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By Stephanie Stack The Daily Northwestern dailynorthwestern.com/student-groups

Last year, Northwestern stu-dents helped Barack Obama move from the United States Senate to the Oval Office . Now, a group of NU students is trying to keep the activist momentum going by cam-paigning for other candidates in lo-cal and state-wide elections.

Daniel Rockoff , the vice president for programming for College Demo-crats , is beginning campaign efforts for Alexi Giannoulias , who is vying to fill the seat vacated by Obama.

“There was a lot of energy on campus during the Obama cam-

paign,” Rockoff, a Communication senior, said. “Things have really slowed down, but people need to remember how important these elections are.”

Primary elections will take place Feb. 2. If Giannoulias secures the Democratic nomination, he will run against the Republican candidate in November.

Rockoff said he plans on sticking with Giannoulias’ campaign if the candidate is successful in February.

Giannoulias’ actions as the cur-rent Illinois treasurer have made him attractive to students, Rockoff said.

“He has been really helpful (in) making sure students aren’t victims of predatory loans,” he said.

SESP junior Samantha Reed , who served as the co-coordinator for Students for Obama last fall, said she is planning to campaign for Patrick Keenan-Devlin (Music and WCAS ’06 ), a Democratic candidate for the Illinois General Assembly.

Reed said she was interested in the campaign for personal reasons.

A beneficiary of the state-funded Illinois Monetary Award Program , a grant for college students, she said she was disappointed when the program was cut from the state budget last year.

“It was easy for state govern-ments to cut us out because (young people) don’t vote,” Reed said. “If you have to cut someone, you cut the people who aren’t going to kick you out of office.”

Despite some students’ involve-ment, not everyone has stayed en-gaged in politics, said Jonathan For-man , vice president for outreach for

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Braving the cold: Students shared campus sidewalks with snow plows Thursday as Evanston’s second major snowfall this winter began (above). Although most pedestrians were bundled in scarves and jackets, a topless man was spotted jogging laps around Norris University Center at about 2:30 p.m. He disappeared into the white haze before THE DAILY could ask him for his name (left).

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By Brittney Wong The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/d65

Last June, Julie De Lara sat down with teachers from Evanston/Skokie School District 65 and a team of spe-cialists to discuss the educational future of her son Michael , a six-year-old with epilepsy and some developmental de-lays. They concluded Michael would enter diagnostic kindergarten, or spe-cial education.

Several days later, De Lara attended a D65 Board of Education meeting in which Superintendent Hardy Murphy presented a document that appeared to suggest all diagnostic kindergarten classrooms would be eliminated. De Lara was told she needed to reconvene her son’s educational plan to redeter-mine his class placement. As a result, Michael became one of the first special education kindergarteners integrated into general education classrooms in ac-cordance with the district’s inclusion plan instated last year.

“There was no discussion between that Wednesday when I had my (indi-

vidual educational plan meeting) and the Monday of the announcement,” De Lara said. “No one talked to me. I had no idea. I was completely shocked.”

Recently, about four months into the school year, Murphy said the inclusion plan, which aims to eventually incorpo-rate every special education student into a general education setting, “is go-ing very well.”

“As with anything you do, you can expect there are going to be bumps in the road,” Murphy said.

CONCERNS AND CONFUSIONSome of the bumps Murphy referred

to included parental concerns and com-munication problems.

De Lara, who took Murphy’ s an-nouncement to mean the diagnostic kindergarten system was dismantled, was later told one class would remain open at Dawes Elementary School . But after no parents chose to enroll their children in the class, it was eliminated.

“We decided not to take it because Dawes is not our home school,” De Lara said. “It could not be guaranteed that he would continue his education there.

He would have gone to Dawes for kin-dergarten, and then they might have transferred him out. ... I still felt that di-agnostic kindergarten would have been the best place for him.”

An Exceptional Child Liaison for the Parent Teacher Association , De Lara said the first year of inclusion has been challenging.

“It’s a struggle because of communi-cation,” she said. “It’s a struggle because of staffing issues. It’s a struggle because the general education population was not notified that this would occur, and there was no opportunity to help them prepare for these kids.”

De Lara is not alone in her doubts about inclusion.

“The emphasis across the district is that, ‘We believe that inclusion is the right thing to do,’ but the problem with this is that it’s almost like a moral im-perative, that inclusion is what we must do, rather than what the child’s needs are,” said Cari Levin, founding director of Evanston Citizens for Appropriate Special Education.

Murphy admitted correspondence with parents wasn’t perfect.

“Communication can always be im-proved,” he said. “We try to do our best to inform parents about their children and different programs. We’ll be work-ing on it.”

INCLUSION PLAN POLICY Developed by a group of 33 parents,

teachers, educators and administrators last spring, the plan includes the follow-ing guiding principle: “All students with disabilities have a right to be included in naturally occurring settings and ac-tivities with their neighborhood peers, siblings and friends.” In order to ac-complish this goal, the district aims to evaluate the extent to which each child can be integrated into general educa-tion.

“The district’s approach has been to start from the bottom up, so to identify students at the youngest grade who we believe can succeed in a general educa-tion setting with appropriate support,” D65 Communications Director Pat Markham said.

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Not long ago, online celebrity “Pu-mashock” spent her days studying cogni-tive science and linguistics at Northwest-ern. While at NU, Natalie White (WCAS ‘03) toured with a band called Funkintelli-gence, traveled to Los Angeles to star in a reality show and fell in love with Korean culture through the screen of her Hello Kitty TV. She then racked up almost two million hits on her cover of the Korean pop song “Gee” on YouTube, quickly transform-ing her into an Internet sensation.

