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Rick Santorum to speak at NUCR event Wednesday Former U.S. Senator and 2012 presidential candidate Rick Santorum will speak at Northwestern on Wednesday at the College Republicans’ fall speaker event, the group announced Friday.

Santorum will talk about national security, College Republicans said in a statement.

The politician represented Pennsylvania in the Senate from 1995 to 2007.

He served two terms in the House of Representatives prior to that.

Santorum ran for the Republican nomination in the 2012 presidential campaign but dropped out of the race.

In a statement, College Republicans said Santorum’s past work on the Senate armed services committee qualifies him to speak about national security.

“NUCR is also happy to continue

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their tradition of presenting the Northwestern University community with diverse and varying opinions which may otherwise be absent from campus dialogue,” the group said in the statement. “They anticipate Sen. Santorum’s discussion of national security to do just that.”

Santorum will speak Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Fisk Hall.

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Evanston named a city official as LGBT liaison, a new position created to help the city better provide for its LGBT community, the city announced Friday.

Mark Muenzer, Evanston’s director of community development, will be the liaison. The city’s announcement of the new position came at the same time that Evanston received the highest possible score in a ranking of city support of LGBT residents.

City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said he learned about the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Municipal Equality Index system about two years ago and asked officials to look into how the city fared in the rating.

After evaluating city services, staff found that the city’s lack of a person

dedicated to serving the LGBT community was holding Evanston back from receiving a score of 100, Bobkiewicz said. With the naming of Muenzer as the point person, the city was able to reach 100 after self-submitting its numbers to the HRC. “I think it shows in a measurable way that we’re very concerned about those issues and we want to be open and transparent in providing assistance to everyone, especially LGBT members,” Bobkiewicz said. “I think this is just one more step in an ongoing, never-ending process to make sure the city of Evanston services are accessible to everyone.”

Muenzer, who joined the city government in August 2013, will now serve as the official contact between city officials and the LGBT community.

He said his added position will put him in charge of “everything LGBTrelated.”

The position will involve partnership

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and cooperation with many different city departments, Muenzer said.

He will deal with providing general guidance, as well as solving problems related to discrimination in housing and employment, he said.

“The goal here is to help gay populations from high school through the elderly,” he said. “We want to talk about the appropriateness of the role with (Evanston Township High School), with Northwestern, and then progressing from there to older adult populations.”

Ald. Mark Tendam (6th), who is gay, lauded Evanston for the support it has for the LGBT community. He called it a “destination” city, with its proximity to Chicago, which is also a strong provider for LGBT residents.

In addition to praising Muenzer for the government experience he brings to position, Tendam also » See LGBT, page 9

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Evanston residents who have raised concern about the redevelopment of Penny Park met for the first time last week to discuss the group’s goals for the future of the park.

The organization, Preserve Penny Park, was formed to bring community members together who were unhappy with the city’s lack of transparency regarding the renovation process of Penny Park, Evanston resident Lauren Barski told The Daily on Friday.

The initial meeting, which took place Nov. 10, was held to distribute information and initiate communication on how to accomplish their final goals and get what they want from city staff, Barski said.

“I wanted the opportunity to provide some background material to those interested, background on why I found the ground, background on my history of my involvement with Penny Park,” she said. “We believe the park belongs to the community as a whole, the entire Evanston community.”

As one of the founders of the group, Barski

said she has been a big supporter of the park, 1500 Lake St., which falls in the 2nd Ward where she resides. She said she has maintained regular contact with city officials through the park’s renovation process, which started with a public meeting in March.

However, Barski said she found herself caught off guard when the city announced that final plans for the redesign will be ready in January 2015.

Preserve Penny Park is now calling on city officials to make residents more involved in the renovations, Barski said.

“The general premise is getting back to basics.

We believe that the city should revise the concept … to stop the demolition of the park,” she said. “We’re asking the city to make the park, the entire park process, 100 percent transparent, from concept development all the way through construction.”

The city made plans to completely transform the park due to the playground’s outdated equipment, which was made more than 20 years ago, Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) told The Daily in March.

The improvements to the park will put it in line with guidelines set by the Americans with Disabilities Act, he said.

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Evanston property burglarized

A car was reported stolen in Evanston on Tuesday afternoon, police said.

A 71-year-old female parked her car on the 700 block of Simpson Street on Monday at 1 p.m., Parrott said.

When she returned to her car around 3 p.m. the next day, the woman discovered it missing, police said.

The vehicle is a 2006 Subaru Forester, Parrott said. No arrests have been made in connection with the incident.

A home in Evanston was burglarized Thursday, police said.

Police responded to an incident in the 1800 block of Hovland Court just before 6 p.m., Evanston police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.

The renters of the property heard a disturbance coming from the garage, police said.

Upon investigation, the renters heard yelling and saw a subject run away, Parrott said.

The door to the garage was kicked in and the doorframe was damaged, Parrott said. Nothing inside the garage was disturbed or taken,

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“It’s one of the most used parks in Evanston,” Braithwaite said in March. “It draws from a very large range of people.”

City Council approved the contractor for the park’s renovation at its Oct. 13 meeting. The firm Leathers & Associates, who initially designed the park, is planning to construct it based on community feedback. Staff met in March with students at Dewey Elementary School and Cherry Preschool to gather their input and ideas for the redesign.

Barski called for the city to host more public meetings open to all members of the Evanston community, saying the city has not had enough before finalizing its design.

Suzette Robinson, the city’s director of public works, said staff have hosted a sufficient number of meetings for community members. The city is hosting another meeting Dec. 11 at Evanston/ Skokie School District 65 headquarters, which will be open to all residents before the design is completed in January 2015, Robinson said.

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Dance groups from Northwestern and the Chicago area performed in the Technological Institute on Saturday night, competing for cash prizes in China Care’s first “NU Think U Can Dance?” charity event.

NU’s chapter of China Care is part of the China Care Foundation, which supports orphaned children in China. The fundraiser was held to benefit the international nonprofit Half the Sky Foundation and China Care’s mentorship program, which brings children adopted from China to NU to participate in activities that help keep them in touch with Chinese culture.

About 100 people attended the event, which raised money for the charity through ticket sales.

All attendees could vote for their favorite dance group during the event and the top two winners, who received cash prizes, were announced at the end.

NU’s Hindi film dance team A-NU-Bhav, who won first place, received $125 for its dance group and the second place winners, a group from Loyola University Chicago called Kapwa Modern, won $75.

“We wanted to do something that brought everyone together as a community and we also wanted to incorporate audience participation,” said

NU study concludes bilingual brains process information more easily

A new study by Northwestern researchers indicates the brains of bilingual speakers process information more efficiently than those of people who only speak one language, the University announced last week.

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DANCING FOR CHANGE A-NU-Bhav performs in China Care’s “NU Think U Can Dance?” charity competition event. The Hindi film dance group won first place in the event, which raised money for Half the Sky Foundation and China Care’s mentorship program.

Illinois at Chicago’s FIA Modern.

“We had never performed at Northwestern before, and we decided why not give it a shot,” said UIC junior Monique Llorens, coordinator of FIA Modern.

A-NU-Bhav co-captain Neha Kumar, a Weinberg junior, said her dance group thought it would be fun to participate in the event.

“All the dance teams dancing here, they’re trying to do their part to raise money for charity,” she said. “We thought that’d be fun to perform and to do good at the same time.”

Weinberg sophomore Alekya Rajanala, who attended the event, said she liked the diversity of dance groups that performed.

“It represented the different cultures of the Northwestern and Chicago community,” she said.

China Care co-president Mike Han said the event was one of the biggest fundraisers the group has held. The Weinberg senior said although he had hoped for higher turnout, he thought the audience enjoyed the event.

Han said he’d like to see China Care make the dance competition an annual event.

