The Daily Northwestern DAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM Find us online @thedailynu Tuesday, October 1, 2013 SPORTS Fencing Cats cling to gold 3 years straight » PAGE 12 College Dems phone bank for same-sex marriage » PAGE 9 High 81 Low 56 OPINION Caracotsios Science isn’t infallible » PAGE 4 Serving the University and Evanston since 1881 INSIDE Around Town 2 | On Campus 3 | Opinion 4 | Classieds & Puzzles 10 | Sports 12 By PATRICK SVITEK @PatrickSvitek Evanston expanded its gun buy- back program to an ongoing basis Monday, offering the service at any time under a new process. Launched after -year-old Justin Murray was shot and killed last fall, the initiative now allows residents to call or the Evanston Police Department’s nonemergency num- ber whenever they want to trade in a firearm rather than on a specific date. An officer will retrieve the gun and give the resident a voucher that can be cashed in at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center. Like the previous version of the program, residents will not face legal action once they hand over the weapon. Police will inventory and destroy the guns they collect. The city came up with the idea after retired Police Chief William Logan told Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl that one of his neighbors missed the first two buybacks but still wanted to exchange a gun. Police rounded up firearms during the first buyback Dec. , , and during the second one June , including a stolen handgun from Chicago. Encouraged by the results, Evan- ston Police Chief Richard Edding- ton suggested making the service “available all the time” after the lat- est event. “For people who don’t want to maintain firearms, don’t want to care for them, don’t want to keep them under lock and key, we’ve pro- vided a legal avenue for them to turn their firearms in,” Eddington said at the time. “What we’re preventing is downstream events and tragedies.” On Monday afternoon, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said the program helps prevent guns from landing in the “wrong hands.” “It’s one step of an approach to reduce any type of firearm violence,” “ What we’re preventing is downstream events and tragedies. Richard Eddington, Evanston police chief Residents can call 311 at any time to trade in weapons City expands gun buyback Brian Lee/Daily Senior Staffer THE GREAT DEBATE The campus shuttle stop near the intersection of Sherman Avenue and Noyes Street was at the center of a city-led debate this summer. NU and officials agreed to move the stop across the street. Shuttle debate settles down NU moves Noyes stop across the street By SOPHIA BOLLAG @SophiaBollag A city-led debate over campus shuttles appears to have ended — at least for now — after Northwestern agreed to move a stop across the street from its original location. In response to noise complaints from residents living near near the intersection of Sherman Avenue and Noyes Street, University and city officials discussed the issue over the summer and agreed to move the stop. Although when she brought the issue before City Council on Aug. Ald. Judy Fiske (st) suggested rerouting the Evanston Loop Shut- tle and Intercampus Shuttle routes Profs praise MacArthur winner By PAIGE LESKIN @paigeleskin Northwestern alumna Karen Russell (Weinberg ‘) reached a peak in her writ- ing career earlier this month when she won the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the pro- fessors that taught her a decade ago are pleasantly surprised. “She’s very deserving,” English Prof. Brian Bouldrey said. “I hope she can put (the fellowship) to great use.” Russell, who graduated with a B.A. in English and Spanish and went on to pursue a Master of Fine Arts at Columbia University, was one of fellows named Sept. . With the “Genius Grant” comes a , stipend paid over five years that Russell is free to use as she wishes to advance her career. As a fiction writer, Russell was named for her “haunting yet comic” Source: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ‘HAUNTING YET COMIC’ Karen Russell (Weinberg ‘03) was named one of 24 winners of 2013 MacArthur Foundation Fellowships last week. Russell is an alumna of Northwestern’s creative writing program. Evanston, Chicago campuses aected by Internet outages Northwestern University Informa- tion Technology experienced “intermit- tent connectivity issues” for nearly ve hours Monday morning and aernoon, resulting in spotty Internet service in many campus buildings. Wendy Woodward, director of tech- nology support services, said NUIT was rst alerted to the issues at about :a.m. Monday. Woodward said the sporadic con- nectivity “aected the majority of the buildings in Evanston and Chicago.” Woodward said it is unclear what the specic cause was of the distur- bance, which impacted both wireless and wired networks. “Generally speaking, it looks like the network was seeing a lot of heavy trac from some source, but we don’t have actual details and specics at this time,” she said. “To rectify the situation we were able to make adjustments to the network settings, and slowly as we saw that work through the network routers we saw things begin to stabilize.” When rst alerted to the issues Monday morning, Woodward said NUIT contacted its network vendor, and the organization’s engineers and technical stamet every to min- utes throughout the aernoon. e main NUIT networks in both Evanston and Chicago had stabilized by p.m. while kinks in the organi- zation’s “specialty networks” had been ironed out by p.m. Woodward preached patience, say- ing NUIT would use Monday’s outage to attempt to prevent similar issues in the future. “NUIT appreciates everyone’s patience today as we worked through the issues as they presented themselves, and we will do everything possible to understand what happened so that we can avoid it in the future,” she said. — Joseph Diebold Source: Safari browser screenshot SERVER DOWN Northwestern students on the Evanston and Chicago campuses experienced internet connection issues for several hours early Monday. “ We will do everything possible to understand what happened so that we can avoid it in the future. Wendy Woodward, director of technology support services » See GUN BUYBACK, page 10 » See SHUTTLES, page 10 » See RUSSELL, page 10 English profs reect on work of alumna, ‘Genius Grant’ recipient “ She’s very deserving. I hope she can put (the fellowship) to great use. Brian Bouldrey, English prof
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The Daily NorthwesternDAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM Find us online @thedailynuTuesday, October 1, 2013
SPORTS FencingCats cling to gold 3 years
straight » PAGE 12
College Dems phone bank for same-sex marriage » PAGE 9
High 81Low 56
OPINION Caracotsios Science isn’t infallible
» PAGE 4
Serving the University and Evanston since 1881 INSIDE Around Town 2 | On Campus 3 | Opinion 4 | Classi!eds & Puzzles 10 | Sports 12
By PATRICK SVITEK!"#$% &'(#)* &+",,'* @PatrickSvitek
Evanston expanded its gun buy-back program to an ongoing basis Monday, offering the service at any time under a new process.
Launched after -.-year-old Justin Murray was shot and killed last fall, the initiative now allows residents to call /-- or the Evanston Police Department’s nonemergency num-ber whenever they want to trade in a firearm rather than on a specific date.
An officer will retrieve the gun and give the resident a 0-11 voucher that can be cashed in at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center.
Like the previous version of the program, residents will not face legal action once they hand over the weapon. Police will inventory and destroy the guns they collect.
The city came up with the idea after retired Police Chief William Logan told Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl that one of his neighbors missed the first two buybacks but still wanted to exchange a gun.
Police rounded up 23 firearms during the first buyback Dec. -3,
41-4, and 45 during the second one June 4., including a stolen handgun from Chicago.
Encouraged by the results, Evan-ston Police Chief Richard Edding-ton suggested making the service “available all the time” after the lat-est event.
“For people who don’t want to maintain firearms, don’t want to care for them, don’t want to keep them under lock and key, we’ve pro-vided a legal avenue for them to turn their firearms in,” Eddington said at the time. “What we’re preventing is downstream events and tragedies.”
