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The Daily Northwesternwww.dailynorthwestern.com servingtheuniversityandevanstonsince1881 monday,octoBer12,2009
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As the runners warmed to themorning’s frigidweather, theybeganquicklysheddingtheirouterlayers—as Sunday’s ChicagoMarathon gotunderway,variousarticlesofclothingcouldbeseensailingthroughtheair.
Beforetherace,McCormicksoph-omoreAlvinTan, of Singapore, saidthestrayclothingwassomewhatdif-ficultforhimtoreckonwith.
“It’s sort of hard formebecauselittering is illegal inSingapore,”Tansaid. “But I foundoutall theclothesgotocharity.”
Despite the cold, an estimated45,000runnersbraved themarathon
Sunday,andmorethan1.2millionspec-tatorscheeredthemon.SammyWan-jiru,ofKenya,was the firstmale fin-isher,witha record-breaking timeoftwohours, fiveminutes, 41 seconds,shavingonesecondoffthepreviousre-cordandachieving the fastest timeofanyAmericanmarathon.The first fe-malefinisherwasLiliyaShobukhova,ofRussia,witha timeof twohours,25minutes,5seconds.
Thoughmostrunnerswerecladinthe customary spandex and sweats,several completed themarathon inelaboratecostumes,includingaMin-nieMousedress, aneongreen face-encasingunitardandabananasuit.
ThiswasTan’sfirstevermarathon,but he said hewas pleasantly sur-
prised by his time.He said he ex-pectedtofinishafteraboutfiveandahalfhours,butendeduprunningtherace in four hours and 54minutes.Still, theweatherwasoneofthebig-gestchallengesTansaidhefaced.
“I’mused to 32 degreesCelsius,not32degreesFahrenheit,”Tansaidbefore the race,walking toward therunner check-inarea. “TheKenyansandIwillbefreezing.”
Hesaidhebeganrunningseriouslywhile performing his required twoyearsmilitary servicebeforecomingtoNorthwestern.DuringthesummerhetrainedlocallybyrunningthroughWilmette,KenilworthandWinnetka,
See MArAtHOn, page 9
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onsunday,anestimated45,000runnerscompetedinthechicagomarathon.thewinningtimeclockedinatjustovertwohours.
President Morton O. Schapiro’s Inauguration October 7th, 2009 - October 10th, 2009
‘A new chapter’
By eMILy GLAzer and MAtt spectOr
the daily northwestern
As formerUniversityPresidentHenryBienenplacedtheclankingand shining chain of office overUniversity PresidentMortonO.Schapiro’s neck,Northwestern’spresidencywas officially trans-ferred.
“I’ ll wear this to breakfast,lunch, football games — this ismine!”Schapirosaid,smiling.
Alongwith Schapiro’s family,friends and colleagues, NU ad-ministrators, staff, professors,
alumni and students welcomedNU’s 16thpresident in regal fash-ionFridayafternoon.Theinaugu-rationceremony,heldintheHenryCrownSportsPaviliondue to in-clementweather,was filledwiththe requisitepomp, circumstanceand grandeur heralding a “newchapterinNorthwestern’shistory,”saidWilliamA.Osborn,chairmanofNU’sBoardofTrustees.
“Thisissomuchfun,”Schapirosaidbeforebeginninghis speech.“Ihighlyrecommendit.”
PulitzerPrizewinnerandNewYork Times columnist ThomasFriedmanaddressedthousandsas
the guest speaker for his friend,Schapiro.
Friedman discussed threeglobal trends in theGreatReces-sion: economic, environmentalandeducation.He said theworldwasgrowing inan“unsustainableway” and in 2008, “market andmothernaturehitawall.”
Friedmanemphasizedthecon-nectionbetweenthehealthoftheenvironment and the economy,comparing Citibank, Iceland’sbanks and the icebanks’mutualmeltdowns in the same year ofBearStearnsandpolarbears’mu-tualnear-extinction.
Hereferredtotwoacronymsalltoo common in society: IBGandYBG – “I’ll be gone or you’ll be
π University President Morton O. Schapiro received a grand welcoming this weekend, with symposia, concerts and a formal inauguration ceremony By eMILIA BArrOsse
Contributing writer
A relaxed group of economistsandacademicssatinfrontofacrowdof more than 200 people in theHenryCrownSportsPaviliononFri-day anddiscussed the role and ef-fectsoftheeconomyonhigheredu-cation.Kickingofftheinauguralcel-ebration, the90-minute symposiumwasmoderatedbyUniversityPresi-dentMortonO.Schapiro.
“It’simportanttomakeadistinc-tion betweenwhat is going on ineconomicsdepartmentsandwhat isgoingonineconomics,”saidWilliamG.Bowen,presidentemeritusoftheAndrewW.MellonFoundationanda
symposium panelist. “There aremoreandmoreeconomistsworkingon applied problems — such ashigher education—who arenot ineconomicsdepartments, and this isaninterestingproliferation.”
AlongwithBowen,panelists in-cludedCatharineBondHill ,presi-dent andprofessor of economics atVassarCollege;MichaelMcPherson,presidentoftheSpencerFoundation;andBurtonWeisbrod,NU’sJohnEv-ans Professor of economics and afacultyfellowattheInstituteforPol-icyResearch.
“Ihaveassembledadreamteam,”Schapiro said at the outset of the
See InAuGurAtIOn, page 7 See syMpOsIuM, page 10
the symposium on higher education
turn to pages 6 & 7 for the daily’s coverage of this weekend’s inauguration events
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By ReBecca Olles the daily northwestern
Screams erupted and f lashing camera lights popped from every corner of Welsh-Ryan Arena on Friday night, not for the Northwestern basketball team, but for famed R&B artist John Legend.
As part of inauguration week, the six-time Grammy Award winner performed for a crowd of about 4,000 members from the NU community. The concert, planned by A&O Productions, was the first to be held in the arena since Kanye West’s performance five years ago.
Vaughn Anthony, Legend ’s younger brother, opened the show with four songs. His music, similar to his brother’s, included songs like “She Loves Me Not” and “Future.”
The crowd rose to their feet and stood on chairs when Legend appeared in the mid-dle of crowd, singing Bob Marley’s “Re-demption Song.”
When he took the stage for his second song, “Used to Love U,” Legend spoke to the crowd, telling
them to put their hands in the air and sing along.
“It’s good to be here for the first time,” Legend said to the audience. “It’s good to be back in the Chicago area. It’s good to see you tonight — I’m glad to know we’ve got some John Legend fans at Northwestern Univer-sity.”
During the song “Slow Dance,” Legend brought NU student Evelyn Carter out of the crowd and up on the stage to dance with him.
Carter, a Weinberg senior, said she sat in the front row with the hopes of being chosen to go on stage.
“My entire body was in shock and awe,” she said. “The main thing I was thinking was ‘keep moving.’ It’s my birthday on Tuesday so that was a great way to start off the weekend.”
