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By Preston r. MICHeLsonthe daily northwestern @PrestonMich
University Services cites increased ridership and icy roads as the cause of widespread shuttle delays that have left students cold and late at the beginning of Winter Quarter.
Communication sophomore Roberto Drilea had to be at Welsh-Ryan Arena by 4:30 p.m. Friday — a day when it was raining in just-
above-freezing conditions — for his job with the Big Ten Digital Network.
“The only way to get there was by taking the shuttle,” he said. “At about 4:05 p.m., I headed over to the shuttle stop by The Arch waiting for the Intercampus Shuttle, which didn’t come. At that point, I decided to wait for another shuttle, the Ryan Field Shuttle.”
Slippery streets, an increased number of riders and inclement weather have caused issues in the
shuttle system, said Marge Grzeszc-zuk, University Services manager of support services.
“It takes a little bit longer to get to destinations,” Grzeszczuk said. “We’ve been experiencing possibly up to 20 minutes worth of delays at certain times of the day.”
Drilea said he had to wait much longer than 20 minutes.
“The Ryan Field Shuttle was sup-posed to come at 4:28 p.m., but then
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Shuttles begin on late note
By tyLer Pagerthe daily northwestern @tylerpager
Despite the creation of an Intro-duction to Native American Stud-ies course, members of the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance are continuing their push for the creation of a specific Native American studies department or program at Northwestern.
The course, taught this quarter by Prof. John Marquez, is listed under Latina and Latino Studies and will examine a broad range of topics related to indigenous people.
However, Marquez said his class will not focus on NU founder John Evans or the Sand Creek Mas-sacre, an attack that killed more than 100 Cheyenne and Arapaho people in the Colorado Territory during Evans’ time as the territory’s governor.
“I did provide a space in the syl-labus for students to propose mate-rials that they’d like to discuss and perhaps it would come up then, but at this point it’s not really some-thing that we’re covering,” Marquez said.
Provost Dan Linzer formed a study committee last year to
investigate whether Evans played a role in the massacre. A second committee dedicated to making rec-ommendations to improve the cur-
rent campus climate for Native Americans was sup-posed to be formed once the first committee finished its research in June 2014.
However, follow-ing a John Evans Study Committee open forum in Octo-ber, which University President
Morton Schapiro called “produc-tive,” NU began soliciting nomina-tions for people to sit on the second committee.
Heather Menefee, NAISA co-president, said she appreciates the effort Marquez is making to include Native American studies in the curriculum, but she is looking for a more concerted effort from the University.
“We’re looking for a permanent program or department in Native
Swastika found on student’s car being investigated as hate crime
A vandal scratched a swastika Saturday on a student’s car in what University Police have labeled a hate crime.
A Northwestern employee reported the property damage to police Satur-day before 2 p.m.The car was parked in the lot adjacent to Searle Hall, 633 Emerson St.
Officers responded to the scene and saw a swastika about 8 inches in length and width scratched onto the car’s pas-senger door, UP Deputy Chief Dan McAleer said. Police said they found flakes of paint near the car, indicating the damage was recent.
Police contacted the registered owner of the car, who confirmed that her daughter, an NU undergraduate student, was using it.
The student parked the car in the lot at about 10:15 a.m. and did not notice vandalism before then. Wit-nesses reported seeing damage to the car as early as 10:30 a.m., police said.
The student is Jewish, McAleer said. She doesn’t know who might have per-petrated the crime.
The department’s evidence techni-cian was unable to identify fingerprints on the car’s exterior, McAleer said.
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CHILLIN’ AT THE BUS STOP Students board a Northwestern shuttle. The Frostbite Express operates when wind chill factors are below zero or during blizzard conditions, but some students said the shuttles were slow last week.
Producemobile marks 1 year in city By sCott BroWnthe daily northwestern @scottbrown545
People lined up for beans, bananas and even baked goods Tuesday morn-ing when the Producemobile came to the Robert Crown Community Center.
More than a year ago, a partnership between the Greater Chicago Food Depository and Interfaith Action of Evanston brought the Producemobile to the city, distributing fresh produce to community members from food insecurity.
“Fourteen percent of Evanstonians are food insecure,” said Paul Traynor, an Interfaith Action board member. “They don’t know when they’re gonna feed their kids the next meal.”
The Producemobile began com-ing to Evanston in December 2012, and comes to the community center, 1701 Main St., on the second Tuesday of each month. At each distribution, volunteers give out almost 10,000 pounds of food, Traynor said.
