Embed Size (px)
DESCRIPTION
The Feb. 28, 2013, issue of The Daily Northwestern.
Citation preview
The Daily NorthwesternDAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM Find us online @thedailynuThursday, February 28, 2013
ARTS The CurrentReaddressing and reimagining history
with artist Terry Adkins » INSIDE
O!-campus involvement gets an overhaul under new director » PAGE 5 High 34
Low 25
OPINION EditorialAfter tragedy, community
care is key » PAGE 4
Output On: February 27, 2013 8:03 AMHigh-Resolution PDF - PRINT READY
ASG aims to follow up on Chabad House resolutionBy CAT ZAKRZEWSKI!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+)
Associated Student Government is attempting to follow through on a contentious resolution, passed at the Feb. ./ Senate meeting, calling for the University to be more transparent about its decision to disa0liate from the Tannenbaum-Chabad House.
1e University disa0liated from Chabad House formally in September following reports that its leader, Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein, violated University alcohol policy. Students from Chabad House decided to turn to ASG to call on Northwestern to provide more
information about its decision, but some members of ASG argued noth-ing could be done.
Both president Victor Shao and executive vice president Brad Stewart spoke out against passing the resolu-tion at the Feb. ./ meeting. Shao and Stewart did not support the resolution because they said they had already approached the administration about the situation, and Patricia Telles-Ir-vin, vice president for student a2airs, declined to share any information due to the ongoing litigation.
“Legal counsel for the University has advised Dr. Telles-Irvin and the rest of the administration not to comment on the current litigation, therefore,
we have not been able to receive any additional information on the matter,” Stewart wrote in an email to 1e Daily. “1at being said, we will continue to work with the Chabad Executive Board and other students to ensure that their voice is heard in the process.”
But senator Harrison Flagler, said he would still attempt to follow through on his constituents’ request. He plans to contact Telles-Irvin now that the tensions of last week’s debate have dissipated.
“We have the right to at least ask,” the Bienen freshman said. “If the response is no response, the student body will see that.”
Matthew Renick serves as the
president of the Chabad House execu-tive board and spoke in support of the resolution at the Senate meeting. He said he was frustrated by the idea that the resolution should not have been passed because the administration might not come forward with more information.
“We know we probably aren’t going to get more answers,” the Communi-cation senior said. “1e resolution was for the future student body to expect more transparency for things like this.”
Renick said it was important for Chabad House and Klein to be asso-ciated with legislation that would set a precedent for the future because Klein
had been at the “forefront” of change for the Jewish community.
“1at is what Chabad and Rabbi Klein have been about,” Renick said. “I think the fact that Chabad’s name is on there is a great thing.”
Klein said he could not comment on the debate that occurred at last week’s Senate meeting because he wasn’t in attendance, but he did say he was very happy the resolution was eventually passed.
“I appreciate the tremendous amount of student support,” Klein said. “Students are asking for accountability.”
Frontera considers menu editsBy ADRIANNA RODRIGUEZ!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+)
Officials from Northwestern and Frontera Fresco are looking into adjusting the restaurant’s menu more than two months after it opened in Norris University Center, its first location on a college campus.
Frontera is considering expand-ing the soft serve ice cream, des-sert, and pastry part of the menu. Stacy Dixon, Frontera’s director of Development and Marketing,said this was the first time Frontera has made desserts a large part of the res-taurant. Student input also has the
restaurant considering price and por-tion changes.
Julie Payne-Kirchmeier, assistant vice president of student auxiliary services, said other recommenda-tions to the Frontera team include a half torta option, egg whites for breakfast tacos and discounted cof-fee refills.
“Our students need change and we want to provide our students what they want,” Payne-Kirchmeier said. “It helps keep the content relevant and it’s a really neat time for Frontera to have an environment where they can test things and get immediate feedback.”
Dixon said the restaurant, which
opened at the end of November, is always open to feedback.
“We are always open to sugges-tions from students, whether it comes from the University or directly to us,” Dixon said. “We are always interested in sampling the population.”
Although Frontera is not look-ing to make any immediate menu changes, Norris executive director Kelly Schaefer said the University and the restaurant are constantly talking about possibilities.
“The conversation is happening with Frontera and with students and us,” Schaefer said. “We are at the
Susan Du/Daily Senior Staffer
RE-EVALUATION Officials from the University and Frontera Fresco said they are considering adding to the restaurant’s dessert options and introducing half portions of tortas, egg whites for breakfast tacos and discounted coffee refills to satisfy student needs. Northwestern is Frontera’s first college campus location.
ASG Senate axes treasury positionBy JUNNIE KWON!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+)
As of Wednesday’s Senate meeting, Associated Student Government no longer has a treasurer.
Senate passed two bills to eliminate the treasurer’s position and cede its responsibilities to the executive vice president and chief of sta2. One bill, “Parliamentary Body Code Amend-ment,” amends the ASG Code, which Senate speaker Ani Ajith called ASG’s version of the federal statutes. 1e other bill, “Parliamentary Body Con-stitutional Amendment,” makes the same amendments to the ASG Con-stitution. 1e two bills also reformed caucus whip positions.
1e authors of the two bills, execu-tive vice president Brad Stewart, Greek caucus whip Sarah Brock and Resi-dence Hall Association and Residential
College Board caucus whip Lauren Johnson, created the legislation a3er recognizing the treasurer was super-4uous to the executive board. 1e treasurer’s responsibilities, which have historically been vague, consisted of logistical work such as making trips to the Student Organization Financial O0ceand heading “pet projects” such as Martin Luther King Jr. Day events, said president Victor Shao. Because the treasurer was only carrying out tasks given by the 5nancial vice presi-dent and administrators are gradu-ally taking more control over Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the authors and their supporters decided to eliminate the position in the legislation.
“To keep the treasurer’s position is asking two people to do the work that one person can easily do,” the Medill senior said.
Junnie Kwon/The Daily Northwestern
MONEY MATTERS Brad Stewart, ASG executive vice president, with the rest of the 10K Committee presents the committee’s recommendations on which six initiatives should be chosen to be voted on by students. Senate voted to combine two initiatives and approved the recommended list.» See FRONTERA, page 7
» See ASG, page 7
The Daily Northwesternwww.dailynorthwestern.com
Editor in Chief Kaitlyn [email protected]
General ManagerStacia [email protected]
Newsroom | 847.491.3222
Campus [email protected]
City [email protected]
Sports [email protected]
Ad Office | [email protected]
Fax | 847.491.9905
THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN is published Monday through Friday during the academic year, except vacation periods and two weeks preceding them and once during August, by Students Publishing Co., Inc. of Northwestern University, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208; 847-491-7206.
First copy of THE DAILY is free, additional copies are 50 cents. All material published herein, except advertising or where indicated otherwise, is Copyright 2012 THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN and protected under the “work made for hire” and “periodical publication” clauses of copyright law.
POSTMASTER: Send address changes to THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208. Subscriptions are $175 for the academic year. THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN is not responsible for more than one incorrect ad inser-tion. All display ad corrections must be received by 3 p.m. one day prior to when the ad is run.
Check out DAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM for breaking news
Around Town Violence should be the furthest thing from your mind.— antiviolence activist Tio Hardiman
“ ” ‘Interrupters’ addresses ETHS students on violence prevention Page 6
2 NEWS | THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013
BIENEN SCHOOL OF MUSIC N O R T H W E S T E R N U N I V E R S I T YTICKETS: 847.467.4000 OR WWW.PICKSTAIGER.ORG
MARCH 1 ! 3, 2013this weekend in music! P I C K " S TA I G E R
SATURDAY2SATURDAY2SATURDAYThe Grapes of Wrath7:30 p.m., Cahn$18/8
Michael M. Ehrman, director; Hal France, conductor; Robert Orth, guest baritone; Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra
“The great American opera? Ricky Ian Gordon’s Grapes of Wrath might be it,” enthuses Musical America’s. Based on John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel, Gordon’s score evokes American popular music of the 1920s and ’30s, bringing new depth to this tale of hope in the face of despair. Guest baritone Robert Orth, who played Uncle John in the opera’s 2007 premiere, reprises his role in this production.Paco Peña
The Grapes of Wrath
1FRIDAYSegovia Classical Guitar SeriesPaco Peña Flamenco Dance Company: Flamenco VivoPick-Staiger, 7:30 p.m.$30/12Paco Peña embodies both authenticity and innovation in "amenco, boldly transforming the perception of this archetypal Spanish art form. Through dance, song, and guitar, “Flamenco Vivo” revels in the rhythmic complexities of modern "amenco while paying homage to the legacy this captivating tradition has left us.
Baroque Music Ensemble
Baroque Music Ensemble: Baroque Fireworks IILutkin, 7:30 p.m.$6/4
Stephen Alltop, conductor; David Douglass, violin
The Baroque Music Ensemble performs Bach’s Suite No. 2 in B Minor and Suite No. 4 in D Major. Also featured is the composer’s beloved Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor.
Graeme Jennings, violinVail, 7:30 p.m.FreeIn conjunction with his residency at the Institute for New Music, renowned violinist Graeme Jennings presents a concert of music written for him by advanced Bienen School of Music composition students.
Residents petition for TIF area bowling alleyBy EDWARD COX!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+)
Evanston residents have petitioned for the creation of a bowling alley in a mostly vacant west Evanston shopping center.
About .// people have signed an online peti-tion on Change.org started by Evanston Patch columnist Christine Wolf on Feb. 00.
“I don’t feel like there are a whole lot of indoor activities available for kids,” the Evanston resident and mother of three said. “I think a lot of people in Evanston have been talking for a long time about why don’t we have a bowling alley.”
Bonnie Management Corporation purchased the Evanston Plaza shopping center, located on Dempster Street and Dodge Avenue, in Decem-ber 1/00. 2e city has since appropriated 31/ million in tax increment 4nancing to be spent over 1. years to develop the area.
Calls for a family entertainment and bowling center ranked 5. on a list of 0// ideas from the Evanston 06/ selection jury. International theater, 4lm and humanities festivals, a summer Shake-speare festival and an outdoor amphitheater topped the list of ideas. 2e petition, addressed to members of Bonnie Management’s executive team, noti4es principal Scott Inbinder whenever a petitioner expresses support, Wolf said.
“We have boys and girls bowling programs that would love to have a bowling alley much closer to home for our matches and year-round opportunities to improve,” Evanston Township High School athletic director Chris Livatino said on the petition.
Wolf said the property management corpora-tion is not doing its part to attract businesses to Evanston Plaza.
In a post on the petition website, Inbinder said, “2e current size and layout of the avail-able space is unusual and may not lend itself
to a bowling alley con4guration, however, I’m happy to provide a space plan to any interested parties.”