Daily: How did your studies at NU go along with your love of music?White: A lot of people were shocked that I didn’t choose to go to a conservatory for classical piano. I wanted to do something different. Music was something that was al-ways going to be there. I’ve always been ob-sessed with the brain and the mind.

Daily: What are some of your best memories from NU?White: I remember sophomore year I lived in the music sorority dorm. I wasn’t a part of the sorority. I used to come in, and they’d be having secret meetings and singing Des-tiny’s Child songs in the basement. I didn’t do many extracurricular things. I was kind of a loner. It was always my favorite activity to go to the lake and crawl down in the rocks and take a nap on a flat rock.

Daily: How did your time at NU influence your career?White: I think it definitely shaped me musi-cally. Coming from central Indiana, I was hit by all sorts of cultures in Chicago. ... I

think it stuck with me. That’s where (my in-terest) with Korean culture started. I had a Hello Kitty TV, and the only working chan-nel was a local Korean channel.

Daily: What did you do after graduation?White: My senior year I had to leave Spring Quarter to be on a TV show in L.A. It was called “All American Girl”—a spin-off of “American Idol.” I made it all the way to the finale and was runner-up. ... I was able to walk with my class at graduation and finish classes in the summer. I’ve just kind of been working it ever since. I’ve been try-ing to build a solid résumé for myself. The last couple years, I’ve moved to San Fran-cisco. That seems to be the center for all things video game and techy.

Daily: How did your YouTube endeavors begin?White: This YouTube thing honestly is kind of just a f luke. I was just bored. I like Ko-rean pop songs, and I was learning the language. I’d heard other people had done it. (I thought,) “Why not, I’ll give it a shot.” I think the difference is I’m a musi-cian. I remixed the songs, and I think that’s what people gravitated toward. SBS TV network f lew me over (to Korea) to ap-pear on a variety show, “Star King.” It was pretty much the same as “American Idol,” except it was all females, and they made us do a bit of everything.

Daily: What are your future plans?White: I’m actively pursuing a musical career. YouTube has nothing to do with it. I’ll proba-bly continue to do the Korean covers because people seem to enjoy those. I haven’t really come out with my own stuff, but I think this is definitely the year.

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Evanston residents gets gig with their own ‘school of rock’

By Katie ParkThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/business

At a school on Sherman Place, a Steppen-wolf album is audible even before visitors step through the front door. Vinyl records and post-ers of Jimi Hendrix and The Who line the walls. Instead of an Encyclopedia Britannica, the school shelves The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock.

Musician Paul Green founded his first “rock school” in Philadelphia in 1998. Now a national

organization with more than 60 loca-tions, the Paul Green School of Rock Music opened a franchise on the 1300 block of Sherman Place in September.

The new school of-fers private lessons in guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboard, sax-ophone, vocals and song-writing to chil-dren, teens and adults of all skill levels, man-ager Loren Seeger said. Students attend

band rehearsals and perform at local venues.“We’re a performance-based music pro-

gram,” Seeger said. “It’s our goal to get every student at the school rocking out.”

She said the school is different from other music programs because it empha-sizes performance.

“Not all music is just sitting by yourself, playing,” she said. “You want other people to hear you. You want input and feedback.”

Evanston’s School of Rock will perform Jan. 17 at Evanston SPACE, 1245 Chicago Ave. Students will perform music by Green Day

and The Clash at 4 p.m. and music by The Beatles at 7 p.m.

Guitar teacher Matt Berger said the school gives younger students a rare op-portunity to play in clubs and venues aside from the school auditorium.

“I wish I had something like this when I was younger,” he said. “Kids don’t really ever have a chance to play semi-serious gigs unless it’s a school talent show.”

Berger also said he wants his stu-dents to become comfortable with their instruments.

“Not everyone has to become a pro mu-sician,” he said. “If they can get some-thing out of playing an instrument, if they can evoke some emotion out of it, it’s a job well done.”

For Seefer, the school's biggest goal is to get people involved in music. She said the school’s motto is, “Saving rock ’n’ roll, one kid at a time.”

“A lot of music programs are being cut from schools,” Seeger said. “There’s just not a lot of emphasis on music like there used to be.”

Josh Saunders, a 17-year-old rock student, said the video game Rock Band inspired him to play drums.

“I loved playing drums on it, and I was bet-

ter than all my friends,” said Saunders, a stu-dent at Evanston Township High School, 1600 Dodge Ave. “It’s different to play real drums. Your whole body is engaged.”

Finn Rowe, whose parents own the Ev-anston school, said he has been playing drums and singing for about three years. A fan of The Who, the nine-year-old has al-ready performed in two concerts through the school.

“The first performance I played in, I was kind of scared,” he said. “Then I got used to it,

and it started getting fun.”In addition to teaching music and perfor-

mance skills, the school helps students make friends and understand their musical interests, Seeger said.

“There’s a little bit of rebellion to rock ‘n’ roll,” Seeger said. “It’s reassuring for stu-dents to know that there are other people who like to jam to the Rolling Stones or Ozzy Osbourne.”

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Evanston learns how to rock: Gordon Patriarca, one of two music directors at the Paul Green School of Rock Music, teaches a bass guitar lesson. An Evanston branch of the "school of rock" opened in September.