“Over time, as people come to the show and word gets out that it was actually good and they liked it, I think more and more people will come,” he said. “I have really high hopes for the future of NU Think U Can Dance.”

Medill sophomore Bethany Ao, China Care’s cofundraising chair.

Ao, a Daily columnist, began organizing the event in the spring, contacting various dance groups at NU and other Chicago-area universities,

asking if they had an interest in participating in the fundraiser. NU’s Afterparty, A-NU-Bhav, Bhangra, Deeva Dance Troupe, Graffiti Dancers and Typhoon Dance Troupe participated, in addition to Loyola’s Kapwa Modern and the University of

author of the study, explained bilingual brains are already constantly exercised choosing words from different languages, so they filter information faster.

The study, published Nov. 12 in the Brain and Language journal, used functional magnetic resonance imaging to test bilingual brains’ activation of different languages and selection of the correct language to use, according to a news release.

Volunteers in the study were given a word and given four pictures, including a picture

representing word and a picture representing similar-sounding but unrelated words. The volunteers had to select the picture representing the original word.

The fMRI scans showed more brain flow in single-language speakers during the task.

“They had to work much harder to perform the task,” Marian said in the news release.

Bilingual brains filtered out pictures of competing words better, according to the release.

release. “Bilinguals are always giving the green light to one language and red to another. When you have to do that all the time, you get really good at inhibiting the words you don’t need.”

In the news release, Marian said speaking an additional language provides “built-in exercise” for the brain, which may explain why bilingualism appears to offer a protective advantage over Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.

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NU should do better when handling Title IX cases LAURA BETH NIELSEN GUEST COLUMNIST

On Thursday, a federal judge dismissed a Northwestern undergraduate’s Title IX lawsuit against the University; the dismissal likely will be appealed. Unless there is a settlement, which is the most common outcome in cases like this, the litigation associated with philosophy Prof. Peter Ludlow will go on for some time. As a sociolegal scholar who studies discrimination and harassment, I get lots of questions about what is happening in these legal proceedings from students, faculty and staff. Like many universities in the U.S. struggling to deal with unclear, contradictory and complex laws about sexual assault and harassment, the ongoing interest in these issues means that it is important for the NU community to understand this important area of law. It impacts everyone on our campus.

Many details of this case remain contested, meaning no judge or jury has made a determinative finding of facts. But court documents indicate there is a report in which NU’s own investigation found by a “totality of the evidence” that Ludlow engaged in “unwelcome and inappropriate sexual advances” toward a female undergraduate target after “heavy consumption of alcohol” purchased

by Ludlow. When such a finding is made, Title IX requires that a university take certain steps to

ensure that the target is able to pursue her (it’s usually a woman, but not always) education.

Along with other punishments (we don’t know for sure what those were), NU issued a “no contact order” meaning Ludlow was told not to contact or retaliate against the target. The target thought that NU should have done more to protect her from Ludlow and sued the University on that basis. The question this dismissal answers is whether the no-contact order was enough to protect the target, according to the law. The district court said yes.

What is enough? And how did the court decide? According to a Supreme Court case decided in 1999 called LaShonda D. v. Monroe, when a university knows that sexual harassment or misconduct has occurred, Title IX requires the university to take steps to protect the target so she can complete her education unfettered. In so doing, the university must not act in a way that is “deliberately indifferent” to the target. The target in this case argued that by failing to fire or ban Ludlow from campus until she graduated NU, the University was deliberately indifferent.

Many believe that the “deliberate indifference” legal standard is too low – including me – but that’s just an opinion. It is the standard unless the Supreme Court changes it or Congress amends Title IX to change it. The standard essentially means a university must do slightly more than nothing to protect targets, such as the no-contact order.

The good news is that “deliberate indifference” is just the bare minimum that the law requires.

NU can choose to do better than the minimum legal requirements. The deliberate indifference standard is a floor below which NU must not fall, but it is not a ceiling. In addition to the excellent care that victims receive at the Center for Awareness, Response, and Education and Counseling and Psychological Services, NU could establish rules and standards that reflect our commitment to caring and compassion. One best practice followed by some schools is to ban a perpetrator from campus until his target has graduated or voluntarily withdrawn. NU does not have to do better than the law requires, but we certainly may.

Similarly, we could adopt a best practice of specifying and publicizing the range of punishments for certain kinds of sexual assault or harassment when found by the sexual harassment investigators. For example, if a professor exchanges grades for sexual favors, the professor could be fired despite tenure, or put on unpaid leave until the student(s) graduate or put on paid leave for one year. One hallmark of a fair system of punishment is that punishments are known.

A confounding issue in these cases is that personnel privacy laws make it difficult for NU to announce disciplinary actions taken against perpetrators of sexual harassment. But targets who have been brave enough to come forward often are unsatisfied not knowing how the case

was resolved. A known set of punishments would protect targets because they would have a sense of how the case was resolved. A known set of punishments would also protect the University from lawsuits motivated by a target’s understandable desire to know the resolution of the case. And finally, a known set of punishments would even protect perpetrators, a concern shared by prominent academics around the country. Consistency is also a hallmark of a fair system of punishment.

A community conversation in which everyone participates and discusses appropriate punishments might help us establish known standards.

To be clear, these discussions would be about the steps the university takes after a finding of sexual harassment or assault had been found by our internal investigatory process. And those steps could be the bare minimum or something better if we choose it.

NU students, faculty and staff are compelled to excellence. We are not satisfied with the bare minimum. When it comes to protecting students who have been targets of sexual harassment or assault, I know we can do better. We are Northwestern; we are better than the bare minimum.

Laura Beth Nielsen is an associate professor of Sociology and Director of Legal Studies, NU, and research professor at the American Bar Foundation. To respond to this guest column, email a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern. com.

Engagement stipend shouldn’t enforce ‘culture of busy’ madeline burg

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Last Friday North By Northwestern published a piece by Aileen McGraw titled “The inequality of busy,” a meditation on the new Student Engagement Stipend program created by Associated Student Government in collaboration with student group leaders and the Center for Student Involvement.

McGraw cheers the stipend, explaining that the “careerist culture” we have here at Northwestern is not only abnormal but it’s prohibitive to many students who can’t afford the money or the time one would need to climb to a leadership position in most student groups. The stipend is just the fist step to level the playing field for students who work multiple jobs but still want to be engaged on campus.

Regarding McGraw’s discussion of how the financial landscape looks for many of us at NU and how it shapes our campus experiences, I completely agree with what she’s saying. It’s real that people

work several jobs to be here at all, and that other people look down on this use of time because it’s not the right kind of busy, which is not good. Not only have we created this culture of cramming each spare minute not spent in class with other obligations, some obligations are “right” and some are “wrong,” and the “right” ones are not available to everyone because of inequalities in economic capital.

So why perpetuate this distortion of the concept of campus engagement at all? I have qualms that are mostly based on feeling inadequately un-busy but this is kind of my point. On leaving high school, I was looking forward to not having to elbow my way through National Honor Society, club lacrosse, symphony orchestra, musical theater and piano lessons — doesn’t that sad string of extracurriculars look ridiculous? I had heard NU had an astoundingly large number of student groups and I was excited at the prospect of having options, but it wasn’t long after I arrived as a freshman already exhausted from my previous resume fillers that I realized that these “options” were just a fresh batch of guilt-inducing stressors that I’d have to take on in addition to my schoolwork and work study job if I wanted to be “Northwestern busy.”

I think I’m in the minority in really and truly

not wanting to be that busy. Taking a full course load, doing a work study job in the English department office and writing for The Daily, with a few stints working in a limited capacity on a handful of student theater productions, is enough for me. And if your obligations far exceed my own bare bones list, and if you like that about your life, then that’s cool too. The point is that both of these should be okay, and I feel that our campus engagement culture doesn’t quite allow for that.

