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Medill senior Louisa Wyatt, Director of Sports Journalism J.A. Adande and Mara Brock Akil speak at McCormick Foundation Center on Thursday. When Adande met Brock Akil, he said she was “just a girl from Kansas City” wearing overalls.
‘Girlfriends’ creator gets award
Mara Brock Akil (Medill ’92) honored for TV production success By LAUREN BELL
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When Mara Brock Akil (Medill ’92) first met Medill Prof. J.A. Adande (Medill ’92) during their new student orientation meeting, Adande said she was “just a girl from Kansas
City” wearing overalls. “What strikes me about it is I remember when we were in college and we went to a Bulls game and we literally were at the top of Chicago Stadium,” he said. “(Now we’re) courtside among all the celebrities at the Staples Center, and I thought about how far we both had
come.” Now, Brock Akil –– creator of the show “Girlfriends,” which ran for eight seasons on UPN and The CW –– is being honored for her success in TV production. Brock Akil received the Medill Hall of Achievement award at the McCormick Foundation Center Forum on
Thursday and later spoke with Adande about her career and diversity in the media to an audience of about 50 people. Brock Akil will also receive the Northwestern Alumni Medal from the Northwestern Alumni Association during » See AKIL, page 12
Northwestern launched a pilot program this quarter to loan firstyear students textbooks related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics classes, Provost Jonathan Holloway said. Holloway said about a month ago, he approved a proposal brought to him by the Office of Undergraduate Admission. He said he approved the program, Books for Cats, so students could have textbooks at the beginning of the quarter instead of delaying purchases and potentially falling behind in classes. He said the program allows low-income students to pursue STEM fields on an even playing field. “We’ve admitted them,” Holloway said. “They are now a part of this community, and we are ethically obliged to make sure that they have every resource they can so that they can have as close to an equitable access to (their) future.” Holloway said the Office of Undergraduate Admission contacted 351 students to notify them of their potential eligibility for the program.
Brian Drabik, senior associate director of the Office of Undergraduate Financial Aid, said STEM textbooks can be very expensive and a burden to lowincome students. He said students can borrow textbooks for various subjects including chemistry, economics and math from the University and pick them up in the bookstore at Norris University Center. While Books for Cats focuses on “key, introductory” classes, Drabik said students can keep the textbooks into following quarters if they are still needed. “Especially for incoming students ... having assistance with their startup costs is so essential,” Drabik said. “Many times, lowincome students may come to campus not as prepared as they thought they may have been, so I imagine that this will alleviate a lot of stress for these students.” Communication sophomore Kimani Isaac said even though there are opportunities at NU to lower textbook costs for first-year students, there aren’t many for older students like herself. She said she created a petition calling on the University to support textbook affordability. As of early Friday morning, more than 530 people had signed the petition, addressed to Holloway, vice president for student affairs Patricia Telles-Irvin and University » See BOOKS, page 13
NU contemplates Affordable housing project to proceed calendar changes By NIKKI BAIM
Altered schedule could lengthen Spring vacation By ALLY MAUCH
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The University is considering changes to the academic calendar that could involve shortening the length of Fall Quarter and increasing the length of Spring Break, Provost Jonathan Holloway said. Holloway said these changes, including creating a “more humane Fall Quarter,”
would have to be “put in place” by Dec. 1 in order for them to take effect during the 2019-20 academic year. Faculty have discussed possible calendar changes since the 2015 Faculty Task Force on the Undergraduate Academic Experience found that the current academic calendar puts students at risk for mental exhaustion. “I’m very attuned to the fact that calendar stress is real,” Holloway told The Daily on Thursday. “I fully understand the need to rest — you burn hot for 10 weeks and we’ve got
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AROUND TOWN Panel discusses influence of indigenous cultures By ADRIAN WAN
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City clerk announces FOIA reforms, urges independence for office
City clerk Devon Reid argued in a Facebook statement Thursday to keep jurisdiction over Freedom of Information Act requests under the sole purview of his office. Reid has been staunchly opposed to a vote by City Council that would appoint a city official to oversee
FOIA requests, contending on Facebook that claims should be kept “under the complete authority of an elected and independent office.” In addition, he outlined a new two-step redaction review for all FOIA claims. The statement, posted from the official city clerk account, said “placing FOIA under the authority (even partially) of the Evanston Police Department or City Manager’s office creates a conflict.” “In order to protect the public’s interest, ALL FOIA requests, FOIA responses, and related communication should be processed and deposited in the
Clerk’s office; an elected office that answers directly to the residents of Evanston,” the statement said. Aldermen voted Sept. 25 to designate a FOIA appointee after residents expressed concern about sensitive information in the online NextRequest database. Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) said at the meeting that the database had made public the names of juvenile offenders and survivors of sexual assault. Aldermen also voted to make the database temporarily private so the information could be retracted. As part of Reid’s new redaction process, Evanston would begin to use NextRequest’s embargo feature,
limingwan2021@u.northwestern.edu according to the statement. This would result in an increased redaction screening period — five to 10 days — to ensure no sensitive information is posted online. Additionally, certain FOIA requests, such as police and arrest reports, would not be made public on the database but instead be sent only to the requester. Evanston residents have previously been able to request access to public records on NextRequest, which publishes the information in accordance with Illinois FOIA amendments. — Kristina Karisch
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Tony Burroughs (left) and Bethany Hughes (right) speak at a panel held at Mitchell Museum of the American Indian. The executive director of Mitchell Museum said the museum aims to promote deeper understandings and respect for American Indian people.
Growing up around traces of her Choctaw ancestry — like the stickball sticks hung on display and hymnals placed on the curio cabinet — Bethany Hughes, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, said she was always proud of her identity. “That we are Choctaws was always a pride of holding onto a Choctaw identity, which is a mark of survival and defiance in face of the culture and society preferring that identity to not exist,” Hughes said. Hughes’ speech was part of a panel discussion Thursday hosted by the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, 3001 Central St. Nearly 30 people attended the event. The discussion, part of the museum’s 40th celebration series, featured black and American Indian panelists from the Chicago area in an effort to focus on how indigenous cultures shaped the country’s current identity and history. Hughes was joined by African American historian and activist Pemon Rami, author and genealogist Tony Burroughs and Evanston-based fine art photographer Nora Lloyd. The panelists explained the difficulty of growing up in a country that had put their ancestors through slavery, war and removal.
Burroughs said a part of his childhood was shaped by the color of his skin. Growing up in a black community on the South Side of Chicago, he said he did not grasp the notion of racism until after a baseball game injury. When he was 11, Burroughs said he was taken to a local hospital for treatment, but said he was turned away because of his race. “That was the first time I understood the difference between black folks and white folks,” he said. “When I grew up, race was just not a concept but something I really had to deal with.” Kathleen McDonald, executive director of the Mitchell Museum, said the mission of the museum is to promote deeper understanding and respect for American Indian people. The museum achieves this goal mainly through collections and interpretation of traditional and contemporary art and culture, McDonald said. McDonald told The Daily the event was another way to bring to light how indigenous cultures have influenced the country. Rami, one of the panelists, emphasized how important it was for the two minority communities to stick together. “There are so many similarities we have in common,” Rami said. “But historically, what we don’t have in common are often used against us to keep us separated and to make us think we don’t have the power to pull together as indigenous people.”
