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Lonnie Wilson’s family has lived in Evanston’s west side for 100 years. Growing up across the street from Evanston Township High School, the 54-year-old community organizer remembers a time when kids living on the same street walked to school together, when gang activity was non-existent, when “there were people all around you who could be role models.” This was the age before business development slowed to a stop in the city’s historically black neighborhood. “Evanston’s Fifth Ward had an economic engine of its own,” Wilson recalled. “But somewhere between the mid-’70s to the early ’80s, things started to fall apart.” Northeastern areas of Evanston such as downtown and the lakefront began to blossom with the help of city funds. Meanwhile, on the west side, middle class families were moving out, mom-and-pop store owners were retiring, and money just couldn’t seem to flow over Ridge Avenue. “You witness changes that downtown Evanston has gone through, you witness changes that some parts of the east side have gone through, but then you see the west side has generally been static,” Ald. Lionel Jean-Baptiste (2nd) said. “There is disparity and inequity in the City of Evanston.” Now some west side residents

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In the west side: Jay Bawazir, 36, checks out a customer at his grocery store at Church Street and Dodge Avenue. Bawazir, who owns the store with his brother, says most of his customers are west side residents. have taken the fate of their community into their own hands. After years of meetings, research and preliminary plans, they propelled the Evanston City Council to approve the West Evanston Tax Increment Financing District in late 2005 and the West Evanston Plan in May 2007, resulting in increasing amounts of funding slowly nourishing the area back to life. The proposed Capital Improvement Plan for the 2010-11 fiscal year, which the council will discuss further this month, currently allots nearly $500,000 dollars solely for economic development in west Evanston. “It’s good that we have finally turned our attention in a meaningful way to Evanston’s west side,” Ald. Jane Grover (7th) said. “The west side is important to all of us in Evanston.”

THE WEST EVANSTON TIF DISTRICT A head caterer dressed in black silently monitored the sanctuaryturned-dinner party at the Unitarian Church of Evanston, 1330 Ridge Ave. Well-known local leaders, including Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl and her predecessor, Lorraine H. Morton, mingled and munched at Evanston Community Development Corporation’s third annual Citizen Awards dinner Saturday night to honor community activist Bennett Johnson. ECDC, the organization that advocates for the west side and spearheaded the West Evanston TIF District effort, formed in 2003 in order to spur development in the area while protecting the residents who live there from being pushed out. Diane Lupke, secretary for the organization, said ECDC is excited about the prospects a TIF district

offers. “If you have a TIF district, you have funds that are guaranteed for you and must be invested on the west side,” she said. “They cannot be invested somewhere else.” Once a TIF district is established, any property tax increase from that area is reinvested into the community it came from instead of bloating the general pot. “Right now it’s going well, but the economic stagnation that we’re experiencing is putting a damper on how quickly the fund is increasing,” Jean-Baptiste said. This year the CIP allots $80,000 in TIF money to be funneled to ECDC. Of that $30,000 will be doled out to potential new businesses as no-interest loans, while the other $50,000 will employ a

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Board of Trustees’ Osborn has purple in his veins Chairman hopes to give Northwestern undergrads ‘the best experience possible’ By Jessica Allen The Daily Northwestern dailynorthwestern.com/administration William Osborn’s connections to Northwestern run deep.

Selected last year to be NU’s chairman of the Board of Trustees, Osborn’s Wildcat ties began with family legacy and continued with two degrees and a long history of involvement on various University

boards. Now Osborn is drawing on these experiences to help the transition of a new University president and direct NU in its next planning process. “Bill Osborn is a very special guy,” University President Morton O. Schapiro told The Daily last week. “He’s an incredible business leader … incredibly knowledgeable person in terms of nonprofits.” Osborn has served as executive

officer of the Northern Trust Corporation, director of Caterpillar Inc., Tribune Company and Abbott Laboratories and chairman of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Throughout his career he has maintained his “deep affection” for NU, Osborn said.

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Aldermen put off vote for several Evanston improvements Lacrosse Cats continue winning ways on West Coast swing

Baseball NU bounces back, wins two of three at Big Ten/ Big East challenge

Softball While pitchers struggle, Cats’ offense carries NU in California

Residents will have to wait to hear about specific Evanston City Council projects By Rebecca Cohen The Daily Northwestern dailynorthwestern.com/council Residents concerned about sidewalk repairs, fire truck replacements and park renovations will have to wait a few more weeks to learn if the Evanston City Council will fund these im-

provements. These projects, along with many others, are designated as Priority 3 in the city’s Capital Improvements Plan. Citing concerns about fair distribution of funds and the city’s debt, the council postponed voting on Priority 2 and 3 projects during its budget meeting Feb. 22. The aldermen determined the amount to be allocated for Priority 1 items but did not decide which items will be funded, City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz said. The council will discuss specific Priority 1 items, as well as the Priority 2 and 3 projects, in late March or early April. The Capital Improvements Plan

“ ” I don’t believe the staff expected the council to drill down as hard as they did.

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lists the projects the city plans to work on in the next fiscal year. City staff categorized the projects into one of three priority levels based on their impact, current status and future cost, according to a memo from Assistant City Manager Marty Lyons. The council votes on the plan each year as part of its budget process. The city’s budget woes this year made CIP decisions particularly con-

troversial. Ald. Coleen Burrus (9th) said she thought the city staff focused more on citywide improvements than necessary. The south end of the city deserved more attention, she said. “They thought they’d get a bit more buy-in for citywide improvements,” she said. “I don’t believe the staff expected the council to drill down as hard as they did.” Some Priority 1 items, such as a $75,000 roof and chimney replacement proposed for a building at 1817 Church St., were ranked too high, Burrus said. And some Priority 3 items,

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2 tuesday in the classroom

Harry Potter required reading for new class

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By Peter Larson The Daily Northwestern dailynorthwestern.com/academics The story of the boy who lived came alive this quarter in a new Weinberg freshman seminar. Jackie Murdock , a graduate student in the English department , teaches “Harry Potter’s Medieval Origins�, an examination of the parallels between J.K. Rowling’s popular series and the medieval literature that may have inspired it. Setting down her own pair of dark, horn-rimmed glasses next to a paperback copy of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows�, Murdock said she started discovering connections between the books and the medieval literature she was studying shortly after the final book came out. Murdock said when she was studying for her oral exams, she noticed the similarities between Rowling’s work and medieval texts.

