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University added to BlueLight app By Tyler Pager
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BlueLight, a campus safety mobile application, has added Northwestern to its nationwide network, allowing students to contact University Police with the tap of a button. The app serves a similar function to the physical blue lights on NU’s campus. When students request help, the app calls UP and shares the user’s physical location and contact information. Users can also share their location with family and friends and the app will send a notification when the user has arrived at their chosen destination. As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, NU was added to the BlueLight network with nine other schools including the University of Chicago and the University of Kentucky. Preet Anand, BlueLight’s CEO, said around 80 colleges have the app, but students from more than 450 colleges have requested to have the app on their campuses. The app is available for both iPhone and Android. “It’s our goal to really bring personal safety and security into the modern age,” Anand said. “A lot of the standards are still built for when landlines was the principal way we communicated. We’re really excited to continue to do this at Northwestern.” Anand said the app is free for the time being with the long-term goal that the University will pay for the service. However, if NU decides not to support the app, students will
eventually be charged. He expects those talks won’t happen until the fall. SESP junior Connor Regan, a former Daily columnist and a former board member of Students Publishing Co., The Daily’s parent organization, requested BlueLight add NU’s campus to the app. “I had actually just downloaded the app and was using it myself for quite a while,” he said. “I was using it myself all the time and I noticed it had this feature where if you were a college student, you could recommend your campus.” Associated Student Government, UP and the Division of Student Affairs researched potential safety smartphone apps, but decided none of the third-party vendors fit the University’s needs. Instead, they chose to incorporate the safety features into another app, NUHelp, which is currently being developed and is set to have a beta launch by the end of the quarter. “After we kind of went through this vetting process for the thirdparty kind of mobile blue light apps, we saw an opportunity to combine the two projects,” said Kevin Harris, ASG’s vice president for community relations and a Weinberg junior. “There wasn’t a third-party vendor out there that we saw as a good fit for the University’s needs right now.” Similarly to the website, the NUHelp app will be a “one-stop shop” for student resources, Harris said. » See Bluelight, page 7
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Community Effort Patrick Day (SESP ’92) talks Wednesday about the importance of deliberate leadership in community. Day spoke at the sixth annual Gregg A. Kindle Distinguished Lecture on Community, which all resident assistants were required to attend.
Alum talks leadership, change By Drew Gerber
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A Northwestern alumnus called on residential assistants and administrators Tuesday to lead changes in policy and engagement within the NU community to improve campus culture. Patrick Day (SESP ’92), vice president for student life at University of the Pacific, spoke to about 170 RAs and Residential Services administrators
Activist groups respond to graffiti By Tyler Pager
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A group of 23 anti-Semitism watchdog groups sent a letter to University President Morton Schapiro on Tuesday asking him to take additional steps to combat anti-Semitism at Northwestern in light of the recent incidents of swastikas on campus. The authors said they were concerned with Schapiro’s email to the NU community after police found two swastikas in University Library. Earlier this month, a swastika was found on the wall of the men’s bathroom on the fourth floor of the library. Four days later, police said a swastika was discovered in a thirdfloor study room in the library. “While we are pleased that you issued a statement, we are concerned that your message neglected to publicly acknowledge that a swastika is an anti-Semitic symbol associated with genocide perpetrated against the Jewish people,” the letter said. The authors asked Schapiro to take four steps to prevent future anti-Semitic messages on campus. They recommended he publicly acknowledge that swastika graffiti is an anti-Semitic act and publicly
pledge to educate University staff in recognizing anti-Semitic hate crimes. Additionally, they urged Schapiro to have NU adopt the U.S. State Department’s definition of antiSemitism and designate resources to educating students about discrimination against Jews. Tannenbaum-Chabad House Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein said the letter to Schapiro was a reminder that discrimination against the Jewish community isn’t new. “Unfortunately, this is an act that takes place quite often on college campuses including our own,” he said. “I’m happy that national Jewish organizations have taken notice and are concerned about that here at Northwestern.” The letter said more than 18 college campuses have reported incidents of swastikas in the last year. Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, director of the AMCHA Initiative, an organization dedicated to combating anti-Semitism on college campuses, said this was the fifth or sixth letter she has been involved in sending to university leaders in the past few weeks. “We have seen an alarming increase in campus anti-Semitism over the last year,” she said. “We’ve seen a real increase in the type of
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anti-Semitic graffiti that were found at Northwestern.” Schapiro responded to the letter Tuesday afternoon, saying he appreciated the suggestions, but was not concerned about any threats to the safety of Jewish students on campus. “If we believed that a threat did exist to Jewish students — or any other students — we would take the appropriate actions in order to ensure the continued safety of our students,” Schapiro wrote in an email to Rossman-Benjamin obtained by The Daily. He added NU has a vibrant Jewish community and the University has increased its commitment to the academic study of Jewish history through the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies. Rossman-Benjamin said the group was pleased Schapiro took their recommendations into consideration. “(The letter) wasn’t really a criticism of him so much as was sharing our experiences about the growth of anti-Semitism on campuses, its linkage to certain kinds of behavior on campus and a set of best practices for how address future acts of antiSemitic bigotry,” she said. tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu
