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COMMEMORATING COURAGE Diane Foley speaks at James Foley’s memorial service Thursday at Alice Millar Chapel. Diane Foley thanked the Northwestern community for its support during her son’s captivity and after his death.

NU hosts memorial to honor James Foley By tyler pager

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James Foley never turned down an opportunity to talk to Medill students.

Whether it was his visit to

Northwestern’s campus just weeks after his release from Libya or a Skype session from Syria, Foley’s dedication to giving back to NU epitomized the legacy that family and professors highlighted Thursday afternoon.

The NU community celebrated Foley’s life Thursday, remembering his passion

for reporting from conflict zones and his dedication to sharing stories of how war impacted everyday life. More than 100 people gathered in Alice Millar Chapel for his memorial service, which was also attended by Foley’s mother and grandmother.

Foley (Medill ‘08), a freelance journalist,

was executed by ISIS in August after spending almost two years in captivity.

At the memorial, Dick Stolley (Medill ‘52, ‘53), a member of Medill’s Board of Advisers, announced Foley will be awarded the Medill Medal for Courage on Dec. 3, along with Rolling Stone journalist Matthieu Aikins.

“It will be our obligation,” Stolley said, “to award this medal in the future to men and women who have succeeded in measuring up, not to the grim tragedy of Jim Foley’s death, but the proud achievements of his life and his high professional » See Foley, page 11

150 march for kidnapped NU presents closing college students in Mexico arguments in jail suit By shane mckeon

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About 150 people, mostly Northwestern students, participated in a demonstration of solidarity Thursday with the 43 Mexican college students who disappeared in September.

The event involved a demonstration outside the Technological Institute, a march down Sheridan Road and a moment of silence and remarks in front of The Rock. It was organized independent of any on-campus organization, but many of the organizers were members of either MEChA de Northwestern or Alianza.

Weinberg freshman Marvin Sanchez, a member of Alianza, said the event should remind American students that not everyone enjoys the same ability to protest.

“As students of Northwestern,” he said, “we have the right to speak out against injustice, and we have the right to voice our opinions, and I thought it would be good to acknowledge that not everyone has that privilege or that right.”

On Sept. 26, 43 Mexican college

students disappeared in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico, after arriving at the town for a protest. Traveling to the town, local police confronted the students and took them into custody. Although details remain hazy of the confrontation and its aftermath, Mexican authorities believe that, under the direction of Iguala’s mayor, police handed the students over to a local drug cartel.

The students, still missing, are not confirmed dead. Human remains found in plastic bags in a local river have been linked to the kidnappings, but investigations are still ongoing to identify those remains.

Weinberg junior Cinthya Rodriguez, a MEChA de Northwestern member, helped organize the event.

She said the event was planned by individual students, not a single campus organization, to demonstrate unity between groups and show that the issues extend beyond Mexico.

“What’s happening in Ayotzinapa (the students’ college) isn’t isolated from the rest of the world,” she said.

“The students who are organizing this are all on the same page in trying to make people know that this is

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happening all over the world, and the students in Ayotzinapa are very much similar to what’s happening in Ferguson and what’s happening in Palestine.”

The event began outside Tech, where 43 students marched in a circle before falling to the ground simultaneously.

One by one, each stood and shouted the name of one of the missing students.

SESP junior Lya Ferreyra participated in the demonstration and said the event could help NU students understand the magnitude of the kidnappings.

“If you can give people a visual representation with their friends, with their classmates, with their peers, I think that gives people a lot more awareness,” she said.

Ferreyra, a dual-citizen of U.S. and Mexico, criticized the way American media cover these sort of events.

“Things are happening in Ukraine, and we saw that on the news,” she said. “For some reason, if it’s 43 students of color, or it’s not on the European continent, it doesn’t matter. And it needs to.” shanemckeon2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern lawyers presented closing arguments last week in a suit they filed against Cook County officials over conditions at the county’s jail, where they allege “a culture of brutality and lawlessness” exists in the facility.

Lawyers from the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center originally filed the class action suit in February on behalf of five current and former inmates at the jail and “similarly situated individuals.” The center is part of NU School of Law’s Bluhm Legal Clinic.

“In addition to seeking the creation of a class of individuals who now are or in the future will be housed in maximum and super maximum security at the Cook County Jail, the laws​uit seeks a court order to end the abusive and barbaric practices at the jail and to establish a system of effective oversight,” according to a news release from the law center.

Lawyers defending the Cook County officials named in the suit, including Sheriff Tom Dart, presented their closing arguments last week as well.

Now, both sides will wait for U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall to rule on the motion for a preliminary injunction regarding practices at the jail. If granted,

lawyers will continue presenting arguments on the need for a permanent injunction. Both sides can file additional briefs before Kendall’s decision will come down. Kendall’s decision is not expected until January.

The lawsuit alleges a systemic culture of violence perpetrated against inmates in the jail’s two maximum-security divisions.

Throughout the past six weeks, multiple inmates testified about their treatment in the jail. One inmate claimed he was kneed in the face by a jail official. MacArthur attorney David Shapiro brought up the incident in court last week, claiming no officials were disciplined in connection with the incident despite video evidence.

The suit contains graphic depictions of alleged violence in the facility, including physical and verbal abuse of inmates while they are handcuffed and shackled.

The violence in the jail is due to Cook County officials’ inability to manage the burgeoning population of the jail, which has increased dramatically in recent years, according to the suit.

“Officers attack men housed at the jail when they are handcuffed and shackled and pose no threat to security — and they often beat people who live with mental illness for manifestations of that illness,” » See JAIL, page 11

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NU profs discuss depiction of slavery in TV, film

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Two Northwestern professors discussed Thursday the ways in which slavery and race are depicted on screen, in both films and television ranging from “12 Years a Slave” to the “Roots” miniseries.

In front of an audience of about 30, profs. Nick Davis and Miriam Petty presented their views on how certain movies and TV shows have impacted societal discussions surrounding race.