“There was one text, which we’re doing in the class, called ‘Havelok the Dane,’� she said. “He has this scar; he’s the chosen one; he’s kicked out of his house and raised by other people. To me it just resonated a lot with what happens to Harry.� Students are assigned the sixth and seventh books to read, in addition to excerpts from the first five, alongside medieval works such as Sir Thomas Malory’s “Le Morte d’Arthur� and Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales.� Close readings of the texts reveal the parallels set between Harry and King Arthur, and between the magic of Hogwarts’ Forbidden Forest and medieval England. Despite the copious number of pages, Murdock said she doesn’t have a problem making sure students keep up with the reading. All of the students come having already read the books, and sometimes that

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means they notice details she admits she missed. “They know them better than I do, which is honestly, for a teacher, very intimidating,� she said. Clayton Webb, who is currently taking the class, said she was fascinated with the idea of taking a series she had grown up with and discussing it on a higher level. Recently the class looked at how Harry’s journey in the seventh book connects to that of Lancelot’s and King Arthur’s—something the McCormick freshman said she didn’t pick up on before. “Today we discussed a passage about Harry retrieving a sword from inside this pool of water, which is similar to King Arthur retrieving his sword,� she said. Reading Harry Potter for homework doesn’t seem to have many downsides, Medill freshman Jazmyn Tuberville said. She said although she hasn’t read the books, a class like this would be an interesting place to start. “That would actually make it a bit more interesting having to read it in that sense and not just take it at face value,� she said. “Doing it in a class setting could make me think about things more.� Looking at aspects of the novels students might have missed when they were 10 or 11 years old is part of the purpose of the class, Murdock said. Harry Potter has his roots in the same quest many medieval characters faced. “The stories are becoming richer for them in a lot of ways, so it’s more than just that they’re great stories and great characters� she said. “There’s a lot of depth that goes into them that we’re uncovering as we look through it.�

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2009 crime index shows decline in local crime rates The number of crimes committed in Evanston fell 13.4 percent last year, according to the Evanston Police Department’s recently released 2009 crime index. Aside from murWe feel our der, which rarely accounts for more partnership with than a couple incicitizens is dents every year, the most significant extremely decrease occurred important. We in robbery with 26.9 couldn’t do it percent. While almost all categories without them. showed a decline in comparison with 2008’s data, two Cmdr. Tom more sexual assaults Guenther, and three more arEvanston Police son investigations

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occurred in 2009, an Evanston police press release reported. “The combined decline in part one (major) crimes is significant,” Evanston Police Cmdr. Tom Guenther said. “It can be attributed to the police department’s analysis and response to crime. We address these issues in a real-time manner at our weekly deployment meetings.” Many of the sexual assaults recorded were internal family situations, not “stranger-danger” situations, Guenther said. Police and the Evanston Fire Department see little concern in the increase in arson incidents, Guenther said. “Those incidents were investigated, and we feel confident there is no danger to the public,” he said. While Guenther largely attributed the decrease in crime to police strategies, he also gave credit to Evanston residents. “We feel our partnership with citizens is extremely important,” he said. “We couldn’t do it without them.”

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Speaker: Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, a professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago speaks about youth activism regarding the DREAM Act, proposed legislation that would grant certain illegal immigrants who graduated high school a status of permanent residency. Northwestern Latin sorority Lambda Theta Alpha sponsored the campus event Monday.

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The West Side Evanston’s neglected neighborhood

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loan officer to work exclusively on internal business development, a constant priority of ECDC. Due to the west side’s comparatively affordable property values, outside developers began to eye the area. Residents worried about gentrification because their neighborhood had no zoning restrictions in place, so developers could swoop in and change the face of their neighborhood without constraint. “There was no sense of planning,” JeanBaptiste said. “A developer could just purchase a piece of land, build on it and lobby the city council or ask for variance for what they want to do.” Now with revenue from the TIF district and guidance from the West Evanston Plan, community leaders are looking forward to restoring the area to what it once was. “The desire for west-side businesses and homes to be owned by people on the west side is very, very strong,” Lupke said. “People understand how important that is in turning around the economy—people owning what they have as a way to build overall wealth on the west side.” But it’s an uphill climb. Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) said Boocoo, a music center and café on the corner of Church Street and Dodge Avenue , is the only new business her ward has seen for several years. “No development has been done in the ward,” Holmes said. “We’re always fighting for equity.”

SEPARATE, BUT EQUAL? The historical divide between east and west dates back to Evanston’s first residents, who settled here in the mid-1800’s, Jean-Baptiste said. “They were white folks who came with their servants, and their servants were black,” he said. “They were restricted to the west side of town, they were restricted to certain schools, certain hospitals, and the city itself didn’t give them priority.” Jean-Baptiste, an Evanston resident since 1964, added there were areas in the west with streets that weren’t even paved 27 years ago. Wilson, a community organizer active with ECDC, agreed Evanston was truly not one town, but two. “When I was a child, I knew the barriers weren’t political or legal or law-binding, but Evanston had the same apartheid as South Africa,” he said. “I knew not to go across Ridge; I knew not to go across Green Bay … It was never said to me, but the dominant feeling around town was that, ‘I stay in my place.’” Despite this intense feeling of separation, the community flourished. Lupke said the west side was home to a very strong, middle class, African-American community. “They were professionals; they owned their homes, owned businesses,” she said. “Evanston’s diversity was really a true diversity.” John Fuller, a member of the board of directors for ECDC , easily pictures the 20 or so businesses lining his childhood block. Johnson, president of the Evanston/ North Shore NAACP and editor of the Evanston Sentinel , said mom-and-pop stores drove the local economy. So what happened to all of those educated business-owners? “As those individuals began to have

more opportunities, they began to leave Evanston for bigger pools,” Lupke said. “And as those residents succeeded and moved away, those that came to fill that spot, because this was an affordable place, were African-Americans from other locations without those same roots.” At the same time, schools, hospitals and stores began to desegregate. Ironically the unification that gave African-Americans equal rights disabled the small businesses owned by African-Americans and dependent upon loyal black customers. “The price that we’ve paid for desegregation has been huge,” said Jerome Summers, an Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education member. “All of those things are gone now. All of them are gone.”

