The Daily Northwestern — Oct. 28, 2011

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NU’s strategic plan aims to unify, shape school’s identity

By Katherine Driessendaily senior staffer

When University President Morton Schapiro and Provost Dan Linzer unveil Northwestern’s stra-tegic plan Nov. 1, Schapiro’s two signature � elds of scholarship — higher education and economics — will meet. And if Schapiro is lucky, they’ll hit it o� .

A� er two years of planning, revising and soliciting input from the Northwestern community, Schapiro and Linzer are beginning the extensive process of courting the academic and economic mar-ket; attempting to translate the

University’s prospective 10-year design into donations and, ulti-mately, implementation.

“(� e plan) seems to be com-pelling,” Schapiro said. ”I’m doing 30 dinners with the University’s most loyal friends and supporters ... My job now is to sell.”

� e pitch will be a plan Linzer said has the potential to ultimately “change the culture” at NU, merg-ing pre-professional and liberal-arts mentalities as well as the dis-tinct undergraduate and graduate interests inherent to a university reliant on research dollars. Within Linzer’s overarching goal of stream-lining the NU identity, sources

say the plan could include more residential housing, an increase in aid for international students, expansion of NU’s international partnerships and campuses and a focus on co-curricular under-graduate education. � e challenge in the planning, Linzer said, was preempting community members to think about the schools’ collec-tive, rather than individual, goals.

Even once the plan is presented next week, there is no guarantee the ideas included will ultimately be realized. Schapiro said though the plan is more “strategic” in

Local MoveOn members noti� ed of Cantor speech

� e more than 500 members of the Illinois 9th District MoveOn Council have been noti� ed of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s on-campus speech Friday, the progressive group’s local leader con� rmed � ursday.

MoveOn regional coordinator Larry Goldberg said there are “already a number of emails going around” among similar-minded groups and his members will only add to that growing protest.

However, Friday’s mobilization is not an o cial MoveOn event, he added.

“We want to show a presence against what Can-tor stands for,” Goldberg said.

� e No. 2 Republican in the House will speak

about income inequality 12:15 to 1 p.m. Friday at the Kellogg School of Management’s Allen Center, 2169 Campus Drive .

Goldberg said MoveOn participants will likely join other protesters along nearby Sheridan Road .

Other demonstrators appearing Friday will rep-resent Occupy Northwestern, Occupy Chicago and Occupy Evanston, according to their respective spokespeople and Facebook postings.

MoveOn members have also been encouraged to participate in Friday night’s Occupy Evanston protest outside the downtown Chase Bank , Gold-berg said.

Cantor was slated to deliver a similar speech last week at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School but backed out a� er Occupy protesters and other progressive activists gathered outside the venue .

— Patrick Svitek

Black enrollment up, but issues remain

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On one hand, it made me feel special and kind of distinguished. On the other hand, it was kind of shocking

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By Safi ya Merchantthe daily northwestern

� is week marks the two-year anniversary of Northwestern’s blackface incident, when two students used blackface in their

Halloween costumes, igniting a campus-wide controversy and triggering a discussion about race relations at NU.

About a week a� er the inci-dent, then-Weinberg sophomore Kellyn Lewis wrote in a letter

to The Daily that the episode re� ected a troubling racial climate on campus.

“Images like these not only serve to dehumanize all mem-bers of the black community at NU and abroad," he wrote, "but it points to the lack of respect for one’s peers and illuminates a

mentality held by a multitude of people at NU.”

In the wake of the incident, the University hosted a forum to address the history of blackface. Students at the forum voiced additional concerns, including racial pro� ling, and newly inau-gurated University President

Morton Schapiro pledged to create a more inclusive campus environment.

Two years later, despite increases in minority enrollment, Lewis and other black members of the NU community said they

I’m already kind of used to be in situations where I am the only black person around.

Jordan Minor,Medill sophomore

I think that there needs to be a more consistent effort to have dialogues around diversity

Ryan L. Arrendell,Medill junior

I wasn’t going to determine my college choice simply based on the number of black people who were here.

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Behind the numbers: Black enrollment hit a record-low 87 students in NU’s class of 2012, but the number of black students has increased in each class since. Two years after a controversial blackface incident on campus, some students say the increase is not indicative of a more inclusive community.

See RACERELATIONS, page 5

See PLAN, page 5

By Marshall Cohenthe daily northwestern

Evanston mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl joined other northwest suburban mayors and council members Wednesday on a trip to Spring� eld to lobby for bet-ter storm response from elec-tric company Commonwealth Edison.

Tisdahl and other repre-sentatives from the Northwest Municipal Conference ini-tially arrived to lobby against SB 1652 , which would allow ComEd to raise rates in order to pay for a project to build new “smart” power grids in the state.

However, an 11th-hour agreement between ComEd and the NWMC � nalized Wednes-day night led the NWMC to withdraw its opposition to the bill and instead endorse a posi-tion of neutrality.

“We initially wanted the bill to have language that would address the storm response,” city spokesperson Eric Palmer said. “� ere were major power outages during the storms this summer, and we really wanted that to be addressed in the lan-guage of the bill.”

Ultimately, both chambers passed the bill Wednesday with enough votes to override Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn’s veto, which he issued Sept. 12.

“� e consumers of Illinois

are deeply disappointed today in the General Assembly’s action to give Commonwealth Edison and Ameren guaran-teed annual rate increases for each of the next 10 years, and so am I,” the governor said in a prepared statement his o ce issued Wednesday a� ernoon.

A ComEd spokesperson said � ursday only two people in the company were authorized to discuss this “sensitive issue,” and both were unavailable for comment.

State Sen. Je� Schoenberg (D-Evanston) voted against the bill. Shiva Mohsenzadeh, his chief of sta� , said Schoe-nberg is a strong opponent of raising electricity prices on consumers.

“� e state senator has his-torically not been supportive of rate hikes and has voted against them because ComEd was not investing the money into upgrading and updating its infrastructure,” Mohsenza-deh said.

State Rep. Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston) broke with her colleagues and voted in favor of the bill a� er learning about a late breakthrough in negotia-tions between ComEd and the NWMC.

“I spoke with Mayor Tisdahl, and the deal was that unless ComEd came to an agreement

NWMC satis� ed with ComEd bill

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By Susan Duthe daily northwestern

Retired ad man Pat Shiplett, a history enthusi-ast, is combining expertise in art production and marketing with his love for history to spearhead an awareness campaign for a special client: the U.S. Constitution.

Shiplett began the educational website our-constitutionalrights.com two years ago but began making an effort to publicize it within the past week. He said his mission is to make consti-tutionally backed rights more accessible and understandable for the public by making them “fun” to read about.

The website homepage had this to say about the germ of American history:

“More than two hundred years ago, the Amer-ican colonists got ticked off at the way England was jacking them around. They got so angry they worked up the Declaration of Independence and politely told King George III if he didn’t like it, he was welcome to shove it up his Royal Highness. Turned out to be a big freakin’ deal.”

Daily: What was your incentive for creating www.ourconstitutionalrights.com?

Pat Shiplett: It’s something that I love to do. I’ve been in the ad business my whole career, working with production in film and video and stuff. I got interested in constitutional rights

because I did a series of political cartoons in various papers. I got to realize how important these rights are and how little we know about them and how poorly they sometimes come across in textbooks. I thought hey, I could take up the Constitution as an unofficial, pro-bono client and that’s what I did.

Daily: How does your experience in the adver-tising industry translate into what you’re doing now?

Pat Shiplett: There’s almost a direct parallel. I basically handled (the website) as I would a creative director in an advertising firm. I deter-mined what the important things of the Consti-tution are to citizens. In normal marketing you’d call it the consumer benefit. I realized the most important things to us about the Constitution are the rights. The fact that the president takes office on a certain day doesn’t really matter to me, but if I get picked up by police it’s important to me to know my rights.

Daily: Who is your target audience?Pat Shiplett: The target audience would be

people somewhere between 16 and 30, older high school kids, community college kids in the inner city who might find it useful. I’ve been finding that a lot of people outside these age groups find it very interesting as well. There are many his-tory buffs in the world, people who went to law school, poli-sci majors. There are also people who follow politics very closely or are involved in

patriotic organizations. It’s still a relatively new operation so we’re learning as we go along and are getting glimpses into these groups.

