By Lark Turner The Daily Northwestern dailynorthwestern.com/student-life James Wilde carved his snow- board through an icy course to third place at the United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association’s Midwest regional championships last weekend in Marquette, Mich. Four competitors race at a time in snowboard cross, one of many events Northwestern’s ski and snow- board club team participated in at Marquette Mountain, said Wilde, the team’s co-captain. “(Snowboard cross is) more of an obstacle course than a race,” the McCormick junior said. “All of the conditions are pretty crazy. You could go down or someone could fall and take you out.” Snowboard cross was added as an Olympic sport in 2006. A Febru- ary New York Times article sug- gested that it may be the most dan- gerous Olympic sport. The men’s snowboarding team finished second overall in the Mid- west conference, and the team will advance to the state championships in March, Medill junior Max Gersh- berg said. NU’s team competed against other universities, including Marquette University, Iowa State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The men’s ski team placed 8th out of 21 teams and the women’s team placed 7th out of 15 teams. Co-captain Ellen Abrams said the competition was exciting. “There were quite a few teams there that were really huge and re- ally great,” the McCormick junior said. “It was a pretty intense race.” Gershberg, a skier, said he was happy with the results of the com- petition. “This year’s been a big building year, and we’ve done pretty well,” he said. “It was great to see how well the snowboarders did.” Team member Bryce Wheaton could not compete in the weekend’s events because the skier was at- tending the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Vancouver. The Weinberg junior took the last two Winter Quarters off to compete for the Alberta Provincial Mogul team. “It would have been fun,” he TUesday, FebrUary 16, 2010 The Daily Northwestern inside Classifieds 6 Crossword 6 Sudoku 6 2 GSW program gives science students an option for peer-led review sessions 3 Blotter: A student refuses a police request to quiet down her off- campus party Take a page out of other countries’ books—we can learn from each other editorial Everyone needs somewhere warm and safe to sleep dan schufrei der sPOrTs 8 aLso FOrUm 4 Women’s basketball NU loses to Michigan State by 13 on the road in physical battle Wrestling Cats get swept 49-0 by Iowa, shut out for first time since 2000 Chappatta Biathalon brings exciting twist to this year’s Olympic Games serving The universiTy and evansTon since 1881 Listen to the Daily sports writers discuss NU’s NCAA Tournament hopes .com/ mens-basketball .com/ student-life Dailynorthwestern.com Check out a fireside chat with President Schapiro at Phi Mu Alpha .com/ womens-basketball Get caught up on Wildcat hoops with the roundtable crew ^ ^ 3 Gender may affect a judge’s ruling in sexual discrimination cases 5 Black History Month focuses on fostering campus community ^ ^ By Lilia Hargis The Daily Northwestern dailynorthwestern.com/student-life After breaking his leg over Win- ter Break, Tom Nunlist said he was not sure if he would be able to take classes Winter Quarter. The Medill senior was going to have to be on crutches, which didn’t bode well for treks to campus in the ice and snow. Nunlist said he was directed to University Health Services’ ex- tended taxi service, which reim- burses students for taxi rides through allotted vouchers. “Every day, I get a cab to and from campus,” Nunlist said. “I probably couldn’t go to school without it.” The service is one of several Uni- versity efforts to make accessing campus more feasible for both per- manently and temporarily disabled students. The reimbursements are avail- able for students who are prevented from getting to class because of a temporary physical disability. It can be used for “required, scheduled, academic activities,” according to the Health Services Web site. Nunlist said the extended taxi service isn’t well-publicized. “I only found out about it through my roommate,” he said. “When I tell people about it, no one else has ever heard of it.” About 20 to 30 students use the service each year, and there is no specification on the type or duration of disability that a student must expe- rience in order to qualify, UHS Exec- utive Director Donald Misch said. The service is typically available for no more than six weeks, he said. “It is for anyone who needs help getting around,” Misch said. “But if someone is only on crutches for a day, usually they won’t use it.” Other services for students with disabilities are handled through the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities, which works to accom- modate the needs of individual stu- dents and “recommend modifica- tions to improve access to Univer- sity facilities and transportation services,” according to the office’s Web site. Most of the buildings on campus are handicap accessible, said Margie Roe, the office’s director. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, all new buildings have to be accessible, but buildings “of a certain age” do Ski, page 6 Representatives of the estate of a Kel- logg employee who died in November 2009 from injuries sustained from a car accident on Sheridan Road has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the vehi- cle’s driver. Mavis Sotnick, 71, died more than two weeks after the accident, due to multiple injuries including head trauma and pneumonia resulting from respirator use, said Evanston Police Chief Richard Eddington after her death. An autopsy ruled the death an accident. Sotnick was struck by a Mercedes- Benz driven by Judy Lowranceat 7 p.m. on Oct. 27 as Sotnick walked westbound across Sheridan Road near Foster Street. The vehicle was believed to be traveling within the legal speed limit, police said at the time. The lawsuit was filed Feb. 11 against Lowrance by the special administrator of Sotnick’s estate. The suit seeks com- pensation from Lowrance and Antonio Valli, her employer, according to the court filing. Calls made Monday to the Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court were not returned immediately. University spokesman Al Cubbage said to the best of his knowledge, the lawsuit did not name any Northwestern parties. Cubbage also said he has not seen the lawsuit and could not comment on the case. Sotnick, a native of the United King- dom, worked in Kellogg for three years as a concierge at the reception desk. Commenting on The Daily’s online cov- erage of her passing, friends and cowork- ers wrote that she will be deeply missed. “This is such a sad tragedy,” wrote one Daily reader on Nov. 13. “Mavis, your presence lit up the hallways of Ja- cobs even during the darkest winter days.” - sTaFF rePOrTs Ski and snow crews carve course Estate of struck NU pedestrian files lawsuit NU tries to meet needs of handicapped students HANDiCAP, page 6 Photo Courtesy of James Wilde Competing: Northwestern student James Wilde carved his way to a third-place finish in the U.S. Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association’s Midwest regional championship. NU’s ski and snowboard club team has been gaining momentum both on campus and on the slopes, as talented membered continue to excel in competition. By alexandra Finkel The Daily Northwestern dailynorthwestern.com/speaker About 225,000 Illinois residents were on welfare in 1996. Fourteen years later, after the program was re- structured, only 10 percent remain, said Jerry Stermer, chief of staff to Gov. Pat Quinn, Monday night in the McCormick Tribune Center. About 60 students, faculty and community members attended the former SESP professor’s speech, “From Idealism to Tea Bags: Social Justice in the Obama Era.” The speech was the keynote ad- dress of the Undergraduate Lecture Series on Race, Poverty and Inequali- ty’s series of events on homelessness in Chicago. The group chose this quar- ter’s social issue because of the preva- lence of homelessness in the Evanston community, said Michael Waxman, the group’s co-chair. The topic gave members the opportunity to co-spon- sor the event with Dance Marathon, whose primary beneficiary is StandUp for Kids, a youth homelessness organi- zation, he said. Stermer was asked to be the key- note speaker because of his connec- tion with NU and high position in lo- Stermer links government obstacles with homelessness Stermer, page 5 WeaTher Tuesday 34/ 20 ray Whitehouse/The daily Northwestern Government: Jerry Stermer, chief of staff to Gov. Pat Quinn and former NU prof., discusses Illinois’ future political challenges.
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By Lark TurnerThe Daily Northwestern dailynorthwestern.com/student-life
James Wilde carved his snow-board through an icy course to third place at the United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association’s Midwest regional championships last weekend in Marquette, Mich.
Four competitors race at a time in snowboard cross, one of many events Northwestern’s ski and snow-board club team participated in at Marquette Mountain, said Wilde, the team’s co-captain.
“(Snowboard cross is) more of an obstacle course than a race,” the McCormick junior said. “All of the conditions are pretty crazy. You could go down or someone could fall and take you out.”
Snowboard cross was added as an Olympic sport in 2006. A Febru-ary New York Times article sug-gested that it may be the most dan-gerous Olympic sport.
The men’s snowboarding team finished second overall in the Mid-west conference, and the team will advance to the state championships in March, Medill junior Max Gersh-berg said. NU’s team competed against other universities, including Marquette University, Iowa State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The men’s ski team placed 8th out of 21 teams and the women’s team placed 7th out of 15 teams.
Co-captain Ellen Abrams said the competition was exciting.
“There were quite a few teams there that were really huge and re-
ally great,” the McCormick junior said. “It was a pretty intense race.”
Gershberg, a skier, said he was happy with the results of the com-petition.
“This year’s been a big building year, and we’ve done pretty well,” he said. “It was great to see how well the snowboarders did.”
Team member Bryce Wheaton could not compete in the weekend’s events because the skier was at-tending the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Vancouver. The Weinberg junior took the last two Winter Quarters off to compete for the Alberta Provincial Mogul team.
“It would have been fun,” he
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Women’s basketball NU loses to Michigan State by 13 on the road in physical battle
WrestlingCats get swept 49-0 by Iowa, shut out for first time since 2000
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By Lilia HargisThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/student-life
After breaking his leg over Win-ter Break, Tom Nunlist said he was not sure if he would be able to take classes Winter Quarter. The Medill senior was going to have to be on crutches, which didn’t bode well for treks to campus in the ice and snow.
Nunlist said he was directed to University Health Services’ ex-tended taxi service, which reim-burses students for taxi rides through allotted vouchers.
“Every day, I get a cab to and from campus,” Nunlist said. “I probably couldn’t go to school without it.”
The service is one of several Uni-versity efforts to make accessing campus more feasible for both per-manently and temporarily disabled students.
The reimbursements are avail-able for students who are prevented from getting to class because of a temporary physical disability. It can be used for “required, scheduled, academic activities,” according to the Health Services Web site.
Nunlist said the extended taxi service isn’t well-publicized.
“I only found out about it through
my roommate,” he said. “When I tell people about it, no one else has ever heard of it.”
About 20 to 30 students use the service each year, and there is no specification on the type or duration of disability that a student must expe-rience in order to qualify, UHS Exec-utive Director Donald Misch said. The service is typically available for no more than six weeks, he said.
“It is for anyone who needs help getting around,” Misch said. “But if someone is only on crutches for a day, usually they won’t use it.”
Other services for students with disabilities are handled through the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities, which works to accom-modate the needs of individual stu-dents and “recommend modifica-tions to improve access to Univer-sity facilities and transportation services,” according to the office’s Web site.
Most of the buildings on campus are handicap accessible, said Margie Roe, the office’s director. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, all new buildings have to be accessible, but buildings “of a certain age” do
Ski, page 6
Representatives of the estate of a Kel-logg employee who died in November 2009 from injuries sustained from a car accident on Sheridan Road has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the vehi-cle’s driver.