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Rob Luchow (Weinberg ’05) said he wanted to be a high school history teacher until he started booking bands for Dillo Day his senior year at Northwestern. Luchow, now vice president of drama development at CBS TV Studios, returned to his alma mater Thursday for the first event of the Master of Science in Leadership for Creative Enterprises’ monthly speaker series. Addressing about 60 people in the Pancoe Life Sciences Pavilion, Luchow advised students interested in the entertainment industry to be confident in their own tastes. “It’s really important to have a sense of what it is that you like about television shows in your heart, and what you respond to,” Luchow said. “And then really understand your people skills and your problem-solving skills.” Shortly after graduating in 2005, Luchow moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in television. At Thursday’s event, he emphasized the importance of utilizing connections, citing his first job at a small LA agency that he got through two NU alumni he met his senior year. The prevalence of personal relationships and connections in the entertainment industry was a recurring theme in Luchow’s talk, and one that stuck with Communication freshman Matthew Threadgill. “It was different than I thought it would be,” Threadgill said. “He got to where he was basically through connections. It was really interesting to me how he emphasized interpersonal skills.” After one year at the LA agency, Luchow moved into development at the Mark Gordon Company, producer of TV shows “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Criminal Minds.” There, he said he found he preferred the development side of production. Luchow worked in network television at Disney before moving to CBS, where he works today. At CBS, Luchow said he fields ideas and determines whether projects should be assigned to CBS or sold to another company like ABC
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Rob Luchow (Weinberg ‘05) speaks in Pancoe Life Sciences Pavilion about his career in the TV industry. Luchow advised students to have confidence in their opinions and develop their interpersonal skills.
or Netflix. Haley Baker (Communication ’17), an MSLCE student, said she hopes to go into TV production and was inspired by Luchow’s talk. She said his point about TV’s massive reach was particularly poignant. “Even though my tastes are different,” Baker said, “there are still so many people who are still watching the same shows that have been airing for decades.” Luchow said he is cognizant of the size of the CBS platform, especially after last year’s election,
when it became clear that some Americans felt overlooked. The CBS executive also stressed the power of TV to change minds. Luchow cited “Modern Family” as an example of how TV helped many Americans confront their prejudices in the comfort of their homes. “If I can do my job right,” Luchow said, “I can hopefully help effect that change, while still being highly entertaining.” keertigopal2021@u.northwestern.edu
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In Trump era, let’s not romanticize Barack Obama GABRIEL LEVINE-DRIZIN
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It was nice to see Samantha Power’s visit well attended. People clearly feel the need to become politically engaged in the wake of President Donald Trump’s election. For some, hearing from someone in Barack Obama’s cabinet is seen as a good way of remembering better times. Power herself alluded to this during her visit, when she joked about how the Obama team has been “aging well” — a comment that drew nervous laughter from the audience. However, it is this attitude of longingly looking at Obama’s presidency and the current day as an abject departure from established American norms that exonerates some of Obama’s failures. It also obscures the ways in which Trump has merely continued Obama-era policies, and inhibits our demands to move beyond defending past achievements. The differences between Obama and Trump seem to be infinite; besides the rhetoric, composure and grace, many herald Obama for his approach to politics, his fight for social justice and his respectability as leader of the free world. It is our emphasis on Obama’s rhetoric, however, that seems to exculpate him as a “good
guy” who spoke about lofty goals of “change” and “unity.” But this treatment shields him from valid criticism and treats Trump as a radical departure from American foreign and domestic policy. We must compare the notable policies of Trump and Obama so that we don’t fall into the trap of demanding old policies that were devoid of a more coherent vision for our country. Obama is known for several key policy achievements that seemed to signal radical departures from established U.S. policy norms. Obamacare, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive order and the Iran deal were among the most prominent and continue to receive praise in light of current attempts to gut them. A deeper analysis of these “achievements,” however, requires uncomfortable comparisons with present-day circumstances. The Iran deal, as well as the unfriendly relationship between Obama and the Israeli prime minister, seemed to illustrate a radical departure from U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. However, in many respects, Obama, like Trump, maintained the status quo. He signed the largest military aid package with Israel ever, a $38 billion deal that upheld one of the most troublesome aspects of U.S. foreign policy. Obama also signed a record arms deal with Saudi Arabia of $115 billion. On top of this, the Obama administration stood by as the Saudi-led
coalition committed atrocity after atrocity against the Houthis in Yemen and intervened militarily in the Libyan fiasco. While working for Obama, Power was complicit in the campaign against the Houthis and actively pressed for U.S. engagement in Libya. During her speech, Power criticized Trump’s treatment of the Saudi regime without mentioning these troublesome aspects of Obama’s presidency.
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We must compare the notable policies of Trump and Obama so that we don’t fall into the trap of demanding old policies that were devoid of a more coherent vision for our country.
While I wanted to focus on how the foreign policy of today mirrors that of the last president in light of Power’s visit, we must also address the similarities in their domestic policies. Protests against Trump’s treatment of DACA, for example, were covered amply, but people seem to have forgotten that Obama was labeled by many as the “deporter-in-chief ” for his ruthless immigration policies. The desire to return to an
Obama-era immigration policy reflects the lack of a coherent vision on the left and is mirrored in the debate over the Obamacare overturn. While Obamacare was an impressive step in the quest for health care justice, it also relied on subsidies, preserved the private health insurance industry and created new markets, representing the perfect neoliberal compromise. Fighting to save Obamacare has been useful for centrist Democrats, who have recently labeled a singlepayer health care system “unrealistic” — even if it is more popular now than ever. I don’t seek to criticize the nostalgia many feel for the last president as a way of exonerating the horrific policies of the current one. Instead, I want to highlight the dire need to move past preserving the old as a vision of justice. Highlighting the continuities of the past and present is a way of holding our leaders accountable, as well as contextualizing the Trump presidency as a continuation of this nation’s past failures. Gabriel Levine-Drizin is a Weinberg senior. He can be contacted at gabriellevinedrizin2018@u. northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, 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.
