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Faculty reflect on contributing to historic discovery By ELIZABETH BYRNE
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Junior safety Jared McGee hits Michigan State quarterback Brian Lewerke during Saturday’s Big Ten showdown. The Wildcats defense came up strong against the Spartans in Northwestern’s overtime victory.
Cats stun Spartans in triple OT Fans rush Ryan Field as NU upsets No. 16 Michigan State 39-31 By TIM BALK
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The ball hung in the air Saturday in the final moment of Northwestern’s battle with
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No. 16 Michigan State, as the outcome dangled in the balance. Spartans quarterback Brian Lewerke had just been stripped before recovering and heaving a high-arcing pass toward the end zone. “Everyone was just holding
their breath,” said running back Justin Jackson, who watched from the sideline. On the other end of the throw waited junior linebacker Nate Hall. Hall said he “just played the ball,” fighting for position and
then making a game-ending interception that sealed a 39-31 triple-overtime upset victory for the Wildcats (5-3, 3-2 Big Ten) and launched a gleeful student section onto the field » See FOOTBALL, page 5
During her postdoctoral years at Harvard University, Northwestern physics and astronomy Prof. Vicky Kalogera said she started looking into gravitational wave astrophysics as a side project, despite discouragement from others. “At the time, it didn’t look clear that gravitational wave observations were going to become a reality,” Kalogera said. “In fact, a lot of the astronomy community was quite doubtful, and I had a lot of advice not to pursue gravitational wave astronomy as my main research.” However, Kalogera said she continued to study gravitational waves and joined the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory Scientific Collaboration, a group of scientists dedicated to exploring gravitational wave science. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration used LIGO detectors and the Virgo detector from the Virgo Collaboration in Europe to first record a neutron star collision Aug. 17.The antennas detect gravitational waves.
The “multi-messenger” discovery was announced by the collaboration Oct. 16 as the first of its kind because the collision emitted both gravitational and electromagnetic wave signals, Kalogera said. The neutron star collision discovery comes less than two years after a team of scientists, including NU researchers, first detected gravitational waves. The collaboration consists of more than 1,000 members from over 100 institutions worldwide, according to its website.Thirteen of its members are from Northwestern. Kalogera said NU played a large role in the discovery of the neutron star collision because participating faculty members are leaders in both gravitational and electromagnetic wave research. On the day of the discovery, the collaboration published six academic papers — NU faculty either led or “heavily co-led” four of them, she said. “This kind of leadership at the core of the discovery both on gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves doesn’t exist at any other university,” Kalogera said. “We’ve been positioning ourselves to have strength in both sides … and we are so proud to be in this position.” Kalogera added that while she was the leading astrophysicist on the discovery, all NU team members significantly contributed to the discovery. » See COLLISION, page 5
Officials elucidate DPOE hosts former Obama adviser social services shift By CATHERINE HENDERSON
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City officials on Saturday addressed resident concerns surrounding the restructuring of social services in the Evanston Police Department, clarifying that the changes are structural and meant to meet residents’ changing needs. The restructuring plan is part of the proposed 2018 city budget, and includes a transfer of the Social Services Bureau from the police department to the Health and Human Services Department. With the shift, the bureau would lose $400,000 in funding and undergo significant changes. At a special City Council meeting, Evanston Chief of Police Richard Eddington said EPD has previously relied on expensive credentialed social workers to offer short- and long-term counseling, Eddington said. However, in recent years, residents have been more reliant on referrals to outside assistance from advocates in the department. He said this changing
need allows the department to reorganize its services and eliminate the expense of employing credentialed social workers. “There will be changes, but the victims will not be ignored,” Eddington said. “In the health department, we’ve been intentional about providing services to vulnerable populations, to atrisk populations and populations in crisis.” City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said the changes would not affect the quality of services available to residents. “The intention here is not to provide less service, but to leverage the services that we have in a better way,” Bobkiewicz said. “I want to make sure as we start with this transition that those people that are in need continue to get that initial crisis service from city of Evanston staff.” Health and Human Services director Evonda Thomas-Smith, whose department would oversee the new positions, said the police Social Services Bureau is currently staffed by a manager, three victim advocates and one youth advocate. Under the new changes, the » See SERVICES, page 5
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University of Chicago economics Prof. Austan Goolsbee emphasized the importance of Democratic values and efforts at the Democratic Party of Evanston’s annual fundraiser Sunday. In his keynote address, Goolsbee — former chairman of the council of economic advisers under President Barack Obama, and the youngest cabinet member of the administration — said the Democratic Party lost in 2016 because it got “complacent.” He said though Democrats are still frustrated with the end result, they haven’t done enough to guarantee future change. “We’ve got to push back starting now and starting at every level,” Goolsbee said. “I am reminded of my late grandmother. If you complain about anything, she’d say, ‘80 percent of the world doesn’t care about your problems, and the other 20 percent are glad.’” After leaving the White House, Goolsbee said he thought he would never see a reemergence of the policies that caused the economic crisis in 2007 and 2008, such as the deregulation of the financial sector and decreased taxes for the wealthy. However,
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University of Chicago Prof. Austan Goolsbee speaks at the Democratic Party of Evanston’s annual fundraiser. He said Democrats need to continue to work for change.
