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By nathan adkisson and nathalie tadena
the daily northwestern
Evanston had its first cases of swine flu confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the city announced Thursday evening.
The CDC confirmed eight Evan-ston cases of swine flu Thursday, according to a press release from the City of Evanston. Every case has either fully recovered or is on the way to a full recovery with no com-plications.
Each case occurred in a young individual, with ages ranging from three to 28 years old, according to the release.
Carl Caneva, the acting director of Evanston’s Health and Human Services Department, gave sugges-tions for avoiding the virus.
“At this time (we are) recom-mending that the primary means of reducing the spread of influenza in schools is to focus on early identifi-cation of ill students and staff, stay-ing home when ill, and good cough and hand hygiene etiquette,” he said in the release.
He also recommended keeping Evanston schools open.
“School closure is not advised for a suspected or confirmed case of in-fluenza A (H1N1) and, in general, is not advised unless there is a magni-tude of faculty or student absentee-ism that interferes with the school’s ability to function,” Caneva said.
Though there are no reports of Northwestern students with the vi-rus, it is affecting some students’ travel plans this summer.
The NU-run Public Health in Mexico program has been cancelled for the summer. The students regis-
tered to participate in the program were notified by the International Prog ram Development of f ice Wednesday.
“Twenty-two students were ready to go and already ticketed, but we decided it would be too risky to send such a large group of students,” said Devora Grynspan, director of IPD. “We had to make the decision based on the information we had.”
The NU Mexico City trip is an annual eight-week program during which students work in health agen-cies and clinics and also conduct re-search.
“The nature of the program brings the students in contact with a lot of people,” Grynspan said. “It’s not like students are isolated.”
Several other U.S. universities in-cluding Michigan State University, the University of Wisconsin at Eau
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New Orleans mayoral candi-date James Perry has plenty of reasons to care about the city’s continued recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina. When he spoke to about 30 Northwestern students gathered in University Hall on Thursday, he wanted to know why they were interested.
The responses varied – some were curious about the area,
some wanted to hear about the hurricane and some wanted to discuss recovery efforts.
Communication senior Anne Valauri, who has visited New Or-leans to help with rebuilding projects, mentioned the ongoing housing problem.
“When I was there, what re-ally upset me was that people had hired (housing) contractors, but there hadn’t been a permanent agreement, so people did a day of work, then went off with their
money,” she said.Perry, who is the executive di-
rector of the Greater New Or-leans Fair Housing Action Cen-ter, addressed the lack of funding for people to rebuild their homes. As director, he has won several lawsuits to fight for fair housing.
“My focus here has everything to do with (the fact) that I’m a housing guy,” he said. “The levees broke, and 80 percent of the housing was destroyed or unus-able.”
Perry and the center have sued the Road Home program, which was supposed to help with the costs of repairing, he said.
They are still in the early stages of the lawsuit, but he said they hope to have the program pay three or four times the amount they pay now to rebuild the homes.
“Working at the Fair Housing Center, it became clear that peo-ple st i l l didn’t have enough money to repair their homes,” Perry said. “We started finding neighborhoods where they were $50,000 short. They were gener-ally African-American neighbor-hoods and Latino neighbor-hoods.”
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The healthier whey? Read about Evanston’s new healthy yogurt eaterie PAGE 2
Rallygoers celebrate ‘victory’
CDC confirms flu in Evanstonπ Eight cases of swine flu were confirmed Thursday, while at least one NU abroad program is being nixed
By mallory JaCksonthe daily northwestern
Chants of “Sí Se Puede” – “Yes We Can” – echoed through-out South Campus on Thursday afternoon as about 70 students and Evanston residents gathered in support of immigrants’ rights.
The rally, which began at the Arch and ended with a march to the Rock, was an act of celebra-tion and a call for continued in-volvement, said Arianna Her-mosillo, the president of Alianza and a rally organizer.
“We stand here today to cele-brate a victory,” the Medill junior
said. “Because we took action and challenged the irresponsible practices of our university police, a change in policy toward immi-grants has been made.”