Don’t be impatient, take the time to heat up cold pizza JARED BAAS
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It’s 8 p.m. on a Sunday night. You have two papers and math homework, all due at 11:59 p.m. The only thing standing between you and the finish line is hunger. Fatigue, soreness, lack of motivation, all these can be cured by the magic prescription of food. Pulling yourself out of the fog of numbers that have infiltrated your inner thoughts, you lumber to the fridge. Sitting like a cherub on a cloud is a box of pizza, left over from last night’s party. While the thought of eating leftovers straight from the fridge can be downright repulsive, this is not the case with pizza. Instead of taking it out of the box, putting it on a plate and heating it in the
microwave, you instead opt to eat it just as it comes. If you think about it, any other previously warm food — be it pot roast, hamburgers or tilapia — is considered a culinary disaster if it isn’t transformed back into its original state. So what is it, then, that makes cold pizza such a delicacy of the Western world? Cold pizza is not, in fact, a food. It is a lifestyle. It stands as a symbol of who we are as Americans. We live for the weekends, seemingly unable to wait just one more day for those glorious moments of freedom to arrive. We work nonstop to make money, just so we can spend it on whatever frivolous event we have planned for our time away from daily routines. Americanism is about instant gratification, no matter the cost. It’s about answering to the call of consumerism, constantly
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whispering in our ear, telling us what to buy and pulling the strings of our puppet lifestyles. In this way, we are all victim to the cold pizza mentality of life. Americans have evolved to thrive off cold pizza. It is a means of returning to our mechanical lifestyles, but we’ve never stopped to realize what it actually is we’re eating. By no laws of food should that soggy crust and rubbery cheese taste appealing, but our innate desire to move forward faster than the pace of ourselves blinds us to the indelicacy of the moment. How do we free ourselves from the corruption of cold pizza that has permeated our society? By becoming aware of what cold pizza is. Instead of eating the pizza now, we could wait 30 seconds for it to heat up in the microwave. In the same manner, we need to stop and see the world around us. Everything that goes on, from work, to politics, to
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nature, all of it has meaning. But Americans will never understand each other and the world around them until we give up this life of self-interest. Every time we stop and think about what we’re doing, we heat that pizza up just a little bit. Undoubtedly, if we all did this, we’d become the hottest, cheesiest, best pizza this world has ever seen. So the next time you reach for that damp cardboard box, take time to open your microwave and heat that pizza up. The world will thank you for it. Jared Baas is a Weinberg freshman. He can be contacted at jaredbaas2021@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, 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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New poke joint will offer ‘authentic’ Hawaiian fare
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It’s hard to scroll through Instagram without stumbling across photos of the brightly colored fish dish known as poke, but Jack DeMar said those trendy poke bowls featured on social media may lack authenticity. DeMar, a 23-year-old Wilmette native, will open his own restaurant, Pono Ono, at 1630 Chicago Ave. in mid-November. He said he hopes the restaurant’s traditional Hawaiian feel will set it apart from other poke joints. “I always compare it to when you have Pizza Hut and Domino’s on every corner — that’s what people think of as pizza,” DeMar said. “But now you have all these great locations putting out more Italian-style pizza with better dough and better crust and better ovens. It’s sort of like that.” Poke, a Hawaiian dish of raw fish served over rice and vegetables, grew increasingly popular in the Chicago area last year, with Chicago-based chain Aloha Poke Co. opening an Evanston location in March. DeMar said he plans to eliminate the “buildyour-own” assembly line model present in many other poke restaurants, instead focusing on using traditional Hawaiian ingredients to create more “delicate” bowls. Pono Ono will also feature fresh fruit juices, an addition DeMar said resonates with the simple and raw essence of poke. “I’m coming in with something a bit more authentic and enticing to people who have had what they think of as poke, and now I can hopefully elevate that for them and say, ‘No no, this is real poke,’” he said. DeMar chose the name Pono Ono to represent the direction he wanted to take his restaurant. The Hawaiian word “pono” has multiple meanings, but DeMar said the word most clearly embodies the idea of “righteousness.” In the restaurant, this sense of “pono” will translate into environmentally-conscious efforts such as sourcing fresh tuna from Hawaii and lighting
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This weekend’s homecoming festivities might as well signify not only the return of thousands of alumni to Evanston but also the return of Penn State to the elite tier of college football. The Nittany Lions’ last, and only, time playing at Northwestern’s homecoming came in 2011, when they overcame a wild first half to down the Wildcats 34-24. Mere weeks later, first word of the Jerry Sandusky scandal broke, the Joe Paterno coaching era ended and the disdain of the sports universe cascaded down on State College. But now, behind the legs of Heisman frontrunner Saquon Barkley, the arm of quarterback Trace McSorley and the mind of coach James Franklin, the undefeated No. 4 Nittany Lions (5-0, 2-0 Big Ten) are staring down the mouth of back-to-back Rose Bowl appearances, at least. Evanston is just an inconvenient detour for this Penn State team, a chore to take care of before getting to their season’s critical stretch — games against No. 7 Michigan and No. 10 Ohio State the next two weekends. Fans migrating down Central Street on Saturday morning should not expect a similar contest to the one that transpired in 2011. While that Paterno squad ground out results with prototypical Big Ten physicality, the 2017 Nittany Lions unleash a dynamically athletic lineup on both sides of the ball and prefer to knock their foes out early. Through five games this year, Penn State has outscored opponents by a combined 73-0 margin in first quarters and outgained opponents by more than 180 yards per game. Last week against Indiana, Barkley returned a kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown, McSorley added two scores himself, and the defense, which has allowed 9.4 points per game, returned a fumble for a touchdown — all in the first quarter. Penn State eventually rolled to a 45-14 win. NU (2-2, 0-1) will probably meet a similar fate. A pair of excellent interior defensive linemen — the barely distinguishable (by name) Curtis Cothran and Parker Cothren — will form a Justin Jackson blockade that NU’s offensive line, overwhelmed by Wisconsin last week, seems unlikely to break down. And McSorley could give the Cats, which have struggled in the past to defend mobile quarterbacks like Tommy Armstrong and Daniel Jones, fits with his scrambling ability. Dozens of NFL scouts and front office employees are expected at Ryan Field to see Barkley and McSorley. A national television audience will watch the two-headed monster’s escapades. The game will likely be, as most of Penn State’s Saturdays this fall have been, more an exhibition of dominance than a two-team matchup. Only then will the Nittany Lions be able to move on to the real main event, playing two straight games that could — and, if things continue as they have, will — cement their case alongside Alabama and Clemson as arguably the best team in the country. Only then will NU finally draw an equivalent opponent, heading to Maryland next weekend for a winnable contest. Saturday’s game might be entertaining, if only to see two of the nation’s most electric stars grace the decidedly not electric confines of NU’s 91-year-old abode. But it will not be competitive.
