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The Daily NorthwesternDAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM Find us online @thedailynuMonday, November 12, 2012
SPORTS Men’s SoccerCats fall in semifi nal of Big Ten
Tournament » PAGE 12
Erin Brockovich coming to NU on Wednesday
» PAGE 4High 37Low 26
OPINION WattersWeighing energy
options » PAGE 6
Serving the University and Evanston since 1881 INSIDE Around Town 2 | On Campus 3 | Forum 6 | Classi� eds & Puzzles 8 | Sports 12
Police: Handguns, cannabis found in city residence
The Evanston Police Department recovered two handguns and more than 1,000 grams of cannabis Friday while executing a search warrant in
south Evanston.Officers executed a warrant for a
drug investigation at about 1:15 p.m. at 819 Seward St., according to an EPD news release Saturday. The EPD investigation found that cannabis was being sold at the residence.
Two men who live at the loca-tion were arrested and charged with
various drug and weapons offenses.Jemehl Davenport, 25, was charged
with unlawful possession of cannabis with a previous conviction, as well as multiple counts of unlawful delivery and unlawful possession of cannabis, according to the news release.
Davenport was arrested and charged with cannabis possession
twice in May, according to Jail Base, a website that aggregates book-ing records from law enforcement agencies.
Tashwan Owen, 24, was charged with unlawful possession of cannabis twice, one additionally with intent to deliver.
Davenport and Owen were also
charged with possession of a fire-arm without a Firearm Owner’s Identification Card, according to the release.
Both are scheduled to appear Nov. 29 at the Cook County Circuit Court in Skokie.
— Manuel Rapada
Heilemann: Campaigns ‘relentlessly negative’
By SUSAN DUdaily senior staffer
Northwestern’s proposed visitors center continues to draw commu-nity criticism even as the Evanston City Council nears final delibera-tion over leasing city property for its construction.
� e council is scheduled to vote tonight on a project agreement and proposed leasing contract for the land at the northeast corner of Sheridan Road and Campus Drive. � e pro-posal that council members will review designates NU rental fees for building a � re access lane on city property as $10,237 per year, or $255,012.50 for the � rst 25 years of the agreement.
NU has also agreed to make $280,000 worth of improvements in the public right-of-way as well as pay $1,500 for ongoing maintenance and $3,500 in capital costs, according to city documents.
Nevertheless, several Evanston residents and some aldermen remain opposed to the construction of the visi-tors center, citing environmental and aesthetic concerns. TribLocal website reported Saturday that Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) reiterated grievances expressed at previous city council meetings that the visitors center would negatively impact the lakefront ecosystem. Additionally, she challenged the preliminary pro-posal of charging NU $1 per year for 75 years to lease the land.
Fiske could not be immediately reached for comment.
However, University spokesman Al Cubbage con� rmed in an email to � e Daily on Sunday that the updated leas-ing rate of $10,237 per year is correct and had been determined as the result of discussions between the city and University on Friday.
� e $1 per year rate appeared in the initial dra� of the proposal presented to the council a few weeks ago and has since been modi� ed, Ald. Don Wilson (4th) said. He called the current rate a “better, more appropriate” � gure.
“Generally speaking, if we have some kind of asset, we want to get something in exchange for it,” he said. “It would be my hope if they’re going to use part of our land that we would get something for that, something reasonable.”
Wilson said he has received a
Council to consider land lease for centerCity o� cials to vote on rental fees for new NU visitors building
» See VISITORS, page 9
By PATRICK SVITEKdaily senior staffer
MSNBC political analyst and “Game Change” co-author John Heilemann declared Friday that both President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney ran presidential campaigns not up to par by either man’s standards.
In an hour-long talk at the McCor-mick Tribune Center, Heilemann (Medill ‘87) told about 100 attend-ees that the candidates’ bids for the White House were “the most relent-lessly negative” campaigns he has seen in two decades covering presidential politics.
“� ey’re good men and serious guys, and they ran a campaign that really was not worthy of them — either one of them,” Heilemann said. “And they ran a campaign that wasn’t anywhere near worthy of the real chal-lenges the country faces in terms of policy, in terms of the size of the chal-lenges and … the immediacy of the challenges.”
Heilemann grabbed national atten-tion three years ago a� er he helped pen one of the most popular insider accounts of the 2008 presidential election. HBO later turned “Game Change” into a critically acclaimed
movie focusing on Arizona Sen. John McCain’s selection of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his run-ning mate.
Writing the blockbuster book put Heilemann in the front row for the political ascendancy of Obama, who has known Heilemann since the late 1980s. Heilemann recalled that the future commander-in-chief — “this tall, thin, striking African-American guy” — asked to borrow a cigarette outside Harvard Univer-sity’s law school library in their � rst encounter.
Heilemann said the second coming of “Game Change” will not arrive until next year but still o� ered a bird’s-eye view of the grassroots machine that powered Obama’s re-election Tuesday night.
He pointed to a consistent batch of swing states in which Obama’s brain trust was dedicated to turning out black, Hispanic, college-educated female and young voters.
“� ey were looking at nine states, those four groups,” Heilemann said. “And they spent a year and a half doing nothing but camping out in nine
states and spending a billion dollars and � guring out at any given level of voting how many votes they needed from each one of those groups to win those states.”
� e campaign’s laser-like focus paid o� : Obama captured every bat-tleground state on his way to locking up more than 330 electoral votes on Election Day.
Heilemann said he recalled bump-ing into White House senior adviser David Plou� e on the campaign trail Monday and feeling skeptical as Plou� e ticked o� his predictions for the president’s performance in each key state.
“Every margin that he gave me was within one point of what they got the next day,” Heilemann recalled. “I’ve got to say — I’m a cynical, jaded guy who’s done six of these presidentials and a lot more gubernatorial and senatorial elections. I’ve never seen people that con� dent, and I’ve never seen their con� dence so totally bore out by the result. It was precision.”
Heilemann said Obama’s strategy “blows apart” the political science theory that campaigns do not matter and election outcomes are o� en pre-determined by economic indicators. He compared the Obama campaign’s ground game to a supercomputer and Romney’s operation to a few pocket calculators.
Moving forward, Heilemann cau-tioned that the GOP cannot survive as a national party if it continues to
NU alumnus, political journalist talks 2012 presidential election
» See HEILEMANN, page 8
No Legends for the fall
Kaitlin Svabek/Daily Senior Staffer
NOT QUITE ENOUGH Coach Pat Fitzgerald leads his team back into the locker rooms at the Big House after Saturday’s game against Michigan. The loss drops the Wildcats to 7-3 on the season and eliminates their hopes of winning the Legends Division, Fitzgerald’s top goal this year.
“This campaign was one of the most relentlessly negative
and disconnected from the real challenges the country
faces in any race I’ve covered.”
“The folks in Chicago were very clear in
their minds that they had to do exactly
to within this race... which was to make the
race a choice and, in the process of doing that,
to disqualify Gov. Romney as a potential
commander-in-chief...”
and disconnected from the real challenges the country
“The folks in Chicago were very clear in
their minds that they had to do exactly
to within this race... which was to make the
race a choice and, in the process of doing that,
to disqualify Gov. Romney as a potential
Photo ilustration by Tanner Maxwell/Daily Senior Staffer
>> See page 12 for full story
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— Jonathan Webb, McGaw YWCA director of youth development
“ ” YWCA addresses health concerns for young kids Page 7
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teens take liquor from grocery storeThree teens left Dominick’s, 2748 Green Bay
Road, Tuesday with six bottles of liquor without paying.
