The Daily Northwestern – January 7, 2016

SPORTS Men’s Basketball Northwestern crumbles in final minutes in loss to Ohio State » PAGE 8

NEWS On Campus Fire breaks out at Sigma Chi fraternity house » PAGE 3

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Class withdrawal deadline revised

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POLICE WATCH The Evanston Police Department recently finished its annual 16-day Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign, during which they issued two DUI tickets. As of Jan. 1, DUI offenders will now have the option of having a breathalyzer installed in their vehicles in lieu of a 30-day driving suspension.

State enacts new DUI law Drivers can avoid suspension by installing breathalyzer

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Illinois DUI offenders are now able to avoid a previously mandatory 30-day driving suspension if they register to have a breathalyzer device installed in

their vehicles.

The devices measure an individual’s blood alcohol content and act as monitors to ensure drivers have not been drinking before a car can be started. The new law came into effect Jan. 1.

Once a driver registers and has the device installed, the mandatory license suspension is no longer required. Evanston police Sgt. Tracy Williams told The Daily he believes the legislation is more relevant to individuals that have received DUIs rather than to the general public and their safety.

“We have 80,000 people (in

Evanston), so the odds of stopping a car with this technology installed is pretty rare,” Williams said. “It’s going to affect someone like the mother of three who got a DUI and is now able to not have a suspended license and continue with normal activities.”

Evanston attorney Dolores Leone said the recent DUI law is a better way of regulating drunk driving and ensuring traffic safety. She said the law replaces “draconian” practices that penalized individuals heavily reliant on » See DUI, page 7

All Northwestern undergraduate classes will now have one final withdrawal deadline — noon on the last Friday before finals week.

Previous quarters had varying policies and timetables on withdrawal — removing a class after the drop deadline — that depended on each course. This quarter, students will have until March 18 to withdraw from a course following the Feb. 12 drop deadline.

This change in policy follows the implementation of a uniform course withdrawal policy last quarter, which permits students in the McCormick School of Engineering to drop individual courses for the first time. Under that policy, all schools clarified that students can drop a class after the drop deadline and receive a “W” withdrawal grade on their transcripts.

Last quarter, schools such as the School of Communication, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications and School of Education and Social Policy said students could withdraw from a class until the due date of the final exam or project. Changing the deadline to a date consistent

across schools will alleviate stress for students during finals week, said University Registrar Jacqualyn Casazza.

“I do think that the very late and almost individualized deadline we had in the previous term was a bit of a problem for students,” Casazza said. “If you’re withdrawing two weeks before the end of the quarter it’s no big deal, but if you need to know whether you have to go to that exam or not, that can be pretty stressful.”

Having withdrawal deadlines according to final class assessments could also be distracting during finals week, said Joseph Holtgreive, assistant dean for student career development at McCormick.

“If students are trying to prepare for their finals, having that withdrawal kind of hanging out there as an escape clause was more of a distraction than an aid or a positive option,” Holtgreive said.

“Withdrawing in the last week or during finals week overall had a negative impact because a lot of the students, when I was talking with them, hadn’t slept much and so they were making these decisions under duress.”

The universal policy has had positive effects, Casazza said. » See WITHDRAWAL, page 7

ASG confirms new student activities vice president

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Associated Student Government Senate swore in a new student activities vice president Wednesday.

McCormick junior Macs Vinson was officially confirmed after being appointed interim vice president in September when former student activities vice president Parag Dharmavarapu left campus for personal reasons.

“I really enjoyed being (student activities vice president) for this quarter,” Vinson said when he addressed Senate before the vote. “I got to work on a lot of cool projects. We get to help student groups … create great programming for the student behalf.”

Vinson served as the project lead on

the Money Map, an interactive resource designed to help students find various sources for funding of their projects, and also served on the Student Activities Resources Committee. His new position includes advocating within ASG on behalf of student groups.

After Vinson was confirmed, Dharmavarapu made a closing statement in which he encouraged senators to serve the students’ interests.

“Just make sure when you’re here to know why you’re here and not do it just for the resume boost,” the Weinberg senior said. “Feel what you’re doing is really impacting students, and I think everyone has that ability to do that here.”

ASG is still looking to fill the accessibility and inclusion vice president position after SESP junior Matt Herndon resigned from the position in

November. ASG executive vice president Christina Kim said ASG is still accepting applications and will interview candidates this weekend before presenting a nominee.

“Hopefully by next Wednesday we’ll have a new (accessibility and inclusion) VP,” the McCormick senior said.

Earlier in the meeting, Weinberg senior Erik Baker presented recommendations based on student concerns following the fall quarter “It’s On Us” campaign, a public awareness effort which focuses on campus sexual assault.

Baker, the ASG senator for SHAPE, MARS, College Feminists and Title IX at NU, presented concerns about campus resources being insufficiently communicated to students.

“University resources are not trusted and not used, which is probably a feedback loop,” Baker said. “CARE has very

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VP CONFIRMED ASG President Noah Star speaks at the first ASG meeting of Winter Quarter. At the meeting, Senators confirmed McCormick junior Macs Vinson as student activities vice president.

poor visibility and people also don’t see its purpose or understand its function.”

Baker suggested increased funding

for the Center for Awareness, Response, » See SENATE, page 7

Four NU alumni selected for Forbes’ ‘30 under 30’ lists

By MADELINE FOX

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Four Northwestern alumni were named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30” lists, which recognize young leaders in 20 different fields.

The alumni — Mark Silberg (Weinberg ’14), Kate Gardiner (Medill ’09), Audrey Cheng (Medill ’15) and Anoop Jain (McCormick

‘09) — were recognized in three different categories. Individuals are nominated or can nominate themselves to the “30 Under 30” lists, which are released annually, by filling out an online form.

Silberg, who was recognized in the energy category, founded Spark Clean Energy, a program to bring technology learning out of research labs and to students across the country. Silberg said his experience as a philosophy major at NU has been

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instrumental to his work in clean energy. He currently works at the sustainable energy nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute as the network manager of its Electricity Innovation Lab, in addition to his role at Spark.

“What motivates me at least is not as much the tech transformation or the wealth creation,” Silberg said.

“It’s more about solving this major problem we face as a society, and the questions that we ask ourselves in philosophy all underpin the broader

conversation in the energy sector.”

He said NU was a great environment for fostering startup ideas, and that seeing startups created by alumni and current students during his time at the university helped to inspire his own venture.

Silberg also credits his experience living in GREEN House and being involved in “every energy student group I could get my hands on” for developing his interest in renewable energy.

