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By Hunter AtkinsThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/sports

After spending more than 15 years in the major leagues and managing the World Series Champion New York Yankees, it would be easy for Joe Girardi to let baseball consume his life. But relationships have always been more important to him.

Especially the one with his father.Months after winning his first of four World Se-

ries titles in 1996, Girardi asked his father, Gerald, to join him at the podium of his Northwestern Athletic Hall of Fame induction. Joe then pre-sented his father with his championship ring, a modest token of appreciation for the man who de-voted his life to the success and well-being of his family. A child of the Great Depression and work-ing class father of five, Gerald was never one to dwell on things or gripe, his emotions sewn tight like the stitches of a baseball. But on stage at the induction, the typically composed and unemo-tional father stared into the eyes of his son and tears began to swell. Then they ran.

This unbridled moment of father-son pride was one of the last of its kind.

The once-tearful father rarely opens his eyes when Joe visits him these days. When he does

glance at his son, it’s as if he’s staring into thin air. Gerald began showing signs of Alzheimer’s decades ago, calling his children by the wrong name. In 2006 he was checked into an assisted living fa-cility. With his father's conditions wors-ening, Joe had to take back the ring for safe keeping.

“I miss him,” said Girardi in an inter-view Monday. “That’s the biggest feeling that I have, just not being able to talk to my father. We shared so many wonderful memories together since I was a little boy because I went everywhere he went.”

Girardi said he enjoyed being a boy glued to his father into his 40s. “It wasn’t until the last three or four years that we haven’t been able to share a lot, and now it’s nothing.”

Joe’s memories of his father trace back to acts that may have been small at the time, but comprised a lifetime of support. Despite working three jobs, Gerald found time to be the cook for the football team at Spalding Institute in Peoria, Ill., where Joe

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By EMILIA BARROSSE The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/council

In an effort to reduce the city’s $9.5 million budget deficit , Evanston City Council is considering shutting down two branches of the public library.

“This is all because of reduced rev-enues,” said City Manager Wally Bob-kiewicz , whose late December budget draft proposed the cut. “We have rev-enues decreasing, so, like any busi-ness, when your revenues go down, you have to cut expenditures.”

Closing the North Branch , 2026 Central St. , and South Branch , 949

Chicago Ave., could save the city a combined $292,100 in the 2010-11 fis-cal year. The proposed cuts include laying off 36 city employees , most of whom are librarians.

Bobkiewicz said the city is lucky to have a “robust library system.” But be-cause of the prominent, efficient na-ture of the main library downtown, 1703 Orrington Ave. , sustaining the branch libraries is not a necessity.

The council took a different ap-proach this year to crafting the bud-get, using online polling and commu-

By Adam SegeThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/council

Evanston officials will soon learn whether the federal government will approve the city’s application for a $40 million grant to create af-fordable housing.

The city applied in July to receive the funds through a component of the 2009 stimulus package called the Neighborhood Stabilization Pro-gram 2 . Evanston officials have been told the United States Depart-ment of Housing and Urban Devel-opment will announce the grant winners in January, said Susan Gud-erly , who works for the city’s Plan-ning Division .

In its application, Evanston proposed to sell foreclosed homes at a reduced cost and develop new mixed-income housing adjacent to Gilbert Park in the west side of the city .

Evanston is competing with other municipal governments across the country to get a slice of $1.9 billion set aside for NSP2. HUD planned to announce the grant winners in De-cember but has yet not released the results , according to three city offi-cials familiar with the application.

Receiving the funds would be an important win for the city, Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said.

“The success of this application

would ensure the continued diversity of the Evanston people,” Tisdahl said. “We need it. Let’s hope we get it.”

If HUD approves Evanston’s pro-posal, the city will purchase and im-prove approximately 100 foreclosed or vacant homes, according to the grant application. The city will then sell the units at a reduced cost in an effort to revitalize struggling areas.

“Obviously when you have vacant housing, it is a negative influence in a neighborhood,” said Sarah Flax , Ev-anston’s Community Development Block Grant Program administrator. “That’s the key thing to reverse, and of course we want to make (the new housing) affordable.”

The proposal also calls for a pri-vate developer to build a new mixed income community over a vacant lot next to Gilbert Park . The community, named “Emerson Square” in the grant proposal, would include 98 units . Most of the units would be for rent, and some would be for purchase.

The units at Emerson Square will be discounted at varying levels. The grant rules require one quarter of all new units to go to families with incomes less than 50 percent of the median area income. All units must go to families with in-comes less than 120 percent of the median area income.

— ADAM SEGE

Evanston awaits notification on affordable housing grant

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Baseball brotherhood: (Clockwise from left) Joe Girardi poses for a picture with the 2008 NU baseball team; Girardi was a catcher at NU from 1983-86 and played with Grady Hall (bottom right), who remains his good friend to this day.

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By Stephanie StackThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/student-life

A small group of Northwestern stu-dents relive their grade school days every week.

About eight NU students regularly vol-unteer at Washington Elementary School in Evanston with Youth Organizations Umbrella, Inc., a nonprofit youth develop-ment agency based in Evanston. Accord-ing to its Web site, the group aims to pro-vide all youth with “the skills and oppor-tunity to participate in the community.”

The NU students work with third, fourth and fifth graders, serving as both mentors and tutors to their younger coun-terparts.

Kathryn Anderson, one of Washington’s three NU site coordinators, volunteers regularly. She said one of her favorite stu-dents to work with is a third-grade boy she met this past October.

“Every time I come in, he pretends he needs help with his homework so that I’ll come spend time with him,” the SESP sophomore said.

Weinberg senior Dan Hegeman, an-other coordinator, said his favorite part of volunteering is the excitement of the ele-mentary students when they see him.

“It’s a lot of fun,” he said. “It’s nice to get off campus and take an hour and a half break once a week.”

Hegeman began working with the pro-gram his sophomore year after hearing about it from one of his friends. He said volunteering on a regular basis has al-lowed him to develop bonds with the Washington students.

Last year, the program reached the fifth and final year of its initial 21st Cen-tury Community Learning Grant through the No Child Left Behind Act. The coordi-nators’ concerns were put to rest when the grant was renewed for another five years.

“It was such a relief because a lot of the teachers weren’t sure what kind of pro-gram would be available to the kids if we didn’t receive funding,” said Leticia Le-mus, site coordinator for the program at Washington Elementary.

Lemus and two adult volunteers are present each day to help out. But she said the college students really serve as the backbone of the program.

“They have more exposure with the kids so they have a greater impact,” she said. “They serve as role models the kids can look up to. A lot of kids in the program don’t have parents who went to college, so working with Northwestern students gives them a different perspective.”

The third site coordinator, Ebonee Tin-ker, has volunteered with children since high school. She said she enjoys learning from the Washington students.

“They’re really honest about every-thing, even if it hurts my feelings,” the Communication junior said. “The first day I went to the site, I met this girl. She was like, ‘Do you use chapstick?’ And she told me that my lips were really chapped, and I needed some. I was like, ‘Okay. Thanks.’”

