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SENATE VICTORY Students celebrate after Associated Student Government Senate passed a Northwestern Divest-sponsored resolution just before 1:30 a.m. Thursday, after over five hours of debate.
By SHANE MCKEON
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Associated Student Government Senate passed a Northwestern Divest-sponsored resolution early Thursday morning asking
the University to divest from six corporations the resolution’s sponsors say violate Palestinians’ human rights. The resolution passed with 24 votes in favor and 22 votes against, with three abstentions. The vote, cast through a secret ballot, came after more than five hours of debate, during which senators, students
and alumni alternated speaking for and against the resolution. Attendees filled 400 seats in Norris University Center’s Louis Room to watch or contribute to the debate. An NUDivest supporter also live-streamed the meeting online, attracting about 300 viewers throughout the night. The meeting caught
Campaign ahead of schedule By JEANNE KUANG
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EARLY MONEY A panel discusses a new Northwestern global studies initiative on Jan. 28 after the University announced Roberta Buffett Elliott’s (Weinberg ‘54) record $100 million donation to the “We Will” campaign.
County announces same-sex marriage license numbers
Evanston has issued more marriage licenses to same-sex couples than any other suburb in Cook County, according to a report released Wednesday by the county’s clerk. Evanston issued 142 marriage licenses in Cook County’s first year after legalizing same-sex marriage, according to the report. More than three months before Illinois legalized gay marriage, Cook County Clerk David Orr was authorized to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples who planned to marry in Cook
County on Feb. 21, 2014. Since then, more than 6,500 same-sex couples have married in the county. “As we mark the one-year anniversary of marriage equality in Cook County, we celebrate more than the historic day I began issuing licenses to same-sex couples,” Orr said in the report. “We also celebrate every day that loving couples have been able to share in this most basic right, a right that was denied to so many for too long.” Chicago residents made up about 66 percent of the same-sex couples who were issued licenses. Marriage licenses were issued to 1,191 suburban Cook County residents or about 18.5 percent of the total licenses issued. Evanston issued the most of Cook County suburbs, followed by Oak Park, Berwyn, Des Plaines and
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Top University officials have confirmed Northwestern’s “We Will” campaign is ahead of schedule. “Either we’ll finish the campaign early or we’ll raise more than what we have set a goal for,” said Bob McQuinn, vice president of alumni relations and development, in an interview with The Daily last week. The confirmation comes after alumna Roberta Buffett Elliott’s record $100 million donation late last month. Elliott’s donation, announced Jan. 28, put the total raised for the $3.75 billion campaign above a landmark $2 billion both pledged and donated. Meanwhile, the University is netting donations at a rate of more than $8.8 million a week, McQuinn said.
the attention of activists around the country on social media. Although Thursday’s vote represents a significant victory for NUDivest, the resolution is a recommendation to NU officials, not a University policy change. Nevertheless, the passage is important for NUDivest, which has been
Chicago Transit Authority crime drops in 2014
Serious crimes at Chicago Transit Authority stations and on CTA vehicles fell 26 percent and theft and robberies fell 28 percent in 2014, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the CTA announced Tuesday. Emanuel, the CTA and the Chicago Police Department have increased security cameras to more than 23,000 cameras and expanded police patrols, rail saturation missions and increased undercover operations to decrease crime in CTA buses, trains and stations, according to the CTA. “Over the past three and a half years we have developed and implemented an aggressive plan to fight crime and increase safety on the
campaigning since its launch last month for students to support divestment from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Hewlett-Packard, G4S, Caterpillar and Elbit Systems. Divestment supporters say these companies’ products are used by Israel in human » See SENATE, page 4 CTA by adding thousands of security cameras and strengthening policing strategies,” Emanuel said in the CTA news release. “We are committed to the safety of every Chicagoan who takes public transportation, we are sending the message that we will not tolerate criminal activity, and we are seeing the results.” Robberies have decreased 34 percent, while thefts have decreased 26 percent. In 2014, CTA buses had their lowest rate of serious crimes in the past four years. “By working closely with the Chicago Police Department and continuing our investment in security technology, we have been able to increase arrests with the aid of state-of-theart video and provide a more secure environment for everyone,” said CTA President Forrest Claypool. — Stephanie Kelly
» See WE WILL, page 4 Schaumburg. More than 350 same-sex couples from other counties were issued Cook County licenses, and more than 1,800 couples came from 41 other states, including Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. Fourteen couples from countries including China, Russia, Spain and England traveled to get married in Cook County. “While marriage equality has spread like a tidal wave across the country, it needs to be recognized in every state,” Orr said in the report. “Couples from 41 other states – big and small, urban and rural – have applied for licenses in Cook County. And as we’ve seen recently in Alabama, Arkansas and Kansas, the fight for equality is not yet over.” — Stephanie Kelly
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WAITING FOR THE TRAIN An inbound CTA train arrives at the Foster Street stop. Serious crimes at CTA stations and on CTA vehicles dropped during 2014.
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Door broken in Evanston home
Someone forced the door of a south Evanston home open sometime Monday night or Tuesday morning, police said. The 88-year-old man who owns the home told police he went to bed in his home in the 1200 block of Sheridan Road around 11 p.m. Monday and when he woke up the next day, someone had damaged his front door by forcing the door open, causing the door jam to break, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. The man said he did not hear or see anything suspicious during the night and nothing seemed to be missing or disturbed, Dugan added.
2 graffiti incidents found Tuesday
Graffiti was found on a stop sign and a traffic box in two nearby intersections in Evanston on Tuesday afternoon, police said. The first incident of defacement occurred on the back of a stop sign on the corner of Foster Street and Darrow Avenue. The letters “TVL” were written in black marker on the back of the sign, and they were discovered around 12:45 p.m. Dugan said there is a street gang that operates in Chicago known as the Traveling Vice Lords, but it is unlikely that the graffiti represented this group. “It would be a stretch,” he said. “Up here (in Evanston) we don’t have problems with them.” The other graffiti incident occurred on a traffic box less than half a mile away and was also discovered Tuesday about 15 minutes earlier, police said. The markings on the box were written in yellow, but were undecipherable, Dugan said. — Julian Gerez
Setting the record straight In the guest column “Why I cannot remain silent on divestment issue” in Tuesday’s print edition, the name of columnist Erik Zorn was misspelled. The Daily regrets the error.
Business district awaits cosmetic grant verdict By BEN SCHAEFER
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City Council is slated to hear a proposal from six neighborhood business groups requesting $54,000 in funding for beautification and various other projects at their next meeting. The proposal was submitted as part of the Neighborhood Business District Improvement Program, according to a city document. The program was created by the city’s economic development team in 2010. The program allows for established districts to apply for up to $9,000 in grants to put toward marketing and beautification. “We have seen the money put toward putting planters out on sidewalks and creating banners for events,” economic development coordinator Meagan Jones said. “It really does help districts who are trying to increase foot traffic in their district and bring in more clients to a retail space.” The funding comes from the economic development fund. Districts can apply more than once and many groups applying now have applied in the past, Jones said. “Many of these groups have been around for a long time and understand their needs,” she said. “They know what to ask for and how the process works, but more importantly they know how to put it to use and reap the benefits from the program.” Each group involved is scheduled to receive the full $9,000 from the program should it pass. The money will be put toward planters, streetscape furniture and advertising. The businesses petitioning for the aid include the Central Street Business Association, the Chicago-Dempster Merchants Association, the Hill Arts Business District, the Howard Street Business Association, the West End Business Association and the West Village Business Association.
“The bottom line is, we want to do something that will help bring customers to our businesses,” said Steve Farmer, co-owner of the Happy Husky Bakery. “We want to make Central Street a nice, fun place for Evanstonians and people beyond to come and shop.” The city offers the opportunity annually We’re to receive the Great Merchant Grant to one of a kind seven or eight business and making districts. “The grant money our business is a big incentive,” districts more Farmer said. “We attractive have dues that we collect to be a member of places only our business district, adds to what but they’re not sufficient for large capital we offer. projects.” Steve The Central Street Farmer, Business Association Happy Husky submitted plans to Bakery co-owner install large planters on the street, maintain existing planters and install benches in their proposal, according to Farmer. Proposals were submitted in January. Deliberation on the proposals will take place on Monday, Feb. 23 at Evanston’s Civic Center. Four more groups are scheduled to request funding later this month. “I believe Evanston is a unique business environment,” Farmer said. “We’re close to Northwestern, we have great restaurants and places like Central Street are quaint neighborhoods. We’re one of a kind and making our business districts more attractive places only adds to what we offer.”