Gardiner is the founder of DSTL, a social media and online distribution strategy company. She was recognized in the media category along with several other members of TheLi. st, a networking platform for professional women across industries.

Although Gardiner was a Medill graduate student, she said Kellogg’s Media Management Program that she completed while at NU was the most » See FORBES, page 7

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Around Town Local grocery store, schools organize food drive for city food pantry

An Evanston grocery store collaborated with local schools to collect and donate more than 1,500 non-perishable food items to a local food pantry this week.

Valli Produce, which opened its sixth location at

1910 Dempster St. this past summer, partnered with seven local elementary and middle schools to collect food items for its first annual Valli Produce Evanston Holiday Food Drive. Donations were brought to The Harvest Food Pantry, 2495 Howard St. The schools, four of which are part of Evanston/ Skokie School District 65, competed in gathering donations. Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies collected the most donations, and won a $1,000 prize from Valli for its effort. District 65

schools Oakton Elementary, Dewey Elementary and Lincoln Elementary also participated in the drive, along with St. Joan of Arc, Thomas Edison Elementary and Lincoln Jr. High schools.

The schools collectively accumulated more than 1,500 food items for the food pantry from Dec. 9 to Jan. 3. The Harvest Pantry serves more than 225 Chicago-area families weekly.

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Evanston Community Foundation announces grant recipients

The Evanston Community Foundation announced Wednesday it would extend grants to three local nonprofits as part of its annual root2fruit grant campaign.

The chosen nonprofits — Chessmen Club of the North Shore, Girls Play Sports and the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Cook County North Suburban — will each receive grants of $10,000 with the expectation of renewed funding from ECF over the next two years. In addition to these nonprofits, six other organizations already involved in the program will continue to receive grants from ECF. ECF said in a news release that it had chosen these recipients to demonstrate their commitment to supporting a wide variety of nonprofits in the Evanston community. The Chessmen Club works to provide support to

Police Blotter Wallet stolen from local high school

A wallet containing $250 in cash and various identification cards was stolen Monday from a purse left unattended at Evanston Township High School, police said.

The theft was reported by a 16-year-old Evanston resident who realized the wallet was missing from her purse after she left it

African-American youth and seniors throughout the North Shore by addressing community health issues and providing college scholarships. Girls Play Sports aims to bolster girls’ leadership skills through participation in recreational sports, and NAMI CCNS provides support to people impacted by serious mental illness.

The secondary beneficiary of Northwestern University Dance Marathon for the past 18 years, ECF focuses on giving grants and other financial support to city community organizations. The root2fruit initiative, which is in its 14th year, is designed to help grow the capacity of small to mid-size nonprofit organizations in Evanston.

In addition to the grant, selected nonprofits are entered into a peer learning network with other organizations. The groups are also mentored by an advisory committee for three years to help them build their fundraising, developmental and recruiting capabilities.

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unattended outside a classroom, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. House keys were also stolen from the purse, he said.

The thief ’s identity is currently unknown, Dugan said.

Private Christmas lighting display damaged

A Christmas lighting display in the backyard of a single-resident home in the 300 block of Florence Avenue was damaged, police said.

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MONEY MATTERS Members of the Evanston Community Foundation react to the fundraising total at Dance Marathon in 2014. ECF, which has been DM’s secondary beneficiary for the past 18 years, specializes in providing grants to local nonprofits through programs such as its annual root2fruit initiative.

The 72-year-old male homeowner told an Evanston Police Department officer that the display was damaged twice, first at about 7 a.m. on Jan. 3 and again at about 11 a.m. on Jan. 5, Dugan said.

Dugan said the person responsible for the damage is unknown, and an EPD officer has not yet been to the home to report on the extent of the damage, although it is estimated at $60.

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Lincoln String Quartet, 7:30 p.m.

Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, $30/10 Lei Hou and Qing Hou, violin; Lawrence Neuman, viola; Kenneth Olsen, cello Joseph Haydn, String Quartet No. 61 in D Minor (“Quinten”) Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 3 in F Major Johannes Brahms, String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor

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Ensemble in Residence: Newberry Consort— Le Roman de Fauvel, 3 p.m.

Preconcert lecture, 2 p.m.

Alice Millar Chapel, $40 ($35 if purchased in advance)/5 David Douglass, medieval strings; Ellen Hargis, voice; Debra Nagy, voice, harp, medieval winds; Christa Patton, harp, bagpipe, shawm; Dan Stillman, medieval winds; The Rookery vocal ensemble

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JAN 8–10

Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble: Sound in Architecture, 4 p.m.

Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall, $8/5 Donald Nally, conductor; Howard Eckdahl, graduate assistant conductor Presenting Dufay’s (Recently garlands… adorned this temple) of 1463 and Feldman’s 1971 Rothko Chapel for viola, percussion, and choir.

Dover Quartet: Quartet-in-Residence, 7:30 p.m.

Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, $30/10 Joel Link and Bryan Lee, violin; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola; Camden Shaw, cello Alban Berg, String Quartet Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet No. 7 in F Major

The medieval tale of Fauvel tells of his rise to prominence in the French royal court and satirizes the hedonism and excesses of the ruling orders. This performance by Newberry Consort uses period images and supertitle translations to bring the Fauvel story to life.

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On Campus Northwestern scientists take step toward human life on Mars

Material scientists at Northwestern have brought mankind one step closer to living on Mars.

Led by Lin Wan (Graduate School ‘15), the team of scientists have discovered a way to make “Martian concrete.”

Created with melted sulfur and soil from Mars, the concrete mixture has one notably absent ingredient: water, one of the most precious resources on Mars for humans. Instead, sulfur is liquidized by being heated up, and then mixed with the soil. After cooling, the

Fire breaks out at Sigma Chi fraternity house during recruitment

A small fire broke out in the Sigma Chi fraternity house Tuesday evening.

No injuries occurred and only minor property damage was sustained, University Police Deputy Chief Dan McAleer told The Daily in an email.

The fire at the house, 2249 Sheridan Rd., occurred after dinner during a fraternity

Startup created at NU partners with ComEd on energy use program

A customer engagement startup created at Northwestern has partnered with Commonwealth Edison, the largest electric utility in Illinois, to launch a pilot program for ComEd customers to track and improve their energy consumption habits.

The startup, MeterGenius, uses an online customer portal to give users increased access to their energy use data.

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sulfur solidifies, creating the concrete.

The use of sulfur concrete is not novel, and has run into multiple problems in the past.

