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By MARIA LAMAGNA THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN

At 10:30 a.m. Monday, three girls wearing sandwich boards with pro-vocative signs, each with a different message, walked slowly up Sheridan Road. Students passing by glanced quickly at their signs — “I can’t af-ford a North Face,” “I am one of 87 black sophomores,” “My top 3 sorori-ties didn’t want me,” — and then

kept walking.Weinberg freshman Katie Rayn-

olds didn’t say anything to the girls when she passed them at the time, but later said their signs made her think about inequalities faced by students on campus.

“I felt guilty walking by them in my North Face,” Raynolds said. “It’s interesting, but I don’t know what I can do about it as one person.”

The students were participating

in a demonstration as part of Inclu-siveNU , a new initiative formed as a “public awareness campaign,” said SESP senior Alexandra Sims , presi-dent of Promote 360 and the orga-nizer of the demonstration. While the students who were involved came from an array of organizations at NU, they had a common goal, Sims said.

By REBECCA OLLES THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN

With the support of student groups such as Alianza , Hillel and the Roosevelt Institute , members of the Northwestern Community Development Corps are working to ensure NU food service and janitorial employees earn a living wage.

A living wage is the hourly rate a full-time worker needs to be paid in order to support a family. This wage differs from a mini-mum wage, which determines the lowest amount a worker can le-gally be paid. The minimum wage for Illinois is $8 per hour .

According to the Social IM-PACT Research Center , as wages and incomes have stagnated or declined in the last decade, about 1 million households in Illinois have fallen below the self-suffi-ciency standard. In light of this gap between the poverty level and the self-sufficiency standard, NU Community Development Corps members said they are deter-mined to change NU staff wages.

SESP senior Conrad Hen-drickson , the education commit-tee co-chairman , said the NU liv-ing wage campaign was formed after members researched possi-ble projects.

The groups have already met with contractors and union repre-sentatives to formulate an accept-able hourly wage of $13.23 with health care provided, and $14.67 without health care, for those liv-ing in Cook County. The janitorial staff at NU is currently paid $11

per hour, and food service em-ployees are paid between $9 and $10 an hour, said Adam Yalowitz, co-chairman of NCDC’s educa-tion committee.

“Nobody who works at an institu-t i o n l i k e Northwest-ern ... in the dining halls or at Norris, o r w h o cleans the d o r m s , should have to be living in poverty,” the Wein-berg junior said.

Maurice Nix , who works at Willie’s Food Court in Norris Uni-versity Center , is the union stew-ard for Norris employees. His job is to stop a problem before it gets to management, and mediate be-tween management and employ-ees. It is his third year working at Norris and his second as union steward. He said he spoke with Yalowitz about meeting with other members of the NU community.

“ I work with a lot of people who, right now, are struggling fi-nancially,” he said. “A living wage would be appreciated. (This news) spreads like wildfire, and we know it’s not going to be easy. We’re going to have to sit down and get management and the Uni-versity involved, and I’m excited

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SESP seniors Aaron Beswick (left), Maddie Orenstein and Becca Cadoff wear signs displaying provocative descriptions of discrimination. Throughout the day, students sported these signs as part of a larger effort to raise awareness about discrimination.

Groups push to up wages

Gitmo detainees face Illinois move

Signs showcase NU inequity

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Detainees from the U.S. military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay may be trans-ferred to a prison in rural Illinois approxi-mately 160 miles west of Evanston , a White House official announced Nov. 14 .

The Obama administration has been dis-cussing a proposal with Illinois legislators to buy an unused maximum-security prison in Thomson, Ill. , if Guantanamo is shut down. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Gov. Pat Quinn have been spearheading the charge in favor of moving the detainees to Illinois.

“In closing ‘Gitmo’ and moving some de-tainees to Illinois, we strengthen our national security, create thousands of jobs and bring long overdue justice to those who have com-mitted atrocities against the United States,” wrote Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) , in a state-ment released Nov. 14 .

The plan gained traction when top federal officials visited the facility Nov. 16 . The White House released a report Sunday analyzing the economic impact of bringing the detainees to

Thomson , an area with more than 10 percent unemployment .

Although most state representative candi-dates for Illinois’ 18th district support the proposal, some candidates and Evanston ac-tivists have expressed mixed opinions. The 18th district candidates are Evanston attor-neys Jeff Smith and Eamon Kelly, former 6th Ward alderman Edmund Moran, former ASG president Patrick Keenan-Devlin (Weinberg and Bienen ’06) and Executive Director of the Illinois Maternal and Child Health Coalition Robyn Gabel .

Moran said he is unsure why Guantanamo should be closed in the first place.

“I’m really not sure that moving the de-tainees from Guantanamo is the best thing to do,” Moran said. “It’s a secure place, it’s away from potential targets in the U.S., and I’m not sure that the logic of moving them from there.”

However, Smith said Guantanamo needs to be closed in the interest of justice and na-tional security.

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NU’s new Great Room could close

By ALI ELKINTHE DAILY NORTHWESTERN

Student leaders and administrators discussed the Great Room — and how to save it — on Monday.

“We outlined some next steps as to how to organize students and rally sup-port in favor of saving the Great Room,” said Tommy Smithburg , a Weinberg se-nior and vice president for Associated Student Government.

First ward residents who live close to the Great Room, 610 Haven St., have filed a petition with the Evanston Zoning Board of Appeals, saying the building’s use has changed since it was owned by Seabury-Western Theological Seminary last year.

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MAURICE NIXUnion steward for Norris employees

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By LiLia HargiSthe daily northwestern

Every Thursday night, Weinberg senior Elizabeth Green and a few other North-western students take the El downtown to provide an important service to Chicago’s homeless youth: a willingness to listen.

Green and the other students go to the Center on Halsted, a community center in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood, to spend time with the city’s homeless youth. Green is one of about 20 NU students who have completed an eight-hour training course to become a street outreach volunteer with StandUp for Kids — a national nonprofit or-ganization dedicated to helping homeless youth — the 2010 NU Dance Marathon ben-eficiary.

Each week, volunteers from across the Chicago area bring food packs and some-times other necessities like jackets or de-odorant to distribute to the teens and young adults. They typically spend about an hour hanging out and having conversations with kids at the center.

DM beneficiary liaison Jessica Newman said one of the most important parts of starting StandUp for Kids in a new city is recruiting a volunteer base, because every-one involved in the operation of a chapter, including the executive director, is a volun-teer.

Green got involved with street outreach through her position as DM Dancer Rela-tions co-chairwoman because she said she thought it was a great opportunity to inter-act “face-to-face” with the beneficiary or-ganization. She said the youth can talk to the volunteers about more serious issues they face, but they often want to have light conversation. She said street outreach is not about being a role model or “trying to preach to them” — they just want someone to listen.

“I had a long conversation with a girl

about how excited she was that (‘New Moon’) was coming out, and we talked for 45 minutes about the ‘Twilight ’ series,” Green said. “I will have to remember to ask her the next time I see her if she got a chance to see it.”

StandUp for Kids has more than 60 chap-ters in cities nationwide, and DM is working with the new Chicago chapter, which started its street outreach in May.

Brian Haslip, StandUp for Kids national trainer, said the first thing volunteers learn in training is the magnitude of youth home-lessness in the United States.

“There are 1.3 million homeless kids, and half of them are under 16,” Haslip said. “But the statistic that gets me the most is a small number — 13. Thirteen kids a day die on the street from abuse, disease and sui-cide.”

Green said one of the main challenges of street outreach is gaining the trust of the youth and letting them know that someone is there to hear their stories. She said the Chicago chapter is growing quickly, and she is excited NU is able to be a part of the pro-cess.

“These are kids our age who don’t always have a friend,” Green said. “This program has so much opportunity to grow, and this is a great way for NU students to get in-volved in the community.”

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Student suspected of domestic battery

A Northwestern student was arrested for domestic battery after allegedly hit-ting another student with a paddle Sat-urday afternoon, police said.

The student, 21-year-old McCormick junior James Brooks, visited another student living in Lindgren Hall, 2309 Sheridan Road, around noon, Univer-sity Police Cmdr. Darren Davis said. A f ter t he students arg ued, Brooks grabbed the student’s right wrist and struck her arm with a wooden paddle, Davis said.

T he student closed t he door on Brooks, and he left the scene, Davis said. A witness confirmed the event to police.

Police contacted Brooks, who turned himself in to University Police at 1:30 p.m., Davis said. Brooks was arrested and taken to the Evanston Police De-partment, 1454 Elmwood Ave.

Brooks has a tentative hearing date of Dec. 8, Davis said.

Fraternity member sets off fire alarm

An NU student was arrested after al-legedly setting off a fire alarm intention-ally early Friday morning, police said.

Police responded to a fire alarm at Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 2325 Sheridan Road, around 2:44 a.m. Friday, Davis said. A student told police he had taken the fire extinguisher from the wall, set it on the ground and kicked it, discharg-ing the extinguisher and setting off the alarm.

Police charged the student, McCor-mick senior Mark Stasenko, with disor-derly conduct. He was released on bond at 3:45 a.m., Davis said.

Stasenko is due in court at 9 a.m. Dec. 7 in Skokie.