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On Campus Study shows ‘It gets better’ for LGBT youth By EMILY CHIN
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For struggling LGBT adolescents, activist and writer Dan Savage and a host of celebrities have promised, “It gets better.” The idea was supported by a recent Feinberg School of Medicine study, which showed that LGBT people feel less psychological distress as they get older. The study, originally published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, supports the concept behind Savage’s It Gets Better Project, in which people from around the country create videos with encouraging messages to people in the LGBT community. The project has become a well-known campaign, with more than 50,000 user-submitted videos. “There was a lot of this public narrative about getting better, but there wasn’t a lot of data,” said Feinberg Prof. Michelle Birkett, lead author of the study. “It’s important to say that there is data about getting better.” In the study, Birkett, Feinberg Prof. Michael Newcomb and Feinberg Prof. Brian Mustanski administered six surveys to just under 250 adolescents ages 16-20 over the course of three and a half years. Each survey asked the participants questions about their mental health and their experiences as LGBT youth. The surveys were mostly done on a computer in the researchers’ lab, with few in-person interviews, Newcomb said. “The fact that it was on a computer helps a person be more accurate in terms of what they’re reporting because sometimes if you are asking someone sensitive topics, they might underreport,” he said. The authors found psychological distress decreased as participants got older. The study also found the more victimized a participant was when they were younger, the more distressed they felt
ASG discusses Weinberg curriculum change proposal
The Associated Student Government-sponsored petition regarding the proposed Weinberg diversity academic requirement has garnered about 400 signatures as of Wednesday evening, Anna Rennich, ASG vice president for academics, said during Senate. Before entering a lengthy and contentious debate over the Northwestern Divest resolution, Senate discussed the student petition regarding the proposal to implement the Social Inequalities and Diversities requirement in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. The requirement was first proposed in February 2013, when the University Diversity Council called for all six undergraduate schools to adopt a requirement compelling students to take a course focused on the diversity of cultures, identities and experiences in relation to social inequalities. It would be the first University-wide undergraduate academic
going into adulthood. “It’s great that we’ve been able to confirm a positive finding,” Birkett said. “To be able to say that in a longitudinal analysis doesn’t happen very often.” Their study also showed differences in victimization between different races, with racial minorities experiencing higher levels of victimization. Authors began recruiting participants for the study in 2007, Newcomb said, when there was very little known about LGBT youth. They began the study soon after the It Gets Better Project began gaining traction. “Young people face different challenges than adults do,” Newcomb said. “It was difficult to understand how being LGBT as an adolescent is different.” Newcomb explained the reason psychological distress decreases as one ages is may be because victimization and bullying decrease as one chooses more supportive environments to be in. As people get older, they have more control over how they live their lives and the people they surround themselves with, Newcomb said. However, Weinberg senior Peter Cleary, copresident of the Rainbow Alliance, said he thinks people should be doing more than saying, “It gets better,” as it implies that getting better is a passive process. Instead, Cleary argued for support. “One of the biggest things people can do is make the spaces that they occupy affirming spaces for LGBT people, whether that comes in words they use, or attitudes they express,” he said. Following the study, Birkett recently published a study looking at the types of support LGBT people receive over time and how having support as an adolescent influences one’s health. She hopes to protect kids from further victimization, she said. “I’m glad the message is getting out there and people are interested,” she said.
Beaver teeth study could inform better human dental care
Beavers have a pigmented enamel containing iron built into the chemical structure of their teeth that could provide insight into understanding human tooth decay, according to a new Northwestern study. McCormick Prof. Derk Joester, lead author of the study, found the enamel’s acid resistance is controlled by the material surrounding nanowires, the core structure of enamel that has small amounts of iron and magnesium. “We have made a really big step forward in understanding the composition and structure of enamel — the tooth’s protective outer layer — at the smallest length of scales,” Joester said in a news release.
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requirement if approved. Two schools, the School of Education and Social Policy and the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications have implemented the requirement. SESP senior Austin Romero, ASG vice president for accessibility and inclusion, called for Weinberg to consider a United States-centric curriculum, rather than an internationallyfocused one. “There is relatively very little student input and awareness and we want to change that,” Romero said. A petition was circulated among students starting Feb. 9 that students can sign to show their support for their proposal. The petition is co-sponsored by ASG and multiple student groups. The purpose of the proposal is to link students’ experiences in the U.S. to diversity and inequality, he said. Rennich encouraged students to attend a student forum on Feb. 23 to voice their opinions on the issue. — Emily Chin
Joester and his team imaged the structure that surrounds nanowires using atom-probe tomography to create a detailed map of the enamel’s structure. When they subjected teeth to acid exposure, they found the area around the nanowires dissolved, not the nanowires themselves. They then identified the minerals in the enamel and saw how they helped protect against acid. “A beaver’s teeth are chemically different from our teeth, not structurally different,” Joester said in a news release. “Biology has shown us a way to improve on our enamel.” This strategy of “grain boundary engineering,” focusing on the area surrounding the nanowires, provides more information on how scientists can improve fluoride treatment, Joester said. — Emily Chin
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From page 1 rights violations in Palestine. Noah Whinston, an off-campus senator and NUDivest member who helped author the resolution, celebrated the vote amid a cheering crowd. “The significance is what we’ve been saying this whole time — it’s about Northwestern being held accountable for supporting human rights violations,” the Weinberg junior told The Daily. “It’s a validation of so much work we’ve done. It’s just a culmination of all of the marginalized voices that we heard here speak tonight.” The resolution also asks ASG to form an “investment transparency task force” to oversee investments. Currently, the University’s Investment Office does not release information on its investments. The passage, which came just before 1:30 a.m.
Medill junior Sophia Bollag to be next editor in chief of The Daily
Medill junior Sophia Bollag will be the next editor in chief of The Daily Northwestern, the paper’s publisher announced Wednesday. Bollag, a current managing editor at The Daily, will succeed Weinberg senior Ciara McCarthy. Bollag will hold the position during Spring Quarter and Fall Quarter. “The Daily could not be in better hands,” McCarthy said. “Sophia has a remarkable breadth of
We Will
From page 1 “I would hope that we blow over ($3.75 billion),” University President Morton Schapiro said in an interview a few days after Elliott’s donation announcement last month. “Some people said maybe we should make (the goal $3.5 billion) so we could make ($3.75 billion). I said, ‘Let’s call it three seventy-five so we can get over four.’” The campaign, which McQuinn said was expected to run for about seven years, has a goal of recruiting 141,000 donors. As of last week, NU was about 1,000 donors shy of 100,000, McQuinn said. According to him, about 60 percent of donors are individuals — mostly alumni and parents — as opposed to organizations and foundations. Roughly two-thirds of the money donors have pledged has already been received by the University and put to use, McQuinn said. About 45 percent of the money goes toward the NU endowment, and about 15 percent is funding buildings and facilities around campus. The rest goes to current expenditures. “That’s actually the money that comes in and goes out for a wide range of things: academics and research support, general support of school in the academic and administrative units,” McQuinn said. “A big piece of it as well will go to help fund our need-based scholarships.” We Will donations are funding major construction projects around campus, including the Music and Communication Building, the Kellogg Global Hub — a new lakeside building which will house the Kellogg School of Management and Weinberg’s economics department, the planned Lakefront Athletics and Recreation Complex and a new workspace called The Garage, which will allow students to work on entrepreneurial projects. McQuinn said the University is also beginning to fundraise for a new biomedical research facility on the Chicago campus. One of Schapiro’s personal goals, to provide needbased financial aid for international students, is also benefiting from the money raised. In its announcement of Elliott’s donation, the University noted up to $20 million of it could be used to challenge other donors to match the money for these scholarships. Schapiro said he wants to raise his $50 million goal for the initiative to $100 million. “If we’re going to move in the direction of admitting the best undergraduates in the world regardless of their citizenship, you’re going to need a tremendous amount of money,” he said. He said the University will spend some money providing these scholarships in the coming year and will market the initiative “very heavily in the next year,” in the hopes of one day making admission to NU need-blind for international students. Currently, the admissions office’s website notes that NU offers limited financial aid to international students, but the admissions rate is less favorable for international applicants requesting aid. Schapiro said convincing donors both in the U.S. and abroad to give money for these scholarships is a “tough sell.” Some foreign donors do not have a culture of giving need-based aid, he said, and some American donors have raised concerns that allowing more international students to attend would jeopardize their own children’s chances of coming to NU. Schapiro stressed that need-blind international admissions is “not at the expense of U.S. citizens’ (financial aid) at all.” jkuang@u.northwestern.edu
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2015 Thursday morning, ended an ASG meeting that began around 7 p.m. The debate period included dozens of speakers giving mostly two-minute statements. Supporters and detractors largely sat on different sides of the room, reacting to statements they agreed with in silent gestures of applause and sometimes bursting into snaps. Speeches on both sides ranged from calm pleas to heated calls for action. McCormick senior Hagar Gomaa, who identified herself as Egyptian-American, addressed opponents of the resolution who said it made them uncomfortable. “Discomfort is felt by every person of color on this campus,” she said. “We feel discomfort any time we bring up an unpopular opinion or voice a controversial issue. To those who say this divestment bill makes you uncomfortable, I say: Check your privilege.”