Mavis Sotnick, 71, died more than two weeks after the accident, due to multiple injuries including head trauma and pneumonia resulting from respirator use, said Evanston Police Chief Richard Eddington after her death. An autopsy ruled the death an accident.
Sotnick was struck by a Mercedes-Benz driven by Judy Lowranceat 7 p.m. on Oct. 27 as Sotnick walked westbound across Sheridan Road near Foster Street. The vehicle was believed to be traveling within the legal speed limit, police said at the time.
The lawsuit was filed Feb. 11 against Lowrance by the special administrator of Sotnick’s estate. The suit seeks com-pensation from Lowrance and Antonio Valli, her employer, according to the court filing.
Calls made Monday to the Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court were not returned immediately.
University spokesman Al Cubbage said to the best of his knowledge, the lawsuit did not name any Northwestern parties. Cubbage also said he has not seen the lawsuit and could not comment on the case.
Sotnick, a native of the United King-dom, worked in Kellogg for three years as a concierge at the reception desk. Commenting on The Daily’s online cov-erage of her passing, friends and cowork-ers wrote that she will be deeply missed.
“This is such a sad tragedy,” wrote one Daily reader on Nov. 13. “Mavis, your presence lit up the hallways of Ja-cobs even during the darkest winter days.”
- sTaFF rePOrTs
Ski and snow crews carve course
Estate of struck NU pedestrian files lawsuit
NU tries to meet needs of handicapped students
HANDiCAP, page 6
Photo Courtesy of James Wilde
Competing: Northwestern student James Wilde carved his way to a third-place finish in the U.S. Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association’s Midwest regional championship. NU’s ski and snowboard club team has been gaining momentum both on campus and on the slopes, as talented membered continue to excel in competition.
By alexandra FinkelThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/speaker
About 225,000 Illinois residents were on welfare in 1996. Fourteen years later, after the program was re-structured, only 10 percent remain, said Jerry Stermer, chief of staff to Gov. Pat Quinn, Monday night in the McCormick Tribune Center.
About 60 students, faculty and community members attended the former SESP professor’s speech, “From Idealism to Tea Bags: Social Justice in the Obama Era.”
The speech was the keynote ad-dress of the Undergraduate Lecture
Series on Race, Poverty and Inequali-ty’s series of events on homelessness in Chicago. The group chose this quar-ter’s social issue because of the preva-lence of homelessness in the Evanston community, said Michael Waxman, the group’s co-chair. The topic gave members the opportunity to co-spon-sor the event with Dance Marathon, whose primary beneficiary is StandUp for Kids, a youth homelessness organi-zation, he said.
Stermer was asked to be the key-note speaker because of his connec-tion with NU and high position in lo-
Stermer links government obstacles with homelessness
Stermer, page 5
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Government: Jerry Stermer, chief of staff to Gov. Pat Quinn and former NU prof., discusses Illinois’ future political challenges.
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When students are struggling to under-stand a complex scientific theory, it’s some-times easier to turn to a peer than a profes-sor for help.
The Gateway Science Workshop , orga-nized by the Searle Center for Teaching Ex-cellence , is a peer-led program designed to help students enrolled in chemistry, organic chemistry, biology, math, physics and engi-neering courses. Student facilitators who have previously completed the course lead a weekly session in which they review work-sheets and help students understand the concepts studied in class. All students in these courses have the option of enrolling in a GSW session, which typically has between five and seven students.
Weinberg junior Alison Gegios is cur-rently an organic chemistry facilitator. She said she decided to lead GSW courses after finding them beneficial as a student.
“For some classes, it’s more about how you learn to think,” she said. “You learn to think critically and how to apply critical thinking to the test, and sometimes you do learn helpful hints about specific problems.”
Students can apply to facilitate GSW after they successfully complete the course, Pro-gram Coordinator Louie Lainez said. Lainez selects facilitators who would be comfortable teaching their peers and who have the ability to explain complex material, he said.
“The GSW facilitator serves as a coach to the students, encouraging them to think richly and deeply about the material they are learning in course lecture,” he said.
GSW facilitators enroll in a School of Ed-ucation and Social Policy class to learn how to teach their peers and meet with the sci-ence professor to review the worksheet.
They must also observe other facilitators and complete a final research project about teaching techniques.
Communication senior Rucha Mehta is a biology senior facilitator, which means she oversees and mentors first-year facilitators. Through being involved in GSW as a stu-dent, facilitator and senior facilitator, Mehta said she has observed many different meth-ods of learning.
“If you’re a book learner, GSW might not be the best thing for you,” she said. “But I’m a very hands-on learner. The best way for most students to learn is by trial and error. When you challenge your own thoughts and theories with your peers, that’s the best way
to learn.”Weinberg sophomore Gabrielle Ahlzadeh
said she enrolled in a GSW course for biology as a way to help her prepare for the exams.
“It forces you to study,” she said. “I bene-fit from the small group, and it forces me to focus as opposed to a big lecture class when it’s easy to distract yourself.”
During her GSW course Monday night, Ahlzadeh chatted with other biology stu-dents about the upcoming midterm.
“You guys will be fine,” the facilitator said, attempting to calm their nerves. “But can anyone tell me, what does cyanide do?”
Extra help: GSW, a peer-taught tutoring workshop, gives science and math students an additional opportunity to develop critical skills and reinforce the subject’s materials.
