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FENCING
Wildcats named Midwest champs NU takes home second straight win in conference By STEPHEN COUNCIL
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Northwestern had one of its best regular seasons ever: a 39-5 record, a No. 2 national ranking and a brand-new home facility in Ryan Fieldhouse. This weekend, the Wildcats made a little more history. NU cruised to its second straight Midwest Fencing Conference championship, the school’s third in four years. For the first time ever, the Cats swept all three weapon titles at the contest. “It was amazing to turn around and see the whole squad there, the whole team there, cheering for every touch,” senior foil Yvonne Chart said. “It just felt amazing. It was just a dream come true, it’s a perfect way for my senior conference to go.” The Midwest Fencing Conference championships started on Saturday with individual play, where fencers faced off in pool play before making their way through direct-elimination rounds. While they dominated early rounds — 17 NU
fencers landed in the top 10 for their weapon style — the Cats finished the day with one silver medal and five bronzes. On the way to their medals, the fencers had to face off against their own teammates. Junior epée Pauline Hamilton took down freshman Maggie Snider to reach the final. In foil, Chart beat freshman Alyssa Chen and sophomore Sarah Filby beat junior Amy Jia. Chart and Filby lost their respective semifinal bouts and tied for third. Sophomore Alexis Browne was the Cats’ top finisher in sabre, ending up in third as well. Coach Zach Moss said it would have been nice for a few of his fencers to have walked away with gold medals, but he felt good, acknowledging that the circumstances were unusual. “The first day, especially for our team, is really hard and weird, because the individual competition ends up being a lot of teammate bouts, so it’s not anything that we’re used to,” Moss said. “It’s not the kind of competition that we’re good at, it’s not the kind of team that we are.” The individual matches have no impact on Sunday’s team contests, so NU had a chance to start over strong. » See FENCE, page 6
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Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) speaks at a City Council meeting. Wilson said he did not feel comfortable moving forward with the proposed Chicago Avenue development until the city added a clause in the contract specifying what would happen if the project failed.
Council puts development on hold Aldermen request more details on proposed Chicago Avenue building By CASSIDY WANG
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Aldermen voted 6-3 to place on hold an ordinance requesting a special use permit and a zoning map amendment for a planned development on Chicago Avenue at a Monday City Council meeting. The planned development — a 13-story office space set to be located at 1714-1720 Chicago
Ave. — would require a special use permit and area zoning amendment that would result in the “most intense development within the city,” according to city documents. After many Evanston residents expressed concerns about the planned development, ranging from potential issues about safety to traffic to encroachment on historical properties, aldermen decided to request more information from the building’s developers and an updated contract containing more specifications about the
plans. Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) said he did not feel comfortable moving forward with the ordinance in case the property ends up being sold, but for whatever unforeseen reason, the development does not proceed. Wilson said the city should add a clause into the contract with developers that would specify future proceedings in the case that development does stall. He suggested there could be a clause in the contract which would return
the property to the city if development doesn’t proceed. Wilson expressed concerns about moving forward with the contract if the city could potentially end up in a “limbo state.” “I realize they have the best intentions, but I don’t want to put the community on the hook,” he said. Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) made a motion to table the ordinance until the next regularly-scheduled » See DEVELOPMENT, page 6
Girl Scouts brave cold to raise funds NU researchers aid Troop weathers a frigid cookie season to raise money for service project
Professors create models for optimal space mission teams
By CLARE PROCTOR
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When Samantha Tilson joined her first Girl Scout troop, she was only six years old. “All I wanted to do was be with my friends,” Tilson said. “Now, I understand the real meaning of being a Girl Scout. You get to help people, and you get to go on cool adventures.” Tilson, now 11, and two of her troop-mates braved winds upwards of 20 miles per hour Sunday to sell cookies in Evanston. Every year, typically from January to the end of March, cookie lovers can enjoy their classic favorites — from Thin Mints to Samoas to Tagalongs —- while supporting young women entrepreneurs. This was Tilson’s first year selling cookies outside, she said. Despite the cold, she said standing outside of Peet’s Coffee, 1622 Chicago Ave., to sell boxes of cookies was “interesting.”
Mars expedition
By AARON WANG
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Girl Scouts stand outside Peet’s Coffee, 1622 Chicago Ave., to sell cookies. The girls are selling to raise money for a service trip in Costa Rica during the summer of 2020.
“I like selling cookies because we get to be social people around our community,” Tilson said. Troop 23013, the girls’ group, will use money raised
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from cookie sales to fund local service projects, 12-year-old Meredith White said. Out of the $5 cost for each box of cookies, $1 will go toward a service trip in Costa Rica, set
for the summer of 2020, White said. The girls’ troop also started a recycling program at their » See GIRLSCOUT, page 6
Cooperation is key in space, and Northwestern professors are helping NASA identify important traits for successful teamwork in anticipation of an upcoming Mars expedition. To help NASA assemble a team for a three-year mission to Mars, Communication Prof. Leslie DeChurch and McCormick Prof. Noshir Contractor are working with a global team of researchers to develop a predictive model of group performance, which anticipates conflicts and communication breakdowns among astronauts based on their personality traits. The research found that people with a good sense of humor tend to do better in the
simulation, while overly selffocused and narcissistic crew members can lead to group dysfunction, DeChurch said. The analysis of different prototypes of teamwork will improve NASA’s selection program for future missions, she said. DeChurch said space travel is “almost like a group marriage,” making cooperation essential to mission success. “When you are on a longdistance space mission, not only can you not get away from problems, but you are relying on everybody in your team to help you mitigate some of the challenges that you are facing personally,” she said. To create the model, Contractor, who is also a Kellogg and Communication professor, said the team analyzed transcripts of conversations during a space mission in 1973 — the Skylab mission — during which crew members turned off communication with ground control in » See MARS, page 6
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