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If you think Northwestern is nickel-and-diming you, look at the quarters.
� e next University Strategic Plan is nearing completion, and if University President Morton
Schapiro has his way, it will recommend an update to the quarter system to maximize student learning outside the classroom.
As members of the NU community discuss NU’s
greatest assets and needs this fall, Schapiro is outlin-ing what he hopes will be the hallmarks of his tenure at NU. � e former Williams College presi-dent, also an economics professor, has spent much of his career working with undergraduates. He’s suggested that NU students could bene� t from more oppor-tunities for hands-on learning.
“� at’s going to be featured pretty promi-nently in the Strategic Plan,” he said in an interview with The Daily last month. “� at could have major
curricular implications.”� ough Schapiro and others in the NU admin-istration have not outlined what these changes
might look like, they’ve hinted the push might ideally take the shape of a lessened course requirement — maybe three classes per quarter
instead of four — which would make room in students’ schedules for a free quarter or a
new kind of course: one rooted in experiential learn-ing, where students work on research, independent projects or issues in the broader community.
NU schools already have several experiential programs, both optional and required, like Chi-cago Field Studies in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences , the Junior Year Practicum in the School of Education and Social Policy and the Journalism Residency program in the Medill School of Journalism . All o� er some form of academic credit.
But do NU students, many of whom take full advantage of the opportunity to take 20 percent or more classes than many of their peers at semester schools, want more of these opportunities? Would a mandatory or even highly encouraged expansion of experiential learning work at NU?
It might for some students. But the quarter system will limit the success and scope of such a program.
Northwesternnumber of courses required: 45+ units depending on school
average course load:4 courses/quarter
WCAS requirements: Writing Requirement, two freshman sveminars, foreign language requirement, distribution requirements, etc.
University of Chicagonumber of courses required: 42 units
average course load:3 to 4 courses/quarter
College requirements: The “Core,” a set of required courses, foreign language competency, physical education, etc.
Dartmouthnumber of courses required: 35 units
average course load:3 courses/quarter
College requirements: Writing requirement, freshman seminar, foreign language competency, physical education, “World Culture” requirement, distribution requirements, etc.
Not all quarters are created equal
The Daily NorthwesternServing the University and Evanston Since 1881 Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Want something to do this week? Find out what’s happening on campus.
N-U Said: See what students think about the Living Wage Campaign.
Students and Evanston residents are putting on a puppet show.
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By Peter Larsonthe daily northwestern
Northwestern fell from the top spot to No. 6 in the number of Fulbright Schol-ars it churned out in 2010, according to recently released rankings from � e Chronicle of Higher Education .
Of the 111 Fulbright applicants from NU in 2010, 20 received the award — which gives students the opportunity to study or do research abroad for a year in any of more than 100 countries — put-ting NU behind the University of Michi-gan , Yale University , Brown University , Stanford University and the University of Chicago .
� e drop represents an 11 percent decrease in the percentage of winners from the year before, when 32 of 109 NU applicants were named Fulbright Scholars.
Sara Anson Vaux, director of the O� ce of Fellowships, said the scale of the reor-dering is deceptive.
� is year marked NU’s sixth straight year in the top 10 of the competition, which includes more than 600 schools
with applicants.And when you’re already at the top,
some movement is expected, Vaux said.“It’s very normal for Fulbright,” she
said. “We look at most competitions over a three- or four-year spectrum.”
The accomplishment means more because NU doesn’t have the same level of area studies as some of its larger peer institutions, Vaux said.
Despite the setback, they were happy to send six students to the Middle East this year, a good sign the Middle Eastern stud-ies department is expanding, she said.
But Vaux said they’re not in it for the numbers. Even when NU was ranked � rst, its motivation was giving students a more global perspective.
“� at’s not why we’re doing it,” she said. “We are giving students a crash course on how to connect with other parts of the world.”
� ree to four thousand students come through the O� ce of Fellowships every year , and about 2,000 of those end up working closely with Vaux and her sta� .
NU drops � ve spots in number of Fulbrights
See FULBRIGHT, page 5
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By Alan Yu the daily northwestern
� e mayor handed Northwestern pro-fessor Dale Mortensen a key to the city of Evanston during a City Council meeting Monday.
Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl announced a short break during the meeting to pres-ent the key to the city to Mortensen, an economics professor who won the Nobel Prize in Economics last month. Mortensen accepted the honor amidst applause from the audience and joined them in eating “the largest cake ever to grace the City Council,” which incorporated the Nobel Prize in its design. Mortensen said he has been living in Evanston for more than 45 years and appreciates his neighbors’ acclamation.
Mortensen gets key to City of Evanston
See COUNCIL, page 8
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Key: Dale Mortensen received a key to Evanston on Monday.
City Council discusses traffi c signal at Sheridan and Garrett, special-use permits
“(Changes proposed in the Strategic Plan)
could have major curricular implications.”Morton
Schapiro,University President
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From the WiresWindows Phone 7 ads want people to spend less time with phones
In a massive marketing campaign that will cost Microso� $100 million, the company is issu-ing a manifesto rallying people to spend less time with their phones.
Windows Phone 7, which began selling Monday in the U.S., will help people break their zombielike � xations with their phone screens, Microso� says.
� e ads have begun airing on television, dur-ing the World Series and in prime time on the major networks.
� e company has a long way to catch up with Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android platform and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry family. While it was an early leader in mobile-phone so� ware in the ‘90s, Microso� has lost that lead and its share is declining.
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Durbin wants feds to investigate toxic diesel pollution on Metra
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., on Monday called for a federal probe of toxic diesel pollution trapped in Chicago’s two major rail stations and inside the cars that carry commuters.
Speaking at a news conference at the Ogilvie Transportation Center, Durbin urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Occu-pational Health and Safety Administration and two federal transportation agencies to assess the health risks that workers and commuters face from breathing high levels of diesel exhaust in and around the Metra rail system’s trains.
Durbin also called for increased funding to upgrade aging equipment used by mass transit systems in Chicago and other cities.
— Chicago Tribune
Northwestern Memorial takes rare legal action over patient
By Deborah L. SheltonChicago Tribune
In a rare legal move, a hospital on Tuesday plans to ask a judge to revoke a Chicago woman’s power of attorney over her hospitalized mother in order to discharge the elderly woman.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital says in court documents that 86-year-old Dolores Bedin, who has inoperable pancreatic cancer, has been medically ready for release since Sept. 18. Her daughter, Janet, strongly disagrees.
“My mother wasn’t strong enough to go home, and they wanted to force it,” Bedin’s daughter said. “She did not want to go home.”
In its petition, the hospital is asking that a public guardian be appointed for Dolores Bedin, arguing her daughter is not cooperating with the hospital’s e orts to discharge her mother to a lower level of care and therefore is not acting in her mother’s best interests.
“Having to advocate on behalf of our patients in the courts is rare, and it is only done a� er careful thought and team consultations,” said Kris Lathan, the hospital’s director of media and public relations. “In the case of Mrs. Bedin, we have � led a petition to seek guardianship for the management of her immediate and long-term care needs. Until the court responds, we are unable to comment any further.”