In the 1970s, material scientists attempted to use sulfur concrete to build materials on the moon, according to the MIT Technology Review. They discovered the material would quickly disappear into gas due to atmospheric conditions.

The concrete has also been found to shrink during the cooling process, creating cavities and weakening the mixture. However, the NU scientists realized that using the right amount of ingredients – about 50 percent sulfur and 50 percent Martian soil with maximum aggregate size of one millimeter – created a material suitable for atmospheric conditions on Mars.

The substance will be extremely sturdy for building structures on Mars, reaching a compressive strength that is more than double the compressive strength required for residential building standards on Earth.

Practically and financially, the mixture also offers additional advantages. Not only is the concrete recyclable – sulfur melts when heated, allowing it to be reused – but it is also a much cheaper alternative to transporting building materials from Earth.

Although the first human setting foot on Mars is most likely still a few years away, the recipe for “Martian concrete” will be helpful for when that time comes.

recruitment event, when potential members are invited to join the fraternity, Sigma Chi president Walker McKinney said. A partition had been set up using a bedsheet to create a backdrop for the event in a candle-lit room on the second floor.

After the event, the candles were not blown out, and the bedsheet caught fire when it fell onto the open flame, the Communication junior said.

An occupant of the house immediately put out the fire with a fire extinguisher, but there is still about a quarter inch of ash or soot in the room, as well as a strong smell of smoke, he added.

People inside the house were evacuated for

about an hour, McKinney said.

Both Evanston Fire Department and Facilities Management responded to the scene, and the fire department cleared the house for reoccupation, McAleer said.

“The occupants of the affected room were relocated to another room in the house,” he said in an email. “All other rooms were unaffected and remained occupied.”

NU’s Office of Risk Management was also notified, he added.

Currently based in St. Louis, the company was created by four NU graduate students in 2013 as a part of the sustainable energy track of the entrepreneurship course NUvention.

The partnership was established through SmartGridExchange, a forum for ComEd to connect with local universities and startups focused on smart grid technology.

Through the program, nearly 6,500 randomly selected ComEd customers with smart meters will have unlimited access to the startup’s web and mobile applications for six months.

The applications will help customers track their energy usage with data from smart meters, devices that energy utilities use to monitor and bill

customers’ energy consumption.

Customers who use MeterGenius tools are able to earn points, which can be redeemed for rewards such as gift cards and energy-efficient products.

They can also compete with other program participants to see whose electricity use can be reduced the most.

“Innovative smart meter solutions benefit our customers by giving them control to monitor their energy use, lower their consumption and reduce their monthly electric costs,” Val Jensen, ComEd’s senior vice president of customer operations, said in a news release.

Northwestern University Press was awarded a $73,000 grant to digitize outof-print titles concerning the humanities.

The three-year grant, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will go toward creating free e-books of 64 titles in African studies, literary criticism and philosophy.

The grant also emphasizes the importance of open-access research studies by providing unprecedented access to these titles.

The funding is provided through the Humanities Open Book program, which is sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Northwestern University Press will also be collaborating with the University Library system through the program. The e-books will be offered on the library’s online platform, as well as sold through both digital and print mediums.

“We are delighted for this opportunity to deepen our collaborative relationship with the Northwestern University Libraries,” said Jane Bunker, director of Northwestern University Press, in a news release.

“We are fortunate to be able to work closely with our library colleagues in order to best serve the needs of faculty and students in this new research environment. Thoughtful experimentation with open access is a priority for us.”

Sarah Pritchard, dean of Libraries, also expressed excitement about working with Northwestern University Press.

“This is an ideal project to extend our collaboration on campus and nationally,” she said. “The Press has such a strong backlist in the humanities, and the Libraries have an increasingly robust digital repository infrastructure, so we are pleased to be able to bring both together.”

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In literature, female protagonists still hard to find NICOLE KEMPIS

DAILY COLUMNIST

It wasn’t until I finished Donna Tartt’s male-narrated coming of age novel “The Goldfinch” last month in a fit of post-final hibernation and inactivity that I realized most award-winning novels are written about men.

I didn’t question Tartt’s decision to write her Pulitzer Prize winner from a male perspective until some days later when I picked up another Pulitzer winner, “The Orphan Master’s Son,” this time by a man and from a male perspective. I started to wonder, how many Pulitzer novels would I have to read before I found one written from a woman’s perspective?

I worked back through the list of winning novels from 2015, and I found that a novel written purely from a woman’s perspective hasn’t won since 1999.

In the last 15 years, there have been three novels by women narrated from multiple perspectives, but none told from a purely female point of view. The first case of a novel written by a woman about a woman doesn’t surface until 1995.

There are a number of potential explanations for this phenomenon, but I believe this problem has a great deal to do with our expectations of female writers. Could the

world of language and literature — subjects that have been dominated by female students nationwide in recent years — be as sexist as male-dominated occupations like science and mathematics?

I major in Comparative Literature at Northwestern, and in all my contemporary literature classes I have read only one novel written by a woman from a woman’s perspective. It has been proven that the paucity of women pursuing scientific careers can be explained, at least partially, by the unwelcoming atmosphere and veiled sexism in these fields.

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The insignificance with which we regard imagined women is a reflection of the way we understand real women, their rights and their abilities.

I believe that a similar situation is occurring in the world of fiction, in which the youth and romance genres, traditionally the less serious pursuits, are perceived as more welcoming to female authors.

Nicola Griffith, a British author, studied six different literary awards and found the only award that had more award-winning female authors and books centered around female protagonists was the Newbury Medal,

an award given to American authors of children’s literature.

According to Griffith, “The more prestigious the award, the more likely the subject of the narrative will be male.” If one looks at Griffith’s data for the Man Booker Award, the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize — the most prestigious prizes for American fiction over the last fifteen years — there are four winning novels written by women about women, eight by women about men, zero by men about women and 25 written by men about men.

The rest are ambiguous or a combination of multiple perspectives. The conclusion is fairly clear: if you want to win a literary award, don’t write about women. They aren’t worth it.

I believe the tendency to favor male protagonists in literary awards can be traced back to the archaic way that society imagines women and their psychology. We unconsciously assume female protagonists are overly emotional and unreasonable; therefore they cannot be trusted as serious narrators.

Even in the modern media, women are often portrayed as petty and frivolous alongside their more stoic male counterparts and their fears and concerns are presented as melodramatic.

This is not so surprising. Given our long history of trivializing female consciousness and our modern tendency to present women as senseless, books written by women about women are not taken seriously in the

contemporary literary world.