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Five oceans, seven continents and one planet.

That’s what Project 571, a new Chicago-based clothing company, is aiming to save with its environmentally conscious clothing line. For the organization, saving the planet starts on campus.

“There’s no better place to start than schools,” said Michael Wheeler, Project 571 founder and president. “Leading academic uni-versities like Northwestern—for us, that’s where it has to start. If they can’t support their own schools organically because they don’t have the option, that’s pretty sad.”

The company launched about a year and a half ago and has since signed contracts with more than 20 universities across the country, with hopes to add more soon, Wheeler said. The

Web site allows users to scroll through various T-shirt, sweatshirt and sweatpants options.

“We realize it’s hard to buy clothing online,” he said. “You get it in the mail, and you wish you could have tried it on. We don’t want to be strictly online. We’re based in Chicago, and we’re doing lots of festivals and starting to sell in boutiques and other retailers.”

Emily Wright, a student in NU’s Environ-mental Policy and Culture program, said Proj-ect 571 is the kind of company NU students would support.

“I believe most people on campus are con-cerned (about the environment) to some ex-tent,” the Weinberg junior said. “The more important point is if their concern translates into environmentally conscious behavior. I think it can be very overwhelming for stu-dents to try to make the green choices. If they are living in a dorm and are on a tight budget, they can’t afford the higher-end sus-tainable products.”

Communication sophomore Eupha McCrary said she wouldn’t be likely to replace her colle-giate gear with green alternatives.

“I care about the environment, but not a su-per lot,” McCrary said.

A member of the Fair Labor Association, Project 571 offers products that cost more than other collegiate merchandise because the com-pany is dedicated to using textiles made by people compensated fairly for their work, Wheeler said.

“You buy three T-shirts for $9.99, and what do you think you’ll be getting?” he said. “They’re made in poor working conditions overseas. ... It’s hard for some people to grasp the concept that when you buy some of that clothing, you’re indi-rectly supporting that.”

Wright expressed similar sentiments. Al-though she has to bear costs in mind, her power as a consumer often drives her choices at the su-permarket and elsewhere, she said.

“I firmly believe that consumers have in-

credible power to push the economy and markets to become more sustainable,” she said. “I try to use that power whenever I go to the store.”

Chicago resident Maurice Barnes (WCAS ’09) recently purchased an NU T-shirt for his wife from Beck’s Bookstore in Evanston. Barnes said he would buy the alternatives if they were available in stores.

“I think it’s more environmentally friendly than the kind of gear that you wash, and then it breaks down,” Barnes said.

Being environmentally conscious is the first step to a better planet, Wheeler said.

“People are starting to realize now that they can make small changes and not drop every-thing in their lives,” he said. “Those little things really make a big difference. We realize buying an organic T-shirt won’t solve climate change, but every little bit helps.”

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Cassandra Cole, director of the Center on Education and Lifelong Learning at the Indi-ana Institute on Disability and Community, said integrated classes have found early suc-cess.

“I’ve been in every single kindergarten classroom where there is inclusion, and the students, by teacher report, are thriving,” said Cole, a consultant for D65.

Assistant Superintendent Mike Robey said one reason for the plan’s creation was a federal regulation requiring districts “to maintain and help the child in a setting that’s as close to what their regular education peers would get whenever possible.”

“You would start in a general education classroom with minimal to no supports,”

Robey said. “Depending upon the disabilities that the child has, you move up to more inten-sive services.”

Some parents said they are unsure if the district has the logistical capacity to provide the amount of individualized attention the plan requires.

“The whole concept of public education is to educate as many students as you can,” De Lara said. “With these individual, special kids, they often need something special and differ-ent and individualized, and I imagine it be-comes much more difficult to administer that.”

PROBLEMS AT PARKMembers in the special needs community

are especially anxious about the fate of Park School, which is exclusively dedicated to D65 students with disabilities. The plan lists the following as a strategy: “Review inclusion for

Park School and include Park students in im-plementation timeline.”

District administrators, however, said they do not intend to close Park.

“Obviously, as time goes on, it is very likely that Park School and the way it looks will be transformed, but there’s no intention to shut down the school and stop providing services for the children,” Markham said. “What we’re hoping is that over time, more of the children who traditionally have been served in Park School will be able to be served in cluster pro-grams that are closer to their attendance-area school so that they can then matriculate into middle school with the peers from their com-munity.”

Parents are also concerned about the avail-ability of educational supports like student aides as more classrooms are integrated.

“In order for them to do that in a way that’s

cost-effective, they’re going to need to pull re-sources out of Park School and put them into the cluster sites,” Levin said. “Park School will shrink. ... It will become smaller and smaller until it’s not there anymore.”

MOVING FORWARDThe administration recently appointed the

District Leadership Committee, scheduled to begin work Jan. 20, to evaluate the plan and its implementation.

De Lara said communication has im-proved, citing focus groups and surveys imple-mented after the plan was instated. As a mother of a child with special needs, De Lara’s said her first priority is to move forward.

“I think we have to focus on how to make this program better.”

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Laptop, camera and Bluetooth stolen from Forest storage unit

A laptop, a camera and a Bluetooth appa-ratus were stolen from a storage unit on the 900 block of Forest Avenue Thursday, police said.

The owner of the electronics said he had moved them to the storage unit because of flooding, Evanston Police Cmdr. Tom Guen-ther said. The owner came home and found the items missing.

