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2 Psychology studies provide educational benefits for researchers and students alike
How the NFL can take it to the next level
EditorialNorthwestern meal plans cost too much, give us too little
Nate Carroll
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Women’s BasketballCats hope to use their hot shooting as fuel to make late push in the conference
FootballNational Signing Day has come and gone: check out the NU recruits
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2 Chinese is making an entrance to the foreign language scene in schools
2 Prospie is taken to hospital after wheezing on a walk to Allison Hall
3 Recycling in Evanston will become easier with introduction of new bins
3 Jewish movement KOACH joins NU’s Hillel community
By Grace Johnsonand Nathalie Tadena The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/evanston
With the final precinct counted, Robyn Gabel has won the Democratic primary for the 18th District seat in the Illinois General Assembly.
Gabel received 27.15 percent of the vote, according to numbers released Wednesday by the Cook County Clerk’s office . Patrick Keenan-Devlin (Weinberg and Bienen ’06) finished second with 25.88 percent and con-ceded the race Wednesday morning.
“We feel Robyn ran a great cam-paign: a very positive campaign based on her record of achievement,” said Joshua Kilroy , Gabel’s campaign man-ager. “She’s delighted that voters re-sponded to that message.”
At approximately 2 a.m. Wednes-day, the Cook County Clerk’s office announced online ballots for the last 24 precincts , which included the final precinct in the 18th District primary race, would not be counted until 9 a.m. With 81 of the district’s 82 pre-
Primary decidedby 190Gabel holds out to beat former ASG president Keenan-Devlin
By Lilia Hargis The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/asg
Arts Alliance was demoted from an A-status to B-status student group following this year’s Student Appro-priations Finance Committee review process.
About 30 members of the Student Theatre Coalition lined the back wall of Wednesday night’s Associated Stu-dent Government Senate meeting to contest the decision.
After speeches for and against the issue, senators voted 20-15 to uphold the status change. A two-thirds ma-
jority in the senate would have been necessary for Arts Alliance to main-tain its A-status, which allows the group to draw funding from a larger pool of money. The status change will not take effect until the end of Spring Quarter.
Each year, every A-status student group submits an application stating why it should keep its status, said ASG Financial Vice President Malavika Srinivasan , who chairs the SAFC. The committee then evaluates the group based on criteria, including the group’s need for the student activities fee funds, group stability and financial re-sponsibility, the SESP senior said.
Srinivasan said Arts Alliance, a StuCo production company, has not made use of its portion of the SAF and has also not provided proper doc-umentation for its use of the funds in the past.
Arts Alliance, the nation’s largest student arts organization, requests about $800 each year in funding to rent a garage from the University and occasionally makes larger funding re-quests for “capital improvements,” most recently for a new lighting board and dimmer through co-spon-
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B-status: Arts Alliance members and supporters look on as ASG makes its final decision on the group’s funding.
By Jessica Allen The Daily Northwestern www.northwestern.edu/administration
Northwestern students ending their undergraduate careers after Fall or Winter Quarters can now earn an official degree before their Commencement ceremony.
“You’re officially done in every sense of the word,” said Lucas Ar-taiz , a SESP senior who will be graduating this March. “It’s a good change for the school.”
Prior to the policy change, NU undergraduates who had fulfilled their degree requirements could stop taking classes at any point but wouldn’t receive their official tran-scripts or degrees until June.
In the past, the Office of the Reg-istrar wrote letters to prospective employers explaining the students were on track to graduate in June, said Michele Neary , associate Uni-versity registrar. Now these students can provide official documentation.
Neary said students have been
appreciative of the formal change. About 115 students graduated in
December, and about another 310 will do the same in March, Neary said. NU will still have only one Commencement ceremony, she said.
Other peer universities, such as Washington University in St. Louis and Cornell University , also offer students the option of graduating early.
Economics may factor in some students’ decision to graduate early.
Joey Drain , who hadn’t heard about the new policy, said he is most likely graduating at the end of Win-ter Quarter in order to save money. The McCormick senior said he has enjoyed his time at NU, but it makes more sense financially to graduate as soon as his requirements are fin-ished.
The price tag on opting to take another quarter runs at $12,696 for tuition, plus other costs associated
New policy allows students to receive official degree sooner
Council alters vote, spares branch libraries until Sept. 1 By Adam SegeThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/council
The Evanston City Council voted 5-4 Wednesday to keep the city’s branch libraries open for six more months, reversing its Monday vote to close the branches.
