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The Daily NorthwesternDAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM Find us online @thedailynuThursday, October 17, 2013
ARTS The Current NU alum Jeff Pearl talks
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Student lounge debuts at Block Museum» PAGE 3
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OPINION Muller Senate becoming a ‘New England
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Serving the University and Evanston since 1881 INSIDE Around Town 2 | On Campus 3 | Opinion 4 | Classi!eds & Puzzles 6 | Sports 8
ASG turns down smoke-free banBy SOPHIA BOLLAG!"#$% &'(#)* &+",,'* @sophiabollag
Associated Student Government Sen-ate on Wednesday night rejected a resolu-tion that would have voiced support for a campuswide tobacco ban, but the author of the resolution says she still plans to take her proposal to the University.
Although the resolution would not have implemented a tobacco ban on campus, it would have signi-ed ASG’s support for such a policy. .e resolu-tion failed /0-/1, with eight senators abstaining.
Rainbow Alliance senator Petros Karahalios spoke out against the resolu-tion during the Senate meeting, saying it did not address the real problem: lack of enforcement of the Evanston ordinance that forbids smoking within 23 feet of the entrance of a public building.
“I personally don’t think that the
solution to a currently not working pol-icy like the Evanston 23-foot ordinance is to pass more legislation or resolutions that kind of put a Band-Aid over it,” the Weinberg junior said. “.e problem here is that Evanston’s ordinance is not enforced very well. Evanston’s not doing a good job. .ey’re failing to live up to their obligations.”
Northwestern Public Health Club president Carolyn Huang, who wrote the resolution, told .e Daily a4er the meet-ing she still plans to bring a proposal for a tobacco-free campus to the adminis-tration. Based on speaking with other students while petitioning, the Weinberg senior said she believes the majority of the student body supports the idea of a tobacco-free campus.
“It’s the national trend right now,” she said. “I really wish that NU could have been part of the current movement.”
According to the American Brian Lee/Daily Senior Staffer
TOBACCO NO-GO Devin Moss, director of the LGBT Resource Center, talks at an ASG meeting Wednesday night. He fielded questions from senators and discussed events the LGBT Resource Center is hosting.
By AMY WHYTE+5' !"#$% ()*+56'&+'*( @amykwhyte
As the Chicago Transit Authority continues its complete transition to the Ventra payment system, not all North-western students are convinced the change is for the better.
As opposed to magnetic stripe cards — which riders insert into fare boxes and o4en throw out a4er use — Ventra cards allow for tap-and-go payment. However, moving to the new system has led to some rider frustrations, from cards not working properly to people not receiving their passes at all.
Yeshi Xie, who commutes frequently between Evanston and Chicago for a Chicago Field Studies internship, said she o4en has issues getting her Ventra card to scan at the turnstile.
“I keep having to do it two or three times before it lets me go through,” the Weinberg junior said. “So that’s a problem.”
More than 311,111 registered cards have made more than /3 million taps, the CTA tweeted Monday.
The system allows customers to reload their Ventra cards online or by phone or even link their card to an exist-ing debit card.
Medill senior Erin Nelson said she has yet to receive her Ventra card, which should have shipped four weeks ago.
She said she recently received an email asking her to activate her card even though she hasn’t received it.
.ough Nelson continues to use her Chicago Card, she hopes she will receive
her card soon to ease the commute to her Journalism Residency site.
“I think that it’s a really good system and I think it will make travel a lot eas-ier,” she said. “Maybe not necessarily for people who don’t travel frequently, but for people who are commuting every day, I think the Ventra card is a really good improvement.”
Ventra reminds Weinberg senior Diana Gold of the SmarTrip cards she uses for public transportation in Wash-ington, D.C. She said she thought the new card was convenient and has not had any problems so far.
“I’ve probably used it around eight times, and it’s been -ne,” she said.
Riders can no longer travel with
Chicago Cards beginning Nov. /3 and magnetic stripe ones as of Dec. /3.
By AMANDA GILBERT+5' !"#$% ()*+56'&+'*( @amandadance3
.ough some Evanston residents may worry about the closing of two Dominick’s supermarkets, city economic o7cials have started to look for replace-ment businesses.
Safeway, which owns Dominick’s, said it plans to exit the entire Chicago market by early next year, shutting down its 82 locations, including ones at 289: Green Bay Rd. and /0/1 Dempster St.
.e future for these two lots will be di;erent because of their unique loca-tions, said Johanna Nyden, the city’s eco-nomic development division manager.