On Monday afternoon, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said the program helps prevent guns from landing in the “wrong hands.”
“It’s one step of an approach to reduce any type of firearm violence,”
“What we’re preventing is downstream events and
tragedies.Richard Eddington,
Evanston police chief
Residents can call 311 at any time to trade in weapons
City expands gun buyback
Brian Lee/Daily Senior Staffer
THE GREAT DEBATE The campus shuttle stop near the intersection of Sherman Avenue and Noyes Street was at the center of a city-led debate this summer. NU and officials agreed to move the stop across the street.
Shuttle debate settles downNU moves Noyes stop across the streetBy SOPHIA BOLLAG!"#$% &'(#)* &+",,'* @SophiaBollag
A city-led debate over campus shuttles appears to have ended — at least for now — after Northwestern
agreed to move a stop across the street from its original location.
In response to noise complaints from residents living near near the intersection of Sherman Avenue and Noyes Street, University and city officials discussed the issue over the summer and agreed to
move the stop.Although when she brought the
issue before City Council on Aug. -4 Ald. Judy Fiske (-st) suggested rerouting the Evanston Loop Shut-tle and Intercampus Shuttle routes
Profs praise MacArthur winner
By PAIGE LESKIN+6' !"#$% ()*+67'&+'*( @paigeleskin
Northwestern alumna Karen Russell (Weinberg ‘1/) reached a peak in her writ-ing career earlier this month when she won the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the pro-fessors that taught her a decade ago
are pleasantly surprised.“She’s very deserving,” English
Prof. Brian Bouldrey said. “I hope she can put (the fellowship) to great use.”
Russell, who graduated with a
B.A. in English and Spanish and went on to pursue a Master of Fine Arts at Columbia University, was one of 42 fellows named Sept. 42. With the “Genius Grant” comes a 0843,111 stipend paid over five
years that Russell is free to use as she wishes to advance her career.
As a fiction writer, Russell was named for her “haunting yet comic”
Source: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
‘HAUNTING YET COMIC’ Karen Russell (Weinberg ‘03) was named one of 24 winners of 2013 MacArthur Foundation Fellowships last week. Russell is an alumna of Northwestern’s creative writing program.
Evanston, Chicago campuses a!ected by Internet outages
Northwestern University Informa-tion Technology experienced “intermit-tent connectivity issues” for nearly 9ve hours Monday morning and a:ernoon, resulting in spotty Internet service in many campus buildings.
Wendy Woodward, director of tech-nology support services, said NUIT was 9rst alerted to the issues at about --:/1 a.m. Monday.
Woodward said the sporadic con-nectivity “a;ected the majority of the buildings in Evanston and Chicago.”
Woodward said it is unclear what the speci9c cause was of the distur-bance, which impacted both wireless and wired networks.
“Generally speaking, it looks like the network was seeing a lot of heavy tra<c from some source, but we don’t have actual details and speci9cs at this time,” she said. “To rectify the situation we were able to make adjustments to the network settings, and slowly as we saw that work through the network routers we saw things begin to stabilize.”
When 9rst alerted to the issues Monday morning, Woodward said NUIT contacted its network vendor, and the organization’s engineers and technical sta; met every 41 to /1 min-utes throughout the a:ernoon.
=e main NUIT networks in both Evanston and Chicago had stabilized by / p.m. while kinks in the organi-zation’s “specialty networks” had been ironed out by 2 p.m.
Woodward preached patience, say-ing NUIT would use Monday’s outage to attempt to prevent similar issues in the future.
“NUIT appreciates everyone’s patience today as we worked through the issues as they presented themselves, and we will do everything possible to understand what happened so that we can avoid it in the future,” she said.
— Joseph Diebold
Source: Safari browser screenshot
SERVER DOWN Northwestern students on the Evanston and Chicago campuses experienced internet connection issues for several hours early Monday.
“We will do
everything possible to understand what
happened so that we can avoid it in the future.
Wendy Woodward,director of technology support
services
» See GUN BUYBACK, page 10 » See SHUTTLES, page 10
» See RUSSELL, page 10
English profs re!ect on work of alumna, ‘Genius Grant’ recipient
“She’s very deserving. I hope she can put (the fellowship) to great use.
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Around TownIt’s going to be a busy, busy weekend.
— city manager Wally Bobkiewicz“ ” Police plan for Homecoming weekend Page 9
2 NEWS | THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2013
Man hits city resident in head with crowbar, police say
Someone hit the head of an !"-year-old resi-dent Saturday evening in west Evanston, accord-ing to police.
#e resident was walking north on Dodge Avenue when someone hit him in the head with a crowbar from behind, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. Police believe the incident was gang-related.
#e resident received small cuts on his head
and was bleeding, Parrott said. Paramedics took the resident to Evanston Hospital.
3 Hondas stolen within 12 hours#ree cars were stolen Saturday night and
Sunday morning in south Evanston, according to police.
Parrott said police believe the incidents are related.
All cars stolen were Hondas made in the late !$$%s, reported as stolen within !& hours of one
another and located in the same area, accord-ing to police. A !$$' red CR-V was stolen from the !(%% block of Madison Street, a !$$$ cream CR-V from the corner of Sherman Avenue and Seward Street and a !$$( Odyssey from the "%% block of Elmwood Avenue.
“It wouldn’t be unreasonable to say these inci-dents were related because of the make, model and time frame,” Parrott said.
— Tanner Maxwell
Police Blotter
Wellness center celebrates new spaceBy EDWARD COX)*+ ,-./0 123)*4+5)+31 @EdwardCox!6
When Nancy Floy’s tenant moved out of a ware-house adjacent to her west Evanston wellness center in June &%!&, her business lost a source of revenue.
More than a year later, Heartwood Center, !"!" Dempster St., has roughly doubled in size and drawn more practitioners with more areas of expertise.
Floy introduced a new Heartwood addition dur-ing a ribbon-cutting ceremony with city o7cials Monday. Known as Skylight, the new area provides more space for practitioners who specialize in health services such as acupuncture, chiropractic medicine and psychotherapy. Heartwood is also using 8,9%% square feet of the addition as an event space.
At the event, Floy discussed a:ording the space formerly occupied by Evanston ReBuilding Ware-house, which sold recycled materials.
#e total cost of renovating the former ware-house was ;86%,%%%, Floy said. Fi<h #ird Bank loaned Floy ;!%%,%%%., and the city later matched the amount with tax-incremented =nance funds.
To cover the remainder of the costs, Floy said she mortgaged her Evanston home a second time.
“#is is a project about collaboration and what happens when we set our egos aside and set ourselves aside and we work together as a community to col-laborate,” Floy said.
In revamping her business, Floy said she hopes to attract practitioners from di:erent ethnic back-grounds and with di:erent skill sets. Floy said she is planning four empty spaces for more practitioners.
Chiropractor Arnetra Gilliam-Wharton said she wanted to join Heartwood three years ago and will now move in thanks to the addition.
Heartwood is located near Evanston Plaza, a largely vacated shopping center that the city is
trying to revitalize through TIF funds. During the ceremony, Ald. Peter Braithwaite (&nd) pointed to the Erie Family Health Center, which will soon move near the plaza, as another positive sign of economic development in his ward.
Heartwood will host an open house Oct. (, the same day of Skylight’s grand opening.
