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The Daily Northwestern DAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM Find us online @thedailynu Tuesday, February 25, 2014 SPORTS Men’s Tennis Cats rally after falling to Crimson » PAGE 8 Study links sedentary lifestyle, poor health » PAGE 5 High 19 Low -4 OPINION Folmsbee Astrology: passing fad or worrisome trend? » PAGE 4 Serving the University and Evanston since 1881 INSIDE Around Town 2 | On Campus 3 | Opinion 4 | Classifieds & Puzzles 6 | Sports 8 Council discusses options for renovating Robert Crown GESI adds fall study abroad By EDWARD COX daily senior staffer @edwardcox16 City Council discussed options Monday to renovate or replace the Robert Crown Center. A subcommittee met to consider the financial costs associated with the pending project, which may receive an Illinois Department of Natural Resources grant worth $2.5 million. City Council passed a reso- lution Monday evening to authorize the grant application. Assistant city manager Marty Lyons presented a 30-year projected cost analysis gauging project costs for various options including a ren- ovated facility, a new facility with a separate ice rink and a community center and replacement facility. Renovating the Crown Center would cost about $17 million. The building would be a gut-rehab proj- ect and extend the center’s life for 20 years, Lyons said. Net 30-year costs for a new center range from $44.3 million to $85.2 million. Lyons told The Daily the city By KELLY GONSALVES the daily northwestern @kellyagonsalves Evanston joined more than 600 communities nationwide last month that have passed “complete streets” policies to ensure safe and easy pas- sage for pedestrians, cyclists and public transit users. On Jan. 27, City Council approved a resolution putting into immedi- ate effect the city’s Complete and Green Network Approach, which was developed over the course of the last year by the Evanston Envi- ronment Board in conjunction with representatives from the Department of Public Works. The resolution commits the Department of Public Works to considering both environmental sustainability and ease of public access in all future transportation construction projects. A total of 610 communities across the nation, including Evanston, have By ANNIE BRUCE daily senior staffer @annie13 The Global Engagement Studies Institute is expanding its global ser- vice-learning program to include a Fall Quarter option in India, the Dominican Republic or Uganda. The new GESI program, which was offered only in the summer, will give students the opportunity to spend 10 weeks taking classes and interning at a grassroots orga- nization or nongovernmental organization. Patrick Eccles, assistant director of the Center for Global Engage- ment at the Roberta Buffett Cen- ter, said GESI has been looking to expand the program for years. “We’re really just trying to increase access for students to have a global learning opportunity,” he said. “We really saw the opportu- nity — in terms of fall being the most popular time for Northwest- ern students to study abroad — to expand.” Eccles said offering the program in the fall will provide added finan- cial aid benefits to students. “Summer is one of the more chal- lenging times for students to access aid to study abroad,” Eccles said. “With the option to do the program in the fall, students now have access to their full aid packages.” Eccles said 60 to 70 students typically participate in the summer program, which is eight weeks long and offers students six different site options and two academic cred- its. The fall program is structured similarly to the summer trips, although it has fewer available sites and offers up to four academic credits. “It’s kind of an all-in-one expe- rience,” Eccles said. “You get an internship. You take classes. You have an opportunity to immerse yourself in another country.” Part of the immersion process includes partnerships with differ- ent organizations and communi- ties. Eccles said the growth of the program also stemmed from enthu- siasm from these partnerships. “We have ongoing relationships with such strong community part- ners,” Eccles said. “With them, we obviously pay a lot of attention to the student experience, but we place a lot of importance on inte- grating student learning with com- munity outcomes and impact.” GESI was started by a group of students in 2005 who wanted a more intensive abroad experience. “It’s really just expanded from there,” Eccles said. “We still have that same student initiative that’s always behind it in terms of what students do with the experience.” Medill junior Joey Lautrup trav- eled to Uganda with the program last summer. “I think it just taught me a lot that people are fundamentally the same wherever you go,” he said. “Once you got to talk to people and got to really know about them and City supports ‘complete streets’ Edward Cox/Daily Senior Staffer HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU Neal Moglin presents his partner, Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) with cupcakes to celebrate his 59th birthday Monday. City Council heard options for renovation or replacement of the Robert Crown Center. Daily file photo by Ebony Calloway ‘MORE WALKABLE AND BIKEABLE’ A cyclist bikes on Sheridan Road. City Council passed a resolution last month that will promote public access to alternative forms of transportation, such as bicycling. By ROSALIE CHAN the daily northwestern @rosaliech1 The Kellogg School of Manage- ment announced a new partner- ship last week with Peking Univer- sity that will create a new degree program to expand the business school’s network and teach students about Chi- na’s role in the global economy. Kellogg Dean Sally Blount and Hongbin Cai, dean of the Peking Univer- sity’s Guanghua School of Man- agement, announced the part- nership Feb. 17. The program is called the Guanghua-Kellogg Executive Master of Business Administration Program. “We want to definitely educate and equip leaders from across our network,” said Greg Hanifee, associate dean of executive MBA programs. The program will begin in Sep- tember. Applications are currently being accepted. The program seeks applicants who are executives with eight to 10 years of work experience, includ- ing Chinese nationals and inter- national executives who either live and work in China or want to learn more about doing business there. During the 22-month program, students will travel between China and the U.S., taking short courses in each location. Based in Peking University’s main campus in Bei- jing and its facility in Shanghai, the program offers week-long seg- ments to decrease travel time for Kellogg students and faculty. In addition, Peking students will take classes at Kellogg with other stu- dents in the global network, and they can take electives at Kellogg’s four other global partner schools. Kellogg, Peking U. create new degree We want to definitely educate and equip leaders from across our network. Greg Hanifee, associate dean of executive MBA programs » See STUDY ABROAD, page 7 » See COUNCIL, page 7 » See KELLOGG, page 7 » See GREEN, page 7

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The Daily NorthwesternDAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM Find us online @thedailynuTuesday, February 25, 2014

sports Men’s TennisCats rally after falling to

Crimson » PAGE 8

Study links sedentary lifestyle, poor health » PAGE 5

High 19Low -4

opinion FolmsbeeAstrology: passing fad

or worrisome trend? » PAGE 4

Serving the University and Evanston since 1881 INSIDE Around Town 2 | On Campus 3 | Opinion 4 | Classifieds & Puzzles 6 | Sports 8

Council discusses options for renovating Robert Crown

GESI adds fall study abroad

By Edward Coxdaily senior staffer @edwardcox16

City Council discussed options Monday to renovate or replace the Robert Crown Center.

A subcommittee met to consider the financial costs associated with the pending project, which may

receive an Illinois Department of Natural Resources grant worth $2.5 million. City Council passed a reso-lution Monday evening to authorize the grant application.

Assistant city manager Marty Lyons presented a 30-year projected cost analysis gauging project costs for various options including a ren-ovated facility, a new facility with a separate ice rink and a community

center and replacement facility. Renovating the Crown Center

would cost about $17 million. The building would be a gut-rehab proj-ect and extend the center’s life for 20 years, Lyons said. Net 30-year costs for a new center range from $44.3 million to $85.2 million.