Anderson said students interested in joining Y.O.U. can contact any of the three

site coordinators via e-mail. Transporta-tion to the tutoring sessions is provided by the program.

“We volunteer for a quick hour or so and then come back,” Anderson said. “It’s a nice opportunity to get away from cam-pus and spend some time with kids who are really energetic and excited.”

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NU students mentor at Washington ElementaryThe mentoring program’s grant was recently renewed to receive federal funding for another five years

“It’s a nice opportunity to get away from campus and spend some time with kids who are really energetic and excited.

”Kathryn Anderson, NU site coordinator at Washington Elementary

21st Century Learning Grants

Source: US Department of Education

n Formula grants to state education agencies

n Supports the creation of community learning centers for children

n Aims to help students meet state and local standards in core academic subjects

n Washington Elementary School’s five-year grant was renewed this year

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announces three classes for Winter/SpringEach course will meet for �ve successive Saturdays, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at Evanston Baptist Church, on the lower level of the Fountain Square Building in downtown Evanston:

� Introduction to Church History I ( January 23 – February 20)� Introduction to Church History II (February 27 – March 27)� Systematic �eology I (April 10 – May 8)

All three courses will be taught by Professor Gregory Wills (Ph.D., Emory), author of Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900 (Oxford), and Southern Baptist �eological Seminary 1859-2009 (Oxford), and co-editor of �e Salvation of Souls: Nine Previously Unpublished Sermons on the Call of Ministry and the Gospels by Jonathan Edwards (Crossway).

Tuition for each of these three-hour courses is $615 for Southern Baptists, $1,230 for those who are not Southern Baptist.

For more information, please contact SBTS Professor of Christian Apologetics (and pastor of Evanston Baptist Church) Mark Coppenger (Ph.D., Vanderbilt) 847-924-3229, mcoppenger@sbts.edu, or evanstonbaptistchurch.org.

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Police thwart potential dispute between NU employee, wife

The wife of a Northwestern employee made threats to her husband’s female co-worker Mon-day, police said.

The suspect, who has been diagnosed with psychological problems, falsely believed her hus-band and the woman to be in a romantic rela-tionship, University Police Deputy Chief Daniel McAleer said.

When the suspect was on her way to con-front the victim at Facilities Management, 2020 Ridge Ave., police called the suspect and told her not to come on campus and to make no fur-

ther contact with the alleged victim.The suspect did not arrive at the building,

and confrontation was avoided, McAleer said.

Alcohol stolen from Wilmette Real Estate office basement

An unknown number of suspects broke into a real estate office and stole several bottles of alcohol, police said.

The incident took place between Thurs-day evening and Monday morning at the Wilmette Real Estate office, 636 Church St., said Evanston Police Cmdr. Tom Guenther.

The suspects used brute force to enter a basement storage room, where they allegedly took a variety of bottles of alcohol, police said.

Police are continuing to investigate.

Student’s Schwinn stolen from Elder during Winter Break

An NU student noticed her bicycle was miss-ing after she returned from Winter Break, police said.

The student secured the Schwinn bicycle the evening of Dec. 10 outside Elder Hall, 2400 Sheridan Road, but it was missing Sunday, McA-

leer said.The student is trying to obtain a serial num-

ber to help police in the search, McAleer said.

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By Katie ParkThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/business

Despite a rise in consumer confidence, sev-eral Evanston businesses said sales have been slow, even during the holiday season.

The Consumer Confidence Index, a measure of consumers’ attitudes toward the economy, rose for the second straight month in December, according to a press release from the Confer-ence Board on Dec. 29. It rose from November’s standing of 50.6 to 52.9.

Jonathan Perman, executive director of the Evanston Chamber of Commerce, said it was too early in the year to make assump-tions about last year’s economic situation in Evanston. Still, he said retail sales have been

down with the nation’s recession.“The Evanston economy, like the rest of the

nation, did not fare so well,” Perman said. “But in general, Evanston’s economy is more resilient than many other places in the country.”

Evanston has around 3,000 businesses, 20 percent of which represent the retail sector, Perman said.

Ji Park, manager of the clothing store Fash-ion Tomato, 1631 Sherman Ave., said business has been slower this holiday season than last holiday season. As a result, Park said the store will be moving from Evanston this fall.

“During the holidays, most of the (North-western) students go back home, so it’s slow in Evanston,” she said. “When you see stores hav-ing more sales, you know it is slow.”

Tyler Sapien, co-owner and buyer for gift shop The Things We Love, 614 Davis St., said sales for the holiday season decreased about 20 percent from last season.

“People were buying bigger gifts last year, but now they’re more money-conscious,” Sapien said. “Customers are more careful and more definite in what they’re buying.”

Certain items sell better than others, Sapien said. While accessories like scarves and jewelry have sold well, Sapien has reduced the amount

of clothing sold in the store.“New clothes aren’t a staple,” he said. “You

can still wear the key pieces you already own.”Adam McComb, a 27-year-old student at

Roosevelt University, said he spent a few hundred dollars on gifts this holiday season, a comparable amount to last year. McComb, a Chicago resident, said he felt the recession’s effects outside of gift-giving.

“I don’t eat out, or when I do, I try to keep it cheap,” McComb said. “I have the same level of income, so I don’t feel the need to save.”

Evanston resident Kathi Grant estimated she spent $2,500 on holiday gifts this year. Although she spent about the same amount as previous years, Grant said she has been cautious.

“It’s not as over-the-top as it’s been pre-viously,” said Grant, 70. “I gave everything more thought.”

Instead of focusing on gift-giving, Grant said her family spent more time together, sharing meals and doing puzzles.

“There was a change in my family,” she said. “I enjoyed it much more, because I was not wrapped up in gift-giving.”

katie.park@u.northwestern.eduNathalie Tadena contributed reporting.

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By Lizzie RivardThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/student-life

Northwestern students looking for a place to stay while traveling no longer have to rely on generous friends or pay for expensive ho-tels. They can rent a room with a fellow Wildcat through the NU group on Airbnb.com, an online community that provides list-ings for accommodations around the world.

Kathrina Manalac, Communication ’07, said she joined Airbnb’s NU group after she had trouble finding a place to stay in New York City. The company offered her an af-fordable and unique alternative to hotels in the area, she said.

“I really like to meet people when I travel, and it’s nice to have people that you’re staying with take you under their wing and show you around a little bit,” Manalac said. “You get to know the people that you’re staying with, and it brings this whole new element to travel.”

Users looking for anything from a “couch to a castle” can log on to what Time Maga-zine called “The eBay of Space,” according to Airbnb’s Web site, and search for a place to stay in various cities, said Carly Chamber-lain, a member of the company’s marketing department. Hosts advertise spare rooms, apartments, houses, vacation rentals and even tree houses.

“It’s a great way to travel around the world, and you can find us pretty much any-

where,” Chamberlain said.Airbnb’s Web site features accommoda-

tions in 109 countries and 2,100 cities. The NU group currently includes 49 mem-bers and offers 12 available rooms on the Web site.

