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The Daily NorthwesternDAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM Find us online @thedailynuWednesday, February 4, 2015
SPORTS Men’s BasketballWildcats can’t fi nd rhythm in road
loss to Cornhuskers » PAGE 8
Students launch app for event promotion » PAGE 3
High 22Low 3
THE SPECTRUM SturlaBuilding confi dence after overcoming
eating disorder » PAGE 4
Serving the University and Evanston since 1881 INSIDE Around Town 2 | On Campus 3 | Opinion 4 | Classifi eds & Puzzles 6 | Sports 8
By SHANE MCKEONthe daily northwestern@Shane_McKeon
A largely ineffective vaccine and sorority recruitment have fueled the flu season on campus, with a sepa-rate stomach virus spreading within University housing getting more students sick, said Thomas Reda, medical director of the Northwestern University Health Service.
The biggest factor in this particu-lar flu season, Reda said, has been the flu vaccine’s widely reported shortcomings: It reduces a recipi-
ent’s chances of having to see a doc-tor for the flu by only 23 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Preven-tion. In past years, that number has been up to 60 percent.
Neverthe-less, Reda
said Searle had a “record year” for giving flu shots, with many more stu-dents than normal receiving a vac-cination. Reda said it is “absolutely” worth getting a flu shot this late in the season.
“If you can take five days off of class,” he said, “and lie in bed and feel like a truck hit you for those five days, don’t get the flu shot.”
Reda said NUHS saw an uptick in the number of students who came to Searle for “influenza and influenza-like illness” the second week of the quarter. For the week of Jan. 5, Searle documented seven such cases. The next week, Searle documented 41 cases.
Reda linked the increase to soror-ity recruitment, which ended Jan. 13.
Recorded cases dropped the next week — the most recent data avail-able — to 22 cases. Reda said no stu-dents have been hospitalized with the flu this year.
Health Service’s numbers, how-ever, almost definitely understate the total number of students who contracted the flu. SESP junior James Keane said he was sick with flu-like symptoms the weekend of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Keane never went to Searle for the illness because it was closed Monday for the holiday.
“I did find that frustrating that there was a three-day stretch without that access to medical attention,” he said. “So I never found out for sure if I had the flu, but with the symptoms, it felt like I did.”
Reda also said a stomach virus has spread, especially within Willard Residential College and Allison Hall. He said it’s difficult to measure how many students contracted the bug because many don’t come to Health Service for treatment.
Communication freshman Sofia Kuta, who lives in Allison, caught the stomach bug around Jan. 11 and never went to Searle. She said she called the Health Service’s after-hours hotline, which helped diag-nose the illness and how she could treat it.
A week after she recovered, she started feeling flu-like symptoms, despite getting the vaccine earlier in the fall. Kuta didn’t visit Searle after her second illness, either, instead using the hotline again.
“When you have a lot of people living in a close, confined environ-ment, the potential for what hap-pened is there,” executive director of Residential Services Paul Riel said.
After it learned of the virus, Riel’s
By OLIVIA EXSTRUMdaily senior staffer@olivesocean
CHICAGO — Justice Elena Kagan spoke at the Northwestern School of Law on Tuesday about diversity in the court system and life as a justice.
Kagan spoke to a packed Th orne Auditorium and School of Law Dean Daniel Rodriguez moderated the event. Th e talk was part of the Howard J. Trien-ens Visiting Judicial Scholar Program.
“Th ere’s something to be said about having an institution that refl ects the country the institution serves,” Kagan said during the talk.
All nine Supreme Court justices attended Harvard Law School or Yale Law School. Kagan said although she doesn’t believe this aff ects the court’s
decision making, she said the lack of diversity is “unfortunate.”
“It would be a really great thing if there was more diversity in legal back-grounds,” she said.
Kagan attended this year’s State of the Union address with fi ve other justices. Because the justices are oft en unable to react to the speech out of fear of express-ing partisanship, Kagan joked that the justices liken attending the event to act-ing “the potted plant.”
“It is a very partisan event,” she said. “I think the spectacle of it all is very interesting.”
During the talk, Kagan mentioned the hunting trips she frequently takes with Justice Antonin Scalia, which began during her confi rmation hear-ings in 2010.
“I shot Bambi, it’s true,” Kagan said, eliciting laughs from the audience. “I
couldn’t get an antelope, but I shot Bambi.”
Kagan said she considers U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Abner Mikva and the late Justice Th urgood Marshall, both of whom she clerked for, her two big-gest mentors. She called Marshall, who was the fi rst African-American justice, “the best lawyer of the 20th century” and said clerking for him as a recent law school graduate was an intense experience.
“He had unbelievable stories to tell,” she said. “It was opening this window to this incredibly important part of history.”
Kagan also discussed her experience with her four law clerks, who she said “want to be there all night and do every-thing.” She has had conservative clerks,
Olivia Exstrum/Daily Senior Staffer
SUPREME SPEAKER United States Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan speaks at the Northwestern School of Law. Kagan discussed the state of law schools and shared anecdotes about her experiences as a judge.
Kagan talks courts, law
Flu, stomach bug spreading
Nathan Richards/Daily Senior Staffer
THE BUG Northwestern University Health Service, located at Searle Hall on Emerson Street, has treated students for both infl uenza and a stomach bug this winter. NUHS Medical Director Thomas Reda said the illnesses are a result of an unsuccessful fl u vaccine and sorority recruitment.
Whole Foods proposes barBy BEN SCHAEFERthe daily northwestern@BSchaefer27
The new Whole Foods Market coming to Evanston this year now includes an in-store wine bar and pub in its proposed plan.
Representatives from the grocery chain spoke about the proposal at a 6th and 7th ward meeting held by Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) and Ald. Jane Grover (7th) on Jan. 22.
“We’ve been eagerly anticipating this store,” Grover said. “There has not been a lot of pushback to the idea of the wine bar and pub.”
The store will fill the retail space at 2748 Green Bay Road, which has been vacant since Dominick’s closed at the end of 2013. This will be the third Whole Foods in Evanston.
The location is one of several new Whole Foods in the Chicago area that could include a bar.
The proposal awaits approval by the liquor commission and the City Council. Whole Foods must attain two liquor licenses, one for selling and one for serving, Grover said.
“The Dominick’s was in many
ways our village green,” Grover said. “We ran into everybody there. I have been very impressed that Whole Foods is looking to recre-ate essential Evanston when they move in.”