Originally planned for Monday, the event was meant to address ac-tions taken by the University Police against undocumented immigrant
Ramiro Sanchez-Zepeda, who was arrested for drunk driving April 26.
Immediately following his ar-rest, UP contacted the U.S. Im-migration and Customs Enforce-ment to ensure his detainment and deportation. This action en-
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A new Evanston business sees itself as a trailblazer, leading a charge to incorporate fresh, healthy protein into everyday foods.
Whey protein, made from a small part of the liquid left over in the cheese-making process, is a “wonderful nutrient,” said Daphne Mazarakis (McCor-mick ’94), the president and
founder of Tula Foods, Inc. and the Better Whey of Life brand.
While whey protein has previously been used in supplements, Tula Foods is the first company to bring the protein into common foods.
“We’ve been in the marketplace since about September 2008, and we have not yet found another company that’s kind of doing what we’re doing,” the 37-year-old Mazarakis said. “So we’re very happy about that.”
In January 2008, Mazarakis started the business, which currently sells only yogurt but is looking to expand to other foods.
The product, six-ounce yogurt, launched in September. It comes in five flavors – plain, aca i mi xed ber r y, strawberry banana, pea ch ma ngo a nd French vanilla, the owner said. It is made in Wisconsin and available in stores in 16 states, but the business is headquartered at 820 Da-vis St. in Evanston.
The business is planning a 2010 launch of a new food enhanced by whey protein, but Mazarakis declined to say what the new food will be.
“Whey protein is a wonderful nutrient,” said Mazarakis, who said she dropped a skirt size “without really trying” after incorporat-ing whey protein into her diet. “If you ask any MD or any nutritionist, they will tell you that it is such a nutrient-rich protein.”
Kathy Duan said she eats the yogurt about four times a week when she gets it at her in-ternship.
“It’s so good,” the Medill sophomore said. “It’s really healthy. I just started running long distance. It’s a nice pre- or post-workout food.”
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Zeta Phi Beta shares ideas of peace with Evanston children
The paper doves decorating Norris Uni-versity Center starting Saturday represent more than another creative way to beautify the campus under Northwestern’s Be the Change program.
Five members of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. met with elementary-aged children at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Center, 1655 Foster St., to decorate paper doves and discuss what it means to be peaceful last Friday.
During a “time of school shootings” and other forms of violence, it was important to Zeta Phi Beta to help the kids and give back to the community, said Laura Tillman, the sorority’s president.
“It really spoke to the principles of our sorority,” the SESP sophomore said. “We saw a great opportunity to help these kids have more ideas to deal with negative situations.”
Using the Be the Change $1,000 grant to buy art supplies, members of Zeta Phi Beta had the children decorate plant pots and pa-per doves while asking them what they thought peace was and how they could work to achieve it.
Zeta Phi Beta’s proposal was “engaging” and addressed the goals of Be the Change, said Tracey Gibson-Jackson, coordinator of student organizations.
“The end product peace treaty would be a nice addition to show how they are work-ing with Evanston,” she said. “People can re-ally see that our reach is beyond this cam-pus, into the Evanston community.”
In addition to the paper doves the chil-dren decorated, the Norris display will also feature a poster describing the discussion. Tillman said she hopes the display will send the message of peace to NU students.
“No matter what your age is and despite any demographic differences, peace is al-ways something we should strive toward,” she said.
— Mina Shankar
nEWSBRIEFUP sets illegal immigrant policyraged some students and Evanston resi-dents, who met with members of University and Evanston police in protest.
While the Evanston Police Department has precedents for dealing with illegal im-migrants, until recently, UP did not, Mi-chael Waxman said.
“Eleven days ago, University Police pos-sessed no official policy regarding undocu-mented immigrants and the investigation of citizenship,” the Weinberg sophomore said. “But today, due to the efforts of Northwest-
ern University students, University Police have agreed to our policy.”
UP changed its policy for dealing with il-legal immigrants Wednesday. The new pol-icy states that UP will not refer anyone to immigration enforcement unless there is a felony charge or a prior warrant for arrest.