The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities presented the event, “Slavery on Screen.” The discussion is also a part of the Evanston Public Library’s program series called “11 Months of African American History” and the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center’s collaboration exhibit, “RACE: Are We So Different?”

Lesley Williams, EPL’s head of adult services, said the presentation, which took place at EPL, 1703 Orrington Ave., is important because most people get notions of history from pop culture. This type of event sparks new conversations about black American history, she said.

“This really does it because they’re looking at films that really challenge that very superficial look at African-American history that more typically happens in a February African-American history program,” Williams told The Daily.

Police Blotter Thousands of dollars of jewelry stolen Various items of jewelry, including a ring valued at about $50,000, were taken from an Evanston apartment early Wednesday morning, police said.

A 73-year-old woman who resides in an apartment in the 2400 block of Central Street told police the burglary happened Wednesday between 3 a.m. and 3:20 a.m., Evanston police Cmdr. Jay Parrott

Petty began her presentation by talking about the burdens that black artists face when representing black history. She talked in particular about the expectations that black artists have to represent an entire group rather than just represent themselves.

“There’s a way that these sort of burdens complicate what it means to represent slavery, what it means to represent race televisually,” Petty said.

There is also a burden on TV shows that focus on slavery and race to feature familiar faces, she said.

For instance, in the TV miniseries “Roots,” Edward Asner and Ralph Waite, two well-known actors, play characters involved in the slave trade.

Davis presented his views on movies that illustrate black history and culture, such as Julie Dash’s “Daughters of the Dust” and Lars von Trier’s “Manderlay.”

In “Manderlay,” von Trier includes a lot of metaphors wrapped into the film’s depiction of a secret slavery plantation in 1930, Davis said. By eliminating a background landscape and centering the movie on a stage, von Trier directs the film in such a way that the system of slavery is the focus, Davis said.

Davis also said that Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave,” which won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Motion Picture of the Year, brings together a lot of what both he and Petty discussed.

McQueen pulls from his gallery artist background to focus on objects in the film and make the audience think about all the stories these objects contain, including how black bodies were treated as objects said.

The woman was asleep in her bedroom when she was woken up by a loud noise, Parrott said.

She checked all the doors and found them secured, he said.

Around noon later in the day, the woman discovered that the items were missing from a glass cabinet in her living room, police said.

The items included gold and sapphire jewelry and an antique 18-carat gold ring with a diamond that the woman said was valued around $50,000, Parrott said.

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EXAMINING HISTORY Northwestern Prof. Miriam Petty presents her views on how slavery and race are depicted in television shows. Prof. Nick Davis also joined Petty at the event, called “Slavery on Screen,” on Thursday night at the Evanston Public Library.

in the time of slavery, Davis said.

A discussion followed the professors’ presentations.

Audience member Alfred Martin, a graduate student at the University of Texas-Austin, said it troubled him how American blackness gets portrayed internationally.

Davis responded by telling a story of how he once was in Turkey and was asked almost immediately about Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” because of his nationality. The film would not be

the first film he would pick to represent America and its black history, he said.

“That film did provoke an incredible amount of discussion,” Davis said, “and I don’t mind being thrown back onto all of our heels to know why we’re taking the position we’re taking or why we reacted the way we did. I admire that about it. I think it’s interesting that because of the kind of film it is, when it gets exported, it gets received very differently.”

There’s an indication that the woman knew the person who burglarized the apartment, Parrott said.

There is video of the incident that detectives have not yet reviewed, he said.

Bread, 1700 Sherman Ave., around 12:10 p.m., Parrott said. When she went back to the counter around 12:30 p.m to retrieve the Samsung phone, it was gone.

The cashier told the woman that someone had come and said the phone belonged to them, taking the phone, police said.

Detectives have video surveillance of the incident that they will use to try to identify the person who stole the cell phone, Parrott said.

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A woman from out of state had her phone stolen Wednesday from the Panera Bread in downtown Evanston, police said.

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SURVIVOR STORIES Steffen Burkhardt, left, and Medill Prof. Stephan Garnett present a project Thursday that told the stories of Holocaust survivors.

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It took 13 months and two trips across the Atlantic Ocean for an international group of 20 students and two sponsors to create The Memory Archives project, which focuses on increasing awareness of the Holocaust in the Internet era.

The project is a collaboration between the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communication and the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences’ International Media Center, known as the IMC at HAW. The collaborators presented parts of the project Thursday evening at an event.

IMC at HAW director Steffen Burkhardt contacted Medill Prof. Stephan Garnett, the advisor for the Medill Global Journalism program, more than a year ago about the project, which

collected stories of Jews who left Hamburg at the start of the Holocaust in search of peace in the Chicago area.

“There is a Sister City alliance between Chicago and Hamburg,” Burkhardt told The Daily.

“The idea was looking at the historic roots of this alliance, and we learned that there are many Jewish refugees who fled from the Nazi terror to Chicago.”

The project uses audio, video, photography and writing to tell 10 different stories about Holocaust survivors, their families and their lives in the Chicago area.

“We wanted to find out what happened to these people and how they are remembering Hamburg and Germany and the Jewish life in Germany and what can we learn from them,” Burkhardt said.

Burkhardt said finding survivors living in the Chicago area was difficult.

“It was like finding a needle in a haystack,”

Garnett added.

The 10 Medill students – seven graduate students and three undergraduates – were paired with 10 IMC at HAW graduate students, and together each pair interviewed a survivor or a survivor’s family. Sometimes the survivor had passed away, and so the families shared the survivors’ stories.

The Medill students spent time preparing for the project by taking classes on the history of the Holocaust and learning how to approach the subject in a respectful manner.

“It’s hard to imagine beforehand how it’s going to be like sitting across from somebody who survived the Holocaust,” Medill junior Tyler Daswick said.

Organizers and participants said one of the best parts of the project was seeing students from different nationalities and backgrounds interact and work together.