Three textbooks stolen from Sargent Hall over Winter Break

Someone stole three textbooks from a Northwestern student’s room over Winter Break, University Police said.

The student said he locked the door of his Sargent Hall dorm room, 2245 Sheridan Road, before leaving for break but returned Jan. 3 to find it unlocked, Deputy Chief Dan McAleer said. “Introduction to Macroeco-nomics,” “Cosmos” and a calculus book were missing from the room, but other textbooks were still there. Police have no suspects.

Evanston man caught driving with no license, open alcohol

Police charged a man with illegal trans-portation of alcohol Wednesday, police said.

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The driver was given a traffic violation and released on bond, McAleer said.

Three days earlier, an officer had stopped the suspect for taking scrap metal from NU dumpsters, McAleer said.

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“It was a unique experience because you usually don’t see people that politically en-gaged,” Forman said. “It was kind of a testa-

ment to what the then-senator was able to bring to people, especially young people.”

This year, there has been a substantial dip in student political participation on campus now that the presidential election is over, Forman said. His organization plans to en-courage activism in upcoming elections through its Winter Quarter events, he added.

Adam Seidel, vice president of College Republicans, said the group is also plan-ning projects this quarter.

“We spend the first few weeks of the quarter deciding which speaker to bring in, which topics we want to have that person to talk about and what other events we want to do for the quarter,” the Weinberg junior said.

Rockoff said his first priority is getting students registered to vote.

“I feel that we need new leadership, a new viewpoint in Washington,” he said.

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On a drunken Sunday in the midst of cleaning the kitchen, I got to thinking, “Is there an NFL for

women?” I realized I didn’t know the answer—but then again, who cares? If I want to watch burly women in tight clothes fight, I’ll just go to the DVD clearance bin at Wal-Mart on Black Friday (and I did... and I disliked it).

Sure, the lack of a WNFL is sex-ist. But I think we can all agree this is a good thing.

You people think sexism is bad for the same reason you think racism is bad: It classifies people. But where would we be without social stratifi-cation? We wouldn’t be anywhere because even cavemen had hierar-chies based on gender (and race). I don’t know this for a fact, but I did watch Encino Man when I was a kid.

There are two types of women:

homemakers and whores. Some-times there’s ambiguity, in which case they automatically fall under the category of “whore.” This has been proven by scientific research done at Northwestern. I know some of you homemakers may disagree, but you’re just whores in denial. Trust me, been there.

Rush Limbaugh has been scruti-nized for popularizing the term “feminazi,” used to describe over-zealous females hell-bent on eradi-cating the male race. (Sounds like the same thing a famous Austrian wanted to do to a certain race. And yes, I’m talking about Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Gays.) But think about it: Rush is right.

Yeah. Think about it.Also, think about the Bible. Deu-

teronomy 22:28-29 says, “If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her fa-ther.” Outrageous. Why should he have to pay? He’s simply claiming his property. If anything the young woman should be happy for the newfound stability and support in her life that only a man can give.

Speaking of the Bible, let’s talk about Jews.

On second thought, let’s not.The other day, I was walking

through the library when I saw a con-gregation of women studying. I was appalled and very angry—angry enough to do something drastic, like yell obscenities and stomp my foot. But I didn’t. I knew my place as a woman. I kept quiet, only shaking my head at the consequences they would later face in life (and in the afterlife). Yelling obscenities would have done nothing but created chaos in the quiet library—other females would have had trouble looking up recipes and quilt patterns. Also, depending upon the structural integrity of the li-brary, my foot stomping may have put a hole in the floor, and some man would have had to fix my mistake.

I take back what I said about homemakers. Women don’t make homes; men do. And since God was a man, this is good.

Think about it.Okay, look. Why do you think

there is once again only one female columnist this quarter? Females don’t write as good, and this weekly column will prove it.

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Debate on health care needs variety of views

In his 500-word “In defense of government: Conservative propa-ganda comes to NU” column Wednesday, Jordan Fein mischarac-terized several issues.

First, Fein implied the people on Sheridan Road in the fall comparing Obama to Hitler were conservatives. This is utterly false. The group those individuals were associated with was the LaRouche Political Action Com-mittee, a LEFTIST organization (for those who did not ask them their as-sociation, just check their Web site). His unsupported accusation is im-portant to note because many college students lean left and may assume those protesters were just “ignorant conservatives.”

Second, Fein blames the health care problems on “unregulated pri-vate industry,” when, in fact, health care is among the most heavily regu-lated industries in the U.S. For in-stance, of all our American health care costs, our government spends about half, according to the health policy journal Health Affairs! By no means is that “unregulated private industry.”

Third, he chastises the state in-

surance “monopolies” without both-ering to explain why we have so many of them. In fact, it is govern-ment regulation that prevents Amer-icans from buying insurance across state lines and creates these monop-olies. These restrictions prevent competition and drive up costs. One government study estimated elimi-nating these regulations could make insurance available to up to nearly 12 million uninsured Americans!

Fourth, Fein’s melodramatic pro-nouncement that “conservative pro-paganda comes to NU” is ironic to say the least. It’s no secret liberal thought dominates most universities, including this one. Conservative “propaganda,” as it were, is almost non-existent at NU.

But, more importantly, we should welcome a myriad of per-spectives into the debate on big is-sues like health care. Arguments should address substance and be judged on their merit, while name-calling and demonizing—such as what was found in Wednesday’s col-umn—should be minimized.