Adult children o� en struggle to arrange care for dependent parents, a problem made more di cult by gaps in insurance coverage related to non-acute care. Many seniors, including Dolores Bedin, lack long-term care insurance, and many lack adequate savings. � e elder Bedin also has been the primary caregiver for a mentally and physically disabled son, adding another degree of complexity.
� e case is being heard in Winnebago County, where the elder Bedin lives, but Cook County Public Guardian Robert Harris says his o ce is asked to intervene in about 100 hospital cases a year in which there is a dispute with the decision-maker about a
patient’s care or no decision-maker has been des-ignated. Nursing home patients account for a far greater number, he said.
Going to court is an extraordinary measure “because people generally are able to come to agree-ment about these decisions,” Harris said.
Because Dolores Bedin’s hospitalization is not deemed medically necessary, Medicare has rejected claims to reimburse the hospital, where charges are adding up, according to documents provided by Janet Bedin.
“� ere are � nancial constraints that the doctors and nurses in acute care are mindful of, that if you no longer need this level of care you have to go to the appropriate setting,” said Lisa Anderson-Shaw, director of the clinical ethics consult service at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center. “We try to work with families, but in the end, the acute care setting is not the place for long-term care.”
Janet Bedin also said she believes the hospital should make a special accommodation for the fam-ily because, she alleged, Northwestern physicians failed to notify them about a mass on her mother’s pancreas, which was discovered in a CT scan in April. Bedin said they didn’t learn about it for � ve months, and it turned out to be cancerous.
In her corner hospital room, Dolores Bedin said she didn’t feel well enough to leave the hospital and did not want a stranger making medical decisions for her.
“She’s my daughter,” she said. “I want her to make decisions for me. She’s backing me up. � ey want to give me somebody who doesn’t know me.”
As the court hearing approached, Janet Bedin, who is in charge of merchandising for a national retail developer, consulted with experts, including lawyers, a visiting nurse who has worked with the family and others in an e ort to � gure out the best course of action for her mother.
As of Monday night, she was considering her choices and trying to decide what to do.
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GALLERY TALKBrett Littman of The Drawing CenterThursday, November 11, 6 pmKnown for monumental-scale paintings protesting injustice and inhumanity, the Chicago-born artist Leon Golub created more than 400 drawings during the final years of his life. Brett Littman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center, NY, will discuss what these drawings reveal about Golub’s late style, themes, and more.
ART & OPPRESSIONLeon Golub & Shirin NeshatSaturday, November 13, 2 pmA conversation about the treatment of oppression in the art work of Leon Golub and Shirin Neshat with:
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Journalist, author to present book at Norris
Award-winning investigative journalist and author Judy Pasternak will be presenting her new book “Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poi-soned Land and a People Betrayed” Tuesday from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the Norris University Center’s Wildcat Room.
� e event is free and open to the public. � e book tells the story of how America’s rush to
build nuclear weapons ended up poisoning tradi-tional Navajo land in the American Southwest.
Pasternak is a 1978 graduate of the Medill School of Journalism .
“Yellow Dirt” is her � rst book, published by Simon & Schuster’s Free Press . � ere will be a reception following her talk.
Free screening aimed at Medill students
Paramount Pictures will have a special, free screening of its new movie, “Morning Glory” Tues-day night at Evanston’s Century � eatres.
Medill students are encouraged to attend because journalism is one of the � lm’s central themes. Stu-dents can each download two passes by going to www.gofobo.com/rsvp. Admission is on a � rst-come, � rst-serve basis until the theater is full.
“Morning Glory,” a romantic comedy set in the world of morning television, is directed by Roger Mitchell and produced by J.J. Abrams.
NU app now available for Android users
Northwestern students who use Google’s Android operating system on their phones now have access to what iPhone and BlackBerry users have had for months: the NU mobile application.
� e application includes a campus directory, maps, news, athletics information and a library catalog search. It was built by Northwestern Univer-sity Information Technology in cooperation with University Relations and Blackboard .
Live GPS updates of campus shuttle schedules, expanded library services and course communi-cation services from Blackboard are expected in future version updates.
Di� mar exhibit focuses on Logan Square life
� e Dittmar Art Gallery will feature an exhi-bition called “Intense Brightness” for the next month.
� e exhibit features 10 pieces by Chicago artist Licha DeLaPena . � e show features abstract paint-ings, each of which is designed to show life in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago.
� e exhibit, which is free and open to all, will run through Dec. 9.
Early Music Festival to be held at Vail Chapel
Music enthusiasts will � nd plenty to be excited for at the 2010 Evelyn Dunbar Memorial Early Music Festival.
� e festival, which was founded in 1998, will feature various concerts, performances and dis-cussions. One event will be a lecture from Jona-than Glixon, Provost’s distinguished professor of musicology at the University of Kentucky. He will talk about “Monteverdi and his Venice” on Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. � e event will be held at the Vail Chapel , adjacent to Alice Millar Chapel.
Gender Studies to hold its fall open house
� e Gender Studies Program will hold its fall open house Tuesday from 12:30-2 p.m. in Kresge Hall , room 2-370.
All undergraduate students are invited to attend and learn about the program in addition to meeting and talking with faculty and alumni about its course o� erings. Lunch and chocolate fondue will be served.
Alumni panel to be held in Norris Big Ten Room
� e Northwestern Alumni Association invites students to “Careers in Banking, Finance & Man-agement” Tuesday night from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Norris University Center’s Big Ten Room.
Featured panelists include alumni that are leaders at Morningstar , Citi Cards , NU’s Innova-tion and New Ventures O� ce , Plante & Moran and Loop Capital Markets . � ey will network with students a� er the event is over and discuss the di� erent opportunities an NU degree can provide.
� e event is open to all students. No registra-tion is required.
— Peter Larson
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Police sent a Northwestern student to the hospital Saturday a� er a community service o� cer in Sargent Hall reported the student was drunk, police said.
� e CSO called police at 12:15 a.m. and said the student, who was under 21, seemed intoxicated, University Police Deputy Chief Dan McAleer said. � e o� cer also noticed the girl smelled strongly of alcohol.
When police arrived at Sargent, 2245 Sheri-dan Road , the student said she had consumed four or � ve shots of vodka, McAleer said. Police transported her to Evanston Hospital, 2650 Ridge Ave.
Two teens steal $18 from man after pushing him off his bike
Two teens pushed a man o� his bike Sunday at Dempster Street and Dodge Avenue and stole $18 from him, police said.
� e man was riding his bike around 1:15 a.m. when the teens stopped him, Evanston Police Cmdr. Tom Guenther said. � ey asked where the man had gotten the bike and whether he had money. When the man said he did not, the teens pushed him o� the bike and went through his pockets.
Police searched the area after the man reported the incident but found no suspects, Guenther said. � e man su� ered a lip injury but was otherwise unharmed.
Guenther noted the man had been drinking.
Student bumps head on drawer, stops UP offi cer for help
A student hit her head on a drawer in her dorm room Sunday and then stopped a UP o� -cer for help, police said.
� e police o� cer was on foot patrol at 3:34 a.m. when the student approached him outside Ayers College of Commerce and Industry, 2324 Campus Drive , and said she needed medical attention, McAleer said. � e o� cer saw a small cut on her head and called the � re department, which treated her on site. � e girl signed a waiver saying she did not want to go to the hospital.