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“There are 1.3 million homeless kids, and half of them are

under 16.”

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NU undergrads rank 24th nationally in med school applications

Over the past several years, more than 300 Northwestern undergraduates have applied to medical schools, statistically significant for a school of NU’s size.

In 2009, NU ranked 24th in the country for number of medical school applicants with 304.

Many other colleges and universities have much larger overall student body populations and not as many applicants, said Russell Schaffer, the senior communications manager for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions. This was part of a study Kaplan released last week that shows medical school applicants, though likely to accumulate more than $200,000 in debt, are unlikely to be deterred from enroll-ing due to financial reasons.

The report, which surveyed admissions of-ficials of graduate schools nationwide, shows only 20 percent of medical school admissions officers reported an increase in students de-clining to attend medical school because of the financial burden. Comparatively, 39 per-cent of law school admissions officers and 28 percent of business school admissions officers reported an increase in applicants declining admissions for financial reasons in 2009. Schaffer said this effect may be due to the sin-gular motivation of medical school applicants.

“While medical school is longer and more expensive than law school or busi-ness school, a lot of pre-med students have had this career goa l and dream since childhood,” he said.

Weinberg senior Sam Rubinstein said the cost of medical school won’t deter him from applying, even during a recession.

“It’s a huge price tag and I’ve been plan-ning on paying for it myself,” he said. “At this point I’ll do whatever it takes to realize my goal of being a doctor.”

— Caroline Dzeba

neWSBRIEF Prof: Black community faces setbacksBy LIzzIE RIvaRd

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From President Barack Obama’s election to Kanye West, Michael Eric Dyson discussed modern representations of black identity at Northwestern on Monday.

Dyson was the keynote speaker for the For Members Only annual State of the Black Union Address, “Perception and Reception: Blackness in the Public Eye.” FMO co-sponsored the event, held in Cahn Auditorium, with the Coali-tion of Colors, an alliance among several multi-cultural student groups on campus.

Dyson was chosen to speak for his interna-tional prominence in the field of racial issues, FMO’s Vice Coordinator of External Relations Florence Lynk said.

“He’s a worldwide scholar and personality on black issues,” the Communication and Wein-berg junior said. “We thought he would be a dy-namic speaker and an excellent role model for not only black students at NU, but all students at NU.”

Dyson, an author of books on black culture, is a professor of sociology at Georgetown Uni-versity. He is also a two-time winner of the Na-tional Association for the Advancement of Col-ored People’s image award, and was named as one of the 150 most influential black Americans by Ebony magazine.

Zachary Parker, Communication ’09 and former coordinator of FMO, spoke on behalf of the organization before Dyson took the stage. He discussed FMO’s recent accomplishments, including the creation of three scholarships in the past year. Parker also mentioned last year’s effort to remove former director of the Multi-cultural Student Association Carretta Cooke from her position. She is now Assistant to Vice President of Student Affairs William Banis.

Parker also encouraged the audience to ex-amine the idea of blackness and how it relates to the public sphere.

“Investigating our blackness is important,” Parker said. “Our actions should not be based on how others think of us. Rather than be con-cerned about our image in the public eye, we

should be concerned with living up to our full potential.”

Dyson opened his speech with a quote from author Charles Dickens, saying in relation to ra-cial issues, we are living in “the best of times, and the worst of times.”

“The perception that Mr. Obama is the president is shattering for many because just the notion that a black man is at the helm of the greatest nation in the world is a perception-changing, altering situation,” Dyson said.

Yet Obama alone does not create a “sea (of) change” in how black people are perceived, he said.

“It’s the best of times for those who are up-wardly mobile, but if you are perpetually poor and criminally impoverished in America, it’s poor and wretched times,” Dyson said.

He said there is a “jarring juxtaposition” be-tween Obama and the black elite, and people of color who are “outside of that circle.” Though

some describe current American society after Obama’s election as a “post-racial” era, Dyson said he would rather live in a “post-racist” era.

Dyson also challenged President Obama to address racial issues rather than avoid them.

“Mr. Obama has an important obligation to deal intelligently and equitably that is essential to who we are as a nation,” he said. “We know it’s hard for the president to talk about race, but then again, it’s hard to deal with the economy.”

Lynk said Dyson’s discussion was an illumi-nating experience for those in attendance. “I’m in awe of his intellect and rhetoric,” she said. “A lot of people were really moved, and whether you agree with it or not, it’s defi-nitely something that will get people talking. His speech was an opportunity for the NU community to learn about blackness in a positive way and I hope NU students took advantage of that.”

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Eric Dyson, a sociology professor at Georgetown University, spoke at the State of the Black Union about how he would rather live in a “post-racist” era than a “post-racial” one.



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Evanston Township High School graduate Theodore Boggs gave his city a colorful history lesson in 2002. After several graffiti designs on a retaining

wall in the parking lot on the northeast side of the inter-section of Emerson Street and Green Bay Road were de-faced, Boggs submitted plans for the current work for his senior studies project. Drawing from the New Deal public arts pieces of the Works Projects Administration and Chi-cago’s storied history of wall painting, Boggs worked with the Evanston Historical Society and his friends in the art group “Talent and Wisdom” to create a timeline titled “A Loose History of Evanston,” complete with arrows that carry viewers from one image to the next.

“The timeline was one of the tools we used to convey motion and a history concept similar to the caveman era,”

Boggs said. “Every time I drive by it, I see it differently.”There are about 30 murals in Evanston, Arts Council

Director Jeff Cory said. There was a rise in Evanston’s mural paintings in the late ’90s, and Cory said there are currently no organized programs to maintain or restore public works like Boggs’ 10 by 112 foot “Loose History.”

“A lot of murals are community based and not meant to stand for all time,” Cory said.

Kevin Wiley, owner of the currency exchange that ser-vices Western Union in the building adjacent to the retain-ing wall on which Boggs’ work appears, said he supports the public artwork.

“Everybody comes, stops, looks at it and they get edu-cated because they don’t really know about what hap-pened,” he said.

2 The timeline continues with the founding of Evanston and a depiction of Northwestern University. John Evans, a politician who also founded the University of Denver, was a leader in the formation of Northwestern University in 1851. Six years later, town once known as Ridgeville was renamed Evanston in his honor. He is noted as the man who “founded Evanston” in the mural.

1 The first of three sub-headings appears on the timeline’s beginning at the far left of the mural. The titles, “A City of Trees,” “A City of Churches” and “A City of Homes,” are terms Boggs discovered in his re-search that were used by writers to describe Evan-ston. The trees refer to natural oak savanna coun-tryside inhabited by the Potawatomi tribe. Prairie and forest landscapes once converged at what is now Ridge Avenue.

3 The timeline progresses to a panel of social activists beginning with Isabella Garnett, a black female physician who was a member of one of Evanston’s first black families. Below Garnett is an abstract pattern known as “wild style” by Chicago artists. The graffiti images, which appear throughout the timeline, were created by Boggs’ crew “Talent and Wisdom” to combine the “ultra-modern and old-fashioned.”


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4 Oscar Chute and Joseph Hill are referenced as “leaders in desegregation of Evanston schools.” Both served as superintendents of Evanston School District and led the city in becoming one of the nation’s first to voluntarily desegregate its public schools.

“Those are factoids that everyone should know growing up here,” Boggs said. “Sometimes people don’t know why their school is named what it’s named and those are some of the great edu-cators that founded the city.”

The two male figures are the namesakes of Oscar M. Shute Middle School, 1400 Oakton St., and the Joseph E. Hill Education Center, 1500 McDaniel Ave., a pre-school. 5 Under the subtitle “A City of Churches” appears Frances Willard, the namesake of Northwestern’s Willard Resi-

dential College. Willard was a 19th century suffragist and Evanston resident who founded the Woman’s Christian Tem-perance Union in 1879 to advocate prohibition. In 1899, two years after her death, the Illinois legislature chose Willard to become the first woman immortalized by a statue in the U.S. Capitol Building’s Statuary Hall. The proliferation of houses of worship in the city led Boggs to include the “City of Churches” moniker.

“Evanston has one of the greatest concentrations per capita in the state between the synagogues and churches and temples,” he said.

6 Edwin B. Jourdain, Evanston’s first African American alderman elected in 1931, appears in the final panel. Jourdain, a graduate of the Harvard Business School and managing editor of the Chicago Defender, played key roles in the integration of Evanston’s movie theaters and beaches and the desegregation of Northwestern’s student housing. The Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center, 1655 Foster St., is named in his honor.

7 The last panel is titled “A City of Homes,” referencing Evanston’s architectural history.

“Between the Frank Lloyd Wright history, the bungalows and the great mansions on Sheridan, it’s a cool slice of life,” said Boggs. Of Wright’s 117 Illinois projects, three are in Evanston.

The Emerson Street YMCA, 1000 Grove St., which served the black community from 1909 to its closing in 1969, is also represented in the panel.

An angel with a black halo and sweeping white wings graces the mural's conclusion. The figure is Boggs' tribute to Evanston graffiti artist Peter Berry, who died at age 22.