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to University Housing for making transferring or moving out of dorms a difficult transaction.

With transfer students in the basement of Bobb Hall and fresh-men in singles at Foster-Walker Complex, it’s becoming clear Northwestern needs to add more on-campus housing. The smaller number of available rooms hinders students’ abilities to move to a dif-ferent dorm, which is not just an is-sue of getting what you’re paying for, but also a matter of improving the college experience for an un-happy resident. Although students sign housing contracts and NU is a business, as one housing official pointed out, sometimes the Univer-sity needs to look beyond money and look out for the general well-being of its students.

to the increase in early decision applications to NU and the increase in the diversity

represented by the applicants.The spike in early decision ap-

plications—a record 1,770 students applied, with 625 admitted—proves NU’s rising status as one of the best universities in the nation. It also re-flects the efforts of NU students in spreading the word of our prestige.

Every year, the incoming class proves to be bigger and better than ever, setting precedents in size and SAT scores. Diversifying the cam-pus advances the atmosphere even further.

to the delay in the federal government notifying Evanston whether its affordable housing grant

has been approved.After applying for funds in July

through a stimulus offer, city offi-cials should have heard back from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in De-cember. The grant would fuel proj-ects in Evanston to revitalize struggling areas of the city, which shouldn’t be set back more than necessary. Their proposal, which competes with other municipal governments for a chunk of the money, included creating mixed-income housing in west Evanston and selling foreclosed homes at a reduced cost.

to the improved Airhop student-run shuttle service from NU to O’Hare and Midway airports.

For students tired of forking over $30 to $60 to get to either air-port over break, Airhop has pro-

vided some much-needed relief. Af-ter the pilot run over Thanksgiving break, Northwestern Student Hold-ings re-evaluated the scheduling of buses and Airhop’s internal struc-ture to transport students back to campus after Winter Break. Airhop eliminates the inconvenience of ar-ranging cab shares—for a third of the price.

to NU fans for attending and tuning into the Outback Bowl against Auburn on Jan. 1.

Not only did NU sell out its 11,000-ticket allotment for the Out-back Bowl, packing Raymond James Stadium with purple, but a record number of Chicagoans tuned in to watch the back-and-forth instant classic. The athletic department made a late push to completely fill the Wildcats’ corner of the stadium behind a solid mar-keting scheme, helping the percep-tion that NU travels well to bowl games. Then, ESPN clocked a re-corded-high 7.1 rating for the Chi-cago area (an average of roughly 250,000 households) and a 4.06 na-tional rating, a 32 percent increase over the 2009 game between Iowa and South Carolina. Cats fans en-joyed the dramatic come-from-be-hind rally in the fourth quarter.

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Coach Laurie Schiller sits seven triumphs short of one of college sports’ ultimate mile-stones: 1,000 wins.

After this weekend, Schiller expects to be one away.

If his team’s past performances at the Penn Duals is any indication, Schiller will be putting the champaigne on ice. NU has won all of its matches in Philadelphia three of the last four years.

The Wildcats will play six matches Satur-day, facing Temple, Sacred Heart, Drew, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Duke at this year’s event.

“We have a big match coming up, but we should be able to beat all those teams,” Schiller said. “We’re good enough to do that, and it will be disappointing if we don’t.”

Temple finished ninth in last year’s Women’s United States Fencing Coaches Association poll

and nearly defeated NU in the 2009 Penn Invi-tational. The Cats beat the Owls 14-13 behind six wins from the epée squad.

“The toughest match is probably Temple,” Schiller said. “They have a real good team, and we’re going to have to fence our best. They’re the first match of the day, so whichever one of us is awake and ready to go first thing is going to get that one.”

NU barely beat Penn last year, riding strong performances from the foil and epée weapon groups to a 15-12 victory. But the Cats had no trouble with the Tar Heels last season, defeating them 18-9 at the Penn Invitational and 20-7 at the Duke Duals. North Carolina finished 14th in last year’s coaches’ poll.

In its matchup with Duke, NU will have to battle one of the nation’s top fenc-ers. Sophomore sabreist Becca Ward be-came the second fencer in Blue Devils history to win an NCAA championship last year. Ward’s standout 2009 season in-cluded an 18-0 record at the Penn Duals. Ward also won bronze medals in the team

and individual sabre events at the 2008 Olympic Games.

Sacred Heart and Drew are not known for their fencing programs. NU beat Drew 23-4 at last year’s Penn Invitational.

“There’s some really competitive teams and not-so-competitive teams,” senior sabre captain Whitney White said. “It’s important to stay fo-cused the entire meet.”

This weekend’s event will be the Cats’ sec-ond dual event of the season. In November the team went 4-0 at the Stanford Duals, defeating its four opponents by a combined score of 95-13.

But that was nearly two months ago, and NU hasn’t fenced competitively since Nov. 21, when the Cats traveled to University Park, Pa., to par-ticipate in the Penn State Open.

“Fencing teams, unlike the rest of the wom-en’s sports, as a rule, take the vacation off, so we’re no worse off, if you will, in terms of the break, than our competitors,” Schiller said.

The Cats used the break to improve their fit-ness, ensuring they will be in shape and ready to compete Saturday.

“Everyone on the team knows the commit-ment and knows they can’t sit on the couch all day over break,” senior epée captain Kayley French said. “Everybody was ready to come back to practice strong.”