GRAND OPENING Heartwood Center owner Nancy Floy leads a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday morning. The center, 1818 Dempster St., opened a new addition called Skylight.
On CampusNot only is it dangerous for students to take public trans-portation, but it also just takes much, much longer
— Joseph Lee (Weinberg ‘!")
“ ” Alum’s organization donates cars to low-income students Page 8
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2013 THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN | NEWS 3
Normally a meal to spend time with friends and family, Shabbat dinner will look very di.er-ent for a dozen Northwestern students this Friday when they attend Shabbat with /0 Strangers’ 1rst dinner of the year.
Modeled a2er the NU Alumni Association’s Dinner with /3 Strangers, Shabbat with /0 Strang-ers’ dinners are hosted by either a faculty member or NU graduate and allow students to experience a family’s traditional Shabbat dinner.
McCormick junior Danielle Marks and SESP sophomore Tova Yampolsky started the program while interning at Hillel’s Campus Engagement Corps, where they identi1ed a lack of opportuni-ties for students to attend informal and intimate Shabbat dinners.
“4ere are few Shabbat experiences planned on campus outside of the traditional Jewish
organizations,” Marks said.A similar program was started two years ago
but had limited success. However, Marks and Yampolsky decided to revitalize the initiative with /0 dinners last year. 4ey already have 1ve dinners planned for this fall.
“A2er each dinner, we send out a survey and the results have been wonderful,” Marks said. “People always say the food is very, very good and the families are so welcoming.”
Medill junior Ste-phen Autar, the group’s marketing director, is not Jewish and empha-sized that the dinners are open to students from all religious backgrounds.
“It’s really awesome for me to learn about a new culture and religion,” he said. “We really want to focus on getting more non-Jewish stu-dents involved.”
Hillel’s executive director Michael Simon said he is thrilled with the program.
“We’re really excited that Danielle and Tova have been able to engage students who might not otherwise connect with Hillel or Jewish life,” he said. “(4e dinner is) fun and informal but also a meaningful experience where (students) have the chance to connect with faculty and their peers.”
Last year, Simon and his wife, Jewish studies Prof. Claire Sufrin, hosted two dinners through the program.
“From the host perspective, it was a tremen-dous program both in terms of the opportunity to invite and have students in our home — some of whom I’ve never seen at Hillel — and reach a di.erent population of both Jewish and non-Jewish students.”
Tuesday, 4 p.m.Harris Hall4e African-American studies department will commemorate Iton, the beloved profes-sor who died in April a2er a decade-long bout with leukemia. Iton was in5uential in creating the department’s graduate program in 3006.
Report on 5 years of NU-Q
OCT. 1
CAMPUS CALENDAR
Wednesday, 4 p.m.Norris University CenterNorthwestern University in Qatar Dean Ever-ette Dennis will deliver a report on the school’s highlights in its 1rst 1ve years in the Louis Room on Wednesday. 4e topics Dennis will discuss include the school’s recent report on media use in the Middle East.
OCT. 2
‘Mike & Mike’Friday, 5 to 9 a.m.Deering Meadow
Mike Greenberg (Medill ‘78) and his co-host Mike Golic will broadcast their drive-time ESPN radio show Friday morning from Deering Meadow before Greenberg leads Northwestern’s Homecoming parade as the grand marshal.
‘College GameDay’Saturday, 8 a.m.Lakefill
ESPN’s morning show previewing the day’s college football action will broadcast from Northwestern for the 1rst time since /886 ahead of No. /9 NU’s showdown with No. : Ohio State.
OCT. 4
OCT. 5
“There are
few Shabbat experiences
planned on campus
outside of the traditional
Jewish organiztions.
Danielle Marks,McCormick junior
New study pinpoints lower back pain source
New research from Northwestern Medicine could change the way physicians treat back pain.
Researchers were able to predict with 76 percent accuracy which patients su.ering lower back injuries would have persistent pain a2er MRI brain scans.
“We’ve found the pain is triggered by these irregu-larities in the brain,” said Feinberg Prof. A. Vania Apkarian, senior author of the study, in a news release. “We’ve shown abnormalities in brain structure con-nections may be enough to push someone to develop chronic pain once they have an injury.”
Chronic pain a.ects nearly /00 million Ameri-cans and costs approximately ;9<6 billion to treat annually. 4e study, whose lead author is Akparian’s former postdoctoral fellow Ali Mansour, is the 1rst
to show that brain structure abnormalities can be a sign of predisposition to chronic pain rather than a symptom of living with it.
Research gives hope for reversing heart damage
A study stemming from an e.ort begun at North-western in 3000 has provided the 1rst evidence that heart damage may not be permanent, as was previ-ously thought.
4e project, which has grown to involve Duke University and Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vas-cular Center in Houston, was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers found that patients with coronary artery disease and regional myocardial wall thinning o2en only have minor scarring, meaning a surgical procedure could
be used to restore function.“What we did was develop a method to distin-
guish viable heart muscle from non-viable (scarred) muscle in patients with coronary artery disease,” Feinberg Prof. Robert Bonow said in a news release. “4e implication is that by identifying those indi-viduals with predominantly viable tissue, physicians could open opportunities for treatment with drugs or revascularization with stents and coronary bypass surgery.”
Bonow, the director of the Center for Cardiovascu-lar Innovation, said the study’s results o.er hope.
“Heart failure is the leading cause of hospitaliza-tion in America for those 96 and older and in the Medicare population, two-thirds of patients have underlying coronary artery disease as the cause,” Bonow said.
— Joseph Diebold
Science at NU
Last week, Popular Science officially shut off comments on its online articles. The !"!-year old magazine said, “Even a fractious minority wields enough power to skew a reader’s perception of a story … and because comments sections tend to be a grotesque reflection of the media culture surrounding them, the cynical work of undermining bedrock scientific doctrine is now being done beneath our own stories.” This is a development that is unfortunate at best and downright worrying at worst.
However, “science denial” is old news by now. But while we tend to see it as a func-tion of education and open-mindedness, the problem, I believe, is rooted in the role that science plays in our society, which has changed vastly over time.
Before the scientific revolution, science — often called “natural philosophy” — was just one part of an integrated corpus of human knowledge, which included religion, philosophy and many other things which are considered decidedly “unscientific” today. Modern science has shed its murky, nebu-lous notions of the past and is now defined by clear-cut, logical rules of mathematics and empirical experimentation. As a result, it became all the more powerful and plays an ever-larger role in society.
And therein lies the issue. Much of what was once dictated by religion, tradition and philosophy is now the domain of science. It has taken the reins of power, being the ultimate tool of mankind to dictate its posi-tion in the natural world. We now look to science for our deliverance from evil, for it
is ingrained into our minds that the future will be one of greater wealth, happiness and longevity due to the inevitable march of technology. Unless, of course, we are sinful, and we misuse what science has given us. In which case, we’re only a few hydrogen bombs away from Armageddon. Of course, this flowery analogy only goes so far, but it suffices to say that — relative to #$$ years ago — science has usurped much of the authority — and awe — that was once vested
in God, the Church, philosophy and cul-tural tradition.
