e city will wait until the end of the school year to evict students who violate Evanston’s ban on more than three unrelated people cohabiting, said Je Murphy, assistant direc-tor of property standards . He said his o� ce does not want to add to the stress students already feel during � nals week.
“� ere’s concern among the students that the city is trying to force them out of their housing, and that’s not true,” Murphy said.
City o� cials decided to postpone enforcing the law a� er consulting with the dean’s o� ce
and the O� ce of Student A airs , Murphy said. If the city � nds students living in a danger-ous situation, such as a basement or attic that might be inaccessible to � re� ghters, it will evict them immediately, but NU has promised to provide them housing, he said.
Assistant Dean of Students Betsi Burns praised the city for its sensitivity to student needs, adding she appreciates the openness aldermen have displayed at events like Tues-day’s Community Conversation meeting.
Burns has heard from many confused and upset students since landlords protested the ordinance at a 5th and 7th ward meeting on Oct. 28, Burns said. But the University has no plans to � ght the current law.
“� at’s not our place,” she said.In a meeting with student group leaders
Tuesday night, Vice President for Student A airs William Banis said this is “nothing
new” and “the city has not been investigating” houses and apartments.
A� er the city told Weinberg senior Emma Kerr she and her housemates might be evicted under the ordinance, she co-created a Face-book event urging students to protest at the Community Conversation meeting. As of � ursday, 555 students had responded that they were attending.
But Kerr has been very satis� ed with the “phenomenal” cooperation between the city and the University in pushing back student evictions, she said. She understands the city’s point of view, she said.
“� ere’s really no right or wrong but a lot of gray,” Kerr said.
Dave Ahn , one of the landlords who has called the ordinance into question, disagrees. He said the law forces him and his fellow land-lords to hike their rent, gouging the wallets of young tenants and their parents. NU should be more supportive of its students, he said.
“� e University is just trying to make this problem go away,” Ahn said.
Dean of Students Burgwell Howard has said
enforcement of the ordinance may eventually lead to students living farther from campus, which is “not ideal” but not a huge problem.
Other colleges in communities with similar housing laws have been able to reach compro-mises with their towns, Ahn said. He cited the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. , which also had a three-person occupancy limit in 2009 but now lets landlords apply for permits to rent to four.
� e Evanston City Council will discuss amending the law at some point in the future, said Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) , whose ward includes many o -campus NU students.
Weinberg senior Josh Wasserman , who lives o campus, said he sympathizes with the frustration of residents forced to put up with loud student parties. Like Kerr, he appreciates the city’s decision not to act until spring.
“I was happy the Evanston residents and the aldermen were looking out for us,” Was-serman said. “� ey understand some people may have been cheated by the system.”
O� cial: City won’t enforce housing law until springnew” and “the city has not been investigating” houses and apartments.
enforcement of the ordinance may eventually lead to students living farther from campus,
O� cial: City won’t enforce housing law until spring
By Rebecca Cohenthe daily northwestern
For Valentine’s Day 2008, Missy Strelec got a face full of pepper spray and a trip to the police station.
Strelec, then a SESP sophomore , had stopped to use the Evanston Burger King’s bathroom with a friend who also attended Northwestern. When the students stepped out of their stalls, two girls were waiting to grab their purses, pepper spray in hand. Strelec clung to her bag and screamed for help, eventually drawing Burger King employees to her aid.
Incidents such as Strelec’s attack helped land NU on � e Daily Beast’s 2010 list of the 50 most dangerous col-leges in the United States . Based on crime statistics NU reported to the federal government, the news website gave NU the 49th-worst safety grade out of 458 schools with enrollment of more than 6,000 .
But though Evanston may never be as safe as Bloom-ington — home of Indiana University , the Big Ten’s safest school according to � e Daily Beast — a closer look at
those statistics reveals NU is not as dangerous as it seems. In general, NU students said they feel safe on campus. Because of a few high-pro� le crimes, some students say they walk through Evanston with greater trepidation. Many others, including students such as Strelec who have experienced violent crime, say they do not.
West Side Story� e statistics � e Daily Beast used for its list came
straight from University Police. � e Jeanne Clery Act , named for a Lehigh University freshman raped and mur-dered in her dorm in 1986, requires colleges accepting federal � nancial aid to report annually on-campus crime statistics for the prior three years.
According to NU’s 2009 Clery report, which � e Daily Beast used for its ranking, burglary was by far the most common crime on the Evanston campus between 2006 and 2008, with 411 being reported . A handful of more serious crimes, such as sexual o enses, aggravated assault and arson, were also reported . � is year’s Clery report
See SAFETY, page 6
The dark side of NU
A look at how safety and crime in Evanston measure up
By Brian Rosenthalthe daily northwestern
In the a� ermath of prosecutors’ announc-ing hard evidence that Medill Innocence Project students may have violated the law while investigating a murder case, students and faculty across Northwestern had one question on their minds: What does this mean for the future?
What does it mean for the future of the project, which has freed 11 innocent men and brought a decade of good publicity to NU? What does it mean for the future of the relationship between Medill Prof. David Protess , the director of the Innocence Project who steadfastly refuses to turn over any stu-dent documents, and the University, which just turned over 800 pages of them?
And what does it mean for the future of Anthony McKinney , who remains in jail as attorneys � ght over documents?
Few answers surfaced � ursday, a day a� er Cook County Assistant State’s Attor-ney Celeste Stewart Stack told a circuit judge prosecutors had obtained a copy of a poten-tially illegal secret recording made by Inno-cence Project students while investigating the 1981 McKinney conviction.
O� cials, including University spokesman Al Cubbage , have declined to answer spe-ci� c questions about a review into Innocence Project procedures. NU hired two former federal prosecutors to conduct the review two weeks ago, but they haven’t questioned Protess yet, he said in an interview.
Protess called the review a “good idea.”“I’m a little surprised that we’ve been
doing the work we have for 11 years with-out a review,” he said. “Since what we do is so public, it’s a little bit unusual.”
Sergio Serritella , a teaching assistant for the Innocence Project, said � ursday the University review is “much more focused” on Protess individually than the project as a whole. He said the class will almost certainly change as a result of the review.
“� ere will be an overhaul of the way things are done,” Serritella said. “� at’s the safest bet in the world.”
Some changes have already been made, Serritella and Protess said. � ose include a reshaped policy regarding document control and a renewed focus on reporting ethics.
Protess maintains the recording, made during an interview of convicted killer and potential alternative suspect Tony Drake , was legal because it was done to protect the safety
of the students and based on Drake’s crimi-nal history. He cited a 1996 letter written by then-Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan.
Letters from the attorney general are not binding legal precedent. A spokesman for the Illinois Attorney General’s o� ce said the o� ce couldn’t yet comment.
Even if the recording was legal, it may be in violation of Medill’s student integrity code. When asked about the recording and the code, Medill Associate Dean Mary Nes-bitt simply said the code prevents students from violating the law. Dean John Lavine has declined to comment. Michele Bitoun , senior director of undergraduate education, could not be reached � ursday.
� e Code of Ethics of the Society of Pro-fessional Journalists advises all journalists to “avoid undercover or other surreptitious methods of gathering information except when traditional open methods will not yield information vital to the public.”
In a written statement, State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said the recording raises “seri-ous legal and ethical questions about the methods that the professor and his students employed during the investigation.”
It is unclear if the recording will also raise questions — either from prosecutors
or the public — about other work done by the Innocence Project. Will it undo a decade of positive work?
“Good question,” Cubbage replied in an interview outside the courtroom.
Protess had a more certain answer: no.“� e people focus on the many good
works we do,” he said. “I don’t think there’s much discussion of the reporting methods we use to right wrongs and free the innocent.”
� e 29-year NU professor also said his relationship to the University he “loves” is “completely unchanged” by Wednesday’s developments.
Alexandra Johnson (Medill ’10), a for-mer Innocence Project student who did not work on the McKinney case, said she hoped the news wouldn’t discourage students from joining the class in the future.
She added that the most important con-sideration is the man that has been in jail for nearly 30 years and might be innocent.
“� e result at the moment is still Anthony McKinney sitting behind bars in spite of all the evidence supporting his innocence these students have found,” she said. “� at’s very disappointing.”