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THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN | FORUM6 | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2009

forum“NU has had a good run at things lately. But this is the Northwestern bubble... The real world will be cold and heartless and unwelcoming to us as we leave these privileged confines.”

Mac LeBuhn, Tuesday columnist

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Things aren’t looking good, Northwestern. I’m not kidding — they’re re-ally not. Look at this

weather! The sky has grown increas-ingly cloudy as the temperature falls week after week. Before you know it, we’re all going to be like George Cloo-ney scrambling around in “The Per-fect Storm,” dodging hail and trying to get to Kresge before succumbing to exposure. Freshmen from California and Florida will be found frozen in the walk between Elder and Parkes. It will be bad.

What could there even be to look forward to? I, for one, am ready to give it all up, to sit in Evanston’s im-pending freezing rain and wait to die.

Don’t do it, say the optimists. Things aren’t bad at all for NU stu-dents! Just look at NU football — we beat Wisconsin, a top-25 athletic program! That’s something to get ex-cited about.

And A&O! A&O is about to cele-brate its 40th anniversary! Those are students, mind you, who organize those shows — how awesome is it that they’ve been this good at putting on bands for four decades now?!

To which I respond with a yawn: I’m not convinced. So, sure, NU has had a good run at things lately. But this is the Northwestern bubble, you myopic undergrads. The real world will be cold and heartless and unwel-coming to us as we leave these privi-leged confines.

Oh, God. I hear the optimists chattering in disagreement already. They tell me with perky and mis-guided enthusiasm to perk up be-cause things are looking up in post-NU life. Hah!

Everyone knows the economy is still about to collapse. We’re a bank failure away from total catastrophe, jobs are absent, home sales are — wait, what’s that? Well, it turns out things might not be looking all that bad after all:

Home sales in Chicago are up 33 percent from October, according to the Chicago Tribune. That’s, well, un-expected. So I guess there’s a beam or two of sunshine poking out from be-hind the mushroom cloud.

Employers are cautiously begin-ning to hire again? That’s good news as well. It sounds like there have been better times to graduate, that’s true, but things could be worse. Seniors willing to do the legwork should be able to get a job, or, at the least, wait it out with a stint in the Peace Corps. Becoming a highly educated indigent looks like less and less of a possibility.

Maybe things really aren’t looking all that bad. Things are moving along at NU — strong athletics, a popular new president — and the larger world’s not looking bad either. Just so long as Sarah Palin doesn’t somehow stumble into the presidency in 2012, things really are looking good.

Things weren’t guaranteed to turn out this way at all. As you head home for Thanksgiving, try to remember how well things panned out.

But let’s be real here: The weather is still going to blow.

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Don’t close our Great Room

The Great Room’s quick evolution from seminary to gathering space was an eco-nomic re-purposing of an existing build-ing. It has become a popular place to eat,

study or relax between class and home — a “third space” for students that NU should protect, despite some residents’ complaints the Great Room, 601 Haven St., violates zoning laws with its new “in-creased intensity” of use.

This year has marked a significant effort from our new administrators to improve campus-city re-lations. But with the possibility of the conflict esca-lating over the Great Room, it’s essential to avoid polarizing setbacks such as a lawsuit.

Evanston residents will meet Dec. 1 and Dec. 3 to discuss the Great Room, among other issues. As much as we love the late-night space, NU should also consider steps to reduce the Great Room’s im-pact on its neighbors.

The Great Room is intended for the NU com-munity, but some Evanston residents argue its function is now akin to a restaurant’s. Requiring WildCARDs for entry later in the night, similar to the library’s strategy, will maintain the Great Room’s status as an NU dining hall. However, this may restrict entry for alumni, guests and other NU affiliates who should still have access to the facility.

Posting signs reminding customers to “be re-spectful of the neighborhood” would work toward acknowledging the Great Room’s location within a residential community. Though signs may not ac-tively reduce lights, noise and smell, they may change the tone to help the Great Room and Evan-ston residents peacefully coexist.

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Islamic Studies would help broaden education

I am writing as a Religious Studies major to ex-press my support for the creation of an Islamic Studies program. Recent debates in The Daily (among other, wider forums) illuminate the ongo-ing need for an elevated level of education con-cerning the role of Islam in global cultural and reli-gious events, past and present. For Northwestern students entering any number of fields including politics, education and global economics, even a cursory understanding of the diversity of beliefs encompassed under the umbrella of Muslim iden-tity is essential and must become more readily available. For those (like myself) with a special in-terest in religious history, a program that engages the depth and breadth of Muslim traditions, not just in Africa and the Middle East but also in Asia, Europe and the United States, would broaden aca-demic opportunities. Northwestern’s wonderful program in the Arabic language would also be en-riched by (and enrich) such a program. Most of all, Islamic Studies would expand Northwestern stu-dents’ opportunities to become more culturally aware and politically active in times of political strife and intensified anti-Muslim sentiment within the United States. A deep and complex un-derstanding of Islam can only improve our abilities to work locally and globally for justice and peace.

— Lewis waLLaceWeinberg senior

Show purple pride, even if not with ‘Bananapalooza’

For those who might need a refresher, I jokingly advocated Northwestern host a campus-wide event called “Bananapalooza,” in which students would come together and throw bananas at one another in

a Dillo Day-style celebration (“Northwestern needs a ‘Bananapalooza,’ ” Feb. 23, 2009). While in part this letter was intended to be a pseudo-satire on the oNe Northwestern initiative, seeing it re-printed nearly a year later got me thinking once more about the issue of unity on campus and how we always talk about ourselves as a “divided” student body.

As a Northwestern cheerleader, I’ve had the opportunity to stand on the sidelines and witness firsthand the excitement and energy of the stu-dent section at sporting events. We have a lot to be proud of, and we ought to celebrate together. By going to games and supporting your fellow stu-dents, you may just find yourself feeling a little more connected to the Northwestern community. (See the full letter online at www.dailynorthwestern.com.)

— ausTin paTeSESP junior

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NU to Evanston: Great Room builds community

On the west side of Sheridan Road, there is a vi-sion. Currently, this vision has taken the delicious form of late-night dining for Northwestern stu-dents, complete with cheese fries, $1 burgers and HD TVs. You may know it as the Great Room, but we see it as the Great Opportunity. Finally, a space exists for off-campus and on-campus students alike to come together without trekking to Norris or Li-sa’s. A space exists to study without roommates, stark cubicles from Core or creepy silence in the stacks. A space, we might add, that looks and feels straight out of Harry Potter and could make any economics problem set or Gender and Society pa-per more magical.

Unfortunately, the future of the Great Room is in question. A group of Evanston residents allege our renovated eatery breaks zoning restrictions and disrupts the neighborhood peace. While the

administration is handling the legal side of the con-flict, it’s up to us to show Evanston the Great Room builds Northwestern community without harming Evanston’s. The picturesque building on Haven Street is not a rowdy establishment. Rather, as any student would attest, the Great Room has become a social and peaceful study space that enhances the student experience.

We are all part of the Evanston community. It is our vision to discuss with our neighbors how we can build a relationship built on mutual respect and focus on opportunities that build our commu-nity. The Great Room will move our community toward this vision. Recently, the external relations vice president of Associated Student Government has started discussing neighborhood issues with Evanston residents. In fact, many of these residents have expressed support for the Great Room. Yet, we still need your help. Please help us achieve this vision by joining in discussion with the University and Evanston residents. We will know the final de-tails of these opportunities come Reading Week. This will be a critical opportunity to let Evanston residents hear our voice and for us to make our presence known.

You can also help by signing a petition at nulink.northwestern.edu in support of the Great Room. We welcome all comments on your thoughts and experiences regarding the Great Room. Please share them with Jilian Lopez at [email protected] or Mike McGee at [email protected].

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The five democratic candidates vying to rep-resent the 18th District in the Illinois General Assembly encouraged Northwestern students to become engaged in local politics during a forum Monday evening held at Norris University Cen-ter.

Candidates Patrick Keenan-Devlin, Robyn Gabel, Jeff Smith, Eamon Kelly and Ed Moran spoke to about 15 NU students at the political fo-rum, which was organized by the Associated Student Government’s external relations com-mittee.

The event was intended to help students learn more about the candidates’ platforms and im-prove NU-Evanston relations, said event orga-

nizers Shainee Shah, a Weinberg sophomore, and Lauren Cantacessi, a Weinberg freshman.

“A lot of candidates’ offices are right here in town,” Cantacessi said. “They told stories of how they got politically involved in college, and they set a great example for students who might have an idea in the back of their mind, but now will actually go ahead and join a campaign.”

Though the five candidates all named elimi-nating corruption from Springfield as a top pri-ority, the candidates also discussed their respec-tive platforms during five-minute speeches.

Former ASG president Keenan-Devlin (Weinberg and Bienen ’06) said he was “truly ap-palled” at the state’s discussions about cutting Monetary Awards Program grants for low-in-come students.

“If we’re not investing in education I don’t

know what else we should be doing,” he said. “That should absolutely be a top priority for any legislator who’s interested in preserving the state and making the state better for the future.”

Gabel, who works as the executive director for the Illinois Maternal and Child Health Coali-tion, said she is “excited” to help implement na-tional health care reforms on a state level.