During his last song “Green Light,” Leg-
end took off his shirt and stood on the piano before leav ing t he s t age to screams and cheers. After about two minutes, Leg-end came back to sing an encore that included one of his most popular songs, “Ordinary People.” At-tendees swayed back and forth to the music, singing with Legend with their cell phones in the air cap-turing moments.
“I really appreciate you,” he said to the crowd before playing his final song, “Stay With You.” “I encourage you to do well in school, graduate and go on and change the world.”
NU administrators ap-proached A&O executive board members last spring to begin planning a concert as part of the inauguration festivities. By combining the University’s funding with its own, A&O was able to bring Legend to campus and hold the first concert in Welsh-Ryan arena in half a decade.
A&O Chairman Adam Pumm said he was happy with the number of at-tendees at the concert.
“It ’s the most ticket sales for a student-pro-duced event at Northwest-ern since we had Bob Dy-lan in 2000,” the Wein-berg senior said. “I’m re-ally proud of how the show turned out. We’re really happy that (Legend) chose to wrap up his tour here.”
Weinberg sophomore Lauren Uichanco said she thought the concert was both an in-troduction to Legend and a fulfilling experi-
ence for long-time fans.“There were some people that were really
into it, and there were some people who didn’t know his songs,” she said. “But they came away knowing a lot about him.”
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Legend performs in Welsh-Ryan
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John Legend took the stage in Welsh-Ryan Arena on Friday night to perform for a crowd of about 4,000 members of the NU community. The concert, planned by A&O Productions, was part of a weekend of events in honor of the inauguration of University President Morton O. Schapiro.
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By Amie NiNhthe daily northwestern
Straight from jail cells nationwide, the struggle of prisoners was brought to the fore-front of the Evanston community Sunday.
The Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund, a national nonprofit organization that fulfills requests from U.S. prisoners for revo-lutionary reading material, garnered support from prison-reform proponents and other revolutionary thinkers at a benefit for the fund Sunday at the Boocoo Cafe, 1823 Church St.
The benefit sought to raise awareness for the educational literature fund and its mis-sion, and featured performances by local musicians and dramatic readings of actual letters from prisoners.
“I do believe in the cause of giving peo-ple in prison the information that helps them understand the flaws of our system, so they can get a much clearer perspective of how a truly revolutionary thinking pro-cess can help them when they get back into society and even while they’re incar-cerated,” said co-host Dave Trippel. “It’s really about gett ing to the underlying flaws of our system, the racism, the classi-cism, particularly around economic class differences.”
Every week, the fund receives a steady flow of letters from prisoners nationwide, which often contain personal reflections and requests for reading materials. At the event, these letters were read by professional actors to a packed room.
“We try to be open to any sort of progres-sive movements or causes, anything that benefits the people,” said Ted Sirota, Boo-coo’s artistic director. “People seek answers of why there are 2.3 million people in prison in the United States.”
The event’s organizers benefitted from contributions from local businesses, includ-ing donations from restaurants such as Dixie Kitchen and Heartland Cafe. Sirota’s own band, the Rebel Souls, performed.
“There have been fundraisers around the country, and we’re hoping to do one (in Evanston) and push a trend,” said Prison-ers Revolutionary Literature Fund volun-teer Jackie Coleman. “We wanted a good mix of people to come together and hear those readings of the letters because they’re so heartfelt and challenging and thoughtful.”
The concept for the event was brought about by a dialogue between Sirota and fund representatives. The fund mainly sends pris-oners complementary subscriptions to the weekly newspaper Revolution, a publication for the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, as well as other books that advocate change.
“I think the world is crying out for revolu-tion and socialism,” said Anne Magrath, a
volunteer with Chicago-based Revolution Books, which provides the literature to the fund. “Capitalism has failed. It fails to pro-vide for human need.”
Sirota said he faced some opposition, but the community response has been positive.
“When you bring up the idea of revolu-tion, people get scared,” he said.
Trippel, who has lived in Evanston for more than 50 years, said the town’s diversity and liberal mindset make it a good place to bring attention to the cause.
“There are a lot of church groups and gangs going into prison, and those to me are very sad answers for people in prison,” he said. “Getting to the truth of society is really something they can grab onto.”
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Engineering Molecular TransformationsWednesday, October 14, 2009Lecture 4:30 p.m.Pancoe Auditorium, Room 1101 Arthur and Gladys Pancoe Life Sciences Pavilion 2200 Campus Drive, Evanston, IllinoisReception to follow in the Einstein Bros. Bagels meeting area
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4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.Study Abroad Oktoberfest,Garrett Lawn
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7:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. 2009 Leopold Lecture: New York Times Best-Selling Author Andrew Bacevich, McCormick Audi-torium, Norris University Center
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6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.Journalist and author of ¡Ask a Mexican!, Gustavo Arellano
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7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.Paco Pena Flamenco Dance Com-pany, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
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Poetry reading raises awareness
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Ted Sirota’s Rebel Souls plays a jazz set at a benefit concert for the Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund on Sunday at the Boocoo Cafe. The benefit included actors’ readings of prisoners’ letters and poetry.
forum“Ah, how familiar these one-liners are. It’s comfort food for my rubbish radar.”
Jill Mahen, Monday columnist
quote of the day
Crazy boys: Interpreting verbal vomit
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Wanna come over to watch a movie?” “It’s not you, it’s me.” “But I still want to be
friends.”As Sarah Marshall once said,
“Bull-, Bull-, bull-.” Let’s read be-tween the lines, shall we?
“Wanna come watch a movie?” Translation: It’s 10:30 Tuesday night and I didn’t get any this weekend. Wanna be my reliever?
“It’s not you, it’s me.” Translation: I don’t know what I want, but it’s defi-nitely not you. Right now. At this mo-ment. But maybe take a rain check?
“But I still want to be friends.” Translation: Rain check for when I strike out next week at the bar.
Ah, how familiar these one-liners are. It’s like comfort food for my rubbish radar. C’mon boys, get some better material!
After helping my girlfriends in-terpret their boy-toys’ verbal vomit, I realized just how full of garbage guys actually are. I looked back on all the guys in my past and saw the trans-parency and emptiness in every “You’re the only girl I have ever felt this way about” and every “I just feel like I can be myself around you.”
It’s like how one reader felt about my last column: “This makes me want to puke everywhere.”
It seems guys have an endless sup-ply of bull to be used when needed. Take an acquaintance of mine who called me in hysterics because of the baloney her ex was trying to feed her.
“I don’t think we should be dat-ing anymore,” he said. “But I still want hang out with you.”
Smart girl that she is, she said, “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.”
Unsatisfied with this response, he then showed up at her house unannounced, demanding to see her; called her from his friend’s phone when she blocked his num-ber; and harassed her friends for information (kind of like the crazy-girl stuff, I know). Eventually she conceded to unblock his number to talk things over.
Lo and behold, he managed to persuade her she was the only girl for him and he made a mistake. They happily got back together. Talk about a master of verbal manipulation.
Three weeks later, she caught him cheating.