A Dominick’s employee told Evanston Police that the three teens were two boys and a girl, all about 15 to 20 years old. The incident was caught on video, but EPD officers were unable to locate the teens after arriving on scene. The
stolen items, which included vodka and gin, were worth about $105, EPD Cmdr. Jay Par-rott said.
$300 headphones stolen at EthsA 17-year-old Evanston Township High
School student had his headphones stolen during school hours between 2 and 2:40 p.m. Thursday.
The boy’s mother reported the incident to EPD, but she did not elaborate on where exactly the headphones were taken nor give further details.
The headphones stolen were white Beats by Dr. Dre studio headphones, worth about $300. There have been no leads, Parrott said.
— Ina Yang
By olga gonzalez laTaPIthe daily northwestern
The Evanston Police Department participated in a tweet-along of 911 calls from 3 to 11 p.m. Friday in order to educate the public on the way EPD responds to emergencies.
This event marked the second tweet-along organized by the city.
The tweets were published by Adelita Her-nandez, Evanston’s citizen engagement coordi-nator, on the city’s Twitter feed. The calls were taken directly from the 911 dispatch center and published from the communication center at the police department.
The calls were screened to avoid publishing those dealing with children, domestic violence or sexual assault.
Tweets published Friday included the nature of the call, pictures and videos of the police force as well as new programs headed by the police depart-ment. The tweets were re-posted on the city’s web-site for citizens without Twitter accounts.
At 8 p.m., the Twitter feed invited followers to
ask questions.“Night is getting busier but it’s time for Q&A,
we want to hear if you have any questions for our dispatchers or officers,” EPD promoted on Twit-ter. The questions submitted afterward mainly dealt with how to get involved with the police department and specific inquiries about the lives officers lead.
The tweet-along, Hernandez said, was also used to dissemi-nate information about different EPD depart-ments, which include a new mentoring pro-gram, the accident and reconstruction team and the canine division.
EPD Cmdr. Jay Par-rott said Twitter can be very useful for the police department as it can inform followers about inci-dents in their area and help prevent crimes.
Parrott said the more interaction there is between the police department and citizens, the more successful crime prevention will be. He added that Twitter is also a new way to give Evanston residents a fresh perspective about jobs in law enforcement.
“We can better inform the community about what the police do on a daily basis,” Parrott said.
Hernandez, who also published the tweets in last year’s tweet-along, said because the tweets included the nature of emergency calls and police response, the event gives online followers a new sense of appreciation for the police officers serving their community.
She added that the city is always looking for new ways to interact with its citizens. Twitter has turned out to be the most successful way to do this, she said.
“We just really like to engage our community in every way possible,” Hernandez said. “The more people know about the city, the more engaged they are.”
Parrott said the city, along with the police department, chose Twitter as the main social media platform for this outreach event because citizens have responded well to it in the past. He noted that Twitter has always had a good follow-ing in Evanston.
Hernandez said the city plans to continue to use Twitter for future events. She added that for a small city, Evanston has a popular Twitter feed and Facebook page, garnering many followers on both platforms.
“We have quite a presence on social media here at the city,” she said.
Police Blotter
“We just
really like to engage our
community in every way
possible. Adelita
Hernandez,Evanston citizen
engagement coordinator
Evanston Police host 2nd ‘tweet-along’EPD tweets 911 calls Friday in hopes of educating public on emergency response
On CampusPrevious queer plays on campus focus mostly on gay men. We want to broaden that.
— Communication junior Lindsay Amer
“ ” NU students planning queer theater festival Page 4
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2012 thE DAilY NORthwEstERN | NEws 3
NOVEMBER 12 - 16, 2012
this week in music@ P I C K - S TA I G E R
BIENEN SCHOOL OF MUSIC N O R T H W E S T E R N U N I V E R S I T YTICKETS: 847.467.4000 OR WWW.PICKSTAIGER.ORG
12MONDAYUniversity SingersPick-Staiger, 7:30 p.m.$6/4Emily Ellsworth, conductor
Works by John Washburn, Ola Gjeilo, Stephen Paulus, Astor Piazzola, and more.
16FRIDAY
Interpreting Cage SymposiumLutkin, 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.FreeLecturers discuss Cage’s in�uence on composition.
Evening of BrassPick-Staiger, 7:30 p.m.$6/4Gail Williams, conductor
Featuring Ring for Brass a new arrangment of selections from Wagner’s Ring cycle by Bienen School faculty member Timothy Higgins.
John Cage Festival: Stephen Drury, piano Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble singers with Donald Nally, conductorLutkin, 7:30 p.m.$8/5Drury o�ers up solo piano works by Cage, and the vocal ensemble performs Cage’s Hymns and Variations for 12 singers and 12 microphones.
15THURSDAY
13TUESDAY
14WEDNESDAYChamber Music Gala, Part IIPick-Staiger, 7:30 p.m.$8/5Steven Cohen, clarinet; Timothy McAllister, saxophone; Gail Williams, horn; Charles Geyer, trumpet; She-e Wu, percussion; Gerardo Ribeiro, violin; Andrew Raciti, double bass; Sylvia Wang, piano; and their students
Students and their professors join together for a concert of works by Hovhaness, Etezady, Mozart, and Mendelssohn.
Small Jazz Ensembles: New ScriptsRegenstein, 7:30 p.m.$6/4Victor Goines, conductor
Jazz students display their latest compositions and arrangements, each as personal and unique as a fingerprint.
John Cage Festival: Members of Sō PercussionDeering Library, 5:15 p.m.FreeMembers of Sō Percussion are joined by Grey Mcmurray and Bienen percussion students for works by Cage and others.
Northwestern University Symphony OrchestraPick-Staiger, 7:30 p.m.$8/5Works by Alexander Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich.
Sō Percussion
By lauren caruBadaily senior staffer
Erin Brockovich, environmental activist and consumer advocate, will speak on campus Wednesday.
Instrumental in revealing that Pacific Gas & Elec-tric Company had been poisoning the groundwater supply of the town of Hinkley, Calif., Brockovich initiated the largest direct-action lawsuit in Ameri-can history. She became a household name in 2000 after Julia Roberts portrayed her in the well-known film “Erin Brockovich.”
Students for Ecological and Environmental Devel-opment announced the upcoming event Friday.
Stephanie Fuerte, fall speaker co-chair for SEED and former Daily staffer, said Brockovich’s small start as a clerk with no formal legal training aligns with the message SEED conveys to Northwestern students.
“We look for somebody who can really inspire the student body to make changes in their daily lives in regards to the environment,” the Medill junior said. “Somebody like Erin Brockovich is the perfect person to do that.”
Brockovich’s career will also demonstrate to
students how the work of one person can make a significant impact, Fuerte said.
After examining the medical records of Hinkley residents, Brockovich discovered they were suffer-ing from toxic chemicals PG&E had leaked into the town’s groundwater supply. She then helped head
a lawsuit in the mid-1990s that resulted in PG&E paying $333 million in damages to more than 600 residents.
Amanda Myers, co-chair of SEED, said Brock-ovich will draw students from areas of the NU community other than just environmentalism.
Brockovich’s work is also associated with law, public health and activism, the Weinberg senior said.
Additionally, Brockovich will appeal to a wider range of students based on the reputation of the Oscar-nominated film, in which Brockovich actually made a cameo appearance toward the beginning as a diner waitress.
“People that are at all wrapped up in TV or mov-ies are instantly going to have more popularity,” Myers said. “Having that mode of communication means that people know her name.”
Since the PG&E case, Brockovich has authored New York Times best-seller “Take It From Me: Life’s A Struggle, But You Can Win” and hosted the Life-time series “Final Justice With Erin Brockovich.” In January, she began an investigation into a disorder affecting New York teenagers involving facial tics and verbal outbursts.
