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When Melissa Riepe transferred to Northwestern from the University of Miami last year, she said she hoped to find a strong environmental education pro-gram.
One year and one major change later, the Wein-berg senior has become one of many students advo-cating for an increase in environmental academic programs.
“The programs are really weak,” Riepe said. “They don’t compare to other peer schools.”
Because of widespread concerns like these, the Associated Student Government has formed a joint committee with the Students for Ecological and En-vironmental Development , ASG Academic Director Muhammad Safdari said. The Environmental Educa-tion Committee will ensure students’ perspectives are included in reforming NU’s environmental cur-riculum. But many students said while the committee will be an important addition to the green initiatives already established at NU, it is just a piece of the puz-zle. The University at large is also tackling its own in-terdepartmental conflicts, making a unified sustain-ability effort difficult.
WHAT NU HAS The number of environmental courses, and the
students who enroll in them, has doubled within the past four years, Riepe said. For example, the Envi-ronmental Policy and Culture program within Wein-berg has increased course offerings from only three last year to 11 this year, said Prof. Yael Wolinsky , di-rector of the program.
But Safdari said this increased interest is proof the University needs to allocate more resources to envi-ronmental education.
“If you want a career in environmental policy, it’s unclear what you should major in at NU,” the Wein-berg senior said.
NU offers a minor in Environmental Policy and
SafeRide extends hours, will hire employees
Eco-major, programs in demand
See ENVIRONMENT, page 5
By LILIA HARGIS THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN
With 10 vehicles and longer hours of operat ion, Sa feR ide could soon provide 400 rides per night, SafeRide Coordinator Paul David Shrader said. This is about 50 more than was possible in the beginning of the quarter.
As a result of a budget in-crease, SafeRide now operates from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. and is cur-rent ly in the process of hiring new drivers and adding new ve-hicles to its service, he said.
Vice President for Student Af-
fa irs Wi l l iam Banis and Vice President for Business and Fi-nance Eugene Sunshine made the decision to increase the budget for SafeRide, Shrader said.
Banis sent an e-mail to the student body on Oct. 23 announc-ing SafeRide’s extended hours in response to the elevated crime level in Evanston. Banis did not answer an e-mail and could not be reached by phone at the end of last week.
While the recent change was a quick one, there has been previ-ous interest in expanding SafeR-ide, Shrader said.
But it was not a University budget priority, and last winter the 2009 SafeRide budget was cut by $45,000, THE DAILY reported in January.
In addition to increases in hir-ing and hours of operation, Saf-eRide will likely be buying a new Toyota Prius soon and has added an NU motor pool van to its f leet, Shrader said. This would mean SafeRide can consistently have 10
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Peter Koerner, a Weinberg senior, works as a SafeRide dispatcher. SafeRide has recently received a budget increase after its operating budget was decreased by $45,000 last winter. See SAFERIDE, page 7
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π SafeRide attempts to meet demand with new drivers, more vehicles
“I feel bad when I have to give a ride to a group of
three guys who are using it as a convenience…”
Lucy HuntSafeRide dispatcher
Dia de los Muertos or “Day of the Dead” is celebrated each year in Mexico and among Latin Americans in the United States. The holiday originated from ancient Aztec rituals that honored the dead through private altars with their favorite foods and beverages. Sheil Catholic Center held a bilingual mass Sunday, as part of Hispanic Heritage month, to celebrate Dia de los Muertos. Mass attendees wrote the names of deceased family members in a public ledger and placed pic-tures of them on a display set up in the center.
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THE WEEk AhEAdA look at upcoming events, on campus and off
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4 p.m. - 5 p.m. Improving Prediction of Random Epidemic Outbreaks, Technological Institute M4166:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Italian film, "L'Avventura," Main Library Forum Room
10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Robert Motherwell: An Attitude Toward Reality, From the Col-lection of the Walker Art Center, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art Main Gallery
2 p.m. - 5 p.m. Study Abroad Fair, Louis Room South in Norris University Center6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. One Book Science Cafe, "Climate Change Politics: Connecting the Dots," Celtic Knot Public House, 626 Church St. 7:30 p.m. A&O Films Sneak-Preview: "The Flying Scissors," Swift Hall 107
8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Climate Change Symposium, McCormick Tribune Center4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. "My Prison, My Home: One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran," Rebecca Crown Center Hardin Hall
7 p.m. - 10 p.m. Afropollo!, Ryan Fam-ily Auditorium7:30 p.m. - 10 p.m. Northwestern Uni-versity Percussion Ensemble, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Exercise, diet change effective in delaying onset of type 2 diabetes
The Diabetes Prevention Program, a research center whose participants in-clude Northwestern, the University of Chicago and the University of Miami, re-leased new results last week regarding avoiding the development of type 2 diabe-tes. The study, whose participants were all at high risk for developing the illness, showed two ways to help push back its de-velopment. Those who changed their life-styles with regards to diet and exercise delayed the onset of type 2 diabetes by an average of four years, while those who took the medicine Metformin averaged a two-year delay.
Group-oriented culture decreases chance of developing depression
Depression, according to a recent NU study, has as much to do with where a person is raised as their genes. The study, released last week, said a person who lives in a culture focusing on group success is much less likely to develop depression than a person who lives in a society focus-ing on individual goals.
The study does not dispute the com-mon belief that a person’s genes are the most important aspect in depression bouts. It does say, however, that the de-pression genes are more likely to come out
in the individualistic societies, specifi-cally Western cultures.
Chemistry professor’s Halloween show brings dancing to classroom
Chemistry Prof. Eberhard Zwergel daz-zled crowds of students with explosions, fires and other bits of scientific trickery at his annual Halloween show Friday. The show was presented during Zwergel’s 9 a.m., 10 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. freshman chemistry classes. Students not in the class were welcome to attend if they could find seating. The show, which was a series of experiments, included music and dancing. Student performance groups including Tonik Tap, the Ladycats and the NU marching band participated in the show.
Younger doctors more likely to preemptively diagnose kidney illness
A n NU st udy relea sed la st week showed younger doctors are more likely to refer patients to doctors for preemptive kidney surgery than experienced doctors. The study, conducted between March 2007 and May 2009, concluded older doc-tors may lack knowledge regarding pre-emptive transplants, and suggested train-ing for doctors with more years on the job.
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A photo in Friday's edition incor-rectly identified volleyball player Elyse Glab. The photo was from 2006 and showed Lauren Green.
The Daily regrets the error.
H1N1 vaccinations come to Evanston, to be administered soon
Evanston received a shipment of H1N1 vaccines Thursday , said Evonda Thomas, di-rector of the city’s Department of Health and Human Services .