Lyons told The Daily the city

By KElly GonsalvEsthe daily northwestern @kellyagonsalves

Evanston joined more than 600 communities nationwide last month that have passed “complete streets” policies to ensure safe and easy pas-sage for pedestrians, cyclists and

public transit users. On Jan. 27, City Council approved

a resolution putting into immedi-ate effect the city’s Complete and Green Network Approach, which was developed over the course of the last year by the Evanston Envi-ronment Board in conjunction with representatives from the Department of Public Works.

The resolution commits the Department of Public Works to considering both environmental sustainability and ease of public access in all future transportation construction projects.

A total of 610 communities across the nation, including Evanston, have

By anniE BruCEdaily senior staffer @anniefb13

The Global Engagement Studies Institute is expanding its global ser-vice-learning program to include a Fall Quarter option in India, the Dominican Republic or Uganda.

The new GESI program, which was offered only in the summer, will give students the opportunity to spend 10 weeks taking classes and interning at a grassroots orga-nization or nongovernmental organization.

Patrick Eccles, assistant director of the Center for Global Engage-ment at the Roberta Buffett Cen-ter, said GESI has been looking to expand the program for years.

“We’re really just trying to increase access for students to have a global learning opportunity,” he said. “We really saw the opportu-nity — in terms of fall being the most popular time for Northwest-ern students to study abroad — to expand.”

Eccles said offering the program in the fall will provide added finan-cial aid benefits to students.

“Summer is one of the more chal-lenging times for students to access aid to study abroad,” Eccles said. “With the option to do the program in the fall, students now have access to their full aid packages.”

Eccles said 60 to 70 students typically participate in the summer program, which is eight weeks long and offers students six different site

options and two academic cred-its. The fall program is structured similarly to the summer trips, although it has fewer available sites and offers up to four academic credits.

“It’s kind of an all-in-one expe-rience,” Eccles said. “You get an internship. You take classes. You have an opportunity to immerse yourself in another country.”

Part of the immersion process includes partnerships with differ-ent organizations and communi-ties. Eccles said the growth of the program also stemmed from enthu-siasm from these partnerships.

“We have ongoing relationships with such strong community part-ners,” Eccles said. “With them, we obviously pay a lot of attention to the student experience, but we place a lot of importance on inte-grating student learning with com-munity outcomes and impact.”

GESI was started by a group of students in 2005 who wanted a more intensive abroad experience.

“It’s really just expanded from there,” Eccles said. “We still have that same student initiative that’s always behind it in terms of what students do with the experience.”

Medill junior Joey Lautrup trav-eled to Uganda with the program last summer.

“I think it just taught me a lot that people are fundamentally the same wherever you go,” he said. “Once you got to talk to people and got to really know about them and

City supports ‘complete streets’

Edward Cox/Daily Senior Staffer

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU Neal Moglin presents his partner, Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) with cupcakes to celebrate his 59th birthday Monday. City Council heard options for renovation or replacement of the Robert Crown Center.

Daily file photo by Ebony Calloway

‘MORE WALKABLE AnD BIKEABLE’ A cyclist bikes on Sheridan Road. City Council passed a resolution last month that will promote public access to alternative forms of transportation, such as bicycling.

By rosaliE Chanthe daily northwestern @rosaliech1

The Kellogg School of Manage-ment announced a new partner-ship last week with Peking Univer-sity that will create a new degree program to expand the business school’s network and teach students

about Chi-na’s role in the global economy.

Kellogg Dean Sally Blount and Hongbin Cai, dean of the Peking Univer-sity’s Guanghua School of Man-agement, announced the part-

nership Feb. 17. The program is called the Guanghua-Kellogg Executive Master of Business

Administration Program.“We want to definitely educate

and equip leaders from across our network,” said Greg Hanifee, associate dean of executive MBA programs.

The program will begin in Sep-tember. Applications are currently being accepted.

The program seeks applicants who are executives with eight to 10 years of work experience, includ-ing Chinese nationals and inter-national executives who either live and work in China or want to learn more about doing business there.

During the 22-month program, students will travel between China and the U.S., taking short courses in each location. Based in Peking University’s main campus in Bei-jing and its facility in Shanghai, the program offers week-long seg-ments to decrease travel time for Kellogg students and faculty. In addition, Peking students will take classes at Kellogg with other stu-dents in the global network, and they can take electives at Kellogg’s four other global partner schools.

Kellogg, Peking U. create new degree

“We want to definitely educate and equip leaders from across our network.Greg Hanifee,associate dean of executive MBA programs

» See STUDY ABROAD, page 7» See COUnCIL, page 7

» See KELLOGG, page 7 » See GREEn, page 7

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Around TownPolice: Missing Des Plaines woman’s cell phone last traced to city

A Des Plaines woman, 61, who has been missing since Friday, was last believed to be in Evanston, police said.

The woman, Debra Fredricksen, was last seen on Friday before 12 p.m. at a McDonald’s drive through in Morton Grove.

Fredricksen’s husband reported her miss-ing to the Des Plaines Police Department on Saturday.

Her cell phone was last traced to the Evan-ston lakefront, and Evanston police found her car parked in Elliott Park, located adjacent to Lake Michigan, on Saturday evening.

Fredricksen’s car was locked and contained personal belongings, including her purse, wallet and cellphone.

— Ciara McCarthy

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Chicago woman arrested in connection with theft of $12K in jewelry

Police arrested two Chicago women Friday after investigat-ing the theft of an estimated $12,000 in jewelry from an Evanston woman.

A 43-year-old Evanston woman reported jewelry sto-len from her home in the 2200 block of Madison Place, Evan-ston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.

The thefts were reported between Jan. 12 and Feb. 6, police said. The Evanston resi-dent said she had allowed at least one of the women access to her residence, although the relationship between the parties is unclear. Officers were able to recover some of the jew-elry that was sold to multiple pawnshops in the Chicago area, Parrott said.

Police arrested the Chicago women at their home Friday afternoon. They are scheduled to appear in court March 31.

City man threatened at gunpointAn unknown driver pointed a gun at an

Evanston man early Sunday morning after he passed the driver’s car, police said.

The resident was driving in south Evanston at about 2:45 a.m. when a black car stopped immediately in front of the resident’s car, Par-rott said. The resident, 21, drove past the black car, at which point the black car began follow-ing the resident.

Near the intersection of Elmwood Avenue and Seward Street, the driver of the black car pulled up next to the Evanston resident and pointed a gun at his head. After briefly display-ing the handgun, the driver of the black car left the scene.

City teen arrested, held on $350K bail in connection with armed robbery

Police arrested an Evan-ston teenager this weekend in connection with robbing a Chicago couple at gunpoint earlier this month. He was given a $350,000 bond in court Monday, police said.