One possible obstacle in building a bowling alley is a licensing agreement held by the super-market Dominick’s, which has a location in the plaza. 2e license gives the the supermarket a voice in choosing businesses surrounding it, said Paul Zalmezak, the city’s economic development coordinator.
“What has been reported to me is … Domin-ick’s wants to make sure there is enough parking,” Zalmezak said.
Zalmezak said the supermarket and Bonnie Management have been involved in talks con-cerning the leasing agreement. Representatives from Bonnie Management could not be reached for comment.
Ald. Peter Braithwaite (1nd) voted for the cre-ation of the west Evanston TIF district, which lies in his ward. Perceptions of the company’s opposi-tion to a bowling alley are misplaced, he said.
“Reality is, before someone should cast an opinion … there needs to be an owner will-ing to open up a bowling business in the area,” Braithwaite said, emphasizing “it is not a city decision.”
Zalmezak said the city has reached out to the national operator Brunswick National Lanes, which has not expressed interest so far. He said the city is working on contacting smaller bowling alley businesses.
Wolf said she will talk about business develop-ment in the district with Inbinder in a 1nd ward meeting on March 07.
“A lot of people think Dominick’s is the bad guy and Peter Braithwaite thinks di8erently, he sees Dominick’s as supportive of the community,” Wolf said. “So I’m trying to get to the bottom of this.”
Burglar allegedly takes piggy bank containing more than $10,000
Someone broke into a .9-year-old Evanston man’s home in the 0:// block of Leland Avenue on Tuesday, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.
Police responded to a call made by the resident. Someone broke the window, and police noticed the side door upon arrival, Parrott said.
2e burglar took a Nintendo Wii, SNES, Xbox, 31// in cash and a piggy bank that the resident said contained more than 30/,///, Parrott said.
After vacation, man discovers theftSomeone took an Evanston man’s PlayStation
. from his apartment in the 6// block of Sherman Avenue while he was on vacation, Parrott said.
2e man was away from home Feb. 06 unti Tues-day and discovered the missing game console when he arrived back home, Parrott said.
2e man said his neighbors had access to the apart-ment while he was gone, but the case is still being investigated, Parrott said.
More graffiti found on Dodge AvenueAn employee at the Jewish Reconstructionist Con-
gregation, ./. Dodge Ave., discovered gang gra;ti outside the building 2ursday, Parrott said.
Additionally, someone reported on the same day that another gang symbol appeared across the street at .1/ Dodge Ave., Parrott said. 2e two instances, he said, appear to be related.
2e two signs follow a trend of increased gang graf-4ti in Evanston. Parrott said it is unknown if these are related to other gra;ti found earlier this week.
— Tanner Maxwell
Police Blotter
Setting theRecord Straight
In Wednesday’s issue of 2e Daily, a story about Ald. Jane Grover (:th) stated three students voted at Patten Gym in the April 1//5 :th Ward election. 2e current number of student voters at that location was four.
2e Daily regrets the error.
On CampusWe’re looking at how we can better respond to the chang-ing wants and needs of students who live o!-campus.
— Anthony Kirchmeier, Director of o!-campus life
“ ” New programs aim to better connect off-campus students Page 5
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013 THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN | NEWS 3
Students reach full money deadline with creativity
By JEANNE KUANG!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+)
Students registered as dancers in this year’s Dance Marathon canned, baked and even braved the weather in costume to meet the philanthropy event’s ./00 full money deadline Wednesday.
Communication freshman Ethan Senser stepped out into the snow in a friend’s taco suit Tuesday, collecting more than .10 to reach the ./00 goal by pledg-ing to wear it all day.
“I had to explain that it was a very skimpy taco suit and that I have a lot of places I have to go,” he said. “Most peo-ple would give a dol-lar, I had to do a lot of convincing.”
DM spokesperson Katie Prentiss said orga-nizers were optimistic that most students reg-
istered to dance would be able to raise the required amount.
“We are expecting most of our dancers to reach the full money deadline,” the Medill senior said.
All registered dancers are required to raise a total of ./00 in order to participate in the 20-hour dance event taking place March 3 to 40. 5e total amount of money raised will be revealed at the end of the 20 hours.
More than 4,/00 students registered to dance, DM spokesman and SESP junior David Harris told 5e Daily in January. He said organizers do not keep track of how many students drop out.
Since the DM half money deadline in January, students have focused their e6orts to raise the rest of their pledged money to bene7t DM’s primary bene7ciary, the Danny Did Foundation, and its secondary bene7ciary, the Evanston Community Foundation.
“5ere’s been quite a few canning days in Skokie, Evanston and Chicago,” Prentiss said. “And a lot of events people have been putting on themselves.”
In addition to Senser’s more outlandish fund-raising tactic, Prentiss said students have made
money by selling homemade jewelry or cooking gourmet meals for a fee. Many students also fund-raised in teams alongside their student groups or Greek organizations.
Medill freshman Preetisha Sen used a variety of methods to reach the ./00 minimum, including canning, making cake pops to sell and asking for donations from family friends.
“I think canning is a huge thing and it’s almost always successful,” Sen said.
Sen said although the fundraising was ulti-mately “doable,” ./00 was di8cult to raise. She
said she believes the di8culty of raising the money depended on the DM team a dancer joined.
“I’ve never had to raise that much before, espe-cially for it to be mandatory,” she said.
5e tent for the event is being constructed outside of Norris University Center this week. Prentiss said DM organizers are making 7nal preparations for the 20 hours.
“It’s just another sign that we’re that much closer to the big event,” Prentiss said.
Susan Du/Daily Senior Staffer
HOME STRETCH Students registered to participate in Dance Marathon were required to raise $400 by the philanthropy’s full money deadline Wednesday. DM spokeswoman Katie Prentiss said she expected most dancers to successfully meet the deadline.
“We’re expectingmost of our dancers to reach the full money deadline.Katie Prentiss,Dance Marathon spokesperson
With eight days until DM weekend, dancers work to hit their fundraising marks
The Daily NorthwesternVolume 133, Issue 84
Editor in ChiefKaitlyn Jakola
Managing EditorPaulina Firozi
Web EditorJoseph Diebold
Forum EditorCaryn Lenhoff
Forum EditorJoe Misulonas
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR may be sent to 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208, via fax at 847-491-9905, via e-mail to [email protected] or by dropping a letter in the box outside THE DAILY office. Letters have the following requirements:
class and phone number.
They will be checked for authenticity and may be edited for length, clarity, style and grammar. Letters, columns and cartoons contain the opinion of the authors, not Students Publishing Co. Inc. Submissions signed by more than three people must include at least one and no more than three names designated to represent the group.Editorials reflect the majority opinion of THE DAILYstudent editorial board and not the opinions of either Northwestern University or Students Publishing Co. Inc.
Editorial
In life, remember more than just Facebook posts
! ere are things in our lives that we remember: ! e poignancy of a moving quote, the picture book blaring with primary colors and rhyming phrases your parents read to you with charming repetition, a letter that your best friend sent you at camp the summer you were ten. As human beings, we value social connection above all else, and comprehen-sion of language is paramount to that endeavor. Words mean something to us and as a result, we remember them.
As college students, memorizing useless infor-mation is a required skill. With the rigors of the quarter system, if you tell me that you haven’t spent signi" cant chunks of your time in the library poring over notes three hours before your psych midterm you promised yourself you’d study for or cramming every usable section of your brain with formulas before that statistics quiz that really came out of nowhere, then I’d tell you that you’re either a really good liar or a super genius. I don’t expect that tsunami of information to stick with you forever, but there is the hope that at least some of the things we are committing to memory — not to men-tion dedicating an inordinate amount of money and time at this university learning — will bump around in our heads for at least for a little while.
However, a stunning new study done at the Uni-versity of California, San Diego and the University of Warwick shows that we are one and a half times more likely to remember Facebook statuses than any other form of written language.
To put the study into perspective, the disparity that we have between recalling Facebook statuses and other forms of language is the same di# er-ence between amnesia patients and people with perfectly healthy memories in recalling written language.
Out of all of the important things that we read
on a day to day basis: texts from the literary canons, articles on jarring current events, an email from your mom, that " nal paper you spent weeks on — even this column — it is the Facebook status that you read about how that guy down the hall has “SO MUCH WORK” or your friend remarking how “all they want is spring” or someone musing philosophically about some article from ! e New York Times that you will remember. Forget about everything else, literally, because you will.
Social media has permeated our lives to such an extent that our brains have literally changed in order to accommodate this truncated, constant information $ ow that is social networking.
Ten years ago we probably didn’t have a hard time remembering longer forms of written lan-guage, but the Internet has so ingrained itself within our lives, literally in our heads that we’ve been rewired to " gure out how to deal with it.
None of this is meant to cheapen the value that Facebook or any other social networking site brings to our lives. Facebook allows us to connect on a level that spans distance and time and to hold onto those connections purely at our own discretion.
It just makes me wonder how much we’re losing as longer, more in-depth forms of writing and com-munication literally slip from our minds. If all we can remember at this point are Facebook statuses, in ten years will the capacity of my mind have dwindled down to a mere %&' characters? In (' years, will I struggle to remember a tweet? Perhaps all meaningful forms of communication will be diminished to hashtags.
I’m exaggerating, of course, but it begs the question: As we run ahead of ourselves, tripping over our digitized feet to connect as with as many people as quickly as possible, what are we losing in the process?
Life should be more than a series of Facebook statuses. I think we’d all do well to remember that.
Arabella Watters is a Medill sophomore. She can be reached at [email protected]. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
ARABELLAWATTERSDAILY COLUMNIST
Enough to ! ll a thimble: What I’ve learned in my time at Northwestern
This is my penultimate column, so I figured that now would be as good a time as any for the obligatory retrospective on what I’ve learned during my time at Northwest-ern. The answer is: Not much. There are, of course, all kinds of things that I’d include were this not a family newspaper, but I’m saving those for my memoirs.
%. The nicest bath-rooms on campus are the ones in the Harris Hall base-ment, hands down. The worst, by far, are the ones just past info commons on the first floor of the library. They’ve got no ventilation, so you have to hold your breath like James Bond when he was fighting that guy underwater at the end of “Skyfall.”
(. Shaking car keys at state school opposi-tion during football games sends the worst possible message about NU students.
). The library has an absolutely fantastic collection of movies, documentaries and TV shows, everything from “Fight Club” to “Waiting for Superman” to “Alfred Hitch-cock Presents,” and beyond. Best of all, it’s free, and the return dates aren’t too strict. So take advantage — it’s cheaper than Netflix!
&. “He or she who is skilled at math and/or science” has a pretty generous overlap with “he or she who is employed well before the end of senior year.” This is worth keeping in mind, especially for freshmen and sopho-mores who are still finding their way. That being said, it’s also a bad idea to major in something or pursue a certain career just to impress people; unless you’ve got both the aptitude and the interest, don’t bother.