The city received 5,000 doses of the inject-able vaccine and 5,000 doses of the nasal spray vaccine. The department had originally expected to receive the shipment in mid-Oc-tober .
“We are planning on doing vaccination clinics November 7th and November 8th as the vaccine is available,” Thomas said.
The city will hold free vaccination clinics at Evanston Township High School , 1600 Dodge Ave., for residents identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as high-risk “priority groups,” including preg-nant women, students and parents of young
children . Thomas said she expects there to be
enough vaccines to accommodate the city’s at-risk populations. After priority groups are vaccinated, the Department of Health and Human Services will determine how to dis-tribute vaccinations for other populations de-pending on the vaccine’s availability.
Safety concerns over flu outbreak lead to closing of local school
St. Athanasius School , 2510 Ashland Ave., closed Oct. 23 and re-opened Oct. 27 after several students showed flu-like symptoms, said Susan Castagna , the school’s principal. Closing the school for a couple of days was an effort to try to get the virus out of the build-ing, she said.
“Flu-like symptoms can be contagious,” she said. “We wanted to not only let those
children to recover, but also let their siblings stay home.”
Before closing, the school had seen a higher number of absences due to sickness earlier in the week. There were also more ab-sences than usual when the school re-opened Tuesday, but attendance levels are back to normal numbers, Castagna said.
The school “is still continuing to be care-ful” by disinfecting surfaces daily, providing anti-bacterial lotion in facilities and using gloves.
“Swine flu seems to be what is going around now,” Castagna said, noting that it is not yet the time of year for seasonal influenza.
The city has also announced free school-based vaccination clinics for students, teach-ers and staff members at 20 Evanston schools, including St. Athanasius and ETHS. Vaccina-tion clinics for Northwestern community members will be held Nov. 17, Nov. 18 and Nov. 19 with school identification.
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Nanoscience’s ability to improve health care is hot topic at symposium
The International Institute for Nanotech-nology’s annual day-long symposium returned to Northwestern on Thursday, this time with an emphasis on educating the 660 registered attendees on how cutting-edge nanoscience may revolutionize the health care industry.
This year’s event, “Nanotechnology in Biol-ogy and Medicine,” was held in the Hotel Or-rington, 1710 Orrington Ave., and featured seven distinguished speakers from schools around the country including Stanford and Pennsylvania State universities. The presenta-tions pertained to the theme of implementing nanoscale research into the medical field.
While the seven speakers collectively cov-ered a wide array of nanoscale medical tech-nologies, they each reported on their specific research. One of the talks focused on how nanoscience breakthroughs may hold the key
to transforming the way scientists develop drugs to combat cancer.
KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM PROFESSORS:• Prof. Chad Mirkin, director of the Interna-
tional Institute for Nanotechnology , a joint ven-ture between NU and the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory, and a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology , discusses the sym-posium and his work.
The International Institute for Nanotechnol-ogy unites more than $445 million in nanotech-nology research, educational programs and in-frastructure. Each year, the institute organizes and sponsors a symposium that relates to current science topics in which nanotechnology has made significant advances, he said.
“This symposium not only focuses on nano-science and nanotechnology, but how it impacts biology and health care,” Mirkin said. “Many of the discoveries that are being presented here are going to be the next wave of diagnostic, imaging and therapeutic tools used by the health care profession.”
“(This includes) anything ranging from the development of tools for tracking cancer at early stages to new types of therapies for many types of cancers that currently can’t be treated,” Mir-kin said.
• The Institute’s yearly symposium is free of charge and accessible and engaging to both sci-entists and lay people, said C. Shad Thaxton, co-chair of the event and an assistant professor of urology at the Feinberg School of Medicine.
“We’re trying to cover a broad amount of in-formation that is understandable … to not only scientists, but the public as well,” he said. “I think (everyone) can get a good feel for what’s … going on in nanotechnology.”
Although nothing specific has been laid out yet, the theme of next year’s symposium will re-late to one of nanotechnology’s contributions to other scientific fields, Thaxton said.
“The wonderful thing about nanotechnology is its (amount) of applications and (the number of) fields that it impacts,” he said.
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Prof. Chad Mirkin, director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology, spoke at the institute’s day-long symposium at NU on Thursday at the Hotel Orrington.
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Dave’s Down to Earth Rock Shop is a hoard of such gems. It also totes minerals, fossils and artifacts that are rare where they’re found and rarer around Chicago.
“See the Alexandrite that’s right in here?” accountant Susanne Ali said, shuffling past a wall covered in beaded necklaces and pro-ducing two tiny white gems costing several hundred dollars — one of the store’s most ex-pensive items and the rarest gem on the planet. “Those are really fantastic.”
Most of the items can’t be found for hun-dreds of miles — some can’t be found in this part of the world. That’s because Dave Doug-lass, the owner, spends a lot of time away
from his own shop, 704 Main St., trad-ing and collecting in far away places. He handpicks everything in the shop.
It is a hunt that consumes a lot of Douglass’s time, and his passion is one that has taken him to South Dakota, Wyoming, Oregon, Washington, Utah, New Mexico, Europe and North Af-rica.
“Fossil collecting has been my hobby since I was a kid, since I was 8 years old,” he said, recalling the first time his family took him fossil-hunt-ing.
As a teenager, a genus of scorpion that was later named after Douglass only spurred his passion.
“It was really exciting,” he said. “Having your name go down in sci-ence, you know?”
Douglass attended Northwestern and took a year of geology courses. As a sophomore in 1970, he started the rock
shop and continued his education part-time.He eventually discontinued it altogether
because Douglass said he found classroom geology uninteresting. He wanted to be in the dirt, picking through rocks himself.
“You crack open a rock, and you’re the first person in the world to see what’s in-side,” he said.
Douglass started the shop in 1970 at a smaller location on Chicago Avenue. He met his wife two years later, and in 1981 they moved the shop to its present location on Main Street.
The shop may be brimming with gems and stones, but the most precious items are beneath it, where Douglass’s public museum touts fossils — many of which he unearthed himself — representing all major periods of
Earth’s history.Among the collection: dinosaur footprints,
bones, 30-million-year-old insects encased in amber, mammoth and saber-tooth tiger mate-rial and a complete 20,000-year-old bear skeleton.
“About half of it we dug up ourselves,” Douglass said. “The other half we’ve traded for or purchased over the years.”
Customers range from crusty rock collec-tors to spiritualists to people just looking for a gift from this unusual shop.