Police say the boy, 17, robbed a husband and wife while they were walking from Saint Francis Hospital, 355 Ridge Ave., to their home in the Rogers Park neighbor-hood of Chicago. The teen

approached the couple at about 9 p.m. on Feb. 14 near the intersection of Mulford Street and Sherman Avenue and demanded their prop-erty after displaying a handgun, police said. He took the couple’s backpack, which con-tained tools, prescriptions and papers. Police have not recovered the backpack.

The teenager was charged with armed rob-bery, a felony. He is being charged as adult, which is required by state statutes, police said. He is scheduled to appear in court March 12.

— Ciara McCarthy

Police Blotter

Source: Des Plaines Police Department

Debra Fredricksen

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On CampusOne of the parts of the program we were excited about was bringing in local celebrities. When you talk about local celebrities, obviously Fitz is up there.

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Rainbow Alliance hosted a discussion Monday about coexisting as part of the LGBTQ and Greek communities.

Called “Out and Greek,” the discussion was led by Rainbow Alliance members, along with repre-sentatives from the Panhellenic Association and Interfraternity Council. The talk covered a number of topics, including heteronormativity within the Greek community.

“We don’t really talk about heteronormativity as a risk within the Greek community,” said Wein-berg sophomore Hannah Merens, vice president of risk management for PHA and a member of Delta Delta Delta.

To open the discussion, each person in atten-dance introduced themselves, gave their preferred gender pronouns and said whether they are affili-ated with a fraternity or sorority. After introduc-tions, the event was open to dialogue between attendees and the moderators, Merens and Bo Suh, a Weinberg sophomore and programming committee member for Rainbow Alliance.

Heteronormativity is “an underlying assump-tion that everyone identifies as heterosexual,” Suh said.

SESP junior Peter Podlipni, a member of Omega Delta Phi, said he found fraternity parties to be heteronormative because they did not usually let

men in if they are not with a large group of women. As a cisgender gay male, Podlipni said he feels as if there is no point in attending these events, because “they don’t want me there anyway.”

Merens said the idea of being inclusive is embed-ded in the values of fraternities and sororities and should be exercised.

“Heteronormativity is everywhere, even on this campus,” she said. “If we’re not being as inclusive as possible, then we’re not being true to these values. At the end of the day, it should be about respect and inclusion and having compassion.”

The conversation then shifted to suggestions for how Greek communities can have a conversation

about LGBTQ issues.“Our biggest issue in the Greek community

regarding LGBT is that we don’t explicitly talk about it,” said Communication junior Shivani Chanillo, president of Kappa Delta. “Within our chapters, we don’t know how to have that conversation.”

Attendees then broke up into small groups for a few minutes to discuss different ways to increase inclusion within the Greek system. Suggested ideas included programming for queer events such as National Coming Out Day, outreach to Greek members who don’t identify as LGBTQ and more communication about LGBTQ-related events.

Amid these suggestions, some recognized that Greek organizations can be resistant to change. Likewise, those unaffiliated in the Greek system can be quick to make judgments about these groups.

“I feel like a lot of the stigma comes from people who are unaffiliated,” said Aimee Hechler, a Com-munication junior and Rainbow Alliance executive board member. Hechler, who identifies as gay, is unaffiliated.

The discussion ended with a conversation on the importance of diversity. Merens said it is crucial for students to associate with people with different experiences than their own.

“What can we do, non-Greeks and Greeks, to make it that all the people you spend time with are different than you?” she said. “The framework is really important.”

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Rainbow Alliance, Greek councils organize LGBTQ panel

annabel Edwards/daily Senior Staffer

‘OUT AND GREEK’ weinberg sophomores hannah Merens and Bo Suh moderate an open table discussion Monday night on being lGBT in the greek community at northwestern. The discussion took place in Kresge hall and focused on improving inclusivity.

Two NU students get top monthly scores on international aptitude test

Two Northwestern students earned monthly top scores on the January Bloomberg Aptitude Test, an international exam used to assess stu-dents’ readiness for a career in the business world.

Weinberg junior Yoni Muller, a Daily col-umnist, and another NU student whose name was not disclosed, got the first and second place scores respectively. Both won a spot in the test’s Hall of Fame for January 2014.

The test, given on college campuses each month, tests students in eight areas: invest-ment banking, chart and graph analysis, economics, math, analytical reasoning, news analysis, global markets and financial state-ments analysis.

Fourteen students earned the top three scores, with Muller and a student from the London School of Economics and Political Science sharing the top spot in the Hall of Fame.

The undisclosed NU student won second place along with four other students from the U.S., Ireland and Canada.

Muller, who scored in the 99th percentile, had the fifth highest score for 2015 under-graduates in the All Time Hall of Fame. He

also received the No. 1 score out of all students who live in North and South America and took the exam in January.

Since the website began posting scores in March 2013, NU students have not achieved the top score on any list before now.

Employers can request resumes and reach out to students after viewing their scores on the exam.

— Ally Mutnick

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Americans love science. We are proud that our scientists and engineers are global leaders in medical innovation and technological advances, so we happily invest in research.

But Americans also despise science. We turn our backs when researchers discover evidence that human activity is driving global climate change, and we embrace pseudoscientific alterna-tive medicines when confronted with an unpalat-able medical regimen.

How can America simultaneously love and hate science? The National Science Foundation has just released its survey on Americans’ atti-tudes toward and understanding of science and technology. The results provide some insight into why we love science, why we hate it and how we have no idea what science really is.

Americans are struggling to identify real sci-ence, and the popularity of the “science” of astrol-ogy is rising. Astrology, the archaic belief system that horoscopes based on planets and stars can be used to predict an individual’s personality and future, is an absurd presence in an age when we can actually send a rover through space to visit one of its clairvoyant planets. A decade ago, it had appeared that astrology was dying when, in 2004, it hit its lowest point with 66 percent of Ameri-cans describing it as “not scientific.” However, in 2012, that number has dropped to a disturbing 55 percent, leaving 32 percent claiming it was “sort of scientific” and an alarming 10 percent as “very scientific.”

And this phenomenon appears specific to

the United States, as similar surveys have shown many other countries have already marginalized such fantastical thinking. A 2010 survey of China revealed 92 percent did not believe in horoscopes. There is no acceptable reason for the United States to lag so far behind the rest of the world.

But why is astrology blurring the lines of sci-ence? It’s partially our fault; specifically, the prob-lem may be this generation of young Americans: Only 42 percent of 18-to-24-year-olds identified astrology as not scientific. Although college-edu-cated individuals tended to correctly view astrol-ogy as non-scientific, many young Americans are adopting this antiquated belief system as science.

And thus, astrology is becoming the immortal guard of pseudoscience. The Washington Post,

Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune still run horoscopes. Thankfully, astrology itself is mostly harmless. Disasters will likely not come to people expecting to have their fortune told along with the weather forecast. Yet its popularity is indica-tive of a more insidious misunderstanding of science and a troubling disconnect from reality.