If approved as part of the 2010-11 fiscal year budget, this non-binding compromise will give supporters of the branch libraries time to fundraise and
look into alternative funding sources. If the supporters cannot find a perma-nent plan to pay for the branches by Sept. 1, the city will close them.The proposed cuts to the library branches are part of the city’s attempt to close a projected $9.5 million budget deficit . During Wednesday’s marathon five-hour special meeting at the Lor-raine H. Morton Civic Center , 2100
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Council: Wally Bobkiewicz compromised with the ECMC for a smaller cut.
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Through studies, students learn psychologists ‘aren’t all Freud’ By Claire BrownThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/science
Northwestern students in certain classes are required to serve as human guinea pigs by filling out surveys, playing in-teractive computer games and putting electrodes on their heads when they participate in psychology labs on campus.
Students in Introduction to Psychology spend 10 hours participating in psychology labs throughout the quarter, psy-chology lecturer Renee Engeln-Maddox said.
“It’s fairly typical for research universities to require par-ticipation,” she said. “We’ve been requiring it for years.”
Participating in labs helps students understand what psy-chologists do, Engeln-Maddox said.
“They learn that all psychologists aren’t therapists, and they aren’t all Freud,” she said.
In such a large class, students can’t run studies themselves, so it’s a different way to learn about what methods scientists use, Engeln-Maddox said.
“I learned how to conduct psychological surveys,” said Derek Pardes, a Weinberg freshman who took Intro to Psych in the fall. “It was a valuable experience.”
Types of experiments vary and may study personality, mental health, memory and perception, said Prof. John Mi-chael Bailey, who teaches Human Sexuality every Winter Quarter.
“My grad students and I have sometimes used the subject pool to study ‘gay-dar,’” Bailey said.
Another study tested prejudice, said Molly Kriva, who took Intro to Psych Fall Quarter. The word “black” was in one cor-ner of the computer screen and the word “white” was in an-other, she said. Then other words were shown and partici-pants were asked to attribute these words to either race, the Weinberg junior said. Based on answers and how long it took participants to respond, researchers could determine if there was a hidden bias, she said.
“I took another one that was kind of like Guitar Hero, ex-cept a lot less exciting,” Kriva said.
Some studies are less interesting, Engeln-Maddox said. But students can learn a lot if they go into it with a good attitude, she said.
“I went to the University of Illinois, and I did them all the time for money,” Engeln-Maddox said. “I thought they were interesting, fun, and I could get at least 10 bucks an hour.”
Although Intro to Psych students are not paid because partic-
ipation is a class requirement, there are paid opportunities avail-able, Engeln-Maddox said. Flyers are posted in Swift Hall, and students can sign up online to get e-mails about upcoming stud-ies, which usually pay about $8 for less than an hour, she said.
“It can be an interesting way to learn about yourself,” En-geln-Maddox said.
Studies at NU are usually run by graduate students, but there is always a faculty advisor, Bailey said.
“It’s not always fun to run a study,” he said. “The grad stu-dent is doing the same thing over and over and over again, and that can get boring.”
Still data collection is necessary to test a hypothesis and to publish research, he said.
“Many of our grad students would like to be NU professors or professors at some other equally good university,” Bailey said. “They need this information to be able to do that.”
Conducting research and having student participation is necessary for NU’s psychology department to stay at the fore-front of its field, Bailey said.
“It’s a big time commitment,” Kriva said. “But it really gave me a lot of hands-on experience.”
ETHS to implement Chinese language program next fall
Popular foreign languages such as German, Spanish and French may soon face more com-petition in classrooms.
The number of high schools across the country with Chinese language programs is growing, and Evanston Township High School is one more addition.
ETHS will offer Mandarin Chinese classes to students starting next year in an effort to recognize China’s impact on the global com-munity.
“It’s not a language there should be any question about why we’re adding,” said Kathy Pino, department chair for world languages at ETHS. “We are making sure we offer our stu-dents something that will prepare them for the world they will be dealing with.”
In 2008 4 percent of all middle and high schools with foreign language courses offered Chinese classes, an increase from only 1 per-cent of schools with Chinese programs in 1997, the Center for Applied Linguistics reported.
The beginner course in Chinese will be available to students in the fall, and succes-sively higher levels will be offered each addi-tional year.
Though the planning process began about six years ago when parents and other educa-tors showed interest in creating Chinese courses, Pino said they wanted to wait for the appropriate time to implement the program due to a lack of qualified Chinese teachers.
Now the field of teacher preparation for Chinese programs has grown and developed tremendously, she said. ETHS is currently in the hiring stage for the program.
Pino said the number of beginner courses offered will be decided after students make course selections this month for the upcoming year.
“We have the most extensive course offer-ings in languages of any school around,” she said. “Learning Chinese gives you access to a window into a culture that has a huge world influence right now.”