“Legislators can not only get bills passed, but they can influence the administrative arm,” she said. “There’s lot of things you can do as a legisla-tor to help the community and to really move things forward.”

Smith, an Evanston attorney and Weinberg ’77 alumnus, pointed to the state’s “fiscal disas-ter” and importance of environmental issues.

“There’s this murky stuff called state and county government that does boring stuff like jails, hospitals and highways,” he said. “A lot of people don’t pay that much attention to it, which is part of the reason why in Chicago and Illinois they’re able to get away with what they do, be-cause no one’s watching the cookie jar.”

Similarly, Kelly, an attorney, said the “failure of leadership” in Springfield resulted in the “an-nual train wreck budgeting process” and the dis-cussion of cutbacks on educational programs like pre-school enrollment.

Moran, who served 18 years in the Evanston City Council and retired from the position in May, said town-gown relations between NU and the city have often been the “piñata” of city poli-ticians.

But on a statewide level, Moran said he would like to focus on the state’s “train wreck” budget, which is $80 billion in debt.

Though only 15 students attended the forum, Weinberg sophomore Matt Bellassai said he hopes more students would turn out to vote in the democratic primary, which will be held Feb. 2, 2010.

“Students can make a pretty big difference in local politics,” the ASG student life director said. “It can really come down to one vote and I would love if that one vote was a student’s vote.”

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The demonstration, held in shifts by about three to five students at a time from 9 a.m. to about 4 p.m., was partly to gauge the student body’s reaction to the messages.

SESP junior Stephanie Arias stood by the Arch wearing a sign that read “I was asked if I wear my hijab in the shower.” She said the demonstration was organized in light of the recent blackface incident on campus and the alleged discrimination against several black Washington University in St. Louis students at a club in Chicago.

“We’re trying to raise awareness about how there are different levels of inequality on campus outside of just racial tensions and racial discrimination,” Arias said.

Arias said the signs’ messages did not nec-essarily apply to the person holding them.

“(The messages are) something we’ve heard from someone else on campus, so it’s just as important as if it were happening to me,” she said.

Sims said every statement served a differ-ent purpose.

“We hope to capture the entire commu-nity,” she said. “They’re quotes that reflect a different social group or community in the NU student body. It’s about inclusion and ex-clusion of all sorts, whether it’s socioeco-nomic, racial exclusion, by fraternity or any kind of segregation on our campus.”

The demonstration gradually drew more attention throughout the day, as students, adults and prospective students and their families stopped the demonstrators to ask them the purpose of their statements.

While Sims was influential in organizing the demonstration, she said about 20 other students wanted to become involved after attending the blackface forum at Norris Uni-versity Center in early November. She said the new leadership at NU has shifted stu-dents’ focus to equality and race relations in their community.

“I feel like, as a senior, it’s the first year when people have come together to create an inclusive community, and I believe that reflects on having a new president,” she said. “(The demonstration) came out of what Pres-

ident Schapiro said at the forum, about it be-ing a catalyst for a larger movement.”

Interim Dean of Students Burgie Howard said the demonstration is part of an ongoing campus discussion after the blackface fo-rum.

“We had a large group gathering at the forum, and then we start to break it apart and really kind of look at the various aspects that bring that turnout,” Howard said. “I think people are saying OK, there are differ-ent ways of approaching the situation, and being proactive as opposed to reactive.”

Howard said he observed several people reading the signs while at the Donald P. Ja-cobs Center. Students wore the signs while standing on the sidewalk near the Arch and while walking through campus during the

day.McCormick senior Hathai Amy Eamrun-

groj said she has recently noticed an in-crease in discrimination awareness on cam-pus.

“I feel like not a lot of us talked about our issues enough until now,” she said. “I’ve been here for quite a while … it’s nice to see students be a lot more aware lately.”

Eamrungroj said she has been surprised by the nature of some questions students have posed to her and her friends at NU.

“I’m from Thailand,” she said. “Some people ask, ‘Do you ride elephants in your country?’ Like, I’m from Bangkok. It ’s a city.”

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Two professors and an emerging student group want to bring atheism and agnosticism into the religious fold at Northwestern, two belief systems they said they feel have not had a voice on campus.

In a recent survey of incoming NU fresh-men by the Cooperative Institutional Re-search Program, 33 percent of respondents chose “none” when asked to indicate religion.

Math Prof. John Alongi said when he heard how many students self-identified as having no religion, he thought it was impor-tant to give these individuals a forum for dis-cussion. He and English Prof. Bill Savage will hold a fireside at Slivka Residential College at 7 p.m. Tuesday to discuss atheism and agnos-ticism at NU.

Alongi teaches a freshman seminar called “The Modern Case for Atheism”, in which he said he intends to develop students’ writing and critical thinking skills with a provocative topic. Outside the classroom, he said he would like to increase awareness of the athe-ist and agnostic point of view.

“I certainly would like to raise the con-sciousness of people to a rational, natural rea-son-based world view as an alternative to the irrational, supernatural, faith-based supersti-tious world view,” he said.

A new group looking to facilitate such dis-cussion at NU is Secular Humanists for In-quiry and Free Thought, which is currently applying for Associated Student Government recognition. Group Co-presidents Cassy Byrne and Geoff Minger said the group’s Fa-cebook page is growing more rapidly than they anticipated, and has a following of 78 members as of Monday night. Byrne, a Wein-berg sophomore, said the group is intended for atheists and agnostics as well as students questioning their religious beliefs.

“We plan to advocate skepticism, and (have) a place to gather and educate ourselves and others about secularism in society and humanism,” Byrne said. “We do want to cre-ate a community for people to feel like they have somewhere to go when they feel differ-ent.”

Minger, a Communication sophomore, said atheists may feel alone at NU.

“I used to feel suffocated,” he said. “(SHIFT) is a lot about that community, the comfortable atmosphere.”

Savage said in his time at NU as a Ph.D. student and professor, he cannot remember a group like SHIFT having a presence on cam-pus.

“If there’s a student group that’s promot-ing atheism, agnosticism and secular human-ism,” he said, “I’m all for it ... In American culture we tend to give a lot of credence to people’s religious beliefs, and we have a tradi-tion of respecting religion. We don’t have a similar trend in the other direction.”

Lauren Berry, a Communication senior and Greek InterVarsity’s outreach director, said the interfaith discussion is most effective in a less formal environment.

“It’s valuable in more natural settings,” she said. “We all go to Northwestern, we all take classes together. It’s important for people not to stay in their own bubble.”

Emily Raymond, a Weinberg senior, is writing an honors thesis about changes in re-ligious groups on college campuses. She said NU has a vibrant religious community but lacks the atheist and agnostic perspective.

“What a lot of religions are concerned with are things like, ‘What is the purpose of life? What happens after we die? How do you be a moral person?’” Raymond said. “What the secular humanist movement has to say to those questions would be really interesting.”

The fireside event Savage and Alongi will host Tuesday will attempt to define what atheism and agnosticism are and how they relate to secular humanism.

Savage said these alternative beliefs could be better addressed by the NU community.

“We can disagree about very fundamental things, but we can still get together and talk about it in a respectful and interesting way,” he said. “This is just a conversation, but it’s a conversation that isn’t had often enough.”

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As part of a movement to start a campus-wide discussion of discrimination at Northwestern, students walked throughout campus wearing large signs containing provocative messages.

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Patrick Keenan-Devlin, a former ASG president who graduated NU in 2006, came back to his alma mater on Monday to drum up support for his Illinois State Assembly campaign.

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SWINE FLUAs cases of H1N1 influenza appeared on campus, NU Health Services responded with a plan of action. Officials opened Rogers House as a quaratine area for those affected by H1N1.

SCHAPIROAs former President Henry Bienen wrapped up 14 years at the school’s helm, Northwest-ern welcomed new President Morton O. Schapiro, the former president of Williams College, with a week of festivities.

THOMAS FRIEDMANPulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman spoke at Schapiro’s inauguration, delivering a speech that focused on the en-vironment and sustainability.

JOHN LEGENDR&B singer John Legend performed at Welsh-Ryan Arena as part of Schapiro’s inauguration celebration weekend. It was the first concert in the space since Kanye West in 2005.

TOWN RELATIONSAs new city and Universi-ty administrations settled into their roles, Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl and University President Morton O. Schapiro have worked on improving town-gown relations.

OLYMPICSChicago lost the 2016 Olympic bid after making it to the final four cities. The city’s bid was knocked out in the first round of voting, losing to Rio De Janiero.

GREAT ROOMAfter formally acquiring Seabury-Western Theo-logical Seminary this summer, Northwestern unveiled the Great Room, which serves as a popular study space and new din-ing option for students.

RACEAfter an incident on Hal-loween where two students donned blackface as part of their costumes, members of the NU community came together for a forum dis-cussing race and diversity issues on campus.

LIGHT WALKSafety came to the forefront for students, administrators, staff and faculty this quarter, with multiple crimes occurring on campus and nearby students’ off-campus residences. In addi-tion to SafeRide enhancements, the reinstated ASG Light Walk was meant to bring together community members to improve on- and off-campus lighting.RAY WHITEHOUSE/THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN RAY WHITEHOUSE/THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN


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about that.” Other universities have passed living wage

ordinances, including Harvard University and Georgetown University. Matthew Fischler, pol-icy director for the Roosevelt Institute, said NU student groups are reaching out to these univer-sities to develop solutions.