During the planning process, Whole Foods designers explored local elements and typographies to come up with a theme for the
Source: City of Evanston
FOOD AND DRINK The incoming Whole Foods, 2748 Green Bay Road, is seeking licensing to include a bar on the premises. The store, depicted above in a rendering, has submitted proposals to the city and plans to open in July 2015.
» See SICKNESS, page 5
» See KAGAN, page 5
» See WHOLE FOODS, page 5
“If you can take fi ve days off of class and lie in bed and feel like a truck hit you for those fi ve days, don’t get the fl u shot.Thomas Reda,NU Health Service medical director
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City intervenes to help struggling restaurant
Evanston will restructure a loan to a local chicken and waffles restaurant to relieve some of its financial struggles.
Chicago’s Home of Chicken & Waffles, 2424 Dempster St., was first approved for a $200,000 loan in May 2012 to help pay for renovations to the space the restaurant was taking over. The restaurant has since fallen behind on loan payments, and the restruc-turing is meant to help with that, said Paul Zalmezak, the city’s economic development
coordinator.“The restaurant’s owner invested a lot to
take an old auto shop and convert it into a beautiful restaurant,” Zalmezak said. “This restructuring is meant to bring them back into compliance so they can continue to operate.”
According to city documents, Johanna Nyden, the city’s economic development manager, told city officials the restau-rant’s revenue was not what they originally expected. Because of this, the business has only been able to make irregular payments, leaving more than $14,000 in overdue payments.
The new loan modifications will extend
the schedule for paying back the loan from 20 years to 30 years so the restaurant’s monthly payment can be reduced. The general terms and interest rate will remain the same as what was originally presented in 2012.
“There is not a lot of investment in this area, the west side of Evanston,” Zalmezak said. “This is an important business for this community. We want to make sure we con-tinue the positive momentum in the west side.”
The new payments will begin March 1 with the outstanding balance and February payment added to the loan balance.
— Tori Latham
City to celebrate Black History Month with talks, exhibits
Various Evanston organizations and cen-ters will host discussions, exhibits and lec-tures throughout February to celebrate Black History Month.
The Evanston History Center has pre-miered the first event, an exhibit on two African-American female doctors in Evan-ston. Through their work, the women assisted in the creation of the Evanston Community
Hospital in 1930 and helped underserved African-American citizens, according to the city’s website. The event will run from Febru-ary until March 31.
Another exhibit will be available to the public at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center from Saturday until March 6. The exhibit, called “A Family’s Journey Home: Narrative and Visual Expressions,” depicts artist and Evanston resident Jevoid Simmons’ family history from the early 20th century, according to the website.
The Evanston Public Library is hosting multiple events, including an African-Amer-ican literature discussion and a screening of
“Dear White People,” a recent film that fol-lows four black students at an Ivy League school.
Northwestern will also host a series events, including book talks on “Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do,” which is NU’s One Book One North-western selection this academic year. There will also be discussions and shows hosted by NU.
Evanston Township High School will also have an award program focused on African-American youth, to be held Feb. 27.
— Stephanie Kelly
Designer jewelry items, iPad stolen from unlocked car
Several items including jewelry and an iPad were stolen from a car near the Chi-cago-Evanston border Monday afternoon, police said.
The 32-year-old owner of the items said someone entered his vehicle while it was running. The vehicle was left unlocked on the street in the 1300 block of Brum-mel Street, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph
Dugan said.An iPad worth about $300 as well as a pair
of diamond rings, a heart pendant necklace, diamond earrings and three watches, includ-ing a Rolex, a Cartier and a Chanel watch were all taken, police said. The value of all the jewelry items was not known as of 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dugan added.
Money, phone taken by force from Evanston resident
A 75-year-old Evanston man had $70 and his phone forcibly taken from him from inside his house Tuesday afternoon, police
said.The man let an acquaintance of his, a
young woman, into his residence in the 1400 block of Chicago Avenue on Tuesday at around 5:10 p.m., police said. While she was there, she asked for money. After the man refused, the woman became upset and forced her hands into his pockets, removing $70, Dugan said. When the man tried to call the police with his cell phone, the woman took it out of his hands, breaking it before leaving the residence, Dugan added.
— Julian Gerez
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On CampusWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2015 THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN | NEWS 3
By EMILY CHINthe daily northwestern
Four Northwestern students launched a mobile app Friday as an alternative to flier-ing that shows student events happening on campus.
The app, called Pvmnt, acts as a “digital sidewalk” and serves as an alternative to fliering.
It’s a mobile representation of the website Pvmnt.com, which was created last July by Weinberg junior Eric Brownrout. Through Pvmnt, pronounced “pavement,” student groups can post information about upcom-ing events for other students to browse through.
Brownrout created the Pvmnt website because he was overwhelmed by fliers around campus when he arrived his freshman year and thought it was inefficient.
“I was walking home from the library and I just happened to see a flier that said the application for Mayfest was due that night,” he said. “Now, (Mayfest is) a big part of what I do on campus. I wonder had I not taken that path from the library, what would my college
experience have looked like.”Brownrout said students don’t find out
about many events because they are often publicized through social groups.
“When it comes to fliering, it benefits larger organizations with manpower that can put down more fliers,” he said. “It’s harder for new orga-nizations. I wanted to create a platform that was equal for everyone.”
After finding out about Brownrout’s website, McCor-mick sophomore Philip Meyers came to Brownrout with the idea of creat-ing a mobile app for Brownrout’s website.
Meyers, too, didn’t see any great ways of finding out about
campus events. He said he already had an idea
for the app but didn’t want to compete with Brownrout’s existing program.
“It’s turned out to be one of our best invest-ments so far,” Meyers said.
The app, like the website, is divided into 10 categories to make it easier for students to find events that interest them. It also has an option to organize events by day.
The app allows students to save events, set reminders and view events that are similar to ones they have attended previously, features the website doesn’t allow.
NU offers similar programs such as Asso-ciated Student Government’s Campus Loop email list and the University’s Planit Purple event site, but Brownrout said he thinks they are not widely used.
Brownrout said he hopes to take the project further by collaborating with other groups on campus.
Weinberg junior Olivia Lim, who contrib-uted to the app’s graphic design, said it is particularly useful because of ASG’s recent ban on fliering for ASG events.
Students launch events publicity app
New research sheds light on brains of ‘SuperAgers’
Northwestern Medicine has discovered through new research that “SuperAgers,” those aged 80 and older whose memories are as clear and sharp as those of healthy younger people, have distinctly different looking brains than other older people, the University announced Tuesday.