“IT’S JUST FLAT WRONG” At a Feb. 16 District 65 school board meeting, board members gave the nod to Superintendent Hardy Murphy to cap next fall’s kindergarten classes at three elementary schools as a short-term solution to the district’s current overcrowding problem. As a result an estimated 28 kindergartners won’t be able to attend their neighborhood schools but instead will be bused to another, more open school. Parents and school board members expressed outrage about the shift. What they don’t realize is that every single child in the Fifth Ward endures this scenario every year. Foster School, the west side’s only elementary school, disappeared after Evanston desegregated in 1967. Since then children on the west side have been bussed to seven different schools across the city instead of attending their neighborhood school. “It is just flat wrong; it is just flat wrong to bus every single kid out of one community to diversify another community,” Summers said. “I went to 10 PTA meetings last year—I saw six black parents. I’ve been to five or six PTA meetings this year, and it’s the same kind of thing because they don’t feel a connection to the school.” Wilson said his parent’s generation had a sense of self that has never been replicated because “it was schooled in all-black schools and neighborhood schools,” and now that structure is gone. An elementary school is not the only resource young children in the area are missing. “They never built a library on the west side, although there’s been demand for it for many, many years,” said Johnson, who’s lived in Evanston since he was 2 years old. “It all comes down to the desegregation of Foster School. If that had remained, I think that would be helpful to stabilize the community.” Summers isn’t ruling out a new Fifth Ward school in the future. He understands the kindergarten cap as a short-term resolution and sees the construction of a new school as the answer to the district’s longterm space issues. “It would solve every single overcrowding problem in the foreseeable future without a doubt,” he said. “The Fifth Ward is perfectly, strategically placed to alleviate the overcrowding problems.” But when Summers brought up the idea at the board’s Feb. 16 meeting, it was dismissed due to budgetary constraints. In a presentation by Lora Taira, District 65’s

Change: Many remember when Evanston’s west side saw more business and growth. A confluence of factors, including the closing of a school, brought economic decline. assistant director of information services , the price tag for a new facility would be $9 million. Despite financial obstacles Summers stands by his opinion that a school is necessary for success in the west side. “Structurally all small communities have businesses, homeowners, places where people worship and a school,” Summers said. “If you take away any one of those pillars, the other things start to disintegrate.”

THE NEXT GENERATION One of the simplest, yet most important, benefits of attending a local school is the act of walking to class with neighbors, Summers said. When that doesn’t happen, there are lasting consequences, he said. “It diminishes your allegiance to your neighborhood and your neighbors,” he said. “It shows up later where you have gangs or teenagers and young adults who actually shoot each other.” Jean-Baptiste said there are more crimes on the west side of town than the east side and part of the problem stems from the 60 students a year who drop out of ETHS, a minority of students, but a visible one, he said. “You have a group of young people who are not going to college, they’re falling through the cracks, and they’re dropping out of school, and they’re not being trained to do anything,” he said. “They become, to a certain extent, predators. They become parasitical on the rest of the community.” Evanston Police Department Cmdr. Tom Guenther did not say crime was more prevalent on the west side, but he agreed crime does concentrate in certain areas of the city. “There are spikes in certain areas, in certain small, small pockets,” he said. In order to curb crime on the west side specifically, Wilson founded an Evanston branch of an organization called Community Builders about 10 years ago. Community Builders aims to give construction work to young black men in order to let them learn skills for more jobs in the future, he said. Alexander Daniel, a west-side resident, participated in the program and said he is now working to help other men like himself. “A lot of our friends never made it to 30 years of age,” Daniel said. “We try to stick our head out there and let them know what we’ve been through: how it’s not really worth it and there’s plenty of opportunities to make different money, so it ain’t all about gang banging and selling drugs. We’re trying to change our life around.” And Community Builders isn’t the only program helping youth involved in illegal activity. EPD provides several services to assist youth: free counseling, community service programs and check-ins with past offenders and their parents. Jean-Baptiste views such programs as integral to community success. “To the extent that we don’t intentionally organize a process to re-steer these youth, to train them to have a skill, to train them to be able to work in our local businesses, then we

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The West Side: Evanston’s Second and Fifth Wards Evanston’s sixth Tax Increment Financing District will continue to have a profile of a criminal in Evanston as a young black male,” the alderman said. “And there will continue to be low expectations.”

MOVING FORWARD Despite economic stagnation and education issues, west-side activists are looking toward the future of their community. They’ve accomplished a lot: They’ve secured additional funding from the city through the newest TIF district and fought for power over outside developers coming into their backyards with the West Evanston Plan. Now the west side awaits $490,000 which the council has to approve as part of its massive Capital Improvement Plan for the 2010-11 fiscal year. During discussion about the plan at the Feb. 22 council meeting, Jean-Baptiste said he thinks there’s been a history of inequality in the city’s spending. “Alderman Jean-Baptiste is correct: More money has been spent on the downtown, I believe, than his ward,” Tisdahl said. But things are changing. “We are spending money now on his ward and hoping to create jobs and businesses that are thriving in that ward,” Tisdahl said. Wilson said working together will be critical to the success of his family’s neighborhood. With the TIF district in effect for 20 more years, there’s plenty of time for key partnerships to put fresh money to good use. Rivalries between the east and the west need to end, he said. “All that stuff has to stop,” he said. “If we don’t stop, we’re all going down. Whether we know it or not, we’re all on the same planet.” bwong@u.northwestern.edu

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NU verifies Chile study abroad students’ safety after quake By Sarah Eberspacher The Daily Northwestern dailynorthwestern.com/student-life As Chile rocked with the effects of a magnitude 8.8 earthquake that hit the country Saturday, Northwestern students abroad in Chile and applying in Evanston felt the aftershock. In the Santiago area, where SESP senior Maddie Orenstein lives with her host mother, relative amounts of damage like cracks in the walls were apparent, but no major structural damage had occurred, she said. “The main concern has been the height of the apartment buildings,” Orenstein said. “I am on the 13th floor, so I am right at the level where some people are moving out to live with friends and family for a bit while others are staying.” Orenstein said she plans to stay put for the time being. She is not on an NU-affiliated study abroad program, so the Study Abroad Office has not been in touch with her. For students studying in Chile through one of the three programs NU offers, communication was as instant as possible in the aftermath, said Bill Anthony, director of the Study Abroad Office. “The reaction was immediate,” Anthony

said. “On Saturday morning we were conferencing with the programs to account for all of the students.” All students on NU programs in Chile have been identified as safe, either through direct communication with the Study Abroad Office or from secondary reports the programs have provided, Anthony said. Contacting some students directly has been difficult because of the recent instability of Internet connections and cell phone service in the country, he said. The Study Abroad Office has utilized International SOS, a company which offers outsourced customer care, including medical assistance and security services. Since last year, all students must register with the program before studying abroad, Anthony said. In addition to providing helpful updates from abroad, the service offers reports and travel advice to students abroad who have computer access, he said. Students currently in Santiago with the Chilean Universities Program, sponsored by the Institute for Study Abroad at Butler University, are with their host families and waiting for orientation activities to resume, said Amy Blume, director of external relations with IFSA-Butler, in an email Monday. Orientation activities will start a few days late at the three universities, but

classes will resume while the buildings are checked for structural damage. Accommodations will be made if the universities are deemed unsafe and remain closed, Blume said. “Students will not be pulled from the program, nor has any student asked to return home,” she said. “If universities are delayed, we will be making arrangements for continuing the classes and language instruction at a different location if necessary.” NU students currently in Chile should understand the country has a history of big earthquakes, said Prof. Seth Stein, a Earth and Planetary Sciences department faculty member. “Geological things continue in the same way for billions of years,” he said. “Chile will continue to have big earthquakes every 50 years or so.” While scientists knew the most recent earthquake would occur “on a timescale of 100 years or so,” they had no way to more closely determine when the quake would take place, Stein said. McCormick sophomore Beau Garrett said he expects there to be no trouble with his plans to study abroad next fall. “Obviously I’ll be keeping an eye on the developments down there,” Garrett said. “This is the only program I applied to, so if they let me, I’m still planning to go.”