Last year, the Producemobile delivered more than 5 million pounds of fresh produce to its loca-tions in Chicago and Cook County suburbs, GCFD spokesman Paul Morello said.
“It’s healthy, and they need it for a balanced diet,” Morello said. “The
fact of the matter is fresh produce is sometimes more difficult to obtain because it’s more expensive or not available.”
It takes more than 30 volunteers to run the Producemobile each month, Traynor said. At each 2.5-hour dis-tribution, the volunteers serve an average of 250 families, which trans-lates to more than 1,000 people. At
Tuesday’s distribution, Morello estimated at least 200 guests were served.
Need for food assis-tance has been trend-ing upward statewide. Accord-ing to U.S. Department of Agricul-ture data, from 2012 to
2013 the number of Illinois residents qualifying for the federal Supplemen-tal Nutrition Assistance Program increased from about 1.9 million to just over 2 million. At Evanston Township High School, about 45 per-cent of students were eligible for free or reduced school lunches in 2012,
according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
“I know people with MBAs that are on food stamps,” Evanston resident Debbie Hillman said.
Hillman, who co-founded the Evanston Food Council in 2005, said local awareness of the need for food assistance has increased in recent years. She cited the Campus Kitch-ens program at Northwestern, dou-ble-value for SNAP users at farmers
markets and community gardeners’ donations to local pantries.
But Traynor said he would like to see even more involvement from both the Evanston and NU communities.
“I think people need to pay atten-tion to the problem,” Traynor said. “If everybody in Evanston donated a few hours or a few bucks, we could make a huge impact.”
Source: Producemobile
MOBILIZING AGAINST INSECURITY Producemobile is a program that offers fresh, free produce to residents in areas identified as high-need. The Producemobile brings free fruits and vegetables to Evanston every second Tuesday of the month.
Despite addition, students say full program necessary
“From what I have witnessed, students have a passionate interest in these types of topics and want these types of courses ...John Marquez,professor
“If everybody in Evanston donated a few hours or a few bucks, we could make a huge impact.Paul Traynor,Interfaith Action of Evanston board member
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City man arrested twice in a weekendOfficers arrested an Evanston man twice over the
weekend.Police charged Winston Evans with aggravated
assault and battery Friday in the 900 block of Chicago Avenue. Evans, 47, struck an Evanston woman on her ribcage and threatened her with a drinking glass, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.
After being released from custody the following day, police arrested Evans again. He sent harassing phone calls and text messages to his former employer, who had fired him the day before, Parrott said.
Police arrested him at his Evanston home at 12:50 p.m. Saturday. Because Evans’ former employer is a witness against him in the case from earlier that
weekend, the harassment will be charged as a felony, Parrott said.
Man steals rogaine from walgreensA man stole about $350 worth of hair growth
cream Sunday from the Walgreens in south Evan-ston, police said.
The man took seven boxes of men’s and women’s Rogaine off a display from the store, 635 Chicago Ave. The store’s assistant manager reported the theft after reviewing security footage.
No arrests have been made in connection with the case.
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Chamber honors 2 at annual awardsBy jennifer Ballthe daily northwestern @jennifercball
The Evanston Chamber of Commerce wel-comed its new president Tuesday night and honored two members for their community contributions.
About 200 people attended the Chamber’s 94th Annual Celebration and Awards at the Hil-ton Orrington/Evanston, 1710 Orrington Ave.
“I hope that everyone here is just as excited about what we’re doing as the new board mem-bers are,” said Rebecca Berneck, the new Cham-ber president.
Berneck is the owner of a local business called Officeheads, a financial management service for small companies, and an avid vintage motorcycle racer. She succeeds Dick Peach, who is stepping down this year as president of the Chamber.
“It’s going to be a wonderful year coming up,” Peach said.
The Chamber named Joe Romano, presi-dent of Romano Wealth Management, Small
Businessperson of the Year. Romano’s father and uncle founded the business 51 years ago in Evanston, and the company now manages more than $1 billion in funds for its clients.
“To be recognized today by my community and peers has extra-special meaning,” Romano told the crowd that included his father, Richard. “It is a fulfillment of my father’s vision.”
Jane Doyle, founder of Center for Indepen-dent Futures, received the Non-Profit Award. Doyle, originally from Cincinnati, moved to the Evanston area about 38 years ago to raise her four children.