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48 DE Shareef Miller 52 DT Curtis Cothran 41 DT Parker Cothren 97 DE Ryan Buchholz 43 ILB Manny Bowen 40 ILB Jason Cabinda 7 OLB Koa Farmer 1 CB Christian Campbell 28 SS Troy Apke 2 FS Marcus Allen 15 CB Grant Haley
97 DE Joe Gaziano 99 DT Jordan Thompson 1 DT Tyler Lancaster 91 DE Samdup Miller 32 SAM Nate Hall 42 MIKE Paddy Fisher 10 WILL Brett Walsh 24 CB Montre Hartage 16 S Godwin Igwebuike 21 S Kyle Queiro 29 CB Trae Williams
9 QB Trace McSorley 26 RB Saquon Barkley 3 WR DeAndre Thompkins 84 WR Juwan Johnson 5 WR DaeSean Hamilton 88 TE Mike Gesicki 52 LT Ryan Bates 74 LG Steven Gonzalez 66 C Connor McGovern 70 RG Brendan Mahon 77 RT Chasz Wright
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Offensive line looks to rebound from dismal day By COLE PAXTON
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Asked this week what position has made the least progress so far this season, Pat Fitzgerald didn’t answer directly. “I really thought we would be better running the football at this point,” the coach said. “That’s not on one group. That’s collectively as an offense.” But Northwestern’s rushers have faced extenuating circumstances, with senior running back Justin Jackson hampered by injury and large deficits against Duke and Wisconsin forcing the Wildcats (2-2, 0-1 Big Ten) to abandon
much of their running game. NU’s long-suspect offensive line does not have such excuses, hitting its nadir by allowing eight sacks against the Badgers and now facing another test against No. 4 Penn State (5-0, 2-0) on Saturday. The line’s struggles are not entirely surprising given years of issues, relatively few fresh faces and a wide-open right tackle position. Last weekend in Madison demonstrated the group’s floor: The eight sacks of junior quarterback Clayton Thorson were the most in a single game in his career, and, excluding sacks, NU rushed for just 81 yards. “We have to execute in the running game, protect Clayton, and we failed to do that,” junior right guard Tommy Doles said. “It’s really frustrating when you see that. Especially
a lot of things that we worked on in practice, mistakes (that we made).” Mistakes were a common theme as players and coaches rehashed the 33-24 loss: Freshman right tackle Rashawn Slater mentioned “some one-man breakdowns” of his, Fitzgerald pointed to “a couple communication breakdowns” and offensive line coach Adam Cushing lamented that his unit was “not consistent enough … not physical enough.” Fitzgerald has stuck up for the line at times in the face of heavy criticism, pointing to Jackson’s conference-leading 1,524 rushing yards in 2016 as evidence of its successes. But this season, even the rushing attack has sputtered: The Cats are averaging a paltry 3.4 yards per carry. “There are some things that I know we have Daily file photo by Lauren Duquette
improved on from last year,” Doles said. “Then there are some mistakes there that we continue to make, too.” Doles pointed to increased depth on the line as a positive from last season, which has manifested itself primarily in a complicated rotation that gives up to seven linemen regular playing time. For example, last season’s starting left tackle, junior Blake Hance, lost that job ahead of training camp but then assumed the starting left guard position. However, he also serves as the backup left tackle and has seen time at that spot when sophomore Jared Thomas has struggled. Thomas, himself a converted interior lineman, appeared at right tackle for some drives again Wisconsin.
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I wish we would’ve gotten to a better point before the Wisconsin game. But here we are. Tommy Doles, Junior guard
Fitzgerald said throughout training camp that if linemen played well enough to seize starting roles, the rotation would dissipate. That has still not happened, potentially a worrying sign for a unit in which continuity is often prized. “I don’t think it’s a problem,” Cushing said, defending the rotation. “Really the inconsistencies have stemmed from not good enough play by those guys that are rotating.” Penn State’s defense is not as stout as Wisconsin’s, but NU’s front faces another large challenge. The Nittany Lions have given up just 33 points in two conference games and allowed only 82 rushing yards to a run-happy Iowa team two weeks ago. That could spell trouble for a Cats line that has shown little evidence of recent improvement. “There’s a lot of work left to do,” Doles said. “I wish we would’ve gotten to a better point before the Wisconsin game. But here we are.” colepaxton2019@u.northwestern.edu
Looking at NU defensive backs’ ‘Thanks for the INT’ By TIM BALK
daily senior staffer @timbalk
Northwestern’s 2016 season was an unpredictable roller coaster. The same Wildcats that managed just 7 points against FCS foe Illinois State dropped 54 on Michigan State. The same squad that had Ohio State on the ropes in October got bulldozed by Minnesota in November. And yet, the most unlikely story of last season might have been a handful of predictions that came true. Three times, NU defensive backs accurately forecast their own interceptions on social media — culminating in a rousing, acrobatic takeaway in the team’s homecoming contest against Indiana. First, safety Godwin Igwebuike preemptively tweeted “Thanks for the int,” ahead of a September matchup with Duke, following through in the third quarter. Second, Jared McGee posted “Thank you Lord in advance for the INTs” on Instagram before delivering with an interception against Michigan State. Third, and most audaciously, safety Kyle Queiro tweeted “Thanks for the INT” before the homecoming game against the Hoosiers despite wearing a full cast on his broken left thumb. Like Igwebuike and McGee, Queiro found his faith rewarded, as he pulled down a spectacular one-handed grab in the fourth quarter against the Hoosiers. The interception earned the safety a spot atop SportsCenter’s Top 10 Plays on ESPN. Reflecting on the play this September, Queiro said his foresight came to him during prayer. “I called my dad actually,” Queiro said. “I told him that ‘I’m definitely going to have an interception this game.’ And he was like, ‘what are you talking about, you have one hand, that’s not going to happen.’ He was like, ‘just focus on getting some tackles, Kyle.’”
Undeterred, Queiro sent out his tweet Friday night. He came through Saturday afternoon. Igwebuike said Queiro told him after halftime about his tweet, with the clock ticking for him to fulfill his post. “I was like, oh snap, you tweeted it bruh?” Igwebuike said. “I was like, alright, dog. You gotta go get one.” He got it in the fourth quarter. Originally out of position, Queiro found his way to the ball while backpedaling under a long pass off play action, reaching out with his one functional hand to make the play. After tumbling to the turf with the pigskin, he held up his cast, “just to let everybody know,” he recalled. The interception ended a drive for the Hoosiers, who had cut a 21-point deficit down to 12. The Cats went on to win 24-14. The play itself followed a similar path to Igwebuike’s five weeks prior. Igwebuike had originally been out of position when he made his interception too. But Igwebuike laughed this September that there are situations where “you’ve just got to be a player.” McGee’s interception, on the other hand, came on a deep jump-ball. He said the Cats were in a three-deep coverage and that he “posted up on the receiver, got a feel for him, got a feel for the ball.” When the ball arrived, the then-sophomore safety made the play. Another prayer answered. As NU approaches this Saturday’s homecoming game against Penn State, the squad’s defensive backs have yet to turn out any social media prophecies or invocations. But asked last month whether “Thanks for the INT” might rear its head this campaign, Igwebuike and Queiro, now seniors, would not rule it out. “It could come in five weeks, 10 weeks. It could never come. Or it could come in five different weeks,” Queiro said, adding “we’ll have the faith to tweet it, I promise you.” timothybalk2018@u.northwestern.edu
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‘The Ball Carrier’ approaches record By TIM BALK
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Justin Jackson has heard enough about it by now. He said he’s been hearing about it since last December, when he tore up 224 yards of Yankee Stadium turf in the Wildcats’ upset of Pittsburgh. The chatter continued through the offseason and September. The good news for Jackson: He shouldn’t hear about it much longer. Northwestern’s senior running back is on the precipice of history, now just 83 yards away from Damien Anderson’s all-time program rushing record after he racked up 273 in the first four games of this season. “I just kind of shrug it off. It is what it is,” Jackson said of the noise around his chase for the milestone. “You can’t worry about stuff like that. You’ve just got to keep playing and try and help your team, because, when it comes down to it, if you don’t get wins, man, nothing really matters.” A typically workmanlike answer from the Cats’ steady star running back. If talk is cheap, Jackson is a Ferrari. Nothing about his persona is loud.