Goolsbee said, the Trump administration is returning to such policies, which would endanger the nation. In contrast with President Donald Trump’s lack of concrete policy, Goolsbee said the Democratic Party advocates for using tax dollars to provide millions with health care, education and infrastructure. However,
Goolsbee said Democrats need to go out into their communities and neighboring states to talk to opponents if they want to make real progress. “You can’t persuade anybody unless you meet them where they are,” Goolsbee said. “You can’t do anything from these tables in Evanston.” However, other speakers from
the event said Evanston is a community known for advocacy. State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) said the DPOE is respected statewide. “We’ve seen the Evanstonization of the Democratic Party across this state,” Biss said about statewide political activism after » See GOOLSBEE, page 3
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AROUND TOWN
Panelists discuss Chicago gun violence at meeting By SAMANTHA HANDLER
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In 1992, Deon Patrick was convicted in a double murder that he did not commit. Two decades later, he walked free. Patrick said because he was shot around the age of 17, he grew up with a false sense of “invincibility” that made him make irrational decisions. This mindset, he said at a Saturday panel on gun violence, put him in a position that eventually led him to be wrongly convicted. “I had a lot of time to sit down and think about who I was as a person, who I was raised to be, and it changed my outlook on life,” Patrick said. “I made a conscious decision that if I ever got the opportunity to come home … I was going to be a part of the solution and not a part of the problem anymore.” Patrick, a community organizer in the Chicago neighborhood of Austin, was one of six panelists who discussed gun violence in the Chicago area at the Grace Lutheran Church on Saturday. The event was sponsored by Action for a Better Tomorrow’s Evanston chapter and Dear Evanston, a Facebook group that examines race, inequality and youth gun violence. Other panelists included Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence organizer Sara Knizhnik, Curt’s Café owner Susan Trieschmann, Curt’s Café graduate Tyronne Gibbs, Institute for Nonviolence Chicago executive director Teny Gross and the institute’s program manager, Chris Patterson. The panelists discussed their experiences with gun violence, the reasons for the problem and how the Evanston community can take incremental steps to make change. “Gun violence is a problem for all of us,” Knizhnik said. “Anyone who thinks they’re safe from it is fooling themselves. We must come together because if we don’t, it will be more of the same.”
At the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago, Patterson helps train communities — specifically young people — in “Kingsian nonviolence,” which is a system of concepts and strategies to reduce violence and foster peace. Patterson said he has been “directly affected” by the issue — he was shot and also lost two brothers to gun violence. Patterson said he used to keep track of all his friends who had been shot and killed, but stopped once the number reached the 20s years ago. “It’s countless young people who we’re working with who are shot and killed,” he said. “It’s gotten to the point where I think I’ve recovered a little bit, but I’ve stopped going to funerals because it was so much.” Knizhnik said most of the guns in the Chicago area are actually bought in states with weaker gun restrictions like Wisconsin and Indiana, calling Chicago an “island” surrounded by a “sea of very bad gun laws.” She added that she has been lobbying for the Gun Dealers Licensing Act — a bill that would help fill the gaps left by the underfunded federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — to pass through Illinois state government. “It’s a proactive bill,” Knizhnik said. “We’re not trying to stop a bad gun bill, we’re trying to pass a good one.” Nina Kavin, co-founder of Dear Evanston, said she organized the panel to show the many ways of addressing gun violence and to highlight people’s experiences with the issue. “Because the topic is so overwhelming, and there’s so many angles to come at it from, you can’t get nearly enough experts in the room to address it,” Kavin told The Daily. “But what I loved about this panel is we had people who had real, first-hand experience with gun violence.” Bobby Burns, president of Evanston Collective — which empowers and supports African-American ideas and families — attended
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Chicago community organizer Deon Patrick at a Saturday panel on gun violence. The event was sponsored by Action for a Better Tomorrow’s Evanston chapter and Dear Evanston.
the event and told The Daily that minority groups need economic and political power to establish themselves outside of their marginalization. To have healthy interactions about gun violence in Evanston, he said, people must continue to be receptive to other points of view. “As long as the conversation is open and we’re willing to be wrong, we’re willing to walk into a place with one set of beliefs and … maybe leave with a different perspective and a different opinion,” Burns said, “then we can have healthy interactions in the community.” samanthahandler2021@u.northwestern.edu
Setting the record straight Due to incorrect information from a source, an article published in the Oct. 23 paper titled “ETHS officials, students plan to recirculate paper with disclaimer” misstated when the section on marijuana use would be redistributed. It will be out in the Nov. 3 issue. The Daily regrets the error.
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ON CAMPUS Author speaks about police brutality By ALISON ALBELDA
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New York Times bestselling-author Matt Taibbi discussed racial tensions and civilian-police interactions in Cahn Auditorium on Saturday as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival. About 600 people attended the event, which was moderated by Chicago Police Board President Lori Lightfoot. Taibbi said his latest book, “I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street,” explores conditions that led to a fatal confrontation between the New York police and Eric Garner. On July 17, 2014, Officer Daniel Pantaleo and his partner, Justin Damico, confronted Garner and accused him of selling untaxed cigarettes. A cellphone video showed Pantaleo using a chokehold –– a tactic prohibited by the New York Police Department –– to subdue Garner, who was unarmed. New York City’s medical examiner found that Garner died from neck and chest compressions, which resulted from a chokehold. In December 2014, a state grand jury on Staten Island decided not to bring charges against Pantaleo. Taibbi, a contributing editor for “Rolling Stone,” said he was intrigued by Garner’s case following the court’s decision and wanted to learn who Garner was as a person. He added that he went as far as driving to Staten Island, where Garner was from and his confrontation with police happened, to do interviews. “I started to talk to people in the park where he used to work, and everybody had all these great
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the 2016 presidential election. Organizers are coming together to solve political issues, Biss said, but Evanston has been known for its grassroots organizations well before 2016. Biss was joined by several local, state and national Illinois representatives: Mayor Steve Hagerty, former mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl, U.S. Reps. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), state