Fischler said he became interested in the project after talking with a community service officer who was a refugee from Sudan working to send money back to his brother in Kenya. The day Fischler spoke with him, the CSO had just gotten out of the hospital after major surgery.

“He had double kidney failure, and he couldn’t afford health insurance,” the Communi-cation senior said. “Somehow he survived, and

came there because if he didn’t come to work, he was going to lose his job.”

Fischler, along with other members of the campaign, sent University President Morton O. Schapiro an e-mail Wednesday requesting to schedule a meeting. Schapiro and Eugene Sun-shine, senior vice president for business and fi-nance, have agreed to meet with students during Reading Week, Yalowitz said.

“(Schapiro has) talked about the importance of having an inclusive community,” Yalowitz said. “We’re really excited to meet with Schapiro be-cause we think it’s something he’ll be productive about, and we think this is an important issue.”

Campaign members are circulating petitions to students. In January, the NU Community De-velopment Corps and the Roosevelt Institute will host a living wage community organizer training

with Alex Lofton, Weinberg ’07, who worked on President Barack Obama’s campaign.

Natalie Furlett, coordinator of student com-munity service in the Center for Student Involve-ment, said she thinks the campaign is on the right track.

“This is really a student initiative,” she said. “There’s no adversarial feeling.”

Hendrickson said he cannot predict what challenges the campaign will face nor a comple-tion date, as it is still in its early phases. Still, he said the project is an incredible opportunity for the entire NU community.

“What this campaign represents is an oppor-tunity to be leaders today,” Hendrickson said.

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Chicago police officer Densey Cole was re-sponding to a call the morning of May 27 when a car crossed the median and crashed into his ve-hicle, said Jim McMahon, a retired Chicago fire-man and friend of Cole. Cole was immobile when a man came up to him, pushed him over and stole his gun and his wallet. Cole, a 16-year veteran of the Chicago police force, was left par-alyzed from the waist down.

Cole and his wife Mary were married at a hospital in Hinsdale, Ill., in June. Cole checked into rehabilitation at Craig Hospital in Denver, Co., in July, and has since regained limited move-ment in his limbs.

When Cole returned home in October from his therapy, his life had changed immeasurably.

Due to his paralysis, his home was virtually unusable. He couldn’t make it up the stairs to the front door and couldn’t get to the second floor of his house without intense assistance, McMahon said. He said Cole’s house needed to be retrofit-ted and he needed help from the city to foot the bill. A month later, McMahon said Cole is still

nowhere closer to getting funding from the city.“He wasn’t getting any returned calls from

the city when he was in Colorado,” McMahon said. “He wasn’t really happy about that.”

Cole could not be reached for comment.Donal Quinlan, spokesman for the Chicago

City Council Committee on Finance, issued a statement that the committee is eager to honor its obligation in regard to Cole.

“In all instances where there has been a cata-strophic injury to a police officer, we have modi-fied their home and made it handicapped acces-sible,” Quinlan wrote in the statement.

Cole now lives in a condominium in Chicago waiting to be able to use his house again, McMa-hon said. Friends said no progress has been made by the city on retrofitting his house.

“His main complaint is that he can’t move back into his house,” he said. “He got injured in the line of duty, and usually the city is pretty good at coming through for people like that. But I guess the mayor is just not as concerned with policemen and firemen as they were before.”

Messages left at Mayor Richard Daley’s office about the issue were not returned.

Anne Schaible, Cole's neighbor, said he was

an exceptional police officer and neighbor. Schai-ble said her neighbor was unique because he was not only concerned about the city, but also made an effort to help solve community issues in his own neighborhood.

“We would do sweeps in the woods close to our house to stop underage kids from drinking alcohol,” Schaible said. “Not a lot of people are willing to do that so late at night.”

Quinlan wrote a member of the finance committee is in contact with a member of Cole’s rehabilitation team on nearly a daily basis.

“We have already ordered and paid for a handicapped accessible van specially designed for Officer Cole,” he wrote. “It will be promptly delivered to him as soon as the customized alter-ations are completed.”

But Cole still cannot move back into his house, McMahon said, and that is the real issue.

"That the city has still not make improve-ments to Cole’s house is “unbelievable,” Schaible said. “There should be no dime left unspent to help get that man what he deserves."

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The change in use would be a violation of Ev-anston zoning law.

Smithburg, as well as several representa-tives from various campus organizations, met with Eugene Sunshine, vice president for business and finance, and William Banis, vice president of student affairs. The students at the meeting said they did not represent any organization.

“(This) definitely has nothing to do with my direct responsibilities with ASG,” said Weinberg senior Samir Pendse who is the speaker of the senate. “I wanted to connect with the administration as a concerned stu-dent who was just at the Great Room last night. I really don’t want it to close and I want to see it continue.”

Pendse said one of the most important re-sults of the meeting was a goal of fostering better communication with Evanston.

“We want students as a whole to engage with Evanston residents,” Pendse said. “This will be a great way to get students involved in engaging Evanston in general.”

The dining locations late hours have be-come a disturbance, city officials said.

Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said the conflict between the University and nearby residents mimics the “friction” that arises among all neighbors.

“At some point, neighbors just have to make compromises to get along with one an-other,” she said. “And two in the morning is just not a time when you want to hear dump-sters clanking as garbage is being thrown in and people chatting in the alley while they wait for rides.”

Tisdahl said one of the residents who lives near the Great Room told her he could see the reflection of the room’s televisions in his bed-room window at night and wanted to know who he could call to get the problem fixed.

At Monday’s city council meeting, Tisdahl suggested adding the responsibilities as liai-son to the University to an existing city staff position. The suggestion came as part of a conversation, addressing one of the city’s long-term goals of improving relations with NU

Currently, the hearing with the Zoning Board of Appeals is scheduled for Dec. 15. Sunshine said he wrote City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz, asking if it could be postponed to a time when students were on campus.

City officials said NU is allowed to request one continuance, which will move the hearing to a later date.

Sunshine said this issue had attracted more attention than others in the past.

“They’re very interested in the matter and clearly have a number of ideas about how to make their voices heard,” he said.

Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) said student sentiment would have little to do with the board’s deci-

sion. “It’s not going to be a popularity contest,”

she said. “It’s going to be based on what’s al-lowed in the zoning ordinance.”

Thomas Gonzales, a McCormick senior, said he decided to take his concerns directly to the City Council. He spoke about the Great Room, as well as communication deficits, dur-ing the citizen comment portion of Monday’s city council meeting. He said city representa-tives should pay more attention to Evanston’s student residents.

“I’m thinking about trying to start some sort of student group that maybe addresses advocating for students’ interests in Evan-ston,” Gonzales said after the meeting. “I think most students on campus know exactly what’s going on on campus, but only know what things that are going on in town that di-rectly affect them.”

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“It’s an international embarrassment, and we have an underused facility here in Illinois, so it seems like a logical step,” Smith said.

After President Obama’s inauguration, he pledged to close the prison facility by Jan. 22. About 215 prisoners remain in Guantanamo Bay, but the number of prisoners who would be transferred has not been announced.

Most proponents of the plan point to the eco-nomic benefits the arrangement could bring to Thomson and Illinois as a whole. The White House report estimated opening the prison as a federal facility could generate more than 3,000 jobs and cut the local unemployment rate in half.

Kelly has visited the area and said it is in “desperate need” of economic development.

However, some Illinois residents are skepti-cal of the economic benefits. Linda LaFianza, the Evanston Township Republican committee-man, called the plan a “bogus economic stimu-lus.”

“There aren’t going to be that many jobs, and they aren’t going to be sustainable,” LaFianza said. “I don’t think moving our federal criminals around is going to solve our economic prob-lems.”

Built in 2001, the facility has a 1,600-cell ca-pacity but was never fully opened due to budget issues. The Federal Bureau of Prisons may buy the facility and lease part of it to the U.S. De-partment of Defense, which could “inject funds into state coffers,” Keenan-Devlin said.

Fears of a national security threat have also taken a front seat in the Guantanamo de-bate. Leading Illinois Republicans, including

Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL), signed a letter to Pres-ident Barack Obama on Nov. 15 strongly op-posing the plan. Opponents have cited con-cerns with Thomson’s proximity to O’Hare International Airport, Willis Tower in Chi-cago and a nuclear power plant near western Illinois.

“Chicago is rich with high-valued targets, and it would be foolish to do anything to make those targets even more prominent,” LaFianza said.

However, Kelly said Thomson is so far from Chicago that the threat would be minimal to the area’s residents.

“A lot of this reaction is ‘not in my backyard,’” Kelly said. “There are people in our backyard who make extreme sacrifices for the war on ter-rorism everyday, and for us to imply that we don’t share the burden of housing these people,

I find that offensive.”Many candidates criticized the national se-

curity fears as “sheer demagoguery,” pointing to the fact that the state already houses inmates linked to international terrorism in a facility in Marion, Ill., approximately 340 miles south of Evanston.