“It’s an eclectic group of people,” employee Sean Robinson said. “A rock shop isn’t that common a thing, especially in the Midwest.”
Evanston rock store touts massive collection
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Dave’s Down to Earth Rock Shop, 704 Main St., holds a collection of rare gems, minerals, fossils and artifacts from around the world. Employee Sean Robinson (below) holds up a tourmaline liddicoatite crystal. The shop was founded in 1970 by owner Dave Douglass.
π Dave’s Down to Earth Rock Shop boasts a vast stock of gems and a museum in the basement
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Culture, courses through the Initiative for Sus-tainability and Energy at Northwestern — which is in its second year — and a major in Environmental Science.
Communication senior Ben Singer took his first Initiative for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern course last spring. He said he learned a lot, but was surprised there was no comprehensive effort at NU to create a major in environmental policy.
“Why don’t we consolidate EPC and ISEN and offer a major?” Singer said. “People want that.”
Safdari said he thinks NU will eventually address the lack of an environmental policy major, and how to make the existing programs more cohesive. He added that getting under-graduates involved in revamping NU’s envi-ronmental education is important so students — not just professors and administrators — have a say in the changes.
Communication junior Elisa Redish, a SEED co-chair, has been working since last spring with co-chair Sam Eckland and Safdari to form the Environmental Education Com-mittee, which is still in the process of being created.
Redish said the committee hopes to pick out a chair within the next week and ideally come up with a proposal to present to the Uni-versity within the year.
Joining the committee will be similar to joining any other ASG committee, Safdari said, adding that anyone regardless of major or background can show interest. However, the makeup of the committee will be more pre-cisely determined once the chair has been chosen.
Safdari described the committee has a “think thank,” and added that the commit-tee will evaluate the environmental educa-tion NU offers, determine what students want and research what other peer schools are doing.
“It’s hard to tackle what needs to be done because there are so many problems,” Riepe said. “There’s the fact that they’re all separate
programs.”
FragmentationRedish described her experience matricu-
lating as a freshman interested in environmen-tal issues as a “wild goose chase.”
“The programs are very disconnected,” Re-dish said. “It’s not like there’s one building — which would be nice — where everyone can connect.”
Riepe said at the administrative level, there has been significant resistance to combining programs or collaborating.
“(Administrators) want to change the pro-grams the way they want to, not the way the students want,” Riepe added.
But Wolinsky said she thinks there has been more coordination and communication recently between the different programs.
“It’s a challenge because we are a program, not a department,” Wolinsky said. “There’s not faculty primarily in the program apart from me — that is difficult. It has some limitations in advising.”
Wolinsky added that the different fac-ulty involved with the programs are begin-
ning to connect through faculty commit-tees, such as the committee for Environ-mental Policy and Culture, which includes a co-director of Environment Science. But there are still issues, like resource alloca-tion and professor retention, out of the pro-gram’s control.
“We’re not only having problems with classes and curriculums, but we’re losing faculty — and that’s a problem,” Safdari said. “We have a situation where people just happen to be teaching about the environ-ment.”
The faculty for the Environmental Policy and Culture program, Wolinsky said, comes from different departments throughout the University. She added that the program has faced difficulties as several faculty members in the social sciences who both researched and taught environmental issues have retired and were replaced by faculty who do not specialize in this area.
“We’re feeling pressure,” Wolinsky said. “We’re trying to offer more courses, but im-portant faculty are retiring. There’s a pretty big hole that’s not being filled.”
nU & the FUtUre Redish said compared to its peer institu-
tions, NU is lagging behind. Other universi-ties, from Loyola to Yale, offer more unified programs and relevant environmental majors.
But Wolinsky said comparing NU to other schools is an unstable calculation.
“ T here is a lot of var iat ion among schools partly because different universi-ties have different histories of environ-mental studies,” Wolinsky said. “Some like Michigan or Yale have curricula they’re expanding from. Other schools, like us or the University of Chicago, have no such history. We have a different starting point, more to build.”
Prof. David Dunand, co-director of the Initiative for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern , has a different perspective of NU’s progress. He said he thinks NU is doing well compared to its peers, and that NU has done “extremely well” in environmental re-search across the country. He added that the initiative is able to offer classes across all of NU’s schools, something few universities of-fer.
“Because we’re cross-cutting through schools, students from six different schools were in one class last year,” Dunand said. “We were proud to have such diversity.”
Still, students continue to voice concerns over how to create a unified, cohesive, compa-rable environmental program. Students ac-knowledge that change won’t happen over-night, but still hope NU will eventually have more to offer.
“There is progress,” Riepe said. “It’s just frustrating for a lot of students because we’re only here for four years so we feel like not a lot is happening. It’s really frustrating that other schools seem to be ahead of us.”
Students seek better environmental coursesFrom ENviroNmENt, page 1
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ASG formed a joint committee with SEED, the Environmental Education Committee, to ensure that students’ perspectives are included in any reform of NU’s environmental policy curriculum. Interdepartmental conflicts have made it difficult for some students to find a major that suits their interests in environmental issues. Muhammed Safdari, (above, center) the ASG academic director, works with the committee.
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It’s Game 3 of the Series, the count is 0-1 and you’re 0 for 9. You are due. No, I’m not talking about A-
Rod’s stats before his miraculous double-turned-homer from Satur-day’s game. These are the stats of the average Northwestern guy on a typi-cal night out.
The current female prospect is throwing strikes like Cole Hamels in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series.
Here comes the next pitch:“I have to go find my friends.” Ouch. It was only the second
pitch and she struck you out looking. Wait. What? This is baseball. You
can’t strike out in only two pitches! Unfortunately, boys, this isn’t real
baseball. In this game, you don’t get three strikes before you’re out. Heck, you don’t even get the occasional walk to first anymore. You have to bring your A-game for every pitch and earn every base hit.
Girls are good at shutting guys down. Those little one-line rejections are like 100 mile-per-hour fastballs on the outside corner. You don’t even realize she threw the ball until she walks off the mound (or in this case off the dance floor) and the shame of a strikeout sinks in.
“Guys think they have three strikes,” said a female NU grad stu-dent. “And if a girl can shut (a guy) down in one pitch by being a (witch), it just shortens the game.”
This doesn’t seem right. How can you be expected to get a hit the min-ute you step up to the plate?
“It really isn’t fair,” said a male NU alum. “Girls don’t feel like they have time to waste on an entire at-bat, and guys feel entitled to their full time at the plate. Because the truth is, you can’t strike out in one pitch.”
Measuring the pitcher’s delivery takes at least a couple pitches and then there’s matching bat speed to delivery.