Co-founders Nathan Blecharczyk, Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia came up with the idea for Airbnb in 2007 when a design con-ference in San Francisco created a scarcity of hotel rooms in the area, said Gebbia, the group’s president. By advertising spare air beds in their living room, the co-founders were able to host those in need of accom-modation, as well as show their guests around the city. With the establishment of the Web-based community, the network of members has expanded to include more than 70,000 users, Gebbia said.

“It’s been incredible in terms of how people are utilizing the Web site,” he said. “People can travel in a way that fits their budget, and hosts have this brand new source of income.”

Gebbia said Airbnb incorporated school- and interest-related groups into the Web site when users asked for them by popular demand.

“This is the first time on the Internet when you can find someone to stay with who shares your interests or went to your school,” Gebbia said.

Airbnb offers a personalized travel ex-perience—from a private room for a busi-ness trip to ski outings with the hosts, he

said.“When you travel (with Airbnb), you’re

not putting money into a gigantic corpora-tion,” Gebbia said. “You’re supporting a local economy and individuals.”

Because some travelers may initially have apprehensions about staying with strangers, hosts are continually reviewed by travelers

and Airbnb carefully monitors all transac-tions, he said.

“You have people pass out on your couch all the time anyway,” Chamberlain said. “You might as well make some money while you do it.”

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By Pam CarmasineThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/res-life

As all Northwestern students know, mov-ing out of University housing is more in-volved than taping up a few boxes. And this year, a smaller percentage of available spaces in University housing means there is less wiggle-room.

With 1 to 2 percent of available housing spaces empty, NU's ability to accommodate students unless there are mutual requests for a transfer is compromised, said Mark D’Arienzo, the office’s associate director for University Housing administration.

If a student decides to transfer from Uni-versity Housing, anything short of medical, marital and military reasons will make a change more difficult, D’Arienzo said.

“The perception that, ‘I’m paying a great deal of money, I should be able to get what I want,’ is a question we address almost every day,” he said.

Academic factors ranging from probation

to internships are also considered, but stu-dents are responsible for the housing con-tract they signed over the summer, D’Arienzo said. The contract binds the stu-dent to their housing for the full year.

“If you move off campus just because you want to, we will continue to bill you,” he said.

Weinberg sophomore Maddy Hinkamp said she did not think University Housing was helpful when she tried to move into her sorority house this year.

“(My sorority) said it should be OK,” she said. “But housing said I needed a better reason.”

University Housing requires students who wish to get out of their contract to find an off-campus replacement willing to sign one. D’Arienzo said students wishing to switch places on campus must mutually agree to move. When Hinkamp could not find someone to replace her in Bobb Hall, she could not get out of her housing con-tract.

“I had no idea and just gave up,” she said.

But Weinberg sophomore Sasijaree Rian-terawongs was eventually released from her contract this winter. Rianterawongs, who lived in South Mid-Quads this fall, tried to get out of her contract to live in her sorority house. Because sorority housing is not tech-nically on-campus, the process required persistence, she said.

“I signed up for the waiting list and sent housing an e-mail,” Rianterawongs said. “They told me I have to find a new transfer student or person coming home from abroad to switch housing with me.”

Rianterawongs moved to Kappa Delta on Sunday due to a need to allocate space for incoming transfer students.

D’Arienzo said transfer students are guaranteed a bed, but University Housing does not specify where.

When Molly Kriva, a transfer student from Lawrence University, arrived at NU this fall, she was placed in the basement of Bobb with about 20 other students.

“It’s really inappropriate to put a bunch of transfer students in a basement,” the

Weinberg junior said. “I got sick of it after a while with its dark wood paneling, perpetu-ally 70s decor and bugs.”

After two months, a room vacancy al-lowed Kriva to move into Jones Residential College.

At the end of the day, maintaining strict housing contracts is necessary, D’Arienzo said.

“The University, in addition to being an institution of a higher learning, is a busi-ness,” D’Arienzo said. “Otherwise it could not continue to exist.”

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Bedfellows: Airbnb allows users to advertise and search for housing options in 109 countries and 2,100 cities. School or interest-related groups help hosts and travelers connect.

“If you move off campus just because you want to, we will continue to bill you.

”Mark D’Arienzo, Asst. Dir. of University Housing

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Thai Sookdee/Tein Li ChowMini Golf

Uber BurgerVideo Games & Halo

Beta Theta Pi(Beta)

ChipotleSumo Wrestling Bouncy Boxing

SarkisPaintball

Delta Chi ChipotleCasino Night: Poker, Blackjack & Craps

MerlesDelta Chi Mini Golf

Pizza and WingsBCS Championship Game

Potbelly’sBroomball &Snow Football

Delta Upsilon(DU) Demolition Derby

Las PalmasPaintball Shooting

Trattatoria DemiDodgeball

Lambda Chi Alpha(Lambda Chi) Gladiator Night

Wendy’sChallenge Night

Tailgate (Grilling Out)National Championship Game

Pita InnVideo Game & Hookah Night

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Food More FoodZombie Apocalypse Night

Even More FoodFight Night

A Fourth Kind of FoodFiji presents: The Dark Side of Oz

There will not be FoodUnderwater Basket WeavingInvite Only

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Walker Brothers Pancake HouseCasino Night

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Surf & TurfPhi Psi Phight Night

Mustard’s Last StandBCS Championship

Chicken ShackInvite Only

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Dave’s Italian KitchenIndoor Water Sports

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Panda ExpressL.A.I.R.E.

Hecky’s BarbequePatten B-Ball

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Wild DogsCall of Duty Tournament

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Theta Chi Potbelly’sCasino Night American

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Last spring, some foreign fli-ers began appearing on Northwestern’s campus. Their primary message was

clear: “Socialism sucks.” In addition to these words, the fliers featured a bas-tardized version of the Obama cam-paign’s symbol emblazoned with workers wielding hammers and sick-les. They cited “Animal Farm,” “A Brave New World” and other tales of totalitarianism as “support” for their central claim. A full-page advertise-ment of the same nature graced The

Daily’s pages on May 26, 2009. Health insurance companies and

their think-tank and Congressional cronies have been delivering similar propaganda messages throughout the country. They have succeeded in eliminating a public option and other measures that would contain costs and provide coverage to millions from the health care reform legislation be-ing debated in Congress. But more importantly, these campaigns repre-sent another battle in the war against government long waged by free-mar-ket ideologues like Milton Friedman and Ronald Reagan. In health care, as in greater American society, unregu-lated private industry has proven itself unable to provide basic services to those who need them the most.

The Clare Boothe Luce Policy In-stitute fired the anti-government ad-

vertisement barrage at NU last spring and have been followed by friendly chaps contending President Barack Obama is a reincarnation of Adolf Hit-ler. The institute may be motivated in part by ideology but is also refresh-ingly fueled by good old capitalism. Its president, Michelle Easton, is the former vice president of the Pharma-ceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and a current lobbyist for Tarplin, Downs and Young, a firm that has spent almost $3 million in 2009 fighting health care reform on behalf of clients like Wellpoint and Blue Cross/Blue Shield, according to OpenSecrets.org.