This is an exemplary instance of a guy who was able to strategically interject bull to cover up his inabil-ity to decide the age-old question: consistency or diversity?
“It’s all about sex, baaaby,” said one male Northwestern alum. “We all know what we want. It just comes down to that basic human instinct. But we are unsure about how we want to fulfill it. Do we want to get close with one girl and ‘explore’ things with her? Or get with a dif-ferent girl every night and exploit every loophole we can, to get it?”
So guys, you can use whatever means you want to get some cake. But once you have it, make sure you like the flavor before you take a bite.
MAHENJill
Voices: Chicago Marathon 2009
Two years ago, I watched my brother run the Chicago Marathon in 88-degree heat. Although the temperature was excruciat-ingly hot, his dedication inspired me to
compete this year. My roommates, Deepa Talwar and Jennifer Kahn, had signed up; I was fortunate to have a lot of support. Deepa and I would have phone conversations about our progress and we did one six-mile run together in Evanston. My parents even flew in for Marathon weekend.
The day of the Marathon I was so excited. The day had perfect running conditions — in the 50s and partly sunny. Spectators were so encouraging; they rang bells, played instruments, cheered and held signs. (One sign: “Chafing is temporary, glory is for-ever.”) I was wearing a NU headband and people would shout, “Go Cats!” I didn’t hit a “wall” at mile 20 but after mile 17 felt soreness in my legs — I was determined to keep going. A runner named Diana helped me through the final stretch. Her encourage-ment — “Let’s finish strong!” — pushed me to power through. At mile 26, I started sprinting because I wanted to “finish strong.” My final time: 4:04:29.
I’m definitely competing in the 2010 Chicago Marathon and hope to break the four-hour mark. I encourage anyone to participate. If one does the training, finishing a marathon is within reach — it is an experience you will treasure.
Hands down, the Marathon is something you have to experience in your tenure at Northwestern. After training for it, I truly believe anyone can run a mara-
thon. Consider it — or at the very least volunteer or just watch. The Marathon is a true testament to the power of the human will and it’s basically in our backyard. Running the marathon was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had. From 18 weeks of training, I met amazing people, tested my pain tolerance and re-discovered my love for running after being away from the sport since high school.
As I stood in a crowd of 45,000 people all blowing into their hands and trying to shake off the morning cold, I thought about the hundreds of miles and hours I logged in
four months of marathon training, now boiling down to the final 26.2 and (hopefully) three and a half, re-spectively. Then the gun went off, and my quantifica-tion gave way to absorbing the sights and sounds of the Marathon. People lined both sides of the street cheering for their loved ones, but also the general field. They doled out words of encouragement, high fives, orange slices and even beer. My running part-ner and I barely noticed the first few miles tick by, looking at our watches with a mixture of excitement and apprehension as we were well ahead of our in-tended eight-minute pace. At first, I took note of all the foreign languages flying around me, the witty signs held by spectators and even a man running in a full Grim Reaper costume. But after the halfway point, the miles seemed to be increasingly farther apart, and I retreated into my own mental focus.
My fatigue and excitement built simultaneously during the final six miles through Chicago’s ethnic neighborhoods. When I finally crossed the finish line and stopped running, my legs instantly turned to con-crete and I waddled over to the mass of volunteers who shoved PowerBars, Gatorade and 312 beer in my face. After reuniting with friends and fellow runners, I surveyed the field of happy athletes and basked in the beautiful post-race atmosphere.
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medill junior Jill mahen can be reached at
leTTers froM The archives
No respect for ‘girls’ 02/06/03
I am most disturbed by the use (both by Kelly Roe and her correspondents) of the word “girls” to describe women.
It would be great to see a change in Northwest-ern — and U.S. — culture in which women are ac-corded respect by being referred to as women, not girls. For those of you who believe this is no big deal, I challenge you to give up the term “girls” when referring to women as part of an educated person’s vocabulary. And finally, for those of you who equate “girl” with “guy” — it seems the most accurate parallel word would be “gal.”
Will this change in terminology fix all of our society’s gender-based stereotypes and misog-yny? Most definitely not. Still, it might be a good first step.
— Mark hoffManSESP assistant dean for student affairs
Chipotle’s ‘mall food’ not for Evanston 05/03/00
I am disgusted by the strong support being afforded to the recently opened Chipotle burrito bar. This arises from the fact that the now closed Burrito Bay, which served fresher, honest food, was never packed full of people.
A year ago you all seemed to prefer the reek of processed tacos being served up at Taco Bell around the corner. But that doesn’t seem to be the case now that Chipotle, owned by the Mc-Donald’s Corp., has opened to serve you fresh Mexi-fare down the street.
No, it would appear Northwestern students prefer only the sweet smell of homogenization and the squeaky-clean streets, restaurants and people that come with it.
Well, if you want to live in a mall, then eat at the mall; but why not do that in Skokie?
— aaron lukasthen-graduate student
Let there be light 02/19/97
Correct us if we’re wrong, but we were un-der the impression that Norris is the student center. We thought that a student center means a center for the students, but apparently this is not the case here at NU.
A few weeks ago, we — along with many other students — were sitting in the Gathering Place studying (because that’s what we stu-dents do).
Suddenly, at 8 p.m., Willie’s Food Court was shut down, and the new, exciting late-night menu was unveiled. So, all we’d have to eat later that evening would be jalapeno poppers or other such delightful snacks. We decided to stay anyway. Not long afterward, the background swing music was turned up so it was no longer in the background. When the entire room let out a groan of dismay, instead of turning the music back down, the lights were dimmed. So there we all were, sitting in the dark, trying to tune out the music, wondering what was going on. After this continued for 10 or 15 minutes, we realized this was not going to change, and since none of us were there to swing, and we couldn’t study anymore (it’s kind of hard to do in the dark), most of the room packed up and left.
This Monday night, we tried to revisit the Gathering Place to study, but once again did not succeed. Again, the entire room was studying when the late-night menu was brought out. This time they turned up the classical music and turned the lights almost entirely off. To add to the ambiance, they adorned each table with a candle. People cleared out of the room faster than they do for a fire.
What is the point of all this? It seems that all students want is a place to sit, talk and study with some light. Is this really so much to ask? We’re not asking for a swing club or romantic at-mosphere. All we want is some light.
— Jessica sTernWeinberg ’97
— raDha inaMpuDiWeinberg ’97
thE dAILY northWEStErn | foruM4 | mondAY, octoBEr 12, 2009
Northwestern students participated in Sunday’s Chicago Marathon, a 26.2-mile race that took them as far north as Lincoln Park and as far south as U.S. Cellular Field. Here are some of their stories:
— kaTherine wargaWeinberg senior
— Deepa TalwarWeinberg senior
— DannY haMBurgWeinberg senior
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this week in musicOCT. 12 - 16, 2009
Elizabeth Futral Vocal Master ClassLutkin Hall, 7 p.m.$7/5/4
Come get to know soprano Elizabeth Futral in an intimate master class setting before she stars in The Merry Widow at Lyric Opera this December! Futral has established herself as one of the major coloratura sopranos in the world today. She has embraced a diverse repertoire that includes Vivaldi, Handel, Mozart, Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Verdi, Glass, and Previn. Last season she performed with the Washington National Opera, Deutsche Opera Berlin, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, and San Francisco Opera. In this master class, she will coach preselected vocal students from the Bienen School of Music.