Myers said she hopes that Brockovich will talk less about the PG&E case and share more about other projects she is working on.
“I’m actually very curious to learn about what kind of environmental advocacy and activism she’s done since the movie,” Myers said.
Animal Planet personality Jeff Corwin was last year’s fall speaker. SEED also previously hosted clean energy advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and environ-mental activist Van Jones.
Brockovich will speak from 8:15 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesday in Cahn Auditorium. Free tickets for the event will be available at the door.
SEED to bring activist Erin Brockovich to campus
source: twitter
seed speaker Environmental activist and consumer advocate Erin Brockovich will address Northwestern students wednesday night in Cahn Auditroium as the fall speaker for students for Ecological and Environmental Development. Brockovich is best known for being portrayed by Julia Roberts in her namesake film, which was nominated for several Oscars.
Acclaimed enviromental advocate, film subject to speak at NU on Wednesday
Student groups could earn NUnite grant for new collaborations
The Center for Student Involvement is chal-lenging student groups to work together to create programming for the Northwestern community with the NUnite program.
Student groups can apply to receive up to
$2,000 from CSI to fund an “educational, enter-taining, and/or artistic event” as long as they pair up with another organization they have not worked with before. Applications to receive grant money for an event scheduled during Win-ter Quarter are due Monday.
“It’s a chance to get students involved in pro-gramming,” said Tracey Gibson-Jackson, CSI coordinator of student theater and performing arts. “It provides an opportunity to do some diverse programming.”
Gibson-Jackson said CSI gives $2,500 to $3,500 to fund events each quarter through NUnite. She explained that the number of appli-cations varies greatly each quarter. Sometimes, the funding will be split among multiple events, she said.
“We disperse it out to the applications that stand out,” she said.
The grant has been available for years, Gib-son-Jackson said, and the events sponsored by it vary greatly. For example, Sit & Spin Productions
and A&O Productions teamed up to create a movie screening of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and a theatrical production of “The Rocky Horror Show” using NUnite money. Northwest-ern Students for Life and Sheil Catholic Center paired to use the grant money to host a pro-life film festival.
“(The NUnite grant) helps to build community and engage students,” Gibson-Jackson said.
— Cat Zakrzewski
4 NEWS | thE daily NorthWEStErN MoNday, NoVEMBEr 12, 2012
Theater festival to highlight LGBTQ issues at NU
By flora sunthe daily northwestern
QFest, a new queer theater festival, is coming to Northwestern in Spring Quarter 2013.
Initiated by Communication junior Lindsay Amer and Communication senior Jacob Devine, QFest will feature student-created plays that focus on LGBTQ issues.
“We are looking for four to seven pieces of plays, depending on the length of the pieces, how they fit together, as well as the number and diver-sity of submissions we received,” Amer said.
She said they will pick the pieces by the end of this quarter and then have petitions for directors at the beginning of Winter Quarter.
The idea of QFest stemmed from Devine’s thinking of what he can do as a senior year the-ater major. After a play he wrote was a part of an LGBTQ festival at another university, he wanted
to adapt this concept to NU’s community.Especially from last year, campus has been
buzzing with talk about diversity, and a lot of people are thinking about race, ethnicity and nationality, Amer said.
“Minorities, however, were overlooked within that diversity, especially the broad range of LGBTQ spectrum,” she said. “So we want to bring this element of the diversity and conversa-tion to Northwestern. We also think this is the ‘gap’ in theatre. Previous queer plays on campus focus mostly on gay men. We want to broaden that.”
QFest originally started as an independent project but is now partnering with WAVE Pro-ductions as a special event. The group is also working on partnering with Rainbow Alliance, Project ShoutOUT and a couple of organizations in the Evanston and Chicago area.
“We very rarely are able to reach out beyond the theatre community to get a larger NU LGBT community involved,” Devine said. “QFest is a try.”
Rainbow Alliance has recently been involved in initiatives aimed at helping LGBTQ individu-als better identify themselves and make the cam-pus more inclusive. These initiatives include a
campaign to add gender-neutral bathrooms and the Guidance and Peer Solutions program.
“Gender neutral bathrooms is an advocacy effort by our group to make NU a more safe
and affirming environ-ment for students of all genders, particu-larly trans- and gender non-normative people.” said Zach Wichter, co-president of Rainbow Alliance and a Medill senior.
GPS is a peer men-torship program open to any student who wants to talk or learn one-on-one about LGBTQ issues.
“It’s really important to have this kind of group at NU because
queer issues are increasingly important on the national and international stages,” Wich-ter added. “A lot of people want to learn more about, or interact with the queer community, and doing all we can to raise its visibility on campus
is super important.”Apart from student groups, the LGBT
Resource Center offers services and programs of interest to the LGBT and Allied community at NU. The Safe Space program strives to help allies better identify themselves, and Trans Ally Training aims to educate the NU community about the “T” in LGBTQ who are often over-looked when grouped with lesbian, gay and bisexual people. Also, Straight But Not Narrow is designed for residence halls, fraternities and sororities, athletic teams and student organiza-tions to initiate LGBT dialogue.
Devin Moss, director of the LGBT Resource Center, said Sigma Lambda Gamma is looking to hold a conversation about LGBTQ inclusion within the fraternity and sorority community later this month.
“We work with the larger NU community by helping to spread education and awareness, Moss said. “We also offer advising and student round tables to help support the work of student groups.”
Moss said NU scores 4.5 out of 5 in the LGBT-Friendly Campus Climate Index.
“It’s ... important to have this kind of group at NU because queer issues are increasingly importantZach Wichter,Rainbow Alliance co-president
By edward coxthe daily northwestern
Students from Arts in the Community model clay skulls, ribs and collar bones as part of the One Million Bones project, a nationwide program designed to raise awareness about modern-day genocide.
Each bone created represents a life lost to geno-cide and raises a dollar for CARE, an international humanitarian organization.
“I think it is a great idea because it is simple for people to get involved in,” said Weinberg junior Lauren Izaak, a member of Arts in the Community.
Students have been gathering in ARTica Stu-dios in Norris University Center at 8:30 p.m. every
Thursday to work on the project. ARTica has also helped advertise the One Million Bones project.
“It was really nice to think that all we had to do was sculpt bones to help provide relief for genocide,” said Weinberg junior Michael Morgan, founder of Arts in the Community.
Arts in the Community brought the project to NU by collaborating with students in the same group at New York University.
Morgan founded Arts in the Community at NYU as a freshman and started the group again last Winter Quarter after transferring to NU. The organization provides students with opportunities to creatively express themselves, give back to the community and explore the arts, Morgan said.
In addition to collaborating with the branch at NYU for the One Million Bones project, the group has hosted art sessions every Thursday at ARTica,
a field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago last year and a presentation on globalization.
“One of the things that makes NU great is community and this hearkens back to it,” said Communication senior Scott Wolitzer, who is publicizing the club through F&F Marketing, another NU student group. “At NU, people are studying and stressing out. You need to relax and that’s what we have.”
The group is not yet recognized by Associated Student Government and has been supporting itself partly through grant applications to NAMTA, an international art materials association. Arts in the Community is growing, Morgan said, with about 180 people on its listserv compared to the 500 at NYU.
“Right now, we are working to stabilize the NYU and NU branch,” Morgan said. “We independently
share arts and ideas in our groups.”Morgan said he plans to expand the club in
Winter Quarter to ASG-recognized B-status, which would make eligible to receive funds from the student government.