*. The Associated Student Government presidential election in the spring is full of sound and fury, but I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that I have trouble coming up with, off the top of my head,
tangible improvements that our elected officials have made in student life.
+. Anything labeled “Seitan” in any of the dining halls is worth avoiding at all costs.
,. The Nutella shake at Edzo’s is arguably God’s greatest gift to man.
-. A nice long schvitz in the SPAC sauna is one of NU’s underrated pleasures.
.. As surely as the sun rises in the east, con-struction on this campus will never cease.
%'. As you get older, Nevin’s supplants the Keg as a destination for libation.
%%. When picking classes, the course title/number (and what it suggests about your intellect when you tell your friends what you’re taking) is a lot less important than what the specific course does for your degree/intellectual development/career goals. Also, it’s good to keep in mind whether or not a certain class lends itself to getting to know the professor on a sub-stantial level. To the extent that I have any regrets, it’s that I didn’t forge more connec-tions in that regard.
%(. International Student Association World Cup is completely exhilarating. My only fear is that all subsequent forms of adult sports recreation will pale in comparison.
%). The kids who do Dance Marathon are totally insane in the very best sense of that word. There is literally nothing I would ever want to do for )' hours consecutively.
%&. Despite the preponderance of ambitious political science majors on this campus, hardly anybody knows their immediate alderman or engages in any substantial way with local politicians.
%*. The senior thesis is best understood as long-form agony; write one at your peril! I finally know how Prometheus felt on that rock, but at least he had the satisfaction of having stolen from the gods.
%+. If you’re reading this (which I highly doubt you are), remember not to take anything any Daily columnist says too seriously!
Michael Kurtz is a Weinberg senior. 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].
MICHAELKURTZDAILY COLUMNIST
“There are, of course, all kinds of things that I’d include were this not a family newspaper, but I’m saving those for my memoirs.
It’s been a di/ cult few months for the Northwestern community. ! e Evanston Police Department’s announcement earlier this week they would close their investigation into Harsha Maddula’s death put a formal end to a story that has, in many ways, de" ned the ('%(-('%) school year at NU.
Institutional memory is short by nature: Four years from now, it is unlikely that any students here will know who Harsha was, and they cer-tainly will not recall the atmosphere on campus during and a0 er his disappearance.
But that does not mean the Northwestern community, its equilibrium restored, will neces-sarily revert to the same attitudes it had before September. Although we don’t want to dwell on Harsha’s death, it is important not to let it slip away from us entirely by the time the class of ('%, arrives on campus. Rather, the lesson we can all take away from this fall’s tragedy is that we, as a student body, must take care of one another.
It is easy, when we get to college and experi-ence an unprecedented level of freedom, to forget the things we were taught all our lives: not
to walk alone at night, for example, or not to go out without someone knowing where we are. Even for students who drink in moderation or only occasionally, it is all too easy for seemingly harmless situations to turn tragic when just a few unfortunate circumstances line up correctly.
Harsha’s death is not merely, as some have portrayed it, a cautionary tale with the moral that we must all stop drinking. ! at, most people can agree, has nearly no chance of hap-pening: indulgence and overindulgence are facts of life at nearly every university. However, while underage drinking should be curtailed and young adults should be educated about the consequences, there is a bigger lesson to be pro-cessed here. We must learn to watch out for our friends when they cannot watch out for them-selves. As individuals, we must not be dependent but rather dependable. It is entirely possible to have a good time without putting ourselves in danger, and it is imperative that, should a poten-tially hazardous situation arise, we ensure that events do not approach tragedy.
! e NU community showed remarkable strength, resolve and unity when Harsha went
missing. Many freshmen spent their " rst week on campus not exploring campus with their new classmates, but rather canvassing the Evan-ston area in search of a young man they had never met. Hundreds of students who had not known Harsha gathered to remember his life a0 er hearing the news of his death. ! ere are countless divisive issues over which the student body could — and does — spend months argu-ing. When it comes to the loss of one of our own, however, we " nd it in ourselves to come together.
Harsha’s death is more than just a memory now: it is a starting point. When Alyssa Weaver’s death in November once again sent shockwaves
through campus, it did not simply dominate gossip or fade into campus lore. Rather, with the encouragement of Alyssa’s mother, NU has taken a horri" c tragedy and used it to better the community. Mental health, with which many students have struggled, is " nally occupying a long-sought place in the campus dialogue, and steps have been taken to improve and spread awareness of NU’s mental health resources.
A similar change in the campus conscience is the best possible outcome in the wake of Har-sha’s death. As we continue to process what we have learned, we must rely on one another and remember the strength NU can show when its community is threatened. Let us each bring this mentality with us in our friendships and rela-tionships. As we move forward from the events of the fall, it is imperative that we not forget the importance of truly being One Northwestern.
This editorial reflects the opinion of the following members of The Daily’s editorial board: Joseph Die-bold, Paulina Firozi, Kaitlyn Jakola, Caryn Lenhoff, Tan-ner Maxwell, Rohan Nadkarni, Lydia Ramsey, Manuel Rapada and Jillian Sandler.
In wake of tragedy, let us take care of one another
“We must learn to watch
out for our friends when they cannot watch out for
themselves. As individuals, we must not be dependent but
rather dependable.
OPINIONS from The Daily Northwestern’s Forum Desk
Join the online conversation atwww.dailynorthwestern.comFORUM
Thursday, February 28, 2013 PAGE 4
THE CURRENT
INSIDE: Odds & Ends 2 | Columns 3 | Reviews 4
On Friday, acclaimed art-ist and musician Terry Adkins will perform “Facets” with the Lone Wolf Recital Corps, a
group he founded, along with almost a dozen Northwestern students either orating or playing instruments. !is event is an addition to the Terry Adkins Recital collection now on display at the Block Museum of Art until March "#.
!e performance is a compilation of excerpts from other more extended works Adkins has created in the $% years of his career, some of which have been revised for this occasion. !e perfor-mance also corresponds to the exhibit, which consists of modern sculptures, photos and assemblages of metal or unique objects. Adkins stressed, how-ever, that both the art and the music should stand on their own.
“He makes a body of work that would be called a recital even though it’s the artwork,” said Dan Silverstein, senior manager of exhibitions and col-lections at the Block Museum. “It would revolve around a theme or moment or historical &gure in history. !ese &gures Terry deems the Immortals, people he thinks are under-remembered or under-discussed in history and play an impor-tant role in history. His performance really activates these ideas.”
Adkins chooses some &gures over others because of their unique impor-tance to history that may not be so mainstream.
“!ey stand out to me because they are outstanding human beings. By their examples I think we realize,” Adkins said. “!ey show this possibility of achieving a certain kind of greatness not in celebrity necessarily because celebrity is 'eeting ... I’ll call them the Immortals as chosen by me.”
Although the Northwestern students
participating in the upcoming perfor-mance might not have achieved Immor-tal status (yet), Adkins said he enjoys working with them because of their eagerness and open-mindedness.
“!at’s something that is hard to come across with seasoned profession-als,” Adkins said. “Given a group situa-tion, (students) are a lot easier to work with because they are open. !ey are more receptive to absorbing new ideas than a seasoned professional. “
Kantara Eva Sou(rant, a doctoral student in performance studies and instructor of an undergraduate per-formance studies course, said two of her students will be performing in Friday’s show, in which she will also be speaking.
“He shows you how to really get a lit-tle deeper with whatever you come into contact with, such as ideas and people,” Sou(rant said. “He shows history that deserves a second look.”
While Adkins conducts and plays some woodwinds, some students will play the “akrhaphones,” )*-foot-long trumpets, instruments Adkins said he believes angels will play at the Last Judg-ment. “RHA” in the word “akrhaphone” stands for the initials of Adkins’ father, to whom the akrhaphones were made to honor when he died in )++,.
Adkins’ talent lies in art and music, particularly that which focuses on “(the) biographies of individuals whose lega-cies ... are worth upholding because of the supra-human dimension of their contributions to the world.” These individuals include W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, John Brown and artists such as Jimi Hendrix and Ludwig van Beethoven. To Adkins, these individu-als have le- legacies that deserve more attention in the narrative of history.
“I choose to do this rather than to explore the dimensions of my own
psychodrama because I feel I am remade each time I go through this immersion and absorption besides my own,” Adkins said.
Location is another factor Adkins considers in his art. He started his John Brown revival in Ohio, in a town where most people do not know that Brown worked a wool business. For a piece on lynchings, Adkins chose Chicago to feature Ida B. Wells’ campaign against these hangings because she wrote and organized meetings there. !is time, Adkins integrated the site into per-formance by incorporating some of the location’s residents, Northwestern students, into the Lone Wolf Recital Corps.
“Northwestern is the local 'avor that is making the performance unique,” Sil-verstein said.
In terms of how other people experi-ence his work, Adkins said he cannot speculate on what his viewers think.
“I cannot speak for how others might experience it,” Adkins said. “My hope is it reaches them on a emotional and intellectual level that is transformative. In other words, having experienced it, they will never be the same again. !at’s my ideal hope. But one can never know what to experience. “
By giving due attention to histori-cal &gures who deserve more notice, Adkins is simultaneously making his own history. Block Museum director Lisa Corrin said Adkins is the &rst per-formance artist to be featured at the museum.
“I think it’s important for our stu-dents to understand that art is a window into a perspective to a world di(erent from our own,” Corrin said. “Work like Terry’s raises questions about the nature of our humanity.”
Terry ADKINSAmerican, 1953 -
Facets, FridayRyan Auditorium
Artist Terry Adkins readdresses, reimagines and (literally) makes history with an exhibit that centers on !gures forgotten by time
Stephanie Haines, 2013Ink on newsprint
photos courtesy of the Block Museum of Art
CONSTRUCTING THE PAST (ABOVE) The Block Museum is hosting “Terry Adkins Recital,” an exhibition by artist and musican Terry Adkins previously on show at Skidmore College’s Tang Museum in 2012.
Communication senior Cath-erine Mounger was inspired to develop and direct “! e Canary” a" er reading “Cau-casia” by Danzy Senna. She
and assistant director Kenya Hall, a Com-munication sophomore, spoke with ! e Current about the process of developing an original play through improvisation and the issues the play explores.
THE CURRENT: What was the process for creating the production?CATHERINE MOUNGER: We created the play through a process of improvisa-tion, discussion, movement, lots of jour-naling. Everything that is in this play, the cast wrote. We started out to explore the topic of diversity and social and cultural barriers.KENYA HALL: It was di# cult to do that without creating archetypes of charac-ters and also, just including every single
cultural barrier, especially here at North-western, where there is such diversity.