stories about him,” Taibbi said. Taibbi said he talked to more than 200 people and spent nearly three years working on the book. Though The Boston Globe named Taibbi’s book to its fall must-reads list and described it as a “a complex and textured examination” of Garner’s death, Taibbi has recently been criticized for another book, which he co-wrote in 2000. Taibbi received backlash for the memoir, “The Exile: Sex, Drugs and Libel in the New Russia,” after speaking about it with an NPR reporter, according to Reuters. Some have said the book, which details his time as editor of an English newspaper in Russia, also contains passages detailing possible mistreatment and instances of sexual assault against female employees. However, in a Facebook post published Thursday, Taibbi said the events described in the book were “fictional and not true.” “I absolutely regret putting my name on that book,” Taibbi said during Saturday’s talk. “I have a lot of regrets about the editorial decisions I made during that time. Obviously, I want to emphasize that there is a difference between what I wrote and what my partner Mark Ames wrote. We had different areas of emphasis but (the book) was conceived as a giant satire.” Taibbi was one of more than 65 speakers participating in the Chicago Humanities Festival. Rina Ranalli, director of programming for the festival, said it aims to represent experts from all fields related to the humanities. “We are looking at the sciences, looking at
literature, looking at visual artists,” Ranalli said. “We look to all those kind of combinations to make a great festival.” Taibbi, who is white, told the audience it is important for reporters writing about racial issues to immerse themselves in the community. “White reporters like myself have to start owning these stories and not leaving them to other people,” he said. “We have to do it, we have to educate ourselves.” Taibbi also examined the criminal justice system in his new book, and said police brutality is sustained over time by bureaucratic decisions that protect the police from being punished. He added that people must push for change to end police brutality. “It is a bigger story than just bad cops,” he said. “It is a story about a bureaucracy that is filled with loopholes, and tricks, and false peaks, and quicksand and it’s all in there. People need to learn about all of that if they hope to change the problem.” Highland Park resident Dolores Kohl Kaplan, who attended the event, said students can help improve the country. “Police brutality, racism and all problems in our society give students a real insight into the bureaucracy, that it is not just the policemen,” Kohl Kaplan said. “On the contrary, it is the judicial system. It is the bureaucracy that students need to study in order to improve the situation and create a real democracy in our country.”
Reps. Laura Fine (D-Glenview) and Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston), Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th) and Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd). DPOE leaders received awards at the event, which also introduced the group’s latest strategic initiative, the Midwest Alliance of Progressives, for the 2018 election and beyond. Cameron Davis, DPOE’s vice president, said MAP aims to coordinate with other Democratic organizations to move forward with common goals and strategies.
Davis said MAP had its first success last week: Democratic candidate Corey Mason won the mayoral race in Racine, Wisconsin, with the alliance’s support. DPOE aims to take back control for the Democrats by flipping seats one by one at every level of government, Davis said. “We are going to take back the Midwest because if we take back the Midwest, we can take back the country,” Davis said.
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Censorship of The Evanstonian sets bad precedent
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This past month, Evanston Township High School administrators trampled over their student journalists. It’s a recurring story at high schools — a student paper publishes a mildly controversial article and the school overreacts, pulling the paper off stands and claiming its material challenges school policy. But that doesn’t make it acceptable. Students must receive space and respect to pursue stories about their communities. Their right to discuss potentially uncomfortable, controversial topics and address real issues must be acknowledged. Unfortunately, the student journalists at ETHS weren’t given this respect when school administrators pulled the school’s paper, The Evanstonian, following the Sept. 22 publication of “The Pot
Thickens…,” a section dealing with marijuana usage, legalization and distribution. The censorship was not only unnecessary and disrespectful to their work, it also sends a dangerous message to the ETHS community. Administrators told staffers the articles might promote the usage of marijuana among students and could serve as an incentive for students to become marijuana dealers. One of the newspaper’s three executive editors said administrators told them the issue could lead to legal action against the school, but officials never explained why. In an official statement, District 202 Superintendent Eric Witherspoon said the issues were removed for “(promoting) illegal conduct that also violates school policy.” Courts have ruled — most notably in Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier — that student newspapers can be censored when administrators have reasonable educational concerns about their content. But just because school administrators can restrict student
newspapers’ content doesn’t mean this benefits the students or their readers. Even if ETHS officials had a legal basis for their actions, the censorship was a disservice to student journalism. We acknowledge some of The Evanstonian’s reporting was irresponsible — particularly interviewing an anonymous drug dealer and not clearly disclosing the number of student respondents in its poll. The original articles would have benefitted from more thoughtful reporting, but school administrators should not dictate how the paper writes about sensitive topics. Further, the information provided in the articles is valuable, sparking discussion and raising awareness of student behavior. The school should not make moves that could dissuade The Evanstonian from tackling similarly contentious subjects in the future. Weeks after initial publication, The Evanstonian will finally be allowed to circulate its marijuana-related section on Nov. 3, only after adding a disclaimer
saying school administrators and newspaper staff don’t support marijuana usage and an infographic explaining its health and legal consequences. Forcing students to run additional content also sets a dangerous precedent of expecting student journalists to appease administrators in order to be able to publish their work. When officials make decisions like these, the gap between journalists and our audiences only widens. It is vital that journalists’ right to discuss and report uncomfortable subjects is protected. In the future, ETHS should not meddle so brashly with The Evanstonian’s stories and should not infringe on the paper’s ability to comment on or cover controversial topics. This piece represents the majority opinion of the Editorial Board of The Daily Northwestern. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members or Editorial Board members of The Daily Northwestern.
