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By MARSHALL COHEN!"#$% &'(#)* &+",,'*@marshall_cohen
The Keg of Evanston, a bar engrained in Northwestern and Evanston lore, permanently closed early Sunday morning after -. years in business. The embattled watering hole lost its lease this month after a tumultuous year of legal wrangling with city officials.
Dozens of patrons filled the bar Saturday for one last night of par-tying at /01 Grove St., and owner Tom Migon shut the doors for good early on Easter Sunday. The prop-erty, described by Chicago Real Estate Resources as “one of the most popular locations in Evanston,” is listed as available for rent with an annual rate of 2034,/11.
“It’s unfortunate the way things unraveled,” Migon said. “We had
some great memories and touched a lot of people’s lives. It was a great run, and unfortunately it had to come to an end. It’s sad to leave something that was a part of my life for twenty years.”
More than a year has passed since Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl pulled The Keg’s liquor license. The bar stayed open during a drawn-out legal process, but all appeals were dropped last month as the bar’s fate became clear.
Underage college and high school students were known to flock to The Keg, and Evanston officials and resi-dents worried for years that the bar endangered young people. These fears were confirmed by a string of detrimental incidents in recent years that placed pressure squarely on Migon to get his bar under control.
A 55-year-old man was killed in 5114 after a gang-affiliated shoot-ing inside the bar. An underage patron landed in the hospital after a brawl in 5101. Seventeen people were arrested on the same night in January 5105 for underage drinking
By ALLY MUTNICK+6' !"#$% ()*+67'&+'*(@allymutnick
Along with a record-low acceptance rate of 0-.8 percent, Northwestern’s class of 5109 is the most diverse group of admitted students to date.
For the : rst time in school history, more than a quarter of incoming fresh-men are black or Hispanic, according to the o; ces of the provost and undergrad-uate admissions. About 0 in 01 students in the class of 5109 are from another country, the highest proportion yet.
“< is is by far our most diverse admit-ted group ever,” said Christopher Watson, dean of undergraduate admissions.
Black and Hispanic students comprise 5..- percent of incoming freshmen, an increase from 50.8 percent and 0/./ percent for the classes of 510. and 5104, respectively. International students make up /.- percent of admitted students this year, rising from ..8 percent admitted in 5105 and 4./ percent in 5100.
< e combined percentage of black and Hispanic students has risen 9.4 percent-age points since 5100. < e percentage of international students has risen 5.4 per-centage points over the same period.
The admissions numbers come amid recent e= orts by the University to attract more minority and low-income students.
Last year, NU partnered with the Los Angeles site of the Posse Founda-tion, which pairs students from diverse backgrounds with elite schools. < e class of 5109 will have the : rst 01 NU Posse scholars.
< e incoming class also has the high-est number of students from Questbridge, a nonpro: t organization that matches low-income students with scholarships at top-tier colleges and universities.
Daniel Flores, president of NU’s Questbridge chapter, said the organiza-tion had visited more high schools to recruit potential Questbridge students in recent years.
“All of these students come from schools that are not necessarily the most
represented here at NU,” the Commu-nication junior said. “Even if they don’t get Questbridge, they can apply Regular Decision on their own.”
Tarik Patterson, a spokesman for black student organization For Mem-bers Only, said he doesn’t feel that NU has been successful in reaching out to underrepresented students in the past. < e Weinberg senior recalled meeting with suburban Chicago students who didn’t know about NU until their senior year.
Patterson said students are o> en more e= ective at recruiting their peers than admissions o; cials. He lauded the NU Ambassadors program, which works to recruit black students, and the Latino recruitment organization, the Council of Latino Admission Volunteers for Education.
“Northwestern has done a poor job of recruiting minority students,’ Patterson said. “I think what the Ambassadors pro-gram does is great because it’s students
Class of 2017 most diverse
Lauren Kandell/The Daily Northwestern
By JOSH WALFISH!"#$% &'(#)* &+",,'*@JoshWal: sh
Northwestern will o; cially intro-duce new men’s basketball coach Chris Collins on Tuesday, the latest chapter in the athletic department’s fast-mov-ing quest to replace Bill Carmody .
< e 00 a.m. news conference comes two days a> er Duke, where Collins was an assistant, failed to reach the Final Four in the NCAA Tournament with a /4-.- loss to Louisville. When the NU athletic department announced the Collins hiring Wednesday, it said Collins wouldn’t meet the press until the Blue Devils’ 510- season ended.
Less than six hours a> er the buzzer rang at the tournament match-up in Indianapolis, the athletic department noti: ed reporters of the upcoming news conference. It will culminate an 00-day process to : nd and hire the next basketball coach.
< e news conference will mark the end of a hectic cycle since athletic director Jim Phillips : red Carmody on March 0.. < e decision came days a> er the former coach ended a disap-pointing 0--08 season in his 0-th year at the helm of the program.
The school subsequently hired the Parker Executive Search firm to lead the search process for a new coach. < e Atlanta-based company has helped : ve other Big Ten schools : nd basketball coaches. A> er mul-tiple interviews last week, the school announced Wednesday it had hired Collins as the new coach.
Collins was widely considered to be the favorite for the position a> er Car-mody was let go. Collins was reportedly
one of the : rst interviews Phillips con-ducted, and he was named the coach just a short time a> er the interview. He dined with University President Morton Schapiro on Wednesday night prior to the announcement, according to multiple reports.
He took to Twitter shortly a> er the Blue Devils’ loss to thank Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski and talk about his excitement for the new job.
“For 09 years, I have given Duke Basketball my all and I’m so proud of every moment! I can never repay Coach K for what he has meant to me,” Collins tweeted.
In his next tweet, Collins wrote, “Tomorrow my new journey begins and I’m excited to get started and meet my new family @NUMensBball ?B0GCats.”
joshuawalfi [email protected]
Collins to arrive for o! cial introduction
» See ADMISSION, page 10
! e Keg is tapped: Bar closes after 36 years
Skyler Zhang/Daily Senior Staffer
BLAME IT ON THE ALCOHOL The Keg of Evanston closed Sunday after more than three decades of business.
Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT
NEW ERA Chris Collins, a former assistant at Duke, will meet the press today at Welsh-Ryan Arena. The appearance will be his fi rst time in Evanston as new NU men’s basketball coach.
» See KEG, page 10
Diversity admission rates by classInternational Students2015
2017
2016
Black and Hispanic Students
2015
2017
2016
1% of students admitted
Source: Offices of the Provost and Undergraduate Admissions
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Owner loses lease a! er year-long legal battle with Evanston
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Candidates spar over contributionBy JIA YOU!"#$% &'(#)* &+",,'* @jiayoumedill
Evanston -st Ward challenger Edward Tivador is standing by a campaign contribution that incum-bent Ald. Judy Fiske (-st) said is “clearly improper” and should be returned.
On Friday, Fiske criticized Tivador for accept-ing a .-,/// donation from Dawn Overend, who is listed as a partner on a zoning application that could come before the City Council. Patriot Park LLC, a 0 rm led by billionaire James N. Pritzker, has asked Evanston o1 cials to ease zoning restrictions so it can turn a historic home into a bed-and-breakfast near the lakefront.
“I don’t know what my opponent was thinking,” Fiske said in a news release. “It is clearly improper to seek or receive gi2 s from someone whose pending project will require City Council approval.”
A2 er a campaign event Saturday a2 ernoon, Tiva-dor told 3 e Daily that Fiske’s claim is “completely unwarranted.” In a separate interview about an hour later, Tivador said he was aware of Overend’s dealings with the city but denied any misconduct.
“3 ere is absolutely zero impropriety connected to that donation,” Tivador said. “We received support from a diverse set of -st Ward residents ... Frankly, I’m very proud of that and I won’t apologize for assembling a large group of diverse supporters.”