Another grocery store will likely go in the Green Bay Road location’s place.
“We’ve already had other grocery stores say they want to come in the area,” Nyden said. “.ey want the opportuni-ties the market has to o;er because it’s a high tra7c area.”
However, the Dominick’s in Evan-ston Plaza may no longer be a grocery store, she said. Other non-food retailers have expressed interest in going there. .e store was originally a Toys R Us, Nyden said.
At Monday’s City Council meeting, Ald. Peter Braithwaite said 2nd Ward residents predicted the closings. None-theless, they were disappointed.
Ventra frustrates some students City plans to !ll Dominick’s stores
Illustration by Chelsea Sherlock/Daily Senior Staffer
GOING PLASTIC The Chicago Transit Authority is in the process of phasing out the old CTA passes in favor of the new Ventra cards. As of Dec. 15, riders will no longer be able to travel using the magnetic stripe passes.
Ebony Calloway/The Daily Northwestern
END OF AN ERA The Dominick’s on Green Bay Road in Evanston is one of many Chicago-area locations that will close. Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) spoke Monday night about the departures.
» See DOMINICK’S, page 6
» See ASG, page 6
Key Facts
Card users must transtition to Ventra
stripe card users must transi-tion to Ventra
registered Ventra cards have made more than 15 million taps
Big Ten announces schedules for 2018, 2019 seasons
.e Big Ten announced Wednesday that Northwestern will open the 21/:
season with a trip to West Lafayette to battle Purdue and will later take on Rutgers for the -rst time as conference rivals.
.e Wildcats will also play conference road games at Michigan State, Iowa and Minnesota. Michigan, Nebraska, Wiscon-sin and Illinois will travel to Evanston.
.e Cats will make return trips to new West Division rivals Nebraska, Wiscon-sin and Illinois in 21/0 and play a cross-division game at Indiana. Michigan State, Ohio State, Iowa, Purdue and Minnesota will make the trek to Ryan Field.
.e matchup with the Scarlet Knights in Piscataway, N.J., will be the fourth time
the two teams have played overall. NU has never beat Rutgers. .e Cats will make their -rst Big Ten trip to Mary-land, the Scarlet Knights’ fellow confer-ence newcomer, in 21/8.
In non-conference games, NU is cur-rently scheduled to take on Notre Dame, Duke and Rice in 21/: and Stanford in
21/0. ESPN reported the Big Ten accom-modated the Cats in the schedule for 21/:, allowing a week for the previously scheduled matchup with the Fighting Irish, now con-rmed to take place in November.
— Joseph Diebold
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Skokie man robbed en route to Craigslist sale
A Skokie man was robbed at knifepoint Tues-day evening as he headed to purchase a car he found on Craigslist in Evanston, according to police.
At about !:"" p.m., two men approached a #$-year-old Skokie man in the $%% block of Mon-roe Street, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. One of the two men displayed a knife and demanded the potential buyer’s money.
&e Skokie man handed over an envelope
containing '!,%%%, Parrott said. He was not injured.
Police described the two men as about ! feet ( inches, in their #%s and about )*% pounds.
15-year-old boy held at gunpoint in his home
&ree masked men held a )!-year-old boy at gunpoint Tuesday a+ernoon and stole a PlaySta-tion " from his south Evanston home, police said.
At about *:*$ p.m., the boy heard familiar
voices coming from the back of his house in the #%% block of Hartrey Avenue, Parrott said. &e men knocked on the door, and when the boy opened it, one of them showed a gun.
Parrott said the men made the boy lie on the ,oor while they went through his house. Once they le+, he noticed his PlayStation " was gone.
&e boy was not hurt, Parrott said. &e boy told his friend about the incident, and his friend alerted authorities.
— Patrick Svitek
Art-and-wine space opens downtownBy JORDAN HARRISON-./ 01234 567-.8/9-/75
Spending an evening making art is something John Cmarko wouldn’t normally do. But )% min-utes into painting a cup of co:ee, the Rogers Park resident said he was having fun.
“It’s good to get out and go do something dif-ferent,” he said.
An Evanston branch of Bottle & Bottega, a Chicago-based art-and-wine party business, opened Wednesday on Davis Street.
Lynette Martin launched the new location a+er operating a mobile Bottle & Bottega studio since August #%)#.
“Evanston is a great community,” Martin said. “It has an amazing arts culture … so it just seemed like a natural ;t with our business.”