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Damage: The Church of Divine Providence in Santiago shows signs of the recent magnitude 8.8 earthquake. Students should understand anywhere they would choose to study abroad has some inherent dangers, Stein said. “Natural disasters can take place anywhere,” he said. “I wouldn’t be any more concerned about traveling to Chile than I am about traveling to California.” saraheberspacher2012@u.northwestern.edu

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Significant earthquakes occur about once ever 50 years Death toll is more than 700 and rising Magnitude 8.8 Tsunami caused additional destruction Epicenter was offshore

Significant earthquakes occur about once ever 400 years Death toll is more than 230,000 Magnitude 7 Damage was limited to effects of earthquake Epicenter was on land Source: Professor Seth Stein, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

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hen Northwestern has a financial edge over other universities that are partially or completely freezing hiring, does the University take advantage of its position to snag top teaching prospects? “You can tell I feel very mixed feelings about that,” University President Morton O. Schapiro said in a Feb. 25 interview with The Daily, “but I’m glad we are hiring in general.” NU’s recovering $6 billion endowment allows for active recruitment to both replace and expand on current faculty, Schapiro said. The recession has especially affected public universities like the University of California system, presenting some feeling of guilt that NU can select cream-of-the-crop faculty members while other higher education institutions struggle to rebound from economic losses. But the academic community has become increasingly businessoriented, with the most qualified students and professors attracted to the schools with the best facilities, cutting-edge research and prestigious departments. NU has a legitimate claim and interest in re-

cruiting “superstar” candidates, Schapiro said. In order for NU to excel, we must seize our competitive advantage in these opportunities. Despite its cutthroat nature, the academic community remains one of collaboration. Professors work together across universities, and the name of the university they are attached to will not change the quality of research. Many departments could greatly benefit from additional strong faculty. Spanish and Portuguese department head Josef Barton alluded to the hiring search as one of the ways to remedy the registration shortcomings for Spanish classes. The ability to hire faculty without serious repercussions from the

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o I’ve been racking my brain trying to decide what to write for my last column of the quarter. Should I stick with politics and world affairs? Should I write about what I still love about the United States and its awesomeness, bringing it all full circle? Or should I branch out to something mind-blowingly different and new? Though I’d like to throw some mind-blowing new ideas out there, I unfortunately don’t really have any, so I’ll just share a few ideas on how to make sure the U.S. remains the greatest country in the world. First, as the richest and most powerful nation in the world, we should be able to do more to help our least fortunate citizens. Until the 1980s, when the ideas of economists such as Milton Friedman and politicians like Ronald Reagan convinced us economic growth was more important than improving

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people’s lives, governmental social programs were seen as an appropriate way to help people. But it seems now we are willing to let corporations do whatever they see fit in order to achieve the sacrosanct goal of economic growth, at the expense of human development. Second, the U.S. was once seen as the “city upon a hill” that served as an example for the rest of the world. It was the ideal liberal democracy that acted with good intentions, and although this wasn’t always entirely accurate, it carried much more weight in the ’50s than it does today. To bring back this perception, we need to do more for humanitarian crises and less for our own selfish needs. Why should we waste our money and the efforts of the greatest military in the world on Iraq when it could have been used to establish order in Somalia or fight genocide in Darfur? Finally, we need to once again take the lead in making the tough choices to make the world a better place, rather than doing what’s easier in the short term. The best example of this problem is how the stalling of the U.S. on recognizing and fighting

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climate change slows down the efforts of the rest of the world. Even a skeptic of the (considerable) scientific evidence for climate change can concede our country would still be better off if we ended our dependence on fossil fuels, for both environmental and foreign policy reasons. It’s not like this would be unprecedented either, since the U.S. was one of the first countries to enact clean air legislation in the ’50s and ’60s. It has been only in the past few decades, when powerful industrial lobbies have put contradictory information out into the public sphere, that the U.S. has fallen behind the rest of the Western world in environmental protection. Also, the public has willingly accepted the views of the interest groups, since it is obviously easier in the short term to keep the status quo. Well, that’s it then, one humble student’s opinion on how to keep the U.S. the greatest country in the world (in 500 words). Thanks for reading my column this quarter; it has been a pleasure writing. Weinberg junior Dan Schufreider can be reached at danielschufreider2007@u.northwestern.edu.

By Steven A. Berger

Letter to the editor

Earning respect comes before NU living wage I’m all for a fair wage—I work in the real world, too—but in regards to many of the University employees I encounter on a daily basis, like the janitorial crews and food service workers, the work isn’t worth the wage. I mean, I can’t count the number of times when I have had to shimmy past two or three janitorial staff in a hallway or stairway who were spending 20 minutes at a time talking. Not to be draconian, but I work in retail, and if I carried my phone with me on the sales floor or stopped to talk to a friend who happens to show up, I could be chastised, and it could affect my pay, hours and benefits. Every human being has inalienable rights and deserves respect, but I’m not sure the respect is mutual here. I live near Sargent and eat the majority of my meals there—after walking through a cloud of smoke to get

through the doors. Despite the signs on most University buildings (especially dorms) that say, “No smoking within 25 feet of this building,” several Sodexo employees sit on the stoop of Sargent every day, multiple times a day, or lean near the doorways and to the point that the stench wafts into the building and fogs the lobby. And try walking on the pathway between Sargent and Tech! You’ll have three times as many employees taking multiple smoke breaks against the building’s walls on a route that hundreds of students take each day. Like I said, everyone deserves his or her due, but are we really getting our money’s worth now? Everyone deserves respect as well, but are we getting the respect from the people we employ—people who don’t seem to care about student health? That’s something we need to figure out before we start raising wages and adding benefits.

— Emily Davidson

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Taking procrastination to extreme stress levels Do I get some sort of peculiar adrenaline rush in finishing my assignments in a pressure state? Does robotically spewing out all my stored knowledge from memorized lectures and cleansing myself of it, at least until the final, send chills down my

spine? While I can’t confirm why stress is such a necessary component of my life, I just know it is. I found all online self-help articles promote the same remedies: Listen to music, breathe deep breaths, shut your eyes, and go to your happy place … the same stereotypical cheese in each click.