Those who spoke against the resolution focused mainly on NUDivest’s ties to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Weinberg junior Nathan Bennett affiliated himself with NU Coalition for Peace, a group that opposes divestment and favors a two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Bennett spoke against the resolution, voiced these concerns. “NUDivest has linked themselves to BDS through their events, through their website and through the use of their handbook,” Bennett said. “If this bill does pass, it should be nakedly clear what it is, and that is a firm part of the BDS movement.” NUDivest held a BDS workshop on Feb. 5 to educate students on the movement and to clarify misconceptions about it. NUDivest members stressed in speeches Wednesday night that the resolution focuses solely on divestment, not boycott or sanctions. Other students who spoke against the resolution
said it would strain dialogue between groups on campus that address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “If we allow this climate to persist, then it will be a long time before we can confront the issues that divide us,” Communication senior Josh Schwartz said. “This is the risk we run by passing the resolution: We risk putting a major obstacle in front of mutual understanding and empathy at Northwestern and in Israel and Palestine.” Speaker of the Senate Noah Star, a Weinberg junior, required senators to vote through a secret ballot, a rarity in ASG meetings. Star said he wanted senators to feel comfortable casting whatever vote they deemed right, rather than abstaining due to pressure. After the vote passed, Whinston told The Daily that NUDivest has no formal, immediate plans. But he said its next step is going to the administration.
experience at The Daily … I think it will serve her incredibly well.” Students Publishing Co., The Daily’s parent organization, interviewed Bollag for the position Wednesday. Lecturer Charles Yarnoff, SPC board chairman, said the board was also impressed with Bollag’s diversity of experience at The Daily, and highlighted her work as web editor in Fall Quarter 2014. “She showed a lot of leadership in regards to the web desk,” he said. “She had made a real priority of recruitment and retention and … we’re fully expecting her to continue that as EIC.” Yarnoff said Bollag’s goals of having writers establish beats and drawing attention to the work of every
desk at the paper stood out to the board. “We were impressed by what she had to say about showcasing the work of designers, of web staff who may not be showcased in the same way writers are,” he said. “We thought she was a really great candidate for EIC.” Bollag has worked at The Daily since before she had her first class at Northwestern. She has held various positions on the editorial board — as copy chief, city editor, web editor and managing editor — since Spring Quarter of her freshman year. She is currently an intern for the Medill Justice Project, and was a fellow for the project last summer. Bollag is also an alumna of the Medill-Northwestern Journalism Institute, known as the Medill Cherubs program.
“I don’t think I’ve ever been so excited in my whole life for anything,” she said. “I am really looking forward to leading the paper that I’ve been working with for three years.” As EIC, Bollag said she hopes to improve the paper’s reporting on all counts, as well as its online presence. She said she is “lucky” to follow in McCarthy’s footsteps. “I’m inheriting a really talented staff and a really successful publication and I think in large part that’s due to all the EICs who have come before,” she said. “I have a lot to live up to, but I’m really excited for the challenge.”
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NU should switch to data-driven facility entrances
Got Keys?
NOAH KANE
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Northwestern prepares students to enter the world. We grapple with complex issues in classes, gain work experience through schoolsponsored internships and grow as adults thanks to the relative autonomy from authority figures that college affords. I find it ironic, then, that NU has so poorly prepared us to enter its own campus buildings. If anything, we are overprepared. NU has at least three ways for students to gain access to most facilities. Our WildCARDs have barcodes that scan us into the library. These same student IDs can be upgraded to allow tap-in access to student organization offices in Norris. We also tap key fobs on scanners to enter our residence halls before we use keys to open our rooms’ locks. As an economics major with a penchant for efficiency, I A single system find this fragmented would streamline system unnecessarily complicated. the process of As a student leader recording facility who helped ASG and act upon usage patterns, collect campus-wide survey making it easy data, I think that a more unified system to use the data would have tangible to improve benefits for students. And as a member the student of this community, experience. I believe that such a system would make me safer in emergency situations. Many senseless hypotheticals terrified me as a freshman: What if I forget my shower flipflops? What if I get a B on this paper? But few had such clear and tangible consequences as
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How many keys does one student need? graphic by Mandella Younge
losing my room key. The price of this offense is $181, or, as I imagined it, 45 trips to Dunkin’ Donuts. Freshmen have enough on their minds already without having to remember the myriad ways to gain access to campus facilities. Making the switch to non-RFID keys would be a chance to give them one fewer headache and would likely cost NU and its students less in the long run, since such keys are almost certainly easier to duplicate. Students should be able to use RFID-enabled WildCARDS for every facility entrance other than their bedrooms’ doors, which have deadbolts that require physical keys to operate. The long-run cost of this solution is low; the upfront cost of replacing the libraries’ barcode scanners and other redundant systems is the biggest financial barrier to implementing it. Additionally, students with student organization office access in Norris already tap their WildCARDS to enter these rooms; this solution is consistent with what many students already do and with what the University is able to provide. On the administrative side, it must be unnecessarily time-consuming for the University to support three facility-entry systems.
Norris targets Exam Relief programs.
With only one system to worry about, administrators could dedicate their time to more pressing matters. And from a campus safety perspective, I believe that implementing this system is a no-brainer. If an active shooter situation or other emergency were to take place, University Police could lock down the entire campus in a single mouse click, or restrict access to holders of certain WildCARDs. I am sure contingency plans for such a scenario are already in place, but I imagine simplifying the campus door-locking system would make a campus lockdown easier to implement. Moreover, a single system would streamline the process of recording facility usage patterns, making it easy to use the data (and administrators’ newfound free time) to improve the student experience. If facilities usage data were centralized in one location, University administration and student organizations could gain cross-facility insights. Here are a few possibilities that come to mind:
A unified facility entrance system makes life simpler for students and administrators. It makes our community safer. And every tap of a student’s RFID-enabled WildCARD would essentially be a vote to use more resources on the facility she enters. This is an empowering thought, and one premised on a feasible and cost-effective solution.