Organizers and supporters made it clear there is still a great deal to be done, includ-ing raising awareness of larger workers’ rights issues, access to housing and family reunification. Additionally, organizers em-phasized the importance of addressing racial profiling and discrimination on campus.
“It was a good first splash in the pond, but obviously it can’t be the last one,” Wein-berg senior Loren Balhorn said.
Organizers said they were excited by the event’s success and the potential for future influence.
“I really don’t think we could have asked for a better turnout,” Waxman said. “We’ll hopefully mobilize some sort of future ac-tion in the ways of working with the police and educating the campus that there is dis-crimination that occurs.”
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QUOTERAIL | Should University Police refer illegal immigrants to federal authorities?
“Yes, local police should have the authority to refer illegal immigrants to the federal government because both of them work in the common interest of American citizens.”
— Sourav Bhowmick,
Weinberg freshman
“In areas like the
Midwest where illegal
immigration isn’t that
much of a problem, they
shouldn’t be able to.”
— rachel Saul, Music junior
“Yes, if you’re illegal, you’re working and tak-ing away money and jobs from guys who need to be working instead of begging on the streets.”
— wayne Smith, 54
“No, the local police really shouldn’t be worrying about immigration. That’s step-ping too far. It should be the federal government who takes care of immigration.”
— JacoB PetroShuS, 13
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I hate Mother’s Day. I hate Moth-er’s Day like toddlers hate spinach and grown-ups hate taxes. I can’t spit it out into my napkin or pull a Daschle. If I don’t buy into Mother’s Day, I might as well call myself an orphan.
My family’s need to celebrate Mother’s Day is a compulsion. As one big, Everybody-loves-Raymond meets My-Big-Fat-Greek-Wedding clan, we celebrate everything. Birthdays, com-munions, baptisms, baby showers, an-niversaries – I’m surprised we haven’t started celebrating root canals. My weekends are essentially booked for the next 40 years.
I guess it’s good – it keeps us all happily dysfunctional, it drives certain economic sectors, it leads to long brunches and heartwarming moments to be treasured for life. We like doing something for someone else, whatever shape that something might take.
But I take offense to the corporate prostitution of personal relationships, a.k.a the Hallmark holiday. Isn’t every day Mother’s Day? What’s May 10th got to do with it?
Don’t get me wrong, I love my mother. I also love the other women in my family who are mothers, have mothers or want to be mothers. But I don’t want to buy them all cards.
This goes for all Hallmark “holi-days.” Like Valentine’s Day. V-Day makes no sense. Come mid-February every store looks like cupid threw up and dyed the whole joint magenta. So you're single if you don't go out to din-ner or buy roses on February 14? That is just absurd.
I buy the card for Mother’s Day be-cause I feel like a horrible daughter if I don’t. I’ve spent hours poring over cards, deciding which card best articu-lates my relationship with my mother. Three hours later I leave CVS with some $2.99 saccharine-poetry infested card that will get my Mom to shed a tear, which is, by the way, the goal of every card ever purchased. We’ve all bought these cards before so don’t bother denying it.
There are entire stores that sell nothing but stationery and Yankee Candles, all this random crap we sup-posedly need to gift wrap and give out in order to point out the obvious. I love you. Congratulations. I’m sorry for your loss.
Just skip the card and protest the environmentally unfriendly world of corporate consumerism. My sister and I have made cards, picked flowers and made breakfast. But that’s really not enough. Though it's a fake holiday, Mother’s Day has become synony-mous with Birth Day. This once meant standing at the Sephora counter at Woodfield Mall, picking pennies from pant pockets to pay for the $70 per-fume. For Mother’s Day.
My sister and I are a special kind of crazy, so this probably reflects less on Hallmark holidays than on our need to measure up to our family’s love for us. But it still blows that on days like those, the best way to show you care requires gift wrap. The worst part is that Hall-mark holidays are so entrenched in our understanding of celebration that the act of not buying into it suggests apathy to the person or the day being cele-brated. It’s crazy, but it’s true.