about the importance of building crosscultural and diverse communities. Day emphasized that community building requires deliberate leadership. “This notion of community, this idea of community, is one that doesn’t just happen,” Day said. Day, who is black, drew upon his own experience at NU, showing the audience a picture of himself with a group of mostly black students. He said at NU this type of experience — “defaulting into places” — can easily happen. “We are a community that is not as
City implements pesticide-free park program
A new program to keep Evanston parks pesticide-free will launch soon, the city announced Tuesday. The city has chosen five local parks — Ackerman, Burnham Shores, Eiden, Perry and Trahan — that will be maintained without the use of pesticides for one year, the city said. “Evanston strives to keep our parks a healthy place for all our residents and visitors to enjoy, and we are excited to launch this Pesticide-Free Parks Pilot Program, which is our largest Adopt-a-Park partnership to date,” Paul D’Agostino, the city’s assistant director of public works, said in a news release. The program is being launched with the help of Greenwise Landscaping & Lawn Care Services, a local landscape company, and the Midwest Pesticide Action Center, a Chicago-based organization that promotes safer alternatives to pesticides, the city said. “Midwest Pesticide Action Center applauds Evanston’s commitment to limit the use of pesticides in order to create healthy places to play,” Ruth Kerzee, Midwest Pesticide Action Center’s executive director, said in a statement. “People want pesticide-free parks where they can go with their children and pets and not worry about being exposed.” Marc Wise, the founder of Greenwise, also said he was excited to be involved in
deliberate about creating our desired community as we could be,” Day said. Day spoke at the sixth annual Gregg A. Kindle Distinguished Lecture on Community, presented by Residential Services in honor of former Director of Residential Life and Assistant Dean of Students Gregg Kindle. During his tenure, Kindle focused on creating inclusive community programs on issues like LGBT and sexual assault awareness. Day told the audience three things » See Community, page 7 the program. “Greenwise loves this opportunity to give back to the community we call home and is thrilled to partner with the Evanston to promote organic land management,” Wise said in a statement. “This is a great way to tell the folks of Evanston to get out and enjoy your parks. To avoid the use of pesticides, the city will use alternative weed control methods and improve soil health to increase natural weed resistance. Martha Logan, the city’s community engagement manager, told The Daily the city has been working for more than five years to better Evanston’s park district. “The city has really been considering public health and the environment when conducting park maintenance activities,” Logan said. “We are trying to reduce the usage of pesticides to create the most livable city in America.” The program will mark the fifth anniversary of the city’s pesticide reduction policy, which was implemented to show Evanston’s commitment to protecting the health of its residents, the city said. Along with the program, the city is also encouraging residents to take advantage of natural lawn care practices. The city recommended that community members water deeply no more than once a week, keep their lawns at least three inches high, use organic fertilizer and naturally dispose of weeds. If the program is successful within its first year, the city said it could be extended and include more parks in the future. — Tori Latham
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Police Blotter Evanston woman says several men forcibly robbed her Multiple people forcibly robbed a woman on the porch of her apartment building in south Evanston early Monday morning, police said. The 27-year-old woman said she was sitting on the porch of her building in the 1500 block of Greenleaf Street smoking a cigarette when three or four young men came up to her and asked for a cigarette, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. When she said no, the men grabbed her purse, pushed her head into a wall and took
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ETHS named 17th most difficult Illinois school in annual national list
Evanston Township High School ranked highly on The Washington Post’s annual list of America’s most challenging high schools. ETHS, 1600 Dodge Ave., came in as the 17th most difficult school in Illinois and the 584th most challenging in the nation, according to The Washington Post list. Last year, ETHS ranked 18th in the state. “Our whole community can be so proud about how highly ranked our high school is when compared to the best public, private and highly selective schools nationwide,” School District 202 Superintendent Eric Witherspoon said in a news release. “ETHS has a long tradition of excellence, and I feel especially proud of today’s students who, with the support of our fine staff, are taking the most challenging Advanced Placement classes in ETHS history and performing at the highest levels ever on the ACT national college admissions exam.” The list is compiled based on a “challenge index,” which takes the total number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests given by a school each year and divides that number by the number of seniors who graduated in May or June, according to The Washington Post.
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Schools with a ratio of at least one, meaning they had at least as many tests as graduates in 2014, were placed on the list. 22,000 private and public schools were assessed, but only 2,325 met the required ratio. According to data from The Washington Post, ETHS offers 25 AP courses, one IB course and one Cambridge/ACE course. The school’s four-year
graduation rate is 88 percent. This year’s highest ranking school overall was BASIS Oro Valley in Oro Valley, Arizona. The highest ranked in Illinois was College Preparatory School of America in Lombard, Illinois, which came in at 173 overall.
about $120 from her wallet inside her purse, Dugan added. She later said her wallet was taken from her sweatshirt pocket and the men kicked her in the face then left, Dugan said. Afterward, she said she was instead punched in the face before her money was taken, Dugan said. The woman was transported to the hospital but did not have any signs of injury to her face. However, she did say it felt swollen and there was a scratch on one of her fingers, police said.
of scuba diving equipment from a west Evanston home between April 6 and Monday morning, police said. The equipment was in a case inside of a garage of the residence located in the 2400 block of Central Park Avenue, Dugan said. The owner of the home, a 67-year-old man said the equipment belonged to his 22-yearold son and was last seen April 6, Dugan added. There were no signs of forced entry into the home, police said.