“They were not journalism students, they were German citizens who wanted to experience this,” Daswick said. “What I applaud about the German students is this is something horrible that happened in their history … how courageous they must be to just face it and say we want to learn about this, we want to understand this. To be alongside that was amazing.”

Burkhardt and Garnett said one of the project’s goals was to record the stories of past generations online so younger generations understand the importance of the Holocaust.

“Journalism has the beauty to witness and record witnesses,” Burkhardt said. “We brought these generations to the Internet.”

Garnett emphasized the significance of reporting in a new era of technology.

“What I like about this (project) more than anything else is that it is a merging of the newest kind of journalism with the oldest tenants of journalism,” he said. “Journalism is about people. It is always about the experiences of people … Technology is there to help us deliver the material.” marianaalfaro2018@u.northwestern.edu

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NU should award more college credit for IB classes meredith goodman

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Everyone at Northwestern is a nerd, but when I meet fellow Wildcats who completed the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, I nerd out especially hard. We discuss our extended essays topics, our Theory of Knowledge class, and how much harder our classes and tests were than those of Advanced Placement.

Most readers will probably not understand the first paragraph without explanation because the IB program is only available in select high schools throughout the country and the world.

IB is a rigorous academic program which seeks to build “international-mindedness.” For example, in my IB English classes, we read books that focused on international cultures, including India and Mexico. On our IB History exam, we could choose between questions about a number of other countries’ histories, including Canada and China.

I enjoyed the IB experience at my school not only because it offered me a peek of education and cultures beyond America, but also because it challenged me to my full potential. And I emphasize the word “challenge,” because the IB program is hard and requires a lot of dedication and commitment. Yes, I sympathize with all my AP friends who had to cram and memorize information for their AP tests, but us IB-ers had nowhere to hide on our tests – there were almost no multiple choice questions. If you did not write a convincing essay, you receive little to no credit.

We also had assignments that we did before our tests, called internal assessments, and spent a good amount of time researching and writing our extended essay, a 4,000 word research paper.

With all of these challenging components of IB, I find myself ranting angrily about why AP students at NU receive school credit so much more readily and easily than IB students. One legitimate reason is that because there is a wider variety of AP tests, AP students can load up on classes for multiple years in order to get tons of credits. For example, AP students can get two separate Weinberg credits requirements from both AP government exams at NU, which are

not offered in the IB program. There are three separate AP history exams that can all offer distribution requirements, but only one IB subject test in History. I believe I believe that good scores on IB that good tests, equal to or higher than a five out of a scale scores on IB of seven, should warrant tests, equal to more than one distribution credit in order or higher than to even out the IB/AP a five out of a playing field. scale of seven, Another more irritating problem is that should warrant a whole category of IB exams called SL, or more than one Standard or Subsidiary distribution Level, do not receive credit credit at NU. IB students have to take six exams at the end of high school, and at least two are standard level. These tests, which are easier than Higher Level but are still considerably challenging, should not be taken in vain – students still work hard in these classes and subjects. I argue that if a student

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makes a 7 on his or her Standard Level Test, the highest possible score, they should be given credit at NU. An area that is ignored in the allocation of IB credits is the extended essay. One can propose that a 4,000 word research essay would be sufficient to place out of some sort of writing requirement at NU, maybe a freshman seminar in Weinberg or a class for the Literature and Fine Arts distribution area. Perhaps the extended essay could fill a distribution requirement for the topic in which it was written. For example, I wrote my extended essay on President Lyndon B. Johnson’s role in the Six-Day War, so I could be given a distribution requirement for history.

My suggestions for earning IB credit might not be the best ways to allocate credits, but I at least hope to spark awareness for the IB program and start a University-wide discussion to get IB students the NU class credits that they deserve.

Meredith Goodman is a Weinberg senior. She can be reached at meredithgoodman2015@u.northwestern. edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

Make shuttle stops canvases for creativity this winter Heiwon shin

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I know I signed up for cold weather when I decided to come to Northwestern, and I don’t regret it one bit. But especially given the fact that most of our academic year — fall, winter and spring — coincides with the coldest time of the year in Chicago, I think there are ways NU can make the seemingly all-year around coldness more bearable. One solution could be to make warming shelters at shuttle stops, both on and between campuses.

One idea is for NU to start investing in building a warming shelter around each of the shuttle stops. Conveniently enough, NU is planning big changes for what the campus is going to look like, so this could definitely be feasible.

Yes, building or making such shelters on off-campus stops would be more complicated.

But maybe we could rend and refurbish existing

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Why not build a bus stop shelter that includes whiteboard walls where passersby can doodle, write messages and just play around?

buildings, which could also involve the NU community. If there’s a will, there’s a way.

Need I say more about why it is good idea?

I don’t know many people who are immune or exempt from the harsh cold at NU. This is a practical solution that can really change the NU community. It impacts people on and off campus making short or long commutes. Walking outside is not the least bit fun and waiting for shuttles in the cold is even worse.

But what’s more, this solution can become a unique, defining culture for NU. During midterms and finals the libraries and residence halls have free coffee and cookies and offer events to help de-stress like bringing therapy dogs to Norris University Center.

Likewise, we can use this potentially stressful winter commute as a creative outlet.

I am not an architect so what I recommend may not all be applicable, but why not build a bus stop shelter that includes whiteboard walls where passersby can doodle, write messages and just play around? The Block Museum of Art has blue walls where people can draw whatever they want with chalk. It’s so beautiful and inspiring, and we can easily recreate something like this at bus stops.

Why not be writers and poets? In one common English class exercise, students are given a piece of paper with a limited amount of time to write whatever story, and once the time is up we hand it to the person next to us to continue it — ending up with something wacky but also kind of ingenious. This kind of collaborative art could be just one use for these whiteboards.