Students living off-campus with more than two others won’t face eviction yet
A� er hearing, future of Medill Innocence Project unclear
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By Miranda Viglietti the daily northwestern
As pedestrians braved the brisk fall weather while walking down Clark Street on � ursday a� ernoon, many stared intently at the chalkboard menu in front of Hummingbird Kitchen , a food truck parked at the Chicago Avenue intersection , some pausing to tell Hummingbird sta� , “I’ll be back!”
Hummingbird Kitchen became Evanston’s � rst mobile food vending truck Nov. 9 and has since piqued the curiosity of Northwestern and Evanston communities alike.
Joe Bozdech , a � rst-year School of Continuing Studies student, stopped by Hummingbird Kitchen to enjoy a bowl of black bean soup on his way to the University Library on � ursday.
“Obviously, the whole street food thing is blow-ing up right now,” Bozdech said as he took sips of soup. “It’s cool that it’s in Evanston.”
Bozdech said he � rst read about Hummingbird Kitchen in the A.V. Club and happened to stumble upon it.
“It’s like a scavenger hunt,” Bozdech said. “It adds a little bit of fun to the whole experience.”
Hummingbird Kitchen began as a collaboration
between Heather Behm , Stephen Schwartz and Vince DiBattista , who also partnered at Union Piz-zeria , 1245 Chicago Ave., and Campagnola Restau-rant , 815 Chicago Ave. Branching out into a mobile food truck is the trio’s latest way of investing in the Evanston community, Behm said.
“It’s a fun challenge,” Behm said. “It’s something new and exciting, and we liked that it was unique to the area. We wanted to be the � rst ones.”
While Chicago lawmakers are still deadlocked over a mobile food vendor ordinance , Evanston’s City Council passed an ordinance in September allowing food vendors such as Hummingbird Kitchen to cook and sell food from a vehicle .
“For us to get it done before Chicago re� ects well for Evanston,” Behm said.
Hummingbird Kitchen o� en parks near Chicago Avenue and Clark Street , a spot that draws people from downtown Evanston and NU’s campus, while enthusiastic customers keep tabs on the truck by following it via Twitter , Facebook or e-mail, Behm said.
“It’s really fun watching the way social media drives this business,” she said.
Hummingbird Kitchen’s ability to cook dishes made-to-order gives it an advantage over other
businesses when catering private events and � lm sets, said DiBattista , who also serves as the truck’s chef. � e customized truck contains two stoves with six burners each, a 36-inch � at-top grill, a fryer with two baskets, a steam table and three refrigerating units in order to cater events, DiBattista said.
While DiBattista also serves as the chef at Union Pizzeria and Campagnola , which provides a base for Hummingbird Kitchen , he said customers should not expect the mobile food truck to have the same menu as the restaurants.
“It’s my food, but it’s just going to be di� erent food,” DiBattista said.
� ursday’s menu included short rib stew and an Italian grinder, and the food truck regularly o� ers Italian fries and short rib tacos.
Bret Johnson, associate director for NU’s trans-portation center, and Kendra Morrill stopped by Hummingbird Kitchen on � ursday for a quick lunch because they enjoyed the food truck’s short rib tacos so much. � e food truck provides a quick way to spend time together, the two Evanston resi-dents said.
“It’s a restaurant in a truck,” Morrill said.
Policeblotter
Around TownRobbery victim does not want to report incident or press charges
A victim of an alleged robbery was treated for lacerations at a hospital outside of Evanston on Wednesday, police said.
� e victim told police he was attacked near the intersection of Cleveland Street and Dodge Avenue at approximately 2 p.m. Wednesday, Evanston Police Cmdr. Tom Guenther said. He did not want to report the incident to the police or press charges, the hospital said.
Police have tried to contact the victim for a follow up but have not been able to reach him, Guenther said.
Man hit in head with baseball bat, robbed on Dodge Avenue
A man biking home from work was attacked and robbed near James Park at 400 Dodge Ave. at approximately 1:15 a.m. � ursday, Guenther said.
� e victim was on the bike path when he noticed two men walking towards him, one of who was carrying a baseball bat.
Upon seeing the bat, the victim tried to get o� the path but hit the curb and fell o� his bike, Guenther said. � e men then approached him and told the victim to hand over his belongings, which the victim did.
A� er the victim relinquished his wallet, one of the robbers hit the victim in the head with the baseball bat.
� e men then ran into a dark SUV and drove away. � e wallet held $20 in cash, credit cards and miscellaneous IDs.
� e victim described the robbers as Hispanic men between the ages of 18 and 22 and approx-imately 5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 9 inches tall, Guenther said.
� e victim sustained minimal injuries and refused medical treatment.
— Yoonj Kim
Hummingbird Kitchen takes the streets
Great Room imitates Hogwarts’s Great Hall
On Thursday night, The Great Room took the form of its magical sibling, the Great Hall at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry , in preparation for the midnight premiere of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.”
From across the room, a bell rang, and some-one seated at a long wooden table yelled out, “Ten points to Gryffindor!” Another student wearing taped, black horn-rimmed glasses and a red and gold striped tie walked back to his seat carrying two cups of butterbeer.
The Northwestern dining hall prepared a spe-cial menu for the night in the style of The Three Broomsticks , a pub referenced in the series by J.K. Rowling . It included sorcerer’s fish and chips, licorice wands, butterbeer, popcorn and concession candy along with all of its regular made-to-order items.
The event began at 5 p.m. and featured a Scene It? trivia game at 8 p.m. They also ran a special offer for the first 25 people to buy but-terbeer: a free Harry Potter keepsake cup.
McCormick freshman Aliza Abraham stood in line with her friends to get something to eat before going to the midnight showing. She said she saw a sign advertising the event in the Sar-gent dining hall a few days before .
And despite having never been to The Great Room, she said her fandom compelled her to
go.“It’s pretty cool,” Abraham said. “I don’t know
if they’re going to do Harry Potter Scene It? or not, but that sounded fun.”
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part
1” is the seventh and penultimate installment of the movie series . The movie is split into two parts, and the finale will hit theaters next July.
Century Theatres originally had two midnight
screenings planned, but when those sold out more than three weeks in advance, the theater opened more to accommodate demand.
— Peter Larson
Friday, November 19, 2010 The Daily Northwestern News 3
Lecturers to speak about Nigeria and HIV/AIDS in Pancoe
Ifeyinwa Rita Onwuatuelo , the care and support o� cer at the program o� ce in Abuja, Nigeria of AIDS Prevention Initiative in Nigeria, and Max-well Oluwole Akanbi, a lecturer at the University of Jos in Jos, Nigeria, will speak Friday at 2 p.m. in Pancoe Auditorium about the impact of HIV/AIDS in that country. � e two have experience
working with prevention and support programs, and medical treatment respectively. � e event is open to the public and sponsored by the Interna-tional O� ce and Center for Global Health.
Students invited to Women’s Center for ‘Co� ee and Chit-Chat’
Northwestern’s Women’s Center, 2000 Sheri-dan Road, invites community members to
“Co� ee and chit-chat with the Women’s Cen-ter” Friday at 3:30 p.m. � e Center invites NU students to “come hang out with the women of the Women’s Center” and indulge in bagels and hot chocolate.
UBPC to hold open forum for undergrads
� e Undergraduate Budget Priorities Com-mittee , comprised of eight undergraduate stu-dents including Associated Student Government
President Claire Lew , is holding an open forum in Norris University Center’s Rock Room on Friday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. � e UBPC makes recom-mendations for spending in the University budget on behalf of NU undergraduates. � e forum will ask students “What are your ideas for improving NU?” It’s a follow-up to an online survey, “NU Campus Brainstorm,” which invited students to make any recommendations to the committee regardless of price. � e survey received hundreds of responses from undergraduates.
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Great Room transforms into Great Hall: In the style of the Three Broomsticks, The Great Room served sorcerer’s fi sh and chips, licorice wands, butterbeer, popcorn and concession candy in preparation for the premiere “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.”
In light of the premiere of the newest Harry Potter movie, I would just like to say that I absolutely love seeing Harry Potter movies on opening
night, and if you haven’t already jumped on the bandwagon, I want you to know I think it’s totally worth it. If you’re annoyed with the hype, maybe I can help you see the light — or at least see the reason for the madness.
Opening night showings of Harry Pot-ter are an all-around better experience than just seeing the movie when you get a chance. Yes, the content is exactly the same, but the quality is greatly enhanced at a premiere. The vibe is better and there definitely also are perks on a less abstract level.