Engagement is a great thing. It can help you find your passions, it can help you prepare socially and practically for your life after college and it can help others. But so often people are piling on extracurriculars in the name of our careerist culture and not in the name of actual desire to do that extracurricular. Not only is our campus engagement too rooted in financial security, but our view of what being “busy” on campus means is skewed. It’s not in our best interest to perpetuate this view, and commending the initiation of the Student Engagement Stipend for making it possible for more students to engage in our “culture of busy” is slightly detrimental.

I don’t dislike the idea of the stipend. I think a lot of people deserve to be compensated for the time they spend on non-academic activities – a

roommate of mine devotes so much time to the Waa-Mu Show that in the coming months she should probably just set up a cot in the basement of Cahn Auditorium. Activities like this enhance a student’s time at college by providing a non-academic arena to get practical experience in their chosen field and to do the thing that they love. That is what I think the stipend should be for, and I just hope that the vetting procedures for the stipend applications are thorough and discerning.

But if you look at it in a maybe overly basic way, now there’s an incentive for perpetuating our “abnormal” culture of busy. No one should feel actively excluded from campus culture, whether it’s because they can’t afford it or because they just don’t always want to be a part of it. Maybe we can’t overthrow our busyness entirely, but in the meantime, don’t look down on people who can’t or don’t want to be as engaged as you are. Stop the cycle. Go about your respective businesses. I’ll be watching “Friends.”

Madeline Burg is a Weinberg senior. She can be reached at madelineburg2015@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

Suicide deserves compassion, more understanding Rhytha Zahid Hejaze Daily columnist

The closest I’ve ever come to suicide is seeing it in movies and television shows, reading about it and considering it.

“I was swimming. I was fighting. And then I thought, just for a second, I thought ‘What’s the point?’ And I let go. I stopped fighting,” said Meredith Grey, the protagonist in “Grey’s Anatomy.”

Grey, trying to help an injured person when a ferry crashed at Elliott Bay in Washington state, tripped and fell into the water. She pushed herself up from under the water, gasping for air, but submerged again. She struggled to stay afloat, feet kicking the water. But then she stopped kicking. She stopped fighting for her life. She let herself drown.

It makes sense to me that she let herself drown.

Intentional drowning makes sense to me.

What doesn’t make sense to me, however, is when people tell me, “Humans always have a choice.

Self harm and suicide are also choices,” and “Suicide is a cowardly and selfish way out.”

Such comments don’t only sadden me, they shock me. I keep asking myself, “How can someone say something as cruel as that?” It doesn’t make sense to me that we hurt so much and yet become so ignorant toward other people’s pain. Why is it so hard to understand suffering? Why don’t our hearts crack open when someone’s hurting?

Someone who chose suicide was clearly miserable. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention found that around 90 percent of people who died from suicide suffered from mental disorders at their time of death, with the most common being depression.

Many countries have laws against suicide, but what can these laws actually prevent? Suicide attempts for the sake of attracting attention? We throw phrases like “attention whore” around all the time. Instead of punishing, why can’t we step away from our judgments for a while and provide loving help that has the power to heal?

In ancient Greece, people who died by suicide were denied proper burial – their bodies cremated outside their towns or thrown into the sea. What good did that do apart from insulting the deceased?

Did it deter people from suicide? What good does imprisonment after an attempted suicide in India, for instance, do to a person who’s clearly already disturbed?

How sad for us to live in a world devoid of compassion. How sad for us to live in a world where people have to be coerced to live.

Religion plays a great role in people’s perception of suicide. When it comes to suicide, all the verses from holy scriptures about a god’s love and compassion are forgotten and he or she is seen as a relentless dictator waiting to throw people in hell. I want you to forget about the verses of your holy books that condemn suicide. For a moment, I want you to just focus on the endless verses that tell you how

compassionate, loving and forgiving your god is.

The Quran says, “Your Lord is certainly Compassionate and All-Merciful.” The Book of Psalms says, “The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love.” The Hindu scriptures, the Vedas, describe the deity Shiva as “the Auspicious One.” The Book of Deuteronomy says, “For the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will neither abandon you nor destroy you.”

Are all suicides the same? I don’t think so. People suffer from the kinds of pain we can’t even imagine.

How can we then be arrogant enough to say their suicides were cowardly acts?

A suicide is just one piece of a puzzle we don’t understand. There’s so much more that leads up to it. We don’t know enough to pass judgments and we probably never will.

I’m not telling you to go shoot yourself. I’m not telling you to stop kicking in the water. I’m telling you that if you did, I’d get it. I’d get that tiny piece of the puzzle that is your life. I would not tell you “I forgive you” because in suicide, there’s nothing to forgive.

God or no god, have kindness. Have compassion.

Mitigate suffering in this world. There’s too much pain in this world already to make it any worse.

Rhytha Zahid Hejaze is a sophomore studying journalism at NU-Qatar. She can be reached at ridahejaze2017@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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NU volunteers in first envrionmental service day By peter kotecki

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About 60 Northwestern students volunteered Saturday morning in Evanston and Winnetka for Associated Student Governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inaugural Environmental Day of Service.

The event was organized by ASGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sustainability committee, in collaboration with other NU groups, including Students for Ecological and Environmental Development and Eco-Reps. ASG also reached out to fraternities, sororities and residential colleges on campus, said Medill sophomore Christina Cilento, ASG vice president for sustainability.

Evanston named a top city in digital communication A national research and advisory institute named Evanston one of the top cities nationwide for its technological practices in communicating with residents.

In its 2014 Digital Cities Survey, the

City residents graduate from program on fire services

A group of Evanston residents graduated Thursday from a city program that teaches participants about firefighting.

The Evanston Citizen Fire Academy, hosted by the Evanston fire department, held a formal graduation ceremony Thursday night at the Civic Center. The program was designed to provide community members with firsthand knowledge of what firefighters do on a daily basis, according to the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s site.

The 10-week program had 17 participants who went to weekly classes and discussions,

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Volunteering at the Environmental Day of Service was one way for residential colleges and Greek houses to gain points for the sustainability competition Green Cup, which ended Sunday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This event is an easy way to show people that we can help the environment without doing something extreme,â&#x20AC;? Cilento said.

Students could participate in a variety of activities, including cleaning up litter on campus, going to the Evanston Ecology Center and applying mulch on the lakefront. Volunteers also went to a prairie site in Winnetka, the Evanston Rebuilding Warehouse or traveled to Endless Greens or The Talking Farm, two local organic farms.

Weinberg freshman Jessica Marquez volunteered at the Winnetka prairie site, where she helped

remove This event is an invasive species. easy way to show people Volunteers at that we can help ... without the prai- doing something extreme. rie locaChristina Cilento, tion cut ASG vice president for bucksustainablity wheat and burned it in a bonfire, Marquez said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This event was held in order to spread environmental awareness and actually help the environment rather than just speak about it,â&#x20AC;? Marquez said.

Weinberg freshman Stephanie Marin volunteered

at the Evanston Ecology Center. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The event provides students with an outlet to give back to the community,â&#x20AC;? Marin said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and it is pertinent to the Green Cup going on right now.â&#x20AC;?

Marin said her group of volunteers helped clean up a trail after the Zombie Scramble which occurred earlier this month. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not strenuous,â&#x20AC;? Marin said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and you get to bond and meet new people while giving back to the environment.â&#x20AC;?

The sustainability committee received funding for this event from the Northwestern Sustainability Fund. ASG hopes to make the Environmental Day of Service an annual event, Cilento said.

e.Republicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center for Digital Government ranked Evanston as tied for sixth among cities with populations of up to 75,000 people. The questions from the annual survey, which is in its 14th year, focused on citizen engagement, policy, operations, and technology and data. It also helped to gauge which initiatives cities were most proud of relating to those areas, according to a news release from the city. The survey was open to all U.S. cities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For Evanston, Ill., officials, promoting the highest quality of life for all residents is a top

priority, and they do this by providing fiscally sound, responsive municipal services â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and being transparent about these services,â&#x20AC;? the center wrote in its analysis of Evanston.