Jackson, who has started since his freshman year in Evanston, brings his hard hat to work each week and consistently grinds out yardage. He may not run with blazing speed or crack uproarious jokes in postgame news conferences. But one thing’s for sure: Jackson can carry a football.
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He’s taking these big hits. He pops right back up, tosses the ball back, and he wishes he could get more yards. Clayton Thorson, Junior quarterback
“The Ball Carrier,” as he is known to the Ryan Field student section, does it efficiently and consistently, with a preternatural ability to dance around defenders and the toughness to make the most out of short-yardage plays. Asked this week about his nickname, bestowed upon him during his sophomore campaign in 2015 as a chant following each of his frequent rushes, Jackson shrugged that off, too. “It’s cool,” Jackson said. “It’s kind of spiraled out of control, but that’s OK.” Jackson owes his ubiquity at NU to a career that blossomed from the get-go. When he arrived in 2014, he joined a team with a vacancy at tailback. Previous starting back Venric Mark was suspended by the team for a pair of games and decided to transfer before the season, leaving an opening for the four-star rusher from Carol Stream, Illinois. Looking back, coach Pat Fitzgerald said he could tell from the outset Jackson had the potential to emerge as a special player. “He wasn’t the biggest guy, but his work ethic was unbelievable in those early practices,” Fitzgerald said in September. “And we had a wideopen job.” Meanwhile, Jackson kept his head down. He said he focused on adjusting to the college level, noting he did not even know if he would play in the first game. But he did play, rolling up 40 yards against California. The next week, he bumped that total to 52 yards. Then to 92 the game after. By NU’s surprise victory over Wisconsin on Oct. 4 that year, Jackson had emerged as the team’s top back, racking up 162 yards in the field-storming upset in Evanston. From that point on, the Justin Jackson show has remained a feature attraction at Ryan Field. He ran for 186 yards in a top-25 battle with Penn State in 2015 as the Cats topped the Nittany Lions 23-21. He raced for 188 in a road victory over Michigan State last fall. Twice, he’s cleared the 170-yard mark against Illinois.
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“It’s always exciting knowing that if we do our job, he’s going to do the rest,” junior guard Tommy Doles said this week. Anderson, the current record holder, has followed Jackson’s career and said the senior has a unique ability to make people miss. Anderson, who spent four years in the NFL, said Jackson has a level of creativity as a rusher that he wasn’t even able to display until he got to the pros. “He’s a very, very talented kid,” Anderson said. But perhaps more striking than Jackson’s artistry is his raw volume of work. The halfback has suited up every game since he arrived on campus, logging double-digit carries in all but three. Over his college career, Jackson has rushed the ball 919 times for 4,402 yards. That yeomanlike workload has helped set him apart from almost any running back in program history. Looking for similarities between Jackson and the other program-great tailbacks who have called Evanston home, including Anderson, Tyrell Sutton and Heisman vote-getter Darnell Autry, Fitzgerald keyed on one descriptor: toughness. Fitzgerald played with Autry, who stands fourth in program history in rushing yardage, and said the Big Ten was “a phone booth league” in their playing days in the mid-1990s. “Everybody was tight to the box, and everybody was trying to run the football. And he’d be 35-40 carries and not be able to practice the next week,” Fitzgerald said of Autry. “And now you look at JJ, and that’s what you see — a durability, a toughness.” Jackson missed practice himself before NU’s loss to No. 9 Wisconsin last Saturday due to a leg injury he sustained against Bowling Green. He still gutted it out on game day, playing with a brace on his leg. In the end, he finished with one of the quietest outings of his career, picking up 25 yards on nine carries as the Cats fell 33-24. Junior quarterback Clayton Thorson noted the week of the Badgers game how often Jackson plays while banged up, saying the whole team feeds off the running back’s grit. “Everyone sees that and sees how he just battles really throughout the game as well,” Thorson said. “He’s getting beat up, he’s taking these big hits. He pops right back up, tosses the ball back, and he wishes he could get more yards — when it’s like, ‘Wait a second, there are six guys in the backfield.’” Jackson may epitomize a lunch-pail running back between the lines, but the senior said there’s more to his game than just physical guttiness. He said the daily, yearlong grind of football can become its own challenge beyond the hits he takes on game days. “Obviously, running straight into a 260pound guy on third-and-one isn’t ideal, but sometimes you’ve got to do it,” Jackson said. “But also just the mental side of it — bouncing back from losses, bouncing back from injuries, bouncing back from a bad play in a game, which happens. Bad series, whatever, bad half. That’s what toughness is.” As NU heads into its homecoming battle with No. 4 Penn State, Jackson has a chance to put that fortitude on display. After getting beaten down against the Badgers while playing hurt, Jackson said his leg feels significantly better. But pulling off a turnaround performance against a vaunted Penn State defense could require a heavy dose of toughness. If he manages the feat, it could come with an added benefit: Jackson might find himself alone atop the school’s career rushing list. And he might finally stop hearing about it. timothybalk2018@u.northwestern.edu
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The world’s largest telescope is being constructed and will have the highest resolution of any telescope in human history, a University of Chicago professor said. Wendy Freedman, an astronomy and astrophysics professor at UChicago, spoke Thursday about leading the construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope. About 200 people attended the event in Cahn Auditorium, hosted by the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics. Freedman said Edwin Hubble and his telescope were crucial for understanding the universe. She compared the power of the GMT to the Hubble Space Telescope, saying that the GMT will have 10 times the resolution of the Hubble. The Hubble was instrumental in solving problems caused by the Earth’s atmosphere, Freedman said. She added that the GMT could continue the Hubble’s work and further advance people’s understanding of space. “The Hubble Space Telescope has really revolutionized our view of the universe for those of us who
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started out in this view before Hubble was launched,” she said. “There were things we could not do before the launch of Hubble, essentially because the Earth’s atmosphere is turbulent and the motion of the atmosphere blurs out light that’s coming to us through our telescopes.” The GMT will also be 20 million times more sensitive than the human eye, Freedman said. To emphasize the GMT’s improved resolution, Freedman showed photos of what the universe looks like through the Hubble and compared them to images the GMT is expected to produce. The telescope is being built in the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, located in the Andes mountain range, Freedman said. Evanston resident Jignesh Mehta told The Daily after the event he enjoyed hearing about theories of the universe. “I’ve always been interested in astronomy from a young age, so it’s always a good opportunity to attend talks like this to see what’s the latest developments in the field,” Mehta said. Mehta added that he was particularly interested in Freedman’s work with the GMT. He said he liked hearing about the project because of Freedman’s knowledge on the subject. In addition to explaining the GMT, Freedman discussed theories on the expansion of the universe, dark matter and the acceleration of the universe. She said the field of astronomy is still ripe with opportunities for people to explore. “For those of you young people out in the audience that think that we’ve finished our study of the cosmos, there are lots of unsolved problems, and the dark matter would be worthy of a Nobel Prize,” Freedman said. Weinberg freshman Ryan Wagner, who also attended the event, told The Daily the telescope’s size is incredibly compelling because it is almost as tall as the Statue of Liberty in his home state of New York. Wagner said the lecture explored topics that interested him. “Growing up, I was always fascinated with the stars, black holes,” Wagner said. “So seeing what the future holds, especially with observations with the GMT, it’s very cool to observe all that.” crystalwall2020@u.northwestern.edu
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From page 1 Homecoming weekend. In addition to “Girlfriends,” which depicts the life of four cosmopolitan black women, Brock Akil also created “The Game” and “Being Mary Jane.” She said transitioning from journalism to fiction storytelling allowed her to better represent black culture in the media. Brock Akil said she was disappointed to discover the stories she wanted to tell were not being told in journalism when she first graduated.