But despite not understanding it, America is still able to love and hate science. Confidence in scientific leaders is one of the highest out of all private and governmental institutions, second only to the military, the NSF said in its report.

Additionally, a strong majority thinks the benefits of scientific research outweigh the risks. However, despite our love of scientists, there is still a consistent distrust of science. Fourteen

percent thought science did more harm that good, and, more strikingly, 41 percent of Ameri-cans thought we “believe too often in science, and not enough in feelings and faith.”

We develop an aversion to science when it con-fronts our beliefs, and clouds our judgment. Only 67 percent of Americans accepted that the earth was getting warmer, and only two-thirds of them attributed it to human causes. In fact, in 2006, 50 percent attributed it to human activity, which dropped to 36 percent in 2009. This follows the other trend of American interest in correcting climate change, with 38 percent considering it a priority for lawmakers in 2007, down to only 28 percent in 2013. Ironically, it seems that the more evidence scientists gather to demonstrate how we have contributed to global warming, the less the public cares.

Clearly, Americans love science — until it reaches a conclusion we don’t like. Better edu-cation can reinforce that science is a process by which we use critical thinking and testable hypotheses to understand the world around us, and that pseudosciences like astrology rely solely on belief. Our generation in particular needs to be more active in promoting scientific principles, defending scientific evidence and rebutting pseu-doscientific claims.

If science continues to be misunderstood and perverted, the United States will lose its stand-ing as an intellectual superpower. Perhaps we may soon become a country less concerned with potentially disastrous changes to the global envi-ronment and more interested in whether the stars will bring us fortune today.

Sai Folmsbee is a Feinberg graduate student. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a letter to the editor to [email protected].

America’s love-hate relationship with science saifOlmsbeedaily columnist

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Though Miley Cyrus sings “I guess I got no Valentine” in her song “Drive,” she did have a date for Valentine’s Day 2014. It was a crowd of screaming fans in Rogers Arena in Van-couver, Canada, at the premiere of her highly anticipated Bangerz tour.

Kickoff expectations were undoubtedly high, as Cyrus loves to surprise her audiences. With America still talking about her infamous MTV Video Music Awards performance, several months later, Cyrus was expected to create a tour that would be even more pro-vocative and shocking.

It definitely was.The show starts as Cyrus enters, coming

down a slide made to represent her tongue. This entrance is followed by various skimpy outfits, drug-related images and raunchy dancing. Of the ideas behind her tour, Cyrus said, “Even though parents probably won’t think this, I think my show is educational for kids. … They’re going to be exposed to art most people don’t know about. People are taught to look at things so black and white, especially in small towns. I’m excited to take this tour to places where (art) like this wouldn’t be accepted, where kids wouldn’t learn about this different kind of art.”

Cyrus undoubtedly put a lot of time into producing the art, and she was correct that parents wouldn’t recognize her presentation as art. There was a huge backlash from parents after just two stops on the tour. Parents have been calling Cyrus’ record label, requesting the show be shut down. A parent of a 9-year-old girl reportedly walked out of the tour and told the label she would not subject her child

to Cyrus’s “porn show.”It’s no secret the show contains mature

content, but that was expected from Cyrus. Since her VMAs performance, nearly all of her performances have involved revealing outfits and crazy themes. Promotional posters and videos for the Bangerz tour depicted Cyrus in revealing clothing and dancing provocatively. Parents are responsible for understanding the subject matter the tour would likely con-tain, deciding whether or not that material is appropriate for their children, and, if not, keeping them away from show.

A 9-year-old girl should not be at the con-cert in the first place, because Cyrus has made sure the world knows her new direction. Fur-thermore, for a period of the show, a Parental Advisory sticker was shown on the screen behind Cyrus, a big indicator the show’s con-tent was not suitable for young viewers. Cyrus posted, “You can’t say I didn’t warn you. Now sit back relax & enjoy the show. #bangerztour”

on Twitter, and in all fairness, she did!Besides disgruntled parents of children who

shouldn’t be at the concert in the first place, most attendees have had a positive reaction. Tons of videos flooded YouTube the day after the first show. And this week, Cyrus’ album “Bangerz” went platinum, likely aided by how awesome her tour has been so far. From the videos I’ve seen and the pictures on Cyrus’ Twitter page, the show looks like a lot of fun. I have tickets to see the show in Chicago, and I can’t wait. People who are old enough to appreciate the effort Cyrus puts into making her show fun for everyone, and who don’t need their parents to supervise them at the show, should definitely grab tickets while they last.

Katy Vines is a Weinberg freshman. She can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a letter to the editor to [email protected].

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My grandmother is a true hoarder. She has been ever since I can remember. For as long as I can remember, she has had the same 1972 National Geographic magazine sitting in her basement bathroom. My grandfather had 10,000 books, stacked from floor to ceiling of the din-ing room at dinner. Liquor bottles locked in her cupboards had turned to pure sugar. Recently, I had to help my grandmother move from her townhouse to a small apartment in the retire-ment community in which she lives. During the move, I was shocked by how little she had actu-ally thrown out during her initial move.

I don’t keep nearly as many physical objects as my grandmother does, but I’ve recently realized that nowadays, thanks to technology, we’re all hoarders. I recently broke up with my boyfriend, and I wanted to delete a recent picture of us together from my phone. Unfortunately, when

I tried to do so, I couldn’t. There was no delete button. I tried “deleting” his contact informa-tion. Turns out, I couldn’t delete it completely. Typing in his first name immediately prompted his number. It would seem that my cell phone wants me to be a bit of a hoarder.

The world has given us cell phones and tablets, iPods and laptops. We have all these different electronic devices, each with its own memory. With products like iCloud, all our electronics are automatically synced. We might try to delete a photo on our phone but it reap-pears once that sign pops up on iTunes reading, “You have items on your phone that are not on your computer. Would you like to transfer them back?” Sites such as Pinterest and Facebook publish photos and text boxes to the Internet, and once something is on the Internet, it’s there forever.

We used to be able to pack up the memories of our boyfriends into cardboard boxes and put them under the bed, or cut out friends from our lives. But now? It seems inevitable that somewhere along the line we are bound to run into an old number or message or photo that reminds us of times past. How many times have

your friends posted long-lost pictures of you from grade school or have your parents received friend requests from old high school classmates? Heck, even the University Archives has digitized and uploaded about a hundred years of back issues of The Daily. Even when time has yel-lowed the pages to such an extent that they crack in your hands, you will still be able to look up the sports news from 1917. No one and nothing is ever truly gone.

In this way, we’re all hoarders like my grand-mother, except not necessarily by choice. We also don’t need to call in a dumpster when we try to move houses. I can’t tell yet if this elec-tronic saving is good or bad. Right now, I really wish I could delete my ex-boyfriend’s number permanently from my phone, but I might not feel that way in a few months. Maybe we need electronics to give us that second chance or that poignant nostalgia we didn’t think we would need when we tore up those old pictures.