A strong public option wouldn’t “suck” for the tens of millions of Americans to whom it would provide affordable, secure coverage or for the country’s finances, as the Congressio-

nal Budget Office estimated it would reduce the deficit by $104 billion over 10 years. However, it might suck for Wellpoint, Blue Cross/Blue Shield and other monopolistic health care com-panies, which would be forced to min-imize their monstrous profits in order to stay competitive with a public plan. But these insurance giants are smart, so they pay people at firms like Tarp-lin, Downs and Young to disseminate their misinformation to “think-tanks” like the Clare Boothe Luce Policy In-stitute, and we lucky NU students saw their propaganda infest our telephone poles, lecture halls and newspapers.

The central idea behind the “so-cialism sucks” slogan, that govern-ment is the problem instead of the so-lution, is simply ludicrous. We drive our cars on government-maintained roads, eat FDA-approved food, mail

letters with the USPS, can come home after a government-mandated maxi-mum 40-hour workweek and uncon-sciously reap the benefits of a chroni-cally under-appreciated federal gov-ernment in myriad other ways.

Conservatives played the socialism card during the debate over Medicare, and now these programs are so popu-lar they have forgotten their old oppo-sition and have anointed themselves the saintly defenders of government-supported health care for the elderly. If passed, a public option will be simi-larly vindicated, and conservatives will once again have to conveniently forget the apocalyptic promises made in years past.

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I’m just go-ing to come right out and say it. This is my first blog, and I have no

clue what I’m doing. I’ve never even read a blog, let alone fath-omed penning my own.

I’ve been writing most of my life, but it was usually on my par-ent’s walls as a naughty youngster, in the school newspaper as a high schooler or on old napkins at greasy spoons, acting as today’s brooding misanthrope. Blogging, on the other hand, is still sort of a foreign concept to me, like meatloaf or John Madden’s eyebrows.

You see, I’m pretty behind the times. Friends often tell me I have the mind-set and demeanor of a 60-year-old man. For example, I can say without irony I think cardi-gan sweaters are cool. I would much rather read Hemingway in front of a blazing fireplace on a Fri-day night than play beer pong until I forget my name. I easily see the redeeming value of suspenders. I think three out of the four Golden Girls are hot. Basically, all I need is a silvery mustache and an ivory-handled cane, and I could pass for an exceedingly dapper old man.

Call me old-fashioned, but I’m completely unused to a modern creation such as blogging. It feels unnatural, almost blasphemous to my very nature. Now that I’m stuck in this unfamiliar situation, I feel like Chuck Norris if he were sud-denly making flower arrangements or if the Olsen twins found them-selves modeling for a Lane Bryant

catalogue.The good news is, when it

comes to blogging, I’m the North-western version of Susan Boyle. We’re both previously undiscov-ered diamonds in the rough. Nei-ther of us has ever been kissed. We’re both from the podunk back-waters of the world. We both have a thing for musical theater. Come to think of it, we’re basically the same person—except I have fewer cats and she has a slightly better body.

Laura Rosenfeld

After spending so much time away from home, we sometimes

miss its essential places or people. Many of us visit them during our breaks from school in an attempt to revisit the past or even recreate it, reminding us of the feelings or emotions we once had. But can you ever truly repeat the past?

I attempted to accomplish this impossible feat during Winter Break by attending my high school’s winter concert. I wanted to see the symphony orchestra per-form, because I had once been a vi-olinist in that same group.

But as soon as I walked into my old high school, I was confronted with a wide array of emotions I was not expecting. These feelings weren’t really of sentimentality or nostalgia. They were more like strange feelings of discomfort.

I felt like I no longer belonged in a building where I had just spent four important years of my life. I looked around at a sea of strangers.

The lobby was filled with a new generation of students and their parents. This was their school now, not mine.

Stephanie LuFor me this

question is not simple to an-swer: “Where are you from?”

I was born in Evanston, but I grew up in Sin-gapore and went to high school in Vancouver, Canada.

The most difficult question I ever got was, “Which place do you like best?” It reminds me of an awkward moment when one of my closest friends appeared incredu-lous at my statement that a person can love more than one country at a time. But no matter how hard it is to believe, it’s true. I’ve spent enough time in each place for that place to become part of my identity and my past. Forcing me to choose is equivalent to taking several years’ worth of memories from my past and saying, “They don’t matter anymore.”

The deeper, darker side to these innocent questions is that cultures clash. Countries disagree at inter-national negotiations, and coun-tries go to war. At times like these, people are suspicious of anyone who isn’t loyal to just one country.

Jazmyn Tuberville

This is nothing? Wait until Febru-ary? I couldn’t believe any-

thing could be worse than the bone-numbing arctic freeze I was experi-encing right now. Granted I did have a murky idea of what I was get-ting myself into when I applied.

I visited NU in February. And I still came.

When I visited, I was so en-grossed with the fairy tale-like campus, the fact that I was seeing real snow for the very first time in my life and mostly that I was sit-ting in on COLLEGE classes and listening in on COLLEGE-kid lingo. Everything else seemed sup-plemental. The relentless high winds, the torrent of pouring rain and the smog-filled cloudy sky were the least of my concerns.

It probably could have been

raining Nick Jonases outside and nothing would have ripped my eyes away from the tall willow trees, ab-stract sculptures and greener-than-green grass spanning the entire campus. I had so romanticized the school in my head that not even a tornado rolling through the town could deter me from attending.

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Newspapers still method of choice for death noticesBy Lilia HargisThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/academics

Unlike circulation totals and advertising revenue, obituaries in newspapers are not dy-ing, according to a recent research project by Medill graduate students.

The report, “The State of the American Obituary,” consisted of a quarter-long study of obituaries, death notices and online memori-als by students in the fall Interactive Innova-tion Project course.

The findings are a timely resource for the newspaper industry and its partners, said Rich Gordon, a Medill professor and faculty advisor for the project.

“I came away be-lieving that we did this project at the right moment,” he said. “If the newspa-per industry is going to maintain its posi-tion as the first place that people look for obituaries, the time is right now to start doing something about it.”

The study has at-tracted attention from members of news in-dustries around the world, said Prof. Owen Youngman, who also advised the research.

The project had both academic and advi-sory purposes. It aimed to assess the current state of editorial obituaries and death notices and provide an updated, comprehensive study on the topic, Youngman said. It also offered recommendations to its sponsor, Legacy.com, an online media company that gathers obitu-aries from more than 750 newspapers and publishes 70 percent of deaths in the U.S.

Ian Monroe, Medill ’09, a member of the research team and a principal author of the first report, said he was surprised by some of the findings, especially how death notices and classified ads have evolved differently.

“Classified ads are moving online, but obit-uaries are very newspaper-centric,” he said.