Additionally, the shelter could be equipped with speakers so we can enjoy music while waiting for the shuttles. We could have a usergenerated music station: WNUR could offer a special station where members of the NU community send in stories and song requests. Caffe

Bene, one of the largest chain coffee shops in Korea, has a radio station exclusively for its users for that purpose. The DJs read and comment on the submissions and just talk about the day. This human touch and warmth is why, especially in winter, I choose to go to Caffe Bene over millions of commercialized chain cafes. Alternatively, we could have a music device at each of the shelters where people can manually choose songs according to their mood and maybe even start a dance party.

We could also have mini-screens that not only show a map and alert us when the bus is coming but also feature news from various campus organizations.

I could spend an entire day coming up with fun and artsy community projects using this warming shelter as a canvas and still have more ideas. Opportunity is what we make it.

Heiwon Shin is a Medill sophomore. She can be contacted at heiwonshin2017@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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City Council should rethink Penny Park renovation plans If we understand playgrounds as places where children have complex social encounters, challenge themselves physically, develop new skills and experiment with independence and exploration, then we understand that playgrounds are akin to schools.

Playgrounds teach, and different sorts of playgrounds offer different lessons. But too many of our playgrounds are the same. Playgrounds are failing to challenge our children, and failing in the same ways.

“It is no longer easy to find a playground that has an element of surprise, no matter how far you travel,” Hanna Rosin notes in The Atlantic.

Here in Evanston, playgrounds tend to follow a predictable pattern. They segregate age groups so that children of different ages don’t share the same equipment. They are made of plastic and metal, so they get hot in the summer and slippery in the winter.

They don’t have any hiding places, and they’re very safe – sometimes so safe that they’re boring. These playgrounds are the product of a national trend, born of litigation and fear, that has developed over the past several decades. Critics of this trend have suggested that these “safer” playgrounds are not actually safer. “There is no clear evidence that playground safety measures have lowered the average risk on playgrounds,” says David Ball, a professor of risk management at Middlesex University. Research has also suggested that “safer” playgrounds can inhibit the development of essential skills. In a recent study published in Pediatrics, the researchers observed that strict safety standards were leading to less play.

Boring playgrounds, as Sumathi Reddy observes in the Wall Street Journal, are contributing to the epidemic of childhood obesity. Conventional wisdom on playground safety, in other words, offers more convention than wisdom.

The current plan to demolish the Penny Park playground and replace it with a “safer” plastic composite playground that offers good sight lines, no places to hide and separate play spaces for children of different ages is concerning to some of us parents and educators because we fear it will eliminate the very characteristics that make Penny Park so uniquely valuable. Families from all over the city (and beyond) come to Penny Park because it offers a play experience, and thus a learning experience, that we can’t find anywhere else in Evanston.

At Penny Park, it isn’t unusual to see both toddlers and tweens playing within the same structure, or on the same equipment. Why is this important? Close contact with people whose abilities are different from their own offers children a social challenge and a roadmap to citizenship. It encourages children to learn how to watch out for each other and how to navigate other people’s needs.

Penny Park is one of the only playgrounds in Evanston where it is possible for children to play hide and seek. Most other playgrounds have nowhere to hide. Easy visibility is convenient for parents, but it isn’t developmentally desirable for children. Nor is it fun. Part of the magic of Penny Park is that children can experience some invisibility, a luxury they get very little of. Within the safe confines of a fenced and gated park, they can experiment with autonomy.

Where better for this to happen?

The wooden mazes at Penny Park offer children the freedom to explore a world from which adults are largely excluded. This small space for autonomous play fills a great need, as professor of early-childhood development at Queen Maud University College Ellen Sandseter has observed. Children need a play space, she says, “where they are left alone and can

take full responsibility for their actions, and the consequences of their decisions.”

Of course, some parents prefer playgrounds with no places to hide and play spaces that separate age groups – playgrounds like that can be found at Mason Park, two blocks north of Penny Park, at Alexander Park, two blocks east, at Smith Park, four blocks north, as well as at other parks all over Evanston.

This isn’t to say that Penny Park shouldn’t be modified to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. Accessibility is an essential priority. But that can certainly be accomplished without entirely demolishing the playground. The city has already chosen Leathers & Associates to update the park.

Leathers & Associates no longer builds with wood, so Penny Park cannot be rebuilt on the same design

by Leathers & Associates. But Leathers & Associates recently worked with a community in Canada to preserve the unique design of their wooden playground, originally built by Leathers & Associates in 1993. “In order to conform to current safety standards and guidelines, and to save costs, a complete renovation rather than a rebuild was chosen as the best course of action,” Leathers & Associates writes of St. Andrew’s Playground. The resulting rehab is an amalgam of the older playground and newer features. Why not invite Leathers & Associates to preserve the current design of Penny Park while replacing structures that are no longer sound, adding desirable features like therapy swings, and creating greater accessibility? Let’s keep Penny Park unique and make it a playground where even more of us can learn together Truly, Eula Biss Lecturer

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THROWING FITZ Coach Pat Fitzgerald has not been pleased with his team’s maturity this season. Fitzgerald said he blames the recruiting process for inflating players’ egos.

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GOT IT COVERED Jarrell Williams lines up a punt return play. The junior cornerback has been an integral part of the Wildcats’ kick coverage as a dedicated special teams player.

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It’s almost always a thankless job.

So it goes for junior Jarrell Williams. The reserve cornerback rarely sees the field when Northwestern is playing defense, instead garnering playing time as a part of the Wildcats’ kickoff and punt coverage units.

Taking the field at the butt of uneventful drives or sandwiched between commercial breaks, players such as Williams don’t see the spotlight until their unit makes a mistake, as was the case in NU’s game against Minnesota when the Cats surrendered a game-winning kickoff return touchdown.

“Basically it was guys doing their own thing and not doing what they’re supposed to do,” Williams said. “Lane execution is big. …

It’s seeing You have to stay in your lane.” the ball, seeing Exacerbating the where the concentrated outrage returner is going, that accompanies a botched special teams seeing where the play, few fans underblocker is going stand the planning and coordination that in order to do goes into successful what you have kick coverage.

