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Law school gets $100 million gift By PETER KOTECKI

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CASH FOR GUNS Evanston resident James Davis fills out paperwork at the city’s second gun buyback event in June 2013. The city has since changed the gun buyback format to allow residents to trade guns for money on a daily basis.

City gun buyback questioned By ELENA SUCHARETZA

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Less than three years after Evanston resident Carolyn Murray’s son was gunned down on the city’s West Side, Murray stood before City Council speaking again to aldermen about how the gun buyback program could reduce violent crime in Evanston.

In response to recent shootings, Murray urged city officials to reinstate public gun buyback programs based at community centers. “If we have organizations come together and reach out to the individuals owning and operating guns, we can end the senseless gun violence,” Murray said at the meeting last month. At the Sept. 21 council meeting, several members of the community in addition to Murray expressed concern

about recent gun-related homicides in the city. Just three days earlier, 45-year-old resident Cesario Cox Sr. had died from injuries sustained in a gunshot wound to his head while sitting on the back porch of a house one block from Evanston Township High School. Two of this year’s three homicides — all of which were gun-related — occurred about two weeks apart. Investigators » See BUYBACK, page 8

With one of the largest gifts to a law school in the nation, J.B. Pritzker (Law ’93) and his wife, M.K. Pritzker, made a $100 million donation to the School of Law, the University announced on Thursday. Bill Osborn, chair of the Northwestern Board of Trustees, said the school will be renamed the Pritzker School of Law. Thursday was a major turning point, both in the history of the School of Law and the history of legal education, Osborn said. Reaching such a point requires fundamental pieces to be in place, including a visionary but viable strategy as well as resources and talent needed to implement that strategy, he said. “The strategic plans for our university and the law school guide us to excel in critically important academic areas where we can, and should, be national and global leaders,” Osborn said. University President Morton Schapiro said the Pritzkers’ gift will have a significant financial impact on students pursuing law degrees at NU. “With this transformative gift, we leap ahead in our ability to provide a Northwestern legal education to all our best students, regardless of financial circumstances,” Schapiro said. The School of Law is the seventh

of NU’s 12 schools to be named after a benefactor or leader, he said. The gift will support multiple social justice centers at the School of Law, including the Center on Wrongful Convictions, the Children and Family Justice Center and the Center for International Human Rights. “This remarkable gift will allow us to expand our work in these unbelievably critical areas,” Schapiro said. In addition, the gift will permanently endow the school’s Entrepreneurship Law Center, renaming it the Donald Pritzker Entrepreneurial Law Center in honor of J.B. Pritzker’s father, Donald Pritzker, co-founder and former chief executive of Hyatt Hotels Corporation. “The Donald Pritzker Entrepreneurial Law Center … will not only instill an entrepreneurial mindset in all of our future lawyers, but it will allow us to build on our pioneering Master of Science in Law program for professionals in the scientific, engineering and medical fields,” Schapiro said. Schapiro said the intersection of law, business and technology is a key to the nation’s economic prospects. NU is already known for its willingness to break down disciplinary barriers, and the School of Law will lead future efforts in interdisciplinary studies due to the donation, he said. School of Law Dean Daniel Rodriguez said the law school’s » See PRITZKER, page 9

Student parents upset Reported crime down 4 percent with representation By MARISSA PAGE

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A coalition of graduate student parents say they are not represented by a task force formed this quarter to examine the experience of graduate student parents. Announced this month, the task force does not include a representative from the group, the NU Student Parent Alliance. The task force comprises faculty, staff and graduate students, three of whom are student parents. But Matilda Stubbs, an eighth-year anthropology student and active member of the Student Parent Alliance, said it’s not enough. “Individuals being on a task force is not the same as them representing a collective group,” Stubbs said. “We’re the only student parent group on campus. It’s very problematic.” Representatives from the alliance met with administrators in April to discuss improving the resources available to student parents. Some of the group’s concerns, detailed in a 75-page report the alliance presented at April’s meeting, include access to affordable childcare, parental leave policies

and availability of lactation rooms. Members of the alliance, which formed last year, voiced their frustration about these issues to The Daily in March. Provost Daniel Linzer, who assembled the task force with Executive Vice President Nim Chinniah, said he thought his conversation with the alliance in the spring was productive. Although Linzer highlighted the work the alliance had done, he said he and Chinniah wanted the task force to include “multiple perspectives.” “This is a terrific process, where these initial students helped identify a problem and are moving ahead and addressing it,” he said. “But those who bring forward a position of advocacy cannot be the ones who then set the recommendations for what the University should do.” Robin Hoecker, a sixth-year Communication graduate student and a student parent, said although she was aware of plans to form a task force, the alliance received little information about it after the meeting. The group sent administrators a list of who should be on the task force, which included graduate student parents, representatives from » See TASK FORCE, page 9

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In the first nine months of the year, robberies in Evanston are down 22 percent compared to the same period in 2014 — the sharpest decline in the statistics released by the Evanston Police Department this month. Except for instances of motor vehicle theft and homicide, crime in Evanston has declined so far in 2015 compared with the same point last year. The statistics show a decline in all aggravated assault and battery, robberies, burglaries and arson. In total, reported crime is down 4 percent. There have been three homicides this year, compared with two at the same point last year. The first of those homicides — all of which were gunrelated — occurred at the beginning of June when a Chicago resident was shot multiple times in central Evanston. The next two homicides, which police believe are both gang-related, occurred about two weeks apart in late summer. Evanston police responded with a program aimed at reducing violence in Evanston by getting guns off the street, deploying two officers each day dedicated to the task. “What I’d like is to get more assistance from local prosecutors,” Ald. Jane Grover (7th) said. “Anyone

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COMPARING CRIME The Evanston Police Department’s third-quarter crime statistics show a 19 percent decrease in robberies compared with the same period of time from last year. Of the 81 motor vehicle burglaries this year, 96 percent involved unlocked vehicles.

willing to use a gun in a conflict should not be on the streets anymore. Perhaps we need more focus from the criminal prosecution side to get guns off our streets.” Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said the department meets weekly to discuss crime trends and map out deployments based on areas with higher rates of criminal activity. “We have a crime analyst whose

job is to map out crimes and look for trends and similarities so that we can deploy resources for the upcoming week,” Dugan said. “That always helps, putting resources in the right area, even if not to arrest, but deter (crime) by just being in the area.” Motor vehicle theft has also increased, up 14 percent to 49 cases » See CRIME, page 8

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Police Blotter Purse and items valued at more than $2,000 stolen from Evanston Hospital

A 50-year-old woman reported that her purse was stolen Saturday from Evanston Hospital. The woman told police she was visiting the hospital at 2650 Ridge Ave. at about 3 p.m. and left her coat and purse unattended. When she returned, her purse was gone, said Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan.