Blair Dunbar is a Weinberg junior. She can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a letter to the editor to [email protected].

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Fitzgerald hosts Medill movie nightBy Rohan nadkaRnidaily senior staffer @Rohan_NU

After weeks of intense public scrutiny, Pat Fitzger-ald finally answered the question on everyone’s mind Monday night: Who is better looking — himself or Denzel Washington?

Northwestern’s football coach took that question — he picked Denzel — and more Monday at “Movie Night With Fitz,” an event presented by the Medill Sports Immersion program. The night began with Fitzgerald conducting a Q-and-A session before a screening of his favorite sports movie, “Remember the Titans.”

“One of the parts of the program we were excited about was bringing in local celebrities,” said Marc Zarefsky, a consultant for the program. “When you talk about local celebrities, obviously Fitz is up there. (He) was ecstatic to be involved.”

The event series, which featured University Presi-dent Morton Schapiro earlier in the quarter, is part of a push to integrate sports culture in Medill. The pro-gram begins this academic year in Medill’s graduate school with trips to sports media companies and team franchises. Eventually, administrators hope sports journalism can become an area of concentration in the graduate curriculum.

Fitzgerald picked “Remember the Titans” as his favorite sports movie because of the values espoused in the tale. The film, starring Washington, is based on the true story of coach Herman Boone and his trials and tribulations leading a racially integrated football team in the early 1970s.

“Just the way that, in a very difficult time period, football was able to bring everyone together,” Fitzger-ald told The Daily about why he loved the film. “It wasn’t easy. It was a tough and challenging road. It’s based on a true story, and to learn their story was special.”

Fitzgerald first saw the movie in 2000 during a

team trip. However, he wasn’t a big fan of the football scenes. While taking questions, Fitzgerald said the action was very glorified and insisted his practices are nowhere near as exciting.

The coach also fielded a question on his players’ union movement, answering that he only hopes as a family, the team finds a way to come out stronger from the whole situation.

Though it was a treat for those in the audience to chat with Fitzgerald before the movie, it was prob-ably just as novel for him. Fitzgerald’s kids recently saw “The Lego Movie,” but NU’s winningest football coach couldn’t remember the last time he saw a film in theaters.

“That’s a good question, I don’t know the last movie I saw,” a stumped Fitzgerald told The Daily. “I took my two oldest boys a couple winters ago, but I don’t remember the last time I’ve been to a movie theater.”

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A group of Northwestern researchers published a study last week detailing a strong link between seden-tary adults and the risk of being disabled late in life.

Controlling for participants’ activity levels, the Northwestern Medicine study demonstrated that each additional hour adults age 60 years and older spent being sedentary, their likelihood of having a disability increased 50 percent.

“We anticipated that sedentary behavior would be related to health problems,” said Feinberg Prof. Doro-thy Dunlop, the study’s lead author. “The strength of that relationship was very impressive.”

The study required participants use an acceler-ometer to objectively monitor their activity levels, an attribute that makes it unique to other studies done on similar issues, Dunlop said.

“Most of the studies on sedentary lifestyle of the past relied on self-reported physical activity,” Dun-lop said. “While that is informative for understand-ing some relationships, it’s not reproducible because people tend to overreport the amount of activity they are involved in.”

The accelerometers also have the capability to monitor both the amount of physical activity an individual engages in throughout the day and that activity’s intensity.

Dunlop said the researchers chose to look into the effects sedentary lifestyles had on disabilities specifi-cally because of the significant financial impacts of disabilities in the United States.

“One out of every four health care dollars in the United States is due to disability,” Dunlop said. “So while we know sedentary activity is related to diabe-tes, we know it’s related to heart disease, the fact that we can tie it to disability immediately has economic consequences.”

The group also focused on older individuals exclu-sively because of the difficulty in measuring health outcomes in younger children, said Rowland Chang, senior associate dean for public health at the Feinberg School of Medicine and co-author of the study.

“It would be a little harder because the outcomes that we were measuring don’t occur very often in younger people,” Chang said.

Authors of the study said although the research confirmed a strong link, it did not imply a causal relationship. In order to more accurately assess the issue, completing a longitudinal study, which takes place over an extended period of time, would be nec-essary, Chang said.

He said he and his team are currently analyzing data from a long-term study on this issue and hope to release the results within the next few months.

“We’ve actually collected the data on that study and we’re in the midst of analyzing that data,” Chang said. “It would be actually a much more compelling causal argument for the relationship.”

Chang said the process of the longitudinal study involved following individuals for at least two years and measuring their physical activity using accelerometers.

He said he was unsure of the results for the longitu-dinal study, but he was not surprised by the outcomes of the original study.

“We are a very sedentary society,” Chang said. “More than half, up to two thirds or three fourths of our time, is actually done sitting.”

Dunlop said she and her research partners are cur-rently recommending individuals make small changes to attempt to combat the sedentary lifestyle including making rounds through their offices, taking the stairs and walking to do errands instead of driving.

“What we would suggest is that people to start to look for lifestyle changes that allow them to reduce some of that sedentary time,” Dunlop said.

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Supreme Court hears states’ objections to greenhouse gas rules

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed split down the middle Monday, and occasionally lost in the fog, as the justices con-fronted a challenge to the Obama administra-tion’s greenhouse gas regulations.

Conservatives, including the court’s fre-quent swing vote, Justice Anthony Kennedy, periodically shared the skepticism of Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell, one of two attorneys arguing against the Environ-mental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas rules.

“I couldn’t find a single precedent that strongly supports your position,” Kennedy bluntly told U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr., who was representing the EPA regulators.

Coming at the end of an unusually long oral argument of nearly 100 minutes, Kennedy’s flat-out declaration, combined with justices’ earlier questions and remarks, suggested an eventual ruling against the EPA, perhaps along familiar 5-4 lines. Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and, more emphatically, Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito also sounded skeptical about the agency’s greenhouse gas actions that are being challenged.

The court’s four Democratic appointees were more sympathetic to the EPA rules, which included revising specific emission standards spelled out by Congress.

“Why shouldn’t we defer to the agency?” Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked.

Sotomayor’s question reached the heart of the legal matter argued Monday, and hinted at the potential political fallout. Those chal-lenging the EPA’s regulations argue, in part, that executive branch officials overstepped their bounds in interpreting a law passed by Congress. An eventual ruling against the EPA might fuel Republican critics who already con-tend that the Obama administration too often acts unilaterally.

“The optics of this case are as equally important as the law,” William J. Snape III, a fellow and practitioner in residence at Ameri-can University’s Washington College of Law, said after the argument.

The frequently technical argument Mon-day, though, also made clear that the EPA will retain the ability to regulate greenhouse gases from stationary and mobile emission sources even if the court strikes down the regulations in question. Justices showed little interest in reversing a 2007 high court ruling that first declared the EPA had the authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

Mitchell, in a legal brief filed on behalf of Texas and other states, had initially floated the possibility that the Supreme Court might overturn the earlier decision. The idea was essentially ignored Monday.