That’s not to say that there aren’t significant literary depictions of female life, “Anna Karenina,” “Wuthering Heights” and “The God of Small Things,” to name a few. The problem is not so much that there aren’t works of literary quality written about women, but that works dealing with the female psyche are not valued to the same extent as those written from a male perspective.

This is an issue that we should begin to address at a college level. Perhaps NU needs to start listing classes that make concerted efforts to teach recent novels depicting women’s experiences.

The literary gender gap is a clear example of enduring and subconscious sexism in an era in which few overtly express the opinion that women’s thoughts are insignificant. If latent gender bias exists to such an extent in a field that has been welcoming to women for many years, how much worse is it in the business world or the political arena?

The insignificance with which we regard imagined women is a reflection of the way we understand real women, their rights and their abilities.

Nicole is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be contacted at nicolekempis2018@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.

Planning for more abnormal weather after El Niño PIA BASU

DAILY COLUMNIST

On Dec. 24 in New York City, the temperature in Central Park reached a high of 72 degrees, with the rest of the month averaging a high of 56 degrees. I walked around the New York Botanical Garden on Christmas Eve without a coat, the air smelling of spring from the blooming flower beds.

Science would suggest that extraordinary weather is something we should begin to expect.

As an east-coaster, I am familiar with winter but more than happy to avoid any weather that resembles Chicago’s, so I wasn’t exactly complaining.

That being said, ice cream definitely felt more seasonal than hot chocolate last month, making the holidays seem different than usual and causing general unease in the back of everyone’s minds.

New York’s unusually warm temperatures was a result of the El Niño pattern that

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caused abnormal weather all over the US. On the other side of the country, California encountered some momentary relief from drought thanks to an onset of rainstorms, with the first major El Niño storm hitting on Jan. 5 and causing road closures due to flooding as well as mud and rock slides.

California had struggled with wildfires and drought the past few years, forcing the state government to impose stringent water usage restrictions.

The El Niño is a weather phenomenon that warms the central and eastern Pacific Ocean near the equator, and transfers a large quantity of heat from the ocean into the atmosphere. El Niño occurs every two to seven years and is hard to predict more than six or so months in advance. It causes a reversal in global weather patterns, bringing Pacific storms to California, causing droughts in South Asia and Australia, and pushing warm air over the East Coast of the U.S. El Niño has been happening on Earth for thousands of years. But, the intensity of the phenomenon is important: three of the strongest El Niño events have occurred in recent history, 1982-1983, 1997-1998 and

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now 2015-2016, the strongest.

It is common knowledge that the planet’s average temperature is on the rise as a result of greenhouse gas emissions and human activity, and this rise is likely to lead to destabilizing, potentially dangerous weather conditions.

Sea level is rising as glaciers El Niño has melt, and oceans been happening are warming. 2015 was the warmest on Earth for year on record, thousands of and 13 out of the years.

But, the 14 warmest years in history have intensity of the occurred this phenomenon is century.

This past important. month’s weather might have been just as much of an aberration without climate change occurring simultaneously, but some research suggests that global warming and general climate change will lead to much stronger El Niño events than we have previously seen. And general scientific consensus concludes that

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climate change has intensified storms and droughts.

Research on the precise link between El Niño and climate change needs to be finalized.

While El Niño caused odd weather this winter, it would behoove us all to prepare for more unusual climate in the coming years, both mentally and in government policy.

The climate change agreement recently reached in Paris is a good first step, especially since it was lauded as a global effort, and climate change affects all of us. Hopefully the winner of the 2016 presidential election is someone who realizes what a serious threat climate change poses to not only America, but to global and regional stability.

And as far as ordinary people go, we need to come to terms with the fact that 72 degrees on Christmas Eve might not be a once in a lifetime event.

Pia Basu is a Medill sophomore. She can be contacted at piabasu2018@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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National News Court blocks deportations of several Central American families WASHINGTON — The nation’s highest immigration court has delayed the deportations of four families out of hundreds of Central American migrant adults and children rounded up in raids over the New Year’s weekend as part of a nationwide effort to combat illegal immigration, according to the families’ lawyers. They expected to win a fifth stay Wednesday.

The Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision, made late Tuesday, is a small yet potentially significant breakthrough for lawyers fighting the raids, as it raises questions about Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson’s assurances to the public earlier this week that those being deported had exhausted all their legal options.

The families’ lawyers said the stays of deportation had been granted to allow time to appeal their cases to the Board of Immigration Appeals _ a step none of them had yet taken. The families had been scheduled to be deported from the United States on Wednesday morning back to their home countries of El Salvador and Honduras.

“What does it mean when we get five out of six cases stayed? That means something is wrong here,” said one of the lawyers, Laura Lichter, general counsel for the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

“If there was no case, nothing here, we wouldn’t have gotten the stay.”

Johnson said this week that 121 people had been taken into custody, mainly in Georgia, North Carolina and Texas. The Obama administration operation focused on adults and their children who’d been apprehended as of last spring after crossing the southern border illegally, had been issued orders of removal by an immigration court and, Johnson said, “have exhausted appropriate legal remedies.”

“As I have said repeatedly, our borders are not open to illegal migration; if you come here illegally, we will send you back consistent with our laws and values,” Johnson said in a statement Monday.

The holiday raids were the first in a large-scale effort focused on Central Americans fleeing poverty and violence, and they drew swift criticism from activists.

Lawyers advised the migrants to simply not open the door if approached by immigration agents.

Lichter and other lawyers, organized through the CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project, charged the Obama administration with rushing to deport the families without properly screening whether they had exhausted their due process rights. The attorneys filed requests to stop the deportations for five out of

a half-dozen cases they’d reviewed. The declarations to the Board of Immigration Appeals included the families’ affidavits explaining why they feared returning to their home countries.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest reminded critics of President Barack Obama’s November 2014 immigration priorities, which placed more emphasis on recent arrivals of individuals who’d crossed the border without proper legal documentation.

“This is consistent with the kinds of priorities that the president himself has talked about; that our enforcement efforts need to be focused on deporting felons, not families, and with a particular focus on individuals who have only recently crossed the border,” Earnest said.

— Franco Ordonez (McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS)

Oregon refuge crisis opens another front in old ‘Sagebrush Rebellion’ WASHINGTON — The standoff at an Oregon wildlife refuge is the latest, edgiest skirmish in a decades-old conflict over federal control of Western lands. It’s been a war, not always bloodless, that’s been fought in courts, on Capitol Hill and far out on the range.