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end of the year. “CTA’s budget proposal builds on our unprecedented investments to modernize and improve Chicago’s transit system,” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in a news release. In the next year, CTA will continue planning states for the Red and Purple Modernization Program, which was announced in May. The project, awaiting approval by the Federal Transit Administration,

aims to meet projected future demand for the two lines, which connect Northwestern students from the Evanston Campus to the city. This fall, the CTA will complete preliminary engineering for the project’s first phase, which includes the construction of a new track bypass allowing eight more trains to pass per hour over the Red Line.

The purse, valued at about $800, contained an iPhone worth $700 and two pairs of glasses worth $400 each, Dugan said. There was also $75 in cash inside the purse as well as a bottle of prescription medication.

Dugan said. When the employee asked the woman for a receipt for the items, the Evanston resident dropped the bag and took off running. The woman dropped about $100 worth of health and beauty supplies. An officer located a woman in the area who was positively identified as the woman who fled, Dugan said. The store manager did not want her arrested but asked for the woman to be restricted from store.

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A woman was caught stealing Wednesday afternoon at a Walgreens in central Evanston. A woman was spotted by an employee at about 3 p.m. putting items from the store, located at 900 Dodge Ave., in a plastic bag,

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After a year, SES sees increase in student contact By JEREMY MARGOLIS

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Student Enrichment Services has seen an increase of about eight student contacts a month to 64 a month in the year since it was created, SES director Kourtney Cockrell said. SES continues working on implementing changes in its programming in an effort to serve the needs of first-generation and low-income students, Cockrell said. “While this is exciting and positive, it’s also a challenge given the current staffing structure which includes my role (director) as the only full-time position within Student Enrichment Services,” she said in an email to The Daily. This summer, SES hosted two family events in Chicago for incoming freshmen that were also attended by alumni and staff, including Medill Prof. Ava Greenwell and Weinberg Prof. Frances Aparicio, Cockrell said in the email. The center also hosted two programs during Wildcat Welcome intended to provide information about academic and financial resources available to students and build a sense of community among them. Communication senior Amanda Walsh, president of Northwestern’s chapter of the Quest Scholars Network, said the center has started to become a safe space for first-generation and low-income students. “Now (Quest Scholars students) have a dedicated person who is there to make sure our students get the resources that they need and is there to tackle any problems that the students may have,” Walsh said. “If

Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to speak at Northwestern

Basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will speak about his experiences as a black Muslim convert in professional basketball, as

you need a coat for winter but you don’t have enough money, go to (Cockrell). In the same vein, if you need someone to help you take care of your financial aid because you don’t understand it, go to Kourtney.” The student advocacy committee, which was previously run by Quest Scholars, was transferred to SES last winter. The committee creates a space for firstgeneration and low-income students to discuss issues they face and enact ways to solve those problems, Walsh said. “The student advocacy committee will begin meeting this year to focus on programming and awareness raising of SES,” Cockrell said. “Programming will focus on financial wellness and career development, as well as a number of other relevant topics. Although the committee has not met yet this year, it will likely meet monthly, Walsh said. SES and Quest Scholars will also collaborate on creating a standardized application for scholarships and other funding opportunities so first-generation and low-income students don’t have to spend an exorbitant amount of time applying to individual programs, Walsh said. The program is scheduled to launch in Fall 2016, though testing and planning will begin in Winter Quarter 2016, Cockrell said in the email. “Before we would have low income students in particular (who) would spend hours and hours and hours searching for resources in order to be more stable — in order to make sure that they could participate in the full Northwestern experience,” Walsh said. “That’s so unfair to low-income students.” The effort to create an online voucher program for first-generation and low-income students to purchase tickets to campus events while maintaining privacy about their socioeconomic status has taken well as his work promoting education and athletics, on Nov. 6 as part of the annual Muslimcultural Students Association fall keynote event. Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA’s all-time leading scorer and holds the record for MVP awards with six. He also won six NBA championships during a 20-year NBA career with the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers Abdul-Jabbar, a bestselling author and

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A YEAR’S INCREASE The Center for Student Enrichment Services holds a student advocacy committee kick-off meeting at Scott Hall in April 2015. This year, the center will implement changes in an effort to serve the needs of first-generation and low-income students.

longer than expected, said SESP junior Matt Herndon, Associated Student Government’s vice president for diversity and inclusion. The process is more complicated than simply subsidizing student groups that sell their tickets through the Norris Box Office because there are many other ticket-selling methods, Herndon said. “Ideally we would love to have (everything) run through Norris and student groups not have to pay the fee to run through Norris,” Herndon said. There is no timetable for when a voucher program will be complete, he said.

Despite progress made over the center’s first year, Walsh said there is still work to be done. “There is still a long way to go for the University in terms of making sure that (first-generation and low-income) students have a safe space to hang out in and to express themselves without fear of retribution,” Walsh said. “But overall I think that the SES office was a fantastic beginning to the University trying very hard to make sure that low-income and first-generation students feel adequately taken care of on this campus.”

contributing columnist for Time magazine and The Washington Post, comments on political and social issues ranging from gun control to the 2016 presidential campaign. As part of his keynote, Abdul-Jabbar will address possible solutions to these issues. The event will be moderated by Omer Mozaffar, the Muslim chaplain at Loyola University Chicago, who has previously served as

a professor at the University of Chicago and DePaul University. Trained in Islamic studies, Mozaffar has taught on a variety of cultural and religious Islamic topics. Tickets for the event in Ryan Auditorium are free and will become available through the Norris Box Office at 5 p.m. on Oct. 23.