“It may not be his best material or his best day on the field, but shouldn’t he be given three attempts to hit it out of the park?” the alum asked.
Certainly girls could let guys stay alive at the plate, but five foul balls is just a waste of everyone’s time. Or girls can work their game well into the night to get free drinks until they are the Mariano Rivera of the rejec-tion bullpen. I mean, who doesn’t want to be one of the best — if not the best — closers in the sorority (I mean, league?).
Girls are stepping up the compe-tition and right now, I’m not seeing many Derek Jeters, Manny Ramirezs or Big Papis (regardless of steroids) up to the challenge. To get the girl you’re going to need more than a winning smile and the swagger of a champion.
So guys, you better hit the cages. If girls are just looking to improve their ERA, the game is only going to get more difficult. (Especially with the new replay technology — you might not get lucky like A-Rod.)
MAHENJill
Family farewell to college years
This Family Weekend was the first of many lasts as our daughter embarks on her senior year at Northwestern. As we pulled out of the driveway to take that familiar seven-hour trip to the big city, we were filled with excitement and a little sadness to being spending our last Family Weekend with our daughter, her friends and the lifelong friends we have made at NU.
The word “friend” includes not just the people, but the familiar experiences and events we have made into tradition in the past four years. Oh yes, this includes familiar faces, such as the hotel clerk who knows us by name now, and the waiter at Clarke’s where we eat the best breakfast in town. It includes eating dinner with the parents of our daughter’s best friend and her family as well. I can’t forget the “sons and daughters” we’ve ad-opted along the way through our daughter’s friend-ships, who have become like family not just to her, but to us, too.
The experiences have become tradition and make us feel at home: hopping on the El and en-joying conversation on the way to our favorite shopping spots on Michigan Avenue, and ending the day with the sunset view from the top of the John Hancock Center. Cheering on the Wildcats from our end zone seats, sipping hot chocolate and humming the tune to the fight song because I still don’t know the words. Taking a walk along the lake shore, viewing the beauty of the campus in the full color of fall. Walking past the Rock on the way back to see how crazy it has been painted. Cross-ing through the Arch just to say you did. Buying a new sweatshirt at the campus bookstore, or maybe two or three this time because it’s our last year here. Seeing your child have the time of her life and living it through her eyes.
These are just a few of the things we will miss when our daughter takes her final walk in her cap and gown next spring. As we dropped her off be-fore the long trip back home, we said out loud and know it for sure — what we had been hoping four years ago when we left her with tears in our eyes for the first time — Northwestern is a great place! Thanks for the memories!
— rene aBelsmother of medill senior Jessica abels
Feds shouldn’t nose into lives
I understand there are times when it becomes necessary to act covertly to avoid influencing people’s behaviors. For instance, you’ll never catch the person falsely claiming welfare
benefits if you approach them openly about it. They’ll cover their tracks and you’ll be lost.
But does Big Brother really need to step in when I forget to recycle my newspaper?
The triviality is best summed up in a quote in The New York Times from Jenny Paton, a British mother investigated for allegedly falsifying her ad-dress so her daughter could attend a neighborhood school: “As far as I’m concerned, they’re within their rights to scrutinize all applications, but the way they went about it was totally unwarranted,” she said. “If they’d wanted any information, they could have come and asked.”
Asking — what an interesting concept.
— peTer larsonmedill freshman
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Blackface displays lack of racial respect at NU
Northwestern community: It is time we real-ize the significance of our actions. It is time every person becomes conscious of the effects his or her behavior has on an entire community of peo-ple. I am writing about the incessant and contin-uous racialized demonstrations of authority and dominance presented by the entire NU commu-nity and our society at large.
The most recent incident, the cause for this letter, was on the night of Oct. 31, Halloween, when certain white members of the NU commu-nity dressed up as black people. In an attempt to resemble a black person, someone painted his entire body black.
If you do not know the history of these ac-tions, all you need to know is one word to under-stand the disgusting behavior this person em-bodied — that word is blackface. Blackface has, surprisingly enough, been on this campus before. Two years ago, a very similar incident occurred, pointing to the lack of insight of the people in the NU community to make a conscious movement toward combating race problems.
In our modern era, the history of blackface continuously goes unnoticed and unchallenged, and I am taking this opportunity to bring it to light. It extends back to the roots of slavery when white actors would paint their faces black and lips red or white during minstrel shows to mock the physical appearance African Americans. The fact that blackface is still being used points to the lack of character of not only those that took part in the despicable behavior. It also points to those around them for their lack of agency, individual-ity and character to stand up against this person and tell them to remove his black paint.
We as a community must take the responsi-bility to defy the oppressive nature of our past if we are ever to move past notions of race. This act was not merely an act of discrimination or even racism; it highlights the severe need of a society to face demons of its past AND present to make a
new journey. Images like these not only serve to dehuman-
ize all members of the black community at NU and abroad, but it points to the lack of respect for one’s peers and illuminates a mentality held by a multitude of people at NU. The humor attempted by the situation is merely a facetious attempt to mask the underlying notions of race and pack-ages the disgusting behavior into a loathing, sa-tirical state of mind, exploiting the lack of a black student body on this campus while using the ad-vantages privilege has given certain communities on campus.
The incident shows this person lacks the con-viction and grounding to recognize there are other people at this University, and he also feels comfortable enough — meaning, more specifi-cally, there would be no repercussions or conse-quences for his actions — to walk around and mock an entire population of people within the very closed, ignorant, arrogant, privileged world that NU seems to give to its community.
We must realize everything we do is a state-ment. Everyone in this community must recog-nize the inexcusable actions of our peers. Every-one must realize these acts cannot be dissociated from an oppressive, racist American past or from the seemingly benign racial state we live in. It is all connected.
We shouldn’t forget a student last academic year felt the effects of (alleged) racial profiling by the NU Police Department; more importantly, that was this year, the year 2009. We shouldn’t forget the fact that there have been many other unnoticed incidents of racial discrimination on this campus with not only black men, but also with black women, and Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, and Muslim peoples as well.
Everyone must take a collective stand, as pro-gressions can’t be made if we’re separate forever.
— kellyn lewisWeinberg sophomore
Political action committee co-head and graduate & alumni liaison, for members only
member, coalition of colors
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cars operating on its busiest nights. Though Shrader could not say for cer-
tain the SafeRide expansion was a direct response to the recent robberies of NU students, he said these incidents have in-creased the number of students who use the SafeRide service.
“I have been driving to help cover on (short-staffed) days, and people have men-tioned these incidents multiple times as their reason for taking SafeRide,” Shrader said.