The research begins to show why the minds of these “cognitively elite” don’t fade with the passing of time.
“Understanding their unique ‘brain sig-nature’ will enable scientists to decipher the genetic or molecular source and may foster the development of strategies to protect the memories of normal aging persons as well as treat dementia,” the University said in a news release.
The study was the first to “quantify brain differences between SuperAgers and normal older people.”
“The brains of the SuperAgers are either wired differently or have structural differences when compared to normal individuals of the same age,” Changiz Geula, the study’s senior author, in a news release.
“It may be one factor, such as expression of a specific gene, or a combination of factors that offers protection.”
In 2007, scientists at the Feinberg School of Medicine’s Cognitive Neurology and Alzheim-er’s Disease Center were the first to identify SuperAgers, whose unusual brain structure has some elements that are different from common older people.
Their cortex region is thicker, and they have significantly fewer tangles and a bigger supply of the neuron von Economo, which is linked to higher social intelligence.
“It’s thought that these von Economo neu-rons play a critical role in the rapid trans-mission of behaviorally relevant information related to social interactions, which is how they may relate to better memory capacity,” Geula said in the release.
According to the release, the center now has a new National Institutes of Health grant to continue research.
“Identifying the factors that contribute to the SuperAgers’ unusual memory capacity may allow us to offer strategies to help the growing population of ‘normal’ elderly maintain their cognitive function and guide future therapies to treat certain dementias,” Tamar Gefen, the first study author and a clinical neuropsychol-ogy doctoral candidate at Feinberg, said in the release.
The research was funded by grants from various organizations, including the National Institute on Aging, the National Institutes of Health, the The Davee Foundation, the North-western University Alzheimer’s Disease Core Center grant from the National Institute on Aging and a fellowship from the National Institute on Aging.
— Mariana Alfaro
Source: Pvmnt screenshot
FLIER FREE Pvmnt allows student groups to advertise events. The launch comes after ASG banned ground fliering for its own events.
“When it comes to fliering, it benefits larger organizations with manpower that can put down more fliers. It’s harder for new organizations.Eric Brownrout,Pvmnt creator and Weinberg junior
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I have not been on a stage since middle school. I am so inflexible that I cannot touch my toes. The closest I get to dance is mov-ing my limbs awkwardly at a party with ter-rible music on. I genuinely feel bad for those in a 20-foot radius of me when I sing in the shower.
In other words, I am not well versed in performance art.
However, after seeing the NU Burlesque
Show last year, I knew from the moment I walked out of the Jones Great Room that I absolutely had to perform in it.
I realize this makes no sense, but burlesque is much more to me than standing on stage with very little clothing on. Let me explain.
Flashback four years — I am panting, hovering over the water fountain at the gym, trying not to faint. I pushed myself so hard to burn the 300 calories I had consumed so far that day, and deep down, I know my diet can’t sustain the kind of exercise I was doing. But I pack my things, call for a ride and think about how I’ll get around eating dinner that night.
I lived with anorexia for two long, awful years. It started with small things — no des-sert, nothing fried, no juice and other restric-tions. It then turned into skipping as many meals as I could and feeling guilty for every calorie I consumed.
What makes me the most upset about the stigma surrounding this disorder is that many believe anorexia and other eating disorders are
about vanity and selfishness. Vanity doesn’t push you to live in a dichotomy in which you experience the intense mental and physical effects of starvation, yet feel like you have to deprive yourself more and more and continue to suffer them. What makes anorexia so pow-erful is its ability to latch on to your declining mental stability brought on by the starvation and, most ironically, continue it. I can tell you that you don’t put yourself through that kind of hell based solely on being selfish or con-cerned about your appearance.
When my parents realized how much I was suffering, they got me into the best treatment program they could find. Over the next six months, I gained a lot of weight, I began to face my problems with perfectionism and self-esteem and most of all, I found myself again.
Four years later I am proud to say that I’m doing really well. I’ve learned to love food again. I don’t feel like I have to drown myself in baggy shirts because I am not so ashamed of my body anymore. I’ve learned how to deal
with my problems in much healthier ways.The only thing I haven’t done is develop
true confidence in my body. I still feel on edge walking around in a bikini on the beach in the summer. I still stall too long in front of the mirror trying not to focus on my every flaw. I still face some insecurity that I am trying to unlearn.
I’m ready to put every last part of my eating disorder — including my negative perceptions of my body — in the past. I want to chal-lenge myself and do what I am most afraid to do: dance in very little clothing in front of an audience with the impression that I feel incredibly sexy and confident.
That’s why my inflexible, tone-deaf, awk-ward self will be dancing in NU Burlesque this spring.
Isabel Sturla is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Let-ter to the Editor to [email protected].
Rebuilding confidence in self, body ISABELSTURLAGUEST COLUMNIST
Super Bowl takeaways
The whole room abruptly stood up. Jermaine Kearse’s catch was one of the luckiest, most unbe-lievable catches in American football history. It could have had a huge impact on the outcome of Super Bowl XLIX.
As we all probably know, it wasn’t enough. In the following play, Russell Wilson threw his only interception of the game, at the worst possible time he could have, arguably losing Seattle the game and the championship.
What a game that was.Before Fall Quarter of my freshman year, I
hadn’t seen an American football game. Having grown up in Turkey, I was surrounded by the true football, the game that’s actually played by kicking the ball with feet, better known as soccer in this country.
As my father and uncle often like to remind me, the first toy I had was a teddy bear wearing a shirt with alternating red and yellow vertical stripes, the jersey of Galatasaray, the Turkish soc-cer club I proudly support. I’ve been surrounded by soccer since then.
Throughout kindergarten and elementary school, soccer was the game we played with friends. During recess — fall, winter or spring — we would grab a ball, go outside to the schoolyard and play until we heard the bell. Every Friday night when our family went over to our grandpar-ents’ for dinner, we turned the television to what-ever game was on. After a great Galatasaray win, I would have an extra skip to my step the next day at school, and everyone would be talking about what a game it was, how there were great goals, how each team could have played better.
Having grown up with this sport all around me, I got to appreciate why it’s called “The Beauti-ful Game:” the fluency of a game with beautiful passing all around the pitch, the moment of silence right before an unbelievable shot ends in the back of the net followed by the deafening roar of the
crowd cheering in happiness, the creativity of the players who scored the unbelievable goals and the unpredictability of the underdogs scoring the last-gasp winner.