Arts in the Community has also pursued efforts within the Evanston community. The group applied for a grant to support Art for a Heart, a project through which students donate projects done on canvas to local hospitals.
Morgan said that as the group expands, he hopes that it will host more trips to Chicago museums, such as the Art Institute of Chicago, and overcome transportation difficulties.
“You go there and have fun while you help people around the world,” Izaak said.
Students sculpt clay bones for genocide awareness
NYU program inspires NU series of student plays about queer identity, diversity
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NOVEMBER 15–17 Bienen School of MusicNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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FOR NEW MUSIC
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 157:30 p.m. Stephen Drury, piano; members of Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble conducted by Donald Nally Featuring Cage’s Hymns and Variations as well as solo piano works. Lutkin Hall, $8/5
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 169:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Interpreting Cage Symposium Section I: “Rolling Dice: Performing Cage’s Music” and Section II: “In�uential, Idolized, or Irrelevant? Cage and Current Composing” Lutkin Hall, free
5:15 p.m. So Percussion, Grey Mcmurray, Bienen School percussion students Music by Morton Feldman, Steve Reich, John Cage, Jason Treuting, and The Beatles. Deering Library, free
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 179:30 a.m.–noon Interpreting Cage Symposium Section III: “Who Speaks? Challenges of Interpretation in Cage’s Works” Lutkin Hall, free
2 p.m. Tour of the Cage Collection Introduction by D. J. Hoek, Greg MacAyeal, and Nina Barrett. Deering Library, free
7:30 p.m. So Percussion, Grey Mcmurray, Loud Objects, Cenk Ergün, Bienen School percussion students Music by John Cage, So Percussion, Matmos, Cenk Ergün, and The Beatles. Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, $10/6
STEPHEN DRURY
SO PERCUSSION
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CENK ERGUN
LOUD OBJECTS
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The Drawing Board by Tanner Maxwell Thumbs
Despite the fact that the election didn’t go the way I had hoped, I’ve decided to focus on the positive from now on. Nothing made me prouder than being able to voice my opinions behind that little automated voter box, and I’ve realized that President Obama got re-elected for a reason and I plan on focusing on the parts of his policies that I support. I can’t think of anything on his platform that I agree with more than his plans for increased energy efficiency. Unfortunately, like anything else, the battle for clean energy does come with a cost.
I don’t know if I’ve just started to grow up more in the past couple years (I’ve heard college will do that to you), but to me being “green” has never been an option. Growing up in California does that to you, and leaving my little green bubble has made me realize how much being sustainable really doesn’t matter
to a lot of people. Northwestern, for all of its talk, can’t seem to really walk the walk in terms of sustainability. Sometimes I can’t even find the recycling bin in my own dorm hall-way. The majority of people I know still buy plastic water bottles as if they’re going out of business and keep the lights on during the middle of the day.
What does my love for recycling have to do with anything? Though my own sustainability crusade is on a far smaller scale, it is rumored that within the next few months, the Envi-ronmental Protection Agency will continue to issues restrictions on fossil fuel production, as well as a new carbon standard for power plants and hopefully tighter restrictions on soot emissions. By the year 2015, the EPA will fully implement their Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, under the Clean Air Act that will reduce the emission of hazardous materials and prevent 11,000 premature deaths and 4,700 heart attacks as a result.
If Mitt Romney had been elected, this kind of optimism for energy efficiency would most likely cease to exist — and it’s only been a week. Not all Republicans hate the environ-ment; that kind of polarized stigma is exactly
why the party’s public persona has been poi-soned. I’m happy that Obama got re-elected because I’d like to think he shares the same sentiments as I do on the environment. Last week — on the precipice of the election — I stated in this column that it wasn’t pragmatic or realistic for a person to agree with every-thing on either candidate’s platform. Just because I didn’t vote for Obama doesn’t mean that I don’t agree with this facet of his policy goals. I do wholeheartedly.
There are, however, a few caveats. Despite my excitement for what I hope will be four more years in the search for a green energy solution, I can’t help but wonder what this search will do to both the coal industry’s employment and the economy as a whole. As early as Wednesday, as a reaction to Obama’s reelection, shares of Peabody Energy (the largest private sector coal company in the world) fell 9.6 percent, shares of Arch Coal fell 12.5 percent, Consol Energy dropped 6.1 percent and Alpha Natural Resources dropped 12.2 percent.
Meanwhile, Murray Energy, a coal com-pany headed by a prominent donor to the Romney campaign, announced Friday it had
already laid off 160 workers in response to the clear struggles that the industry will face in Obama’s second term. I’m fully in support of finding a solution to coal as our default energy source, but the economic impact of such cuts makes me wonder whether or not it is possible to ever really have any kind of compromise in partisan politics. Does full speed ahead dedication towards making our country more sustainable have to mean eco-nomic disaster? I don’t know if its possible for the coal industry to modernize their stan-dards enough to reverse the environmental damage and save thousands of people’s jobs.
Unfortunately politics are so polarized that it seems like compromise is nebulous and out of the question. I’m in full support of Obama’s energy efficiency plan, I’m just sincerely hoping that we find a way to make these changes without crippling our already crying economy. At this current moment, I’d say that we need every job that we can muster.
Arabella Watters is a Medill sophomore. She can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, email a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
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ASG exploring possibility of extending dining hall hours
Associated Student Government dis-cussed on Wednesday the possibility of improving dining hall hours and weekend locations by the creation of a working group. Though for sports fans the addition of an NU Day at the United Center is amaz-ing, this is something all students can get excited about.
Far too often, students com-plain that they eat dinner too early when coming to college, that they become senior citizens who catch early-bird, 4:45 p.m. specials. But in the midst of extracur-ricular meetings and afternoon or night classes, what other options are they given?
Sargent Dining Hall is the only option on North Campus that is open past 7 p.m., Monday through Thursday. And only three dining halls are open on the weekend, arguably the ones with the least variety.
NuCuisine and the meal plan would attract more people who are still hungry at
8 p.m., 9 p.m., 10 p.m., 11 p.m. and so on, if more dining halls were open at a normal dinner hour.
Progress on this issue won’t be easy. The University and Sodexo are bound by contracts, and the Living Wage Campaign has dem-onstrated that progress can be slow. But ASG exists to serve student
interests and this is exactly the type of issue they should be throwing their weight behind.
Major props, ASG. Get that working group working.
Michigan takes down Northwestern — in two heartbreakers
Our friends from Ann Arbor delivered a body blow and then a knockout punch to NU sports over the weekend, and neither involved boxing.
First, the University of Michi-gan soccer team knocked off the Wildcats 3-0 in men’s soccer Friday night in the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament, robbing the Cats of a chance to win a con-ference title on their home field and leaving them sweating out Monday’s NCAA Tournament selection show.
But the football team was prepared to deliver its revenge at the Big House on Saturday. With just less than four minutes to play, Trevor Siemian’s touchdown pass
to Tony Jones gave the Cats a three-point lead. After a Devin Gardner interception, the NU offense took the field with a chance to run out the clock, but the Cats were forced to punt with 18 seconds left. The rest, as they say, is history.
Gardner dropped back and heaved the ball up. Fifty-three yards later, corner-
back Daniel Jones deflected it, but Michigan receiver Roy Roundtree hauled the pass in at the 18-yard line. The Wolverines kicked a field goal to force overtime and won when Tyris Jones was stopped on fourth down.
A season in which the Cats have been achingly close to victory in
each of their losses, holding a lead in all three, will now be forever remembered as a season of “what if?”
After two heartbreaking overtime losses to Michigan in men’s basketball last season, it’s safe to say we owe them one.