As far as ambience goes, the pres-ence of other fans greatly enhances your enthusiasm for the movie. Seeing other people dressed up like wizards and witches and repping their favorite Hogwarts houses certainly gets you in the mood for the magical story. And if everyone’s doing it, so can you. There aren’t many other times when you can wear your love for Harry Potter on your sleeves without ridicule. That’s not to say there isn’t ridicule from the outside, but you have strength in numbers that you wouldn’t have on an average day.
In a completely unrelated column, I said once that I think experiences are a lot better if they include other people. This is certainly true for Harry Pot-ter. There is something special about knowing that you are watching the same movie at the same time as people across the nation (or at least, across your time zone).
Even without others feeding your own enthusiasm, you will go into the movie with optimism. You paid extra online fees so you could get a ticket, waited in line for two hours, and will lose some sleep; but it’s what you’ve been anticipat-ing and the inconveniences don’t matter. If I, for example, go to Blockbuster on a Friday night and unknowingly rent a ter-rible movie, I’ll be annoyed by time and money wasted. At a premiere, the time and money are previously incurred, sunk costs, if you will. You make the best of it.
The combination of collective and individual excitement will make the movie seem better than it actually is, whether it’s great or awful. You may be skeptical of this when it comes to movies on the most awful end of the spectrum, and one example is movies that are so bad that they become hilarious. This, of course, has never been the case with Harry Potter, but this is how my sister explained her experience at the midnight showing of the latest Twilight movie.
In terms of more tangible perks, if you’re into movie theater refreshments, they will seem a lot cheaper having already paid days in advance for the ticket. Another is that you don’t have to hear other people’s opinions, com-mentary, or accidental cinematography-related giveaways before you get to see it for yourself.
I would be lying if I said that I went to premieres for purely practical reasons. At least seventy-five percent of why I go stems from my love for the Harry Potter series. The reasons I have listed may just be my rationalization for a slightly irra-tional obsession, but I definitely think that if you’re a fan who has yet to attend a premiere, be sure to catch the last one, because unfortunately time turners don’t exist. If you’re not a fan, I hope your night at home was magical.
Emily Alvarado is a Medill sophomore. She can be reached at [email protected].
Call for good sportsmanship � om fans this Saturday
Prior to the Illinois game I wanted to write The Daily and ask them two things:
First, please quit printing letters from “another Big Ten school Alumni” that has just come back from “their” game against Northwestern and is “absolutely shocked and morti� ed by the rudeness and vulgar language of Wildcat fans.” It’s getting tired and I’ve seen the same stupid “pot-calling-the-kettle-black” letter year a� er year. While I can’t deny that some of our fans are rude, I worked for Northwestern Football for seven years and traveled to every Big Ten stadium and all other Big Ten fans have a chant for NU: “Purple F----ots!” (which is usually the nicest thing they chant).
Second, please tell our Wildcat fans how to behave at Wrigley. I’m not merely asking for sportsmanship and for all Wildcat fans to wish all of the Illini clad visitors “good luck” in the upcoming game. I also want to ask our fans to cheer hard for our team on defensive 3rd downs, keep quiet on o� ensive 3rd downs and cheer hard FOR the Wildcats (don’t cheer AGAINST Illinois). Our football program has been making big strides in the past 15 years, let’s make some big strides as fans right now! Being arrogant and bitter (like other Big Ten schools) didn’t work for us; let’s be positive and welcoming in this new era of Northwest-ern and Big Ten Football!
—Jamie WalkerFormer Assistant Director of Football Operations
Communication ‘04
Who cares, really, about the Fearless Forecast-ers? I don’t (or at least I didn’t), and I bet you don’t, either. Do you even know who the Fearless Forecasters are? If you don’t, � ip to
page eight of today’s Gameday, the last one of the quarter.While you’re there, take a look at the records of the
forecasters, who are traditionally members of The Daily Northwestern’s sports sta� or editorial board. If Sarah Kuta’s numbers seem lower than the others, that’s because they are. She did not make forecasts for three of eight weeks, including the � rst one. In fact, the impetus for her inclusion was an Oct. 4 letter to the editor (“NU football, coverage is unwelcoming”) complaining about the previous week’s panel of all-white, all-male Fearless Forecasters.
From my perspective, the initial motivation for including Sarah, a Daily sports writer and photographer who is very quali� ed for the task, was not necessarily to give a voice to a group commonly underrepresented in sports reporting but rather to appease our critics and appear less sexist. Either way, she was replaced the following week by men’s soccer reporter Katherine Driessen, who was in turn replaced by Editor in Chief Brian Rosenthal — thus reinstating the original all-male panel. No racial minorities were o� ered the opportunity to make forecasts.
Something of an argument broke out in the Daily news-room the next Sunday. At issue were three main questions: Was the conscious decision to exclude Sarah sexist? Would including her be tokenism? And most importantly: What does it matter if the forecasters are all white men?
Well, if the homogeneity makes sports-minded women and minorities feel uncomfortable seeking positions at The Daily, it matters a lot.
As the only consistent female contributor to The Daily’s football coverage team, I o� en feel the e� ects of that homo-geneity acutely. However, I have not faced any blatant sexism on the job in my year and a half as a Daily sports photographer, nor have any of the female sports writers and photographers to whom I’ve spoken — emphasis, of course, on “blatant.”
In my experience, being a female student-journalist means you will struggle at times to prove to your sources, your readers and even your editors that you deserve your position, be it as photographer, beat writer or forecaster.
You’ll learn that among sports journalists, as among the general population, there are good guys and bad guys, and you’ll learn quickly to tell the two apart. In the meantime, you will grow tired of the phrase “I don’t mean to be sexist, but...” You’ll even hear male journalists slam women in the press box for their choices in make-up and footwear — “She’s wearing sandals,” one whispered to me once, adding disdainfully, “What a bitch”— while sparing their male counterparts similar critiques.
On a good day, you’ll burst with pride for succeeding in a profession dominated by men; on a bad one, you’ll be treated in ways that make your blood boil. For example, if you’re a female student-photographer, some rules on the � eld will be enforced for you (“It’s for your own safety”) but not for your male colleagues, putting you at a tremendous disadvantage when it comes to getting the best shots — and, if you’re like me, the lost opportunities will annoy you more than the sexism.
If you’re passionate, though, it won’t matter if you’re not white and male. As a result, I encourage all of you who don’t � t that bill to consider working as a writer or photog-rapher on our sports desk or, for that matter, on any desk at The Daily Northwestern. Yes, you will face di� erent challenges than white, male sta� ers, and yes, it might get frustrating. But if you love it enough — if you love sports, your paper, the rush that comes from getting the perfect shot, the perfect quote, the perfect lead enough — then any and all crap you get for being a woman, a minority or both ultimately won’t matter one bit.
Just like the Fearless Forecasters.
Mackenzie McCluer is The Daily’s photo editor and a Medill junior. She can be reached at [email protected].
Sexism in college sports journalism?
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It’s been several weeks since the 2010 mid-term elections, and the anti-incumbent insurgency continues. Conservative lead-ers in both parties have recently expressed
dissatisfaction with their leadership, seeking to direct the wave of anti-incumbent sentiment to come crashing down on their own houses. Some conservative Democrats sought this week to take down their party’s leader in the House and the nation’s � rst female Speaker, Representative Nancy Pelosi - along with her top lieutenants. Democratic North Carolina Representative Heath Shuler ran for a party leadership post against Pelosi in order to plant a more conservative voice at the head of the House Democratic caucus. Dissatisfaction with leadership isn’t limited to the wound-licking Democrats, either. Ga� e-prone RNC Chairman Michael Steele has also drawn challenges to his authority from both inside and outside of the organization, and his reelec-tion as party head is by no means certain. Republican South Carolina Senator Jim DeM-int blamed Steele on Fox News for botching Republicans’ Election Day ground game and announced that he is “looking for some alter-natives right now” in the GOP leadership. Oh, how those Carolinans love their rebellions.
e challenges to leadership on both sides of the aisle indicate a desire to jump out in front of a political trend. Both DeMint and Shuler apparently perceive the results of the 2010 midterms as a national lurch to the right, and they are aching to capitalize on it politi-cally and personally. But DeMint’s and Shuler’s readings of the political tea leaves should be somewhat circumspect; the two conserva-tive legislators’ ideologies were not exactly validated at the polls this cycle. For his part, Shuler is a member of the Blue Dog coalition, a group of conservative Democrats that lost more than half of its membership and two of
its key leaders on November 2nd. Blue Dogs lost these seats despite being granted political cover from Speaker Pelosi to preserve their reelection bids by voting against the health care reform bill. Apparently Representative Shuler hasn’t gotten the message that an intra-party circular � ring squad is not what voters want to see. e truth is that if Shuler wants to read the results of the elections as a referen-dum, he should question the electoral viability of his own conservative wing of the party instead of pointing � ngers at the leadership.