THE CURRENT: What are some ways the audience will be involved?CM: A" er the show, we’re going to have a post-show discussion about the play and about barriers that Northwestern students face. ! at will be in small groups. We have members from the Diversity and Inclu-sion Task Force coming in to facilitate conversation.
THE CURRENT: Where did the idea of doing a play related to diversity come from?CM: I read a book my sophomore year ... and it dealt with a multicultural fam-ily. ! e two daughters were biracial. Reading the novel, I just realized how necessary it is to talk about people’s experiences, their history, their background and
how they identify racially and cultur-ally, and if you don’t talk about those things, then you really don’t know them and have a full relationship with them. Around the same time as I decided to direct this show, there was all this energy and conversation about diversity around campus, and that was another thing that made me realize this needed to happen.
THE CURRENT: Where did the title “! e Canary” come from?CM: ! e title is actually taken from the book “Caucasia.” ! e main character is biracial. Her father is an African-Amer-ican academic. He studies racism. He tells his daughter the mixed person in America is like a canary in a coal mine. ! e way people treat a biracial person
is an indication of how race relations really are, and so that quote
really captured me.
THE CURRENT:How do you direct a play created through improvisation?KH: It’s kind of like a workshop I guess. Most of our rehearsals in the beginning were just coming in and doing ensem-ble-building activities. We started o$ journaling about stu$ that was very related to diversity. Like, “When was the % rst time that you noticed people were di$ erent from you?” Out of that, we started doing improv.CM: ! e play has a lot of internal expres-sion from the characters. So you’ll see them interacting with other characters and then expressing something a lot more vulnerable to the audience. So there’s this juxtaposition of what they show to the people in their lives and what they’re actu-ally thinking.
THE CURRENT: Was there anything that surprised you as you prepared the play?KH: It’s always interest-
ing to be around a group of people that come from
such di$ erent places and to see how they interact with people
and approach things. Finding out how someone’s experience can be very dif-ferent but also parallel to your own was interesting.CM: I was surprised just at the similarity of struggles that we kept coming back to and talking about in terms of % nding your self-worth and your identity. It kept com-ing up organically in conversation without me even bringing it up.
! is interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Actors and actresses
donned their rega-
lia and for-mal attire Sun-
day as they attended the "#th Academy Awards, hosted by Seth MacFarlane. Some North-western students commented on the awards:
“I thought it was expected.”
“They tend to be incorrect.”
“Didn’t watch. Looked up results.”
“Jennifer Lawrence is my hero.”
“Didn’t watch. Drowning in homework.”
“Jennifer Lawrence stole the show.”
“Ang Lee is a homie.”
— Paul Austin
— Arielle Miller
— Brooke Wanser
— Joseph Chiang
— Brad McCandless
— Jenna Stoehr
— Blake Fromkin
Odds & EndsPage 2 | The Current Thursday, February 28, 2013
Five words for...
THE OSCARS
COMPILED BY
ALEX BURNHAM
This weekwe’re obsessed with...
BUZZFEEDSAM FREEDMAN
Amid the social media craze that has overtaken the Internet in recent years, one website
stands out. This site’s ability to present a seemingly intermi-nable number of compulsively sharable articles is unparalleled. Its knowledge of the funniest GIFs on the Web and how best to use them is unmatched. Its band of witty Gen-Y writers dis-plays an arguably unprecedented level of cultural savvy in today’s Web-obsessed world.
The site is called BuzzFeed. If you haven’t heard of it, there’s a high chance you’ve been living outside the solar system.
At its core, BuzzFeed is the ultimate procrastination tool. It’s chock-full of articles that amalgamate bizarre Web trends in hilarious ways, poke fun at political figureheads, create captioned albums of Beyonce’s facial expressions and list images of unfortunate blokes befallen
by “America’s Funniest Home Videos”-style catastrophes. Its homepage refreshes con-stantly, so you could check the site every few hours and encounter a whole new slew of such articles. The diversity of its pieces is some-what remark-able. There’s something — actually a lot of things — for every-one. As a result, it just about buries a hatchet in workplace efficiency.
But BuzzFeed is also, in its own subtle way, an online leader in promoting social justice and LGBT rights. Many of its arti-cles engage with modern soci-ety’s most ghastly grievances. Its LGBT section is filled with
articles that humanize and pub-licize the ongoing struggle for equality in the United States
and elsewhere. In moments of national trag-edy, BuzzFeed has some of the most sensitive, quality cov-erage on the Web. There’s no media bolo-gna with them — they only seek to detail such tragedies in the most meaningful
way possible.There might not be a single
other spot on the Web where articles on pop culture, enter-tainment, politics, music, food, sports and cute animals come together so successfully. Of course, there’s a point to be made that such an endless gen-erator of occasionally important,
often cheap and simplistic material represents nothing more than the ultimate waste of time. Although there’s cer-tainly no denying BuzzFeed is poison to your productivity, it’s also a haven for pieces that can brighten your day, provide fod-der for a re-connective post on an old friend’s Facebook time-line or keep you a little more educated about the crazy, fast-paced world you live in. Unlike Facebook, you never really regret browsing around it for a little while.
BuzzFeed is an up-to-the-minute cultural staple. We can hardly imagine the Internet without it. A warning, however: Like relationships, classes and pets, the site is a bona fide com-mitment. Escaping its charm-ing, provocative grip is a feat few ever manage — but then again, do you really want to get away?
lollollol winwinwin omgomgomgfailfailfail geeky
geekygeeky
“The diversity of its pieces is somewhat remarkable. There’s
something — actually a lot of things —
for everyone.
Q&A with...‘THE CANARY’DIRECTORSCHELSEA SHERLOCK
A FEATHER IN THEIR CAPS
Q
A FEATHER IN THEIR CAPSBIRDS OF A
FEATHER Catherine Mounger
and Kenya Hall lead the cast of “The Canary” in
rehearsal. The two worked with the cast to develop
the original play, which deals with
the barriers NU students face.
Skylar Zhang/The Daily Northwestern
Source: Creative Commons
“I’m happy to be doing it and I will be thrilled to have done it, assuming I get out of there in one piece, but I really think this is a one-time thing for me.”
— Seth MacFarlane. The come-dian and “Family Guy” creator comments on his hosting duties at the Academy Awards. After the
ceremony, MacFarlane received criticism for his misogynistic and otherwise crude jokes.
“‘Arrested’ is a unique property, we don’t anticipate being able to do season five, six and seven.”
— CEO Reed Hastings describing the future of “Arrested Develop-ment” on Netflix. The show’s com-mercial revival will not receive second-season support from the on-demand media provider.
“I did not kill Kathleen!”
— Drew Peterson. !e former Illinois cop was sentenced to "# years in jail for killing his third wife Kathleen
Savio. Peterson was later transferred to Stateville Correctional Center.
[email protected] Source: Creative Commons
THE CURRENTEDITOR IN CHIEFChelsea Peng
DESIGN EDITORSTanner MaxwellChristine Nguyen
ASST DESIGN EDITORSChelsea SherlockKaitlin Svabek
WINTER 2013WRITERSJames BienAnnie BruceAlex BurnhamSammy CaiolaElizabeth FredaSam FreedmanAmber GibsonStephanie HainesWill PodlewskiAvi SmallSydney Zink
Columns The Current | Page 3Thursday, February 28, 2013
Almost anyone will tell you cheating is bad. It’s hurtful, it’s dishonest and it’s a sin in most
major doctrines. So we should never, ever, ever do it, right?
Unfortunately, the answer isn’t always that simple. Even the most devout can fall prey to the tempta-tions of in$delity. Sometimes it’s just a sel$sh ploy to have your cake and eat it, too, and then have some other cake a%er that — which is why it carries a stigma of mal-ice and indulgence. When Tiger Woods’ multiple extramarital &ings were exposed in '()(, he received unabashedly cruel feed-back from fans and media outlets alike.
Today, #( percent of Americans believe cheating is wrong, accord-ing to a '((# U.S. News article. !at’s more than the *( percent who held that belief in )+*(. An NBC survey from '((* reports that one in five monogamous adults, or '' percent, have cheated on their partners.
But sometimes an act of in$del-ity is indicative of a larger problem in a relationship and can open a dialogue for positive reform. Other times, cheating triggers the much-needed demise of an already-toxic relationship which may have gone on forever without intervention.
If you’re cheating, it might be a meaningless foray you can shrug o,, or it could be a possible sign of an underlying problem that needs to be dealt with. Use the &ow chart below to determine which is true for you, and what course of action you could take.
V ideo gaming isn’t cheap. With a torrent of online passes, downloadable content and system peripherals taking a huge
bite out of gamers’ wallets, it’s harder than ever to get a decent value when you plunk down your hard-earned cash for the next big thing. But in an industry that seems to care only about “Call of Duty” and “Assassin’s Creed,” it’s easy to forget that some of the best games out there cost little to nothing to enjoy. That’s why every two weeks, I’ll be showing you a great new way to get your video gaming fix for under !"#. So get your quarters ready and game on!
Like any major entertainment industry, video games generate franchises. With everything from action figures to books, comics to snack foods, a single video game can spawn a massive media empire. So it’s
no surprise these gaming Goliaths are wriggling their way into other media categories, thus bringing to life one of the most horrifying genres of entertainment out there: the video game movie.
I have never seen a “go o d” v ide o game movie, and it’s not particularly hard to figure out why: Video games just really don’t lend themselves to film. Their sto-ries are meant to be interactive, with your skill and choices having a direct impact on the gaming experience. Films just have you witness a world; games make you live in it.
So naturally, it is exceedingly dif-ficult to go from living in a world to
just looking at it. That’s why I am almost positive a serious video game film will never be made. Sure, some great short films and mini-series have come from video game roots, like
last year’s excellent, but trite, “Halo -: Forward
Unto Dawn” and the thematic “Assassin’s Creed '” prequel “Assassin’s Creed Lineage.” But video games only make the transition to the world outside the controller in these short exposures.
But what about the video games that have ven-
tured onto the big screen with movies like “Resident Evil,” “Doom” and “Mortal Kombat?” From any critical standpoint, these are at best stupid popcorn movies and at worst
embarrassing cash grabs.In fact, the only video game mov-
ies I like are those ones that seem to be intentionally bad, like the )++- gem of a B movie, “Street Fighter.” The Muscles from Brussels himself, Jean-Claude Van Damme actually leads a cast that tries to present a coherent story in the context of a fighting game. It’s so tongue-in-cheek, so over-the-top and earnest in its horribleness that it actually ranks as one of my favorite movies. But that is only because it bears almost no resemblance to the source material.