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NU student refuses police request to shut down party
A female Northwestern student resisted Uni-versity Police efforts to shut down her off-cam-pus party early Sunday morning, a police official said.
Police went to the residence, 621 Garnett Place, due to a noise complaint, Deputy Chief Daniel McAleer said. When the officers spoke with the resident, she said she was having a Val-entine’s Day party.
Police observed 40 people at the party and noticed a strong smell of alcohol emanating from the resident, McAleer said. They gave the stu-dent a verbal warning and asked her to turn down the music. But after the police left the stu-dent promptly turned up the music, causing the police to return, McAleer said.
Police spoke to the same resident and gave her a citation, causing the student to become verbally combative, McAleer said.
“You can leave on your own time,” she re-portedly told her guests. As guests started to leave the party, one of them called the police of-ficer “dumb,” while another guest attempted to start a physical altercation with the officer, McAleer said.
Because most guests were intoxicated and uncooperative, it took police an unusually long time to clear the party, McAleer said. When po-lice asked the resident to sign the citation, she again became combative, and police threatened to arrest her. A friend of the host then controlled her, and she signed the citation, police said.
North Mid-Quads door found unlocked, held open
A community assistant on rounds early Sun-day morning found a door open in North Mid-Quads, 650 Emerson Ave., police said.
Police found the door unlocked, with black electrical tape keeping it open, McAleer said.
Police removed the tape and secured the door.
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Female judges are more likely to vote in favor of plaintiffs in sexual discrimina-tion cases, according to research by School of Law Prof. Lee Epstein.
About 20 Northwestern faculty mem-bers filled the Institute for Policy Re-search conference room Monday after-noon to hear Epstein present her study, “Casual Effect of Gender on Judicial De-cisions.”
The study, which analyzes individual and panel effects on voting patterns, dem-onstrates the probability of judges voting in favor of the plaintiff in a Title VII sex-ual discrimination case increases by 10 percent when the judge is female, Epstein said. Men who are on a mixed panel with females are also more likely to vote in fa-vor of the plaintiff, she said.
“The research is very interesting,” said Laurel Harbridge, a political science fac-
ulty member. “It was very easy to follow what the argument was and what her re-search was about. I would not say I was surprised by the results, but I think the results make sense if you think it through.”
Epstein, whose work focuses on the U.S. Supreme Court and judicial behavior, analyzed the voting patterns of appellate court judges in several cases within 13 different areas of law. These issue cases ranged from affirmative action to cam-paign finance between 1976 and 2002.
The study reveals that sexual discrimi-nation is the only area in which gender af-fects voting patterns, even when consider-ing cases involving abortion or capital punishment.
“I didn’t find the results surprising,” said Dorothy Roberts, a School of Law professor. “What I found more surprising is that gender didn’t have a greater effect in other cases.”
The research may not affect the overall pattern of decision making in the judges
panel, but Epstein said her results may lead to an increase in the number of women on judging panels for court deci-sions. Of the cases studied, only 32 per-cent included one woman on a judging panel of three, and only 5 percent in-cluded two women. There were no cases that had three female judges.
Epstein said she plans to incorporate her findings in a book.
The presentation was part of a weekly colloquia series sponsored by the Institute for Policy Research to integrate research from various fields of social science, said Fay Lomax Cook, director of the institute. The presentations give faculty opportuni-ties to come together as a community and discuss research.
“She’s doing fascinating work,” Cook said. “It was a wonderful talk, and she has an excellent way of presenting her re-search questions in a very clear and stim-ulating way.”
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Courtroom: Law Prof. Lee Epstein presents her study on voting patterns in sexual discrimination cases based on judges’ genders.
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Maybe it’s useless to make comparisons across cultures. Much of what I’ve
been writing the past few weeks has revolved around making compari-sons between British and American society. However, one of my friends from back home made a pretty inter-esting point.
What’s good for one group of peo-ple may not work for another. For ex-ample, we Americans have been de-scribed as a mass society in which individualism is a big deal. The ma-jority rules in terms of government, but everyone has the freedom to do what they want—at least in theory. We don’t necessarily like the govern-ment poking its nose into our every-day lives.
This mindset might help explain why the health care debate became such a mess so quickly. In a matter of weeks, support for the government option plummeted as scare tactics
were used to present the plan as a so-cialist-inspired government intru-sion. People’s fears of government overcame their desire for universal health care coverage.
That seems to be a very uniquely American phenomenon. When na-tionalized health care was intro-duced in the U.K. way back in the 1940s, there wasn’t much opposition. There was no mass protest move-ment as there is in the U.S. Maybe their history of monarchy and strong central government allows Europe-ans to be more trusting of govern-ment programs, while our begin-nings in a revolution against strong government has the opposite effect.
If the two distinct reactions to the nationalization of health care were so different and based on ideas and values that have taken centuries to develop, what is the point of making comparisons between our cultures? What works in one country might be completely wrong for another, so why even bother trying?
The simple answer is because we can learn from it. Not everything in our country is perfect; we have our flaws, just as every nation does. Even between the U.S. and Britain, which share so much, there are things they may do better than we do.
On the flip side, maybe there are some things the British do poorly, which we could improve upon. For instance, people often say the gov-ernment shouldn’t be involved in health care, because they look at countries like Britain and see lines for services, a lack of innovation and a shortage of doctors.