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Prospie hospitalized after having difficulty breathing
A prospective student went to the hospital Tuesday because she had difficulty breathing, police said.
The girl left Allison Hall, 1820 Chicago Ave., in an ambulance at 12:17 p.m., North-western Deputy Police Chief Dan McAleer said. She said she started wheezing after walking from the train station to Allison, McAleer said.
The girl had planned to stay overnight, McAleer said.
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A program to supply Evanston residents with larger, more efficient recycling bins re-cently ended, city officials said.
Melissa Kreke, Streets and Sanitation business office coordinator, said the depart-
ment just finished the residential project, which began in May.
Although commercial areas have never been supplied with recycling bins, the city plans to add these over the next three years, said Carolyn Collopy, sustainable programs coordinator for the Office of Sustainability.
“The more (recycling bins) we have in highly visible areas, the more people are go-ing to see that and recognize the importance of recycling,” she said. “If you see a recycling container next to garbage container, it’s eas-ier to change behavior, and it makes it easier to make people recycle.”
In the past, Evanston residents used 20- to 30-gallon lidless bins. The new bins are 95-, 69- or 35-gallons and have lids and wheels attached for convenience and extra storage.
“The goal was so they would have
greater recycling abilities,” Kreke said. “Before, since the bins didn’t have lids, people would have to put (recyclables) in plastic bags or they would get wet.”
The new bins also allow the garbage truck to pick them up automatically, since an arm extends from the truck, lifts it up and dumps the recyclables. Kreke said this would require less manpower.
To unify the city’s efforts in advancing green habits, the Office of Sustainability will provide business areas with new receptacles
next to current trash cans, Collopy said.With funds from the Energy Efficiency
and Conservation Block Grant, the de-partment will spend about $90,000 to buy the new containers.
Collopy said she does not know the num-ber of recycling bins that will be placed.
“Ideally we want to have a recycling container next to each refuse container to be effective,” she said. “When you start separating (the two bins), people are going to mix (recyclables and trash).”
Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) said having the bins will create a greater awareness of environmental issues.
“I’m excited for them,” Wilson said. “There’s a large amount of recyclable mate-rial that ends up in the trash can.”
Revamped recylcing bin distribution program ends
By Maria LaMagnaThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/student-groups
KOACH, a movement of conservative Jewish students, joined Hillel’s community this winter.
The group, which exists on many other college campuses, offers Northwestern’s Jewish population a new sector of services.
Campus Rabbi Joshua Feigelson said KOACH, which means “strength” in He-brew, will appeal to students with a spe-cific set of beliefs within Judaism.
“KOACH is an extension of the conser-vative movement of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism,” he said. “(The
movement) is often thought of as between Orthodox Judaism on the right and Reform Judaism on the left.”
Benjamin Goldberg became an intern with KOACH this year and worked to bring the community to NU. The organization aims to create a forum for discussion and learning that previously did not exist, the Weinberg sophomore said.
“The focus is on being open to what modernity has to say in terms of scholar-ship and social trends like feminism and gay rights but at the same time maintain-ing a strong connection to Jewish law, tra-dition and literary heritage,” Goldberg said.
The group will focus on education and
bringing guest speakers to campus, he said.So far, speakers have included Rabbi Ste-
ven Wernick, head of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, who was Gold-berg’s rabbi at his home in Philadelphia.
“A lot of what we’ve done this year has been on education because that’s some-thing that I thought was lacking at Hillel,” Goldberg said. “Not that there wasn’t any, but there’s always room for more.”
Feigelson said KOACH will add to what Hillel already offers on campus.
“Hillel here is involved in a lot of differ-ent things, and it’s an umbrella for so many student groups,” he said. “(KOACH) is try-ing to find another point of connection for people to be able to do the kinds of Jewish things they want to do.”
Benjamin Singer participated in a con-ference for KOACH two years ago at NU and went to hear a KOACH-sponsored lec-ture on Judaic law surrounding capital punishment a few weeks ago, the Commu-
nication senior said.“It was wonderful,” he said. “It was very
nice to be sitting around a table with other Jewish college students who also enjoyed it.”
Singer said he is unsure now whether or not he identifies with Conservative Juda-ism, but said he thinks the group has value on campus.
“I don’t feel a special relationship with KOACH because I don’t really affiliate with any movement or branch within Juda-ism,” he said. “I don’t really know my own theology or philosophy yet, but I think the resources and services (KOACH) provides are tremendously valuable.”
Bringing KOACH to campus is the next step to providing individualized services for students, Goldberg said.
“Judaism has always evolved over time,” he said. “We hope to continue that process.”