Senator DeMint has aggressively courted the Tea Party, endorsing many of its Sen-ate candidates. He seems to fancy himself a conservative kingmaker within the Repub-lican Party. But the South Carolina Senator, like Representative Shuler, would be wrong to read the results of the midterm elections as a mandate for remaking the party in his own image. Unfortunately for DeMint, most of his handpicked Tea Party candidate lost this cycle (and all but one of those losing candidates received fewer total votes than DeMint’s own laughably underwhelming Democratic oppo-nent, Alvin Greene). ough the Senator likes to blame Michael Steele for the Republicans’ failure to take over the upper chamber, those DeMint-endorsed losers meant the di� erence between a Republican-controlled Senate and the 53-47 Democratic advantage we actually ended up with.
Both Shuler and Demint are part of an increasingly delusional conservatism: one that has convinced itself that the recent rise of the Tea Party and the results of the 2010 midterms are symptomatic of a new desire for purely conservative stewardship of the country. ey’re lashing out at their own parties’ leadership because of it. e truth we can glean from the last few election cycles is decidedly more complex than that: the anger is not with progressives across the board in America; it seems to be with the perceived role of government, the tone of our politi-cal discourse, and the crappy economy. Both legislators should take heed that turning inward on their own kind is not going to � x any of that.
J.D. Bryant is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at [email protected].
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By Jonah L. Rosenblumthe daily northwestern
Illinois linebacker Martez Wilson entered the 2009 season with high expectations, ones that he werer unable to fulfill due to a season-ending injury.
He entered the 2010 season with even higher expectations, and this time, with good health on his side, he has come through for the Fight-ing Illini.
“It looks like he’s been productive for them,” Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “I’ve read that he sounds like a leader for them.”
Productive is an understatement. The junior leads the Big Ten with 94 tackles. He has 31 more tack-les than the next best Illinois player.
He has been impres-sive in several other fronts, accumulating 7.5 tackles for loss, two sacks and an intercep-tion. He has also forced two fumbles.
None of this would surprise any of his
teammates.Talent was never a question with Wilson. He
was a USA Today first-team All-American in high school and ranked sixth on the ESPN Top-150 recruiting list. The accolades continued into
his freshman year at college, as he played in all 13 games and earned Honorable Mention Fresh-man All-American status. After a solid 2008 season, everyone had high hopes for 2009.
But those expectations were quickly dashed when Wilson suffered a herniated disc in his neck after recording nine tackles in the season opener. Just like that, his season was over. He was ultimately granted a medical hardship year.
By summertime, as football season fast approached, it was clear Wilson was both healthy and determined, a dangerous combination for opposing Big Ten offenses.
The national media piled on the hype, putting him on multiple preseason All-Big Ten teams and naming him to the 2010 Butkus Award Watch List for the nation’s best linebacker.
“Martez definitely looks 100 percent,” defen-sive back Tavon Wilson said at Big Ten Media Day in August. “He’s moving well, the way he was before the injury. He’s ready to go and show people he can play.”
He certainly was ready, recording 11 tackles and a sack in his first game in nearly a year. He has continued at that torrid pace, putting up double-digit tackles in six games.
And he has helped lift a defense that gave up a conference-worst 30.2 points per game last season. Last year, the defense surrendered 102 combined points in the last two games of the season.
“It was a shootout, man,” defensive lineman Clay Nurse said at Big Ten Media Day. “They scored a lot more points than us. We needed to stop them, and we couldn’t. There’s no magical answer. You just got to tackle them. If they don’t score, they don’t win.”
Even after allowing 67 points in a triple over-time loss to Michigan, the Illini are allowing nearly a touchdown less per game. Illinois has surrendered 13 points or less in four of its 10 games this season. His teammates anticipated Wilson’s addition would be a big help.
“That just adds another playmaker out there,” Tavon Wilson said. “We’ve got a lot of
good football players already, and Martez is just going to be an addition. He’s going to help with the leadership because he’s been around for a while, and I think he’s ready to step up and help out.”
When asked about Wilson’s return at Big Ten Media Day in early August, Nurse allowed his excitement to seep through.
“Martez, No. 2, I can’t wait,” Nurse said. “Mar-tez allows a guy like me to do different things in terms of being a playmaker. He allows me another chance to do different things because I know he has my back, and he can run anybody down, anybody.”
Wilson’s banner year lifts Illini defenseAfter season-ending injury last year, Wilson leads Big Ten in tackles
“He allows me another chance to do different things because I know he has my back and he can run anybody down, anybody.”Clay Nurse,defensive lineman
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By Colin Bechtthe daily northwestern
Ask sophomore wide receiver Demetrius Fields about any of his successes, and you’ll get a the same response each time.
“To God be the glory.”After that, don’t expect a lot of specifics from
him, whether it’s about a spectacular grab, a game-winning touchdown or an upcoming game at a certain historic stadium.
Fields hauled in the game-winning touch-down pass from junior quarterback Dan Persa in Northwestern’s 21-17 upset of Iowa.
“I don’t know what happened. I just saw the ball and I caught it,” Fields said. “I don’t remem-ber what I did on the play. I remember the ball up in the air and then going to get it.”
Two weeks before that touchdown, Fields made an incredible 23-yard catch using just one hand at Indiana.
When asked about how to make a one-handed grab, he said, “I wish I knew the answer.”
While NU’s game this Saturday against Illi-nois at Wrigley Field has drawn national media attention, Fields, a native of Dallas, may be one of the few not overwhelmingly concerned with the game or its special setting.
“I don’t know a lot about the history (of Wrig-ley Field),” Fields said. “I know that it’s been a while since someone’s played (football) there.”
However, don’t take this seemingly spotty memory or lack of detail for an absence of car-ing. Coach Pat Fitzgerald said Fields is simply about taking care of his business and nothing more.
“I’m one of the most oblivious people that there is,” Fields said. “Football, church and school, and that’s it.”
Though the list is short, Fields takes great pride in each of them.
“In my mindset, Christianity is a relation-ship,” he said. “Christianity is the sole reason that I’m still here.”
Fields’s faith is a prominent aspect of his life,
and Fitzgerald has taken note of it.“He’s a very devout Christian, a very humble
young man,” Fitzgerald said.On the gridiron, while Fields is fourth on the
team in receiving yards, his consistency remains impressive. Dating back to last season, Fields has caught a pass in 13 consecutive games. This season, he has 22 catches for 260 yards with one touchdown.
“Set your watch on D. Fields,” Fitzgerald said of the reliability of his wide receiver. “He’s a special, special kid.”
At 205 pounds, Fields is the biggest wide receiver at NU, something fellow wideout senior Sidney Stewart said Fields utilizes to his advantage.
“He uses what he has,” Stewart said. “He can create separation and use his body to shield defenders.”
Fields said he too is aware of his size and is always trying to maximize that advantage.
“I’m a little stronger than a lot of the DBs,” Fields said. “I try to steal some of the techniques from a lot of the bigger receivers because I model myself as that.”
Though only a sophomore, Fields has embraced the role as a leader among his fellow wide receivers.
“Demetrius is more vocal than I am,” Stewart said. “Demetrius has taken on a heavy role the past couple of weeks.”
While Fields will undoubtedly be looking to extend his reception streak, he said he’s looking forward to something else as well on Saturday.
“I’ve been downtown maybe a total of four times since I’ve been here,” Fields said. “Maybe I’ll stay awake this time and look at the sights while we’re going through the city.”
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Finding paydirt: Sophomore wide reciever Demetrius Fields has recorded a reception in 13 consecutive games dating back to last year — but Saturday’s game-winning reception was his first touchdown since playing Syracuse in week 3 last season.