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Black students shouldn’t have to represent entire race JESSE SPARKS

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This essay is part of The Spectrum, a weekly forum in our Opinion section for marginalized voices to share their perspectives. To submit a piece for The Spectrum or discuss story ideas, please email spectrum@dailynorthwestern.com. I don’t remember the first time I felt “the look.” I don’t remember the chill that would run down my spine the second I felt that expectant gaze from my peers and teachers alike. The look asked when I was going to teach them something trivial, like how to dance. It demanded that I say something during our class lessons on slavery. It asked me to describe the nuances of racism and then provide an in-depth narrative about the traumas associated with growing up black in white spaces. I could lie and say that I remembered distinctly the first time I felt my classmates’ hesitant, beady eyes lock onto the brown of my skin and the tight black curls of my hair, the blackness in general.

I could, but I won’t because the truth is simple: I don’t remember the first time because it’s been a part of my experience since I can remember. Like a lot of black students on campus, I’ve consistently been placed in white spaces, from the different schools I attended to my extracurricular activities. My blackness was constantly and starkly contrasting with my literal, symbolic and cultural environment. In most of these settings, I was the darkest person in the room, and along with that came the burden of “blacksplaining.” For those who don’t know, blacksplaining is the act of explaining African American history and culture, issues relevant to black people and the nuances of blackness to people who are not black. While this may sound perfectly acceptable to some people, this is no small feat. It’s more than just a few comments here and a few participation points there. For many, it’s an obligation to endure and re-experience the traumas associated with growing up in predominantly white spaces. From the invalidation of one’s blackness to the exclusion from mainstream beauty standards to genuinely horrifying experiences facing the vitriol of racism firsthand, black students endure so much just to get to this point in their lives at all, not even considering the intersections of class, gender, sexuality or other identities. In light of this, it simply can’t be the responsibility of students of color to be student, teacher and therapist simultaneously. With so many discussions on ethnic identity and intersectionality,

there is an implicit expectation that students who identify with these concepts should be the ones who need to step up in class discussions and bare their wounds to the class, just to prove that the concepts and discussions happening are valid. But that’s not our job and our professors and peers shouldn’t expect it to be. Sitting in any class that encompasses some aspect of race, class, gender or some form of intersectionality tends to end up feeling like a blind gamble. With each class, I have to brace myself for the dreaded likelihood that a professor will either be too ill-equipped to engage in a discussion on marginalized identities without encouraging genuinely toxic undertones of racism or that the discussion won’t happen at all and my experiences will be misrepresented. In either situation, the professor’s silence is complicit in reminding us that this isn’t a space that was made for us. But black students shouldn’t have to be strategic in how they conserve emotional and psychological energy just to have these discussions. They shouldn’t have to choose between engaging in conversations that will leave them drained or to not have the conversations at all. To be clear, this is not to say that black students are incapable of performing or that we need to be saved or pitied. I’m not saying that we can’t engage in these discussions either, because dialogue is important and necessary when done in a healthy way. That’s not the case at all. The case is that these discussions aren’t happening in

a beneficial way. It matters because too often the opportunity to be a normal student who sits and learns without feeling the weight of having to know everything about blackness becomes a rare luxury. And that’s a huge problem, especially when the students who are required to essentially coteach their peers are the same students who still have the same homework assignments, midterms and finals as their peers. This idea of blacksplaining only adds more pressure to the daily stresses of attending a university like Northwestern. But one of the most alarming and heartbreaking things about this is that it’s not an isolated incident. My experiences aren’t unique. I’m not a special case. This “responsibility” is a trend rooted in a historical tradition of making blackness palatable and easily digestible, something to be consumed. This consumption seeks to make a spectacle of blackness without grappling with the history associated with being black. Once we can address what happened in our past and what’s happening in our present, only then can we begin to take some of the pressure off. Jesse Sparks is a Medill junior. He can be contacted at jessesparks2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

The United States needs to accept more Syrian refugees EDMUND BANNISTER DAILY COLUMNIST

In the spring of 1939, the ocean liner St. Louis set sail from the port of Hamburg in Northern Germany. On it were more than 900 Jewish passengers, fleeing persecution and imminent war in their home country. The captain of the ship, Gustav Schroeder, crossed the Atlantic in the hopes of gaining asylum for the Jewish refugees in Cuba or the United States. In each country, including the U.S., the passengers on what would later be known as the “voyage of the damned” were rebuffed on the grounds that they lacked proper documentation. The St. Louis was forced back to Europe where it disembarked a majority of its refugees in the Netherlands, Belgium and France. Of the about 600 refugees that disembarked in Europe, only about half survived the Holocaust. As I write this piece, the European continent is facing the greatest humanitarian crisis since the end of World War II. By 2016, more than 1 million refugees from the Middle East and Africa will have entered Europe, risking drowning or death at the hands of smugglers to find a better life. The overwhelming majority of these men, women and children are fleeing the fallout of the Syrian Civil War, a conflict that has thus

far taken the lives of about 250,000 people and displaced 12 million from their homes. Germany and its chancellor, Angela Merkel, have taken a courageous stand by refusing to allow refugees to languish in agony at the borders and by relieving the burden of migrants on countries like Turkey, Greece and Italy. Indeed, all of Europe, willingly or unwillingly, is being forced to recognize that the only practical solution to the migrant crisis is the settlement and social integration of these victims of conflict. In sharp contrast to our European allies, the U.S. response to the Syrian refugee crisis is shamefully weak and reflects a disturbing degree of political cowardice on the part of our political leaders. In 2014, the richest, most powerful and third most populous nation on earth, accepted a mere 1,500 Syrian refugees. Next year, the number from Syria will be raised to 10,000. This is a pathetic response when one considers that Germany, a country with onefourth of America’s population, is expected to take in more than 800,000 refugees this year alone. For Americans, integrating refugees isn’t just a charitable gift to the migrants and our European allies, but a moral obligation that has deep roots in the history and values of our country. Although our government’s conduct toward the passengers of the St. Louis was disgraceful, after World War II, the U.S. accepted more than 650,000 migrants fleeing violence in a war-ravaged Europe. In the aftermath of World War II, leaders