So, video game companies, look to “Street Fighter” as an example (never thought I’d ever say that) of how to do a video game movie well — ignore the video game altogether. The DVD is only .)) on Amazon, so you have no excuse not to give it a watch.
column
INSERTCOIN
WILL PODLEWSKI
Among the most clas-sic ways to write about fashion is the “this, not that” compari-son of the best of the
moment against the worst of the lot. As The Current draws toward its close for the quarter, and as I continue to advise you on matters of fashion after having done so for several weeks now, I figure an ideal way to truly introduce you to my style perspective would be my own preference-oriented “wear this, not that” list. Whereas my columns are generally about menswear, the fol-lowing list addresses both men’s and women’s fashion.
1. A RAVE ... OR ‘HARLEM SHAKE’ GATHERING
Brightly patterned athletic shorts NOT neon leggings
The latter trend went out at the same time as pre-ripped leggings that looked as if the neighbor’s Rottwei ler had gotten to them. Though, really, both those trends belong to the dogs — good riddance!
2. A WINTER QUARTER PARTYFlat-heeled slouch boots NOT
patent heelsGood luck falling for your beau-
to-be when you’re too busy falling over slick ice patches. But if you seriously insist on wearing heels…
3. HIGH HEELS OR BUSTStraps NOT heightWhen you are selecting heels to
wear in the winter or to wear long distances (such as to attend a party across campus), prioritize straps and fastenings over the height of the heel. Heels with straps across the ankle can look super cute with
a pair of tights without you having to worry about your shoe slipping off as you try to make your long, cold walk to the venue. Also, with such straps keeping your shoe on more securely, you have more con-trol over where and how you’re step-ping and therefore better ability to control your navigation around ice or puddles. Should you choose to sacrifice security for stilettos, know the height of your heels may become the height of your problems.
4. MEN’S SWEATERSArgyle NOT stripesGuys, avoid the Charlie Brown
caution-tape look. Argyle is subtly chic, not a signal for “nerd,” nor
is it reserved for socks and professor-wear.
5. MID-WINTER CLASS COMFORT
Knit leggings NOT sweatpants
O n e p o p u -lar look I see on women around
campus is sweatpants tucked into Uggs, and no descrip-tion could ever
sound more like middle school unless Crocs were involved. To stay both comfortable and warm on your way to class, ladies, opt for knit leggings, not sweats; they are just as warm and add interesting texture to an outfit.
6. SUNGLASSESAviators NOT wayfarersI’m not sure we’ll ever need sun-
glasses around here judging by the current dismal conditions, but in a battle of the classics between sun-glasses styles, aviators tend to widely suit many more faces than wayfar-ers do.
7. COLLARED SHIRTSFor men: Plaid button-downs
NOT polosPlaid shirts are almost universally
attractive on men. Seriously.For women: The reverseA slim-fit polo with jean shorts
is pretty much the comfiest, easi-est and one of the cutest of basic outfits.
column
SYDNEY ZINK
Your sexual preferences might be changing. Talk to your partner about taking a break to figure it out.
Are you cheating with a person you have strong feelings for?
If this was a one-time fluke, confess to your partner and try to move on.
Break up with your partner and go be with that person.
Have you cheated in other relationships, or do you generally
struggle with commitment?
Monogamy isn’t your thing. Break up with your partner and enjoy the single life. Then why
are you cheating?
This is a common problem. If you want to reignite your relationship, open a dialogue with your partner. Make a strategy that will keep you both happy so no one feels the desire to cheat.
You cheated.
Did you cheat with someone of a different sex than your
partner?
column
THE SHEETSTONYA STARR
Source: JCVD Online
“Street Fighter,” starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, makes a satisfactory video game-to-movie adaptation.
Now what?
No
NoAre you
bored with your current
partner?
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Have you cheated more than once?
Yes
Yes
Infographic by Chelsa Sherlock and Tonya Starr/The Daily Northwestern
Promoting their commercially successful sophomore album “Until Now,” released October !"#!, Swedish House Ma$a is embarking on the $nal tour of their career. %e international group performed
in Chicago on Feb. !", forging a con&uence of impres-sive showmanship and musical talent.
%e United Center crammed thousands of fans into multiple tiers of rowdiness. Even in the upper lev-els, viewers $st pumped, danced and shouted with the vivacity of those on the &oor.
%ose lucky enough to procure general admission tickets were rewarded with proximity to both the stage and to other fans. A throng of chanting attendees pushed one another through the concert, resembling a bunch of sardines.
Once Swedish House Mafia climbed onto the stage, the throng of fans convulsed with elation. Above the stage a silver curtain dropped, reveal-ing a wall of electronic equipment and lights. %en the upper half of the wall began to ascend, which exposed the trio.
Immediately, the beat to “Greyhound” bombarded the audience with blasts of low-resonating frequency. Chanting exploded throughout the auditorium. Flames &ashed from the stage, erupting in unison to the song’s beat.
Eventually frontman Axwell took the stage, thank-ing the members of his crew. He congratulated the pyrotechnic genius, the laser wizard and the magician who controlled the lights. But Axwell also extolled
one more contributor — his Chicago fans. At this, the crowd went wild.
%e group performed classic hits, such as “Kid-sos” and “Antidote.” %ey even had the audience sing the lyrics to “Miami ! Ibiza,” due to Tinie Tempah’s absence.
%en a hurricane of excitement swept through the building once Swedish House Ma$a slowly introduced the music to “Don’t You Worry Child.” Everything
rattled. Audience members sung intervals of the chorus at the group’s command.
And then it appeared $nished. %e electronic screens faded and crack-led, as if an internal malfunction disrupted their capabilities. Music warbled and faded in and out of key.
But just as the last echo faded into nothingness and the black
screen o'ered no more entertain-ment, music returned. “Save the
World” blared from the speakers and an incredible array of lasers darted across
the arena. %e collection of green lights and powerful tunes disrupted any thoughts of a $nale. %is network of web-like radiance continued to shine until balloons and confetti blasted from unknown origins.
Finally, a(er an incredible climax sequence of dra-matic stagecra(, the music did end. Axwell climbed the stage once more and thanked Chicago for an incredible show. %e silver curtain descended. Swed-ish House Ma$a came, they loved, they raved.
It’s a television standard: Pair two people together with an insane amount of chemistry and play o' the sexual tension for a couple seasons. When the viewers are
practically begging the writers to put this obvious pair together, it inevitably hap-pens. What happens next, however, is the interesting part. Fox’s “New Girl” is deal-ing with the a(ermath right now. A(er having Jess share a smoking hot kiss, the writers have worked hard to make sure this development doesn’t ruin the show.
Let’s see how other classic “will they or won’t they” couples have handled the post-kiss drama.
A(er painting Robin and Ted as the perfect couple in the pilot of “How I Met Your Mother,” Ted, of course, screwed it all up by accidentally blurting out that he loved Robin. Naturally it took this pair a while to recover. By the end of season one,
Robin and Ted embarked on an actual relationship. And then they broke up. And then they got back together. And then they broke up. %e writers took the whole “will they or won’t they” thing a little too far, and by the end, viewers became frus-trated with the entire relationship.
At the end of season four when Luke and Lorelai of “Gilmore Girls” shared their much-anticipated $rst kiss, I was thrilled. Unfortunately, a(er the two got together, the writers messed everything up. %ey got engaged at a weird moment, broke up for stupid reasons and then Luke had a long-lost daughter pop up and didn’t tell Lorelai about it. %ere was never any doubt these two weren’t meant to be, but it took the characters until the series $nale to $nd their happy ending.
When “%e O)ce” $rst started, Pam is already engaged to someone else and turns Jim down when he tells her about
his feelings. Once we get past these ridiculously stupid attempts to delay the rela-tionship, they begin dating at the end of season three. From there, the writers successfully kept the cuteness and turned it into a successful long-term TV rela-tionship spanning six more seasons.
%e way “New Girl” handled the big kiss has been unique but not cliche, and entirely $tting for the show’s characters. %ey didn’t ignore the kiss and move on; it’s obvious both characters harbor feel-ings for each other they’re not quite ready to explore. %erefore, the rami$cations of the kiss heard round the world are still playing out. If there’s a show on TV that can handle this delicate transition, my bet is “New Girl” can.
ReviewsPage 4 | The Current Thursday, February 28, 2013
theater
JOFFREYBALLET
AVI SMALL
Walking into the Auditorium %e-atre of Roosevelt University, an audience member could see the gilded stage and the velvet curtain and settle down into his comfortable half-price seat expecting a staid, traditional performance. “Ameri-can Legends,” a new production from the Jo'rey Ballet, gives an immediate jolt to the complacent audience member. %e dynamic “Legends” features four dances by American choreographers, beginning with the playful “Interplay” and culminat-ing with a contemporary classic, Twyla %arp’s “Nine Sinatra Songs.” Each of these four ballets, featuring the supremely talented Jo'rey dancers, shows the prom-ise of American dance.
%e $rst dance, Jerome Robbins’ “Inter-play,” is a playful romp. “Team-Play,” the fourth movement, is a highlight. All eight dancers onstage are picked into teams of four and what follows is a lively, recess-style showdown: Each team of dancers competes in a manner reminiscent of the Jets and the Sharks in Robbins’ best-known work, “West Side Story.”
Next is “Sea Shadow,” an overlong pas de deux that’s the show’s weakest link.It features two Jo'rey dancers in a post-apocalyptic, underwater world. %eir languid movements express the under-water setting well, but the entire dance feels dull; it lacks the spark that animates the rest of “Legends.”
A(er intermission, the audience is treated to “Son of Chamber Symphony,” the most recently choreographed piece in “Legends.” “Son of Chamber Symphony” takes advantage of the theater’s techni-cal production capabilities, using inven-tive lighting and John Adams’ clanging contemporary score to augment Stan-ton Welch’s athletic choreography. %is dance takes costumes (especially some wonderful tutus) and movements from traditional ballet and puts them in a very modern context; dancers are all hard lines and rigid angles as “Son of Cham-ber Symphony” beautifully features their full physicality.
%e performance closes with “Nine Sinatra Songs,” Twyla %arp’s series of charming vignettes. %ough the prere-corded music is less impressive than the live orchestral performances that precede it, Sinatra’s voice and the talented dancers more than make up for it. Each part of %arp’s choreography has a deliberate nar-rative. Most of the vignettes explore di'er-ent relationships, from a couple falling in love for the $rst time, to a $ery, passionate a'air, to an angry lovers’ quarrel. When the dancers come together in larger group numbers, %arp shows each relationship in context. “Nine Sinatra Songs” uses dance to beautifully explore the many facets of falling in love.
%e Jo'rey Ballet is one of the $nest ballet companies in the U.S. and that tal-ent is on full display in “American Leg-ends.” Vibrant and modern, “Legends” is an excellent introduction to contempo-rary American ballet.