But hey, it’s Mother’s Day, right? It’s not about you or me. It’s all about Mom, and she wants that card. I just know it.
Here’s hoping you don’t have to buy one, too.
Saberi’s appeal; UP’s new deal
to the Northwestern University Police Department for changing its policy on dealing with illegal immigrants. UP made the decision to only report illegal immigrants
to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “in cases involving arrests for a felony and/or human traf-ficking.” The judgment was made in the wake of con-troversy after NUPD pulled over, arrested and subse-quently turned over to ICE illegal immigrant Ramiro Sanchez-Zepeda.
The move, which was impelled by NU student leaders, was roundly applauded by groups like Alianza and the Undergraduate Lecture Series on Race, Pov-erty and Inequality. UP’s new policy brings it into line with one already in place in the Evanston Police De-partment, and establishes Evanston as a kind of sanctu-ary for immigrants. Mayor-elect Elizabeth Tisdahl ac-knowledged her support for the decision as well.
NU deserves a pat on the back for not only standing up for immigrant rights in Evanston, but also for the students who stepped up and confronted UP officials, demanding and begetting change. Hopefully, students will continue to protest and face off against policies they view as unfair or unjust.
to Northwestern’s baseball team. Noth-ing seems to be going right for coach Paul Stevens’ squad. Since its dominating 5-1 at U.S. Cellular Field in mid-April, the Wild-cats have compiled a 3-8-1 record. Although
NU was able to record its second and third conference wins during the 12-game span, the Cats are now in the midst of a seven-game winless streak, including six losses and one tie. This week, NU lost 14-2 to Val-paraiso and tied Division III University of Chicago, neither team exactly the ‘27 Yankees. Stevens gave his team credit for not quitting on him after last week-end’s sweep at the hands of Illinois. He might be re-thinking that after the recent struggles are com-pounded with a trip to face Big Ten foe Indiana this weekend.
to Roxana Saberi’s case being up for appeal. The Medill grad taken into custody by Iranian authorities for “espionage” will have an opportunity to appeal her charges in a closed hearing believed to being taking
place May 12. After 15 days of fasting to protest her charges, Saberi was taken to a hospital Monday. Since her arrest, NU faculty, students and alumni alike have also engaged in a number of protests, the most recent of which is a fast until May 15. NU can take pride in its activism in support of Saberi, whether or not it has any direct impact on the case. The appeal hearing is defi-nitely a step in the right direction and the campus must maintain its level of activism. Bringing Saberi safely home remains the ultimate goal.
to Morton Schapiro’s inauguration date. NU’s inauguration planning com-mittee has scheduled incoming President Morton Schipiro’s inauguration for Oct. 7 –10, with the ceremony itself tentatively
set for Oct. 9 at 3 p.m. New York Times writer and Pulitzer Prize winning author, Thomas L. Fried-man, will be speaking at the inauguration. In addi-tion, a “major music performer or band” is reported in the works.
While we are incredibly excited for the inaugura-tion, the fact that the dates overlap with the date of a home football game against Miami (Ohio) is bit a concerning. While this ordinarily might not be something to fret over, Miami (Ohio) is the alma mater of former NU football coach Randy Walker. The university may want to honor Walker at the game, which may end up conflicting with Schipiro’s inauguration. In any event, scheduling the inaugura-tion during a home-football weekend is not smart. The university should be able to devote its full atten-tion to the inauguration and not have to choose be-tween competing interests.
Although the date for the home football game may be set in stone, the inauguration committee still has time to change the date of Schipiro’s cere-mony. A revised date that allows the university to properly celebrate the inauguration without dis-placing interest in an important home football game would be best.
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“He” still the best generic pronoun
If you respond to a Letter to the Editor – make sure to read it. I appreciate Sebastian Karcher’s response “Gendered Language Re-ally Does Matter” because it gives me the op-portunity to clarify my argument.
When I cited Foertsch and Gernsbacher’s paper, I wrote that the use of “she” in an un-stereotypical context “slows reader compre-hension by 8 to 12 percent.” I recognize the fact that the use of “he” and the use of “they” are, according to the study, equally readable, and I’m sorry if readers of the letter inter-preted my argument as saying differently; ob-viously my writing was unclear.