If that’s the case, we should learn from the example and work toward a better system. As the richest, most innovative country in the world, we should be able to come up with a sys-tem that guarantees no one goes bankrupt because he or she gets sick, and one that still provides the high-est quality care. If anyone can do it, the U.S. can—we just need to learn from what other countries have done wrong and what they’ve gotten right and take the risk.
Just because health care reform was stalled after the Massachusetts election shouldn’t mean we have to accept the status quo. Looking at what others have tried, learning from them and building on their ex-amples is one of the best ways to im-prove yourself, and that theory should work for nations as well.
What if NU gave shelter to Evanston’s homeless?
Every person needs a home. It’s a matter of human rights. But build-ing, maintaining and staffing shelters is expensive! How do we justify the societal cost?
We can’t. But there’s another way to solve it.
Here’s a quick, simple, creative and—most importantly—cheap way to solve our problems.
What if we housed the homeless?Let’s examine Tech. Even just the
lobby. How many people do you think we could fit in that lobby? 10? 20? 50? Probably 100 people could sleep in that space comfortably, without violating fire codes. Or Ein-stein Bros. Bagels in Pancoe. We have enough space to let 50 people sleep there, right?
Are you getting my drift? These are the facts:
—We already pay for heating—We already have staff cleaning
the bathrooms and the floors every day
—We already have the lights off (at least they should be)
—We already have liability and fire insurance for those buildings
—We already pay for security and campus police
—We have so much unused space at night
So why can’t we let the homeless come in at night when we don’t use those buildings? Wouldn’t it be nice to use this useless space that we already pay an arm and a leg to maintain?
— Utsav Goel
Similarities abound with residential colleges, frats
So many incoming freshmen, when going through the housing application, come across the term “residential college” and wonder what that even means. And let’s be honest here. Often, maybe after a little bit of research, the res college system is cast off as something for “losers” or “nerds.”
I apologize if I’m offending any-body, and I should say I’m involved with my res college and love the experience. I don’t think res col-leges are lame, but I know they get that rep.
At the same time, think about the Greek system: that part of cam-pus where every social event seems to happen. Frat guys being frat guys—it’s a getaway from the aca-demic atmosphere that takes up the days. For those people who un-willingly got placed into res col-leges, frats and sororities are the perfect escape. No more of this “academic” theme and these “anti-social” people. Frats and sororities are a gateway for freedom, for so-cially outgoing friends, for some-thing more than academics. Right?
The thing is, I’m in a fraternity too, and I feel the two institutions are eerily similar. A fraternity is much more than just drinking and partying, and that’s obvious in chapter. Similarly, a residential col-lege is about much more than fire-sides and academics—it is a social experience, too.
— Shaayak Sen
millennials “onlyindreams:part2” By Steven A. Berger
Evanston winters keep us cold from the moment we step outside to the moment we step back in
to another heated building. For the homeless, however, shelter from the elements is not as accessible.
Local homeless people have just two options in Evanston to shield themselves from the brutal winter. Both of them have limita-tions that, while better than noth-ing, will not provide much-needed relief for many of Evanston’s homeless population.
Hilda’s Place at Lake Street Church offers overnight shelter for 90 days to homeless people who are accepted through the applica-tion process, and when tempera-tures hit a chilling zero degrees, In-terfaith Action of Evanston opens the doors of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 1004 Greenwood St.
But the weather has hovered above the zero-degree threshold all winter, and Connections for the Homeless, the organization that oversees Hilda’s Place, had to re-duce the number of beds this year. What’s left has already been filled.
That leaves more than 100
homeless people out in the cold.Half of hypothermia-related
deaths in urban areas occur when outdoor temperatures are between 32 and 41 degrees Fahrenheit, ac-cording to a study in the Interna-tional Journal of Biometeorology. But in Evanston, the temperature averages around 27 degrees in February, according to Accu-Weather.com.
The conditions in Evanston de-mand the opening of another shel-ter. Tough financial times are put-
ting pressure on everyone, which only further escalates the need for a facility to accommodate Evan-ston’s homeless on winter nights. A CTA train is not a bed, nor is it a safe or acceptable alternative.
Whether a shelter is funded by the city, started by a student-driven initiative, opened in an-other church or run by a private organization, it’s a crucial element in reducing preventable sickness and death and giving everyone a safe and warm place to sleep.
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Weinberg junior Dan schufreider can be reached at [email protected].
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Black History Month aims to strengthen NU communityBy Alex RudanskyContributing Writerdailynorthwestern.com/student-life
This year’s Black History Month follows a campus-wide conversation about race, lend-ing extra importance to the month’s sched-ule of programs, students said.
Several student groups and University departments have put on events this month and more are in the works.
The Department of African American Studies and the Department of Multicul-tural Student Affairs are sponsoring a series of guest speakers, activities and discussions, many of which were planned by students in Northwestern’s black community, said Brad-ley Akubuiro, a director of Minorities in Business and an ambassador with the NU Ambassadors Program.
“Black History Month is a moment to step back and have a moment of community,” the Medill junior said. “We have very small numbers on this campus. This is an opportu-nity for black students to have solidarity.”
The forum that followed the Halloween blackface incident this fall brought special attention to the importance of this month, Akubuiro said. He said the dialogue that emerged from the situation has increased
interest and attendance at this year’s events from all students, regardless of race.