Frat boys are like Prohibition-era bootleggers, mobsters SHANE MCKEON
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In this series, a writer examines the history and influence of Northwestern fraternities — and proposes what to do about it. He is a former member of an IFC chapter. IFC had a bad week. Like really bad. To recap: The Interfraternity Council announced last week it would “derecognize” Sigma Alpha Epsilon. It seems IFC thought its move would pressure Northwestern to stop SAE from returning to campus, but the strategy completely backfired. The University said SAE will return next year if it “successfully completes” its suspension, and the Panhellenic Association ripped IFC for acting without consulting just about anyone. In a blistering statement, PHA said IFC’s decision means that when SAE returns, it will be “unregulated” by IFC and not subject to the council’s trainings and supervision. If SAE returns and becomes a rogue fraternity, IFC’s decision will have made students less safe. The controversy follows a PHA survey that found more than three-quarters of respondents felt uncomfortable in a fraternity space, or that they felt a frat placed its own interests above their personal safety. It all makes you wonder why we continue to vest so much responsibility and power in IFC fraternities. And that brings me to the column I prepared before this controversy erupted. It’s not precisely a response to this past week’s events, but it helps explain why IFC wields so much influence, and why its decisions have
far-reaching consequences. Let’s talk about alcohol. I submit that frat boys are analogous to Prohibition-era bootleggers. I submit further that this analogy can help us understand their position in our social networks and what to do about it. Like mafia men in the 1920s, fraternity men illegally serve alcohol and control the spaces in which it is consumed. Underage Northwestern students are prohibited, by both law and the University, to consume alcohol. Evanston strenuously resists slouching into “college town” status, so we have few bars that reliably serve underage students (not since The Keg closed in 2013).
Like mafia men in the 1920s, fraternity men illegally serve alcohol and control the spaces in which it is consumed.
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Puritanical public policy created a vacuum, and fraternities benefit from it. In the underground, frats provide alcohol and spaces to drink, and they have developed intricate strategies for avoiding punishment. For example, a frat will sometimes elide the chapter’s connection to a party, referring to it as, for example, “a party at John’s house.” The aim is to indemnify the frat, or at least obscure its involvement, so that it can continue to trade alcohol for social capital. Young men join these frats and pay monetary dues, hoping to profit off that capital. Their dues buy alcohol, and the cycle continues. And we, the individual students who show up to these parties, fill those basements with livelihood and social worth. (Why else would frat boys care so much about the goddamn “ratio”?) In other words, many of us endorse
and perpetuate this cycle. And like frequenting a mob-owned speakeasy in the 1920s, our transacting with fraternities has consequences: We help prop up a reckless cartel that excludes and harms our peers. Still, we who seek out alcohol have few alternatives. That’s thanks largely to our history. When Northwestern was founded by a handful of Methodist men in 1851, they wrote into the charter that no alcohol shall be sold within four miles of campus. The founders hoped to encourage wholesomeness among the students, and the “four-mile limit” helped develop a community in Evanston that valued temperance and considered itself a dry haven from wet Chicago. This set of values won out nationally in 1919; Prohibition forced drinkers underground; organized crime blossomed thanks to a black market for alcohol, and the rest is history: In 1933, America became wet again. But not Evanston. Northwestern pledged it would try to enforce the four-mile limit, and in 1934, Evanston residents voted to keep the city dry. It wasn’t until the 1970s, when Holiday Inn threatened to nix plans for a proposed hotel unless it could have a bar, that Evanston became, as one professor described to me, “moist.” The hotel — and, later, other establishments — was permitted to sell alcohol, but only “with a meal.” (The professor said he once got into a spirited exchange with a waitress over whether nachos constituted a meal. He lost.) Evanston’s liquor ordinances began to ease up, but then, in the 80s, Illinois’ drinking age became 21. That basically leads us to today. Evanston is not the teetotalitarian city it once was, but it is far from a permissive college town with ample options for underage drinkers. I don’t recommend that Evanston go the way of State College, Pennsylvania. Still, many college students want to drink alcohol, and they will seek out spaces in which to do so. Northwestern students have limited options. There’s no true “college bar” in Evanston where the underaged can get sloshed. (The closest is
probably the Mark II Lounge, better known as The Deuce, a grimy bar a block south of Howard Street accessed by Uber and frequented by underclassmen. Its popularity has waned since the days of the Deuce Caboose eight years ago, but it remains a destination.) Many students in dorms fear being caught by their Resident Assistant and decide that to drink they must leave the relative safety of their own rooms. For these reasons, many freshmen venture offcampus or to North Campus. It is here, in these hazy and foreign basements, that we entrust the safety of 18-year-old drinkers to 19-year-old frat boys, most of whom are more interested in protecting their chapter than ensuring the immediate safety of their peers. It’s worth remembering that SAE wasn’t suspended for alleged druggings at its house, but rather for “repeatedly hosting parties and providing alcohol to minors.” Of course, “repeatedly hosting parties and providing alcohol to minors” is a primary function of most IFC frats. It’s just that, in the course of a separate investigation, SAE got caught and suspended. But Northwestern has turned its frat system into something of a Hydra. Decapitation is only temporary. Suspensions end. Frats are banished, then return, and nothing changes. We are fouryear students up against 100-year-old institutions with brick houses and generous alumni. If SAE returns to campus, this cycle will begin again. Little will change until students find more non-frat spaces to drink alcohol. That project will be difficult as long as frats dominate social life, allowed to regenerate year after year, above reproach and underground.