Hillel community welcomes conservative KOACH movement
Residents will have access to simpler recycling options over next three years
Arts Alliance may reapply for A-status funding
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Status change: Arts Alliance challenged claims that they were fiscally irresponsible. sorship with other groups.
Srinivasan said her committee thought the group’s financial needs could be accommo-dated in the B-status group funding pool.
“The size of the pools for A-status and B-status groups are different,” she said. “But there are B-status groups that are funded for up to several thousand dollars.”
Arts Alliance President Liz Olanoff said she and Treasurer Jason Margolis were contacted about the decision Sunday night, and both were surprised to hear of the change in status.
“We believe that this was the result of lots of miscommunications piling up and misunderstandings about how each orga-nization works on the part of the other or-ganization,” Olanoff, a Communication ju-nior, said.
Arts Alliance can apply to be promoted to A-status again as soon as the group pro-vides documentation for all previous uses of SAF funds, which they are currently in the process of reviewing.
“There was a communication issue about where money has gone,” Srinivasan said. “We are going to figure that out going for-ward, and for all we know, Arts Alliance will be back in A-status soon.”
Margolis said the group has not made a definite decision on if and when members will reapply for A-status.
“We will take the next quarter to think about it,” the Communication senior said. “Of course we were hoping that the decision would be different, but we will move forward and make do and continue producing shows.”
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Football was invented in the Mesozoic Era by Neander-thal men who would run around carrying dinosaur
skulls and tackling each other. It was originally intended as a meaningless diversion that gave the cavemen an excuse to not hunt and/or gather, but it turned out to be extremely influen-tial to the genetic development of the human race, since the flyest cave-women would only mate with varsity players. Some biologists theorize hu-mans evolved opposable thumbs to gain an advantage over the proto-Adrian Petersons who steamrolled everybody but couldn’t hold on to the diplodocus skull.
It’s difficult to explain what they called their sport, since cavemen of the prehistoric era communicated primarily through ritual dance. The name football wasn’t developed un-til the time of the ancient Romans. If you’ve always wondered why it’s called football when feet come into play for maybe three minutes dur-
ing a game that can take upwards of 15 hours, the answer is the name comes from the root prefix “fuhte,” roughly meaning, “so many com-mercial breaks.”
The Romans’ other valuable con-tributions to football include the in-vention of cheerleaders, the inven-tion of Joe Paterno and the construc-tion of the world’s largest football stadium, the Coliseum.
In modern times, football re-mains an extremely popular form of entertainment. (Note: I’m still talk-ing about American football, not the rival spin-off that a small minority—consisting of Europe, Central and South America and Australia—refers to as football.) It’s estimated more than 100 million people will watch Super Bowl XLIV this Sunday, and that’s not even counting the various other species and extra-terrestrials that are also sure to tune in.
Clearly the National Football League must be doing something right. People say, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” but they would alter their stance if they saw the way I re-worked my toaster into a toaster that also prints documents. The point is, although the long and sto-ried history of football has led to a thriving community of players and fans, the NFL has the power to take
it to the next level.My idea—which is trademarked,
copyrighted, registered and patent-pending—is NFL teams should con-sist not of human athletes, but of whatever it is their team name de-scribes. If the notion, just as one ex-ample, of a Viking crew taking on a bunch of wild bears doesn’t immedi-ately strike you as awesome, then one or the other of us must be crazy. And since my Scientologist mentor assures me I’m the most sane person he knows, I can only conclude the problem lies with you.
To be fair, I can see how people in Cleveland might not like this plan. There are only a few potential corpo-real manifestations for a team called the “Browns,” and none of them would be particularly good at foot-ball. Realistically, though, I don’t see how this would be all that different. Better to accept that you’ll never win the Super Bowl, and just revel in the fact that at least your city’s got LeB-ron, or as he’s also known, “the bet-ter LBJ” (sorry, Mr. President).
After the epic aerial battle be-tween the Eagles and the Seahawks in Superbowl XLV, you’ll all be thanking me.
Teach for next generation to offer needed guidance
The room imitated the stillness of a painter’s canvas stroked by all shades of brown. Nearly 40 sets of eyes stared at me—half in admiration and half in astonishment. My Latino students looked at me with awe be-cause I knew their language fluently, but I was of African descent. My Afri-can-American students looked at me with surprise because I looked like them, but I spoke Spanish fluently. For both groups I was simultaneously familiar and yet offered an image of some unique, unexplored potential.
Black men who teach any subject only represent 2 percent of the teach-ing population, nationally. Not even half of our country’s K-12 teachers are of color. Yet nearly 90 percent of stu-dents in the schools where Teach For America teachers are placed are black or Latino. While Teach For America strives to have a diverse corps, we have failed to even come close to matching these percentages.