“In Illinois, we know how to run a prison,” Gabel said. “We’re skilled enough to know how to transport prisoners and keep prisoners.”

Moving the detainees would actually en-hance national security, Keenan-Devlin said.

“We’ll be safer as a result of this move be-cause it builds our international credibility,” Keenan-Devlin said. “The world will react posi-tively to this, and I don’t think the politics of fear will win this battle.”

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As far as coach Keylor Chan is con-cerned, he was just a spectator at Saturday night’s win over Iowa.

“There was no coaching involved, it was all the girls,” he said.

Northwestern (16 -14, 7-11 Big Ten) moved into sixth place in the Big Ten this weekend with victories against Wisconsin and Iowa. The Wildcats’ four-set win over Wisconsin (11-16, 6-12) was the team’s first victory against the Badgers since 2003.

Though the Cats lost the third set of the match and battled for the win with 19 lead changes and 40 ties, Chan was unfazed.

“Pretty or ugly, you just want to get the Ws,” he said. “This late in the season, it doesn’t matter how you do it.”

NU’s middle blockers were vital in the win over Wisconsin. Junior middle blocker Naomi Johnson led the Cats with 13 kills and a career-best eight blocks. Junior middle blocker Sabel

Moffett added 10 kills and six blocks. Redshirt freshman middle blocker Kathryn Chrystal con-tributed seven kills and seven blocks.

Neither team was able to initially establish it-self as a leader, with 17 ties and nine lead changes in the first set. Wisconsin notched two points fol-lowing a 21-21 tie, but the Cats rallied for the set’s final four points and to take it 25-23.

During the second set, the Cats battled back again with an 11-2 run after the Bad-gers led 20-14.

Wisconsin commanded set three, leading by a seven point margin at 19-12. The Cats pulled within a point at 20-19, but it wasn’t enough. The Badgers went on a 5-1 run to take the third set.

In the fourth set, the Cats’ defense zoned in and took away the Badgers’ scoring options. Af-ter a Wisconsin lead at 8-3, NU roared back to tie the set at 15 and then again at 19. The Cats took control one more time to outscore the Bad-gers 6-2, stealing the set and the match.

“The block and the defense were really in line,” Chrystal said.

Both Johnson and Chrystal said the de-

fense did a good job funneling the ball to libero Kate Nobilio, who notched 23 digs on the night and upped her season total to 469.

On senior night against Iowa, Nobilio’s family and friends supported her, sporting specially-made “We dig Nobilio” T-shirts. She led the Cats’ defensive efforts against the Hawkeyes with 21 digs. For her efforts against Wisconsin and Iowa, Nobilio was named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week for the third time this season.

The Cats scored on the opening serve of set one and never looked back. NU led by as many as 11 points before stealing set one 25-15.

Though the Hawkeyes were able to tie the second set seven times, the Cats proved too much. In set three, they took an early 10-3 lead before taking the set and the match 25-15.

NU dominated with a .364 hitting percent-age, compared to the Hawkeyes’ .060. The Cats also finished with a 9-3 block edge.

NU lost in three sets to Iowa in October, but the Cats were a more determined and ex-perienced team this time around.

At sixth place in the conference, NU must

win at least one of its final two games to be seri-ous contenders for an NCAA Championship invi-tation. Even if the Cats do not play in the tourna-ment, Chan said he is impressed with his team’s improvement throughout the season.

“I like the way we’re playing, and regard-less of what a committee thinks, I think we’ve come a long way,” he said.

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By EriN KimContributing writer

While many student groups run service trips to foreign countries or struggling com-munities, Global Water Brigades focuses its efforts on bringing awareness of clean water issues to third-world communities.

Whether a “brigade” trip to small villages in Honduras or a visit from a speaker, its ac-tivities are rooted in its foundation in Sum-mer 2008. Northwestern’s chapter of Global Water Brigades then ran trips to Honduras in September 2008 and March 2009.

This Spring Break the group will run an-other trip to Honduras, which is open to both group members and the general student body.

During the annual “brigades” to Hondu-

ran villages, the participants first assess the community’s water system with local leaders, help build up the system and then teach the community members about healthy uses of water, such as the proper way to wash hands, said Chelsea Eddy, co-director of the group.

“We work to improve water sanitation in villages, which are either limited or have no access to clean water sources,” said Eddy, a Weinberg sophomore. “We go in and work with community members to provide water to all families and teach about the importance of drinking clean water.”

In addition to its work with Honduran vil-lages, the group focuses on building aware-ness in the United States about the link be-tween public health issues and the lack of clean water, Eddy said.

And on Dec. 1, Dr. Shannon Galvin, who

specializes in infectious diseases, will speak at an event free to the public and hosted by the group on this topic.

“Galvin spent two years in Malawi work-ing on a UN project,” said Weinberg junior Annie Liu, an executive board member. “She has a lot of experience in third-world issues, so I thought it would be a good idea to have her speak.”

NU’s chapter is one of 16 chapters of Global Brigades, Inc, a non-profit organiza-tion in Los Angeles. According to the group’s Web site, its mission is “to empower students to provide communities in developing nations with sustainable solutions that improve qual-ity of life while respecting local culture.”

Nicholas Evans, McCormick ’09, was one of the co-founders of the NU chapter. He and other students began the group after being

inspired by a brigade trip they made to Hon-duras with other universities, he said.

“When we went to Honduras, it was really eye-opening,” Evans said. “We talked about how in the U.S., a lot of the times a home will use hundreds of gallons of water a day, whereas a lot of these homes barely have any access to water.”

Eddy, one of the group’s leaders, hadn’t travelled to a third-world country before her trip. She said she saw firsthand the long-last-ing impact of students’ volunteering.

“You can’t really appreciate what you’re doing until you’ve actually seen whose lives you’re making a difference in,” she said. ”It’s not like you go down for a week and feel that you made a minimal impact.”

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Coach Pat Fitzgerald has said all along his se-niors have played their best football late in the season, and their efforts were recognized Mon-day. Five Northwestern players were named to All-Big Ten teams, the conference announced.

The coaches picked Brad Phillips for the first team and cornerback Sherrick McManis for the second team. The media selected Phil-lips and wide receiver Zeke Markshausen for the second team and McManis for the first team. Quarterback Mike Kafka and kicker Stefan Demos, the lone Wildcats junior hon-ored, were consensus second-team choices.

Fitzgerald championed Kafka for offensive player of the year after the win over Wisconsin, and he stressed the value of his signal-caller again at Monday’s press conference.

“I don’t know if there’s one player who means more to his program than Mike means to ours,” Fitzgerald said.

Kafka was C.J. Bachér’s backup last season and started two games. While his mobility was on display in his cameo appearances a year ago, Kafka developed as a passer in 2009.

The offseason tutelage of offensive coordi-nator Mick McCall and former NU quarter-back Brett Basanez played an important role in Kafka’s progress.

“He really took a huge step this offsea-son,” Fitzgerald said. “It really started in the winter when he came back from our bowl game and was named to our leader-ship council. He worked hard all spring with Mick to clean up his mechanics and then worked with Brett Basanez all sum-mer long. Each week, he got a little better.”

By recording the second-most total yards in the league, Kafka made his case as an impact player. His teammates put up impressive num-bers as well — McManis led the team with four interceptions, Demos made 18-of-23 field goals, Markshausen reeled in 79 passes and Phillips battled injuries to top NU with 84 tackles and four forced fumbles. Fitzgerald found a place for all of them on his ballot.

“I voted for our guys, you’re darn right I did,”

he said. “They deserve it, they earned it. If that happens for them, great. If it doesn’t, great, be-cause then they’ll be mad and practice with a purpose for the next couple of weeks.”

Senior defensive end Corey Wootton and junior left tackle Al Netter were hon-orable mentions.

RECRUITING RICHESAfter beating then-No. 4 Iowa earlier this

month, Fitzgerald predicted NU would experi-ence a boon in recruiting and national interest. He said at the time, “It’s obviously critically im-portant to show the direction to all those recruits throughout the country that, absolutely, North-western is for real.”

The program took another step forward Saturday with a second impressive victory over a top-20 team.

“I’ve been really busy on Facebook,” Fitzgerald said of his interactions with pro-spective players since the game.

The fourth-year coach estimated about 75 coaches and 50 recruits attended the win. In addition to an NU triumph, they got to see the passion of the student body when it stormed the field after Kafka kneeled to run out the clock.

The Cats have almost completed this year’s recruiting class, with 15 known verbal com-mitments so far. Their attention will shift to attracting current high school juniors for next year’s group.

“The fun part about bowl practices is now we can really start to have the junior class come take a look at us in practice mode dur-ing the next couple of weeks,” Fitzgerald said. “We thought that helped us a year ago — we had every top Chicago-land recruit in our building in the month of December, and we’ll try to do the same again this year.”

BEGINNING BOWL PREPARATIONSWhile most teams across the country still

have one or two games left to play, the Cats are off for two weeks until they find out their bowl fate. The players will get a chance to go home for Thanksgiving, and then it’s back down to business.

“Next week will be a pretty heavy empha-sis on the young guys,” Fitzgerald said. “The vets will still practice, but they’ll be in shells for a couple of weeks until we know who we’re playing.”