People who are most interested in obituar-ies and death notices tend to be older and less comfortable with online content, especially the social networking sites younger people sometimes use to memorialize the deceased, Monroe said.

The findings have both short- and long-term implications for the world of obituaries and death notices, Monroe said. Newspapers need to continue to put resources into these sections while they still have an advantage over online-only competitors, he said. But in the long term, print media needs to recognize obituaries will move online.

“As my generation gets older and we start dealing with the deaths of our loved ones, the context that will feel natural to us is online,” Monroe said.

For this reason, Monroe said Web sites like Legacy.com should not only offer electronic versions of newspaper obituaries but should use multimedia to meet the needs of the next generation of obituary readers.

The second report to advise the current dominant players in the obituary and death-notice market on how to maintain their competitive advantage will be pub-lished by the same group in a few months, Gordon said.

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Three Northwestern professors have been appointed to endowed chairs by the Qatar Foun-dation, Al Cubbage, vice president for University relations, said Tuesday. Medill Prof. Frank Mul-hern, Communication Prof. Hamid Naficy and Weinberg Prof. Carl Petry were appointed to po-sitions named after the country’s head of gov-

ernment, Qatar Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khal-ifa Al-Thani.

“These are the first appointments of these chairs,” Cubbage said. “Basically, the funding is used to provide support for the (chairs), so it’s a real honor.”

The foundation is a charitable arm of the Qa-tar government, he said. It supports the initia-tive to bring universities like NU to Education City in Doha, Qatar.

The endowments were given to recognize

the opening of NU’s Qatar campus, said Univer-sity Provost Dan Linzer.

The three positions are the Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in the Medill School of Journal-ism, awarded to Mulhern; the Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication, given to Naficy; and the Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Pro-fessor in Middle East Studies, awarded to Petry.

Mulhern, associate dean for research in Me-dill and an Integrated Marketing Communica-tions professor, said he expects to visit Qatar in

the near future.“It’s really kind of a remarkable situation

where they want to accelerate the sophistica-tion of higher education, and they’re doing so by partnering with these elite universities,” he said, adding that the arrangement, “enables them to immediately have first-rate education as opposed to forming their own university, building from the ground up.”

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nity budget workshops, Ald. Jane Grover (7th) said. Through the polling and workshops, com-munity members showed their support for shutting the branch libraries down, she said.

“Among the top 10 things that the commu-nity budget participants identified to elimi-nate was the funding to the two branch li-braries,” Grover said. “Wally’s proposed bud-get incorporates a lot of the ideas that came out of those workshops.”

After four workshops, Bobkiewicz was able to obtain a firmer grasp of the community’s needs, and the online poll solidified that out-look, Grover said.

“The city manager’s office put a poll on-line asking participants for a just way to gen-erate revenue and cut costs,” she said. “About

1,000 people responded to that poll. To any-body that’s been paying attention, this shouldn’t be a surprise.”

Still, many Evanston residents disagree with the council’s outlook regarding their new polling method.

Resident Christopher Skey said he has heard the council talk each year about cutting off funding to the branch libraries. He was upset this year they finally decided to act, he said.

“At first I thought (the discussion) was part of the same old process, but I was made aware that it seemed to be more serious this year,” Skey said. “It seemed to me like (the community input) was a good idea, but I think that it resulted in some recommenda-tions that did not accurately express the sen-timents of the entire community.”

Both Grover and Bobkiewicz said they have been inundated with letters from concerned

members of the community who do not want to see the branch libraries shut down.

Grover said she recognizes the important position the branch libraries hold in the Ev-anston community.

“Seventy-five thousand people found their way to the North Branch library in 2009,” she said. “That’s a lot of foot traffic on Central Street, and my primary concern is not the hardship for the patrons of the branch libraries, but the im-plications of it’s closing for the local businesses.

Grover said she would ideally like to see the libraries maintained with sustainable funding.

“It’s a matter of diversifying the funding,” she said. “Some of the things we’re talking about are public-private partnerships and lo-cal fundraising to keep the libraries afloat. If it looks like only local neighborhoods use the branches, we could ask them if they’re will-ing to pay extra in taxes to support them.”

Skey said he plans on doing his part to keep the libraries in service.

“I anticipate that (my neighbors) will be-gin a letter-writing campaign and probably a sign campaign,” he said. “There will be some meetings with the city officials to express our support—speaking at the city council meet-ings, respectfully, for example, and trying to make our position known.”

Despite the controversy, Bobkiewicz said shutting down the branches may be a neces-sary move for Evanston.

“Libraries do more than provide books, they provide information,” he said. “We’re just struggling with how best to allocate our resources. We’re looking to cut almost 10 per-cent, and on an operating budget, difficult decisions have to be made.”

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Study shows Kellogg's ‘great brand name' improves résumé appealBy Claire BrownThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/academics

Kellogg School of Management graduates are making bank, according to a recent study.

The study from AdmissionsConsultants, a group that provides counseling services to prospective college and graduate students, shows job recruiters predict Kellogg graduates will be the sixth-highest paid business school graduates in the country. Kellogg also ranked first in teamwork and skills development as well as in marketing and sales, said David Pe-tersam, president of the group.

“It doesn’t surprise me,” said Daniel Hirt, a Kellogg second year JD-MBA student. “Kellogg is one of the top-ranked programs in the nation.”

In conducting the survey to see how busi-ness school names affected salaries, Admis-sionsConsultants compiled over 2,800 fic-

tional résumés and sent them to job recruiters around the country. All of the fictional appli-cants were male, had Anglo-Saxon names, at-tended similar schools for undergraduate studies and had the same level of work experi-ence. The only variable was where the appli-cant went to business school.

“We didn’t really tell recruiters what we were doing,” Petersam said.

Harvard Business School, Stanford Gradu-ate School of Business, University of Pennsyl-vania’s Wharton School, University of Chica-go’s Booth School of Business and Massachu-setts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management made up the highest suspected salaries, followed by Kellogg, results show.

Petersam said he was not surprised by the findings.

“I fully suspected that having Harvard on your résumé would be more rewarding than having a lower-tier school on your ré-sumé,” he said.

But there’s more to salary predictions than just the name of the school, he said. The top schools attract the best applicants and provide more networking opportunities, he said.

“As much as you learn from your profes-sors, you learn even more from your class-mates,” Petersam said.

Arielle Deane, a first-year Kellogg stu-dent, said she expected Kellogg to rank higher. Deane said she has received two job offers and is planning on accepting one in New Jersey.

“I think we’re probably a little bit higher in world ranking,” she said. “There’s probably more people doing social entrepreneurship or things with lower salaries (at Kellogg).”

AdmissionsConsultants also focused on the geographic region of business schools and job opportunities. The group found that “recruit-ers give advantages to candidates who had al-ready lived or worked in the same geographic region as the job they are applying for,” ac-

cording to the study.Geographical preference applies more to

small companies, as large firms are more likely to travel to get the graduates of top-ranked schools, Petersam said.

“Kellogg is a very well-known business school, so we get recruiters from all parts of the country,” Hirt said.