Science is, of course, supposed to be hermetically sealed from argu-ments not rooted in evidence, but due to its newfound impor-tance in society, it will remain a public affair, participated in not only by those in lab coats, but anyone whom it affects — which, effectively, is everyone. From
this perspective, the key problem is not the denial by uneducated individuals who, blinded by whatever dogma they ascribe to, refuse to believe in evolution and other well-established theories. That’s only the most salient aspect of a problem that has plagued humanity since the dawn of time. Our brains are simply far worse at analyzing data from a dispassionate, logical perspec-tive than they are at bending those facts and twisting that logic to make the evidence confirm what we already believe.
Regardless of what knowledge human-ity has, the arrival of new knowledge will always be resisted by those who are
uncomfortable with it. Even amongst those of us who are “educated,” the scientific facts of politics, economics, gender, sexuality and many more fields are debated and con-tested in a way much more akin to the older conception of science, a way not entirely differentiated from one’s normative beliefs. Being able to see what is uncolored by what one thinks should be is not a simple task, and not one learned from mere education, but from experience, maturity and a lifelong effort to see outside one’s prejudices.
The paradox is that while the strict rules of logic and empirical experimentation were supposed to free scientific reasoning from human pretensions, it created a field of knowledge so powerful that it is impos-sible not to attract them. What we face is not a problem of knowledge, but a problem of wisdom. Although it is tempting to see science as an all-encompassing arbitrator of truth akin to God, this is ultimately a mis-conception — and a harmful one, because once science can dictate truths absolutely, it’s easy to confuse scientific facts with one’s personal feelings and opinions. What to do about this is a question far beyond a %!-year-old opinion columnist at the school newspaper, but a place I like to start is thinking of science as a convenient set of explanations which enables humans to, for example, build refrigerators, rather than truths about the nature of reality. With that in mind, it’s easier to remember that science is a tool, which — like a hammer — has nothing to say about the intentions and desires of its users.
Hammers can be used to create or destroy, so let’s make sure to use ours wisely.
Julian Caracotsios is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
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Science denial difficult to overcomeAppearance-ism a social feature we must work to eliminate
Many(!) summers ago, I attended North-western. Non-academic highlights were serving food to the Medill ‘Cherubs’ to offset my board, marking a milestone of a per-sonal nature, and having a sort of emotional breakdown at the end of the term.
I had not quite evolved from the beauty-obsessed teen who wore false eyelashes (a la the supermodel ‘Twiggy’) to attend high school. If I had time-travelled to the future, I would have been utterly astonished at how I became my current self.
As a teen I’d read “The Diary of Anne Frank,” taking from it, above all, that she was obsessed with appearance (and ‘film stars’); and that the non-Jewish friends who sup-ported her family in hiding sustained incom-prehensible personal risks. How would I become a recipient of the Spirit of Anne Frank Award, in some way that related to beauty obsession and stereotyping?
Brief answer: I eventually realized that my appearance was not the essence of my value, and I didn’t want to be judged or judge others solely on this basis. I used the word, “Appearance-ism,” for the issue I knew so well. I began to ‘peel my personal onion’ and to heal, (also cry quite a bit), through this process. Eventually, I began to teach what I most needed to learn, and what I wanted for our world; to transform our inner critical voices AND vanquish stereo-typing, appearance-ism, age-ism, homopho-bia, religious and ethnic bias, etc.
The chilling interplay of appearance-ism, snap judgments, stereotyping, and racism crystalized when my neighbor, Ricky Byrd-song, an NU basketball coach was murdered by a white supremacist in !&&&. I felt com-pelled to craft a community response. My journey kept unfolding, leading me to South Africa; to write “RACE: An OPEN & SHUT Case”; to befriend families of innocent men who were murdered in attacks directed at Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims and South Asians in the backlash aftermath of &/!!; and to fight — hard — as a Jewish ally against Islamo-phobia and xenophobia, ever since, and continue to work for a culture in which we all live safely and fully.
Anya Cordell is an Evanston resident and anti-bias activ-ist. Her website is Appearance-ism.com. She will pres-ent a program titled “Critical Inner Voices and Stereotyp-ing — BEGONE!” at Parkes Hall at 3 p.m., Oct. 6.
This past Monday, President Barack Obama met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the increas-ingly stale issue of Iranian sanctions.
During the meeting, Netanyahu cau-tioned Obama that it would be unwise to relieve diplomatic pressure on Iran or withdraw sanctions, and at the first sign of trouble, the sanctions should be tightened. Despite this statement, the indications for a long-overdue conclu-sion in the Iranian nuclear sanctions saga are positive.
Ever since the election of Hassan Rouhani as president, there has been an increasing thaw in U.S.-Iranian relations, which culminated last week in the form of the first telephone conversation between the Ameri-can and Iranian heads of state in more than '$ years.
During the conversation, Rouhani and Obama discussed an outline for the defini-tive, meticulous verification of a peaceful nuclear program in Iran before the U.N. Rouhani even proposed resuming flights between the two countries. This contrasts noticeably with the previously unyielding U.S. demand that Iran dismantle its nuclear program. For the first time, the legitimacy of a peaceful program, previously dismissed as a cover, is being considered in earnest. Negotiations are scheduled for next month, during which Iran is set to prove the peace-ful nature of its program so that the inter-national community may at last drop the
sanctions it has imposed on the state for so long.
I am not a huge Obama fan, but I will say that I applaud his sound judgment and his use of logic and checks and balances, all of which were cast away entirely by his predecessor. He was right to refuse Turkey’s demands for a pre-emptive strike on Syria, and he was right to maintain an indepen-dent position from Israel in this instance, especially given Netanyahu’s tired rhetoric claiming that Iran was not to be trusted and that it was committed to Israel’s destruction. I am not advocating optimism to the point of fool- ishness, but there are several
reasons why I dis-
agree with Netanyahu.These sanctions have been going
on for a long time. General sanctions against Iran have been in place since the revolution in !&(&, and the ones pertain-ing to the enrichment program have been in place since %$$). This means close to a decade of severe economic hardship for Iran. At this point, ideology takes a back-seat to fatigue. Although there is negative sentiment on the part of the Iranians toward Israel, their capability to put together a nuclear device and attack Israel is, in my opinion, not very real.
Adding to the sheer amount of time this has carried on, it is also prudent to acknowledge the generation gap. The cur-rent generation of Iranians is not the same as the previous one; it is less regimented and more accommodating of new ideas. These Iranians favor progress and compromise in favor of rigid ideology, and the Supreme
Leader’s fanbase is not what it used to be. Neither is the Revolutionary Guard Corps, whose sphere of influence has greatly diminished under Rouhani.
Releasing these sanctions upon verifi-cation of Iran’s peaceful nuclear program would go a long way toward reconciling relations between the U.S. and Iran, espe-cially considering the fact that Iranians trust Americans even less than vice versa.
Iranian distrust is understandable from a historical standpoint, given the !&#' CIA-sponsored coup ousting their first demo-cratically elected leader, as well as Ameri-can sale of chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein during the bloody Iran-Iraq War (ironic given our criticism of Assad, eh?). Even the most conservative critics of the U.S., however, took note of Obama’s tone
during his speech at the U.N. General Assembly and appreciated his ref-
erence to the !&#' regime change.
