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The Daily Northwestern DAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM Find us online @thedailynu Friday, May 2, 2014 SPORTS Lacrosse NU holds off Vandy, advances to ALC semifinals » PAGE 12 Congress to examine NLRB ruling » PAGE 10 High 57 Low 44 OPINION Hasson The case for immigration reform » PAGE 6 Serving the University and Evanston since 1881 INSIDE Around Town 2 | On Campus 3 | Opinion 6 | Classifieds & Puzzles 10 | Sports 12 By TYLER PAGER the daily northwestern @tylerpager Aſter about 10 years in prison, Jennifer Del Prete was all set to leave. Her family was waiting outside and ready to take her home. But when an officer told Del Prete there was a group on its way to see her, she decided to stay just a little while longer. “I’m going to wait for Northwestern,” Del Prete told the officer. Aſter more than two and half years of investigating her case, Medill Prof. Alec Klein, the director of e Medill Justice Project, did not want to miss Del Prete’s exit from prison and was on his way to Lincoln, Ill., with some of his students. “at kind of touched me because when you’ve been in prison for that long, the faster you can get out, the better,” he said. “She said she wanted to wait.” Del Prete, a former daycare worker who was sentenced to 20 years in jail in 2005 aſter being accused of shaking an infant to death, was released on bail Wednes- day aſter U.S. District Court Judge Mat- thew Kennelly ordered Del Prete’s release while the courts examine her claims. e Medill Justice Project was cited in Ken- nelly’s decision. Although Del Prete is out of prison, her claims must still process through the courts, which could take years. e Medill Justice Project, which began investigating Del Prete’s case over two and half years ago, found a letter from 2003 in which the lead police commander on the case said the doctor who performed the infant’s autopsy had doubts about whether the infant had actually died from shaken baby syndrome. However, the letter was never presented in Del Prete’s trial. e Medill Justice Project’s finding played a large role in the motion that was filed in the federal court in Chicago requesting the consideration of the new evidence. Klein said seeing Del Prete exit prison was “a humbling moment.” “I think about how proud I am of our students at Northwestern and how our students were able to uncover revelatory information about Jennifer Del Prete’s case that played a role in the judge’s decision to release her from prison on bond,” he said. “If you think about it, that’s a tremendous achievement for students to have such an impact. It’s really a reminder of how jour- nalism can really change people’s lives.” Following Del Prete’s release, Klein and the other members of the Medill Justice Project helped Del Prete cross off two things on her post-prison bucket list: ey accompanied her to Cracker Barrel, where she was able to eat steak for the first time since 2005. Medill senior Alex Hampl was part of the second team that worked on Del Prete’s case when he was a student in Klein’s Investigative Journalism course during Winter Quarter 2013. He was in Lincoln when Del Prete was released. “roughout the whole thing, I was really amazed by her resilience and the strength of her spirit,” he said. “I’m so happy for her and her family and for her Del Prete released with help of Justice Project Parents speak out against food policy By KELLY GONSALVES daily senior staffer @kellyagonsalves District 65 parents voiced heated opposition ursday night to a proposed district policy that would require all food served at school events to be commercially prepared. e Evanston/Skokie School District 65 school board and parents have been working to craſt safety guidelines for food and beverages available on school cam- puses aſter receiving a request last March from the Evanston Health Department to develop a more concrete policy on how to safely harvest and serve produce from school gardens. Based on existing food regulations from the Illinois Department of Public Health, the proposed policy would ban schools from serving locally prepared foods at school or school-spon- sored events. While conducting research on IDPH food policies, the district also discovered and interpreted a state law to mean that potlucks are banned statewide in all public places, said district school board member Sunith Kartha at the ursday meeting held by the District 65 Wellness Team. “e law is the law,” Kartha said. “It’s pretty clear, and it does prohibit potlucks on school property.” At the meeting, parents expressed strong disapproval for the draſt policy, which many claimed will lower the nutri- tional quality and cultural variety of food served at schools. “I can tell you my kids are not going to die of salmonella. ey’re going to die of cardiovascular disease brought forth By JORDAN HARRISON the daily northwestern @MedillJordan Several Project Wildcat counselors are creating a new financial aid fund to allow more incoming students to partic- ipate in the pre-orientation program. Communication junior Aileen McGraw, a PWild counselor, and oth- ers will begin raising money for the fund, unofficially called the “Camper Financial Aid Fund,” during Philfest on Saturday. McGraw said she has been working to start the fund since Winter Quarter because many prospective students asked during Wildcat Days if there was financial aid given to students for pre- orientation programs. “is is a question that comes up every year during Wildcat Days, at least for me,” McGraw said. “’Do these pre-orientation programs offer financial aid?’ e answer is yes, and I think this a great way to make sure that our coun- selor body knows why and what we’re saying yes to so no incoming student doubts their ability, financial or other- wise, to experience (PWild).” McGraw said she wants the fund- raising efforts to be activity-based during Philfest, adding that the effort includes many PWild counselors. Dur- ing the event, counselors will be selling make-your-own trail mix and PWild merchandise with the proceeds going toward the fund. e Center for Student Involvement works with the Office of Financial Aid to accommodate students for pre- orientation trips, said Andrea Bell, the student community service coordinator at CSI. She said when students apply for aid, the financial aid office ranks them by need and communicates to CSI who qualifies so the individual pro- grams can incorporate financial aid into PWild to launch low-income fund D65 expands place-based learning By SOPHIA BOLLAG daily senior staffer @SophiaBollag Evanston/Skokie School District 65 plans to expand a program that teaches about local water issues using federal money awarded to the district last month. LakeDance, a “place-based” edu- cation program, aims to educate students about Lake Michigan and local water issues through a kinetic- focused method of learning. Clare Tallon Ruen, who started the LakeDance program, said elementary school students have told her acting out scientific concepts through dance or with their hands forces them to understand the concepts they are learning. In contrast, simply writing down information does not require them to actually understand the con- cepts, she said. “Kinesthetic learning is a big thing for me because it helps me learn,” Tallon Ruen said. “And as a par- ent, one of the heartbreaking things about visiting any school is that kids are sitting a lot.” e program is already in place in third-grade classes in half of the ele- mentary schools in District 65. e roughly $40,000 grant the district received last month will allow it to expand the program to all third- and sixth-grade science classes. e money is part of $1.6 million in federally-funded grants for con- servation and environmental educa- tion initiatives in Illinois that Gov. Pat Quinn (D) awarded to schools Annabel Edwards/Medill Justice Project ‘I’M GOING TO WAIT FOR NORTHWESTERN’ Jennifer Del Prete smiles minutes after being released from prison Wednesday afternoon more than 10 years before her scheduled parole. Del Prete’s first stop was Cracker Barrel for dinner with her daughter Tia (right), other members of her family and The Medill Justice Project. Kelly Gonsalves/Daily Senior Staffer FOOD FIGHT Evanston/Skokie District 65 school board member Sunith Kartha talks about district food policy. Parents and district officials met Thursday to discuss a proposed rule that would require all food served at school events to be commercially prepared. » See DEL PRETE, page 8 » See PWILD, page 8 » See D65, page 8 » See FOOD, page 8

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The Daily NorthwesternDAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM Find us online @thedailynuFriday, May 2, 2014

sports LacrosseNU holds off Vandy, advances to ALC semifinals » PAGE 12

Congress to examine NLRB ruling » PAGE 10

High 57Low 44

opinion HassonThe case for

immigration reform » PAGE 6

Serving the University and Evanston since 1881 INSIDE Around Town 2 | On Campus 3 | Opinion 6 | Classifieds & Puzzles 10 | Sports 12

By tyler pagerthe daily northwestern @tylerpager

After about 10 years in prison, Jennifer Del Prete was all set to leave. Her family was waiting outside and ready to take her home.