Brick thrown through window of house on Laurel Avenue
Someone threw a brick through the window of a house on the 1800 block of Laurel Avenue on Sunday morning, police said.
� e owner of the house said she and her son were sleeping when she heard a crash in her living room at 1:40 a.m., Guenther said. When she entered the room, she saw the window had been broken with a small concrete brick.
Police have no suspects, Guenther said.
— Rebecca Cohen
Local mosque leader ‘optimistic’ about future
Evanston police to step up tobacco enforcement
Evanston police will check on tobacco retailers in the next several months to make sure the retailers are not selling to minors, according to an Oct. 29 news release by police.
Illinois tobacco retailers currently average a 90 percent compliance rate with laws banning the sale of tobacco products to minors under 18, the news release said. � e state has the seventh-best compliance rate in the country.
Evanston police frequently make
checks to ensure compliance rates remain high, Cmdr. Tom Guenther said. � ey do so with undercover help from minors, who enter stores and attempt to buy tobacco. If the retailer does not ask for the minor’s ID or turn him or her away, police issue the retailer a citation.
“We are constantly vigilant,” Guen-ther said.
Police will visit each tobacco retailer three times during this campaign, according to the release. Before the visits, the retailers will receive kits that include an outline of Illinois tobacco laws and a training guide for ID checkers.
— Rebecca Cohen
By Andrew Kasparthe daily northwestern
� e Chicago area is home to an estimated 400,000 Muslims, and in Evanston, Mohammed Saiduzza-man is the president of the Dar-us -Sunnah Masjid (Mosque) and Community Center , located about one mile west of the Northwestern campus.
Established in 2007, the mosque is a gathering place for north Chicago’s Muslim population and serves the broader Evanston community by o� ering food drives, classes and health services to people of all faiths.
The Daily sat down with Saiduzzaman to talk about his center’s mission, the controversial Manhat-tan mosque proposal garnering national attention and the state of Islamic relations in America.
Excerpts:
THE DAILY: How did this mosque come to be, and why did you pick Evanston?Saiduzzaman: Most of us live in the vicinity of the North Shore, but support obviously came from greater Chicagoland Muslims. We were looking for a place where we could get together in a com-munal environment to learn our faith. � is didn’t happen overnight. We had to meet in living rooms, and as our size grew, our need grew. We would meet in donated communal spaces, banquet halls and stu� like that. Where do you � nd a living room big enough for 100 people? We had a Chicago-area mosque give us their space; they gave us one Sat-urday a month to hold our programs, and we lived with that for 15 years. In the meantime, we were
raising funds, hoping we would one day have a place of our own.Evanston is a city known as a city of churches. It also has synagogues; it has a Baha’i temple. But looking at this community, it was missing something. It was almost as though one of the colors of the rainbow was missing. We are here as representatives of a faith that has global reach.
THE DAILY: Did you feel welcomed by the community at that time?Saiduzzaman: Any time you move into unknown territory, there’s a little bit of — I wouldn’t say it’s a fear; unknown is unknown. How many mosques did Evanston have that we can go and ask, ‘How are you treated?’ It was equally exciting and unknown for us. In Evanston we’ve been welcomed, contrary to the national picture in many cases. � e neighbors, the civic community have been nothing but welcoming toward us. If they wanted to keep a mosque out, they probably could have. We see in many places around the country — in Manhattan, for example — and the world, people make an attempt to keep people out, but it is not the case here.
THE DAILY: In addition to what this mosque o� ers Muslims, what do you hope to accomplish through interfaith outreach? Saiduzzaman: In sales, your customer makes a judg-ment about you within 30 seconds by looking at the color of your tie. What that basically means (is that) perception — because I don’t know you — is everything. � e more I know you, the easier it is to make a fair judgment. We fall in love on � rst sight; we also hate people on � rst sight. Does anybody
talk about that? No, but it does exist. In this society where all faiths are available, the need to know is that much more important. Interfaith outreach is simply a dialogue of learning, of respecting others the way they are. It is not my drive to make you look like me.
THE DAILY: What do you make of the national uptick in anti-Islamic sentiment? Saiduzzaman: Hate toward certain faiths is like a yo-yo. � ere are times it goes up and down based on what’s going on — what people hear, what they see. � e way I see the increase, I quite frankly think the world demographic is too vast to make that generalization. Personally, I’ve seen so many good people. � e gentleman who wanted to burn Korans in Florida — an irrational reaction on behalf of one person, who supposedly has a congregation of 10 to 15 people, got national attention. But I know a person of another faith has been dedicating their life to furthering other people, practicing tolerance and spiritual guidance. � ey’re not in the national media. So should I consider that an increase or decrease?
THE DAILY: Are you optimistic about the future of Islamic relations in America?Saiduzzaman: Absolutely. � e truth is on trial here, and the truth always prevails. Maybe not in my lifetime, maybe not in yours, but the truth as a phenomenon cannot be kept undercover forever. We, human beings, are the best of creation. In some cases, I know we disappoint ourselves, but optimism is a part of my faith.
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Evanston, a pioneer of the Prohibition move-ment and the birthplace of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union , is now considering proposals to open a microbrewery and microdistillery.
Evanston resident Ted Perez is working with the city to open Evanston’s � rst microbrewery, which would serve handcra� ed specialty beer. Fellow resident Paul Hletko has also been working to create a small distillery that would produce high-end whiskey.
“It’s time to kick it up and turn my hobby into a career,” Perez said.
Microbreweries and microdistilleries are owned by individuals rather than large companies and o� en sell their products on the premises.
Perez, an information technology director for a local insurance company, has been a home brewer for six years and is president of the Evan-ston Homebrew Club . He adds fruits and spices to his beer recipes to create new � avors.
Although Perez is friends with Hletko, he said their ventures are completely separate. � e two companies will be able to work together since whiskey and beer are both made from the same ingredients, he said.
Both entrepreneurs hope to make their facilities into tourist attractions, though they are not sure
when they will open. Hletko said he wants to create a unique, high-quality whiskey that will draw con-noisseurs to Evanston. Perez said he will probably brew eight di� erent types of beer and o� er food, tours of the brewery and, if the city approves, half-gallon to-go containers of beer called growlers.
“Historically, Evanston was home of the Wom-an’s Christian Temperance Union and Prohibition, so it would be a historical novelty and a great testa-ment to how thoughts changed and how progres-sive Evanston is and continues to be,” Perez said.
Hletko and Perez said the city has been extremely supportive throughout the process in helping Hletko � ll out the necessary government applications to produce alcohol. � e new busi-nesses will provide more jobs in the area, both entrepreneurs said.
Nevertheless, they have encountered challenges with the logistics of opening their businesses.
“Historically, Evanston has a unique relation-ship with alcohol,” Hletko said. “My vision con-� icts with that.”
Perez said his biggest challenge is � nding a location for the brewery within his budget. He is looking to open the microbrewery in southeast Evanston but is open to any location available as long as it is in his hometown. Hletko is considering the Main Street area.
� e bureaucracy of the process is another challenge, Hletko said. He has to � rst get his plan
approved by the city, the state and the federal gov-ernment. A� er all the paperwork is completed, he must come up with a business plan and get insurance and zoning approved.
Space concerns prevented Perez from pursuing his original idea of opening a winery in Evanston because there is not enough space to grow grapes. A brewery, on the other hand, is possible in a much smaller space, and beer has just as many varieties as wine, he said.