Practice doesn’t always make per-fect. Viewers are criticizing Anne Hathaway for her Best Supporting Actress acceptance speech at the Oscars. Instead of offering a heart-felt acceptance of the gold statue, Hathaway spent her precious time at the podium thanking a laundry list of people. Sources report Hathaway had practiced her speech to avoid criticism. Given that Hathaway’s performance in “Les Miserables” reduces people to tears, it’s too bad she can’t perform her own material nearly as well.
Quentin Tarantino won Best Origi-nal Screenplay at the Oscars, and for once he tried to accept the award hum-bly. %ere’s a $rst for everything. In his e'orts to thank the cast of “Django Unchained,” Tarantino ended up con-gratulating himself for casting the actors in the $rst place. Classy.
ABC announced the cast for the newest season of “Dancing With the Stars.” A(er #* seasons, the show is having a hard time $nding big names to sacri$ce weeks of their lives for intense dance rehearsals. %e new season will feature D.L. Hughley, Ingo Rademacher, Lisa Vanderpump, Andy Dick and more. If you’re about to start searching the names on Google, don’t worry — no one else knows who they are, either.
Shia LaBeouf is leaving the Broad-way show “Orphans” because of “cre-ative di'erences.” %ose creative dif-ferences, however, might be linked to co-star Alec Baldwin, according to email exchanges between LaBeouf and the show’s director, which were released online. %e director alleg-edly wrote that Baldwin and LaBeouf are “incompatible.” Forget “Orphans” — LaBeouf should get started on a “Transformers” musical.
This season of the reality show where a dozen women fight to marry their dream guy is coming to a close. “Bachelor” Sean Lowe has narrowed down his selection of potential soul mates to two women. One major twist of the season? Lowe is a born-again virgin. (He probably picked the wrong reality show.) The future train wreck of a relationship will end, most likely, in a proposal next week.
The Oscars were full of random presenters this year. Hi, Michelle Obama. Somebody also invited “Twilight” star Kristen Stewart, recipient of several Razzies this weekend, to introduce an award. Stewart presented with “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe, and even though the introduction could have been filled with funny banter between “Harry Potter” and “Twi-light,” the actors played it straight. It was a good call, because Stewart would have made all the banter way too awkward.
the lives of therich and famous
RUNDOWNANNIE BRUCE
BRING DOWNTHE HOUSE
televisionCRYPTICCOUPLESANNIE BRUCE
music
SWEDISHHOUSE MAFIA
ALEX BURNHAM
From Sweden (to Chicago) with love
Source: Creative Commons
KISS AND TELL Nick (Jake Johnson) and Jess (Zooey Deschanel) finally kissed on “New Girl.” Viewers are anxious to see what will happen next after this game-chagning move.
Source: Creative Commons
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013 THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN | NEWS 5
SIGN UP FOR THEEMAILEDITIONREGISTER AT
Call Chris or Stacia at 847.491.7206 or email [email protected]
Become an Ad Rep for The Daily!
ENJOY EVANSTON'S FAVORITE RESTAURANT
Greek and Italian
specialties:
Grilled Seafood
Chargrilled Chops
Wine & Beer
OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK
ONLY 21/2
BLOCKS FROM
CAMPUS! JUST
WALK WEST ON
NOYES STREET.
828 Noyes Street
Evanston
847-475-8683
www.noyescafe.com
Northwestern University | Bienen School of Music
www.pickstaiger.org | 847.467.4000
Friday, March 1, 7:30 p.m.Vail Chapel, freeIn conjunction with his February 26–March 1 residency at the Institute for New Music, renowned violinist Graeme Jennings presents a concert of music written for him by advanced Bienen School of Music composition students as well as important solo works from the repertoire. A former member of the Arditti Quartet, Jennings has premiered more than 300 works by composers including Pierre Boulez, Elliott Carter, and György Kurtág. For more information about Jennings’s residency, visit www.music.northwestern.edu/newmusic.
Graeme Jennings, violinP
ho
to:
JE
FF
SH
AN
ES
www.crossroadstrading.com
EVANSTON:1730 SHERMAN AVE.
847.492.9400
CHICAGO:2711 N CLARK ST. 773.296.1000
1519 N MILWAUKEE 773.227.5300
CURRENT STYLESWOMEN'S & MEN'S
recycleyour
fashion
buy/sell/trade/consign
Kirchmeier updates off-campus lifeBy CAT ZAKRZEWSKI!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+)
A year a.er the University created a new position for Anthony Kirchmeier as the director of o/-campus life, his o0ce is rolling out new programs and a new website.
In January, the o0ce hired o/-campus ambas-sadors, paid undergraduate students who coordi-nate events for o/-campus students and worked to improve relationships between students and Evanston residents. 1e o0ce will launch a website within the next two weeks that will help students 2nd housing and subletters.
Although Kirchmeier was unable to share details about the website before plans were 2nalized, he said in the past year his o0ce has made strides in connecting off-campus students with the Univer-sity, particularly through an increased social media presence and the o/-cam-pus ambassadors.
“1ey are 2nding bet-ter ways to get o/-campus students connected with on-campus events or improve relationships with long-term residents,” Kirchmeier said.
1e three o/-campus ambassadors are Weinberg juniors Mike Morgan and Chloe Woodhouse and Weinberg sophomore Wilson Shirley. Shirley said the students have already hosted events and improved communications with students living o/-campus.
“It’s an exciting opportunity to get students involved with both Northwestern and the larger Evanston community,” he said.
Although Shirley said the majority of the campus ambassadors’ work has so far been largely “internal,” they recently hosted a dodgeball tournament for o/-campus students at Blomquist Recreation Center to bring them on-campus.
Each o/-campus ambassador receives a 3456 sti-pend to plan programming for o/-campus students,
Shirley said. He said his event is not yet 2nalized, but it will be related to the upcoming municipal election. He said the ambassadors will be working to encour-age more students to participate in the election, even though they are not running speci2c voting drives.
Shirley said the ambassadors have made strides in improving communication between the administra-tion and o/-campus students, particularly through a Facebook page. Facilitating this kind of commu-nication is not new for Shirley or Morgan. Shirley serves on the Associated Student Government com-munity relations committee, and Morgan is an ASG o/-campus senator.
“1e o/-campus ambassadors help make o/-cam-pus feel less disconnected,” Morgan said. “1rough my various roles on campus, I’ve been able to work on quite a few di/erent projects that help to create and provide resources that do that.”
With the new website launching in just two weeks, Kirchmeier said he is working now on gathering data about how students perceive o/-campus liv-ing conditions. He said a survey went out to these
students recently to collect data about various features of o/-campus living. 1e survey is sent out every two years, he explained, and this year was updated to include information based on technological advances in social networking sites such as Twitter.
“We’re looking at how we can better respond to the changing wants and needs of students who live o/-campus,” Kirchmeier said.
He said these new developments in the o0ce dur-ing the last year and his meetings with student focus groups have allowed the University to gain better feedback from students about the the o/-campus experience.
As the o0ce continues to gain its footing and the o/-campus ambassadors see where changes are needed, Morgan said they hope to continue to help connecting students to the NU campus even when they live a few blocks away.
“We’re bring campus o/-campus and bringing the o/-campus students back to campus,” Morgan said.
Susan Du /Daily Senior Staffer
ON THE BLOCK Director of Off-Campus Life Anthony Kirchmeier and undergraduate student ambassadors are integrating off-campus students into campus life through various initiatives.
“It’s an exciting opportunity to get students involved with both Northwestern and the larger Evanston community.Wilson Shirley,Weinberg sophomore
6 NEWS | THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013
SOLUTION TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE
Complete the grid so eachROW, COLUMN and 3-by-3BOX (in bold borders)contains every digit, 1 to 9.For strategies on how to solve Sudoku,visit www.sudoku.org.uk
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
Puzzle Spot: Drag PDF of AD into the box. Size is 14p8 x 18p6
For Rent
Place a Classified Ad
Daily PoliciesTHE DAILY NORTHWESTERN is not responsible for more than one incorrect insertion of an ad. Corrections must be received by 10am on the day before ad runs again, call 847-491-7206. All Classifeds must be paid in advance and are not accepted over the phone. To run online, ad must run in print on same day. The Daily does not knowingly accept misleading or false ads and does not guarantee any ad or claim, or endorse any advertised product or service. Please use caution when answering ads, especially when sending money.
CLASSIFIED ADS in The Daily Northwestern are $5 per line/per day (or $4 per line/per day if ad runs unchanged for 5 OR MORE c onsecutive days). Add $1/day to also run online. For a Classified Ad Form, go to: dailynorthwestern.com/classifieds FAX completed form with pay-ment information to: 847-491-9905. MAIL or deliver to: Students Publishing Company 1999 Campus Dr., Norris-3rd Floor Evanston, IL 60208. Payments in advance are required. Deadline: 10am on the day before ad is to run. Office Hours: Mon-Thurs 9-5; Fri 9-4. Phone: 847-491-7206.
2/28/13
© 2013 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. All rights reserved.
It is the policy of The Daily Northwestern to accept housing advertising only from those whose housing is available without discrimina-tion with respect to sexual orientation, race, creed or national origin. The presumption is therefore, that any housing listing appearing here is non-discriminatory.
FALL RENTALSSTEPS TO CAMPUS
817 HAMLIN1&2 BEDROOMS
HARDWOOD FLOORSEAT-IN KITCHEN (1 BED)DINING ROOM (2 BED)
LAUNDRYINCLUDES HEAT$975-$1200/MO
2 BEDROOM APTSHARDWOOD FLOORS
WALK-IN CLOSETSBREAKFAST NOOKAIR CONDITIONING
INCLUDES HEAT$1050.00/MO
DENIS847-424-9946
Level:
Help WantedHELP WANTED ADS are accepted only from advertisers who are equal opportunity employ-ers. The presumption, therefore, is that all positions offered here are available to qualified persons without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, handicap, or veteran status.
722 Clark Studios Available. Across from NU music school. 3 story bldg. Laundry on site. $825 - $850 7/1 & 9/1 Farnsworth Hill. 773-206-0849
2146 Sherman-2 BR Near NU. A/C, Laundry, 1.5 baths, bike rack, parking avail. $1625 avail. 9/1 Adam 847-328-3330. Farnsworth Hill.
Live with Friends & Walk to Campus? Steps to Northwestern
Apts/Houses
Let us help you find a rental that fits your needs! Tell me the specifics of what you are looking for and I will
e-mail you all your optionsTHIS SERVICE IS FREE - We
Charge no fees for matching you with your housing.