But when an officer told Del Prete there was a group on its way to see her, she decided to stay just a little while longer.

“I’m going to wait for Northwestern,” Del Prete told the officer.

After more than two and half years of investigating her case, Medill Prof. Alec Klein, the director of The Medill Justice Project, did not want to miss Del Prete’s exit from prison and was on his way to Lincoln, Ill., with some of his students.

“That kind of touched me because when you’ve been in prison for that long, the faster you can get out, the better,” he said. “She said she wanted to wait.”

Del Prete, a former daycare worker who was sentenced to 20 years in jail in 2005 after being accused of shaking an infant to death, was released on bail Wednes-day after U.S. District Court Judge Mat-thew Kennelly ordered Del Prete’s release while the courts examine her claims. The Medill Justice Project was cited in Ken-nelly’s decision.

Although Del Prete is out of prison, her claims must still process through the courts, which could take years.

The Medill Justice Project, which began investigating Del Prete’s case over two and half years ago, found a letter from 2003 in which the lead police commander on the case said the doctor who performed the infant’s autopsy had doubts about whether the infant had actually died from shaken baby syndrome.

However, the letter was never presented in Del Prete’s trial. The Medill Justice Project’s finding played a large role in the motion that was filed in the federal court in Chicago requesting the consideration of the new evidence.

Klein said seeing Del Prete exit prison was “a humbling moment.”

“I think about how proud I am of our students at Northwestern and how our students were able to uncover revelatory information about Jennifer Del Prete’s case that played a role in the judge’s decision to release her from prison on bond,” he said. “If you think about it, that’s a tremendous achievement for students to have such an impact. It’s really a reminder of how jour-nalism can really change people’s lives.”

Following Del Prete’s release, Klein and the other members of the Medill Justice Project helped Del Prete cross off two things on her post-prison bucket list:

They accompanied her to Cracker Barrel, where she was able to eat steak for the first time since 2005.

Medill senior Alex Hampl was part of the second team that worked on Del

Prete’s case when he was a student in Klein’s Investigative Journalism course during Winter Quarter 2013. He was in Lincoln when Del Prete was released.

“Throughout the whole thing, I was

really amazed by her resilience and the strength of her spirit,” he said. “I’m so happy for her and her family and for her

Del prete released with help of Justice project

Parents speak out against food policy

By kelly gonsalvesdaily senior staffer @kellyagonsalves

District 65 parents voiced heated opposition Thursday night to a proposed district policy that would require all food served at school events to be commercially prepared.

The Evanston/Skokie School District 65 school board and parents have been

working to craft safety guidelines for food and beverages available on school cam-puses after receiving a request last March from the Evanston Health Department to develop a more concrete policy on how to safely harvest and serve produce from school gardens. Based on existing food regulations from the Illinois Department of Public Health, the proposed policy would ban schools from serving locally prepared foods at school or school-spon-sored events.

While conducting research on IDPH food policies, the district also discovered and interpreted a state law to mean that potlucks are banned statewide in all public places, said district school board member Sunith Kartha at the Thursday meeting held by the District 65 Wellness Team.

“The law is the law,” Kartha said. “It’s pretty clear, and it does prohibit potlucks on school property.”

At the meeting, parents expressed strong disapproval for the draft policy, which many claimed will lower the nutri-tional quality and cultural variety of food served at schools.

“I can tell you my kids are not going to die of salmonella. They’re going to die of cardiovascular disease brought forth

By JorDan harrisonthe daily northwestern @MedillJordan

Several Project Wildcat counselors are creating a new financial aid fund to allow more incoming students to partic-ipate in the pre-orientation program.

Communication junior Aileen McGraw, a PWild counselor, and oth-ers will begin raising money for the fund, unofficially called the “Camper Financial Aid Fund,” during Philfest on Saturday.

McGraw said she has been working to start the fund since Winter Quarter

because many prospective students asked during Wildcat Days if there was financial aid given to students for pre-orientation programs.

“This is a question that comes up every year during Wildcat Days, at least for me,” McGraw said. “’Do these pre-orientation programs offer financial aid?’ The answer is yes, and I think this a great way to make sure that our coun-selor body knows why and what we’re saying yes to so no incoming student doubts their ability, financial or other-wise, to experience (PWild).”

McGraw said she wants the fund-raising efforts to be activity-based during Philfest, adding that the effort

includes many PWild counselors. Dur-ing the event, counselors will be selling make-your-own trail mix and PWild merchandise with the proceeds going toward the fund.

The Center for Student Involvement works with the Office of Financial Aid to accommodate students for pre-orientation trips, said Andrea Bell, the student community service coordinator at CSI. She said when students apply for aid, the financial aid office ranks them by need and communicates to CSI who qualifies so the individual pro-grams can incorporate financial aid into

PWild to launch low-income fund

D65 expands place-based learningBy sophia Bollagdaily senior staffer @SophiaBollag

Evanston/Skokie School District 65 plans to expand a program that teaches about local water issues using federal money awarded to the district last month.

LakeDance, a “place-based” edu-cation program, aims to educate students about Lake Michigan and local water issues through a kinetic-focused method of learning.

Clare Tallon Ruen, who started the LakeDance program, said elementary school students have told her acting out scientific concepts through dance or with their hands forces them to understand the concepts they are learning. In contrast, simply writing down information does not require them to actually understand the con-cepts, she said.

“Kinesthetic learning is a big thing for me because it helps me learn,” Tallon Ruen said. “And as a par-ent, one of the heartbreaking things about visiting any school is that kids

are sitting a lot.”The program is already in place in

third-grade classes in half of the ele-mentary schools in District 65. The roughly $40,000 grant the district received last month will allow it to expand the program to all third- and sixth-grade science classes.

The money is part of $1.6 million in federally-funded grants for con-servation and environmental educa-tion initiatives in Illinois that Gov. Pat Quinn (D) awarded to schools

Annabel Edwards/Medill Justice Project

‘i’M GOiNG TO WAiT FOR NORTHWESTERN’ Jennifer Del Prete smiles minutes after being released from prison Wednesday afternoon more than 10 years before her scheduled parole. Del Prete’s first stop was Cracker Barrel for dinner with her daughter Tia (right), other members of her family and The Medill Justice Project.

Kelly Gonsalves/Daily Senior Staffer

FOOD FiGHT Evanston/Skokie District 65 school board member Sunith Kartha talks about district food policy. Parents and district officials met Thursday to discuss a proposed rule that would require all food served at school events to be commercially prepared.