&e studio hosts public events where custom-ers can paint a particular subject each night with direction from experienced artists. Customers don’t need any painting experience, Martin said, and the events are BYOB.
“Our artists are very good at leading people through step by step how to complete a particular painting,” she said.
&e store’s grand opening featured Peggy Kusinski, a Chicago sports news reporter, as a celebrity painter. &e event also raised money
for Erika’s Lighthouse, a nonpro;t that provides mental health support for adolescents, and Girls in the Game, an organizationt focused on girls’ health and nutrition.
“What I love about them is that they provide opportunities for girls in neighborhoods of need, with programs focusing on sports, ;tness, leader-ship and life, and it’s really about the all-around girl,” said Kusinski, who has sat on the board of directors for Girls in the Game for ;ve years.
In addition to its public calendar of events, Bottle & Bottega hosts private parties and fund-raisers. Half of the company’s business comes from private events such as bachelorette parties and baby showers, CEO Nancy Bigley said.
&ough the face value of the franchise appeals to women, men who try the experience like it just as much, Bigley said.
&e Evanston studio is now the ;+h Bottle & Bottega in the Chicago area and the )%th nation-ally. Other stores are located in Dallas, Denver and Miami, Bigley said.
Martin, who originally worked in ;nancial services, said she started Bottle & Bottega to marry her business background with her per-sonal interest in art.
&e concept of creating art socially should appeal to Northwestern students who like to get out and try new things, Martin said.
“If I look back at my time at university, I would
have loved to have had the opportunity to pay someone a nominal fee to make artwork for my own dorm room or my own apartment,” Martin said.
Police Blotter
Brian Lee/Daily Senior Staffer
DRINK AND DRAW Customer artwork hangs on the walls of the newly opened Bottle & Bottega in downtown Evanston. The business, located on Davis Street, opened Wednesday.
On CampusGovernor Quinn, this matter has lingered for far too long. Please do the right thing and allow this innocent man to clear his good name.
— Attorneys of Randy Steidl
“ ” Center on Wrongful Convictions asks Quinn for pardon petition Page 5
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2013 THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN | NEWS 3
ASG o!cial pleased with results of light walk
When representatives from Evanston, Northwestern and Associated Student Gov-ernment toured streets surrounding campus Tuesday night, they found fewer lighting prob-lems than they expected, community relations vice president Kevin Harris said.
The annual fall light walk covered areas around North Campus from Foster Street to Ridge Avenue.
The event was meant to complement the spring light walk that toured more southern streets.
Officials pinpointed !" problem areas fol-lowing that walk, which included parts of Garrett Place, Orrington Avenue, Simpson Street, Sherman Avenue, Hamlin Street, Maple
Avenue, Emerson Street, Sheridan Road, Foster Street and Library Place.
In addition to members of Harris’ commit-tee, Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl, Tony Kirchmeier, director of off-campus life, and representatives from Evanston’s public works department and NU Facilities Management attended.
University Police and Evanston Police Department also participated in the Light Walk.
“We had a great turnout,” Harris said after Wednesday’s ASG Senate meeting.
The report from the Light Walk will be released and given to the city sometime next week, the Weinberg sophomore said.
“It went well. I was pleasantly surprised,” he said. “There just seemed to be less issues in general compared to past light walks.”
— Sophia Bollag
Block Museum hosts opening of student loungeBy VIOLET DECKER#$% &'()* +,-#$.%/#%-+
Guests were greeted with a modern-chic array of chairs and tables, hot cider and French macaroons Wednesday as Northwestern’s Block Museum of Art hosted the grand opening of its new student lounge.
“0e Block Spot,” the museum’s latest addi-tion, is equipped with a recharging station, cubby holes, and an interactive chalkboard wall. Illu-minating the space is a vivid neon sign.
“0is is for the stu-dents,” said designer James Geier, who worked on the space. “0is is where we want them to come and hang out and leave ideas about cre-ativity and passion and art. It’s really a space for students to feel comfort-
able, hang out a bit and relate to each other.”Block Museum has been closed due to repairs
following a broken pipe incident on Aug. 1. It will reopen Jan. !2.
Planning for the lounge began four months ago, and its o3cial construction took place over a
!4-week period. 0e area will be open every day with expanded hours during reading period.
“We’re trying to create a friendly space to lounge before movies or just come to hang out at the Block,” said Mimi Brody, the Pick-Laudati Curator of Film and Director of Block Cinema. “We want a student presence here. We want to be available to
students and faculty and the general public.”A grant from the McCormick Foundation
allowed Block Museum to install Wi-Fi throughout the museum, another draw to its lounge.