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Noah Kane is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at noahkane2015@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
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Humanities vs. sciences debate misses the point NAOMI JOHNSON
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It started out as a typical conversation. While talking to a professor from the biological engineering department during lunch last quarter, I introduced myself and added that I was a history major. Upon learning this, she then asked me if I just memorized a lot of facts. I understand that this professor did not intend to ask an unkind question, and I would like to believe that a genuine curiosity of history drove her question. I could not, however, ignore my immediate reaction to her question, which is to say her words confused me. Suddenly, she reduced an entire discipline to one of the most tedious and intellectually numbing activities in academia: rote memorization. History is the opposite of memorizing facts, because the term “facts� implies the presence of a consensus, something not inherent to history. History as a discipline requires critical analyses of the available documents — data — and an evaluation of patterns as a function of time. Rigorous historical interpretations are those that produce a nuanced understanding of the past via a fair and complete
examination of documents, oral histories and other reputable sources of information. Most importantly, history is about building an interpretation of the past that at once integrates the particulars of a specific event and the contextual details of the surroundings that contributed to that event. Just In my humble because a opinion, the processes in academic historian history I just studies subject described are not too different from matter different the processes scifrom the entists use to test subject matter a their hypotheses. My understanding scientist studies of science, based does not mean on my experience with some of the one academic pre-medical science discipline is classes that I took superior to the at Northwestern, is that it requires an other. informed hypothesis that scientists test via data collection and experimentation. But the critical part is this data is meaningless unless a human discerns patterns and draws conclusions from the figures the experiment produces. And these conclusions are valuable
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only if that same human applies these conclusions to real-world issues, meaning these conclusions need to be contextualized. In an attempt to understand this professor’s question, I approached her question as a historian would evaluate a past event. For example, she told me she had had a negative experience with history in high school because she had to memorize facts and dates connected to those facts. She then told me that she did not study it further once she fulfilled her history requirements. 5IJT DPOWFSTBUJPO UPME NF UXP JNQPSUBOU things. First, it appeared her negative experience with history was a result of how some teachers teach history as an amalgamation of facts organized on a timeline. I assume this method provided very few opportunities for her to grapple with the information presented to her because it involves no contestations of these facts, thereby eliminating the possibility for discussions or questions. If history classes at the collegiate level were a continuation of this type of “history,� I would not be a history major; it makes no sense to dedicate four years of my life studying an amalgamation of uncontested facts. Second, the conversation showed me her negative experience with history then shaped her perception of history in a permanent way, which in turn discouraged her from pursuing any further studies in history in college. Of course, I am using some
interpretations here, but they best explain the source of her assumption-based question of history. 5IJT FOUJSF QSPDFTT NBEF NF SFGMFDU PO UIF humanities vs. science debate. I have yet to understand why there is so much emphasis on the difference between the two broad areas of academia. Organizing academic disciplines into concrete binaries that accentuate differences between the two areas of study serves OP SFMFWBOU QVSQPTF 5IJT JT FTQFDJBMMZ USVF BU the collegiate level, where the research methodologies that historians and scientists use share a great deal of similarities. Just because a historian studies subject matter different from the subject matter a scientist studies does not mean one academic discipline is superior to the other. Yes, it is compelling to read about the work of scientists using novel research methods to study cancer, but it is not more or less compelling than reading about the historian’s work that explores the meaning of a lynching of two African-American men in a small Indiana town during the Great Depression. Both matter. Naomi Johnson is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be reached at naomijohnson2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
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arts & entertainment
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DANCE OFF Performers dance at Celebrasia in 2014. This year’s show will feature performers including Refresh Dance Crew, Poreotics Dance Crew and Chicago Dragons Athletic Association.
Student groups ring in Lunar New Year with Celebrasia performances By SOPHIE MANN
the daily northwestern @sophiemmann
Behind the high-energy dance performances and jaw-dropping yo-yo acts that light up Chinese Student Association and Taiwanese American Students Club’s Celebrasia is the tradition of the Lunar New Year, and participants have been able to connect with their culture through the annual Northwestern event. The association’s Lunar New Year celebration returns this weekend with its Year of the Goat-themed show. Each year, the celebration brings a variety of acts to entertain its audience. This year, some acts include the hip hop-heavy ReFresH Dance Crew
and East and Southeast Asian-inspired Typhoon, Revolution, University of Michigan’s acclaimed yoyo and diablo team and Poreotics, a former winner of America’s Best Dance Crew, to help ring in Lunar New Year. Victoria Yang, Taiwanese American Students Club president and Celebrasia executive board member, said that the celebration combines traditional and modern takes on the holiday to showcase different aspects of Asian culture. “We are showing every aspect of Lunar New Year that we can to make it traditional, modern, and fun,” Yang said. “I think Celebrasia really elevates Lunar New Year because it allows all of the planners and members to really promote Lunar New Year.” The Weinberg junior is also the
Midwest District Governor for the Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association, where she oversees Asian cultural events throughout the country. She noted that Celebrasia is one of the largest Asian-American events in the United States, reinforcing the magnitude and reach this event has on campus. While Yang was used to celebrating Lunar New Year before coming to college, Emily Moy, public relations chair for Celebrasia, joined Chinese Student Association to connect to her heritage and learned more about her own culture through Celebrasia. “Seeing everyone audition brought upon a new cultural awareness,” the McCormick freshman said. “I was born here and am pretty Americanized, so I haven’t been able to experience the
more traditional culture.” Benedict Dungca, a Weinberg senior and ReFresH artistic director, had a similar experience to Moy, using Celebrasia as a means of defining Lunar New Year for himself, since he didn’t celebrate before coming to college. “(Lunar New Year) is like any kind of New Year celebration — it’s about celebrating life in general,” Dungca said. “It’s celebrating the fact that you’re alive with dance. Having Celebrasia on campus where people can go watch a celebration and be a part of it allows Lunar New Year to be a bigger part of their life experience in general. It enriches my cultural experience.” According to Yang, Lunar New Year is about celebrating each other, celebrating the past year, and wishing others good luck for the coming year,
Koi dishes feature symbolic ingredients By RACHEL YANG
the daily northwestern @_rachelyang
Lunar New Year is this Thursday, and for many Chinese families around the world this means cleaning the house to ward off bad spirits, exchanging red envelopes called hong bao which are filled with money and, most importantly, indulging in a special New Year feast. To honor this tradition, Koi, an Asian-fusion restaurant in Evanston, is presenting a special Chinese New Year menu available until Mar. 5, which includes 18 unique dishes. Each features at least one ingredient with an important meaning in traditional Chinese culture. Sandy Chen, Koi’s owner and manager, said the New Year’s menu, as well as the restaurant’s regular menu, reflects interesting tidbits from Chinese history. Back in the old days in China, Chen said, many families didn’t have the means to buy meat like chicken during the year, so they had to wait until the New Year feast to indulge in it. Indeed, Koi’s New Year menu features a stir-fried Lychee Chicken dish that combines chicken, which represents prosperity, with lychee nuts, which signify family relations, Chen said. The Smoked Tea Duck, which is marinated in ingredients such as tea leaves and ginger, is another display of the frugal measures Chinese families had to take in less prosperous times. “In the wintertime, we don’t have the luxury to have a fridge,” Chen said, “So what people do is they smoke and marinate aged duck. So in the cold winter season, we can preserve and eat through the New Year’s time.” Other dishes, like the Dragon and
making this community-oriented event particularly significant. “For regular New Year, you celebrate the New Year and what goals you have; for Lunar New Year, you celebrate the past year and what you gained from it, sort of like an Asian Thanksgiving,” Yang said. “That’s why Celebrasia is so important. We share the event; it’s not just an individual event.” In addition to sharing good luck and appreciation, Moy added that the event also spreads diversity and is a learning experience for all of those who attend. “The bigger message is showing people what Chinese culture is and help people learn outside of the classroom,” Moy said. sophiemann2018@u.northwestern.edu
Koi’s Lunar New Year dishes feature a variety of symbolic ingredients in Chinese culture.
graphic by Hayley Glatter
Chicken represents prosperity
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NEW YEAR FEAST Koi is cooking up special dishes to celebrate the Lunar New Year. The dishes, including smoked tea duck and lychee chicken, feature symbolic ingredients.
Phoenix and Szechwan Won Ton with Peanut Sauce, also feature symbolic ingredients. Chen, who is from a big family and was the oldest of the children, learned to cook at an early age to help her mother and said it brought her a lot of happiness providing for her family. Chen said her biggest goal is for the Chinese New Year menu is to inspire Western diners to learn about Chinese culture and its traditions. “I want Koi to make the difference that we’re not only serving food,” Chen said. “We also represent China. We deliver the culture to Western countries.”
Koi has been offering the Chinese New Year menu every year since the restaurant opened in 2004, Chen said, although the dishes featured usually vary. The reception has been so positive that sometimes people order from the menu even after it’s no longer offered. Even though sushi is a traditionally Japanese food, Andy Galsan, the sushi chef at Koi, said he’s thinking about creating a roll just for the New Year occasion. Sushi has become so international, Galsan said. If there’s a California roll and Philadelphia roll, why not a “Double Dragon Roll” for Chinese New Year? Koi’s dedication to educating the
community about Chinese culture doesn’t just stop at the Chinese New Year menu. Its regular menu offers traditional dishes from eight regions of China, such as Sichuan, Hunan and Zhejiang, where Chen is originally from. For Ken Zaleski, a first-timer at Koi, this menu setup differentiates the restaurant from other Chinese eateries. “When I order Chinese food somewhere else, you don’t know where it came from,” Zaleski said. “I didn’t realize they had a specific cuisine in each province or area.” weizheyang2018@u.northwestern.edu
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Lychee nuts are said to strengthen family relationships
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Noodles signify a long life
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2015
Q&A with A.J. Roy, playwright of ‘The Alligators’ By HAYLEY GLATTER
daily senior staffer @heyhay94
The final curtain may have closed Saturday night for “The Alligators,” but the work for playwright A.J. Roy is far from over. The show tracks the rise and fall of an alligator-themed mini golf course and its effect on the founders and their families. The Communication senior has lived and breathed his script for more than 18 months and sat down with The Daily to talk about his artistic journey and the next steps for his wacky show.