Several attempts to reach Overend were
unsuccessful over the weekend and Monday.3 e planned 0 ve-room bed-and-breakfast at -455
Forest Pl., if approved, would be Pritzker’s second bed-and-breakfast in the city. In November 5/--, the City Council approved a permit application by Evergreen Manor, a company primarily owned by Pritzker, to open a bed-and-breakfast at 6// Church St., reversing an earlier decision by the city’s zoning board of appeals. 3 e establishment is located adja-cent to Pritzker’s home.
3 e new bed-and-breakfast business got the go-ahead from the site plan and appearance review committee March 5/. A public hearing is scheduled
for this evening before the zoning board.Fiske also called on Tivador to disclose his donors
on his campaign website. On her own campaign website, Fiske released her donors who have given .-7/ or more.
Tivador said on Monday he will disclose the information by this weekend.
“It’s not like it’s a big deal,” he said. “All of that information is public.”
Early voting for the April 8 elections began last Monday. 3 e early voting period ends April 4.
More than $200 worth of items stolen from two cars
Someone stole more than .5// worth of items Monday from a woman’s two cars in central Evan-ston, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.
Parrott said the 69-year-old woman’s 5//4 Toyota Prius and 5/-- Toyota Highlander were parked in the 8// block of Crain Street when someone broke into them. 3 e thief took several
items, including a pair of sunglasses, a leather-man set, a GPS and .5 in change, Parrott said.
3 ere was no forced entry or damage to either vehicle, and it was not clear if the cars were unlocked, Parrott said.
Tires of Evanston woman’s car slashedSomeone slashed all four tires of an Evan-
ston woman’s car Thursday night on the city’s
south side, Parrott said.Parrott said the 9:-year-old woman’s 5//:
Toyota was parked in the ;// block of Brum-mel Street when the incident happened.
There are no suspects and police don’t know why the tires were split open, Parrott said.
— Tanner Maxwell
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Source: Edward Tivador/File Photo by Manuel Rapada
CONTENTIOUS CONTRIBUTIONS Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) criticized her opponent Edward Tivador for accepting a $1,000 donation from Dawn Overend, who is seeking a permit to operate a bed-and-breakfast in the city. Tivador denies the contribution was improper.
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Prof. Kate Bosher leaves legacy in classics By CAT ZAKRZEWSKI!"#$% &'(#)* &+",,'* @Cat_Zakrzewski
Weinberg Prof. Kathryn Bosher, an energetic scholar of the origins of -.h centry Greek theater in Italy, died March /0. She was 01.
Colleagues and students said she will be remem-bered at Northwestern for her scholarship and energy.
“She combined a good critical sense of her -eld with a tremendously positive disposition,” said Robert Wallace, who worked with Bosher in the department of classics and theater.
Bosher, who went on medical leave Winter Quar-ter, passed away a.er a private battle with cancer.
Bosher came to NU in /223 a.er getting her doctorate in classical studies from the University of Michigan.
In /224, Bosher helped win a Mellon Founda-tion grant for a two-year series of conferences called “5eater Outside Athens,” which focused on new research and brought together scholars of theater and antiquity. She recently published a book about the
-rst seminar series.“It was a major event,” Wallace said. “She was really
a phenomenon.”In addition to the conference, Bosher acted as a
faculty a6liate of the Kaplan Institute for the Humani-ties in the /224-72 academic year. Weinberg Prof. Jules Law, the director of the program, said Bosher was asked to teach a freshman seminar in the program due to the “incredible care she took with students.”
“Students were just blown away by her knowledge and blown away by her passion,” Law said.
Law said the freshman seminar Bosher taught focused on comedy as both a literary form and a theat-rical program. He remembered her taking extra time with her students “one on one.”
“5e students really want professors who are not only scholars, but genuine teachers and mentors,” Law said. “Freshmen particularly rely on that kind of guidance, that kind of human guidance.”
Weinberg senior Ian Coley was a student in Bosh-er’s Kaplan seminar during Fall Quarter /224. He said it shaped his decision to declare a major in classics.
“It’s an absolute tragedy to lose her at such a young age, when she had so much more to give the North-western community,” Coley said.
In addition to taking the seminar with Bosher his freshman year, Coley took a Latin course with her last Spring Quarter, one of the last courses Bosher taught at NU. Coley said he remembered her being “inspiring” during the class.
“5ere was no room or desire to do anything but pay attention to the material and learn and ask questions,” Coley said. “She was extraordinary in the smaller setting in connecting with students.”
Coley said he had intended to take yet another course with Bosher but could not because she went on medical leave.
Bosher is survived by her husband, LaDale Win-ling, and their son Ernest.
A funeral service was held for Bosher on Friday at the University. Weinberg is planning a later memorial service that is yet to be -nalized.
Wallace said the department of classics and theatre will discuss a way to commemorate Bosher’s legacy at an upcoming faculty meeting, possibly through a form of endowment or an award.
“We intend to do something in her honor,” Wallace said. “We will miss her.”
Source: Northwestern University
‘A PHENOMENON’ Northwestern faculty members and students remembered Weinberg Prof. Kate Bosher for her contributions in the classics and theater departments. Bosher, who went on medical leave Winter Quarter, died last month.
NU establishes campus shuttle stop after push by Elder Hall residents
Northwestern on Monday added a new stop at Sheridan Road and Lincoln Avenue to the Campus Loop and Chicago Express shuttle routes.
The campus shuttles will pick up from the Chicago Transit Authority bus stop near the intersection, according to an email to the NU community from University Services. NU expects to install its own sign in about a week.
The addition comes after a post on Cam-pusVoice asking for a new stop near Elder Hall
garnered more than 42 likes. The Associated Student Government website lets students share their ideas for improving campus life.
On the website, students argued that it would make it easier to travel south on cam-pus shuttles. Previously, Elder residents had to walk to Technological Institute to catch a southbound shuttle.
“If something is that important to that many students, it’s important to senators and ASG committee members,” said Haley Hinkle, ASG director of transportation.
Hinkle, a Medill freshman, said the new stop likely won’t affect the schedule shuttle because the campus buses already run on Sheridan Road.
— Cat Zakrzewski
Alleged threats cause FAU to put communications instructor on leave
BOCA RATON, Fla. — 5e Florida Atlantic University instructor who asked students to step on a piece of paper with “Jesus” written on it as part of a communications class exercise has been placed on leave by the university, not for his conduct but for safety reasons.
Lisa Metcalf, director of media relations for FAU, released a statement Friday a.ernoon saying that Deandre Poole “has been placed on administrative leave e8ective immediately for safety reasons. As a result of the reaction to a recent exercise in Dr. Poole’s intercultural communications class, the instructor’s personal safety has been compromised.”
Metcalf said FAU has no police reports but other agencies might be investigating. Poole will continue to be paid by FAU, Metcalf said.
Susan Reilly, a colleague of Poole’s in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, said the department has “received all kinds of horrible threats.”
“5ey’re awful, racist and threatening to hurt him. It’s very bad,” Reilly said.
Last week, FAU released a statement saying Poole was “a non-tenured instructor on an annual appoint-ment” and that “no students were forced to take part in the exercise.”
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ASG considers to-go meals, other dining changes
Rhodes’ new principal envisions global programs
By JEANNE KUANG!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+) @jeannekuang
Associated Student Government is in talks with the administration and campus catering provider Sodexo about potential changes to student dining plans such as providing to-go meals and opening Allison dining hall on weekends.
Alex Van Atta, ASG vice president for student life, attends regular meetings with Julie Payne-Kirchmeier, vice president for student auxiliary services, and Steve Mangan, nuCuisine resident district manager, to improve student dining.
ASG is currently working on three potential changes to the dining plans, Van Atta said.
.e ideas include increasing the availability of
the weekly six-meal plan, which is currently only for students living o/-campus or in Greek houses. .e change would allow all juniors and seniors residing on campus to purchase the six-meal plan.
“It would be a reduced meal plan available to all,” Van Atta said, adding that the plan gives students more chances to eat o/-campus with friends and explore dining options in Evanston.