Scuba diving equipment stolen from Evanston home Someone burglarized about $8,000 worth
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Law Prof. Andrew Koppelman recently cowrote and submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court calling attention to the gender discrimination argument regarding same-sex marriage laws. Koppelman and Mason University Prof. Ilya Somin submitted the amicus brief to the Supreme Court last month, saying laws banning same-sex marriage can be considered gender discrimination. They argue states permit a man and a woman to get married on the premise of their genders, but some object to two women or two men getting married, making it a gender-based restriction. An amicus brief can be submitted by someone who is not directly involved in the case but has relevant information to offer the court. “Each of the laws challenged in this case clearly mandates that whether one can marry any specific person depends on whether one is a man or a woman,� Koppelman and Somin wrote in the brief. Next week, the Supreme Court will begin to hear arguments on whether states can ban samesex marriage. “I’ve fought for years for the sex-discrimination argument, which is a powerful and neglected
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argument,â€? Koppelman told The Daily. “I thought I might mention it to the Justices.â€? Koppelman said he and Somin wanted to get their message out and decided to write an opinion piece in USA Today, which was published Monday. The article has received mixed reactions on both Koppelman and Somin’s Facebook feeds. Koppelman said Somin’s more conservative Facebook friends have sparked a debate in the comments section of his profile, while Koppelman’s more liberal Facebook-friend circle was less argumentative. “On mine, people just liked it and shared it,â€? Koppelman said. “That’s the only reaction I’m aware of.â€? Communication sophomore Matthew Fulle, who worked in Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s press office in Fall Quarter, said that Koppelman and Somin’s argument transitions the issue of same-sex marriage from discrimination of sexual orientation to discrimination in gender. “It changes ‌ the way the argument is framed,â€? he said. “The issue of framing things is just as important as the persuasiveness of the argument ‌ especially with an issue like same-sex marriage, it is incredibly important to reframe it as something that is relatable to more people.â€? marianaalfaro2018@u.northwestern.edu in a showcase for the nation’s best college-aged musicians. The students and alumnus performed as part of the Conservatory Project, a twice-yearly concert showcasing musicians from conservatories and music schools across the country. Bienen Dean Toni-Marie Montgomery said the school is proud to be involved in the program. “The Bienen School of Music is honored to
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Schapiro meets with Durbin, discusses federal funding
University President Morton Schapiro met with Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Tuesday to discuss legislation regarding federal funding for biomedical and science research. Earlier this year, Durbin introduced two bills supporting federal funding for major research universities like Northwestern. Durbin said the bills aim to reverse a trend of decreases in federal funding for research. “Northwestern is home to some of our nation’s participate in the Kennedy Center’s Conservatory Project for the 11th consecutive year,� Montgomery said. “It is gratifying to be included in this exciting series highlighting students from many of the nation’s leading music institutions.� Only one of the performers was an undergraduate: cellist Brannon Cho, a Bienen sophomore. Another is a master’s student, mezzo-soprano Kelsey Park, and two are doctoral candidates,
best and brightest researchers who are leading the way in complex and growing fields like orthotics and prosthetics research,� Durbin said in a news release. “But like their colleagues across the country, Northwestern’s scientists are facing diminishing federal resources for their cutting edge research. This isn’t simply a problem for those scientists, their labs, or the universities they work at — it is a problem for the future of our country.� The two also discussed NU’s Prosthetics-Orthotics Center. Durbin introduced two other bills Tuesday aimed at improving orthotics and prosthetics care for servicemembers and veterans. — Shane McKeon
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Political moderates left empty-handed Julia Cohen
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In 2012, I worked in the New York headquarters of Organizing for America, the Democratic community-organizing group tasked with re-electing president Barack Obama. Just a year later, I called my hippie-liberal mother in tears telling her that I was a Republican and I felt as if my whole life had been a lie. In 2014, I met Rick Santorum and unloaded the history of my political views and identity crisis to the 56-year-old former senator whom I had only seen before on television. “I want to be a good Republican,” I said. “I want to be able to go into politics and fight for strong foreign policy and lower taxes, but I think that marriage builds strong families no matter what gender you chose to spend your life with.” He respectfully — or as respectfully as a man whose homophobia has its own Wikipedia page — disagreed with my last statement, but what he said next is what really got me thinking about my place in politics: “You seem like a smart, passionate girl,” he said. “But it’s hard to get your name in a party when you disagree with one of its central values.”
Maybe in the future, same-sex marriage won’t be a defining feature of the Republican Party, but beyond the specifics, Santorum brought up a good point. The two-party system dominates federal politics, and if you’re straddling red and blue, there aren’t many paths to the Capitol building. The United States has a partisan-industrial complex, and it keeps a lot of intelligent people out of politics. Political consulting firms can be seen on every corner in DC, and they all have a partisan undertone. There is a lot of money to be made in a firm that specializes in getting members of a certain party elected. One liberal firm, Waterfront Strategies, made $42 million in the 2014 election cycle. This specialization delivers skills, connections and — most importantly — results to political candidates. Even if image does not affect what policies are passed once a candidate is actually in office, it does influence the perception of the American people. Democrats are painted as bottom-up success stories coming back to defend where they came from. Republicans are wholesome family men and women who are living the American Dream, and they want you to as well. If independent candidates were to run for office, this system falls apart. The hard-andfast philosophies of whom to campaign to based on demographic-party relationships would fall apart. This isn’t to say that political
consulting would become obsolete, but its methods would change. Such a huge change is something that already-established multimillion-dollar firms are not likely to embrace. It’s not in the interest of the groups that support party politics to give funding and publicity to independent candidates, and without the financial backing these candidates have no chance at winning an election. As a result, a lot of qualified people are kept out of office. In a recent Pew Research Center poll, 39 percent of Americans consider themselves independents. I do not know where the future of politics for moderates, independents, libertarians and other political oddities lies. Maybe if someone else finds a senator to tell his or her life story, we’ll be closer to an answer. In my brief meltdown to Santorum, he mentioned a lot of people who did not fit into a party found their places studying specific issues behind the scenes. This makes sense, and it definitely gives people outlets to create meaningful changes, but it can never be the same as voting on the Senate or House floor. Julia Cohen is a SESP sophomore. She can be reached at juliacohen2017@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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U.S. involvement in Yemeni conflict As the conflict between the Yemeni government and the Houthi rebels worsens, it is apparent a proxy war with numerous players — most notably Iran and Saudi Arabia — is reaching full force. Originally, the two sides were those loyal to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi versus the Zaydi Shia group called the Houthis, who are rebelling against his rule. This Sunni-Shiite split has led the two huge rival powers in the Middle East to back opposing groups,
with Saudi Arabia supporting the Sunni majority and Iran the Shia rebels. Iran has been accused — but never formally confirmed — of directly funding the Houthi rebels, a group born out of an ideology of peace and tolerance in the 1990s before President Hadi’s fear of their influence led them to be the focal point of a proxy war fought on Yemeni soil between Shia Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia. However, the Irani government has said it supports the rebels.