Doyle started CIF 12 years ago to support individuals with disabilities to live indepen-dent, full lives. Her daughter, Paige, who was born with developmental disabilities, is the foundation’s inspiration. The foundation serves more than 100 individuals annually with pro-grams, support and education, according to its website.
“The past recipients have done so much,” Doyle said. “It’s just humbling.”
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UNdEr NEw lEAdErshiP Rebecca Berneck, the new president of the Evanston Chamber of Commerce, addresses a crowd of about 200. The 94th Annual Celebration and Awards was held at the hilton Orrington/Evanston on Tuesday evening to honor two members of Evanston’s business community.
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Photojournalist talks new book, shooting conflictBy mark fickenthe daily northwestern @Mark_Ficken
After his photographs sat for years in a trunk and file cabinet, photojournalist Rob-ert Nickelsberg compiled a book documenting his experiences in Afghanistan from 1988 to
2013.Nickelsberg
recounted Tuesday his experiences in Afghan-istan and the process of making the book, “Afghanistan: A Dis-tant War,” at the Block Museum of Art.
The event featured a slideshow of more than 50 photos and a ques-tion-and-answer ses-sion hosted by Medill Prof. Craig Duff.
“ The b o ok i s extraordinary,” Duff said. “It’s such a great span of work, great depth of work — tens of thousands of pic-tures I’m sure he’s
taken over 25 years — and I thought shar-ing it with the Northwestern community was important.”
Throughout his time in Afghanistan, Nick-elsberg experienced the country under Soviet reign and saw the rise of the Taliban and the
United States’ attempt to strip its influence. In the process, he was exposed to violence on a regular basis, but instead of documenting the carnage, he looked for something different.
“What motivates these people to violence?” Nickelsberg asked. “I’ve gotten very close to some riots and you’re not invisible. What hap-pens in that moment someone picks up a sword or decides to torch someone, you try to find the norm here.”
He also explained the more time he spent in Afghanistan, the more accustomed he became to danger.
“When you work in these countries, you embrace mystery, and ambiguity becomes the norm,” he said.
Nickelsberg addressed the question of inter-vening to prevent horrific events. He recounted a day when he was driving down a street the Afghani government planned to bomb.
On the side of the road, there was a citizen whose torso was wounded, with a dead Afghani nearby. His envoy stopped, he took a few pic-tures and quickly took the wounded man to the hospital, leaving the body behind.
Nickelsberg explained he knew the body would be taken care of.
“My first priority is to record and docu-ment,” Nickelsberg said. “Yes, you participate, but I’d rather have the Afghan do it. It’s his country. Document it and then pitch in.”
Kel logg doctoral student Nevena Radoynovska agreed with Nickelsberg’s approach.
“It depends a lot on the situation,” she said. “There’s very much a value in having someone there to document, especially if they’re not
trained officials or a humanitarian worker.”After the Taliban banned photojournalists
from entering the country, Nickelsberg embed-ded with American forces four times. However, he explained he never had issues with censor-ship and just needed to use common sense
when deciding what pictures to print. But that didn’t mean he couldn’t push the boundaries a little bit.
“Be careful, but be reckless,” he said.
By jordan harrisonthe daily northwestern @MedillJordan
Although former Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications Prof. Jeremy Gilbert has left Northwestern, he is still working to improve media consumption with his news gamification app, Headliner.
Gilbert recently finished his first week as direc-tor of digital operations at National Geographic. Gilbert moved to Washington, D.C., and started his new job last week, where he helps make new media products for the magazine.
Gilbert, who specializes in media product design, said he wanted to strengthen National Geographic’s digital content and presence. Spe-cifically, he said he wants to improve work flow to make storytelling easier.
“I love Medill, I love Northwestern and I think
I always will,” Gilbert said. “On the other hand, the content at National Geographic is incredible and the quality of the people here is great too and … I didn’t think I was done doing the thing I was teaching.”
While at Medill, Gilbert worked on a news app called Headliner, designed to encourage people to read more news and be mindful of the media they consume. The app allows users to “check in” to articles and compete with others to log the most stories.
Gilbert collaborated with design company Smart Media Creative on the project. The most recent version of the app was funded by the Robert R. McCormick Foundation’s “Why News Matters” initiative, which supports news literacy programs.
“Headliner, I think, fits really nicely into (the initiative’s) framework,” Gilbert said, “There’s a game-like framework that gives you points and has a leader board and has badges that you can
earn for reading and consuming different kinds of news, but in the process of doing it, it makes you more aware of the news you are consuming.”
Gilbert said merely monitoring personal con-sumption can create smarter consumers.