The incident was counterproductive to the efforts of minority student groups on campus, said Camille Edwards , vice coordi-nator of Satellites and Affiliates of For Mem-bers Only and an intern for Multicultural Student Affairs.
“It hurt my feelings,” the Communication junior said. “You’re undoing all of the work I’ve been doing here for the past three years.”
Still, Edwards said the black community is trying to move on from the incident with the beginning of the new year.
“No one wanted that negative energy,” she said.
The conflict “brought the community closer and opened up the discussion about race,” Vanessa Rivas-Lopez said. The Wein-berg senior is president of One Step Before, the minority pre-med organization on cam-pus.
Rivas-Lopez said the purpose of Black History Month is to remember what has been accomplished in the past and to know what needs improvement in the future to make the community stronger.
She said she helped plan this year’s an-nual winter speaker, Dr. Anthony Monroe.
At the end of the month, he will lecture about restructuring the health care system and how closing urban health facilities cre-ates disparities.
Akubuiro said this year’s national theme, “The History of Black Economic Empower-ment,” gives the black community the op-portunity to take a look at the past and learn from those who have preceded them in his-tory.
“Blacks in today’s society are not in a place to succeed,” Akubuiro said. Groups like NU’s Minorities in Business facilitate discussions and host speakers in an attempt to fix this problem, he said.
Akubuiro said one of the goals of the month is to give students outside the black community an opportunity to see the rich culture through programming and activities.
“This is an inclusive community that they can be a part of regardless of race,” he said. “This month is a great rallying force for growth and integration as a community.”
Edwards said NU’s black community is diverse and accepting, “a mosaic of rejected peoples.”
She said it can be challenging to think of new programs because the core concepts of Black History Month, such as civil rights, equality and empowerment, are concepts
many students have been learning about their entire lives.
“It’s important for us to be exposed to programming that is very applicable to to-day,” she said. “You don’t want the programs to stay the same year after year.”
Edwards said in previous years there has been a struggle for autonomy in the black community due to lack of funding and Uni-versity recognition. She said the issue has improved greatly since the inauguration of University President Morton O. Schapiro.
“He’s having the difficult conversations,” Edwards said. “This year I felt the school was involved and invested (in the black com-munity). I don’t know if it’s because of Presi-dent Schapiro or (Associated Student Gov-ernment President) Mike McGee, but there has been a shift, and I can see it and I ap-preciate it.”
Edwards said Black History Month means more to her every year.
“It is all-encompassing,” she said. “We try hard to recognize everyone, not just the struggles and trials and tribulations of just African Americans. We make it about every-one, the whole diasporic peoples. And that’s a beautiful thing.”
cal government, Waxman said.“Given his experience and popularity,
we thought he would be a perfect speaker for this kind of social justice issue,” the Weinberg junior said.
In his speech, Stermer covered Illinois social welfare issues, including the state budget and unemployment, and recounted meetings with President Barack Obama and the state legislature.
Stermer, the former executive director of Voices for Illinois Children, spoke in de-tail of a recent instance when he and Quinn met with legislators to discuss bud-get cuts. Because of a lack of funding, leg-islators were in favor of cutting social pro-grams by 50 percent, Stermer said.
“I asked how many people received wel-fare checks in Illinois on a monthly basis and got complete silence,” he said. “This is nothing our political leaders have focused on. They have focused on getting their members elected and reelected. They are not grasping the detail of public policy.”
Waxman said Stermer’s speech was en-lightening.
“It was a great insider political perspec-tive to issues like the budget, education, all of which are issues tied into homelessness,” Waxman said. “Really the message that he conveyed and that we’re trying to convey is that we need to make a fiscal commitment to a segment of the population who don’t have a political voice.”
SESP junior Jeremiah Tillman said he came to the event because he was one of Stermer’s former students and was excited to hear what he had to say.
“He was very effective,” Tillman said. “It was definitely needed.”
Weinberg sophomore Miles Mamon said he was pleased with Stermer’s lecture despite its departure from the series topic.
“It wasn’t really what I expected because I expected it to be about homelessness,” Mamon said. “But the obstacles that the government had to face in the past was really interesting.”
The next event in the series will be a panel on affordable housing Thursday eve-ning. Waxman said the lecture hopes to raise awareness of the issue and encourage student involvement.
“We want to arm students with facts about the issue so they can inform other people when they leave,” Waxman said. “But we also want to encourage them to get involved in advocating in a political sense and getting involved on campus.”
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Kim Streff, who spent a few weeks on crutches this winter, said navigating cam-pus on crutches is frustrating, especially with ice.
“The best description of our campus … is handicapped-inconvenient,” the Wein-
berg senior said. “It seems that they just slapped handicapped entrances in random places. I just ended up hopping up and down steps a lot.”
Roe said more convenient handicapped entrances are likely to be added as Univer-sity buildings are renovated.
“Any major renovation has to include ac-cessibility improvements,” she said.
For example, Harris Hall was not originally handicap accessible, but will have improved
access after current renovations are completed. Accessibility standards for residence
and dining facilities aren’t as strict as those for other campus buildings, Roe said.
“Students have to have access to food and to housing,” she said. “But all of the residence halls don’t have to be accessible, as long as enough are accessible that peo-ple have choices.”
The recently announced renovations to join Elder Hall and Hinman-Lincoln Hall
will include the addition of a handicap-ac-cessible single room with a private bathroom, Roe said. The dormitories currently include accessible rooms and communal bathrooms.