US can only act if defense companies break the law Abigail Stratton
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The United States is home to the three largest defense companies in the world, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman. All three are powerhouses, with their combined revenues totalling roughly 1 percent of U.S. gross domestic product. Additionally, all three compaUnless a nies sell to the U.S. government, which company accounts for at least breaks a specific half of each company’s sales as of 2001. law, the US As the largest armsgovernment producing compacannot directly nies in the world, prohibit them they are dependent on both domestic from selling and foreign arms sales. In 2000, Lockto certain heed Martin’s arms countries. sales comprised 73 percent of their total revenue, Boeing 33 percent and Northrop Grumman 48 percent. Those who oppose these defense companies’ sales to Arab nations often remark on how these companies profit from the suffering of others. However, historically, and particularly during the Cold War, the dependency on foreign military sales was surprisingly small. In 1999, only 4.32 percent of Lockheed Martin’s sales were to foreign militaries allied with the United States, while Boeing sold 2.44 percent and Northrop Grumman sold 0.97 percent to American allies. These small percentages amounted to $2.7 billion, a sizeable sum of money but nowhere close to domestic
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sales to the U.S. military. It is important to note that the vast majority of sales by these American companies are domestic rather than exports to foreign militaries. These companies are under the control of the U.S. government in more ways than one. Firstly, many U.S. laws keep these companies from selling to anyone other than allies of the United States. The U.S. government also restricts the types of weapons American firms are allowed to sell to Arab nations in an effort to protect Israel from its “traditional adversaries” in the region. In addition to the laws in place, the U.S. government has economic pull in these companies. As mentioned before, a huge percentage of these companies’ sales and therefore their profit comes from the U.S. military. This means the companies not only have to follow the law but also keep the military happy to guarantee the U.S.’s continued support as the largest customer to these defense companies. The possible weapons sales to Arab states would not happen without some sort of say from the government. These companies have international operations surrounding defense and commercial interests. But unless a company breaks a specific law, the U.S. government cannot directly prohibit them from selling to certain countries, especially if the sale will not threaten the security of the United States. Ultimately, even if the government has not taken a stance on the war in Yemen, it cannot prevent private defense companies from manufacturing or selling to certain countries, but the government can still have an influence over these companies’ decisions. Abigail Stratton is a Weinberg freshman. She can be reached at abigailstratton2018@u.northwestern. edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@ dailynorthwestern.com.
Many other Arab states have joined this war, including Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Egypt. Traditionally, these nations would call upon the United States for military support and would give money in exchange for the use of U.S. military bases and weapons. However, in this conflict, the United States has refused to directly employ its own military resources, and Arab states have turned to private weapons companies to fund their
participation. Namely, Boeing and Lockheed Martin — two American companies — are profiting hugely off of the purchase of their weapons and planes, particularly the F-15. Is it fair for the United States to stay out of a conflict politically but still profit economically off of the use of destructive American-made weapons? Should the government intervene and restrict this economic participation?
US could save many lives by limiting weapons sales Asha Sawhney
Daily columnist
At first glance, it seems U.S. involvement in Yemen is purely economic. However, there is a flaw in this judgment due to the indirect participation of Israel in this war. The situation in Yemen caught the attention of Israel, which, under the guise of re-elected Prime Minister Netanyahu, has made the alleged threat of Iran a top priority. Despite a historically strained relation between Israel and Saudi Arabia, the nation has decided to align itself with the kingdom for the sake of fighting against Iran, because, as the saying goes, an enemy of my enemy is a friend. The trade alliance between Saudi Arabia and the United States undoubtedly also played a role in this decision. In 2008, Congress enacted a law that ensures arm sales provide Israel with a “qualitative military edge” in the region. All sales to the region would thus be evaluated for how they affected Israel’s superiority. This means the United States is incapable of being a neutral economic force in this proxy war because they can only fund the side Israel has aligned itself with, which are the efforts by Saudi Arabia to quash the Houthi rebels. In this proxy war, we are just as much taking a distinct side as any of the other players. It is dangerous for the United States to be playing such a powerful and one-sided role in a war that will involve none of our troops. Generally, extreme caution is taken when deciding to enter a conflict where American lives will be at stake, an attitude that was clear during Obama’s speech about the Islamic State when he repeatedly promised that there would be “no boots on the ground” in Syria. When our involvement is political but only through corporations like Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop
Grumman, there is no incentive to act with caution. In fact, our companies have an incentive to sell as many weapons as possible, potentially multiplying the destruction that would have occurred without U.S. resources. Similar to how the United States imposes sanctions on countries for their involvement in violent conflict, we should consider doing the same for defense companies. If we truly want to remain neutral, the government cannot let companies within its jurisdiction profit from continuing conflict. In the past, the United We have States has instructed companies not to enter imposed certain markets on sanctions political grounds and against... has sanctioned entire countries. We have Libya to halt imposed sanctions a proxy war, against Russia for the war in Ukraine, against which is quite Iran for its view on literally the Israel and against phenomenon Libya to halt a proxy war, which is quite litwe are fueling. erally the phenomenon we are fueling now. Unfortunately, insurmountable ties with Israel will almost certainly stop the United States from viewing its involvement neutrally. With reason, the United States is finding a way to avoid sending troops to Yemen. Therefore, if we understand that lives of our own people are not worth losing in this violence, we should be restricting our companies as best as possible from funding the loss of innocent Yemeni lives along with the lives of soldiers from all over the Middle East.