But a small company in the Midwest, for example, would be more likely to recruit ap-plicants from Kellogg than from Harvard or Stanford, Petersam said.

“In the Midwest, Kellogg has a great brand name,” said Sherry Jun, a first-year Kellogg MBA student.

Kellogg students find jobs in a wide variety of fields including banking, consulting and so-cial work, Hirt said.

“They bring credibility to everything they do.”

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played quarterback in high school. During Joe’s minor league days, he would grab a brown bag lunch his father packed. Gerald in-troduced Joe to the roaring crowds at Wrigley Field and the quaint Canadian lakes where the old man gave his son fishing tutorials.

Gerald would be upset if he let work get in the way of time with his children, so after long weeks as a salesman by day and part-time bartender by night, he would sometimes bring his children to his third job as a weekend bricklayer. Mortar was spread and red slabs were stacked, cementing the bond between father and son.

Considering these moments of closeness, it is no wonder Joe said he resembles his father. Staring into the Yankees dugout, the manager sports a crew-cut, his arms crossed, stoic and antisocial. The only sight of activity occurres along his jaw line, which bulges with each chomp of gum, and at his chest, which he swivels around from right to left as transfer-ence of nervous energy. Girardi approaches managing like a workman, baseball’s brick-layer.

Beyond the attitude Joe adopted from his father is another component playing out in his everyday life. Joe is widely known by fans for

his pinstripe coding and championship rings. But those lucky enough to get closer to the Yankee know him most for caring about people in a way that extends beyond his role as a parent, manager and public figure. The intensity of the relationship between Joe and his father served as a blueprint for how Joe would approach oth-ers, a sort of guide for

how to engage with people on a deeply per-sonal level.

When he looks back on his career, Girardi does not remember what the pitch count was when he got a big hit or what runner he threw out to preserve his team’s lead. “The interest-ing things you remember when you’re done playing are the relationships,” he said, refer-encing former coaches and teammates Don Zimmer, Mike Harkey, Paul O’Neill, David Cone and Dante Bichette, who he named his son after. “I don’t remember games, I remem-ber people.”

In 1982 Evanston was a place where Gi-rardi could put his tools of affability and com-passion to work. NU baseball coach Paul Ste-vens was one of several people at the school to form a lifelong bond with Girardi.

Stevens was an assistant coach for the Wildcats during Girardi’s college career and saw the catcher grow into a leader on and off the field. The coaching staff realized early the industrial engineering major had a keen sense of the game and bestowed him with the pitch-calling duties, a task freshmen are rarely given.

“Joe was always somebody who was a stu-dent of the game,” Stevens said. “His engi-neering side of what he did in the classroom carries over into what he does as a coach now. He’s meticulous.”

Girardi has maintained a close relationship with his former coach despite his fame and World Series titles.

“Joe has been the friend that he has been over the years,” Stevens said, “and that’s spe-cial because there aren’t a whole lot of those people around that you can pick up the phone and you know that the person on the other end has got two ears, is listening and is some-one that cares about what’s going on.”

The feeling is mutual. Stevens’ father died of Alzheimer’s, and when he and Girardi get together for coffee, the former NU catcher said he sees a source of solace and comfort across the table.

Evanston was also where Girardi met Kim Innocenzi, his future wife and mother of their three children. One night at the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house, Kim lost an ear-ring. Girardi seized the opportunity and dis-covered the buried treasure. Three years af-ter graduating, Girardi asked Kim to marry him, a decision his father urged when the

couple was just two weeks into their relation-ship.

“She’s been the wind beneath my wings, which was the song at our wedding,” Girardi said. Girardi added Kim “led me to the lord,” giving him a new type of strength, one that he relies on during the most trying episodes in his life.

Girardi watched his mother work through pain for much of his adolescence, until she died from ovarian cancer in 1984.

“There was a lot of confusion,” Girardi said of the time after her death, the first time he questioned pursuing a life in baseball, the game he loved since he was 4 years-old. “I had kind of lost my passion because I used to feel like I played to keep my mom alive. I had to do some searching.”

During this moment of doubt, it was Kim who led him beside still waters.

“I came home for a week, and Kim said God gave me a gift, and I needed to use my gift,” Girardi said. “I went back and about two years later, I was in the big leagues.”

Some managers seal themselves into the game so much that nothing else matters. For-mer Yankee Manager Buck Showalter spent so many nights reviewing game tape in his office that he had to bring in a pullout couch. Gi-rardi repays his debt to Kim by not letting baseball get in the way of what is most impor-tant.

“Our relationship comes first and fore-most,” he said. “We have put a lot of time into it, to make it grow year after year, and we have fun together.”

While not as romantic as his bond with Kim, Girardi’s relationship with NU team-

mate Grady Hall has been equally spiritual. The two freshmen formed a classic pairing of the odd couple. Girardi was the stocky, prag-matic team leader, while 60-and-a-half feet from home plate stood the gangly, blithe southpaw who wore No. 13.

But like a breaking ball in a fastball count, something unexpected can lead to the desired result.

“One of the things that bonded Joey and I so much was the yin to yang,” Hall said. “Be-tween Joe and I, there was very much a bal-ance. When I needed structure, I got struc-ture and Joe was very much a part of that. When Joe needed to relax, I had the ability to provide the resource for that.”

During their senior season, wanderlust led the two battery mates off the field and out on the open road. Along with then-coach Ron Wellman, they saddled up for an overnight trip to North Carolina that proved to be trans-formative for the young men. Much like the Beatniks of a generation before them, the ball-players packed into a van where they filled the air with fodder, sauntered silently through the off-road woods and expressed who they were, while unknowingly searching to find out who they could be.

“It was almost like nothing was said, but so many things were communicated,” Hall said. “It was an opportunity for the three of us to bond beyond the parameters of baseball. That was one of the things that cemented my rela-tionship with Joe. I knew we’d be friends for the rest of our lives.”

Hall was determined to make that state-ment true and in 2006 he began organizing two team reunions. The second was to be a surprise gathering at Girardi’s home to cele-brate his first season as manager of the Flor-

ida Marlins. About 30 former NU baseball players, coaches and their families attended. Unbeknownst to Hall, the event became on opportunity to restore a weakened Girardi.

“It was probably my hardest time in base-ball,” said Girardi, who was fired two months later.

While spending time with Girardi during Spring Training, Hall sensed the Florida front office was at odds with their new manager. Hall was not surprised to see his friend get beat up and dropped like a rosin bag.

“The writing was actually already on the wall,” Hall said. “Whether it was one year or two years, it didn’t feel like a long-lasting rela-tionship, that’s for sure.”

The summer visit was a chance for celebra-tion and venting. Girardi opened his front door to find a gaggle of supporters ready to re-mind him that his baseball career was far from over.

“During a tough time of my life I was grateful to have guys that could make me laugh and smile,” Girardi recalled.

The grief did not last long. Girardi spent a season broadcasting for the New York Yan-kees, and the team took him out of the booth and plugged him into the dugout as manager in 2008.