“It is an elegant, functional space,” said Lisa Corrin, Block Museum director. “0e vision of this project was shaped by conversations with the
campus community, especially students.”Since its closing, the museum has been plan-
ning for its next season and was recently awarded a grant of 516,666 from the Terra Foundation for American Art for its January exhibition. 0e winter program will be student-curated, Corrin said.
In the coming months, Block Museum will host a Midwest showing of Wangechi Mutu’s critically-acclaimed “A Fantastic Journey,” currently housed in the Brooklyn Museum.
0e event also celebrated the arrival of Susy Bielak, associate director of engagement and curator of public practice. Bielak has recently managed local, regional, national and interna-tional arts programs and emphasized her belief in engagement and partnership between NU and Block Museum.
“0e art that I do relies on collaboration,” Bielak said. “My approach to engagement is holistic … Whatever the work at hand is, I’m really look-ing at the physical context, the information, the social context, and the personal context. Nothing comes without real consideration of the world around it.”
Bielak said she believes her experiences across various art disciplines allow her to bring a var-ied palate into her vision for the future of Block Museum.
“Engagement is made possible by partner-ship,” Bielak explained. “Collaboration has been the spine of the work.”
Brian Lee/Daily Senior Staffer
BLOCK CHALK Evanston resident John Nawn writes on the chalkboard wall at the Block Spot opening Wednesday. The lounge provides a space on campus to study and socialize.
“This is where we want (students) to come and hang out and leave ideas about creativity and passion and art.James Geier,designer
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Late Wednesday night, Democrats rejoiced (to the surprise of no one) when Newark Mayor Cory Booker received a promotion by being elected to the U.S. Senate. Booker won the special election held to ! ll the seat held by the late senator Frank Lautenberg. Booker’s election accomplishes a lot of things, including shi# ing the balance of power more in favor of Democrats and planting the seeds for a potential presidential campaign in $%$%, if not $%&'. Yet nobody seems to be talking about one of the most important things it does.
Many may not know this fact, but Booker is the ! rst black person elected to the Senate in nearly a decade. On the one hand, this might bode well for him — the last guy did pretty well for himself. However, it should at least raise a few eyebrows that in a group that held nearly $%% elections in the past decade, only & percent of the winners were black.
" e surprising truth is that the Senate has a diversity problem. Although the House continues to ful! ll its promise of representing all people, the Senate by comparison looks more and more like a New England yacht club. As of August of this year, the Senate showed some surprisingly homogenous characteristics. Of the &%% members, one is black
(but not elected; he was appointed by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie), four are Hispanic, one is Asian and the rest are white. I should also mention that men outnumber women four to one.
It’s not that the Senate has no diversity. Eleven of its members are Jewish, and a shocking seven are Mormon. Yet there is only one Buddhist, and no Muslims or Hindus currently serve. " is is further complicated by the fact that in just about every possible metric, the U.S. House is substantially more diverse than its counterpart in the Capitol. " e House literally has double the number of Native Americans than the Senate has blacks – that’s unbelievable.
" is is not problematic because of such liberal calls to arms as “white privilege” or “the patriarchy” (which Caryn Lenho( did a wonderful job label-ing as just the worst). " e problem is that people develop world views and ideologies in large part from experiences. Of course, those same experi-ences are shaped, in equally large part, by character-istics such as religion, gender and yes, race. When a group of &%% people make decisions that a( ect )%% million of us, it seems a bit peculiar that *+ of them should be white, because they only see the world in the same way as a small fraction of the nation.
As a Jew, I always get frustrated when I see elected o, cials try to advance controversial policies with the use of religion (particularly one that is o# en not mine). I can only imagine the frustration His-panics feel when they’re not adequately represented in immigration discussions or women who feel le#
out in debating the particulars of birth control under Obamacare.
Moreover, a diverse group of individuals a( ords each member the opportunity to hear new ideas and learn new things. " is is one of the main arguments for a, rmative action in our schools, yet our law-makers have no similar experience.
" e problem isn’t that only white, Protestant men are quali! ed to be senators. I believe the problem is due to a multitude of factors – party support, historical pre-cedence and societal pressures — where minorities are given overt and covert messages that they are not Senate material. " ey are led, intentionally and unintention-ally, to believe that they would never get elected, so many just choose not to run. Nearly every election I’ve seen with a minority candidate was one where both candidates were seen as real contenders — as it should be — but there have been so few recently that minorities have no chance of carving out a notable chunk of seats.