Talking points � rst, students second in recent District 65 evaluation talks
Evanston-Skokie School Dis-trict 65 school board members discussed the district’s recently revised performance appraisal system last week. Conversations focused on developing fair evalu-ations of student growth through standardized testing, district-de-veloped assessments and other measures.
District 65 reportedly began revising its appraisal system in the spring. Months later, 98 percent of teachers surveyed by the District 65 Educators’ Council did not trust the system to give a fair rating, according to DEC president Jean Luft.
What great progress.Still, so many adults spent time politi-
cally posturing. One reminisced on when District 65 was the best in the nation. Another reminded us that students are “more than a test score.”
While adults postured, there were thousands of students doing their job. They were finishing up their last math problems and read-ing with their parents.
When will the adults do their job?
District 65 teachers and admin-istrators, for the sake of each stu-
dent’s future, need to quit spewing out talk-ing points and start developing meaningful solutions. Education can’t be “the great equalizer” 19th century education reformer Horace Mann said it was without a great teacher in every classroom.
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Evanston TreeKeepers, a new community organi-zation focused on preserving and expanding the local tree population, is launching this week with its first meeting Wednesday night.
TreeKeepers founder Wendy Pollock said the group will work to create a healthy urban forest in Evanston.
Pollock said protection of Evanston’s trees is neces-sary to save local specimens from the threats they face in an urban environment. She said ash trees in par-ticular are endangered because of the recent appear-ance of the emerald ash borer, an invasive insect that eats its way through ash trees. Earlier this year when the emerald ash borer struck thousands of local trees, rotting them from the inside out, Evanston cut down the infected ashes. Evanston TreeKeepers will work to
recognize the signs of pests like the emerald ash borer and mitigate their effects on local trees.
Padma Rao, an outspoken proponent of tree pres-ervation in Evanston, said the city has failed to protect ash trees from this pest in past years, choosing to cut down many trees in town instead of treating them.
“The city of Evanston should have done inexpen-sive, preventive treatments to protect ash trees several years ago, when we first learned about the problem,” she said.
Rao added that she hopes the group will conduct an inventory of Evanston’s trees and make an effort to protect every single tree.
Evanston TreeKeepers is affiliated with Open-lands, a Chicago preservation group with a variety of programs focused on protecting green spaces in the region. The Evanston group stemmed from the efforts of Openlands to promote greenery — specifically trees — in the Chicago metropolitan area.
Pollock first learned about how to properly care for
trees when she enrolled in Openlands’ TreeKeepers class, which equips volunteers throughout Chicago-land with skills necessary to maintain urban trees. Pollock underwent this eight-week course to learn about basic tree biology and care.
Pollock noted that many people from the suburbs were enrolled in Openlands’ classes, and that there was a lot of interest in the issue of urban forestry among Evanston residents.
“A lot of people from Evanston have taken our TreeKeepers class in Chicago, so forming a group in Evanston seemed like a natural next step,” said Glenda Daniel, associate director of Openlands.
Daniel and Pollock worked together to create Evanston TreeKeepers. The Evanston chapter will be Openlands’ first effort to move into surrounding sub-urbs, and Daniel said she hopes that more advocacy groups in other communities will follow suit.
Pollock partnered with Citizens’ Greener Evan-ston, a local sustainability group, and the city’s forestry
division to spread awareness about urban forestry. CGE started a task force focused on preserving natural resources, and hosted several events over the summer to promote discussion of the issue.
Pollock said Evanston TreeKeepers’ official plans will be formalized after their first meeting Wednes-day. In general, the group will work to educate the public about tree care and conduct public work days during which members can care for Evanston’s trees. Members of the group would work to prune and mulch the city’s existing trees while also expanding its urban forest.
Rao said she hopes the new group will care for all of Evanston’s trees from the variety of threats they face.
“Ideally, the city should be protecting our urban forest from both man-made threats and natural predators,” Rao said. “It’s something that needs to be done.”
By KELLy hWUthe daily northwestern
The McGaw YMCA has begun to gather data and organize community forums to address health issues affecting young children as part of the Pioneering Healthier Communities campaign of the Y-USA.
The national initiative is focused on impacting and preventing childhood obesity through policy reform and changing community environment.
Pioneering Healthier Communities launched in 2004 under Activate America, a mission by the YMCA to tackle the nation’s health failings. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years. In addition, the percentage of children aged 6 to 11 years in the United States who were obese increased from 7 percent in 1980 to nearly 20 percent in 2008.
The McGaw YMCA received starting capital from the YMCA of the USA and the Evanston Community Foundation to start its own PHC-Evanston branch. Organizations including NorthShore University HealthSystem, Family Focus Evanston and Evanston-Skokie School District 65 have come together to create
policy changes, promote discussions and hold educa-tional events for families with young children.
Jonathan Webb, director of development for youth and health at the McGaw YMCA, has been working on the PHC-E initiative. Webb and his colleagues traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with other PHC leaders from across the country and to be briefed on PHC’s implementation logistics and real impact on communities since 2004.
“Youth are one of our most important assets and we owe it to them and our community that they have a healthy start to a good quality life,” Webb said.
PHC-E is currently working on a comprehensive database to track the body mass index of 2-to-5-year-olds and changing policy standards for nutrition and physical activity among young children.
“Our biggest accomplishment is bringing such a large group together who are concerned about child-hood obesity,” Webb said. “We’ve got big names in Evanston and everyone is willing to play together because they’re willing to solve the issue.”
PHC-E is also focusing its efforts on promoting breastfeeding and will host focus groups to educate the community about its benefits, including lowered risks for certain diseases for both mothers and babies.
Janine Lewis, PHC-E committee member and director of the Illinois Maternal and Child Health Coalition, is a mother of a 4-year-old. Lewis said she breastfed her son for 13 months and recognizes the challenges of breastfeeding as a working mother.
Lewis’ day job addresses maternal and child health topics, and she advocated for breastfeeding education at the hospital level before joining PHC-E.
“It’s been nice to meet other people who care about health prevention, reducing obesity and chronic dis-eases,” Lewis said. “I’m excited about PHC’s ability to bring together various stakeholders.”
Lewis said PHC-E plans to do targeted outreach at local hopsitals. In the short term, she will hold public forums to get people talking about breastfeeding.
So far, Webb said PHC-E has spoken to parents about plans to aggregate data for research. He said there are committee members who can speak to local health concerns themselves, but he wants to put forth a comprehensive policy involving more parents.
“Our vision in general is to make sure every Evan-stonian has a good platform in respect to health,” Webb said.
Webb added that although PHC-E is promoted by the YMCA national organization, the McGaw YMCA
does not include the Y logo on its PHC material.“We’re trying to exemplify the fact that we’re calling
meetings together and getting people engaged because it’s not our program,” Webb said. “It’s something the community is owning.”
Looking ahead, Webb said PHC-E will start to actu-ally collect data. He said PHC-E has already collected initial data from national centers but its objective is to build a unified local database that collects and tracks BMI data from children five and younger. Instead of extrapolating data from large databases, Webb said PHC-E will use Evanston-specific numbers.
“We’re a couple steps from this becoming a reality,” Webb said. “It’ll be huge because it’ll fill in the gaps in Evanston.”
Webb said PHC-E also hopes to recommend policy and curriculum recommendations for child care and home day care centers. Webb said sugges-tions would include practices in respect to increasing access to fresh foods and physical activity.
“Health has an impact on everything we do and if kids start on that same level playing field, it gives everybody a fighting chance,” Webb said.