Mr. Karcher is correct that I personally prefer to use “he” when the antecedent’s gen-der is ambiguous. This partiality is not be-cause I believe (from the findings in the study) that “he” is the most readable option.
As Mr. Karcher pointed out in his letter, Foertsch and Gernsbacher found no evidence that either “he” or “they” is more readable than the other. If I must choose between “he” and “they” in formal writing, I will go with “he” because, as I said, the use of “they” as a singular pronoun is still in the informal spo-ken stage of social acceptance.
I presume that eventually the use of “they” will attain such prominence that it will be generally accepted in formal contexts, at which time I will be delighted to drop “he” for “they.” I happen to err on the side of pre-scriptivism.
As for everyone else — Mr. Karcher and NU faculty included — they should feel free to make their own decisions — provided they avoid “she.” To quote my previous letter, “there is no reason, deontological or prag-matic, to use ‘she’ as a generic pronoun.” This was and is the point I want to convey, and if it is a mistaken one, I would greatly appreciate a clarification.
—natalieFriend weinberg sophomore
“Illegal immigrant” inaccurate and unjust
People always criticize Northwestern stu-dents for being apathetic. That’s why I was excited to see so many journalism students rally behind Roxana Saberi and march for human rights.
I only wish The Daily would do the same. With so many journalism students here pro-testing against this injustice, maybe recon-sider using the term “illegal immigrant” when referring to people who have no rights and are being exploited here in America. The correct term is undocumented immigrant. It doesn’t matter what the AP Style Manuel says! Stop calling my friends illegal.
—ChiarraManzanaresweinberg freshman
“Undocumented,” not “illegal” more accurate
A couple of clarifications: first, last year the City Council did not pass a “symbolic resolution in favor of making Evanston a safe haven for immigrants.” The exact wording was “that the Evanston City Council reaffirms its practice and commit-ment to the continued treatment of immi-grants and their families on a humane and just basis.”
Second, the term “illegal” with refer-ence to immigrants is a misnomer since the person is not the illegal entity – the term applies to the action committed, not the person. It is for this reason that the more accurate term “undocumented immi-grant” is more appropriate. It would be terrific if The Daily Northwestern were to adopt the more appropriate terminology.
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Claire, Pennsylvania State University at Al-toona and Suffolk University have already can-celled their summer study abroad programs in Mexico. The University of Minnesota advised its students who are currently in Mexico this semester to return to the United States.
Many of the students who planned to par-ticipate in NU’s Mexico City trip are pursuing a global health mi-nor. Under this program, students are required to part icipate in a public health pro-gram in a foreign country for one q u a r t e r. A s ide from the summer program in Mex-ico, NU also offers a summer program i n Beij i ng a nd school-year pro-grams in Europe, South Africa and Uganda. NU faced a similar problem in 2003 when the Beijing public health program was cancelled out of concern about the spread of SARS in Asia.
Despite other options, many students are drawn to the eight-week Mexico City program because it is NU’s only program in Latin America.
“If I’m going on a public health program, it would be really interesting to go to a develop-ing country where public health is more of a prominent problem,” said Anshika Kaushik, a Weinberg freshman who signed up for the Mexico trip.
Currently, the office is working to help stu-dents find alternative public health programs. Additional spots have been added for the summer China trip, but some students may opt to participate in the Mexico program next summer or participate in a non-NU program, said Vic Flessas, assistant director of IPD.
Flessas said the cancellation of fall non-NU sponsored study abroad programs has not yet been determined.
Donald Misch, executive director of NU Health Service, said it is difficult to predict the spread of swine f lu in the next few months.
“Everything is super fluid,” Misch said. “Two months from now you may wish you went to Mexico, but if you have to buy tickets today, you have to decide on less than com-plete information. It’s no one’s fault, just the nature of the situation.”
Alexandra Finkel contributed [email protected]@u.northwestern.edu
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grown more comfortable on the court over the past two seasons.