“The very act of recording your behavior makes better choices,” Gilbert said. “I wanted to do the same thing for news.”
Gilbert has been designing Headliner for several years, often enlisting help from his students. Sisi Wei (Medill ’11) helped Gilbert design Headliner in an independent study class. Wei now works at ProPublica as a news applications developer.
“He is willing to dedicate impossible amounts of time to any students who seek help from him,” Wei said. “That’s something that made a big dif-ference to me.”
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‘BE CAREFUL, BUT BE RECKLESS’ Robert nickelsberg, photojournalist for tiMe Magazine, signs copies of his new book after giving a presentation at northwestern featuring his photographs of afghanistan. his book, “afghanistan: a distant War,” features his photography of the region.
“What motivates these people to violence? I’ve gotten very close to some riots and you’re not invisible. What happens in that moment someone picks up a sword?Robert Nickelsberg,photojournalist
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Often we find ourselves “retweeting” and “hashtagging” to socialize with friends, fam-ilies and celebrities on Twitter. With much of our focus on the social aspects of Twitter, we often neglect its networking features.
Last summer, Lindsey Pollak, a prominent LinkedIn ambassador, hosted a seminar for Northwestern students on how to use both the career-oriented social network and Twit-ter for professional benefit.
She explained that following companies and businesses on Twitter can not only keep you up to date on their activities but also serve as a direct route of communication.
For instance, if a company were to post a question to the public, a follower could immediately respond with an answer.
This opens up the opportunity for the company to recog-nize you and possi-bly even reply.
Company Twit-ter accounts can also notify you of job openings. More often than not, businesses will have a Twitter account devoted entirely to posting about recent job opportunities.
If you land an interview with a company, Twitter
can give you that extra edge. Bringing up past tweets the employer may
have posted and offering insight specific to those tweets can show that you are an active, engaged and social-media-savvy prospective employee.
Once I returned home from Pollack’s seminar, I immediately made myself a pro-fessional Twitter account. I immediately saw how this account could be valuable to my future in communications or law.
I saw a post by Omnicom Media Group, a marketing and communcations company, announcing their merge with Publicis Groupe. After simply responding to this tweet with, “It’s great to see Omnicom and
Publicis Groupe merging together. What a powerful communications group!” the com-pany followed me back.
I also networked on Twitter over Winter Break when I purchased a book, “Recipe for a Happy Life” by Brenda Janowitz.
Her biography on the back cover said she was a career counselor at two New York City law schools. I tweeted at her that I had just purchased the book and could not wait to read it.
Within min-utes, the author had retweeted my tweet and even direct mes-saged me. By mak-ing these simple con-nections on Twitter, I have broad-ened my network, putting my name in the minds of established professionals.
As undergraduate college students, it is important to get good grades and polish our resumes to perfection.
But it is just as important to take the time to establish a professional social media presence.
I have experienced the power of network-ing on Twitter and hope that you too will witness these benefits. So what are you wait-ing for? Get tweeting.
Jen Yamin is a Communication sophomore. She can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
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Time to embrace Twitter for professional purpose
Returning home for Winter Break — the first extended period of time I was back since coming to college as a freshman — I was struck by what I imagine is a common feeling: the unnerving dynamic of being in a “home” I don’t live in anymore. But I also noticed a peculiar balance of excitement to see friends and a nag-ging disappointment at the increasing discon-nect between us.
Late at night in a parking lot, a couple of my friends and I sat in a car sharing our thoughts about the fear of losing friends as we drift apart to live our separate lives. And no, we weren’t smoking pot. The majority of conversations with people I knew from high school were playing catch-up about how life has been and summing up three or four months over a quick lunch. Others were too busy to even meet up at all. Three weeks wasn’t enough time to bring back the dynamic we shared when, for years, we got to spend half our days together, five days a week.
Back at home with my old friends, I increas-ingly felt like I was reaching out, hoping to grasp on to friendships that were fading, but others weren’t reaching back. One teacher told a friend of mine that as the years go on, high school friends begin to drop like flies.
I realized I fundamentally disagreed with that statement. When we go away, we don’t leave the past behind to slowly disintegrate. I thought back to sitting in the car — chatting, living, laughing — not just catching up. It was just like
old times. Our continuing friendships weren’t forced — they were a testament to the enduring connections between us.