And so, when Booker is sworn in as early as next week, let’s hope he inspires others to run. " e intro-duction of new people and new faces to the Senate starts now, and it’s not a random phenomenon.
Yoni Muller is a Weinberg junior. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
A couple of nights ago, I asked my friend to wake up at + a.m. to come sit outside in a tent with me for an hour. Of course, she said yes with no hesitation.
If you’re a Northwestern student, you know exactly why we did this. We were guarding " e Rock.
Guarding this huge piece of who-knows-what for $+ hours, and then painting it to promote an upcoming event, is an NU tradition. To and out-sider, it may just seem like a publicity venture.
But it’s much more than that.Guarding " e Rock involves a great deal of
planning and strategizing. It’s a game of assassins on crack. At one point last year, I had a group I am involved in pre-guard it for a day and then guard again for another day because there were so many groups that wanted to paint. I’d get texts from people saying, “Spotted: guy wearing yellow shirt sitting at " e Rock. I’m assuming we should try to intimidate him into leaving?” or in all caps, “OMG THERE IS NO ONE AT THE ROCK SO I SKIPPED CLASS TO STAKE IT OUT UNTIL
SOMEONE ELSE COULD GET HERE!” It makes sense, really. We came here to study, but keeping constant vigil over this NU landmark is more important than class.
In all seriousness, though, the act of strategiz-ing, buying paint and modifying Google Docs with shi# s countless times does bring groups closer together. As the wise J.K. Rowling once said, “" ere are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a &$-foot mountain troll is one of them.” In this case, the troll is " e Rock, and the battle is the act of guard-ing it. Staking out " e Rock makes people like each other.
Maybe it’s the “get your butt here now, so I can go to class” text or the fran-tic “how many cans of paint should I
get?” phone call about an hour before it’s time to actually do the painting.
Or it could be the fact that sitting in a tent in the dead of the night with one or two other peo-ple who have no choice but to spend time with you can have its advantages.
If you want to get someone in a real predicament, I
would suggest signing up for a shi# and then not showing up. " e person before you can’t leave without fac-
ing the wrath of the organization
for which they are guarding " e Rock.
" ey’re stuck there until $+ hours have passed – or until someone takes pity on
them and relieves them of duty. " is way, you’re being totally responsible by signing up for a shi# and not following through, and you still get the last laugh.
I’ll admit, there are some pretty weird tradi-tions out there, ones with no apparent purpose. I’m from Texas, and for Homecoming every year, the guys make mums — huge - owers decked out with ribbons spanning the length of their date’s torso — that the girls wear around their necks. Meanwhile, their dates make them a smaller ver-sion to wear on their arm, called a garter. I see no real purpose to this tradition, other than adver-tising that you have a date, and giving all your teachers headaches with noisy bells and - ashy ribbons in class all day. It’s publicity for your love life, which is of course the most important part of high school, and de! nitely what you should be focused on. But guarding " e Rock is di( erent; it has a purpose. Once you emerge from your day-long tent hibernation, you will never be the same.
So this one goes out to all you haters who sco( at the idea of guarding a large, misshapen boul-der for an entire day and then painting it. It may sound crazy, but it’s worth it in the end.
Meera Patel is a McCormick junior. She can be reached at [email protected]. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
Booker’s win highlights lack of diversity in Senate
Guarding ! e Rock more than just another tradition
ing, buying paint and modifying Google Docs with shi# s countless times does bring groups closer together. As the wise J.K. Rowling once said, “" ere are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a &$-foot mountain troll is one of them.” In this case, the troll is " e Rock, and the battle is the act of guard-ing it. Staking out " e Rock makes people like each other.
Maybe it’s the “get your butt here now, so I can go to class” text or the fran-
many cans
you can have its advantages.If you want to get someone in
a real predicament, I would suggest signing up for a shi# and then not showing up. " e person before you can’t leave without fac-
ing the wrath of the organization
for which they are guarding " e Rock.