Whereas soccer is so creative, what I knew about American football was that it wasn’t so flu-ent. It had a lot of breaks and tons of commercials. It wasn’t elegant. It was people running into each other at the line of scrimmage. It seemed boring, and it was rare that special moments of magic appeared that made games unforgettable. I didn’t think I could be entertained by American football the way I was entertained by soccer.
This past Sunday, I’d told friends, “I’m looking forward to the wings more than I’m looking for-ward to the game.” I thought even the commercials could be more interesting than the game itself. But when Kearse managed to hold onto the ball after it bounced off his knee, I excitedly got out of my seat just like everyone else. This was one of those great moments, so it seemed.
Although in the end Kearse’s catch proved to be for nothing, on Sunday I “ooh’d” and “aah’d” just like I do when I see a goalie make a wonderful
save or a shot go just wide of the goal. I was excited when there was a long pass that just happened to slip out of the receiver’s grasp, and I was in awe every time a running back managed to sneak through the defense.
American football and soccer are still very different games. I still do think football lacks the beautiful fluency of soccer, but then again football, unlike soccer, allows trailing teams to take the lead with one score.
Maybe Sunday’s game was just a great one and not all American football games are going to be like that. But in the end, on Sunday I saw how football could be just as exciting as soccer usually is to me. Watching the Super Bowl was fun, even if I had thought I could never like football.
Although I still don’t understand why it’s called football — “handegg” seems like a better name for it.
Yoni Pinto is a Weinberg sophomore. 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].
In midst of exciting game, football gains meaning for fans of soccer
Despite monetary value, Super Bowl not world’s biggest sporting event
Sunday night’s Super Bowl XLIX repre-sented the “biggest sporting event in the world,” as many call the NFL’s annual cham-pionship game. It is hard to argue with the massive numbers surrounding the Super Bowl. The game has an estimated financial impact of $600 million on the economy of the host city Glendale, Arizona, and its surrounding areas. According to a Forbes article published on Sunday, an average ticket costs $3,950, the players of the winning team receive $165,000 in bonuses, the betting on the event totals more than $8 billion, a 30-second advertisement costs on average $4.5 million and about 112.2 million people watched the event. But does all of this extravagancy and these enormous
numbers mean the Super Bowl is the single most important sporting event in the world?
There are many instances where Super Bowl comes short in numbers when com-pared to other sporting events. In March 2014, the El Clasico between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona was watched by about 400
million people worldwide. If we look at the status quo of both games, El Clasico is a rivalry match in La Liga, Spain’s top soccer league, that happens at least two times every year. On the other hand, the Super Bowl is a game to decide the the champion of the NFL, which happens only one time every year. The fact that a rivalry game in not even the most watched soccer league can beat Super Bowl in spectator num-bers contradicts the argument that the Super Bowl is the world’s biggest sporting event.
According to Forbes’ “The World’s 50 Most Popular Sports Teams 2014,” Real Madrid and Barcelona are the two most valuable sports teams in the world: Real Madrid has a value of $3.44 billion and Barcelona has a value of $3.2
billion. Meanwhile, New England Patriots rank as the eighth most valuable team in the world at $1.8 billion and Seattle Seahawks place 28th with a net worth of $1.081 billion. Clearly, the Super Bowl teams are not nearly as valuable as the El Clasico teams, which again detracts from the idea that the Super Bowl is the world’s most important sporting event.
Returning to the Super Bowl itself, I wonder if people really watch it for the game, or if it’s just a misunderstood norm because people say that it is the biggest sporting event of the world. According to an informal social media survey that USA Today created, only 25 percent of the people said that they will be watching the Super Bowl for the football game, while 32.5 percent of the people will be either working or have other plans for the night and 15 percent will be watching the Super Bowl just for the commercials or the halftime show — so no true interest in football there. The survey shows that as many as 20 percent of respondents have no interest in the Super Bowl itself, and 7.5
percent of the people will be watching Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl instead of the Super Bowl. This brings the total to around 40 percent of respondents who actually planned on having their TVs on Super Bowl game.
Looking over the data that we have, the Super Bowl doesn’t look like the biggest sport-ing event to me at all. While it is hard to gain exact numbers, FIFA reported that 909.6 mil-lion television viewers watched at least part of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final, with numbers for the 2014 final expected to be even higher. Having said that, I don’t want to undermine the effect of the Super Bowl as the biggest Ameri-can sporting event. With such substantial num-bers, it will remain the same for many years, but to me, it is hard to crown the Super Bowl as the biggest sporting event in the world.
Burak Sekerci is a McCormick sophomore. 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].
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she said, and likes hiring clerks that have diff erent viewpoints from her own.
During the event, Rodriguez asked Kagan about the recent downturn in applications to law school and criticism of the law school model. Kagan said it’s not “sensible” for law schools to all be providing the same education.
“I do think that somehow there ought to be more than one mode of legal education,” she said. “Th ere should be diff erent ways of providing a legal education that refl ect the market your stu-dents are in. I never quite understood why the elite law school model was the only one.”
During the question-and-answer session that followed the talk, law student Eunice Buhler asked Kagan if she had any advice for law students about to enter the workforce.
“What sort of practice and life advice do you have for those of us who will be beginning our lives in the law?” Buhler, who is in her fi nal year at the law school, said.
Many law students think there is a certain career path they need to follow, Kagan said, and instead should be focusing on fi nding what moves them.
“I tend to think law students are too risk-ad-verse,” she said. “Th e most important thing in a professional life is to love what you’re doing. Th e future will probably take care of itself.”
department spoke to Searle and decided to focus on educating students living in Univer-sity housing about staying healthy and having housekeeping clean the facilities more times per day.
Associate director of Residential Services Johnathan Winters oversees the department’s housekeeping operation. Winters said custo-dians focus on “high touch areas,” germy sur-faces students touch with their hands regularly. These include faucets, shower knobs and rail-ings. Restrooms are cleaned daily, he said, and railings are cleaned twice a week.
Reda said students should focus on keeping their hands clean, preferring washing with soap and water instead of using hand sanitizer.
He also said students who feel sick should stay home, both to recover and to avoid spreading whatever illness they may have contracted.
Keane said he thinks students should priori-tize their health over their academic or social lives.