SafeRide dispatcher Lucy Hunt said she has also noticed a significant increase in the number of calls she receives on a nightly ba-sis since the robberies occurred. She added that she is glad students are making use of SafeRide to stay safe, but some students
still abuse the service.“I feel bad when I have to give a ride to
a group of three guys who are using it as a convenience rather than someone walking alone,” she said.
W hi le Sa feR ide i s s l ig ht ly “shor t-staffed” at present, 13 new drivers have already been hired this year and Shrader said he is looking to hire six to eight more
in the near future.These new hires will eventually help
expand SafeRide’s capacity, but the post-hire training process is extensive. Com-munication senior Melissa Roer was hired at the end of last year as a SafeRide driver. She said in addition to passing a driving test, new SafeRide employees must work three shifts with another driver in the car before their first solo shift.
This year, Shrader has also received ap-proval to accept applications from recent NU alumni in addition to current students.
“A lot of (alumni) have expressed inter-est, and I have gotten one or two applica-tions,” he said. “For people who have re-cently graduated, it is a great way to sup-plement their income.”
The extended SafeRide hours are a change for current employees, since the
old shifts were seven hours in the winter and six hours during Daylight Savings time.
Hunt, a Weinberg senior, said drivers have worked hard to adjust to this change.
“We have never had a shift this long, so we have made longer breaks for drivers, and now people split shifts more often,” Hunt said. SafeRide drivers work from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. or 11 p.m. to 3 a.m., she added.
Drivers understand the need for the extended shift, Roer said.
“Obviously (eight hours) is a long shift for any job, but we are hired to keep peo-ple safe and the extended shift does help improve safety,” she said.
SafeRide drivers adjust to new shift changesFrom SAFERIDE, page 1
“For people who have recently graduated, it is a great way to
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Paul David ShraderSafeRide coordinator
SEENANDHEARD (HALLOWEEN EDITION)
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Apparently the only way Northwestern knows how to play is either to grab an early lead and watch it disappear or to get in a deep hole in the first half and rally for the win. Scratch up another one for the former result.
This time, a 10-3 advantage against the No. 12 team in the country vanished thanks to the scariest moment of Halloween: a leg injury to quarterback Mike Kafka.
Filling in for the quarterback who means more to NU’s offense than Tim Tebow does for Florida’s was sophomore Dan Persa. Uh-oh.
It’s always hard to come off the bench for an injured starter (Kafka last year against Indiana), but Persa showed his inexperience and lack of decision-making ability in full force. Even the man himself admitted as much.
“I need to get better at throwing the ball away and not taking as many sacks,” Persa said.
He took four and made getting rid of the ball look dangerous and downright scary. Even if he might have thrown some dumb passes, Persa did not draw up the plays and was not responsible for the porous offensive line. He did his job as best he could, but he was still on the hook for Penn State’s ravish-ing fourth-quarter comeback.
Failing to muster a first down in the third quarter aside from a penalty helped create fantastic field position for the Nittany Lions, and the play calling didn’t help.
Why, why, why would you throw a six-yard pass on third-and-long against one of the nation’s best defenses? Trusting your re-ceivers for some yards after the catch is in-sane. Fourth-down and the ball does not travel in the air past the marker? John Mad-den would be all over the play calling if this was a video game. But it wasn’t.
The Wildcats failed to record a comple-tion that was more than 20 yards, and that was from some nice running by Scott Con-cannon. The ball was never aired out, even when something dynamic was needed to grab the momentum back from Penn State.
And it wasn’t the conditions. Persa said the wind was a non-factor for him.
But it was a big problem for Captain Cat.“You ever catch a ball in a wind like
that?” coach Pat Fitzgerald asked the media. I personally haven’t, because I am not a foot-ball player, but October was absurdly windy, and I believe the team practices outdoors in said wind.
But that wasn’t the real reason Jeravin Matthews dropped two kickoffs pinning the Cats deep in their territory. Penn State
played in the same wind and held on to all their kicks and punts.
“Unforturnately, Jeravin took his eyes off it a couple of times,” Fitzgerald later added.
Both of those drives had less than five plays and less than 30 yards. Both ensuing punts led to Penn State touchdowns.
By that point, relying on an inexperi-enced quarterback to rally his troops from 21 down was farcical. And Persa didn’t prove otherwise by under-throwing Drake Dun-smore to turn the ball over on downs and
later fumbling in the red zone to end the game. There were to be no Cardiac Cats.
Once again, a great first-half effort ended in a disappointing loss. With three games left and a bowl game looking more like a mi-rage, the only positive is the Cats have two games away from the Windy City to make something happen.
Muffed kick returns take wind out of NU’s sails
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NU’s kick returners had problems catching the ball in Saturday’s loss to Penn State, which coach Pat Fitzgerald partially attributed to the wind. Junior Stephen Simmons (left) mishandled a second quarter kickoff but picked the ball up and returned it 44 yards into Penn State territory. Sophomore Jeravin Matthews (right) could not hold onto either of his kickoffs in the fourth quarter. His first return went for a two-yard loss, and his second gained 11 yards.
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First: Northwestern received the opening kickoff and fumbled on its second play of the game. The Wildcats’ defense held strong, hold-ing the Nittany Lions to a 32-yard field goal. On NU’s second drive, it drove 65 yards in 17 play to set up a 34-yard boot by junior kicker Stefan Demos, tying the game at 3-3.
Second: NU struck first, driving 80 yards in eight plays, capped off by a seven-yard scamper by quarterback Mike Kafka. The senior faked an inside run, but took the ball himself and went untouched through the line. Penn State went three-and-out, but on its next drive Daryll Clark tied the game with a two-yard run of his own. The Cats got in field goal range twice late in the quarter, but one was blocked. NU went into halftime with a 13-10 advantage.
Third: After intermission, Penn State chewed up 5:38 off the clock and tied the game at 13 on a 23-yard kick by Collin Wag-ner. NU had the ball for less than four total minutes in the quarter, and punted on each of its possessions. The Cats struggled to move the ball without Kafka under center. NU net-ted two yards of total offense in the quarter.
Fourth: The Nittany Lions struck quickly and put the game out of reach. In less than a four-minute span, Penn State scored three touch-downs while NU punted three times. The first score was a two-yard run by Brandon Beachum. The second was a 53-yard fade to Derek Moye down the right sideline. And the third was a 69-yard run by Evan Royster, who went un-touched.