— Jazmyn Tuberville

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NU students talk to strangers on Chatroulette.com Some students are using the new Web site, which gives users the chance to video chat with strangers By Leezia Dhalla The Daily Northwestern dailynorthwestern.com/student-life The popular video chat Web site Chatroulette has a following at Northwestern, where some students have created a Facebook group for enthusiasts. Chatroulette, a recent social networking phenomenon, randomly connects users to strangers using webcams. Users have the option to “Next,” or skip people with whom they don’t want to video chat. When Justin Lueker first discovered Chatroulette last month, he said it had 3,500 users. Now he said he spends anywhere between one to three hours per Chatroulette session while talking with some of the site’s roughly 35,000 users. “The best thing about it is just the excitement of the unknown,” the Weinberg freshman said. “You really don’t know whether you’re going to meet freaky people that you want to ‘Next’ or someone who you can have a lot of interesting conversations with.” Lueker said he and his roommates were instantly hooked the first time they used the site. The three decided to create the “Chatroulette.com Enthusiasts at Northwestern” Facebook group to share comments and stories about their experiences. “There’s been a new trend of people being creative and having automated signs and holding things up to the screen,” he said. “We didn’t see much of that at first because Chatroulette was in its younger days, but as it grows, people are getting more creative.” Prof. Noshir Contractor, who studies social networks, said the site’s popularity is partly due to “the curiosity of being surprised and scandalized by what might be showing up on the webcam.” “It’s clearly a market now: not where people are showing just their faces, but people are getting more creative and not being prudent about what they show through the camera on the roulette,” he said. Contractor said he has never used the site, but its large number of users suggests there is an interest in social interacting using the Internet. “It shows the desire to connect anonymously or pseudo-anonymously, since there is a camera with random people around the world and to make an instant judgment on whether you want to continue to talk with this person,” he said. “It’s sort of a virtual speed dating.” Patrick Hockberger said the video feature adds a personal touch that blogs and forums can’t offer. “On the forum you don’t know who you’re talking to, so they can pretend to be someone they’re not,” the Bienen freshman said. “It’s a lot harder to do that on Chatroulette, and it feels more personal even when you’re anonymous.” McCormick freshman John Hodges said the video feature isn’t enough of a reason to use the Web site. He said he would rather talk to strangers with whom he shares a common interest. “There’s so much more when you see someone in person,” he said. “You can see how they interact and how they act in a casual environment instead of in front of a computer.” But the site has its downsides, Lueker said. A user will occasionally stumble on adult content. In spite of some unfortunate chats, he said he will continue to use the site to meet strangers. “It’ll probably be imitated, but being the original random video chat Web site will keep it ahead of the rest,” Lueker said. “It will really endure.” leeziadhalla2012@u.northwestern.edu

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Evanston addresses rodent problem By Emilia Barrosse The Daily Northwestern dailynorthwestern.com/evanston To combat a long-standing rat infestation, city officials installed a new program last May to lessen local rodent concerns. Partnering with Anderson Pest Solutions, the city now provides pesticide services to residents. Carl Caneva, director of the Health and Human Services Department, said Evanston has dealt with a significant amount of rat infestations in the past few years, especially in its downtown area. “I’ve been here since 2005, and we’ve had at least 50 to 100 complaints a year,� Caneva said. “We’re averaging a little over 150 now.� In the winter time, though, city complaints about rat infestation drop drastically due to residents’ reduced exposure to rats’ habitats, said Phil King, an environmental health sanitarian in Evanston. “People’s perception of infestation has changed in (the winter) because they don’t get the chance to run into rats as much,� said King. “People aren’t in the allies; they’re bundled up and want to get inside. But in the summer time, people are having picnics in their backyards, which is connected to the ally. You get more opportunities to run into the rats.� But Evanston is doing everything it can to keep its rodent problems to a minimum, Caneva said.

“When we get these calls, Anderson will go out and service the residents’ property,� Caneva said. “It’s something that’s unique to Evanston that not a lot of other places are doing.� Evanston’s worst infestations occur near Howard Street, and many factors contribute to the rat infestation, said Jeff Murphy, assistant director of Property Standards and Housing Rehabilitation. Natural habitats tend to build up infestations, like construction sites, demolished buildings, train tracks and garbage dumps, Murphy said. “If there’s a food source, holes in garbage cans, overflowing garbage and a source of water, then the rat problem can get worse,� Murphy said. “We want to control the food source and the water problem as much as possible.� Rats in the city pose a problem to the area for a number of reasons. Rats damage property by burrowing under homes and are also a health hazard because they can transmit diseases, Caneva said. Neighboring cities experience a comparable number of rat complaints to Evanston, Caneva said. “We’re trying to control the population as much as we can so we limit the impact they have,� he said. Murphy said residents need to be especially careful in their homes because rodents are small and can easily infiltrate a residency. “A rat can get in an opening the size of a

quarter, and mouse the size of a dime,� he said. “So you want to make sure that for the exterior of the buildings, all of the openings are closed.� Communicaton junior Abraham BensonGoldberg said Evanston’s rat problem has affected him. “When I’m walking around off campus, where they’re trying to fix the pipes and lay new ones because rats are crawling through, it’s been a hassle,� Benson-Golderg said. “It takes up a lot of space and time and makes travel difficult.� Evanston residents can be proactive in preventing future rat infestations in their homes and businesses, Caneva said. The most effective way to ward off an infestation is to minimize waste, especially food. Caneva advised all residents to keep dog food and pet bowls inside and covered. Another way to prevent an infestation is to keep piles of firewood and bricks 12 inches above the ground and avoid the overload of garbage cans. Caneva said he is excited for the program because it offers a more convenient and ecofriendly alternative to rat pesticides. “Not only are we trying to control the population of rats, but we’re also controlling the amount of pesticide that’s out there,� Caneva said. “Both of those are important for the public.�

of the Evanston Police Department seized more than three pounds of marijuana from a basement apartment at 1107 South Blvd. after issuing a narcotics search warrant, Evanston Police Cmdr. Tom Guenther said. The police met with the resident, 29year-old Kristopher Kelly, and found the marijuana after conducting a thorough search of the apartment, police said. N.E.T. officers were tipped off after

conducting citizen interviews about drug sales around Oakton Elementary School, 436 Ridge Ave., Guenther said. Kelly was taken into custody and charged with two felonies, one for marijuana possession and the other for marijuana possession with the intent to deliver, police said. Kelly will next appear in court March 11, Guenther said.