Each team is allowed 15 practices before its bowl, but workouts held before a team’s bowl opponent is determined don’t count toward that total. One of the criticisms of the Big Ten schedule is that the season ends too early and teams are rusty by the time the postseason rolls around, but one advan-

tage is the extra practice time.A primary focus leading up to the bowl

game — likely the Champ Sports in Orlando, Fla., or the Outback Bowl in Tampa, Fla. — will be spending time in the weight room to get ready for playing in the warm weather.

“We’ll do more conditioning, more lifting, try to get stronger,” Fitzgerald said. “We’re in good football shape, but it’s going to have to be taken to another level.”

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Senior safety Brad Phillips sacks Scott Tolzien in NU’s 33-31 win over Wisconsin. Phillips was chosen by the conference coaches to the All-Big Ten first team, and by the media to the second team.

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Northwestern is tough to score against when its defensive schemes are clicking, as teams struggle to get open against the chaotic 1-3-1 and matchup zone defenses. The problem for the Wildcats so far has been their tendency to give up easy shots that ordinarily wouldn’t be there.

Against Butler and Tennessee State, the is-sue was painfully apparent. The Bulldogs and Tigers found openings on the perimeter, espe-cially early in the second half. Both teams made four consecutive 3-pointers during a stretch in the first nine minutes after intermis-sion, which allowed Butler to turn a six-point halftime lead into a blowout and Tennessee State to keep its unlikely edge.

“I asked (junior guard) Mike (Thompson), ‘How are they get-ting those shots out of the cor-ner?’” Carmody said after the win. “Because the guy wasn’t picking them, the guy wasn’t down there. Normally we say if the ball’s at the guard position, to get it into the corner it has to go over a guy’s head or (be) a bounce pass. Either one, Mike can usually get to. So I really have to look at the tapes.”

By Monday morning, Carmody had viewed the footage and noticed a few problems that need to be corrected before his squad faces Liberty at Welsh-Ryan Arena on Tuesday night.

“There isn’t enough pressure on the ball, whether we’re the 1-3-1 or our matchup,” the 10th-year coach said. “It seems like the guy with the ball is at ease and is comfortable, and we al-ways say we try to make our guys play them in such a way that they’re not facing the court, that they have to turn their back a little bit.”

Carmody also called Thompson “a little conservative” in getting to the outside and stressed the importance of anticipating passes to the corner more quickly.

The momentum started shifting back to-ward the Cats once their defense began play-ing aggressively and pressuring full-court af-ter the Tigers took a 61-53 lead. NU forced five turnovers in the last four minutes.

Tennessee State had used the same tac-tics in the first half to close the gap and

eventually go ahead, but the team looked disoriented when facing more pressure.

“When we picked up that energy and started to attack more, they started turning it over,” senior guard Jeremy Nash said. “Like coach says all the time, teams that like to press don’t like to be pressed.”

For most of last season, Nash played at the top of the 1-3-1 scheme. He was effective, record-ing 35 steals and leading the team in takeaways per 40 minutes with nearly two-and-a-half.

But Sunday, Carmody moved Nash down to the second line when guard Alex Marcot-ullio subbed in, which enabled the 6-foot-3 freshman to man Nash’s normal spot.

“It helps Alex because he’s a little bit smaller than me,” Nash said. “Now I can sit back and get more steals that are coming over the top.”

Carmody and his coach-ing staff are utilizing tape from last season to highlight why the 1-3-1 worked then and how it is faltering now. NU ranked in the top half of

the Big Ten in points allowed per game and op-ponents’ field-goal percentage a year ago, also forcing the second-most turnovers per contest.

One of the changes has been Nash’s produc-tion on the defensive end. Carmody pointed out to Nash what has gone wrong so far in 2009.

“Jeremy at the top (last year) and then this year, it looks like two different people out there,” Carmody said. “Sometimes, you don’t even real-ize you’re doing things a little differently.”

While some of the struggles might have been slightly unexpected, Carmody antici-pated a learning curve for his freshmen.

Both Marcotullio and forward Drew Crawford are getting substantial playing time early in their careers. Mistakes are in-evitable as they adjust to the system.

“With Alex and Drew, it’ll take a little while,” Carmody said. “When we were in a combination yesterday, Drew gave up about four wide-open shots because he was switching when he shouldn’t have switched and didn’t switch when he should have switched. I’m not surprised by that, I just know we’ve got to get better at it.”

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Northwestern raced through its first three games largely unchallenged: The Wildcats beat Toledo, SIU-Edwardsville and IPFW by an average of 20 points. Coach Joe McKe-own’s crew has dominated in almost every statistical category except one — turnovers. NU has coughed up the ball 58 times in its first three games for an average of 19 turn-overs a game. Combine that with the 55 turn-overs the Cats have forced and they rank 10th in the conference with a minus-one turnover margin.

“We’re just sloppy and coaches hate that,” McKe-own said. “It gives me some-thing to work on.”

With one freshman start-ing and another two coming off the bench, some of NU’s miscues are due to the younger players’ constant adjustments to playing at a higher level.

Another trigger for the turnovers may be the different defensive schemes NU is facing. The Cats have gone up against several unique schemes in their first three contests, and McKeown expects the team to improve.

“When we get into the Big Ten, people will guard you one-on-one,” McKeown said. “The passing lanes will be different and it will be a little more defined where the ball is going.”

NU will have to be more careful with the ball if it wants to continue its unbeaten streak Tuesday against No. 17 DePaul (4-0). DePaul ranks second in the Big East in scoring of-fense, besting opponents by a combined score of 336-255. The Blue Demons have also

posted a plus-3.3 turnover ratio.“You don’t want to give them easy oppor-

tunities to get fastbreaks and layups,” junior center Amy Jaeschke said. “So we really need to take care of the ball on Tuesday.”

DePaul is coming off their seventh con-secutive NCAA tournament appearance, following a season in which it f inished fourth in the Big East with a 23-10 record.

In looking at DePaul’s program, McKe-own sees something familiar.

“(DePaul) is what we were at George Washington in that they’re consistent every year,” McKe-own said. “When they have a bad year they’re still in the NCAA tournament and win 19 or 20 games. I admire that.”

Last year the Cats led the Blue Demons at halftime, but DePaul dominated NU in the second half and came away with a 60-51 victory.

“Last year we went there and played really well,” McKeown said. “Then we had a real bad spurt in the sec-ond half. They went on a run and we never recaptured the lead. It was a really good game for about 30 minutes.”

For McKeown, the NU-DePaul games are meaningful because of the local connec-tions. This year Jaeschke will be going up against a former teammate in DePaul guard Deirdre Naughton. The two played together at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill.

“They’re fun games to play in,” McKe-own said. “If you’re a kid from here or you go to school here you should get excited about this.”

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McKeown said. “IPFW forced us to shoot the ball from the perimeter. It’s good for us. We have to learn how to do deal with that because it’s going to happen again and again.”

The Cats’ defense held the Mastodons to just 14 points in the paint and forced 18 turnovers. Hackney attributed the defensive success to a bigger back court. With a taller team, traps are more effective at running down the shot clock and pressuring teams to take quick shots.

Against SIUE, the Cats committed 24 turn-overs. NU reduced that number to 15 in the win over IPFW, but both figures concerned McKe-own with ranked teams on the horizon.

“We’re getting a little antsy,” Hackney said. “A lot of the underclassmen aren’t as used to the tempo. We’re just trying to get caught up and relax because we know we can take care of the ball.”

Though McKeown said the Cats definitely have to reduce the number of “self-inflicted wounds” if they hope to be a factor in the Big Ten, his players benefitted from the winning at-mosphere on campus this weekend.

“Just being at Northwestern right now (is exciting),” he said. “People are talking about our student athletes. There’s just a little more excitement about it.”

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“We let them hang around in the last seven minutes of that first half,” Carmody said. “You do that with anybody, they feel better about themselves. We weren’t able to go into the locker room up 14 or 16, which we should have.”

Though the Cats bounced back to regain the lead after four minutes on a Marcotul-lio 3-pointer, the Tigers would not go away. They knocked down shots from beyond the arc on four of five possessions, eventually building a 61-53 advantage after junior for-ward Josh Sain made two free throws with 5:26 remaining. In the previous 21-and-a-half minutes, Tennessee State had out-scored the hosts by 23 points.

But the Tigers did not make another field goal for the rest of the contest. NU started pressuring all over the court, and it had the same effect as when Tennessee State tried it in the first half. Five Tigers turnovers in the last four minutes gave the Cats enough extra pos-sessions to complete the comeback.

Sain, who led his team with 14 points, didn’t help matters when he missed two free throws after being fouled on a shot from the perimeter. Thompson tied it up from the line 13 seconds later, and then Marcotullio drilled a 3-pointer from a few feet beyond the arc that gave NU the lead for good.

“We executed really well on that play,” said Marcotullio, who made all three of his shots from 3-point range and finished with nine points. “When the ball was swung to the top of the key, I knew I was shooting it.”

Fellow freshman Drew Crawford also pro-vided a boost. He recorded eight points and a game-high eight rebounds, including four on the offensive glass, and stayed out of foul trouble.