The bottom line is that Netanyahu’s
admoni-tions are unneces-
sary. There are plenty
of hard-line, old-time ele-
ments in both the U.S. and Iran,
along with a host of skeptics who will
ensure that any warm-ing of relations happens slowly. When it does happen, though, it will show the inter-national community that such a develop-ment is possible with the proper administra-tions and use of caution, common sense and sound judgment. It will also highlight what is hopefully a new trend in U.S. foreign policy – namely, an independent approach, a respect for the Constitution and a willing-ness to be reasonable.
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A broad swath of the public might not even notice the partial shutdown of the federal govern-ment Tuesday, but many federal employees, govern-ment contractors and users of government services are likely to feel the pain.
!e wallets of at least "##,### federal workers furloughed in a shutdown will be thinner, at least temporarily. !ose workers will be paid until there’s an agreement to fund the government anew.
Unable to reach an agreement last night as the House and Senate played political tennis over a plan to temporarily fund the budget, the nation will wake up to an altered government landscape. Some of the services immediately a$ected are largely
invisible, but important, nonetheless.!e State Department, for example, will have
to halt some processing of passport applications in federal o%ces not run by the agency but that are shut down, potentially threatening business or vacation travel of unsuspecting citizens.
Most of the Treasury Department’s law enforce-ment support functions tied to the Bank Secrecy Act will be halted, interrupting e$orts to crack
down on money laundering and other &nancial crimes.
But the Department of Transportation said that all air tra%c control services will continue without interruption, which is good news for the 'ying public. Amtrak doesn’t expect disruption of pas-senger railroad service, either.
— Kevin G. Hall (McClatchy Washington Bureau)
Committee approves $21,000 grant for Curt’s Cafe
By KELLY GONSALVES()* +,-./ 012()3*4(*20 @kellyagonsalves
Curt’s Cafe, an Evanston nonpro&t organiza-tion that works with at-risk youth, is asking the city for a 567,### grant to help fund its training program.
Evanston’s Economic Development Committee on Wednesday night approved the grant — 58,### for each of seven students — to Curt’s Cafe, which plans to use the money to help provide each stu-dent with housing, food, job training and tutoring throughout a three-month training period. City Council is expected to discuss the grant at its next meeting, Oct. 79, before the restaurant can receive the grant.
Curt’s Cafe, 6:66 Central St., opened in Spring 6#76 and received a loan from the city last year. Since then, executive director Susan Trieschmann has been working toward the grant.
“I was frustrated because we hadn’t been given any money, and I thought that was kind of silly if we’re working with a population that most people don’t want to work with,” Trieschmann said. “So I suggested to them strongly that I would like to &gure out how to &ll out the paperwork.”
Although the process has taken over a year, Trieschmann said she believes the city was fair in negotiating the funding.
According to the terms agreed upon at the committee meeting, Curt’s Cafe will receive each 58,### grant as long as the student keeps or con-tinues to search for a job 8# days a;er completing the cafe’s training program.
Ald. Delores Holmes (<th) said that the 8#-day
post-training period allows the students to show that they are not just receiving the stipends, turn-ing and moving on.
She said she supported the grant as a com-mittee member and believes City Council will do the same.
“I think that Curt’s Cafe has a di$erent approach to employment of those that are hard to employ and just trying to get people in the work force, and this is the Economic Development Committee’s focus, trying to create more jobs in the commu-nity,” Holmes said. “I think it’s a good thing.”
Trieschmann said the grant is important for
the cafe’s future.“We train them in life skills and support them
with social workers and tutors and things like that, with the goal to get them o$ the streets, get them
to safe housing (and) kind of reboot their life a little bit,” Trieschmann said.
DECAF DEVELOPMENT Curt’s Cafe is asking the city for a $21,000 grant. The cafe, 2922 Central St., helps train at-risk youth.
Nonpro!t hopes to fund training program for at-risk youth if City Council approves
“I think that Curt’s Cafe has
a di"erent approach to employment of those that
are hard to employ and just trying to get people in the work force, and this is the Economic
Development Committee’s focus, trying to create more jobs in the
community.Susan Trieschmann,
executive director
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Obama administration backs use of race in college admissions
In the wake of a recent Supreme Court ruling that narrowed but did not do away with a!rmative action in college admissions, the Obama administration has rea!rmed its commitment to using race as a fac-tor in college admissions to help increase campus diversity.
In a letter to college and university presidents, the departments of Education and Justice reminded edu-cators that the Supreme Court in June ruled that race could still be used as a factor in admissions, as long as the race-based policies were necessary to achieve diversity.
In its "-# decision in Fisher vs. University of Texas, the court held that race could be used if “no workable race-neutral alternatives would produce the educa-tional bene$ts of diversity.”
Civil rights advocates and many university o!-cials were relieved that the high court continued to allow race to be used in considering admissions, while opponents argued that there was still enough ground for further suits to challenge such policies.
%e use of a!rmative action has divided Ameri-cans since the #&"'s. In college admissions, support-ers have used such policies to give opportunities to quali$ed minority students to help them overcome the e(ects of long-term discrimination. Opponents have contended that a!rmative action is really reverse discrimination. %e Obama administration has sup-ported the use of race to help improve diversity.
“%e Departments of Education and Justice strongly support diversity in higher education. Racially diverse educational environments help to prepare students to succeed in our increasingly diverse nation. %e future workforce of America must be able to transcend the boundaries of race, language and culture as our economy becomes more globally interconnected,” the letter says.
%e letter goes on to say that the )'## policies on voluntary use of race in admissions remain available and that the agencies “stand ready to support colleges and universities in pursuing a racially and ethnically diverse student body in a lawful manner. We look for-ward to working with you on this important goal.”
%e letter was signed by Catherine Lhamon, the Education Department’s assistant secretary in the O!ce for Civil Rights, and Jocelyn Samuels, the Jus-tice Department’s acting assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division.
— Michael Muskal (Los Angeles Times)
By ERICA WITTE*+, -./01 234*+5,6*,42 @ericawitte
On her way to an amusement park to celebrate her #7th birthday, Aiyana Ross, a high school junior from Chicago Heights, Ill., received a phone call from Joseph Lee (Weinberg ‘'&), who informed her that she had won a car.
Ross received her car from Lee’s organiza-tion, The Road Less Traveled Fund, which he founded in )'#) to provide vehicles to worthy students who struggle without an efficient means of transportation.
“I was ecstatic,” Ross said. “I just screamed, and I was jumping up and down and hugging my mom.”
Inspired by his exp er ience w it h Teach For America, Lee wanted to help lessen disparit ies
in Chicago-area neighborhoods. Lee, now a third-year medical student, said he real-ized while teaching there is no better way to extend opportunities for success to students than through donation of a vehicle.
“Not only is it dangerous for students to take public transportation, but it also just takes much, much longer,” Lee said.
The Des Plaines, Ill.-based Road Less Trav-eled Fund solicits donations from the com-munity, aiming to raise 89,''' to purchase a car for each student.
Applicants must be Chicago-area college or high school students who have shown
achievement in academics and community service. Students apply during the summer by writing essays about how a car would help their community. True to the foundation’s name, applicants also relate Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” to their own lives.
Lee returned to campus in May to speak at an event for NU’s Asian American Heritage Month. Along with AJ Aguado (Communi-cation ‘#'), Lee shared how he learned to accept his Asian-American heritage during his time at NU.