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New group aims to protect, expand tree population
number of emails and calls from residents com-plaining about the proposed visitors center and expects that many of them will voice their concerns at tonight’s council meeting, but he will stand by his decision to support NU’s plans. As a jogger, he said he frequently uses the lakefront path and appreci-ates NU’s efforts to provide Evanston residents with attractive access.
The complaints some residents have presented to aldermen include the aesthetics of the proposed visitors center, its environmental impact, the inclu-sion of a parking space in the plans and leasing contract rates.
Evanston resident Matt Mirapaul (Medill ‘82) said he hopes that the council will recognize that the proposed parking deck will present environ-mental problems and ultimately reject contracting with the University.
“There’s a long list of species that come here,” Mirapaul said. “I don’t know how the birds and other wildlife will adapt to a severe change. It will take years, if not decades, to recover from this change.”
Similar environmental concerns were raised years ago when NU proposed building the Lake-fill, essentially creating the beach ecosystem over which objections are again being raised.
This new wave of criticism for the visitors center project comes after the city’s preservation
commission unanimously recommended that the council reject the proposal based on concerns that the new building will not complement surround-ing historical buildings. At its Oct. 22 meeting, the Evanston City Council nevertheless approved NU’s plans by a 6-2 vote. Fiske and Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd) dissented and Ald. Coleen Burrus (9th) abstained.
In an interview with members of The Daily’s editorial board earlier this month, University Presi-dent Morton Schapiro said he was surprised by the number of grievances Evanston locals raised in regard to the visitors center because it’s a project that benefits both the University and the city.
“To say that building … somehow interferes with Fisk Hall because it was a Daniel Burnham building (is) kind of crazy,” Schapiro said. “I thought that was a little mysterious. The other thing is that it replaces surface parking lots, which are very bad for the environment and hideous, and that two-story structure that is God-awful. So I was thinking, ‘You really don’t want us to build that?’ It would be crazy.”
Following initial objections from the city, the plans for the visitors center now include bird-friendly windows and a height that complies with city codes.
Manuel Rapada contributed reporting.
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attract minimal support from the same four con-stituencies that lead Obama’s coalition.
“There’s no reason the Republican Party can’t be conservative but modern,” Heilemann said. “You could be pro-life and still pro-contraceptive. You don’t have to be a climate science denialist to have a different position on how to deal with that.”
Heilemann was only in town for hours but told Medill staffers to keep circulating microphones to audience members, even if taking their questions meant missing his flight home. He did manage to take in one Evanston institution during the trip — he said he stopped by Dempster Street hot dog stand Wiener and Still Champion earlier Friday afternoon.
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overall, was named to the All-Midwest Regional team for the second year in a row. Moriset joined Goldsmith on the All-Midwest Regional team with a 20th place finish. Goldsmith, who bounced back tremendously from a disappointing run at the Big Ten Championships, attributed her success to her pre-game mental preparation.
“At Big Tens, I just wasn’t 100 percent focused,” Goldsmith said. “I didn’t have all the confidence. But at Regionals, I felt really confident. I’ve been working so hard all season. I wanted to do this for my team, my coaches, my family, my school. Something just clicked for me. I could tell even before the race that it was going to go well.”
But NU does head into the off-season with a lot
of optimism for next year. Huth, who will run for a fifth year at another school, always preached to her team to never leave anything behind on the course. Though her result may not have left her satisfied, Huth said she is tremendously happy with what her team has been able to accomplish this year.
“It definitely isn’t how I thought my senior year would end by any means,” Huth said. “But ultimately the team finished the best it has in the last 10 years. I may not have walked away as an individual satisfied and we may not have met our exact team goals, but we made big strides this year that we haven’t been able to make in a while. It was pretty cool to have goals like these and have a shot at accomplishing them this year. That’s definitely satisfying.”
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battles, and we kind of reversed roles today. They were definitely the better team and they probably deserved to win today.”
In the 39th minute, Michigan forward T.J. Roehn widened the gap between the two teams and clocked his third goal of the season after bouncing the ball off Miller’s left post and into the net when Miller came off of his line to chal-lenge the forward.
During halftime, NU made the adjustment to push forward more in an effort to open up the game and create more chances. Lenahan said the field position allowed Michigan to score its
third goal. Despite the tweak,
the team’s offensive plays looked lacklus-ter as they periodically have throughout the season. Time and again, Michigan defenders surrounded NU’s fresh-man forward Joey Cal-istri, junior midfielder Lepe Seetaneand Lakin, who made multiple runs into Wolverine territory on the near sideline, and were able to quickly win the ball back.
Although the Cats will not contend for its second Big Ten Cham-pionship in as many
years, the team still has a chance of making the NCAA Tournament.
Moving forward from the semifinal loss, Lenahan listed many of the Cats’ more impres-sive victories this season, including a 2-1 early-season win against Kentucky and a 2-1 victory over Notre Dame, as arguments for NU’s spot in the NCAA Tournament.
With the Michigan State victory in the cham-pionship, however, the Cats’ chances of sneak-ing into the NCAA Tournament took a hit.
And although his team was not able to bounce back against Michigan, Lenahan said the Cats have no plans to say goodbye just yet.
“I’m hoping people recognize what we did particularly at the top of the table against those really good teams,” Lenahan said. “Hopefully we get to play another game. We didn’t give any farewell speeches today.”
ground and each had big runs that showed off their athleticism. Colter showcased his ability to use his legs as a weapon, fleeing the pocket for large gains on several occasions and keep-ing plays alive to find open receivers in other moments.
The Cats’ aerial attack took a step forward Saturday with 183 passing yards. Colter threw for 96 yards and a touchdown, but the real hero of the passing game was Trevor Siemian.
After looking shaky in previous appear-ances, the sophomore quarterback com-pleted 6-of-7 passes for 87 yards and two touchdowns. His two scores came at critical junctions of the game. Siemian’s first touch-down drive came at the end of the first half when he led NU on a 6-play, 56-yard drive that ended with a touchdown pass to redshirt freshman Cameron Dickerson. The second came after he replaced a
dinged-up Colter and threw a 15-yard strike to sophomore Tony Jones, which allowed the Cats to retake the lead late in the fourth quarter.
“I’m always ready to play,” Siemian said. “I wasn’t going to go out there with my tail between my legs if I hadn’t played earlier in the game.”
The loss not only eliminates NU from con-tention to win the Legends Division but also stings for most players in a more simple way. They all appeared stunned in the post-game news conference, and Jones summed up the feeling in the room.
“Just disappointment,” Jones said. “Just being so close and falling short is just disappointing. But like I said, we have the (24)-hour rule, we’ll watch the film and come Monday morning, it’s on to Michigan State. We’ll be ready to go next week.”
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“Just disappointment. Just being so close and falling short is disapointing.Tony Jones,sophomore wide receiver
“I’m hoping people recognize what we did ... Hopefully we get to play another game. We didn’t give any farewell speeches today.Tim Lenahan,men’s soccer coach
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ALL-STAR Kendall Hackney scored 35 points in two games, leading the Wildcats to victories over Tennessee-Martin and Central Michigan.
By ALEX PUTTERMANthe daily northwestern
Freshmen are supposed to be seen and not heard, more cheerleaders than scoring leaders, watching with wide eyes as upperclassmen show them what college basketball looks like. Apparently, the Wildcats’ rookies missed that memo.
Northwestern (2-0) began its season as well as it could have hoped, sweeping two weekend home games with a pair of 10-point victories. A� er handling Tennessee-Martin (0-1) 79-69 on Friday, the Cats topped Central Michigan (1-1) 82-72. e games followed similar trajectories with quick starts, incon-sistent middles and freshmen-dominated endings.