Quarter-by-QuarterKafka limped off the field with an apparent hamstring injury. When Kafka was sacked for a loss of one yard, it didn’t look like much, but it ended up being the turn-ing point of the game. The Cats struggled to move the ball with sophomore quarterback Dan Persa running the offense. The Nittany Lions brought blitz after blitz and Persa was under constant pressure.
It was Over when...
Kafka’s seven-yard run put Penn State in a first-quarter hole for the first time all season. It was also only the second rushing touchdown the Nittany Li-ons have surrendered all season. Kafka’s run put NU ahead and gave it the confidence to compete with one of the nation’s top teams.
An Inside Look at Northwestern vs. Penn State
Play Of the Game
Above: Pat Fitzgerald looks on as his team gets outscored 24-0 in the second half.Below: Junior kicker Stefan Demos kicks a 34-yard field goal.
Mike Kafka's touchdown run
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Emphasizing “the finish” during practice can only go so far. If this team can’t handle the adversity of a quarterback change, NU is not strong enough mentally. Fitzgerald and the players can deny the momentum changed when Kafka was injured all they want, but a simple eye test showed me when Kafka left, the team did not have the same look of confidence as earlier in the game.
If the defense gives up big plays at the most crucial juncture of the game, and the offense can’t pick up a yard on third-and-one, then NU is not strong enough physi-cally. That includes Persa, who short-armed and checked down so many passes he didn’t even give the offense a chance to move the chains. Backups on defense didn’t help mat-ters either — a Justan Vaughn-Brian Peters combination gave up the 53-yard touchdown pass to Derek Moye.
Fitzgerald threw out his typical answer to any adversity: “Pick up the f lag, time to move on.” And as much as I hate that saying (someone needs to tell Fitz it’s “pick up the slack”), in this case, he’s right.
Quarterback may be the most important
position on the field, but it’s not the only one. The offensive line needed to provide good pass protection, and it didn’t. Special teams needed to give the offense good field position, and it bobbled three kickoffs. The defense needed to keep the game close, and it gave up a 53-yard pass and a 69-yard run on consecu-tive one-play scoring drives.
So don’t talk about what could have been if Kafka were in the game. Through three quarters, NU was in a position to win. That includes a full quarter without Kafka in at quarterback, a special teams unit that wasn’t laughable and a defense that knew how to run a cover-2.
The quarterback position is over-analyzed. Don’t make it worse by pinning the loss on Kafka’s injury. This is a team game and it was a team loss. Who knows, next week’s game at Iowa could be Persa’s coming out party just like Minnesota was Kafka’s last year.
If that’s the case, everyone will see this game for what it really was — another example of the Cats’ inability to execute for a full game.
NU controlled Penn State’s powerful de-fense in the first half, racking up 246 yards of offense and 13 points. Coming into the game, the Nittany Lions were holding opponents to 240 yards of offense and nine points per game.
“When (Kafka) was in there, I don’t think they stopped us once,” Fitzgerald said. “We stopped ourselves a couple times. We had a good plan and were executing it pretty well.”
But NU’s offense couldn’t carry the mo-mentum into the second half. In the third quarter, the Cats totaled two yards of of-fense. Their only f irst down came on a Penn State penalty. Still, NU held the Nit-tany Lions to a field goal and the teams
went into the fourth quarter tied at 13.That was when the Nittany Lions put
the nail in the Cats’ coff in. Penn State scored three touchdowns in four minutes at the beginning of the final quarter. In that same span, the Cats compiled 35 yards of offense on seven plays.
“We didn’t do our job in the fourth quarter,” senior safety Brad Phillips said. “Penn State took advantage of it when we didn’t do our job, and they made plays.”
Part of NU’s problem in the second half was its offense’s inability to spread the field. Backup quarterback Dan Persa, a sophomore, threw for 86 yards in the third and fourth quarters combined. Kafka’s in-jury was all the change the Nittany Lions
needed, Paterno said.“The adjustment we made is their quarter-
back got hurt,” he said.The Nittany Lions altered their game plan
once they saw Kafka go down, going with a more aggressive style of defense. The move paid off, and they recorded four quarterback hurries and four sacks on Persa.
“I have to throw the ball away and not take big sacks,” Persa said. “A lot of times, on first and second down, normal downs, I would take a big sack and put us behind the chains. It ’s hard to convert third-and-15, third-and-10 plus.”
NU showed a reluctance to go to the air with Persa, who hadn’t thrown a pass since the first game of the season. In his first 18
minutes, Persa attempted nine passes while running seven times. After the Cats went down two scores with a little more than 10 minutes left in the fourth quarter, Persa threw 14 times and ran on three occasions.
While Fitzgerald was disappointed with the team’s second half play, it wasn’t the first time NU lost a late lead. Of their four losses, the Cats have only trailed once en-tering the fourth quarter.
“I feel like a broken record because that is what has been happening to us in games,” Phillips said. “We’ve been close, and teams have taken advantage of us when we haven’t done our jobs properly.”
they turned what had been a fiercely fought game into a blowout.
“It was big for us,” said Nittany Lions line-backer Sean Lee, who finished with a game-high 12 tackles. “The momentum went our way after that. … Once we were able to make some big plays like that, it kind of stalled them.” The loss to Penn State was the third consecutive game in which NU has allowed a touchdown on the first play of a drive. Indiana scored on the first play from scrimmage, when tailback Dar-ius Willis ran around the right end for 70 yards. The week before, Michigan State running back Larry Caper raced 22 yards into the end zone after a fumbled kickoff.
Despite the two major lapses, NU’s de-fense was impressive against Penn State, par-ticularly against the run. Royster had rushed for the second-most yards in the Big Ten go-ing into Saturday’s game, but he only gained 49 yards on his other 14 carries.
The emphasis on stopping the run did give Penn State some chances in the pass-ing game, though.
“They were stacking the box, and we were able to throw the ball,” Royster said. “We were able to go against their defensive backs, get some matchups that we liked and take advantage.”
That said, the Cats’ strategy helped pre-vent the Nittany Lions from consuming a lot of the clock. Penn State ranked third in the country in third down conversion percentage coming into Saturday’s game, but it moved the chains just three times in 10 attempts.
Ultimately, the Cats’ effort didn’t result in a victory. With a trip to No. 4 Iowa looming, NU can’t a f ford another bad quarter down the stretch.
“We played a great game for three quarters, but that’s just not enough to win a Big Ten game against a team like Penn State,” junior punter and kicker Stefan Demos said.
MCMANIS A LATE SCRATCHListed as questionable for Saturday’s
game, cornerback Sherrick McManis was unable to contribute against Penn State. A leg injury that has hampered the senior captain for most of the season sidelined him at the end of the first half in his previous game, and it did not heal enough during the week.