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The redshirt freshman Trumpy is coming off one of his most productive games of the sea-son, amassing 106 total yards. Now Trumpy will likely be called upon to carry more weight in the offense following junior quarterback Dan Persa’s season-ending injury. The Wildcats have looked to establish a consistent ground game, but now will need one more than ever, and one less revolving around their quarterback. Try-ing to ensure Trumpy is unable to establish a running game for Northwestern is linebacker Martez Wilson. Wilson ranks second in the Big Ten with 9.4 tackles per game and his two forced fumbles are tied for fourth in the conference.
By Colin Bechtthe daily northwestern
Depending on which Illinois team shows up at Wrigley Field on Saturday, Northwestern could be facing one of two very different opponents.
The Wildcats could be facing the Fighting Illini team that opened the season 5-3, much to the Big Ten’s surprise, a team that handily beat Penn State 33-13 in Happy Valley.
However, the Cats could also get the Illinois team that has dropped its past two contests, giving up a combined 105 points, including 38 to Big Ten cellar-dweller Minnesota on Saturday.
“We let one get away that we shouldn’t have, but there is no use feeling sorry for ourselves,” Illinois coach Ron Zook said. “Let’s go back and play like we played in the first eight games of the year.”
Until its past two games against Michigan and Minnesota, the Illini had been giving up fewer than 17 points per game yet have seen a dramatic swing in their defensive performance recently.
“It just seemed like a different team out there, a different attitude,” defensive back Trulon Henry said.
Zook said a lot of the defense’s struggles came from poor tackling.
“Up until the last two games, we’ve been as good of a tackling team as we’ve been since I’ve been here,” Zook said. “They’re still a good defense, they’re still good coaches and they’re still going to play the way they are capable of playing.”
Beyond missing tackles, the Illini have put a lot less pressure on opposing quarterbacks in their two-game skid. Illinois averaged almost two sacks per game in its first eight games but recorded just one sack apiece against Michigan and Minnesota.
“We’re not playing with the same intensity that we played the first eight ball games with,” Zook said.
Unfortunately for the Illini, pointing out the flaws is a lot easier than fixing them.
“I wish I knew the answer to that, and I could just press the button and go get it back,” Henry said.
While the defense may have taken a significant
dive from its earlier performance, the Illinois offense remains a potent threat, averaging 31.4 points per game, good for 38th in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
“Offensively, you can see the playmakers all over the place,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “It’s one of the teams offensively that I think gives you fits.”
Freshman quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase has improved his ability to move the ball through the air throughout the season. He has thrown for 172 yards or more each of the past three games after throwing for fewer than 100 yards in two of his first three games.
“He’s getting better with every snap,” Zook said. “He’s a guy who learns from his mistakes.”
After throwing three picks in his first game, Scheelhaase has thrown just four more the rest of the season.
“I told him, ‘You’re no longer a rookie; you’re a veteran,’” Zook said.
Perhaps a greater worry to the Cats is Scheel-haase’s ability to move the ball with his feet as he has averaged more than 55 yards on the ground a game. He topped the century mark in two of the Illini’s past three games.
“I’ve been really impressed by Nathan,” Fitzger-ald said. “He’s doing a great job of running their option attack.”
A bigger threat in the Illinois backfield is run-ning back Mikel Leshoure, who is second in the Big Ten, averaging 104.1 yards per game with 11 rushing touchdowns.
“They want to run the ball and establish the run,” Fitzgerald said.
Much like the challenge facing NU when the Cats prepared for Purdue and a virtual unknown in quarterback Rob Henry, the Illini have to ready themselves for an NU offense that knows very little of what it will look like under redshirt freshman quarterback Evan Watkins.
“I don’t know a lot other than that every year I’ve been here they’ve always had a good quarterback,” Zook said. “We’ll have to make adjustments in the game once we get into it.”
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How good is Evan Watkins’ Persa impersonation?
The great unknown heading into Saturday’s game is the ability of redshirt freshman Watkins to lead the NU offense. Though 6-foot-6 and 245 pounds, Watkins has said that he’s faster than he would appear, something both coach Pat Fitzgerald and offensive coordinator Mick McCall seconded. However, even Watkins admitted that he is not “Persa-fast.” What the offense looks like with Watkins under center and how he handles the pressure will be the most crucial factor to NU’s success at Wrigley.
Will the Wrigley Field experiment pay off?
NU took a gamble in giving up what would have been a true home game for the Allstate Wrigleyville Classic. Though NU controlled the sale of a vast majority of the seats and required fans to buy season tickets to attend this Saturday’s game, it’s unclear just how well those efforts succeeded in creating a purple-friendly crowd. The Wildcats offense practiced with crowd noise on Wednesday, reflecting Fitzgerald’s belief that some Illinois faithful may have found loopholes in the ticket acquiring system.
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By Jonah L. Rosenblumthe daily northwestern
There were a couple of hints Wednesday that this wasn’t your ordinary week of Northwestern football.
For one, NU was holding a closed practice at Ryan Field instead of its usual open session on one of the practice fields nearby. And then there was the gigantic ESPN “College GameDay” bus parked on Ashland Avenue just outside Ryan Field.
The excitement was clear. One person spot-ted the bus as he walked from one facility to the next.
“Is that the GameDay bus?” he said. “Is that (GameDay commentator Lee) Corso in there right now?”
It’s an atmosphere that extends to NU and Illinois players alike, as each team strives for the Land of Lincoln Trophy at a stadium that hasn’t hosted a football game in four decades.
“That’s very excit-ing, playing in Wrigley Field,” Illinois defen-sive back Tavon Wilson said. “It’s different, kind of like a change-up, not playing at the other school. Some other programs probably wish they could play at Wrig-ley Field.”
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Although it’s hard for 20-somethings like Wilson to imagine football being played at Wrigley, the Friendly Confines hosted the most professional football games of any stadium in the country as the home of the Chicago Bears for nearly five decades, until Giants
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John Henry Pace is well-versed in the history of the stadium, through his own experience and that of his father, Greg Pace.
“I’ve been to a lot of Cubs games there, and my dad went to so many Bears games there,” John Henry Pace said. “It’s got a real special place in my heart — just being able to play on the same field as so many Bears greats and Cubs greats.”
Greg Pace’s memories go beyond simply sitting in the stands at Wrigley. According to his son, he talks about the time he participated in a “Punt, Pass & Kick” competition on the field.
“He’s always told stories about that and every-thing,” John Henry Pace said. “He’s always been saying that we’re probably the only family to play on this field before, and he said it was really cool being out there.”
Wrigley hosted its share of collegiate games as well, including NU. In 1923, the Wildcats and Illini squared off in front of 32,000 fans. There will be more fans this time around, with Satur-day’s game already sold out.
After the Bears left in 1970, Wrigley Field became a baseball-only facility, aside from the occasional concert.
That changed temporarily on New Year’s Day 2009 when the Chicago Blackhawks hosted the Detroit Red Wings at Addison and Clark. NU ath-letic director Jim Phillips said when he saw the NHL Winter Classic at Wrigley, he knew it was an experience he wanted to recreate with the Cats.
“We were all captivated by the Wrigley Field atmosphere during the NHL’s Winter Classic,” Phillips said. “We want to recreate that fantastic fan experience, this time with college football.”
From Idea to RealityOf course, placing a hockey rink in the middle
of Wrigley Field is a lot easier than fitting a foot-ball gridiron in the Friendly Confines.
Indeed, more than a year went by from the time the idea first popped up in January 2009 to the announcement of the game in April 2010. The time in between was stacked with negotiations about “everything” according to Mike Wolf, a spokesman in NU’s athletic department.
Among the primary issues were field layout and the safety of the players involved.
“When (Illinois coach Ron) Zook and I were down there over the summer a couple years ago, we both said we were for it as long as the health, safety and well-being of our players is the number one priority,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “It got
turned over to the universities, and they were the ones making the decisions.”
The layout that was ultimately decided upon puts the right field wall just behind the north end zone, a potentially dangerous situation, but Fitzgerald insisted both universities were taking safety into account.
“If you think back, it took some time for the T’s to get crossed and the I’s to get dotted so I think both universities felt great about it from a risk management standpoint,” Fitzgerald said. “It will be an element in the game but we’ll plan accordingly.”
The Illini and Cats will also be sharing a side-line, which is highly unusual in college football. And while Bears games were played on a north-to-south field, NU and Illinois will be playing east-to-west, which might cause difficulties as the sun begins to set.