" ey’re stuck there until $+ hours have passed – or until someone takes pity on
tions out there, ones with no apparent purpose. I’m from Texas, and for Homecoming every year, the guys make mums — huge - owers decked out with ribbons spanning the length of their date’s torso — that the girls wear around their necks. Meanwhile, their dates make them a smaller ver-sion to wear on their arm, called a garter. I see no real purpose to this tradition, other than adver-tising that you have a date, and giving all your teachers headaches with noisy bells and - ashy ribbons in class all day. It’s publicity for your love life, which is of course the most important part of high school, and de! nitely what you should be focused on. But guarding " e Rock is di( erent; it has a purpose. Once you emerge from your day-long tent hibernation, you will never be the same.
So this one goes out to all you haters who sco( at the idea of guarding a large, misshapen boul-der for an entire day and then painting it. It may sound crazy, but it’s worth it in the end.
Meera Patel is a McCormick junior. She can be reached at [email protected]. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
out in debating the particulars of birth control under
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Center asks gov. to pardonformer death row inmateBy JOSEPH DIEBOLD!"#$% &'(#)* &+",,'* @josephdiebold
The Center on Wrongful Convictions on Wednesday asked Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn to pardon a former death row inmate whose con-viction was overturned in -../.
Attorneys from the center, which operates as part of the Northwestern School of Law, wrote an open letter to Quinn calling on him to act on the innocence pardon petition of Randy Steidl, whose -..- petition is the oldest awaiting executive action.
“Governor Quinn, this matter has lingered for far too long. Please do the right thing now, and allow this innocent man to clear his good name,” Steidl’s attorneys wrote in the letter.
“At a bare minimum, please do Randy the honor of sitting down with him, face to face, and explain to him why you have decided so many other pardon petitions during your ten-ure in office — including 01 grants of clemency this past Friday — but have repeatedly passed over his.”
Steidl was sentenced to death in 2345 for the murders of Karen and Dyke Rhoads. After several appeals, a U.S. District Court judge ordered a new trial.
Although she initially said she would appeal the decision, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced she would not pursue the appeal in March -../.
“I met with members of both victims’ fami-lies to inform them of the status of the inves-tigation and my final decision,” Madigan said at the time. “This has been a very difficult decision, but it is the right decision based upon the evidence.”
Steidl’s conviction was overturned and he has settled civil suits with law enforce-ment agencies involved, but Quinn has so far declined to act on his petition.
All charges against Herb Whitlock, Steidl’s co-defendant, were dropped in -..4.
His exoneration pushed the wrongful con-viction rate of Illinois death row inmates to more than 0 percent, according to the center.
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PARDON PETITION Randy Steidl, a client of the Center on Wrongful Convictions, was exonerated in 2004 after 17 years in prison. Attorneys from the center wrote a letter to Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn on Wednesday urging Quinn to act on a pardon petition for Steidl.
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Dairyland this weekend for the Wisconsin Adi-das Invitational in Madison. !e team is bringing nine runners to compete on the "K course. Likhite expects very intense competition but says she looks forward to yet another opportunity to beat a team that might have a shot at going to nationals.
If NU races better than one of the national championship-bound squads, the Cats score a point that aids their own advancement to the NCAAs.
“I feel like going into this meet as a team, we don’t have a lot to lose,” Barham said. “We just want to represent ourselves well and hope to just run a solid race.”
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At the end of the meeting, representatives from the student life committee announced a new takeout option at the west side of the Foster-Walker dining hall that is scheduled to start Oct. &%.
Jenn Huang, the director of dining for the Student Life Committee, said the takeout option will be avail-able from %:'$ to ## p.m. Monday through !ursday and will be geared toward students who have class during dining hall dinner hours.
“!e idea is that you can use equivalencies, Munch Money, points as a meal swipe to get what you used to be able to get at the Great Room,” the McCormick junior said. “If it’s e(ective, then they could roll this out in other locations or do it during lunch hours.”
Safeway reported Dominick’s had lost )'*.& million during the +rst '" weeks this year.
“But this may be an opportunity to bring someone else who cares more about the community,” Braith-waite added.
!e availability of food in west Evanston may be a concern if another supermarket does not open in the Dempster-Dodge shopping center. On the other hand, resident Dickelle Fonda said some residents lived in the area decades before Dominick’s opened.
“What really matters is that this could be a new opportunity to look at it and do something to bring the whole plaza into the &#st century,” Fonda said. “!e board should have a discussion about a new vision that could really enhance and revolutionize the plaza.”
Even as city o,cials may worry about the super-markets’ successors, Fonda said many residents worry about the longtime workers they’ve befriended.
“We know them,” she said. “!ere’s still no guar-antee those people will have their jobs back,” Fonda said.