“You can really make it your own,” Perez said. “Beer is enjoying a renaissance across the U.S.”
Hletko said he was interested in whiskey because of its high quality. His distillery will target people who are concerned with the products they put into their bodies, he said.
“Whiskey is what beer wants to be when it grows up,” Hletko said.
Microbrewery, distillery could be coming to town
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Innovation: Ted Perez, president of the Evanston Homebrew Club, currently brews at home. Perez creates unique fl avors by adding spices and fruit to old beer recipes.
She said they aim to make the process as open and democratic as possible, a point of contrast between NU and some other universities known for pick-ing out the cream of the crop and grooming a few students for success.
� e Fulbright Scholarship program isn’t the only fellowship for which the University pushes students to apply . Vaux said they work in con-junction with about 200 di� erent programs, 15
of which they aggressively pursue because they require internal nominations beforehand.
It’s also not the only program with which students are � nding success . NU set a school record last year with 44 National Science Foun-dation winners and four out of four Goldwater scholarships.
Reviews for the � rst stage of this year’s Fulbright application process start in December, Vaux said. Students turned in applications at the beginning of September.
Weinberg senior Stephanie Letzler said she decided late in the process to apply for a Ful-bright Scholarship, waiting until August to start her application to travel to Belgium and study the European Union.
In the middle of � nding letters and writing her proposal, she began e-mailing back and forth with the O� ce of Fellowships. She said its winning record for Fulbright applicants was encouraging.
“It made me feel more con� dent about the pro-cess,” Letzler said. “You’re working with a top-
notch team. � e O� ce of Fellowships really knows what they’re doing.”
Vaux said NU has the talent to keep winning. She said the growing role of study abroad programs and other forms of independent undergraduate research has enormous potential to change stu-dents’ college experiences.
“It makes kids di� erent,” she said. “It makes them more alive.”
O� ce of Fellowships aggressively pursues 15 programsFrom FULBRIGHT, page 1
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Interfaith understanding and what we’re doing about it
� e Drawing Board By Nicole Collins
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talk about interfaith relations at www.dailynorthwestern.com
I have long felt that promoting interfaith collaboration comprises an integral part of my Christian faith. If I am to love my neighbor, as I believe I am called to do,
I need to understand his perspectives even if I don’t share them, and that requires engag-ing him in constructive action and dialogue. While my convictions are rooted in my par-ticular faith identity, these principles speak to anyone of any religious persuasion who wants to build respectful, cohesive community.
Kelsey Sheridan (full disclosure: a friend of mine) made a similar point in her guest col-umn in response to last week’s forum on hate crimes following the defacement of the Cha-bad House menorah. While the vandalism at Chabad was likely drunken tomfoolery and not a targeted hate crime, the incident still raises questions about interfaith relations which are particularly pertinent in light of a nationally fractious religious scene. As Kelsey writes in her column, we can avoid antagonizing di� er-ent components of NU`’s religious communi-ties by knowing exactly what behaviors will o� end others’ religious identities, and why.
Not only do I � rmly believe we should
develop awareness of those identities, we should also alter our conduct to respect them as much as possible. I suspect some of you object vehemently to this suggestion and regard it as little more than veiled political correctness. Why should anyone change his or her behavior simply to accommodate another person’s subjective religious sensibilities? � is consideration recalls SHIFT’s chalking of the Prophet Muhammad last spring, which some have compared to the menorah vandalism (side note: while I � nd both incidents o� en-sive, SHIFT’s actions were in no way criminal, unlike the menorah defacing).
To me it’s a simple matter of empathy. If I can do something to make my brothers and sisters on this campus more comfortable without compromising my own identity, I’ll gladly do it. I’ll still talk about Jesus around my non-Christian friends, but I’ll try to do so in a non-confrontational manner. If I’m sharing pizza with Muslim acquain-tances, we’ll be sure to order some without pepperoni in much the same fashion that you’d accommodate a vegetarian’s dietary restrictions.
While the forum was a great opportunity to initiate interfaith discussion of this nature, I think it failed to raise one key point: North-western already has a vibrant interfaith com-munity that is looking to expand. According to the Nov. 3 article on the forum (which I was unfortunately unable to attend due to
class), participants recommended “building coalitions between religious groups” to pre-vent similarly o� ensive incidents. As a matter of fact, we’re already creating those connec-tions. Kelsey’s column mentioned the Nov. 15 interfaith potluck, which is entering its fourth year. Later in winter, Northwestern Interfaith Initiative will hold its � � h annual retreat, and Interfaith Hall in Plex hosts � resides which are open to non-residents throughout the year. � e campus ministry with which I am involved, University Christian Ministry, recently held a discussion on the theme of hospitality with students from Hillel, we’ll be sharing an interfaith � anksgiving meal with students from NUii soon.
Cooperative, collaborative interfaith engagement is imperative for building a cohesive NU community which seeks to understand and respect the diverse religious identities (including atheist or secular human-ist ones) that make it so vibrant. Interfaith is already happening on this campus, and I invite you to join in with whatever religious perspective you bring to the table. In the words of the thirteenth-century Muslim mystic Rumi, “Out beyond ideas of wrongdo-ing and rightdoing, there is a � eld. I will meet you there.”
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Hana Suckstor� is a Weinberg senior. She can be reached at h-suckstor� @gmail.com.
Wounded Purple Pride
Let me begin by saying unequivocally that I am a � ercely proud Wildcats fan and Northwestern alumnus — a NU marching band alum even — and I’ll bleed purple ‘til I die. I love Coach Fitzger-
ald and I support him and the job he is doing of coaching our football ‘Cats 100 percent.
Right now, though, I am utterly exhausted by patroniz-ing game summaries like, “Wildcats come up short,” with a clear subtext of “But what did you expect?”
How do you win 29 minutes of a game then lose the remaining 31, giving up 35 points in the process? How do you win three-quarters of a game then lose the fourth, including getting duped on a fake punt? How do you give up a game to a team with an utterly injury-decimated o� ense led by a rookie quarterback? I’m sure we’re making in-game adjustments — aren’t we? � e ‘Cats should be 9-0 today. Instead, they stand at 6-3 (2-3 in the Big Ten), just barely bowl eligible and facing a gauntlet of three tough games remaining. Frankly, that’s not good enough.
It’s not just this season. Wildcats have established a pat-tern of inconsistency and playing to the level of our com-petition, which means playing “just well enough” to win the games we should but then � nding ways to lose the rest. Is there any wonder why we haven’t won a bowl game?
In this year’s losses — and in a good number in previ-ous seasons, it was not like the ‘Cats simply got beat—to me, getting beat means that you faced a team with supe-rior athletes and/or game plan and though you fought, scratched, and clawed to your utmost, you still came up short at the end. I have no problem with getting beat. NU is not getting beat — we are losing. Losing means that you and your team fail to even do the things that lead to winning, that at some point you give up on the idea of winning. To win, every coach and player must believe he can and will beat his opponent on every play, every down, every quarter, until time expires. Dan Persa cannot play 21 other positions.
Watch last year’s Outback Bowl — that was a team that � nally believed it could line up with anyone, play, and win. Ka� a and Markshausen didn’t perspire, they oozed con� -dence! Coach Walker’s 2003-2005 teams were buying in to that idea. Coach Barnett’s ‘95 and ‘96 teams did, as Coach Fitz knows well.