The center also wrote that Evanston communicates as much data as possible through its website, which improves its operationsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; effectiveness and efficiency, according to the news release.

The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;bring your own deviceâ&#x20AC;? program for city staff was another initiative acknowledged by the center. The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Information

Technology Division is currently executing the program, which is predicted to increase overall employee satisfaction and productivity and reduce costs, according to the news release.

In July, Evanston was also recognized as a Tech Savvy City by the Public Technology Institute, a nonprofit that consults with different cities and counties to improve their technology.

Earlier in 2014, PTI also gave Evanston three other awards related to technology.

starting on Sept. 11.

Program staff taught lessons about various fire services including operating fire trucks and handling special situations, sometimes involving water rescues or technical rescues.

The ceremony featured a speech from keynote speaker Robert Hoff, a deputy chief at the Carol Stream Fire Protection District in Carol Stream, Illinois.

Hoff served as the commissioner at the Chicago Fire Department until he announced his resignation in February 2012.

The Evanston Police and Fire Foundation held its third annual luncheon on Friday to benefit various police and fire programs, including the fire academy. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Paige Leskin

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FIREFIGHTING 101 Participants in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first Citizen Fire Academy pose for a picture Thursday night after graduating. Through the 10-week program, 17 Evanston residents had the opportunity to learn about and experience the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fire services firsthand.

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3 takeaways from Cats’ dramatic win in South Bend

By Joseph Diebold

daily senior staffer @JosephDiebold

1. It’s OK to overreact a little…

I mean, what a game. Not only was Northwestern good again, Northwestern was fun again. Even the Wildcats’ more competitive losses this season were marked by a dull monotony: a cavalcade of drops, missed throws and sacks left the offense sputtering and the defense fought valiantly but couldn’t keep the dam from breaking forever. The Cats were bad in a way that left little in the way of hope that they could even keep it close against a team like Notre Dame.

And then, Saturday happened.

After losing in just about every way possible over a miserable 3-13 stretch against Football Bowl Subdivision teams, NU finally ended up on the right side of the craziness. After not scoring 30 points all year, the Wildcats hung 43 on the Fighting Irish. After failing to break 400 yards in a game, NU put up 547. The defense gave up yards and points early and late, but kept the Cats in the game with four forced turnovers.

One of those aggravating third-and-long draw plays resulted in the team’s longest run of the season. Game management and special teams miscues, thorns in NU’s side all season, cost the Fighting Irish, not the Cats. The breaks finally broke the other way.

And maybe a game they shouldn’t have won but

Photos by Nathan Richards and Luke Vogelzang/The Daily Northwestern

NU tops Notre Dame on game-winning field goal By alex putterman

daily senior staffer @AlexPutt02

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Once the kick left his foot, Jack Mitchell had no doubt.

“I looked up and I knew it was in right away,” the sophomore kicker said after the game, “so I started running away.”

Mitchell’s 41-yard field goal in overtime gave Northwestern (4-6) a shocking, seasonredeeming 43-40 victory Saturday over No. 18 Notre Dame (7-3) in South Bend, Indiana.

The win snapped a four-game Wildcats losing streak and renewed the team’s hopes of reaching a bowl game. More than that, it provided a struggling program a shot of excitement and accomplishment.

“This is a great team win,” said senior receiver Kyle Prater, who caught 10 passes including a touchdown on the evening. “Nobody gave us a shot, but we kept saying we were going to shock the world, and we did that.”

Maligned senior quarterback Trevor Siemian orchestrated several key drives in the fourth quarter and finished 30-of-48 with 284 yards passing in what he called the craziest game of his life.

The win required heroics from a cast of NU players, including Siemian, but no one came

through more than the Cats’ kicker.

Minutes before his game-winning field goal, Mitchell had sent the game to overtime with a 40-yard kick with 19 seconds left in regulation.

That score resulted from a series of Notre Dame blunders, beginning when coach Brian Kelly opted to go for two up 40-29 early in the fourth. Everett Golson’s pass was batted down in the back of the end zone, giving NU the ball down only a touchdown, two-point conversion and field goal.

The Cats drove 73 yards in nine plays to score a touchdown, then scored on their own two-point conversion only after a Notre Dame penalty gave them a second chance.

On the ensuing drive, the Fighting Irish picked up a first down on a pass interference penalty, appearing to seal the game. But running back Cam McDaniel fumbled, returning the ball to the Cats with just enough time to advance to field-goal range.

Mitchell did the rest.

As the sophomore prepared for the tying kick at the end of regulation, Notre Dame called timeout in an attempt to ice him. NU snapped the ball anyway, and Mitchell pushed the practice kick wide left.

During the break, the kicker stood alone on the sideline, thinking, he said, of “nothing.”

“Just stay as calm as possible,” he said of his

approach. “Stay away from everyone.”

In overtime, NU stopped Notre Dame on three straight plays, forcing the Fighting Irish into a long field-goal attempt. After that kick missed, the Cats ran three times to set up Mitchell’s game-winner.

NU trailed through most of the evening but always stayed within striking distance.

The Cats were behind 27-23 at halftime after a wacky first 30 minutes that included several ghastly NU drops, a blocked extra point returned for 2 points and three turnovers between the two teams.

The Cats kicked two field goals in the third quarter, but the Fighting Irish scored touchdowns in both the third and fourth, setting the stage for NU’s 11-point comeback.

The victory evoked the last time NU and Notre Dame met, in 1995, when the Wildcats upset the heavily favored Fighting Irish to open their season.

Back then, NU coach Pat Fitzgerald wore number 51 and played linebacker.

“It’s much more enjoyable today,” Fitzgerald said Saturday. “Our backs are against the wall.

This is a playoff win.”

The Cats outgained the Fighting Irish 547498 overall thanks to Siemian’s timely passing and a prolific running game that produced 263 yards.

Freshman Justin Jackson carried 23 times

for 149 yards and a touchdown, and senior Treyvon Green added 67 yards on 10 carries.

Even Siemian got in on the ground game, gaining 32 yards with his legs. Redshirt freshman Matt Alviti scored a first-quarter touchdown from 2 yards out on an quarterback keeper.

NU’s success in the run game was Nobody largely attributgave us a shot, but able to the team’s offensive line, we kept saying which opened up we were going to holes for its runshock the world, ning backs and also protected and we did that. the quarterback better than it has Kyle Prater, in weeks. senior receiver All those performances proved prelude to the triumphant overtime kick.

When it fell through the uprights, teammates swarmed Mitchell, then broke off to exchange hugs and celebrate with the NU fans in the opposite end zone.

Prater said the experience felt like slow motion.

“It’s amazing,” he said. “It’s one of those moments you dream of.”

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did was just what this team needed, what this program needed. It’s easy to get demoralized after losing on a Hail Mary, on a sliding field goal as time expires, on a game-winning kickoff return, on a failed twopoint conversion. The Cats never quit, not when they went down 11, not when Jack Mitchell had a 42-yard attempt blocked, not when a shaky pass interference call against Jimmy Hall looked to have sealed the win for Notre Dame. Finally, finally, NU got the breaks.

Long-term, that might mean more than just adding a win in the standings, than making a bowl game. And for seniors like Ibraheim Campbell and Kyle Prater, who overcame injuries to play key roles yesterday, and Trevor Siemian and Treyvon Green, who have been maligned for their performance but stepped up when it matters, it offered a modicum of redemption.