Roe said she continues to remind people to consider the needs of students with dis-abilities when making new plans.
“We have come a long way, but there is always room for improvement,” she said.
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said. “But it was the Olympics.”In 2008 the team was unknown on cam-
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“It’s unbelievable,” she said. “Every year it’s been different people. It’s a totally dif-ferent atmosphere, different chemistry. It’s been fun to see it grow.”
Abrams said the team has had to change
its organization as more members have joined. This year, due to transportation lim-itations, the team had to institute a training team and limit the members who raced on weekends, she said.
“It will only get better,” Abrams said. “It was pretty chaotic dealing with all these new people.”
The team is full of talented freshmen, Gershberg said.
“Building on the success we had this year, next year we should have some great
results,” he said.Though the team draws a wide variety of
students with a background in skiing, the time they spend traveling to and from prac-tices and races brings them together, Abrams said.
“(These people) would never normally meet each other,” she said. “The people are awesome because they’re so random and funny and ridiculous.”
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and not slowing down.”In addition to stellar play on defense,
Michigan State shot 50 percent from the field in the opening 10 minutes while racking up 22 points. The Spartans relied heavily on their bench throughout the game, and the Michigan State subs came through. Led by backup center Lauren Aitch, who contributed nine points, the Spartans’ bench players com-bined for 18 points in the first half. In the second stanza Michigan State’s reserves added 15 more points.
“They’re probably the deepest team in our league,” McKeown said.
After the intermission center Amy Jae-schke put the team on her back, scoring 10 of NU’s first 12 points. But the junior was forced to the bench midway through the half after picking up her fourth foul, and without her in the game the Spartans went on a 7-0 run.
Jaeschke, who finished with 20 points, got some much-needed help from Hackney down low. Before the game McKeown mentioned the need for a post presence besides Jae-schke, and Hackney filled that role on Sun-day. Against a Michigan State squad with nine players taller than six feet, the freshman recorded 14 points and eight boards.
“Because the defense collapses on (Jae-schke) that frees me up because my man tends to double her,” Hackney said. “Then I’m usually open for the kick out.”
Outside of Jaeschke, Hackney and se-nior guard Kristin Cartwright—who fin-ished with nine points and 10 rebounds—the Cats had trouble finding the basket. Noticeably absent from the box score was sophomore forward Brittany Orban, NU’s second-leading scorer only played 17 min-utes, recording four fouls and no points.
“Size-wise these are hard matchup games for Brittany,” McKeown said. “It’s hard for her to create a shot against some of those players.”
The Cats’ contest in East Lansing, Mich., was the fifth road matchup in their last seven games. While NU split its two home games, it went 1-4 on the road. In those losses away from Welsh-Ryan Arena, the Cats scored more than 60 points once.
The four schools left on NU’s schedule are Indiana, Iowa, Ohio State and Illinois—all teams that have beaten the Cats this season. With postseason hopes on the brink, NU knows how important these games are.
“We’re playing well, but things haven’t been falling for us,” Hackney said. “They’ll fall at home.”
First half turnovers trip up Cats in East Lansing, NU loses season series
Winter Games give unknowns chance to shine practice all they want, but in the middle of a blizzard, they might as well be shooting in the dark.
Then comes the best part. Miss a target, and get hit with a penalty of one minute of added time or an extra 150-meter ski loop. With the goal of finishing the circuit in the shortest time, the shooting range is where medals are won and lost.
The Olympics are known to have some bi-zarre sports: table tennis and handball in the summer and curling in the winter. To have a sport that blatantly penalizes athletes for miss-ing tiny targets may be strange, but it makes for great drama.
Imagine if more sports implemented penalties. Miss a free throw in basketball? Do 20 chin-ups on the rim. Commit an error in baseball? Good luck playing without a glove for the rest of the game. Shank a field goal in football? The kicker has to play on the defensive line on the following play. The possibilities are endless.
Moreover the sheer unpredictability of the sport is incredible. U.S. biathlete Tim Burke called the event “the most unfair competition I’ve ever raced in.” The only competitors who stood a chance at winning were those who started prior to the blizzard. In an era of sports dominated by superstar athletes, it’s refreshing to see a sport where unknowns fight for glory.
The biathlon is emblematic of what the Olympics are all about. These athletes compete in sports that no one cares about until their 15 minutes of fame once every four years. Apollo Anton Ohno was lucky enough to bask in the spotlight twice thanks to his fancy footwork on “Dancing with the Stars.”
There’s no tip-toeing around it: The Olympic Games can often get tedious, with NBC sprink-ing in fluffy feature pieces at every opportunity between events. Yet it is wacky events like the biathlon that make the games entertaining, and remind us athleticism and skill come in all forms, including .22-calibre rifle bullets shot at 45 millimeter targets.
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Sports Editor Brian Chappatta is a Medill junior. He can be reached at [email protected]
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Passing problems: Ali Mocchi and NU struggled Sunday, giving up 13 turnovers
By Ian KellyThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/wrestling
Northwestern got a taste of the Big Ten’s best against No. 10 Penn State and No. 3 Ohio State last weekend. That was nothing com-pared to what it faced against No. 1 Iowa.
The top-ranked Hawkeyes (20-0, 5-0 Big Ten) rolled over the un-ranked Wildcats (5-11-1, 0-6 Big Ten) 49-0 Friday night in Iowa City, Iowa, NU’s first shutout since Nov. 24, 2000, when the Cats lost 41-0 to Arizona State in Tempe, Ariz.