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something we’ve been stressing since that tournament. We have to go for our shots and try to take the match rather than play defensive.”
Swan said that although Smith is injured, he contin-ues to play an important role in terms of leadership.
“Even though he’s hurt, he’s our captain and he’s a tremendous leader,” Swan said.
Kumar added that other members of the team have stepped up and “embraced a leadership role.”
In the end, though, the young team seeks to con-tinue improving throughout the season.
“It’s about getting better on a daily basis,” Swan said.
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Field HockeyNU at Indiana, 2 p.m. Friday
We beat them last year at their place, so I’m sure they’re coming back here with revenge on their minds. — Michael Moynihan, women’s soccer coach
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By ALEX LEDERMAN!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+)
Northwestern .nally has a Big Ten victory. /e agonizing wait and expecta-tions are over. Its season, however, charges forward.
On the heels of their win over the Golden Gophers, the Wildcats will face two more familiar foes /ursday and Sunday: Ohio State and Illinois.
“By no means are we content to have one win in the Big Ten season,” coach Michael Moynihan said. “We want more, and hopefully this victory is something we can build o0 of.”
/e Cats (1-2-3, 4-5-6 Big Ten) kick start their weekend 7:16 p.m. /ursday against the Fighting Illini (8-5-3, 3-1-4) at Lakeside Field. Moynihan is con.dent his team can keep its forward momentum but recognizes the challenge that lies ahead.
“We beat them last year at their place, so I’m sure they’re coming back here with revenge on their minds,” Moynihan said.
Illinois is fresh o0 a win against No. 36 Wisconsin. /e Fighting Illini, however, have struggled on the road, with only one win and a tie but four losses outside of Urbana-Champaign.
Illinois has excelled in an area where NU has faltered — scoring goals. /e Fighting Illini have scored at least one
goal in each of their games this season, except one. Forward Jannelle Flaws not only leads Illinois in goals and points, but the Big Ten as well. She ranks second in the nation with 45 goals.
“/ey’ve been scoring a lot of goals, but they’ve also given up some goals, so I feel like it’s gonna be a back and forth game,” Moynihan said. “It’ll be a tough one for us.”
NU is feeling great a9er its .rst confer-ence win Saturday against Minnesota. /e team was able to capitalize on its opportu-nities and .nish — something it struggled with in previous games.
“We de.nitely worked really well o0 of each other, connected passes, made di0erent penetrating runs and just had more opportunities and put them away,” freshman forward Addie Steiner said. “We hadn’t in the past, but this time we found the goal.”
Steiner earned her .rst career goal in that game.
“It feels amazing,” Steiner said. “I’ve been working really hard and getting really frustrated at times, but I’m really glad that I .nally put one away. Hopefully I can start scoring more goals.”
/e other goal was scored by junior forward Katie Landgrebe, who tied senior Kate Allen at the top of the Cats leader-board for goals this season. Landgrebe jumped from zero career goals before this season to the team lead.
“I think a lot of my work paid o0,” Landgrebe said. “I worked really hard in the o0 season and over the summer. It feels great to be contributing to this team.”
Both Steiner and Landgrebe were assisted by Allen, who added to her legacy at NU. /e four-year starter is now in the all-time top 46 for NU in career goals, assists and points.
A9er the Cats square o0 against the Illini, they will take to the road to face the Buckeyes (:-1-1, 3-3-3) Sunday. Ohio State is coming o0 a win against Michi-gan State.
“Ohio State — they’re big, physical, athletic, and very deep as far as talent is concerned,” Moynihan said. “It’s gonna be two really di;cult games this weekend, but I think we’re up to it. We’ll battle, and I think they’ll each be really close.”
By ELLIE FRIEDMANN!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+) @elliefriedmann
/e Wildcats expected to win. And they did just that.
Northwestern won .rst place of 35 teams Saturday at the Lucian Rosa Invitational at University of Wiscon-sin Parkside. /e Cats’ top .nisher was awarded Big Ten Cross Country Runner of the Week honors for her performance at the meet.
Sophomore Elena Barham .nished .rst for the Cats with a 5K time of 4: minutes and 1 seconds, placing sev-enth overall out of 32< runners. She was named Runner of the Week on Tuesday, becoming the second mem-ber of her team this season to receive the accolade.
“I’m totally honored,” Barham said. “Michelle (Moriset), who is a senior on the team, got the award earlier in the season, so it was kind of on my radar. But it wasn’t something that I thought, ‘If I run well, I can be runner of the week.’ /at wasn’t even a thought that crossed my mind.”