» See DEl PRETE, page 8

» See PWilD, page 8

» See D65, page 8» See FOOD, page 8

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Around TownWe’ve always been an independent wine shop. Just because we were part of a franchise didn’t mean we weren’t an independent business.

— Dean Noonan, Sips on Sherman owner

“ ” Sherman Avenue wine shop rebrands, reopens See story on page 4

By Bailey williamsthe daily northwestern @news_BaileyW

An Evanston gelato factory plans to open a storefront in the city and make connections with Northwestern students.

Once the storefront opens, the existing factory part of Frio Gelato, 1701 Simpson St., will be vis-ible to customers through a glass window set up behind the over-the-counter offerings. The gelato made will be made in a nut-free facility using gluten-free ingredients and hormone-free milk.

The store will have a delivery option and will offer gelato shakes.

“The addition of over-the-counter gelato is excellent,” Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) said in an email. “It offers more choices in more neighborhoods.”

The store, which was founded by two cousins, tries to emulate Argentinian gelato traditions,

said Karla Tennies Koziura, the wife of one of the founders, who is spearheading the store’s business development. After moving to the United States, the founders found ice cream and other frozen desserts here did not compare to what they grew up with.

Tennies Koziura said she hoped the store would provide NU international students with an option that might be more familiar to them. She and her husband, Sebastian Koziura, also manage their own construction and real estate businesses.

“I always say that (the real estate) business is our bread and butter, and the gelato is our des-sert,” Tennies Koziura said.

The store plans to have a grand opening May 17, where customers can receive free samples.

Frio Gelato is one of several new frozen des-sert restaurants in Evanston. Tutti Frutti, 809 Davis St., an international frozen yogurt store, had its grand opening Friday. The businesses join existing frozen yogurt store Forever Yogurt, 1739 Sherman Ave., frozen custard store Andy’s Frozen Custard, 719 Church St. and Cold Stone Creamery, 1611 Sherman Ave.

Despite the addition of another frozen des-sert establishment, president of the Andy’s

franchise Andy Kuntz said he does not fear the competition.

“Variety is good,” Kuntz said, explaining that a variety of options would bring more people into Evanston.

This year, Andy’s has made less revenue that it normally does, which Kuntz attributed in part to unusually cold weather. Kuntz said he still feels the number of people visiting the store overall is growing.

“Support the one you like,” Kuntz recom-mended to residents considering their frozen dessert options. “I’m sure everybody doesn’t go to the same place every time.”

Tennies Koziura also said she was not intimi-dated by the frozen dessert competition in Evan-ston, saying she believes Frio Gelato’s product is unique.

Frio Gelato will donate some proceeds from the store to an organization in Argentina, Vision AR, that works to help students attend universities.

“Our ultimate goal and our slogan is making a difference one scoop at a time,” Tennies Kozi-ura said.

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City man accused of stealing $3K in products from Skokie

An Evanston man has been charged with helping steal thousands of dollars in merchandise from a Skokie store early Wednesday morning, according to police.

The burglary happened at 3:21 a.m. at Sally Beauty Supply, 9440 Skokie Blvd., authorities said. As officers arrived on the scene, they saw Reginald D. Stewart, 45, and another man walking across a parking lot in front of the store carrying a large bag and boxes, according to police.

As officers neared the men, they dropped what they were holding and ran away, authorities said. The boxes contained more than $3,000 worth of products from the business, according to police.

A short time later, officers arrested Stewart, of the 1700 block of Lake Street, but could not find the sec-ond man, according to authorities. Police described him as being 40 to 50 years old, standing 6 feet to 6 feet 2 tall and weighing 140 to 160 pounds.

Stewart has been ordered held on $15,000 bond for a felony charge of burglary, according to police. He is due in court Wednesday.

Skokie police are asking anyone with information about the incident to call at 847-982-5900.

— Patrick Svitek

New shop to offer Argentine gelato

Setting therecord straight

In ‘Finding facts in fiction’ in Thursday’s print edition, the filming location was misstated. The film was taped in Arostook County, Maine.

The Daily regrets the error.

Frio Gelato joins growing frozen dessert market, will reach out to NU students

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By david leethe daily northwestern @DavidYLee95

A team of four McCormick graduate students were given an award last month for a ring they developed to help consumers engage with their smartphones.

The “Moto Ring” communicates actions to smartphones through a programmable series of user hand gestures. The ring is accompanied by an Android application customers can use to custom-ize their settings.

“You can assign any action you want to your ring,” said Ben Rahnema, one of the ring’s devel-opers. “You can open an app and send a message, rejecting a call, setting an alarm. Anything you can do on your phone you can set your ring to do the same thing.”

The product was the winning entry in the Break-ing Mobile Limits: Future of Mobile Technology competition, which was sponsored by Motorola Mobility LLC. The contest challenged Northwest-ern students to invent and develop either a pro-totype or a business concept during a nine-week period ending March 14.

The winning team includes McCormick gradu-ate students Paul Park, Dennis Diaz, Nir Yungster and Rahnema.The group was assisted by Motorola software engineer Udayan Kumar.

The group will present its invention to Motorola senior executives later this year. If its product is not picked up by the company, Yungster says they hope to start a Kickstarter campaign to finance it themselves.

A video, which follows a woman using her Moto Ring throughout the day, was posted alongside the announcement of the team’s victory. Laura, the subject of the video, uses the Moto Ring to reject

calls while driving, initiate voice record and make her phone ring.

Yungster said the video was a lighthearted and comedic way to convey how the product could be used in real life.

“Throughout her day, Laura’s customizable ring is there to help her simplify it,” the video said. “Whether she’s playing guitar, driving or on an unfortunate date, Laura keeps the power of Moto Ring wrapped around her finger.”

Diaz said he is very happy with how the ring is developing. He said the demonstration went perfectly and the hard work the team put into it paid off.

“Thinking of the idea is one thing, but making it work in front of everyone is another,” he said.

The product uses a relatively new technology called near field communication. NFC allows mobile devices within close proximity to send sig-nals to each other. Although the product is still a

long way from hitting store shelves, Yungster said the estimated retail price would be roughly $15.

“It’s pretty cheap because the ring itself is just plastic and there’s just a pretty cheap NFC com-ponent inside,” Yungster said.

Diaz said the team often struggled with receiv-ing accurate gesture recognition due to NFC’s roughly 1-centimeter range. Yungster added that overcoming this hurdle was the group’s most inno-vative accomplishment.

Yungster said he enjoyed the experience and plans to pursue additional projects with the team in the future.

“The thing I took away from this competition was finding this good group of people to work with,” Yungster said. “A cool team to develop things with going forward, look out for more to come from our team.”

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Quest Scholars to form new advocacy committeeBy tyler pager and reBecca savranskythe daily northwestern @tylerpager, @beccasavransky

Northwestern’s chapter of Quest Scholars is creating a new committee in an effort to turn dialogue into action following successful dis-cussions of socioeconomic issues at NU.

The Advocacy Committee will focus its efforts on completing tangible actions to change the stigma associated with socioeco-nomic status and to facilitate the partici-pation of lower-status students in campus programming.

Amanda Walsh, president of the Quest Scholars, said the committee was created because NU needs to move past just having conversations about economic differences.