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Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company: A Compás — In the Rhythm Pick-Staiger, 7:30 p.m.$32/28/10
Guitarist, composer, dramatist, and mentor Paco Peña and his company return to Pick-Staiger with a new program celebrating the power and grace of flamenco music and dance. “A Compás — In the Rhythm” draws the audience into a range of compelling rhythms, from the almost tribal, trance-inducing quality of the alboreá to the razor-sharp complexity of the bulería. Don’t miss this thrilling opener to the 2009-10 Segovia Classical Guitar Series.
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Symphonic Wind EnsemblePick-Staiger, 7:30 p.m.$7/5/4Mallory Thompson, conductor
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A research team made up of scientists from NU and Boise State University is engi-neering a cheaper type of foam, composed of a combination of the elements nickel, magne-sium and gallium. This alloy has been ob-served to change shape when exposed to a magnetic field and can undergo conforma-tions millions of times, according to scien-tists. The new material’s combination of high reliability, ease of miniaturization and low manufacturing costs gives it potential to be used in a number of devices, including inkjet printers, automobile engines and surgical tools.
Olive oil linked to lower risk of Alzheimer’s in Feinberg School study
According to a new study from North-western’s Feinberg School of Medicine, there may be another reason to love extra-virgin olive oil besides the fact that it pro-
motes good heart health — olive oil may play a role in preventing Alzheimer’s dis-ease . Small toxic proteins called ADDL molecules are believed to bind to neurons, making it more difficult for brain cells to f luidly communicate with one another. This is where oleocanthal, a naturally-oc-curring chemical found in olive oil, may help. According to the research, oleocan-thal alters the structure of the ADDL mol-ecules in a way that deters the toxic pro-tein from binding to neurons and disrupt-ing brain function, a finding which may open up more effective treatment avenues for the country’s sixth leading cause of death.
Breakthrough may slow cancer cells’ migration, build body’s defensesA breakthrough therapeutic developed at Feinberg may help strengthen the body’s defenses against the spread of cancer. The new treatment, developed by Dr. Seth Corey, director of the pediatric oncology program at NU’s Robert H. Lurie Compre-hensive Cancer Center, combines a breast cancer drug, doxorubicin, with a leukemia
drug, dasatinib. This potent chemotherapy “cocktail” has been shown to hinder cancer cells’ ability to migrate outside the breasts and to the internal organs, keeping the dis-ease from progressing and potentially im-proving survival rates for patients.
E-mail users show same behavioral pattern as Einstein, Darwin, Freud
A new human behavior study at NU has drawn an eye-opening comparison between the patterns of correspondence of those who wrote letters long ago and today’s e-mail us-ers. Like many who sift through inboxes and send e-mails one after the other in one sit-ting, influential people of previous genera-tions — including Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud and Ernest Hem-ingway — did the same, only with pen and paper. This behavioral pattern, assessed by a mathematical model developed by a team of scientists at NU, is observed to be more prev-alent than prioritizing letters and sending the most important ones off first.
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Ne w York T i me s c o lu m n i s t Thomas Friedman advocated for “speed, scope and scale” in energy innovation during a panel Friday at Northwestern. The panel was one of two academic symposia honoring the inauguration of NU’s new University President Morton O. Schapiro.
Friedman took the stage in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion along-side Engineering Prof. Kimberly Gray; Co-director of the NU Initiative for Energy and Sustainability Mark Rat-ner; and Mark Mills, co-founder of Digital Power Capital, a private equity firm that focuses on energy technol-ogy.
Despite the inclement weather, nearly 1,000 people turned out for the panel.
Friedman discussed the United States’ lagging progress in green tech-nology, particularly compared to China. He said the country needs mass mobilization reminiscent of the civil rights and women’s rights movements.
“We need to be on the (National) Mall saying ‘carbon tax now’ — and that’s a hard sell,” he said.
Friedman added that it’s difficult to galvanize a movement on the energy issue, because the worst effects of cli-mate change won’t be felt by this gen-eration.
He spoke directly to students after commenting on their relatively low turnout, encouraging them to partake in the shaping of the country’s energy policy.
“If you aren’t in the cloakroom, where the rules get written, then you aren’t anywhere,” he said.
NBC News political correspondent Kelly O’Donnell, SESP ’87, moderated
the discussion. Friedman and Mills disagreed on bot h t he need and the means for a revolution in energy tech-nology.
Mills, who c o - a ut hor e d the book “The B o t t o m l e s s Well: The Twi-light of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy,” said the solar, wind and nuclear solutions Friedman pro-motes will never meet the needs of a world that consumes more energy each year.
“We have the wrong nomencla-ture,” Mills said. “It’s not alternative energy, it’s additional energy. It’s not arithmetically possible to fuel the world only on alternative energy.”
The crowd applauded Friedman’s response: “(That argument) is often used by the oil and coal industries, to say ‘We need gas and coal,’ and then to pollute the world with bad science on climate change.”
Friedman had strong criticisms for Congress and the Obama admin-istration, who he said should set a fixed price for carbon to drive the market toward cheaper alternatives.
“This is a unique leadership chal-lenge, and it’s one that we have failed so far,” he said. “My motto has always been ‘change your leaders, not your light bulbs.’”
Weinberg senior Samir Pendse, a student in Schapiro’s Economics of Higher Education seminar, said he wanted to hear Friedman, who he con-
siders “an A-list name.”Pendse challenged Friedman’s fo-
cus on a carbon tax, which he said he thinks will make life harder for poorer Americans. He added that he was dis-heartened so few students attended the panel.
“I was not surprised, but a little disappointed that more students didn’t come out for this,” he said. “Educa-tionally speaking, the students who came got to hear some great minds and great ideas.”
After the panel, Friedman, who also spoke at the inauguration cere-mony later in the day, told The DAILY he agreed to take part in the inaugura-tion because of his close friendship with Schapiro.
“I don’t just do this for anyone,” he said, addressing his friend as “Morty.”
Schapiro said he was pleased with both panels, and expressed pride in the expertise of the speakers and the number of NU faculty who partici-pated.
“We could have had 100 more NU faculty speak who are experts in their fields,” he said.
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Friedman talks energy, green innovation
The Friday night inauguration concert, featuring headliner John Legend and his brother, Vaughn Anthony, as the opening act, drew 4,000 stu-dents, faculty and community members to Welsh-Ryan Arena. At the start of Saturday’s home football game against the Miami (OH) Red-Hawks, Schapiro was named the Wildcats’ honorary captain.
Friday’s inaugural festivities began with a pair of symposia held at the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion. The first, moderated by President Schapiro, was a panel on the economics of higher education, the focus of much of Schapiro’s research. The second, on energy and sustainabilty, featured New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and ISEN Co-director Mark Ratner, among others.