Van Atta, a McCormick junior, also said ASG is also looking to “install a to-go menu option” in din-ing halls such as 0123 Hinman. .is would allow students who are in a rush or heading somewhere to study to select a meal and get it to go, he said.
Another possible change would be to open Allison on the weekends instead of 0123 Hinman. Van Atta cited Allison’s kosher food station, larger capacity and central location on campus as reasons to keep it open for weekend dining.
During Fall Quarter, Van Atta supervised a now-disbanded ASG working group that researched dining options at other schools as well as ways to make dining hall hours more convenient for stu-dents on campus.
Now, he and the ASG Student Life Committee will take this information and student feedback into consideration in developing new dining plans. .e six-meal plan and Allison dining hours on weekends were popular ideas on student feedback website CampusVoice, he said, and the to-go idea was inspired by options at other schools such as Washington University in St. Louis.
“.e more we hear from students, the better o/ we can be with dining on campus,” he said.
Van Atta said he meets with Payne-Kirchmeier and Mangan every few weeks to discuss potential changes.
“We consider ASG to be partners with us in the food program because they represent the student point of view,” Payne-Kirchmeier said.
She said the partnership helps the adminis-tration “know what the student voice is … and make some substantive changes on behalf of our students.”
Payne-Kirchmeier said the three ideas are still in the exploratory stage, and ASG and administrators must work with NU’s contract with Sodexo in order to make changes.
Mangan said the futures of all three plans remain uncertain.
“I think there’s a strong likelihood of some sort of to-go o/er,” he said. “.ere’s some constraints that are making that di4cult … it’s something we’d like to do.”
By OLIVER ORTEGA!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+) @Olly5607
Principal Carlos Mendez has big plans for Dr. Bessie Rhodes Magnet School — on a global scale, in fact.
Rhodes’ new top educator wants to teach stu-dents Mandarin Chinese, send them to study in China and bring in an exchange group from Spain. Earlier this year, the K-1 school hosted a group of Chinese students as part of continuing e/orts to strengthen its global studies program.
“I want to have our students experience the world beyond the wealth of Evanston,” Mendez said. “Can you imagine what the world would look like if all students did this type of thing? .ere would be so much more tolerance.”
Mendez was appointed principal of the Skokie school last month a8er working as interim princi-pal since the start of the school year. Rhodes serves about 236 students and has focused its curriculum on global studies.
“During his initial year at the school, Mr. Men-dez has embraced parents, teachers and students as
an instructional leader and advocate for the school,” said Hardy Murphy, Evanston/Skokie District 93 superintendent, in a news release.
Mendez is originally from Cuba and moved to Miami when he was 02. He became interested in teaching because his father was a math teacher, and in college he decided to become an educator. Mendez moved to Chicago about a decade ago to pursue a master’s degree and work at a middle school in the city, where he taught science and math for :ve years. Before coming to Rhodes, Mendez was an assistant principle at Haven Middle School, 570; Prairie Ave.
“I am committed, have been committed, since day one,” Mendez said of his time at Rhodes. “I told my teachers, ‘If you’re with me, I’m with you all the way.’”
During Mendez’s tenure, Rhodes has expanded its sports program and started an initiative that rotates teachers among the di/erent grades once a year in an e/ort to build teacher-student bonds and increase retention.
Mendez isn’t the only head of a local school in his family: His wife Sarah Mendez is the principal of Nichols Middle School, 166 Greenleaf St.
“It gets very competitive when it comes to dinner
time,” he said with a laugh.Wendy Woodward, a Rhodes parent and mem-
ber of the principal advisory committee, said par-ents are happy with the appointment and impressed with the work Mendez has done.
Rhodes has had four principles in the past :ve years, and parents have expressed concerns about the school’s leadership. A8er the previous principal announced in May that she would be leaving her post, parents petitioned the district for an assis-tant principal at Rhodes, which is the only district school serving middle school students that does not have one.
Mendez agrees he could use an assistant princi-pal to help manage the school, and the district may look to hire someone for next year. But he main-tains that his commitment to Rhodes is unwavering and he will not be leaving any time soon.
“I’m in it for the long haul,” Mendez said. “I’m looking forward for many years to come.”
Mendez has kept Rhodes is in good hands, par-ent Jennifer Phillips said.
“Everyone welcomed Mr. Mendez in the fall and wanted to see him succeed,” Phillips said. “He has proven himself to be a rising star.”
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NEW KID ON THE BLOCK Principal Carlos Menendez took over at Dr. Bessie Rhodes Magnet School this year, filling a vacancy.
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Campus: Northwestern tuition to rise 4 percent next academic year
The total cost of attending Northwestern as an undergraduate student will be nearly "#$,$$$ next academic year, the University announced Wednesday. The new price tag rep-resents a ! percent increase in tuition — which will now top "!%,$$$ — as well as room and board rates. In an email to the NU community, the University attributed the tuition hike to growing demand for financial aid, which is expected to total more than "&!' million for the ($&'-&! academic year. That number has nearly doubled since the ($$%-$# academic year, as about half of students now receive some financial assistance.
City: Early voting for City Council, school board races starts in Evanston
Early voting for Evanston’s April ) elections began March (%. Early ballots can be cast ) a.m. to % p.m. through Saturday in Room (($$ of the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center, (&$$ Ridge Ave. &st Ward challenger Edward Tiva-dor voted early Saturday at the civic center, bringing with him several supporters in his campaign to unseat Ald. Judy Fiske. Early bal-lots can also be cast for the Evanston Township High School District ($( and Evanston/Skokie District #% school board elections.
Sports: Wrestling: Wildcats’ season closes with 2 runners-up at NCAA Championships
Two NU wrestlers fell short of national titles March (! at the NCAA Championships in Des Moines, Iowa. In the last match of his career, redshirt senior Jason Welch was defeated by Iowa’s Derek St. John at &%* pounds. Redshirt sophomore Mike McMullan lost to Minnesota’s Tony Nelson in the heavyweight final. “I have no regrets,” Welch said, crediting coach Drew Pariano for his close friendship since recruit-ing him out of high school.
Sports: NU sets first game in Wrigley partnershipNU’s first game in its multi-year, multi-sport
partnership with Wrigley Field will be under the lights. The athletic department announced March && the baseball team will play Michigan at #:$% p.m. April ($. Tickets are "* for both students and non-students.
Campus: NU School of Law plans to cut class size, level out tuition increases
The School of Law will reduce class sizes and keep tuition hikes at record lows starting this fall. In a letter to the law school com-munity March &(, Dean Daniel B. Rodriguez said the changes are due to a recent decline in applications. Class sizes will be scaled back by up &$ percent, and tuition will only be raised by ' percent, the lowest increase in four decades, according to the law school. NU is also expected to increase financial aid by (% percent over the next two years to combat the the debt some law students are left with after graduation.
Sports: Men’s Basketball: NU fires coach Bill Car-mody after first-round defeat in Big Ten Tournament
NU fired men’s basketball coach Bill Car-mody less than two days after the team bowed out of the Big Ten Tournament with a *'-%)
loss to Iowa. In a news conference March &#, athletic director Jim Phillips said NU expects its coaches to “compete for conference and national championships, and we expect the same from our men’s basketball program.” After &' seasons, Carmody failed to deliver a NCAA Tournament berth for the Wildcats. The athletic department hustled to find Car-mody’s replacement and announced Wednes-day Duke assistant coach Chris Collins will lead the team.
City: Former, current Evanston politicians endorse in 1st Ward race
Evanston &st Ward challenger Edward Tiva-dor racked up several endorsements through-out March, while incumbent Ald. Judy Fiske landed the backing of Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl. Tivador on Friday announced the support of former mayors Lorraine Morton and Jay Lytle, as well as Ald. Coleen Burrus ()th). In a news release March &), Tisdahl said Fiske has shown “real leadership” and can always be counted on to “do what’s right for the entire city.” The election is April ).