Locations: MAPLE, SHERMAN, ORRINGTON, CHURCH, FOSTER,
GARNETT, HAMLIN, PRATT, NOYES, SIMPSON, AND RIDGE
Well Maintained Properties including New Kitchens, Baths, Grassy Backyards,
Parking, Storage, Laundry, Very Large room sizes, hardwood floors, kitchens
with dishwashers and garbage disposal.
Email Nancy at [email protected] or call 847-507-2649
Ask for Chris at 847-491-4901 [email protected]
BECOME AN AD REPFOR THE DAILY! Run ad campaignswith local restaurants & businesses.
Gain valuable skillsin marketing and sales.
Work flexible hours(Must be current Northwestern student)
CONTACT SPC TO APPLY.
FIND A JOB. OR A TEXTBOOK. OR AN APARTMENT. Go to: DailyNorthwestern.com/classifieds
Have a place for rent? Go to:dailynorthwestern.com/classifieds Place an ad here or online.
Have a place for sale? Advertise it atdailynorthwestern.com/classifieds or email: [email protected]
Poetry journal receives Mayor’s award for the artsBy JIA YOU!"#$% &'(#)* &+",,'*
On a Friday afternoon, English Prof. Paul Breslin and about -. other poetry lovers pon-dered a question as they sipped coffee at Evan-ston’s Brothers K Coffeehouse: If you were a snowman, what would your name be?
“We’ll have to read Wallace Stevens’ ‘Snow Man,’” Breslin said to the crowd before reading the poem aloud
Breslin was attending a poetry reading series organized by RHINO, a locally based poetry journal that has gained national and interna-tional recognition.
The journal recently received the /.-/ May-or’s award for the arts for its contribution to the city’s art scene. Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl will present the award at the State of the City luncheon March 0.
RHINO began when a group of Evanston poetry lovers founded a grassroot poetry work-shop in -123 and published their own works. The worshop was incorporated as The Poetry Forum, Inc. two years later and began accepting outside submissions.
“It shouldn’t work, but it has,” said editor-in-chief Ralph Hamilton said.
Today, the organization — run entirely by volunteers — publishes an annual poetry jour-nal that attracts 3,... submissions from well-known poets as well as novices. The editors pick -4. entries ranging from sonnets to free verses and even language poems.
“We want the best of what’s given without preconceptions of style and tone,” Hamilton said. “We are looking for poems that ... say something powerful — but say it in a way that is interesting or challenging.”
The journal also features five to ten trans-lated poems from countries including the Phil-ippines, Vietnam, China and Poland. Hamil-ton said these translated poems showcase the diverse possibility of poetr.
“It just brings different voices, different experiences, different forms,” Hamilton said.
RHINO also conducts poetry workshops and readings locally and in the Chicago area. In Evanston, it hosts a monthly critique session at the Evanston Public Library, and runs a poetry reading series at Brothers K Coffeehouse, where Hamilton is known for asking unconventional questions. The readings usually feature poets
as well as an open mic component.Senior editor Virginia Bell started with
RHINO when she attended a workshop at the Evanston Public Library shortly after moving to the city five years ago. Bell said she was drawn to the free and open atmosphere.
“It’s very democratic,” she said.Breslin, who has attended the poetry read-
ings for about three years, agreed the atmo-sphere is part of the charm.
“What keeps me coming back is that there is a lot of work by fairly young people,” he said. “I like the warm atmosphere.”
Communication senior Sarah Weber interned with RHINO from February to Sep-tember last year, where she attended biweekly editorial meetings and helped pick the poems. Weber said she was impressed by the editors’ passion.
“They all take RHINO very seriously,” Weber said. “Even though we meet around someone’s dining table, this is something they’re really passionate about.”
Hamilton said the organization was “incred-ibly honored and humbled” to receive the May-or’s award for the arts.
“Evanston has a large number of wonderful
cultural resources,” Hamilton said. “We are grateful to be part of that.”
The journal’s reading period runs from April - to Aug. 5-. It also accepts submission for the Founders’ Prize contest Sept. - to Oct. 5-.
By SAMMY CAIOLA+6' !"#$% ()*+67'&+'*(
Tio Hardiman knows the streets of Chicago inside and out. He ran them for -/ years as a gang member before turning his life around in -101. Now, he dedicates his time to violence preven-tion in neighborhoods all over the Chicago area and, most recently, at Evanston Township High School.
Hardiman visited ETHS on Wednesday to talk about his nonpro8t, Cure Violence Illinois, for-merly known as CeaseFire, which aims to prevent street violence through peaceful mediation. He also created the Violence Interrupter Initiative, which was featured in the award-winning /.-- documentary by Medill Prof. Alex Kotlowitz, “9e Interrupters,” for signi8cantly reducing the num-ber of homicides in Chicago.
With three interrupters on hand, Hardi-man shared his strategy for violence mediation
with about 0. ETHS students who attended the assembly.
9e key to maintaining a peaceful environment in Evanston, he said, is learning to get along with one another and not getting easily egged on to a 8ght. He recalled a time when there was no vio-lence in Evanston and said the change happened as blacks moved north out of Chicago. He called speci8cally on Evanston’s black students to rise above the violence.
“Violence should be the furthest thing from your mind,” he said. “It’s not worth it. You end up in a 3-by-1 cell /5 hours a day. No matter how tough you are, it’s always better to listen to somebody and pause before you make the right decision.”
But in the open discussions following Hardi-man’s presentation, students talked about needing to have tough reputations in school, and how even the smallest con:ict in the hallway could sometimes ignite a 8ght.
Tyresa Randolph, an ETHS senior who recently
moved to Evanston, said the in:ux of city kids may be a contributing factor in the violence. When Evanston natives hear about kids from the rough parts of the city, she said, they try to test their street smarts.
“I’m from the West Side, and when I 8rst moved here I got into 8ghts because I felt like I had to prove myself,” she said. “9ere’ll always be trouble with people moving in from the city.”
When Hardiman asked whether students thought violence was more related to gang con-:icts or interpersonal con:icts, the majority of students raised their hands for gangs. He noted that a lot of crimes are classi8ed as gang violence because they involve gang members, but are actually rooted in interpersonal con:icts over relationships, money or a;liation. He cautioned students against getting too worked up over drama, especially the kind that begins on social media sites.
Sam Pettineo, ETHS safety director, said 8ght-ing is the most common form of violence in the
school, and occurs far more o<en between two students than between a student and a teacher.
“Most of our 8ghting is related to interpersonal con:icts between students, primarily over stu= that’s said on Facebook and Twitter,” he said. “It’s a little hard for us to get to the bottom of where the con:ict is because it’s really convoluted and not rational in some cases.”
A<er presenting a Powerpoint on media-tion strategy, Hardiman encouraged attendees to become the point person for peacemaking in their individual cliques. He said they should stay informed about con:icts between friends and get those people to talk it out in a peaceful way before it escalates to violence.
“Minimize the gossip,” he said. “Gossip turns into serious issues, and people get hurt for no reason. Everyone in this room should be brothers and sisters. Nobody wins when a senseless act of violence is committed.”
‘Interrupters’ discuss violence, mediation at ETHS
Source: rhinopoetry.org
GRATEFUL Evanston-based poetry journal RHINO recently received the 2012 Mayor’s award for the arts for its suport to the local poetry community.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013 THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN | NEWS 7
junior Dina Bazarbayeva su!ered a concussion at the Philadelphia Invitational in January.
“A"er I came back at the Duke Duals, it was a little rough,” Bazarbayeva said. “I felt like I was out of shape because I hadn’t trained in a week and a half but the tournament (last weekend) went a lot better, I felt, so I was more in shape physically. Probably not quite what I was earlier this season, but we still have some time.”
Now back with a full squad, the Cats will head to the Midwest Fencing Conference Championship.
At last season’s event, senior Kate Cavanaugh took home the gold in individual epee competi-tion, and NU #nished second overall in the event, taking out rival Notre Dame en route to its highest #nish since $%%&. Against the Fighting Irish, the Cats are %-$ this year, but a win over the weekend would help erase this season’s earlier struggles.
“With Notre Dame, we really have to focus on having high energy and just being ready,”
Bazarbayeva said. “'ere’s nothing really that we can work on and improve on in a week. We know that people will have certain actions and you can #x some of your mistakes and try to implement that next time you fence them but overall, I think it’s just having high energy and fencing the best that we can because it’s the end of our season.”
Having spent the season feeling out the coun-try’s top competition, NU will now attempt to put it all together when it matters most in its last weekend before NCAA qualifying, leading up to the NCAA Championships in San Antonio at the end of March.
“It’s not that we don’t have the talent,” Kaihatsu said. “It’s not that we don’t have the experience, it’s not that we don’t have the equipment or the training. It’s just that we don’t bring it. But we still have a chance and this is usually one of our best tournaments in the Conference Championships coming up.”
FencingFrom page 8
Abbey Chase/The Daily Northwestern
LAST SHOT Senior Chloe Grainger practices sabre with a teammate. The Wildcats could beat Notre Dame for the first time this season at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championship.
evaluation stage. Changes aren’t out of the realm of possibility.”
Payne-Kirchmeier said traffic and sales numbers indicate that Frontera is a strong food concept, but students still have com-plaints about the restaurant.
McCormick sophomore Jonathan Feldman is particularly concerned about Frontera’s prices, which he said defeat the purpose of having a restaurant chain on campus.
“It’s awesome but the problem is that it’s not for students,” Feldman said. “It’s for visitors and for anyone who is coming to campus. It’s too expensive, and it’s one thing to throw on
(the University’s) resume.”Steve Mangan, resident district manager for
nuCuisine, said that reduction in price will not compromise portion size or quality.
“That’s not what Frontera is about,” Man-gan said.
Though conversations about changes are occurring between the University and the Frontera team, both parties are happy about the establishment of the restaurant on its first college campus.
“It’s been a really good thing for our brand to do,” Dixon said. “We enjoy who we are and it’s good to have a strong team between the University to really make this thing work.”
'e two bills also codify the responsibilities of caucus whips and add their position to the Parliamentary Body, which currently consists of members of the executive board who are voted on by the Senate. 'ese members are currently the speaker of the Senate, parliamentarian and for-merly the treasurer. 'e caucus whips are respon-sible for organizing caucus meetings, attending Senate meetings and communicating caucus opinions to the executive board, said Brock, a Weinberg junior.
'e Constitutional amendment passed with a majority, and the code amendment passed unanimously with the exception of one absten-tion. 'e two bills will not take e!ect until Spring Quarter.
Before the meeting, all senators were required to attend Question, Persuade and Refer suicide prevention training, which was arranged by ASG along with Counseling and Psychological Ser-vices. 'e collaboration resulted from a CAPS presentation about mental health resources that CAPS executive director John Dunkle gave during the Senate meeting on Jan. (%. As leaders in the NU community, ASG senators are responsible for spreading awareness about mental health and need to be equipped with the necessary educa-tion, Ajith said.