“Especially in a culture like Northwestern where students push themselves mentally, they’re likely to push themselves physically too in order to maintain their grades, main-tain their student group life,” Keane said. “It’s really important that students like me stop and reassess their priorities.”
store, Grover said. The theme they decided on was “home.”
In addition to the bar and pub, the grocery store plans will include a meeting room that community groups can use for gatherings.
The store will join a number of Evanston venues opened in recent years that are allowed to sell wine and liquor on site, like Temper-ance Beer Company and Lush Wine and Spirits, which will open in 2015.
“We’re seeing requests for different ways to serve alcohol,” Grover said. “One of the myths floating around Evanston is that the city is dry and that that’s because of Frances Willard. We’ve opened several distilleries in Evanston in the last few years. We’re responding to the
ways people sell wine and beer.”Signs are projected to go up next week,
but the store is not slated to open until July. Whole Foods is currently seeking licensing to begin demolition to make way for ground-up interior renovations, said Mark Muenzer, the city’s community and economic development director.
This Whole Foods is one of seven going up in former Dominick’s locations throughout the Chicago area.
The first of these new installations opened Thursday at 255 E. Grand Ave. in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood. This location includes a wine bar.
A Whole Foods representative declined to comment until the plans are final.
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In earning college degrees, gap between rich and poor has grown, study finds
The education gap between rich and poor continues to grow, becoming a chasm of oppor-tunity that often blocks the search for a better economic life, according to a report released Tuesday.
The study, titled “Indicators of Higher Education Equity in the United States,” was prepared by two groups that analyze college costs and degree attainment. The groups are the Alliance for Higher Education and Democ-racy, or AHEAD, at the University of Penn-sylvania graduate school of education; and the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, a research institute in Washington.
The study paints a bleak picture of how opportunities for higher education vary by economic status.
For example, the percentage of students from families in the bottom quartile, earn-ing no more than $34,160 a year, grew by 3 points from 1970 to 2013, from 6 percent to 9 percent.
By comparison, college completion for stu-dents from the wealthiest families in the top quartile, those making at least $108,650 a year, increased from 40 percent to 77 percent during the same period.
Perhaps even more striking is that the educa-tion gap between rich and poor is growing, the researchers found.
In 1970, those from high-income families were five times more likely to earn a bachelor’s degree than those from low-income families. By 2013, high-income students were eight times more likely to complete their degree than poor ones.
“These data illustrate the profound gaps in equity for one important group: students from low-income families,” according to an accom-panying analysis by Laura W. Perna, executive director of AHEAD. “Most of the data also describe an even more specific subgroup: stu-dents of traditional college-going age (18 to 24) who are financially dependent on their parents.”
Complicating the situation is that the way higher education is funded is changing. More and more, the cost is borne by families, with less help from different levels of government. Even as the amount of aid is falling, the cost of education has been rising dramatically.
College costs were more than two times higher in 2012 than in 1975, when the Pell grant program began. Pell grants, which pro-vide federal aid to low-income students based on need, covered 67 percent of college costs in 1975 but only 27 percent in 2012, according
to the report.The report comes as President Barack Obama
calls for rethinking higher education costs.The president has proposed making two years
of community college free, a move designed to give as many as 9 million students entry to the higher education system. During that period, the student could take courses that would allow transfer to a four-year institution.
The program, which would cost an estimated $60 billion over 10 years, was greeted coolly by the Republican-controlled Congress.
— Michael Muskal (Los Angeles Times/TNS)
Harper Lee has connections with Kansans
While much attention has been focused recently on “To Kill a Mockingbird” and now “Go Set a Watchman,” author Harper Lee also has well-known connections to another book – this one with Kansas connections. “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote details the 1959 murders of Herbert Clutter, a farmer from Holcomb; his wife; and two of their children.
One of Lee’s childhood friends was Capote. And when Capote, a flamboyantly gay man from New York City began working on his book, he invited her to Kansas to help him connect with Midwest Christian farm people. Where he sometimes was blocked from talking with key individuals in the murder case, she was able to break down barriers.
Larry Welch, former director of the Kan-sas Bureau of Investigation, knew all of the key Kansas crime investigators in the Clutter case.
“When Capote went into Garden City, he had a couple of things going for him,” Welch said. “He had a contract with Random House.
“He was not warmly embraced by Kansans. Law enforcement didn’t like him. Prison guards didn’t like him. The Kansas attorney general didn’t like him. The only agent that got along with Capote was Al Dewey. And the only rea-son he got along with Al is that Capote had two women on his side: Nelle Harper Lee and Marie Dewey.”
Capote’s connections
According to the Kansas State University Library website, when Capote and Lee went to Kansas, they stopped in Manhattan and met James McCain, the president of Kansas State University and a former journalist who wrote letters of introduction for Capote to use in Garden City.
The K-State website says that when Capote first decided to do an article on the Clutter murders for The New Yorker magazine, he went to his editor, Bennett Cerf, the co-founder of Random House. Cerf had just been to K-State to give a lecture and had met McCain. The two
became friends. Cerf called McCain and asked him whether he knew the Clutters.
McCain did. He considered them friends. McCain agreed to write letters of introduction for Capote if Capote would agree to come to K-State and speak to the English department.
The McCain letters introduced Capote and Lee to Dolores and Clifford Hope.
Clifford Hope was Herb Clutter’s attorney.The Hopes and Deweys befriended Capote
and Lee.According to Welch, Lee met Marie Dewey
in a Garden City grocery store. They immedi-ately liked each other.
“Nelle Harper Lee was a charming lady,” Welch said. “She did much if not most of his research out here. People liked her and cooper-ated with her.”
Marie Dewey was originally from New Orleans, Welch said.
“Marie invited Harper Lee and Capote to the Dewey home,” Welch said. “When Al got home, Marie told him what she had done. Al went through the roof. He said, ‘My God, what have you done?’
“She said, ‘I don’t care. We are civilized peo-ple; we need to invite them for dinner, and you will be good.’ They both told me that story.”
Clifford Hope gave Capote and Lee their first tour of the Clutter home. The Hopes invited Capote and Lee to Christmas dinner.
And from there, lifetime friendships in Kan-sas were formed by Nelle Harper Lee.
— Beccy Tanner (The Wichita Eagle/TNS)
2014 concealed weapons law costs Idaho colleges $3.7 million
Five of Idaho’s universities and community colleges have spent more than $1.5 million to beef up security after the law allowing con-cealed weapons on campuses was approved, and the schools expect total costs to top $3.7 million for the year.