— Staff Report
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By JOSEPH DIEBOLD+,-./ 012-34 05,6614 @josephdiebold
Northwestern students danced for '$ straight hours March 7 to &$, as more than &,$$$ dancers participated in the ')th annual Dance Marathon.
NU’s largest philanthropy raised a record "&,(&!,#'(, topping "& million raised for the third year in a row. This year’s primary benefi-ciary was the Danny Did Foundation, a Chi-cago organization looking to raise awareness about Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy and whose namesake, Danny Stanton, died in his sleep from SUDEP in December ($$). The Stanton family members were active partici-pants in DM ($&', as Danny’s brothers Johnny and Tommy stole the show with their dance moves and the boys’ father Mike gave an emo-tional speech thanking the dancers.
DM also donated to the Evanston Commu-nity Foundation as its secondary beneficiary for the &#th consecutive year, passing "& mil-lion in total donations to the local grant-giving philanthropy.
Emcees Chloe Woodhouse and Demetri Elias, both Weinberg juniors, kept the danc-ers motivated. They were joined by Danny Did “hero” Nick Curley, an eight-year-old Chicago boy who ice skated more than &$$ miles to raise money for the foundation.
Rafi Letzter/Daily Senior Staffer
FINAL REVEAL After the final fundraising total was revealed, DM’s finance co-chair Jerry Luo(center), a Weinberg senior, celebrated with the rest of the organization’s executive board. The philanthropy raised $1,214,632 total for Danny Did and the Evanston Community Foundation.
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STARTING WORDS Mike Stanton, the co-founder of the Danny Did Foundation and Danny Stanton’s father, thanked the dancers for their hard work during Block 1.
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FOR THE KIDS Danny’s brother Tommy Stanton was never far from the center of the action throughout DM’s 30 hours.
Dance Marathon 2013 raises $1.2 million to !ght epilepsy through Danny Did
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By AMY WHYTE!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+) @amyxkathryn
A technology start-up founded by a Northwestern student took home the grand prize of ./0,000 last month in the Partnership for a Healthier America’s End Childhood Obesity Innovation Challeng e.
At the beginning of the academic year, McCormick senior Dennis Ai created JiveHealth, a new business currently developing an app that it says will encourage kids to develop healthy eating habits. 1e app features a game in which characters grow stronger and faster from pictures the user takes of healthy foods.
Ai presented a prototype of the app to 2rst lady Michelle Obama and thousands of other stakehold-ers in early March at the Building a Healthier Future Summit in Washington, D.C.
“Speaking in front of a thousand people, let alone a thousand important people, was incredible,” Ai said.
Ai presented at the summit a3er JiveHealth advanced as one of the top three contestants in an online voting competition from Dec. /4, 40/4, to Feb. /, 40/5. Ai explained his own struggle with childhood obesity, which inspired him to build the app.
“When I was presenting, I wore an extra large T-shirt,” Ai said. “I used to wear a shirt this big when
I was /0 years old. And I think it helped the audience to see that I was there. I know what it feels like.”
Ai described the audience’s response as an “elec-trifying” standing ovation.
1e two other 2nalists competing with JiveHealth were De2ne Bottle, a reusable water bottle that creates fruit-6avored water, and Aurri Health Network, a social network focused on promoting healthy life-styles. De2ne Bottle, which was designed by a /7-year-
old, had been a fan favorite throughout the online voting phase of the competition.
“I really felt like we pulled o8 a miracle,” Ai said.McCormick Prof. Ollie Cossairt, who advised Ai
and so3ware engineer Christian Yenko on the proj-ect, helped them develop the necessary technology for the app.
“1ey’re really bright guys, and they have a really interesting vision,” Cossairt said. “It was great to work
with them.”As part of the 2rst-place prize, the group will
receive /9 hours of mentoring from marketing and health experts Edelman, McKinsey & Company and Startup Health. 1e mentors will help JiveHealth develop marketing strategies and establish the nec-essary business connections to successfully promote the app.
“Winning the competition opened doors to numer-ous health care providers, interested stakeholders, and other valuable connections that we would have not had otherwise,” Yenko, a McCormick sophomore, said in an email.
As for the prize money, they are using it to con-tinue improving the app, with a portion of the award going toward funding game development so3ware, Yenko said.
Going forward, Ai said the group is most focused on completing the game and developing a market-ing and distribution strategy. 1e app, which was presented to the summit under the working name “Jungo,” is due to be released in June.
“For me to go to Washington to win the competi-tion, that was a short term goal to help us achieve a long term goal,” Ai said. “Ultimately helping children, that is 2rst and foremost.”
Source: Dennis Ai
HEALTHY APP McCormick senior Dennis Ai accepts a $10,000 grand prize for his start-up’s efforts to promote healthy eating habits during a conference last month in Washington, D.C.
ASG hopes to expand student group engagement grantsBy STEPHANIE YANG!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+) @stephanieayang
Associated Student Government awarded three student groups the Service and Commu-nity Engagement Grant but missed the deadline for distributing most of the funds.
ASG announced March / that Arts in the Community, NU Emerge and Students for Eco-logical and Environmental Development will share the .900 grant.
1ough the money was supposed to be dis-tributed by March /9, Arts in the Community and NU Emerge are still waiting for their grants of ./00 and .400, respectively, because they have
not been recognized by NU’s Student Organiza-tion Finance O:ce, said Chris Harlow, a SESP freshman who co-wrote the grant. SEED has already received its .400 grant, he said.
Arts in the Community will create a mural in an Evanston Fire Department station, SEED will buy supplies for a3er-school environmental education programs and NU Emerge will build a website for its student leadership workshops at Evanston Township High School. 1e delay in funding doesn’t seem to have deterred any of the projects, Harlow said. 1e groups will carry out their proposals over Spring Quarter, and they will give a presentation to ASG later in the quarter.
Weinberg junior Mike Morgan, creator of the grant, said this was a “trial year,” and he is
currently working to turn it into a long-term grant.
“(NU administrators are) really interested in the idea, but we have to see if we can secure more funding from the school to expand the program,” Morgan said. “Given the success, we might also use more money funding for ASG to sustain the program for next year.”
Morgan said once it receives the funding to continue the grant, ASG will be able to support more proposals and larger projects.
1e committee of three ASG senators, o8-campus life director Anthony Kirchmeier and Evanston citizen engagement coordinator Adel-ita Hernandez reviewed /7 applications before choosing the grant recipients.
Harlow said ASG chose to fund several groups
to maximize bene2ts of the di8erent projects.“If we could help three groups at least halfway,
then we could bene2t the relationship between Evanston and Northwestern greater than just one group go all the way,” he said.
SESP senior Danielle Moehrke said NU Emerge’s partnership with ETHS, the Univer-sity and the city of Evanston creates community engagement. Her group was una8ected by the funding delay.
“We’re getting involved in the community and making others get involved in the community as well,” she said. “It’s kind of this cool ripple e8ect that I think a lot of other organization’s don’t necessarily have.”
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I know that your bracket is busted. I realize that, as this tournament has gone on, North-western basketball players have been shooting at fairways and red Solo cups.
I am aware that you already have !"" emails in your inbox and a week-one midterm in organic chemistry and therefore don’t have enough free time to care about anything other than “Game of Thrones.”
However, we should all take a moment on Saturday to live vicariously through the Wichita State Shockers as they take on Louis-ville, as Wichita’s presence in the final four is as close as NU will get for quite some time.
I understand that most of you have never caught a harvest moon in Kansas and you’re about as likely to be able to find Wichita, Kan., on a map as a Kony #"$# activist
looking for Kampala. However, as Wildcat fans accustomed to irrelevance and under-appreciation, we are compelled to root for another team suffering our plight.
Though you might be unfamiliar with Wichita, nobody has heard of NU either. In a recent poll conducted by Vanity Fair, only one third of respondents knew that NU is located in Illinois. Just as we think of Wichita as a town in Oz, a large chunk of Americans think we go to school up in Pearl Jam country. And we all have that aunt who congratulated us for getting into community college or keeps telling us how nice Boston is.