Despite the layoff, Schiller has no doubt his team will be ready.

“The kids know what the task is in front of them, and we’ll get them mentally prepared,” Schiller said. “And then we’ll get to Pennsylva-nia and do what we have to do.”

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Marks admitted he wasn’t expecting NU to shoot so poorly from the field. That’s an un-derstatement. Considering the height advan-tage the Cats had over the Broncs, this game should have been a perfect opportunity to break the habit of relying on the 3-pointer. In-stead, with its centers unable to convert down low, NU put up 22 treys. The Cats—or rather John Shurna—made five of those attempts.

This should have been a relaxing game for Shurna. Instead, with supposed second option Michael Thompson turning the ball over five times and going 1-of-9 from the field, Shurna had to do everything in his power to stem the

Broncs’ attack in the first half. For the first 20 minutes, it was basically Texas-Pan American against Shurna, prompting Carmody to say basketball “isn’t an individual sport.”

Sure, the lack of team play proved prob-lematic in the win, but it’s even more worri-some for upcoming Big Ten play. NU is no lon-ger under the radar after its 15 minutes of fame in the AP Top 25, and Shurna is among the conference’s leaders in points and re-bounds. With the sophomore forward gaining recognition from sources such as ESPN as a potential Big Ten Player of the Year, it’s obvi-ous teams will make shutting down Shurna a top priority.

Perhaps the basketball team took a page out of the football team’s book and played down to its opponent. Let’s not forget NU’s three-point win over Eastern Michigan in the

second week of the season. Though far from reassuring, it would be nice to think this is the worst the team will play.

One play from the game particularly stands out. Thompson was at the top of the key, jumped in the air and threw an overhead, soccer-style pass up to Shurna in a failed al-ley-oop attempt. The pass looked promising at first but ended up sailing way out-of-bounds, practically into the stands.

That pass was emblematic of what this sea-son could become for the Cats if they don’t fix their problems in a hurry. A great start in non-conference play could be wiped out in a few Big Ten games, and the goal of making the NCAA Tournament could sail out of sight.

Game meant to fix problems puts them on displayCHAPPATTA, page 12

two with eight minutes left.Shurna added another basket before

halftime and impressed Carmody by dis-playing the instinct of a go-to scorer. It was Shurna’s fifth consecutive contest with at least 20 points.

“He saw the direction the game was go-ing and started taking some shots, which is what he had to do,” Carmody said.

Shurna’s ability to stretch the floor with his perimeter shooting created matchup problems for the Broncs.

“He’s really good when they do their dribble-handoff action, just stopping behind the handoff and making it really hard to get out there,” Texas-Pan American coach Ryan Marks said. “It’s just his craftiness.”

But Marks’ men rallied to take a 23-21 lead into the break. Despite their height disadvantage, the Broncs had eight offen-sive rebounds by halftime. They also shot

themselves in the foot with traveling viola-tions inside and finished the game with four air-balled shots from beyond the arc.

Meanwhile, Carmody expressed dis-pleasure with the way his squad handled the ball in the first half. The Cats’ slow start possibly stemmed from taking the Broncs for granted.

“You’re playing someone you think you should beat and you’re careless with the ball, loose with it,” Carmody said. “They were going by us. It’s not like they’re little guys who can make a shot here and there—they were going by us to the basket. If they had a couple of big guys, we would’ve been in real trouble.”

They were in trouble as it was. Texas-Pan American scored the first five points after intermission, and NU didn’t seize control until just before the midway point of the second half. Two free throws by Mirkovic put the Cats on top for good with 11 minutes to go, though the Broncs didn’t

go down easily. NU never led by double digits.

The trip to Welsh-Ryan Arena was Tex-as-Pan American’s 14th game away from home this season. The Broncs had started to play better recently, but they also lost to five teams from BCS conferences by an av-erage of 38 points. Marks called his squad’s effort its best yet.

On the other hand, NU’s uninspired performance was particularly disappoint-ing after Saturday’s 91-70 blowout loss to Michigan State.

“After you get beat the way we got beat, you can’t look ahead,” Carmody said. “You’ve got to go out there and play, be a competitor and fight your tail off, and we didn’t do that. I don’t care who you’re playing. If you’re going to have any chance in this conference, you’ve got to go out there and play hard as hell. And we didn’t.”

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Offensively, the Cats’ guards were a non-factor. Crawford, Marcotullio, Nash and Thompson combined for 16 points, including 15 3-pointers at-tempted without a single make.

“There was no zest,” Carmody said. “No life there.”

The struggles were partially due to an injury to Thompson. The junior point guard, who is averaging 37.9 min-utes per game, hurt his hip against Illi-nois and hasn’t practiced since. The in-jury hampered NU against Michigan State, when Thompson, the Cats’ sec-ond-leading scorer, managed only eight points on eight shots as the team fell 91-70. Against the Broncs, he managed nearly as many turnovers (5) as points (6).

“He wasn’t aggressive,” Carmody said. “What’s disappointing is that the other guys on the perimeter knew he wasn’t doing well physically, and yet nobody stepped up.”

In both games, Shurna had to fill Thompson’s scoring void. Against the Spartans, Shurna exploded for 29 points, with only Marcotullio joining him in double figures. Against Texas-Pan American, Shurna needed to score 16 points in the first half to keep NU competitive.

But the Cats can’t continue to rely on Shurna alone.