Lee’s program has already helped two stu-dents. Jesse Heng of the University of Chicago was the first to receive a car from the Road Less Traveled Fund last winter. On Sept. #, Ross, a junior at Bloom High School in Chi-cago Heights, was informed she is the )'#: recipient.
“I applied to The Road Less Traveled Fund because it was an opportunity for me to explain how a car would benefit me and my family and how I would take it further than just going where I wanted to go,” Ross said.
In her application essay, she wrote of her desire to drive her &-year-old sister to school during the winter months because her school is unable to provide buses, as well as her wish to drive her grandmother, who is recovering from back surgery.
She is scheduled to take her driving test in the next few weeks and will receive her car Dec. #.
“I didn’t know that opportunities like this were available,” Ross said. “It’s just really awe-some to know there are people out there to think of stuff like this.”
“Not only is it dangerous for students to take public transportation, but it also just takes much, much longer.Joseph Lee,The Road Less Traveled founder
The Road Less Traveled Fund provides vehicles for Chicago students
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IN A YELLOW WOOD Jesse Heng sits in the car he won. Heng was the first recipient of a car from The Road Less Traveled Fund, which seeks to provide low-income students with transportation to get to school or a job.
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College Dems push forward on same-sex marriageBy JEANNE KUANG!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+) @jeannekuang
Despite a setback in the Illinois House this spring, NU’s College Democrats plans to con-
tinue its advocacy for same-sex marriage in Illinois this month.
.e group will hold weekly phone banking sessions in coordination with Equality Illinois, a state LGBT rights orga-nization. The organi-zations hope to push a same-sex marriage legalization bill through the General Assembly during the veto session at the end of the month: .e bill failed to go to
vote in the House in late May.Same-sex marriage is one of College Demo-
crats’ “legislative initiatives,” three issues the group chose last academic year to focus on and advocate for, president Lauren Izaak said. .e group phone banked for the same-sex marriage initiative twice
in the spring.“It just happened to be a really historic moment
when we started doing this. It was coming up for a
vote,” said Izaak, a Weinberg senior. “We felt like we could really make a di/erence on an important issue for our generation.”
At the sessions, where an Equality Illinois rep-resentative is present, participants call Illinois residents whose state representatives are on the fence about the issue. Izaak said the callers are focusing less on changing people’s views and more on 0nding supporters of the legislation.
“Basically we’re informing them that the House is going to vote for this in the veto session,” Izaak said. “If they’re in favor of marriage equality, we’re going to ask them to call the representative and tell them that they support marriage equality.”
Weinberg sophomore Kevin Cheng, College Democrats’ vice president of programming, said the phone banks support strategic decisions made by Equality Illinois.
“We’re just doing everything we can to rally support on campus,” he said.
Medill freshman Mollie Cahillane partici-pated in the 0rst phone banking session Monday night. She said she persuaded a few people to call their representatives and voice support for the legislation.
“I had never phone banked before, and espe-cially when you’re talking about a controversial issue, you can be a little worried about people’s reactions,” she said. “It’s still de0nitely something I want to try again.”
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Evanston police are planning a “heavy pres-ence” for the arrival of “College GameDay” on the Northwestern campus this weekend, according to the city’s top cop.
Evanston Police Chief Richard Eddington told City Council on Monday evening that accommodating the ESPN show — as well as several other blockbuster events around the city — will be a “huge logistical effort,” but his force and other authorities are up to the task.
He said he will send more officers than usual to off-campus neighborhoods between 2 a.m. Saturday and 2 a.m. Sunday.
ESPN confirmed Monday that “College GameDay” will start at 3 a.m. Saturday on the Lakefill, its first stop in Evanston since 4335. An NU spokesman said Sunday the show would broadcast from the northern part of the on-campus lakefront.
City officials noted “College GameDay” is not the only attraction expected to bring large crowds to the city at the end of this week. “Mike & Mike,” the ESPN radio show co-hosted by Mike Greenberg (Medill ‘63), will broadcast Friday morning from Deering
Meadow. Greenberg will lead NU’s Homecom-ing Parade on Friday night as Evanston Town-ship High School celebrates its own homecom-ing festivities.
“It’s going to be a busy, busy weekend,” city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said.
He said the city will extend its hours for 744 and keep more staff on hand throughout the weekend.
“If there’s a bump, we’ll be ready to respond as quickly as we can,” Bobkiewicz told aldermen.
Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl asked Eddington if the city could request more portable toilets for traveling partygoers. Eddington said he is looking into the possibility.
City officials are expected to discuss the preparations in more detail at a meeting Tues-day morning.
Police plan additional resources for ‘College GameDay’
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PHONING IT IN A student phone banks as part of College Democrats’ push for same-sex marriage legalization in Illinois. Despite the failure of a similar bill in the spring, the group is moving ahead with weekly events.
“If there’s a bump, we’ll be ready to respond as quickly as we can.
Wally Bobkiewicz,city manager
“It just happened to be a really historic moment when we started doing this. Lauren Izaak,College Democrats president
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he said. “It’s not the end-all, be-all, but it is a way to get money for firearms that aren’t being used.”
The Evanston Community Foundation is
helping fund the latest version of the pro-gram. Northwestern donated !"#,### for the first buyback.
CALL TO ARMS Evanston resident James Davis fills out paperwork at the city’s second gun buyback event June 29. The three guns he traded in for $100 each brought the city’s total haul to 28 firearms.
Gun BuybackFrom page 1
to bypass Noyes Street entirely, administrators and city officials ultimately decided that was not a viable option.
“There weren’t really any great alternatives to Noyes,” said Brian Peters, assistant vice president for University Services.
Other streets near Noyes were either too small or busy to accommodate a shuttle stop, Peters said.
Moving the stop across the street takes into account both students’ and residents’ concerns, he added.
The University is looking into new equip-ment that would reduce the noise generated by shuttle engines.
Peters said the noise is one of the central sources of residents’ complaints.
He said he hopes to hear back from the com-pany that runs the Uni-versity’s shuttles regard-ing the new devices this week.
Associated Student Government president Ani Ajith met with aldermen over the summer to discuss the issue.
Although eliminating the westbound stop near the intersection of Sherman Avenue and Noyes Street and consolidating it with the southbound one across the street seems to have solved the problem, the University and ASG will continue monitoring the situation, he said.
“It’s something that we’ll have to keep check-ing back in on,” Ajith said.
At its Aug. "$ meeting, City Council set up a subcommittee to consider changes to the shuttles.
However, the issue was resolved before the subcommittee could meet in public.
Fiske and city manager Wally Bobkiewicz decided there was no reason for the subcom-mittee to convene once the decision was made to resolve the issue by moving the shuttle stop across the street, Peters said.
“It never met,” Peters said of the panel. “Hopefully … it will never need to meet.”
stories that “blend fantastical elements with psychological realism and classic themes of transformation and redemption,” the Mac-Arthur Foundation wrote on its website.
Bouldrey said he remembered those types of elements from Russell’s writing when she participated as an undergraduate in NU’s creative writing program.
“She wrote with humor, wit, and charm in her emails,” Bouldrey recalled. “I could tell her writing was going to be that way.”