Other issues included ticket distribution and liability, but all of these have been worked out at least for 2010. As for future games, Wolf wrote in an e-mail that Cubs Executive Chairman Tom Ricketts suggested having a game at Wrigley Field every year, but Fitzgerald doesn’t want to jump the gun.
“Why don’t you ask me that on Saturday?” Fitzgerald said. “It’s been a lot of fun to this point. I’m just appreciative of our administration han-dling all the logistics.”
The Players’ ReactionOne day, according to sophomore defensive
end Quentin Williams, Fitzgerald brought the team’s Leadership Council into his office for a little surprise. He had a picture of a football grid-iron at Wrigley Field, the field Williams and his teammates will get to grace on Saturday. Wil-liams, now in his second year on the Leadership Council, recalled having a strong reaction.
“I was just blown away,” Williams said. “I was like, ‘What is this? Is this really going to happen?’”
Williams, a Pittsburgh native, said he didn’t know all that much about the history of Wrigley Field at the time — he was simply amazed at the idea of playing football there.
“The fact that they were able to fit a football field into a baseball stadium is beyond me, or at least was beyond me,” Williams said.
And while the history of the stadium is impor-tant to Illinois wide receiver Eddie McGee, he too was fascinated simply by the prospect of playing football on a baseball field.
“I’m just interested to play on the type of field
teams like the Miami Dolphins and Oakland Raiders,” McGee said. “They have dirt on their field so I’m interested to see how that’s going to work out.”
When Williams learned that they would be playing at Wrigley, he was ecstatic.
“It was a really exciting day,” Williams said. “It was hard to keep my mouth shut for a couple of days.”
A Lost Home Game?NU got its game at Wrigley but at a consider-
able cost, losing what would have been its sixth home game.
Regardless of the now purple-painted marquee of Wrigley Field, is it hard for Fitzgerald to give up a game in Evanston?
“Yes, and no,” Fitzgerald said, standing on the grass of Ryan Field. “For the uniqueness and the opportunity that our guys get, the answer is no. But I want to play here at home. This is our home field, playing in front of our students and our fans here.”
Pace said the loss of a conference home game is not a huge deal.
“Playing in Ryan Field is a lot of fun,” Pace said. “It’s a great advantage for us, but knowing our team, we’re prepared to play anyone, any-where, anytime and being able to play down at Wrigley Field is going to be really special for our program.”
Fitzgerald is expecting plenty of purple in the stands, especially since NU was in control of most of the ticket distribution for the game.
“We’re expecting our 30,000 fans to be there,” Fitzgerald said. “It should be similar to some our other home environments.”
While Fitzgerald might be expecting a home atmosphere, defensive lineman Clay Nurse is expecting the Illini fanbase to flock to this away game.
“They better travel,” Nurse said. “It’s two-and-a-half hours away. They’re going to make that trip.”
According to Wolf, NU was willing to move a home game to Wrigley Field for two reasons. First, the Cats were hoping the spectacle of a game at Wrigley would help boost season ticket sales, and indeed, sales are up 40 percent.
Second, they wanted to increase awareness of NU football in the Chicago-area market. The Wrigley game fit perfectly into the University’s new marketing campaign as “Chicago’s Big Ten Team.”
“You have to be aggressive, and that’s why
the game at Wrigley was done — create a bowl-like atmosphere during the regular season, cre-ate some interest in your regular season with a game in a different venue,” Phillips said. “That’s an area that I really enjoy being a part of — being aggressive and fighting for what you believe is important. What’s important to us is filling Ryan Field and boosting attendance.”
Of course, the Cats aren’t the only ones hoping Saturday’s game pump up their fans.
“For the players, it’s just another game,” Nurse said, “but for the fan base, it’s going to ignite them and energize them because those guys are going to enjoy seeing their team there and being at that stadium. It’s just great exposure for the team and the program.”
Dealing With the SpectacleWilliams is used to
some of the distractions inherent in changing ballparks. As a member of NU’s baseball team, he has played games at three MLB parks: U.S. Cellular Field, Miller Park and the Metrodome.
For all the parks he has visited, this will be his first time at Wrigley Field.
“It’s going to be really cool,” Williams said. “I’ve never been inside, and just seeing it on TV is pretty much all I saw as a kid, just seeing the ivy, all the his-tory’s that there.”
Yet, he knows as well as anyone, the impor-tance of honing in on the game.
“The more we treat it like a regular season game, the better off we are going to be,” Williams said. “The less we give in to the hype, the better. There’s no reason not to get excited for this game because it’s a rivalry game. We’re playing for the Land of Lincoln Trophy, and if we can keep our focus on that, then we’ll be fine.”
Fitzgerald even suggested all the hype sur-rounding the game might be a positive factor for NU.
“You know what, the more I’ve gone through the week, the more I like it, especially coming off a big win,” Fitzgerald said. “It’s really forcing us to focus.”
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Throwback: A football field in one of the oldest and most venerated stadiums in baseball might be a strange sight, but Wrigley Field played host to the sport for several decades, when the Chicago Bears called the Friendly Confines home. Saturday’s Northwestern-Illinois matchup will be the first football game since 1970 at Wrigley, when the Bears left for Soldier Field.
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This Thanksgiving, a group of Northwestern students will cook up a large turkey dinner for some of Evanston’s neediest residents.
The Campus Kitchens Project, a college-based organization that serves food to the needy, started Turkeypalooza in Detroit to capitalize on the holiday season and get more people involved in community service, said Maureen Roche, director of the nationwide Campus Kitchens Project. More volunteers participate in the program during the Thanksgiving season because it serves as a natural bridge between the holiday season and the need to feed others in the community, Roche said.
“It’s something that we as an organization like to do, because these are people that may not have people to share the holidays with,” Roche said.
“It’s a nice thing that we can do to be able to pro-vide them with a bit of that holiday warmth.”
There are 25 Campus Kitchens participating in the event across the country, and while the event has not changed much, the organization is always hoping each individual group can get more people involved and personalize the event, she said.
The Campus Kitchens at NU, which has been hosting Turkeypalooza since 2003, serves clients either fully-cooked Thanksgiving meals or a bas-ket of groceries so they can prepare the same food themselves, said Joanna Racho, CKNU program coordinator.
The group at NU serves turkey, green bean cas-serole, mashed potatoes, candied yams and pie, along with gravy and cranberry sauce, Racho said. Although their clients appreciate the Thanksgiv-ing meal, student volunteers enjoy the event as
well because they can prepare the food them-selves, she said.
Campus Kitchens at NU typically takes extra food from University dining halls and delivers it to Evanston groups such as Connections for the Homeless and the McGaw YMCA every week. Turkeypalooza is special because volunteers can prepare specific foods on a menu using food col-lected at food drives instead of putting together what is left over from University dining halls, student leader Sheila Kredit said.
“We know exactly what kind of dinner we’re going to give them, whereas in our other meal shifts, it just depends what we’ve been given by the dining halls, so it can really be this piece-meal conglomeration of really random foods,” the Weinberg senior said. “So (TurkeyPalooza) is really specific, for a specific purpose.”
She also said the food is different because
clients know it has been cooked recently instead of reheated after a meal at dining halls, making it mean more to them.
President and CEO of the McGaw YMCA Bill Geiger said there were “smiles and beaming eyes” when he was volunteering for Turkeypalooza last week and taking orders from residents in senior housing units. The men served by the YMCA appreciate the meals from Turkeypalooza because it shows they were remembered at Thanksgiving, he said.
“Many of these men do not have close family ties. Their family is the McGaw YMCA and the people who are kind and generous enough to remember them,” Geiger said. “It’s a real delight for many, many men who feel remembered, and they appreciate that on Thanksgiving Day.”
Campus Kitchens cooks Thanksgiving meals for needy
tallied 347 burglaries between 2007 and 2009.UP Chief Bruce Lewis said at a campus safety
meeting earlier this month he does not think NU has significantly more burglaries than other schools of its size. Nevertheless, property crime remains an issue for the University, he said.
“Fixing that is a community effort, and one we’re committed to improving,” Lewis said.
The safety of Evanston’s entire west side could use some improvement, Strelec said. After the Burger King attack, she hesitated to leave campus alone after sunset, particularly when westbound.
“The lighting is not as good, and there are a lot of dark alleys and garbage-filled areas that look like people could be hanging out in them,” Strelec said.