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gone,” he said. “It is not only our financial system that needs a reboot and an upgrade, but also our education system.”
Friedman emphasized “inventing new jobs for the 21st-century workplace.” And more of them supported by “the right educa-tion.”
Using Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive officer, as an example, Friedman empha-sized lateral thinking in tackling the world’s challenges and inventing new ways of ap-proaching them.
He drew a parallel between Jobs’ willing-ness to break the mold and study across disci-plines and Leonardo da Vinci’s application of his wealth of knowledge, urging the audience
to use these lateral thinkers as role models. Similar to an ideal liberal arts education, each specialty Da Vinci had “nourished” the other.
“Vanilla just doesn’t cut it anymore,” Friedman said. “It’s all about what chocolate sauce, whipped cream or cherry you can put on top.”
And while Schapiro said his first few weeks at NU have involved a lot of listening rather than talking, in his speech he pre-sented ideas based on his knowledge of higher education that could be applied to NU.
He discussed diversity — making NU an inclusive campus — but acknowledged that it doesn’t happen overnight.
“People don’t want to be tolerated,” he said. “They want to be full members of a community.”
In his speech, Schapiro touched a personal note, thanking his thesis advisor, co-author, mentor and family, all of whom were in atten-dance. Former Board of Trustees Chairman Patrick Ryan, former Evanston Mayor Lor-raine Morton and representatives from nearly 100 colleges and universities were in atten-dance.
Schapiro went on to emphasize sustain-ability, drawing on his experiences living in the United States and traveling to Asia and Africa.
Throughout his speech, Schapiro was en-thused by his own words, gesturing and pointing his finger in the air to punctuate his points.
“We can applaud…what makes us proud,” he said. “But we must never, never be complacent.”
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During the inauguration ceremony, Thomas Friedman’s speech highlighted the importance of higher education in providing the tools to tackle today’s economic and environ-mental challenges in new and creative ways. The 16th and 15th presidents, clad in traditional bright purple Northwestern gowns, walk down the center aisle at the close of the processional. Later on in the ceremony, Bienen would pass on to Schapiro the traditional chain of office, made by Tiffany and Co. in 1939.
The Friday night inauguration concert, featuring headliner John Legend and his brother, Vaughn Anthony, as the opening act, drew 4,000 stu-dents, faculty and community members to Welsh-Ryan Arena. At the start of Saturday’s home football game against the Miami (OH) Red-Hawks, Schapiro was named the Wildcats’ honorary captain.
Friday’s inaugural festivities began with a pair of symposia held at the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion. The first, moderated by President Schapiro, was a panel on the economics of higher education, the focus of much of Schapiro’s research. The second, on energy and sustainabilty, featured New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and ISEN Co-director Mark Ratner, among others.
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said he had never run the full distance of the marathon before.
Tan was among several NU students on the course. Weinberg seniors Ali Melnyk and Kacey Albertine began the race together, though they split up along the way. Albertine had run the marathon in 2007, while Melnyk ran for the first time.
“It was 90 degrees then and it was 30 to-day, but I actually ran the exact time today that I ran in 2007,” Albertine said.
Melnyk said running the marathon was something she wanted to do before graduating.
“I didn’t know when after college I would have time to train,” Melnyk said.
Though she had not been feeling well this week, Melnyk said seeing her family in the middle of the race, as well as the other spec-tators, inspired her to power through.
“Seeing them smack in the middle of the race was a really good feeling,” she said.
Tammy Ogaard, of Rolling Meadows, Ill., waited with her two sons for her sister, with whom she has run other marathons in the past.
“When you run a marathon, it’s either that you finish one and you never want to do it again, or you want to do them all the time,” she said.
Ogaard said she plans on running another marathon of her own soon.
At the home stretch, spectators lined the road, shaking cowbells and indiscriminately shouting encouragement over the blare of Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run.”
“They showed up to encourage random strangers like me,” Tan said. “That was a re-ally nice thing.”
The connections among runners who raced on behalf of the same charities also propelled runners through the 26.2-mile stretch, they said.
Tan ran on behalf of World Vision, a char-ity that works to provide clean water, among other services, to impoverished communities
around the world. Though he did not know any of the other
World Vision runners before the race, he said he felt a “special bond” with them through their shared cause.
Melnyk ran on behalf of the American Cancer Society, emphasizing how important the fight against cancer is for her.
“The last two miles I was really hurting, but I wore ribbons on my back in remem-brance of and in honor of people,” she said. “And thinking about those people who have struggled so much more made me keep going.”
Green initiative reaches out to national groups
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NU students compete in frigid Chicago Marathon
By VaSiliki mitrakoScontributing writer
With schools around the country making an effort to ‘green’ their campuses, sustain-ability-oriented student groups and initiatives are becoming all the more difficult to distin-guish. Yet the Initiative for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, established by for-mer University President Henry Bienen, is managing to make its mark on a campus that already boasts several green groups.
Bienen established ISEN in October 2008 in an effort to promote new research in en-ergy sustainability, support interdisciplinary educational programs and encourage out-reach activities in Evanston and Chicago.
ISEN has collaborated with NU to provide seven core courses about environmental aware-ness. Three of the seven courses are open to un-dergraduate students without prerequisites, and the other four are offered to all graduate students.
“We are taking faculty from across campus and providing students an opportunity to see a topic from multiple perspectives, so they are getting a broad-based viewpoint,” said Bridget Calendo, ISEN’s director of operations and
outreach. “The courses are designed to excite students about these topics.”
More than 75 students enrolled in the first ISEN course offered last spring.
ISEN works with several student groups and helps organize eco-friendly events on campus, including contributing to this year’s One Book One Northwestern. ISEN is also working with Students for Ecological and En-vironmental Development to co-sponsor a speaking event featuring a voice from the en-vironmental movement, said Emmaline Pohnl, co-chair of the speaker program.
“Our two groups, though very different in their make-up and operation, have essentially the same goals: to strengthen and contribute to the environmental movement on and off campus,” the SESP junior said. “Together, I think our two groups could accomplish a lot here at Northwestern.”
Graduate students from various degree programs are also involved in ISEN as “cluster fellows.” These students take courses in energy sustainability, help promote awareness on campus and are teacher’s assistants in under-graduate courses focused on the environment.
“NU already has a focus on science and en-
gineering, but ISEN uses the current resources to foster a new direction towards research and to help its students,” said Vennesa Williams, an ISEN cluster fellow. “It’s not just an office that sends information through e-mail. They help foster student groups and different initiatives to bring in students and spread the condensa-tion of information across campus.”
In just more than a year, ISEN has estab-lished relationships with local and national eco-friendly organizations, such as Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago. Together with ISEN, Argonne is researching sustain-able energy sources and promoting the re-sponsible use of natural resources through so-lar energy, adaptive materials and catalytic reactions, among other topics. The Deloitte consulting firm is also interested in working with ISEN, Calendo said.