Despite never having a male teacher of color throughout my entire K-12 experience, I built a positive self-image. Fortunately, many black men in my life served as empowering ex-amples of manhood: my pastor, my friend’s father, my own father. But many of my peers didn’t have the same powerful role models.
Teachers are in a unique position to serve as role models for their stu-dents. Being an exemplar of a similar ethnic background does not guarantee student success. It is not until people confront the economic, social and/or cultural privileges they bring into a classroom that they can make an un-
paralleled connection with their stu-dents based on this “familiarity.” Ev-ery day, I stand before my students as an example of what a young black kid who started learning Spanish in 10th grade can do and students begin to see themselves having similar success.
This opportunity to inspire chil-dren most in need led me to teach. I have worked with kids in afterschool programs, day camps, tutoring pro-grams and mentoring programs. Teaching has proved more difficult than all of these experiences com-bined. I am at work by 7 a.m. and leave at 7 p.m. most days. I bring work home with me. I work on the week-ends. But I maintain an overall happi-ness that stems from the relationships I have had the opportunity to build with my students as a teacher.
Our educational system needs tal-ented Northwestern graduates, par-ticularly those of color, who can po-tentially have a profound impact on the lives of students intentionally bro-ken down instead of built up. Though I question whether you will be joining a movement to end educational ineq-uity, I still urge you to consider Teach For America. You will be joining a movement that, at the very least, gives you a first-hand account of and op-portunity to change the fraud that is our American K-12 system. The hope is, inside and outside of the classroom, you will one day be in a position to tangibly do something about it. If we fail to be a part of the rearing of the new generation, we fail to cultivate and pass on the best that is in us.
— Julian Hill Weinberg ’08
Second-year member, Teach For America Compton High School, Los Angeles
miLLenniALS “outdatedjoke” By Steven A. Berger
A Northwestern education is not exactly cheap. As stu-dents, we accept the high cost of going to a top pri-
vate school because we know it’s worth it. But when we’re paying an exorbitant amount for meal plans that aren’t worth what they cost, we need to demand change.
Sodexo, which operates NU’s food service nuCuisine, is a for-profit business. When we pay too much for meal plans that provide too little, we’re getting ripped off. Sodexo and NU should let us know where our money is going so we can understand what exactly we’re paying for.
Without transparency, we don’t know how much our meal plans really cost and how much is taken away as profit. With the re-cent push to pay University work-ers a living wage, it’s important now more than ever to see where our money goes when we buy a meal plan.
But University President Mor-ton O. Schapiro indicated he has no plans to fix NU’s arrangement with Sodexo.
“I understand it’s important to people, but do I know a lot about it? No,” he told The Daily earlier this quarter. “Should I probably know more about it? Yeah. Should I try to fix the meal plan? No.”
Schapiro should not be so quick to brush off the meal plan issue. Sodexo is pushing up costs for stu-dents on the University’s watch. The University has already signed a contract with Sodexo through 2018, and full-time students living in University residences are re-quired to purchase meal plans that start at an annual rate of $4,531.
Let’s compare the Weekly 13 Plan and the Block D Plan, both of which come with the lowest an-nual price tag of $4,531. If you go with the Block D Plan, you can use meal equivalencies at on-cam-pus retail locations, but you’re drastically overpaying: Each meal costs you more than $17. If you go with the Weekly 13 Plan, you’re still paying almost $10 per meal, and you’re restricted to dining hall food.
It’s a choice between two key faults of the meal plan options.
Pay too much for an all-you-can-eat dining hall meal—restricted by rigid hours and limited daily options—or pay much more to be able to eat your meal at your choice of campus locations.
NuCuisine has taken several steps to give the appearance of providing more than just meals: a variety of vegetarian and vegan options, occasional themed festiv-ities and guest chefs. But it has not done enough to address the most pressing issues at hand: making plans more reasonably priced and flexible.
Offering meal equivalencies and rolling over unused meals and points would provide fairer options. We shouldn’t have to switch to an overpriced block plan for these two features—a meal should be a meal, regardless of place or time.
Until a dollar buys a dollar’s worth of food, we shouldn’t settle. Until a dollar in one place con-verts to a dollar in another, we should realize the extra money can only be going one place: profit, at our expense.
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cincts accounted for early Wednesday morn-ing, Gabel led the pack, 154 votes ahead of Keenan-Devlin.
The three other candidates in the hotly contested five-way race conceded to Gabel on Tuesday evening. Eamon Kelly placed third with 24.83 percent of the vote. Jeff Smith (Weinberg ’77) placed fourth with 11.37 percent of the vote, and former Evan-ston alderman Ed Moran finished last with 10.77 percent.