like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman and George Marshall recognized they had a responsibility not only to defeat the Nazis, but to shelter their victims as well. In the present day, the U.S. is attempting, albeit somewhat ineffectively, to bring the Syrian Civil War to an end. However, there are no signs that either Bashar al-Assad’s regime or the Islamic State group will disappear anytime soon. Even if the war ended tomorrow, it would take many years to rebuild the shattered ruins of most Syrian cities and return to normal life. In recognition of this fact, we must complement the billions of dollars the Air Force spends on air strikes, with a commitment to humanitarian assistance for the countless Syrians who have lost their homes and families to organizations like the Islamic State group. Many Republicans, including presidential candidates Donald Trump, Bobby Jindal and Ted Cruz have opposed the idea of accepting refugees, due to fear of terrorism. Sen. Cruz has dismissed the idea of accepting even 10,000 refugees as “nothing short of crazy.” Unfortunately, for the Senator, his claims are baseless appeals to public hysteria rather than serious policy positions. Since 9/11, the United States has accepted hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the Middle East. Only two of these immigrants, both from Iraq, have ever been indicted on charges of terrorism. Candidates like Mr. Cruz base their statements off paranoia and attempt to exploit fear and xenophobia as tools

for political advancement. Refugees, like any immigrants, are screened and processed before entering the country. If they are dangerous or have connections to terrorist organizations they are detained, arrested and/or deported. But rejecting migrants on the grounds that they come from a dangerous region of the world or because they are Muslim, defies all statistical and moral logic. The United States is largely defined by its historical commitment to safeguarding human rights and welcoming persecuted people with open arms. We have shown in the past that we have, as a nation, the will to fight for justice. Our leaders must be forced to recognize that it is not enough to hide behind our oceans while millions suffer or to pass moral responsibility onto the Europeans. Instead, America should use its tremendous resources to alleviate the pain of the Syrians and assist overburdened European and Middle Eastern states. We must finally display a level of moral courage that fits our proud traditions, in the hopes that people like the passengers of the MS St. Louis, are never turned away again. Edmund Bannister is a Weinberg freshman. He can be contacted at edmundbannister2019@u.northwestern. edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern. com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

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Sam Garcia has dreamed of one day leading Northwestern’s only East Asian interest a capella group, the Treblemakers, on a tour of Asia since he joined the group as a freshman. Four years later, he is making that dream a reality. “It was in the back of my mind that if I became the leader I’d want to do this, I’d want to bring this group to Asia,” said Garcia, the group’s general manager and a Weinberg and Bienen senior. “Seeing how excited the exec board is about how many donations are coming in and that it’s actually happening … it’s just incredibly exciting.” For the first time since its founding in 2004, Treblemakers will travel abroad to Seoul, Beijing and Hong Kong. Garcia said the group attempted to plan a similar trip to Asia four years ago, but the plans fell through. The group, which consists of 21 members from all over the world, including China, Korea, Canada, Singapore and the United States, has been fundraising for the past few weeks to send the majority of its members on a 10-day trip during the 2016 Spring Break. “The reason (the trip) hasn’t happened before is because of funding, so that’s trying when you have 20 people and an international flight,” said McCormick sophomore SueSan Chen, the Treblemaker’s assistant musical director. “A lot of our students are on financial aid, but this year we had the opportunity to do a Catalyzer campaign, which is still going on, and we already raised $8,000.” Catalyzer is an online fundraising platform similar to Kickstarter, and funds donated through the site count toward the University’s $3.75 billion “We Will” fundraising campaign. In addition to donations from alumni, family members and friends on Catalyzer, the group has fundraised through bake sales, a Blaze Pizza profit-share and the sale of Treblemaker

albums, Chen said. Fundraising will continue to further subsidize expenses, which were budgeted at about $2,000 per person, excluding personal expenses, Garcia said. “Every member has a different financial need depending on their socioeconomic class and family situation, so we try to be very personal about it and make sure we can provide every single member of our group that is going on this tour with money that they need,” he said. Treblemakers hopes to serve as a cultural exchange while abroad by introducing a cappella music to other parts of the world, and introducing Asian societies to American culture. “As an East Asian a cappella group with a lot of members who grew up in the U.S. and who grew up in China, Korea, in that part of the world, we have a pretty unique ability to bridge the gap between these multiple cultures,” Garcia said. While traveling, the group will perform at multiple high schools and colleges where they will introduce students to a cappella music — an uncommon type of music in Asia — and give workshops on the college experience and application process in the United States, said Bienen and Communication freshman Amanda Xiang. Xiang, a Hong Kong native, said she’s looking forward to returning home with a whole new purpose. “We have the opportunity to showcase our ability back home,” she said. “There are people from Korea, China and other places in the group so it’s really cool to tell your family and friends what you’ve been up to.” Although Garcia said the trip has taken a lot of planning, he said the entire executive board has been very committed to working together to support each other in planning the tour. “It’s not just that we love performing together, we love being together,” Garcia said. “To have a family away from home is very special because that’s really what the group is to me.” juliefishbach2018@u.northwestern.edu

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At the beginning of the season, expectations for the Wildcats were low, with bowl dreams ambitious if not completely out of reach. Seven games later, Northwestern is 5-2, and fans shouldn’t be complaining. Right now, the Cats are on track to finish the season at 7-5 with wins against Purdue and Illinois. That isn’t just barely making it to a bowl game; that’s a strong season for this team. By the way it looked from the outset, they shouldn’t have beaten Stanford,