Bouldrey worked with Russell during the second half of the two-part program. He said Russell stood out to him.
“She could easily write at the novel level,” he said. “Some are good at short stories; she was good at them. But not everyone can write longer.”
Russell has written award-winning short stories and novels. Her two short story col-lections have been named to various best-seller lists. She was also named on The New Yorker’s prestigious “$# Under %#” list in the $#"# Summer Fiction Issue.
Her first novel “Swamplandia!” was named a finalist for the $#"$ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
“When I got the call from the MacAr-thur Foundation, all of these physiological things you hear about shock turn out to be true,” Russell said in a video released by the foundation. “I was, like, quakey. I was just giddy, really giddy, sort of an incredible effervescent feeling.”
English Prof. Sheila Donohue was Rus-sell’s teacher in Theory and Practice of Fic-tion, the most advanced writing class that NU has to offer for students majoring in creative writing.
The talent that Russell presented in the class — which only admits "& students per quarter — was promising, Donohue wrote in an email.
Donohue characterized Russell as clear in her “devotion to the life of the writer” and her stories as “riveting, packed to the brim with character and detail, lush, and always surprising.”
Donohue, who says she still keeps in touch with Russell and always looks forward to congratulating her on her latest successes, said she had nothing but admiration for her former student.
“There are a multitude of remarkable books published every year that go uncele-brated,” Donohue wrote, “and when this kind of accolade is given to one so young and so fine a writer, we can only feel our faith in the continuation of literature renewed.”
No. ' Northwestern ('-", "-# Big Ten) swept Big Ten Player of the Week awards this week, the conference announced Monday.
Freshman Brandon Medina won O(ensive Player of the Week and junior Tyler Miller grabbed Defensive Player of the Week a)er the Wildcats defeated Michigan $-# on Saturday to begin con-ference play.
Medina notched a goal and an assist against the Wolverines, continuing an excellent debut season. *e Chicago native has been a breakout star for the Cats, already tallying three goals and +ve assists, both second on the team behind sophomore Joey Calistri.
Miller, NU’s goalkeeper, made four saves to hold Michigan scoreless for his sixth shutout of the season and $&th at NU, second best in school history.
*e Cats have dominated conference awards all season. Medina’s honor, his +rst, marked the fourth straight week an NU athlete has been named the Big Ten’s top o(ensive player. Calistri earned the distinction on Sep. , and "-, and senior Chris Rit-ter shared it with Penn State’s Mark Wadid on Sep. $.. Miller previously won Defensive Player of the Week on Sep. $..
*ough the Cats won at least a share of both awards last week, Monday was the +rst time since Oct. "&, $#"$, NU has swept them outright. No other Big Ten team has won more than two weekly Big Ten honors this season.
*e recognition comes in response to a histori-cally hot start. *e Cats’ current seven-game win-ning streak is the longest in program history, and the team has not begun a season '-" since $##/, when it started ""-#-$ on the way to the NCAA quarter+nals.
— Alex Putterman
RussellFrom page 1
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Smiles crept upon the faces of seniors Tyler Scott, Kain Colter and Damien Proby and junior Tony Jones at Monday’s press conference when asked about how long the team has been think-ing about Saturday’s game against No. - Ohio State.
.ey giggled and exchanged glances at one another, waiting for the others to speak up and say what Northwestern fans wanted to hear.
A/er Scott claimed the Wildcats had only been thinking about the Buckeyes since the end of the Maine game, Colter jumped in.
“I’m not gonna lie,” Colter said. “.is is a game I circled on my schedule just because I
haven’t played these guys before.”It’s no secret that there’s tremendous buzz
surrounding the Cats’ Big Ten opener this week-end. ESPN’s “College GameDay” crew is rolling its set onto the Lake0ll, Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic will broadcast live radio show “Mike & Mike” from Deering Meadow the day before the game, and the average ticket resale for the event is up to 1234 as of September 45 — the highest ever for any NU football game. Even coach Pat Fitzgerald, who’s usually known as an old school guy, can’t hide from all the social media chatter.
“In the Twitter-sphere, that’s impossible,” he said. “I think you embrace whatever it is that comes along with college football. .at’s why we have the structure within our program. Noth-ing changes for us this week. Our routine is our routine. We do what we do, and hopefully we put
together our best week of preparation.”NU started its season without star senior
tailback Venric Mark, who has been day-to-day with a lower leg injury. Fitzgerald wouldn’t show his hand on what he has planned for his dynamic playmaker but did profess opti-mism about Mark’s chances of suiting up on Saturday.
“If Venric has a good week, we’ll have him in some capacity this weekend,” Fitzgerald said. “I feel very strongly that he’s progressing in the way that we want him to. But we also have Tues-day, Wednesday, .ursday of preparation time to see how everything responds. But I feel good about where he’s at.”
.e Cats have struggled with the Buckeyes in the past. In Fitzgerald’s 0rst season as NU’s head coach in 4663, the Cats lost 7--26 at home. .e following year NU didn’t do any better in
Columbus, falling 78-9. .e 4668 season was the last time the two teams met, and the result didn’t change, as the Cats were beat up at Ryan Field, -7-26. Fitzgerald kept his comments brief Monday and didn’t sugarcoat why the Cats have had their share of tough times against the Buckeyes.
“.ey’re really good,” he said.Fitzgerald also admitted there’s a talent gap
between teams in the top 0ve and everyone else.
“I had a chance to watch a couple of the top 0ve teams,” he said. “.ey’re incredibly tal-ented. But I think we’re pretty darn talented too. … But obviously those top 0ve teams are talented because they play up to their talent consistently.”
Americans and a well-decorated coach. Schiller won the Midwest Fencing Conference Coach of the Year honor for last season’s performance.
He is also a member of the United States Fencing Association’s national board of directors.
Junior Courtney Dumas won the epée com-petition Saturday, continuing her success as one of last season’s All-Americans.
The Cleveland native went a clean 7-6 throughout the Burton Open and bested fel-low teammate and Second Team All-American Dina Bazarbayeva to take home the top prize.
“Teammates are teammates, but when you have to play each other you’re out there to win,” Schiller said. “I expect nothing less than 266 percent effort from any of my fencers when they fence each other.”
This is a routine the athletes are used to. Two of the freshman on the saber squad come from the same club in New Jersey.
Schiller said every player has had to stare down an opponent who was a friend before the masks came on.
In the foil competition, sophomore Jen Yamin faced a similar situation. She stepped her way through six pool bouts to ease into the top seed for the direct elimination round.
She then defeated sophomore Charlotte Sands in the final bout and captured the gold. Schiller said Yamin is the one to whom lead-ership falls this season among the foil com-petitors, with the graduation of four-year All-American Dayana Sarkisova.
The largest take-away from the Burton Open for the veteran coach is NU’s next move.
Schiller said the Cats’ domination is an excit-ing feat, as every victory should be, but there are mistakes to work on in these early days of the season.
“I’m happy with the results, always happy when we win gold medals, but what we’re looking at is how they performed rather than the results.” he said. “We’re more concerned about the process aspect right now than the outcome.”
To his team he puts it even simpler: “Con-gratulations, you have a gold, but now you have to work on this.”