Considering NU’s first opponent, North-ern Illinois, topped Tennessee State by 28, the win was far from impressive. But after being on the wrong end of so many dra-matic rallies last season, the Cats took away a little confidence by finally coming from behind.

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Marcotullio’s clutch shots finish eight-point comeback

McKeown stresses ball control versus ranked foe

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Left: Junior guard Michael Thompson scored a career-high 31 points in Sunday’s win. Right: Sophomore forward John Shurna added nine points.

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(From left) Junior guard Beth Marshall bursts through the SIU-Edwardsville defense for a layup; sophomore forward Dannielle Diamant scores two of her game-high 17 points against the Cougars.

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By SARAH KUTATHE DAILY NORTHWESTERN

At the start of her third season in Evanston, Amy Jaeschke has never

been prouder to be a Northwest-ern basketball player. The Wild-cats are currently undefeated after three games and there is already a buzz surround-ing the team.

“We’ve strug-gled in the past couple of years, but just t hese three wins — it’s a totally differ-ent team,” Jae-schke. “It’s just such a positive atmosphere that it ’s great to be part of the team right now.”

N U ( 3 - 0 ) trounced SIU-E d w a r d s v i l l e (2-3) 68-37 on Friday and fol-lowed that with

a 78-58 victory over IPFW (2-2) on Sunday. This start is the Cats’ best since the 2006-07 season.

Jaeschke led the Cats against the Cougars, posting her first dou-ble-double of the season with 16

points and 15 rebounds. The junior center tied a career-best with nine blocks, while freshman center Dannielle Dia-mant also helped pace NU with 17 points and 10 rebounds.

NU’s defense held SIUE scoreless for a five-minute stretch in the first half and lim-ited the Cougars inside, allowing just one bas-ket in the paint and 14 total points. After inter-mission, the Cats out-scored the Cougars 38-23 and connected on 16-of-19 free throws.

While NU had a clear size advantage, Jaeschke said the Cats can use the experience of playing against play-ers who are faster and more physical to prepare for the regular season.

“We’re going to be playing against really athletic bigs in the Big Ten,” said the 6-foot-5 center, who was named co-Big Ten Player of the Week for her efforts. “They’re going to be able to take us off the dribble so if we can learn to play defense against these smaller players, when we go against athletic Big Ten play-ers, we’ll be able to stop them, too.”

Jaeschke led the Cats again on Sunday against IPFW with 18 points, nine rebounds and five

blocks. Freshman forward Ken-dall Hackney added 12 points and seven rebounds.

Hackney knocked down the first of NU’s six 3-pointers in the first half. Though the Cats con-nected on only 10 percent of their shots from beyond the arc in the second half, McKeown said he plans to incorporate the Cats’ outside skill into his offensive tactics for the regular season.

“We did what we had to do,”

By DANNY DALYTHE DAILY NORTHWESTERN

Sunday’s game against Tennes-see State was supposed to give Northwestern a chance to work out the kinks and regain confidence after a decisive home loss to Butler. Instead, the Tigers gave the Wild-cats an early-season gut check.

Junior guard Michael Thomp-son’s career-high 31 points were barely enough to lift NU to a 69-62 victory at Welsh-Ryan Arena. The Cats trailed by eight with just more than f ive minutes to play, but Thompson’s gritty performance and freshman guard Alex Marcotullio’s clutch long-range shooting helped stave off the Tigers’ upset bid.

“Mike was very good the whole game,” coach Bill Carmody said. “Even before Jeff (Ryan) and Kevin (Coble) were injured, we said, ‘You’ve got to take 12-13 shots a game.’ He knew coming into this year that he was going to be expected to score a little bit more, and he’s a very good shooter. Tonight he was finding the open spot, and he knocked some big ones down there.”

Thompson made 9-of-18 shots, including five 3-pointers, and also sank eight free throws. His 18 at-tempts from the f ield were his most since he arrived in Evanston — last year, he took at least 10 shots in only five games.

Of Thompson’s 31 points, 21 came a f ter ha l f t ime. He a lso scored 13 of NU’s 16 points in the

final five minutes.“In the second half, I just saw

a lot of driving lanes and a lot of opportunities to get a couple of clean 3s off,” Thompson said.

The game started out like most ex-pected it would, with NU grabbing a 28-15 lead in the first 13 minutes. But the Tigers crept back, going on an 18-4 surge to take a one-point edge into intermission. They scored the last 12 points of the half, and the Cats turned the ba l l over s i x times after their final basket with 5:04 left before the break.

Te n n e s s e e State’s full-court press created problems for NU (2-1) in the latter part of the open-ing period. The Tigers (0-3) forced 12 turnovers during the half, which they converted into 16 points.

“Their press defense got to us a lot,” Thompson said. “They’re long and they’re active, and they got their hands on a lot of balls.”

A thunderous dunk by junior forward Darius Cox put Tennessee State ahead 33-32 after 20 min-utes, allowing the visitors to start thinking they had a chance to come away with a victory.

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Jack Hillgard morphed into a scoring machine at the right time.

The junior doubled his career goal tally by heading home the first two goals in No. 9 Northwestern’s 3-1 second-round NCAA tournament vic-tory over Notre Dame.

“He’s not going to set the 100-me-ter dash record,” said coach Tim Lenahan of the 6-foot-3 defensive midfielder. “But he’s been good at sitting in the hole for us, and as you can see, he’s a bit of an offensive force

now.”H i l l g a r d ’s

headers and a 6 8 t h - m i n u t e goal by junior midfielder Piero B e l l i z z i g ave N U i t s t h i r d three-goal per-formance of the year. But senior keeper Misha Rosenthal was a r g u a b l y t h e game’s real star. N o t r e D a m e

mustered only one offensive shot on goal in the first half, but the Fighting Irish put forth an offensive barrage after intermission that fea-tured 21 shots, 10 corners and 12 shots on goal.

Rosenthal was up to the challenge: He made a season-high 11 saves, including five that forced him to leave his feet to punch the ball over the net or sprawl out for the diving stop.

“You’d like to have the games where it’s just one or two saves,” Rosenthal said. “But you’ll do what-ever it is, whatever it takes.”

NU forced a corner on its first true scoring opportunity in the 17th min-ute. A defender attempted to clear the ball, but Hillgard used his height to get a little bit of the ball and send it toward the goal. Fighting Irish goalie Andrew Quinn dove and appeared to clear the ball off the line, but the ref-eree ruled the ball crossed the line and awarded NU with the goal.

“Things just fell into place,” Hillgard said. “It flew pretty high up in the air, and I just went up and got it.”

Hillgard struck again on a 53rd-minute counterattack. Senior for-ward Eamon O’Neill played a cross from the left side, and Hillgard hammered it home.

“I knew once Eamon got out wide he wants to serve,” Hillgard said. “And he’s usually spot on with his delivery.”

O’Neill hadn’t started most of the season, but proved his worth in a ceremonial Senior Day start against Michigan State.

Bellizzi’s 63rd-minute goal put the game on ice. Once again, O’Neill sparked the score: A ball played to Bel-lizzi drew Quinn out of net, but Bellizzi barely beat the keeper to the ball. A simple sidestep left Bellizzi alone in front of an empty net, and the game appeared to be as good as done.

NU capitalized on its opportuni-ties by scoring on each of its three shots on goal.

“The three goals we scored were a byproduct of great opportunties,” Lenahan said. “It’s like basketball. You get a layup, you should score. And we got layups today.”

NU’s three-goal lead was its first by such a margin all season. The Fighting Irish, realizing they had 30 minutes to salvage their season, responded by pushing forth an impressive offensive attack. After

NU’s defense held Notre Dame to one shot on goal in the first 50 min-utes, the Irish put 11 shots on goal the remainder of the game. All 10 of Notre Dame’s corner kicks came in the final 40 minutes, but the Cats handled the attack.

“I expected them to throw every-thing they had at us,” Rosenthal said.

“For me, it’s easier when they’re coming at you. It’s easier for you to focus when the pressure’s constantly there.”

NU held strong, and despite giv-ing up an 82nd minute goal to John Schaefer , the Cats earned their sec-ond victory of the season by more than one goal.

“Those last few minutes took for-

ever, by the way,” Lenahan said.NU will take on No. 8 Tulsa in

a third-round matchup Sunday. The Cats beat the Golden Hurricane 3-2 in an overtime performance earlier in the season .

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“It’s like basketball. You get a layup, you should

score. And we got layups today.”

NU men’s soccer coach Tim Lenahan,on Northwestern’s 3-1 win over Notre Dame

Header-happy Hillgard helps Cats move on

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Junior midfielder Jack Hillgard notched his third and fourth career goals, both of the header variety, leading Northwestern to a 3-1 victory over Notre Dame in the second round of the NCAA tournament. The 6-foot-3 junior midfielder used his size to his advantage on the pair of scores. He has headed home three of his four goals this year, and is second on the team in scoring.

NU survives scare behind Thompson’s 31-point night

Jaeschke propels Wildcats to wins

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Junior center Amy Jaeschke was one block away from a triple-double against SIU-Edwardsville and earned Co-Big Ten Player of the Week honors.

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