NU opened with a 9-3 lead Friday to start its showdown with the reigning Ohio Valley Confer-ence champion Skyhawks and led 37-28 at hal� ime, with senior forward Kendall Hackney pacing the team with 14 points . But UT-Martin dominated the � rst � ve minutes of the second half, and when Shelby Craw-ford hit an open three-pointer with 14:50 remaining, the Skyhawks led for the � rst time, 44-42 .
Eventually, however, it was the Cats’ youngsters who sealed an opening day win. Freshman Lauren Douglas scored 6 of her 7 points in the second half, and sophomore Karly Roser scored all 9 of hers a� er the break, also tallying seven rebounds and 11 assists
on the day . But among a cast of impressive underclassmen, fresh-man Maggie Lyon made the best � rst impression. The forward led NU with 21 points, drawing praise from her coach .
“She plays so hard — when you compete like that, basketball is basket-ball, so I think that helped her tonight,” coach Joe McKeown said.
Hackney, who herself put up a praise-worthy line, with 20 points and eight rebounds, was
similarly e� usive about the play of NU’s youngsters .“Coming out from the get-go they were phenom-
enal,” she said. “I know what it’s like. Coming in a freshman is a little crazy, and they have adjusted way better than I did.”
ough Lyon wasn’t quite as productive Sunday against the Chippewas, she did contribute 13 points and seven rebounds as well as one of the game’s most exciting and pivotal plays.
A� er Roser banked in a contested layup with three seconds le� in the � rst half, Central Michigan’s
inbound-passer tossed a hesitant lob to a distracted teammate along the baseline. Lyon stepped in front of the pass and unleashed a three-pointer from just behind the line that needed no help from the rim on its trip through the net. e basket was Lyon’s � rst of the game and capped a 7-0 run that gave NU a 33-24 lead heading into hal� ime.
“ at was huge,” McKeown said of the buzzer-beater. “It just gave us some momentum, more than anything else.”
e Cats got a scare in the second half, as a lead that hovered near double digits dwindled to two with 5:27 to play. e Chippewas charge was fueled by guard Jessica Green, who led with 25 points and six steals and o� en proved too quick on defense for NU’s ball-handlers and on o� ense for NU’s defenders .
But again the Cats’ freshmen stepped up when the outcome was in doubt. Douglas � nished with 20 points and 10 rebounds , including 8 points in the � nal four minutes , and Lyon added 10 in the second half . Again, McKeown was impressed with the play of his two youngest starters.
Douglas and Lyon traded o� leading-scorer duties in the � rst two games. Individual stats aside, most of the NU squad would presumably agree with Douglas’ evaluation of the team’s expectations going forward.
“Winning games,” she said. “ at’s it.”
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The secondary is supposed to be the defense’s last line of protection. For Northwestern on Saturday, the defensive backfield was the place where Michigan attacked first.
The Wolverines’ quarterback Devin Gardner shredded the Cats’ defensive backs. Gardner finished the game with 286 yards passing and 2 touchdowns, completing 16-of-30 attempts. He picked on NU’s cornerback tandem of redshirt sophomore Daniel Jones and redshirt senior Demetrius Dugar, with Dugar starting in place of the injured redshirt fresh-man Nick VanHoose.
“We knew on Thursday that he wasn’t starting,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said of VanHoose.
Dugar, who secured a late interception that nearly sealed the game, was picked on early and often by the Wolverines’ play callers. During Michigan’s first scor-ing drive, Dugar had a particularly tough time.
First, he allowed Roy Roundtree to make a recep-tion, and then missed a tackle that permitted Round-tree to pick up 32 yards. A play later, after an offsides
penalty against NU, Dugar interfered with Roundtree, sending the Wolverines inside the 10-yard line.
“We know that Demetrius will make those plays,” redshirt junior linebacker Damien Proby said. “We know that he’s going to be on top of every route. We know the drive that he has on the field and off the field. If they pick on him, we expect him to make those plays.”
Dugar struggled in the second half as well. He picked up another pass interference on Michigan’s third scoring drive, and was also in coverage on a 42-yard pass to Jeremy Gallon the very next play. The Cats finished the game with 8 penalties for 75 yards.
“We need to be fundamentally sound,” Proby said. “We can’t shoot ourselves in the foot and expect to win a Big Ten football game.”
Even with the ball on the ground, the NU second-ary did not fare much better. On Michigan’s first score of the game, Gardner scored on an 8-yard touchdown run. Redshirt sophomore safety Ibraheim Campbell appeared to have Gardner stopped, but whiffed
The 53-yard Hail Mary to Roundtree at the end of the fourth quarter was actually one of the secondary’s better moments. Jones was in position to make a play, and did get a hand on the ball, but it deflected upward
as opposed to falling to the turf.“We asked our guys to make a play on the ball;
that’s what he did,” Proby said. “(There was) a lucky
bounce, and there’s nothing we can do to stop that.”
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Unlikely stumble causes Northwestern to fall shortBy john paschallthe daily northwestern
The dream at the beginning of the season was simple: Make the NCAA Championships.
However, that vision did not quite become a reality Friday at the NCAA Midwest Regional in Springfield, Mo.
Northwestern was running wild for the first part of the race, a goal the team had the entire season. Senior Audrey Huth and juniors Lexie Goldsmith and Michelle Moriset were off to an incredible start, all of them hanging in the top pack.
“I had never seen us have such a great start,” coach
April Likhite said.At the 4-kilometer mark, Likhite spotted her run-
ners, who were still on a burning pace. Huth and Goldsmith were seventh and eighth, respectively, with Moriset still hanging toward the front. The excellent start made the team believe it could finish second or third and punch its ticket to the NCAA Championship.
But at about the 700-meter mark, the wheels fell off for the Cats. Likhite noticed redshirt senior Sophie Ewald started to run out of gas in her middle group.
Huth rounded the final turn and spotted the lead runner heading toward the finish line.
“I’m going to catch her,” Huth said about her thought process. “I’ve got this.”
Then Likhite noticed something odd while she was
waiting at the finish line.“We saw that Audrey still hadn’t crossed the line,”
Likhite said. “I didn’t see it happen. But I’m probably glad I didn’t because I wouldn’t be able to get the image out of my head.”
At 150 meters away from the finish line, Huth, in what would be her last cross-country race donning the purple and white, finally hit the wall.
“I remember slowing down a little bit,” Huth said. “My legs wouldn’t move anymore. The next thing I remember was being on the ground.”
Goldsmith, who was running side-by-side with Huth at the time, was disturbed by what happened to Huth as well.
“It kind of freaked me out a little bit,” Goldsmith recalled. “It was really heart-wrenching to see.”
NU’s captain had fallen, and she could not get up. Her legs simply did not respond. As girl after girl continued to pass her and finish before her, Huth did everything she could to get to the finish line, including crawling. Huth’s father even tried to get on the course to help his daughter up, but any touch by a person not in the race would have disqualified her.
“I would take a couple steps and then fall again,” Huth said. “I ended up walking through completely. I don’t really remember that much at all.”
Huth went from a top-10 finish to 209th place out of 211.
NU did, however, finish in fourth place, its high-est result in a decade. Goldsmith, who finished 10th
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off the mark Northwestern running back Venric Mark evades being wrapped up by the Michigan defense. the junior rushed for 104 yards against the wolverines on saturday.
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(There was) a lucky bounce, and there’s nothing we can do to stop that. — Damien Proby, linebacker
I was upset after Saturday’s game. Not only because of what had just unfolded in front of me in Ann Arbor, Mich., but also because of what I saw on Facebook — statuses people had posted just minutes after the Wildcats’ overtime loss.