2. …but not too much Still, the joyful aftermath of Saturday’s upset for NU should not fully take away from one thing: The Cats had no business winning that game. There are two big-picture conclusions from every football game: process and result. Iowa was a process loss and a result loss. Nebraska last year was a process win and a result loss. Penn State was a process win and a result win.

What NU had been lacking — and what it finally got — was a process loss but a result win.

That’s a credit to coach Pat Fitzgerald and his team for making the plays they needed to make. But it doesn’t change the fact that if Notre Dame just kicks

an extra point to go up 41-29, if the Fighting Irish don’t fumble the ball away twice inside the 5-yard line and again while running out the clock, if Cameron Dickerson’s fumble on the final drive doesn’t somehow trickle its way out of bounds, we’re talking about “what could have been” today instead of a thrilling NU victory. Enjoy the win, celebrate it, remember it, but don’t treat it as an eraser for all the problems of the first nine games.

At the same time, the process that kept the Cats close with a talented Fighting Irish team all day is one that the Cats can build on. The offense has much more to prove: Games against mediocre-to-bad Purdue and Illinois defenses, and a potential bowl game, will tell us much more about whether NU has turned a corner than the offense finally looking competent and even explosive at times after nine games of struggles. The defensive performance against an explosive Notre Dame offense was excusable but could have been better, most notably on Everett Golson’s 61-yard touchdown run to start the game.

After the ups and downs of this season, it is impossible to take anything for granted with this team. We need to see more before we can definitively say things have turned around.

3. Taking stock of the season There will be plenty of time in the coming days and weeks to evaluate what we’ve seen from NU this season, but Saturday’s win puts things in a new light.

Let’s assume, as a hypothetical, the Cats beat Purdue and Illinois. Before the season, plenty of fans — particularly older ones who have fond memories of 1995 and remember the days when the Fighting Irish were a regional, and national, power — would have been happy with a 6-6 record if it included a win over Notre Dame, but many would have also considered that a disappointment given where the Cats were two seasons ago. The offense has struggled, with many calling for a change at offensive coordinator, but NU has punched above its weight as well, most notably holding Wisconsin — which just hung 59 on Nebraska — to 14 points, its lowest total of the season, at Ryan Field.

That’s why these last two games of the season are so important. Every positive so far for the Cats this year has come with a “but” attached to it. They beat two top-20 teams, but they lost to Cal and Northern Illinois. They competed in almost every game, but they didn’t come close to winning a down Big Ten West. The defense took a step forward, but the offense took a step back.

A three-game winning streak to end the year, games in which the Cats could show they are on par with a still-solid Notre Dame program and a step above the bottom-feeders of the Big Ten, would be a massive step forward given the woes of the past two seasons, a positive for NU to take into 2015 without a “but” attached. josephdiebold2015@u.northwestern.edu

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National News Islamic State shows another beheading video, but this one is different WASHINGTON — Until Sunday, Islamic State hostage execution videos followed a macabre formula: the condemned appears in an orange jumpsuit, reads a scripted message next to a British-accented militant and then appears lifeless and decapitated in a final scene.

But the video announcement of the death of Peter Kassig, a 26-year-old former Army Ranger who was kidnapped in Syria in 2013, was different.

This time, there was no scripted statement from the hostage and no images of him kneeling before his executioner. Instead, Kassig’s death is referenced only at the end of a 16-minute video devoted primarily to grisly footage of the beheadings of a dozen or so Syrian soldiers, whose decapitations, and the individuals who performed them, are shown in shocking detail.

After those scenes, a black-masked militant, apparently the same British executioner seen in other hostage execution videos, is shown brandishing a knife before the camera zeroes in on a blood-streaked severed head between his feet. The fighter said the head was Kassig’s.

Kassig’s body was not shown.

“Peter, who fought against the Muslims in Iraq while serving as a soldier under the American Army doesn’t have much to say. His previous cellmates have already spoken on his behalf,” the militant said. “But we say to you, Obama: you claim to have withdrawn from Iraq four years ago. We said to you then that you are liars.”

Friends of Kassig’s believe that the former Army Ranger, who’d been deployed to Iraq and who would’ve received training on hostage scenarios, refused to cooperate with the typical scripted video, knowing that his fate was sealed either way.

Mitchell Prothero, McClatchy’s Iraq correspondent who shared his Beirut apartment off and on with Kassig for eight months, said his belief that Kassig balked at participating in a more dramatic video was “the smallest solace in the world” as he mourned a friend he described as a tough Ranger who had reinvented himself as a tireless, committed humanitarian worker.

“Clearly something went wrong. Pete was a

high-value prize for them. That’s why he went last — he was an American soldier, he’d been a humanitarian worker, and they were saving him for the last,” Prothero said by phone from Irbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdish region. “My belief is that he knew it was up and did something to screw up their video.”

“There’s no way they planned for 14 minutes of them killing Syrian guys and then 30 seconds at the end of them killing Pete,” Prothero said.

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry issued statements of condolences to Kassig’s parents, Ed and Paula, who earlier said they were aware of the reports of the death of “our treasured son.”

“Today we offer our prayers and condolences to the parents and family of Abdul-Rahman Kassig, also known to us as Peter,” Obama said in a statement. “We cannot begin to imagine their anguish at this painful time.”

Kerry, too, referred to Kassig as Abdul-Rahman, the name he was said to have taken after converting to Islam. “This was a young man who traveled to one of the world’s most dangerous places to care for the innocent victims of a bloody conflict, and fearlessly dedicated himself to helping those in need,” Kerry said. “There can be no greater contrast than that between AbdulRahman’s generosity of spirit and the pernicious evil of ISIL.” ISIL is the U.S. government’s preferred acronym for the Islamic State.

After serving as a Ranger, Kassig trained as an emergency medical technician and founded a nonprofit group, Special Emergency Response and Assistance, to provide aid to displaced Syrians on both sides of the border. He was headed to eastern Syria to deliver supplies he purchased with American donations when he was captured in October 2013.

“He’d live for days in the hospital, pulling long shifts strictly as a volunteer and was even jokingly nicknamed Abu Homsi by his colleagues and patients because they just couldn’t believe this former American soldier was working for free simply to help people,” Prothero wrote in a tribute to Kassig.

In their pleas for his release, Kassig’s family stressed his humanitarian work and his conversion to Islam in Islamic State custody; his parents referred to him as Abdul-Rahman, the Muslim name he adopted.

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Chicago man sentenced for aggravated criminal sexual abuse A Cook County judge sentenced a Chicago man Wednesday to seven years for aggravated criminal sexual abuse that occurred in Evanston, police said.

Dwight Moore, 22, pleaded guilty to the charges Wednesday at the Cook County Circuit Court in Skokie, Evanston police announced Friday.

Police charged Moore in September with aggravated criminal sexual abuse for having sexual relations with a family member who

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From page 1 named other aspects of Evanston that have shown it supports LGBT residents, including Evanston police.

The Evanston Police Department appointed its own LGBT liaison in I think it shows December 2013. in a measurable Sgt. Melissa Sacluti, EPD’s liaison, told way that we’re The Daily in Januvery concerned ary she wanted to ensure the LGBT about those community was issues and we given a voice and want to be open that EPD could meet any needs that could and transparent come up.

“If there are any in providing issues that come up, assistance to if people need help everyone. or need resources Wally Bobkiewicz, and they aren’t comfortable going cercity manager tain places, they can use me as a resource and I’ll find them the resources that they need,” Sacluti said in January. “To me, it’s important that people are heard and if it means that somebody is marked as a permanent liaison,

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was a minor, authorities said.

Officers discovered in July, while Moore was on probation, that he had made contact with the minor. Police said the relations had been occurring in Evanston over several years.

Moore was already registered as a sex offender and on probation for a previous crime at the time in July when he had connected with the minor, police said.

Evanston detectives had previously charged Moore in November 2013 for aggravated criminal sexual abuse for having relations with another family member who was a minor, authorities said.