What first inspired you to write “The Alligators?”
I knew that I was going to be (in a year-long playwriting) class and I was on a vacation with my family and I was really just struck by the idea of how… everyone is trying to pretend to be happy and pretend like they’re trying to escape from their everyday lives, but that there are other things that come into play. And that was the lens of it, and then I got the idea of what if there were two men who started a mini-golf course, and how would a family try to cover that up, fail at covering that up and then how would it expose larger riffs in their relationship that we can then explore from there. So that was sort of the starting point. I pretty much knew that it was about two guys who started a mini-golf course.
What are you doing with it now that it’s run has finished?
This production has been super useful for me because the play is a pretty unusual thing, and
that’s the kind of thing that you can’t just get from reading it around the table or in a living room. You really need to see what it’s like at 100 percent with people spending and investing a lot of time and energy in it. So now I feel like the next step for me is that I got a lot out of that production that I can then sort of change and continue to revise the script. That’ll give me a lot of work because it was really useful to see it for a bunch of different performances. After that, it will probably be talking to some people that I know, people that are looking at theater companies whose work aligns and whose mission statement aligns with what that play is and what purpose the play serves… I’m excited to see if this play can happen again.
What was it like to see it go up?
I told the cast on the closing night performance that I had no words, that I was just so thankful for them. There was something really really special about seeing this thing, this was just me sitting with a cup of coffee at night writing furiously on my laptop, and to see other people pour that same amount of passion into this thing that I had been working on for about 18 months pretty intensively, was such an honor. And really, I was so proud of how the cast, especially, got so invested in it and really felt like it was not just them telling my story, but that it was all of us telling a story that we were really passionate about. And that’s just so exciting; it’s exciting to see something that you love be loved by other people.
What sort of feedback have you gotten?
I’ve gotten great feedback. I think a lot of
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HOLE IN ONE Communication sophomore Daniel Stompor takes center stage during “The Alligators.” The show, written by student playwright A.J. roy, ran from Feb. 12 to Feb. 14.
people, it’s a very strange play, and so a lot of people are very struck by it and a lot of times after the show, people didn’t really know how to respond to it. I’ve been really happy to hear that people are thinking about it sometimes a day or two afterwards, and my biggest goal with it was not to make it about one moral or one interpretation, but really, whatever you think it’s about, that’s what it’s about. And so seeing people who were able to accept that and be able to say, “I think it’s about this,” instead of just saying, “I don’t get it, I don’t get what that was
about.” And that was really exciting. But it was also really cool to just see the connections that people were drawing about different parts of the script. It was useful to me as someone who knows that this is not the end product to get, “What was your favorite scene, what part of this character’s journey did you like the most?” and just to see what that was because it’s changed a lot over the course of this process of what people are responding to. hayleyglatter2016@u.northwestern.edu
Student business sells pop culture NU clothing By RACHEL HOLTZMAN
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Before Weinberg freshman Kasey Brown even stepped onto campus in September, she was already bleeding purple. Brown is the designer and business owner of NU Wave, which specializes in offbeat, pop culture-referencing clothing for Northwestern students. “Coming in as a freshman, I was looking for more spirit wear,” Brown said. “I’ve seen the same standard, old NU spirit wear. I played around on Photoshop one day, and my friends loved what I was doing. I’ve been doing it ever since.” The original shirt, which can be seen on the NU Wave website, features baby North West, with purple block letters spelling “-ern” following. Brown said she made the North West design because she believes people like referencing pop culture all the time. “There isn’t other NU wear that is cool and pop culture-y, and that’s what our generation is all about,” she said. Currently, the NU Wave website sells the
North West-ern design as a T-shirt and crew neck sweatshirt. Also featured is a T-shirt with a print of Martin Luther King, Jr. flashing a peace sign and wearing a purple Northwestern polo, in honor of Black History Month. All the profits for the shirt are donated directly to charity, and so far, she has donated over $2,000 to organizations including the Black Youth Project. Brown says she runs her entire business online, from orders to customer service emails. Through her website, she’s been able to talk to not just current NU students, but also alumni. “Alums have emailed me really cool ideas, so it’s cool to get support from alums who graduated in 2006 or 2008 when I’m just a freshman,” Brown said. Social media, from Facebook to email lists, has been Brown’s biggest tool for advertising her merchandise. The feedback on Facebook and Instagram has been mostly positive, according to Brown, with reactions ranging from “It’s so funny” or “It’s so dope” to “I haven’t seen anything like that before.” Brown said the hardest part of running the business is finding the time for it. She’s on a pre-medical track, and she’s also a member of various campus organizations, including For
Source: NUWave screenshot
PURPLE PRIDE Weinberg freshman Kasey Brown creates pop culture-inspired Northwestern apparel. She has donated more than $2,000 she has earned from the project to charity.
Members Only and UNITY Charity Fashion Show. “I’ve been getting a lot of positive feedback, though, so that’s been fueling me to do it more,” Brown said. “I donate the money to charities, so it’s not the money that’s motivating me; it’s emails, and seeing people around campus.” Moving forward, Brown said that she doesn’t
CALENDAR thursday
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Mee-Ow (Arts Alliance) McCormick Auditorium - 8 p.m.
James and the Giant Peach (ImagineU) Struble Theatre - 7 p.m.
Shoot/ Get Treasure/ Repeat (Sit and Spin) Shanley Pavilion - 8 p.m.
The Wild Party (Wirtz Center) The Barber Theatre - 7:30 p.m.
saturday James and the Giant Peach (ImagineU) Struble Theatre - 11 a.m., 2 p.m. The Wild Party (Wirtz Center) The Barber Theatre - 7:30 p.m.
Mee-Ow (Arts Alliance) McCormick Auditorium - 8 p.m., 11 p.m. Shoot/ Get Treasure/ Repeat (Sit and Spin) Shanley Pavilion - 7 p.m., 10 p.m.
Mee-Ow (Arts Alliance) McCormick Auditorium - 10 p.m. Shoot/ Get Treasure/ Repeat (Sit and Spin) Shanley Pavilion - 7 p.m., 10 p.m.
Dead Man Walking (Bienen) Cahn Auditorium - 7:30 p.m.
James and the Giant Peach (ImagineU) The Struble Theater - 2 p.m., 5 p.m. The Wild Party (Wirtz Center) The Barber Theatre - 2 p.m. Dead Man Walking (Bienen) Cahn Auditorium - 3 p.m.