SWEET NEAR SWEEP Sophomores Juliana Barrett and Helen Foster face off at the USFA Burton Open on Saturday. Barrett ended up with the bronze as Northwestern won gold and silver in all three weapons.
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I’m not gonna lie, this is a game I have circled on my schedule. — Kain Colter, senior quarterback, on Saturday’s Ohio State game
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Northwestern still searches for its 0rst Big Ten win this season a1er falling to Nebraska and Iowa this weekend.
2e Wildcats lost by 3 in both contests: 4-3 against Nebraska and 3-5 against Iowa.
“(Iowa) was a very frustrating game,” coach Michael Moynihan
said. “Every game lead-ing into this has been similar: lots of fouls and really no rhythm to the game.”
2is weekend the Cats out-shot their opponents 6/-43 but
could only put one ball in the net. On the 7ipside, Nebraska was able to score twice on 35 shots while Iowa scored once on 33 shots.
“Short-term it really gets the team going when you have good chances (to score),” junior mid0elder Sami Schrakamp said. “But in the long term we try to learn from our mis-takes; if we miss a little wide, we try and focus on hitting our shots. We don’t really dwell on the fact that we may have missed a shot.”
Senior forward Kate Allen took 38 shots this weekend — nine of which were on goal.
“(Hitting shots) is de0nitely some-thing we have to get better at and work on during practice and hope-fully (results) will come in future games,” Allen said.
Against the Cornhuskers, the Cats racked up 46 shots but only 3 goal o9 a penalty kick from Allen. Nebraska scored twice in the 0rst half, but, NU
was raring to go coming into the sec-ond frame.
“I was really happy with the response by our team in the second half against Nebraska,” Moynihan said. “2e opposing coach was very complimentary toward our side. He felt very fortunate to get out of there with a win. He said that’s the hardest working team (he’d) seen in a long time and … nobody’s out shot him … or out-played him that way.”
Against the Hawkeyes, the Cats had a few opportunities to score in the second half but could not capital-ize. Hawkeye keeper Hannah Clark was not able to secure a save, and NU’s Schrakamp put it on goal only to have it knocked away by a Hawk-eye defender. Later in the second half, Allen had two opportunities: the 0rst nearly between the legs of Clark and the second just over the crossbar.
Next weekend they face confer-ence opponents Indiana and Purdue on Friday and Sunday, respectively. Last season, NU lost to both schools 3-5. If the Cats keep shooting like they did this weekend, they will be a formidable force for the rest of their opponents. 2e Big Ten tournament is still within reach for NU, Moyni-han said.
2e Cats are getting ever closer to breaking open high-scoring matches. 2e players have been shooting all around the net; it’s only a matter of time until they reap the bene0ts.
“(We will work on) a lot of 0nish-ing,” Moynihan said. “Keep ham-mering away at that. … In the end we need to 0nd ways to get to the back of the net.”
NICE TOUCH Margo McGinty handles the ball during Northwestern’s Sunday defeat at the hands of Iowa. The sophomore defender has played nearly every minute of the 2-7-2 Wildcats’ season.
Cats come off ‘frustrating’ weekend
NU strikes gold at USFA Burton Open
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Northwestern had only four days of practice before the team played in the USFA Burton Open over the weekend, coach Laurie Schiller said.
The No. ; Wildcats may have been a bit rusty in Schiller’s eyes as their season kicked off Saturday, but they certainly displayed their powerhouse
program. NU dominated the medal stands, claim-ing all three golds at the Burton Open for the third consecutive year.
Yet gold wasn’t enough for the team. The Cats also hogged every silver medal and claimed all but one bronze among t he t hre e
weapons during the competition in Evanston.
Schiller said he expected the sweep.
“That’s actually fairly typical results in the last 35 years or so with this group,” he said. “I would expect that. But that being said, I mean, we’re still two weeks into practice. This is still preseason training camp in a sense. For us, this is like the
football spring game.”This first dip into the season is a
“stepping stone” for what lies ahead, Schiller said. He said the team will use this to see where its weaknesses lie and what it needs to improve on in order to be more competitive in
the future.“We need to get to work on not
only our technical aspect of some our games but most especially what I would call our tactical control,” Schiller said. “Controlling the dis-tance and the ability to set up your
attacks and defenses so that you’re able to effectively win without giv-ing up a lot of touches.”
NU charged into the season in good standing, returning two All-
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In 4554, I bought the 0rst video game I ever paid for with my own allowance.
I had just acquired a shiny new pur-ple GameCube, and, well, I would settle for nothing less than NCAA Football 455/ for the machine’s inauguration. With hometown boy Joey Harrington on the cover, the game was as close as 35-year-old me ever came to nirvana.
Years came and went. 2e allow-ance grew, from <8 to 35 to 45. Some years it yielded the new copy of NCAA Football, others it didn’t. Some years the game’s release was the highlight of my summer. I pored over reviews, watched footage on YouTube, eagerly awaited news of which players would be rated highest that year. Other years it was merely a blip on the radar, a mindless tool to pass the time until the new Madden came out or school started again.
But it was always there. And for a long time, I remained blissfully unaware of the house of cards on which it was built. I remember (very distinctly, as if my conscience knew things at the time that I didn’t) being 0rmly convinced that the game did not include player names because the disc was not big enough to hold them. Never mind that it had upwards of 355 teams, each with distinct uniforms and stadiums and playbooks. 2e names of 35,555 Division I football players, I told myself, were a bridge too far.
Of course, we can’t stay in 01h grade forever. As the game grew up, so did I.
I learned the real reason — a system of amateurism which exploits athletes without compensating them in return for the value they bring to their pro-grams, which rewards athletic direc-tors with six-0gure salaries for winning even if it loses their school millions of dollars, which puts its players in harm’s way every Saturday each fall with no guarantee of a safety net in case of injury — why Northwestern’s start-ing quarterback appears in the game as a nameless, faceless “QB =4,” why the only athletes who appeared on the game’s cover had already le1 the clutches of the NCAA.
A month ago, I bought a copy of the latest version of NCAA Football that will hit store shelves in the foreseeable future. Electronic Arts announced last week it would not make an NCAA Football 38, and it had settled a law-suit with former players suing the game company and the NCAA for pro0ting o9 of their likenesses. My mental house of cards has 0nally collapsed, even if the NCAA’s remains ever so stub-bornly propped up against the winds of change.
Even so, I never stopped playing NCAA Football. Ultimately, all fans of college football decided at some point that they will contribute, however implicitly, to the system. I think that’s OK. I may never adore the game the way I did when I was 35, but I’ll never quite lose the joy of running the option, winning the Heisman Trophy or going down to the wire with friends either.
2ey say you never love sports again as much as you did when you were a child. I don’t know if that’s a bad thing.
REAL GOOD Alisha Gomez-Shah was undefeated Saturday in the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion and seized gold in the saber competition. Coach Laurie Schiller said the freshman is “real tough and real good.” Gomez-Shah’s triumph in the USFA Burton Open is only one of several wins Schiller expects from the New Jersey native.
“He said that’s the hardest working team (he’d) seen in a long time.Michael Moynihan,women’s soccer coach
“Teammates are teammates, but when you have to play each other, you’re out there to win. I expect nothing less than 100 percent e!ort. Laurie Schiller,fencing coach