Williams said it’s to do to make a much more than tacke. just “running down” and tackling the ball Jarrell Williams, carrier, and in many junior cornerback ways the preparation of the special teams units mirrors the preparations of the offense and defense.

“A lot of it has to do with knowing your assignment,” he said. “It’s seeing the ball, seeing where the returner is going, seeing where the blockers are going in order to do what you have to do to make a tackle.”

That situational readiness isn’t taken lightly by the coaching staff. When asked how often the team practices its kick coverage concepts, William’s response was an immediate

“everyday.”

Linebackers coach Randy Bates doubles as the coach for the kick coverage units, and he offered some insight to the behind-the-scenes game-planning that requires so much drilling by players like Williams.

“It’s just like an offensive or a defensive play,” Bates said. “Your job, especially on the defensive side when you’re on a kickoff or a punt, is to counteract what they’re trying to do with your scheme.”

NU’s kick coverage hasn’t excelled this season — the Cats rank a below-average 76th nationally (out of 128 teams) in average opponent kickoff return yardage and a middling 65th in average opponent punt return yardage — and Bates attributed that to injuries on offense and defense that have sapped the special teams units of their usual starters.

Bates said the replacement players’ unfamiliarity with his schemes has hurt the effectiveness of the kickoff and punt return coverage groups.

“When we started losing some guys, that’s when you start getting guys who have never played,” he said. “That’s when issues happen. …

Teams lose that probably shouldn’t have lost.”

Bates qualified the struggles of NU’s kick coverage, but for coach Pat Fitzgerald the line between success and failure on special teams coverage has been much less nuanced.

“We haven’t given up touchdowns (besides to Minnesota),” he said. “That’s productive.”

It isn’t exactly high praise from the coaching staff, but that’s a sentiment shared by Williams.

He said the kick coverage units have the right scheme and players but have significant room for improvement when it comes to execution.

“I think we can be better,” he said. “We have the guys, we just have to do a lot better job of getting down there and tackling them inside the 20.”

A tackle inside the 20 isn’t glamorous, but it’s the result everyone playing, coaching or rooting for the Cats wants. Williams and company will keep toiling away on special teams for the remainder of the season, and if everything goes according to plan, fans will continue to not notice.

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Fitzgerald: Cats have ‘maturity’ problems

By ALEX PUTTERMAN

daily senior staffer @AlexPutt02

All season, coach Pat Fitzgerald has alluded to “maturity” issues when diagnosing Northwestern’s on-field struggles. After practice Wednesday he addressed the subject in more detail.

“It has to do with guys that I think did not realize how close they were to playing,” Fitzgerald said. “And because of where we’re at depth-wise, they’ve been thrust into roles.”

Fitzgerald said the Wildcats’ young players sometimes lose focus from play-to-play and make mental mistakes as a result.

One root of that “immaturity,” the coach theorizes, is the rise of online recruiting sites that write about players before they reach college.

In recent years NU has attracted recruits with higher national profiles, drawing “four-star” recruits to Evanston at a much higher rate than ever before.

As Fitzgerald sees it, players come in overconfident, feeling they don’t need to work as hard as they should.

“Just because you read so many articles about you on a dot-com site in high school doesn’t mean you’re going to be a good college player,” Fitzgerald said. “I’m kind of tired of it.”

“It’s getting worse every year,” he continued.

“And it’s across the country. I talk to guys all over the country it’s the same problem. Guys are getting so much smoke blown up their rear ends that they don’t understand how hard it is to work, to win, to be successful on an every-play basis.”

In the past, Fitzgerald has shied away from playing true freshmen but this year has relied on running back Justin Jackson, tight end Garrett Dickerson and defensive end Xavier Washington.

Meanwhile two redshirt freshmen, safety Godwin Igwebuike and linebacker Anthony Walker, have received substantial playing time, and others have assumed prominent back-up roles.

Younger players have seen increased roles on the Cats’ depth chart for two reasons: 1) Injuries have created lineup holes on both sides of the ball and 2) Recruiting more talented players means having young guys who, in theory, require less

development.

Of course, NU isn’t the only school to play highly ranked recruits right away, but it is less experienced in integrating talented freshmen than schools that have traditionally excelled in recruiting. Fitzgerald acknowledged that the coaching staff hasn’t done a good job ensuring these young players possess the proper maturity.

Senior defensive tackle Chance Carter said Wednesday he hasn’t noticed the immaturity Fitzgerald has discussed but admits he’s mostly focused on his own unit.

“Defensive line-wise we always have homework on Monday to look at the opponents’ top runs, and every week they’ve done them,” Carter said. “The defensive line young guys are doing well. They’re mature.”

If maturity is truly an issue with the Cats, the players’ preparation for Saturday’s game at Purdue could provide an interesting test. The “smoke blown up their rear ends” Fitzgerald alluded to in the recruiting process might be matched only by the smoke blown up their rear ends after last week’s overtime victory over No. 18 Notre Dame.

Though the concept of a “trap game” or “letdown game” is somewhat dubious statistically, it’s possible a team that struggles to focus week-toweek would come out flat after being celebrated all week.

“Some guys got like 50 text messages after the game on Saturday talking about how good we are,” Carter said. “Even around campus we’ve got some students saying ‘Oh you’re so good,’ when last week they were saying whatever about us.”

“We’ve got to get that complacency out of us.”

Fitzgerald said competition is key to players’ development, humbling them a bit and motivating them to focus snap after snap. NU’s maturity problems, the coach said, will be settled in the off-season when everyone is healthy and playing time is up for grabs.

Fitzgerald said he and the coaching staff haven’t been fueling any egos and won’t start now.

“They’re not getting smoke blown from us,” he said. asputt@u.northwestern.edu

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Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1st nanobrewery opens its doors to public on Friday Evanstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first nanobrewery will officially open its doors Friday and start selling beer produced on-site to the public.