So what gives?! What is it in our collective team psyche that says, “When things go bad, just knuckle under and give up. It’s just a sign that you can’t really compete at this level.” Do (some of/many of) our players really believe that? Do our coaches? It’s like a persistent inferiority complex, and I don’t buy it. � e Wildcat fans I know don’t believe in it.
I don’t believe our problem results from a lack of athletic talent.
� at leaves me with the belief that something must change in the attitude of our entire football program, from coaches to trainers to starters to practice squad players. A� er all, I don’t think our performance this sea-son is really living up to Coach Fitzgerald’s (brilliant but long overdue) campaign to dub our Wildcats “Chicago’s Big Ten Team.” I am by no means calling for any sort of change in sta� just yet. All I know is that our ‘Cats will never get over the hump of losing games until this attitude is corrected.
Please understand I don’t post this casually. � is isn’t simply the rant of an upset fan. I understand that coach-ing and playing Big Ten football is far more di� cult and involved than I can ever know, and readily acknowledge the fact that my thoughts are those of an amateur outsider. � at said, know that this is meant to edify and build up and certainly not to cut down, so I trust Fitz and company take it that way.
Ted Kunkel graduated from NU (Weinberg) in 1998. He can be reached at [email protected].
The Living Wage Campaign has been around for more than a year, and though the campaign’s activities have been extensively covered by
this newspaper, we have neither endorsed nor denounced it. But we have decided that it is time to take a stand.
The Daily’s editorial board has traditionally slanted to the le� ; just last week, we endorsed all Democratic candidates in the midterm elec-tions. And we strongly believe in the spirit of social justice. It was with those ideals in mind that The Daily examined the LWC and met with its leaders.
A� er close consideration, we have concluded that we cannot support the campaign, and we urge the administration not to do so either. Speci� cally, we believe that the proposed “living wage” standard is arbitrary, that implementing a “living wage” could actually harm campus workers and that the group’s proposals for funding sources are illogical. We feel that the campaign relies on emotion to distract from the facts of the issue. And most of all, we feel that the campaign should focus on more e� ective ways to help campus workers.
� e main reason that The Daily does not support the LWC is that we believe the econom-ics behind it don’t add up. � e number that the campaign cites as the desired living wage for a resident of Northern Cook County is $13.23 plus health care or $14.67 without health care. However, these estimates do not include public bene� ts for which lower-wage workers are eligible — such as the earned income tax credit, child tax credits, Medicaid and food stamps — or private sources of aid. Granting workers a “living wage” would disqualify them from many of these programs, drastically reducing the real e� ect of a wage increase and in some extreme cases, making their net income less than it would have been with the combination of lower wages and government bene� ts.
Campaign leaders list freeing workers from government assistance as a goal of the cam-paign. But if these government programs exist to close the gap between what workers earn and what they need, why is it better for North-western to take on this function? If we want to
help our workers, wouldn’t it be better to devote resources to helping them increase their skills and earning potential?
Meanwhile, the campaign insists that increasing wages would not result in any � rings or reductions in hiring, as traditionally mac-roeconomic theory would dictate. In a recent meeting with the editorial board, campaign leaders explained that raising wages at one institution is di� erent than raising wages on a broader scale. � ey cited examples of hotel workers in Chicago and food service workers in Connecticut as two groups who got signi� -cantly higher wages and did not experience any � rings.
But University President Morton Schapiro, a renowned labor economist who also happens to have a say in personnel decisions at NU, dis-agrees. He and other administrators have stated that if NU implemented a living wage, layo� s would be likely. While LWC members feel they can change this mindset, we feel that it is naive to think that anything other than � nancial facts will impact policy.
In addition, there are no examples of univer-sities that have implemented living wages and not seen layo� s. Stanford, the only one of three living wage schools where numbers could be obtained, lost 200 subcontracted jobs.
It is illogical to believe that higher wages would not lead to fewer jobs or less job secu-rity. And if social justice is the objective of the campaign, protecting the jobs of the least skilled and lowest paid workers should be the top priority.
Equally illogical are the campaign’s ideas about where the money to pay for a living wage would come from. � e cost of a living wage is estimated at $3.3 million to $4 million per year. LWC leaders vehemently assert it should not be funded through a tuition or student fee increase, but from eliminating “unneces-sary” budget items. When the editorial board asked campaign leaders for examples of such expenses, they cited renovation of the presiden-tial mansion, cross-country airplane travel of top administrators, and the multi-million dollar cost of endowing a professorship.
� ose proposals demonstrate a complete
ignorance about the realities of running a university. For example, while ying top admin-istrators around the country might seem frivo-lous, it is an important part of the University’s ability to connect with donors who fund all of NU’s functions — from improving campus safety to providing � nancial aid to low-income students. And endowed professorships are essential to NU’s ability to attract and secure the best academics to teach and do research here. Endowing one less of them every single year would be unquestionably detrimental to the academic health of NU.
� ose speci� c arguments are not to say that the University manages a perfect budget and there is no potentially available money. � e point is that every decision involves tradeo� s and $4 million is a signi� cant amount of money. The Daily doesn’t think that the Uni-versity should prioritize allocating that money to a cause that is already being handled by the federal government.
� e best thing that the LWC could do for campus workers is to reorient their goals toward more realistic ways of incorporating workers into our community. Last spring, the campaign achieved a signi� cant victory when administrators agreed to provide workers with “community bene� ts,” including shuttle ser-vices, continuing education subsidies and access to the NU library. The Daily believes that the LWC members should pursue other services of this nature, like further continuing educa-tion opportunities and ESL classes for workers who have recently immigrated. Such programs would demonstrate that NU cares about work-ers’ well-being by providing them with the skills they need to earn higher wages — not just at NU but in any job.
The Daily respects the enthusiasm that hundreds of students have shown for this cam-paign and the countless hours of hard work that the organizers have devoted to it. Like them, we care deeply about the workers on this campus. For their bene� t, it is time for the University to give the LWC a � rm “no” and for the campaign to reorient their mission toward other, more e� ective methods of improving the lives of NU workers.
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What’s in a quarter?It’s sold on the admissions website and in the
course catalog primarily as a means to take more classes. But the four-course per quarter norm and the intensity of the schedule, as well as its benefits, surprised Schapiro — who has previously only worked at schools with semester systems — when he arrived on campus, he told The Daily.
All undergraduates at NU must complete at least 45 credits to graduate. That’s more than many other schools on the quarter system, including the University of Chicago and Dartmouth College, and it allows students to drop to a three-course quarter just three times throughout their under-graduate experience if they enter NU without other credits.
Those requirements may not leave room in many students’ schedules for a more time-con-suming, Evanston- or Chicago-based class.
Plenty of schools known for their experiential learning programs such as Oberlin and Hampshire
colleges don’t use the quarter system. These schools instead use a modified semester system with a significantly shorter term in the winter designed for more inventive or experiential courses.
In 1966, when a Student Planning Commission proposed a switch to semesters, this was the modi-fied system they suggested NU adopt, according to The Daily archives.
Oberlin and Hampshire both emphasize a flex-ible curriculum, interdisciplinary courses and independent study.