“I always had a feeling that Joe was going to be an amazing big league manager,” said Hall, who shared the magnitude of Girardi’s new gig alongside Kim. Sitting in the first row, staring up into the uproarious belly of Yankee Stadium, Hall looked over at Kim and saw her taking it all in when she said, “This is great, isn’t it?”

“It was a great moment,” Hall remem-bered. “This is a little crazy. Here’s Joe, man-aging the New York Yankees in Yankee Sta-dium.”

The people who Girardi cherishes have felt blessed by his generosity and in return have guided him through periods when he was adrift and crestfallen. Recently, these people consoled him during his failed 2008 cam-paign in New York and then rejoiced in No-vember when he managed the Yankees to a World Series title. But the man who once formed the core of this circle remained on the outside. Were Gerald able to recognize his son’s managerial feat, Girardi imagines his workhorse of a father would say: “Job well done. Now continue to press forward.”

Were Gerald able, he might say something similar to help Joe through their current dis-connect. But if Joe learned anything from his father, it is how to be resilient and feel confi-dent he has a wealth of support. Though Ger-ald is no longer able to mount bricks beside Joe on Saturdays, cook him pizza or teach him the art of casting a line, he no longer has to. Father and son can rest assured there are oth-ers waiting to answer the call.

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Purple to pinstripes: (Above) Joe Girardi poses with NU baseball coach Paul Stevens, who was an assistant coach at NU when Girardi played. (Left) Girardi holds his No. 27 Yankees jersey.

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1. Purdue (14-0, 2-0): Wins over West Virginia and Minnesota cement spot at the top2. Michigan State (11-3, 1-0): Only losses came to Florida, North Carolina and Texas3. Wisconsin (12-2, 2-0): Badgers bring six-game win streak into East Lansing, Mich.4. Minnesota (11-4, 2-1): Can’t let Purdue loss lead to another losing skid5. Illinois (10-5, 2-0): Illini must learn how to f inish games6. nu (10-3, 0-2): Cats have to shake off ugly loss vs. Michigan state7. Ohio State (10-4, 0-2): Need Turner back as quickly as possible8. Penn State (8-6, 0-2): Back to being a football school9. Michigan (7-6, 1-1): Haven’t won back-to-back games since November10. Indiana (7-6, 1-0): Perfect Big Ten record will prove to be short-lived11. Iowa (5-10, 0-3): There’s a reason Iowa is the Big Ten’s only sub-.500 team

‘Sometimes teams just have a rough night putting the ball in the basket.’

wisconsin coach bo ryan,On his team's defensive effort to start Big Ten play

against Ohio State and Penn State

Nearby schools swap spots in rankingsBy Jonah L. RosenblumThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/big-ten-insider

With No. 4 Purdue basking in the national spotlight, No. 17 Wis-consin is not getting the attention a 12-2 team deserves. Undefeated in Big Ten play, the Badgers have put together an impressive start to the season. They fared well in noncon-ference play, winning 10 out of 12 games with victories over then-No. 6 Duke and then-No. 21 Maryland.

The only two stumbles for Wis-consin were a 13-point loss to No. 19 Gonzaga and a surprising four-point defeat at Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Since falling to the Phoenix, the Badgers have won six in a row, in-cluding their first two Big Ten games. Wisconsin blew out then-No. 15 Ohio State 65-43 on New Year’s Eve before winning 63-46 at Penn State last Sunday.

Neither the Buckeyes nor the Nittany Lions were able to get any-thing done offensively against the Badgers. Wisconsin held Ohio State to 32.6 percent shooting and Penn State to 35.4 percent shooting.

“Sometimes teams just have a rough night putting the ball in the basket,” Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan said. “Sometimes we get out of a rhythm, sometimes other teams get out of a rhythm. I don’t think we did

anything different.”Regardless of the reason for

their success, the Badgers will need to keep up the strong defen-sive effort when they take on No. 10 Michigan State in East Lansing, Mich., Wednesday and host No. 4 Purdue on Saturday afternoon.

“Whoever the opponent is, whether it’s high scoring teams or not, it’s still points per possession we concentrate on,” Ryan said. “If it’s an up-tempo game, medium-tempo, or low-tempo, it’s still about the posses-sion. That’s how we always practice, and that’s how we’ve got to play.”

With both the Michigan State and Purdue games slated for na-tional television, Wisconsin has a prime opportunity to emerge from under the radar.

illini baffled by slow sTarTWhile Wisconsin has been climb-

ing the conference rankings, Illinois has struggled with three losses in its last five games. In their last defeat before a victory over Iowa, the Fighting Illini trailed No. 19 Gon-zaga by 21 in the first half but bat-tled their way back to force over-time. In the extra session, Illinois (9-5, 1-0 Big Ten) took a three-point lead with less than two minutes to go, but Gonzaga fought back and ul-timately won 85-83.

The near-comeback against the

Bulldogs came just more than one month after the Fighting Illini ral-lied from a 23-point second-half deficit to pick up a 76-74 win at then-No. 18 Clemson.

“We have to figure out why we have slow starts,” Illinois coach Bruce Weber said. “That’s the first thing, and then learning to finish games, and making plays and who to get the ball to. That’s been a di-lemma for us, no doubt.”

Illinois visits Indiana on Satur-day night. The Hoosiers remain without Maurice Creek, the fresh-man sensation who was injured in a 90-42 win over Bryant. In its first game without Creek, Indiana beat Michigan behind a career night from Verdell Jones III, who filled the stat line with 20 points, eight re-bounds, five assists and three steals. This will be the third time Jones III, a native of Champaign, Ill., who was passed over by Illinois, gets to face the Fighting Illini.

“Verdell is a great kid,” Weber said. “We know his family well. He’s around our program quite a bit. We had a backlog of point guards at the time. He ended up picking a school where he had the opportunity to play, and he’s taking advantage of it. I’m sure it will be an emotional game.”

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individual scoring (points per game)1. Manny Harris, MICH 19.8 ppg2. Talor Battle, PSU 18.8 ppg3. John shurna, nu 17.8 ppg4. DeShawn Sims, MICH 16.7 ppg5. Trevon Hughes, WIS 16.5 ppg

Team scoring (points per game)1. Michigan State 82.4 ppg2. Minnesota 80.7 ppg3. Illinois 79.1 ppg4. Purdue 78.2 ppg5. Ohio State 77.6 ppg

points illinois center Mike Tisdale scored against gonzaga, after he poured in 31 against northwestern.4

ConferenCe leadersindividual rebounding (rebounds per game)1. Mike Davis, ILL 10.4 rpg2. Draymond Green, MSU 7.9 rpg3. John shurna, nu 7.1 rpg4(t). Delvon Roe, MSU 7.0 rpg4(t). DeShawn Sims, MICH 7.0 rpg4(t). Manny Harris, MICH 7.0 rpg

Team rebounding (rebounding margin)1. Michigan State +10.32. Wisconsin +5.63. Penn State +5.54. Illinois +4.55. Purdue +3.1

Sports12 | Wednesday, January 6, 2010

AT DAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM....../sportsBrowse through a photo slideshow of Joe Girardi at NU and in the pros. Also check out a timeline of Girardi’s career, from high school to professional manager.