“Sherrick was a game-time decision,” senior safety Brad Phillips said. “What-ever was bothering him wasn’t feeling too well. Obviously when you want to go, you want to be able to go 100 percent.”
McManis also missed two contests ear-lier in the year, against Eastern Michigan and Syracuse. The Cats dropped to 1-2 in games without their top corner.
Meanwhile, sophomore Ricky Weina made the first start of his career and held his own. Weina was credited with a pass breakup, his second in two weeks, when he stepped in front of a pass in-tended for wide receiver Graham Zug in the end zone. That forced the Nittany Lions to settle for a field goal.
“He did pretty well,” Phillips said. “He did his job. From what I saw, he made a cou-ple of plays and was in the right place at the right time. I didn’t expect any less because of the way he played in practice this week.”
Weina was NU’s ninth different starter in the secondary this year and the 20th differ-ent one for the defense as a whole.
SMITH AND VAUGHN RETURN TO ACTIONFor the first time in weeks, the Cats’ hob-
bled secondary had the services of two famil-iar faces. Senior safety Brendan Smith, who had missed time with a broken thumb, played against the Nittany Lions with a cast on his hand. And after a leg injury kept him out of NU’s last five games, junior cornerback Justan Vaughn took the field and filled in for Jordan Mabin in the fourth quarter after the sophomore left with an injury.
“It looked like Justan was pretty active in the kicking game,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “Smitty, when he was out there, played pretty well. I can’t say they jumped out and made any big plays, but they went out there and gave us a chance to win.”
From fOOTball, page 12
Persa, Cats unable to generate offense in second half
Final quarter masks stout defense
Persa’s passing only part of problem
Secondary searching for stability
From nOTebOOk, page 12
From SidebaR, page 12
From chaPPaTTa, page 12
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Senior safety Brendan Smith holds up his left hand after a defensive stop. Injuries have plagued NU’s secondary, which has started nine different players this season.
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Two big plays in the fourth quarter put the game out of NU’s reach: first a 53-yard touchdown pass from Daryll Clark to Derek Moye (bottom) and then Evan Royster’s 69-yard touchdown run (top).
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Quarterback Dan Persa faced an aggressive Penn State pass rush. Persa was sacked four times and the offense couldn’t maintain a drive.
Deputy sports editor Brian Chappatta is a Medill junior. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Coach Bill Carmody is back for his 10th season in Evanston, fresh off one of the most successful seasons during his tenure. The Wildcats fin-ished 17-14 last year, and return all but one of the starting five. Forward Kevin Coble has led NU in scoring and rebounding each of the last three seasons and returns for his fourth, looking to lead the Cats to their first NCAA Tournament berth in school history. The team opens with a scrimmage on Wednesday against Robert Morris (Ill.) and starts the regular season on Nov. 13 against Northern Illinois.
WOMen’S bASkeTbALLThough NU won only seven games — three in conference play — in coach
Joe McKeown’s first season at the helm, it took significant strides to build-ing for the future. Junior center Amy Jaeschke averaged nearly 14 points and eight rebounds per game last year and constantly draws a double team in the deep post. In NU’s exhibition against Robert Morris (Ill.), it scored 119 points behind Brittany Orban’s 25-point effort. Freshman
Dannielle Diamant, one of McKeown’s prized recruits, added 18 points.
FencingSenior sisters Christa and Kayley French, both épéeists, are among
the nation’s best in their weapon. The twins, along with fellow senior épéeist Joanna Niklinska, will look to lead NU to its 10th straight top-10 finish. The Cats have finished seventh in the country each of the last two sea-sons. It won’t be easy given the graduation of foilist Sam Nemecek, but senior Meredith Baskies should step up in her absence. Coach Laurie Schiller is just 11 wins away from his 1,000th career victory.
Men’S SWiMMingJarod Schroeder has the duty of replacing NU legend and 20-year
coach Bob Groseth. The Cats finished eighth in the Big Ten last year, and lost senior Eric Nilsson, who broke the school record in the 200 free, to graduation. The young team has just three seniors and six ju-
niors, but seven freshmen. NU lost to Indiana 167-131 in its opening match of the season on Oct. 23.
WOMen’S SWiMMingNU battled valiantly against Indiana in their season-opening match, but lost
156-144. Senior Kassia Shishkoff will be critical to the Cats success this sea-son, as she can swim multiple events and distances. Coach Jimmy Tierney is back for his 16th season and will look for NU to improve on last year’s sev-enth-place conference finish.
WReSTLingThe 2009-10 season marks the beginning of life without Jake Herbert, a
two-time NCAA champion and the team’s leader for the last several seasons. Still, the team returns 157-pound sophomore Jason Welch and 125-pound senior Brandon Precin, both top wrestlers in their respective weight classes. NU closed last season ranked 13th nationally, its fifth consecutive top-15 finish. The Big Ten is always one of the toughest, if not the toughest, confer-ence in the country. The Cats open the season on Nov. 14.
Page11 A look ahead.
Read tomorrow’s DAILY to see how the volleyball team knocked off both Purdue and Indiana in five sets on the road this weekend.
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“I feel like a broken record because that is
what has been happening to us in games.”
Senior safety Brad Phillips, on late-game collapses
By DANNY DALYTHE DAILY NORTHWESTERN
Before Saturday’s game, winds of 15 mph were swirling around Ryan Field, with gusts of up to 25 mph. Northwestern’s special teams unit felt the effects early and often.
In the middle of the second quarter, the Wildcats faced fourth-and-three and sent
out the punt ing unit . B u t p u n t e r S t e f a n
Demos could not catch the snap, and Penn State’s linemen broke through before he managed to get a kick away.
Realizing the situation, senior superback Mark Woodsum took off upfield. Demos found
him for a nine-yard gain and a new set of downs.“I just dropped the snap,” Demos said. “The
wind was kind of messing with it a little bit. Luckily Mark did a really good job of adjusting. I was able to get a little shovel pass-off, but that was the farthest thing from a called fake.”
At least it was a better result than Demos’ previous pass attempt this season. In a win against Miami (OH), a botched snap on an extra point led to Demos trying to pick up the two-point conversion by throwing underhanded. That f loater was picked off, though Demos made a tackle to ensure the defender did not run the inter-ception back the other way for two points.
The kickoff return was another challenge.
The Cats dropped three of the seven they received — one slipped through the hands of junior Stephen Simmons in the first half, while sophomore Jeravin Matthews mishan-dled back-to-back kickoffs in the fourth quarter. While Simmons swiftly caught the ball on the bounce and ran it into Penn State territory, Matthews’ two mistakes pinned NU’s offense inside its own 20-yard line.