Daily: Will your site cover the 2012 elections?

Pat Shiplett: I don’t know. I think that if some of the candidates claim to be representing the real Constitution ... if some candidate takes a really strong constitutional stance and if they claim they represent the Constitution, then I suspect more people would go to the site. It also depends on how the media drives interest in the Constitution.

Daily: Will there be opportunities for North-western students to get involved with your site?

Pat Shiplett: I would love to have students — journalism students, history students, anybody interested who are web jockeys interested in web development. We have things they could do. Some of them might help us write blog stories, edit video, work on topics for quizzes, brainstorm about features that the site might come up with in the future. But of course this has been paid for out of my own pocket. I consider this a non-commercial, politically neutral, public service website. If anybody wanted to volunteer, I would talk to the school to see what opportunities there would be for collaboration.

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Durbin to tour Evanston neighborhood as part of government program

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) will visit Evanston on Friday to tour part of the Neighborhood Stabili-zation Program 2 area on the city’s south side.

NSP2, a provision of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was created to assist neighborhoods most severely impacted by

foreclosed and abandoned properties. Evanston secured $18.15 million in funding to stabilize por-tions of its west and south, and to spur economic opportunities for local residents and businesses, according to a news release issued Wednesday.

As part of the Evanston NSP2 effort, the city will fund the rehabilitation of 100 foreclosed and vacant housing units in the target area for sale or rent to income-eligible households, according to the news release.

Thus far, about 75 foreclosed housing units have

been acquired or are under site control.It will also purchase and redevelop vacant and

decrepit industrial property for the first phase of Evanston Square, a mixed-income community featuring apartments, townhomes and single fam-ily homes for rent and ownership, according to the news release.

The development team is planning to begin construction on Emerson Square next spring.

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By Ciara McCarthythe daily northwestern

Students for Ecological and Environmental Development is starting an initiative to make the way campus dining halls clean their dishes more eco-friendly.

The current method requires students to scrape their dishes clean of food and then place them vertically in a dish rack. Dirty dishes are placed on a conveyor belt, rinsed with water to get rid of the extra food and then placed into the dish-washer. SEED is proposing the use of new dish racks that would eliminate the need to rinse the dishes, skipping a step and saving a significant amount of water.

The idea began in 2009 as a Design for America project led by Weinberg senior Thea Klein-Mayer and alumnus Yuri Malina (McCormick ‘11). Klein-Mayer and the DFA team spent several months conducting research in Sargent and Allison dining halls, both of which use circular conveyor belts to transport dishes from the halls to the kitchens. The team realized the water used to clear dishes of food scraps could be eliminated with a more innovative dish rack.

“Waste is built into the system,” Malina said. “If you take two seconds (to clear your plate), you make it so waste isn’t a part of the system.”

After completing research and building proto-types for the dish racks, the team tested the new design in Sargent in March 2010 with positive results. According to a report issued by the DFA team, who dubbed the project “Right Angle,” the new dish racks saved approximately 140 gallons of water over a four-hour lunch period. Without Right Angle, dining halls used about 175 gallons of water to rinse dishes off during the same period. Right Angle’s projections estimate that, if imple-mented full-time, the racks could save 525 gallons per day in one dining hall.

The new racks would cost about $600 per dining

hall, Malina said. These expenses would be offset by the savings in water costs, which he estimated to be $125 annually. To pay for the dish racks, the SEED team plans to apply for funding from the Initiative for Sustainability and Energy.

The team hoped to finalize the new design right away. Plans were stalled, however, when the team’s point of contact in SodexoUSA left, Klein-Mayer said.

Two years later, Klein-Meyer approached SEED, of which she is a member of the executive board, to see if it would support the project.

“We are a big presence on campus and we have lots of passionate members,” said Emma Solanki, co-president of SEED. The Weinberg senior said water usage is one of the group’s main focuses this year.

Klein-Mayer and Malina met with four SEED members Wednesday to discuss the project. For now, the group will aim to do more extensive test-ing, Malina said, adding they will continue work-ing with Sodexo to make this project a reality.

Sodexo District Manager Steve Mangan said he is also hopeful the Right Angle project will be successful.

“We are committed to exploring the viability of it,” Mangan said. “I want to use our resources to change the status quo and make a difference in our community.”

But some challenges remain. The new team must address the potential problems of line build-ups and where students should dispose of their liquids, and must also receive official approval from Northwestern administrators.

Because NU pays for the water that Sodexo uses, it should be in the University’s interest to invest in the project, said Klein-Mayer.

In addition, the current design is only usable in Allison and Sargent dining halls, so to implement the plan across campus, the team would have to design racks that could work for linear conveyor belts.

While the group has not yet determined a dead-line for the project, Klein-Mayer said she hopes it will be finished within the year.

“I’m graduating this year and I really want to see it happen,” she said.

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SEED proposes new eco-friendly dish racks

Christian Wilson/The Daily Northwestern

Water it down: SEED hopes new dish racks will reduce water use in cleaning trays.

CAMPUS CALENDARCrain Lecture Series: Bonnie AndersonFriday, 4 p.m. to 6p.m.McCormick Tribune Center Forum

Journalist and author Bonnie Anderson will speak to students as a part of the Crain Lecture series. Anderson spent two decades working with NBC News and CNN, and was a founder and managing editor of CNN En Español. She is also the winner of the 2011 Outstanding Woman’s Alumnae Award from the Alumnae of North-western University, an award she will receive Oct. 30.

A Tea Party to Occupy the RockFriday, 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.The Rock

Student organization Sincerely, America is hosting a rally at The Rock. Activities inspired by recent Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party protest movements will include making signs, hearing small group speeches, painting the rock and a march through campus.

Farm to Fridge ViewingWednesday, Nov. 2, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.Norris University Center

National animal advocacy organization Mercy for Animals is partnering with the Northwestern student organization ACT For Animals to present a “paid-per-view” showing of the documentary, Farm to Fridge. Students will receive $1 and a free Vegetarian Starter Kit to watch a 4-minute clip.

By Christine Nguyenthe daily northwestern

Hundreds of Evanston and Chicago-area children clad in princess attire and animal-wear crowded Norris University Center on Thursday for Project Pumpkin, a two-and-a-half hour event of indoor trick-or-treating, face painting and dozens of other Halloween festivities.

The annual fall event, which took place from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., is sponsored by the Northwest-ern Community Development Corps, a student organization dedicated to building mutually ben-eficial relationships between Northwestern and Evanston and Chicago-area communities. NCDC members and volunteers transformed the second floor of Norris for the Halloween event, complete with scary decorations, volunteers dressed in out-landish costumes and a haunted house.

“This is probably one of my favorite days of the year,” NCDC Co-Chair Rachel Rosen said. “It’s just always so much fun. We usually have about 100 kids total, both from our volunteer sites and the Evanston community.”

Dozens of NU student groups, residential col-leges and Greek organizations participated, with each providing different activities, including craft-making, pumpkin bowling, palm reading and cookie decorating. Students not participating with an organization were given the opportunity to volunteer as chaperones.

“I just love Halloween and little kids and having fun,” McCormick freshman and student chaperone MaryBeth O’Neil said. “My job is pretty much to take them from room to room, be altogether enthu-siastic and pump them up about Halloween.”

Official Evanston trick-or-treating hours are from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday , according to the City of Evanston website, and while trick-or-treat-ing outside of those hours is not illegal, it is not encouraged.

For Chicago resident Linda Kimbrough-Sneed, who came to Project Pumpkin with her grand-daughter, lack of safety is a deal-breaker.

“It’s best for children to have a curfew for them to be safe,” Kimbrough-Sneed said. “I’ve never been here before, but (my granddaughter) has, and I hear it’s a great event so we’re back for a second year.”

The event was open to the public and free for any children participating. Attendees included children from community centers, after-school programs and other service organizations in the Evanston and Chicago areas. NCDC provided buses for any volunteer sites that needed help

transporting kids to and from Northwestern for the event.

“We have 34 kids with us today and they love coming here,” said Lawrence Carter, youth leader-ship manager at the McGaw YMCA, 1000 Grove St. “I’ve been coming here for six years. It’s just something we always do. I’ve worked at organiza-tions in Chicago, Evanston, all around and we always come here.”