“The committee will allow anyone who wishes to join to be able to actually work on

action items that will allow the University to understand what issues are affecting students on campus with regard to socioeconomic sta-tus,” the Communication sophomore said.

Applications for the committee go live Friday and Walsh said it is open to all stu-dents, regardless of their socioeconomic background.

Although Walsh said the committee will decide what items to focus on, ideas that have been discussed include training faculty and administrators to avoid microaggressions, adding a requirement that all books must be placed in course reserves and changing CTECs to ensure students know what books the course requires.

SESP senior Emily Rivest, former Quest social co-chair, said through the formation of the new committee, she is hoping to incorpo-rate a wider representation of students to take part in the discussions.

“One of the things we are really hoping for is that people that aren’t in Quest will join the Advocacy Committee too,” she said. “Socioeco-nomic diversity is such an important issue on Northwestern’s campus.”

Rivest added the group has generated stu-dent interest through discussing the initiative at previous events and advertising the commit-tee on social media forums.

Walsh said she is excited to move forward with the initiative and to make a noticeable difference in the community.

“Those discussions never seem to go any-where,” she said. “We always talk, but we never act. We need to move from being comfortable discussing these issues to being comfortable on campus as students from different socio-economic statuses.”

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McCormick graduate students win Motorola competition

nathan richards/daily senior staffer

a new quest a student listens at a forum held april 23 by the Quest scholars. the group is forming a new committee to eliminate stigmas surrounding socioeconomic status at northwestern.

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By tori lathamthe daily northwestern

A wine store on Sherman Avenue celebrated its grand reopening Thursday night under a new name with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and wine tasting.

Sips on Sherman, 1741 Sherman Ave., was previously part of the WineStyles franchise. Its owners, Maggie and Dean Noonan, decided to split from the chain and continue running the shop as an independent business.

“We’ve always been an independent wine shop,” Dean Noonan said. “Just because we were part of a franchise didn’t mean we weren’t an indepen-dent business. When we went into it, we thought it was better to have support and help, so now that we know what we’re doing, we are Sips on Sherman.”

The event was attended by around 60 people, who talked over wine from the shop and food provided by local eateries. Sips on Sherman, cel-ebrating its sixth anniversary, chose its new name by holding a contest among customers, said Justin Koury, a wine buyer and sales representative at the store.

“We sent it out through social media and nar-rowed it down to the top 10 names,” Koury said. “Sip on Sherman won and Dean and I were sitting around the table and decided to just add an ‘s.’ So now it’s Sips on Sherman.”

Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) was given the honor of cutting the ribbon. She told the gathered crowd she was proud of the Noonans and looks forward to the future of Sips on Sherman.

“I’ve loved this place, and now they’ve gone

private,” Rainey said. “I just hope that business flourishes. It’s not like going to a drugstore to get your wine. You come here, and you get personal service.”

Representatives of the Evanston Chamber of Commerce were also on hand for the ceremony. The chamber has been organizing ribbon cut-tings for new businesses for about a year, executive director Elaine Kemna-Irish said. She said the Noonans are very involved in the community, so she was glad to help them out with the event.

“It’s easy to find franchises or chains that come into communities and never get to know their

neighbors,” she said. “From day one, Dean and Maggie made it Dean and Maggie’s wine shop. People are here because they want to support them.”

Dean Noonan and Koury both emphasized the store will still mostly be the same as before.

“It’s still the same great service and the same atmosphere that people have experienced,” Dean Noonan said. “We love providing great service to a community that embraces us.”

They also both said the only main difference will be that the store is no longer part of a chain.

“We get to have a little more fun and we don’t

have to follow the rules anymore,” Koury said. “But we’re still the same great shop with the same great wine. It’s just a different name.”

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2 medical groups merge to create Northwestern Medicine

The Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group officially merged Thursday with Northwestern Medical Group in an effort to better unify the two organizations’ clinical operations.

According to the medical group website, the

131-doctor physicians group joined the medi-cal group to form a unified organization that will be branded Northwestern Medicine.

The merge will make the multi-specialty medical group the second-largest doctors group in Chicago, with nearly 1,100 doctors and healthcare professionals. Before joining the group, the physicians group was a primary care practice with more than 120 providers in more than 20 locations throughout the Chica-goland area. The new group’s website assured patients the transition would be smooth, but

according to the Patient Help Service line, patients may experience longer wait times as a result of the switch.

The two groups are also in the process of combining their medical record systems and patient portals. Although medical records remained unchanged, the healthcare portal used previously, RelayHealth, was changed to a new system, Epic MyChart. Epic MyChart is an “industry-leading patient portal that provides access to the same confidential medical records your doctor sees,” according to the medical

group website.Patients can also expect to sign new patient

forms during their next visit to the physician’s office and changes may occur in the group’s contracts with medical insurance providers.

The physicians group, formerly known as the Northwestern Medical Faculty Founda-tion, separated from the Feinberg School of Medicine last fall to join with Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

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� e Mayor’s Downtown Performing Arts Task Force on � ursday evening considered ways to move forward with its investigation into creating an arts center in downtown Evanston, bringing in an attorney to discuss a possible � nancial model.

� e task force is made up of several people from various art � elds, business and other sec-tors. � e committee is investigating the feasibil-ity of creating a downtown Evanston perform-ing arts center and will relay its research and � ndings to Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl and City Council. � ursday’s meeting focused on updates from two members who talked to local arts cen-ters to see those center’s models and a potential � nancial model brought forth by a lawyer.

“What kind of space it is is very, very impor-tant,” cultural arts coordinator Jennifer Lasik said. “It’s really important ahead of time to know what the space is going to be.”

� e task force has already investigated two locations that could serve as inspiration for an arts center in downtown Evanston: Stage 773 and the Logan Center at the University of Chi-cago. Stage 773 notably has a large, liquor-based source of income, that Backstage Evanston pro-ducer and committee member Penny Rotheiser brought up, saying the extended bar has contrib-uted in large part to the total generated revenue. Logan Center’s model di� ered in that it was set up in a university setting.

� e board also plans to reach out by phone to more places that could serve as models for the Evanston center to look at their business structure.

In addition, the task force heard a talk from attorney Marc Lane on the concept of a L3C � nancial model. Lane showed the members a presentation on the Low-Pro� t Limited Liability Company, commonly called L3C, a business model that aims to bene� t both non-pro� t and pro� t organizations and to shi “economic risk

from charities.”Several members of the task force were absent

from the � ursday meeting, which prompted some of those present to speak out about the importance of attendance at the meetings.

“We need to have the whole team here if we are going to have these meetings,” Evanston eco-nomic development coordinator Paul Zalmezak said at the meeting. “I really do think we have a possibility of delivering something here. � e economy is at ... an upturn. Nobody knows how long that will last.”

Two members have stepped down from the task force. One has stepped down because of health related issues, while another stepped down because of a con� icting schedule. Lasik said the mayor has looked into � lling these spots.

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CENTER OF ATTENTION Judy Kemp, a member of the Mayor’s Downtown Performing Arts Task Force, discusses places she visited to hear plans others have executed with regards to their arts centers. Investigating other centers’ plans informed the committee on how they should organize the potential downtown center.