“This isn’t an individual sport.” Car-mody said. “This is a team game, and we all have to play together and play better as a team.”

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After Northwestern hammered Minne-sota with 20 minutes of spot-on shooting, the Gophers dug themselves out of their 11-point halftime hole and emerged with a 73-65 victory.

“It was a tale of two halves,” coach Joe McKeown said. “We played great in the first half, and Minnesota played great in the second half. They took it to us and we didn’t respond.”

NU (11-5, 2-3 Big Ten) got off to a hot start, opening the game with an 11-for-14 mark from the f loor. Once again, the Wildcats went to the 3-pointer early and often. Nine of their first 11 points came from beyond the arc, and NU drained seven first-half treys. Junior guard Beth Marshall led all scorers with 14 points, and the Cats ended the half shooting just shy of 60 percent from the field.

But Minnesota (10-5, 3-1) kicked off the second half with a 9-2 run. The Cats com-mitted eight turnovers and shot 2-for-12 from the f loor in the first 10 minutes after the break.

“Defensively they picked it up,” guard Meshia Reed said. “They started trapping and we didn’t adjust our offense well.”

One of the team’s bright spots on the night, the junior sub scored 11 points, in-cluding a 3-pointer to put the Cats ahead 46-43 with 13 minutes left.

“I just wanted to be a spark,” Reed said. “I wanted to come off the bench with a lot of energy and keep the game rolling.”

NU took a five-point lead after senior guard Kristin Cartwright sunk two free throws, but the Cats couldn’t keep the Go-phers down. Minnesota stormed back, go-

ing on a 14-1 run to take a commanding 57-49 lead with six minutes remaining.

“Once we went down in the second half, we may have been rushing some shots,” Cartwright said. “We weren’t get-ting the best shots because we were trying to play catch-up.”

The Cats pulled within three points in the final minute, but Minnesota guard Ki-ara Buford iced the win with a trey in the waning seconds. NU shot 7-for-25 in the second half, while the Gophers made more than half of their attempts.

Cartwright and Marshall led NU with 14 points apiece, while freshmen Kendall Hackney and Dannielle Diamant each tal-lied seven rebounds. Junior center Amy Jaeschke had an unusually quiet night, taking just five shots. Her nine points against the Gophers ended an eight-game streak of scoring in double figures.

After starting the year 2-0 in Big Ten play for the first time in 14 years, NU has slipped in its last three games. The sched-ule does not get much easier as the Cats travel to West Lafayette, Ind., to take on the Boilermakers. When the teams first met this season, NU fought back from a 16-point defecit to stun Purdue 60-58. It was the Cats’ first victory over the Boiler-makers in more than a decade.

While NU has played well on the road, Purdue’s Mackey Arena is one of the toughest places to play in the country. The Boilermakers lead the conference with an average attendance of 6,700 fans per game.

“You’ve got to keep your composure,” McKeown said. “(Purdue) is going to be a tough game there, but we’ll be ready for it.”

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Wildcats' red-hot shooting disappears in second-half slump11-point halftime lead evaporates in Minnesota; NU drops its third straight Big Ten game 72-65

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Just short: (left) Senior guard Kristin Cartwright attempts a mid-range shot; (right) junior point guard Beth Marshall drives to the basket. NU lost its first road game of the season Thursday.

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By Rodger ShermanThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/mens-basketball

It wasn’t John Shurna’s fault his team almost lost to Texas-Pan American.

Shurna scored 21 points and brought down a career-high 13 re-

bounds. But the lack of offensive production from any other posi-tion on the f loor overshadowed Shurna’s success Thursday night.

“Tonight, you have one guy: Shurna,” Carmody said. “That was it.”

The sophomore forward played 39 minutes, only leaving the game after he appeared to turn his ankle landing on a Tex-as-Pan American player. He ac-counted for all five of Northwest-ern’s 3-point baskets and was NU’s leader on the boards.Shurna recorded his first double-

double of the year and brought down 12 defensive rebounds, while nobody else on the team had more than four.

“Shurna presents an unbeliev-able problem in and of himself,” Texas-Pan American coach Ryan Marks said. “His footwork is great, his size is good, so he’s a problem posting, particularly with us posting smaller guys. He does so many things that some-body older than a sophomore does on a court.”

Elsewhere on the court, no other player was able to cause problems for the Broncs.

“1-for-7, 0-for-5, 1-for-9, 1-for-7,” Carmody said, reciting the shooting lines of Drew Craw-ford, Alex Marcotullio, Michael Thompson and Jeremy Nash, re-spectively. “You can’t win too many games like that.”

Luka Mirkovic tallied 11 points and 11 rebounds, aided by

his size advantage. The 6-foot-11 center matched up with Luis Val-era, a power forward, who, listed at 6-foot-7, was the tallest player on Texas-Pan American’s roster. Mirkovic pulled in seven offen-sive rebounds and went to the line nine times.

But fellow sophomore centers Davide Curletti and Kyle Rowley could not exploit their height dif-ferential, combining for three points, four rebounds and five personal fouls. Although the pair turned the ball over only once, Broncs players intercepted mul-tiple entry passes to big men in the post.

“Even their little guys on our big guys did quite well,” Car-mody said. “They pushed us off the block, and the only guy that was effective down there was Shurna.”