The schools likely will have to absorb the cost from existing funds. They sought addi-tional funding this winter to offset their costs in the current budget year, which began July 1. But Gov. Butch Otter did not include the money and the Legislature is not likely to add any.
The five schools - Boise State University, Idaho State University, the University of Idaho, the College of Western Idaho and North Idaho College - sought $1.55 million for expenses already incurred and another $2.17 million for the rest of the year. The costs are for both continuing and one-time expenses for person-nel, training and equipment.
The concealed carry law, passed by the Legislature and signed by the governor last year, took effect July 1. It permits retired law enforcement officers and those people holding the state’s enhanced concealed-carry permit to
bring firearms to campus, but bans weapons in dormitories and buildings that can hold more than 1,000 people, such as sports or concert venues.
Idaho is one of seven states, along with Oregon, Colorado, Kansas, Mississippi, Utah and Wisconsin, to allow concealed weapons on college campuses. Twenty-one states ban guns on campus and 22 others leave it up to colleges. Eight of Idaho’s academic presidents and the state Board of Education opposed the legislation.
The bill sponsored by Sen. Curt McKenzie, R-Boise, passed by better than 2-1 margins in the House and Senate. A fiscal note accompa-nying the legislation predicted minimal “fis-cal impact associated with posting signage at public entertainment facilities.”
But the schools say they have had to add new staff, provide for training and purchase new equipment. Costs this budget year include:
assistant director for event security, a chief of campus police and public safety, a director of emergency management, a security technol-ogy manager, armed and unarmed officers, administrative support and purchase of metal detectors, signs, a security vehicle and bal-listic vests.
senior security officers, six dispatch officers, an emergency manager, metal detectors, firearms for security officers and protective/response equipment.
to the existing contract with the Moscow Police Department. Costs cover a new security sys-tem manager, security cameras, hardware and software related to new equipment to monitor entrances and exits.
armed school resource officer contracted from a local department and equipment.
-fied personnel, a campuswide exterior surveil-lance system and enhanced electronic access on doors.
Boise State spokesman Greg Hahn said the concealed-carry law prompted the university to look at campus security overall and embark on a multiyear effort to improve it. The school relies on the Boise Police Department to handle serious campus incidents.
“As the city gets bigger and the campus gets bigger, and with this change, knowing that weapons are going to be allowed on parts of campus, does it make sense to turn (campus security) into a larger police force and ulti-mately armed security?” Hahn asked. “Cer-tainly a piece of it had to do with the gun bill, but we’ve been hearing requests for more cam-pus safety at all levels.”
— Bill Dentzer (The Idaho Statesman/TNS)
Across Campuses
Measles, vaccine controversy spreads to Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON — A less-than-effective flu vaccine and a spike in measles cases have created concern and controversy for government health officials and members of Congress.
So far this year, 102 people in 14 states have developed measles. That puts the nation on pace to nearly double the 644 cases in 2014 _ which were the most in more than 20 years. Most of the new cases stem from a December 2014 out-break that began at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, Calif.
The measles outbreak has hit during a nasty flu season in which the seasonal vaccine is only 23 percent effective against the most common virus strain. It’s only 12 percent effective for seniors whose flu-related hospitalizations have skyrocketed.
In congressional hearing Tuesday, top-ranking health officials from the Obama administration tried to explain how measles could have made such a comeback after it was supposedly elimi-nated in the U.S. in 2000.
Lawmakers also wanted to know how health officials picked the wrong flu virus to include in this season’s vaccine formula, resulting in its low effectiveness. It’s the fourth time in the last 20 years that the annual vaccine wasn’t properly formulated to fight the season’s main dominant virus strain, officials said.
But as health officials urge Americans to get flu and measles vaccinations, their messaging
has been muddied by the comments of several prominent Republicans.
During a recent visit to England, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said parents need to have “some measure of choice in things” when it comes to getting their children vaccinated. “That’s the balance the government has to decide,” said Christie, a possible 2016 presidential candidate.
After being soundly criticized for suggesting childhood vaccinations should be an optional safeguard, Christie issued a statement say-ing “there is no question kids should be vacci-nated.” He also said the “balance” he had spoken of referred to different states having different requirements for childhood vaccinations.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, an ophthalmolo-gist _ an eye surgeon _ faced similar criticism for arguing in a television interview that parents should have a choice whether to vaccinate their children.
“I’ve heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with pro-found mental disorders after vaccines,” said Paul, a likely Republican presidential contender.
All four federal health officials who testified at Tuesday’s Oversight and Investigations subcom-mittee hearing of the House Energy and Com-merce Committee said they knew of no vaccina-tions that caused “profound mental disorders.”
“Not the vaccines we’re using today,” said Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the National Cen-ter for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Agree with my colleagues,” added Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases.Another potential presidential aspirant took
to social media to wade in on the controversy. In a tweet, Hillary Clinton took a jab at Christie and Paul, noting “The science is clear: The earth is round, the sky is blue, and #vaccineswork. Let’s protect all our kids. #GrandmothersKnowBest.”
Between 2001 and 2010, the U.S. reported a median of 60 measles cases a year, Schuchat said.
But that number began to spike when unvac-cinated Americans and foreign visitors who traveled abroad became infected and brought the disease to the U.S. Officials said the measles strain that caused the Disney outbreak could have originated in any of 14 countries.
Americans foregoing measles vaccinations for personal and religious beliefs are increasing the likelihood of infection. But some experts suggest that phenomenon is overstated.
“The vast majority of parents vaccinate their kids against most of the recommended diseases on time. And yet there are some minor voices that get a lot of attention,” Schuchat said, referring to parents who refuse vaccinations.
Health officials face a different problem alto-gether with the flu. Because this season’s domi-nant H3N2 virus wasn’t used in the vaccine for-mula, it can potentially infect more people and cause more hospitalizations and deaths than in typical years.
The emergent H3N2 virus was first detected in March 2014. It became increasingly prominent in subsequent months.
Officials testified Tuesday that by the time it was clear that the current vaccine formula wasn’t
an ideal match, it was too late to manufacture a new batch of more effective vaccine using the H3N2 strain.
The system of selecting flu strains for the sea-sonal vaccine is “archaic” and a “game of chance,” said subcommittee Vice Chairman David McKin-ley, R-W.Va.
Under questioning from McKinley, Schuchat said manufacturers couldn’t provide a new improved vaccine fast enough, nor in the volume needed to be useful on a national level.