Was the game a heartbreaker? Yes. Was the last quarter disap-pointing? Sure. I mean, I can’t argue with these statuses. I just watched my team give up a tying field goal, battle through overtime and lose in front of a record crowd of more than 112,000 people screaming “Go Blue” and furiously waving maize — not yellow — pompoms, all in a matter of about 10 minutes.
And to top it off, I had Wolverine fans sarcastically telling me that they were “sorry” as I walked out. Yeah, OK, I agree, the game was a disappointing heartbreak, and it sucked.
We all know the Cats have blown double-digit leads in the fourth quarter in all their losses this sea-son. The corners have struggled, and sometimes the defense isn’t just on the struggle bus, it drives the struggle bus. Sometimes it’s the offense that struggles.
But do you know what the foot-ball players do in preparation for these games that isn’t included in the game statistics? They get up at 6 a.m. every morning and head to Ryan Field for meetings, lifts and a full-blown practice, all before they even go to class. During Fall Quar-ter, the majority of them don’t see their families until Christmas, and, even then, it’s only for about three days.
Now some people may be quick to counter with the argument that the players are on scholarships, so playing football is their job. However, the football team brings in roughly $23 million and nets a profit of about $7 million, which is used to fund non-revenue-gener-ating sports . On average, football players bring in more than their scholarships are worth.
And the thing is, the Cats are 7-3 and have been ranked twice this season. They are not getting blown out of games. Before we go bashing the team and its coaching staff on Facebook, maybe we should start trying to fill up our own stadium and show our Cats we appreciate all the effort they put in to make our Saturday afternoons great. If we’re going to expect so much from the players, they should be able to expect everything and nothing less from us.
As I walked out of the Big House, a Michigan fan told me that NU would never get to the Wolverines’ level in the Big Ten. I was upset, but I did not immediately pull up Face-book on my phone to post a status about how mad I was at the Cats for blowing their third double-digit lead this season. I acknowledge and appreciate all that the football team has already done to make my fall Saturdays some of the best memo-ries I’ll take away from NU. And because of this, I will never, ever lose hope in the Cats.
We’ll get ‘em next Saturday.
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NU fi nds heartbreak in Ann ArborBy JOSH WALFISHdaily senior staffer
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — North-western was leading by 3 points with 18 seconds remaining in regulation . And then Devin Gardner hit Roy Roundtree .
The Michigan quarterback and wide receiver connected on a 53-yard bomb with eight sec-onds left to move the ball from the Michigan 38-yard line to the NU 9-yard line. Gardner spiked the ball, and Brendan Gibbons knocked a 26-yard field goal through the uprights to tie the game at 31 .
In overtime, Gardner waltzed into the end zone from a yard out, and the Wildcats could not match the score in their half of the extra period to seal the 38-31 victory for Michigan (7-3, 5-1 Big Ten) over No. 24 NU (7-3, 3-3) on Saturday .
“Obviously, it was a tough way to end up,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “I thought our guys fought valiantly and we just ended up one play short.”
The Cats had trouble stopping the pass for most of the day as Gardner averaged nearly 18 yards per completion . The Wolverines had five pass plays of more than 20 yards , including two consecutive deep passes in the third quarter on the way to a score . NU also commit-ted two pass-interference penalties that gave Michigan first downs and added life .
The Wolverines went after senior cornerback Demetrius Dugar , who was starting in place of injured redshirt freshman Nick VanHoose . Dugar picked up both pass-inter-ference calls and was burned sev-eral other times for big gains after he lost the receiver in coverage or missed a tackle. The penalties were
not only an issue for Dugar but also for the rest of the defense, which had four of NU’s eight penalties .
“We need to get back to our type of football,” junior linebacker Damien Proby said. “We need to be fundamentally sound. We can’t shoot ourselves in the foot, espe-cially in a Big Ten game against a high-caliber offense or defense or
team in general. We stopped our-selves a lot of times.”
Michigan’s top rushers also burned the Cats, particularly Gard-ner. The quarterback had only nine carries for 49 yards , but he scored two touchdowns and torched NU with runs to pick up first downs after breaking containment. Gard-ner made his second career start with star quarterback Denard Rob-inson not available, but Proby said no matter who was under center, the Cats were prepared to deal with the running quarterback.
“He’s an athletic guy,” Proby said. “We knew coming into this game that no matter which (quarterback)
was back there, they were going to be able to move the ball around. We knew that if we collapse their cup in the backfield, they’re going to break through it, they’re going to use their feet. We had spies on him, we had defenders there, so we need to make the plays.”
NU’s offense was once again predicated on the run and in par-ticular the option. The Cats ran the ball 58 times for 248 yards and were led by their dynamic duo of junior tailback Venric Mark and junior quarterback Kain Colter . The pair combined for 186 yards on the
By AVA WALLACEdaily senior staffer
Northwestern knew Michigan was an athletic team. It knew the Wolverines were going to be rid-ing high coming off of a four-game win streak.
But knowing only does so much.
The Wildcats were unable to combat the Wolverines’ dominance at Lakeside Field on Friday after-noon during the semifinal match-up in the Big Ten Tournament, and NU ended its tournament run with a 3-0 loss.
The shutout sent Michigan to Sunday afternoon’s championship game against Michigan State., which the Spartans won 2-1 in overtime.
Much like the Cats’ first-round win against Ohio State, NU’s fate seemed to be determined in the first five minutes. Michigan’s Tyler Arnone , who leads his team in goals for the season, sent a floating shot past NU sophomore goalkeeper Tyler Miller. The Cats, who started the game flatly and had barely pos-sessed the ball at that point, could
not bounce back.“We knew (Michigan) would
have energy because they were very confident. They had just won four straight games, and giving up an early goal fed into that confidence,” NU coach Tim Lenahan said. “If you see my scouting report, it says, ‘First fifteen minutes are going to be critical.’ … And we just didn’t have it today.”
NU spent the bulk of the next half fighting Michigan in the mid-field, only to quickly lose the ball on either botched passes or scrappy
challenges. The Cats’ usually impen-etrable defense scrambled to keep pace with the Wolverines’ speedy forwards and ultimately relied on lofty clears to get the ball out of NU’s defensive zone.
Even after the first media tim-eout, the first time during the game that NU had a chance to make adjustments, junior defender Scott Lakin said the NU squad struggled to keep its composure.
“They clearly had more energy from the start,” Lakin said of Michi-gan. “During the first timeout we
were trying to rally the troops a little bit, unfortunately we just couldn’t get it together.”
Although the Cats were sluggish from the start, it was clear that the Wolverines were not going to wait for NU to make mistakes – they were going to forcibly take a win.
Michigan outshot NU 13-7 and had twice the number of shots on goal for the game.
When the two teams met at the end of September for their regular season contest, NU blanked Michi-gan 2-0. Lakin called the Wolver-ines a different team than the one the Cats defeated then.
NU senior midfielder Chris Rit-ter, who was just named to the First Team All-Big Ten and honored as the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year, again credited Michigan’s mentality to their decisive win.
“They were winning all the scrums today. They were winning all the battles. It seemed like they wanted it more,” Ritter said. “In the first game it was probably us who was winning those little fights, little
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CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter scrambles under pressure from the Michigan defense. The Wildcats’ passing game was not enough to overcome a miraculous comeback by the Wolverines.
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Michigan scores early, o� en to bounce Cats from B1G Tournament
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IS THIS GOODBYE? Chris Ritter and the Cats have to hope the NCAA selection committee deems them worthy of a spot in the tournament.