such as repairing the “terrible� road at Church Street and Dodge Avenue, were ranked too low, she said. She expects the council will take this into consideration, she said. “I would be shocked if the priorities were not completely turned around,� Burrus said. Evanston currently owes $85 million in debt supported by property tax levies, according to Lyons’s memo. Ald. Don Wilson (4th) said he is worried by the debt. “I felt like it was important to rein in the spending,� he said. Unlike Burrus, Wilson said he didn’t expect the priority list to shift much. Many of the items, such as water service, are vital, he said. Others, like a $1.1 million lakefront renovation plan passed last year, he considers unnecessary but expects will remain funded. He said he hopes the aldermen will carefully evaluate each project. “There are a number of things that are going to be looked at pretty closely,� he said. Bobkiewicz said many of the projects were necessary, especially funding for the civic center and police department. While reducing the city’s debt is important, paying for vital services will make cutting the budget difficult, he said. “I appreciate that the council was sensitive to the issues of balancing our debt,� Bobkiewicz said. “But that doesn’t mean our debt will be going away any time soon.�

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Northern Trust experience aids Northwestern trustees chair Trustee, page 1 “That’s a real attribute in that when you really care about an organization, you’re not only mentally and strategically involved, your emotions are in it,� he said.

THE MAN BEHIND THE SUIT Osborn (WCAS ’69, Kellog’73) hails from the small town of Culver, Ind. During his time as an undergraduate student at NU, he studied political science and history. Rich Dean, a trustee who graduated from NU’s undergraduate business school in 1969, said he met Osborn within the first few days of their freshman year. The two lived in the same dorm and connected through Osborn’s roommate, he said. “We always saw the leadership qualities of Bill on campus,� Dean said. They both became involved as officers in fraternities: Dean in Phi Delta Theta and Osborn in Sigma Alpha Epsilon, which were next door to each other, he said. Dean said he hesitates to label Osborn as a “good old Indiana farm boy, but he does have that background.� After graduation Osborn entered the reserves as an elite Airborne Army Ranger, a commitment of six years with six months active duty. After completing jump school in January 1970, he returned to Chicago, “the right place to look for a job having gone to NU,� he said. Still in the reserves, Osborn began his 40-year career at Northern Trust Corporation in February 1970. After receiving the position at the financial institution, he said he switched his acceptance at the Kellogg School of Management for the evening program and began night school later that year. During his time as a graduate student, Osborn said he remained involved on campus.

“My biggest connection was through my friend I still had at NU,� he said. “I still went and saw the football and basketball games.�

MOVING UP THE RANKS Over the years Osborn advanced at Northern Trust, eventually becoming chairman in 1995. It was around this time he was approached to join NU’s Board of Trustees, he said. Although the businessman had a lot on his plate serving on many organizations’ boards, he said he made time for the position. “It’s not paid—believe me,� he said, laughing. Osborn said he accepted the position because he’s “always had a great affection to NU.� Both he and his wife attended NU, as did both of his parents, and his father played on NU’s basketball team. Osborn has also chaired the board’s budget committee, sat on the board for Northwestern Memorial Hospital and became an advisory board member for Kellogg. Dean said Osborn is “transparent� and “forthcoming;� board members don’t have to worry Osborn might be withholding information. “Despite all his success, it’s the same Bill I knew as a freshman,� said Dean, who said he has worked with Osborn on the Board of Trustees for about 12 years. “He’s very engaging. He seeks dialogue.� After a long career at Northern Trust, Osborn announced his retirement from his role as chairman and director. NU’s Board of Trustees asked him to consider being chairman that fall, he said. “I’ve had a lot of ties into the University, and I was stepping down from Northern Trust,� he said. “I already had a deep understanding of the University, but more importantly, I had a deep affection for the place and wanted to see it continue to prosper.�

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But before Osborn’s retirement at Northern Trust became effective in November, controversy struck. Only a few days after he was elected chairman on Feb. 21, Northern Trust Corporation and its subsidiary The Northern Trust Company, at which Osborn has held the roles of chief executive officer, chairman and director, came under fire by the U.S. House of Representatives’ Financial Services Committee. After receiving federal bailout funds, the corporation allegedly spent lavishly, The Daily reported. At the time University officials said the bank’s situation was irrelevant to Osborn’s involvement with the University, a position now echoed by University President Schapiro. With the recession most boards have connections in the business world which might be negatively perceived, he said. “How do you escape it?� Schapiro told The Daily last Thursday. “I just know him as a very honorable first class guy.�

A NEW PARTNERSHIP IN TOWN A new “era� began at NU with Schapiro and Osborn, Dean said. After leading the committee to find a new University president, Osborn assumed his new position at the same time as Schapiro. At NU the trustee who leads the presidential search committee traditionally becomes the next chairman. While former University President Henry Bienen and former chairman Patrick Ryan are credited for being a power team, Schapiro and Osborn have already

demonstrated an ability to work together, Dean said. “They will be just as good of a team, a different team,â€? he said. Now that the infrastructure is in place, the new duo will perhaps build internally, Dean said. Schapiro said he thinks he and Osborn will “develop the same kind of very productive relationship that Pat and Henry had to the great benefit to NU.â€? Osborn said he and Schapiro both notice the importance of the undergraduate experience. “You’re kind of bridging that area between high school and work,â€? he said. “It’s a very important time in life ‌ The key thing is to give you the best ability and the stimulus to grow and become the best you can.â€? He praised Schapiro for having a “real focus on student well-being and engagement,â€? and cited the president’s noticeable presence on campus, whether it be pacing the football field sidelines or attending student dinners. “The president and the board are focused on trying to make (the undergraduate experience) the best experience possible,â€? he said. “He and I talk and communicate around that. We’re constantly talking about what can be done to improve the University.â€? Osborn is currently working on an academic strategic plan review, he said. The plan will evaluate how NU has grown and evolved over the years to determine where it can and should go in the future, he said. Osborn said he wants to “raise the barâ€? on excellence. “I’ve enjoyed this moving from business to education because if our country is going to continue to do well, our education needs to continue to be the best in the world,â€? he said. “And we’re going to be challenged.â€? jessicaallen2012@u.northwestern.edu