“Another encouraging sign is that many Mid-west companies, educational centers and non-profit organizations have approached us to co-sponsor and lead outreach events to help educate the public about these issues,” Calendo said.
ISEN also organizes educational events in Evanston and Chicago.
“We are building relationships with both
Chicago and Evanston communities, both have a vested interest in environmental sus-tainability, and we are looking for partner-ships,” Calendo said. “I see us as a hub for in-formation about sustainability.”
ISEN recently co-sponsored the Evanston Green Living Festival with the city of Evanston and the Evanston Environmental Association. ISEN is also co-sponsoring the upcoming confer-ence, “The ‘Greening’ of Transportation,” which will take place Nov. 4-5 at the Northwestern Uni-versity Transportation Center, 600 Foster St.
David Dunand, co-director of ISEN, de-scribed it as an “entry point that directs peo-ple to different organizations.”
“ISEN’s future is bright, given the ex-tremely high level of interest at the student level, the strong commitment of the faculty to do research and teach and the strong support from the administration,” Dunand said. “There is a very present need for those issues to be tackled.”
Student groups interested in working with ISEN must apply for financial assistance by Oct. 30, and can find more information online.
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symposium. “An absolute dream team.” Topics ranged from the factors contribut-
ing to the panel’s involvement in higher edu-cation to what they picture the field will be like in 20 years.
“Now the notion is that higher education is not merely something that is nice to have, but that it is in fact a valuable asset, which pays off handsomely in the labor market.” Weis-brod said. “It takes for granted that this higher education system is functioning, and it ex-plores the consequences of that.”
The panel also addressed the current pre-carious financial state of colleges and univer-sities.
“If there is a single lesson for the rich pri-vate (universities)… it is to pay more attention to liquidity than some of them did, because they found themselves in the position of hav-ing to sell off valuable assets at bargain based prices and that’s not something you want to do,” Weisbrod said.
However, other panelists disagreed with Weisbrod on the issue of liquidity.
McPherson, of the Spencer Foundation, said he thought the liquidity argument was
“vastly overdrawn.”Instead, he proposed universities take
other precautions when a fluctuating stock market and shaky economic times could cause severe economic downturns.
“What the public and the private colleges have in common is that they need to be prepared for a rainy day,” McPherson said. “When the stock market tanks, as it has over the last year or so, the rich schools with big endowments are hit hard. The moral of the story is that schools have to think about having a rainy day fund… it’s un-realistic to not be prepared for this.”
Audience members included professors,
students and parents of current students.“(Schapiro) was an extraordinary president
at Williams… He changed the institution in extraordinary ways,” said Nancy Roseman , who taught alongside Schapiro at Williams College and attended the symposium.
Roseman said she had high hopes for Scha-piro’s NU career.
“He left a tremendous legacy at Williams,” she said. “And he’ll bring incredible energy, honesty, personal integrity and enormous in-telligence to Northwestern.”
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Panelists discuss economics of higher education
Legend remembers college, gives advice By REBECCA OLLES
THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN
Six-time Grammy Award winning R&B artist John Legend met with The Daily af-
ter his concert at W e l s h - R y a n Arena on Friday t o r e m i n i s c e ab out h i s ow n col lege ex per i-ence and give ad-
vice to the next generation of talent.
DAILY: What were you like in college?Legend: I was more shy than I am
now. I got there really young. I was 16, and I had just come from Springfield, Ohio which was a small town. I was younger than everybody so it took me a while to get acclimated, but I think music was the thing that always connected me to people, and made me feel l ike I belonged and made me popular. So, I think a lot of art-ists like me are shy in a personal setting, and then their art gives them a chance to express themselves and introduce them-selves to people.
DAILY: Do you enjoy playing at universi-ties?
Legend: I love it, did you see that crowd tonight? It was great. I remember being at school and I remember the feeling of going to concerts and it’s so cool to be on the other side entertaining these kids…I feel like I was them 10 years ago.
DAILY: What was your most memorable concert?
Legend: One was recently at Madison Square Garden , which was my first time headlining at Madison Square Garden, which is obviously a legendary venue. I’ve lived in New York for a long time and played in every venue in New York just about, and for me to finally be at the point in my career where I can headline there was pretty exciting. I was able to bring in some great guests. I brought in Kanye , Estelle, India.Arie , Buju Banton , Rick Ross ; and we had a nice celebration there.
DAILY: Northwestern students are really into sustainability, and I read you went on a tour to promote sustainability. Could you tell me about that?
Legend: Sustainable development means living responsibly and trying to make the world better for everyone, including the hun-dreds of millions of people who are living in extreme poverty. Particularly, I’m focusing on education and focusing on the fact that we need to provide a quality education for every child so that they have an opportunity to suc-ceed. Right now, even in America, which has so many resources, we’re failing to do that.
DAILY: Northwestern has prominent vo-cal and performing arts programs. What ad-vice would you give to these students?
Legend: Just try to be the best you can be, first of all. Be a writer if you write, just write a lot and try to listen to the greatest writers. If you’re a pianist, a vocalist, keep-ing working on it, trying to be better, listen to the greats and learn from them. If you have the talent and the persistence and the dedication then you’re well on your way, and then you just have to meet the right people.
DAILY: How have you and your brother been collaborating to push his career for-ward?
Legend: We’ve been writing together. We’ve written some of the songs that he per-formed tonight together. Obviously he’s out on tour with me so that gives him the opportu-nity to introduce himself to people all around the world, which is great.
DAILY: You sang a Beatles’ song during the concert, why did you choose to sing “I Want You” ?
Legend:Why not, I love that song. It’s one of my favorites, and we love doing it. The band loves it, and it’s a nice little surprise in the show if you haven’t seen it before. It just jams.
DAILY: What is your favorite song to per-form?
Legend:I would have to say “Ordinary People,” as cliché as that sounds. Just the way the crowd reacts to the way we do it and the way they sing along just feels good. After you hit them with “Green Light,” which feels like a good ending, you just bring it down and it’s simple and it’s a sing-along song so it feels good at the end of the show.
Q&A withJohn Legend
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Saturday’s game was a lullaby.“We’ve got to pick it up a notch,” senior
quarterback Mike Kafka said. “Going through six games, we need to raise our level of play to be even better. The coaches are doing a great job.”
Perhaps because of a combination of Schapiro’s inauguration and facing Randy Walker’s old team, the coaching staff stepped up its intensity in practice last week. “We weren’t all going to sit around and sing Kumbaya,” Fitz said. “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”
The coaches and players are saying all the right things. The issue is they’ve been saying the same things week after week, and the same problems keep coming back to plague the Cats.
“And you made your mistakes, And we both still got room left to grow,” Legend sang in “Ordinary People.”
Yes, the Cats have made mistakes. I
don’t think you could find a player, coach or fan who could honestly say the team played nearly at the level it is capable in any of its first six contests. There is cer-tainly room for improvement in all facets of the game.