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Asha Sawhney is a Weinberg freshman. She can be reached at ashasawhney2018@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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Professor hosts reading, Q&A on FLOTUS book By Peter Kotecki
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Medill Prof. Peter Slevin held a reading and Q&A on his book about Michelle Obama, where he spoke about the First Lady’s journey to the White House and the lesser-known parts of her story. The event was held in the McCormick Foundation Center Forum on Tuesday for an audience of more than 50 people. Slevin’s book chronicles Obama’s life, from her experiences growing up on the South Side of Chicago to becoming the first African-American First Lady of the United States. Excerpts from Slevin’s book, “Michelle Obama: A Life,” were featured in Politico’s magazine last month, and the book was released April 7. Obama, who attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School has advocated for equality, nutrition and military families during her time at the White House. Slevin said he was interested in creating the biography because he wanted to write about a remarkable woman whose trajectory is both familiar and mysterious. “I wanted to try to understand kind of not only what she is saying in the White House, where she … is talking about inequality, she is talking about fairness … but also why,” Slevin said. Slevin, who spent four years working on the biography, said he wanted to tell the story of Obama against the backdrop of the history she herself has lived.
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First Lady Medill Prof. Peter Slevin discusses his biography of Michelle Obama in a Q&A with Medill Prof. Ava Thompson Greenwell. The biography, released April 7, is the first comprehensive account of Obama’s life.
“Michelle Obama says, ‘I’m a statistical anomaly,’” Slevin said. “She says, ‘I am not supposed to be here,’ and she felt that in many different times in her life.” Upon graduating Harvard, Obama returned to Chicago in 1988 and worked in corporate law for three years, Slevin said. She then worked for the Chicago City Hall before creating Public Allies Chicago, a leadership training program for young people. “She called it the happiest time of her professional life, because she said it was something that was all hers, something that she made, something that she
felt was making a difference,” Slevin said. Medill Prof. Ava Thompson Greenwell, who attended the same high school as Obama, facilitated the Q&A portion of the event. Greenwell asked Slevin about the challenges he encountered during the process of writing the Obama biography. Slevin said one challenging aspect was figuring out what story to tell about her life. “Another challenge, of course, was trying to weave the history into it, because I think this is a story about Michelle Obama, but it is also a story about our times,”
But there appears to have been a massive breakdown during the recent winter quarter culminating in “an unusually high number of troubling allegations of academic dishonesty” reported to officials, according to a letter to faculty from Provost John Etchemendy. “Among a smattering of concerns from a number of winter courses, one faculty member reported allegations that may involve as many as 20 percent of the students in one large, introductory course,” Etchemendy said in the March 24 letter. He went on to remind faculty members of their responsibility to discuss with students the seriousness of cheating _ and the consequences. A first offense can result in a student being suspended for one quarter.
Although the Stanford allegations may have surprised some, for many others they cemented the belief that a culture of cheating pervades higher education. Harvard, Dartmouth, the Air Force Academy and other prominent institutions have recently grappled with allegations of large-scale cheating. Studies find that students feel under more pressure than ever to succeed and increasingly see cutting corners as nothing serious. And they are being aided by cheating-friendly technology. Etchemendy alluded to those challenges. “With the ease of technology and widespread sharing that is now part of the collaborative culture, students need to recognize and be reminded that it is dishonest to appropriate the work of others,” he said.
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he said. Greenwell and Slevin discussed the process of acquiring sources for the biography. Slevin said he hadn’t been granted access to speak to the First Lady since the first presidential campaign, when he interviewed her twice. He said he relied on dozens of friends, relatives, mentors and professors to learn more about her. Slevin said he read hundreds of thousands of Obama’s words and used them to include her voice in the book. After finishing the book, Slevin said he contacted several sources and read parts of the book to them. He asked Obama’s friends and relatives whether anything was wrong and needed to be changed. In the end, no source asked him to change anything, Slevin said. He said he looks forward to teaching again at Northwestern next year, and hopes to relate Obama’s story to courses he will teach in the future. Medill senior Yvonne Ashley Kouadjo said she met Slevin during the fall of her freshman year and began helping him with the research needed to write the biography. “It’s really cool, as a student, to work on something meaningful,” Kouadjo told The Daily. “Sometimes the work we have, you write papers and you do all this work, but then to work on a tangible book and project along with other student researchers … They were all so amazing and super intelligent, and I just learned a lot from them and from Peter. Just having the experience and working on the book was pretty phenomenal.” peterkotecki2018@u.northwestern.edu “Do we provide guidance for the use of technology? And are students aware that we really will seek to identify and report concerns that may arise?” Stanford officials said the allegations are under investigation, but declined to say which course is involved. Numerous students are being interviewed, spokeswoman Lisa Lapin said. “Every student has the opportunity to present evidence of the work they did and why,” she said. Lapin noted that some breaches of the honor code occur every quarter. In 2013-14, 83 honor cases were reviewed. Officials said they had no information on how many were found to be in violation. — Carla Rivera (Los Angeles Times)
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Project NU to tell campus stories through theater By Matthew Choi
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Spectrum Theatre Company’s newest production aims to tell the stories of the broader Northwestern community to open dialogue about difficult topics. “We’re not here to take a side or push down your throat some dogma,” said Michael Fagan, a Weinberg junior and artistic director of the company. “We’re here to open your eyes, broaden your horizons and have us connect. Because that’s what theater is all about.” Project NU, conceived in the last weeks of Winter Quarter, is an innovative project that aspires to present diverse campus issues through theater, Fagan said. The project will involve interviewing members of the NU community and writing and producing original plays based on the interviews. Spectrum has already begun recruiting for the project’s key players, and hosted an information session Thursday. A producer will be selected by Monday, followed by a director and head writer in subsequent weeks. Interviews
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Evanston had the fourth largest vote total in an international city competition sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund, the city announced Tuesday. With a total of 14,365 votes, Evanston beat larger cities like Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg and Vancouver, Canada, in the WWF’s Earth Hour City Challenge. The city had one of the smallest populations in the challenge, but it had the second highest number of votes per
Community to take part in underage drinking prevention campaign
Evanston community members will participate later this week in a statewide campaign to prevent underage drinking. The Evanston Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition, along with student and adult volunteers, will go to local businesses Thursday from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. and distribute materials emphasizing the
for narratives will be conducted during Winter Quarter by the project’s writing team, and the show will be part of Spectrum’s mainstage season in the spring. Topics for narratives will include race, class and other issues pertinent to NU, Fagan said. This project, one of Spectrum’s three shows for the mainstage season, is meant to directly serve the University community and connect back to Spectrum’s mission statement of raising awareness, inspiring dialogue and creating change through theatre, said Spectrum member Matthew Silverman, a Medill junior. Silverman said Spectrum hopes to bring diversity to the production not only through its narratives, but also through its creative team. From film to journalism to cultural studies, the backgrounds of project team members, much like Spectrum itself, will not be solely contained to the theater department. “It’s definitely an ambitious process,” Silverman said. “But … we wanted to try something that would really serve this community and that would address the issues that are impacting this community specifically. So it’s a risk we are willing to take.” Project NU follows a similar project initiated
last academic year called Newsflash Theatre. The original project was intended to be a space for students to raise awareness after noteworthy events on We wanted to campus. Though the project ultimately did try something not come to fruition, Spectrum did not that would the idea of really serve this abandon a student production community for members of the and that would NU community to share their voice. address the “L ogistically it was hard. We maybe issues. dropped the ball a Matthew Silverman, couple of times and Medill junior and people who were Spectrum member supposed to be doing some things with us dropped the ball a couple of times or got busy and it wasn’t a priority,” Fagan, who worked on Newsflash Theatre, said of the project. “We wanted to make sure that people had a space to raise voices and raise awareness on this campus.”