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not the same team that went on a five-game winning streak. These past two games were a slump, and an embarrassing one. Looking strictly at the stats, NU outplayed Stanford, Duke and Minnesota in average yards per carry and average yards per reception. The one exception to this was in yards per carry against Duke. It says a lot, though, that NU had this amount of consistency in these earlier games. There was no fluke Hail Mary pass to win a game, no botched opposing field goal. NU had to depend on its own talent to pull off the streak. And that’s not to mention how strong and highly ranked the defense was. There’s a lot of past tense in that last paragraph. The stats for the past two games say it all. NU’s average rush per carry was 1.52 yards, compared to Michigan’s 4.37, and average yards per completion against Michigan came out to 8.67 to the Wolverines’ 10.53. Against Iowa, the Cats averaged 1.96 yards per carry with Iowa running for an average of 5.76 yards, and average NU receiving yards was about 7.35 per completion compared to Iowa’s impressive 12.38. There are some reasons why this slump — again, it’s a slump, not a landslide — might have happened.

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suddenly, too. I admit, racking up two straight blowout defeats with a combined 78 points scored against them, doesn’t look great. In fact, it looks horrible. However, the team that played against both Michigan and Iowa is

One potential explanation relates to both the past 5-7 seasons and the fleeting glory days of years past. Historically, the Cats don’t like October. NU has always played unimpressively during this midterm-laden month. Looking back from 2011 on, it’s astonishing how much of a trend this is. Games during the month of October produce similar results each year: 2011’s October had four losses in five games that month, 2012 had two in four, 2013 had four in four, 2014 had two in three, and so far 2015 has two out of three. The bright side is the Cats have bounced back in the past. The November 2011 and November 2012 teams — which are more on par with NU’s talent this year than the 2013 and 2014 teams — both did better with the calendar change. During November 2011, the team had three wins in four games, and in 2012 the team had two out of three. And let’s not forget that this is still a young team. The most noticeable of these younger players is redshirt freshman quarterback Clayton Thorson, who is still developing, and that doesn’t take just seven games in his first season. Iowa had C.J. Beathard’s junior-year experience to help it, and Michigan had Jake Rudock, a senior. With more experience and more games played, Thorson will continue to improve and settle down. And what better time to have that happen than the remaining half of the season, which has an undoubtedly easier schedule. Other position groups with more experience — receivers and the entire defense — have less of an excuse. But with a different mindset and game strategy, the Cats can — and should — return to their early season success. stephaniekelly2017@u.northwestern.edu

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What happened to Northwestern the past two weeks? The answer is as simple as it is demoralizing: The Wildcats just aren’t very good, and they never were. There was a surprising but, at the time, not wholly outlandish upset of a Stanford team that currently looks like the class of the Pac-12. There was the routine beat-down of an FCS cupcake, and the fluky win over Duke on the road that masked many of the team’s deficiencies. An all-toonarrow win over Ball State and a romp over mediocre Minnesota convinced many spectators the Cats actually might be for real, and NU ascended all the way to No. 13 in the AP poll. Then, in arguably their two most important games of the season in terms of national relevance and conference standings, the Cats unequivocally wilted. NU had two chances to beat a ranked opponent and take a step toward winning the Big Ten West, and lost both by a combined margin of 78-10. It would be reassuring if there were some mitigating factor like injuries in play, or if the annual October collapse wasn’t so woven into the fabric of the program, but neither of those is true. For five weeks, NU just managed to fool everyone, perhaps even itself, that it was a good football team. The win over Stanford feels akin to eventual national chamDaily file photo by Jacob Swan pion Ohio State’s loss to Virginia Tech last year. NU barely outmaneuvered a young Cardinal defense that was replacing nine starters, scoring just one touchdown, benefitted from some conservative play-calling by Stanford coach David Shaw and held the Cardinal offense to an unsustainable 20 percent third down conversion rate. Redshirt freshman quarterback Clayton Thorson didn’t turn the ball over, in spite of some very questionable throws, and the Cats won. The formula was much the same against Duke. NU’s only touchdowns came on a kickoff return by sophomore Solomon Vault and a 55-yard sprint against a misaligned Blue Devils’ defense by junior Warren Long. Thorson was a laughably bad 9-of-23 for 70 yards and sophomore running back Justin Jackson averaged just 3.4 yards a carry, but Duke committed three

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turnovers to NU’s two, and the Cats won. Even NU’s shutout victory over Minnesota looks far less impressive under a microscope. The Cats had just one sustained touchdown drive, with the other touchdowns resulting from a five-yard field and a scoop-and-score by sophomore linebacker Anthony Walker. The stats, traditional and advanced, fully illuminate the degree to which NU has overachieved this season. Thorson is the second-worst regular quarterback in the Big Ten, averaging 5.4 yards per attempts — that’s nearly a full 4 yards behind the conference leader, Indiana’s Nate Sudfeld — and completing just 54 percent of his passes. Jackson, the alleged star of the offense, leads the Big Ten in carries with 160 but ranks 25th among qualified backs in yards per attempt. As a team, the Cats average the fewest points per game in the conference and also rank dead-last in yards per play. That shouldn’t happen on a team with fourstar recruits at quarterback and running back. To be fair, NU still boasts an excellent defense that ranks sixth nationally according to Football Outsiders’ S&P+ metric, even taking into account the blasting it took at the hands of Iowa. The defense has kept games close, giving luck a chance to swing in the Cats’ favor. That idea is best summed up by Football Outsiders’ secondorder wins, which attempts to

measure how many games a team is expected to win based on its advanced stats. NU’s total is 3.6 wins, and the -1.4 difference between its predicted and actual record is the fourth-largest negative disparity in the FBS. The Cats’ record has outpaced their mediocre performance, but that doesn’t change the fact those five wins are in the bank. NU will make a bowl game — having Purdue on the schedule all but guarantees the sixth win needed for eligibility — which stands as an improvement over the previous two 5-7 seasons. But in light of the last two games, expectations of NU for the rest of this season and beyond need to be reevaluated. When it comes to competing for the Big Ten West or on a national stage, this isn’t the team the Cats have been looking for. bpillote@u.northwestern.edu