sunday
see fashion as her primary focus, despite her love for it, but that she enjoys running the business now. In the spring, she’ll have new T-shirt designs available on her web site. “With the T-shirts, I get to be myself and own something,” she said. rachelholtzman2018@u.northwestern.edu
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2015
Across Campuses Penn procedure on sexual assault concerns some law faculty Nearly one-third of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Law School have criticized a new university procedure for handling sexual-assault cases that they say undermines traditional safeguards for the accused and could lead to wrongful disciplinary actions against Penn students. The procedure, adopted under pressure from the Obama administration, establishes a new position at Penn - the sexual violence investigative officer - and became effective Feb. 1. The policy weakens standards for finding that a sexual assault has occurred, while offering the accused only limited rights to a defense, law school critics say. Given examples of high-profile sexual-assault charges that have unraveled under close scrutiny, notably the gang-rape allegation at the University of Virginia reported by Rolling Stone magazine, the university must take steps to ensure its procedure for adjudicating sexual-assault cases is fair, the faculty members say. “Due process of law is not window dressing; it is the distillation of centuries of experience, and we ignore the lessons of history at our own peril,” the faculty members said in an open letter aimed at the Penn administration as well as the broader public. “All too often, outrage at heinous crimes becomes a justification for shortcuts. These actions are unwise and contradict our principles.” Penn declined to provide an explanation for its procedure but did express confidence that it was justified. “Penn developed the new process as a fair and balanced process to address the serious issue of sexual assault on campus,” said Ron Ozio, a Penn spokesman, “and we believe the process responds appropriately to the federal government’s regulations and guidance.” The Penn letter, signed by 16 of the law school’s 49 tenure or tenure-track faculty members, comes at a time of growing unease over sexual crimes on American campuses and over the steps that many universities are taking to address the issue under pressure from the federal Department of Education. Its Office of Civil Rights has issued guidelines for the adjudication of complaints that critics contend dispense with long-standing due-process protections. Yet universities, including Penn, face the prospect of losing millions of dollars in federal aid if they fail to adopt the new approach. Theodore Ruger, the newly appointed dean of the law school, was not among the signers. “Sexual assault is indeed an important problem, but the federal government has dictated a set of policies and twisted universities’ arms into compromising some of the safeguards that we teach our students are essential to fairness,” said Stephanos Bibas, a professor of law and criminology and one of the authors of the letter. “There is a tremendous amount of money on the line. It is understandable
that universities feel pressure to comply.” David Rudovsky, a law school faculty member who also practices at a firm that specializes in civil rights cases, said colleges and universities across the country were adopting similar procedures. “What is problematic about the Penn policy and what colleges are adopting across the country is that they fail, almost all of them, to provide necessary due-process safeguards for persons accused of sexual assaults,” Rudovsky said. “We agree that there ought to be protections for persons who complain about sexual assaults. But for those few cases in which the facts are seriously disputed, we know from experience that when you make shortcuts around due process, you tend to get wrongful convictions.” Under Penn’s new procedure, the sexual-violence investigative officer, who, working with “one or more co-investigators” drawn from faculty or the administration, will be responsible for investigating all sexual-assault allegations. That investigative officer has already been appointed. He is Christopher Mallios, a former member of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office who headed the family violence and sexualassault unit. — Chris Mondics (The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS)
Gridlock makes progress difficult, Kind says
makes from federal student loan programs into PELL grants, allowing student borrowers to refinance their loans if interest rates drop, adjusting loan payments to account for earnings and expanding tax incentives that help students pay for school. With 10,000 baby boomers retiring every day and going into Social Security and Medicare, the need to further address health care funding challenges is growing increasingly urgent, Kind said, repeating his longstanding call for payment reform that rewards value and quality instead of the volume of medical services provided. “Anyone who’s serious about budget deficits or the national debt that has been accumulated has to be serious about health care reform,” he said. “It’s one of the greatest cost drivers that we have.” Mike Conlin, president of Dynamic Displays in Eau Claire and chairman of the Eau Claire County Republican Party, also expressed alarm at a pattern of under-reimbursement in which he said Medicare and Medicaid account for a majority of local medical billing but only provide about 40 percent of the payments. Without reform, that gap will only increase as the population ages, he said. Kind said reaching agreement on a sustainable funding stream to fund transportation infrastructure modernization is proving challenging, even though Republicans and Democrats agree on the need. “Unquestionably, we’re falling behind when it comes to the deterioration of our roads, our highways, our bridges and our ports, and we need to lay that foundation for long-term economic growth,” he said. Likewise, Kind insisted there is widespread agreement in Congress about the need to simplify the tax system, but there is also a lack of consensus about what loopholes and deductions to take away to reach that goal, even after three years of hearings and discussions. He noted that the last major reform of the U.S. tax code came in 1986. “Everyone, I think, is in agreement we have a monstrosity of a tax code right now. It’s way too complicated. Just the compliance cost alone is holding us back economically,” he said. “But it can be simplified. We can lower the rates and broaden the base, and we can make it fairer and more competitive globally.”
EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN – From college affordability and health care reform to crumbling highways and tax revisions, U.S. Rep. Ron Kind touched on a range of crucial issues before Congress in a luncheon speech Tuesday to Eau Claire business leaders. Unfortunately, the La Crosse Democrat said, the outlook for congressional progress on any of them isn’t particularly promising in an era of perpetual gridlock. “It’s been way too hyperpartisan, way too polarized for too long,” Kind said at the Eau Claire Area Chamber of Commerce gathering. A key hurdle to overcome, however, is that many House Republicans are opposed to any new revenue for any purpose, with some even having signed pledges of that commitment. Progress needs to happen soon because, Kind — Eric Lindquist (Leader-Telegram/TNS) said, “it won’t be long before the window closes and UMass won’t enroll Yale grad (the 2016 presidential election) starts overwhelming student because he’s Iranian everything that gets done in Washington.” NEW HAVEN – A Yale graduate student is being Regarding higher education, Kind noted that he denied admission to a doctoral program in astronomy met Tuesday morning with UW-Eau Claire students Need part-time help? Place for a round-table discussion of rising student debt. He at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst because an ad here or online. said student loan debt now totals about $1.2 trillion, or he is Iranian. more than the total credit card debt of all Americans. Sina Rostami, a cosmologist, found himself blocked Some students told the congressman they were tryfrom the school he and his wife want to attend because of a 2012 federal law “which excludes citizens of Iran ing to hold down two or three jobs while attending from education in the United States if they plan to college to limit loan amounts, with the unfortunate focus on nuclear and, more broadly, energy related result sometimes being delayed graduation and even research in Iran,” according to the Feb. 6 letter Rostami more debt. received from UMass. To address the crisis, Kind promoted his college affordability action plan and PELL Grant Funding Act. The law is the “Iran Threat Reduction and Syria The efforts call for directing any profit the government Human Rights Act of 2012.”
The university’s procedures state that “Colleges and universities in the U.S. have found that Iranian students who travel abroad during their studies are being denied re-entry by the Department of Homeland Security as a result of these and other regulations. There are significant penalties, both civil and criminal, that could potentially impact faculty, staff and students, for violations of this Act and the related regulations and restrictions.” Rostami’s research is focused on something more theoretical than the fields in which UMass bars Iranian students. But according to procedures issued by the university, Iranians are not to be admitted into the College of Engineering or the College of Natural Sciences, which includes physics. While his program falls in the realm of physics as well as astronomy, Rostami said UMass will not admit Iranian students studying “any program in science, any program in engineering, so it’s a very wide range of different fields.” Rostami, 28, said his research is not connected to anything the U.S. government would be concerned with. “We’re making these light curves for Type 1a supernovae,” he said. “Long term, these supernovae are going to be used for studying the nature of dark energy.” Dark energy is a mysterious force that is critical to theories that the universe is expanding, according to a National Aeronautics and Space Administration web page. Rostami is particularly frustrated that he wasn’t informed before he filled out the forms and went to the expense of applying to UMass (he’s applied to other universities, as well). His wife, Zahra Ghaffari, who studies environmental science, also found UMass fit her academic needs, Rostami said. “The problem that I have is, why did they not announce this decision six months later or six months earlier? We both found the program which was appropriate for both of us.” Rostami also finds the situation maddening because, before coming to Yale in March 2014 as a visiting assistant researcher, he was at the Lulea University of Technology in Sweden and thought “how more flexible they are (in the United States) compared to Europe and then suddenly I get this decision and I was just shocked.” A Facebook page, www.facebook.com/weareallumass, with a hashtag #weareallumass, has been set up in support of Rostami and other Iranians barred from UMass. According to an email from the State Department, “We are aware of reports that University of Massachusetts Amherst has decided to exclude Iranian students from admissions to certain academic programs. … U.S. law does not prohibit qualified Iranian nationals coming to the United States for education in science and engineering. Each application is reviewed on a case-by-case basis. We will reach out to UMass Amherst to discuss this specific decision, and are available to answer any questions from other academic institutions regarding implementation of the relevant laws.” — Ed Stannard (New Haven Register, Conn./TNS)
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National News 2015 health care enrollment nears goal of 9.1 million WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell said Wednesday that she was optimistic about reaching the Obama administration’s goal of having 9.1 million Americans enrolled in coverage under the health care law by the end of the year. More than 11.4 million people selected private health plans or re-enrolled in coverage through the nation’s health insurance marketplaces during the three-month enrollment period that ended last Sunday for most people. But officials expect that number to dwindle to 9.1 million throughout the year as people drop coverage for a variety of reasons, including nonpayment of premiums, relocation, and changes in employment and marital status. The enrollment period for 2015 coverage has been extended through this Sunday for nearly 150,000 others who were “in line” but unable to select health plans by last Sunday. States operating their own insurance marketplaces, where people can sign up for private plans, are also extending enrollment deadlines for those who didn’t complete their applications in time. The successful 2015 enrollment period avoided the major technical problems that dogged the federal marketplace portal, HealthCare.gov, last year. In fact, Burwell said at a news briefing that the troubled website was fully operational for 99 percent of this year’s enrollment period. As a result, 8.6 million people signed up for coverage in the 37 states that use HealthCare.gov. Another 2.8 million signed up in states that operate their own marketplaces. “In Florida, more than 1.6 million people signed up. In Texas, nearly 1.2 million. In North Carolina, 560,000; and in Pennsylvania, nearly 472,000 people,” Burwell said. Among states that use HealthCare.gov, Florida’s 1.6 million plan selections led the nation. Nearly half of Florida’s sign-ups _ more than 756,000 _ came from the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach area. “We remain optimistic that we are on a path to reach our projected 9.1 million people signed up and paying their premiums” by year’s end, Burwell said. Nearly 80 percent of the people who used the federal marketplace could access coverage for less than $100 a month with financial assistance, or tax credits. Most of them were eligible for tax credits that averaged $268 per month, Burwell said.