“A highly effective vaccine with very few doses available may not be as good as a moderate- or low-efficacy vaccine and a lot of doses available,” Schuchat said.
— Tony Pugh (McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS)
EPA asks State Department to take another look at Keystone pipeline
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Pro-tection Agency is calling on the State Depart-ment to rethink its conclusion that construction of the Keystone XL pipeline would have minimal impact on climate change, saying the pipeline could significantly increase greenhouse gases.
Environmental groups celebrated the EPA’s comments Tuesday, arguing they give Presi-dent Barack Obama what he needs to block the pipeline.
“President Obama has all the information he needs to reject Keystone XL, and today’s com-ments from EPA make us more confident than ever that he will continue to build on his incred-ible climate leadership by rejecting this dirty and dangerous pipeline once and for all,” Tiernan Sittenfeld, senior vice president of the League of Conservation Voters, said in a statement.
Keystone XL would tap the Canadian oil sands in Alberta and ship the crude 1,179 miles toward refineries on the Gulf Coast. The southern leg of the pipeline runs 487 miles from Cushing, Okla., to Texas and is already built.
The thick Alberta crude, known in its natural state as bitumen, creates more planet-warming gases than other sources of oil. The State Depart-ment, in its environmental review, estimated that the crude produces 17 percent more carbon emissions than average sources of oil used in America and up to 10 percent more than other heavy oil coming from Venezuela and Mexico.
The State Department concluded in January 2014 that the pipeline wouldn’t worsen global warming. According to its report, Keystone XL wouldn’t affect development of the oil sands _ and therefore global warming _ because the oil would get to market by rail or other pipelines whether it’s built or not.
“Approval or denial of any one crude oil transport project, including the proposed proj-ect, is unlikely to significantly impact the rate of extraction in the oil sands,” according to the State Department review.
Indeed, oil companies got tired of the six-year wait for Keystone XL approval and have increas-ingly been shipping crude oil by rail.
However, the State Department’s report came at a time of high oil prices, before the recent his-toric collapse changed global energy markets.
The State Department’s report raised the pos-sibility that if oil prices fell into the $65 to $75 a barrel range for an extended period, rail could become too expensive for shipping the Canadian crude, making Keystone vital for developing the oil sands.
Oil is now down to around $50 a barrel.“Given the recent variability in oil prices, it
is important to revisit these conclusions,” EPA Assistant Administrator Cynthia Giles wrote in a letter to the State Department that was made public Tuesday.
She wrote that the State Department’s own work shows that, compared with other sources of crude oil, “development of oil sands crude represents a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions.” So if it turns out the oil sands can’t be developed without Keystone XL, the pipeline will lead to increased greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change, she wrote.
The American Petroleum Institute charged that the EPA was making a “political play,” to further delay a pipeline that has been on hold for more than six years.
“Suggesting that the drop in oil prices requires a re-evaluation of the environmental impact of the project is just another attempt to prolong the KXL review,” said Executive Vice President Louis Finkel.
The State Department is in the midst of reviewing whether the Keystone XL pipeline is in the national interest, and asked EPA and other agencies to weigh in.
Congress passed a bill last week seeking to force Obama to approve the pipeline, but the president said he’d veto the legislation and make a decision on the project after the State Depart-ment finished its work. Obama said in a 2013 speech that “the pipeline’s impact on our cli-mate will be absolutely critical in determining whether this project will go forward.”
— Sean Cockerham (McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS)
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The intensity and effort that defined Northwestern during its close-game losing streak seems to have faded.
The Wildcats (10-12, 1-8 Big Ten) went quietly against the Nebraska Cornhuskers (13-9, 5-5) Tuesday night at Pinnacle Bank Arena, losing 76-60 for their first double-digit defeat since Jan. 4
against Wisconsin.“They kind of wore us down,”
coach Chris Collins said on ESPN radio after the game. “We got tired, and that was the difference.”
Forward Terran Petteway stole the show for Nebraska. The Big Ten’s third-leading scorer shot early
and often, finishing the night with 28 points on 8-of-16 from the field, seven rebounds, four assists and two steals. It didn’t matter where he shot from, either. Petteway sank a pair of extremely long threes in the first half and scored seemingly at will against NU’s defense the rest of the night.
All the attention on Petteway opened up easy baskets for the rest of the Cornhuskers, with the team shooting 63 percent from the floor. Forward Walter Pitchford and guard Shavon Shields took turns playing sidekick, contributing 14 and 11 points, respectively.
“I was really disappointed with our defensive effort tonight,” Col-lins said on ESPN radio. “You cannot allow a team to shoot 63 percent from the field and expect to win on the road.”
The Cats were still only down 35-33 at half, but then Nebraska took control on defense.
The Cornhuskers came into this contest boasting the confer-ence’s second-best points allowed per game total and lived up to that reputation, limiting the Cats to 60 points on 46 shots.
In the second half, NU mustered a measly 27 points on 40 percent shooting and went more than six minutes without a point in one part of the second half as the Cornhusk-ers offense allowed the home team to quickly pull away.
NU had to fight for every offen-sive look and simply couldn’t keep up. Junior center Alex Olah was the team’s leading scorer with 16 points, but 13 of those came in the first half. Nebraska cut off Olah in the second period, shutting down
the Cats’ only post presence and short-circuiting their offense in the process.
“I thought Nebraska really turned up their defense, give them credit,” Collins said on ESPN radio. “Alex had it going a bit … but we went dry a little bit there.”
Guards junior Tre Demps and freshman Bryant McIntosh found it almost impossible to turn the corner on pick-and-rolls and were repeatedly turned away at the top of the key and forced to reset the offense. The pair combined for just 10 points on 4-of-14 shooting.
The only recourse was to let it fly from 3, which NU did for a dis-proportionate 27 of its 46 attempts. The Cats made just 11 of those and couldn’t make up for the misses on the glass, grabbing just six offen-sive rebounds.
The only bright spots besides Olah were freshman forward Scottie Lindsey and senior guard JerShon Cobb. Lindsey played extended minutes as a starter and sank four of his eight 3s, while Cobb was a perfect 3-for-3 from long range while adding four assists and three rebounds.
“Scottie hit some shots for us,” Collins said on ESPN. “It’s very important for our future for (him) to develop into a good player at this level.”
Firmly entrenched at the bottom of the Big Ten standings, a late-season turn-around doesn’t look likely for NU. The Cats will return to action Saturday in Madison, Wisconsin, for a rematch against the Badgers.