Sketchbook Brewing Company, 825 Chicago Ave., will serve its own brewed craft beers and ciders through a business that aims to â&#x20AC;&#x153;create a common culture among local craft beer enthusiasts,â&#x20AC;? according to its website.

The nanobrewery was able to come to Evanston through a Kickstarter campaign in May started by Sketchbook owners Shawn Decker and Cesar Marron. The owners were able to raise more than $25,000 in 25 days through the site. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This has been a community-focused effort from the start,â&#x20AC;? Decker said in a news release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In addition to the brilliant response to our Kickstarter campaign, which allowed us to expand our offerings and include sustainable equipment purchases, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also seen great interest at the Custer Street Fair and Streets Alive Festival.â&#x20AC;?

Sketchbook plans to be sustainable through reducing its footprint and conserving both energy and water, the site says.

Source: Sketchbook Brewing Company

ALCOHOL ALLEY Co-owners Cesar Marron and Shawn Decker stand in front of the orange door that leads to their nanobrewery. Sketchbook Brewing Company, 825 Chicago Ave., is having its grand opening Friday and will start selling its on-site produced beer.

The brewery has also expressed interest in becoming part of Bicycle Benefits, a national

program that encourages biking as an alternate to other forms of transportation. As a

participating store, Sketchbook will be able to provide discounts to customers that present a special sticker showing they biked to the store instead of drove.

Neighbors raised issued about the breweryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nontraditional location, in which customers enter through an orange door in an alley, rather than on a sidewalk.

At the City Council meeting in May when aldermen approved a special liquor license for the brewery, residents who live in the area voiced their concerns with the process through which Sketchbook was given its permit.

Decker and Cesar offered to improve the situation by adding better lighting to they alley and installing a video camera to ensure customers do not park there, Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd) said at the meeting in May. Sketchbook is a Community-Supported Brewery, through which customers can become a member and invest in the brewery.

About 300 of Sketchbookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memberships have already been sold, which is their current membership cap. The brewery hopes to sell more in spring 2015 as their capacity allows, according to the news release.

The grand opening will take place on Friday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Paige Leskin

NU to host its first intercollegiate hackathon Saturday WildHacks event will last 24 hours and offer up to $2K in cash prizes

By Madeline coe

the daily northwestern @MaddieCoe

Two student groups will host Northwesternâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first intercollegiate hackathon, WildHacks, this weekend.

Hosted by Entrepreneurs Pioneers Innovators Creators, known as EPIC, and HackNorthwestern, the 24-hour event will bring together student entrepreneurs from colleges across the United States to formulate solutions to real-world problems in the digital realm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You come for 24 hours and you build stuff,â&#x20AC;? said Dan Lesser, a Weinberg senior and event

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Students can work as individuals or in a team with up to five members in order to win cash prizes for up to $2,000, said Lesser, a former Daily staffer. Sponsors will reward winners with other prizes as well, including Google Chromebooks.

Programming will take place in the Louis Room at Norris University Center. Opening ceremonies will begin 11:30 a.m. Saturday and the official event will run for 24 hours beginning at 12:30 p.m. Students can also sit in on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tech Talksâ&#x20AC;? which will feature representatives from Microsoft, IBM and DataStax.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even though Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not an engineering major, it sounds really interesting,â&#x20AC;? said Communication freshman Arianna Mihalakakos.

Representatives from BrandBucket, an organization specializing in business name branding, will be on site to help students implement their solutions in the real world.

The judging period will take place at 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 23, with the awards ceremony happening later that evening. The programmers will be judged based on four categories: technicality, originality, usefulness and polish/design. At least one NU professor and other professionals in technical fields will judge the competition.

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Construction projects to add retail, housing to city

By HAL JIN

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In the wake of a recovering economy, several construction projects in Evanston are under way, including residential units, retail space, hotels and an indoor sports facility.

This year, the number of planned development projects and proposals are above the norm, said Mark Muenzer, the city’s director of community development. There are five major projects in the works.

“People want to be in Evanston,” he said. “Now that the economy is coming back, we’re one of the first (cities) to see demand back so quickly.”

One such development is the Chicago-Main project, which calls for a nine-story mixed-use building at 835 Chicago Ave. “Evanston is an ideal combination of both North Shore living and convenience to the city,” said Jeff Clark, one of the developers. “It’s a vibrant economy and there appears to be a pent-up demand for new rental apartments.”

The Chicago-Main project plans to allocate the building’s ground floor for retail sale, the second floor for office space and the remaining floors for

National News Obama to immigrants: ‘Come out of the shadows’ WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama moved Thursday to halt deportations for nearly 5 million undocumented immigrants, defying congressional Republicans who called his unilateral action an affront to the constitutional separation of powers.

Obama’s actions reversed his own statements that he did not have the power to make such sweeping changes without Congress. But aides said he had since learned he does have the authority, and that the refusal of the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to take up a bipartisan overhaul

112 rental apartments. Construction has not yet begun, but is estimated to be completed by fall 2016, according to the city’s site.

Other projects currently under construction include The Hyatt House, an eight-story hotel at 1515 Chicago Ave., and the E2 Apartments, two towers located on Maple Avenue and Oak Avenue that will be 14- and 16-stories high and provide 356 residential units in total. The developments are expected to finish in late 2015 and spring 2015, respectively.

The Merion-Northshore Hotel, located on the corner of Davis Street and Chicago Avenue, is currently under construction to both renovate the existing structure and construct an eight-story addition north of the original building. The Merion is a senior apartment community and is expected to finish construction October 2015.

A sports dome has also been approved for development at 2454 Oakton St. The facility will be covered by an inflatable dome structure up to 60 feet high, the city’s site says. Such a structure will be the first of its kind in Evanston, Muenzer said.

A plan for a large building that would have been constructed at 708 Church St. was rejected because its size, mass and scale were incompatible with the city, Muenzer said. hjin@u.northwestern.edu passed by the Senate left him no choice but to act unilaterally.