I began to think of friendships in school as analogous to a developing child in a mother’s womb. Just as our existence isn’t confined to the period of time during which we were formed, so our friendships are not confined to the times during which we “made” them. Like a womb, schools are safe environments where our rela-tionships are nurtured. They are places in which we are institutionally brought together to get to know each other through shared experiences. In schools, we “make” friends.
Our four years of high school or college are not the times that define our friendships; they’re the times that allow those friendships to form. When we leave the nurturing walls of a school, we enter a period of our lives characterized by true friendship. These bonds are tested, and the reality is you won’t still hang out with everyone you used to.
Leaving behind a community characterized by the comfort of acquaintances can be difficult, but we must leave it to experience the robust strength of true friendship. Many will inevitably “drop like flies.” Most of us are starting to face that.
But true friendships will bear on. Despite distance, mutual connection and understand-ing that was developed during those years spent together will keep you close. In one way or another, true friends will be companions for life.
Naib Mian is a Medill freshman. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Edi-tor to [email protected].
Over the past week, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had to take time out of preparing for his “State of the State” address, running the state of New Jersey and presumably scheming with his colleagues on how to take the White House in 2016 to address a scandal regarding the George Washington Bridge.
As it turns out, lane closures on the bridge were not due to a traffic study, as the official story went, but rather as a form of politi-cal revenge against Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich, who refused to endorse Christie (Sokolich, it should be noted, is a Democrat).
Now, I would like to be very clear here to avoid any confusion: Delaying traffic, ruin-ing commutes or burdening innocent citizens in any way for a political feud is a bad thing to do. I do not endorse such actions.
Having said that, not endorsing something and completely fixating on it are two separate things. These lane closures are a remarkably clear representation of our obsession with scandals and our perverse desire to heap them on anyone and everyone.
What role Christie had in the lane closures is something that — for now — only Christie and his aides know. Whether he was truly
oblivious, intentionally uninformed for plau-sible deniability or orchestrated the whole thing is anyone’s guess at this point, and the people who were known to be involved have been fired, as is both expected and appro-priate. However, since the news broke, the amount of scandal associated with Christie has escalated to the point where even a Ken-nedy would be flustered.
When the headline broke, the story was that America’s most outspoken governor was a bully. This shocked a small percent of Americans, and their genuine surprise shocked the rest of us.
Pundits quickly upped the ante, changing the narrative from “Christie plays political hardball” to “He abused his powers,” being sure to use language that painted him in the same light we use for some of our favorite tyrants.
Mere days after, a fresh new scoop was published when outlets announced a probe was being launched to investigate the gover-nor’s use of Superstorm Sandy relief funds. It turns out that part of the relief funds went to a marketing campaign to bring much-needed tourism dollars to the Jersey Shore. The problem is that the winning marketing pro-posal cost $4.7 million, while the runner-up proposal cost only $2.5 million.
So why would Christie pick the more expensive campaign? Could it be that they were better managed, had better ideas or a
more cohesive strategy? Could it be one of dozens of reasons? Not if you believe outlets such as CNN. Their explanation that the winning bid featured the Christies in the ads, while the losing one did not, helpfully sug-gests that there’s a very simple reason for the discrepancy: Chris Christie, a man preparing for a presidential bid, would risk impeach-ment and blow $2 million — which could have gone to other efforts — to pretend to be Mr. Hollywood for a bit. Apparently he isn’t already on TV enough.
The reason these angles and narratives keep cropping up like weeds in the field of real journalism isn’t because they’re
necessarily true or remarkably convincing but because we as a society crave political scandal.
It’s the reason Donald Trump still clings to his birther theories like his final locks of hair; it’s why Kerry Washington is now a household name (something which should have happened long ago). It’s because there’s something exciting about catching people of importance with their pants down — and it’s all the better if that’s done literally. The rea-son Christie is now being engulfed in scandal is not because, in spite of what some Demo-crats say, Christie is the devil; it’s because we’ve been doing a rain dance that the gods of media were more than glad to answer.
Scandal, exploitation and abuse are all real, and they do happen. But when they do, we look back on them in horror 30 years after. If a story won’t have that kind of impact — and this one won’t — it might not be quite the abuse of power we’re looking for. Christie needs to be held accountable for any involvement he may have had, and this kind of behavior cannot continue. But we should stop screaming at the top of our lungs over every conspiracy. It makes the real outrage harder to hear.
Yoni Muller is a Weinberg junior. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, email a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
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‘BRiDGEGATE’ New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is embroiled in scandal after allegations his administration created a traffic jam as political revenge.