Shane McKeon is a Medill senior. He can be contacted at shanem@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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FOOTBALL From page 1
in celebration. Two plays after an NU score, Lewerke’s lone interception on the day ended Michigan State’s (6-2, 4-1) bid to extend the game into a fourth overtime, ensuring NU’s third straight win. A week after topping Iowa at home in an overtime thriller, the Cats made the drama against the Hawkeyes look quaint. The contest in front of an announced crowd of 39,369 was the first at Ryan Field to require three overtimes since 2013 and the first triple-overtime victory in school history. “What a heck of a ball game,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “If you look at the regulation aspect, it was a really hard-fought defensive game, and I think that’ll get lost in the final stats. … It was tough to gain any inches on either side.” It was also a game dictated by each team’s
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University President Morton Schapiro told The Daily in an interview earlier this month that he was glad several faculty members and students were featured in the neutron star collision discovery. He added that Kalogera is a “brilliant astrophysicist.” “She has a way of explaining complicated science in a manner that I can even understand,” Schapiro said. “It was great to open up The New York Times … and the front page article and the first person they choose is Vicky. … It really increases the recognition and stature of Northwestern, so I couldn’t be prouder of what they’re doing.” Physics and astronomy Prof. Shane Larson, who worked with Kalogera on the gravitational wave side of the discovery, said the team focused on analyzing the gravitational wave data the detectors received during the collision. Before the announcement of the discovery, Larson said he and Kalogera were heavily involved in the final writing process of the two flagship papers released by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration that described the collision. The papers start as a collaborative process with thousands of writers and are narrowed down to a smaller team that produces the final paper, Larson said. “All of us are on the papers together … and everyone has some part that they play in this (discovery), so it’s hard to look at any given discovery and say, ‘This is what I did,’” he said. Physics and astronomy Prof. Raffaella Margutti, who led a team on the electromagnetic wave side
quarterback. As each defense stiffened along the line and each rushing attack struggled to find holes, the two squads aired the ball out aggressively. Jackson ran for just 41 yards, making a larger mark in other areas. The senior threw his first career pass, hitting sophomore Ben Skowronek for a touchdown on a trick play, and also hauled in seven catches. And LJ Scott, Michigan State’s starting tailback, ran for just 16 yards as Lewerke tossed for 445 yards on 57 passing attempts. Against that backdrop, junior quarterback Clayton Thorson stepped up and matched Lewerke pass-for-pass in what developed into a shootout late. Thorson torched the Spartans secondary for 356 yards and a pair of touchdowns and came up clutch time and time again in the overtime periods. The performance in the air came at the expense of a vaunted Michigan State defense that entered the afternoon allowing a conference-best 262 yards of offense per game. of the discovery, said the team used a Dark Energy Camera, which can detect electromagnetic waves. The camera was used to locate the galaxy where the collision occurred based on the general location of the gravitational waves detected by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Margutti said. Once the galaxy was located, Margutti and other team members worked on observing light waves emitted from the collision. Margutti said the collision emitted visible light waves for 10 days, and then switched to X-ray and radio waves that are still being recorded. “I would say this (discovery) establishes a new paradigm to explore the universe through, Margutti said. “It’s just like we’ve been using only one of our eyes until now, and now we found out this other way to explore it.” Margutti added that the discovery of the neutron star collision and subsequent explosion confirmed the theory that the event could be another place in the universe where heavy elements, like gold and platinum, are formed. Shortly after the Aug. 17 discovery, the LIGO and Virgo detectors went offline for updates and improvements, Kalogera said. They will come back online early next year. The improvements will make the detectors more sensitive, and may lead to future scientific discoveries, she said. “Not every neutron star merger will look like the first one we watched,” Kalogera said. “There’s a lot to learn from detecting more (neutron star mergers) and I’m sure we’re going to have lots of surprises.” elizabethbyrne2020@u.northwestern.edu
“As a quarterback now, you’re the hero or you’re the zero, that’s just the way that it works out,” Fitzgerald said. “When you win, and we complete more balls than we don’t and we don’t throw picks, that’s a special day. And he had, I thought, a great game. I really thought he took what the defense gave him.” Thorson’s performance helped the Cats come back in a game they trailed 10-0 in the second quarter. Equally key was a largely stout performance from the NU defense. For much of the game, the Cats managed to limit the damage from Lewerke’s downfield fireworks. But after holding tough for the bulk of the day, NU surrendered a Michigan State touchdown with 25 seconds remaining in regulation, setting the stage for extra periods. Both teams scored in the first two overtimes. In the third, Thorson hit junior receiver Flynn Nagel for a 22-yard touchdown that set up the defense to
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city will employ one full-time senior human services advocate and three part-time workers who will also serve as liaisons to schools and other agencies, and be on-call to provide services as needed. Thomas-Smith said the positions will continue to be housed in the police department, but report to her department.
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She said the expectation for the new positions in the health department is that they are able to work together with other departments to support victims and those working through trauma and tragedy. “These positions will be coordinators,” Thomas-Smith said. “The hope is that we get the right mix … (including) those with an understanding of the cultural and linguistic sensitivity that must be present to serve those in this