By Ian KellyThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/wrestling

Northwestern had a tumultuous Winter Break, with a disappoint-ing finish in last week’s Midlands Championships following the an-nouncement of a major shake-up in next year’s coaching staff.

On the mat, the Wildcats (2-3-1) tied for 31st out of 54 teams with seven points after fac-ing some of the country’s top tal-ent in the 47th annual Midlands tournament at Welsh-Ryan Arena . Big Ten rival Iowa won the team title with 168.5 points , making it the Hawkeyes’ third consecutive first-place finish at

the Midlands Championships.

“The team performance as a whole was very disappointing,” junior Andrew

Nadhir said. “I don’t know if guys didn’t cut weight after Christmas or we were just nervous, but our team should be doing much bet-ter than that.”

Although NU did not wrestle well as a team, it had a few indi-vidual bright spots. Top-seeded senior Brandon Precin placed third in the 125-pound weight class , making this the fourth year in a row he has finished in the top eight at the Midlands. The three-time NCAA qualifier , is wrestling unattached , meaning he is not appearing in duals for the Cats this season.

Tenth-seeded Nadhir (149) also came through for the Cats, going deep in his division’s bracket before getting injured

and leaving his match against Michigan State’s David Cheza . A win would have put Nadhir in the seventh-place match.

“I did pretty well,” Nadhir said. “I came back well in my night matches after losing my second match, especially beating the fifth seed from Minnesota. Unfortunately I had to default (against Cheza) after coach (Tim Cysewski) decided it was best.”

Freshman Kevin Bialka (157) also had a strong showing, upset-ting nationally-ranked Bryan Deutsch of Northern Illinois 7-4 in the second round before losing to Mercy’s Andy Lamancusa 13-11 . Deutsch pinned Bialka when the teams met earlier in December.

Despite wrestling at home and receiving strong performances from Precin, Nadhir and Bialka, the Cats had an unsatisfying tournament, as nine wrestlers went 0-2.

“We went in there to place a couple guys and win more matches than we ended up do-ing,” Bialka said. “Up and down the lineup, we didn’t do nearly as well as we wanted to. It was dis-appointing to so many guys, but we’ll be fine.”

But the biggest news for NU came off the mat. The athletic department and Cysewski an-nounced a major re-organization of the coaching staff, effective this summer.

Cysewski, who has led the team the past 20 years, will hand over the program’s reins to cur-rent associate coach and former NU wrestling great Drew Pari-ano . Cysewski will remain as an assistant on Pariano’s staff.

“It's great for Drew to do what he really wants with the team,” Bialka said. “He will focus more on offseason conditioning and regulating workouts in the off-season a little more than Tim did. (Pariano) has been pulling in some good recruits lately so that will probably continue as well.”

Pariano’s recruiting prowess has attracted some of the nation’s best wrestlers to Evanston, in-cluding current NU stars Jason Welch and Precin. This past month, Pariano secured the sec-ond-ranked recruiting class in the nation for next year.

“I always figured Drew would

take over, but didn’t expect it so soon,” Nadhir said. “I’m happy for him, and it’s great because Tim will still be with the pro-gram. It will turn out well, espe-cially since (Cysewski) chose Drew as his successor.”

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Turbulent 2009 leaves NU hopeful

By Jonah L. Rosenblum The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/fencing

In an otherwise successful season, the Wildcats received mixed results in their last meet. Facing some of the best teams college fencing has to offer, in-cluding Temple, Duke, Notre Dame and defending national champion Penn State , Northwest-ern had 13 top-20 finishers at the Penn State Open but was unable to place anyone in the top five of their respective weapons.

The epée team came closest, with senior Christa French com-ing in sixth and freshman Kate Cavanaugh finishing seventh . Se-nior Meredith Baskies and sopho-more Devynn Patterson came in eighth and ninth , respectively, in foil. Freshman Chloe Grainger led the sabre squad, placing 14th.

“We use it as a teaching tourna-ment,” coach Laurie Schiller said. “We get there, we see what they do, and we sit down and say, ‘We’ve got this work to do because come January and February, that’s the meat of the season.’”

NU got its season off to a domi-nant start at the Burton, a United States Fencing Association exhibi-tion tournament open to all fenc-ers. The Cats took home the gold medal in all three weapons.

They nearly did the same at the USFA Remenyik Open, with senior

Joanna Niklinska winning the gold in epée and freshman Alicia Gurri-eri taking gold in sabre. Freshman Dayana Sarkisova came up just short in foil, finishing second.

On Nov. 1, the Cats hosted the USFA Illinois Junior Olympics Qualifier at Patten Gymnasium. Four NU fencers qualified at the event, joining the nine who were already eligi-ble. The Junior Olympics will take place next month in Memphis, Tenn.

The Cats’ next event was the Junior North American Cup, where they got a strong effort from their foil squad. Patterson finished eighth, freshman Dayana Sarkisova finished 19th and soph-omore Camille Provencal finished 25th out of 122 competitors.

After the Junior North Ameri-can Cup, NU began team play at the Stanford Duals, winning all four of its matches. The first one proved to be the toughest, as the epée squad lost six of nine points to host Stanford, but the foil and sabre squads were able to pick up the slack and lead the Cats to a 19-8 victory.

The competition got easier af-ter that, as NU beat Detroit-Mercy and California Tech 27-0 and routed UC San Diego 23-4. The epée squad went 26-1 in the final three matches.

“We ended strong,” senior epée captain Kayley French said.

“In the first bout, maybe we weren’t focused or we weren’t quite ready, but we learned from it and are ready for the bouts to come this year.”

Most encouraging for the Cats was the performance of their sa-bre squad, previously considered the team’s weak spot. The group

left Stanford with a 32-4 re-cord, led by Grainger’s per-fect 10-0 mark in her colle-giate dual debut.

“We had strong sabre squads in the past, but we now have two really dyna-

mite freshmen who come in and help challenge us at practice,” se-nior sabre captain Whitney White said. “That has helped give our squad more confidence.”

With a promising pool of young talent and a strong senior class, NU has many quality fencers.

“This is the strongest team we may ever have had in terms of depth,” Schiller said. “We could start any number of people, espe-cially in epée and foil, and whip nearly anybody.”

Schiller now has 993 victories , with a chance to add to that total when the Cats fence in the Penn Duals on Saturday. NU will play six matches at Penn, meaning Schiller could end the weekend just one shy of the 1,000-win milestone.

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Cats depth leads to hot start, but latest outing shows work remains

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Sorely missed: Senior Brandon Precin was one of NU’s top performers at the Midlands Championships, placing third in the 125-pound weight class. Precin is a three-time NCAA qualifier but is wrestling unattached for the Cats this season, meaning he will not wrestle in any of NU’s dual meets.

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