For six-year-old Cenaya Temple, however, Proj-ect Pumpkin was not all fun and games.

“There was a man with a white mask,” she said after leaving the haunted house. “It was so scary. I almost peed my pants.”

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Trick-or-Treat!: Hundreds of Evanston and Chicago-area children flocked to Norris University Center Thursday to take part in NCDC’s Project Pumpkin.

One simple question: does Herman Cain make you “feel good?”

On this end, the answer is a resounding ‘hell no.’

Herman Cain, the entrepreneur behind the Godfather’s Pizza chain, is emerging as a front-runner in the current GOP primary battle, but he’s doing it as a black apologizer. Many of his recent remarks regarding race in America sug-gest his apparent identity crisis, especially his recent remarks on black voting behaviors.

In a September interview with Wolf Blitzer, Cain asserts that blacks are “brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view.” He goes on to say that “this whole notion that all black Americans are necessarily going to stay and vote Democrat and vote for Obama, that’s simply not true. More and more black Americans are thinking for themselves. And that’s a good thing.”

� at’s a problem.Yes, it’s true that research consistently shows

that a he� y majority of blacks identify as Demo-crats. However, blacks are more conservative than most, including Mr. Cain, might think.

Take a look at two controversial issues that keep conservatives especially � red up these days.

With California’s Proposition 8, the infa-mous 2008 referendum that de� ned marriages in California as a union between a man and a woman, initial exit polls suggested 70 percent of blacks in California voted “yes.” Further analysis concluded a lower � gure of nearly 58 percent, prompting apologies from many media � gures, including Dan Savage, for scapegoating black people in what was seen as a major step back for marriage equality. � e debacle showed many that black voting behaviors are not “one size � ts all.”

On abortion, Gallup’s 2008-2011 data set concluded that black Democrats were more likely than white Democrats to hold pro-life views, with 39 percent of blacks compared to 29 percent of whites. Interestingly enough, Gallup’s data contained too few black Republicans for a com-parable look at racial views on abortion.

If Gallup can’t identify enough black Repub-licans to generate sound polling data, I wonder how Cain gets to his conclusion that a third of black voters would support him instead of Obama.

In fact, his assertion is ludicrous.Cain thinks that “they’ll be voting for me

because of my policies and because of what I’m o� ering to � x this economy,” as he told Blitzer.

Sorry to burst your bubble, Mr. Cain, but one of the main reasons blacks support Democrats is that, unlike Republicans, they advocate for policies and programs that allow more equal access to opportunity. � is is important given our nation’s lasting legacy of slavery, racism and segregation.

� e GOP establishment, in contrast, tends to roll back policies that support most blacks, all while denying claims of racism. � e examples are numerous: attempts to railroad civil rights, relative lack of diversity in appointments, poli-cies codifying racism in the justice system, and many more. And let’s not forget the recent birther controversy.

I do not think it was a coincidence that Michael Steele was voted the � rst black Repub-lican National Committee chairman following Obama’s election. � ere’s a clear pattern of more diverse administrations and many blacks are smart enough to see it.

Perhaps it’s Mr. Cain who is brainwashed? My head is nodding in response to that question.

� is may seem sick to you, but I actually hope Herman Cain bests former Massachu-setts governor Mitt Romney and the rest of the RepubliCANTs (yes, that was intentional) in the primary so I can watch the Dems dismantle the bu� oonery of his campaign. � at or I hope to see Bachmann continue dressing like she’s Cap’n Crunch (Google the Oct. 19 debate and see what I mean).

Because, in reality, the only thing Cain’s the “godfather” of these days is race baiting.

Herman Cain takes any opportunity he can to discuss race, o� en in a smugly o� ensive manner. His “electric fence” remarks on immigration and his silly notion that race is no longer a factor in American life characterize a man who, honestly, appears to me as if he’s apologizing on behalf of his race. It’s as if he takes special joy in acting as the anti-Obama in the current presidential primary cycle.

Cain may make some GOP folks feel “so good, so good,” judging from his recent surge in polls, but does he have you?

‘Cause he doesn’t have me, and he never will.

Derrick Cli� on is a Communications senior. He can be reached at Derrick.b.cli� [email protected]

Friday, october 28, 2011

Smartphone apps, if done right, can empower the artist and the listener and revolutionize how we listen to music.

From a “Pimple Popper” app to a “Dat-eCheck” app, which weighs the sleaziness of your date against his net worth, it seems like your smartphone will do anything for you these days. One of the latest trends in smartphone technology is the use of apps by artists to promote their names, albums and even specific gigs.

The new technology allows artists to fur-ther assert their creative expression through their music and allows fans to connect more intimately with their favorite artists. Many artists, unfortunately, are using them strictly as marketing tools. If artists approach apps as an opportunity to innovate and explore their artistic ideas in the visual and tactile way only possible through the integration of the internet and the touch screen on smart-phones and iPads, they can revolutionize the listening experience.

Advances in music listening technology up until now have been detrimental to the artist’s engagement with the listener. The tactile allure of the vinyl record, with its large space for album art, got significantly scaled down with the invention of tape

cassettes, and later, CDs. These mediums did, however, still allow artists to create cover art and booklets they could share with consumers. With the introduction of digital music libraries like iTunes and the dreaded “shuffle” setting, artists lost all control over their relationship with the listener.

The traditional notion of the album as a continuous musical narrative with a begin-ning, a middle and end has been completely violated, as it’s far less common for listeners to listen to an entire album straight through than to select whatever songs to listen to in whatever order they wish. Album artwork has also disappeared, except for maybe a tiny thumbnail of the album cover that shows up at the bottom of your iTunes.

With smartphone apps, however, the concept of the album is coming back again in a whole new way. Apps created by artists like Lady Gaga, Coldplay and Jay-Z include album artwork, lyrics, video catalogues, interviews with the artists and newsfeeds so you can stay as up-to-date and immersed in your favorite artists as you like. The app Mobile Roadie makes these features acces-sible for bands at all levels, down to those still playing out of their parents’ garage, by allowing anyone to create apps to eas-ily share music, videos and news with fans. These apps allow fans and artists to have a much higher level of access to each other and allow artists to embellish their album with an artistic and informational experi-ence that’s impossible to convey on iTunes or Pandora alone.

A couple weeks ago, the artist Bjork released her new album, “Biophilia,” which has taken this trend to its furthest point so far. The album is completely integrated with a series of apps that can be accessed through your iPhone or iPad. Fashioned like a universe in which each planet is a differ-ent song, one app allows you to explore the

universe of the album using the touchpad while listening to one of the tracks or to see the musical score and lyrics as they occur through the song. Another app lets you play a game related to the song. The app was artistically directed by M/M, an art design company that used to direct French Vogue. While Bjork’s app is no doubt part promo-tional gimmick, it also gives the listener the opportunity to engage with the artistic mes-sage of the album in an interactive way.

However, some artists miss the potential that apps have to engage the listener, instead treating them as simply another way to com-modify their music. Owl City published an app that gives fans points for playing games and networking with other fans, rewarding them with an exclusive track. The Streets launched an app that scans barcodes on products such as a can of Heinz beans or a certain issue of “The Guardian” in order to

release exclusive tracks and videos. Blurring the line between marketing and the sharing of artistic content is fine, but blatantly using apps as promotional tools simply adds to the clutter of advertising we already get in our daily lives.

However, it appears that the next wave in music consumerism is developing through apps, and there is no point in resisting the direction of change.

Apps give artists the opportunity to engage artistically with the listener in an unprecedented way thanks to the medium of the touchpad on smartphones and iPads, but artists need to be conscious that they are using these apps with concern for their artistic integrity.

Natalie Friedman is a Weinberg senior. She can be reached at [email protected]

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2011The Daily Northwestern

By Colin Bechtdaily senior staffer

It kicks in on the � rst day.� at’s when Pat Fitzgerald said a new head coach feels like the

team is his, mainly because the weight of all the team’s questions immediately rests on his shoulders.

“Right away you’ve got to come up with all the answers,” Fitzger-ald said.