Decades ago, the conflict was dubbed the “Sagebrush Rebellion.” In the 1990s, conservatives provocatively cited a “War on the West.” And with the federal government owning more than one-third of the land in states such as California, Idaho and Washington, future clashes are all but certain.

“There are problems with the federal bureaucracies, and people are going to chafe at changes in management practices,” Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., said in an interview Wednesday. “That’s been going on forever.”

But DeFazio, a liberal who has nonetheless repeatedly sought compromise on vexing Western land disputes, also noted a flip side of federal ownership not always acknowledged by some vocal conservative activists: However frustrating, federal ownership brings benefits, too.

“We are subsidizing grazing,” DeFazio noted as an example. “People are paying only a tiny fraction of what they would pay to use private land.”

Nationwide, the federal government owns 640 million acres, or about 28 percent of the country’s land mass. It is not, however, evenly distributed, and consequently, neither is the political heat.

North Carolina and Florida, for instance, have only 12 percent and 8 percent of their land held by the federal government.

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“I have seen what happens when overzealous bureaucrats and agencies go beyond the law to clamp down on people,” Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., said on the House floor Tuesday. “I have seen what courts have done, and I have seen the time for Congress to act, and it has not.”

Walden represents Harney County, the high desert region in eastern Oregon thrust into the national spotlight on Sunday when armed anti-government protesters occupied an empty building at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

The armed protesters, calling themselves the Citizens for Constitutional Freedom, still occupy the building in an emergency now being responded to by the FBI. The protesters spun off from peaceful demonstrators who had rallied to support two Harney County ranchers, Dwight Hammond Jr. and Steven Hammond.

The Hammonds, who are father and son, have been ordered back to prison to serve longer terms following their conviction on arson charges.

“I know the Hammonds. I’ve known them, probably, for close to 20 years,” Walden said. “They are longtime, responsible ranchers.”

The Hammonds’ beef with the federal government is a complicated one, with conflicting accounts related by both sides, but in brief it encapsulates the benefits and the burdens of Western reliance on federal land.

Since the time when the phrase “Sagebrush Rebellion” was first coined, Westerners have complained that onerous federal rules and regulations have needlessly fenced them in.

Westwide grazing rights, timber harvesting, hardrock mining, and water storage and deliveries all have been underwritten by the federal government’s low fees, cheap roads, absence of mining royalties and subsidized irrigation contract rates.

Through early 2013, for instance, the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management charged some 21,000 livestock operators nationwide only $1.35 per animal unit month for using the public land. This was less than had been charged in 1993, and was considerably less than was charged on state or private lands.

— Michael Doyle (McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS)

Netflix expands global reach, Wall Street cheers Shares in Netflix jumped more than 9 percent on Wednesday after the streaming serving giant took a

big step to expand its global footprint.

Kicking off the day at CES in Las Vegas with his keynote address, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said the Silicon Valley company had activated service in 130 more countries, including Russia, India, South Korea and Saudi Arabia.

Since launching in 2007, Netflix has expanded into Canada, Latin America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan to include 60 countries. Now Netflix has services in more than 190 countries.

“Today you are witnessing the birth of a new global Internet TV network,” Hastings told the crowd. “With this launch, consumers around the world _ from Singapore to St. Petersburg, from San Francisco to Sao Paulo _ will be able to enjoy TV shows and movies simultaneously _ no more waiting. With the help of the Internet, we are putting power in consumers’ hands to watch whenever, wherever and on whatever device.”

As part of the expansion, Netflix added Arabic, Korean and Chinese to the 17 other languages it offers.

After finding success in the U.S. with its DVD-bymail business and now its streaming service, Netflix has increasingly focused on expanding around the world.

Last year, the company rolled out its services in Japan, Australia and Spain, among others. And it plans this year to launch in South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

One country that notably remains out of its hands is China, where Netflix faces competition from local streaming services.

The company said in a statement that it “continues to explore options” for making its service available in one of Hollywood’s most coveted markets.

The company also noted that it won’t be available in Crimea, North Korea and Syria “due to U.S. government restrictions on American companies.”

Netflix closed out its third quarter last year with 69.2 million streaming subscribers in more than 40 countries _ 26 million of those are international subscribers.

But the company has started to come under close examination by investors over its subscriber growth in the U.S., which has fallen short of projections. The slow down trend is expected to continue when Netflix announces its fourth quarter 2015 earnings results this month. Netflix shares dropped Monday following a downgrade from Robert W. Baird, which lowered its price target to $115.

But on Wednesday, Netflix shares rebounded after the announcement, climbing 9.3 percent to close at $117.68.

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Across Campuses Missing admissions tests leave would-be lawyers in the lurch Eliana Spero spent three stressful months preparing for the Law School Admission Test on Dec. 5. She has spent the time since trying to put it out of her thoughts.

“I did it,” she said. “That was it. It was done.”

Except that it wasn’t.

Spero and about 80 other would-be lawyers who took the test at the University of California, Santa Barbara, got emails last week that countered any fleelings of accomplishment.

Instead of their scores, they received “Dear Test Taker” letters from LSAT administrators, telling them that their answer sheets were missing and they would have to repeat the grueling exam.

“At this point, we have declared the answer sheets to be lost,” read the email from the Law School Admission Council in Newtown, Pa. “To protect the integrity of the scores, we will not score these answer sheets even if they are found.”

There was an apology, notification that the $175 registration fee would be refunded and instructions that those affected could retake the test in January or February at no charge.

That was of little comfort to Spero and others who say that delaying their law school applications by a month or more jeopardizes their chances of getting into their preferred schools next fall.

“In general, candidates for the class of 2016 benefit by submitting a complete application, including their LSAT score, to law schools as early as possible,” said John Conkle, a Santa Monica resident whose test papers were lost.

“I anticipated learning my score by early January and had planned to apply immediately upon receiving it,” he said. “That timeline is no longer feasible.”

Conkle, a 2012 graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, said he’ll retake the LSAT in January but is more concerned about the timing than the do-over.

Spero, who graduated from UC Santa Barbara in June, said she won’t be able to retake the test until February, which could put her so far back in the applicant pack that she might have to postpone law school until 2017. She said she was floored by the impersonal email from the council, especially in light of its usually meticulous attention to detail and test security.

“I was very upset, extremely upset,” said Spero of Marina del Rey, whose family spent thousands of dollars on an LSAT prep course. “This was a huge mistake, and I thought it was just 100 percent unacceptable. This organization is so strict that you have to bring a passport photo to the test ... . How is this even possible?”