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When Northwestern hired Chris Col-lins in March 2013, I bought in without reservation.
I wasn’t alone in imagining the timeline: Collins would learn the ropes in year one, integrate his new guys in year two, contend for the NCAA tournament in 2016.
Regardless of precisely when, that tourna-ment berth was coming. Collins’ resume was too shiny, his recruiting chops too impres-sive. Bill Carmody had led the program to the precipice, and Collins would launch them over it. I was sure.
But almost two full seasons in, success no longer feels inevitable.
Aft er a predictably middling season in 2013-14, the Wildcats have underperformed all expectations this year. Th ey’re under .500 overall and have lost eight straight confer-ence games. For every impressive perfor-mance like the near-win against Maryland on Jan. 25 there’s been a poor one like Tues-day’s blowout loss to Nebraska.
NU won’t come close to the postseason this year and will surely be projected toward the bottom of the Big Ten before next sea-son. Aft er that the Cats lose Alex Olah, with no obvious candidate to fi ll the center posi-tion on the roster or in next year’s recruiting class. By 2018, when the current freshmen are seniors, who knows?
What I once optimistically viewed as a three-year plan now appears a fi ve-year plan, at best.
It’s not that Collins won’t eventually lead the Wildcats to the NCAA tournament — he very well might — but at this point, it’s anyone’s guess. A year ago I would have bet that the Class of 2018 would witness a tournament berth. Today I suppose I would still bet that, but you had better be off ering good odds.
Th is year’s disappointing results contrib-ute to my creeping pessimism, but there’s more. NU’s off ense oft en appears unguided and the defense has slipped from last season. Collins has expressed contentment with ineffi cient mid-range jumpers and resorted to “hero ball” tactics late in games, fl ying in the face of analytics.
Much of the optimism surrounding the program derived from Collins’ fi rst recruit-ing class, ranked 31st nationally by ESPN. Th e group has been a success, with Bryant McIntosh a star already and Vic Law and Scottie Lindsey fl ashing promise, but any-one expecting these fi ve freshmen to carry the Cats to the Tournament might need to rethink. It’s a good group for sure but not necessarily a program-changing one.
And NU’s player development has been hit-or-miss under Collins. Dave Sobolewski was recruited for Carmody’s system and Jer-Shon Cobb has battled injuries, but the lack of production this year from those seniors doesn’t refl ect positively on their coach. And Collins has been unable to make an effi cient scorer out of Tre Demps, who continues to shoot under 40 percent.
In fairness, Olah has improved steadily each of the last two seasons, and sopho-mores Sanjay Lumpkin and Nathan Taphorn have made noticeable progress. And given that Collins recruited none of those play-ers, he can’t truly be blamed for their shortcomings.
Still, it all piles up. Individually, a terrible record, uninspired in-game coaching and inconsistent player development are factors that can be explained away. But together, they’re causes for some alarm.
It’s only year two, with tons of time for improvements to take form. An eventual NCAA Tournament berth under Collins remains a strong possibility. But I’m no longer making any promises.
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Cats seek more success in IndianaBy KHADRICE ROLLINSthe daily northwestern@KhadriceRollins
Northwestern will hit the road Thursday and head to Indiana to take on the Hoosiers following an impressive 21-point beatdown of Minnesota.
The Wildcats (15-6, 5-5 Big Ten) pulled themselves into a tie with Michigan for seventh in the Big Ten thanks to the win on Sunday, and Indiana (13-8, 3-7) propelled itself into 10th in the conference follow-ing a 17-point victory over Purdue on Monday.
Despite going just 1-3 in their last four games, the Hoosiers were able to put up more than 70 points in three of those contests.
“They can score,” coach Joe McKeown said. “And they’ve got a lot of different people who can score. They’re pretty balanced and they can score inside-out which challenges your defense.”
Indiana is fourth in the confer-ence in scoring, putting up just less than 75 points per game, and is third in the Big Ten in scoring margin, just behind the Cats, who sit at second.
This sets up an interesting matchup for an NU defense that produced two drastically different performances between its last two games. After giving up 102 points against Iowa last Thursday, the Cats showed off their defensive prowess that catapulted them to their amaz-ing start to this season and held Minnesota to just 49 points on 29.3 percent shooting.
“Our players did a good job of not letting what happened against Iowa carry over to the next day,” McKeown said.
The key for NU against Indiana’s
offense will be defending the 3. Despite being only eighth in the conference in 3-point field goal percentage at 31.9 percent, Indiana is third in the conference in 3-point field goals made.
On the flip side, Indiana has been great at defending behind the arc this season. The Hoosiers are at the top of the conference in defen-sive 3-point field goal percentage, which could be problematic for an NU team that relies on its sharp shooting, especially from junior Maggie Lyon.
Lyon has been the Cats’ biggest threat from deep this season shoot-ing 44.9 percent from long range. In this upcoming matchup, though, Lyon is expecting NU to use its speed to dictate its offense.
“Our transition game has been really clicking together against any team,” Lyon said. “We’ll look at some tape of Indiana and see how we can exploit that.”
Exploiting opposing defenses will be a lot easier for the Cats now that junior Lauren Douglas has returned to the lineup from injury. Douglas provides a plethora of skills on the offensive end and helps create mismatches all over the court for NU.
“She brings a different matchup than probably anybody else in our program,” McKeown said. “She can play inside-out, shoots 3s, defen-sively can change a game and this is a player who had 27 points in a game against DePaul last year.”
While Douglas was gone, soph-omore Christen Inman embraced an increased role for the team,
averaged 14.7 points during the three-game stretch, and led the team with 20 points in its previ-ous game.
In the midst of conference sea-son, the contest against Indiana is one more game to the finish.
“We just want to take every game
one at a time,” Inman said. “And of course there is extra motivation for that team and that game that we lost last year, but we really just want to win every Big Ten game. So we are treating it just like any other.”
Northwestern vs. IndianaBloomington, Indiana6 p.m. Thursday
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Source: Adam Warner/Daily Nebraskan
FRESHMAN FOLLIES Bryant McIntosh is pressured on the ball. The freshman guard struggled mightily against Nebraska on Tuesday, scoring just 3 points on 1-of-6 shooting and committing four turnovers.
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STEPPING UP Christen Inman goes for the left hand fl oater. The sophomore guard was a force against Minnesota on Sunday, netting a game-high 20 points in a 70-49 Northwestern win.