It’s a common sentiment around the Big Ten this year, as four new coaches have taken over football programs, each with his own unique challenges to address.

� ere’s Jerry Kill, a longtime head coach getting his � rst shot with a BCS team at Minnesota; Brady Hoke, the man entrusted with reviving the crumbled Michigan legacy; Kevin Wilson, an o� ensive guru attempting to rebuild the � oundering Indiana program; and Luke Fickell, an assistant suddenly thrust into the head coaching gig amid Ohio State’s turmoil.

� e four new coaches, each facing daunting challenges, prove a dream job is anything but a fantasy.

Minnesota makeover� e title of head coach is nothing new for Jerry Kill. It’s the

prestige of the conference he’s coaching in that is unique.Kill has been a collegiate head coach since 1994, working himself

up from Division II Saginaw Valley State and Emporia State to the FCS with Southern Illinois to Northern Illinois in the FBS and � nally to a BCS conference as leader of the Golden Gophers.

It’s been a long road for Kill, with the only constant of a coaching sta� that has stayed mostly the same since 1999 at Emporia State.

“Probably the thing that’s helped us the most is that I’ve had a coaching sta� that’s been with me a long time,” Kill said at Big Ten Media Days in July. “When you take a new job over and you’re going into a new place, having people that are familiar with what you’re doing, it helps us get maybe started a little quicker.”

� at logic has proved true at both Southern Illinois and Northern Illinois, where Kill amassed 55-32 and 23-16 records, respectively.

It’s been a little more di� cult, however, at Minnesota, as the Gophers are o� to a 1-6 start and Kill has yet to register his � rst conference win. In fact, Kill has had less success against Big Ten

opponents with Minnesota than he did

playing Big Ten squads in non-conference matchups at Northern Illinois. Kill went 2-3 against Big Ten teams during his three years with the Huskies, notching wins over Purdue and Minnesota.

However, Kill said it’s a little easier to knock o� a single Big Ten opponent, knowing you don’t have to play another on the following Saturday.

“When you’re at a mid-major, you may play two or three,” Kill said. “� at’s a huge game when you play them. You’re not playing that competition week in, week out, week in, week out. I think that’s the di� erence.”

Taking over a program that’s had one winning season in the past � ve years and hasn’t won a Big Ten championship since 1967, Kill, who received a seven-year contract extension this week, had no expectations of a quick � x.

“Are we going to be able to be exactly like we’d like to be right o� the bat? Probably not,” Kill said. “We don’t want to ask kids to do something they can’t do.”

Hoke springs eternalTrying to renew a more esteemed legacy is Brady Hoke, who

replaced Rich Rodriguez at the helm of the Wolverines.A� er going 11-2 and 9-4 in the � nal two years under Lloyd Carr,

Michigan failed to � nish higher than seventh in three years with Rodriguez and made just one bowl appearance. Still, with Michigan’s illustrious history as the all-time winningest school in college foot-ball history, Hoke insisted the Wolverines never have to rebuild.

“I don’t think we’re rebuilding, period,” Hoke said. “I mean, we’re Michigan.”

Hoke has certainly brought major changes to the Wolverines with o� ensive coordinator Al Borges switching Michigan from a spread o� ense to a pro-style o� ense.

“Our players at this point have done a nice job handling the transition of a new sta� ,” Hoke said. “New system on defense, new system on o� ense, and how they’re being coached, what they’re being asked to do.”

� ough Borges’ decision to switch to a pro-style o� ense despite using dual-threat quarterback Denard Robinson was initially ques-tioned, the Wolverines have had no trouble putting up points, scor-ing more than 30 points � ve times this season.

An added boost to Hoke’s goals of returning the Wolverines to the Big Ten’s elite, Michigan’s name still carries plenty weight in recruiting.

“� is might sound arrogant, and if it is, it is. We’re Michigan,” Hoke said. “� ose guys out on the road (recruiting), they work it and they do a tremendous job. But � rst and foremost, it’s Michigan.”

The Wilson way� e luxury of a distinguished legacy does not

apply to Indiana’s new head coach, Kevin Wilson, who will have to get the wins � rst before his pro-gram generates any buzz.

“It’s all about the future moving forward and it starts with me,” Wilson said. “I have no issues in complaining or what should have been done or why things have happened in the past. I want our fans to be excited about it, but they’re not

going to be until we win games and do the things that winners do. When we get our program in place, that’s when the culture will change.”

Wilson, in his � rst collegiate head coaching job, has no intention of waiting to change that culture and convinced the Indiana seniors that their � nal season wouldn’t be a rebuilding year.

“We’re not trying to be good four, � ve, six years from now,” Wilson said. “� e No. 1 job our sta� has done and our strength sta� has done is recruiting

the current Indiana football team, giving these seniors a chance to have a great year.”

Unfortunately for the Hoosiers, that “great year” hasn’t occurred. Indiana is 1-7 on the year, leaving the Hoosiers unable to obtain just their second winning season since 1994.

Still, Wilson’s players have faith that the former Oklahoma o� en-sive coordinator will turn things around in Bloomington, Ind.

“� e � rst thing he said when he got here was that he was going to change the program around. � at’s what he’s de� nitely doing,” senior wide receiver Damarlo Belcher said. “He’s de� nitely going to change the program around in the next few years.”

The new VestFor Luke Fickell, unlike his fellow new coaches, the task isn’t to

turn Ohio State around, but rather to ride out a storm of tumult as unharmed as possible.

Fickell was named head coach in late May a� er former coach Jim Tressel resigned amid NCAA allegations of wrongdoing.

“Everything happened pretty fast,” Fickell said. “� e greatest thing I guess I could say is I had no time to sit and think. I had no time to feel sorry of any sort, to have a whole lot of emotion. � e situation arose and obviously I had to stand up.”

� e Fickell era has not gone well so far at Ohio State, as the Buckeyes have gone just 4-3 this year a� er winning or sharing each of the last six Big Ten titles. Ohio State vacated its conference championship as well as all of its wins from last season as part of its punishment for Tressel’s and players’ NCAA rules transgressions.

Luckily for Fickell, like with Michigan, Ohio State’s legacy still symbolizes success with recruits.

“We always, since I’ve been at Ohio State, focused on the history and traditions of what Ohio State has brought,” Fickell said. “It’s big-ger than any one person, any one coach or era. I truly believe that Ohio State will always attract top-notch student-athletes around the country no matter what.”

A simpler timeOn the opposite end of the spectrum to the Big Ten’s four new

coaches is Penn State’s Joe Paterno, who has been the head coach of the Nittany Lions since 1966. When Paterno was � rst hired a� er Rip Engle retired, it was a much simpler time for college coaches.

“Engle came in and said to me, ‘I think I’m going to retire and I think you have a good shot at the game,’” Paterno said. “(� en-athletic director Ernie McCoy) called me in the o� ce and he said, ‘Rip is retiring.’

“I said, ‘Yeah, he told me.’“He said, ‘Do you want this job?’“I said, ‘Yeah.’ He said, ‘OK, it’s yours.’“I said, ‘� at’s great.’“He said, ‘10 thousand bucks a year.’ He said, ‘I’m teasing, 20

thousand you’re getting.’ Never signed a contract.”Asked to explain his longevity as a coach, Paterno couldn’t

say, other than maybe not having to deal with as much media attention.

“We don’t have as many of you guys around as some of these other guys,” Paterno said. “� at helps. We’re in that little town up there in State College.”

Of course winning also helps, and Paterno has done plenty of that. His 408 career victories tie for the most all-time in Division I football.

With wins as the biggest factor in contract extensions, it would seem that Hoke can feel con� dent while Kill, Wilson and Fickell still have work to do to prove their worth in their � rst seasons.

As Hoke said, “You don’t get a second chance to make a � rst impression.”

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opponents with Minnesota than he did “� is might sound arrogant, and if it is, it is. We’re Michigan,”

Hoke said. “� ose guys out on the road (recruiting), they work it and they do a tremendous job. But � rst and foremost, it’s Michigan.”

The Wilson way� e luxury of a distinguished legacy does not

apply to Indiana’s new head coach, Kevin Wilson, who will have to get the wins � rst before his pro-gram generates any buzz.