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Legal dispute persists between city, Beavers food truck
The legal back-and-forth between Evanston and a Chicago-based food truck continued Tuesday after a Cook County judge scheduled oral arguments to begin in March.
Beavers Donuts first sued the city in August 2012 over the city’s code on mobile food ven-dors, which restricts food truck licenses to establishments with a physical restaurant within city limits.
The food truck, which recently opened up a brick-and-mortar store in Chicago, has filed two amended complaints in the last 18 months.The city has filed motions to dismiss
in response to all three complaints.The latest amended complaint breaks down
the food truck’s claim into more detail, Bea-vers’ attorney Jacob Huebert said.
Huebert, of the Liberty Justice Center, added that under the city’s code, certain vend-ing machines are classified as licensed food establishments.
“That would qualify you to apply for a food truck license, whereas our guys can’t do that,” he said.
If the judge declines the city’s motion to dismiss, the suit will likely be decided by sum-mary judgment, Huebert said.
Evanston does not comment on ongoing litigation.
— Ciara McCarthy
American studies with its own faculty,” the Weinberg junior said. “Of course this isn’t what we’ve been asking for, so we are going to keep asking for it, but it’s a wonderful thing that Dr. Marquez is teaching this class.”
Menefee said she thought it was the first sur-vey course in Native American studies at NU. A visiting professor taught a course two years ago, but it focused on American Indian history.
Marquez decided to teach the class because of his interest in the topic, the absence of Native American studies courses and students’ involve-ment with issues of indigenous people.
“From what I have witnessed, students have a passionate interest in these types of topics and want these types of courses, so why not provide them with want they want?” he said.
Weinberg junior Kaitlin Hansen is one of about 30 students enrolled in the course this quarter. Hansen said she enrolled because she wanted to learn more about Native American
studies, as she had no prior knowledge of the subject.
“I was hoping we would talk about North-western’s involvement with John Evans and just given our geographical location in the Mid-west — Chicago has one of the highest popula-tions of Native Americans,” she said. “I think it’s very, very important that we talk about this issue because it is not something that has gone away conveniently.”
that didn’t come either. So then I decided to wait for another Intercampus Shuttle that was to arrive at 4:41 p.m.,” Drilea said. “At 4:50 p.m., finally an Intercampus Shuttle showed up. I don’t know if it was the first one or the second one, but in the end I managed to get to work — late.”
Yet Grzeszczuk said University Services is taking precautions to ensure the buses remain on schedule.
“We try to make sure that the buses are warmed and running overnight in tempera-tures like this, so that they are able to start properly,” she said.
They are developing an upgraded shuttle tracking system, as well. University Services has a new GPS service provider and is working behind the scenes to get buses up and running, Grzeszczuk said.
“Going forward in January, we should have some continuing improvements with more buses showing,” Grzeszczuk said.
In addition, NUIT is working on an upgrade to the shuttle mobile app. Grzeszczuk expects it to be more user-friendly and to focus on personalized service. The expected release is
in March or April.Aric DiLalla, a Medill sophomore, stopped
using the application.“It’s kind of poorly taken care of and doesn’t
really work that well,” he said.On Wednesday, NU Shuttles tweeted they
would err “on the side of running the Frostbite shuttles” in inclement weather.
Grzeszczuk said the Wednesday forecast originally did not meet the criteria for operat-ing the Frostbite shuttle.
Blizzard conditions, single-digit tempera-tures or a wind chill factor below zero is needed for the buses to run. Some students were left behind due to an unexpected increase in rider-ship during the cold weather, she said.
NU is required to decide whether to use the buses by noon the previous day.
Next time temperatures are close to meet-ing the criteria, Grzeszczuk said, shuttles will run.
For now, students say shuttle times remain frustratingly inconsistent.
“They seem to be on time when you’re two minutes behind,” DiLalla said. “And they seem to be late when you get to the bus stop on time.”
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Deary’s job to adjust to the flow of the game. Sometimes that means com-pensating for the struggles of two of the team’s top scor-ers, as happened against Minnesota.
Freshman for-ward and Minneap-olis native Nia Cof-fey, first on the team with 15.2 points per game, had trouble finding her shot in her homecoming and missed her first nine attempts.
Freshman guard Christen Inman, third on the team
with 13.2 points per game, was limited by foul trouble and played only 21 minutes despite starting the game.
To Deary, helping out her teammates is as
simple as sticking to the game plan.“I try to get them open shots in transition,”
Deary said. “That usually gets people going. Easy shots, layups, and then you move on from there.”