“I was in the dissent in that case,” Roberts noted, “but we still can’t do that.”

Using Clean Air Act provisions that aren’t being challenged before the Supreme Court, the EPA by some estimates will still be able to regulate 83 percent of greenhouse gas emis-sions. Verrilli acknowledged Monday that the regulations being challenged will increase this only to about 86 percent.

The regulations challenged Monday stem from a particular part of the Clean Air Act. The law sets 100 or 250 tons per year, depend-ing on the source, as the pollutant emissions threshold for when “Prevention of Signifi-cant Deterioration” permits are needed. For greenhouse gas emissions, which result from many sources, the EPA changed this to a more lenient 100,000 tons per year.

Conservatives objected, even though the less onerous standard imposed a smaller bur-den on industry. Regulators, the critics say, shouldn’t unilaterally rewrite congressional work.

— Michael Doyle (McClatchy Washington Bureau)

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Greetings, culture lovers! This weekend, I got a library card from the Evanston Public Library. It was a magical experience.

Surrounded by actual, real-live people, instead of frazzled college students, I wanted to give each one of them a medal. Here they were, old ladies and little kids and a man who might have been homeless or just growing a beard to stay warm dur-ing Polar Vortex pt. III, all reading! Voluntarily!

In the midst of schoolwork and extracurriculars and soul-crushing arctic winds, it’s easy to forget the joy of reading for pleasure — but the Steam Press has compiled a few reasons to help remind you, gentle reader.

It’s free!If I can get a library card, so can you. Just mosey

on downtown, sign up and voila! The word “library”

may conjure up images of midnight study sessions, but the public library is a mystical building, clean, shiny, new and filled with books you actually want

to read. Even if you never check out a book, the library allows you to sit for hours in a place unsul-lied by the tears of chemistry students.

It’s not a competition...We are all aware of the competitive, or at least

pre-professional, environment at Northwestern. Unfortunately, this extends to what we do in our free time — but not so with reading. Although some assume that books you read even in your free time should be enriching, we should feel free to read what we damn well please. For some, that’s “Infinite Jest.” For others, it’s the latest thriller.

...but it will make you better than everyone else

All readers believe they are superior to the general population. Scientific studies have shown that reading fiction gives the reader empathy and insight that a non-reader lacks — so, superpow-ers, basically.

Jane Austen said it best, “The person, be it gen-tleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” So put aside your stress for a moment, pick up a book and join the club.

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Mother of Trayvon Martin to speak at Uconn

The mother of Trayvon Martin will speak Friday at UConn, two years after her teenage son’s shooting death sparked a national debate on racial injustice and “stand your ground” laws permitting the use of deadly force.

A jury last summer found gunman George Zim-merman -- who claimed self-defense but did not invoke Florida’s stand your ground law as a defense at trial -- not guilty of killing Martin. Defense attorneys argued Zimmerman was protecting his life after Mar-tin beat him, while prosecutors sought to convince the jury that the neighborhood watch volunteer pursued the unarmed 17-year-old before shooting him.

In the days after the verdict, rallies were held across the country by protestors who said Martin’s death was the result of racial profiling and criticized a discriminatory criminal justice system. President Barack Obama called on Americans to “do some soul-searching” and “wring as much bias” out of themselves as possible and said he knew what it felt like to be followed because of the color of his skin.

Sybrina Fulton’s speech at UConn Friday

culminates a series of events the university held throughout February to honor Black History month.

“Despite the intense struggle of losing a child, Syb-rina has become a role model to many by turning her grief into advocacy,” said Willena Price, director of the UConn African American Cultural Center. “She has become an inspiring spokesperson for parents and concerned citizens across the country.”

Fulton and her ex-husband Tracy Martin launched “The Trayvon Martin Foundation” after their son’s death with a mission of increasing public awareness of racial, ethnic, and gender profiling.

Fulton is expected to discuss not just her own trag-edy and its racial undercurrents, but also the death of Jordan Davis, another Florida teenager shot in 2012. In that case, a gunman was convicted of attempted murder earlier this month. Michael Dunn, who killed Davis after a dispute over loud music, claimed self-defense and said he saw a shotgun in the car, but police never recovered a weapon. Although Dunn, 47, was convicted of attempted murder, a hung jury on the murder charge resulted in the judge declaring a mistrial.

Martin’s parents issued a statement after Davis’s death describing the killing as “yet another reminder that in Florida, racial profiling and stereotypes may serve as the basis for imaginary fear and the shooting and killing of young teenagers.”

Connecticut’s self-defense laws place a much higher burden of proof on the defendant than do the statutes on the books in Florida, so cases similar to those of Davis and Martin are less likely in this state. But residents say problems of violence and racial profiling extend past state lines, and exist in com-munities throughout the state.

“There is still this subtle and sinister suspicion,” Pastor Anthony L. Bennett of Mount Aery Baptist Church in Bridgeport said at a Trayvon Martin rally last summer. “Connecticut still has some of the atti-tudes, if not the reputation that some southern states have.”

Sybrina Fulton will speak Friday at 6 p.m. in the UConn Student Union Ballroom. Admission is free but tickets, which may be obtained at the student union ticket booth, are required.

— Jenny Wilson (The Hartford Courant)

Student group protests proposed campus-wide smoking ban at University of Toledo

A student group opposed to a campus-wide smoking ban being considered by the University of Toledo Board of Trustees handed out fake ciga-rettes and asked students to sign petitions in the Student Union today to protest the ban.

The group, which calls itself Young Americans for Liberty, plans to turn over the collected signa-tures to the university’s Student Government on Thursday, said Ron Johns, a member of Young Americans for Liberty. The goal is to make sure that students’ voices are being heard, Mr. Johns said.

“It’s not really about smoking outside,” he said. “It’s about individual liberties. The government shouldn’t regulate it.”

University trustees are expected to discuss the smoking ban during a March 11 committee meet-ing, said Meghan Cunningham, spokesman for the university.

— Federico Martinez (The Blade, Toledo, Ohio)

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The program will be integrated into Kellogg’s Executive MBA Global Network. Kellogg has also partnered with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in China, Tel Aviv University in Israel, WHU in Germany and York University in Canada, in addition to its own programs in Chicago and Miami.

Kellogg has had a 15-year relationship with Guanghua, Hanifee said, and the partnership has included the exchange of MBA students.

“Because Guanghua has had an excellent reputation in China and Asia, it has led to a discussion on how we can deepen the relation-ship,” Hanifee said.

The Guanghua-Kellogg Executive MBA Pro-gram will focus on trends and opportunities, analytical skills, globalization and understand-ing stakeholders.

Kellogg student Adebola Adetunji learned about the program from his professor in a Kel-logg class.