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believe Cox’s murder was a gang-related retaliation to another fatal shooting on Aug. 31. Although the city used to try to combat violence through community-based buyback events, the police department transitioned in Fall 2013 to make gun buyback an everyday opportunity. As the city’s gun buyback program stands, residents can call the police department any day they choose and an officer will visit their home to collect the firearm and provide a $100 voucher that can be cashed in at the Civic Center, said Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan. Individuals can also call into the police department to schedule a time to exchange their gun, Dugan said. “We call and prearrange a pickup time for all firearms,” Dugan said. “We don’t want people bringing guns into our lobby, so we request that it’s put into a locked container and the location of the gun reported to us. That way you have more control.” But Murray, who was involved with establishing the city’s first gun buyback events in 2012, said community events for gun buybacks should be reinstated because individuals in the community are uncomfortable personally contacting a police officer to hand over a gun. “Doing it at the police station … it doesn’t work,” Murray told The Daily. “No one feels comfortable contacting police to give them a gun.” In November 2012, the city’s first amnesty-based gun buyback was announced to take place on Dec. 15. The buyback event, based at Christ Temple Missionary Baptist Church on Simpson Street, resulted in 45 collected guns at $100 per firearm. A second buyback took place about seven months later at a different Evanston church, where 28 firearms were collected. Murray said she was ready to start a communitybased buyback on her own before city officials contacted her in 2012 asking for input on operational procedures for the city’s first official buyback event.

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From page 1 so far this year. Within three days in early August, eight vehicles were broken into on two separate streets, Dugan told The Daily. A common cause for motor vehicle theft was unlocked car doors, Dugan said. Of the 81 motor vehicles burglaries this year, which do not include the theft of the vehicle itself, 96 percent involved unlocked vehicles. “At the beginning of the quarter, we made a lot

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2015 “I was prepared to do gun buybacks in my living room because I was fed up with hearing gunshots every night in the ward,” said Murray, who lives in the 5th Ward. “When they called me, the community outcry was for buybacks because of the numbers supporting them.” Due to the success of the two programs, officials broached the topic of an ongoing buyback program that would operate 24/7, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said. Individuals requesting a firearm to be taken off their hands can call the Evanston Police Department’s non-emergency line and set up a time, Bobkiewicz said. “It really is, turn in your gun — no questions asked,” he said. On Sept. 24, three days after the City Council meeting at which Murray spoke, Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl released a statement reiterating the city’s commitment to a consistently operating program. Bobkiewicz said the statement was a clarification that the program was operating, given the possibility of misunderstanding the timeframe when gun buybacks went from sporadic operation to a consistent basis. “The important thing is … what the chief of police thinks is an effective program,” Tisdahl told The Daily. “The one-day program did not get the number of caliber of guns off the street that (police Chief Richard Eddington) hoped for, and after trying this different method he feels this program is successful.” Murray said the success she envisions for the buyback involves collaboration between city officials and those in community areas impacted by violent crime. “We’re just not utilizing the opportunity to bring someone to the communities where these events occur and say ‘we know what you’re dealing with and we want your cooperation,’” Murray said. “It’s about bringing the community together — there is no onepill solution.” Marissa Page contributed reporting. elenasucharetza2018@u.northwestern.edu of arrests for burglaries to motor vehicles,” he said. “We have not been shy about mentioning that the vast majority of all of our vehicle break-ins have to do with an unlocked vehicle.” Dugan explained that oftentimes perpetrators will go down a line of vehicles, trying door handles to see if any are open and taking what they can from the inside. In some cases, that means finding a spare or valet key and driving off in the stolen vehicle. mpage@u.northwestern.edu

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the alliance and a representative from the Women’s Center. Linzer said the task force will use the alliance’s April report to guide its recommendations. The task force will submit the recommendations to Linzer and Chinniah at the end of May. Linzer acknowledged and thanked the alliance in the press release announcing the task force. The task force had its first meeting Oct. 15, and Sarah McGill, co-chair of the task force and senior associate dean at The Graduate School, said it plans on meeting once a month. “I feel really good about the composition and knowledge and commitment with which they are taking their charge,” she said. “I look forward to working with them.” Hoecker said although she thinks those selected for the task force will do a good job, she is frustrated that the group responsible for the report will not be included in the task force’s discussions. “They’re using the report, but we can’t be there to defend it or explain it or explain why we recommended the things that we did,” she said. “To use a sports analogy, it feels like we’re the team that got us to this point, we’re at the end of the game, the clock is winding down and now they put in all new players.”

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WASHINGTON — Pakistan’s first daughter, Maryam Nawaz Sharif, joined first lady Michelle Obama on Thursday in the fight for girls’ education worldwide, focusing on new programs to support the more than 70 percent of secondary school-age girls who don’t receive an education in her country. At the White House, Obama announced $70 million in U.S. investments that will go toward the education and well-being of 200,000 adolescent girls in Pakistan, which she said will build on Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ’s commitment to double education spending.