Because of the rescheduling, the Cats are in the middle of a three-game stretch in seven days.
Bench players like sophomore forward Lauren Douglas are likely to see increased playing time to help keep NU’s starters fresh.
“Coming off of last year where I started every game, I have experience,” Douglas said. “I think that I’m able to come in and give experience on the floor if we’re playing too quickly or playing out of control.”
But, like many conference rivalry battles, the game will probably come down to which team executes more successfully.
“We have to handle their pressure and limit our turnovers,” Deary said. “Just run our offense and play our kind of basketball.”
The Cats, whose season had been notable for its steady play until the blowout loss at Minnesota, will look to right the ship Wednesday.
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“I try to get them open shots in transition. That usually gets people going. Easy shots, layups and then you move on from there.Ashley Deary,freshman point guard
“Of course this isn’t what we’ve
been asking for, so we are going to keep asking for it, but it’s a
wonderful thing that Dr. Marquez is teaching this class.
Heather Menefee,NAISA co-president
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ON DECK ON THE RECORDWomen’s BasketballNU vs. Illinois, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday
Sometimes we forget with Alex, he’s in his sophomore year. — Chris Collins, men’s basketball coach
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Olah’s confidence builds at right time for NUBy Alex PuttermAndaily senior staffer @AlexPutt02
Alex Olah receives the ball with his back to the basket on the right block and an Illinois defender directly between him and the hoop. He pauses only slightly before back-ing into his man and pounding the ball into the ground.
On the momentum of one dribble, the center launches his 7-foot frame into the paint and extends into a left-handed hook shot. It soars over the defender and rattles into the basket — the first points of Northwestern’s 49-43 upset of Illinois on Sunday.
It’s a play Olah could never have executed a year ago, and one he would have been unlikely to con-vert even earlier this fall. These days, such by-the-basket displays are the main reason the sophomore has seen a hike in his efficiency and an expan-sion of his role in the NU offense this season.
Olah credits intensive pre- and post-practice workouts with assis-tant coach Brian James for his sud-den and dramatic improvement in the post.
He says he’s polishing his post moves “all day every day,” often com-ing in a half hour before practice and sometimes staying another 30 min-utes afterward.
Last season, in former coach Bill Carmody’s Princeton offense, Olah was commonly stationed at the top of the key, where his primary func-tion was finding teammates cut-ting to the basket. When new coach Chris Collins was hired in March,
he immediately directed his center into the paint and soon dispatched James to work on Olah’s offensive
game.“We
k i n d o f started from scratch,” James recalled Tuesday. “We’re a new staff, obvi-ously com-ing in with new players we didn’t know that well, so we just started
from scratch. I said, ‘OK, show me your favorite post move.’ And then we wanted to do a couple of counters off that, what he feels comfortable with.”
The results have been visible in the highlights and on the stat sheet. Olah’s shooting percentage has skied from .415 to .561 (seventh in the Big Ten) as his shot selection has become more efficient. He’s averaging 9.1 points per game — up from 6.1 a year ago — and his offensive rating (an advanced statistic measuring a player’s efficiency in producing points) has risen from 88.8 to 112.4, per kenpom.com.
Other facets of Olah’s game appear improved as well. He has upped his averages in rebounds and blocks, while curtailing his turnovers, but Collins seems most pleased with the center’s defense, as displayed against Illinois. All night, Olah challenged Fighting Illini guards at the rim. He helped seal the game by drawing a charge with less than a minute to
play.“I thought he played a great game
against Illinois, particularly defen-sively,” Collins said at practice Tues-day. “A lot of teams try to pick on him, maybe try to go after him, get him in foul trouble, put him in pick-and-rolls. I thought the whole game he was spot on with his defense and was a real presence for us.”
As if newfound post excellence and defensive improvement aren’t enough, Olah is also flashing some 3-point range. He hit his second three of the season against the Fighting Illini, and Collins has given the big man license to shoot when he’s uncovered beyond the arc.
“He’s got a nice touch,” the coach said. “That’s a shot he can make, and I want him to have the con-fidence. That can’t be all he does, but I want him, if he rolls out and he’s open, I want him to have the con-
fidence to take that shot.”In conversation about Olah’s
development, “confidence” is some-thing of a buzzword.
James talks about the confidence
Olah has gained since a 23-point outburst against Wisconsin on Jan. 2. Olah himself mentions the confi-dence he gained last summer play-ing for the U-20 national team in his native Romania. And Collins sees the sophomore gaining confidence as conference play progresses.