Moore was sentenced Wednesday to serve seven years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.

— Paige Leskin

that’s important for the people that feel like they’re not being heard.”

The appointment of an LGBT police liaison is one of the many things the city can gain points for on the HRC’s MEI scorecard. For 2014, the HRC evaluated 353 cities nationwide, including seven in Illinois. Evanston was one of four cities to go through the selfsubmission process and receive a ranking.

Although Evanston did not go through the same assessment as other cities, the city’s data and score is just as accurate as any of the cities evaluated by the HRC, said Cathryn Oakley, who is responsible for publishing the MEI. “Instead of us going and finding the data ourselves, we’re asking those cities to give us all of the data, so essentially to do the research for us,” Oakley said. “They’re just giving us the data so we don’t have to go and find it.”

Evanston’s score benefits from Illinois’ statewide policies on marriage equality and nondiscrimination laws. Individually, Evanston was ranked especially well in its inclusive services for city programming and law enforcement, Oakley said.

Muenzer said his liaison position is still relatively new and is logistically still being worked out. He said he plans to reach out to LGBT liaisons in other communities and see what practices have successfully worked for them. pl@u.northwestern.edu

Across Campuses Average increase in college costs decline, report shows Families remain justifiably concerned about paying for college, but there may be cause for some relief, according to a new national report.

Though college tuition and fee prices still outpaced the rate of inflation in the past year, the average increases were lower than those posted in the past five years, the past 10 years and the past 30 years, according to the report published Thursday by the College Board.

And education borrowing is down 8 percent in one year, while borrowing per student is down by 6 percent — a decrease one of the report’s co-authors said was “really notable.”

In its “Trends in College Pricing 2014” report, the College Board, a not-for-profit organization that aims to expand access to higher education, said the average price for in-state students at four-year public schools increased 2.9 percent from 2013-14 to 2014-15.

The increase was slightly higher — 3.3 percent — for out-of-state students at four-year public schools as well as for in-district students at two-year public colleges. In-state students at four-year private colleges saw an increase of 3.7 percent, on average.

The report may indicate a move away from the ballooning cost of higher education.

“When we think about the whole picture, we see some trends that were frightening in recent years that seem to be quieting down,” said Sandy Baum, the report’s co-author and an education policy professor at George Washington University and senior fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington.

Still, Baum said, “we should take that news with some caution.”

That’s because students enrolling in public four-year schools this year will pay a sticker price more than three times higher than what students paid in 1984-85, according to the report. For students at two-year public schools and four-year private schools, the price is roughly 2.5 times larger.

“Those are big increases over time. We still need to be concerned,” Baum said.

Mitch Dickey, 21, student body president at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, said rising tuition costs create

significant worry for prospective students.

“It’s absolutely a problem,” said Dickey, a junior. “Students in high schools are looking at colleges ... and they’re saying, ‘Where can I go and not have to break the bank?’ “ Added Dan Mann, director of student financial aid at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign: “Cost is a barrier for students, not just at our university but across the country.”

Students and families may take solace in knowing that most students do not pay full price for their schooling, the report said, as federal grant aid, tax credits and deductions help cover the cost.

The report found that undergraduates received an average of $14,180 in financial aid in 2013-14 including grants, federal loans and tax credits and deductions. And 9.2 million students received Pell grants — federal grants that provide financial aid to low- and moderate-income students — in 2013-14.

This may be one reason for the dip in student borrowing, the report said.

Baum said the three-year decline was “really notable.” Total education borrowing fell by 13 percent between 2010-11 and 2013-14, according to the report. And borrowing per student decreased 9 percent over the same time.

She said the reasons for the decline in borrowing aren’t clear. It could be that older students, who tend to borrow more, are returning to the workforce.

“It is also possible that people are sobered by the discussion of student debt and are choosing to borrow less,” Baum said.

Of those who graduated with bachelor’s degrees from public and private nonprofit institutions in 2012-13, 60 percent said they graduated with debt. On average, graduates had borrowed $27,300, according to the College Board report.

Mann said students enrolled at higher levels in the past academic year, but borrowing decreased $8 million among undergraduates. He said the numbers likely indicate that students are finding other ways to afford an education.

“I think there’s a good amount of news about debt that students are hearing, and as a result (they are) being more thoughtful, not borrowing unless they really need it,” Mann said.

— Dana Ferguson (Chicago Tribune)

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The woes continued for the Wildcats (15-12, 5-11 Big Ten) on the road as they fell to No. 16 Purdue (21-7, 11-5) in straight sets in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Northwestern came into the game with a 1-7 record in Big Ten road games and was unable to buck the trend. The Cats have now lost 10 of their last 12 games after starting the season 13-2.

“As an entire team we just didn’t really execute at a high level.” coach Keylor Chan said. “That responsibility falls on me and our staff and all the way down. We all need to be better.”

In the first set, NU was down 22-17 but scored four straight points to tighten the gap, before losing the set 25-21.

The second and third saw Purdue take commanding leads early, 10-4 and 11-3 respectively.

The Boilermakers would win both sets 25-17 to claim the 3-0 victory.

The Cats never led during the game and totaled only four blocks and 31 digs in the contest. In the previous matchup with Purdue, a loss in five sets, NU had 14 blocks accompanied by 86 digs.

“We weren’t mentally strong and our fundamentals weren’t really there,” senior Katie Dutchman said. “When you don’t have confidence in fundamentals, it’s a lot harder to have confidence in general.”

Chan said he sees this game as a teaching tool for the team going into its final four games.

With the Cats still hoping to make the NCAA tournament, and their next three games at home, Chan plans on using the preparation time to address the poor execution that he says stuck out to him.

“When you know what you have to do, you need to get it done,” he said. “I think that’s what we have to learn as a group. We have to play when it matters most. We need to learn to rise to that challenge.”

The challenge of winning on the road is one that plagued the team all season, and the atmosphere of Purdue’s gym did not help the Cats get over their troubles away from home.

“We have to take the energy from the gym,” Dutchman said. “It doesn’t matter where we are, and it doesn’t matter if the energy is for the other team. We have to use it for ourselves and pretend that that noise is for us so we don’t get flustered by it.”

Freshman Taylor Tashima also recognized Purdue’s home court advantage as an aspect of the game that stood out, but felt that the uneven play of the Cats played a large role.

“Purdue came out very competitive and we didn’t respond to that,” Tashima said. “It was up and down the whole match. We were very close to them at some points, but it was the consistency that Purdue had that put them over the top.”

With everything still right in front of them despite the current skid, the Cats will once again look to pull positives away from this defeat and remember the feelings that accompany losing.

“We know that the effort is always there,” Dutchman said. “We are aware that it has never been a lack of effort. … The part that is going to make us fight even more is that we are tired of the last three matches. We are tired of losing. We are tired of losing the way that we have been losing, which is total effort but a lack of mental strength.” khadricerollins2017@u.northwestern.edu

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THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN | NEWS 11

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2014

NU grinds out win in opener Cats overcome slow first half, defeat Houston Baptist behind 21 points, 10 rebounds from Olah Northwestern

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By HUZAIFA PATEL

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It was a grind, but Northwestern got the job done in its season opener Friday, edging out the Houston Baptist Huskies 65-58.

Junior center Alex Olah led all scorers with 21 points, as the Cats rallied behind him to pull away from the Huskies in the second half.

NU got off to a slow start, missing 10 of its first 11 shots.

By that point, the Huskies used their hot shooting to go up by as many as 10 points.

The Cats clawed back slowly, however, eventually tying the game at 25 with 3:16 left in the half. They did so mainly on the backs of freshmen Vic Law and Bryant McIntosh, who combined for 16 of the 28 points the Cats scored in the first half.