“I wish we knew what happened – UPS lost them,” said Wendy Margolis, communications

THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2016 director for the nonprofit Law School Admission Council.

“The process in place has worked perfectly well 99.9 percent of the time,” Margolis said. “We are still looking for the package, but even if we found it, it has been out there too long.”

Margolis said she did not have tracking information or other details of the shipment, but that the protocol was to send the sheets out immediately after the test was completed. She declined to name the test center supervisor responsible for shipping them.

A UPS spokeswoman said Thursday that she could not comment without a tracking number for the package.

The council administers about 100,000 tests annually, according to its website. The December test is one of four scheduled exams, Margolis said, and in 2014 was taken by 28,500 people.

– Kim Christensen (Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Bomb threat halts SLO Transit bus service; Cal Poly student detained A Cal Poly student was detained and questioned Wednesday afternoon after he was accused of making vague and rambling statements about bombs on SLO Transit buses early Wednesday morning on a bus packed with sleepy-eyed students heading to class.

San Luis Obispo police and SLO Transit staff halted all bus service throughout the day as they examined each bus for possible explosive devices or other threats.

No one was hurt in the incident and the suspect was later taken into custody after conducting an on-camera interview with a local TV reporter.

Police identified the suspect as Marcus Henry Karr, 33, who is listed in the Cal Poly directory as a computer sciences student.

According to police, SLO Transit bus Route 5 left the Downtown Transit Center at about 8:30 a.m. and headed toward Cal Poly. As the bus drew near a stop at the Performing Arts Center, a young man on the bus stated loudly: “I am passing out this literature and talk about the possibility that there may be a bomb on one of the buses.

“This is not a joke, so I would advise you not to ride the buses today or for the rest of the week until I am shown to be wrong. But I have reason to believe that this is the case. Thank you for your attention,” he said, according to the Police Department.

His statement was partially captured on a cellphone by a fellow passenger.

The flier he is accused of handing out did not make specific threats or mention a bomb.

“Something VERY STRANGE is happening. Therefore I MUST DECLARE PREEMPTIVE WAR,” the flier reads in part. “To all you WITCHES and SATANISTS and DEVILS and POSSESSED, I DECLARE WAR ON YOU.” The flier continues with mention of “horned

goats,” a “green monster” and “the man in the high castle.”

After students got off the bus, one contacted the University Police Department, which contacted San Luis Obispo police. Bus service across the city was halted while investigators and bomb-sniffing dogs from the California Department of Parks and Recreation stopped and searched all 15 city buses.

Police issued a news release asking for the public’s help in locating the suspect.

As KSBY reporter Charlie Misra was interviewing students, he was approached by a man later identified as Karr who wanted an interview, said KSBY President and General Manager Kathleen Choal.

As Misra interviewed Karr on camera, Choal said, Misra quickly realized Karr was the person police were searching for and Karr admitted to being the person who made the statements videotaped on the bus. Choal said Misra calmly wrapped up the interview before quietly calling police and pointing out Karr.

Karr was then taken into custody for questioning.

Scarlette Whitted, a Cal Poly biology junior, was sitting next to Karr during his speech, she said, and students at first ignored his rambling.

She said passengers were “packed like sardines” in the Route 5 bus and approaching the last stop near the PAC when the man, later identified as Karr, stood up on the seat and began shouting about a bomb on a city bus and warning people not to ride the bus for a week.

Whitted said Karr pulled out a box from his backpack and began handing out pieces of paper and urging riders to pass them around. He then advised people not to ride the bus during its busiest hours midday, specifically when it pulled into the Downtown Transit Center.

“Everybody was just like, ‘Are you freaking serious?’ “ Whitted recalled. “At first I thought, ‘Please shut up. I haven’t eaten breakfast yet.’ “ She said Karr then pressed his backpack up against her and began rummaging through it as the bus pulled up to the stop.

“That was the fastest I’ve ever seen people get off the bus,” she said, adding that she didn’t see the bus driver take any action. “Someone said something like, ‘That was the most interesting bus ride I’ve ever taken.’ “ She said she didn’t feel she was in any danger until the man started going through his bag. He was the last to exit the bus, she said, and was last seen pulling his sweatshirt hood over his head and walking north.

As police, State Parks and SLO Transit personnel continued sweeping city buses for any potential threats, the San Luis Coastal Unified School District coordinated school buses to pick up middle and high school students affected by the citywide shutdown.

Students from SLO High School who use city bus services, as well as about 50 students from Laguna Middle School and Pacific Beach High

School, were picked up by school buses at their normal city stops, said Anthony Palazzo, the manager of buildings, grounds and transportation for the school district.

-– Matt Fountain (The San Luis Obispo Tribune/TNS)

Grant aids UTEP engineering study abroad plan The University of Texas at El Paso and a partner university in Guadalajara, Mexico, will launch a joint engineering study abroad program thanks to a $25,000 grant from the Obama administration’s latest “100,000 Strong in the Americas” competition.

The grant to UTEP and the Universidad de Guadalajara will cover student expenses related to the study abroad program, including airfare, meals and accommodations, according to a UTEP news release.

UTEP and the Universidad de Guadalajara will both contribute $58,000 toward administrative and instructor expenses, according to the release.

Participants in the study abroad program will spend one week at UTEP and two weeks in Guadalajara, studying the different services cities provide, from water to schools, and how to apply information and communication technologies to link the systems and make them work “smarter,” UTEP civil engineering Professor Ruey “Kelvin” Cheu said in an email.

“This is to make them more energy efficient, more environmental friendly and more resilient to extreme events,” he said.

The Universidad de Guadalajara and the city of Guadalajara started implementing some of those ideas in 2014, and the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers designated Guadalajara the world’s first “smart city,” he said.

The study abroad program is open to engineering undergraduate senior, graduate and Ph.D. students. Sixteen UTEP students and 16 Universidad de Guadalajara students will be selected to participate, Cheu said.

This is UTEP’s second “100,000 Strong in the Americas” grant.

In 2014, UTEP received funding for its collaboration with CETYS Universidad in Ensenada, Mexico, to create a study abroad program on lasting examples of sustainability, according to the release.

The “100,000 Strong in the Americas” initiative aims to increase the number of U.S. students studying abroad in the Western Hemisphere to 100,000 and the number of students in the Western Hemisphere that study in the U.S. to 100,000 by 2020.

ExxonMobile sponsored the most recent round of the competition, and UTEP was one of nine recipients.