“It pretty much sucked,” junior Andrew Nadhir said. “They were supposed to beat us, but you never go in thinking you are going to get beat or get beaten really badly.”
Nadhir, who is NU’s only ranked wrestler at No. 13 in the 149-pound weight class, has en-dured a difficult past two weeks. Last weekend the junior lost in a major decision against fourth-ranked Frank Molinaro of Penn State before being pinned by No. 2 Lance Palmer of Ohio State.
Against the nation’s top-ranked 149-pounder Brent Metcalf, Nadhir was pinned once again.
“I haven’t performed well in three matches, and it has shown in the results,” Nadhir said. “It’s frus-trating because I don’t think I’ve wrestled the way I trained, didn’t prepare the way I needed to. There’s a lot of time left for me; the past can be forgotten at the Big Ten tournament.”
A forfeit in the 141-pound weight class and five pins alone gave the Hawkeyes 36 points on Friday. The closest call for the Cats came in the 197-pound weight class. Redshirt freshman John Shoen and Iowa’s Luke Lofthouse were tied up with 25 seconds left in the match. Lofthouse managed to fight free and score a point to edge Shoen 4-3.
“We went out there and didn’t wrestle, and you’re going to get killed like that when you’re playing a team like Iowa,” Nadhir said. “We didn’t prepare as a team, and we weren’t mentally prepared to rise to the challenge.”
Even though NU suffered its worst loss in a decade, Nadhir said the Cats will learn from the defeat.
“I’d say there aren’t any positive takeways,” Nadhir said. “Maybe a wakeup call. We learned we need to be better prepared.”
The shutout at Carver-Hawkeye Arena came in front 7,125 fans, the largest crowed NU has competed in front of this season.
“They draw very well,” coach Tim Cysewski said. “It’s great to wrestle in front of fans, whether they are cheering for you or not. Some guys didn’t get affected by it, others did. If you’re listening to the crowd, you’re not focusing on the match.”
The Hawkeyes recognized Cy-sewski prior to the match. NU’s coach graduated from Iowa in 1977 and coached the Hawk-eye Wres-tling Club.
“It was nice they did that; I was kind of surprised,” Cysewski said. “I ap-preciate it, a lot of friends were there, and it was good to see them. I told them I’ll be around next year even though it’s a differ-ent job description.”
Still looking for their first con-ference win, the Cats travel to No. 19 Wisconsin on Friday and wel-come Michigan to Welsh-Ryan Arena on Sunday.
The match against the Wolver-ines will be Cysewski’s last home bout as head coach.
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Northwestern has become too fa-miliar with Michigan State’s physical style of play. Two years ago, the Spar-tans outrebounded the Wildcats 92-66 in two games. Two weeks ago, Michigan State (17-8, 8-6) committed
almost twice as many fouls as NU (14-11, 5-9) in the squads’ first matchup.
On Sun-day the story was much the same. Michigan State’s stout defense trou-bled the Wildcats,
and the Spartans took advantage of NU’s 13 first-half turnovers to seize a commanding 11-point lead at the half. It proved an insurmountable advan-tage, and even after a much-improved second half the Cats fell 68-55.
“You can’t spot a team like Michi-gan State an 11-point lead at home and expect to erase it,” coach Joe McKeown said.
The turnovers came early and of-ten for NU. The Cats committed one on three of their first four possessions. Each of these miscues led to points for the Spartans, and Michigan State jumped out to an early 8-0 lead.
“They try to intimidate people, and it works sometimes,” freshman forward Kendall Hackney said. “We were getting a little flustered. We were all just kind of throwing it away
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Getting offensive: Center Amy Jaeschke was a force in the paint last week against Illinois and Michigan State. The junior scored a combined 45 points in those two games, good for almost half of the Wildcats’ total offensive output. Meanwhile, the other four starters combined for 33 points in those two games.
Biathlon skis and shoots to top of Games
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Pep talk: Tim Cysewski is in his final year as NU’s coach. He has two Big Ten matches remaining, including a home meet next weekend.
TOMORROW IN SPORTSMen’s BasketballFind out how the Cats are preparing for their first encounter with the Nittany LionsWomen’s SwimmingNU preps for Big Ten ChampionshipsSportsSports
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Northwestern crushed by Iowa, shut out for first time since 2000
The Winter Olympics kicked off in Vancouver Friday and, as always, was bursting with storylines. Nodar Kumar-
itashvili died after crashing on the luge track, Canada searched for its first gold medal on home soil, and Shaun “The Flying Tomato” White looked to stay on top of the snow-boarding world.
Team USA is off to a strong start with eight total medals, most coming in skiing and speed skating. But the U.S. has failed to earn a medal in the sport that intrigues me the most.
I’m talking about the biathlon.The biathlon is a combination of
cross-country skiing and rifle shoot-ing—the name of the sport comes from the Greek word meaning “two tests.” The competitors ski in typical cross-country fashion until they reach a shooting range, where they ex-change their ski poles for a rifle.
That’s where the fun begins.For starters, athletes have to shoot
standing up as well as lying down in the prone position. The sizes of the plates, which are lined up in a straight row, vary depending on the shooting style. As was the case over the week-end, the elements also play a major role in the outcome. The athletes can
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Cysewski honored by alma mater, will coach last home match next week