On the other hand, Olah and senior guard JerShon Cobb struggled to get in a rhythm early, shooting a combined 1-9 in the first half.

“I thought his physicality bothered Alex early,” coach Chris Collins said. “To Alex’s credit, he really responded in the second half.”

Olah agreed.

“I knew I started soft in the first half,” Olah said. “I let my team down in the first half. It was up to me to pick it up and play better in the second half.”

Cobb finally got on the board early in the half when an off-ball cut and pass from Law led to an open layup. He continued to struggle in the second half, however, finishing with just 5 points

on 2-8 shooting.

“I think he missed some shots early he normally makes,” Collins said. “The kid hadn’t played a game since last February. There’s a little bit of rust. The more he plays, the better he’ll get.”

It was also a rough day for junior guard Tre Demps, who finished with 1 point on seven shots.

“When I look at the stat sheet at the end of the game, it kind of makes me smile,” Collins said.

“Two of our best guys, Tre and JerShon were 2-15. I know they’re going to shoot the ball a lot better than that. If those two guys went 2-15 last year, we would’ve scored about 30 points.”

The game went into halftime with the Huskies leading 31-28.

The score teetered back and forth between the two teams to start the second half.

NU finally took its first secondhalf lead with just over 16:19 left in the contest on a pair of Olah free throws, but the Huskies continued to battle for the better part of the second half. Senior center Ricmonds Vilde held his own versus Olah, scoring 13 points and grabbing 10 rebounds.

The Cats started to pull away around the seven minute mark.

After a Huskies bucket cut the Cats’ lead to just two, the Cats went on a 9-2 run to go up 60-51, what would prove to be their largest lead of the game.

The offense was more balanced in the second half, as Olah began to assert himself. A combination of individual moves, outside shooting and second chance points pushed Olah to a doubledouble on the night.

“It makes my job a lot easier,” McIntosh said regarding Olah’s strong play. “I think he did a lot better job in the second half.”

It was a solid debut overall for the starting freshmen. While the upperclassmen struggled early, McIntosh and Law carried the team in the first half.

Veterans, not just freshmen, important for NU in victory

By JESSE KRAMER

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seven guys playing double-digit minutes.

“We play six games in 12 days,” Collins said. “We need our bench guys ready to go. It’s a big stretch for us and we need everybody healthy and ready to contribute.”

It is not a secret that Northwestern’s freshmen are more talented than its returning players. That was evident Friday in the Wildcats’ season opener against Houston Baptist.

But coach Chris Collins said he thinks the veterans will be the key to NU’s success this season, and he believes the second half of the 65-58 win showed why.

“Opening night, you get some jitters,” Collins said. “You have a tendency to get really tight. For our veterans to rally the troops, it was a good win.”

Despite impressive performances from freshmen Bryant McIntosh and Vic Law, NU trailed the Huskies with 15 minutes remaining.

Then, junior center Alex Olah put a rough first half behind him with a fourth-chance layup to give the Cats a lead. Sophomore forward Sanjay Lumpkin followed that with a bucket. Then senior guard JerShon Cobb drilled an open 3-pointer.

Veterans’ names continued to pop up during the final 10 minutes as the Cats extended their lead, all the way through a free throw by junior guard Tre Demps with 15 seconds to go.

When the final buzzer sounded, returning players had scored 20 of the team’s final 24 points. Law scored the other four, and two of them came on an Olah assist.

“Their leadership is a key for this team,” McIntosh said. “We’re very young, and that’s what we need from them.”

Olah finished as the game’s leading scorer and NU’s leading rebounder with 21 points and 10 boards. He struggled in the first half and was visibly frustrated. In the first period he was held to 3 points on 1-for-5 shooting.

NU’s non-freshmen struggled as a whole early on, scoring just 8 points on 3-for-16 shooting.

Olah said the Cats’ success will depend on the players who have already been tested at the Division I level.

“Us as the veterans, we have to show the way,” Olah said.

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FOLLOW THE LAW Freshman forward Vic Law throws down a onehanded dunk during the first half of Northwestern’s 65-58 win over Houston Baptist on Friday. Law helped carry the Wildcats in the first half and finished with 13 points.

“We’re not just a one or two player team,” Olah said. “Everybody can contribute. There are nights when players are going to play bad and others will step up.

Maybe the next game at Brown, Tre is going to have 30 and JerShon is going to have 20.”

Collins shuffled the lineup throughout the game, with

Cats open season 2-0 with pair of weekend blowouts Northwestern

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Northwestern (2-0) opened the season with backto-back comfortable wins on the road Friday against Chicago State (0-1), 102-48, and in their home opener Sunday over Hampton University (0-1), 62-36.

The Cats won in resounding fashion against Chicago State on Friday, delivering a complete effort on both sides of the ball. NU shot a blistering 63.3 percent from the field and 56.5 percent from three on offense, while harassing Chicago State into 39 turnovers defensively that led to 61 NU points.

The Cats shared the ball well, assisting on 27 of their 38 baskets, and won the rebounding battle 31-17 behind a career-high 11 rebounds from senior center Alex Cohen.

Junior guard Maggie Lyon and Cohen led the Cats with 18 points apiece. Sophomore forward and Preseason All-Big Ten Team selection Nia Coffey added 17 of her own, while fellow sophomore and

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BRAVE AS A LYON Junior guard Maggie Lyon battles a Hampton defender in the post Sunday.

Lyon scored 14 points against the Lady Pirates and 18 on Friday against Chicago State.

point guard Ashley Deary scored 10 points and tied a school record with 11 steals on the night.

Friday was the first time the Cats scored more than 100 points in a game since 1996, and was the largest margin of victory for the team in its seven years under head coach Joe McKeown.

The offense was not as locked-in during Sunday’s win over Hampton and struggled at times against the full-court pressure of the Lady Pirates, but a stifling

defensive effort gave NU plenty of margin for error on the other end.

The Cats shot just 42.6 percent and 30.8 percent from three against the Lady Pirates, but held their opponent to 14.1 percent shooting on the game while forcing 16 turnovers and allowing only 16 free throws to NU’s 28.

Coffey led the way for the Cats on Sunday with 17 points and 12 rebounds. Lyon added 14 points

and reserve senior guard Karly Roser poured in 11 of her own.

After using his bench liberally in the win over the Cougars, McKeown stuck with a seven-player rotation against Hampton, with starters Cohen, Coffey, Lyon, Deary, and sophomore guard Christen Inman and reserves Roser and junior forward Lauren Douglas.

“We have a starting seven, seven players who have had starting experience the last two to three years,” McKeown said. “In these early games we want to develop our depth as well.”

After her impressive freshman season and the high expectations of a preseason All-Big Ten first team spot as chosen by the conference’s head coaches, Coffey picked up right where she left off and is averaging 17 points and 8 rebounds per game on the young season.

“I just go out there and do what I have to do for my team,” Coffey said, “whether that’s defending the other team’s best player, rebounding, scoring, it doesn’t matter.”

In both games, NU struggled to maintain its preferred fast tempo without turning the ball over.

The Cats gave the ball away 24 times on Friday and another 18 times in Sunday’s game.

“It comes with time,” Roser said. “We just need to do a better job of staying patient and trusting our teammates with the ball.”

McKeown said limiting turnovers will be a focus in the coming days of practice, but knows it’s early in the season still.

“These November and December games are all about getting ready for the Big Ten season,” he said. maxschuman2018@u.northwestern.edu

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options,” Fuchs said. “(In the second half) we settled down and took that extra second to pass well.”

As the game intensified while the clock ticked down, NU continued to dominate, trying to create opportunities to score an equalizer. In the end, they were unable to do so. The score stood at 2-1 as the final whistle blew.

Despite the painful loss, this game, and the 2014 NU field hockey season, will be remembered.