Though Gabel consistently led the polls as voting results poured in throughout Tuesday evening, election night was “very tense” for the Keenan-Devlin camp, said Samantha Reed, the campaign’s student coordinator.
“The campaign staff were on their laptops clicking refresh on the county Web site over and over again,” the SESP junior said.
Keenan-Devlin called Gabel to concede the race around 11 a.m. Wednesday. In the end, the former Associated Student Govern-ment president trailed Gabel by 190 votes.
“We had a very cordial conversation,” Keenan-Devlin said. “Robyn and I are friends and colleagues, and I know she will represent our district well in Springfield.”
Despite the loss, Keenan-Devlin said he was “not a sad candidate this morning” and “certainly will be involved” in efforts to im-prove Illinois.
At least 120 student voters cast ballots in the primary, Reed said.
“We were able to get over 40 students to vote early, which is pretty amazing,” she said.
“On election day, it was difficult to get stu-dents to turn out. We were constantly e-mail-ing, calling, texting and knocking on people’s doors, but I think having over 100 students vote is still a great success.”
Gabel, a long-time advocate for women’s and children’s issues, was endorsed by Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-9th), who once held the post of 18th District state representative. Ga-bel was not available for comment Wednes-day.
Although there is currently no Republi-can nominee, Kilroy said a candidate may be appointed to run on the GOP ticket against Gabel in November’s general elec-tion.
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Artaiz said he hadn’t planned to graduate early but is doing so because he fulfilled his practicum requirement during the summer. March will mark his 12th quarter, and he said he per-ceives it as graduating on time versus graduating early.
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Ridge Ave., the council focused on the libraries but also approved compromises with the fire de-partment and public access television channel. More than 100 citizens attended the meeting.
On Monday, the council voted 6-3 to close the city’s North and South library branches on March 1. But since Monday’s meeting was a public budget hearing, the vote was not legally binding and could potentially be challenged un-less the council voted again at a regular session, city attorney Grant Farrar said.
After hearing that news, Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd) moved to keep the branch libraries open six months, while closing each branch one addi-tional day per week. The measure will cost the city an estimated $168,000.
Ald. Jane Grover (7th), who voted on Monday against closing the branches, announced a group of citizens calling themselves “Branch Love” has received pledges for $13,000 since Monday to
keep the libraries open. Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) spoke of the support in his ward for saving the branches.
“I’ve never seen so much enthusiasm in my ward over any issue,” Tendam said. “If we ask people to get involved and they’re involved to this extent, we have to give them a chance.”
But some aldermen were unconvinced. “We have nine-and-a-half million dollars to cut from our budget,” said Ald. Ann Rainey (8th). “Either stick it to all the taxpayers tonight, or let’s move on.”
Earlier in the night, the council unanimously agreed to drop the proposed $275,000 in over-time fire department staffing reductions.
Fire Chief Alan Berkowsky and the Evan-ston Fire Fighters Association have said the overtime cuts would increase the department’s response times. In recent discussions with coun-cil members, the union agreed to $139,000 in other fire department cuts if the council elimi-nated the overtime cuts. Council members seemed pleased with the compromise.
“They’re not asking us to do it so that they make more money,” Rainey said. “We’re not giv-ing the firefighters anything. We’re giving the community a response time that is safe.”
That line was met by applause from approxi-mately 30 firefighters standing in the overflow area outside the council chambers.
City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz also an-nounced he had reached a compromise with the Evanston Community Media Center to reduce its proposed funding cuts by $50,000. In return, ECMC will produce a half-hour program on city issues each month and a bi-monthly feature on the police and fire departments, as well as pub-lic service announcements.
ECMC Executive Director Steve Bartle-baugh said the compromise provides a lifeline.
“We think this will at least be enough to keep the center moving forward,” Bartlebaugh said.
The next city council meeting will be held Monday at the Civic Center.
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By Jonah L. RosenblumThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/mens-basketball
Minnesota went to Ohio State looking to break out of a slump and record a qual-ity win. Instead, it left Columbus, Ohio, the victim of a brutal beating, suffering an 85-63 loss to the Buckeyes.
“We’re returning from a good spank-ing,” Minnesota coach Tubby Smith said. “It was a very poor performance on our part. We’ll have to figure out what we have to do to get back on the winning track.”
Minnesota has lost four of its last five games, including four straight on the road.
In Columbus, the Buckeyes scored at will, running their offense seamlessly against the Golden Gophers defense. Ohio State shot 63 percent against Minnesota, turning the ball over just 12 times against one of the Big Ten’s top turnover defenses.