make the final stop. Sophomore defensive end Joe Gaziano came after Lewerke from behind on the game’s final play and stripped the ball. Lewerke recovered momentarily, but then tossed the pick. Exhausted, Gaziano said he kneeled and watched as his teammates swarmed Hall at the goal line and as the floodgates opened at the student section. The victory represented NU’s first over a top-20 team since it snuck past Notre Dame in overtime on the road in 2014. And with early-season disappointments fading in the rearview mirror, the Cats seem to be hitting their stride heading into November. “These are the games that we live for,” Thorson said. “This is a big game for us. These past two, three weeks — three Big Ten wins is really tough to do, against three really good teams. This is a win that we need to catapult us for the rest of the season.” timothybalk2018@u.northwestern.edu community.” At Saturday’s meeting, officials also introduced a transfer of a youth advocate from the police Social Services Bureau to the Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department. Lawrence Hemingway, the department’s director, said this change would allow the youth advocate to enter information about an individual into a city-wide database and see if other family members are seeking help. He stressed that the type of services offered to families wouldn’t change, and the position would still be housed at the police department. Janet Alexander Davis, a 5th Ward resident who attended the meeting, disagreed with the proposed shift away from credentialed social workers. She said her work for nonprofits in the 1990s took her to police departments across the country, where she noticed how the presence of social workers made a big difference for people impacted by trauma or in need of victim services. Even with the clarification by city officials that the new shifts would not reduce services provided to residents, Alexander Davis told The Daily she was still concerned about the removal of licensed social workers. “I don’t think we should put non-degreed people in an area where we are seeing more and more trauma,” she said. “You can’t train (people) for something that I think takes a four-year degree or a six-year degree.” kristinakarisch2020@u.northwestern.edu
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Evanston community celebrates Day of the Dead By MARISSA MARTINEZ
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Evanston’s Day of the Dead Celebration annually includes performances and art projects, but this Sunday’s event drew a crowd of roughly 800 community members — an increase from last year’s 500 attendees, city event coordinator Patricia Battaglia said. The celebration — held at the Levy Senior Center — also showcased a bilingual puppet show for the first time. “The Evanston community looks forward to a cultural richness and being exposed to a lot of different cultures,” Battaglia said. “This is one that really celebrates Mexican culture.” Day of the Dead, “Día de los Muertos” in Spanish, is a Mexican holiday that occurs between Oct. 31 and Nov. 2. People celebrate, rather than mourn, dead loved ones with food, symbolic offerings and altars. The distinction between Halloween, which is about “scary monsters and things that haunt you in the night,” and Day of the Dead is important, said Juan Díes, a founding member of Sones de Mexico Ensemble, a Mexican folk music group that performed at the event. Díes said more people are beginning to realize the difference between the two. “When people can see and have access to this tradition, not feel like they’re excluded, you break a little bit of the mysticism,” Díes said. “Many people who are prejudiced against Hispanic culture are just afraid because they don’t understand it.” Th e audience was racially and ethnically diverse, he said, which shows that the Day of the Dead has gotten more attention in the U.S. over the last three decades. At the celebration, hundreds of children in costumes turned donated shoeboxes into bright “ofrendas” for the dead using tissue paper, pipe cleaners and clay. Cocina Azteca catered the event, selling Mexican foods including tamales, tacos and elotes — each for under $4. Díes’s group performed songs, poems and stories from different regions of Mexico, such
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Rogers Park resident Martha de la Cruz, 36, attended Evanston’s Day of the Dead Celebration Sunday, dressed in skeletal makeup and clothing. This year’s event drew roughly 800 community members, an increase from 500 last year, city event coordinator Patricia Battaglia said.
as Oaxaca and Michoacán, for an hour. He said it was satisfying to see his set reach so many people. “It’s rewarding to fi nd people who fi nd themselves far from their homeland,” Díes said. “Every time we’re playing, people come up and they get a little piece of home. And when they see it well performed, they are proud to be a part of it.” Martha de la Cruz, a 36-year-old Rogers Park
resident, attended the celebration with her two daughters and husband for the first time, she told The Daily in Spanish. Hailing from Chiapas, Mexico, de la Cruz said she found the event important in the current social climate because it allowed her to showcase Mexican roots and traditions. “Truthfully, right now, we’re living in a sad moment, and we’re a little tense, (wondering)
what’s going to happen to us,” de la Cruz said in Spanish. “We have to keep fighting and educating our children so that in the future, they won’t be scared of racism, and so that people learn more about us. We come to this country to share our culture, our traditions, our food. We don’t come to harm, we come to share.”
in the area of Howard Street and Dodge Avenue, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said in a Friday news release. There, officers located a 29-year-old Evanston resident bleeding from the face. The resident told officers he was driving his vehicle westbound on Howard and was attempting to make a right turn onto Dodge when a silver four-door vehicle with tinted
windows and silver rims pulled up alongside him, Dugan said. The resident said the lone occupant of the other vehicle fired one shot at his vehicle. Dugan said the projectile struck and shattered the resident’s side door window, and the man was also struck in the face by glass fragments. Dugan added that the injuries were nonlife-threatening, but the man was transported to
Presence Saint Francis Hospital for treatment. The other vehicle’s driver was last seen southbound on California Avenue from Howard Street, Dugan said. Dugan said the man was described as being a black or Hispanic male wearing a black or red baseball hat. Detectives are investigating the incident.
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Cats win 2nd straight to NU loses to Penn State, to conclude fall campaign compete in play-in contest By BENJAMIN APELBAUM
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It took Midwestern conditions to help Northwestern pull off a come-from-behind win in North Carolina at the UNCG/Grandover Collegiate this weekend. The Wildcats traveled to Greensboro, North Carolina, and defeated several higher-ranked teams from
When we realized (Sunday) was going to be cold and windy we were pretty excited for that. Sam Triplett, Golfer
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the Tar Heel state to claim their second-straight tournament victory over the 10-team field. Senior Dylan Wu won the tournament as an individual with a dominant 7-under-par performance that was four strokes better than the second-place finisher. NU was aided on the second day of the two-day tournament by conditions that were more typical of fall in the Midwest than the South, as the temperatures dipped into the 50s with rain and high winds. “When we realized (Sunday) was going to be cold and windy we were pretty excited for that,” senior Sam Triplett said. “We knew we were most prepared for it and had played in it more often than teams like Duke and North Carolina.” The Cats finished the tournament at 9-over-par as a team, two strokes ahead of No. 20 North Carolina and six in front of Duke, which received votes in the coaches poll. On the last day, NU shot 2-under, the best in