“To those members of Congress who question my authority to make our immigration system work better, or question the wisdom of me acting where Congress has failed, I have one answer,” Obama said during a prime-time statement from the White House East Room. “Pass a bill.”

Obama’s actions will suspend the threat of deportation for millions, including about 4.1 million who will be temporarily protected and allowed to apply for work permits provided they are parents, pass a background check and pay fees, and 270,000 who were brought to the country illegally as children.

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LASTING LEGACY Diane Foley hugs a member of the audience at James Foleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memorial service. More than 100 people attended including Foleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother and grandmother.

Foley

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Foleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother Diane, Medill Prof. Ellen Shearer and University clergy also spoke during the service. After the event, Medill Dean Brad Hamm said the school will continue to honor Foleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legacy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working with the family closely,â&#x20AC;? he told The Daily. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first thought was, in our talking with them, was to let this Legacy Fund that they have worked on be the initial focus and then Medill will come back and do its own kind of recognition.â&#x20AC;?

The James W. Foley Legacy Fund was established in honor of three areas Foley was most passionate about: advocating for American hostages and their families, supporting American journalists in conflict zones and helping those who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have access to education.

Hamm said a James Foley fund has been established at Medill following alumni donations after his death.

Medill will work with Foleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family to decide how to spend the money, but it will be â&#x20AC;&#x153;student focused,â&#x20AC;?

Hamm said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The idea that you do something to make a

Jail

From page 1 MacArthur attorney Sheila Bedi said in a news release about the case.

Attorneys for the defendants protested MacArthurâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case, saying the evidence it presented did not

difference I think is the powerful part of Jim Foleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legacy,â&#x20AC;? Hamm said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that we will go into Syria or the next big war, but we do something that matters.â&#x20AC;?

Diane Foley said she was honored to be in Evanston and thanked the Medill community for their support throughout her sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s captivity and after his death. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jim wouldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been probably very humbled and embarrassed, but proud to receive the medal for courage,â&#x20AC;? she told The Daily after the service. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want him to be remembered for the type of courageous journalist he was and for a humanitarian who cared for people who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a voice. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hoping the foundation can continue.â&#x20AC;?

Rachel Zahorsky (Medill â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;07) said she met Foley on her first day of Medill and stayed friends with him throughout her time at graduate school. She remembered Foley as â&#x20AC;&#x153;very brave and truly compassionate.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we all had one ounce of the courage, one ounce of the integrity, one ounce of the compassion for the world that he had just in our everyday lives,â&#x20AC;? she told The Daily, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even imagine what could be accomplished.â&#x20AC;? tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu support the â&#x20AC;&#x153;salacious and sensational theoriesâ&#x20AC;? in the suit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is really a classic case of overselling and underdelivering,â&#x20AC;? an attorney for Tom Dart said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The plaintiff has not met the burden of proof.â&#x20AC;? mccarthy@u.northwestern.edu

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Women’s Basketball 21 Kent State v. NU 7 p.m. Friday

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You can’t have any idea how disappointed we are right now.

— Tim Lenahan, men’s soccer coach

Friday, November 21, 2014

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Cats’ season ends in NCAA Tournament opener SIU-Edwardsville

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By JULIAN GEREZ

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A handful of missed opportunities cost Northwestern the chance to continue moving forward in the NCAA Tournament.

SIU-Edwardsville (8-8-4, 4-1-1 Missouri Valley Conference) defeated No. 17 NU (9-4-6, 4-1-3 Big Ten) in the first round of the tournament Thursday afternoon 1-0, ending the Wildcats’ season.

It was NU’s first loss at home this season and SIU-Edwardsville’s first victory over a ranked opponent this season.

“Full credit to SIU-E, they really came on,” coach Tim Lenahan said. “We were going to press them and determine the outcome of the game, but when we do that you have to score goals. We know when you press like that and you attack you might give up a goal. … We just did not make a play in the final third.”

Sophomore midfielder Paul Scheipeter picked an opportune time to score his first goal of the season, with his 81st minute shot sealing the victory for the Cougars. NU played well despite the loss, dominating possession and getting lots of good chances.

“I thought we played really well, we played with our hearts the whole game,” senior goalkeeper Tyler Miller said. “But you gotta hand it to SIU-E.” SIU-Edwardsville started the game off with its backup goalie, Kyle Dal Santo.

The redshirt freshman had not started a single game this season but stepped up on the big stage, making eight saves throughout the match.

NU got off to a bright start right at the beginning of the match as sophomore forward Mike Roberge saw his header from inside the box saved.

Not much else happened in the first half besides two penalty claims by the Cougars being waved away by the referees. Both teams seemed to be playing conservatively in order to avoid falling behind.

In the second half, the Wildcats had a lot of clear-cut chances. Junior forward Joey Calistri found himself in a lot of space on the left side of the field, but several of his crosses were battered away by the SIU-Edwardsville defense.

In the 61st minute after a corner kick

by NU, there was pandemonium inside the 18-yard-box as three of the Cats’ shots were blocked by a wall of red on the goal line.

Nine minutes later, SIU-Edwardsville forward and top-scorer Christian Volesky headed a ball that was saved

by Miller. Volesky received the rebound and quickly took another shot that was destined to hit the back of the net if not for a sprawling save by Miller’s foot.

Immediately after that chance, NU countered and Calistri rounded Dal Santo but couldn’t work the angle and hit the post. Later, freshman forward Sam Forsgren saw a shot roll agonizingly wide of the goal.

In the 81st minute, the Cats were left to regret their missed chances. A counterattack by SIUE led to an incredible block by senior defender Nikko Boxall, but his touch just got a bit away from him and Scheipeter was there to put the ball into the back of the net. Miller was beat for just the 12th time this season.

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THE END Nikko Boxall composes himself after the loss. The first-round NCAA Tournament game was the senior defender’s last at Northwestern.