Her increased confidence has been appar-ent to Robison.
“To say she’s grown is an understatement,” Robison said. “She’s done such a great job learning the game and being open to sugges-tions. There isn’t anyone else I’d rather have on my side of the net.”
The duo has also helped lead the Cats to a nearly spotless record in dual-match doubles play. NU has dropped only one doubles point all season, but its prowess may be put to the test this weekend.
All three of the Cats’ potential opponents are strong in doubles play. NU opens with No. 72 Miami (Ohio), which has won 13 of its last 14 doubles points.
With a win, NU then faces either Ken-tucky or Ohio State in the regional finals.
Kentucky has one of the nation’s top-ranked duos in No. 31 Carolina Escamilla and Caro-line Lilley, while Ohio State gave NU a scare in doubles in each of its two regular season matchups.
NU will be relying on Mosolova to lead the way in both singles and doubles, as the team tries to make its seventh-consecutive trip to the round of 16.
The Cats know they can rely on Mosolova to be on top of her game this weekend, when
her teammates will again be counting on her. “The thing that people don’t know about
Maria is that she’s a really great team player,” coach Claire Pollard said. “She’s really out for Northwestern tennis. She might be a super-star, she might be the No. 1 seed, but if you ask what’s more important – her individual success or Northwestern’s success – it’s not a tough decision for her.”
NU’s doubles game key to quarterfinals berthFrom WOMEN’S TENNIS, page 8
win,” Swan said. “Making the NCAA tour-nament as a program was important be-cause it was a goal we had at the beginning of the year. We completed that goal, but our next goal is to win the first match against Wake Forest. We’re trying to keep the pro-gram going forward.”
McCarthy said even if the team loses in the tournament, it will have been a great season because of the tremendous improve-ment from last year to this year. Neverthe-less, his mindset is that the team has a lot of tennis left to play.
“Even though we’ve done so well so far this year, I’m looking at it as that we’re still in the middle of the season,” McCarthy said. “There’s a lot of work ahead of us. Even though we’ve accomplished a lot from last year to this year, we still have a chance to be even better than we anticipated.”
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For sophomore Eric Jokisch, one season has made a world of difference – at least in his first six conference outings. A year after boasting a 5-1 record to kick off the Big Ten season, Jokisch has only picked up one Big Ten win so far.
Last year, he went 8-2 with a team-leading 4.17 ERA en route to earning Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors. It looked like Jokisch was on track to continue his success in 2009, but since a start in mid-April against Notre Dame, Jokisch hasn’t pitched past the fifth inning.
To that point, Jokisch was Northwestern’s Friday starter. But after pitching five shutout innings against the Fighting Irish, Jokisch’s start against Iowa was cancelled. Then, he pitched on Saturday against Ohio State and Illinois, both losses, in which he surrendered a combined 19 runs in seven innings.
“I was happy to pitch (the Notre Dame)
game, but then I didn’t get to pitch at Iowa because it got rained out,” Jokisch said. “And that did throw off my rhythm a bit, just mix-ing things up. ... I’ve noticed a few mechani-cal things that have gotten worse, and so I think it was a lot of mental stuff involved too.”
Jokisch will get a chance to work out his kinks, when NU faces Indiana this weekend.
“I just have to go out there and make sure I throw the best of my ability every time I get the chance,” Jokisch said. “I haven’t done that the last two starts, but I hope to turn it around.”
— JESSIE CAI
Drohan’s Cats excelling at game of pinches
In mid-April against No. 23 Iowa, Em-ily Haug and Aly Euler sat for eight-and-a-half innings.
They watched their team take a lead. They watched them blow it. Twice.
Then, coach Kate Drohan called upon them in a pinch. With the score tied at five in the bottom of the ninth, Euler ran for sophomore Kelly Quinn at third, and Haug came up to the plate to replace sophomore Robin Thompson.
And sure enough, the juniors delivered in tandem. Haug drove Euler home with a walk-off pinch-hit past second base for the Northwestern victory.