capita, trailing only behind Balikpapan, Indonesia, the city said. An 11-member jury of renowned leaders in urban sustainability named Evanston the 2015 U.S. Earth Hour City Capital in March. The panel recognized Evanston’s commitment and progress toward fighting climate change, the city said. They also noted the city’s energy program that aims to give residents and small businesses 100 percent renewable energy and the sustainability standards that exist for new buildings in Evanston. Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl traveled to Seoul earlier this month, where she represented Evanston at the ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability’s World Congress
conference. Balikpapan, Indonesia won the title of Most Loveable City, which was based on vote totals from the WWF’s “We Love Cities” campaign. The campaign encouraged community members to vote, tweet and Instagram the reasons they loved their city. The panel chose Seoul as the overall winner of the challenge. Evanston will celebrate the city’s recognition as the U.S. Earth Hour City Capital on Monday. Community members can join Tisdahl and City Council at a reception at 5:45 p.m. at the Civic Center
harm of underage drinking, Evanston police said Tuesday. Karen Finstad, the coalition coordinator, told The Daily the campaign is important because it raises awareness in the city. “This is just one way of promoting an issue that is important year-round,” Finstad said. “I’m hoping it will have a long-term impact because these materials will be kept up as long as the businesses agree to keep them up.” The campaign is part of the larger YOUR ACTIONS MATTER! campaign sponsored by the Illinois Liquor Control Commission.
Community members will be putting up posters and age signs, along with materials placed directly on alcoholic beverages sold at retail locations so those who purchase them think twice before bringing alcohol to underage people, Finstad said. Although she said underage drinking has many negative effects on young people, Finstad emphasized the developmental risks underage drinking imposes. “These kids are in a critical time for brain development,” she said. “We want to emphasize that this is for personal safety, but it’s the community’s responsibility to help prevent underage drinking.”
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Logistics are not the only hurdle Spectrum will have to overcome. Dealing with such sensitive issues and properly representing the stories of others will be challenging, Fagan said, but the company is reaching out to multiple resources to ensure it is respectful and accurate. “We’re going great lengths to get mentorships, ethnographers,” Fagan said. “We’re having our directors, and us as well, research how this type of theatre… has been done in the past – how they interview and interview effectively. That’s just going to be a continual challenge that we’re going to have to face.” Several students already expressed interest in joining the project during its information session. Communication freshman Jamie Joeyen-Waldorf said she is considering petitioning to be a producer for the show, but would be happy contributing in any way to the project. “I feel like there really hasn’t been a project similar in nature done here on campus before,” Joeyen-Waldorf said. “So this is definitely interesting.” matthewchoi2018@u.northwestern.edu
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THINK GREEN Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl accepts an award April 9 at the ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability’s World Congress in Seoul.
Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan told The Daily it was important that the police team up with the ESAP Coalition to bring more attention to the campaign. “It helps to be out there and have an enforcement role,” Dugan said. “We’re always trying to be vigilant, especially in a college town.” The campaign will kick off Thursday before material distribution at the Music Institute of Chicago’s Institute of Therapy through the Arts, 1702 Sherman Ave. — Tori Latham
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he considers central to improving campus culture at NU: looking for policies that don’t work, creating better community engagement and making organizational changes in areas like housing or the Greek system. “If you have this ideal community, what it begins to communicate to people on the front-end We are a is that there are shared community values that are powerful and they are significant,” that is not as Day said. “Not only are deliberate we going to say them in about creating the brochure, but at some point there is going to be our desired a reinforcement of those community as values.” Cassie Eskridge, we could be. senior assistant director Patrick Day, of residential life, said SESP alumnus this year’s lecture was different from past years because organizers wanted to hold a deeper discussion specifically focused on NU. “When somebody brought up Mr. Patrick Day, who is a Northwestern alum, as somebody who could come and speak about his experience here and some of the things that haven’t really changed since he graduated in ‘92,” Eskridge said, “It is pretty
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WASHINGTON — U.S. farm interests see the potential for more than $1 billion a year in sales to Cuba, a market that right now is hamstrung by restrictions that remain despite the thawing of relations between the countries. In a hearing Tuesday before the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, farmers and Obama administration officials testified to the steps that still need to be taken if U.S. agriculture is to get the most out of the market just 90 miles from the nation’s shores. “The problem is rules and laws that just make it too expensive to compete in that market,” testified Doug Keesling, a farmer from
powerful to hear from somebody who was here.” Day emphasized that his community at NU did not lack any of the opportunities other communities had, academically or socially, but all communities at the University missed out on building cross-cultural connections. He said that failing to engage in these types of conversations, whether surrounding the gender spectrum or sexual assault, prevented progress for both the affected community and the NU community as a whole. To initiate a conversation among the RAs, Day led the group through a brainstorming exercise to create NU-specific definitions for what communities are currently like and what they could ideally be. Day joked with and teased the students, creating a more intimate atmosphere, which he said is essential for starting these kinds of conversations. Eskridge said a special component of the Kindle lecture is that it is held in two sessions, one for faculty and administrators and another for students. “We have people at both the student level and in our administration who want to make NU a more inclusive place for all students,” she said. First-year RA Yue Hu, who lives in 1835 Hinman, felt Day’s lecture provided a rare opportunity for discussion. “As an RA, we are privileged to engage in these conversation,” the McCormick sophomore said. “Personally, I cherish this opportunity.” drewgerber2018@u.northwestern.edu Chase, Kan. Among the key problems: a requirement that exporters receive cash before they’re allowed to unload their products in Cuban ports. The ban on credit sales is just one restriction that remains despite the warming of relations with Cuba, announced by the White House in December. A month later, the administration relaxed some financial restrictions on trade; since then, some members of Congress have pushed for a full repeal of the trade embargo that’s governed most trade with Cuba for decades. While agriculture products can be sold to Cuba, the market is far from free and open. As Keesling recounted: “I can put my wheat in an elevator in Kansas, send it by rail down to the Gulf of Mexico and put it on a ship that’s just a couple days away from the Havana Harbor. But my wheat is still going to lose out to
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UP Deputy Chief Dan McAleer declined to comment on the BlueLight app, as he said he was unaware of it. Regan said the app is well-suited to NU’s campus because students do a lot of walking at wheat that has to be on a boat for a week from Canada or two weeks from France.” Cuba imports more than $2 billion a year in food and agricultural products, and one expert who testified Tuesday said that with a more open economy, fewer regulations and other changes, U.S. food and agricultural exports to Cuba had the potential to exceed $1.2 billion annually within five years. That’s up from less than $300 million last year, said C. Parr Rosson, an agricultural economist at Texas A&M University. A big boost in shipments is possible, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told McClatchy. “Look, it’s only 90 miles offshore,” he said in an interview Tuesday afternoon. “The American farmer is anxious to do business with the Cubans. And I think there are things we grow and raise — pork, poultry, soybeans — that we grow in great abundance and raise in great
night, oftentimes alone. “Our physical blue light system at Northwestern is good, but I don’t think it’s as good as it should be, and so I think this really fills the gap in keeping Northwestern students safe,” he said. tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu abundance that the Cubans would be quite interested in having.” The U.S. farm lobby is pushing hard for a repeal of the trade embargo, and the hearing was generally friendly to that position, which remains controversial in Congress as a whole. A bill has been introduced to eliminate trade restrictions with Cuba, and it has supporters from both sides of the aisle. But it faces long odds. At best, according to U.S.-Cuba experts, trade advocates are in for a long battle. Experts said it was unlikely that this Congress would end the embargo, which has the potential to divide the Republican Party. Franco Ordonez contributed to this report. — Chris Adams (McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS)
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Wildcats open new Rocky Miller Park with a win By TIM BALK
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Two months into the season, Northwestern finally has a true home win under its belt. The Wildcats (12-26, 4-8 Big Ten) played their first game of the season at the newly renovated Rocky Miller Park on Tuesday. NU reopened the field in style, winning 9-5 against Milwaukee (22-13, 9-8 Horizon League). On a chilly, blustery afternoon the Cats’ bats brought some heat, rolling up 15 hits. Milwaukee utilized four pitchers and none had an answer for the NU offense. Each surrendered at least one earned run.
No bat was hotter than that of junior first baseman Zach Jones, who had a two-run home run in the first inning and finished the afternoon 3-for-5 at the plate. “Today the wind was kind of working to our advantage, blowing out and everything,� Jones said. “It was kind of a crazy game, but you just need to put good at-bats together and do the best you can. Today it worked out for us.� Jones’ two-run homer was part of a five run first inning that gave the Cats a 5-1 lead. Milwaukee came back and tied the game at 5-5 in the top of the fifth, but NU took the lead for good in the bottom of the inning when Jones scored on a sacrifice fly from junior Jack Mitchell. Mitchell also hit a two run home run in the first inning. Three Wildcats finished the afternoon with at least three hits. “Just a good day for all of us,� Jones said. “We were just seeing it well, and we were able to put some hits up today.�
Freshmen pitchers Tommy Bordignon and Grant Peikert kept Milwaukee off the board in the final three innings of the game, with Bordignon pitching the seventh and eighth innings and Peikert pitching a hitless ninth. Sophomore Joe Schindler, who pitched 5.2 innings, was credited with the win. Senior Brandon Magallones started the game, but left after recording just one out. Magallones was set to start in the weekend series and was on a 20-pitch limit. “Joe Schindler looked the same as he always looks to me: awesome,� coach Paul Stevens said. “Tommy looked even better, and Peikert looked extraordinary.� The win is the second in a row for the Cats, who will play their next 10 contests in Evanston. “It’s been a long time coming,� Jones said. “We’ve been waiting for this and we were so excited to finally get out here and play.� timothybalk2018@u.northwestern.edu
NU seeks to get back on track Illinois vs. Northwestern Evanston 2 p.m. Wednesday
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TAKING A LEAD Sophomore Joe Hoscheit watches a fly ball. Northwestern got plenty of baserunning practice Tuesday, crossing home plate nine times against Milwaukee
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Following a dramatic 5-3 victory over the Nebraska Cornhuskers last Sunday, Northwestern hopes the good vibes will carry over into its doubleheader against in-state and conference rival Illinois on Wednesday. The Wildcats (21-17, 9-5 Big Ten) have run into some misfortune recently after winning their first eight Big Ten games of the season. NU’s win over Nebraska (25-19, 12-5) snapped a six-game losing streak, which included a sweep by the then-No. 15 Minnesota Golden Gophers (37-7, 12-3) and a heartbreaking walk-off loss to then-No. 25 Notre Dame (37-11, 16-5 ACC). With the Fighting Illini now ahead of the Cats in the Big Ten standings, Wednesday’s doubleheader becomes much more important for coach Kate Drohan’s team. “The timing of this (series) is interesting,â€? Drohan said. “The fun thing about the Big Ten is that every game is important ‌ (Illinois is) a great rival of ours, and we’re excited about our win on Sunday and looking to get on a roll again.â€? Freshman catcher Sammy Nettling agreed with Drohan, emphasizing that not everything is about the standings. “From a confidence standpoint, I thought that Sunday’s big win against Nebraska was definitely the boost that we needed,â€? Nettling said. “We know we haven’t been playing well lately, but this series is huge, not just for the standings, but for getting back to the way we want to play.â€? Throughout Drohan’s 14-year tenure as coach, NU has been known for playing one of the nation’s toughest schedules. Junior pitcher Kristen Wood admitted it is sometimes difficult to stay positive
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CATCHING UP Sammy Nettling frames a pitch. The freshman catcher said she believes consistent pitching is the key for Northwestern in climbing the Big Ten standings.