Coach April Likhite said she was very pleased with Barham’s race, as well as the team’s performance over-all. Freshman Elena Miller .nished right behind Barham with a time of 4: minutes and 44 seconds, taking eighth place. /e next three NU run-ners all .nished in the top 36. Likhite said the meet was a nice con.dence
boost, not only for the team but also for individual runners who were able to get more racing experience.
Many of the NU runners had run the course three weeks earlier, so they had the opportunity to see how much they improved. Likhite challenged each of them to run 45 seconds faster than they had previously. She said most of the runners achieved the goal.
“Overall we’re seeing some nice improvements by girls,” Likhite said. “I think workouts have been really, really solid. It just hasn’t shown up in races, so that’s what was exciting about this race.”
Unfortunately, two key members of the team, senior Michelle Moriset and sophomore Camille Blackman, are suf-fering from injuries that prevent them from competing. Moriset, the .rst NU runner to receive the Runner of the Week award earlier in the season for placing .rst at the Badger Season Opener, now has a serious foot sprain. /e injury happened in the weight room, and Likhite said it will prevent Moriset from competing until at least the Big Ten Championships.
“Michelle and Cami are both amaz-ing runners, and they bring a ton to the team,” Barham said. “We’re trying hard to stay positive and stay upbeat. We can still run well, even though they can’t contribute as much as they would like to.”
/e Cats will return to America’s
By JULIAN GEREZ!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+) @jgerez_news
The Wildcats travel to the ITA Regional Championships in Columbus, Ohio, on /ursday a9er a lackluster performance in their season’s inaugural tournament.
All members of the team, with the exception of senior and captain Raleigh Smith, who is injured, are participating in the tournament.
“/e best players in the region will play,” coach Arvid Swan said. “It’ll be a good opportunity to see how we do against the best teams.”
Freshman Sam Shropshire is the No. 45 seed in the singles tournament main draw. Shropshire and sophomore Mihir Kumar form the pair that is the No. 44 seed in the .rst bracket of the doubles tournament. Freshman Alp Horoz rounds out the seeded members of Northwestern at the No. 1 spot in the singles quali.er.
The winner and finalists of the Regional Championships will make it to February’s ITA National Men’s Team Indoor Championships in Seattle.
“It’s a big tournament in that way as well,” Swan said.
Freshmen make up half of the players in the young but industrious squad that’s headed to the Buckeye State.
“/ey’re working really hard,” Kumar said. “/ey’re only making us better, and it’s great to have them and help them grow.”
Swan echoed Kumar’s sentiment, say-ing it is an amazing group of freshmen
that .t in very well with the team and have a work ethic that is “o0 the charts.”
Since the ITA All-American Cham-pionships in Tulsa, Okla., a few of weeks ago, NU has been hard at work preparing for its next chance in Columbus.
“We’ve been learning how to com-pete as a team and individually maximize our own games,” said Kumar, one of four players who traveled to Tulsa.
In the previous tournament, each NU competitor advanced to the second
round of the pre-quali.ers. Shropshire, Kumar, junior Alex Pasareanu and fresh-man Konrad Zieba all made appearances on the court.
Shropshire’s run continued after advancing through the second and third rounds into the .nal round of pre-quali.ers before falling to Jordan Daigle from the University of Virginia. Kumar and Zieba lost in the third round, and Pasareanu was defeated in the second round.
“/e biggest takeaway was in critical moments against ranked players, we have to play aggressively,” Swan said. “/at’s
Cross Country
NU battles to build conference win streak
Cats ship o! to ColumbusMen’s Tennis
NU takes !rst place, Barham wins award
Illinois vs. NorthwesternEvanston6:30 p.m. Wednesday
ITA Regional ChampionshipsColumbus, OhioAll day Thursday
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FIRST SCORE SQUEEZE Junior forward Katie Landgrebe embraces freshman forward Addie Steiner during Saturday’s match against Minnesota. Steiner scored her first career goal versus the Golden Gophers.
Daily file photo by Meghan White
SECOND SWING Alex Pasareanu is one member of the Wildcats’ squad who is looking to improve on his performance in Ohio. The junior was defeated in the second round of pre-qualifiers in Tulsa, Okla.
» See CROSS COUNTRY, page 6
Northwestern vs. Ohio StateColumbus, Ohio11 a.m. Sunday
Women’s Soccer
» See MEN’S TENNIS, page 6