“It’s all about the future moving forward and it starts with me,” Wilson said. “I have no issues in complaining or what should have been done or why things have happened in the past. I want our fans to be excited about it, but they’re not

going to be until we win games and do the things that winners do. When we get our program in place, that’s when the culture will change.”

Wilson, in his � rst collegiate head coaching job, has no intention of waiting to change that culture and convinced the Indiana seniors that their � nal season wouldn’t be a rebuilding year.

“We’re not trying to be good four, � ve, six years from now,” Wilson said. “� e No. 1 job our sta� has done and our strength sta� has done is recruiting

Hop on the coaching carouselGAMEDAY

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10/29, 11 a.m.

Taking their turn: Michigan’s Brady Hoke, Indiana’s Kevin Wilson, Minnesota’s Jerry Kill and Ohio State’s Luke Fickell all hopped on the Big Ten’s coaching carousel.

Photo courtesy of Marissa McClain/The Michigan Daily

Photo courtesy of Connor Wollensak/ Indiana Daily Student

Photo courtesy of Joe Michaud-Scorza/The Minnesota Daily

Photo courtesy of Andy Gottesman/andygottesman.com

Michigan’s Brady Hoke, Indiana’s Kevin Wilson, Minnesota’s Jerry Kill and Ohio State’s Luke Fickell all hopped on the Big Ten’s coaching carousel.

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Kevin Wilson is no stranger to the team that enters Memorial Stadium on Saturday to face his Hoosiers.

The Indiana coach was Northwestern’s offensive coordinator from 1999-2001 and worked with Pat Fitzgerald when the Wild-cats’ coach came on staff as the secondaey coach in 2001 . NU’s spread offense has not changed much since Wilson left following the 2001 campaign, but Wilson said that offensive coordinator Mick McCall has put his own spin on the offense.

“You always play to your players and their strengths,” Wilson said on the Big Ten coaches teleconference. “They are doing so much more in empty (backfield) with Mick. They’ve estab-lished a nice way of spreading the field, dis-tributing the ball and scoring points. And they’re doing that without stressing their defense.”

Indiana (1-7, 0-4 Big Ten ) will have to worry about NU’s offense. The Cats (2-5, 0-4 ) are putting up almost 28 points per game, good for 67th in the country . Meanwhile, the Hoosiers’ defense is allowing 33.4 points per game, which puts them 102nd in the nation in scoring defense . The only saving grace for Indiana is that it is ranked 45th in passing defense , which will come in handy against NU’s 53rd ranked passing offense.

There is a lot of concern in Evanston sur-rounding who will play quarterback for NU. Senior Dan Persa missed practice Tuesday while nursing turf toe on his left foot. Soph-omore Kain Colter and redshirt freshman Trevor Siemian took snaps with the first team on Tuesday, but Persa returned to practice on Wednesday and is expected to play for the

Cats. The carousel of quarterbacks does not faze Wilson, who said that while the quarter-backs may change, schematically it’s all the same.

“The pass concepts, the formations, con-ceptually what they’re doing doesn’t change,” Wilson said. “Maybe just a little bit more emphasis on (Colter) running around. He’s a really good athlete.”

Meanwhile, the Hoosiers have the reign-ing Big Ten Freshman of the Week in quar-terback Tre Roberson . The true freshman went 16-for-24 through the air for 197 yards and a touchdown, adding 84 yards on the ground to lead the team in rushing against Iowa .

Roberson is the third quarterback Indiana has used this season, and he has already impressed some of his teammates. Tight end Max Ded-mond said Roberson has tremendous poise for a 19-year-old.

“He was just relaxed out there (against Iowa),” Dedmond told IUhoosiers.com. “It was nice to see a young guy like that come in and step up and do what he could to help our ball club.”

While the Hoosiers keep getting healthier, their biggest offensive threat is still sidelined with a knee injury. Receiver Damarlo Belcher is questionable for the game against NU after missing Indiana’s last three halves of football. Belcher leads the Hoosiers with 286 yards receiving and 25 catches .

The injury would be welcome news for NU’s struggling secondary. The Cats are ranked 93rd against the pass , giving up almost 248 yards per game through the air .

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Kevin Wilson is no stranger to the team that enters Memorial Stadium on Saturday to face his Hoosiers.

The Indiana coach was Northwestern’s offensive coordinator from 1999-2001 and worked with Pat Fitzgerald when the Wild-cats’ coach came on staff as the secondaey coach in 2001 . NU’s spread offense has not changed much since Wilson left following the 2001 campaign, but Wilson said that offensive coordinator Mick McCall has put his own spin on the offense.

“You always play to your players and their strengths,” Wilson said on the Big Ten coaches teleconference. “They are doing so much more in empty (backfield) with Mick. They’ve estab-lished a nice way of spreading the field, dis-tributing the ball and scoring points. And they’re doing that without stressing their defense.”

Indiana (1-7, 0-4 Big Ten ) will have to worry about NU’s offense. The Cats (2-5, 0-4 ) are putting up almost 28 points per game, good for 67th in the country . Meanwhile, the Hoosiers’ defense is allowing 33.4 points per game, which puts them 102nd in the nation in scoring defense . The only saving grace for Indiana is that it is ranked 45th in passing defense , which will come in handy against NU’s 53rd ranked passing offense.

There is a lot of concern in Evanston sur-rounding who will play quarterback for NU. Senior Dan Persa missed practice Tuesday while nursing turf toe on his left foot. Soph-omore Kain Colter and redshirt freshman Trevor Siemian took snaps with the first team on Tuesday, but Persa returned to practice on Wednesday and is expected to play for the

Cats. The carousel of quarterbacks does not faze Wilson, who said that while the quarter-backs may change, schematically it’s all the same.

“The pass concepts, the formations, con-ceptually what they’re doing doesn’t change,” Wilson said. “Maybe just a little bit more emphasis on (Colter) running around. He’s a really good athlete.”

Meanwhile, the Hoosiers have the reign-ing Big Ten Freshman of the Week in quar-terback Tre Roberson . The true freshman went 16-for-24 through the air for 197 yards and a touchdown, adding 84 yards on the ground to lead the team in rushing against Iowa .

Roberson is the third quarterback Indiana has used this season, and he has already impressed some of his teammates. Tight end Max Ded-mond said Roberson has tremendous poise for a 19-year-old.

“He was just relaxed out there (against Iowa),” Dedmond told IUhoosiers.com. “It was nice to see a young guy like that come in and step up and do what he could to help our ball club.”

While the Hoosiers keep getting healthier, their biggest offensive threat is still sidelined with a knee injury. Receiver Damarlo Belcher is questionable for the game against NU after missing Indiana’s last three halves of football. Belcher leads the Hoosiers with 286 yards receiving and 25 catches .

The injury would be welcome news for NU’s struggling secondary. The Cats are ranked 93rd against the pass , giving up almost 248 yards per game through the air .

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Wilson knows what he’s up against in NUThe former Northwestern assistant coach takes on his old team and offense

It was nice to see a

young guy like that

come in and step up.

Max Dedmond,

Indiana tight end on quarterback

Tre Roberson

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Northwestern (2-5, 0-4)at Indiana(1-7, 0-4)

Purdue (4-3, 2-1) at No. 17 Michigan (6-1, 2-0)

No. 12 Wisconsin (6-1, 2-1)at Ohio State (4-3, 1-2)

No. 9 Michigan State (6-1, 3-0)at No. 13 Nebraska (6-1, 2-1)

Iowa (5-2, 2-1)at Minnesota (1-6, 0-3)

Illinois (3-2, 1-0) atNo. 21 Penn State (7-1, 4-0)

Forecasting record:

34-21,Michigan

24-21,Michigan State

30-20,Wisconsin

35-17,Iowa

23-17,Penn State

35-28,NorthwesternThe Cats don’t

make it easy but pull out the win

38-10,Michigan

24-21,Nebraska

42-17,Wisconsin

20-7,Iowa

20-14,Penn State

34-17,Northwestern

Even we can beat Indiana,

right?