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LoManto settling into starting role between the pipes for NU Lacrosse, page 12 chusetts, LoManto guarded the net for all 60 minutes in the win over Stanford. It was the first time in her NU career she played a complete game. LoManto found out an hour before the Stanford contest that she was going to start, but she had no indication she would be going the distance. She said the ability to make adjustments in the second half proved valuable for her growth as a goalkeeper. “It was definitely a change in pace going out and playing the whole game, but experience is a big thing that needs to come in the goalkeeping experience,” LoManto said. “It was good to get out there and play a full game. It was good to be able to pick it up in the second half and get it going.” LoManto earned another start in the

game against the Golden Bears, but she was taken out­­about 10 minutes into the second half. The Cats had firm control of the game by halftime thanks to a 12-0 outburst that spanned 20 minutes of the first half. Coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said the lack of patience on offense was a problem against Stanford, allowing the Cardinal to hang around in the first half. Starting in the second stanza, NU settled in and maintained possession long enough to get better looks. “The girls had to be patient and stay calm and not really get frustrated with the situation, but just to get after it and play together and try to wear the other team down,” Amonte Hiller said. “They did that in the second half and took that into Sunday’s game as well.” Senior attacker Katrina Dowd saw her first action of the season over the weekend

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and picked up where she left off. Dowd, the Cats’ top scorer in 2009, led the team with five goals in each contest. With Dowd out in the season opener, sophomore attacker Shannon Smith stepped up and notched six goals. She still found chances to score with Dowd back in action, as she racked up a combined eight goals in the two weekend games. Together Smith and Dowd accounted for at least half of NU’s output in both matches. “I’m feeling really comfortable out there on the field,” Smith said. “I still have things

to work on and improve on, and that’s what I love about it. I love the challenge of improving.” One area in which the Cats are looking to improve is draw controls. NU narrowly beat out Stanford in that department, 17-14, and lost out to California 12-10. The players were disappointed in their performance, especially since the draw is a focal point of their training. Sophomore Alex Frank, NU’s leader on draws, was injured and did not play in either contest. “A lot of times the ball goes up in the air, and we’re all going for that, and no one is ready for when the ball hits the ground,” senior attacker Danielle Spencer said. “We have to be ready for those ground balls. If we can anticipate those ground balls a little more, we should be ready for Georgetown.” brianchappatta2011@u.northwestern.edu

Strong pitching propels Northwestern to pair of victories in Florida Baseball, page 12 game close. Sophomore Michael Jahns pitched a scoreless 10th frame to notch the win. It’s hard to imagine NU playing much better than it did in its second game, a 7-5 win over Rutgers. The Cats collected 16 hits, including three each from freshman centerfielder Arby Fields and sophomore leftfielder Quentin Williams, who also contributed two RBIs apiece. “We had an attitude like, ‘Let’s swing it like we mean it,’” Lashmet said. And they did. The Cats mashed four home runs, a power surge that provided a cushion for starter Francis Brooke. The sophomore pitched eight quality innings

and allowed four runs, but due to Cats’ defensive gaffes, only one was earned. Brooke said the team’s early run support afforded him the comfort and confidence to pitch aggressively to the Scarlet Knights and then trust his defense. “I got ahead in the count and let the defense make plays,” he said. “On offense, our timely hitting was huge. They would get a run, and then we’d come right back the next inning and get it back. That’s really important to staying in games.” Sunday’s finale against Seton Hall marked the third day in a row the Cats played the early game. The team’s fatigue resulted in three costly errors leading to three unearned runs and a lethargic offense that was shut out 3-0. “It was a bad day for us,” Brooke said.

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“We just got worn down after three early games in a row. We couldn’t keep the intensity and focus we had in the first two games.” Lack of timely hitting doomed the Cats’ offense—NU was unable to get runners in from second base in multiple innings and couldn’t capitalize after bringing the tying run to the plate in the ninth. Stevens said getting production with runners in scoring position is vital to a team’s success, but also credited the Pirates’ sterling pitching. The lackluster offensive output spoiled a sparkling performance from Morton, who started and threw six innings, allowing only two unearned runs with three strikeouts and no walks. Stevens was pleased with the Cats’ sound pitching throughout the weekend.

“Muraski did a wonderful job keeping us in the Connecticut game,” Stevens said. “Obviously Brooke and Morton were terrific. But I really can’t tell you a pitcher I wasn’t proud of. Everybody who walked to the hill for us was outstanding. Overall, this was definitely a stride forward from where we were the week before.”

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Tyler, Mathews carry Cats to 10th place at Big Ten By Katherine Driessen The Daily Northwestern dailynorthwestern.com/mens-swimming Entering the Big Ten Championships with a winless conference record, coach Jarod Schroeder knew the meet was Northwestern’s last shot at redemption. “We’ve lost so many close meets, I was really convinced that with the right training we would swim fast enough to have the last laugh,” Schroeder said. “Clearly that didn’t happen.” The Wildcats did swim fast, posting 36 of their season’s top times—but not fast enough. After four days of swimming NU managed 169 points, finishing last at the meet. Despite losing three of its conference meets by less than nine points, the Cats were still 36 points behind ninth-place Michigan State and almost 700 points short of the champions, Ohio State. NU showed signs of promise early on, tying for sixth place at the end of the first day and finishing in seventh on the second day. But Schroeder’s goal for the young team—a sixth place finish—slipped

away on the third day of competition. The Cats qualified just three swimmers for the evening finals. Despite a stronger performance on Saturday morning, in which four NU swimmers earned berths in the finals, the point differential was too great to overcome. “We were all definitely disappointed in our performance,” junior Alex Tyler said. “We knew it was a great learning experience and a lot of us did swim pretty fast, but at the end of the day we were left with a bittersweet taste in our mouths.” Tyler’s experience was particularly bittersweet given his personal success at the meet. He posted a season-best time in the 200-yard breaststroke and a 10th-place finish on the afternoon, earning him an NCAA ‘B’ qualifying time for his effort and giving him a shot at qualifying for the NCAA championships in late March. Fellow classmate Sean Mathews’ time in the 200-yard butterfly was a career-best and left him .14 seconds shy of breaking Eric Nilsson’s school record. Mathews swam slightly slower in the finals of the event, but still fast enough to claim fourth

place for the Cats—the best Mathews has ever finished at the Big Ten meet. “Alex and Sean were truly the swimmers of the weekend, as they have been for us all season,” Schroeder said. “I’m 80 percent certain that their times should qualify them both for the NCAA’s. We only qualified one swimmer last year so that would be a step forward for us.” The Cats lost ground at the meet because they failed to swim fast enough in the morning to qualify for the championship round, the same problem that plagued NU in November at the TYR Invitational. Looking forward, Schroeder said the spring and summer sessions of training are often where young swimmers flourish and work on problems such as swimming fast in morning sessions. “One of the major things that we are taking away from this meet is that you have push hard and swim fast at every session,” junior captain Peter Park said. “We are only going to get better at that with experience, and I think next year you will see a much better team.”