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to find a way to recognize the reality of that.” Faculty Senate president-elect and Philosophy Prof. Baron Reed said “high levels of student stress” are one of the main considerations when evaluating the calendar. Reed said possible changes to the calendar include canceling classes for the week of Thanksgiving or ending Fall Quarter after the holiday. The changes, he said, could give students a longer
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From page 1 Housing Development Authority. If HOW withdraws from the Nov. 13 City Council meeting — where it is scheduled to make a second pitch — Clement said the organization could “try to get some contingencies in place that would allow them to later get some city funding.” The proposed building is a three-story, 16-unit property for affordable housing at 2215 Dempster St. in the 2nd Ward. It would take over a roughly 20,000 square foot area, which currently holds a single-family home and a vacant lot.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2017 “I never stopped believing that those stories were valuable, that they were needed, and I just found a different way in,” she said. “Now, my whole career is about telling stories and adding people into the landscape. I wanted to get to the table to help tell that story that reaches wider and further than even sometimes we were doing as journalists.” The industry is transitioning to include more diverse perspectives, Brock Akil said. Audiences are driving this change because they are less interested in stories of exclusion or “watered-down” inclusion, she said.
Brock Akil said it is important to have different voices and stories about inclusion represented in her work because it opens the door for others looking to do the same. She added that these stories are largely missing from current media. “If we’re not creating space for other people to tell stories, then I think we have kind of failed,” Brock Akil said. “We should be reaching back as we lift ourselves up and making space and including people.” Brock Akil said she has been successful in following her vision because she constantly listens to herself to find strength and direction. She said
her advice to others is to take the lows in life and turn them into assets for future use. Communication senior Elizabeth Zerihun said she attended the event because Brock Akil is one of her idols. “Her career trajectory is something that I would really aspire to because … I would like to write a show for HBO about young black women and their experiences in school and in life,” Zerihun said. “The things she has done has been inspiring and just opened doors for people like me.”
break. The one-week break between Winter and Spring Quarters can be an “intense experience,” Reed said. He added that the break could be extended by ending Winter Quarter finals a day earlier and beginning Spring Quarter one or two days later. Reed said calendar changes to Spring Quarter should not push back the June end date so as not to impede students’ availability for summer internships, jobs and other programs. “The quarter system can be exhilarating, but
it can also be challenging,” he said. “The pace is very high compared with semester schools, so if there’s a way to make it easier for students … that’s something we would like to do.” The 2015 faculty task force initially proposed the idea of a “10-5-5-10” system, in which Winter Quarter would be split into two five-week halves. However, Reed said faculty members reached a consensus that it would be difficult to maintain continuity with the proposed schedule. Maintaining the quarter system with some changes will make it easier for faculty to create
courses using “cutting-edge material” and for students to study new, exciting topics, Reed said. “This is coming out of a long series of conversations that faculty and administration have been having together,” Reed said. “We have been moving fairly deliberately so that it would be an opportunity for everyone on campus to weigh in and have their point of view shared.”
The building, which is expected to be completed in early 2019, will be composed of oneand two-bedroom apartments. Those units will be filled from the Regional Housing Initiative and State Referral Network waitlists, so Evanston residents are not guaranteed housing. But commission chair Ellen Cushing said she believes City Council — which rejected a different affordable housing proposal at Howard Street and Chicago Avenue in July — doesn’t have a proper framework to consider such proposals. Cushing said City Council failed to recognize the significance of this proposal by lumping it together with other proposals at its Sept. 25 meeting.
Ald. Eleanor Revelle (7th) said the commission will have to educate City Council on affordable housing to get its proposals accepted. “At the council meeting there was all this unfortunate discussion about Evanston residents,” said Revelle, who sits on the commission. “But the HOW program, because it provides a supportive program, it really meets the needs of really low-income residents.” Clement said the proposal will return to the city’s Design and Project Review Committee for a final review and permit approval, and then it will be “good to go” regardless of City Council’s decision not to fund a $550,000 budget gap. The DAPR committee had previously voted unanimously to approve the preliminary review
of the building in an August meeting with residents. But many residents are still concerned about the building’s location, size and impact on the surrounding neighborhood. Different city departments have been looking at complaints about congestion, Cushing said. Clement said HOW has also been reaching out to individuals in the neighborhood. “If they do move the project forward, which I think they will regardless of funding … I do think that they want to try to build those relationships in the community and be good neighbors,” she said.