“We didn’t give ourselves a chance to be in the game because of our lack of de-fensive effort,” Smith said. “They shot 60 to 70 percent and you’re not going to win any games like that.”
Minnesota has struggled defensively in conference play, ranking second-to-last in the Big Ten in scoring defense.
Although the Golden Gophers lead the conference in blocks and steals, they have allowed the third-highest field goal per-centage in Big Ten play. Opponents have made a league-leading 40.6 percent of their 3-point attempts against Minnesota.
“We’ve got a week here to discover who’s going to play defense the way we want,” Smith said. “We’ll start from the
bottom, and work our way back up. No one has a starting position, and we’ll go from there.”
Smith has time on his side, as the team’s next game isn’t until Saturday after-noon against Penn State, who remains winless in Big Ten play.
OHiO sTaTe MOVes uP in TOP 25After spending two weeks on the edge
of the Associated Press Top 25, Ohio State has firmly established a spot in the top half of the rankings.
With four wins in their last five games, including a dominant performance versus the Golden Gophers, the Buckeyes are now ranked 13th in the nation.
Last week Ohio State bounced back from a tough loss to No. 12 West Virginia by topping three conference foes—Iowa, Minnesota and Penn State.
The Buckeyes were particularly strong passing the ball Sunday, recording 22 as-sists against the Golden Gophers, more than 6 above their season average.
“I love guys who can pass the basket-ball, but for the most part, for a majority of these guys, their job was to shoot it for their high school team,” Ohio State coach Thad Matta said. “It’s a little bit trying to get guys to understand that unselfish play is probably best. When all five guys are committed to playing that way, everyone gets a little richer.”
Ohio State is tied for second in the Big Ten with a 6-3 record, which is particu-larly impressive because star Evan Turner missed two conference games, both losses.
“I like it from the standpoint that Evan didn’t play in two of the losses,” Matta said. “He’s pretty important to our team. I like the position we’re in.”
It’s scarier to imagine how good Ohio State could be if several of its best players had not left early for the NBA. In 2007 the Buckeyes lost one of the best fresh-man classes in school history when Mike Conley Jr., Greg Oden and Daequan Cook were first-round picks. Oden’s re-placement, Kosta Koufus, left for the NBA following the 2007-08 season.
There’s no telling how early depar-tures could affect Matta’s recruiting pol-icy, but expressed a helplessness in avoid-ing one-and-dones.
“We’ve had five freshman in three years leave our program and three of them are from the state of Ohio and the other two are from Indianapolis,” Matta said “I might not be as adventurous to go to New York or Los Angeles and get a one-and-done kid, but you’re always going to take care of the guys close to you.”
The Buckeyes made the NCAA Cham-pionship in 2007 with a freshman base of Conley, Oden, and Cook. All three players would’ve been seniors this year.
If none of Matta’s top recruits had de-clared early for the draft, his starting five could be Turner, Conley, Oden, Cook, and Koufus. Star guards William Buford, averaging 14 points a game, and Jon Diebler, shooting 44.7 percent from behind the arc, would provide relief off the bench.
Smith searching for solution to stop Gophers’ skid
“It has got to carry over in your performance. You’ve got to lead by example all the time.”
“When all five guys are committed to playing that way, everyone gets a little richer.”
POwer rankings 1. Michigan State (19-4, 9-1): Must recover fast from Wisconsin loss with big games ahead against Illinois and Purdue.2. Wisconsin (17-5, 7-3): Big win versus Michigan State, remains unbeaten at the Kohl Center.3. Ohio State (17-6, 7-3): Buford, Diebler and Turner might be deadliest trio in the Big Ten.4. Purdue (18-3, 6-3): Four consecutive wins put Purdue back in the Big Ten title chase.5. Minnesota (13-8, 4-5): All good feelings from NU win lost in Columbus Massacre.6. Northwestern (15-7, 4-6): Bubble team gets a couple days off before Indiana comes to town.7. Illinois (15-8, 7-3): Illini bring three-game win streak to Spartans’ house. 8. Michigan (11-11, 4-6): Things don’t get easier as hot Wisconsin team pays a visit to Ann Arbor.9. Indiana (9-11, 3-5): Another good effort from a talented squad, nearly beating Illinois.10. Iowa (8-15, 2-8): Just when things were looking up, Hawkeyes lose three straight.11. Penn State (8-14, 0-10): It’s hard to believe they were 8-4 once.