“They need to be able to execute under pressure,” Drohan said of the pair. “It takes a special skill to be able to slow the game down. They’re in for one play, or one inning, and both of them really excel in that situation.”
Ever since Haug established her pinch-hit prowess with a three-run seventh-inning walkoff against Minnesota last year – her
first career home run – she has shown a knack for coming through in the clutch.
“I kind of think I thrive on pressure,” Haug said. “I like the challenge. It ’s fun for me.”
Now, pinch-hitting is pretty much the only time she gets to bat. Of Haug’s 28 at-bats this season, 24 of them have come as a pinch-hitter. And she has capitalized on her opportunities, boasting a .367 career average and .500 on-base percentage in those situa-tions, higher than her .340 lifetime average.
“Usually, in those types of situations, every-body has already done the work for me,” Haug said. “For me, all I have to do is put it in play.”
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By BILL CAREYTHE DAILY NORTHWESTERN
Growing up in Moscow, No. 1 Northwestern’s Maria Mosolova was used to playing for herself.
Before coming to NU, Mosolova was a top-flight singles player, winning both the Russian under-16 and under-18 titles and rising to No. 41 in the ITF World Junior rankings .
When she left Russia to at-tend college in America, she also left behind her individ-ual focus.
Since joining the Wild-cats, the sophomore has dis-covered the added pressure that comes from playing for her teammates .
“College tennis is so dif-ferent because you have to play for a team,” said Moso-lova, the nation’s top-ranked singles player. “It wasn’t re-ally a hard adjustment for me – it was just different. I obvi-ously have more responsibil-ity every time we go out there, and know my point really matters every time.”
Mosolova, the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Singles Tourna-ment , has continued to thrive individually, winning two Big
Ten Player of the Year awards . But her biggest contribution to the Cats may
be her improved doubles play. After primarily playing third doubles last season, Mosolova now teams with senior Keri Robison to form NU’s second doubles pair .
The duo has improved rapidly throughout the year. Before the season, it wasn’t even cer-tain that Mosolova and Robison would be team-ing up. Now, the tandem has earned one of the 32 spots in the NCAA Doubles Tournament , sneaking into one of the field’s last openings. At the time of the selection, they were ranked No. 29 in the nation.
Mosolova had very little experience playing doubles when she came to NU, but said she has
By DANNY DALYTHE DAILY NORTHWESTERN
It took the Wildcats three years to go from a club team to the national quarterfinals . North-western lost a tight game to Virginia to close out that 2004 season , but it has not dropped a playoff game since.
To begin its pursuit of a fifth straight na-tional title, NU faces a team with an arc very
similar to its own: Massa-chusetts. Two seasons ago, a rookie head coach took the reins of the struggling program . She has her team in the NCAA tournament this year for the first time in a quarter-century – an im-pressive turnaround con-sidering that the new coach still has players on the squad that she did not re-cruit.
It should not come as a shock that the coach of the Minutewomen, A lexis Venechanos , also served as a Cats’ assistant for the early part of their rise to greatness .
“She’s a serious competi-tor,” coach Kelly Amonte
Hiller said. “It’s not surprising to me that she’s having this success.”
Venechanos spent three years under Amonte Hiller, coming aboard right after grad-uating from Maryland and being named the National Goalie of the Year as a senior . The Cats won national titles in each of Venechanos’ final two seasons before she moved on to Am-herst, Mass .
NU boasts one of the country’s most tal-ented and decorated senior classes, and Venechanos was key in bringing that group to Evanston. Now she has to figure out a way for her new players to beat her old ones, who comprise the top-seeded team in the tournament.
“It’s always great to play the best,” Venecha-nos said. “Coming from that program, I have tons of respect for them. The reason why I’m here is the success we had at Northwestern.”
Massachusetts won 15 games in Venecha-nos’ first two campaigns, just short of the team’s combined win total during the three seasons prior to her arrival . To compare, Amonte Hiller won 13 games in her first two years .
Venechanos still looks up to Amonte Hiller and, like most of college lacrosse, wants to fol-
low the Cats’ blueprint for success.“Kelly continues to be my mentor,” Venech-
anos said. “She really cares about the process of every little detail – in terms of the players, de-velopment, recruiting. Those are the things that are priceless and that I’m taking to my program.”