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Members of the Housing, Homelessness and Human Relations Commission said Thursday that City Council does not provide clear direction to address affordable housing. The complaints come shortly after aldermen rejected a commission proposal to fund an affordable housing development in the 2nd Ward. Council criticized the plan due to concerns that Evanston residents would not be able to access many of the units. However, commission chair Ellen Cushing said the affordable housing policy discussion is too “open ended” and that council members should give staff more guidance on the issue. “(Aldermen’s) role is to take the leadership role to come up with a vision to set some overarching policies,” Cushing said. “And from that leadership position, they can direct staff.” Commission members discussed writing a letter to City Council to voice their suggestions along with concerns that officials do not appreciate their time and work. Prior to the commission meeting, Cushing had written a draft of the letter and presented it for discussion to the commission. The letter said affordable housing must be
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From page 1 President Morton Schapiro. “I’m always going to be happy that there are resources for students to buy books … but, at the same time, it’s only first-year students,” Isaac said. “Where my pain and my hesitation comes from is that, what are those students going to do when they’re no longer first-years?” Isaac said she hopes textbook affordability programs like Books for Cats are expanded to include majors unrelated to STEM. The petition asks all professors to eliminate course
addressed differently depending on the situation. For example, those who are wage-earners should receive different assistance than those who are chronically unemployed or homeless. It also asked council to give staff framework for affordable housing projects as they arise. Besides attending to affordable housing issues, the commission drafts memos detailing other housing matters for City Council to consider — oftentimes after aldermen request them. But Savannah Clement, Evanston’s housing policy and planning analyst, said council “takes for granted” the process preceding the memo that is given to it. Clement suggested that the commission include a reminder of how long this process takes in its letter. Ald. Eleanor Revelle (7th), who also sits on the commission, said she agreed in part with other members. She said City Council is “oblivious” to the work done because the commission doesn’t frequently update council with its progress. However, Revelle added, this is an issue council has with most of the city’s commissions. “We get a 500-page packet, we get all these memos,” Revelle said. “It doesn’t mean what you’re doing isn’t important. It just means it gets to council, they read the recommendation (but) they don’t focus on the fact the commission has been talking about it.” Nikki Baim contributed reporting. amelialanags@u.northwestern.edu
packets because they are a “burden on the earth” and a “barrier” to education. However, Holloway said legal complications may arise if professors upload all of their required readings online. He added that he is “completely behind” lowering the barrier to educational resources. “We are trying to be really sensitive to these issues,” Holloway said. “There are some things that Northwestern will be doing that we will be doing very, very quietly to make sure the students can save face ... in this very complicated socioeconomic stew that we have here.” ericasnow2019@u.northwestern.edu
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From page 16 expectations so far, the final round at Erin Hills was a bright spot as the Cats shot the fourth-best round of 15 teams that day. That performance gives Inglis
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2017 hope his team will be able to please fans this weekend. “We should feel pretty good going into (our home event),” Inglis said. “If we play like we did (Tuesday), we should have a good chance to win.” benjaminapelbaum2019@u.northwestern.edu
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afterwards, ‘I want that team again. I want to play that team again,’” Davis said. To come out with a win, the team’s key contributors will have to be on top of their games. Senior outside hitter Symone Abbott, who leads the Big Ten with 4.35 kills per set, has been one of the team’s go-to players on offense this season. Senior setter Taylor Tashima, who sits at No. 6 in assists in the Big Ten with an average of 11.4 per set, could snag the team some points as well. Young guns are also stepping up, as freshman middle hitter Alana Walker averages 2.15 kills per set and freshman outside hitter Nia Robinson averages 3.43. But along with individual skill, Walker said NU needs to use its collective ability against Indiana and Purdue. “Our strength is definitely our speed,” Walker
said. “We run a very fast offense, and we have a lot of options. We’re able to scheme on them and confuse their defense and their blockers. I think that will definitely work in our favor in those games.” In upcoming matches, the Cats will need to overcome Indiana’s stifling defense, which sits at No. 6 in the Big Ten with 13.8 digs per set. NU will also have to contain Purdue’s high-octane offense, which is second in the conference with a hitting percentage of .351. Senior middle blocker Gabrielle Hazen said although NU had hard losses in the past, seeing progress over the course of the season is key. “For (the) Big Ten, it’s a tough conference, but we’ve been hanging with teams,” Hazen said. “I’m happy because we’re making improvements every week, every day.”
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Former US ambassador critiques Trump presidency By HADI SHIRAZ
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Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, addresses the audience during his Thursday talk, “Donald Trump and the End of the Liberal World Order.” He discussed how Trump’s election may cause the international order to shift to a multilateral balance of power.
Biss encourages citizens to support bill following shooting in Las Vegas
State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) released a statement Thursday encouraging citizens to support a bill on gun dealer licensing he plans to introduce in the Illinois State Senate. Biss said the bill would work to prevent people who do not possess a license issued by the
Department of Financial and Professional Regulation from purchasing firearms. The senator’s statement comes four days after Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd from his Mandalay Bay hotel room in Las Vegas, killing nearly 60 and wounding hundreds more. On Thursday, the Chicago Tribune reported that Paddock had also booked a room overlooking the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago. “What happened in Las Vegas could have happened anywhere,” Biss said. “And regardless of what’s in the headlines, we must always talk about the gun
Ivo Daalder, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and current president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, said President Donald Trump’s “America First” ideology poses a threat to the United States’ international relations. About 35 people attended the talk hosted by the Buffett Institute for Global Studies in Harris Hall. During the event, Daalder said Trump’s presidency is weakening the liberal world order, an idea that dictated the West’s political, social and economic policy following World War II. The second half of the 20th century was a time of immense progress for the U.S., both domestically and in foreign affairs, Daalder said. He added that the U.S. created the liberal world order, which led to reduced tariffs, an increased standard of living and the liberation of many countries. “This was not just a liberal world order,” Daalder said. “It was a world order built on American leadership, and particularly built on American willingness to do more than its fair share.” However, various forces have challenged the liberal world order, he said. The recent worldwide resurgence of populism is slowly fragmenting the international system, he said. Daalder said unequal distribution of the benefits of globalization, combined with a vibrant social media climate, led to Trump’s violence that takes a staggering toll in cities like Chicago every day.” Twelve of the rifles used by Paddock were reported to have been equipped with bump stock devices, which allow semi-automatic rifles to fire hundreds of rounds per minute. The NRA released a statement Thursday calling on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to “immediately review whether these devices comply with federal law,” a notable shift for an organization that normally opposes stricter gun laws.