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Cats have rough Junior Olympics
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2015
NU faces another challenge vs. Duke No. 8 Duke vs. No. 5 Northwestern Northbrook, Illinois 3 p.m. Thursday
By AVA WALLACE
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By KEVIN CASEY
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Four Northwestern fencers represented the Wildcats at the Junior Olympic Fencing Championships, as was the case last year. And the Cats once again produced an underwhelming set of results. NU brought four freshmen to the Richmond, Virginia, event, three from the foil group and one from epee, and although the initial showings were successful, the quartet struggled once elimination became a part of the equation. “They did OK in the pools part (where they fenced among a group of six others),� coach Laurie Schiller said. “But then they all lost the first bout in single elimination, so that was kind of disappointing. But we don’t practice that too much, so I’m not surprised we had some issues with that in particular.� The foilists who travelled for the contest were Lucia Procopio, Michelle Lee and Stefani Kahooklee, while Katie Van Riper represented epee. In the pools stage, consisting of six matches, Procopio, Kahookele and Van Riper all ended with positive indicators. All three secured byes in the first round of direct elimination. But the whole quartet proceeded to lose its Round Anytime of 128 match, far below you go to a Schiller’s hope that the national level four could all make it to top 32 (or even top meet, it’s a good 16). individual Kahooklee finished 68th out of 176 in foil, experience with Lucia coming in with the 103rd and Lee tied for competition. 118th. Van Riper placed 82nd in epee among Laurie Schiller, 187 participants. head coach Yet the uninspired showing will be short lived. The event was simply a chance for a few NU fencers to show off their chops while the team aspect was entirely absent. “Anytime they go to a national level meet, it’s a good individual experience with the competition they face,� Schiller said. “But it doesn’t really impact the team. Most of the girls who could’ve gone, decided they didn’t want to because the season is grueling.� NU will commence the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships on Saturday in Evanston. The focus will be on taking down Ohio State, who the Cats have played to 1-1 this season. With the extra rest from this non-freshman group, the Cats may be poised to take the conference crown.
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Northwestern is heading indoors for its first home game of the season, hosting No. 8 Duke at the Accelerated Center in Northbrook, Illinois, on Thursday afternoon. The No. 5 Wildcats (2-0) face a coasting Blue Devils (3-0) team that proved troublesome for NU early in the season last year. That 12-11 Cats win was a come-from-behind effort in which Duke’s Kerrin Maurer had 2 goals and three assists. Maurer, a senior All-American, should prove a good matchup for senior midfielder Haydyn Anigian, who’s generally used as needed within NU’s defense to shadow an opponent’s top offensive threat. Against Virginia on Feb. 14, Anigian kept the Cavaliers’ top scorer off the board. Duke notched comfortable wins against unranked Elon, Richmond and Navy to start the season and have nine different goal scorers to show for it. The Cats have six, with freshman Selena
Lasota and senior Kara Mupo accounting for 11 of NU’s 18 goals this season. Coach Kelly Amonte Hiller expects to face a variety of offensive players, especially because Duke returns eight starters, though her primary concern is shutting down Maurer and winning the draw. “You can point them out. Every single kid’s a threat,� Amonte Hiller said. “We’ve got to play good team defense, fight for draws.�
The loss of Duke’s lynchpin defender Taylor Virden should give the Cats’ still-shaky offense a window of opportunity as far as creating chances in front of the net. But where shots themselves are concerned, NU’s goal scorers will be up against the ACC’s Defensive Player of the Week in goalkeeper Kelsey Duryea, who recorded nine saves in the Blue Devils’ win against Navy. AvaWallace2015@u.northwestern.edu
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SENIOR ANCHOR Haydyn Anigian prepares on the defensive end. The senior midfielder has been Northwestern’s go-to defender against opponents’ top offensive threats.
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ONE AND DONE Northwestern took a break from team competition this week with the Junior Olympic Fencing Championships. The Wildcats performed admirably in the pools portion of the event, but faltered in the direct elimination portion.
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No. 26 Northwestern vs. No. 6 Illinois
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Northwestern has lost its last 20 matches against state rival Illinois. But coming off an impressive three-win weekend, the No. 26 Wildcats (6-4) hope to turn a new leaf as they kick off their long-awaited conference season Friday at No. 6 Illinois before continuing their absolutely brutal non-conference schedule at No. 64 Cornell on Sunday. The Fighting Illini (8-2, 1-0 Big Ten) are one of the big shots of the Big Ten. Illinois has made it to the finals of the Big Ten tournament two of the past three years, losing to the Buckeyes in 2014. Illinois captured the title in 2012 and three players from that memorable 4-3 victory over Ohio State, Farris Gosea, Ross Guignon and Tim Kopinski will play against NU. Guignon and Kopinski also form the 11th-best doubles team in the country. But the Fighting Illini are loaded up and down the roster. The squad boasts five players in the top 70 in singles, while the Cats only have one – sophomore Strong Kirchheimer at No. 64. “(Illinois) has put together a quality team,” coach Arvid Swan said. “We know we’re going to have to play at a high level. They have several high-ranked players at the top of the lineup and a couple talented freshmen so we need to be ready to go.” The Cats will look for every advantage they can get. Illinois’ Atkins Tennis Center is known to have a raucous atmosphere and brings fans out in droves. NU has been having practices start with the Illinois fight song blasting on the speakers to get players ready. Assistant coach Chris Klingemann said he doesn’t know if it actually helps, but it certainly doesn’t hurt. “It’s just to pump us up because we’re going to hear that every single second over there,” senior Alberto Zanotti said.