But that growth has to come fast. Next week starts the heart of the Big Ten season for NU. A road game against Michigan State is going to be the Cats’ toughest chal-lenge so far this season. If they come out and play the way they did against Miami, they will get pounded in East Lansing, Mich.
Legend’s “Ordinary People” lyrics list the possibilities: “Maybe we’ll live and learn, Maybe we’ll crash and burn. … Maybe we won’t survive, But maybe we’ll grow.”
Whatever happens, NU can’t afford to take it slow.
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No Kumbaya for Cats at practice
“It’s the plays we were calling that aren’t working in the situations, it’s the execution of the fundamentals and technique, and/or we’ve or the wrong guy in there trying to do it.”
On several short yardage situations, the Cats chose to go to the air, showing the team’s lack of confidence in the rushing attack. On fourth-and-one from the Miami 31-yard line late in the second quarter, Kafka went to the air only to have his pass tipped for the second consecutive play. Kafka did most of the carry-ing in the second half, when NU was looking to run the clock. He rushed for 50 yards in the fourth quarter.
Fitzgerald said the game plan was to limit Simmons, who was playing for the first time since injuring his leg against Eastern Michi-gan. The Cats wanted to use Simmons pri-marily as a returner, but only had the oppor-tunity to do so once.
“He’s really, really close to 100 percent,”
Fitzgerald said. “But there were some things (that we saw) in practice that we felt like, ‘Let’s not put the whole burden on him this week.’”
As easy as it is to blame the rushing attack, NU struggled to find the right combination of five offensive linemen. Nine different play-ers saw time blocking up front for the Cats. As a result, Miami’s defense was getting into the backfield more than it usu-ally does — the RedHawks re-corded two sacks after notching only four all season.
“(The shuffling) makes it hard on (the offensive line),” senior quarterback Mike Kafka said. “They’ve got to commu-nicate a little better.”
Still, Saturday was the first time NU eclipsed the 100-yard mark on the ground since rushing for 185 yards against Eastern Michigan. Coming into the game, the Cats
ranked 85th in the country and 10th in the Big Ten with an average of 121.8 ground yards per game. After rushing for 406 yards and seven touchdowns in their first two games, the Cats have rushed for 331 yards and six touchdowns in their past four contests. Of those six rushing touchdowns, Kafka has four.
For Fitzgerald, the solution lies in coming together as “one heartbeat.”
“Trusting the call, trusting the plan, trust-ing yourself and then trusting the technique,” Captain Cat said. “When we do that, we are good, we’ve proven that we can be.”
NU’s shuffling offensive line struggles
back Zac Dysert was hit by senior safety Brad Phillips as he threw, and junior line-backer Nate Williams came up with the in-terception after Watt got a hand on it. Three minutes later, Kafka’s six-yard scramble put the Cats ahead 10-0.
But that was the last of the scoring in the first half. Both teams blew chances in the second quarter — Demos had a 40-yard field goal attempt blocked, his first miss of the year, and NU later failed to convert a fourth-and-one at the Miami 27.
The RedHawks’ poor clock management before intermission prevented them from getting any points out of their most produc-tive possession of the game. Miami advanced 53 yards to the NU 16 in less than two min-utes, but Dysert was tackled in-bounds and Miami had no timeouts to stop the clock.
“That would have been a big momen-tum shift, it would have given them some hope,” sophomore defensive end Vince Browne said. “It was a (redshirt) freshman quarterback, and if he could have taken that one back, he would have.”
Dysert ended up completing fewer than half of his passes, though he did make some plays on his feet. Discounting the sacks, he had an even 100 yards on 14 carries.
Neither offense could get anything going at the beginning of the third quarter. The Cats had the ball in RedHawks’ territory on each of their first two series, but were unable to put the game away.
Shortly after Peters picked off Dys-ert three plays into the half, Miami forced its lone turnover of the day. Safety Anthony Kokal intercepted Kafka when he underthrew Markshausen on a shot at the endzone.
“We’ve just got to execute a little better,” said Kafka, who had 191 yards on 15-of-31 passing. “Throwing the pick is something we definitely could have done without.”
With NU’s offense struggling, the defense continued to pick up the slack. Junior line-backer Quentin Davie pried the ball loose from Dysert around midfield, and Peters re-turned it inside the Miami 30-yard line.
“I was thinking touchdown,” Peters said. “I tried to stiff-arm (Miami running back Thomas Merriweather), but he got a hold of me.”
Kafka eventually scored on a third-down sneak from one yard out, but a high snap on the extra point attempt kept it a two-possession game.
The 16-point deficit proved too much for Miami to overcome. Dysert was intercepted for the third time early in the final quarter — Miami’s nation-leading 22nd turnover of the season. The RedHawks added a touchdown with just more than a minute remaining, but they failed on the two-point conversion and did not recover the ensuing onside kick.
While the Cats were pleased to notch their fourth victory of the season, they would have liked to keep the RedHawks scoreless.
“It was very disappointing,” Peters said. “A shutout would have been awesome, but we’ll take the win.”
Wildcats just short of first shutout win
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ami defensive end Anthony Shoemaker. Demos responded quickly to the interception, running down Shoemaker and tackling him before any damage was done.
“It was kind of funny that he threw it un-derhand,” senior quarterback Mike Kafka said. “I wish he would have thrown it over-hand, it would have looked a little better. He was just going out and trying to make a play. It was pretty comical, I guess.”
THIRD DOWN DAMAGEIn two previous starts, Dysert had rushed for
174 yards and thrown for 623. To counter the mobile Dysert and the RedHawks’ passing at-tack, the Cats’ defense came out in a nickel pack-
age — five defensive backs, four down linemen and two linebackers — several times, mostly on third downs. The strategy worked, and Dysert managed only 176 yards through the air and 63 on the ground. Almost one-third of Dysert’s passing yards came on Miami’s last drive.
“We went nickel based on certain situations on what they do and what they showed in our film study,” Fitzgerald said.
This package helped NU contain Dysert and Miami in key situations; the RedHawks con-verted only 4-of-16 third down situations. The Cats forced Dysert to run on four of those unsuc-cessful third downs and recorded a sack on two other occasions. The defense also stopped the RedHawks through the air — Dysert converted only two third downs with his arm.
“We covered pretty well,” sophomore
safety Brian Peters said. “When the rush can get to (the quarterback) and we can cover well, it’s a deadly thing.”
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Though coach Pat Fitzgerald rotated offensive linemen, senior right tackle Kurt Mattes (78), sophomore right guard Doug Bartels (64) and sophomore center Ben Burkett (65) played most of the game. In total, nine different players played up front for the Wildcats. Freshman running back Arby Fields rushed 11 times for 27 yards in the win. He combined with sophomore Jacob Schmidt for 56 yards on the ground.
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Northwestern President Morton O. Schapiro donned his purple and white Wildcats jersey.
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Senior safety Brad Phillips tackles Miami (OH) quarterback Zac Dysert before he is able to move the chains and collect a first down.