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The silent voice of privilege must also speak out

Comprehensive reform the only immigration fix

Recently at Northwestern, everyone has been talking about inclusion. Whether it be about Cliven Bundy or Donald Sterling, it seems everyone has something to say. The Daily itself has published half a dozen articles on the matter in the last two weeks, including an entirely new series in the Opin-ion section, The Spectrum, that focuses on marginalization on campus. Unfortunately, in the discussion of inclusion, it seems as though one voice has largely chosen to remain silent: the voice of privilege.

Since I am a fair-skinned, upper class, semi-agnostic, probably-heterosexual male, I recognize that when I speak, the voice of privilege is all that comes out. To be sure, this does not mean that I speak for all people of privilege. But it does mean that I am faced with a unique situation. Unlike the vast

majority of people who have shared their opinions about inclusion, I have the rarely-seized opportunity to change the exclusion-ary hegemonic forces from the inside. As a consequence of the categories I happened to have been born into, I constantly find myself at lunch tables, business meetings and even family gatherings where making overt com-ments against various marginalized groups will not raise any ears.

I was not always so aware of the signifi-cance of my privilege. I grew up in Cam-bridge, Massachusetts, the first town in America to legally recognize a same-sex marriage. The high school I attended was the first in the state to take a day off in rec-ognition of an Islamic holiday. Kids born in countries all around the world found a place on my soccer team’s roster. The house I lived in was two blocks away from public housing projects and three blocks away from places presidents lived. Sure, Cambridge was no utopia, but for all these reasons and more, the transition to Evanston came to me as a shock. How could someone not feel jarred when trying to make a new home at a univer-sity where the president can openly say he is

“excited” because 21 percent of the student body is black or Latino, even though they make up 30 percent of our country?

To be clear, the shock was not for lack of a warm welcome. In fact, it is specifically the privilege-oriented environment NU creates that makes students of privilege comfortable and reluctant to call for change. And for the past year and a half, I have been part of this docile mass that poses the largest obstacle to inclusion.

I mean this not as a confession of guilt, but as a proclamation of the power we hold. Now is the time to transform NU into an example for the rest of the country.

When I first started thinking about this privilege, I wondered what stance I ought to take to rectify the situation. Naturally, I assumed the position that I saw other people of privilege taking. When asked what to do, they would say things like “we need to accommodate the needs of marginalized people” or “we need to give marginalized people the same thing we give ourselves.” But quickly this stance started to feel like a modern-day “White Man’s Burden.”

Fighting for campus inclusion as a person

of privilege is not a form of altruism. It is not a matter of doing a favor for marginal-ized people, and it is not a necessary evil. As banal as it might seem, inclusion benefits everyone. People of privilege should not fight against discrimination only out of an obligation to others, but should realize that to do so would actually be in everyone’s best interest. People learn more and live richer lives when they seek out difference instead of similarity.

I know that some of these statements will upset readers. Some people may feel that the voice of privilege has spoken enough and to continue would only do more harm. But when it does speak, it is too rarely in favor of inclusion.

I cannot remain silent so long as I too am hurt by a marginalized campus, and I will continue to speak out so long as NU perpetu-ates a culture in which everyone loses.

Jonathan Roach is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].

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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. And that’s exactly what John Boeh-ner did on Friday when he mocked certain House Republicans who are dragging their feet on immigration reform. Boehner imi-tated his colleagues: “Here’s the attitude,” he said, “‘Ohhhh, don’t make me do this. Ohhhh, this is too hard,’” he whined.

Some Republicans believe addressing immigration reform in an election year will divert attention from President Obama’s numerous policy fiascos, as if campaign-ing was their primary responsibility. They’d prefer to sit on their hands. Others favor an

enforcement-only policy that gratu-itously separates families, destroys millions of lives and subtracts bil-lions of dollars from our economy. This approach is myopic, shortsighted and totally un-American. I believe we deserve better.

Thankfully, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) just announced he

would introduce an immigration bill that would provide the children of unauthor-ized immigrants a path to citizenship and improve border security and enforcement. This is a tremendous step in the right direction.

With all of the partisan bickering and political posturing, it’s easy to lose perspec-tive on how important this issue is for our future. Robust immigration creates long-term opportunities for everyone: Immigrants own one in five small businesses and have started 40 percent of Fortune 500 com-panies. The Congressional Budget Office calculated the Senate’s immigration reform proposal would increase GDP growth by 1 percent a year and reduce the deficit by $900 billion over the next 20.

A prosperous country depends on a favorable ratio of workers to retirees. Senior citizens now account for over 25 percent of Japan’s population and will reach 40 percent by 2060 if current trends continue. Immi-grants help the United States avoid a similar fate in a few ways. First, most immigrants come to the U.S. at the beginning of their working years. Native-born citizens pay into entitlements while their parents collect;

immigrants pay in while nobody collects. Second, immigrants tend to leave their par-ents in their country of origin, and the 2.5 percent of immigrants who arrive as senior citizens are not eligible for benefits. Finally, immigrants have a higher fertility rate than native-born Americans. Consequently, the Social Security Administration’s chief actu-ary estimates that the higher levels of legal immigration permitted by the Senate’s pro-posal would put an additional 600 billion dollars into the trust fund over 75 years, a net positive contribution.

Our legal immigration system is a disas-ter. There is no cap on the number of agri-cultural visas, but only 65,000 were issued in 2012 as a result of the program’s enormous bureaucracy. Thus, between 50 and 80 per-cent of America’s two million farmworkers are undocumented. Visas for highly skilled workers are just as bad. We allow foreign students to come to our universities and then send them away. The number of visas available to highly skilled workers is capped at 85,000, which is typically reached in a matter of days. This year there were 172,000 applicants, which means the 87,000 who did not receive visas will likely go to work for one of America’s foreign competitors.

For me, it’s very personal. In 1941, a young man born into poverty in Colombia boarded a boat to New York. He signed up for the Army and went to fight the Nazis on the beaches of Normandy. When he returned, he met an Ecuadorian woman. They started a family. He worked as a barber and a cab driver; she worked in an electron-ics factory. That man was my grandfather and the woman my grandmother. My dad’s family came here as religious and economic refugees from Turkey. Stories like ours are common in America, but they are unique in the world.

Even during a time of hardship, a broad majority wants Congress to fix this problem and provide the 11 million undocumented a path out of the shadows. That speaks volumes about the American people and separates us from the rest of the world. In Greece, a group of thugs called the Golden Dawn won seats in parliament by inciting violence against immigrants. In the UK, the leaders of both Labour and the Tories are competing to limit immigration. Denmark has adopted immigration laws so stringent that asylum seekers are forced to live in camps, which they are forbidden to leave.

Ultimately, a country’s immigration policy is a statement of its values. We will chart a different course because there are two things that have made our country great: ideas and the people who have them.

Isaac Hasson is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a letter to the editor to [email protected].

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Non-neurotypical theatre can be educational to all

Next weekend, a theatrical anomaly will occur: A play will be performed on North-western’s campus that has been developed for an audience beyond NU’s borders. The play, developed by NU students, has a loose, non-linear plot and could be classified as a 30-minute sensory experience.