No. 26 Northwestern vs. No. 64 Cornell Ithaca, New York 10 a.m. Sunday
NU, though, is in its best position in years to pull off the upset. The squad has honed its skills against the toughest non-conference schedule in recent memory, with four wins and several close losses over ranked opponents already under its belt. The Cats are riding high on a four-game winning streak and seem to be hitting their stride. NU will also continue its remarkable string of non-conference foes when it travels to Ithaca, New York, to play Cornell (3-4), a feisty team that has managed to hold the No. 64 spot despite a sub-.500 record. Doubles play will be paramount if the Cats hope to pull off the sweep. With more moving parts, doubles is a more fluid game with increased variability. Especially against such tough competition, the doubles point is crucial in alleviating some of the pressure from the singles players, and it would be exceedingly difficult for NU to overcome a 1-0 deficit through singles play. Luckily, the Cats feel confident. “I feel pretty good,” sophomore Alp Horoz said. “I think me and (junior Mihir Kumar) at three are a solid team. Last few matches I think we’ve played well in doubles, so I’m feeling good. The Cats say their goal is to win the Big Ten tournament. To prove they have what it takes, they have to start this weekend by overcoming years of precedent. davidlee2017@u.northwestern.edu
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The Wildcats have still not lost in February. Northwestern (20-6, 10-5 Big Ten) extended its winning streak to six games on Wednesday after defeating No. 21 Nebraska (18-8, 8-7), 59-51. “We played great in spurts,” coach Joe McKeown said. “And then we allowed Nebraska to make a comeback, and then we did a really good job of finishing the game.” NU took control of the game early in the first half. Senior guard Karly Roser started the night for the Cats as she scored their first 5 points, including a 3-pointer on the first possession. She also brought down four rebounds in the first half. “I knew they were going to sag off of
me today because in the past I haven’t been the best shooter,” Roser said. “So we knew that was a part of their game plan and since they weren’t really aware of where I was, I knew I could attack the glass and get some of those rebounds.” The story of the first half was NU’s suffocating defense. With Nebraska’s leading scorer, junior guard Rachel Theroit, sidelined with an injury, Nebraska made just three field goals and was held to an abysmal 10.7 percent shooting in the first half. Along with preventing the Cornhuskers from putting the ball in the basket, the Cats did not allow Nebraska to keep possession. In the half, NU forced 10 Cornhuskers turnovers and junior guard Maggie Lyon and sophomore guard Ashley Deary each had two steals. But the star of the opening 20 minutes for the Cats was sophomore forward Nia Coffey. Coffey has been on a tear during NU’s winning streak and continued her dominating play on Wednesday. She was the leading scorer and rebounder for the half with 9 points and eight boards. Coffey also helped the Cats control the battle in the paint with two first-half blocks. NU outscored Nebraska in the
interior 14-2 and this helped the Cats take a 29-12 lead into halftime. “Our defense was really great,” Coffey said. “And I really think that we just had a sense of pride in our defense just so far, especially in this month. And we had that mentality that they were not going to score.” In the second half, the dominance continued. NU would push its lead to as high as 24, but did let Nebraska trim the margin down to 8 with just over four minutes remaining thanks to a 19-3 run. From there the Cats attempted to work the clock, but a barrage of errors kept the door open for the Cornhuskers, and the lead would be cut to 6 with just over two minutes left in the game. Coffey would extend the lead back to 8 with about one minute and 40 seconds left, and after another Nebraska bucket, a 3-pointer from junior forward Lauren Douglas would push NU back up 9. After missing their first three free throws of the game, the Cats would make six straight to close out the contest. “I learned a long time ago that when you get past Valentine’s Day, when you win, (you need to) appreciate it,” McKeown said. “And then try to clean up the
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daily senior staffer @BobbyPillote
Northwestern has found a winning formula late in the season. Days after stunning Iowa at Welsh-Ryan Arena, the Wildcats (12-14, 3-10 Big Ten) pulled off another upset, this time beating Minnesota (16-11, 5-9) on the road, 72-66, for NU’s second consecutive conference victory. The win is also the second in a row at the Williams Arena for NU. “This is not an easy place to win,” coach Chris Collins said after the game on WGN Radio. “(Minnesota)
is tough to play against, they’re so quick … but our guys are confident. We’re really playing confident basketball right now, and we’ve found something with the zone.” The Cats went back to the 2-3 zone of defense that worked so well against the Hawkeyes, and reaped many of the same results. The Golden Gophers were held to 36 percent shooting from beyond the arc, and Nebraska’s leading scorer, senior guard Andre Hollins, didn’t make a basket in the first half. Nonetheless the Golden Gophers had a nice cushion early. After some back and forth in the opening minutes, Minnesota pushed out to a 7-point lead with seven minutes left in the half, only to see NU roar back with a swift 12-0 run. That surge came with Alex Olah on the bench, but the junior center played a massive role in the victory. The rim protector and centerpiece of the 2-3 set finished with 11
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Daily file photo by Nathan Richards
FINDING HIS WAY Vic Law slams the ball home. The freshman forward hit three 3-pointers against the Golden Gophers in a winning Wildcats effort.
points, eight rebounds, two steals and two blocks. Sophomore forward Nathan Taphorn also reprised his role from the Iowa game, coming off the bench to score 11 points on 4-of-8 shooting. He also handled Minnesota’s defensive pressure well as NU’s primary inbounder. The Golden Gophers have been averaging 10.3 steals per game this season, but forced just five against the Cats. “They press the whole game, and I thought we handled their pressure great,” Collins said on WGN. “And it helps when you make shots.” Offensively, NU had a balanced performance with four of five starters finishing the night with doubledigit point totals. Freshman guard Scottie Lindsey started the night off hot, nailing two 3s in the first three minutes and totaling 10 points. Junior guard Tre Demps added 11 points, five rebounds and seven assists, and freshman guard Bryant McIntosh led the way with a game-high 17 points while also contributing six assists. Freshmen forwards Vic Law and Gavin Skelly both shone coming off the bench. Law hit three consecutive 3s in the second half, while Skelly once again spelled Olah, recording three blocks, two rebounds and a beautiful bulletpass assist to Taphorn. The secret to the Cats’ success was the long ball. NU hit 15 of its 32 shots beyond the arc, drowning a Minnesota team that gave up 18 3s in its last contest against Indiana. But perhaps most interesting about the game was how the Cats won it — without any drama or late game heroics. The game was tied at halftime, and NU took a 44-42 lead with 16 minutes to go in the second half and never looked back. The Cats led the rest of the way and hit free throws down the stretch to quietly put the Golden Gophers away. “I was just really proud of our team,” Collins said on WGN. “You get little flashbacks, and I remember being in College Park a few weeks ago … and I said to myself ‘We’re going to be tough tonight and win this game,’ and that’s exactly what our guys did.” bpillote@u.northwestern.edu
things you have to do to get better, so that will be our focus.” Coffey posted her sixth-straight double-double with 17 points and a game-high 14 rebounds. Roser collected nine boards of her own on the night to go along with 10 points, and Douglas and Deary chipped in 15 and 10 points, respectively. This victory pulled NU into a three-
way tie for fourth place in the Big Ten with three games remaining. And one of those contests is against Rutgers, who is only one game ahead of the Cats for the third spot. “It feels great,” Coffey said. “Because I remember last year in February we did not win a game, so it feels awesome.” khadricerollins2017@u.northwestern.edu
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CONSTANT COFFEY The Wildcats completed a massive 59-51 home victory against No. 21 Nebraska.
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Wildcats place 4th in Lady Puerto Rico By KEVIN CASEY
daily senior staffer @KevinCasey19
If Northwestern wished to remain under the radar starting in the spring, its mission has been accomplished. The No. 7 Wildcats placed fourth on Tuesday at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic, finishing behind No. 4 Arkansas, No. 20 LSU and No. 33 Iowa State. The showing wasn’t exactly stellar, based on NU’s ranking, but coach Emily Fletcher thought it was a good opening test. “Overall it was a solid start for us,” Fletcher said, “I thought we were really close on the second and third days when we got off to good starts. We just threw a few more shots away coming down the stretch. But we’re very encouraged.” The coach had spoken before the event about the balance NU needed to keep between birdies and bogeys — staying aggressive but making sure to produce more of the former. For the most part, the squad kept that balance in control in Rio Mar, but a few loose shots tilted NU away from a higher finish. The worst of it was on day one when the Cats finished the round tied for fifth at 8-over-par, a product of 22 bogeys or worse from the starting five. NU actually produced that same number of offending scores during Monday’s second round and during Tuesday’s final round, but was able to counteract with enough red numbers to move the team up to fourth place in the end, just three spots out of a tie for second at 19 over par. As for what the Cats could improve on after this performance, the focus was still on the shots around the hole. “Our short game could get a little bit tidier,” Fletcher said. “A boost there could help us when we’re struggling from tee to green. We’re just a little bit inconsistent.” Freshman Sarah Cho struggled in her first start with three rounds of 75 or worse for a 55th-place finish,
and juniors Kaitlin Park and Suchaya Tangkamolprasert finished outside the top 25. The savior was Hannah Kim, an unlikely source of prosperity heading into the competition. “I was definitely worried that with practicing indoors, I was not seeing where my shots were going,” Kim said. “I was second guessing myself a lot and my swing wasn’t as consistent as I wanted it to be.” It didn’t show outside the United States. Kim posted two solid rounds of 72 and 74 to start her tournament, sitting in a tie for 10th with 18 holes to play. And then Kim exploded. In an incredibly potent stretch on the back nine Tuesday, the freshman scorched the Rio Mar River Course with six birdies in seven holes. The insane stretch put Kim 5-under for the day, and she held on from there to post the day’s lowest round with a 4-under 68. “My shots were on point and my putting was helping a lot during that stretch,” Kim said. “It was definitely unexpected.” The performance netted Kim a Big Ten Golfer of the Week honor, and it marked the third consecutive event where Kim posted the team’s lowest score. The first tournament of the spring uncovered nothing startling in NU’s makeup. Even if the Cats finished two places below where its ranking would’ve suggested, NU only dropped one spot in the polls. And rankings aren’t the Cats’ benchmark for success anyway. “For me, it’s if we’re playing the best to our ability,” Fletcher said. “Seven years ago when I started (at Northwestern) the 40th team in the country wasn’t even competitive with the top 10. Now you’re seeing teams who are ranked 25th or 30th and even if you’re in the top 10, it’s not a team you’re going to necessarily beat every single time. It’s more about did we beat ourselves? And we did that a little bit, we gave a few shots back.” kevincasey2015@u.northwestern.edu