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Consecutive wins at the kohl Center for the badgers after their victory over the spartans 18
Ohio state coach Thad Matta,Minnesota coach Tubby smith,on the leadership he expects from his veterans on the idea of unself ish play
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8 | Thursday, February 4, 2010TOMORROW IN SPORTS
Women’s BasketballSee if the Cats can continue their hot shooting at home against the WolverinesMen’s BasketballNU gears up for Indiana on SundaySportsSports
By Danny DalyThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/womens-basketball
For senior Kristin Cartwright, last Sunday’s performance against Wisconsin validated the hard work she has put in and losing she has en-dured in four years at Northwestern. For 15 minutes, the Wildcats finally put it all together.
“That’s the best we’ve come out, knowing we have to make a run and doing everything we talked about,” Cartwright said. “That’s the best I’ve seen us execute.”
With seven losses in its last eight games, NU was in the process of squandering the program’s best start in more than a decade when it traveled to Madison, Wisc. The Cats had dropped three straight contests they had chances to win in the second half, and up next was the third-place team in the Big Ten. After a layup by forward Lin Zas-trow with 5:08 left in the first half, the Badgers claimed a commanding 26-12 lead.
Then NU began its longest hot streak of the season. The Cats out-scored the Badgers 45-16 from that point until midway through the sec-ond half and held on for a six-point victory over the conference’s top-ranked defensive squad.
“Everyone was making shots,”
said freshman forward Kendall Hackney, who tallied 14 points after intermission. “It was a blast—we were a completely different team. I thought, ‘We can play like that every game.’”
NU went nearly 14 minutes with-out missing from the field during that stretch, making 13 shots in a row. Five of those were from beyond the arc, and the Cats were a perfect 7-of-7 at the free-throw line in be-tween misses, too. Four teams have failed to score as many points against Wisconsin in entire games as NU did during that stretch.
Ball movement was critical dur-ing the offensive outburst, as the Cats recorded assists on all but four of their 23 baskets.
“This team is trying to be unself-ish, and it really showed in that game,” coach Joe McKeown said. “That was the best we’ve shared the ball.”
Now the challenge will be main-taining momentum into the next game, something NU (13-9, 4-7 Big Ten) hasn’t done in conference play. A rematch with Michigan (13-8, 5-6) at Welsh-Ryan Arena looms Thurs-day night.
“A lot of positives come out of that (Wisconsin) game, but the other thing you have to remember is that it’s over and you have to move on,” McKeown said.
The Cats escaped from Crisler Arena with a 63-59 win at the end of Decemeber, a game in which the Wolverines connected on less than one-third of their field-goal tries. But Michigan comes to Evanston playing its best basketball of the year, knocking off Penn State for its third victory in a row.
Though NU is currently tied for 10th in the Big Ten, it sits only two games back of third place and three back of second. Considering confer-ence-leading Ohio State was tripped up twice last week, the standings are volatile.
“In the Big Ten, the way it’s shak-ing out, anybody can beat anybody,” McKeown said. “There’s a lot of par-ity in our league.”
And the Cats are in position to take advantage. NU will host four of its remaining seven games, includ-ing grudge matches against Iowa and Indiana. Illinois, the other team sharing 10th place, is on the sched-ule twice during the closing stretch.
While the Cats might not shoot like they did last weekend again, at least they know they are capable of a lights-out performance. In the bunched Big Ten, having that confi-dence should be invaluable as NU tries to complete its first winning season since 1996-97.
NU poised for late Big Ten run
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Validation: Senior guard Kristin Cartwright and the Cats were on fire against Wisconsin last Sunday, making 13 shots in a row at one point.
Northwestern’s success on the football field in recent years has not been limited to the college game. For the last four years, a former NU player has won the Super Bowl. The streak will con-tinue as NU alums John Gill (Colts) and Zach Strief (Saints) clash
this time around. But there are even more connections to the Wildcats in Super Bowl XLIV. Here’s a breakdown.
Super Bowl XLIV has deep NU roots
Wednesday was National Signing Day, and at the day’s end Northwest-ern had 17 committed players from 10 states. The group is balanced, with nine offensive players and eight on defense. On the flip side, the Wildcats
graduate 21 players from their Outback Bowl squad, 12 on offense and nine on defense. The Cats face stiff competition: Penn State, Michigan and Ohio
State all had recruiting classes ranked in ESPN’s top-20.
Cats get recruits from across country
Pat FitzgeraldCurrent NU coach
Randy WalkerNU coach (1999-2005)
Sean Payton
Bret Ingalls
Zach StriefSaints OL, former NU OL
Jim CaldwellColts head coach,
NU asst. coach in 1981
John GillColts DL, former NU DL
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Saints head coach, Miami (OH) offensive
coordinator under Walker
Saints RB coach, former NU OL coach