“Our senators represent a very broad campus, and it’s good to have them out there knowing these signs and passing on this knowledge and being leaders in the community,” said Ajith. “It’s similar to celebrities and prominent people getting
breast cancer screenings or HIV testings.”'e executive board also recognized a need
for the training session a"er the deaths of NU students Harsha Maddula and Alyssa Weaver last fall. 'e incidents had a “tremendous impact” on the “psyche of the campus,” and Weaver’s suicide highlighted particular mental health concerns, Ajith said.
“('e training) is not a reaction, but it’s just people waking up and recognizing ‘Hey, we need to pay attention to this,’” he said.
The senators also passed a resolution, “Acknowledging Our History,” encouraging the John Evans Study Committee to involve the Native American and Indigenous Students Alliance in the committee’s work and raise awareness about the committee. 'e committee is investigating the role of John Evans, who donated today’s equiva-lent of )$ million to the University, in the Sand Creek Massacre, said Heather Menefee, NAISA co-president. 'e committee, which is chaired by Provost Daniel Linzer, currently does not have any student members.
'e author, Ian Coley, cited a similar investiga-tion at Brown University, which released a report stating that the school was built by slaves.
Toward the end of the meeting, two pieces of legislation were introduced. One legislation, “Campaign Reform Recommendations,” makes changes to ASG campaigning rules such as chalk-ing and budgeting, and the other “Sustainability Fund,” legislation involves creating a green fund committee. Both will be further debated and voted on during next week’s meeting.
FronteraFrom page 1
ASGFrom page 1
SPORTS ON DECK ON THE RECORDBaseballNU at Missouri, 1 p.m. Sunday
We should really be having a lot of fun. There’s no pressure on us for everything.
— Dave Sobolewski, sophomore guard
MAR. 3
By JOSH WALFISH!"#$% &'(#)* &+",,'*
-e closest game Northwestern has played since the injury to graduate for-ward Jared Swopshire came Feb. ./ against Ohio State.
-e Wildcats led the Buckeyes for most of the game, but a late .0-1 run from Ohio State handed NU its second loss in what has evolved into a 2ve-game losing streak.
Just two weeks a3er the fact, the two teams meet in Evanston headed in oppo-site directions. -e Buckeyes are com-ing o4 an upset of then-No. / Michigan State on Sunday and the Cats have lost 2ve straight and seven of their last eight contests.
Sophomore guard Dave Sobolewski said the Cats understand they can be com-petitive with the Buckeyes if they execute their game plan. However, NU has gotten o4 to poor starts recently it has been tough to overcome those hurdles.
“We’re getting o4 to some bad starts, which is really starting to kill us,” Sobo-lewski said. “If we could 2nd a way to start well like we did out there in Columbus. We don’t have to be up .1, but make it a 0-point game with .1 minutes to go in the 2rst half then we’ll feel much better.”
Freshman forward Kale Abrahamson said he feels the team has lost some of its edge since the loss to Ohio State. He said it is important for the team to regain some of its toughness from previous games. He added it will be up to the individuals to make that commitment to get mentally tougher.
“It starts with each individual,” Abraha-mson said. “-e team is a collection of all those individuals, but each one has to do their own mental preparation before the game to get into that mindset.”
Con2dence has been a key word for this team lately as it seems the players have grown less con2dent since Swopshire went down. However, Sobolewski said he feels like the team is playing with a lot of con-2dence, but it is just not executing well
enough to keep it in games.NU’s loss to Purdue on Sunday was a
perfect example of this apparent loss in con2dence. A3er the Boilermakers took a big lead early, the Cats began to force the issue a little bit too much on o4ense and tried to do too much outside the frame-work of the o4ense.
Coach Bill Carmody said that style of play hurts NU on the defensive end which in turn gives the opponents more con2dence. He said a poor o4ensive per-formance allows the opposing o4ense to be looser because they know you can’t score. -is puts more pressure on the defense which becomes a cyclical process of degrading con2dence and putting more pressure on each end of the 5oor.
“It’s one (connected) game,” Carmody said. “When you’re missing shots it’s harder and harder to defend.”
Sobolewski said he feels like there is almost no pressure on the Cats at this point in the season. With all the injuries to NU’s roster the expectations from the outside have been lowered dramatically which should in theory allow NU to play looser.
However, the Cats have seemingly put a lot of pressure on themselves to carry the team. Sobolewski said he doesn’t know who would be putting pressure on the Cats considering the expectations from the outside have been lowered and the coaches have not changed their approach. Regardless, Sobolewski said the team just needs to play like they have nothing to lose.
“We got some good opportunities here,” Sobolewski said. “We should really be having a lot of fun. -ere’s no pres-sure on us for everything, so hopefully we can go out there give it our all and have some fun.”
NU back at full strength
Fencing
By ABBEY CHASE+6' !"#$% ()*+67'&+'*(
-e Wildcats have come up against their fair share of obstacles this sea-son, but with postseason events now underway, Northwestern has a chance to score an evasive upset win when it matters most.
During the regular season, the Cats only had one major hiccup, falling to Duke in front of a spirited Blue Devils crowd at the Duke Duals earlier this month. But NU followed up one of its more de5ating losses of the season with its only upset to date, taking out No. 8 Penn State.
“I did talk to the team a3er our loss to Duke,” senior captain Dayana Sarkisova said. “I think that there are times to learn from losses and there are times to just get mad from losses and I thought that was one of those times to just get mad. I might have been kind of harsh but I thought it was what we needed. It was frustrating losing to a team we weren’t expected to lose to and then beating a team that was an actual challenge, but I’m glad we turned it around.”
Other than their up-and-down weekend at the Duke Duals, the Cats have in many ways performed by the book,
beating lower ranked teams soundly and putting up a tough 2ght against their higher ranked opponents.
“It’s going to all fall upon their per-sonal dispositions, their attitude, their con2dence going forward,” associate head coach Ed Kaihatsu said. “I’ve been trying to preach that all year long and show them, for example, in that match we lost to Duke, Duke wanted it more. We were at Duke and they came and they brought it.”
With a team that is dominated by freshmen, building experience and adjusting to NCAA competition has been an important part of the season.
“When there’s a mostly freshmen squad, it’s de2nitely a tough adjustment because everyone is getting to know each other,” Sarkisova said. “With Jen Yamin, a freshman on the foil squad, it’s been amazing watching her grow. She went from having to deal with so many mental preparations that you have to go through against tough teams like Notre Dame, and now it’s awesome because at the end of the season, you watch her get up on the strip and you know longer have to worry about how she’s feeling or what she’s thinking.”
For the team’s more seasoned fenc-ers, injuries have been a nagging issue. Sarkisova had been su4ering from an ankle injury for the better part of a year before making her 01.9 debut at the Philadelphia Invitational.
“I knew jumping into the season not having trained for basically a year and coming o4 the injury, it would be tough, so I didn’t really put my expec-tations where they would have been normally going into my senior year,” Sarkisova said. “I kind of used it as a chance to get back into fencing and now that it’s postseason I feel a lot more like my old self … I just want to be where I was hoping I would be at this point. It’s even more of a mental hurdle to overcome than a physical one.”
Additionally, sophomore Courtney Dumas has been bogged down by a knee injury throughout the season, and
By ARIEL YONG+6' !"#$% ()*+67'&+'*(
-e Wildcats have shown they can hang with the big dogs.
Despite two four-game skids in the middle of the season, Northwestern (.9-./, 8-: Big Ten) has found its chemistry and has managed to pull out key victories down the stretch, includ-ing a nail-biter against Wisconsin on Saturday.
“We preach it all the time, like /1 minutes, /1 minutes /1 minutes,” freshman forward Maggie Lyon said. “We try to do that in our losses too. But in this game, I think, it helped, (because) we were home and we’ve just been frustrated with those close games. It’s nearing the Big Ten tournament so (we’re doing) anything to try and pull out the win.”
A3er a slow 2rst half, the Cats turned up the heat in the second and tightened up their defense against the Badgers.
NU held Wisconsin to 09.0 percent from the 2eld and .;.< percent from beyond the arc.
-e Cats took the lead over Wiscon-sin with just under 0 minutes le3 in the game and did not look back, defeating the Badgers, 8/-80.
“We knew that if we just played solid defense we were going to win the game no matter how close it was,” senior forward Kendall Hackney said. “I think (it) was huge for us and a really good sign for what we can do
in the next couple of weeks into the tournament.”
-e Cats’ last seven games have been decided by an average point di4erential of about 8, including a buzzer-beater win over then No. 0/ Iowa.
NU will look to keep the game close this time around as they head to Ann Arbor, Mich. on -ursday night.
-e Cats face o4 against the Wol-verines (.:-=, =-;) in their last confer-ence road game of the regular season and are fully aware of the work cut out for them.
In the two teams’ last meeting on Jan. .<, the Cats had no answer to Michigan’s tight zone defense and struggled to put the ball in the hoop.
On the other side of the ball, the Wolverines shot /8.. percent from the 2eld and a whopping :9.9 percent from the foul line.
NU failed to contain Michigan’s hot shooter, Kate -ompson, who 2nished with 09 points and seven 9-pointers.
“We le3 (Kate) -ompson open,” coach Joe McKeown said. “-ey did a good job 2nding her and it went from being a 8, ;-point game to her breaking the game open and us just doing a very poor job defensively. Really, we fought hard to come back at the end, but we ran out of time.”
However, the Cats have stepped up
their defensive game since the loss to the Wolverines.
In the last six games, they’ve aver-aged 0= defensive rebounds, almost 8 blocks and ; steals per game. With the Big Ten tournament in sight, NU isn’t holding anything back.
“It’s more about us,” McKeown said. “Just have fun, have some con-2dence. Play your best basketball at the end of the year. -at was our goal in October.”
Cats trying to end five-game slide
Daily file photo by Josh Walfish
ON THE REBOUND Senior forward Kendall Hackney boxes out her opponent during a home game. Hackney and the Wildcats hope a better defensive effort will help them avenge a loss to Michigan.
Defense key for Cats against MichiganWomen’s Basketball
Northwesternvs. MichiganAnn Arbor, Mich.6 p.m. Thursday
Daily file photo by Melody Song
FUN TIMES Sophomore guard Dave Sobolewski attempts a free throw. The Wildcats’ previous three home games against Ohio State have all been decided in the final seconds, with the Buckeyes winning two.
No. 15 Ohio Statevs. NorthwesternEvanston, Ill.6 p.m. Thursday
Midwest Fencing Conference ChampionshipSouth Bend, Ind. 8 a.m. Saturday
Thursday, February 28, 2013 @Wildcat_Extra
» See FENCING, page 7
Men’s Basketball