“I think it’s a smart move,” Adetunji said. “From what I’ve heard, it’s one of China’s top

schools. China is now a superpower. It brings professors here to understand Asian markets

because the world is changing, and the economy is global.”

Kellogg student Sid Bhatia believes the pro-gram will be valuable in teaching students about new cultures, as well as about the global market.

“An exchange pro-gram allows you to experience a new cul-ture,” Bhatia said. “I’m from India, so I know how academic environ-ments change from the Asia to the U.S. I think definitely China is a country people want to learn about with its global market.”

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instituted complete streets policies, accord-ing to a study released Feb. 18 by the National Complete Streets Coalition, a program that supports communities developing greater public access to more sustainable forms of transportation.

But Catherine Hurley, the city’s sustainable programs coordinator who helped see the reso-lution through from start to finish, said she believes Evanston’s policy is unique because it incorporates the green component within the complete streets concept.

“I think very few are as wide and

encompassing,” Hurley said. “Ours incorpo-rates really any project within the city right-of-way, on a park or on an off-street trail, not just the roadway. So I think we really raised the bar.”

Hurley said the Department of Public Works had already been considering the different fac-tors in all of their individual projects.

The department wanted to make the practice more official and recognized as part of a self-assessment process to receive recognition as a sustainable community from Sustainability Tools for Assessing and Rating Communities, a group that promotes and ranks sustainable cities and counties.

“In many ways, we were already doing this anyway, so we just wanted to make it more

formal,” Hurley said. “We should be incorpo-rating all of this stuff into a more formalized policy so we can also hold ourselves to it in the future.”

The resolution was also the result of encour-agement from the Active Transportation Alli-ance, a group that promotes complete streets projects in the Chicagoland area. The alliance provided examples of other communities’ com-plete streets policies to the Evanston Environ-ment Board, who then used these examples to write the proposed resolution for the city.

“It just takes time because our roads in this country were built to move cars. That’s the whole highway system, particularly in the sub-urbs,” said Nancy Wagner, the alliance’s sub-urban outreach manager. “We’re starting to

change that. … That’s what cities like Evanston are trying to address.”

Natalie Watson, head organizer for Streets Alive!, an annual event that also promotes active travel, said promoting alternative forms of transportation with these types of policies will help promote personal and environmental health in the city.

“Every time we drive a car, we’re putting pounds and pounds of pollution in the air that cause asthma and cancer and other things. So you can make the air quality better by not burn-ing fuel,” Watson said. “There’s some urgency to making our cities more walkable and bike-able.”

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understand them and where they’re coming from — that was just worth so much to me.”

Lautrup said he believes the additional time students will get to spend in the country will

add to their experiences.“With more time, I think the project that you

do could be expanded further and they could maybe have more impact,” he said. “Just the longer you’re there, the more you’re going to learn about the people and the country.”

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would pay off debt over the next 20 years to 30 years using revenue from the center. Tax money will be used to pay off remain-ing debt.

The subcommittee is considering a new center at Main Street and Dodge Avenue with an ice rink, a community center and a library. An additional option would be to separate the ice rink from the community center.

Northwestern students would be a poten-tial customer for a new ice rink, Lyons said.

Some Northwestern students had tried to use the rink, but could not find playing time, Ald. Don Wilson (4th) said. Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) disputed the notion that the ice rink caters specifically to Northwestern students.

“The thought of building an ice rink for Northwestern University just gives me chills,” Rainey said. “They certainly can partner (with us).”

In planning upgrades to the center, the subcommittee hired a financial consulting group to assess different center options. The consulting company concluded increased ice availability would not likely increase revenue because of the multitude of ice rinks in the area.

In addition to financing center upgrades through the city, the subcommittee has considered handing ownership to a private entity.

Such proposals would require the city to act as a backstop, meaning it would ensure funds are raised. Backstop purchasers can receive premium fees for their services.

Lyons said he would continue to work with City Council as the city solicits donations from community members for the center. The IDNR grant application is due March 10.

If an ice rink is foreclosed, Lyons said, it generally would continue operating. The International Ice Centre in Romeoville, Ill., went into foreclosure after it was built for $17.5 million and was bought for about $3 million.

“The places we went to, there were some that were money makers but we weren’t going to look at them and say they were the nicest looking place I’ve ever been in,” Lyons said.

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assistant city manager“An exchange program allows you to experience a new culture. ... I think definitely China is a country people want to learn about with its global market.Sid Bhatia,Kellogg student

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ON DECK ON THE RECORDWomen’s Golf Marquette at NU, 5 p.m. Tuesday

For our second match of the day, it’s tough, and for us to come out and battle like that, it was a really good win. — Mihir Kumar, sophomore

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NU picks up 2 after Harvard slips awayBy KEVIN CASEYdaily senior staffer @KevinCasey19

If there was one word to describe Northwestern’s match against Har-vard, it was obvious: heartbreak.

Taking lessons from the football team, the No. 29 Wildcats dropped an unimaginably close 4-3 match to the No. 24 Crimson in Boston on Friday. The road squad only lost when freshman Strong Kirchheimer, playing in the match’s final singles contest, fell in a tiebreaker in the third and deciding set.

That was directly after fresh-man Alp Horoz lost his own singles match. Needless to say, the loss wasn’t easy to swallow.

“It was very tough,” sophomore Mihir Kumar said. “Basically what happened is I won, Alp lost, then Strong lost within two or three min-utes. It was a really quick ending and it was brutal.”

And to top it off, NU had led 2-0 in the match. As coach Arvid Swan noted after the Middle Tennessee State contest, his squad was unlikely to get off to an exceptionally slug-gish start two matches in a row. That proved correct when the Cats took the opening doubles point, mostly thanks to Kumar and senior Raleigh Smith, who upset the No. 14 doubles team in the country.

Freshman Sam Shropshire added the second point when he won his singles match. But after that, Har-vard won four of the next five points, two of them in three-set battles, to take the contest.

But the Cats had short memories. Returning home to the Combe Ten-nis Center on Sunday, NU faced off with No. 27 North Carolina State and promptly fell into an 0-2 hole.

Behind against an elite squad and with a devastating loss still lingering, the rest of the match seemed likely to lead to a comfortable Wolfpack victory.

Then Swan decided to have a little chat with his squad.

“Well, we had a nice motivational speech from Arvid,” Shropshire said. “That definitely fired us up a bit and it helped us wake up. It was what we needed.”

Instead of a solid road victory, N.C. State never won another point. The Cats captured the final five sin-gles, with No. 111 Smith defeating No. 33 Austin Powell in three sets and NU efficiently attacking the Wolfpack’s weak spots, their Nos. 2-4 singles.

In that area, Shropshire, Kumar and Kirchheimer all won their matches, two of them in straight sets. In a match that once seemed dire, the Cats came out on top, 5-2.

The weekend’s work still wasn’t fin-ished. NU’s final match came against Valparaiso, an unranked squad the Cats refused to underestimate.

Apparently that strategy worked. The home squad swept the first 4 points and came away with a 6-1 victory.