34-20,Michigan


20-17,Wisconsin

34-10,Iowa

13-7,Penn State

31-28,NorthwesternThis game could

go either way, but the Cats win

41-13,Michigan


34-17,Wisconsin

45-10,Iowa

24-21,Illinois

45-17,NorthwesternPersa and Green like Kerry Collins and Tiki Barber

17-4 17-412-9 14-7

QB Colter shines for NU as a ‘Kain-of-all-trades’


Kain Colter has appeared at so many positions this season, he can only use one word to describe himself — “a baller.”

� e sophomore came to Northwestern as a quarterback, but his “dynamic skill set” caused coach Pat Fitzgerald and his sta� to rethink how they would use Colter a� er their loss to Texas Tech in the TicketCity Bowl .

“As we talked in the o� season, based on the way he played in the bowl game last year, that no matter what happened and how things shook out, he would be on the � eld,” Fitzgerald said.

In that game, Colter raised eyebrows with 105 rushing yards on 18 carries, a 3-for-6 performance through the air as well as a 32-yard reception .

� is season, Colter has excelled in his new role, what Fitzgerald described as a “Kain-of-all-trades.” He leads the team with 421 rushing yards , more than 200 yards clear of the next-best player . He is third in receiving yards , despite playing receiver in only four games this season. He is also completing nearly two-thirds of his passes . He was the � rst NU player since Tyrell Sutton in 2008 to accumulate more than 70 yards each in receiving and rushing when he went for 76 yards on the ground and 71 receiving against Iowa.

Colter said his transition to wide receiver was not that di� cult. He said that he has run routes before, but it took some time to adjust to running them in a real game.

“At the beginning, when I � rst got in there I was just trying to make moves on guys and getting open,” Colter said. “Now I feel like I’m really learning some techniques and things that defenses have trouble covering. Every time I play receiver I feel like I get better at it.”

What sets Colter apart from his teammates is his attitude towards football. A� er NU’s 21-14 loss to Army , Colter shouldered all the blame for the loss, prompting Fitzgerald to say he was being too hard on himself. Following the Cats’ � � h straight-loss on Saturday, Colter told Fitzgerald he was going to “get things � xed.” It is this sort of sel� ess act that Fitzgerald appreciates, especially

from a player Fitzgerald said might be the only NU player performing at an All-Big Ten level.

“I’m all right with it,” Fitzgerald said of Colter being hard on himself. “I’d rather have a guy like that, where it means so much to him that he’s going to walk in the locker room and be ticked o� about something. Here’s what I learned about Kain, he’s not going to pout.”

Fitzgerald has repeatedly stated that he would like to have more players like Colter. Fitzgerald said that when a team is mired in the type of los-ing streak that the Cats are on, people have the tendency to overthink things and worry about making a mistake. For Fitzgerald, the fact that Colter does not do these things makes him an ideal player for NU.

“He’s having a lot of fun,” Fitzgerald said. “He’s just enjoying the opportunities that he has. He’s cutting it loose, he’s not fearing failure, he’s not worried about making a mistake, he’s not trying to be perfect.”

Colter said that he is honored by the high praise from his coach.

“It’s de� nitely humbling and it feels real good knowing that the head coach thinks highly of me,” Colter said. “I just try to go out there and work my hardest and just do what the coaches tell me and hopefully make the team better anytime I’m out there.”

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Kain is able: The Denver native (left) leads the Cats with nine total touchdwons.

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feel the University still does not provide an inclu-sive enough environment for minority students across campus.

"This is definitely not a post-racial society and Northwestern is not an exception to that," Com-munication junior and former Associated Student Government Vice Presidential candidate Jazzy Johnson said.

For SESP senior and For Members Only Coordi-nator Tyris Jones, the blackface incident was not his first encounter with uncomfortable racial dynamics on campus.

When Jones realized he was one of only 87 black students who enrolled at Northwestern in 2008, he said it felt like “a slap in the face,” as if there weren’t enough qualified black students to fill NU’s undergraduate class. The lack of diverse perspec-tives has proved to be detrimental for him and his peers, he added.

“I think our class was robbed a bit,” Jones said.He said he thinks the admissions office should

strive to see black students represent 10 percent of freshman enrollment. Even though the figure hasn’t reached that mark yet, black enrollment at NU has steadily increased since his freshman year.

There are currently 152 black freshmen enrolled at NU, wrote Associate Provost Mike Mills in an email. For the class of 2015, 7.2 percent of students are black, 9 percent are Hispanic and 7 percent are international students, according to a press release from the Northwestern Newscenter.

The previous year’s class was 6.9 percent black and 8.2 percent Hispanic.

During 2008, when the number of black students enrolling at NU hit a record low, the enrollment for students of all demographics decreased, Mills said. Black students provided the most pronounced decrease, he added.

“We hope it was just a blip, an anomaly, and we hope we don’t see it again,” Mills said.

In order to avoid a repeat, Mills said, the Uni-versity created many admissions and financial aid initiatives to attract more minority students. A year after the drop, the University joined the national QuestBridge program, which offers full four-year scholarships to high-achieving, low-income stu-dents to selective universities. NU also created the Good Neighbor, Great University scholarship for Chicago and Evanston students.

Other financial aid initiatives to help all low-income students include the No-Loan Pledge Scholarship and NU’s Debt Cap Scholarship, which caps some students’ federal need-based loans at

$20,000.“(Minorities) are disproportionately beneficia-

ries of these programs,” Mills said.Black and Hispanic student recruiters also play

key roles in NU's efforts to boost minority enroll-ment, said Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christopher Watson, highlighting the programs NU Ambassadors and Council of Latino Admis-sion Volunteers for Education.

Bradley Akubuiro (Medill ‘11) was a NU Ambas-sador program coordinator during his undergradu-ate career and he said the year of 87 black students enrolled launched a new “era” of student collabora-tion with the admissions office.

That year, students and admissions administra-tors launched Take NU Home, which helps current NU minority students visit their home schools to recruit more potential students.

But since then, Akubuiro has seen a decrease in student involvement in minority recruitment, he said. This decrease concerns him.

“The reason these programs were so effective is because of the student involvement, and if you lose that component, then you fall back into the same issue you had originally,” he said.

Medill senior Dallas Wright attended Walter Payton College Preparatory High School in Chi-cago and he said he remembers minority students speaking of Northwestern as an unattainable ambition.

Although this attitude was discouraging, Wright said it influenced how his community viewed him after he began attending NU.

“That became my identity,” Wright said. “It was such a rarity for a lot of people that I knew back home to see a black man at Northwestern.”

Once he enrolled at NU, Wright felt like a rarity again as the only black student living on his floor in Bobb-McCulloch Hall.

He also turned down a Sigma Phi Epsilon bid because he did not want to be the only black student in the fraternity.

Other students said they are frustrated by the quality of social interactions between racial and cultural groups on campus.

Johnson said students tend to socialize with others who look like them. Although she added this phenomenon is natural, it can grow to be det-rimental for the entire community.

“The issue comes when you never cross that line to find any kind of cross-cultural relationships,” she said.

According to Dean of Students Burgwell How-ard, NU students do discuss racial issues, but the discourse can still be improved.

“I think we could always have more intergroup dialogue,” Howard said.

Mills added NU’s geographical location can also hinder efforts to increase minority student enrollment.

“The Midwest tends to lag (behind) the East Coast and the West Coast in African-American and Hispanic enrollment,” he said.

Many high-achieving students, including minor-ity students, who grow up in the Midwest gravitate towards colleges on the East and West Coasts, Mills said.

This trend is due in part to the historical reputa-tion of the East Coast as a hub for academic pres-tige, he said.

“We’re like a net exporter of students,” he said.However, Mills also said NU is consistently more

diverse than its peer institutions in the Midwest, including the University of Michigan, The Univer-sity of Chicago, Washington University in St. Louis, Oberlin College, and Carleton College.

NU’s need-based financial aid policies may also drive minority students to seek out other universi-ties that offer merit-based aid, Mills said. NU offers no merit-based aid.

In addition to focusing on recruitment and financial aid, Howard said NU has also taken steps to educate students on campus about issues related to diversity.

One NU program Howard said helps students realize they share similarities despite cultural and racial differences is the reformatted Essential NU on diversity. Created a year ago, the orientation event asks students to stand up if they align with certain identities and household situations, such as single-parent family, bisexual, etc.

The program, Howard said, helps students see similarities beyond physical differences.