The result (as well as perhaps the cause) of all that self-assurance
has been steadily improving performance. In four Big Ten games, Olah’s scoring average, field goal per-centage and offensive rat-ing have
all
risen, a s h i s team-
mates have increasingly fed him the ball inside.
The Wisconsin game pro-vided a glimpse of all Olah can
contribute with the ball in his hands. As NU struggled to score,
the center took the ball again and again and, with his expanding
array of post moves, carried the Cats to a respectable
second half in the loss. In
total, Olah was responsible for 10 of NU’s 19 field goals on the night.
After a season and a half of nomadic role-wandering within the offense, everything now seems
to be clicking. Formerly little more than a space-clogger, Olah is now a central figure in NU’s offense, one of the go-to options for a scoring-starved team. And there’s no reason to believe his ascent is over.
“I’ve said it all along, big guys take time to develop,” Collins said Tues-day. “Sometimes we forget with Alex, he’s in his sophomore year. He’s four games into his conference season as a sophomore. This guy is going to be a good player. He’s getting better with each game.”
Olah is certainly not without flaws. He admits his rebounding needs improvement — he’s only third on the team, despite being its center and tallest player — and James men-tions a desire for consistency from Olah. But no one questions how far he has come.
That development comes right in time for the Cats’ showdown against No. 4 Michigan State at Welsh-Ryan Arena on Wednesday. When healthy, the Spartans are one of the conference’s top rebounding teams, with burly forward Adreian Payne anchoring the front line.
Payne, averaging 16.2 points and 7.7 rebounds a game, would offer a difficult matchup for Olah, who has been know to be outmuscled down low on occasion. But Payne is suffer-ing from plantar fasciitis in his right foot and is unlikely to play against the Cats, freeing Olah from the task of guarding one of the conference’s best big men.
Not that Olah professes any con-cern about dealing with Payne if he does happen to play Wednesday. The 245-pound Spartan recently embarrassed Ohio State with a pair of SportsCenter-worthy put-back dunks, but Olah just smiles at the mention of the slams.
“I’m not worried,” he says. “I’ll box him out.”
He sounds confident.
By BoBBy Pillotethe daily northwestern @BobbyPillote
Northwestern heads into a battle of in-state rivals in need of a big win.
After falling to Minnesota on Sunday, NU (11-5, 1-2 Big Ten) is set to host Illinois (7-9, 0-3) on Wednesday night at Welsh-Ryan Arena. The game, originally sched-uled for Jan. 6, had to be postponed due to inclement weather and will be played immediately after the men’s basketball game against Michigan State.
Despite the delay, coach Joe McKeown is confident in his team’s preparation.
“I think what it’s done is given us a chance to refocus,” McKeown said. “I think we’ll be ready to play.”
All stats point to an NU victory. Despite being just 1-2 in conference play, the Cats sport an impressive 9-1 record in front of their home crowd. The Fighting Illini, meanwhile, have dropped all three of their Big Ten
contests and have not won any road games this season. NU and Illinois have both matched up against Nebraska this season; the Cats lost on a last-second shot, whereas the
Fighting Illini were soundly defeated by 19 points.
But even if it is the better team
on paper, NU knows it will need improved production from its star players to avoid another big loss. One of those players is freshman guard Ashley Deary, who, after set-ting a career high with 11 assists in Thursday’s win over Purdue, had a quiet game against Minnesota with just six assists and 4 points. Despite her status as a true freshman, Deary has quickly earned the trust of McKeown.
“She’s fearless,” McKeown said. “You want to keep giving her things that play to her strengths.”
As director of the offense, it’s
Women’s Basketball
Cats hope to respond in delayed Illini matchup
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DEaRy ME Freshman Ashley Deary has taken on a large role in Northwestern’s offense. The point guard hopes to lead the Wildcats to a bounceback win against Illinois on Wednesday, three days after a blowout loss to Minnesota.» See WOMEn’S BBaLL, page 7
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OLah, aMIgO In his second season at Northwestern, center Alex Olah has developed a post game and improved his numbers across the board. The sophomore is averaging 9.1 points per game this season, and his .561 field goal percentage is seventh in the Big Ten.
“We kind of started from scratch. We’re a new staff, coming in with new players we didn’t know that well.Brian James,assistant coach
“She’s fearless. You want to keep giving her things that play to her strengths.Joe McKeown,coach on Ashley Deary
Sophomore center’s developing post game crucial to Collins’ new offensive mindset