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The country spent about 2.5 percent of its gross domestic product on education in 2013, according to the World Bank. Sharif also announced her father’s education reform program, which she said will completely change the school system and resources for students. “We do it together,” Sharif said, holding hands with Obama. “The challenges are huge ... girl by girl, classroom by classroom, school by school, woman by woman. We shall keep on making a difference. We shall not rest until every girl is learning in school.” The U.S. investment comes as a part of the president and first lady’s Let Girls Learn initiative, which launched in March and brings together U.S. agencies and programs to expand

educational opportunities for girls worldwide. It also called for action from other countries. Besides Pakistan, South Korea, Japan and the United Kingdom have generated more than $700 million for the cause. “And we are just getting started on this issue,” Michelle Obama said. “I plan to continue this work, not just during the remaining time as first lady, but for the rest of my life.” The Pakistani investment will build more schools, rehabilitate others, set up health screenings and skills-training programs and fund college scholarships for girls, Obama said. “These girls are all of our girls,” she said. “We can give every girl on this planet the future that she deserves.” Sharif, like Obama, has two daughters, whom

they both urged to pick up the fight for education. Obama asked them and girls worldwide to raise awareness about the number of girls globally without access to education with the hashtag #62MillionGirls. Malala Yousafzai, co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, grew up in Pakistan struggling to receive safe access to education. The world heard her story in 2012 when gunmen attempted to kill her aboard a school bus. She has since become an advocate for girls’ education. Though Sharif said she didn’t identify as a feminist, she said she believes in the power of women and their resilience to fight domestic, workplace and societal battles, as well as internal battles.

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For many of the Wildcats, the race at the Illini Open this Friday will be their final competition of the season. The squad advancing to run in the Big Ten Championships on Nov. 1 will not compete this weekend. Coach ‘A Havahla Haynes and the rest of the team will travel to Champaign to record some final fast times for the season. Haynes said one or two runners with standout performances could earn a spot on the Big Ten Championships roster if they are strong, healthy and ready to run aggressively at the championship meet, which Northwestern will host at the Sydney Marovitz Golf Course in Chicago. With eight women already in mind to step up to the line at Big Tens, and nine spots available, Haynes said she plans to add one runner to the roster and maybe a second, depending on Friday’s performances. “To be honest, I’m not looking for any certain woman,” Haynes said. “The Illini meet is a tough meet because it’s not a super competitive meet, so not a lot of women get pushed. It’ll matter who is healthy enough and who is feeling 100 percent.” With their top runner, junior Jena Pianin, out for the season due to injury, the Cats are looking to put forward a healthy, optimistic team to build morale and stay competitive. Their eyes are set on a top-ten finish this year within the conference.

the heels of a 4-1 loss to No. 5 Akron. Before the loss, Michigan State had won two in a row. Like NU, the Spartans will be looking to boost their tournament resume as the season nears its end, Lenahan said. NU is led into this game by sophomore forward Elo Ozumba, the team’s sole goal scorer against Notre Dame. Although only a sophomore, he is tied for the team lead in goals scored this season. Ozumba believes the Cats can build off the positive result against the Fighting Irish. “Michigan State is a good team, and they

Senior Rachel Weathered, who will not be competing in the Illini Open because she is slated to run at Big Tens, said the meet this weekend provides a different kind of opportunity for different members on the team. “It’s a fun opportunity for a lot of our seniors to have a last race,” she said. “It’s an opportunity for some girls, who could be our eighth and ninth runners, to prove themselves and show that they can be competitive.” Even with many top runners absent from competition this weekend as they gear up for Big Tens, Haynes said her team is excited to leave all its effort on the course to make a final good impression on the 2015 season. Whether they’re racing to finish first for the Cats and advance to Big Tens or post a solid time in the final race of their college career, Haynes said all the women are ready to put their best foot forward. Senior Renee Wellman said that although her Northwestern cross country career has been unpredictable, with a new coach her senior year and several teammates’ injuries to set the team back during championship seasons, she is optimistic about NU’s future and enthusiastic about finishing out the season strong. “This could be the last race of my college career,” Wellman said. “Regardless, I’m excited to have another race with the team, especially on a nice course like Illinois, and we should have some good conditions to put down some fast times.”

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In NU’s victory over Michigan State (5-11, 2-5) on Sunday, the Cats held the Spartans to only taking one shot in 70 minutes. Meanwhile, NU took 25 shots in the same amount of time. The Cats did not concede a single penalty corner during the game against Michigan State, and the defense stifled the Spartans shooters. Senior back Lisa McCarthy contributed two assists off of penalty corners during NU’s shutout and locked down the Spartans’ offense. “We know that Ohio State has some very effective forwards, so being able to employ some of the things we did versus Michigan and particularly Michigan State will be important,” McCarthy said. “We worked on our press, our one-on-one defense and then our circle defense is going to be key too. We need to slow down the attack before they have a chance to take shots.” As well as the defense played against Michigan State, the offense struggled to capitalize on its opportunities when it took on Michigan (133, 5-1). The Cats outshot Michigan 20-12, but the team’s inability to finish its penalty corners

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play a similar style to Notre Dame, so the game plan should be pretty similar,” he said. The Saturday afternoon tilt is Senior Day for the Cats. It will be the final home game for eight NU players, including senior defender Henry Herrill. Herrill was an integral part of the defensive effort that yielded only one goal this past Tuesday against Notre Dame. “It’s been a great experience at Northwestern these past four years,” he said. “Hopefully I can end it with my last home game being a good one.” The game kicks off at 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon in Bridgeview, Illinois. bradencouch2016@u.northwestern.edu and slip the ball past the Wolverines keeper proved sufficient enough for NU to come away with a loss. Junior midfielder Dominique Masters put five shots on goal during the Michigan loss, and she said the team has made finishing its opportunities a priority. “We still want to get as many shots on goal as possible, and try to get something on the keeper at least,” Masters said. “We are making sure we are still putting them under pressure and getting shots off even if they’re not resulting in goals all of the time.” After the Cats play Ohio State, they will travel from Columbus to Athens, Ohio to take on the Ohio Bobcats (8-6, 3-1 MAC) on Sunday. But Fuchs said the team is taking the schedule one game at a time. “It’s important right now to just focus on Ohio State and come out and play our game,” Fuchs said. “They are a team we could very well see in the first round of the tournament, so we just want to get as much information as we can as well as have a really solid game from our forward line to our backs.” danielwaldman2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Clawing for Conference Crown

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SENIOR DAY Northwestern sent off its seniors with a resounding 4-0 win over Iowa on Sunday. NU has a chance to clinch a Big Ten tournament berth with a point in its last two games, extending the final season of a senior class that has been an integral part of a huge step forward for the program during its time in Evanston.