“What we’re trying to do is not only have an appreciation and respect for difference but see it as an asset to our community,” he said.

In a recent interview with The Daily, President Morton Schapiro echoed the same sentiment.

“I’m hoping that at the end of this decade not only the numbers are getting better but equally and even more importantly that we’re going to create more of an inclusive community,” Schapiro said.

While acknowledging progress has been made since the year of 87 black freshmen, Mary Pattillo, a NU sociology and African American studies pro-fessor, cautioned against complacency.

"The minute we say we're done, we'll be back at 87," Pattillo said.

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nature than similar plans at other universities, the language of the plan intentionally allows for indi-vidual schools to structure and carry out the plans differently.

“There are some components that will contribute to a significant cultural change at the institution,” Lin-zer said. ”Which is back to the point about the kind of vocabulary we use to talk about Northwestern. Establishing a stronger sense of the University as a whole as opposed to a collection of individual schools would be a real transformation for the place.”

The Morty effectWork on developing a Strategic Plan began before

Schapiro was even formally inducted as president, a move Linzer said was intentional. In Summer 2009, Linzer, along with University planning administra-tion, began meeting with students, faculty and trustees to determine the process and direction of the idea generating.

The template used to establish the University’s pre-vious strategic plan, The Highest Order of Excellence, was not necessarily the blueprint for the next iteration, according to vice president for administration and planning Marilyn McCoy.

“We came in with no priors,” McCoy said. “This process was more inclusive. With the Order of Excel-lence it was a lot of highly qualified staff, but a limited number.”

But when Schapiro was inducted in Fall 2009, he came in with a clear vision for developing a thriv-ing research and undergraduate community that not only coexisted, but also collaborated. It’s a goal that is reflected in the final version of the plan, Schapiro said.

“We have work to do,” Schapiro said. “We all know that, but I think at the end if we successfully imple-ment the plan we will be helping to implement a model where you don’t have to decide either you’re a great research university or you’re a great undergrad (university). I think you can do both and that’s what we’re doing.”

When Schapiro served as president of Williams College he helped to shape the school’s strategic plan, which shares many of the goals Schapiro said are

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with them, I was going to vote no,” Gabel said. “But I got a call from Liz (Tisdahl) saying that they came to an agreement that would enforce regulations and we were pleased with it.”

That agreement stated operating protocols addressing storm-related power disruptions would be drafted and filed with the Illinois Commerce Commission, a state entity that has the power to regulate public utility services within Illinois.

The NWMC only withdrew its opposition to the bill after details on the agreement were finalized

Wednesday night. Christopher Canning, president of the organiza-

tion, welcomed the late developments in a news release issued Wednesday.

“The agreement with ComEd addresses system-atic shortfalls in storm response and in commu-nication with municipalities that the Conference had identified in its white paper and presented to ComEd,” Canning said.

Larry Bury, policy director of the NWMC, said he was “confident” the ICC will be able to enforce planned regulations. He added no paperwork has been filed with the ICC as of yet.

Palmer said the city will monitor upcoming efforts to draft regulations with the ICC.

“We will track that process and make sure that we know exactly what those protocols are,” Palmer said.

Tisdahl made the trip to Springfield mainly because of ComEd’s handling of the “absolutely horrible” power outages over the summer, Palmer added.

“We saw a very poor and very slow response from ComEd after several different storm actions during the summer,” Palmer said.

Bury agreed municipalities represented by the

NWMC suffered greatly during the severe summer storms.

“This summer revealed that there are some major shortfalls with the way ComEd responds to storms and responds to its customers,” Bury said. “Power was not restored in a timely manner to many of our emergency facilities like water and sewage treatment facilities, police and fire stations, and emergency operation centers.”

The Illinois Senate voted 36-19 to override the veto Wednesday. Minutes later, the House approved the measure in a 74-42 vote.

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integral to NU’s plan.“President Schapiro has expanded the faculty,

increased the diversity of the student body, reor-ganized the residential system for undergraduates, and significantly expanded the physical campus. In addition, the College has enhanced its financial aid packages and extended need blind admissions to international students,” Williams’ 2007 accreditation report states.

In February, Schapiro told The Daily he wanted to push for $50 million in need-blind aid for inter-national students.

“I’m going to say that, ‘I think this is important. What do you think?’ and I’m going to try to find some money,” Schapiro said. “We have some pro-spective donors all over the world who might really support that.”

Linzer said that while Schapiro’s experience has been “influential,” the two have been extremely col-laborative throughout the process. Linzer served as Dean of Weinberg for five years before taking over as Provost in 2005, and he said his experience informed his role in the process as well.

The processAfter extensive vetting, Linzer and Schapiro

announced four areas of interest to guide the plan: research, educational experience, community and outreach beyond the Northwestern campus. From there, workgroups were created to address those issues, as well as other which would roll into the

overall structure.The workgroups, ranging from areas of academic

research to University marketing, included adminis-tration, students, faculty and trustees. The groups met “frequently” during more than a year-long process of conducting forums and presentations, Linzer said.

Evelyn Caliendo, director of planning & associate secretary to the Board of Trustees, said faculty, admin-istration and trustees were chosen for the workgroups to reflect the range of interests in the community.

Co-chairs for each workgroup were selected in a very deliberate process.

“We tried to put together co-chairs who didn’t necessarily know one another,” Caliendo said. ”We really liked the idea of selecting people from different fields and backgrounds to shape the process.”

The co-chairs of the “Areas of Distinction: Scholar-ship, Research, and Creative Work” workgroup illus-trate precisely that construct: Chemistry professor Terri Odom and marketing professor Greg Carpenter were tasked with running a committee that suggested specific areas of research for the University.

“Greg was an invaluable part of the process to me,” Odom said. “He really helped shape the way we thought about things, and brought such a different sense of the University than I had. Students, of course, were also integral.”

Linzer said the strongest student candidates were those whom faculty recommended because of ‘high campus involvement.’ Self nominations were permit-ted but generally those students were not selected, Linzer said.

Weinberg senior Trey Herr was one of two student

members appointed to the ‘Globalization’ workgroup. Herr said he felt student input was valued during the process, though non-students — faculty, administra-tions and trustees — disproportionately comprised the committees.

“Certainly they seemed to take our ideas seriously,” Herr said. “But I’m not sure how much overall input students will have. But then, of course, how much input should students really have? We’re a fairly tran-sient community at Northwestern.”

The numbersThe ideas outlined in the strategic plan will remain

theory unless individual schools and, perhaps most significantly, donors, lend concrete support to imple-mentation. In conjunction with the strategic plan, the University will soon launch a capital campaign, McCoy said.

“There is a whole marketing phase we are about to enter,” McCoy said. “The trustees are very aware of that.”

The 76-member Board of Trustees was the last group to see the final version of the strategic plan, which has been modified since the workgroups sub-mitted their proposals last spring.

Board of Trustees chairman William Osborn said the board saw a draft at its June meeting, and got a copy of the most recent version at its Sept. 26 meeting.

Osborn said trustees engaged in “healthy debate” about many of the provisions, including increasing need-blind aid to international students and poten-tially expanding Northwestern’s global campuses.

“This is a lot about balancing our ambitions and our resources to the practicality of what we can do,” Osborn said.

Osborn said the board took into consideration the marketability of the plan, though it did not shape the actual content.

Odom said the “areas of distinction committee,” which was ultimately responsible for selecting 10 areas of scientific research for the plan, took a similar approach in early development stages.

“We only took it (marketing) into account when we were thinking about some of these ideas for research which were fantastic, but maybe very sophisticated and specific,” Odom said. “If Schapiro can’t say it in one sentence to a donor, it’s not going to work.”

Linzer said a sensitivity to donors, and an aware-ness of the importance of improving rankings — NU has been ranked No. 12 in the nation for four con-secutive years by US News and World Report — were considerations, but did not explicitly impact the con-tent of the plan.

“We’re clearly among the very best, we’re roughly the top-10,” Linzer said. “ Does that get reflected in the rankings? Yes and no. Rankings of institutions are, roughly, nonsense. What’s the real measure of excellence? What does that have to do with excel-lence? Beats me. But of course ranking are part of the equation.”