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From page 1 transportation for their jobs and families.

Previously, in order to bypass the 30-day suspension, drivers had to appeal to a judge to receive restricted driving privileges, said attorney Jeremy Pfeifer of Evanston firm Pfeifer & Pfeifer.

“This technology has been around for several years, but people were not able to get that device because your license was automatically suspended,” Pfeifer said. “You had to ask a judge for a special permit just to be able to drive to work or school only during certain times.”

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FLOAT ON Tre Demps lifts a shot over a defender. The senior guard was the face of Northwestern’s shooting struggles Wednesday, going 3-for-17 from the field.

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off the two guards.”

Collins also gave credit to Ohio State’s defensive effort for making life difficult for NU. With length on the perimeter and inside and a clear focus on sticking with shooters on the Cats’ drives, the Buckeyes were able to hold NU to more than 20 points below its per-game scoring average.

The crisp ball movement and drive-and-kick action culminating in 3s that NU relied on in nonconference play feels like a distant memory after two straight ugly, home losses. But McIntosh said that the team’s shooting touch will return with time.

“Guys are just going to have to come in and get shots, see the ball go in the basket a little bit,” McIntosh said. “I think now it’s becoming a little mental.”

With two of the more talented, athletic teams in the conference now behind them, the Cats will have a chance to get back on track from deep Saturday against a Minnesota team that allows teams to shoot 37.2 percent from 3.

Collins cautioned against overreacting to two games’ worth missed shots from outside.

“You want to look at the film and see, ‘Are you getting good shots?’” he said. “From my vantage point, I thought we did get some clean ones.” maxschuman2018@u.northwestern.edu

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From page 1 and Education to better publicize and differentiate themselves from Counseling and Psychological Services, saying the acronyms may be similar and confusing.

ASG will release their latest 100-day plan,

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“It was sort of the backbone of a lot of the research I’ve done since then, a big piece of how we strategize for a content-producing company to this day,” she said.

Gardiner said her work is often based around helping news organizations that have been around for decades adjust to new media markets and technologies.

Both Cheng and Jain were listed in Forbes’

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Previously, each school had a different withdrawal policy. Having a universal policy allows students to better understand their options, she said.

“A lot of students, especially students who are first generation in college, wouldn’t even necessarily know that going to the dean’s office and asking for an exception was a possibility,” Casazza said. “Establishing the withdrawal period was a way to really have no secret

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For the past few years, the Evanston Police Department has emphasized safe driving practices, particularly in regards to drunk driving.

During the holiday season, EPD, in conjunction, with state police and the Illinois Department of Transportation ran a local campaign to address drunk driving and other traffic safety violations.

The Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over initiative, which ran from Dec. 18 to Jan. 3, resulted in two DUI arrests and 38 seatbelt citations among other activity, EPD said in a news release.

“Drunk driving is a reckless, 100 percent preventable crime, and one that leads to disaster,” Williams said in the release. “We worked really hard and stepped up to the challenge. To us, if

we saved one life, the campaign was worthwhile.”

The new law’s effect on the city is yet to be seen. Williams said finding the breathalyzer devices in offenders’ cars was “hit or miss” and they are not present in noticeably high numbers in Evanston.

“It won’t affect the community because whether someone is driving prior to 30 days or had to serve the suspension, it is not going to affect the average person,” Williams said. “It will most likely impact the Secretary of State office which handles the processing of these permit applications.”

which outlines the top issues of the quarter, next week. Later this month, ASG leaders will travel to Rutgers University–New Brunswick for the Association of Big Ten Students conference to discuss issues of student leadership and shared governance.

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in a report on undergraduate academics next week, said Jake Julia, associate provost for academic initiatives and associate vice president for change management, in an email to The Daily.

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social entrepreneurs category.

Cheng, who studied at NU as an undergraduate, co-founded the Moringa School, a Nairobibased school that teaches students how to code in a 12-week intensive program. Jain is the founder of the Humanure Power Project, a nonprofit that constructs community toilet facilities in Bihar, India.

Cary Hayner, who was also named in the energy category, was studying for his PhD in engineering at NU before he left to work fulltime for startup SiNode Systems, which develops new lithium-ion anode technology. Lithium-ion

batteries power hybrid cars and consumer electronics.

Hayner became involved in SiNode after he worked as an advisor for the NUvention energy class that gave rise to the company. He left NU to serve as SiNode’s chief technology officer in 2013.

Hayner, like Silberg, praised the supportive environment for startups at NU. “Northwestern has been invaluable with the mentorship and the advisors they’ve provided,” he said.

policies. That way everybody knew what the options were and that we were offering the same options to every student.”

Having a universal withdrawal period is common among universities, and the policy implemented last quarter aligned Northwestern’s policy with that of its peers.

The Office of the Registrar looked at other Association of American Universities schools and schools that use the quarter system, such as Stanford University and The University of Chicago, to help create a beneficial withdrawal period, Casazza said.

Changing the withdrawal deadline allows students to better assess their options and drop courses when it would be most beneficial, said Beth Bennett, Medill’s director of undergraduate journalism.

“It’s a really positive change,” Bennett said.

“It will help students to make a decision hopefully sooner and to really evaluate where they are in the class and what their feelings are about staying in the class where they really feel like they’re struggling.”

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A once-promising opportunity for a statement home win dissipated quickly for Northwestern on Wednesday as they faded late in a 65-56 loss to Ohio State.

The Wildcats (13-3, 1-2 Big Ten) were outscored 14-6 over the game’s final six minutes, fittingly ending a night in which NU shot just 31.3 percent from the field and dropped its second consecutive Big Ten contest in front of raucous Welsh-Ryan Arena crowds.

Guard Kam Williams took over in the second half for the Buckeyes (11-5, 3-0), scoring 13 of his team-leading 21 points after the break as his team shut down NU on the opposite end of the floor.

“It was kind of a funky game,” coach Chris Collins said. “Neither team could really get any going offensively for much of the night. … When we got open looks, I thought we missed them.”

The majority of the first half resulted in more 3-point woes for the Cats, who missed their first 11 attempts from deep after hitting just 2-of-20 in Saturday’s loss to Maryland. With 4:10 left until halftime, a fast-break dunk by Ohio State’s Marc Loving capped off a 14-2 run, aided by poor shooting by NU, which gave the visitors a 26-17 lead.

Sophomore forward Gavin Skelly, however, broke the Buckeyes’ run with a pair of lay-up finishes, and Ohio State did not score again for the remainder of the opening frame.