Many other schools on the quarter system explicitly encourage students to take advantage of the system to expand their studies outside of the classroom.
Dartmouth calls its system “The Dartmouth Plan,” which requires students to enroll for 12 quarters but offers and encourages undergrads to take the opportunity to study abroad as well as consider “leave terms,” according to the Dart-mouth website, during which students may, with-out credit, “go on vacation, get an internship, find a job, do research, or travel.”
Undergrads at Dartmouth must be on campus during summer of their sophomore year, opening up at least one fall, winter or spring quarter during a student’s four years to take a leave term.
NU’s surplus requirements have led some of the Strategic Plan workgroups to consider more flexibility in NU’s curriculum, with an emphasis
on hands-on, out-of-the-classroom learning, Schapiro said.
He said “everybody” at a recent meeting agreed that while traditional classroom teaching is the “lifeblood” of an undergraduate education, NU could better leverage the quarter system to expand its curriculum. That might include lab work, internships or other, less traditional credit-earning courses, he said.
‘Love/hate relationship’The quarter system in its current form does
have one distinct advantage: flexibility.NU’s academic calendar helps enable students
like Communication senior Andrew Glor to double major.
Throw in a minor in the Harvey Kapnick Busi-ness Institutions Program, too.
“It provides more opportunities to take dif-ferent classes,” Glor said. “You have a love/hate relationship with it. I’m sure everyone does.”
Having entered NU with five Advanced Place-ment credits, Glor’s been able to take just three classes some quarters and will spend Winter Quar-ter in Los Angeles doing an internship as well as earning a credit in the School of Communication. Using AP credits to enable this kind of academic flexibility is common, University Provost Daniel Linzer said, and most students could get by with taking three courses a quarter.
A student body as diverse as NU’s doesn’t nec-essarily invite comparisons. There are many stu-dents like Glor who take advantage of AP credits to do internships or participate in off-campus programs.
Then there are students like Meixi Ng, who’s fulfilled most of the requirements for three majors (though she won’t finish all of them), as well as completed a Civic Engagement Certificate and studied two languages during her time at NU. She’s taken, on average, five or six courses a quarter.
“I’ve learned to see Chicago as my classroom and also as my playground,” the SESP senior said.
Ng is the type of student — one eagerly seeking plenty of courses but who does so for the sake of learning — that might capitalize on a program with more experiential learning built into every quarter.
Quarter system doesn’t facilitate experiential learning
See quarter, page 9
NU’s credit requirements are more than other quarter system schools “You have a love/hate
relationship with (the quarter system). I’m sure everyone does.”Andrew Glor,
Communication senior
“Dale has been described by all of his neighbors as a quiet, steady kind of guy, a family man, never creates a big fuss,” Tisdahl said. “Certainly blown that image, huh?”
In the Administrative and Public Works meeting before the council session, the council postponed the construction of a traffic signal at the intersec-tion of Sheridan Road and Garrett Place after hear-ing the comments of resident Rosemary O’Neil. The proposed traffic signal would be built in O’Neil’s front yard and would affect her enjoyment, if not her property values, Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) said.
O’Neil suggested reaching out to NU’s athletic department to look into using a portable traffic light instead. O’Neil said the athletic department has six portable traffic signals, and the lights would be a better alternative as most traffic passes during peak hours in the afternoon. “A traffic light is like a monument or a cemetary,” O’Neil said. “Once it goes up, it’s not coming down.”
City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz said the city would contact NU about trying out a portable light over a two-day period, taking photos and gather-ing comments from students. Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) said officials should try the portable lights, but it would not address the larger problem of
O’Neil having to deal with a traffic signal next to her home.
“I would be out there screaming if they decided to build one in the middle of the block. Imagine how large those pieces of equipment are,” Rainey said. “I think we should try this little experiment, and I don’t think it’s going to address the real problem.”
Later in the meeting, six Evanston clergymen also spoke out against a proposed ordinance requir-ing religious institutions to apply for special-use permits in business, commercial and downtown districts, in an effort to regulate churches in busi-ness districts. The ordinance is too broadly stated,
and the City should postpone the action until it has spoken to the religious community, said pastor Mark Coppenger of Evanston Baptist Church.
“You look at the Northwestern seal, and it says in Greek, ‘Full of grace and truth’ and ‘Whatsoever things are true’ in Latin,” Coppenger said. “That’s why we’re here; we’re trying to bring grace and truth.”
Rainey, who spoke against storefront churches on Howard Street earlier, suggested ministers opposed to the ordinance join her to tour the street soon.
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Experiential from the startNU’s academic structure, in fact, has its roots
in experiential learning. The University weighed the benefits and drawbacks when the undergrad-uate schools switched to quarters in the ’40s, but ultimately, it did not have much of a choice between semesters and quarters.
The founding of the Technological Institute, now the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, was made possible by Walter P. Murphy, a generous benefactor who required the engineering program run on quarters for at least 10 years to enable a cooperative education program where students could alternate quarters of studying with a quarter of work, according to documents in the University Archives.
The Institute, dedi-cated in 1942, adopted the quarter system. To avoid scheduling headaches, the rest of NU came along for the ride.
Since then it’s been challenged periodi-cally, said Prof. Mary Kinzie, director of the Creative Writing Program.
When an oppor-tunity came along
about 15 years ago to try out semesters in certain courses, Kinzie said she “leaped in immediately.” The program now requires juniors to take a year-long course sequence, divided into semesters, culminating in a longer work.
“I know students enjoy the quarter system because it allows them to quadruple major with a few minors thrown in,” she said. “But the ‘tasting and trying’ of the menu of courses, although that can be exhilarating in its way, if you’re not lucky … they’re over before you’ve gotten a chance to sink your teeth into it.”
Ng, the SESP senior, compared NU’s extensive course catalog to a menu as well. It’s why she took so many classes at NU, she said.
“There are fun classes, almost like desserts, like photography. You have a lot more flexibility and options,” she said. “I was really excited to be
in different classes.”Essentially every department or program has
had to adapt a traditional curriculum to a less-traditional academic calendar.
Dr. Rick Gaber, director of the program in biological sciences, said though the quarter sys-tem has its caveats, he would still take it over semesters because it offers flexibility to profes-sors and a much broader range of courses for students.
Still, in what Gaber termed the “infamous” sophomore series all majors in the program must complete, students squeeze in six subjects in a year with two professors per quarter. With about 400 students going through the sequence at the same time, the year is intense, competitive and rushed, Gaber said.
A grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute awarded in the spring is allowing the department to transform the series to a nonlin-ear four-course sequence, effective by fall 2012, he said.
Despite the challenges NU’s programs and departments may face on a quarter system, no one proposed NU write a change to the semester system into the Strategic Plan, Linzer said. Rather, he said NU’s calendar helps the University stand out from the crowd, something those working on the plan only want to increase.
A new curriculum?The co-op program that spawned the quar-
ter system is still around in McCormick. In the Bienen School of Music, students can design their own internships for possible credit. The Kellogg School of Management emphasizes experiential learning to help its graduate stu-dents become more competitive, according to its website.
NU has already started to increase some of these opportunities for undergraduates, inten-tionally or not: A 20 percent increase in under-graduate summer research grants this spring prompted the University to award a record num-ber to students.