The plan will be presented Nov. 1 on Northwest-ern’s Evanston campus and the next day on the Chi-cago campus.

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From Springfield, page 1

Friday, October 28, 2011 The Daily Northwestern 11

“ON THE RECORD

He doesn’t know what he’s doing right now,

but he — and I mean that in a friendly way.

— Bill Carmody, basketball coach, on freshman Mike Turner

friday, october 28, 2011 Sports

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ON DECKField Hockey

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Women’s Volleyball

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A diamond had to go through the fi re, and trust me, our team went

through the fi re last year.

Jolette Law,Illinois coach

We need to get kids on campus and we can’t be afraid to get into

some backstreet brawls.

Patrick Chambers,Penn State coach

I’ve just been blessed. They’re not angels, they’re not

blessed, but they’ve all bought in.

Bobbie Kelsey,Wisconsin coach

It’s so much easier to get to the top than to stay there, and not that we are the top,

but that is what we are striving for.

Thad Matta,Ohio State coach

By Jonah Rosenblumdaily senior staffer

As the Wildcats prepare to adjust to life without Amy Jaeschke , they are in step with a broader change that is sweeping the Big Ten.

With the graduation of dominant post players like Jaeschke, Iowa’s Kachine Alexander and Ohio State’s Jantel Lavender , the conference � nds itself devoid in the paint. But in their place stand a tal-ented crop of guards that will likely prove to be the stars of the 2011-2012 season.

When the Big Ten’s coaches submitted their two preseason players of the year, it was hardly a coinci-dence that both were guards: Ohio State’s Samantha Prahalis and Penn State’s Alex Bentley . Similarly, when the coaches named their preseason top � ve players, three were guards. e media’s selections went much the same way .

e one thing that might disrupt the Big Ten’s turn towards the perimeter game is the implemen-tation of NCAA rules moving the three-point line back .

NU was heavily reliant on the three-pointer at times last season, � nishing third in the conference with its 33.6 percentage from behind the arc . But now the Cats and all of their Big Ten colleagues will have to deal with rule changes that shi� ed the three-point line nine inches back to where the men’s line is located .

Michigan coach Kevin Borseth was among many players and coaches who stated that the rule change would have very little in� uence on the game.

“It’s kind of interesting if you watch the three-point line from all your videotapes,” Borseth said, “for the most part, all of us were shooting the ball from beyond that arc anyway.”

Michigan State coach Suzy Merchant agreed the rule change would have little e� ect, but acknowl-edged the likelihood that shooting percentages from behind the arc would plummet.

“Do I think � eld-goal percentages from behind the arc will go down?” Merchant said. “Yes, but they

have anyway because kids play a lot of summer ball and they don’t spend as much time individually in the gym with repetition on getting their shots up.”

In another noteworthy change to the rule book, the NCAA instituted a restricted arc, in which defen-sive players are not permitted to take charges, similar to the system already being used in the men’s game. e institution will also be testing the 10-second rule, by which the o� ensive team has 10 seconds to advance the ball past midcourt .

Merchant indicated strong opposition to such a change at Big Ten Media Day.

“I’m against the 10-second rule in the backcourt for women,” Merchant said. “We have a 30-second shot clock. at’s a pretty fast pace, and I don’t think that’s really necessary for our game.”

One coach who wasn’t available to comment on the various rule changes was Nebraska’s Connie Yori . Traditionally, every coach shows up to Big Ten Media Day, but the Cornhuskers coach had good reason not to appear as she continues to recover from a recent knee surgery. Taking her place at Nebraska’s � rst-ever basketball Big Ten Media Day event was assistant coach Sunny Smallwood , who said that Yori would be available to coach the team’s � rst exhibition game against Pittsburg State on Oct. 30 .

“We know she can’t sit on the bench because she doesn’t have a lot of � exion, which is partly why she’s not here today, she can’t travel,” Smallwood said. “So we’re determining whether she’ll be standing kind of at the front of the bench next to the scorer’s table or possibly on that little cart maybe under the scorer’s table right now. But she de� nitely will be coaching that � rst game.”

In the meanwhile, Smallwood said Yori has been an active participant at practice, making her pres-ence known despite her physical limitations.

“We’re happy to have her back and her bark back,” Smallwood said. “She kind of zooms around on this little cart or on crutches. So far she hasn’t taken anybody out, which is nice.”

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By Jonah Rosenblumdaily senior staffer

He was the heart of Northwestern’s program. O� cially listed at just � ve-feet, ten-inches , Michael

“Juice” ompson hit the clutch shots, made the courageous drives to the hoop and swished the three-pointers that allowed the Wildcats to morph from a cellar-dweller into a NCAA Tournament contender.

ey will have to achieve their ultimate goal of making March Madness without their star point guard, however.

“Mike played as well as anybody did last year in the conference,” coach Bill Carmody said. “ e last 12 games he was magni� cent.”

While senior John Shurna has always put in the necessary scoring, the Cats will be looking to Drew Crawford to step up and help replace ompson’s production. e junior averaged 12.1 points per game last season but su� ered from inconsistency. He scored 16 points or more in 12 games last season but was limited to single-digit scoring in 12 games .

“Maybe there’s room for Drew to spread his wings a little bit,” Carmody said. “He really has to play con-sistently well. He’s logged a lot of minutes. Very ath-letic kid. Shoots the ball. He’s going to have to give us 15 and rebound.”

NU will also look to junior Alex Marcotul-lio and sophomore JerShon Cobb for increased production.

Marcotullio proved to be a more-than-capable outside shooter last year, hitting 35.7 percent of his tries from behind the arc, while Cobb averaged 7.4 points per game during his freshman campaign, dis-playing a knack for creating his own shots .

“I never think about replacing a guy. I just think the dynamic changes every year: is guy gets bet-ter; this guy improves,” Carmody said. “But those two guys, Cobb and Marcotullio, Marcotullio has a lot of experience, JerShon played, has some good games for us.”

In addition to � tting players in new roles, NU also

has the excitement of facing a new conference rival as it hosts Nebraska on Feb. 2, 2012 . While the Cats will have to study up on a new opponent, the Cornhuskers have the more arduous task of preparing for a whole new slate of Big Ten foes.

“You’ve got Michigan and Northwestern playing a whole di� erent way than Iowa is playing or Indi-ana,” Nebraska coach Doc Sadler said. “In the league that we le� , it was pretty much a man-to-man team. So that part’s going to be di� erent. e unknown is always scary.”

Sadler also pointed out a few di� erences between the Big Ten and the Big 12, claiming that in the Big Ten, star players stick around longer and most nota-bly, more fans attend the games.

“You’ve got to add the fact that the attendance in this league is just o� the chart,” Sadler said. “You know, that’s what probably what sets this league apart from every other league in the country.”

Sadler and his Cornhuskers aren’t the only new-comer, however. A� er Ed DeChellis le� Penn State to accept the head coaching position at Navy , the Nittany Lions replaced him with Patrick Chambers, who posted a 42-28 record during his two years as Boston University’s head coach . His rapid rise at Boston University was somewhat unprecedented, as Chambers became the � rst coach to earn 20 vic-tories in each of his � rst two seasons there, and also was the quickest to earn a conference championship in school history .

Chambers is aware, however, that he is facing a di� erent level of competition now that he is coaching in the Big Ten. He also said he was aware of what he had to compete with in terms of the school’s football program.

“I’m thrilled to be a part of the Big Ten, and I’m excited to be a part of Penn State basketball,” Cham-bers said. “First of all, Penn State football is amazing. Joe Paterno has been there for 100 years. What he’s done there is incredible. We’re going to try to emu-late that.”

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THE WORDS THAT STUCK

Star point guard Michael “Juice” Thompson is no longer with them, but the Wildcats continue to work towards his dream

With Amy Jaeschke gone, the Cats join the post player-to-guard movement that has gone viral throughout the Big Ten

MEN’S BASKETBALL WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

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Guarding the legacy: While senior John Shurna continues to provide experience and skill from the forward position, junior Drew Crawford is the veteran among NU’s guards.

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The jury is out: Forward Kendall Hackney dazzled at times, slumped at others, en route to a season in which she fi nished second on the team in scoring with 11.6 points per game.

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The Daily Northwestern — Oct. 28, 2011