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Northwestern’s defense came out hungry on Saturday. The Wildcats satisfied their ap-petite with a sack lunch that included a big helping of Dysert.
After giving up 10 sacks last week to Cincin-nati, Miami (OH) entered the game allowing the
second most quarterback takedowns in the country,
4.2 per game. NU’s defense took advantage of the young RedHawks offensive line, sacking Mi-ami quarterback Zac Dysert eight times — the most by a Big Ten defense all season. And the Cats managed to set that mark without senior defensive end Corey Wootton, who was sidelined for most of the game with a tweaked ankle.
“Our defensive staff just did a good job of putting together a good game plan,” sopho-more defensive end Vince Browne said. “We wanted to get after (Miami quarterback Zac Dysert). We went out and executed, and good things happened.”
Junior linebacker Quentin Davie led the charge, notching three sacks and forcing fumbles on two of them. Browne had argu-ably his best game of the year, recording one sack and eight tackles.
“They had some good guys on the defensive line,” Dysert said. “They were a good defensive line, probably the best that we’ve seen so far.”
Fitzgerald praised the defense’s tack-ling, which has been scrutinized over the past few weeks, but stil l noted there is room for improvement.
“There were a few (sacks) that we missed,” he said. “It could have been a double-digit day.”
SPECIAL TEAMS SLIP UPSWhile the Cats’ coverage teams performed
well on Saturday, there were several gaffes in the kicking game. The first was a blocked kick with 12:32 left in the second half — junior kicker Ste-fan Demos’ first miss of the year.
The unit slipped again after NU’s second touchdown. Holder Zeke Markshausen was un-able to corral a high snap, forcing Demos to pick up the ball and try to make a play. Demos ran to his right looking for an open receiver, and as he was about to step out of bounds, he threw up an underhanded lob that landed in the hands of Mi-
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Miami (OH) presented Northwestern a perfect opportunity to get its running game back on track. But on Saturday, the Wild-cats’ rushing attack was still grounded.
Coming into the game, M i a m i ’s d e f e n s e w a s
ranked 95th in the country against the run, allowing 172 yards per game. The Cats also had leading rusher Stephen Simmons in uniform for the first time since the Eastern
Michigan game.As it turned out, the Cats totaled 128
yards on the ground, but 53 of those yards came from quarterback Mike Kafka. NU’s longest run of the day was Jeravin Mat-thews’ 16-yard reverse. Other than Kafka, the Cats’ three leading rushers — fresh-m a n A rby F ie ld s , s ophomore Ja c ob Schmidt and junior Stephen Simmons — combined for 59 yards.
“It’s an 11-man operation,” Schmidt said. “Sometimes the hole is there, sometimes it’s not. We ran hard when the ball was in
our hands. We ran to the best of our ability, and sometimes it doesn’t go your way.”
Against a Miami defense that was allow-ing 4.7 yards per carry, Schmidt averaged 2.9 yards per carry and Fields averaged 2.5. Kafka rushed for a team-high 53 yards, yielding a concerning trend. Only Fields has rushed for more yards than Kafka this season, but 130 yards worth of sacks have pushed Kafka’s net total to 99 yards.
“It’s simple,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said.
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For the second straight week, an opportunis-tic defense sparked the Wildcats to victory. This time around, it just wasn’t the usual suspects making the big plays.
Even though senior defensive end Corey Wootton’s sprained ankle limited him to a few snaps and senior safety Brendan Smith left Sat-urday’s game early with a hand injury, North-western forced four takeaways and beat Miami (OH) 16-6 at Ryan Field.
“It was great to find a way to get a win,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “The defense really stepped up and carried over the momentum
from a week ago.”Replacing Smit h,
sophomore safety Brian Peters was a major factor in creating two of the turnovers. Sophomore linebacker David Arnold stood in for the sidelined Ben Johnson and re-corded a sack in his first career start, while sopho-mores Kevin Watt and Niko Mafuli shared a sack filling in on the defensive
line. The Cats finished with eight sacks and have produced 10 turnovers in their past two games.
Fitzgerald showed faith in his offense when he opted to receive after winning the coin toss, and senior quarterback Mike Kafka and com-pany responded by putting three points on the board. A 23-yard strike to junior wide receiver Sidney Stewart put the Cats (4-2, 1-1 Big Ten) in field goal range, but the drive stalled there. Ju-nior Stefan Demos connected from 46 yards to give NU a 3-0 lead.
“I wanted the ball,” Fitzgerald said. “In (the coaches’) Friday checklist meeting, I said, ‘I want the ball, and I want to put a drive together and get our offense started.’ For the most part, we did that.”
A RedHawks turnover near the end of the first quarter led to the Cats’ second score. Fac-ing fourth-and-long in NU territory, Miami (0-6, 0-2 MAC) coach Mike Haywood left his offense out on the field instead of sending out his punting unit. Redshirt freshman quarter-
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Senior cornerback Sherrick McManis (top) notched one of nU’s three interceptions. Senior quarterback Mike Kafka (bottom right) rushed 15 times for 53 yards and two scores. Sophomore safety Brian Peters (bottom left) registered one interception and one fumble recovery.
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Sophomore defensive end Vince Browne flexes his muscles after sacking Miami (OH) quarterback Zac Dysert. it was one of the team’s eight sacks.
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John Legend sang the chorus of his hit song “Ordinary People” on Friday night: “We’re just ordinary people, we don’t know which way to go,
‘cause we’re ordinary people, maybe we should take it slow.”
He might as well have been talking about Northwestern’s football team.
NU’s game against Miami (OH) was sup-posed to be the final act of a grand Inaugura-tion Weekend for University President Mor-ton O. Schapiro. The new NU president was named an honorary captain in a game the Wildcats were supposed to dominate.
But like Legend’s lyrics suggest, the Cats’ running backs looked pedestrian against the RedHawks, rushing for only 58 yards when taking out Jeravin Mat-thews’ 16-yard scamper on a reverse. This came against a defense that headed into Evanston giving up more than 160 yards per game on the ground. Arby Fields seemed lost, often getting stopped by run-ning into his own blocker.
It certainly appeared the Cats were willing to take it slow. Foolish penalties set their offense back and kept their de-fense on the field. A late hit penalty on Jordan Mabin came on a third-and-long after Miami failed to convert. Brian Peters also had a personal foul call on a deep pass, giving the RedHawks 15 free yards.
“I’m not pleased with the way we’re playing, but we can fix that,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “To get our fourth win, and to put ourselves in a position to make this season significant is what you’d hope to have, but we can definitely play better.”
They’ll have to. Sure, the Cats got the 16-6 win, but as 23-point favorites against a 0-5 team. Even though they got the win, as Bill Simmons would say, it was a “moral defeat,” especially considering the festivi-ties surrounding the introduction of the new university president.
Schapiro stood on the sidelines the en-tire game, showing his support for Fitzger-ald just as Fitz did at the inauguration on Thursday. Schapiro even helped the team by flipping the coin in NU’s favor.
But compared to Legend’s performance,