Just like us, Wichita State can’t even get any love in its own city or state. An info-graphic created by Deadspin shows that even in Wichita, more people were rooting for the University of Kansas than for the Shockers. This sounds eerily similar to the fact that “Chicago’s Big Ten Team” has far less fans in the city than University of Illinois at Cham-paign-Urbana or Notre Dame.
Most importantly, we have Wichita State to thank for finally eliminating the only
thing NU students like less than the yellow line: Ohio State. The Buckeyes have repeat-edly shattered our hearts, no time worse than two years ago when a phantom foul on Jared Sullinger denied NU a storybook upset. We had to endure Aaron Craft’s wretched grin until the Shockers heroically wiped it from his face.
As Wichita prepares to take on Louisville in the national semifinal, I urge you to think back to high school and that girl or guy you so badly wanted to take to junior prom. Lou-isville is his current beautiful, cheer-captain, Regina-George-esque girlfriend. Wichita State is you; the smart, creative girl reading an ACT prep book on the bleachers dream-ing of her shot at high school glory. So when Wichita State takes down Louisville on Sat-urday, it will be a victory for the perennial underdog everywhere.
Mike Mallazzo is a Medill junior. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this letter, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
A few months ago, when I read about Associ-ated Student Government’s resolution to sup-port gun control, I questioned the relevance of such a proposal. ASG could have made better use of its time through pursuing other mea-sures, as it does not have heavy control over the gun control debate. With this resolution, ASG overstepped its boundaries without providing much tangible bene% t.
& e resolution, titled “Students Support Gun Control,” provides context of the events that in' uenced its dra( ing, mainly past examples of gun violence on college campuses, and uses them to justify its existence. & e % nal wording of the resolution, which passed, is as follows: “Be it resolved … that the Northwestern student body supports ... improved gun regulations and encourages the President and Congress to work together to form policies aim to reduce gun violence.” In addition, a bill establishing a % ve-person committee tasked with dra( ing an open letter encouraging a bipartisan compromise on gun control between Congress and the Execu-tive Branch also passed.
& e resolution originally supported President Barack Obama’s gun control policies directly, but twas later amended to a more general state-ment. & is is likely due to opposition to the
politically charged nature of the statement. & is should not be surprising, because ASG is not the appropriate organization to be making political statements on behalf of the student body.
According to the resolution, ASG is justi% ed in its actions because it is “the only democrati-cally representative organization for students at Northwestern.” Although this is true to an extent, ASG largely serves apolitical functions. An apt analogy would be to compare ASG to my local government. When I evaluate my city councilors, I care about issues such as road repairs and tax levies. I don’t care about their stance on controversial national issues such as abortion, euthanasia and certainly not gun con-trol. Discussing these issues is extraneous in the scope of local politics because my city o) cials have no in' uence over these topics, and they have better things to do.
Similarly, ASG really has no pull in the gun control debate. First o* , the resolution that was passed, by de% nition, does nothing. According to ASG’s website, resolutions require no action on the part of ASG o) cers. & e aforementioned bill, however, does require action, as it creates a committee to compose an open letter encour-aging bipartisan compromise on gun control, but its e* ect will likely be minimal. Even if the entire student body signed a petition supporting a compromise, it would be a drop in the bucket that is the debate over gun control. Besides, other groups on campus serve the NU student body’s political representation, including Col-lege Republicans and College Democrats.
It seems that many people at NU are fairly apathetic when it comes to student government. & at’s why it is crucial that ASG is sensitive to its public perception. Resolutions like this can alienate students who think ASG should tackle more relevant tasks. It also con% rms the preconceived biases of those who already believe our student government does nothing, the logic being, “& e reason they’re doing this is because they don’t have anything better to do.” It’s certainly an unfair judgment, given the fact that ASG has undertaken major initiatives to improve the quality of student life, such as the electronic noti% cation system for mail rooms and the newly launched website, CampusVoice. Unfortunately, to those who are unfamiliar with ASG, seeing their o) cers focusing on issues that are out of their reach, such as gun control, is sure to give them a bad % rst impression. & e fact that controversy attracts attention will mean e* orts like these will overshadow ASG’s more directly impactful accomplishments.
An unengaged student body is an apathetic one, and an apathetic student body will lead to a student body government that is less e* ective in addressing the issues of its constituents, thus leading to more apathy. It’s a vicious cycle that has already a* ected politics at a national level and by chasing the wrong issues, ASG might end up plagued by it as well.
Michael Wang is a McCormick freshman. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
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Will you miss ! e Keg of Evanston?
Yes. It was always a good time on Monday nights.
No. It was only good for cheap beer and lost jackets.
What’s & e Keg? I was always more of a Deuce person.
72%, 102 votes
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One wonders if the school is maximizing the access to the various psychologists, psychiatrists, researches (sic) of alcohol abuse, and members of AA amongst the community, who could be helpful in addressing matters more successfully.
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In response to: ‘Silent Pacts:’ ASG, administrators look to make Northwestern drinking culture safer, submitted !/!"/"!
Grow up, Evanston. Prohibition is a regressive political platform.— omar
In response to: # e Keg of Evanston, renowned college bar, to close its doors for good Sunday, submitted !/$%/"!
Transparent? & e most transparent thing about this entire ordeal has been how easily corrupted public o) cials in Chicago are. & is building is more architecturally signi% cant than so many buildings granted landmark status in this city, and the multiple proceedings that suggested otherwise were political theater, a charade that insults the intelligence of the people of Chicago.
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City aldermen stall vacation rental ordinances
Bicycle shop opens !rst Illinois location in Evanston
By RACHEL JANIK!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+) @rachel_janik
Discussion of Evanston’s controversial vaca-tion rentals stalled at City Council on Monday night a.er proposed ordinances failed to garner support from aldermen on the Planning and Development Committee.
Vacation rentals — residential dwelling units that are rented out to visitors for less than /0 days — have been a contentious topic since late September, when neighbors complained about a rental operation at an Ashland Avenue property near Ryan Field.
Neighbors said that during Northwestern’s football season, a number of unknown visitors
were staying in the Ashland home, which is listed as a rental space on the website airbnb.com. 1ey expressed concern for the quality and safety of the neighborhood with so many strangers coming and going.
1e city’s legal department o2ered two pro-posals: One ordinance would ban such opera-tions completely, whereas the other proposal would apply a vetting and licensing process to homeowners looking to rent out their proper-ties. Hotels, bed-and-breakfasts and other lodg-ing units are exempt from both.
Aldermen and residents criticized both pro-posed ordinances for inconsistencies that they said would only complicate the problem.
Maureen O’Donnell, the next door neighbor of the property and a vocal opponent of vacation rentals, argued against the ordinance before the
committee.“I would never have bought my home if i
knew that Evanston was going to give the green light to greed,” she said.
Other home owners came forward to support responsibly run vacation rentals. Many said they rent their homes via airbnb.com, and insisted the website o2ers a thorough screening process. Renters are o.en professionals coming from all over the world, they said.
1e licensing proposal also exempts North-western professors who want to rent out their homes while they go on sabbatical, as well as two- or three-unit homes if one unit is occupied by the owner.
Ald. Ann Rainey (3th) said any ordinance should apply fair standards to every zoning district, whether citizens live in apartments in
commercial districts or single-family homes in residential areas.
During the committee meeting, Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) agreed the ordinance proposals should be held and reworked.
“What we have is a sort of cobbled together licensing idea with carefully selected exceptions, but they’re not fair exceptions,” Wilson said.
Committee members said they intend to work through the legislation until they come up with an e2ective plan. Wilson, Rainey, Ald. Melissa Wynne (/rd) and Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) were able to agree that something more needs to be done to e6ciently regulate these establish-ments as well as to enforce current ordinance violations.
By JIA YOU$%&'( -#)&*+ -!%77#+ @jiayoumedill
Northwestern students and Evanston residents can now get their bikes 8xed on their way downtown.