In the closing minutes of the half,

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GIVIN’ IT ALL HE’S GOT Scottie Lindsey fights for a loose ball near the corner. Lindsey and the Cats struggled with takeaways against Ohio State, only recording two steals.

NU finally snapped its 3-point slump as senior guard Tre Demps and junior forward Nathan Taphorn connected from deep, sending the crowd of 7,439 into a frenzy and giving the home team a 27-26 edge at the break.

But in the second half, a pair of

Williams 3-pointers gave Ohio State a 40-36 advantage with 12:49 to play, and the Cats would never reclaim the lead.

After a basket and free throw by sophomore guard Bryant McIntosh pulled NU within 2 points with 7:09 to

play, Buckeyes center Trevor Thompson turned in 6 points and 2 rebounds in the ensuing three-minute span to help Ohio State begin to pull away.

“That’s when you’ve got to win or lose the game,” Collins said of the moments following McIntosh’s big

play. “Ohio State, from that point on, just really outplayed us on both ends.”

Buckeyes forward Jae’Sean Tate’s layup with exactly 3:00 remaining proved to be the dagger, providing the visitors with a 62-53 lead.

Demps converted just 3-of-17 shots for NU, committing four fouls in the process, while matching his lowest-scoring game of the season.

His struggles were indicative of the entire team, which shot at by far its lowest percentage yet this year.

“Without (injured senior center Alex) Olah, it’s tough,” said McIntosh, whose 15 points made him the only Cats player to reach double-digits.

“Tre and I are asked to a little bit more as far as scoring. Teams are trying to take us away and they’re doing a good job of it.”

NU has made just 17.8 percent of its 3-point attempts and 34.1 percent of all field goal attempts in its past two games after shooting at 39.1 percent and 48.8 percent rates, respectively, in its program-best 13-1 start to the season.

“They were really trying to take the 3-point line away, so you’ve got to drive the ball. And when you do drive the ball, you’ve got to score. Collectively, we can talk a lot about the 3-point shooting and it’s a big part of what we do, but (in terms of) offense as a whole, we just have to convert better,” Collins said. benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu

Uncharacteristic poor shooting from Demps, Falzon dooms NU against Ohio State

By MAX SCHUMAN

daily senior staffer

For the second straight game, a Northwestern team reliant on 3-pointers, couldn’t buy a big shot when it needed one most.

And against long and talented Ohio State (11-5, 3-0 Big Ten), the

Wildcats (13-3, 1-2) couldn’t overcome their poor shooting in a 65-56 defeat Wednesday.

NU shot just 6-for-25 from distance on the night, a game after a 2-for-20 showing from long-range torpedoed the team’s chances of upsetting then-No. 4 Maryland. The Cats missed their first 11 3-point shots on the night, with senior guard

Tre Demps netting the team’s first 3 with 1:50 left in the first half.

Demps, in particular, had a difficult night from long distance, shooting 1-for-8 from deep. Coach Chris Collins said Demps had a number of good looks on the night that just wouldn’t fall.

“We’re not going to lose confidence in him,” Collins said. “All

really good scorers go through times where you aren’t shooting as well.”

Freshman forward Aaron Falzon, a 36.3 percent 3-point shooter on the season, canned just 1-of-7 from outside. Meanwhile, the wing trio of juniors Nathan Taphorn and Sanjay Lumpkin and sophomore Scottie Lindsey shot a combined 2-for-6 from 3.

Collins said the other shooters on the team need to make shots to take defensive pressure off Demps and sophomore guard Bryant McIntosh.

“We’ve got to find a way to get contributions from other guys,” Collins said. “Those are the guys that need to make shots, take pressure » See BASKETBALL, page 7

Cats clawing for momentum ahead of upcoming stretch Women’s Basketball

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ON POINT Maggie Lyon prepares to pass to the paint. Through 14 games, the senior guard is averaging a career-high 15.4 points per game.

By WILL RAGATZ

the daily northwestern @willragatz

Two very different Northwestern teams have shown up thus far during conference play, and on Thursday the Wildcats will begin to find out who they really are.

The No. 16 Wildcats (12-2, 1-1 Big Ten) looked drastically different in a shocking loss at Penn State than it did in a blowout win against Nebraska.

Now, the Cats enter a four game stretch against some of the best teams in the conference that starts Thursday against Purdue (11-2, 2-0).

The Boilermakers travel to Evanston on a hot streak, having won their first two Big Ten games and six straight overall.

“They’ve gotten great guard play so far, and they’re pretty well-balanced. They can play in transition, play inside-out,” coach Joe McKeown said of Purdue. “It should be a great game, always is when we play them.”

Purdue is an experienced team, led by senior guard April Wilson (14.9 ppg, 6.0 apg) and junior guard Ashley Morrissette (11.9 ppg), each

Purdue vs. No. 16 Northwestern Evanston, Illinois 7 p.m. Thursday

of whom is shooting better than 40 percent from 3.

McKeown said he is especially worried about containing Wilson.

The do-it-all point guard nearly recorded a triple-double in Purdue’s last game, putting up 24 points, 10 rebounds, and seven assists in a win against Illinois.

“Right now she’s scoring from everywhere, she’s getting to the rim, making 3s, playing inside-out, she’s just doing everything for them,” McKeown said. “We have to be aware of where she is all the time.”

Last February, NU traveled to West Lafayette and beat the Boilermakers in overtime. Senior guard Maggie Lyon said she expects Purdue, which returns six of the nine players who appeared in that game, to be extremely motivated to get revenge in Evanston.

Purdue, however, isn’t exactly the same team. Last year, it won only 11 games, while the Boilermakers have matched that total in just 13 games this season.

“Purdue has a much better team this year,” Lyon said. “They’re tough, and they always rebound really well.”

The Cats, meanwhile, have struggled on the glass this season with a rebounding margin of -2.4.

In the loss to Penn State, NU was outrebounded by 19 and gave up 79 points.

Following its loss to Penn State, NU rebounded in more ways than one against Nebraska three days later.

The Cats came out aggressively from the start, opening the game with a 22-4 run and never looking back in cruising to a 23-point victory.

More importantly, NU posted a season-high 57 rebounds, beating Nebraska by 11 in that department.

Now, the competition stiffens.

After Purdue, NU plays three consecutive games against nationallyranked conference opponents. However, junior guard Christen Inman said the team isn’t looking into the future.

“It’s a lot easier for us to compartmentalize each two-game week, so we can focus on each game and take it one at a time,” she said. williamragatz2019@u.northwestern.edu