If the Strategic Plan, when completed, does encourage adopting a system with three required courses per quarter and an extra experiential course, it would likely provoke heated discussion across NU and significantly change the under-graduate experience.
Still, the quarter system would shuffle students through this extra course quickly. The class might inhibit students from taking on an extra major or minor, or six classes in a quarter, because of the increased time it would require.
If NU lowered the requirement to three courses per quarter to facilitate a “free” quarter for students to engage in experiential learning programs, the change might be more effective.
Though NU has no plans to switch to a semes-ter system, the quarter system will always impose tight deadlines, conflicting commitments and a stressful atmosphere upon students, faculty and
staff. It will benefit some programs at the cost of others and privilege students who want to take as many courses as possible over those who want more in-depth learning.
The former are the students NU has been attracting and continues to attract, and perhaps there’s nothing wrong with that. Oberlins and Hampshires are available to students who want them.
And for the foreseeable future, NU students will keep their course buffet, for better or worse.
NU does not have plans to switch to a semester systemFrom Quarter, page 8
Weinberg College of Arts and SciencesThe WCAS Chicago Field Studies program is a one-quarter academic program available to all NU students that includes an internship at a Chicago-area organization and an NU-based seminars directly applicable to students’ internship fields.
Students can earn 1-4 credits.
School of Education and Social Policy:The SESP Junior-Year Practicum, which is required for most majors, is a one-quarter internship at an organization relevant to students’ academic concentrations.
Students can earn 4 credits.
Medill School of JournalismThe Medill Journalism Residency is a one-quarter, unpaid internship at a U.S. or international newspaper, magazine or TV station that is required of all journalism majors.
Students can earn 3 credits.
School of CommunicationThe School of Communication’s optional, unpaid internship program allows students to intern full-time at various U.S. organizations and includes a weekly seminar.
Students can earn1-4 credits.
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied ScienceThe Walter P. Murphy Cooperative Engineering Education Program is a paid, optional four-quarter work experience that engineering students can take in-between academic quarters and allows them to graduate with one-and-a-half years’ work experience in their fields.
Work quarters are not for credit.
Programs in the Colleges
“You have a lot more flexibility and options. I was really excited to be in different classes.”Meixi Ng,SESP senior
10 Sports The Daily Northwestern Tuesday, November 9, 2010
“Purdue and Michigan State were a little di� er-ent,” he said. “� ose games came down to maybe one drive or one play. Penn State was plays in bunches here, plays in bunches there.”
Against Purdue and Michigan State, despite smaller leads, the Cats held on inside the � nal � ve minutes until late scores spelled their doom. � ough NU led Penn State by 21 points with less than a minute remaining in the � rst half, its inabil-ity to get anything going o� ensively or defensively allowed the Nittany Lions to take a touchdown lead
by the end of the third quarter .Fitzgerald said the Cats let Penn State back into
Saturday’s contest because of missed tackles and the absence of game-changing plays to swing the momentum back in NU’s favor.
“We missed more tackles on Saturday than we’ve missed in the previous � ve or six games combined,” he said, citing 27 missed tackles. “ We had three opportunities that all would have been big plays.”
Fitzgerald said the three missed opportuni-ties for big plays were the Cats’ inability to con-vert on fourth-and-goal in the fourth quarter, a
dropped interception and a wasted opportunity for a blocked punt.
“� ose three plays we were 0-for-3,” Fitzger-ald said. “� ose were the plays we made in the � rst half, and in the second half, we didn’t make them.”
Senior o� ensive guard Keegan Grant said Penn State’s comeback had less to do with tactical changes than it did an adjustment in mentality.
“Scheme-wise, they didn’t really change any-thing,” he said. “But the players came out with something to prove a� er the � rst half.”
But, while the problems associated with the Cats’ three blown leads have been easy to specify, explicit solutions remain more general.
“We’ve got to play better,” Fitzgerald said. “We’ve got to execute better. We’ve got to coach better.”
Fitzgerald: Missed tackles, poor playmaking let PSU back inFrom FOOTBALL, page 12
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Beginnings of a downfall: On Penn State’s next possession, the previously-dormant offense drove down the fi eld briskly, capped off by a nine-yard pass from quarterback Matt McGloin to wide receiver Brett Brackett with three seconds left before halftime.
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his ninth goal of the season and give Eliason his team-leading sixth assist.
“It was good combinations in the middle that got the ball wide to Eli,” Kupe said. “I didn’t really get to look up to know where the goal was, but I just shot it blindly.”
The lead seemed like it would hold through the half until Michigan earned a free kick from 35 yards out in the 34th minute. Though the goal was credited to midfielder Hamoody Saad, who took the free kick, NU argued a hand ball from Michigan forward Justin Meram in the box redirected the ball and caused sophomore keeper Jonathan Harris to completely misread the shot.
After a heated debate with the referees that earned two NU players and one Michigan player yellow
cards and the NU bench a red card, the Cats went into halftime rattled and without a much-needed edge.
“We scored a great goal; they scored a controver-sial goal,” coach Tim Lenahan said. “We probably should go into halftime 1-0 up with a little margin for error. It’s tough when you’re doing all the right things and then somebody doesn’t do their job — I’m not talking about the players either.”
Michigan capitalized on its good fortune by seiz-ing the offensive momentum in the opening min-utes of the second half. A pass from Soony Saad, Hamoody’s brother, found an unmarked Alex Wood at the top of the box. This time it was sheer placement that guided Woods’ shot from 15 yards out and gave the Wolverines the lead.
That goal opened up the offensive floodgates for Michigan.
NU’s defense, playing without usual starters in
sophomore center back Jarrett Baughman and fresh-man left back Scott Lakin, had trouble containing the Saad brothers and Meram, who together combined for 29 of Michigan’s 37 goals this season.
Hillgard has helped to anchor the defense with senior veteran Cody Stanley since Baughman went down with a concussion against Ohio State in early October, but Lakin’s absence caused Lenahan to shuffle around his back line once again. Junior Peter O’Neill switched from his usual right back to fill in for Lakin and sophomore John Rogers filled out the back four.
“There were obviously plays where we just broke down,” Hillgard said. “But for some of the game we did do a very good job containing them, especially given all the injuries we’re dealing with.”
Less than two minutes after Woods’ goal, Soony Saad notched an insurance goal for Michigan off a
Meram cross. Then in the 64th minute, Hamoody Saad set up Meram for a goal from 10 yards out to put the game out of reach.
Kupe would manage one more response for NU, with a volleyed goal in the 83rd minute off a cross from sophomore Nick Gendron to cut the final deficit to two.
The loss means NU is facing yet another must-win situation at the Big Ten Tournament at Penn State on Thursday when they will face the hosts in the opening round. The Cats earned a No. 5 seed in the tournament.
“Now it’s do or die. We’re the only team that really needs to win,” Lenahan said. “Five other teams are playing for seeding, so we’re a team backed up against a wall. I think we’re going to respond.”
Controversial hand ball no-call gives Michigan its first goalFrom Men’s soccer, page 12
town on Saturday.The Cats came out of the gate looking exactly like
the team that trounced Illinois, posting no attack errors en route to a 25-16 set victory.
It became clear in the second, however, that the Badgers had no intention of going away quietly.