Wisconsin-based bicycle shop Wheel & Sprocket opened its 8rst Illinois branch Wednesday, replac-ing the bike store Ten 9: Cycles, which closed in December.
Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl and Ald. Don-ald Wilson (4th) attended the opening ceremony Wednesday a.ernoon at ;09: Davis St. 1e event attracted about /0 people.
“I think you made the right decision,” Tisdahl said to owner Chris Kegel before cutting the ribbon.
Kegel, a national cycling advocate who met Presi-dent Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush, said he was “super pleased” with the new store and expects the shop to cater to a variety of customers, from enthusiasts to commuters and families.
“Biking is for everyone,” he said.1e shop was expanded to feature a 8t studio for
high-end bikes as well as a community repair station outside, said Chris Mailing, who owned Ten 9: Cycles
and is now a manager at the new shop. It will also continue a collaboration plan with the NU Triathlon Club, o2ering a series of skill clinics to members and the general public starting next month.
Shortly a.er the opening ceremony, Jim Maiworm, the city’s streets and sanitation superintendent, pre-sented the city’s plan to construct a protected bike lane on Davis Street in October. A similar project was implemented on Church Street last summer as part of a streetscape project aimed at improving bike access in the city.
Wilson said the bike shop 8ts into city initiatives to encourage bicycle riding, a process he described as “an evolution over time.”
“It’s great to have a new business in Evanston,” Wil-son said. “If you need work done, if you need a bike, whatever, it’s convenient.”
1e city plans to add another protected bike lane on Dodge Avenue as well, Wilson said.
1ese improvements all stem from a city-wide Bike Plan Implementation Project, a multi-departmental e2ort started in 900: to encourage bike riding.
1ey also form part of the Evanston;50 project, a community initiative to select ten big ideas to celebrate Evanston’s ;50th anniversary this year, said Dan Men-nemeyer, an Evanston;50 committee member.
In October, 8ve months a.er the Church Street bike lane was completed, Evanston received a “Bicycle Friendly Community” recognition from the League of American Bicyclists.
Kegel said city e2orts to encourage cycling could
address problems like congestion and pollution.“It’s a simple solution to many complex issues,”
he said.
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BUSINESS CYCLE Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl, joined by other city officials, cut the ribbon at Wheel & Sprocket, which opened its first Illinois branch in downtown Evanston.
— the last straw for a weary mayor, who called a hearing of the city’s liquor board and revoked the bar’s license.
“I think the high school students who were driving home after drinking at the Keg are safer,” Tisdahl wrote in an email Sunday, hours after the bar was shuttered.
The Keg opened in !"#$ as an upscale steak-and-seafood restaurant — a fine dining establishment where parents took out their students and alumni occasionally proposed to their future spouses. The restaurant was one of the few places for residents to enjoy a meal with alcoholic drinks after Evanston ended its self-imposed prohibition in !"#%.
“This was one of the early nice restaurants in Evanston,” said Geoff Judge (Weinberg ’#$), who worked as a waiter on opening night in !"#$. “It was not a cheap place, and there was a lot of capital put into the building. Adults who lived in Evanston ate there.”
Migon bought the Keg in !""& and turned it into a popular dive bar for the thirsty NU crowd, and Complex magazine anointed it the ninth-best American college bar in %'!!. With a reputation for a porous front door and a patio in the back with a fence that could be easily jumped, students packed the bar Monday and Saturday nights.
But the unsavory distinction as an under-age hotspot finally caught up to the Keg, which had been shut down temporarily in the past but now is gone for good.
Migon owns two other bars: One in Morton Grove and one in Chicago, establishments he said will now receive his full attention and energy. He is done doing business in Evanston.
“One door shuts and another door opens,” Migon said. “I truly will miss Northwestern. It’s hard to explain how it feels to leave some-thing behind that was a part of my life for twenty years — I loved every minute of it.”
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reaching students.”Patterson said the ( percentage point increase in
the black and Hispanic admitted students could help the NU community in light of recent calls for more inclusion on campus. On Feb. %), students demon-strated at * e Rock to protest what they called NU’s culture of “institutional racism.”
Over the last few years, Watson said the admis-sions o+ ce has been trying to expand NU’s o, -cam-pus presence, hoping to increase the number, quality and diversity of applicants.
As a part of the strategy, Watson said the Univer-sity has stepped up recruitment at high schools and increased overseas visits.
“We saw a big uptake in the students who applied that either visited campus or that we met when we are recruiting, Watson said.
Since %''#, when the admit rate was %# percent, NU has seen a !','''-application increase. * is year, Watson said about $,('' high schools were in the applicant pool — a few hundred more than last
year. NU also received about -,''' international applications.
“* at’s a testament to the idea that the Northwest-ern exposure is greater year a. er year,” he said.
* is year’s acceptance rate of !&." percent is a record low. It has been consistently declining, drop-ping !' percentage points in the last four years.
High school senior Amman Bhasin, who was just admitted to NU through Regular Decision, said he has noticed fewer people from his school in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., getting accepted. * ough close to %' people got in his freshman year, that number has dropped to / ve for his class.
“I think its reputation is climbing year by year,” Basin said.
Watson said the number of students graduating from high school each year in the United States is beginning to “level o, ,” and NU’s admit rate will likely follow suit. However, increasing numbers of interna-tional applicants may impact the rate, he said.
“It’s hard to predict really,” he said. “I don’t see it going much lower.”
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By ABBEY CHASE012 34567 89:01;2<02:8@Abbey_Chase
A !-! weekend marked Northwestern’s return to action a. er a nearly three-week hiatus as the Wildcats took on familiar Big Ten foes Minnesota and Wisconsin.
“It some ways it was nice to get some guys healthy again, so I think that was a positive,” coach Arvid Swan said. “Taking %' days o, from match play, there’s some adjustment to get back into that, but if you look at it from an overall stand point, it’s probably a little more important to get some of the guys healthy again.”
* e last time the Cats took to the court, the team faced a tough Nebraska squad but defeated the Cornhuskers in a tight (-% match at home, despite surrendering the doubles point . * e following day, NU defeated Iowa and Western Illinois, losing only two sets in both shutout wins.
On Friday, the Cats faced o, against No. -# Min-nesota . Although ranked lower than No. %$ NU, Minnesota came into the match with two close wins over Michigan and Michigan State on the road the previous weekend.
Like in its match against Nebraska, NU dropped the doubles point, allowing the Golden Gophers to get on the board / rst. But this time, the Cats were unable to come back.
A win by senior Chris Jackman at the No. $ spot helped keep the Cats in the match, but victories from two nationally-ranked Minnesota players secured the victory. NU would go on to win the remaining two matches at the Nos. & and ( spots to bring the / nal score to --&.
“* ey’re a team that had some injuries early in the year, and I do think they’re playing exception-ally well right now,” Swan said. “I knew it was going to be a tough match, likely --& either way.”
* e Golden Gophers’ sole Big Ten loss this sea-son came against then-No. #( Wisconsin, the team NU soundly defeated Sunday. * e Cats had little
trouble handling the Badgers, now ranked at No. #', in Madison, Wis.
Despite an )-$ win from senior Spencer Wolf and freshman Mihir Kumar, who also won the lone doubles match against Minnesota, the Cats failed to get on the board / rst and headed into singles play facing a !-' de/ cit.
A. er posting a !'-( doubles record during the winter non-conference season, NU has only won the doubles point in once in its Big Ten season so far.
“It’s so weird, this scoring system, that a. er an hour of tennis, only one team gets one point,” junior Raleigh Smith said. “It doesn’t seem like that much on the score sheet, but in terms of momentum,
it does play a huge role … Obviously we need to get better in doubles because we’re just making matches harder for ourselves by not winning the doubles point, but we do have con/ dence in our singles game, and we can put forth the e, ort and the wins when it needs to happen like that.”
Undaunted, the Cats posted four consecutive straight-sets wins to secure the match, drop-ping only the No. ( match in a deciding !'-point tiebreaker.