“We had some good chances that we didn’t put away,” Boxall said. “They managed to squeeze one through. It’s unfortunate.”

NU threw everything it could forward in the remaining minutes of the match, changing its formation to accommodate only three defenders instead of four and pushing up almost everyone on the team.

On the break, Volesky, who was mostly subdued by the Cats defense

throughout the match, had the chance to put the game out of reach but couldn’t chip the tall Miller.

Despite the Cats’ best efforts, it ultimately wasn’t enough as the game and season went away for NU. “You can’t have any idea how disappointed we are right now,” Lenahan said.

“We’re disappointed with the result but not disappointed with the effort, not disappointed with our preparation, not disappointed with the collective spirit

of the group. The sad part is I gotta say goodbye to some great guys that have really invested in this program.”

One of those guys is Miller, and even though he’s graduating, he said that he is confident in the team moving forward.

“It’s been an honor to lead them all season,” he said of the classes below him.

“I know they’re going to do great things next year.” juliangerez2017@u.northwestern.edu

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Cats rally late for narrow win

NU to work on turnovers, boards

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CLOSE CALL Junior guard Tre Demps drives to the basket. Demps hit a game-winning shot in the waning seconds of Northwestern’s 69-67 win over North Florida.

By HUZAIFA PATEL

the daily northwestern @HuzaifaPatel

With just 3:06 left to play, North Florida’s Beau Beech knocked down a layup to give his team a 63-57 lead over Northwestern. The

Wildcats were in hot water and needed a spark.

And they got just that.

It started with freshman Bryant McIntosh, who knocked down two timely threes and a layup, and ended with junior Tre Demps, who drilled the go-ahead jumper with 2.1

seconds left. One North Florida miss later and the Cats were winners, 69-67.

The Cats weren’t perfect by any means, but they did just enough to beat the Ospreys and move to 3-0 in the season.

“That was a heck of a game,” coach Chris Collins said to open his postgame press conference.

Collins said his team needed to defend better, but was quick to give credit to North Florida as well.

“A lot of the things that we didn’t do as well or struggled with tonight was not because of us, it was because of them,” Collins said. “There’s a reason they’re predicted to challenge Florida Gulf Coast in their league.”

It was a close contest throughout, with the largest lead for both teams being just 7 points. However, the Ospreys did have their 7-point lead and the momentum with just 3:55 left in the game.

But it was the clutch play of Demps and McIntosh that stuck out Thursday.

“He’s fearless,” Collins said of Demps. “Tre was the kid that hundreds and hundreds of times, I can

imagine him counting the clock down in his backyard and taking the final shot.

That’s what he does.”

Collins also had high praise for McIntosh, calling him a winner and comparing him to former Duke guard Jon Scheyer.

“I like that comparison,” a smiling McIntosh said. “I really appreciate it. Jon was a national champion, and that’s the biggest goal for everyone.”

McIntosh led the team with 16 points on the night, and sophomore forward Sanjay Lumpkin added 13 points and six rebounds.

Demps, the hero of the night, had 11 points in the second half and finished with 15 overall.

“You’ve got to thank your teammates first, that they trust you with that opportunity,” Demps said. “When you have guys that believe in you, it gives you the confidence to do it yourself.”

The Cats have a quick turnaround coming up, with another game in Evanston against Elon University on Saturday and then a trip to Puerto Aventuras, Mexico for the remainder of the Cancun Challenge.

“We’ve got to move forward,” Collins said. “We’re in a tough stretch right now.

Guys have got to get rest, and we’ve to got to get on to the next thing.” huzaifapatel2017@u.northwestern.edu

Kent State vs. Northwestern Evanston 7 p.m. Friday

By MAX SCHUMAN

the daily northwestern

Following the win over Hampton University on Sunday, Northwestern coach Joe McKeown was clear about what the Wildcats (2-0) needed to improve on.

“Turnovers and rebounding,” he said. “We need to clean that up.”

After sprinting out to victories over Chicago State and Hampton last weekend, NU’s coach didn’t seem to have much to complain about with regards to his team.

The Cats’ defense has been smothering to open the season, allowing opponents to shoot only 25.7 percent from the field and 21.2 percent from three point range so far. With the return of the starting five from last year’s team, which was top-50 in the country in opposing field goal percentage at 37.3 percent, this defensive performance has some precedent.

On the other side of the court, NU has been off to a sizzling shooting start that has helped the Cats put their earlyseason opponents away. The Cats have shot 54.2 percent from the field and 47.2 percent on threes this season, helped by junior guard Maggie Lyon making 9 of her 13 three-point-attempts.

That shooting start may be unsustainable for NU, which shot just 33.3 percent from three point range last season. For a team with aspirations of

improving on last year’s 5-11 record in Big Ten play, navigating a deep conference with nationally-ranked teams Maryland, Michigan State, Nebraska, Iowa, Rutgers and Purdue will require clean basketball on both ends of the floor if the Cats’ offense comes back to earth in the future.

But NU has turned the ball over 21 times on average per game so far, giving away opportunities to score when it has the ball. On the other end, the Cats have allowed 13.5 offensive rebounds per game on average, allowing their opponents more chances to score after their defense has forced a stop.

Turnovers and offensive rebounding are two factors shown to be highly correlated with winning in basketball, as they directly influence the number of chances a team has to score in a game. For the Cats to make good on their potential with a seasoned lineup led by star sophomore and Preseason All-Big Ten Team forward Nia Coffey, focusing on controlling these factors will be critical.

“We have to play our game,” Coffey said after the Hampton game. “The consistency will come. We have to focus on ourselves and what we can do to win.”

With a tough conference slate looming, NU will use Friday night’s matchup against Kent State (0-2) as an opportunity to play the fundamentally-sound basketball they will need to end the season in the NCAA Tournament.

The Cats will host the Golden Flashes in Welsh-Ryan Arena, with the game tipping at 7 p.m. maxschuman2018@u.northwestern. edu