the field, while the Blue Devils and Tar Heels both shot 5-over, allowing the Cats to surge into the lead. “I was really proud of how tough they played today,” coach David Inglis said. “To go out in those conditions and play our best round of the tournament was really encouraging.” As has become customary, Wu was the team’s scoring leader. A first-team All-Big Ten honoree a year ago, Wu has the lowest scoring average at NU this season by over a stroke. Wu’s win came in a field of 75 competitors and was the third of his career after he won the Redhawk Invitational last spring and the Gifford Collegiate as a freshman. Wu was consistent throughout the Grandover, shooting scores of 3-under, 2-under and 2-under across the three rounds. However, Wu ran into some trouble at the beginning of the final round. “He had to sleep on the lead and bogied the first two holes, but he rebounded well,” Inglis said. “He really played solidly coming in the last nine holes. The way he played the first day really kept our team in it, and he deserves a lot of credit for the win.” After a slow start, junior Ryan Lumsden improved his score in each of the three rounds and finished tied for third at 1-under. Triplett and freshman Ethan Farnam both finished tied for 17th, but Farnam’s score did not count because he competed as an individual and not as part of the Cats’ five-man starting lineup. Inglis praised the performance of the entire team and said he was proud of their improvement throughout the fall. NU finished 13th and 10th out of 15 squads in its first two competitions, but rebounded to capture its home tournament three weeks ago. Wu said this second win has given the team confidence before they resume play in February at Big Ten Match Play. “When we play well we know we can win any tournament we play in,” Wu said. “We had a rough start in our first two tournaments, but it was good to end the fall on a good note.” benjaminapelbaum2019@u.northwestern.edu
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By ELLA BROCKWAY
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Northwestern has struggled to capitalize on lategame opportunities throughout the 2017 campaign. Out of its 91 second-half shot attempts this season, only seven have resulted in goals. On Sunday afternoon, the Wildcats fell short again. NU (6-11, 1-7 Big Ten) failed to convert on four shot attempts in the last nine minutes of the game and suffered a 2-1 loss to Penn State (5-9-2, 2-6 Big Ten) on a rain-soaked day in State College. With the loss, the Cats will settle for the No. 8 seed entering next week’s Big Ten Tournament. “We had several good chances in the last nine or 10 minutes, and that goes to show that we never really gave up,” sophomore midfielder Sean Lynch said. “We were fighting all the way to the end, and that’s one of the reasons that our coaching staff was also pleased with how we played today.” NU now faces a much more difficult postseason road. It will play a first round play-in game against ninth-seeded Rutgers next Saturday before the rest of the Big Ten teams face off Sunday. Four different Cats players registered shots in the last nine minutes of the game in attempts to find an equalizer to send the game into overtime. The best opportunity came on a header attempt from sophomore midfielder Mattias Tomasino in the 82nd minute that hit the crossbar. The Cats’ lone score of the day came on a header from Lynch in the 35th minute. Lynch’s goal, his third of the season, was a lone bright spot on a quiet day for an offense that recorded only 12 total shots. The Nittany Lions controlled possession for the majority of the first half, scoring first in the 18th minute. NU dedicated its energy to containing on defense rather than attacking forward, managing only four shots in the first half compared to Penn State’s 12. The tables turned in the opening minutes after the break, as the Cats earned three early corner kicks and three shots in the first nine minutes of the period. The shift in possession didn’t last long, though, and
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Penn State came fighting back midway through the period. Forward Aymar Sigue scored off a rebound in the 67th minute to give the Nittany Lions the lead. “I thought we were about to get a second goal when they got their second goal,” coach Tim Lenahan said. “The last 15 minutes, we threw everything at them. We had tons of chances. I’m very proud of our effort.” The team’s focus now shifts to the postseason, Lynch said. He added that it will be key for NU to stay concentrated on Saturday’s match instead of thinking ahead about a possible quarterfinal meeting with topseeded Michigan on Sunday. “If we think too much about the game on Sunday should we beat Rutgers on Saturday, I think that could really mess us up,” Lynch said. “Our focus really needs to be on Saturday and we’ve got to bring it this week to training. All we can do is bring the effort.” ellabrockway2021@u.northwestern.edu
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Sean Lynch stretches for the ball. The sophomore midfielder scored a goal in the Wildcats’ 2-1 loss at Penn State on Sunday.
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Cats seal deal in third overtime to upset Michigan State By COLE PAXTON
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After 60 minutes of regulation couldn’t break the deadlock between Northwestern and Michigan State and two overtimes were similarly unhelpful in determining a victor, the Wildcats finally separated themselves. Junior receiver Flynn Nagel lunged across the goal line to score in the third overtime, sophomore defensive end Joe Gaziano stripped Michigan State quarterback Brian Lewerke of the ball two plays later and junior linebacker Nate Hall grabbed the game-winning interception on the same play to secure NU’s (5-3, 3-2 Big Ten) 39-31 win over the No. 16 Spartans (6-2, 4-1) at a chilly Ryan Field on Saturday. The interception, which came after Lewerke picked up the loose ball and lofted a toss toward the end zone, led to a rush of students storming the field to celebrate the Cats’ second overtime win in as many weeks. “It’s kind of like playing backyard football with your brothers,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “It went into a
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scramble drill. … Just a great play by Nate.” Redshirt freshman linebacker Paddy Fisher, who chased Lewerke as he scrambled, then turned around to watch the final sequence. “I saw Nate come down with it,” Fisher said. “And after that it was surreal.” NU’s standout defense in the third overtime marked a turnaround from the first two extra periods, in which the Spartans moved the ball crisply. Lewerke completed three passes on Michigan State’s touchdown drive in the first overtime, and the visitors needed just two plays to score in the second additional period. But in the third overtime, Fisher hurried Lewerke into an incompletion on first down, setting up the game-winning work by Gaziano and Hall on the next play. “We had confidence in our offense, and obviously they got the job done,” Hall said. “That inspired us to keep battling as well.” Despite its eventual success, the Cats’ offense found itself in a tough spot in the third extra period. An incomplete pass and short rush gave NU third-and-seven at the 22-yard line, the Cats’ only third down play of the additional sessions.