“I think that it solidifies the fact that we are a solid team and we are here to stay,” Fuchs said. “As painful as it is to lose, we are happy with where we are and where we are going.”

NU ended its season 16-7, 7-2 in the Big Ten, and with the program’s first ever Big Ten championship.

“I’m proud of what we’ve achieved and what we’ve come from,” McCarthy said. “Northwestern field hockey is and will continue to be a force in the national field hockey scene.”

Early in the first half of Saturday’s upset of Notre Dame, senior quarterback Trevor Siemian floated a beautiful pass toward the left sideline, perfectly placed in between a safety and a cornerback. The ball was so softly thrown and landed gently in the welcoming arms of a wide-open Tony Jones and … he dropped the ball.

It was deflating. Coach Pat Fitzgerald couldn’t even be angry. When Jones, a senior, walked off the field, Fitzgerald pulled him aside, smiled, gave him a hug and reminded Jones how important he was to the team and told Jones he loved him.

I remember writing after the Gator Bowl that NU fans didn’t have to feel crazy anymore.

We’ve been conditioned to accept losing in an increasingly ridiculous fashion, yet we keep watching. I’ve seen so many crazy games happen in just my four years here — a late Hail Mary that allowed a team to tie the game and win in overtime, a field goal team run on the field in the final seconds with a running clock and hit a long field goal, a quarterback literally fall down with the game on the line — and those were only in games against Michigan.

There were so many times against Notre Dame that things looked bleak. The Wildcats played far from a perfect game, and made some huge mistakes at extremely inopportune times. Even senior safety Ibraheim Campbell admitted, before the Fighting Irish fumbled on their second-to-last drive of regulation, it was going to take something crazy to happen for the Cats to win.

Somehow, inexplicably really, our faith, our hope, was rewarded. This was a signature win for the program, and easily the most joyous moment since the Gator Bowl win on New Year’s Day in 2013. On the 683rd day after that win, NU fans finally had a day to remember again.

Of course, the scene on the field after the game was much more special for the players.

Whether it was the postgame meal of Chickfil-A, the relief of ending a losing streak or winning on the road as an 18-point underdog in one of America’s most famous venues, it was the happiest this group of players had been in a long time.

Players like Siemian, who has been the target of criticism every day this year, who had to sheepishly say he was unathletic after the game last week, were now the heroes. Players like kicker Jack Mitchell, who made people openly pine for the graduated Jeff Budzien, were now being treated like rock stars. And they deserved it.

Fitzgerald, whom I have a new complaint with almost every week, and his coaching staff, also earned a reprieve from the hailstorm of negativity. Everyone deserves to enjoy this victory.

Inevitably, the criticism will come back.

This is a 4-6 team that, if anything, proved how much better it should be. And of course, the deflating moments will return as well.

Nobody can predict the next crazy, gutpunching way NU will lose; we can only predict with 100 percent certainty that it will happen again.

But now, we already know we’re not crazy for still watching. In spite of that impending doom, we also know what this program is capable of. What we can do the next time this team walks off the field after a deflating loss is smile, remember days like Saturday and remember how much we love them.

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JACK ATTACK Northwestern players celebrate with sophomore kicker Jack Mitchell after Mitchell hit a 41-yard field goal in overtime to beat No. 18 Notre Dame 43-40. It was Mitchell’s third field goal of more than 40 yards on the day.

By BOBBY PILLOTE

daily senior staffer @BobbyPillote

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Northwestern had its most roller-coaster offensive performance of the season Saturday in its 43-40 win over No. 18 Notre Dame.

The Wildcats overcame freshman running back Justin Jackson’s first career fumble, three potential dropped touchdown passes by senior receiver Tony Jones and a glut of other miscues to post their best yardage and points totals of the season. “(Offensive coordinator) Mick McCall and the entire offensive staff did really good job,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said, “and I think our offensive line played as well as they have.”

While Jones was far from alone among players from both teams in failing to hold onto the ball, his drops were especially egregious in that they ruined some of the best balls senior quarterback Trevor Siemian has thrown all season.

“I just told him to relax and trust himself,” Fitzgerald said of Jones. “Just keep playing.”

Siemian, NU’s signal-caller, was able to overcome it and have easily his best game of the season, even if it didn’t all show up on the stat sheet. Other than the drops, which have been an issue all season, everything finally seemed to click for the Cats on offense.

“This is probably the healthiest (Siemian) has been since he got hurt in the Northern Illinois game,” Fitzgerald said.

The Cats threw early and threw often, mirroring the sequences that saw them mount a late comeback attempt against Michigan a week ago.

NU also finally exploded for some big plays, recording both its longest pass, a 60-yard catch-andrun to junior wideout Cameron Dickerson, and longest run, a 45-yard scamper by senior running back Treyvon Green, of the season.

The Cats’ pass-catchers did a much better job of creating separation and getting open, but it all started up front with the offensive line.

“I can’t say enough about those guys,” Siemian said. “I don’t know how many yards we rushed for, but it was a lot, and they kept me clean. It’s probably the reason we won, to be honest.”

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By CLAIRE HANSEN

the daily northwestern @clairechansen

An early two-goal deficit and a slow start proved to be too much for No. 7 Northwestern (16-7, 7-2 Big Ten) to overcome on Saturday. NU fell to No. 9 Duke (13-6) 2-1 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in the first round of the NCAA tournament, ending the Cats’ first tournament run in 20 years.

“We knew that it was going to be a really good battle,” coach Tracey Fuchs said. “We just got caught on our heels in the first 10 to 15 minutes.”

Despite having focused on aggressive starts all season, the Cats appeared slightly jarred and jumbled as the match began, failing to execute the fluid, crisp hits that have come to characterize their play this season. The Blue Devils, on the other hand, were able to string together passes nicely, working the ball from the backfield all the way into the circle, where they aptly challenged the Cats’ defense.

“I feel like as a group, we were all so stunned that we had gotten there,” junior Lisa McCarthy said. “It was like the awe or importance of the game got to us.”

Duke’s first goal of the matchup came 24:39 into the game. After senior goalkeeper Maddy Carpenter made an impressive diving save on the

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GAME OVER Junior defender Lisa McCarthy scored Northwestern’s goal in a 2-1 loss to Duke on Saturday.

The NCAA Tournament defeat ended the Wildcats’ season.

Blue Devils’ initial shot, Duke was able to flick the rebound in, notching the score at 1-0.

The Blue Devils didn’t let up. Their attackers continued to press offensively, earning multiple penalty corners. On their sixth and final penalty corner of the half, Duke was able to capitalize, cracking one into the back of the cage. The Cats entered halftime trailing by two.

Though the Cats failed to play to their full potential during that first stanza, their defense — especially on corner plays — was commendable.

The Blue Devils earned six corners in the first half, but they only scored on one of them.

“We have a really good defensive unit,” Fuchs said. “Our corner defense is really strong, especially with Maddy in the back.”

After weathering Duke’s offensive storm with minimal damage, the Cats took the field for another 35 minutes of play. They looked like a new team.

“We’ve talked a lot about resilience

all year, the ability to come back,” McCarthy said. “The ability to regain our focus and stability.”

In the second half, the Cats found the stability and balance they had yet to display, answering Duke’s early attack with an offensive surge of their own. NU earned its second corner of the game 12 minutes into the second half. After sophomore Isabel Flens’ first shot was saved, McCarthy nailed the rebound past the Blue Devils goalkeeper to put the Cats on the board.

McCarthy knew, however, that there was still much work to be done.

“We knew, this is still a dogfight,” she said. “We’ve got to keep persevering.”

Persevere they did. In stark contrast to the sloppy midfield play displayed in the first half, the Cats were able to easily connect with one another in the backfield and midfield, something that Fuchs attributes to better cutting and poise under pressure.

“In the first half, we hid, and the person with the ball didn’t have any