During its time o, , NU was recognized o, the court as the recipient of the ITA National Team Sportsmanship Award for March.
“It’s nice for our guys to be recognized for the way in which they conduct themselves on the court,” Swan said. “I’m fortunate as a coach to have a really good group of guys. As people, they’re good kids so for other people to recognize that is a nice thing. When alums see that award, I think that’s also something that they can take pride in.”
Cats split weekend return to court for Big Ten play
trouble handling the Badgers, now ranked at No.
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Cats take out Golden Gophers behind LetourneauSoftball
Women’s Tennis
NU takes out aggression on pair of Big Ten foes
By REBECCA FRIEDMAN!"#$% &'(#)* &+",,'*
Northwestern got back on its feet against Min-nesota this weekend a- er dropping its . rst two conference games.
/ e Wildcats began Big Ten play in Nebraska and got mixed results in Lincoln. A- er losing a heartbreaker in eight innings to open the series, the Cats never got anything going in the sec-ond game. / e Cornhuskers scored 0 runs in the . rst inning and ended up with a 12-1 win in . ve innings. / e third game of the series was canceled due to weather.
/ e weekend series with the Golden Gophers belonged to sophomore pitcher Amy Letourneau , who was named the Big Ten Player of the Week. / e Cats took two of three from the Golden Gophers to open their home schedule
and improve to 3-4 in the Big Ten and 15-14 overall.
Letourneau’s honor came on the back of her strong weekend at the plate and not her accom-plishments in the circle. / e sophomore batted .678 and slugged 1.788 while driving in 5 runs and belting 3 home runs.
However, Letourneau’s greatest achievement was Friday, when she no-hit the Golden Gophers on the way to a 5-3 Cats victory. NU’s 3814 home opener became the 27th no-hitter in Wildcats history and Letourneau’s . rst collegiate no-hitter. Letourneau walked nine and hit two other batters while racking up 11 strikeouts in the win.
/ e Cats’ o9 ense was just as impressive as their pitching Friday. Sophomore in. elder Anna Edwards led the way with a 4-for-4 performance, driving in 3 runs and scoring three times her-self. Sophomore out. elder Oliva Duehr added two hits and two RBI for the Cats, while senior
out. elder Kristin Scharkey added two hits. Saturday’s contest was a di9 erent story for both
teams. Minnesota picked up 12 runs on 12 hits and escaped a slugfest with a 12-: win.
/ e Golden Gophers threatened to end the game early multiple times with :-run leads, but the Cats fought back each time to extend the game. However, the three pitchers NU used could not stymie the Minnesota bats long enough to complete the comeback.
/ e deciding game of the series proved to be the closest match-up, but NU was able to edge out the win. Letourneau took the circle again for
the Cats, pitching a complete game for her second win of the weekend. However, it was her hitting that garnered the attention, as her one o; cial at-bat was a two-run homer to center . eld to give NU a 3-8 lead.
/ e leado9 runner in the second inning for the Golden Gophers lined a ball to le- . eld, the . rst hit o9 Letourneau in 18 innings. / e runner eventually scored, but the Cats got the run back in the bottom of the inning thanks to Scharkey’s second hit of the game. / e Cats added another insurance run in the bottom of the third.
Minnesota threatened in the top of the sev-enth, loading the bases and adding another run, but the Cats’ defense and pitching held them o9 , as Letourneau struck out the last two batters to end the game. She . nished allowing two runs on . ve hits and eight walks, while striking out . ve.
By ANNA KOTTENSTETTE+<' !"#$% ()*+<='&+'*(
Although campus was relatively quiet last week due to the Spring Break exodus, No. 11 Northwestern was anything but subdued.
The Wildcats hit a bump in the road in their successful season Sunday against No. 1 North Carolina. The battle of top-17 teams went to the Tar Heels 2-4 in dramatic fashion. NU fell behind 4-8 early on but rallied to get to 4-3 before dropping match four to seal the defeat.
Senior Linda Abu Mushrefova started the comeback with a 5-3, 5-2 win over Ashley Dai, the first loss the North Carolina player has had in a dual meet this season. Junior Veronica Corning also handed her opponent the team’s
first loss in a dual meet, but she was the final match to finish.
The key turning point was the doubles point, which NU lost 3-1. Corning teamed up with freshman Alicia Barnett to open the dual with an 0-2 triumph. After an 0-1 North Carolina rout at the other doubles position, the point came down to Abu Mushrefova and her partner, junior Nida Hamilton. The eighth-ranked duo fell :-0 in a tiebreaker to lose the doubles point and give the Tar Heels the early lead.
NU traveled Wednesday to Atlanta to face No. 44 Georgia Tech. The Cats won the doubles point but lost 2-4 after dropping the final three singles matches to the Yellow Jackets.
After two incredibly close losses, NU had plenty of motivation as it returned to Big Ten play against Minnesota and Wisconsin. The Cats did not show any mercy to their visitors,
thrashing both the Golden Gophers and Bad-gers by identical 6-8 scores. In the process of obtaining consecutive shutouts, NU only let three singles matches go into a third decisive set.
NU dominated the match Saturday against Minnesota, taking an early lead with doubles victories from the pair of senior Kate Turvy and junior Belinda Niu and the pair of Corn-ing and Barnett.
But not every match, set, or game was so simple. Turvy kept things interesting during her singles match by dropping four straight games before rallying back to win 13 out of the next 14. She ultimately won by a score of 5-2, 5-1. Niu won the final match in an exciting yet decisive super breaker with a score of 18-8.
The Cats let the good times roll as they car-ried their shutout into Sunday. The Badgers put
up a fight, but the Cats were just too much for them to handle. Corning continued her stellar week with a tight three-set victory in the No. 1 position, her first time playing in the top spot this season. NU also got help from Hamilton, who picked up a convincing 5-8, 5-1 win over Katie Hoch.
NU looks to continue its home court Big Ten shutout streak Saturday against Michigan State at home .
out. elder Kristin Scharkey added two hits.
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ON DECK ON THE RECORDSoftballNU vs. Loyola (Chicago)4 p.m. today
I’m not going to sit there and tell you there isn’t going to be some kind of emotional drain, but, holy smokes, that’s what baseball is. — Paul Stevens, baseball coach
APR. 2
Response to the hiring of Chris Col-lins as Northwestern’s men’s basketball coach was almost unanimously positive but o! en only cautiously optimistic. Col-umnists across the web warned that the program wouldn’t magically improve at the sound of Collins’ whistle.
In fact, it very well might.Collins is NU’s dream hire. He’s
among the highest pro" le and most highly regarded assistant coaches in America. He’s sat next to perhaps the greatest college basketball coach ever for #$ seasons. NU has never been to the NCAA Tournament, but Collins can’t even count his Sweet #% berths on two hands.
& e resume goes on. Collins worked with Mike Krzyzewski’s U.S. Olympic gold medal teams in '(() and '(#'. He’s from the Chicago area and has recruited the area for more than a decade. He was a star college player himself, and his father is an NBA coach.
But the " ner points of the $)-year-old’s impressive pedigree aren’t even the point. What should have NU most psyched is what this hiring signals for the basketball program’s progression.
A! er NU " red Bill Carmody , Collins was the name analysts most o! en sug-gested as a replacement, and it imme-diately seemed that athletic director Jim Phillips had Collins pegged as his top choice. & ough the target may have seemed ambitious — Coach K’s heir apparent? Really? — Phillips got his man. Of everyone in the country NU could have coveted as its next coach, the decision-makers chose Collins, and Collins, the top choice, agreed to come along.
& is was no matter of settling for the guy who would agree to coach a des-perate program. NU didn’t hire a * ash-in-the-pan small-conference coach who has never played past mid-March. NU didn’t hire a middle-aged assistant from a second-rate program. NU didn’t hire some has-been, recently dismissed from superior teams a! er failing to achieve expectations.