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NU looking to secure spot in Big Ten Tournament By CHARLOTTE VAZIRI

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After a long and successful season to date, Northwestern’s (11-4-2, 5-3-1 Big Ten) showing as they fight Illinois (9-4-3, 3-3-3) on the road could be the difference in qualifying for the Big Ten Tournament. “A lot is on the line,” coach Michael Moynihan said. “It will be Illinois’ Senior Day. They’re No. 8 (in the Big Ten), we’re No. 6. It will be a fight.” Of the 14 teams in the Big Ten, only eight qualify for the conference tournament. With only two conference games remaining in the regular season for each team, the race to lock down one of those eight spots is down to the wire. The current top four seeds — Wisconsin (with 22 points), Penn State (19 points), Minnesota (19 points) and Rutgers (17 points) — can breathe a sigh of relief. Mathematically, no matter the upcoming results, their entry into the Big Tens is secure. The only impact the final games have is on their tournament seeding. At the moment, the Cats (16 points), along with Michigan (17 points), Ohio State (14 points) and Illinois (12 points) are in position to qualify in the remaining four spots. Unlike the top four, the fate of their conference tournament bid rides on these last two games. “We could finish in the top four or be knocked out,” Moynihan said. NU, Ohio State, Illinois, Michigan State (11 points) and Purdue (10 points) are all within two games of contesting each other’s Big Ten record. The Cats can punch their ticket

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with a win or a tie against the Fighting Illini. Wins against Illinois and against Wisconsin on Tuesday could thrust NU into a top-four spot in the conference and a home game to begin the Big Tens. But if NU slips up in its remaining games, it will be at the mercy of other teams and hoping the combination of outcomes around the conference doesn’t boot them. If the Cats fall to Illinois and again to Wisconsin on Tuesday, they will be left hoping the Spartans and Boilermakers don’t shake things up by winning both games. With so much up in the air, Moynihan is choosing to control what he can to better NU’s qualifying odds. “There’s so much that can change,” he said. “We’re only thinking about Illinois.” The Cats have plenty to think about in trying to find a flaw in Fighting Illini forward Jannelle Flaws. Flaws is the best goal-scorer to ever put on the orange and blue jersey. She owns the career goal-scoring record for Illinois and currently leads her team in goals (9), assists (6), points (24) and shots (73). “(She is) a fantastic goal scorer that strikes the ball as well as anyone you’ve ever seen. She’s dangerous around the goal, from a distance, and has great instincts in the attacking third,” Moynihan said. The Fighting Illini also have a unique weapon in their arsenal that allows them to generate frequent offensive opportunities — the flip-throw.

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TOWER OF TERROR Freshman defender Kayla Sharples wins an aerial challenge. Northwestern has a chance to clinch a spot in the Big Ten Tournament against Illinois on Saturday.

Illinois midfielder Nicole Breece can generate a flip-throw that launches from the sideline into the box and causes havoc defensively. Throw-ins are much more prevalent in games than standard set pieces, giving the Fighting Illini more

chances to create threats that are equivalent in danger to free kicks and corners. The Cats are coming off a 4-0 win against Iowa last Sunday, but sophomore goalkeeper Lauren Clem said NU is still hungry heading into their

first chance to clinch a Big Ten tournament berth. “We have a larger goal in mind, and that was just one step of us getting closer,” she said. charlottevaziri2014@u.northwestern.edu

NU travels to Ohio for a pair of crucial games By DAN WALDMAN

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MAKING THE LEAP Sophomore forward Elo Ozumba challenges the goalie in the air. Ozumba is tied for the team lead in goals and scored the Cats’ lone goal in a 1-1 tie against Notre Dame Tuesday.

The Wildcats have only two games remaining in conference play, and splitting games this weekend is not an option. In a heartbreaking match, No. 16 Northwestern (10-6, 3-3 Big Ten) lost in overtime to then-No.14 Michigan last Friday, dropping its conference record to 2-3. The Cats then brought their Big Ten record back to .500 with a shutout win over Michigan State on Sunday. But NU does not have the luxury to split games this weekend versus Ohio State and Ohio, as the end of the Big Ten season approaches. After a four-game home stretch, the Cats will travel to Columbus, Ohio for a game with the Buckeyes

No. 16 Northwestern vs. Ohio State Columbus, Ohio 2:30 p.m. Friday

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(8-6, 4-2). Currently, Ohio State sits two spots above NU, so this match will be critical in determining Big Ten Tournament seeding. “We are still building and getting better,” coach Tracey Fuchs said. “Every game counts and we have a lot of pride and character. The Big Ten is one of the best conferences in the country, so you have to be ready for every team.” » See FIELD HOCKEY, page 10

Senior Day up next for the Cats By BRADEN COUCH

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Northwestern’s regular season is coming to a close, and it faces a Michigan State team that it is looking up at in the race for the NCAA Tournament. The Wildcats (5-6-2, 2-3-0 Big Ten) are fresh off an exhilarating double overtime draw. With the Big Ten Tournament approaching, coach Tim Lenahan said he isn’t focused on improving the team’s seeding heading into the Nov. 8

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quarterfinals. “Seeding in the Big Ten Tournament doesn’t matter,” he said. “Whoever you play is going to be a good team.” The focus will continue to be on improving NU’s RPI, currently hovering at 61, thus improving the team’s chances of making the NCAA tournament. With four games remaining on the schedule

for the Cats, it is easy to get caught looking ahead. “I hate to sound like a coach, but we have to continue to take this one game at a time,” Lenahan said. The team NU faces, Michigan State (7-5-2, 2-1-2 Big Ten), not only has a higher RPI, but also has taken the Cats to overtime four years in a row. Lenahan attributed the string of close results in the series to the similar successful cultures surrounding both programs. The Spartans enter this game on » See MEN’S SOCCER, page 10

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NOWHERE TO HIDE A Northwestern player harasses an opposing ballhandler. The Wildcats take to the road this weekend to face the Buckeyes and Bobcats.