(top) Ray Whitehouse/The Daily Northwestern; (bottom) Jai Broome/The Daily Northwestern

One-man show: (top) Sophomore forward John Shurna looks to get the ball down low; (bottom) junior point guard Michael Thompson tries to release a shot around a Texas-Pan American defender. While Shurna scored 16 of NU’s 21 first-half points, Thompson struggled with a lingering hip injury suffered two games ago. He and the Cats’ other three guards combined to make shoot just 3-of-28 from the field against the Broncs.

Get real: Cats not winners over Broncs

One-man wrecking crew will need help to knock off Big Ten foes

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Size matters: 6-foot-11 sophomore center Luka Mirkovic recorded a double-double in Thursday’s win with 11 points and 11 rebounds.

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By Danny DalyThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/mens-basketball

John Shurna wasn’t supposed to carry Northwestern on his back again. Other players were expected to step up at home against a 1-15 team with no starter listed taller than 6-foot-7.

Instead the Wildcats needed the reigning Big Ten Player of the Week more than they have all year.

The sophomore forward an-swered the call Thurs-day night, scoring 21 points and pulling down a ca-reer-best 13 rebounds in a 53-44 win over Texas-Pan American that seemed more like a loss.

“Texas-Pan American deserved to win,” coach Bill Carmody said. “We weren’t crisp all night. We were very fortunate to win this game.”

Aside from Shurna, who was 8-of-15 from the floor, the Cats shot 22.8 percent from the field and made no 3-pointers. They also had a season-high 19 turnovers, matching their season average of 11 by halftime.

NU’s size advantage helped it put the game away down the stretch. The Cats had nine blocks, won the rebounding battle 48-36 and out-scored the Broncs 16-7 on second chances, which was equal to the margin of victory. Sophomore cen-ter Luka Mirkovic used his 6-foot-11 frame to record 11 points and 11 boards, with seven coming on the offensive glass.

“We were just bigger than those guys—that was the only thing,” Car-mody said. “Everything else, they beat us at.”

Both teams struggled to get in a rhythm during a sloppy first half. Texas-Pan American led 7-2 after six-and-a-half minutes, but that was when Shurna took over. He scored the Cats’ next 14 points, putting them ahead by

They say a win is a win and a loss is a loss.

I don’t buy that. And neither did the two

coaches at Thursday’s game.Northwestern may have defeated

Texas-Pan American 53-44, but Wildcats coach Bill Carmody was the one sounding downtrodden af-ter the game. Though far from ec-static, Broncs coach Ryan Marks said his team had its best perfor-mance of the season.

Those reactions are far from surprising. Since being ranked in the AP Top 25, NU has been reel-ing, losing in overtime at Illinois and then getting blown out of Welsh-Ryan Arena by Michigan State. This game was supposed to be a way to fine-tune inconsisten-cies before completely plunging into Big Ten play.

Instead, the Cats had to fight for their life against a 1-16 team that has been outscored by an average of 20 points per game.

Carmody said Texas-Pan Ameri-can deserved to win the game. And I couldn’t agree more.

In economics, “nominal” num-bers are always scrapped in favor of “real” values, which use a base year to give context to the raw statistics. Hence, something that cost a nickel in 1930 and five dollars in 2010 can be compared fairly.

The Broncs typically lose by an average of 20, and the Cats won by nine. Opponents usually turn the ball over about 14 times against Tex-as-Pan American, and NU had 19 turnovers. Texas-Pan American has allowed its competition to make 52.7 percent of its shots, and the

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TPA FG-A 3P-A FT-A Reb PF Pts A TO Blk S MinValera 4-10 0-0 1-2 2-2 3 9 0 1 2 1 32Maree 2-9 0-1 0-0 1-2 4 4 2 1 1 4 24Weiermiller 4-13 3-9 0-0 1-0 2 11 2 5 0 3 34 Urbanus 1-6 1-4 2-2 1-4 3 5 2 1 0 0 31Hearn 3-8 0-2 2-4 1-4 2 8 4 1 0 4 29 Seagers 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2Mierzycki 1-5 0-0 1-6 1-3 3 3 1 3 0 1 22Hendrix 0-2 0-0 0-0 1-0 1 0 0 0 0 0 7Couch 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 Smith 1-4 1-4 0-0 0-3 2 3 0 0 1 0 16Trader 0-0 0-0 1-2 0-0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1

Totals 16-57 5-20 7-16 15-21 20 44 11 13 4 13 200

Percentages: FG .281, 3P .250, FT .438.

NU FG-A 3P-A FT-A Reb PF Pts A TO Blk S MinCrawford 1-7 0-4 0-0 2-3 1 2 1 1 3 1 31 Shurna 8-15 5-7 0-0 1-12 4 21 1 3 2 1 39Mirkovic 3-5 0-0 5-9 7-4 0 11 2 3 1 0 23Thompson 1-9 0-2 4-5 0-2 1 6 5 5 0 3 37Nash 1-7 0-5 4-7 0-2 3 6 1 1 1 1 32Peljusic 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 2 0 1 1 0 5 Curletti 1-1 0-0 0-0 1-0 3 2 0 0 0 0 8Marcotullio 0-5 0-4 2-2 1-1 0 2 2 4 0 0 17Rowley 0-0 0-0 1-2 1-2 2 1 0 1 1 0 8

Totals 16-50 5-22 16-25 18-30 14 53 12 19 9 6 200

Percentages: FG .426, 3P .321, FT .789.

Texas-Pan American 1st: 23 2nd: 21 Total: 44

NU 1st: 21 2nd: 32 Total: 53

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