Developed by the group Theatre Stands with Autism, “Strung Along” takes children with autism spectrum disorders and other special needs on a journey through the land of string. With the help of Jacqueline Russell, the founder and artistic director at Chicago Children’s Theatre and its Red Kite Project, the idea of creating art for children on the autism spectrum grew to fruition at NU last year. TSWA reaches out to a community often expected to assimilate in the ways asso-ciated with neurotypical people and invites the children and their families to explore — at least for half an hour — what it means to be allowed to follow their impulses.

Theater for audiences and participants with autism has grown in recent years because of the increase in the number of diagnoses, which now lies, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at one in 68 children. Boys are much more likely to be diagnosed, at one in 42, while girls are diagnosed at a rate of one in 189. Theaters have responded admirably, with Broadway and the Theatre Development Fund offering Broadway shows like “The Lion King” and “Wicked” adapted to accept the needs of kids with ASD. At the Kennedy Center at Vanderbilt University, the SENSE Theatre camp has even integrated kids into original musical theater performances.

In a society focused on the majorities, it can obviously be difficult for minority

populations to be accepted. Many of the chil-dren who saw the TSWA show last year had never seen theater before, and indeed, if they had, that theater had probably not been built to accept and encourage their needs. What TSWA aims to do is cater to the needs and desires of children with autism in a way that is different from seeing a Broadway show or even putting up a musical for a neurotypical audience.

Scientists have conducted plentiful research (although there is never enough) on the importance of what is known as “floor time.” Floor time encompasses any time spent with a child with (or even without) autism, doing only what the child wants to do, building trust and developing other basic developmental milestones. The theatrical experiences presented by Red Kite, TSWA and another company in the United King-dom called Oily Cart are basically glorified examples of floor time. The kids, having been told what will occur at the performance, arrive, and, while there exists a predesigned structure in which they can participate, they are encouraged to follow their impulses in whatever way they deem necessary.

If you are curious about how this theatri-cal experience occurs, there are two shows, free and open to NU students, at 9 p.m. Thursday and 8 p.m. Friday next week. My question is this: Why is there not more of this type of outreach on the NU campus? We have the resources to include people who are not necessarily included, so why should we refrain from making art, experiences or opportunities for them? Let’s do our best next year, fellow students, to take the time to include others in our busy, busy world. The benefits reaped extend not just to the partici-pants — in this case the children with autism — but to you.

Sam Douglas is a Communication sophomore. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].

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to be able to go home.”Hampl said his work in the class was unlike

anything he had experienced before. “It can be easy to blow off an assignment or sleep

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Northwestern Medicine scientists developed a new experimental drug with the potential to treat diseases that cause accelerated aging, includ-ing chronic kidney diseases, diabetes and HIV infection.

The scientists’ study, published Monday in

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sci-ences, involved testing the drug on a mouse model of accelerated aging and was successful in inhibiting the effects of a specific protein that plays a role in cell and physiological aging.

“A drug like this could help reduce complica-tions in clinical conditions that reflect acceler-ated aging,” said Dr. Douglas Vaughan, senior author of the study, in a news release. “This had a very robust effect in terms of prolonging life span.”

The mice given the experimental drug lived

four times longer than the control group, researchers found. The drug also proved effec-tive in protecting the lungs and vascular systems in the mice from accelerated aging.

Vaughan said the drug’s use could be extended in the future to target human diseases.

“It makes sense that this might be one compo-nent of a cocktail of drugs or supplements that a person might take in the future to extend their healthy life,” Vaughan said in the release.

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by obesity and diabetes,” said Dawes Elementary School parent Molly Martin. “Eating everything packaged from stores is not going to teach them that message that they need to learn.”

Under the proposed provision, parents cannot cut up fresh produce and bring it to school events or give it to teachers to serve in class. To do so, parents must deliver fruit and vegetables “whole and intact” one day in advance to the district’s Nutritional Services, where food service workers can wash and cut produce for events at no cost. Conversely, parents can also pay the district for yearly catering programs that provide nutritious snack options for kids in school.

Some parents said these procedures are too time-consuming and costly for low-income families.

“In a very culturally diverse community, many of our parents have a sense of pride in bringing in something that they’ve made, in bringing in some-thing that’s special to their family,” said Evanston/Skokie PTA Council president Kristin James.

Others questioned the validity of the district’s interpretation of the IDPH’s food regulations. Alicia Aiken, a lawyer and parent of children at Oakton Elementary and Chute Middle schools, said she read the section of the state law regarding potlucks to mean that cities cannot regulate potluck events, not that such gatherings are banned altogether.

The meeting concluded with a spoken agreement between district representatives and parents to form an unofficial “task force” to revise the policy.

Kartha said the policy likely will not immediately move forward, as the school board still intends to gather more research and public input.

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FoodFrom page 1 their budgets.

“We don’t want finances to be a reason that any student is not able to participate in a program,” Bell said, “So if there are gaps or areas that we can supple-ment, we try to do what we can to provide additional assistance.”

Storm Heidinger, a member of PWild’s steering committee, the organization’s executive board, said last year PWild tried to fully or partially waive the cost of the trip, where the group’s budget allowed, for students who applied for but did not receive financial aid.

“For individuals who don’t get approved for aid from the Office of Undergraduate Financial Aid, we do our best to look at the need and our budget and accommodate the cost of the trip for them,” the Weinberg junior said.

He said the new fund would allow PWild to offer even more aid for incoming students.

Heidinger said PWild’s $350 cost is more expen-sive than other pre-Wildcat Welcome trips due to transportation costs and the length of the trip.

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and community organizations last month.The grant will pay for both teacher train-

ing and field trips to beaches and the water-treatment facility. It provides enough money to expand the program through the end of next school year, but Tallon Ruen said she plans to look for additional sources of money to fund the program into the future.

Although the program is currently in place for only third-graders, Tallon Ruen said based on interviews with fifth-grade students that she believes the program will be equally effective for older children.

“I think the idea that older kids are going to be served entirely by book learning or lecture or worksheets is a mistake,” she said.

The new program will focus on local water issues, said Melanie Mudarth, the science cur-riculum facilitator for District 65.

“The purpose of the program is to start using the natural resources that we have, such as the lake,” Mudarth said. “You don’t want third-graders still believing there are sharks in the lake.”

Place-based education encourages students to develop a more eco-friendly mindset toward their communities, said Katie Larson, the education coordinator for the Alliance for the Great Lakes who worked with Tallon Ruen to develop the LakeDance curriculum.

“If a student understands that littering can impact birds at the beach or that using more water in their homes could have an effect on the ecosystem … they can understand (how) to have a positive impact,” she said. “Even a fieldtrip to the beach … can be a great way for them to have a more positive attitude toward learning in general and toward the Great Lakes ecosystem.”

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City invites residents to apply to new animal control board

Evanston announced Thursday that residents could apply for a spot on the newly created Board of Animal Control.

The board will be in charge of looking over monthly reports from the city’s chief animal warden Linda Teckler and from the volunteer animal care

organization that is chosen to replace the Community Animal Rescue Effort as a partner of the Evanston Animal Shelter.

Members of the board will also help in prioritizing issues for City Council to address, as well as providing updates to the council.

The city will accept four Evanston residents to serve on the board, along with two aldermen and a member of the animal organization. The seven-person group will meet four times a year and serve three-year terms.