Communication senior Justin Barbin was five feet away from his Ridge Avenue and Davis Street apartment in May when a teenage boy grabbed him from behind, put him in a chokehold and threw him to the ground. When Barbin picked himself up, the STITCH photographer’s camera bag was gone.
The attack left scars on both Barbin’s forehead and his sense of security.
“I cannot walk forward without having to look back over my shoulder,” Barbin said.
Barbin said Evanston attracts a more economi-cally diverse population than he encountered while growing up in suburban Houston. Crime sometimes spills over from low-income areas near NU, and because the neighborhoods immediately around campus seem so safe, it’s easy for students to let their guard down.
“We live in this beautiful bubble, and sometimes you don’t realize you’re stepping out of it,” Barbin said.
If Weinberg sophomore Stephanie Schuette ever finds herself outside the NU bubble unexpectedly, she plans to be ready to defend herself. She carries pepper spray on a keychain so she can walk alone in the dark without fear. Although Wilmette, her hometown, is just a few minutes away, she said she feels less comfortable in Evanston.
Although NU’s crime statistics have stayed con-sistent or decreased for most crimes over the past three years, drug arrests have soared, climbing from two in 2007 to 11 in 2008 and 29 in 2009. UP Cmdr. Darren Davis said he was unsure why arrests rose but suggested it might be due to an increased num-ber of drug investigations.
Some crimes UP does not track, such as stalking, may be increasing as well. A growing number of students come to the NU Women’s Center seek-ing counseling for stalking-related issues, Director Renee Redd said.
Better lighting and greater police visibility would make Schuette more comfortable in Evanston, she said. But as a less-than-physically-imposing girl, she is always conscious of her surroundings.
More students should follow Schuette’s lead, said Sergio Serritella, a private investigator who works for the Medill Innocence Project. In his experience, NU students are shockingly oblivious to their sur-roundings. They allow their iPods and cell phones to consume their attention as they walk around campus, leaving themselves open to attack.
“I find Northwestern students to be extraordi-narily talented, academically gifted, but not street smart,” Serritella said. “The criminals go to where the prey is.”
Looking on the Bright SideBut even Strelec’s close brush with those crimi-
nals failed to convince her Evanston is truly dan-gerous, she said. Her second thoughts about roam-ing Evanston alone in the dark did not ultimately
prevent her from doing it.Greater effort by the University would not have
prevented Strelec’s mugging, she said. She attributed most of the blame for what happened to incautious choices she and her friend made, such as going to the bathroom directly after using an ATM and not checking whether they were being watched.
“I guess we weren’t very smart,” Strelec said.Barbin also said his experience was just a freak
occurrence. He had already lived in his apartment for almost two years when he was robbed, and he regularly came home at 3 a.m. without incident. On the night his camera was stolen, he returned at the theoretically safer hour of 10 p.m.
“I feel like it’s not an unsafe city,” he said. “I was
See safety, page 7
Burglaries remain consistent, drug arrests rise quicklyFrom safety, page 1
“We live in this beautiful bubble, and sometimes you don’t realize
you’re stepping out of it.”Justin Barbin,Communication senior
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just at the wrong place at the wrong time.”Based on Katie Bradford’s experience organizing
this year’s Associated Student Government Light Walk, the student life vice president thinks most students agree with Barbin’s assessment.
Light Walk, an annual event in which ASG leads NU officials around campus’s darkest areas and encourages them to improve the lighting there, relies on student input to determine which areas seem most dangerous, Bradford said. Though ASG has received many responses to its e-mails asking students where they feel least safe, few have demanded immediate action.
“Most of the responses haven’t been urgent, like, ‘I feel completely unsafe walking here,’” Bradford said.
NU officials have been receptive to safety con-cerns raised by ASG in the past, Bradford said. NU has always installed new lights at the Light Walk sites from previous years.
‘God’s Green Apple Cart’Although University administrators and police
do not contest the information The Daily Beast list included, it lacked contextual information that might have shown NU in a more favorable light, they said.
The University’s rigorous compliance with the Clery Act’s reporting standards has elevated the school’s burglary count in the last few years, Lewis said.
Traditionally, police have classified cases as bur-glaries only when there were signs of forced entry, Lewis said. But three years ago the Clery Act began requiring schools to report all missing item cases as burglaries, even if they did not involve a break-in.
NU, which devotes an entire office to comply-ing with such laws, quickly transitioned to the new classification, Lewis said. Other schools may not have.
“I cannot tell you that my colleagues across the country are guilty of not expanding their interpreta-tion, but what I can say is we did adopt the broader definition,” Lewis said.
Vice President for Student Affairs William Banis was blunter.
“I suspect we’re way ahead of the curve, and oth-ers are lagging,” Banis said.
The University of Michigan likely landed its No. 22 position on the list for similar reasons, Michigan Police Sgt. Gerry Steiner said. Some of the figures The Daily Beast listed for Michigan appeared erroneous to him. The 142 car thefts it claimed had occurred on campus particularly surprised him.
“Their stats — I don’t even know where in God’s green apple cart they got some of them,” Steiner said.
Steiner once visited Evanston for a conference. Both it and Ann Arbor, the town in which his uni-versity is located, are beautiful and peaceful, he said.
Lewis emphasized that of the crimes that do occur at NU, the vast majority are against prop-erty, not people. Between July 2010 and September, UP recorded only three crimes against persons. One such crime occurred in late July, when a driver made a U-turn on Sheridan Road to flash a gun at a student.
A possible explanation for the low number of crimes recorded in that period is that fewer students were on campus during the summer. But Lewis said the University is fortunate most crimes committed in its vicinity have been no more major than that July incident.
“I would argue that this is a very safe campus,” Lewis said.
Stepping up SecurityNU is still working to make it safer.Starting in 2007, the University replaced its resi-
dential security monitors with the community safety officers who now guard dorms from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. It also installed security cameras in all dorms and alarms on the dorms’ side doors.
At the time of their introduction, these changes were controversial. An ASG poll taken in Winter 2006, when the plan was being discussed, found that 90 percent of students disapproved of the alarms. Now most students pass the added safety equipment
without glancing twice at it.Following the shooting that killed five people
at Northern Illinois University in 2008, NU also created a campus watch team to monitor situations in which one member of the NU community may pose a threat to another. The team has dealt with 14 cases this quarter, Lewis said.
If NU wanted to tighten its security further, it could follow Indiana University’s model. Indiana has about 30 student officers who live in and patrol the dorms in addition to a full-time police force, IU Police Chief Keith Cash said. The students’ familiar-ity with their peers can make them more effec-tive than traditional police, Cash said.
There may be only so much NU can do to equal Indiana’s safety record given the uni-versities’ locations. Evanston borders the country’s third-largest city, while Bloomington borders corn.
“One would love to take credit that it was all due to the police,” Cash said. “I’m not sure that would be accurate.”
Though student officers may not be on the hori-zon, NU has continued to implement smaller secu-rity improvements. Just this quarter, UP bought several three-wheeled scooters for its officers to use on sidewalks and at football games, Deputy Chief Dan McAleer said. Police hope the scooters’ novelty will increase officers’ visibility.
The University plans to keep making such addi-tions, Lewis said. Although campus may be safe in reality, the fact that some students think otherwise means NU still has a problem.
“With that perception, there’s anxiety that’s cre-ated, and that’s real,” Lewis said.
But for Barbin, at least, that anxiety has been dissipated by the majority of his experiences in Evanston. Although being robbed initially left him shaken, the response of his friends — which included forming a Facebook group that raised the money to replace his camera — helped restore his confidence in the NU community.
“There are wonderful, kind people here,” he said. “Sometimes these things just happen.”
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By Katherine Driessen the daily northwestern
If its � rst two games were any indica-tion, Northwestern could present an even more menacing o� ensive juggernaut than it did last season.
NU’s 97-78 win against Northern Illi-nois last Friday was the highest-scoring performance the Wildcats have put together during coach Bill Carmody’s 11 years at the helm. More importantly, it proved junior forward John Shurna — who put up a career-high-tying 31 points on the evening — and sophomore guard Drew Crawford are in prime shooting form and senior point guard Michael � ompson is still the commander of Carmody’s back-cut-heavy Princeton o� ense.
What was less de� nitive and, in all likelihood, even more de� ning , is how the Cats will fare defensively a er � nishing a dismal 169th nationally in e� ciency last season — considerably behind its impres-sive 33rd o� ensive e� ciency ranking .