Though Venechanos coached NU’s current seniors for only one season, she still had a ma-jor effect on their development.
The former standout goalie was particularly helpful in tutoring Morgan Lathrop , at the time a raw talent. Now, Lathrop is one of the top netminders in the nation.
“She was definitely my first goalie mentor,” Lathrop said. “I came in without a lot of tech-nique, and immediately she taught me that so I had a good base.”
The Minutewomen hosted the Cats earlier this season and lost resoundingly, 22-5 . But
Massachusetts has been a much different team since then, winning eight of its last nine games and capturing the Atlantic 10 crown . The Minutewomen’s only loss in the past six weeks was in double overtime .
Despite the final margin of the first matchup, Venechanos said she believes it was a beneficial experience for her squad.
“We’re familiar with each other,” she said. “We handled the intensity of the game the first time we played, but not so much the execution.”
And in the playoffs, regular season his-tory is not always the best indicator of what will happen.
“Tournament time is so different,” Lathrop said. “Every game, it’s win or go home, so it just has a completely different vibe.”
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Fresh of f the excitement of making the NCA A tournament, No. 42 Northwestern got back to business and began practicing to defeat it toughest opponent: itself.
“Honestly, I don’t know any-thing about Wake Forest,” fresh-man Tobias Reitz said. “I don’t re-ally care either. As long as we keep doing what we’ve been doing so far and keep playing our game, no matter who we play, I think we should be fine.”
Despite Reitz’s confidence in his team, a win over No. 18 Wake Forest today would mark the high-
est-ranked opponent the Wildcats have beaten this season. During the regular season, NU nearly beat then-No. 7 Illinois , then-No. 20 Ari-zona and then-No. 25 Notre Dame , but lost all three matches 4-3 .
Fighting hard against highly-ranked non-conference oppo-nents has given the Cats confi-dence t hat t hey w i l l need to compete with – and defeat – the Demon Deacons.
“By playing tight matches with (top teams), we showed that we can compete with any team in the country,” sophomore Andrew Mc-Carthy said. “The Big Ten speaks for itself. For us to compete in the Big Ten and have a winning re-
cord is tremendous because of how competitive it is.”
A not her ind icator of NU ’s chances against Wake Forest is the Big Ten matches the Demon Deacons have already played this season. Wake Forest lost to Wis-consin, Minnesota and Ohio State, while winning at Michigan . The Cats went 2-2 against the same teams in t he reg ular season, knocking of f the Badgers and Golden Gophers, but losing to the Buckeyes and Wolverines .
“It certainly shows that we’ ll have a chance against them,” coach Arvid Swan said . “At the same time, Wake has beaten so many quality teams throughout this year. They’re ranked (in the) top-25 for a reason. We know we’re going to have to play great to beat them.”
Team members said they hope the result will be different from the Big Ten tournament, in which NU was ousted by Michigan in its first match . Although the Cats are young, there have been a higher frequency of close matches than most teams experience in a sea-son. Swan said that experience, combined with the Big Ten tour-nament, will help the freshmen handle the pressure of playing on
college tennis’ biggest stage.“I think playing at the Big Ten
tournament helped them out,” Swan said. “They’ve also had so much experience playing in close matches this year. If you looked at Division-I tennis teams, I doubt you’d find another program with more 4-3 matches over the course of the year.”
While the players and coaches were excited after narrowly mak-ing the NCAA tournament field, the Cats are not settling for just being invited. Swan said he is not trying to take anything away from his first NCAA tournament as a coach – other than wins.
“It’s great to make the NCAA tournament but we’re trying to go there and compete and try to
Close calls in regular season generate postseason confidence
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UMass, NU ties begin with coach
Mosolova growing in doublesπ Already with No. 1 singles ranking to her credit, Russian native adding to her team game
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π After losing 4-3 to three top-25 opponents, NU hopes to knock off No. 18 Wake Forest in NCAA tournament first round
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