The changing direction of the wind made field goals hard to judge, too.
“I still can’t tell you — I have no idea what it was doing,” Demos said. “The first field goal, it started right down the middle and then, all of the sudden, you see (the wind) taking it off to the right and the flags
(on top of the uprights) blowing left.”Demos made that attempt, from 34 yards
away, as well as a 45-yard kick as time ex-pired in the first half. In between the two makes, he had a field goal blocked for the second consecutive week. Penn State defen-sive end Jared Odrick got a hand on Demos’ 37-yard try as it was still climbing.
Though the conditions were difficult, the Nittany Lions were not plagued by problems in the kicking or return games like the Cats were.
“They played in the same wind that we did, and we’ve just got to make some more plays,” Demos said.
By DANNY DALYTHE DAILY NORTHWESTERN
Even though starting quarterback Mike Kafka left the game with an apparent hamstring injury in the middle of the second quarter,
Northwestern had a chance to win with 15 minutes to go. The
score was tied at 13, and the Wildcats’ defense was playing about as well as it has all season against one of the top teams in the country.
Then No. 12 Penn State took the lead with a touchdown on its first drive of the fi-nal quarter and found the end zone on the first play of its next two possessions. That
was the last of the scoring, and it gave the Nittany Lions enough of a cushion to com-fortably close out their 34-13 win.
“We had a pretty good performance outside of those two plays,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “But those two plays are what cost us the game — they turned it from a one-score game to a three-score game. Can’t do that and expect to win.”
The first big gain came on a 53-yard connec-tion from quarterback Daryll Clark to wide re-ceiver Derek Moye, who leads Penn State in catches, yards and touchdowns this year. It was the longest reception of Moye’s career.
The Cats were playing a cover-2 scheme,
and sophomore safety Brain Peters was late getting over to pick up Moye after junior cor-nerback Justan Vaughn let him go. Clark rolled right and hit Moye in stride.
“Brian was just a little too aggressive and tried to bite on the out route,” senior safety Brad Phillips said. “The receiver got over top of him and made a nice catch.”
After NU was forced to punt, Penn State lit up the board once again. Running back Evan Royster sprinted through a crease on the left side and ran 69 yards for an easy score.
Those two plays lasted only 20 seconds, but
By ROBBIE LEVINTHE DAILY NORTHWESTERN
Northwestern gave No. 12 Penn State a scare for 45 minutes on Saturday, but Daryll Clark and the Nittany Lions’ offense rose from the dead in the fourth quarter to doom the Wildcats. NU surrendered 21 fourth-quarter points on three consecutive plays, and Penn State ran away with a 34-13 win.
“We lost our at t it ude,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “And when you lose your attitude, you lose your stinger and you lose your physicality.”
The Cats’ out-of-the-gate gaffes haunted them once again on Hallow-een. Senior quarterback Mike Kafka fumbled on a playaction fake on NU’s second play from scrim-mage, and Penn State re-covered on NU’s 23-yard line. But the Cats’ de-fense held strong and forced the Nittany Lions to settle for a field goal.
NU notched a field goal of its own before
finding the end zone for the first time in the second quarter. Kafka led the Cats on an eight-play, 80-yard touchdown drive in which he was 3-for-3 for 44 yards through the air while also rushing twice for 21 yards. The Cats’ 10-3 lead marked the first time the Nittany Lions had trailed before halftime all season. The strong start surprised Penn State coach Joe Paterno.
“I don’t think we had quite realized how good they are offensively,” he said. “And it took us some time to speed up the tempo.”
The Cats were threatening again on their next drive, and on the fifth play of the series Kafka saw a hole in the line of scrimmage and took off. But Kafka’s foot got caught in the grass, and he fell in what seemed like slow motion at NU’s 33-yard line. The senior gunslinger clutched his left leg, and one play later he left the game with an apparent ham-string injury. He did not return.
The drive stalled five plays later, and the Cats were forced to punt.
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CHAPPATTABRIAN
Don’t blame QB change; blame team
Treat start turns trick without Kafka
RAY WHITEHOUSE/THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN
Senior quarterback Mike Kafka completed 14-of-18 pass attempts for 128 yards and rushed eight times for 42 yards and a touchdown in one-and-a-half quarters of play against Penn State. Kafka left the game midway through the second quarter with an apparent hamstring injury.
Big plays bombard Cats in fourth quarterSee FOOTBALL, page 10
Wind wreaks havoc on Demos’ punts, kickoff returnsSee SIDEBAR, page 10
See NOTEBOOK, page 10
See CHAPPATTA, page 10
SIDEBAR
NOTEBOOK
Pat Fitzgerald always says it’s scary this Northwestern team hasn’t played four quarters of three-phase football, yet it still manages to compete and win.
But here’s a scarier thought this Hal-loween: What if this team can’t play a full 60-minute game?
The Wildcats once again came out of the gates firing on all cylinders against Penn State. Against a monstrous defense, the Cats showed no fear. On its touchdown drive in the second quarter, NU went 80 yards on eight plays and took less than three minutes to do so.
Then, the defense sustained the momen-tum by stopping Penn State’s Evan Royster and forcing a punt. On the following drive, the game-changing moment happened: Quarterback Mike Kafka went out with a leg injury. And that’s going to be what’s taken away from this game: If Kafka was in the game, the Cats could have won.
Kafka is a better passer than sophomore Dan Persa. Kafka makes better decisions with the ball than Persa. Kafka handles the blitz better than Persa. That said, the Cats wouldn’t have won, even with Kafka.
Against Michigan State two weeks ago, the Cats also played a great first half of foot-ball, and it looked like they’d be able to win a big game. Then in the second half, they imploded. The same series of events hap-pened against Eastern Michigan, only NU squeaked out a win. Then there are the games like Syracuse and Indiana, when the Cats dig themselves into an early hole and have to desperately claw their way out.
In a 12-game season, nine games is a pretty good sample size. With or without Kafka start-ing under center, this team — whether it’s physically or mentally — can’t sustain a high level of play throughout an entire game.
“It’s obviously something we’ve been try-ing to do since the Syracuse game,” senior safety Brad Phillips said, about playing a full 60 minutes. “You’ve just got to keep doing what you’re doing, you’ve got to keep sticking to the plan, keep practicing hard and come out and keep the energy level up the whole game and keep your focus the whole game.”
Clearly, what NU is doing is not working. Phillips mentioned the energy level and focus, which to me signals a breakdown both physi-cally and mentally.
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