during a rough patch, although she is confident the Cats can pull through. “We come together as a team and we talk about it,� Wood said. “We know that we’re always going to play for each other and we’ll get back into our winning streak.� Drohan didn’t quite agree with her emerging ace, but conceded that one of the biggest challenges in all of sports is to maintain confidence throughout a season. “Our team is on-board with the schedule that we play,� Drohan said. “It’s done nothing but help us for these (big) moments.� Wood pitched twice in the series against Nebraska, turning in two very different performances. Nettling, who caught Wood in both games, said if NU wants to stretch its winning streak then Wood has to keep cranking out quality starts. Nettling also praised Wood for the mental adjustments she made between the weekend starts, especially since she didn’t think Wood had her best stuff on Friday.
In Drohan’s mind, the biggest distinctions between Wood’s starts were not only her mentality, but also her command. “I thought she was very sharp on Sunday,â€? Drohan said emphatically of Wood. “She was very aggressive, and I liked the way she got her off-speed going by the end of the game ‌ I really liked the toughness she showed on Sunday.â€? One of the biggest problems against Nebraska was the inability to stop the big inning, and Wood knows a big part of that falls on her shoulders. But after her performance on Sunday, she is confident in what she needs to do against Illinois. “In the Nebraska series those innings were more of me not being able to find the strike zone,â€? Wood said. “Going in there and hammering the strike zone against (Illinois) is definitely going to be key.â€? Wood and the Cats begin their Wednesday doubleheader against the Fighting Illini at 2 p.m. at Sharon J. Drysdale Field. maxgelman2018@u.northwestern.edu
Jay Hooten is the man behind the scenes. The director of football performance isn’t easy to spot on the sideline because he does most of his work off the field. He’s in charge of overseeing strength, speed and conditioning training for the football team, which is the most unseen part of any offseason but also the most important and influential. And listening to Hooten, it’s clear the machinations of the weight room are as complicated and detailed as the X’s and O’s that go into a game plan any given Saturday. “Each position has a different workout,� he said. “Everybody has something specific that they need to be doing to improve on the football field.� Some of that specificity is obvious — of course an offensive lineman is on a different workout program than a wide receiver — but the level of intricacy burrows all the way down to a player’s current weight, height and experience. Defensive end Dean Lowry and safety Godwin Igwebuike both need to be big, strong and fast, but Lowry, a junior, and Igwebuike, a redshirt freshman, still have very different personal fitness goals. The 200-pound Igwebuike is more focused on getting his body ready for the rigors of Big Ten play. “I’m trying to put a little bit of weight on,� Igwebuike said. “High school to college, it’s different. You have to take care of your body.� Every player is on a training program, but strength and conditioning is especially emphasized for the offensive line. Hooten takes personal responsibility for training that position group, which last season had the lightest average weight in the Big Ten
and was dwarfed by some of the conference’s mammoth units. Hooten said the offensive line has bulked up to an average of 299 pounds, which he believes is a new best for the unit. The process of gaining weight starts with adding muscle mass in the winter before spring practices begin. “What we really focused on was building muscle hypertrophy, which is muscle size,� Hooten said. “We have to build their armor up.� He also added that the smaller offensive line is somewhat intentional, because he said Northwestern focuses on recruiting “lean guys that can run� rather than already bulky players. Getting the lineman up to size is as much about eating as it is working out, and Hooten says he works closely with the team nutritionist to develop a diet as well as exercise. A reason for the offensive line’s newfound girth may be an NCAA rule change made last year that permits teams to provide unlimited meals and snacks to athletes. “We’re able to feed the kids now five times a day,� Hooten said. “Each player goes home with a huge snack bag that they can eat throughout the day during class, so you can definitely see it in our big guys.� Much attention has been paid this spring to the three-way battle to become the Wildcats’ next starting quarterback while Hooten has been quietly toiling in the background to engineer the offensive line that will protect whoever ends up under center. The linemen have stayed out of the spotlight, but offensive line coach Adam Cushing is excited about the prospects of the group for next season. “We’re going to find a way to get the best five guys on the field,� he said. “We need a lot out of those guys this year.� bpillote@u.northwestern.edu
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