NU hired the top assistant at the top basketball program in the country. A young and hungry tricenarian who has recruited and coached the best of the best for more than a decade. & at extremely quali" ed man looked at the Cats’ pro-gram and decided it " t his standards.
We’ve never had a Chris Collins before. Before coming to NU, Carmody coached Princeton to a pleasant but not Earth-shattering degree of success. Pre-NU, Kevin O’Neill failed to lead Ten-nessee to a winning record during his three-year stint there. Ricky Byrdsong’s career highlight was a #+-#' season at the University of Detroit Mercy before arriving in Evanston.
With each hire over the past '( years, the Cats have pulled down a more quali-" ed candidate. And with each hire they have improved to at least some extent. We know what improvement over the Carmody era means for NU basketball.
A guy who brought All-Americans to Duke won’t be satis" ed with two-star recruits. And a guy who helped Krzyze-wski win hundreds of games in the regular season and dozens more in the postseason won’t be satis" ed with early o, -seasons.
NU will make the NCAA Tourna-ment some time soon. And we will do so with Chris Collins as coach.
Unbridled optimism is warranted.
Optimism warranted for Collins
By ALEX PUTTERMAN-./ 01234 567-.8/9-/75 @AlexPutt('
In March, Northwestern played #$# innings across #$ games over ': days, experiencing all the requisite ups and downs during this micro-cosm of a baseball season.
& e %-; stretch took the Wildcats (#(-<, '-: Big Ten) to Missouri, then Florida, back to Illinois and eventu-ally to Lincoln, Neb., where they lost three straight games.
“Us as a team have to get better,” coach Paul Stevens said. “We have to do a better dang job on the mound, we have to do a better job in the " eld, and we have to start swinging the bat.”
& e rough stretch began March ), when NU returned to the dia-mond a! er nearly two weeks o, to commence a three-game set with Missouri State. In a series of well-pitched games, the Cats were swept, outscored #'-) on the weekend.
But at the three-day Central Flor-ida Invitational starting March #:, the Cats beat LIU-Brooklyn #'-$, topped North Dakota State $-' in ## innings the next day and then shellacked Bucknell #;-'.
During the three-game winning streak, the Cats’ trio of starters — Zach Morton, Brandon Magallones and team strikeout leader Luke Farrell — combined to allow only $ earned runs over '# innings pitched.
“We’re throwing strikes,”
Magallones said. “Luke is K-ing people up, and it’s great to see that. He’s throwing really well, his stu, is really working, guys are not hitting it. Zach and I, we feel like we’re just staying in the strike zone and having hitters get themselves out.”
& e success on the hill contin-ued a week later, when NU began its Big Ten season with three games against Iowa in Carol Stream, Ill. In the series opener, Cats senior " rst baseman Jack Havey’s walk-o, single in the #$th inning gave NU another extra-inning victory, and a! er Far-rell and the Cats dropped the second game '-#, Magallones led NU to a +-#
triumph in the " nale. A! er a $-# victory over Chicago
State on March ';, in which fresh-man hurler Matt Portland earned his " rst career win, NU had allowed only #' runs in seven games over the pre-vious two weeks and had gone nine straight without giving up more than $ runs.
“Our starting pitching has been excellent this year,” junior second baseman Kyle Ruchim said. “We’ve been part of every game because of them, and we’ve been competing to the end because of our pitching sta, as a whole.”
Run prevention was more of a
struggle in the ensuing weekend series in Nebraska.
NU’s " rst game against the Corn-huskers quickly became a slugfest and slowly became an epic. Morton allowed three runs, two of them earned, in the " rst inning, but the Cats came back to lead ;-$ and )-:. Nebraska tallied four runs in the sev-enth inning to knot the score, then both teams scored once in the ninth, mandating extra frames.
As midnight approached, The Huskers " nally " nished the lengthy a, air with a walk-o, single in the bottom of the #%th, concluding, at + hours and #% minutes, the longest game of coach Paul Stevens’ '%-year NU career.
“You tell me that that’s not an emo-tional roller coaster,” Stevens said. “I’m not going to sit there and tell you there isn’t going to be some kind of emotional drain, but, holy smokes, that’s what baseball is. Baseball is a lot of emotion, it’s a lot of mental.”
& e Huskers defeated the Cats )-+ on Saturday and )-% on Sunday to end NU’s spring break on a bad note.
NU survives tough tests over breakBy AVA WALLACE01234 9/5267 9-1==/7 @AvaRWallace
Although the Wildcats missed out on traveling this Spring Break, Evan-ston treated them well.
Perhaps " nally putting the team’s early season loss to North Carolina behind it, Northwestern showed its determination and won two intense match-ups on Lakeside Field at the end of March, each by just one goal.
In their March '; game, the Cats (<-#, $-( ALC) notched their third conference win this season against Ohio State ($-%, (-') <-). NU went on to defeat No. + Syracuse (+-$) #$-#' in a '(#' national championship game rematch Saturday.
Both games were come-from-be-hind wins for the Cats. Despite the fact that the score was tied at three di, erence times during the Ohio State game, NU did not hold a lead against the Buckeyes until senior mid" elder Amanda Macaluso scored the win-ning goal with just +:'< le! to play.
Similarly, Syracuse held its lead against NU — kicked o, by the Orange’s Katie Webster, who put Syracuse on the board " rst a! er one minute and three seconds of play — for the bulk of the game.
& is time, it was junior mid" elder and draw specialist Alyssa Leonard who scored the winning goal. & e Cats rode out the edge Leonard pro-vided with six minutes le! to play for their ##th straight victory over the Orange.
Despite her clutch goal, Leonard won only four draw controls through-out the game as NU struggled early on in the Syracuse contest. & e Orange dominated the circle during the " rst half and won ## draw controls com-pared to the Cats’ two.
Syracuse also out-shot NU during the game’s " rst half #$-), though the
second half saw an improvement as the two teams tied for draw controls ;-; and the Cats out-shot the Orange #$-<.
Despite the trouble early on, senior mid" elder Ali Cassera scored a career-high " ve goals to lead NU for the game, and senior attack Erin Fitzgerald tallied three in support.
Fitzgerald also leads the Cats by a wide margin for most goals scored so far this season: & e senior has scored $' goals over ten games. & e next highest scorer on for NU is Leonard, with #< goals.
Fitzgerald was also a key part in executing a more " ery o, ense than the Cats’ against the Buckeyes. NU took fewer shots against Ohio State than it did against Syracuse, and the Ohio State matchup was NU’s lowest scoring game this year.
Additionally, the Cats and the Orange traded possession twice and combined for four goals in a +<-sec-ond period during the second half. One of Syracuse’s goals came o, of a free position shot for the Orange, but both of NU’s tallies came from Fitzgerald, unassisted.
However, Fitzgerald’s teammates pulled their share of weight during the Ohio State contest.
Senior mid" elder Taylor & ornton led the team with : goals against the Buckeyes, and Macaluso was the sec-ond highest goal scorer for the game with '.
& ornton scored $ of her : goals during the last $( minutes of the game against the Buckeyes when the Cats were " ghting to come back from a '-goal de" cit at the start of the
second half. She notched ' of those goals o, of free position shots.
Sophomore goalkeeper Bridget Bianco also had eight saves in each of the spring break games, just shy of the career-high nine saves in one game that she notched against Vanderbilt, Boston College and Johns Hopkins
earlier this season. & e Cats play their last home game
of a four-match stretch Friday with a conference contest against Penn State.
Cats ride ‘emotional roller coaster’ in March
Daily fi le photo by Susan Du/Daily Senior Staffer
LEADER IN BOX Junior infi elder Kyle Ruchim leads NU with a .464 batting average this season. His .537 on-base percentage also leads the Cats.
Daily fi le photo by Mackenzie McCluer
GOLDEN GIRL Junior midfi elder Alyssa Leonard scored the game-winning goal with just more than six minutes left to help NU beat Syracuse. It was her 19th goal of the season, the second-most on the team this year.
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