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Junior quarterback Clayton Thorson had enough time to find Nagel underneath, and the receiver went untouched until roughly the 10-yard line. There, he was slowed by a would-be tackler, but Nagel continued to stumble forward as he approached the goal line, finally diving into the end zone to put the Cats up for good. “That was a huge drive for us. (I was thinking), ‘just catch the ball, get upfield and get as many yards as I could,’” Nagel said. “Everything developed nicely.” Thorson then connected with sophomore superback Cam Green to convert the ensuing two-point conversion — which is mandatory from the third overtime on — to give NU some breathing room defensively. Gaziano and Hall rendered that point moot, however, as the Cats danced off the Ryan Field grass with another dramatic victory and their first triple-overtime win ever. “I think back to playing NCAA Football (video games) and going into triple overtime with my brothers,” Thorson said. “This is something I’ve always wanted to do. It’s awesome.” colepaxton2019@u.northwestern.edu
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Jackson displays versatility in win NU moves on to Big Ten semifinals in win By MAX GELMAN
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Justin Jackson wasn’t exactly “The Ball Carrier” on Saturday, but he still found ways to get the job done in Northwestern’s 39-31 triple-overtime win over No. 16 Michigan State. The senior running back rushed for only 41 yards on 17 carries against a stout Spartans (6-2, 4-1 Big Ten) defense, so the Wildcats (5-3, 3-2) utilized Jackson more creatively than normal. Jackson caught seven passes for 51 receiving yards Saturday, his highest totals in both categories since a Nov. 19, 2016 loss to Minnesota. Jackson even threw — and completed — his first career pass, connecting with sophomore receiver Ben Skowronek for a 12-yard touchdown on a trick play in the fourth quarter. “We actually didn’t work on that this week, but we’ve been working on it since training camp,” Jackson said. “(Skowronek) always says, ‘Just throw it up,’ so I tried to do that. It didn’t look great, but it accomplished the goal.” Michigan State seemingly came into Saturday prepared to stop Jackson on the ground, repeatedly stacking the box with seven and eight defensive players. The Spartans allowed an average of 93.4 rushing yards per game entering the contest, good for second in the Big Ten and eighth in the FBS. But Jackson continued to be involved, especially early in the game. Six of Jackson’s seven receptions occurred before halftime, as he remained a pivotal element in the Wildcats’ offense after they fell behind 10-0. “Most of them were check-downs, so I think (junior quarterback Clayton Thorson) is just looking for me a little bit more,” Jackson said. “There was another one that was a screen we had just put in this week, but other than that I’m just trying to be
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Justin Jackson carries the ball. The senior running back rushed for 41 yards and a touchdown, tallied 51 yards receiving and threw for a score on his first career pass attempt in Northwestern’s upset win over No. 16 Michigan State on Saturday.
available for Clayton.” Those check-downs helped NU break through against Michigan State’s front seven. One week after Jackson set up a game-winning touchdown in overtime against Iowa with impressive open-field elusiveness, Thorson targeted Jackson nine times against the Spartans. “We tried to just spread him out as much as possible,” Thorson said of Jackson. “There have been times where we’ve had to win games running the ball a lot, and there have been times where we’ve had to win games passing the ball a lot. That’s what we had to do today.” Jackson also tied the Cats’ program record for total touchdowns, matching Damien Anderson’s 38 career scores with a three-yard run
in the second overtime. Despite successfully utilizing Jackson’s versatility this week, the Cats will likely stick with a more run-focused approach for the running back. Coach Pat Fitzgerald shot down the possibility of future Jackson touchdown passes almost immediately. But with four regular-season games left in Jackson’s career, Fitzgerald wants him to go out strong. “Today we were able to get some positive matchups,” Fitzgerald said, “but obviously Justin in space is something we want to try to get accomplished as much as we can.” maxgelman2018@u.northwestern. edu
Northwestern was deadlocked with Purdue at zero with three minutes to go in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals, fighting to advance to the next round. It was a big moment, and the Cats had a lot on their minds. “We just really didn’t want to go to overtime,” junior midfielder Michele Chernesky said. NU (11-6-2, 7-3-1 Big Ten) won 1-0 against seventh-seeded Purdue (10-72, 5-4-2) after Chernesky scored in the 88th minute on a breakaway opportunity. She said it felt like time had temporarily frozen as she held possession with only the goalkeeper in front of her. Then, her goal sealed the win. Though four consecutive shutout wins to close the season put NU as the higher seed, the Boilermakers were in the midst of their most successful season since 2008, the last time Purdue qualified for the Big Ten Tournament. Their offense, led by Big Ten Forward of the Year Maddy Williams, challenged the Cats’ defense throughout the match. Purdue tallied nine shots in the second half, including six in the first 10 minutes, but senior goalkeeper Lauren Clem or an NU defender stopped each opportunity. Nearly 10 minutes into the second half, the Boilermakers sent a throw-in into the box and two forwards had a chance to shoot. Clem blocked the first attempt, while junior defender Hannah Davison dove into an empty net to stop the second and keep the game scoreless. Moynihan said he had no idea who made the save or how the Cats got the ball out of the box. Clem’s leadership of the back line, Moynihan said, was enough to keep Purdue off the board. “We were able to control a lot of the possession from the back moving forward, and that’s exactly what we want to do,” Clem said. “We know that we
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are limitless if we go together as a group.” While the Cats’ seniors have made the Big Ten Tournament every year — the only group to do so under Moynihan — the Boilermakers, whose seniors are playing in their first Big Ten Tournament, are rebuilding their program. Purdue’s progression reminded Moynihan of the work he did to bring his team back to the postseason. Moynihan said the Cats’ October loss in West Lafayette motivated them to bounce back in the rematch against Purdue. “They really wanted to redeem themselves,” Moynihan said. “People walked away from that game thinking Purdue wanted it more, and that’s never what we want anybody thinking when we leave the field. That’s why we came out so determined.” Following NU’s victory against Purdue, the Cats advance to face sixthseeded Wisconsin in the Big Ten Tournament semifinals Friday in Westfield, Indiana. The Badgers, who advanced by upsetting Minnesota 2-0 behind one of the strongest defenses in the Big Ten, will make scoring even more difficult for the Cats. NU beat the Badgers 2-0 at home earlier in the season, though, and Moynihan said the Cats’ chemistry, aggression and experience can lead them to a win against Wisconsin as well as their first Big Ten Tournament championship. “Every team sets out to do what the teams before them haven’t been able to do,” he said. “After the game, I told them that we have our sights set on one thing and that’s winning the Big Ten Tournament. Whoever we play next is just an obstacle in the way.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.