City Council approved the creation of the animal

control board at a meeting April 28. The board will work with aldermen in the process of selecting an organization to replace CARE by reviewing the two submitted letters of interest and developing requests for proposals from the groups, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said at the council meeting.

Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl will review the applica-tions and make recommendations to the board. There is no set submission deadline, Evanston spokesman Patrick Deignan said.

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has come significantly closer to providing the necessary cushion.

Redshirt sophomore Scott Smith has solidified himself at No. 4 with back-to-back top-35 finishes. Following a slump early in the spring, junior Matthew Negri has once again made his name at No. 3 with top-30s in his past two events.

This week, though, is a brutal exam. The event, played over 72 holes from Friday to Sunday, offers a host course esteemed in its brutality.

No Cats player conquered par here in 2013, and Negri admitted the course is visu-ally intimidating and that there are certain holes that require a mind-set of accepting bogeys as good scores.

But the junior also said the key is understanding the course is not as difficult as its reputation suggests.

“The teams that have won here in the past have made a lot more birdies on the easier holes,” Negri said. “It’s easy to say the course is really hard and there are no birdies out there, but you just have to pick the right holes you can go after.”

The Dye track is known for the defense the elements offer. Rain is not uncommon and neither is cold weather. But wind is the greatest nuisance, with the exposed nature of the layout making it so even little gusts have an adverse effect.

Goss said the team has hoarded much of its recent practice time at the Glen Club, rather than its norm of rotating between courses, in order to simulate the windy con-ditions he expects at French Lick.

The spring has not been kind to the Cats to this point, but with NCAA regionals around the corner, the urgency is certainly up.

The odds aren’t in favor of the Cats this weekend, but the team, at the very least, appears to be confident at the right time.

“We’re all playing really good golf and it’s exciting,” Whalen said. “We’re looking at this how we would look at regionals. If we can all play four solid rounds and beat Illinois, who is playing really well right now, we can get the job done at regionals like we can at Big Tens.”

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Livingston, who was injured in mid-April, will play against Michigan.

NU’s bats struggled in the team’s last four games. The Cats mustered only 6 runs in their three-game series at Michigan State. With-out Jones, who is second on the team with a .315 batting average, they were then shut out Wednesday at Northern Illinois.

Offensively and defensively, NU peaked two

weeks ago when it won a pair of mid-week games against Chicago State and then took the first two of three games against Nebraska, who was the hottest team in the Big Ten at the time. In that four game stretch, the Cats outscored the Cougars and Cornhuskers 15-6 over that four-game stretch. Stevens stressed confidence as NU’s key to get back on track.

“I think it’s just a matter of feeling it,” Ste-vens said. “There’s a thing when you have a confidence that when you swing the bat you know the barrel is going to find the ball, or

when you walk to the mound and you believe the guy at the plate is not going to be able to hit you.”

Even though it’s the biggest start of his career, Friar has some of the confidence Ste-vens talked about.

“I’ve shown that I have a little longevity in my arm,” Friar said. “I think I can do Coach right and do right by the team. Hopefully I can deliver.”

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Leonard, the NCAA career leader in career draw controls, won 10.

With her late-season surge, Mupo now has 30 goals this season and has moved into a three-way tie with Leonard and DeRonda for the team’s scoring lead.

Amonte Hiller lauded Mupo’s performance, especially in light of sophomore attack Kaleigh Craig’s continued absence due to injury.

“I think (Mupo) has just gained a little bit of confidence in the last couple games,” Amonte Hiller said. “She’s being aggressive.”

NU will play Friday against the winner of Thursday night’s game between Ohio State and Michigan.

NU will play No. 10 Ohio State (13-5, 5-2) on Friday in the tournament semifinals. The Buckeyes bested rival Michigan in their first round matchup 12-8.

NU and Ohio State met early in the regular season on Mar. 9, with the then-unranked Buck-eyes scraping out an 11-10 overtime victory. The Cats rallied from a halftime deficit but couldn’t overcome 4 goals from Ohio State’s Katie Chase. Even with the very short turnaround time between games, Amonte Hiller seemed confi-dent in her team’s preparation.

“I think that we need to just regroup and look at the things we didn’t do well,” she said. “I think right now it’s about us. … Playing smart, playing aggressive defensively, playing together.”

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Congressional committee to discuss NLRB union ruling

Congress is getting involved in the Northwestern football unionization discussion.

The House Education and the Workforce Com-mittee will examine the recent National Labor Rela-tions Board decision declaring NU players employ-ees, committee chairman John Kline (R-Minn.)

announced Thursday.“The NLRB’s decision represents a radical depar-

ture from long-standing federal labor policies,” Kline said in a news release. “Classifying student athletes as employees threatens to fundamentally alter col-lege sports, as well as reduce education access and opportunity. The committee has a responsibility to thoroughly examine how the NLRB’s decision will affect students and their ability to receive a quality education.”

Kline’s committee will hold a hearing called “Big Labor on College Campuses: Examining the

Consequences of Unionizing Student Athletes,” on May 8 in Washington, D.C.

In March, the regional director of Chicago’s branch of the NLRB ruled that NU football play-ers were student athletes and could therefore unionize.

The University appealed that decision to the main NLRB office in Washington, but no timetable has been set for the NLRB to hear the appeal of the initial ruling.

— Alex Putterman

Brian lee/daily senior staffer

BRING ON THE BUCKEYES senior midfielder Kat deronda prepares to shoot thursday night against Vanderbilt. the wildcats defeated the Commodores 12-9 and will face ohio state on friday.

“The

teams that have won here in

the past have made a lot more

birdies on the easier holes.

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After losing four straight, Northwestern is looking to rebound against Michigan State at home this weekend to wrap up its regular season.

“We have a lot to do this week,” senior Emily Allard said after losing to DePaul on Wednes-day. “It’s going to show on the field. I’m excited

for the weekend.”NU was swept

by Ohio State last weekend in Colum-bus, Ohio, and then fell to Chicago-area rival DePaul on Wednesday. In all four games, the Cats were able to get runners on base but couldn’t get the big hit in order to capitalize.

“We were giving up too many baser-unners,” coach Kate Drohan said.

The Cats have specific goals for practice in order to improve and stop the situation from repeating.

“We have to get back to the basic fun-

damentals of the game,” Drohan said. “We need to make good decisions and be aggressive.”

A motto for the team all season has been to

take each moment pitch by pitch and game by game, and that’s key for the Cats during a low point in their season.

“We’re not going to look negatively on this weekend,” senior Marisa Bast said after the Ohio State series. “We’re not thinking about the past or way in the future. We’re focusing on the last game and learning from it and making adjustments.”

The Cats are also sure to keep the focus on themselves rather than on their opponent and to treat all of their opponents with the same mindset.

Bast also has goals on how to improve in the batter’s box in order to get back to the offensive powerhouse NU has been over the course of the season.

“I need to focus on not swinging at the pitcher’s pitch,” she said.

In terms of pitching, Drohan is confident in the Cats’ staff, even if games didn’t go their way over the past week.

“I have a lot of confidence in Kristen (Wood), Nicole (Bond), and Sammy (Alba-nese),” she said. “I just ask of them to compete hard on the mound and get big pitches in big moments.”