Wisconsin bounced back from their disappoint-ing first frame by edging the Cats out in the second, winning the final three points to take the set 25-22. In the third, the Badgers maintained a large margin throughout, taking the set easily by a score of 25-17.
NU found itself in the fourth set. Coming out fresh off the intermission, the Cats ran up a 14-4 tally early, and though Wisconsin would stage a small rally, NU
took the set comfortably 25-21.The final frame was a sports fan’s dream. After 10
ties, four lead changes and five separate match points, the Badgers eked out the win, taking the deciding set 21-19.
“Wisconsin played really well,” Chan said. “I just think that we weren’t as crisp as we were last night. Wisconsin looked good.”
In the loss, Moffett posted a career-high in kills with 27. Senior outside hitter Christina Kaelin added 12 kills, while Johnson recorded 11 in the losing effort.
The Cats now face four straight away matches, beginning next weekend in the Hoosier State against Purdue and Indiana.
Moffett posts career-high 27 kills in five-set loss to WisconsinFrom volleyball, page 12
”“ SPORTSSPORTSSPORTSTuesday, November 9, 2010 page 12
NU drops heated match 4-2
Cats upset No. 6 Illinois, get upset by Wisconsin
By Colin Becht the daily northwestern
It doesn’t take a tremendous lapse in sanity to imagine Northwestern at 9-0, � rst in the Big Ten and rising up the Bowl Championship Series rankings.
Coach Pat Fitzgerald said the Wild-cats are only 45 minutes of football away from that exact reality.
“We’ve had three bad quarters that have cost us games,” he said.
ose three bad quarters, the fourth quarters against Purdue and Michigan State and the third quarter Saturday against Penn State, are the reason NU is 6-3 and unranked rather than unde-feated and in the BCS hunt.
In all three of their losses, the Cats have led in the second half, even as late as the � nal two minutes against Michigan State . NU let second-half leads of seven, 10 and 14 slip against the Boilermakers, Spartans and Nit-tany Lions, respectively.
“ ere’s one common theme: We didn’t make a lot of plays in the second half of both those games,” Fitzgerald said. “We were driving to win the game against Purdue and shot ourselves in the foot. Against Michigan State we had the opportunity for a bunch of plays and didn’t make them. e same thing on Saturday.”
In the three quarters Fitzgerald highlighted, the Cats were outscored a combined 49-3.
Senior defensive tackle Corbin Bry-ant said the Cats’ collapse in Happy Valley was the most complete of the three across both sides of the ball.
Only three quarters short
See FOOTBALL, page 10
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King Kupe: Oliver Kupe scored both of NU’s goals in the team’s 4-2 loss to Michigan, giving him a team-leading 10 goals overall.
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Moye Bueno: Penn State wide receiver Derek Moye beat the NU secondary deep en route to a 36-yard touchdown catch in the third quarter. The reception tied the game at 21-21 and accounted for seven of the Nittany Lions’ 35 unanswered points after the Cats started the game with a 21-0 lead.
ON THE RECORDNow it’s do or die, we’re the only
team that really needs to win.— Men’s soccer coach Tim Lenahan,
on NU’s NCAA Tournament odds
ON DECKVolleyball
NU at Purdue, 6 p.m. FridayMen’s Basketball
NU at Northern Illinois, 8 p.m. Friday
By Katherine Driessen the daily northwestern
On a night intended to honor its steady senior class, Northwestern’s volatile 4-2 loss to Michigan made for something of an ill-� tting tribute.
Any traces of the sentimentality present during the pregame ceremony at Lakeside Field on Saturday had van-ished by the � nal whistle, along with NU’s hopes of securing a crucial sec-ond-place seed in this week’s Big Ten Tournament — now a must-win if the Wildcats to want to claim a bid in the NCAA Tournament.
It was arguably NU’s (8-7-2, 2-3-1 Big Ten) most heated game this season thanks to 37 fouls, seven yellow cards, one red card, four straight Michigan (11-4-3, 4-2-0) goals and a smattering of question-able o� ciating .
“ ere’s always a lot of excitement going into this game,” senior center back Jack Hillgard said . “Walking through that line and giving all the guys on the team a hug — it just means so much. I was proud of the way we played in that � rst half, but a� er that it seemed like things just, well, they died down a bit.”
NU was very much alive in the opening stanza, possessing � uidly in the mid� eld and mounting ample o� ensive pressure.
Just eight minutes into the match, senior mid� elder Matt Eliason beat his defender on the right � ank to � re o� a well-placed cross from the endline that skimmed its way to the foot of junior forward Oliver Kupe at the top of the six-yard box. Kupe � red it up and over Michigan goalie Chris Blais to put away
By Dan Ryan the daily northwestern
A� er a weekend of jubilation and heartbreak, Northwestern showed just how � ckle the sports gods can be in spite of putting together NCAA Tournament-worthy performances.
No. 24 NU (17-8, 7-7 Big Ten) shocked then-No. 6 Illinois (20-4, 12-2) Friday night in Evanston, sweeping the Big Ten leader 3-0 before dropping an epic � ve-set match against Wisconsin (15-10, 4-10) Saturday night. e win against the Illini marks the � rst time the Cats have beaten their in-state rivals in three sets since 1984.
“It was a great match,” senior middle blocker Sabel Mo� ett said. “We just came out on � re, and we knew what we needed to accomplish this weekend. We set our goals high. We were aiming for a sweep, and we got that.”
e match was an opportunity for NU to put itself on the map nationally and silence the doubters a� er losing � ve of its previous six contests.
e Cats were on their game from the opening serve, building up a quick 10-5 advantage in the � rst set. Although the Illini would rally to pull within two, NU never gave up its lead, eventually taking the set 25-22.
From there, the Cats played practically � awless volleyball.
A� er recording � ve hitting errors in the opening frame, NU improved upon an already dominant � rst set by commit-ting none for the rest of the match. Mo� ett and senior middle blocker Naomi John-son led the way, combining for 26 kills and no errors throughout the entire contest.
“I don’t want to say I was upset with our performance versus Illinois last time,”
Johnson said. “I just felt like I could’ve had a little higher hitting percentage, and I just personally came into this match want-ing to play the best that I could play. We really wanted to take it to them as the middles.”
is is exactly what the Cats did for the rest of the match.
Although Illinois seemed to � nd its stride in the second set, at one time build-ing up a � ve-point lead, NU simply could not be contained. Behind the performance of their senior middles, the Cats roared back with a 7-1 run and held the Illini o� late, taking the set 25-23.
In the � nal frame, NU trailed for all of one point, building a 10-6 lead and hold-ing Illinois o� until the end, taking the set 25-20 and, with it, the match.
Senior setter Elyse Glab recorded her 4,500th career assist in the win, making her only the third player in program his-tory to reach the mark.
“ is time of year it’s all about your players,” coach Keylor Chan said. “Our players knew what was on the line, and they played some great volleyball.”
A� er their dismantling of now-No. 9 Illinois, NU looked to have a sure week-end sweep with unranked Wisconsin in
See VOLLEYBALL, page 11
See MEN’S SOCCER, page 11
Daily fi le photo by Gabriel Peal
Happy helper: Elyse Glab recorded her 4,500 career assist against Illinois, becoming only the third player at NU to reach the mark.
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Letting leads slip becoming a pattern for Cats