“We need to work on containing bet-ter,” � ompson said. “We have known all along that defense is something we are going to need to improve on to be successful.”
It’s the Achilles’ heel of NU’s deepest squad in years, and one that Carmody addressed during the team’s trip to Italy this summer when NU faced o� against four professional squads. � e Cats, whose signature defense is a 1-3-1 zone that forces pressure at the top of key, almost exclusively played a man-to-man defense while abroad and still managed to win all of their matches.
“It was a valuable experience for us,” � ompson said. “We didn’t really work on it much before Italy, but every team in Italy had di� erent o� ense so we had to adjust on the � y.”
It’s the sort of transition NU will need to make e� ortlessly against more lethal Big Ten opponents later in this season, though it’s one that has given the Cats
� ts in their opening matches.NU started with a man-to-man forma-
tion in its season opener at Northern Illi-nois, but the Huskies broke through the zone to go 5-for-6 in � eld goal attempts and jump out to an early 13-5 lead .
When the Cats switched to a 1-3-1 zone soon therea er, the momentum swung decisively back in their favor.
“Our defense kind of led to o� ense, and we picked it up,” Crawford said. “We were able to put a lot more pressure on their guards.”
� at pressure helped NU to generate nine forced turnovers in the � rst half as Crawford went on a 12-point tear to lead a 19-3 run .
� e Cats never lost the lead once they made the switch.
“We went to the zone, and we turned them over a few times and we scored o� those turnovers,” Carmody said a er the game. “(We) got a couple easy ones. Drew hit a couple in transition, or semi-transition, and I thought that changed the tempo of things.”
But Carmody refused to relinquish the man-to-man defense on Wednesday night when NU traveled to Texas-Pan American . � is time, the Cats didn’t make the switch until late in the second half with the Broncs coming danger-ously close to staging the sort of upset that NU can’t a� ord on its less-than-elite non-conference slate .
� e defensive transition spurred an 11-point lead for NU — its most com-fortable margin of the night .
NU (2-0) will continue to test its defensive savvy when it returns to Welsh-Ryan Arena for its season home opener against Arkansas-Pine Blu� (0-2) on Friday night.
What the matchup lacks in prestige, it makes up for in poeticism — the Golden Lions made it to the NCAA Tournament for the � rst time last season, winning their � rst game against Winthrop before falling to perennial powerhouse and eventual tournament champions, Duke .
It’s the sort of history NU is hoping to
make this season.“It’s really exciting to get to come back
home to play,” � ompson said. “We’ve got some momentum coming o� those home wins, and we’re just looking to keep that going all season.”
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Switcheroo: Drew Crawford and the Cats have been consistent on offense, but have needed to switch schemes to compete defensively.
ON THE RECORDEvery team in Italy had a different
offense, so we had to adjust on the fl y.— Point guard Michael Thompson, on NU’s attempts to integrate a man-to-man defense.
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NU vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff, 7 p.m. Friday
I still remember waking up in my Bobb dorm room to the voices of the ESPN “College GameDay” crew on the morning of the Penn State
game last year. � e JoePa faithful that � ocked to Evanston had set up a mas-sive TV screen in the SPAC parking lot.
With Northwestern set to play host in college football’s triumphant return to Wrigley Field, the GameDay crew will actually shine its national spotlight on NU.
Winning on Saturday won’t mean the same as ending the 61-year bowl drought, but it’s imperative the Wildcats take care of business in what will be a bowl-like atmosphere.
On this week’s episode of “� e Pat Fitzgerald Show,” Fitzgerald said his players need to block out the anticipa-tion and hype if they want to bring the Land of Lincoln Trophy up the Purple Line to Evanston.
It’s fair to consider the Allstate Wrig-leyville Classic a tune-up for wherever the Cats may play in late December or on New Year’s Day.
A er NU escaped Bloomington with a 20-17 win on Halloween eve, Fitzger-ald said his team was in position to have a third-straight signi� cant November.
� e second-half collapse at Penn State derailed NU’s chances of another undefeated November , but the Wildcats salvaged this season and guaranteed another bowl appearance with a signa-ture upset of the Squawkeyes.
� at win also eliminated any chance of GameDay making the trip to Iowa City for when the Hawkeyes host Ohio State on Saturday.
NU needs to win Saturday to prove to skeptics that Dan Persa’s torn Achilles tendon isn’t really Wildcat kryptonite.
Fitzgerald has talked all week about how the unfortunate end to Persa’s season creates a unique opportunity for Chicago-area native Evan Watkins to step up. But in reality, the entire team is presented with a chance to showcase their talents while their stud quarter-back is on the shelf.
A win against Illinois boosts the attractiveness of NU’s bowl destination by clinching another eight-win season. I’m not saying the Cats can’t knock o� Big Ten leader Wisconsin at Camp Ran-dall Stadium, but the Badgers did just score 83 points without their best o� en-sive player, running back John Clay.
An NU victory will also put more pressure on the Fighting Illini in their � nal game of the season because they’d need a win to secure a trip to the postseason.
From a marketing standpoint, the festivities in Wrigleyville on Saturday will highlight the success of the “Chi-cago’s Big Ten Team” campaign that has attracted new fans, boosted Ryan Field attendance and helped NU garner more local attention.
Beyond the Windy City, the buzz surrounding the Wrigley game and GameDay’s visit can do wonders for NU’s national reputation.
� e showcase of the purple taking over one of the most storied venues in all of sports could be a factor when a bowl game’s representatives may be forced to choose between NU and tradi-tional fan powerhouses such as Michi-gan and Penn State.
So even if you were snubbed of a ticket or didn’t realize they’d sell out so quickly, take the El down to Wrigleyville on Saturday morning to be part of something special.
Justin Schecker is a Medill junior. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Without McKeown, Cats escape with winBy Josh Wal� sh
the daily northwestern
With coach Joe McKeown not making the trip to Bowling Green for personal reasons, Northwestern (3-0 ) narrowly escaped with the victory over Western Kentucky (0-2 ), 61-54.
Assistant coach Ali Jaques took over the coaching duties for the Wildcats for the night, and the team expects McKeown to return in time for Sunday’s game.
“Amy and I were telling everyone that we have to take everything we learned this season and that coach instilled in us and put it on the � oor tonight,” senior guard Beth Marshall said .
Junior forward Brittany Orban led all scorers with 20 points , while senior center Amy Jaeschke had 13 in just 18 minutes .
It was a tale of two runs in the � rst half. NU surged to a 24-7 lead in the opening 13 minutes . But Western Ken-tucky came back to end the half on a 21-5 run , giving the Cats a slim 29-28 lead. � e Lady Toppers almost had a lead at the break on a three-pointer by forward Janae Howard , but the shot was deemed to have been released too late.
“When everyone got in the locker room,” Marshall said, “we knew we had to go back to what was working for us in the start of the � rst half.”
� e Lady Toppers had no match for Jaeschke on the interior, who had her way while scoring nine points in the � rst half despite limited minutes due to foul trouble.
“I think it is really important (we were able to win without Amy),” Jaques said. “Hopefully, we don’t have to have any more games like this though.”
� e second half failed to provide a
whole lot of � reworks. � e teams traded buckets for most of the half until a small 7-0 run gave NU a nine-point lead . West-ern Kentucky answered back by slowly bringing the lead back to within two, but the Cats prevailed on the back of their free throws.
NU shot 69 percent at the charity stripe including a perfect 11-for-11 from Orban, while the Lady Toppers shot 54 percent .
“I think free throws were a big game changer tonight,” Orban said. “(I) took it on myself to do all that I could to push the team.”
Fouls put a big wrinkle in the NU game plan as Jaeschke picked up her fourth foul with 12 minutes to go in the game . NU had three players with four fouls, and junior guard Tailor Jones fouled out .
“I think it was a physical game, and we were not doing a good job at moving our feet in the post,” Jaques said.
� e Cats were out-rebounded 45-34 in the game, uncharacteristic for a team that prides itself on rebounding.
“It is never a lack of e� ort on our part,” Marshall said. “We know it is not Amy’s sole responsibility to rebound for us, and we knew before the game they were going to be physical on the glass.”
� e Cats will next be in action Sun-day a ernoon against Chicago State at home.
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Fouls? No problem: Amy Jaeschke could only play 18 minutes due to foul trouble, but still dominated the Western Kentucky frontcourt, scoring 13 points and bringing down six rebounds.
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