The weekend also marks the last regular sea-son games for several Cats, as NU will celebrate senior weekend. The Cats will graduate five seniors: Allard, Bast, Albanese, Mari Majam and Paige Tonz.

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“We’re not going to look negatively on this weekend. We’re not thinking about the past or way in the future. We’re focusing on the last game and learning from it and making adjustments. Marisa Bast,senior, after Ohio State swept NU

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ON DECK ON THE RECORDLacrosseOhio State at NU, 7 p.m. Friday

We need to win these last six (Big Ten games) to have a prayer. — Nick Friar, senior pitcher, on postseason hopes

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By BoBBy pillotethe daily northwestern @BobbyPillote

Not much changed this time for Northwestern, except for maybe the weather.

On a cold, gray and dreary day at Lakeside Field, the No. 5 Wildcats (12-5, 4-3 ALC) beat the Vanderbilt Commo-dores (5-13, 2-5) 12-9 in the first round of the ALC Tournament.

The matchup was the second meeting of the two teams this season, with NU winning the first 15-9 on April 10.

It was business as usual for the Cats right from the start, with senior attack Kelly Rich launching the opening salvo to give NU an early lead just three min-utes in.

“Offensively we came out strong,” coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said. “We played controlled, our sets were doing great.”

The Cats added five more goals during the first half, with Rich tallying another and attacks junior Kara Mupo and senior Alyssa Leonard contributing two each of their own. The Commodores looked down and out, save for the efforts of mid-fielder Jill Doherty.

A freshman, Doherty throttled the NU defense for four goals in the opening half. Junior goalkeeper Bridget Bianco seemed to have trouble tracking Doherty’s left-

handed shot, and the NU defenders couldn’t keep her away from the net.

“They were wide-open looks on (Bianco),” Amonte Hiller said. “That’s tough as a goalie. You have to help your goalie out as much as possible, get low-angle shots and give them a chance to make a save.”

Despite the Cats controlling possession throughout the half, thanks to Doherty NU only led 6-5 at intermission.

But over halftime, Amonte Hiller proved why she is among the best in the sport.

NU made the necessary adjustments on defense, conceding only one more goal to Doherty, and came up with a handful of clutch shots on offense to pull away for the victory. The Cats went on a 4-1 scoring run to end the contest.

“Our defense did not come out very strong,” Amonte Hiller said. “As it slowed down toward the end of the first half and the second half, they started to play better.”

And as Vanderbilt slowed down, NU began to speed up.

In one ten-second stretch, senior

midfielder Christy Turner assisted Mupo on a beautiful cut in front of the net, then corralled the ensuing draw and raced down the field on a breakaway to score a goal of her own. The pair of tal-lies gave NU a 10-8 lead they wouldn’t

relinquish.After Doherty faded, midfielder

Amanda Lockwood provided the only spark for Vanderbilt’s sputtering offense and finished with two goals.

Mupo finished with five goals, with

Turner, senior attacker Kat DeRonda and senior midfielder Kate Macdonald adding a goal apiece. Rich contributed two assists along with her two goals, and

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mOviNg ON Seniors Alyssa Leonard and Christy Turner, who both notched goals in Northwestern’s first-round win Thursday against Vanderbilt, embrace after a goal. Leonard was crucial for the Wildcats’ possession game against the Commodores, grabbing 10 draw controls.

By kevin caseydaily senior staffer @KevinCasey19

If there’s any positive Northwest-ern can take to Big Ten Champion-ships, it’s that this team routs last season’s squad in terms of expe-rience at the Pete Dye Course in French Lick, Ind.

“That course is a tricky place, and we brought both Andrew Whalen and Josh Jamieson as freshmen, and it was also Matthew Negri’s first Big Tens as well,” coach Pat Goss said. “This year, we’re bringing four guys who’ve played this event before. And we have the best game plan we’ve ever had with how to deal with the course.”

Other than that, not much points to a Big Ten title. The Wildcats have not sniffed a victory this spring, and NU’s ranking has slipped to No. 50 after beginning the spring at No. 37.

Accompanying this struggle, last year’s squad was the top-ranked team in the tournament yet only managed to place sixth. For this installment, NU finds itself behind No. 9 Illinois, No. 35 Iowa and No. 43 Purdue, meaning this squad has to significantly outperform its rank-ing in order to win.

Coming in under the radar does have its benefits, though. And Goss has put his faith in the same start-ing five as last event, a first this spring.

“It’s our best lineup for sure,” Goss said. “We’ve seen a lot of good progress, and we’re starting to play our best golf at this time.”

That last statement may seem silly based on a cursory review of recent results, but the Cats have improved in spots where signs of life were vital. While the top two of

Jack Perry and Whalen have been relatively consistent, the normally unreliable back end of the lineup

NU tops Vanderbilt, to face Ohio St. in semis

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‘a TRicky PLacE’ Senior Jack Perry leads Northwestern into the Big Ten Championships in French Lick, Ind. Pete Dye Course, where the event will take place, is notoriously difficult and should pose a challenge to the No. 50 Wildcats.

Confident NU heads to Big Tens Urgency increases as Cats host WolverinesBy jesse kramerthe daily northwestern @Jesse_Kramer

In more than three seasons at Northwestern, senior pitcher Nick Friar has never started a Big Ten game. But that will change Friday, when Friar takes the hill in the first game of a weekend series against Michigan.

“I’m thankful I’m getting the opportunity,” Friar said. “It’s all I ever asked for.”

NU (12-29, 4-13 Big Ten) will need all of its arms ready as it tries to make one last push for the Big Ten Tourna-ment. The top eight teams qualify, and though the Wildcats sit in last place, they are only three games out of eighth-place Ohio State. And they will get a shot at the Buckeyes in two weeks.

But first NU must face Michigan (20-24-1, 9-9), a middle-of-the-pack club that has won its last two confer-ence road series. If the Cats become the Wolverines’ next victim, their conference tournament hopes could be finished.

Friar said there is a sense of urgency, but the key to success is not to look too far ahead.

“We need to win these last six (Big Ten games) to have a prayer,” he said. “There is some extra urgency, but I think it’s important we just take it one pitch at a time. I know it’s kind of a cliche. But when we do that, that’s

when we win. Hopefully we can beat these guys because they’re both very beatable. Hopefully we can take it to these guys one pitch at a time, and we’ll be fine.”

Friar has started a pair of non-conference games this season and appeared 16 times out of the bullpen.

Coach Paul Stevens said one rea-son he gave Friar the start is the inju-ries the pitching staff has suffered, but he also likes what he has seen recently from the senior out of the bullpen.

In two appearances at Michigan State last weekend, Friar tossed 3 2/3 innings, mowing down seven Spar-tans while allowing two hits and one earned run.

“What if he can pick up that kind of magic that I saw last weekend?” Ste-vens said. “With the way our pitching staff is pretty beat up, Friar is going to give us the best opportunity.”

Like the pitchers, the batting lineup has also been crippled by the injury bug. The Cats suffered another blow against Michigan State with sophomore first baseman Zach Jones getting hurt. Stevens said he “very seriously” doubts Jones or senior Jack

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