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Allard adjusting to college game, moves to leadoff spot SOFTBALL, page 12 only five hits while getting shutout for the second time this season. Meanwhile the Mustangs had no trouble scoring runs, putting up three in the first inning before recording an out. Despite solid efforts in relief by Delaney and freshman Meghan Lamberth, NU fell 4-0. In the nightcap of Saturday’s doubleheader, the Cats showed once again they can compete with top-ranked teams. Haug’s three-run blast in the fifth inning, her third homer of the season, tied the game at five. Delaney held the Bru-

ins scoreless for the next two innings, sending the game into extras. But then the floodgates opened. UCLA scored five runs off the Cats’ ace in the eighth inning to hand NU its second-straight loss, 10-5. Freshman Emily Allard, who Drohan moved to the leadoff spot against Stanford, had a monster day at the plate in the losing effort. The shortstop went 3-for-4, bringing her season average to .286. Allard’s performance in California helped her emerge as a threat at the top of the order, giving Drohan another athletic weapon alongside junior Robin Thompson. Allard and Thompson are a combined 11 for 11 in steal at-

Junior center Amy Jaeschke was named a first-team All-Big Ten selection by the media Monday, while the coaches plucked freshman forward Kendall Hackney for the All-Freshman team. Jaeschke, who earned an Honorable Mention bid her freshman season and second-team honors as a sophomore, is the first NU player selected to the first-team All-Big Ten squad in the past decade. Hackney, the Cats’ second-leading scorer, joins Jaeschke (2007) and former center Sarah Kwasinksi (2002) as the only hoopsters in NU history to earn a spot on the freshman team.

tempts this season. Allard is also progressing as the leader of the infield, Drohan said. “She’s starting to get comfortable out on the field defensively,” Drohan said. “She’s settling into the college game.” NU’s final game of the tournament, against UC Davis, was suspended in the sixth inning so the Cats could catch their flight home. The tournament schedule was already pushed back due to rain the previous day. The game, which the Cats currently lead 7-1, will resume next weekend at the Demarini Invitational.

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Wildcats’ win streak reaches 32 By Brian Chappatta The Daily Northwestern dailynorthwestern.com/lacrosse Northwestern’s transition to life without four-year starter Morgan Lathrop in goal wasn’t supposed to be easy. Sophomore netminder Brianne LoManto struggled in her first career complete game, but the Wildcats’ offense bailed her out with 35 goals in two weekend wins out west. For the 31st and 32nd straight time, NU withstood the barrage, leaving The Golden State with an 18-11 win against No. 15 Stanford Lacrosse on Friday Sunday, Feb. 28 and a 17-3 No. 1 NU victory over California on Sunday. The 32-game California winning streak is the secondlongest in school history. Friday, Feb. 26 The No. 1 NU match against the Cardinal was the first time No. 15 Stanford the Cats have taken on a ranked foe this season. Stanford kept the contest close, tying the game 10-10 four minutes into the second half. But NU finished on an 8-1 tear. “It was a good experience for some of our younger players and players who are a little less experienced, like myself, to be put in a battle like that,” LoManto said. “For us to be able to pull through, fight back and never give up is really important, especially this season since we have so many younger players.” After splitting time in goal in the season opener against Massa-

Cats take two in Fla. thanks to strong pitching, clutch hitting By Jimmy Carlton The Daily Northwestern dailynorthwestern.com/baseball As coach Paul Stevens says, “Good pitching will shut down good hitting every time.” Northwestern learned Stevens’ lesson the hard way in its opening weekend losses at the Bojangles Baseball Classic. The Wildcats benefitted from being on the other side of the scenario this weekend at the Big Ten/Big East Challenge. After getting outscored 58-9 in their first four games of the season, the Cats topped a pair of Big East foes by a combined score of 13-10. As a result, anyone who saw NU after its three-game performance this weekend saw a team filled with confidence, exhibiting renewed excitement for a season that looked grim just a week earlier. “We definitely walked through the airport differently (Sunday) trying to represent Northwestern,” junior infielder Chris Lashmet said. “This weekend we were a lot more confident, a lot more lively. We improved in every aspect of the game and we were excited to play.” Lashmet helped the Cats (2-5) to an impressive performance in St. Petersburg, Fla., as the team took all but one game in its weekend tournament. The showing dramatically swung the team’s mood. “I just want to talk about their character,” Stevens said. “These guys made adjustments and forgot about the previous weekend. They were in three tight ballgames, and I take my hat off to them.” The theme of the weekend was close contests decided in the final frames, and the first game set the tone. NU edged Connecticut 6-5 Friday in extra innings, as sophomore Zach Morton singled home the winning run with two outs in the bottom of the 10th. Morton finished with two hits, a sacrifice squeeze and two RBIs.

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Picking up where she left off: After sitting out the Cats’ first game of the season as a precaution, senior attacker Katrina Dowd tallied five goals in victories over No. 15 Stanford and California last weekend.

Hurlers help NU stay close against top teams in Calif. By David Uberti The Daily Northwestern dailynorthwestern.com/softball Northwestern proved once again this weekend it can handle top-level competition. Beating lesser teams is a different story. The No. 23 Wildcats (6-8) traveled to California to play in the Cathedral City Classic, where they played their best softball against the strongest opponents, beating No. 10 Stanford and taking No. 5 UCLA into extra innings. Unranked teams troubled NU, as it fell to both Pacific and Cal Poly. “An area we really need to improve on as a team is to approach each game consistently and play disciplined softball,” coach Kate Drohan said. The Cats managed only one hit in their weekend-opening loss to

Pacific on Friday afternoon. Senior hurler Lauren Delaney helped the Cats bounce back later that day, striking out seven en route to a onehit shutout against Stanford. Seniors Emily Haug and Nicole Pauly fueled the offense with back-to-back home runs in the top of the sixth. “(Haug) has had great at-bats through our first three weekends,” Drohan said. “She’s got a very consistent approach in the batter’s box and that’s really helped her.” The Cats’ catcher has made the most of her opportunity in her first year as an everyday player, as she leads the lineup with 16 RBIs and a .342 batting average. In Saturday morning’s game against Cal Poly, NU’s lineup went silent again. The Cats collected

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“Zach Morton played the best game I’ve ever seen him play,” Lashmet said. “When everyone’s contributing, everyone’s hitting, it’s a lot more fun and we’re a much better team.” Eight players collected at least one hit against UConn, while four had multiple base knocks. The Cats took advantage of five Huskies’ errors, and senior starter Joe Muraski pitched 6.1 solid innings to keep the

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Stealing attention: Junior infielder Robin Thompson (above), along with freshman shorstop Emily Allard, have provided a spark at the top of NU’s lineup. The No. 1 and 2 hitters are 11-for-11 in steal attempts this year.

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