Even after such a thorough defeat, the team still felt the Crusaders offered formidable opposition.

“They’re a very good team,” Kumar said. “They have some really good freshmen and their coach has done a great job putting that team together. For our second match of the day, it’s tough, and for us to come out and battle like that, it was a really good win. It showed a lot of grit and heart from us.”

The Cats will have one more match before they commence Big Ten play, but this past three-day slate was the last prolonged action

the team will see before conference competition.

NU is 10-4 at this point and may be in the top 25 when the newest rankings come out. The squad has prided itself on sche

duling difficult competition, which bodes well for play in the Big Ten, where every team but Iowa is ranked.

The Cats aren’t looking past their

final non-conference opponent, No. 48 Louisville, but they see good things ahead for Big Ten play.

“We’re definitely ready,” Shrop-shire said. “We’ve had a lot of good matches leading up to it and every-one is feeling good and is pretty healthy. So, we’ll be good heading into conference play.”

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By REBECCA FRIEDMANdaily senior staffer

Northwestern competed in its third preseason tournament of the season over the weekend, this time traveling to Cathe-dral City, Calif., to participate in the Mary Nutter Classic.

e Wildcats put on another impres-sive performance, � nishing 3-2 in the tournament against some of the coun-try’s top teams. e opening game for the Cats — in which they bested No. 3 Washington 4-2 — was a highlight.

Later Friday night, NU su� ered an 11-9 loss to No. 18 Oklahoma. Saturday served the Cats a better fate: a 4-2 win

against San Diego State and a 14-1 vic-tory against LIU Brooklyn. Finally, NU closed the weekend with a tough 4-0 loss to No. 15 Baylor.

Senior Sammy Albanese pitched the full seven innings for NU against Wash-ington in spectacular fashion, striking out � ve and allowing only four hits against the highly ranked Huskies.

“Sammy threw a terri� c game,” coach Kate Drohan said. “ e defense stepped up and made nice plays.”

Albanese agreed that the defense came through behind her to give her con� -dence in executing against Washington.

“My goal was just to keep them o� -balance,” she said. “I had great defense behind me. I wasn’t afraid to attack the

zone and let them put the ball in play because I knew the defense would make the play.”

Defense wasn’t the only story for the Cats in their underdog victory, junior Anna Edwards blasted a 3-run home run in the � � h inning to give the Cats a 4-1 lead that they wouldn’t relinquish.

ough NU’s o� ensive prowess con-tinued, putting up nine runs against No. 18 Oklahoma, that proved not to be enough as the Sooners snagged a 2-run victory.

“We started well. We had command and we gave it away,” Drohan said. “It’s nice to see us score so many runs, but we need to be able to hold on.”

e Cats led 9-3 at the end of the � � h,

but the Sooners showed why they are considered one of the best in the country by battling back, knocking in 6 runs in the sixth to tie it up and another 2 in the seventh for the victory.

However, the Cats bounced back in the next two contests, besting San Diego State and later LIU Brooklyn in a � ve-inning, run-rule victory.

NU’s o� ense has been proli� c this season, scoring twice as much as their opponents and batting .340 as a team.

“We’re doing a lot of good things,” Drohan said about the o� ense. “We have great power and are doing a really good job in our running game who batted .545 in the tournament said the o� ense is really clicking for the Cats.

“We’re really consistent throughout the whole order. We have a great mix of slappers and power hitters,” she said. “It’s not about our long game like it was last year. It’s about getting those base hits and putting the ball in play the whole time.”

ough the Cats’ o� ense will be one of their key assists for the foreseeable future, NU was unable to convert against Baylor in their � nal game of the tournament.

In the Cats’ Sunday contest, the defense faltered and allowed the Bears to tally 3 unearned runs.

“We faced a good team in Baylor,” Drohan said. “But we gave them too much defensively.”

Overall, the Cats appear con� dent heading into their next preseason tour-nament, this time in Fullerton, Calif., and are taking away positives from the week-end as well as focusing on what needs improvement.

“We’ve had a lot of challenges early in the season,” Drohan said. “We’ve seen a lot of ranked teams, but we have the con� dence to compete with them and beat them.”

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Daily fi le photo by Brian Lee

SEEING CRIMSON Strong Kirchheimer returns his opponent’s shot. The freshman’s loss in a three-set tiebreaker was the last match in a quick succession of singles losses for Northwestern in its 4-3 loss to Harvard.

Men’s Tennis

Daily fi le photo by Meghan White

TEAM EDWARDS Junior Anna Edwards sends a ball into left fi eld. Edwards nailed a 3-run home run in the fi fth inning of Northwestern’s 4-2 win over No. 3 Washington on Friday. NU fi nished the weekend 3-2.

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Justice is never convenient

A troubling thread has emerged lately in the conversation surround-ing the National Labor Relations Board hearing to determine whether Northwestern’s football players can organize as a union: the notion that NU is being unfairly thrown under the bus by former quarterback Kain Colter and the College Athletes Play-ers Association.

ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg (Medill ’03) wrote he agrees “with much of what the CAPA wants for football players” but that “(t)here are better examples of the restrictions/injus-tices college football players face and there are plenty of football factories around the country.”

Former NU fencer Dayana Sarkis-ova tweeted that “seeing NU unfairly become the sacrificial lamb is noth-ing short of painful.”

Seth Gruen of the Chicago Sun-Times thought Colter’s “anger over-shadowed an issue that deserves more thought-out representation.”

Each of these reactions admits that a system in which athletic departments like NU’s make mil-lions of dollars on the backs of players without compensation or even the guarantee of future health is unjust.

But the battle for justice cannot afford to be fought at the conve-nience of the powerful.

A crucial point of NU’s argument last week was that even if CAPA wins, many of their reforms will be difficult to reconcile with NCAA rules. It is the NCAA, the University argues, which must change before the schools can.

But NU did not have to fight back in this case.

When the school admitted it sup-ported the players’ goals but not their methods, it took the same dreaded half measure as many of the reac-tions have over the past two weeks and asked the question: Why us?

Yes, others do it worse. But a school as aspirational as this one should strive for more than the best of a broken system that has no incentive to give players a seat at the table.

The NCAA is sitting on a cash cow, with the new-look playoff set to bring in even more money.

Only a judge’s order, or a radical change in the way we understand the relationship between athlete and university, can compel the institu-tion running the best bargain in sports to change its ways.

That’s what Colter and his team-mates are fighting for.

I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know what the outcome will be of the hearing, which wraps up this week.

But as a classmate of Colter’s, he deserves better than the treatment he has gotten from the public.

Little is at stake here for NU. No matter what happens, this case will not hurt the university many of us know and love.

No matter what happens, when September rolls around Pat Fitzger-ald will still have his job, each Wild-cat loss will still come in heartbreak-ing fashion and fans will still fill Ryan Field.

But if CAPA wins, I’ll feel a little bit better about being in the stands with them.

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