election. Trump bought his “winning ticket” to the presidency when he ran on a platform that successfully “exploited” the anxieties of millions of Americans worried about their future in a globalized U.S., he said. “Trump’s worldview is deeply antagonistic to the concept of liberal world order as we have known it for many years,” Daalder said. “Trump ... has argued that the liberal world order, and America’s leading role within it is no longer sustainable … that’s what ‘America First’ is all about.” Daalder said a shift to a multilateral balance of power due to Trump’s policies may destabilize international relations. Barry Wolff (Weinberg ’75) told The Daily after the event he was pleased with the timeliness of the presentation because of the controversy surrounding Trump’s presidency. “This was a very critical subject, and it was a nice presentation of … a big subject, and it was very useful for people to listen to,” Wolff said. Bennett Lowenthal, a former foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State, attended the event and told The Daily even though he enjoyed the talk, politics and globalization may not interest students because few attended the event. Lowenthal said he attended an event about robotics and art at the Buffett Institute a few years ago, and that event attracted more students. “It was the most crowded I’d ever seen, because that is where the interests of the younger generation lie,” he said. hadishiraz2021@u.northwestern.edu But Biss said the gun lobby is still standing in the way of keeping Americans safe by maintaining that the solution to ending mass shootings is to increase access to guns. “Arguing for easier access to these items is like saying the best solution to a bully on the playground is granting every kid the permission to become a bully,” he said. “It shouldn’t take another Sandy Hook, Columbine, Orlando, or Las Vegas to call this problem what it is: a public health crisis.” — Sophie Mann
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Cats look to stay hot in Indiana NU squares off against 2 sub-.500 opponents this weekend By BRETT HAENSEL
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After picking up a critical conference win against No. 19 Rutgers, Northwestern is set to face two Indiana-based opponents this weekend –– Indiana and Ball State. The No. 10 Wildcats (8-4, 3-1 Big Ten) come into Friday’s conference clash boasting an undefeated home record and catching the Big Ten bottom-feeding Hoosiers amid road woes. Indiana (5-7, 0-3) is just 1-5 away from Bloomington, with its last road win coming over a month ago. “We just take pride in defending our home turf,” standout junior midfielder Puck Pentenga said. “The last two years we’ve played at Indiana, so we’re excited to finally get them at home.” Coming off back-to-back wins against ranked opponents, NU will have to maintain its focus heading into the weekend before facing two sub-.500 programs. The Cats haven’t let that focus lapse this year, not yet dropping a game to a team outside the top 25. NU will look to avenge its 2-1 road loss to the Hoosiers in their only meeting last year. Sophomore midfielder Lily Katzman, who scored the lone goal against Indiana a season ago, said the team is better prepared to defeat the Hoosiers than in
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previous years. “We’ve directed our practices to kind of tailor to how Indiana plays and their system,” Katzman said. “We’re more excited and feistier and ready to beat them after the past two years.” Pentenga will look to continue her stellar play after notching eight points in her last four games, including a key goal to start the scoring against the Scarlet Knights last Friday. Pentenga leads the Big Ten with 5.33 shots per game, while also sharing the top spot in the conference in assists. “She’s just really, really consistent and can get the ball where we need it,” coach Tracey Fuchs said. “We’re really going to need that in the next few weeks.” While Indiana is in the midst of its third-straight losing season, the Hoosiers have shown they have what it takes to knock off ranked opponents, defeating five top-25 teams in the past three years. Two of those five wins have come against NU, including last year when the Hoosiers took down the then-No. 6 Cats. With that history, NU is not overlooking Indiana this time around. “Certainly, we respect them, and
we don’t really care what their record says,” Fuchs said. “This is a Big Ten match, so we’re going to come out and be ready to play.” While Indiana has shown the ability to take down top-flight competition, Ball State goes into Sunday its program in shambles. The Cardinals have played NU every season since 2010 and lost all seven of those matchups. Ball State hasn’t had a winning season since 2006, compiling a 61-158 record in the subsequent 11-plus seasons. Fresh off losses to No. 6 Michigan and No. 13 James Madison, the Cardinals will look to notch their first win against a ranked opponent in 12 years. But just because the opposition isn’t top-class doesn’t mean Fuchs and the Cats will be looking too far ahead. “We’ve been doing really well at just staying focused on whoever’s next,” Fuchs said. “Our team’s good. They’re even-keeled, and they know this is a really important weekend.” bretthaensel2021@u. northwestern.edu
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Cats search for conference wins NU looks to improve By CASSIDY JACKSON
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Back-to-back tough contests. As Northwestern (11-5, 1-3 Big Ten) looks to Indiana and Purdue this weekend, the Wildcats are seeking to rebound with crucial home victories after losing four of their last five matches. In its second home match of the season, NU will face the Hoosiers (11-5, 0-4) on Friday, while Sunday promises what coach Shane Davis called an “anticipated” rematch between the Cats and No. 19 Purdue (13-2, 3-1) in Evanston. Since coming off a successful nonconference season, NU has struggled against conference opponents, dropping three of its four Big Ten matches. But this weekend, the Cats have the potential to even their Big Ten record. “(We had a) great, strong nonconference, and now we’re in … the Big Ten,” Davis said. “We toughed a couple of matches with Illinois and Purdue, but it was nice to see us bounce back against Rutgers. (I’m) excited about this weekend with Indiana and Purdue.” The Cats will open the weekend against Indiana –– a team with a strikingly similar record this season –– for the first time.
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No. 18 Purdue vs. Northwestern
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But Purdue is a familiar opponent for the Cats, as they took on the Boilermakers just two weeks ago. NU failed to take a set in that matchup, but each individual set was close, with
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scores of 25-18, 25-20 and 25-18. “After the Purdue match, the first time we played them, I told the team » See VOLLEYBALL, page 14
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Gabrielle Hazen rises for a block attempt. The senior middle blocker seeks to lead NU against a daunting slate this weekend.
After a rough start to the season, Northwestern hopes the advantages of playing at a home tournament will help it get on track. The Wildcats will host the Windon Memorial Classic starting Sunday at Evanston Golf Club in Skokie. In golf, home-course advantage takes on a different meaning than in other sports. “It’s the one time a year we get to play in front of our home fans,” coach David Inglis said. “That and our familiarity with the course rolls together to make it a special week.” Most of the season, NU travels great distances around the country for tournaments –– usually in search of warm weather in the winter. Sunday, the Cats will make the short drive to Skokie to compete at a club they practice at regularly. Senior Dylan Wu said experience on the course gives NU a unique advantage over its competitors. “We’ve played (the course) a bunch of times, and we’ll be the best prepared team out of all the teams there,” Wu said. Beyond familiarity with the course, more conventional home advantages could also help NU. This weekend will be
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the only chance for local fans to see the Cats all year, and, with temperate weather forecasted, spectators have more of a reason to show up. Another reason the Cats enjoy playing close to home is because everyone on the roster will have the chance to compete, sophomore Everton Hawkins said. However, only the scores of the starting five will count toward the team’s overall score. “It’s fun having all the guys on our team play, and I think we’ll have a lot of fans and families there as well,” Hawkins said. Hawkins said he hopes fan support and the home atmosphere will boost the team’s morale after NU’s slow start this season. The Cats have finished 13th and 10th out of 15 teams in their two tournaments to start the year, and the rounds were marred by inconsistency, Inglis said. While rust may have played a role in their first tournament, the Cats have had three more weeks of practice since then. Tournament lineups have also featured just one freshman, Eric McIntosh. Inglis cited his players’ lackluster short games as one of the factors leading to NU’s struggles last week at the Erin Hills Intercollegiate. The whole team focused on chipping and putting in practice this week, Wu said. Though the team has not lived up to
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